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Intrinsity Claims 2.2 Ghz Chip
PowerMacDaddy writes "Over at SiliconValley.com there's an article about an Ausin, TX startup named Intrinsity that has unveiled a new chip that utilizes a new logic process with conventional fab processes to acheive a 2.2GHz clock rate. The company is headed by former Texas Instruments and Apple Computer microprocessor developer Paul Nixon. The real question is, is this all FUD, will the real-world performance be part of The Megahertz Myth, or is this thing for real?"
Die spork die.
So the third principle that hackers are uncontrollable can be solved by doing hardware controls eh?
Unfortunately the Article relies on too many myths of it's own:
1. Hardware is difficult to hack.
Sure it is *more* difficult generally, but the internet will still allow distribution of the information about how to do it very easily.
2. Companies will make products people don't want.
Companies make products people don't *need*, but invariably they need people to *want* their products. There is no reason a hard drive or a computer that makes music copying difficult is something people want. People will simply buy the computer that is easy to use. (like apple and winXP support cd burning very easily now)
3. Comanies care about other companies
Microsoft doesn't give two craps about Sony as far as Sony could affect their bottom line. In the end they can make more money selling things to people so that the people can rip Sony off than Sony could give them not to.
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I just heard sad news on talk radio - Horror/fiction writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine house this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you didn't read his books you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. Truly an American icon.
Can we trust what anyone named Nixon says?
Nothing personal, but it was just sitting there begging to be said.
"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." --Carl Sagan
Niggers and Jews, they really gotta go - ya know?
First Post at 2.2 Ghz
Ceci n'est pas une first post.
A former prostitute with a rather well-used vagina that has been somewhat stretched is given a proposal of marriage by a man she meets in a bar one night. She thinks it over, and she decides to accept his proposal.
Her private parts are somewhat oversized from her former occupation, but she decides to approach the problem after they are married. On their wedding night, she explains the problem by saying that when she was a small child, she got her privates caught on some barbed wire while climbing over a fence, which explains why her vagina is so big.
They make wild and passionate love for most of the night, and in the early hours of the morning, her husband, after regaining his breath, turns to her and says, "I can understand your private parts being stretched by this barbed wire, my dear, but just HOW far across the field were you before you noticed??"
A man went to a strip club. When he got inside he noticed a seat conspicuously unoccupied in the front row. Seizing the opportunity, he took the seat.
As soon as the first dancer walked out, the guy directly behind him yelled, "Yeah baby! That's what I've been waiting for!"
The man in the front row turned around and gave him a dirty look. A few minutes into the show, the dancer did a move and snatched off her top, revealing two pasties. The guy behind our friend goes off again. "Yeah baby! Shake those things."
Our friend turned around and said, "Hey buddy, calm down!"
After a few moments, the dancer did another move, and snatched off her dress, revealing a very thin G-string. Again the man behind our friend yelled out, "Oh baby! You're almost there!"
Our friend again turned around and said, "Hey buddy, shut the hell up, will ya!"
A few minutes later, the dancer stretched out on the floor and snatched off both the pasties and the G-string, and the whole club went wild, except for the man behind our friend. Curious, our friend turned around and asked, "Say buddy, where's your enthusiasm now?"
The guy responded, "It's all over your back, dude."
As heard on /. a few minutes ago -- the "Stephen King is Dead" troll was found dead in the water this morning. I'm sure we'll all miss it -- even if you didn't follow its posts, you've probably enjoyed some of the knock-offs. Truly an American icon.
2001-08-13 17:55:05 Intrinsity unveils 2.2GHz processor (articles,tech) (rejected)
Ho hum.
Now come on people, that one deserves some mod points.
oh yeah? what do you call her? I prefer "Cum-ho", but I think she prefers it when I call her a "jizz monkey"
TechReview's argument: Safe havens typically don't have enough pipe to host Napster volumes of data; and, to deter law-abiding companies in the "goodguy" international community from dealing with these outlaws, you will be punished with asset forfeiture if you so much as look at them.
My counterargument: The first point is invalidated by the eventuality of distributed networks being more efficient with that volume of data anyway (think anonymous, dynamic akamai), and the second only requires that the "outlaws" be self-sufficient. e.g. If/when South Korea cracks down on the physical servers located @ astalavista.box.sk, it would resurface in a nebulous new form.
Myth #2: The Net Is Too Interconnected to Control:
TechReview's argument: Gnutella had to implement supernodes in order to fix its old bottleneck problem. What once was completely distributed now has a bit of hierarchy, and hence, is easier to attack with the help of the mega-ISPs.
My counterargument: There's a big difference between a massive central server being targetted, and hundreds of thousands of potential supernodes, which can also pop into and out of existance with the same ease as regular peers. Also, they mention that ISPs may move from simple port blocking to traffic analysis in order to defeat gnutella, and other 'rogue' packets, by sniffing their signature. That will work, but it also means that they'll NEXT have to blacklist ALL encrypted communication too--fat chance of that happening.
Myth #3: The Net Is Too Filled with Hackers to Control
TechReview's argument: You can restrict free communication most effectively at the hardware level. If consumers won't buy the crippled products, it becomes governments' job to mandate it, "just like [they] insist that cars have certain antipollution methods."
My counterargument: I think people will get off their asses and 'revolt' before their last bastion of freedom be co-opted by the system. Also, as long as ANY communication is still possible, you can hide whatever data you want to communicate within that channel... defeating the orwell network.
Power to the Peaceful
Yeah, and they were running PS 6 on both computers.... and last time it was PS 5.5 and the Mac still won. And what about the Media Cleaner test? Moron! Even Adobe said the G4 is the fastest computer they have used to run photoshop, and they did get hand written machine code for the MMX extensions from Intel. Ok, explain that one, because I DID read the link, and it was crap. Did this person also do the test on a G4 to compair PS 5 VS 6??? I didn't think so. The P4 should be able to run faster, but all tests show it's slower then the P3 except in playing Quake, and I dont make 60K a year playing Quake! Ha ha ha ha ha!
It could have completed the same operation 400 times faster and it would all still be bullshit marketing. Benchmarks can easily be hand selected (as they obviously are at Apple conventions) to make one look much better than the other, when in all reality it could generally be the other way around.
How about one on a mac site? Face it, you don't own a supercomputer, and the translucent tax you paid just went into making a slower prettier box. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ucker!!!!!!!!
"and the translucent tax you paid just went into making a slower prettier box. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ucker!!!!!!!!"
;-)
I guess your work for $10 and hour? Fine, get a $600 PC. I can afford a G4 and a nice car too