AMD Issues Statement on Dell Decision to Offer Customers a 2006-05-18 16:36 (New York)
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2006 AMD (NYSE:AMD) released the following statement today regarding the announcement Dell Inc. made in its quarterly earnings statement that it intends to offer AMD Opteron(TM) Dual Core processor-based servers.
"We welcome Dell, and Dell customers, to the world of AMD64," said Marty Seyer, AMD senior vice president, Commercial Business. "Dell is a customer-focused company and we're pleased to see that they are listening to their customers and providing them the choice of innovative AMD products. We look forward to working closely with Dell and bringing the benefits of AMD's leading performance-per-watt solutions to Dell's customers.
Ken Rollins gave a interview on Bloomberg. He equivocated all over the place about using AMD in anything but its high end servers. When pressed on it, he refused to be pinned down. "All we are talking about today" is the phrase. He continued to pump for the Intel chips. "We are very excited about Intel one and two socket" offerings. "All we are really announcing today" is about all they got out of him.
I suggest that a better use of the governments influence would be to ban the usage of cars and make people use horses instead. Think how many deaths a year would be eliminated through the elimination of drunk driving (in case you do not know the number it is about 15,000). Gad, are these people stupid or what...
Great, now please talk to me about those gel cells
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Real good for the environment. The impact on digging up the lead is real small and the problem with disposing of them afterwards is real low. (Yeah, right) Oh, by the way, you gotta use a lot of lead in a deep cycle battery like that. This is not something that you float along and do backup off of every once in a while. This is the kind of stuff you have to use in a golf cart. Better known as marine batteries, these things need real thick plates or they warp under the charge/discharge cycles. And while you are at it, please remember that your number of charge/discharge cycles even on a wet cell (and a gel cell is a wet cell in the end) is reasonably limited.
Not exactly a friendly way to deal with things. A better usage of the money would be to put up some solar panels and do a little cogen.
after rebate, not including shipping at places like Tiger Direct. Not ultra high res, but more than good enough at 1366 by 768 for most non-demanding work. They make for a fairly nice display. This is being typed on one of them. A second is on my floor waiting to replace my monitor on my windoze machine that I use for quote feeds, etc. Beats squinting at a small screen to see if the number in the last trade was an 8 or a 0.
These have come down by around 100 bucks since xmas. I suspect that as long as the tantalum supply holds up, you will see them continuing to come down in price.
In this year, on the Sunday before the feast of St. John the Baptist, after sunset when the moon has first become visible, a marvellous phenomenon was witnessed by some five or more men who were sitting there facing the moon. Now there was a bright new moon, and as usual in that phase, its horns were tilted towards the east and suddenly the upper horn split in two. From the midpoint of this division a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out, over a considerable distance, fire, hot coals and sparks. Meanwhile the body of the moon, which was below, writhed, as it were, in anxiety, and, to put it in the words of those who reported it to me and saw it with their own eyes, the moon throbbed like a wounded snake... Then after these transformations the moon from horn to horn, that is along its whole length, took on a blackish appearance.
One (controversial) interpretation of this narrative, first suggested by Dr Jack B Hartung some 800 years later, is that it is a description of a crater impact in progress. The "upper horn split in two" is the apparent effect of a plume of dark dust or vapour, the "flaming torch [of] hot coals and sparks" describes the molten ejecta, and the way in which the rest of the Moon "writhed", "throbbed" and eventually "took on a blackish appearance" could be the effects of a temporary lunar atmosphere of gas and vapour created by the impact.
Gosh. That is a real, real, real, real, real breakthrough. Why just think how much that is a leap from any of the systems that highlight all occurances of a regular expression in a document. Why the next thing you know, they will have something as advanced as a "find" to let you tab through these.
No, no! You do not understand. He is talking about ease of use for virus writers....
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And what have you bought for all those "moore generations"? Some graphics interface and lots of insecurity with the present software that runs on them.
The question is not one of the hardware. I dare say if you wished, you could probably shoehorn OpenVMS into any processor you felt like providing it had some of the appropriate hardware protection. The demand is not there, so it hasn't been. People are much more likely to want to catch the virus de jour than have a problem with the version number on the operators log turning over on itself because of the continued uptime. Of course, finding somebody that knows Bliss-32 might not be the easiest in the world anymore.
There is a difference between old processors and operating systems and software that work. Please do not confuse them. There is a good reason that Nasa and a lot of the mission critical people are not "state of the art" when it comes to some of their software/hardware. Simply put, it needs to work, no ifs, no ands, no buts.
After paying for the electricity to power this thing, you would be much better off with a RR1820A and some Sata drives for about $1000. Not only would it use a lot less power, it would give you a lot more storage. The bucks now are not so much in the hardware (8 250 GB drives + a RR1820A $1100 ~ $250 for the size array this guy made), but in powering the beasts and keeping your house cool in summer at the same time. The way I figure it, you get about a 20:1 power saving on an equivalent sata array.
$60 a barrel oil? What $60 a barrel oil? Must be nice not to have to pay your electricity bills...
You will find more and more new apps that are not downward computable. For folks that have to get a new mac, they will get a new mac. For the folks who can hang on, they will hang on and buy later rather than sooner. The one nice thing about the macs used to be a low tco. You could get a mac and keep it usable for a long time. I think Apple just took a knife and stuck it in their G5 sales.
The rest of it is that I think folks will come to understand that Apple apps can and will be ported to Linux. This will further louse up their sales. They have just done to the computer what Packard did to their cars (not HP, a different Packard).
Sorry guys, there is this nasty interstate commerce clause that may render this one unconstitutional. Perhaps CA can ban internet hunting within CA, but the way I read the case law, this one is a ban on interstate commerce and so is doa.
Personally, I don't think robo hunting is something that should be permitted, but this ban runs afoul of the constitution.
All very fine and all, but do not complain when somebody hacks your system. If you have your stuff behind a firewall, I guess its ok, but most folks put their access points behind them. That is if they use them, that is if they understand how to use them, that is if they understand what they are...
I am currently moving a user from one machine to the other. The user is running Windoze 2K professional. The reason for the move is that the motherboard on the first machine is a bit otl because somebody kicked the keyboard connector and loostened it. Ok. Neat. Take the disk out of machine 1 and put it into machine 2? Not on your life buddy. They are different mobos. You get nice things like; 1) A boot for a bit and then BSOD of "inaccessable boot device". Try to come up in safe and fix it? Not on your life. 2) Partial boots and then death plus a reboot. And on and on and on.
What I am not going to have to do is to do a total re-install. Do the 4 hours of connecting to M$ to get up to rev. Attempt to move over her software by moving the old boot disk over the new one and hacking at a low level in the registry. The alternative to to re-install everything from install disks that she probably has long since lost.
Contrast that with moving a disk between two macs and or two linux machines. Unless I have done a gen on a kernel that is pretty weird. Its a piece of cake.
If you hate to edit conf files, why do you put up with the registry? Its a single path fault that is a resting place for the vermin and problems of the world. I will take the odd conf file any time.
Sorry, but you cannot say the same about a lot of the languages that exist these days.
And I am sure that criminals will obey the law.
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Yeah right.
Oh, and btw, there is a small matter of this being a "taking" under the constitution since it does not address the fact that the folks who currently own them would be prohibited from selling them. But shucks, when did that stuff ever get in the way of a press headine or three.
Personally, I find it offensive that this company has designed software that is so poor that it may be exploited in this manner. I have just had a multi-hour session prying out some of the junk that my daughter naively stuck on her machine. And now the same company is offering me another closed system to fix their earlier closed system? No thanks. I think I will stick with OSX and SUSE where ever I can.
Just curious. He was one of the old "microwave mafia" who went to jpl from mit in the mid 70s. Real nice guy if you ever get a chance to meet him. He was more into limb scanning temperature at the 118 line than otherwise at the time if I remember.
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AMD Issues Statement on Dell Decision to Offer Customers a
2006-05-18 16:36 (New York)
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2006
AMD (NYSE:AMD) released the following statement today
regarding the announcement Dell Inc. made in its quarterly earnings
statement that it intends to offer AMD Opteron(TM) Dual Core
processor-based servers.
"We welcome Dell, and Dell customers, to the world of AMD64," said
Marty Seyer, AMD senior vice president, Commercial Business. "Dell is
a customer-focused company and we're pleased to see that they are
listening to their customers and providing them the choice of
innovative AMD products. We look forward to working closely with Dell
and bringing the benefits of AMD's leading performance-per-watt
solutions to Dell's customers.
Ken Rollins gave a interview on Bloomberg. He equivocated all over the place about using AMD in anything but its high end servers. When pressed on it, he refused to be pinned down. "All we are talking about today" is the phrase. He continued to pump for the Intel chips. "We are very excited about Intel one and two socket" offerings. "All we are really announcing today" is about all they got out of him.
I suggest that a better use of the governments influence would be to ban the usage of cars and make people use horses instead. Think how many deaths a year would be eliminated through the elimination of drunk driving (in case you do not know the number it is about 15,000). Gad, are these people stupid or what...
Real good for the environment. The impact on digging up the lead is real small and the problem with disposing of them afterwards is real low. (Yeah, right) Oh, by the way, you gotta use a lot of lead in a deep cycle battery like that. This is not something that you float along and do backup off of every once in a while. This is the kind of stuff you have to use in a golf cart. Better known as marine batteries, these things need real thick plates or they warp under the charge/discharge cycles. And while you are at it, please remember that your number of charge/discharge cycles even on a wet cell (and a gel cell is a wet cell in the end) is reasonably limited.
Not exactly a friendly way to deal with things. A better usage of the money would be to put up some solar panels and do a little cogen.
after rebate, not including shipping at places like Tiger Direct. Not ultra high res, but more than good enough at 1366 by 768 for most non-demanding work. They make for a fairly nice display. This is being typed on one of them. A second is on my floor waiting to replace my monitor on my windoze machine that I use for quote feeds, etc. Beats squinting at a small screen to see if the number in the last trade was an 8 or a 0.
These have come down by around 100 bucks since xmas. I suspect that as long as the tantalum supply holds up, you will see them continuing to come down in price.
the chronicle of gervaise
18 June 1178 (Julian calendar)
In this year, on the Sunday before the feast of St. John the Baptist, after sunset when the moon has first become visible, a marvellous phenomenon was witnessed by some five or more men who were sitting there facing the moon. Now there was a bright new moon, and as usual in that phase, its horns were tilted towards the east and suddenly the upper horn split in two. From the midpoint of this division a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out, over a considerable distance, fire, hot coals and sparks. Meanwhile the body of the moon, which was below, writhed, as it were, in anxiety, and, to put it in the words of those who reported it to me and saw it with their own eyes, the moon throbbed like a wounded snake... Then after these transformations the moon from horn to horn, that is along its whole length, took on a blackish appearance.
One (controversial) interpretation of this narrative, first suggested by Dr Jack B Hartung some 800 years later, is that it is a description of a crater impact in progress. The "upper horn split in two" is the apparent effect of a plume of dark dust or vapour, the "flaming torch [of] hot coals and sparks" describes the molten ejecta, and the way in which the rest of the Moon "writhed", "throbbed" and eventually "took on a blackish appearance" could be the effects of a temporary lunar atmosphere of gas and vapour created by the impact.
Gosh. That is a real, real, real, real, real breakthrough. Why just think how much that is a leap from any of the systems that highlight all occurances of a regular expression in a document. Why the next thing you know, they will have something as advanced as a "find" to let you tab through these.
No, no! You do not understand. He is talking about ease of use for virus writers....
And what have you bought for all those "moore generations"? Some graphics interface and lots of insecurity with the present software that runs on them.
The question is not one of the hardware. I dare say if you wished, you could probably shoehorn OpenVMS into any processor you felt like providing it had some of the appropriate hardware protection. The demand is not there, so it hasn't been. People are much more likely to want to catch the virus de jour than have a problem with the version number on the operators log turning over on itself because of the continued uptime. Of course, finding somebody that knows Bliss-32 might not be the easiest in the world anymore.
There is a difference between old processors and operating systems and software that work. Please do not confuse them. There is a good reason that Nasa and a lot of the mission critical people are not "state of the art" when it comes to some of their software/hardware. Simply put, it needs to work, no ifs, no ands, no buts.
After paying for the electricity to power this thing, you would be much better off with a RR1820A and some Sata drives for about $1000. Not only would it use a lot less power, it would give you a lot more storage. The bucks now are not so much in the hardware (8 250 GB drives + a RR1820A $1100 ~ $250 for the size array this guy made), but in powering the beasts and keeping your house cool in summer at the same time. The way I figure it, you get about a 20:1 power saving on an equivalent sata array.
$60 a barrel oil? What $60 a barrel oil? Must be nice not to have to pay your electricity bills...
You will find more and more new apps that are not downward computable. For folks that have to get a new mac, they will get a new mac. For the folks who can hang on, they will hang on and buy later rather than sooner. The one nice thing about the macs used to be a low tco. You could get a mac and keep it usable for a long time. I think Apple just took a knife and stuck it in their G5 sales.
The rest of it is that I think folks will come to understand that Apple apps can and will be ported to Linux. This will further louse up their sales. They have just done to the computer what Packard did to their cars (not HP, a different Packard).
Sorry guys, there is this nasty interstate commerce clause that may render this one unconstitutional. Perhaps CA can ban internet hunting within CA, but the way I read the case law, this one is a ban on interstate commerce and so is doa.
Personally, I don't think robo hunting is something that should be permitted, but this ban runs afoul of the constitution.
Yeah, but we got rid of the Cains sign thankfully.
All very fine and all, but do not complain when somebody hacks your system. If you have your stuff behind a firewall, I guess its ok, but most folks put their access points behind them. That is if they use them, that is if they understand how to use them, that is if they understand what they are...
They have been doing this with Windoze for years...
I am currently moving a user from one machine to the other. The user is running Windoze 2K professional. The reason for the move is that the motherboard on the first machine is a bit otl because somebody kicked the keyboard connector and loostened it. Ok. Neat. Take the disk out of machine 1 and put it into machine 2? Not on your life buddy. They are different mobos. You get nice things like; 1) A boot for a bit and then BSOD of "inaccessable boot device". Try to come up in safe and fix it? Not on your life. 2) Partial boots and then death plus a reboot. And on and on and on.
What I am not going to have to do is to do a total re-install. Do the 4 hours of connecting to M$ to get up to rev. Attempt to move over her software by moving the old boot disk over the new one and hacking at a low level in the registry. The alternative to to re-install everything from install disks that she probably has long since lost.
Contrast that with moving a disk between two macs and or two linux machines. Unless I have done a gen on a kernel that is pretty weird. Its a piece of cake.
If you hate to edit conf files, why do you put up with the registry? Its a single path fault that is a resting place for the vermin and problems of the world. I will take the odd conf file any time.
Which is to say that it doesn't. At least not on my tyan dual opteron setup. Woof, Woof, Woof. Return of the bowser...
toast on the Windows setup.
Questions?
were doing 2 Ghz in a 1.8 Ghz zone? Sorry but I got to write you up."
these guys deserve lots of latitude.
in the mathematical sense of proof.
Sorry, but you cannot say the same about a lot of the languages that exist these days.
Yeah right.
Oh, and btw, there is a small matter of this being a "taking" under the constitution since it does not address the fact that the folks who currently own them would be prohibited from selling them. But shucks, when did that stuff ever get in the way of a press headine or three.
I think you have a problem that you should deal with. I have dealt with my M$ problem. I just do not use their crud. No crud, no spyware, no problem.
Personally, I find it offensive that this company has designed software that is so poor that it may be exploited in this manner. I have just had a multi-hour session prying out some of the junk that my daughter naively stuck on her machine. And now the same company is offering me another closed system to fix their earlier closed system? No thanks. I think I will stick with OSX and SUSE where ever I can.
Just curious. He was one of the old "microwave mafia" who went to jpl from mit in the mid 70s. Real nice guy if you ever get a chance to meet him. He was more into limb scanning temperature at the 118 line than otherwise at the time if I remember.