Actually, I read about this technology several weeks ago (characteristic late news on/.), so it's not an April fool's joke. IBM (I think) is working to get this tech out in the next couple of years. One of it's advantages over DRAM is that it takes less current and won't fry like RDRAM.
I think the music industry has a right to fight napster. The way it seems, napster's primary purpose is to allow people to pirate music on a wider scale. This deprives the industry of money that it could have earned through the sale of CDs, etc. We live in a capitalist society, and all corporations try to increase profits as much as possible.
On the other hand, I think the music industry needs to change its strategy. The internet has brought more emphasis on services rathar than physical goods. My suggestion to the idustry is to make music available free on the internet and earn money on advertisement.
Actually, I see more to this than the article mentions. I think Intel released the Celeron IIs to keep AMD on its toes until Intel can come out with its Willamette and the upcoming low-end Timna processor due at the end of the year.
Another thing I'm wondering is whether or not these new Celerons will show up in laptops before AMD releases its mobile Athlon. Celerons and p2/3s are the most common laptop processors, but Intel better watch its back or else it will lose market share in the laptop value market the same way it's losing market share in the desktop arena. The mobile p3s are too expensive at least for my budget, so the new celerons would be a nice alternative.
Actually, the real question is how the Celeron II stacks up to AMD's upcoming Spitfire. The Spitfire has three times the effective bus speed of the Celeron with 100 MHz DDR bus (eff=200 MHz) along with the same 128 K L2 cache (on-die, full speed). AMD's processors also have the best floating point unit of any x86 processor. Clock for clock , the performance of the Spitfire is almost definitely going to exceed that of the Celeron II. The Spitfire has been performing so well in its sampling phase, according to this article, that the Spitfires "are actually, in many cases, outperforming their elder brothers, the existing Athlon range of microprocessors." Also, the Athlon is a 7th generation processor while the P3/celerons are 6th generation, back from the Pentium-Pro days. How long will this old architecture last them?
This brings about another question: will Intel continue to dominate because of its name, or will AMD gain market share because of the probable superior performance of its Athlon series? I guess the answer depends on who gets more OEM support. AMD has won over several big name companies like IBM, but Intel's domination was shown when Dell decided to stick with Intel and froget about AMD despite Intel's production problems. It shows who has power when a company decides to lose money (Dell) rather than anger Intel.
Hardocp has been talking about overclocking a couple of Celeron II 633s to 1 ghz stable with only an alpha cooler. They should have the benchmarks within the next few days, so we'll see how they perform.
The new coppermines have half the cache as the old katmai p3s, but the cache runs at full speed. Benchmarks show that this results in a 10% performance gain. The problem with having more cache is that the new full speed cache is on-die, integrated on to the chip. It would be very expensive to have more, and you would also have the problem of limited number of transistors before the processor becomes too large and performance decreases because electric signals would have to travel farther.
Actually, I believe these new Celerons can run on the BP6 using an FCPGA to PPGA riser card which should be available at the same time the Celeron II is released. Also, these chips may be able to run on a dual slot 1 board using a slotket from Iwill or the Slotket III from Abit.
At school, we use iMac DV Special editions. Although I hate the mouse, the machines work quite well with 128 MB RAM (included in the SE) and the firewire interface.
There are actually no confirmed reports of extra-solar planets.
Just to clarify, I meant no extra-solar planets have been observed directly. Also, no wandering planets without corresponding stars have been found/inferred.
something like 38 solar planets
Looks like I forgot the word extra here. Sorry about that.
That's what I'm wondering. If I can remember correctly, NASA made the announcement of the planet at a time when it was being heavily criticized for failed missions among other incidents. Now it seems like the announcement was made as a publicity stunt, considering that they made the announcement before allowing the scientific community to study their claim.
I'm not one for conspiracies, but this one smells fishy. Maybe NASA never believed they had discovered an extra-solar planet.
I read about this recently. There are actually no confirmed reports of extra-solar planets. When NASA first issued their claim, many scientists were skeptical and criticized NASA for issuing a press release before their claim of an extra-solar planet was reviewed by the scientific community. The chances of a discovery of an extra-solar planet is very slim since planets, unlike stars, reflect light rather than emit light. Extra-solar planets, if they exist (they probably do), would be too hard to see even with the most powerful telescopes.
While there are no observed extra-solar planets, something like 38 solar planets have been inferred by discovering abnormalities in a star's shape because of the gravitational pull of the planet.
The one good thing I see about this is that the media will have less access to "official sources." In politics, sources only inform the media of what they want the public to know. They also reveal information that supports their agenda or information that results in public feedback on a proposed policy-it's called a trial balloon. Less trial balloons, and politicians/police officers/etc. will do what they think is right rather thatn doing what they think will elicit the best public reaction.
On the other hand, it will be harder for the public to find out about police abuse. The media will just have to work harder to unearth these abuses. Censorship is bad, but if public safety depends on it than maybe it is justifiable. But it's not the best solution.
On the other hand, I believe that the public has a right to know about what goes on in our criminal justice system. This is a big deterrent of abuse. Many scandals, such as the current bribery/etc. scandal in L.A. are unearthed by the media and others who have access to police information.
I dislike napster. The primary reason napster was created, the way I see it, is so that more people can pirate music. Not that I like the music industry, but artists should be paid for their work. Also, its frickin annoying because of all that wasted bandwith. Slower school connections because people are looking for that last Brittany Spears or Backdoor Boys song.
Well, I'd be a little suspicious of the quality of the product and the strings attached. Where's the fine print? "There's no such thing as a free lunch."
AMD and Intel have the advantage right now since they have already broken the 1 ghz barrier. Also, the Sledgehammer and Itanium will be x86 compatible, so anyone entering into the 64 bit processor will probably be tempted to buy Intel or AMD.
Americans (and people from other countries) who go into space are called astronauts. Russians are called cosmonauts. (Probably because one of the two countries wanted to be different than the other because of the Cold War tensions-just my theory)
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Actually, I read about this technology several weeks ago (characteristic late news on /.), so it's not an April fool's joke. IBM (I think) is working to get this tech out in the next couple of years. One of it's advantages over DRAM is that it takes less current and won't fry like RDRAM.
On the other hand, I think the music industry needs to change its strategy. The internet has brought more emphasis on services rathar than physical goods. My suggestion to the idustry is to make music available free on the internet and earn money on advertisement.
Powerleap has an FCPGA to PPGA converter card that should work in the BP6. You can use either the P3 coppermine or the Celeron II.
Actually, I see more to this than the article mentions. I think Intel released the Celeron IIs to keep AMD on its toes until Intel can come out with its Willamette and the upcoming low-end Timna processor due at the end of the year.
Another thing I'm wondering is whether or not these new Celerons will show up in laptops before AMD releases its mobile Athlon. Celerons and p2/3s are the most common laptop processors, but Intel better watch its back or else it will lose market share in the laptop value market the same way it's losing market share in the desktop arena. The mobile p3s are too expensive at least for my budget, so the new celerons would be a nice alternative.
This brings about another question: will Intel continue to dominate because of its name, or will AMD gain market share because of the probable superior performance of its Athlon series? I guess the answer depends on who gets more OEM support. AMD has won over several big name companies like IBM, but Intel's domination was shown when Dell decided to stick with Intel and froget about AMD despite Intel's production problems. It shows who has power when a company decides to lose money (Dell) rather than anger Intel.
Hardocp has been talking about overclocking a couple of Celeron II 633s to 1 ghz stable with only an alpha cooler. They should have the benchmarks within the next few days, so we'll see how they perform.
The new coppermines have half the cache as the old katmai p3s, but the cache runs at full speed. Benchmarks show that this results in a 10% performance gain. The problem with having more cache is that the new full speed cache is on-die, integrated on to the chip. It would be very expensive to have more, and you would also have the problem of limited number of transistors before the processor becomes too large and performance decreases because electric signals would have to travel farther.
Actually, I believe these new Celerons can run on the BP6 using an FCPGA to PPGA riser card which should be available at the same time the Celeron II is released. Also, these chips may be able to run on a dual slot 1 board using a slotket from Iwill or the Slotket III from Abit.
Just to clarify, the firewire interface allows you to hook up a Sony digital video camera to the iMac.
At school, we use iMac DV Special editions. Although I hate the mouse, the machines work quite well with 128 MB RAM (included in the SE) and the firewire interface.
We do have legal prostitution. It's called sleeping with the boss to get a better position in the company.
Looks like Monica found a new job. Gives a new meaning to "open source."
"SEXUAL INDISCRETION" SUSPECTED
Rather than face a trial by the public media, Sarrat resigns (or so he claims).
This could be a bad thing for Linuxcare's IPO, since investors are usually uneasy about a sudden change in a company's personnel.
Just to clarify, I meant no extra-solar planets have been observed directly. Also, no wandering planets without corresponding stars have been found/inferred.
something like 38 solar planets
Looks like I forgot the word extra here. Sorry about that.
That's what I'm wondering. If I can remember correctly, NASA made the announcement of the planet at a time when it was being heavily criticized for failed missions among other incidents. Now it seems like the announcement was made as a publicity stunt, considering that they made the announcement before allowing the scientific community to study their claim.
I'm not one for conspiracies, but this one smells fishy. Maybe NASA never believed they had discovered an extra-solar planet.
I read about this recently. There are actually no confirmed reports of extra-solar planets. When NASA first issued their claim, many scientists were skeptical and criticized NASA for issuing a press release before their claim of an extra-solar planet was reviewed by the scientific community. The chances of a discovery of an extra-solar planet is very slim since planets, unlike stars, reflect light rather than emit light. Extra-solar planets, if they exist (they probably do), would be too hard to see even with the most powerful telescopes.
While there are no observed extra-solar planets, something like 38 solar planets have been inferred by discovering abnormalities in a star's shape because of the gravitational pull of the planet.
On the other hand, it will be harder for the public to find out about police abuse. The media will just have to work harder to unearth these abuses. Censorship is bad, but if public safety depends on it than maybe it is justifiable. But it's not the best solution.
On the other hand, I believe that the public has a right to know about what goes on in our criminal justice system. This is a big deterrent of abuse. Many scandals, such as the current bribery/etc. scandal in L.A. are unearthed by the media and others who have access to police information.
I demand one billion dollars for emotional damages-or else I'll shoot.
I dislike napster. The primary reason napster was created, the way I see it, is so that more people can pirate music. Not that I like the music industry, but artists should be paid for their work. Also, its frickin annoying because of all that wasted bandwith. Slower school connections because people are looking for that last Brittany Spears or Backdoor Boys song.
Well, I'd be a little suspicious of the quality of the product and the strings attached. Where's the fine print? "There's no such thing as a free lunch."
I think you meant liquid nitrogen. Unless you change the pressure, as far as I know, CO2 sublimes-changes from a solid directly to a gas.
AMD and Intel have the advantage right now since they have already broken the 1 ghz barrier. Also, the Sledgehammer and Itanium will be x86 compatible, so anyone entering into the 64 bit processor will probably be tempted to buy Intel or AMD.
Americans (and people from other countries) who go into space are called astronauts. Russians are called cosmonauts. (Probably because one of the two countries wanted to be different than the other because of the Cold War tensions-just my theory)