Re:The Net is NOT creating a new geography
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Get real. Are all Africa's problems due to the fact that they don't have a well developed internet system yet? Of course not! Aftica's road systems were developed by the colonial powers, and their telecommunications systems still mirror their road systems' problems.
Im not saying they are. Im saying that because of their problems, they arent going to have internet. You dont want internet when you have real problems.
AMD steals/buys technology, they haven't had an original design on a product yet.
Maybe the future will be different but so far AMD has failed to create its own designs.
AMD has a good plan, take other companies great designs and use them as their own. It works well if you have designs to buy, but its hard creating a company when you dont have the ability to innovate. They got the Athlon design from some small company that they purchased, the name escapes me.
The p4 will come out in newer revs with faster clockspeeds, DDR support,.13u technology, and copper interconnects and when it does it will kick ass, the NetBurst technology will really help when it gets up to 2Ghz speeds. On the lowpower market we have the low power p3 and on the server market we have the Itanium that will become widely accepted. AMD looks like its in a good position now, but it should go down dramatically in the future years.
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But the net IS creating a new geography
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I think the net is the first step in a long walk toward two types of major asscociates in the world.
The technologically literate countries
Third World Countries
Countries like many in Africa and other third world countries will take a long time, if ever, to catch up with current technologies, however the rest of us, are being pulled closer and closer, culturally and technically. I imagine in a decade or two all the technologically literate countries will have greatly similar cultures and lifestyles (if not rulers) But third world countries will remain just that, third world. Because its hard to like the internet when you dont have food.
There is already too much information for one or two astronomers to keep by themselves.
This should have been implemented a long time ago, because the amount of information we are pulling in right now is tremendous and it will only increase with the release of the more and more satellites we send up. We need this database for three very important reasons
Possible Collision w/Asteroid
Mapping New Planets
New Universe Discovery
We are all concerned, due to recent movies, that we might get hit by an asteroid, which is a valid concern, so we need to carefully track the asteroids that we find because we are only currently searching 10percent of the sky. Secondly with newer and more powerfull telescopes we are mapping more and more planets outside our solar system everyday, soon they will role in by the dozens a day. And finally, we are discovering universes that are farther away and therefore younger than any we have previously discovered
Whistler is going to utilize Intel hardware. Anyone else see this as sort of suprising considering AMD's current lead in the desktop market. Intel's P4 might actually be good by the time Whister comes out though
I think the US needs to set a precedent by not requiring websites, or webhosts to censor at all. The internet should be under a worldwide jurisdiction and not required to obey every country's local laws. It is going to require far too much work, and too many lawsuits and be way to messed up to have different censoring for IP's in France, vs IP's in Amsterdam, vs IP's in the US.
If countries want to censor material they should do it on the client side be either making browsers or applications that dont allow certain websites/images or whatever OR simply make it illegal in your country. I am not suggesting that the US make it illegal to view certain webpages, but certainly we can't stop other countries (China).
Maybe this is too optomistic of a scenario, maybe we could have a little island in the middle of international waters that we load up with servers that way they arent restricted by any laws, we could put whatever we wanted on them.
This is just my suggestion, I am frustrated by the fact that france is even considering this, and if Yahoo complies then who knows what other countries will require.
Well that obviously wouldnt work, even if the CD is obsolete, its still yours, and other people who havent purchased the right to listen to that music shouldnt have it. You dont have to destroy it and yes you could keep it.
I think this guy has it right on, you should pay your $10 to have the rights to an album and then you can listen to it or own it in any medium that you want, and with the internet becoming whatever its becoming I think its becoming easier and easier to implement something like this. If a cd was $5 and I got to legally copy it into different mediums I would actually purchase a lot more cds.
I think this is crazy, why do people feel we need outside sources to censor our children all the time???
It should be up to the parents to watch what their children do not up the the rest of the world to watch what your children do. I remember a quote, something like "When I was younger, mothers used to spend their time worldproofing their children, now we spend our time childproofing the world.
Thats just my 2 cents because you can never censor everything thats bad while not censoring everything thats good.
Intel is releasing a 1.2Ghz p4 even though the 1.4 p4 is approx equiv. to current p3 as far as performance goes, but there is a huge Mhz gap right now. Intel releasing the p4 at 1-1.8Ghz range is simply a placeholder until the p4 gets a makeover and really starts whoopin some ass.
People will buy based soley on Mhz and Intel needs something to distract people from the miserable end of the p3(where's 1.13Ghz??). As far as all these people talking about servers, look at the Itanium, its doing great and I think it will take a chunk of the market segment.
Just as long as my CPU runs at a faster frequency than my roomate's, I will be happy. NO I dont want to see how many fps my machine gets versus yours
I see what your saying and it makes sense, from your point of view.
But, Intel has a secure grasp on the server market right now, and with the Itanium doing really well (64 bit for those who don't know) and the fact that server processors are supposed to be very RELIABLE, the p4 will be market tested by the time the SMP support comes out for it and it will take a big chunk of the server market.
Also Intel has low power chips, flash memory (doing 4 billion in revenue next year), Intel has worked its way into networking and basically what Im trying to say is that they are a giant company, AMD might have taken away its biggest club, but Intel isnt going away for a long time.
See the above posts, Intel is trying to fufill it's Rambus agreement as fast as possible so that it can get itself out of that death trap it started out on.
wouldn't Intel losing some market share to Transmeta though
Transmetta's claims are absolutely rediculous. They are all a marketing scheme. They wont be able to compete with the P3 low power and Intel's current Xscale and Strong Arm chips have the low power market set for a while. As far as servers go, AMD wont be in the server market for a long while and the Itanium, unlike the P4, is showing to be a great product and will take off for Intel
P4 = Desktop
Itanium 64bit = Server
the p4 sucks right now, everybody knows it, why would you want to run two of them at the same time.
wait for: Smaller die size (when they migrate to.13 micron technology) Better memory support (DDR!!) and Faster Clock speeds, the p4 is supposed to be capable of 4Ghz. Its not the server chip its just fufilling the RDRAM obligation like you said.
I think you bring up a great point, try to get Windows to run without using explorer to view files and folders. That is by far the biggest issue. I used Netscape for a long while but i found that either IE is more widely supported or ie supports more languages and formats, (media player, VB, etc) and even though these are MS created entities I can access more of the web, more easily through IE and thats the bottom line.
I dont know how many of you out there have worked in an office scenario, ie 8 hours in front of a computer. At home or school It was more like lots of 20min-2hour bursts. But there is no f'n way I can keep correct ergonomic position up for that long, and to top it off I dont care how ergonomically correct you are, typing on a regular keyboard is going to mess up your hands, people just werent meant to have their hands facing downward for that long during the day.
I think they need to keep coming out with completely new ergonomic devices like that keyboard where its split and the left side stands straight up and the right side stands sraight up and you type with your palms facing each other.
Althought this seems like a good idea in my eyes it is too much money to give away something I paid $1000 for. My questions is why hasnt the low cost pc market taken off. I heard a lot of talk about as computers get faster, the slower ones will be cheaper. Nobody makes software for slow computers anymore, and nobody (or at least not a lot of people) sell cheap computers. Why not give a school a crap load of pentiums or old x86's and if they had decent software then that would be a great solution to the current problem of technology costing the user so much. I guess we will just have to wait until moore's law breaks down then the computer prices for latest technology should drop (along with the tech stock market)
anyone remember a post a little while ago about guiness getting domain names along the lines of Ihateguiness.com or the aol thing with them just taking domain names without telling anyone. I think the whole system needs to be revamped, no more of this.com for everything, there needs to be a clear business extension and a seperate net extension. (I know thats what its supposed to be but it just isnt working)
I didnt mean to knock Louisiana, It could have just as well been back country utah, or back country illinois, or back country main, the point is not everybody has access to the technology that we may assume is standard.
Technology has to be perfected before it can be put to use in something like our voting system.
I mean when they invented the printing press they didnt immediatly start making ballots and have everyone vote by paper.
Think about some back country voting booth in Louisiana where they dont know jack about computers, it would be hard to get a computer out there and tell people to use it to vote. I know thats not what he meant but if we are going to have any use of technology it should be sponsored by the government and you know how they fuck things up.
Give computers 8 - 12 more years and they should be more widely accepted and maybe by then we can use them to aid in the voting process. We are taking several days to figure out who our new president is.... So what??? We are still running fine (besides the pussies who are selling on the stock market). We will have a president eventually. Imagine the potential for corruption if we used electronic voting, whole new system would need to be developed, hacking, electronic fraud, computer crashes, OS compatibility, etc.. okay enough ranting on my behalf
I remember back in the early 80's when people were like, By the year 2000 robots with computers in their heads will be doing all of humans menial tasks, we will just do the creative stuff. Okay since I have a robot making my bed and cleaning my apartment for me right now I can assume thats true. Yeah nanotech robots will do all the work too, especially since they are so small, they will have all that space for computing power.
>Around 2030, we should be able to flood our brains with nanobots that can be turned off and on and which would function as "experience beamers" allowing us to experience the full range of other people's sensory experiences and if we find ordinary experience too boring, we will have access to archives where more interesting experiences are stored.
Sound like a PS2 commercial??? Okay again, Im going to be the skeptic, in 30 years we are going to let nanotech robots into our brains and manipulate what we are thinking about, yeah nobody will have a problem with that
I mean foresight is good but have a little common sense. Everytime there is a new technology people think that it will drastically change the world. The internet is great, but it hasnt changed the world that much, I still shop at the mall, talk to my parents on the phone. I still have to study for my tests and I still have to pay the bills.
I think this is a fantastic idea. Combine it with only charging $5 for a cd, and I would probably own all the music I listen to.
I mean really, is $18 worth one cd?? Half the cd's I have now I only listen to 3 tracks, that was back when I listened to my cd's. But seriously I get ideas for what music to download off of the radio. This would increase sells dramatically I would imagine.
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Im not saying they are. Im saying that because of their problems, they arent going to have internet. You dont want internet when you have real problems.
Maybe the future will be different but so far AMD has failed to create its own designs.
AMD has a good plan, take other companies great designs and use them as their own. It works well if you have designs to buy, but its hard creating a company when you dont have the ability to innovate. They got the Athlon design from some small company that they purchased, the name escapes me.
The p4 will come out in newer revs with faster clockspeeds, DDR support, .13u technology, and copper interconnects and when it does it will kick ass, the NetBurst technology will really help when it gets up to 2Ghz speeds. On the lowpower market we have the low power p3 and on the server market we have the Itanium that will become widely accepted. AMD looks like its in a good position now, but it should go down dramatically in the future years.
jbischof
Countries like many in Africa and other third world countries will take a long time, if ever, to catch up with current technologies, however the rest of us, are being pulled closer and closer, culturally and technically. I imagine in a decade or two all the technologically literate countries will have greatly similar cultures and lifestyles (if not rulers) But third world countries will remain just that, third world. Because its hard to like the internet when you dont have food.
This should have been implemented a long time ago, because the amount of information we are pulling in right now is tremendous and it will only increase with the release of the more and more satellites we send up. We need this database for three very important reasons
We are all concerned, due to recent movies, that we might get hit by an asteroid, which is a valid concern, so we need to carefully track the asteroids that we find because we are only currently searching 10percent of the sky. Secondly with newer and more powerfull telescopes we are mapping more and more planets outside our solar system everyday, soon they will role in by the dozens a day. And finally, we are discovering universes that are farther away and therefore younger than any we have previously discovered
jbischof
Whistler is going to utilize Intel hardware. Anyone else see this as sort of suprising considering AMD's current lead in the desktop market. Intel's P4 might actually be good by the time Whister comes out though
I think the US needs to set a precedent by not requiring websites, or webhosts to censor at all. The internet should be under a worldwide jurisdiction and not required to obey every country's local laws. It is going to require far too much work, and too many lawsuits and be way to messed up to have different censoring for IP's in France, vs IP's in Amsterdam, vs IP's in the US.
If countries want to censor material they should do it on the client side be either making browsers or applications that dont allow certain websites/images or whatever OR simply make it illegal in your country. I am not suggesting that the US make it illegal to view certain webpages, but certainly we can't stop other countries (China).
Maybe this is too optomistic of a scenario, maybe we could have a little island in the middle of international waters that we load up with servers that way they arent restricted by any laws, we could put whatever we wanted on them.
This is just my suggestion, I am frustrated by the fact that france is even considering this, and if Yahoo complies then who knows what other countries will require.
Well that obviously wouldnt work, even if the CD is obsolete, its still yours, and other people who havent purchased the right to listen to that music shouldnt have it. You dont have to destroy it and yes you could keep it.
I think this guy has it right on, you should pay your $10 to have the rights to an album and then you can listen to it or own it in any medium that you want, and with the internet becoming whatever its becoming I think its becoming easier and easier to implement something like this. If a cd was $5 and I got to legally copy it into different mediums I would actually purchase a lot more cds.
I think this is crazy, why do people feel we need outside sources to censor our children all the time???
It should be up to the parents to watch what their children do not up the the rest of the world to watch what your children do. I remember a quote, something like "When I was younger, mothers used to spend their time worldproofing their children, now we spend our time childproofing the world.
Thats just my 2 cents because you can never censor everything thats bad while not censoring everything thats good.
Intel is releasing a 1.2Ghz p4 even though the 1.4 p4 is approx equiv. to current p3 as far as performance goes, but there is a huge Mhz gap right now. Intel releasing the p4 at 1-1.8Ghz range is simply a placeholder until the p4 gets a makeover and really starts whoopin some ass.
People will buy based soley on Mhz and Intel needs something to distract people from the miserable end of the p3(where's 1.13Ghz??). As far as all these people talking about servers, look at the Itanium, its doing great and I think it will take a chunk of the market segment.
Just as long as my CPU runs at a faster frequency than my roomate's, I will be happy. NO I dont want to see how many fps my machine gets versus yours
By new core I think he means the .13u technology that lets them make smaller transistors, its the same design, just smaller, no rename
But, Intel has a secure grasp on the server market right now, and with the Itanium doing really well (64 bit for those who don't know) and the fact that server processors are supposed to be very RELIABLE, the p4 will be market tested by the time the SMP support comes out for it and it will take a big chunk of the server market.
Also Intel has low power chips, flash memory (doing 4 billion in revenue next year), Intel has worked its way into networking and basically what Im trying to say is that they are a giant company, AMD might have taken away its biggest club, but Intel isnt going away for a long time.
See the above posts, Intel is trying to fufill it's Rambus agreement as fast as possible so that it can get itself out of that death trap it started out on.
wouldn't Intel losing some market share to Transmeta though
Transmetta's claims are absolutely rediculous. They are all a marketing scheme. They wont be able to compete with the P3 low power and Intel's current Xscale and Strong Arm chips have the low power market set for a while. As far as servers go, AMD wont be in the server market for a long while and the Itanium, unlike the P4, is showing to be a great product and will take off for Intel
P4 = Desktop
.13 micron technology) Better memory support (DDR!!) and Faster Clock speeds, the p4 is supposed to be capable of 4Ghz. Its not the server chip its just fufilling the RDRAM obligation like you said.
Itanium 64bit = Server
the p4 sucks right now, everybody knows it, why would you want to run two of them at the same time.
wait for: Smaller die size (when they migrate to
Why would we want to mention Beowulf?
I think you bring up a great point, try to get Windows to run without using explorer to view files and folders. That is by far the biggest issue. I used Netscape for a long while but i found that either IE is more widely supported or ie supports more languages and formats, (media player, VB, etc) and even though these are MS created entities I can access more of the web, more easily through IE and thats the bottom line.
I dont know how many of you out there have worked in an office scenario, ie 8 hours in front of a computer. At home or school It was more like lots of 20min-2hour bursts. But there is no f'n way I can keep correct ergonomic position up for that long, and to top it off I dont care how ergonomically correct you are, typing on a regular keyboard is going to mess up your hands, people just werent meant to have their hands facing downward for that long during the day.
I think they need to keep coming out with completely new ergonomic devices like that keyboard where its split and the left side stands straight up and the right side stands sraight up and you type with your palms facing each other.
Althought this seems like a good idea in my eyes it is too much money to give away something I paid $1000 for. My questions is why hasnt the low cost pc market taken off. I heard a lot of talk about as computers get faster, the slower ones will be cheaper. Nobody makes software for slow computers anymore, and nobody (or at least not a lot of people) sell cheap computers. Why not give a school a crap load of pentiums or old x86's and if they had decent software then that would be a great solution to the current problem of technology costing the user so much. I guess we will just have to wait until moore's law breaks down then the computer prices for latest technology should drop (along with the tech stock market)
anyone remember a post a little while ago about guiness getting domain names along the lines of Ihateguiness.com or the aol thing with them just taking domain names without telling anyone. I think the whole system needs to be revamped, no more of this .com for everything, there needs to be a clear business extension and a seperate net extension. (I know thats what its supposed to be but it just isnt working)
its fun to watch the counter on the Illustrated guide to breaking your computer page go up and up by the second, at least his page is handling the /. effect pretty well.
I didnt mean to knock Louisiana, It could have just as well been back country utah, or back country illinois, or back country main, the point is not everybody has access to the technology that we may assume is standard.
my apologies
Technology has to be perfected before it can be put to use in something like our voting system.
I mean when they invented the printing press they didnt immediatly start making ballots and have everyone vote by paper.
Think about some back country voting booth in Louisiana where they dont know jack about computers, it would be hard to get a computer out there and tell people to use it to vote. I know thats not what he meant but if we are going to have any use of technology it should be sponsored by the government and you know how they fuck things up.
Give computers 8 - 12 more years and they should be more widely accepted and maybe by then we can use them to aid in the voting process.
We are taking several days to figure out who our new president is.... So what??? We are still running fine (besides the pussies who are selling on the stock market). We will have a president eventually. Imagine the potential for corruption if we used electronic voting, whole new system would need to be developed, hacking, electronic fraud, computer crashes, OS compatibility, etc.. okay enough ranting on my behalf
okay sure
I remember back in the early 80's when people were like, By the year 2000 robots with computers in their heads will be doing all of humans menial tasks, we will just do the creative stuff. Okay since I have a robot making my bed and cleaning my apartment for me right now I can assume thats true. Yeah nanotech robots will do all the work too, especially since they are so small, they will have all that space for computing power.
>Around 2030, we should be able to flood our brains with nanobots that can be turned off and on and which would function as "experience beamers" allowing us to experience the full range of other people's sensory experiences and if we find ordinary experience too boring, we will have access to archives where more interesting experiences are stored.
Sound like a PS2 commercial???
Okay again, Im going to be the skeptic, in 30 years we are going to let nanotech robots into our brains and manipulate what we are thinking about, yeah nobody will have a problem with that
I mean foresight is good but have a little common sense.
Everytime there is a new technology people think that it will drastically change the world. The internet is great, but it hasnt changed the world that much, I still shop at the mall, talk to my parents on the phone. I still have to study for my tests and I still have to pay the bills.
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Socialism should work if we could (be kind, thoughtfull, honest, people) Ima good typer, a good writter to.
I think this is a fantastic idea. Combine it with only charging $5 for a cd, and I would probably own all the music I listen to.
I mean really, is $18 worth one cd?? Half the cd's I have now I only listen to 3 tracks, that was back when I listened to my cd's. But seriously I get ideas for what music to download off of the radio. This would increase sells dramatically I would imagine.