Celeron 566 is the Coppermine128 Celeron, which does NOT support SMP. The Athlon/Duron can't run in SMP yet because there is no chipset support for SMP yet, but this should change in a couple of months when AMD releases its 760MP chipset.
Even if Napster cuts into record sales, which I seriously doubt, there's not much that the RIAA could or should do about it. The internet makes it so much easier to pirate music and software, and if Napster gets shut down, there's still Gnutella and other such programs. I think CD Burners cut more into CD sales than Napster, and you can't go around making sure no one burns CD's. The music industry must find a new business model to complement their CD sales, such as ad-supported music sites on the internet.
Benchmark demonstrations ran roughly twice as fast on the dual-G4 system compared to the single-G4 Power Mac that was on stage. I don't know if it's time to drool yet. This seems a little fishy. With current multi-processing systems, each processor does not do alternate operations rather each processes a different thread. Of course, if you're running a program that has only one thread that requires 80% of a CPU's power, then the speed increase using two processors will be negligible since one will have an 80% load while the other will have a 1% load doing the background operations (like OS, etc.) Twice the speed doesn't sound right.
Actually, the question is when and if we will ever see this type of bandwith. It seems like every few weeks, we hear about some new technology from Lucent, Cisco, Qwest, or some other company which allows for insane bandwith. Yet I'm still stuck at home with a 128 kbps dual ISDN connection, which is faster than most people's 56K (no games though, stupid company firewall). When will this technology be available for the average consumer? High-speed connections do exist in my area, such as cable and DSL, yet these have too many problems (shared lines, bad reliability, etc.) to be a viable alternative to the old 56K for mainstream consumers, not to mention much more expensive. When someone comes up with a fast, reliable, and cheap (sounds like some oxymoron) from of transmitting information that will be available soon, then I'll be interested.
Actually, the Geforce 2 can't support full scene anti-aliasing at resolutions higher than 1280x1024x16 or 1024x768x32 because of the way the nVidia FSAA works. The video card renders the screen at twice the resolution (there's also a mode in ehich it only renders twice the resolution one way-i'm not sure whether vertical or horizontal) and shrinks it down to the original size. So FSAA at 1600x1200 would mean the video card rendering at 3200x2400, which it can't do.
AOHell is aiming to become the Micro$oft of internet service providers. They're target audience is the same as the Microsoft's-inexperienced users. AOL has also been caught using unfair business practices, such as the fiasco with AOL 5.0 disabling all other ISP accounts on a computer. How long will this last? It's a little surprising that the government, especially with the Microsoft antitrust case going on, would let these two companies merge. AOL, like Microsoft, does not supply a superior product than its competitors, only one that may be easier to use for some people. On the other hand, there is some hope considering other ISP's are starting to offer the same services as AOL, but people unfortunately will still get AOL because of its name.
Actually, since the GPS is operated by the U.S. military, they're not the ones that would be so interested in the technology. I wonder if other countries such as China might want this technology in case they go to war with the U.S. The U.S. is the country that's going to lose out if this tech becomes available to certain nations.
The manufacturer says it's available, but the one place that sells it does not have it as an option. I'm just wondering how they keep the dang thing cool enough that it doesn't fry.
I submitted this article two days ago and it was declined! Discrimination!
I'm using Netscape 6 and after turning off the sidebar, it never comes up again. Which version of Mozilla are you using? If it's an older version, try upgrading. If it's M15, then you should report the bug.
I'm windering the same thing. There are several features that I miss in Netscape 6 that are included in IE. Here are some suggestions:
1)address completion/menu
2)when opening a new window, got to the current site not the home page
A few other suggestions:
1)make it possible to turn of cookies except from sites the user can list
2)the color scheme is ugly
3)somehow make it load up faster
Of course, Mozilla does add certain features that make it bearable despite the frequent errors. Overall, it's a good example of what open source can offer.
Thank you for this great honor. It's beyond my wildest dreams to ever be a karma whore-*sniff*-*sniff*. I'd like to thank my computer and it's trusty (although covered with-never mind) keyboard, the old ztetris game on my TI-86 (the only thing that kept me sane in school at times), and most of all the whole slashdot community (trolls, karma whores, ACs, and the others). Without them *sniff*-*sniff* this would never have been possible. I love you all.
Nowadays, it's pretty hard to be sure about the facts on issues such as these. After I submitted this story, I read in different places that a back door exists, a backdoor doesn't exist, a buffer overrun exists, nothing exists, etc. Who can we believe? Much as I love the open source community, I find it hard to trust it more than I trust Microsoft. Both have a stake in news such as this, so it's hard to find an impartial judge on this issue (considering I spend most of my time on sites favorable to linux).
Another issue I have with the bug report: one of the previous stories on slashdot claimed that this was a good example of closed source's shortcomings. Why is it that whenever Microsoft's products are found to have bugs in them, everyone in the Open Source community cries out, "See, we told you"? I think some of our credibility is lost when this happens, especially when the backdoor is found to not exist. Another issue is that of fair journalistic reporting. Instead of immediately reporting this "news" like a tabloid, Cnet and whatever other sites that first came out with this report should have actually checked to see if it had any merit before scaring all the webmasters around who are unlucky enough to still use NT. While a respectable site such as slashdot posted the retraction, other sites may not do this and this can harm many consumers.
Ahh, but even different q3 levels perform differently when comparing certain hardware configs. For example, check out Anandtech article on 64 MB GeForces. The 32 ddr and 64 ddr perform identically with demo 001, but the 64 mb version annihilates the 32 mb one in quaver. The question is, which demo can be considered standard?
Actually, OCing is not that risky. Right now I amy typing this on a P2-266 running at 300 with a 100 bus. 100% stable (with standard heatsink/fan @ 2.0 Volts), yet better performance than p2-333. If I increase the voltage a little, I could probably run it at 350 with a little more cooling. If you know what you're doing, it's pretty hard to mess the chip up.
Also, I doubt Doom runs any faster on an OCd computer. Ignorant journalists-nerver heard of anything but doom.
Maybe we males just want to save a little money. I'd rather overclock a 750 MHz ($400 max) to 1 Ghz with a $30 Alpha cooler than pay $1400 for a 1 GHz chip.
My personal opinion is that lawsuits like this are stupid and an abuse of the patent/justice system. Nowadays, corporations are granted patents for everything and anything. Patents were designed to protect innovation, not to overcome the competition. Patents should not be granted for something so simple/non-innovative as the technology in question.
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However, according to this, the Duron does officially support SMP.
Celeron 566 is the Coppermine128 Celeron, which does NOT support SMP. The Athlon/Duron can't run in SMP yet because there is no chipset support for SMP yet, but this should change in a couple of months when AMD releases its 760MP chipset.
Each company will still have too much power.
Even if Napster cuts into record sales, which I seriously doubt, there's not much that the RIAA could or should do about it. The internet makes it so much easier to pirate music and software, and if Napster gets shut down, there's still Gnutella and other such programs. I think CD Burners cut more into CD sales than Napster, and you can't go around making sure no one burns CD's. The music industry must find a new business model to complement their CD sales, such as ad-supported music sites on the internet.
Great. Now we can watch the ISS on ESPN instead of all those boring sports reruns during the summer. And they'l call it "xtreme sports" or something.
It ain't over yet.
Benchmark demonstrations ran roughly twice as fast on the dual-G4 system compared to the single-G4 Power Mac that was on stage. I don't know if it's time to drool yet. This seems a little fishy. With current multi-processing systems, each processor does not do alternate operations rather each processes a different thread. Of course, if you're running a program that has only one thread that requires 80% of a CPU's power, then the speed increase using two processors will be negligible since one will have an 80% load while the other will have a 1% load doing the background operations (like OS, etc.) Twice the speed doesn't sound right.
Actually, the question is when and if we will ever see this type of bandwith. It seems like every few weeks, we hear about some new technology from Lucent, Cisco, Qwest, or some other company which allows for insane bandwith. Yet I'm still stuck at home with a 128 kbps dual ISDN connection, which is faster than most people's 56K (no games though, stupid company firewall). When will this technology be available for the average consumer? High-speed connections do exist in my area, such as cable and DSL, yet these have too many problems (shared lines, bad reliability, etc.) to be a viable alternative to the old 56K for mainstream consumers, not to mention much more expensive. When someone comes up with a fast, reliable, and cheap (sounds like some oxymoron) from of transmitting information that will be available soon, then I'll be interested.
Actually, the Geforce 2 can't support full scene anti-aliasing at resolutions higher than 1280x1024x16 or 1024x768x32 because of the way the nVidia FSAA works. The video card renders the screen at twice the resolution (there's also a mode in ehich it only renders twice the resolution one way-i'm not sure whether vertical or horizontal) and shrinks it down to the original size. So FSAA at 1600x1200 would mean the video card rendering at 3200x2400, which it can't do.
AOHell is aiming to become the Micro$oft of internet service providers. They're target audience is the same as the Microsoft's-inexperienced users. AOL has also been caught using unfair business practices, such as the fiasco with AOL 5.0 disabling all other ISP accounts on a computer. How long will this last? It's a little surprising that the government, especially with the Microsoft antitrust case going on, would let these two companies merge. AOL, like Microsoft, does not supply a superior product than its competitors, only one that may be easier to use for some people. On the other hand, there is some hope considering other ISP's are starting to offer the same services as AOL, but people unfortunately will still get AOL because of its name.
Actually, since the GPS is operated by the U.S. military, they're not the ones that would be so interested in the technology. I wonder if other countries such as China might want this technology in case they go to war with the U.S. The U.S. is the country that's going to lose out if this tech becomes available to certain nations.
I submitted this article two days ago and it was declined! Discrimination!
I'm using Netscape 6 and after turning off the sidebar, it never comes up again. Which version of Mozilla are you using? If it's an older version, try upgrading. If it's M15, then you should report the bug.
1)address completion/menu
2)when opening a new window, got to the current site not the home page
A few other suggestions:
1)make it possible to turn of cookies except from sites the user can list
2)the color scheme is ugly
3)somehow make it load up faster
Of course, Mozilla does add certain features that make it bearable despite the frequent errors. Overall, it's a good example of what open source can offer.
I hate it when people can't admit they lost. Win and lose honorably.
You played tetris with a slide rule.
So how was school before they came out with these calculators that have more memory than computers did fifteen years ago?
Thank you for this great honor. It's beyond my wildest dreams to ever be a karma whore-*sniff*-*sniff*. I'd like to thank my computer and it's trusty (although covered with-never mind) keyboard, the old ztetris game on my TI-86 (the only thing that kept me sane in school at times), and most of all the whole slashdot community (trolls, karma whores, ACs, and the others). Without them *sniff*-*sniff* this would never have been possible. I love you all.
At least I'd go crazy if I didn't have that calc during school.
So when can I start playing quake with christmas lights?
Cool.
Another issue I have with the bug report: one of the previous stories on slashdot claimed that this was a good example of closed source's shortcomings. Why is it that whenever Microsoft's products are found to have bugs in them, everyone in the Open Source community cries out, "See, we told you"? I think some of our credibility is lost when this happens, especially when the backdoor is found to not exist. Another issue is that of fair journalistic reporting. Instead of immediately reporting this "news" like a tabloid, Cnet and whatever other sites that first came out with this report should have actually checked to see if it had any merit before scaring all the webmasters around who are unlucky enough to still use NT. While a respectable site such as slashdot posted the retraction, other sites may not do this and this can harm many consumers.
Ahh, but even different q3 levels perform differently when comparing certain hardware configs. For example, check out Anandtech article on 64 MB GeForces. The 32 ddr and 64 ddr perform identically with demo 001, but the 64 mb version annihilates the 32 mb one in quaver. The question is, which demo can be considered standard?
Also, I doubt Doom runs any faster on an OCd computer. Ignorant journalists-nerver heard of anything but doom.
Maybe we males just want to save a little money. I'd rather overclock a 750 MHz ($400 max) to 1 Ghz with a $30 Alpha cooler than pay $1400 for a 1 GHz chip.
My personal opinion is that lawsuits like this are stupid and an abuse of the patent/justice system. Nowadays, corporations are granted patents for everything and anything. Patents were designed to protect innovation, not to overcome the competition. Patents should not be granted for something so simple/non-innovative as the technology in question.