As long as your instruction level parallelism is really high, you don't need to run at 3GHz. I'm not saying you can run at 100MHz and get the same performance at 3GHz, but you don't have to try for high speeds like both chip companies are saying what they want. 1GHz with a really high ILP will do fine enough, and probably lower power consumption.
Why alot of industries are supporting DisplayPort is because there is supposed to be no license fees. It supports HDCP but its is not mandatory, just like in HDMI you dont have to use HDCP to transmit an image. Also display port can transmit over long distances 15m which at 1080p. And yes, HDMI/DVI is not compatible with DisplayPort since display port embeds the clock signals in the color streams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_port
Given that, does anyone know where I can find DisplayPort transmitters?
Clock speed should be irrelevant now. Better architecture methods such as pipelining and super scaling should take higher priority when it comes to performance benchmarks. The more cores that are on a processor die should also be a indicator of performance. If people programmed with parallel architecture in mind we wouldn't need a 3GHZ quad core.
Honestly, Ma Bell, Verizon and all their counterparts need to go. If they were smart they should have started dropping telephone service a few years ago and offer only broadband access and cell phone service, and just give the land line business to voip firms like Vonage and such. Now telcos want to try and control how fast certain pages load when fees aren't paid.
How does this affect Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan? Are they for this kind of project? Do we need to keep hurting to an already damaged ecosystem like Lake Michigan? What are the real long and short term benefits and costs?
The fact Ubuntu and Family are doing so well is because of their ease of use for the normal people who don't know how to use Linux or computers well. It also however, doesn't skimp much on the features and tools a normal Linux user would use. IMO
I myself started off on mandrake didnt like it (it was an old build and I didn't have the Internet at the time), and then moved to Gentoo, that was fun but compiling your packages felt like a pain in the ass. Now I use Kubuntu and honestly, I feel like I reached the perfect mix for ease of use while not being dumbed down to the point where it feels like a visual Windows XP clone.
So not only does GW price gouge you when it comes to building an army, but they don't want to see any fan movies either? Whats next, fan fiction thats written? If I were GW I would have went in the other direction and embraced it, nothing pays best like free advertisement from your loyal fan base.
Optical media is a more resilient than a hard drive, which is why its used in the consumer market, and sometimes in large data centers that need a backup thats harder to mess up unless you scratch it of course. Only issue about hard drives is you cant shake them or drop them with out the chance of breaking them completely. However I do agree with you that optical media is old, and a solid state replacement should be made, something other than flash too.
I used to have a Mac and I loved using it, and the mini makes me want to get on a mac again, but the price keeps me at an emotional distance still. If it were to go back to $499 for the low grade one and feature a third party video system like a GeForce 7300, I would jump all over it.
Probably, probably not. Transmeta did show one thing, softcores might viable, and if thats true, chances are we might be buying from either Xilinx or Altera for our processor, and then deciding if we should use a AMD, Intel, or a custom implementation from opencores.org.
...everything in open source is unsafe, and linux should be bashed to death with a blunt object? At least thats what an idiot or a M$ zealot would believe by reading this. Then again these are the kind of people who are trolls and don't know how to read either.
In the end, nothing is safe, there are always weaknesses waiting to be exploited.
I've used SPEC before, honestly, its nothing great. You would get more concise results if you just take two physical machines and ran them against each other, with their compilers optimized. Also this is a first actual quad core processor from AMD, you cant expect it to be absolutely perfect, look at the crap Intel made when EM64T first came out, they corrected it when the next revision was made.
As for AMD and their fusion line, its an inevitable architecture, maybe not for high end desktop systems but, definitely for laptop and embedded applications.
One gripe I have about processors today is that we are still talking about clock speed for performance. That shouldn't matter anymore honestly, these days it should be all about instruction parallelism, and architecture optimization.
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Vendor Lock-In sucks hardcore.
As long as your instruction level parallelism is really high, you don't need to run at 3GHz. I'm not saying you can run at 100MHz and get the same performance at 3GHz, but you don't have to try for high speeds like both chip companies are saying what they want. 1GHz with a really high ILP will do fine enough, and probably lower power consumption.
Why alot of industries are supporting DisplayPort is because there is supposed to be no license fees. It supports HDCP but its is not mandatory, just like in HDMI you dont have to use HDCP to transmit an image. Also display port can transmit over long distances 15m which at 1080p. And yes, HDMI/DVI is not compatible with DisplayPort since display port embeds the clock signals in the color streams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_port
Given that, does anyone know where I can find DisplayPort transmitters?
Its like DRM, on a total hardware basis, shame on Apple.
Clock speed should be irrelevant now. Better architecture methods such as pipelining and super scaling should take higher priority when it comes to performance benchmarks. The more cores that are on a processor die should also be a indicator of performance. If people programmed with parallel architecture in mind we wouldn't need a 3GHZ quad core.
Quantity has a quality all its own.
I guess people cant get it through their head that there is no software or OS that is 100% secure and bug free.
I've herd that some of the notes a slot machine generates entices people to play.
Honestly, Ma Bell, Verizon and all their counterparts need to go. If they were smart they should have started dropping telephone service a few years ago and offer only broadband access and cell phone service, and just give the land line business to voip firms like Vonage and such. Now telcos want to try and control how fast certain pages load when fees aren't paid.
oop, forget Minnesota different lake.
How does this affect Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan? Are they for this kind of project? Do we need to keep hurting to an already damaged ecosystem like Lake Michigan? What are the real long and short term benefits and costs?
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That all depends on the users opinion.
The fact Ubuntu and Family are doing so well is because of their ease of use for the normal people who don't know how to use Linux or computers well. It also however, doesn't skimp much on the features and tools a normal Linux user would use. IMO
I myself started off on mandrake didnt like it (it was an old build and I didn't have the Internet at the time), and then moved to Gentoo, that was fun but compiling your packages felt like a pain in the ass. Now I use Kubuntu and honestly, I feel like I reached the perfect mix for ease of use while not being dumbed down to the point where it feels like a visual Windows XP clone.
So not only does GW price gouge you when it comes to building an army, but they don't want to see any fan movies either? Whats next, fan fiction thats written? If I were GW I would have went in the other direction and embraced it, nothing pays best like free advertisement from your loyal fan base.
Years before that happens, I'm sure we'll either be using holographic or solid state media.
Optical media is a more resilient than a hard drive, which is why its used in the consumer market, and sometimes in large data centers that need a backup thats harder to mess up unless you scratch it of course. Only issue about hard drives is you cant shake them or drop them with out the chance of breaking them completely. However I do agree with you that optical media is old, and a solid state replacement should be made, something other than flash too.
I used to have a Mac and I loved using it, and the mini makes me want to get on a mac again, but the price keeps me at an emotional distance still. If it were to go back to $499 for the low grade one and feature a third party video system like a GeForce 7300, I would jump all over it.
Probably, probably not. Transmeta did show one thing, softcores might viable, and if thats true, chances are we might be buying from either Xilinx or Altera for our processor, and then deciding if we should use a AMD, Intel, or a custom implementation from opencores.org.
Boy I wish that would happen.
...everything in open source is unsafe, and linux should be bashed to death with a blunt object? At least thats what an idiot or a M$ zealot would believe by reading this. Then again these are the kind of people who are trolls and don't know how to read either.
In the end, nothing is safe, there are always weaknesses waiting to be exploited.
I've used SPEC before, honestly, its nothing great. You would get more concise results if you just take two physical machines and ran them against each other, with their compilers optimized. Also this is a first actual quad core processor from AMD, you cant expect it to be absolutely perfect, look at the crap Intel made when EM64T first came out, they corrected it when the next revision was made. As for AMD and their fusion line, its an inevitable architecture, maybe not for high end desktop systems but, definitely for laptop and embedded applications. One gripe I have about processors today is that we are still talking about clock speed for performance. That shouldn't matter anymore honestly, these days it should be all about instruction parallelism, and architecture optimization.