Redhat's betas now have code names, Microsoft betas have always had code names. I just find it interesting that they would beta something other than a completely new version. I may very well be talking out my ass but it looks like all of Redhat's money has made them think more like their competition.
lets just stop teaching math and english in high school and concentrate on programming and computer science. COmputers solve all our problems. Ok. Theres a funny thing about technology, it self perpetuates an ability for people to take it for granted while never allowing itself to trickle down to be useful to those who could find it useful. While people here on slashdot for the most part have the ability to read and do math, a vast majority of the freshmen in my old high school did not. Math A (basic arithmatic) was the most popular freshman math class, a majority of the freshmen didn't have a reading level comparable to the grade they were in. Before you debate which programming class should be taken in high school why don't you first think of a way to make students literate and able to solve a simple algebraic equation. A classical education is more important than an AA in computer science. Why is this? The US is seriously lacking in it's mathematics and science skills. This means the millions of billions of innovations that we now take for granted won't continue to happen. Without engineers and physists who's going to create the machines that you CS degree lets you program. Hell, even if all you do is work at McDonalds you will find your life so much easier if you can read things more complex than an unemployment pamphlet and have the ability to work out your finances algebraically. It seems as if classical education in the US is being left behind in lieu of a more technological education. Schools will spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on new computers but hardly any money on new english textbooks or history books. Who needs to know about history and english when they can program. We think we're so much smarter as a society than we were two hundred years ago but if I asked the average high school freshman today to recite a line or two of Shakespeare he'd look at me funny, if I asked someone two hundred years ago the same question I'd most likely get more than a line or two. Think about it before you moderate it down.
I think not, at least not for me. Linux has too many features best used on much larger computers, trimming it down to a bare minimum to run on a PDA is a waste of time. Linux is a great operating systems, but it's not really one that should be ported everywhere (although I'm sure it could). I'd much rather use an all Java OS on my palmtop. Why you ask? Well with Java the UI and such are built into the program which is inherently small, not to mention Java was originally Oak Sun which was meant to run on handhelds in the first place which has already probably been pointed out. Another reason to have a Java based palmtop is compatibility and portability. If I have a Palmtop with a wireless network connection, my storage needs can easily be done remotely. If everyone in the office has a Palmtop who's applications are stored on the company intranet, they don't need hundreds of dollars worth of Compact Flash cards to store everything. When they're away from the office they can download the same applications which can be stored locally if they are going to be running disconnected. Java is also nice for not entirely well paid in-company developers who need to write a new app just for use inside the company. Instead of writing a dozen different ports of it, they write a Java version which runs on both the desktops but also on the Palmtops. Write once run anywhere is the most useful aspect of Java in my opinion.
is something that even if the computer industry completely ignores it, will still prosper for a very long time. The main advantage of FW besides it's speed is that it's a peer to peer connection which means a host doesn't have to be present. This companies build digital camcorders that plug directly into Tivo-like recording devices or digital VCRs or even DVD-R devices. I really hope it doesn't get ignored by the computer industry because it is in my opinion a great replacement for SCSI (yes I know FireWire is basically UltraSCSI-3).
If Be could indeed slap BeOS on G4 chips it would probably be the best thing to happen to the company. The reason that Apple had such a big problem with the clones is they weren't getting much more money than for the OS, which is a pretty small profit margin. If Be gets working on the G3 and G4 chips it won't affect Apple as much as clones did, the people that love Apple will continue to love Apple, and MacOS will still appeal to people who would rather not learn anything about their OS, not to mention the Cuddletech lovers. Now if Adobe would port their stuff to Be...
Apple deals with people who know jack shit about computers, do you think they'd understand PowerPC 750 or just G4 better? Why do you think Intel just calls their chip the Pentium 3?
They made the chips use a ZIF socket so it's cheaper to build them because they can have one motherboard with different speed chips. It's alot more cost effective to use similar hardware than it is to have everything customized.
fit a P2 on top of a hard drive (you'd have more space if you used a mobile Pentium) and it could run any unix just fine but why would you want to? Intel chips while nice to work on do suck power like a bitch (a 2 hour laptop battery is just crappy no matter what an salesman says). If I were going to build a tiny system I would want a PPC or a non-Intel x86 like a MediaGX or something that uses alot less power. What I want as a wearable is something like my watch, it ran for seven years on a single battery even with a whole bunch of stuff stored in memory, not like my cell phone which needs to be recharged all the time if I'm out all day with it on. I wouldn't want a handheld that needed to be charged every 8 hours either. When LEPs (Light Emitting Polymers) get more refined they will make screens cheaper and consume less power than LCDs. As for the chip, something that would only use as much power as it needed for whatever process it was running, doesn't the StrongARM do that? Anyways, when I get a few MONTHS out of a battery in my handheld I'll buy one but not until then.
just great, I buy a really fast Intel based platform then Apple and AMD decide to release their new uber-chips. Thats ok, maybe I can play with one of these at school. I really do enjoy the PPC chipset and can't wait until IBM releases to someone besides Apple. But even so, the G4 450 is 1,599$ (US) which is about the same price as a 400mhz G3 was going for about a month ago. I really like what Apple has done this time with giving you alot of options for the box, something that Gateway and Dell learned to do a long time ago. An optional DVD-RAM is great for anyone doing multimedia anything. Lots of extra space for your rendered movies and source video. Then if you want a really fast drive you pick up a FireWire hard drive to plug into it. I really don't think 1,599 is too much to pay for one of these considering the kind of power you're getting, the equivilent P3 system hasn't even been released yet. I am hoping maybe they will up the main bus to 133mhz for a higher memory throughput, 100mhz is fine but it wouldn't be terribly difficult to go a little faster. Apple is really doing things right this time, Steve Jobs had his work cut out for him and I think has performed well, about a year ago I expected Apple to be ready to go out of business by now but they're recording massive revenue.
What does Perl have to do with linux? A scripting language is a scripting language, they're really only as powerful as the system commands they can use and how many more lines it takes you to do the same process. In case you didn't realize, case sensitive commands draw from case sensitive file structure. Your most often used commands are in lower case anyways, why are you complaining? Edit your shell if you're that unhappy with uppercase letters.
is not the end all be all of communication. In order for e-mail to completely replace good old snail mail it would have to be something everyone had access to. But that is not something that everyone has, the internet is basically a toy for those able to afford it. How many households with a low income do you suppose have a computer and if they do do they have an e-mail address? Some things are more important than the internet-clothes, food, a warm place to sleep-that some people don't realize because they're able to take technology for granted. If I have a mailbox, I can get mail. Mailboxes come free with your house and paper is damn cheap. Computers can write email but are expensive (when you're living paycheck to paycheck even a 300$ computer is expensive) oops to send that email you've written you need an ISP which will cost you some more money. Oh lets also pay bills over the computer...oh wait, I need a credit card to do that. Until a viable virtual check is available that idea doesnt work, not everyone has a credit card either. The closest thing I have to a credit card is a debit card I got free with my checking account, but I won't probably ever get a regular credit card. It's fine if some parts of the snail mail is taken up by confusers, I like the idea of buying postage by the stamp and printing it with my printer which means it's read much faster by the machines at the processing center. When you give everyone access to e-mail you can suggest replacing snail mail.
as useful for is it means a more cost effective way of communicating with deep space probes. One of the main problems NASA has had funding their probes is they need a massive communication system just to send rudimentary commands to them. The internet grew up on low bandwidth for years which lets many small systems act in an array to quickly transmit data, this is suprising to none of you. But a deep space network would mean it would cost a hell of alot less to send a mission into space because it could use a more robust communication system that was already in place. The Mars Pathfinder sent back it's data packaged as e-mail is packaged, but it was only a 9600bps connection that ended when Mars set relative to us. A similar system using a distributed network would mean we could communicate with a probe 24/7, even communicate with multiple probes all using the same system. This is way more cost and resource effective than what's used now.
50$ for the disk, thats how much it costs them, it costs about 70$ to manufacture a P3 600 yet it sells for many hundreds. Regardless of retail price, I would love to have 2 terabytes of raw storage. But what I wonder about is the overhead for such a huge disk capacity. Not only do you need space for ECC but then theres the question of access time, not to mention file system for one of these. Would it have a super low latency and high bandwidth where I could use it as a giant boot ROM or would is have a much higher latency similar to a CD-ROM or M/O disk? If it is commercial viable I would hope that it is fast enough and manageable enough to use for more than an archive backup system.
I would really like to see Be get their hands on the hardware and get some G3/4 support going. cheap PPC BeBoxes would be really cool especially for schools and such that could use a really nice multimedia OS. Someone else also mentioned better heat/cost performance for rackmounts. Large cool cheap rackmounts means cheaper clusters and servers which is good for everyone. Maybe these could go in a line of set top boxes or portables running QNX or LinuxPPC. Tres cool.
isn't the overclocking itself, but the chips that you would be overclocking are the Celeron 500s. They have an 8x multiplier locked into them. If Joe Shmoe sets the bus speed to 100mhz he now has an 800mhz system which melts without one hell of a cooling system. Of course he could overclock it to a 75 or 83 mhz bus speed which would give him either a 600 or 664mhz system which would melt without some nice sized fans, but then the PCI bus acts like an abused monkey. Intel doesn't want the bad publicity of their chips melting. They also don't want hardware and software companies breathing down their back because people are complaining about their products not working with these overclocked systems. Joe Overclocker wouldnt complain, he knows what he's doing but Joe Shmoe who thinks it's cool to change numbers in the BIOS or play with jumper settings will complain.
browser at work. That little thing is one of the coolest programs I've seen before. But it seems to me a mosaic based browser (Netscape and IE4&5) would be really shitty to have on a set top box where it's easier to choose options with a directional pad that with some psuedo-mouse on a remote control.
we get a group together like the W3C to run the registry database. An injunction by the US gov't would be able to get control of it. NSI is nothing but a few corporate types and some engineers that maintain everything. And you pay them 70$ for two years (multiply 70$ by about 20,000 domain registries a day). They don't have a ton of overhead so most of your money goes into the shareholders pockets. Ads on the whois database just means they're making money off you over the 70$ you paid. This is crap, they don't own your information, so they out to have to pay you with the money from the ad on the whois page. Hey maybe next they'll have auctions! networksolutionsbay.com now there's an idea.
feel bad for the people at SGI, first that stupid logo now this. SGI has had a really hard time in the past few years. Way back when they were the cream of the crop in just about every sandbox they played in. Now they have to borrow everyone else's toys because they dont think theirs are good enough. I think one of the biggest problems for them was the maturation of the IA-32 into something that was truely enterprise class. Three years ago the Pentium Pro was king shit over at Intel, it failed miserably in comparison to the MIPS or UltraSPARCs of the day. But then the Pentium II and such upper class chips started coming out and Windows because a real power player in the workstation market, not because of it's great quality or power but because it was a might cheaper than an O. People use what they can afford, especially small businesses who don't need to render the universe for fun. This means Wintel is in and SGI and DEC are out. DEC just died and will probably never be revived. SGI came under their "new management" and started with their damnable NT Workstations. This may have been nice but they completely abandoned what they did well, which was very high end Unix workstations and servers. The NT workstations SGI was selling were supposed to catch your eye with the brand spany new SGI logo, catch enough of your eye you didnt see the incredible price tag. Sorry Dell and Compaq are already solid in the wintel workstation business. SGI has been getting out niched and now don't know what to do about it. They should probably look to Apple and Sun for inspiration. Instead of tryingto do whats already been done, do something new and useful. While Sun hasn't done too much that can be considered new, they've really worked hard on their packaging, offering complete solutions for just about all sizes of business which is doing well for them. Apple completely reevaluated itself and went through a rebirth. They really kicked off and drove the cheap, feature laden home PC. SGI needs to get back into the server and workstation game. Do something really spectacular using the technology they've been using. Not try to compete with wintel gients like Dell and Compaq. I personally would like to see a new MIPS based design maybe even something that can use off the shelf hardware so they can supply the processors and motherboards but dont always have to supply the periphrial hardware which has a much lower return than the processor and such.
is just doing this to get people buying dual motherboards to use PII and PIII chips instead of Celerons. They also are thinking ahead, when the Coppermine comes out it's going to use the Socket 370 chipset which is also what the Celeron uses. There will most likely be dual 370 motherboaords for use with the Coppermine but Intel wants you to buy a Coppermine from them rather than just use older Celerons or having Dell make dual Celeron systems rather than dual PIII or Xeon systems. I'm a little mad about them dropping Slot 1 but I understand it's for performance reasons which is a good thing.
I was recently without a connection to the net for a few days and I was definitely going through withdrawl, I missed all the geeks here...I think. I think having an addiction to the internet is like having a dependancy issue rather than a true addiction. When you're not on you just feel disconnected, at least thats how I felt. Maybe I'm a hopeless addict, who cares. I don't badger people for being addicted to caffine or gambling.
I just bought a Dual Slot 1 motherboard and a single P3 500, I paid 397$ for my processor. Tomorrow the I lose 150 dollars because of the price drop, dammit. At least when I go to buy a second processor it will be alot cheaper.
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Redhat's betas now have code names, Microsoft betas have always had code names. I just find it interesting that they would beta something other than a completely new version. I may very well be talking out my ass but it looks like all of Redhat's money has made them think more like their competition.
lets just stop teaching math and english in high school and concentrate on programming and computer science. COmputers solve all our problems. Ok. Theres a funny thing about technology, it self perpetuates an ability for people to take it for granted while never allowing itself to trickle down to be useful to those who could find it useful. While people here on slashdot for the most part have the ability to read and do math, a vast majority of the freshmen in my old high school did not. Math A (basic arithmatic) was the most popular freshman math class, a majority of the freshmen didn't have a reading level comparable to the grade they were in. Before you debate which programming class should be taken in high school why don't you first think of a way to make students literate and able to solve a simple algebraic equation. A classical education is more important than an AA in computer science. Why is this? The US is seriously lacking in it's mathematics and science skills. This means the millions of billions of innovations that we now take for granted won't continue to happen. Without engineers and physists who's going to create the machines that you CS degree lets you program. Hell, even if all you do is work at McDonalds you will find your life so much easier if you can read things more complex than an unemployment pamphlet and have the ability to work out your finances algebraically. It seems as if classical education in the US is being left behind in lieu of a more technological education. Schools will spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on new computers but hardly any money on new english textbooks or history books. Who needs to know about history and english when they can program. We think we're so much smarter as a society than we were two hundred years ago but if I asked the average high school freshman today to recite a line or two of Shakespeare he'd look at me funny, if I asked someone two hundred years ago the same question I'd most likely get more than a line or two. Think about it before you moderate it down.
I think not, at least not for me. Linux has too many features best used on much larger computers, trimming it down to a bare minimum to run on a PDA is a waste of time. Linux is a great operating systems, but it's not really one that should be ported everywhere (although I'm sure it could). I'd much rather use an all Java OS on my palmtop. Why you ask? Well with Java the UI and such are built into the program which is inherently small, not to mention Java was originally Oak Sun which was meant to run on handhelds in the first place which has already probably been pointed out. Another reason to have a Java based palmtop is compatibility and portability. If I have a Palmtop with a wireless network connection, my storage needs can easily be done remotely. If everyone in the office has a Palmtop who's applications are stored on the company intranet, they don't need hundreds of dollars worth of Compact Flash cards to store everything. When they're away from the office they can download the same applications which can be stored locally if they are going to be running disconnected. Java is also nice for not entirely well paid in-company developers who need to write a new app just for use inside the company. Instead of writing a dozen different ports of it, they write a Java version which runs on both the desktops but also on the Palmtops. Write once run anywhere is the most useful aspect of Java in my opinion.
is something that even if the computer industry completely ignores it, will still prosper for a very long time. The main advantage of FW besides it's speed is that it's a peer to peer connection which means a host doesn't have to be present. This companies build digital camcorders that plug directly into Tivo-like recording devices or digital VCRs or even DVD-R devices. I really hope it doesn't get ignored by the computer industry because it is in my opinion a great replacement for SCSI (yes I know FireWire is basically UltraSCSI-3).
FireWire is supposed to be supported in the 2.4 linux kernel which I believe is going to be released sometime in the next few months IIRC.
If Be could indeed slap BeOS on G4 chips it would probably be the best thing to happen to the company. The reason that Apple had such a big problem with the clones is they weren't getting much more money than for the OS, which is a pretty small profit margin. If Be gets working on the G3 and G4 chips it won't affect Apple as much as clones did, the people that love Apple will continue to love Apple, and MacOS will still appeal to people who would rather not learn anything about their OS, not to mention the Cuddletech lovers. Now if Adobe would port their stuff to Be...
Apple deals with people who know jack shit about computers, do you think they'd understand PowerPC 750 or just G4 better? Why do you think Intel just calls their chip the Pentium 3?
They made the chips use a ZIF socket so it's cheaper to build them because they can have one motherboard with different speed chips. It's alot more cost effective to use similar hardware than it is to have everything customized.
fit a P2 on top of a hard drive (you'd have more space if you used a mobile Pentium) and it could run any unix just fine but why would you want to? Intel chips while nice to work on do suck power like a bitch (a 2 hour laptop battery is just crappy no matter what an salesman says). If I were going to build a tiny system I would want a PPC or a non-Intel x86 like a MediaGX or something that uses alot less power. What I want as a wearable is something like my watch, it ran for seven years on a single battery even with a whole bunch of stuff stored in memory, not like my cell phone which needs to be recharged all the time if I'm out all day with it on. I wouldn't want a handheld that needed to be charged every 8 hours either. When LEPs (Light Emitting Polymers) get more refined they will make screens cheaper and consume less power than LCDs. As for the chip, something that would only use as much power as it needed for whatever process it was running, doesn't the StrongARM do that? Anyways, when I get a few MONTHS out of a battery in my handheld I'll buy one but not until then.
just great, I buy a really fast Intel based platform then Apple and AMD decide to release their new uber-chips. Thats ok, maybe I can play with one of these at school. I really do enjoy the PPC chipset and can't wait until IBM releases to someone besides Apple. But even so, the G4 450 is 1,599$ (US) which is about the same price as a 400mhz G3 was going for about a month ago. I really like what Apple has done this time with giving you alot of options for the box, something that Gateway and Dell learned to do a long time ago. An optional DVD-RAM is great for anyone doing multimedia anything. Lots of extra space for your rendered movies and source video. Then if you want a really fast drive you pick up a FireWire hard drive to plug into it. I really don't think 1,599 is too much to pay for one of these considering the kind of power you're getting, the equivilent P3 system hasn't even been released yet. I am hoping maybe they will up the main bus to 133mhz for a higher memory throughput, 100mhz is fine but it wouldn't be terribly difficult to go a little faster. Apple is really doing things right this time, Steve Jobs had his work cut out for him and I think has performed well, about a year ago I expected Apple to be ready to go out of business by now but they're recording massive revenue.
What does Perl have to do with linux? A scripting language is a scripting language, they're really only as powerful as the system commands they can use and how many more lines it takes you to do the same process. In case you didn't realize, case sensitive commands draw from case sensitive file structure. Your most often used commands are in lower case anyways, why are you complaining? Edit your shell if you're that unhappy with uppercase letters.
is not the end all be all of communication. In order for e-mail to completely replace good old snail mail it would have to be something everyone had access to. But that is not something that everyone has, the internet is basically a toy for those able to afford it. How many households with a low income do you suppose have a computer and if they do do they have an e-mail address? Some things are more important than the internet-clothes, food, a warm place to sleep-that some people don't realize because they're able to take technology for granted. If I have a mailbox, I can get mail. Mailboxes come free with your house and paper is damn cheap. Computers can write email but are expensive (when you're living paycheck to paycheck even a 300$ computer is expensive) oops to send that email you've written you need an ISP which will cost you some more money. Oh lets also pay bills over the computer...oh wait, I need a credit card to do that. Until a viable virtual check is available that idea doesnt work, not everyone has a credit card either. The closest thing I have to a credit card is a debit card I got free with my checking account, but I won't probably ever get a regular credit card. It's fine if some parts of the snail mail is taken up by confusers, I like the idea of buying postage by the stamp and printing it with my printer which means it's read much faster by the machines at the processing center. When you give everyone access to e-mail you can suggest replacing snail mail.
What keeps M$ from buying Red Hat is that in order for a company to be bought they have to be up for sale first.
as useful for is it means a more cost effective way of communicating with deep space probes. One of the main problems NASA has had funding their probes is they need a massive communication system just to send rudimentary commands to them. The internet grew up on low bandwidth for years which lets many small systems act in an array to quickly transmit data, this is suprising to none of you. But a deep space network would mean it would cost a hell of alot less to send a mission into space because it could use a more robust communication system that was already in place. The Mars Pathfinder sent back it's data packaged as e-mail is packaged, but it was only a 9600bps connection that ended when Mars set relative to us. A similar system using a distributed network would mean we could communicate with a probe 24/7, even communicate with multiple probes all using the same system. This is way more cost and resource effective than what's used now.
on a Nintendo 64 too. Hmm maybe a server farm of haldhelds?
50$ for the disk, thats how much it costs them, it costs about 70$ to manufacture a P3 600 yet it sells for many hundreds. Regardless of retail price, I would love to have 2 terabytes of raw storage. But what I wonder about is the overhead for such a huge disk capacity. Not only do you need space for ECC but then theres the question of access time, not to mention file system for one of these. Would it have a super low latency and high bandwidth where I could use it as a giant boot ROM or would is have a much higher latency similar to a CD-ROM or M/O disk? If it is commercial viable I would hope that it is fast enough and manageable enough to use for more than an archive backup system.
I would really like to see Be get their hands on the hardware and get some G3/4 support going. cheap PPC BeBoxes would be really cool especially for schools and such that could use a really nice multimedia OS. Someone else also mentioned better heat/cost performance for rackmounts. Large cool cheap rackmounts means cheaper clusters and servers which is good for everyone. Maybe these could go in a line of set top boxes or portables running QNX or LinuxPPC. Tres cool.
isn't the overclocking itself, but the chips that you would be overclocking are the Celeron 500s. They have an 8x multiplier locked into them. If Joe Shmoe sets the bus speed to 100mhz he now has an 800mhz system which melts without one hell of a cooling system. Of course he could overclock it to a 75 or 83 mhz bus speed which would give him either a 600 or 664mhz system which would melt without some nice sized fans, but then the PCI bus acts like an abused monkey. Intel doesn't want the bad publicity of their chips melting. They also don't want hardware and software companies breathing down their back because people are complaining about their products not working with these overclocked systems. Joe Overclocker wouldnt complain, he knows what he's doing but Joe Shmoe who thinks it's cool to change numbers in the BIOS or play with jumper settings will complain.
browser at work. That little thing is one of the coolest programs I've seen before. But it seems to me a mosaic based browser (Netscape and IE4&5) would be really shitty to have on a set top box where it's easier to choose options with a directional pad that with some psuedo-mouse on a remote control.
we get a group together like the W3C to run the registry database. An injunction by the US gov't would be able to get control of it. NSI is nothing but a few corporate types and some engineers that maintain everything. And you pay them 70$ for two years (multiply 70$ by about 20,000 domain registries a day). They don't have a ton of overhead so most of your money goes into the shareholders pockets. Ads on the whois database just means they're making money off you over the 70$ you paid. This is crap, they don't own your information, so they out to have to pay you with the money from the ad on the whois page. Hey maybe next they'll have auctions! networksolutionsbay .com
now there's an idea.
feel bad for the people at SGI, first that stupid logo now this. SGI has had a really hard time in the past few years. Way back when they were the cream of the crop in just about every sandbox they played in. Now they have to borrow everyone else's toys because they dont think theirs are good enough. I think one of the biggest problems for them was the maturation of the IA-32 into something that was truely enterprise class. Three years ago the Pentium Pro was king shit over at Intel, it failed miserably in comparison to the MIPS or UltraSPARCs of the day. But then the Pentium II and such upper class chips started coming out and Windows because a real power player in the workstation market, not because of it's great quality or power but because it was a might cheaper than an O. People use what they can afford, especially small businesses who don't need to render the universe for fun. This means Wintel is in and SGI and DEC are out. DEC just died and will probably never be revived. SGI came under their "new management" and started with their damnable NT Workstations. This may have been nice but they completely abandoned what they did well, which was very high end Unix workstations and servers. The NT workstations SGI was selling were supposed to catch your eye with the brand spany new SGI logo, catch enough of your eye you didnt see the incredible price tag. Sorry Dell and Compaq are already solid in the wintel workstation business. SGI has been getting out niched and now don't know what to do about it. They should probably look to Apple and Sun for inspiration. Instead of tryingto do whats already been done, do something new and useful. While Sun hasn't done too much that can be considered new, they've really worked hard on their packaging, offering complete solutions for just about all sizes of business which is doing well for them. Apple completely reevaluated itself and went through a rebirth. They really kicked off and drove the cheap, feature laden home PC. SGI needs to get back into the server and workstation game. Do something really spectacular using the technology they've been using. Not try to compete with wintel gients like Dell and Compaq. I personally would like to see a new MIPS based design maybe even something that can use off the shelf hardware so they can supply the processors and motherboards but dont always have to supply the periphrial hardware which has a much lower return than the processor and such.
saturation, read about it.
is just doing this to get people buying dual motherboards to use PII and PIII chips instead of Celerons. They also are thinking ahead, when the Coppermine comes out it's going to use the Socket 370 chipset which is also what the Celeron uses. There will most likely be dual 370 motherboaords for use with the Coppermine but Intel wants you to buy a Coppermine from them rather than just use older Celerons or having Dell make dual Celeron systems rather than dual PIII or Xeon systems. I'm a little mad about them dropping Slot 1 but I understand it's for performance reasons which is a good thing.
I was recently without a connection to the net for a few days and I was definitely going through withdrawl, I missed all the geeks here...I think. I think having an addiction to the internet is like having a dependancy issue rather than a true addiction. When you're not on you just feel disconnected, at least thats how I felt. Maybe I'm a hopeless addict, who cares. I don't badger people for being addicted to caffine or gambling.
I just bought a Dual Slot 1 motherboard and a single P3 500, I paid 397$ for my processor. Tomorrow the I lose 150 dollars because of the price drop, dammit. At least when I go to buy a second processor it will be alot cheaper.