Dropped clamshell ibook from 6 feet and made a pathetic attempt to catch it that sent it flying in cartwheels. Hit concrete. No damage. None.
Lifted my Dell by the front gripping it gently on both sides with the display open. Cracked the motherboard inside the cheap flexible plastic case. Few rows of keys stopped working. While troubleshooting I smelled electrical fire. Dell replaced it saying that was "common".
Acer one year old, negligible abuse. Hard drive slid back in it's slot and shorted against motherboard. Acer told me to go fly a kite.
Yes, ice worms are real. They live between ice crystals on the surface of some glaciers. On summer evenings they come to the surface to feed on red algae and pollen grains. "Ice Worm Safaris" are conducted by forest service people on summer evenings at Portage Glacier. I have seen them on Matanuska glacier just north of Anchorage. Portage Glacier is just west of Anchorage.
You walked into this one. By using Sodimms instead of standard sdram chips as are found in the older imacs, costs them an extra 20 bucks.
The price difference between PC 100 and PC 133 is ZERO DOLLARS. Their choice of a 100mhz fsb was pure marketing. Their choice of a flat panel raised the barrier to entry on macs from 800 dollars to 1300 dollars.
They have shot themselves in the foot in schools on that one. Their attempt at letting marketing make their engineering decisions is a failure. Flat panels lack durability and Apple can no longer compete in the sub $1000 computer market. OS X, to run properly requires a beefy processor. That Dictated the requirment for the imac to have a G4. But to prevent all the people who would otherwise spend $2000 on a tower from simply buying an imac for $1300, they unecessarily crippled the imac G4 with a 100mhz fsb.
Unecessary because faster G4's are being released today. Pure mhz speed provides the product seperation. They knew this but crippled the imac anyway. They are counting on the cool flat panel to attract customers to the imac but the primary imac users -schools- are driven away by the price point. I have purchased 42 imacs for my district because they will be discontinued. My same $34,000 will only purchase 25 new imacs which have questionable reliability (flatscreens on spinning arms) in a school enviroment.
After a few years of proven reliability I may consider a flatpanel imac purchase. Until then, I'll be combing resale outlets for old imacs. I belive the flatpanel imac will go the way of the cube, an oddity with no market.
Here is to hopeing that the new G4 towers Provide enough product placement seperation from the imac so they can uncripple the imac's 100mhz fsb. There was no reason to take a perfectly good computer and run it slow except marketing. Now Apple has some faster models, they can give the imac some breathing room.
Umm... Not to pick nits... but you can buy Linux software at CompUSA...
Sometimes it seems like many Linux users are so busy being activists that they forget the true state of Linux. Sort of like nazi-feminists are so busy being angry that they do not see that there are a lot of nice men out there.
Linux is sold at CompUSA and Best Buy. Redhat, Suse and Mandrake are all available right next to Windows with plenty of shelf space. Sure you can still be a Linux god and spend 24 hours downloading an entire distro on your DSL but it is really not necessary. Just go to the store a buy it. Go ahead and cough up the 29 bucks... Oh... You never want to pay for it? Not worth it? Then the commercial distros die.
Fact is it is worth it. Have you any idea how much old hardware I have rescued with my Red Hat Pro distro? Fantastic OS, on par with Win 98SE or Mac OS 9.1. for usability and smokes them in reliability.
Notice I left out 2000 and OS X. They have Linux's reliability.
After my Sargeant was berated by the Platoon Leader for letting me run the platoon he had the gall to ask me if I was running the Platoon. I told him if he had to ask, then there was his answer.
NASA has needed some propper Purpose, Direction and Motivation for a while. Too bad the bright Slashdot geeks can't provide NASA with some real Wall to Wall Counceling.
Perhaps to get Carmack some real funding and engineer support. Or land a sterile probe on Europa. Or a radio telescope on the dark side of the moon.
another example of f***ed government. You pay for a stamp to send mail. You pay for a box to receive mail. You subsidize spammy junk mail catalogs because companies get favorable bulk mail rates. And now you have to veiw adds while you stand in line or check your box.
A beowulf cluster operating system could expose a standerdized set of API's to an application if no matter how many processors it had it told the application that it had 1024 but the application could not then be optimized for the actual hardware it is running on. KLAT2's applications were optimized to take advantage of the 3DNow! extentions which Trippled the effective processing power of their cluster. Just like Direct X provides API's to applications for standardization does not come close to what could be achieved hand codeing machine language to the x86 hardware. Look at the applications being run on clusters now and you will see that most are cash poor but manpower and entusiasm heavy. If they could afford 3 times as much hardware to achieve the same performance they would have ordered expencive big iron from IBM. Also not that 1024 processors limits the scalability of the cluster. The real Idea is to force hundreds of commodity machines to act like a single processor
NASA has it's hand in the Department of Defence's cookie jar again. Since Mars does not have a constelation of GPS sattellites (yet), this project is exclusivly for miniature terestrial surveilance.
It's all fun and games until someone steals your digital identity. Just ask all the posters who rate an imposter here. Or ask Signal 11 (7608).
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Design your own USB coffee maker or animitronic toy. Put a real robot in robot wars instead of a glorified remote control car. Break in by doing not begging
It would be so nice if ServerWorks made an AMD chipset. Imagine what they could do with hypertransport bus and if they implemented their quad channel SDRAM in a DDR solution. Finnaly there would be a truely stable enterprise class chipset available for AMD. They could probably even properly implement USB (MPX satire).
"Also regarding the investment in a new platform and coming from the x86 world, I'm a bit interested about the PowerPC performance in comparison to what I could get with a x86 notebook. I've read some articles and pages that suggest that PowerPCs may not be fast (or, in fact, may be quite slower than their x86 counterparts):
Considering Carmack made this statement when x86 had just broken the gigahertz barrier and The G4 was actually faster than it is now due to the 512k cache, and that Apple has crippled both the Titanium and new iMac G4s with 100mhz front side busses, PPC has got to be eons behind x86 in performance by now...
9 KW multifuel generator... $5500 will get you plenty of ventilation, silencers, IR signature reduction, 1000 gallons of fuel, sattelite DSL instalation and service for a year and a new Dell to plug into it so you can troll slashdot and surf pr0n.
you can get a 10kw deisel for that price new or 30kw for that price used. Power your block for 8k or barely push your 650w enermax powersupply'd dualie Athlon watercooled raid 5 scsi server.
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Dropped clamshell ibook from 6 feet and made a pathetic attempt to catch it that sent it flying in cartwheels. Hit concrete. No damage. None.
Lifted my Dell by the front gripping it gently on both sides with the display open. Cracked the motherboard inside the cheap flexible plastic case. Few rows of keys stopped working. While troubleshooting I smelled electrical fire. Dell replaced it saying that was "common".
Acer one year old, negligible abuse. Hard drive slid back in it's slot and shorted against motherboard. Acer told me to go fly a kite.
Yes, ice worms are real. They live between ice crystals on the surface of some glaciers. On summer evenings they come to the surface to feed on red algae and pollen grains. "Ice Worm Safaris" are conducted by forest service people on summer evenings at Portage Glacier. I have seen them on Matanuska glacier just north of Anchorage. Portage Glacier is just west of Anchorage.
SDRAM, PC100 modules 144-pin SODIMM 256MB $79.99
SDRAM, PC100 modules 144-pin SODIMM 256MB $79.99
SDRAM, PC133 modules 168-pin DIMM 256MB $72.99
SDRAM, PC100 modules 168-pin DIMM 256MB $72.99
You walked into this one. By using Sodimms instead of standard sdram chips as are found in the older imacs, costs them an extra 20 bucks.
The price difference between PC 100 and PC 133 is ZERO DOLLARS. Their choice of a 100mhz fsb was pure marketing. Their choice of a flat panel raised the barrier to entry on macs from 800 dollars to 1300 dollars.
They have shot themselves in the foot in schools on that one. Their attempt at letting marketing make their engineering decisions is a failure. Flat panels lack durability and Apple can no longer compete in the sub $1000 computer market. OS X, to run properly requires a beefy processor. That Dictated the requirment for the imac to have a G4. But to prevent all the people who would otherwise spend $2000 on a tower from simply buying an imac for $1300, they unecessarily crippled the imac G4 with a 100mhz fsb.
Unecessary because faster G4's are being released today. Pure mhz speed provides the product seperation. They knew this but crippled the imac anyway. They are counting on the cool flat panel to attract customers to the imac but the primary imac users -schools- are driven away by the price point. I have purchased 42 imacs for my district because they will be discontinued. My same $34,000 will only purchase 25 new imacs which have questionable reliability (flatscreens on spinning arms) in a school enviroment.
After a few years of proven reliability I may consider a flatpanel imac purchase. Until then, I'll be combing resale outlets for old imacs. I belive the flatpanel imac will go the way of the cube, an oddity with no market.
We /.'ed apple... I think legoman's DSL lasted longer. And he had big pictures of his lego mural.
Here is to hopeing that the new G4 towers Provide enough product placement seperation from the imac so they can uncripple the imac's 100mhz fsb. There was no reason to take a perfectly good computer and run it slow except marketing. Now Apple has some faster models, they can give the imac some breathing room.
Jesus man, you can't just make a comment like that on /. without leaving a link to pictures.
You spent time in this building, which makes you better than most. Try not to take that as my acceptance of your divinity.
If you lived in a transparent concrete house would you still have to refrain from stone throwing?
Umm... Not to pick nits... but you can buy Linux software at CompUSA...
Sometimes it seems like many Linux users are so busy being activists that they forget the true state of Linux. Sort of like nazi-feminists are so busy being angry that they do not see that there are a lot of nice men out there.
Linux is sold at CompUSA and Best Buy. Redhat, Suse and Mandrake are all available right next to Windows with plenty of shelf space. Sure you can still be a Linux god and spend 24 hours downloading an entire distro on your DSL but it is really not necessary. Just go to the store a buy it. Go ahead and cough up the 29 bucks... Oh... You never want to pay for it? Not worth it? Then the commercial distros die.
Fact is it is worth it. Have you any idea how much old hardware I have rescued with my Red Hat Pro distro? Fantastic OS, on par with Win 98SE or Mac OS 9.1. for usability and smokes them in reliability.
Notice I left out 2000 and OS X. They have Linux's reliability.
After my Sargeant was berated by the Platoon Leader for letting me run the platoon he had the gall to ask me if I was running the Platoon. I told him if he had to ask, then there was his answer.
NASA has needed some propper Purpose, Direction and Motivation for a while. Too bad the bright Slashdot geeks can't provide NASA with some real Wall to Wall Counceling.
Perhaps to get Carmack some real funding and engineer support. Or land a sterile probe on Europa. Or a radio telescope on the dark side of the moon.
First NASA's spacecraft then NASA's leadership. Not necessarily in that order.
"If the Jasker men really are onto something, it could be the most important Irish invention since Guinness."
Nothing is more inportant than Guinness. Nothing.
another example of f***ed government. You pay for a stamp to send mail. You pay for a box to receive mail. You subsidize spammy junk mail catalogs because companies get favorable bulk mail rates. And now you have to veiw adds while you stand in line or check your box.
A beowulf cluster operating system could expose a standerdized set of API's to an application if no matter how many processors it had it told the application that it had 1024 but the application could not then be optimized for the actual hardware it is running on. KLAT2's applications were optimized to take advantage of the 3DNow! extentions which Trippled the effective processing power of their cluster. Just like Direct X provides API's to applications for standardization does not come close to what could be achieved hand codeing machine language to the x86 hardware. Look at the applications being run on clusters now and you will see that most are cash poor but manpower and entusiasm heavy. If they could afford 3 times as much hardware to achieve the same performance they would have ordered expencive big iron from IBM. Also not that 1024 processors limits the scalability of the cluster. The real Idea is to force hundreds of commodity machines to act like a single processor
NASA has it's hand in the Department of Defence's cookie jar again. Since Mars does not have a constelation of GPS sattellites (yet), this project is exclusivly for miniature terestrial surveilance.
Ultimate TV, Bob and 640k of memory
Perhaps Microsoft will be strengthened technicaly as linux matures the same way AMD has forced Intel to operate more efficiently with competition.
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It would be so nice if ServerWorks made an AMD chipset. Imagine what they could do with hypertransport bus and if they implemented their quad channel SDRAM in a DDR solution. Finnaly there would be a truely stable enterprise class chipset available for AMD. They could probably even properly implement USB (MPX satire).
"Also regarding the investment in a new platform and coming from the x86 world, I'm a bit interested about the PowerPC performance in comparison to what I could get with a x86 notebook. I've read some articles and pages that suggest that PowerPCs may not be fast (or, in fact, may be quite slower than their x86 counterparts):
John Carmacks Opinion
Considering Carmack made this statement when x86 had just broken the gigahertz barrier and The G4 was actually faster than it is now due to the 512k cache, and that Apple has crippled both the Titanium and new iMac G4s with 100mhz front side busses, PPC has got to be eons behind x86 in performance by now...
usefull links:
Ars Technica G4 -vs- K7 Analysis
Ars Technica G4 -vs- P4 Analysis
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9 KW multifuel generator... $5500 will get you plenty of ventilation, silencers, IR signature reduction, 1000 gallons of fuel, sattelite DSL instalation and service for a year and a new Dell to plug into it so you can troll slashdot and surf pr0n.
MShaft: "Not-a-bug-it's-a-feature"
Intel: "Not a bug it's erratum."
VIA: "We slowed it down to keep it cool."
Nvidia: "That was a leak! We are not doing public driver beta testing!"
ATI "Who the hell plays Quack3?"
AMD "the patch is here"
you can get a 10kw deisel for that price new or 30kw for that price used. Power your block for 8k or barely push your 650w enermax powersupply'd dualie Athlon watercooled raid 5 scsi server.