consumers can't get it through their heads that clock speed is not even close to being everything
I'll have to take issue with this statement:
Unlike Intel, they're at least not lying about clock speed
Intel's technically *not* lying about their clock speed, but they *are* relying upon the public's mass delusion that clock speed is what makes a processor fast. Intel's processors actually do perform at the listed clock speeds, but in comparison to AMD's Athlon, less gets done per cycle, making it a slower processor in the long run.
Just FYI.
Like you said though, Intel has really left AMD with no choice but to do this, as Joe Consumer relies upon marketing hype, glossy pictures, and pretty colors more often than solid facts.
So what are you all doing about this article anyway? Do you want something to change, or do you just want to sit around complaining about it? Email this story to every journalist you know!!
Good point. As with any science, we can make a lot more advances if we shed our paradigms and look at problems from every view possible. Just because life on our planet was formed under one set of laws, that doesn't limit life as a whole by our laws.
> read about the experiments in which amino acids can form spontaneously
spontaneous generation, eh? if anyone has a few links to something documenting this, I'd be all ears (...er... eyes). as far as i'd heard, noone had been completely successful in proving this had happened.
Robyn Miller had left Cyan a while back, and had started some company called Land of Point. He was supposedly working on some movie... Anyway, he was interviewed by Wired around the same time that he left Cyan. In typical Wired fashion, Land of Point was creating something that was going to revolutionize the way we.... sat around watching movies, i guess. Anyway, my point is the other day i was trying to find their site (www.landofpoint.com) and it appears to be gone. Has anyone heard anything about the elusive "Land of Point?"
to translate the ad (maybe.. assembled via the fish):
an open operating system doesn't have to mutate.
Though at times open operating systems *do* mutate. with Windows 2000 however, you can count service releases on one hand. That saves time, and time is important. For more info, visit www.microsoft.com/germany/windows2000
does this remind anyone of the frickin dark ages? all books of great importance were written in latin, and only the social elite were allowed to know latin. isn't this a rudimentary form of the same thing?
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"...such a Luddite attitude is actually pretty insulting..." it's also insulting at times to see technology "break new barriers" without a second thought as to how it affects [human] life. "science" is not a perfect machine, especially with us at the helm.
i choose life as well, but with alot less preservatives. -m-
Last i knew, Apple didn't own the rights to the concept of "curved surfaces" or eye-catching colors. I understand completely why they went after the other iMac-clones (i forget who made them) because they actually looked very close to the same, but these new EasyNow! cases and peripherals look nothing like an iMac.
CS Lewis - tolkien's contemporary had alot of this in his chronicles of narnia. the land to the south of narnia (cant remember the name) was said to be barbaric and evil, in book 5 (?) "the horse and his boy" we see that this southern land has very Turkish or Arabic customs/clothing. I just think that perhaps lewis and tolkien had some subconscious euro-centric "my culture's better than yours" disease that so many are afflicted with.
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Just FYI.
Like you said though, Intel has really left AMD with no choice but to do this, as Joe Consumer relies upon marketing hype, glossy pictures, and pretty colors more often than solid facts.
So what are you all doing about this article anyway? Do you want something to change, or do you just want to sit around complaining about it? Email this story to every journalist you know!!
Sounds like we figured out empathy. Now tell me how the hell we're supposed to detect replicants.
Good point. As with any science, we can make a lot more advances if we shed our paradigms and look at problems from every view possible. Just because life on our planet was formed under one set of laws, that doesn't limit life as a whole by our laws.
> read about the experiments in which amino acids can form spontaneously
spontaneous generation, eh? if anyone has a few links to something documenting this, I'd be all ears (...er... eyes). as far as i'd heard, noone had been completely successful in proving this had happened.
>Unregulated manufacturers polluted, ... and the only people who made money were the bankers.
Quite like the American Industrial Revolution, correct?
Robyn Miller had left Cyan a while back, and had started some company called Land of Point. He was supposedly working on some movie... Anyway, he was interviewed by Wired around the same time that he left Cyan. In typical Wired fashion, Land of Point was creating something that was going to revolutionize the way we.... sat around watching movies, i guess. Anyway, my point is the other day i was trying to find their site (www.landofpoint.com) and it appears to be gone. Has anyone heard anything about the elusive "Land of Point?"
hasn't unrealty been doing the same thing with the Unreal engine for quite some time? -m-
does this remind anyone of the frickin dark ages? all books of great importance were written in latin, and only the social elite were allowed to know latin. isn't this a rudimentary form of the same thing?
wow.. good call.
"...such a Luddite attitude is actually pretty insulting ..."
it's also insulting at times to see technology "break new barriers" without a second thought as to how it affects [human] life. "science" is not a perfect machine, especially with us at the helm.
i choose life as well, but with alot less preservatives. -m-
Shiny's Sacrifice
WXP's Isle of Morg
Planet Moon's Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Computer Artworks' Evolva
i'm not quite finished wetting myself.
Last i knew, Apple didn't own the rights to the concept of "curved surfaces" or eye-catching colors. I understand completely why they went after the other iMac-clones (i forget who made them) because they actually looked very close to the same, but these new EasyNow! cases and peripherals look nothing like an iMac.
give it up.
CS Lewis - tolkien's contemporary had alot of this in his chronicles of narnia. the land to the south of narnia (cant remember the name) was said to be barbaric and evil, in book 5 (?) "the horse and his boy" we see that this southern land has very Turkish or Arabic customs/clothing. I just think that perhaps lewis and tolkien had some subconscious euro-centric "my culture's better than yours" disease that so many are afflicted with.
and fools you are.
I'm glad I finished high school years ago before the world went completely nuts, but what do I do about my kids??
two words - home schooling.
i fear public schools anymore, and privates are too $$$.