>AMD chips don't scale, and there's nothing coming >down the line.
Except for the 0.13u CPUs on the way next year... and the 64-bit Sledgehammer. Or the the Palominos coming any day or the powerful Athlon 4 notebooks...here now.
I have been watching the heatsink on my ASUS A7M266 Athlon 1.33 Ghz like a cat eyeballing tuna but, so far, it just kind of hangs there with the fan spinning.
Julian Barbour makes some interesting conjectures. His best point is that we need to philosophize a new notion of time. Scientists would generally be better scientists if they resorted more often to philosophical approaches to developing their theories. Take sauropods, for example. Paleontologists will tell you that their huge bulks lumbered slowly around at 1 km/h dodging t. rex and munching on tree tops. Or they might claim that they spent their lives wading in shallow seas while munching on seaweed. But to any philosophically-minded person, it's obvious that they more closely resembled giant ducks, floating and paddling around on the water's surface. At least, t. rex is now allowed to sprint with his tail uplifted rather than lumbering slowly with his tail dragging in the sand. Progress.
I have been waiting for this to start. Microsoft has a lot of friends in the Computer Media as a result of the enormous wealth they have spread around. (And don't forget it was OUR money.) Do you really believe that the media will embrace a platform that might leave them paupers? Ask yourself who will win and who will lose if Linux market share shoots up to 50 percent? OS/2 and Mac have been the target of very effective FUD for years. Linux will be too.
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>AMD chips don't scale, and there's nothing coming >down the line.
Except for the 0.13u CPUs on the way next year... and the 64-bit Sledgehammer. Or the the Palominos coming any day or the powerful Athlon 4 notebooks
I have been watching the heatsink on my ASUS A7M266 Athlon 1.33 Ghz like a cat eyeballing tuna but, so far, it just kind of hangs there with the fan spinning.
Julian Barbour makes some interesting conjectures. His best point is that we need to philosophize a new notion of time. Scientists would generally be better scientists if they resorted more often to philosophical approaches to developing their theories. Take sauropods, for example. Paleontologists will tell you that their huge bulks lumbered slowly around at 1 km/h dodging t. rex and munching on tree tops. Or they might claim that they spent their lives wading in shallow seas while munching on seaweed. But to any philosophically-minded person, it's obvious that they more closely resembled giant ducks, floating and paddling around on the water's surface. At least, t. rex is now allowed to sprint with his tail uplifted rather than lumbering slowly with his tail dragging in the sand. Progress.
I have been waiting for this to start. Microsoft has a lot of friends in the Computer Media as a result of the enormous wealth they have spread around. (And don't forget it was OUR money.) Do you really believe that the media will embrace a platform that might leave them paupers? Ask yourself who will win and who will lose if Linux market share shoots up to 50 percent? OS/2 and Mac have been the target of very effective FUD for years. Linux will be too.