It's a pretty ridiculous statement to call this machine an "iBook on steroids".
OK, so they use some lower quality, less powerful components (LCD, Video Card, Hard Drive, no L3 cache). But the author already comlained about the heat. Obviously Apple had to make some engineering tradeoffs there. Did you want it to be hotter than it already is? Also, you don't want too high of a speed (RPM) hard drive in a laptop, the vibration doesn't have a nice big chassis to distribute through like it does on a desktop system.
As far as I know, there are some integral differences between the iBook and PowerBook hardware. I haven't perused the document for the new 12-inch yet, and the document for the iBook doesn't appear to be available right now, but I do recall the document for the standard PowerBook mentioned quite a few hardware enhancements to things like the system bus.
I'd heard that they were concerned about the possibility of "fail safe" switches going off when attacking installations that have weapons of mass destruction. The concern was that if these installations were severed from communication with Baghdad the weapons would automatically be launched.
This article says "an administration official... declined to confirm or deny whether such planning was underway," possibly because planning is done and the attack has already begun? Think about it - if they want to overcome these fail safes, what's the best way to do it? Break into the systems that initiate/run them and disable them before the physical attacks even begin. So that would make such electronic attacks part of the preperation and planning for physical attacks.
If they plan on attacking physically in under six months (and I think Bush does, or at least would like to), then they would probably be breaking into the systems right now...
Why Slashdot's been taking so long to load all morning. Normally I open a browser window and it's there instantly... but today it's been taking so long I've just been giving up and going to other sites.
Doesn't Microsoft own WebTV and some sort of PVR company? Don't you think this is there eventual plan for the XBox? A gaming console is mostly marketable to males aged 10-40 (or so), but a unit with the functionality of all of these things would be marketable to... well... everybody. And surfing the web may actually be reasonable on HDTV. (Did you ever use WebTV? It was awful on TV resolutions).
At one point traditionally designed chips will be at a single (or a few atoms per transistor)
I doubt that, it seems quite infeasible. IBM researchers are developing a technique to use individual atoms in a domino type setup to build gates, but it still requires more than a few atoms per gate (not really transistor based). Today's transistor's simply couldn't be built with a single atom. How do you have a gated channel with only one atom?
As for quantum computing, researchers (also at UW) are currently developing a chip that would allow for a 1024x1024 array of quantum bits (I believe), which would be astronomically larger than any quantum chip ever built. The way it works is to isolate individual electrons by thick (atomicall speaking) barriers.
I'm not sure quantum computing, however, will be able to replace current computing technologies as easily as a 'new design'. It is a fundamentally different thing, the majority of the algorithms we use today don't apply on quantum machines.
A comment posted below this says something about multiple ALU's on chip voting to select the correct answer for error correction as if it's some sort of far of revelation. I can't say for certain, but I really wouldn't be surprised if this was already implemented. Consumer level chips have had multiple ALUs for different functionality for a long time, and the concept of two sets of the same logic computing a result and comparing them for error correction is a pretty fundamental error correction task.
I've used both CDE and GNOME2 on Sun Solaris workstations. I started using CDE, and switched to GNOME2 because I wanted something that was a better GUI. Now I'm back to using CDE, because GNOME is just too slow on the machines, and CDE isn't.
This is one of the worst cases of overblown sensationalism I've seen in a long time. Obviously AMD isn't moving out of the x86 chip market, they still plan to continue manufacturing those chips. It would be just silly for them to all of the sudden drop years of architecture research.
Also, I don't think it's fair to assume Intel's primary domain is purely in PC Chips. Their work in Communications chips is nearly as important, and is becoming more so. I think they're trying to develop it into a stronger market force in the next few years.
Can't you see the requirements sticker on CDs now?
Requires at least:
Microsoft WindowsXP
256 Mb of RAM
750 MHz Processor
Or something along those lines? Disgusting.
My room mate played in the Halo National Championships this summer, he didn't say what kind of plasma TV's they were using, but just that some things in the game were too dark on them. Apparently the winning strategy in the final game involved hiding in shadows because you were nearly invisible in the extra-dark shadows on the plasma TV.
Why do you bash the review for lacking benchmarks? This is still one of the sweetest reviews I've seen in a long time. The level of detail they get into about the hardware is awesome.
Why does this guys new "invention" sound suspiciously like public key cryptography to me, only minus the public aspect, thereby making it much less useful?
many CAD/EDA type software packages have had mouse gestures for a while. i know mentor graphics has had some extremely useful gestures since i started using it.
Besides, it's all a waste of time anyway. The open source community needs to halt its collective Palladium whining and do something about it. Palladium as a Microsoft controlled standard will never succeed if there is a superior and more openly controlled alternative.
and it doesn't address the real- world fact that Macs are hit with viruses far less often than Windows machines
mac os (any version) runs on far less machines than windows (any version). therefore less people who can code are on macs. therefore less people who write virii (speaking in percentages of the population) are on macs as opposed to pcs. this means that less mac viruses will exist.
no one ever thought macs were less vulnerable than anything else. nothing is any more or less vulnerable really, everything probably has some exploitable bug if you look hard enough. there have just always been less people making virii and such for macs. percentage wise the amount of virii for macs is probably comparable to the market share of the os.
and band aids. i would have never thought to get myself band aids, but the first time i cut myself on something in my computer and was bleeding all over the place i was very happy that mommy had.
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OK, so they use some lower quality, less powerful components (LCD, Video Card, Hard Drive, no L3 cache). But the author already comlained about the heat. Obviously Apple had to make some engineering tradeoffs there. Did you want it to be hotter than it already is? Also, you don't want too high of a speed (RPM) hard drive in a laptop, the vibration doesn't have a nice big chassis to distribute through like it does on a desktop system.
As far as I know, there are some integral differences between the iBook and PowerBook hardware. I haven't perused the document for the new 12-inch yet, and the document for the iBook doesn't appear to be available right now, but I do recall the document for the standard PowerBook mentioned quite a few hardware enhancements to things like the system bus.
This article says "an administration official ... declined to confirm or deny whether such planning was underway," possibly because planning is done and the attack has already begun? Think about it - if they want to overcome these fail safes, what's the best way to do it? Break into the systems that initiate/run them and disable them before the physical attacks even begin. So that would make such electronic attacks part of the preperation and planning for physical attacks.
If they plan on attacking physically in under six months (and I think Bush does, or at least would like to), then they would probably be breaking into the systems right now...
I'll be waiting for active camo, then I'm joining the army. Look out for the active rockets cock.
Why Slashdot's been taking so long to load all morning. Normally I open a browser window and it's there instantly... but today it's been taking so long I've just been giving up and going to other sites.
I seem to recall hearing once that CD wholesale to retail markup was quite a bit more than 100%. Perhaps as high as 400% even I want to say.
Doesn't Microsoft own WebTV and some sort of PVR company? Don't you think this is there eventual plan for the XBox? A gaming console is mostly marketable to males aged 10-40 (or so), but a unit with the functionality of all of these things would be marketable to... well... everybody. And surfing the web may actually be reasonable on HDTV. (Did you ever use WebTV? It was awful on TV resolutions).
At one point traditionally designed chips will be at a single (or a few atoms per transistor)
I doubt that, it seems quite infeasible. IBM researchers are developing a technique to use individual atoms in a domino type setup to build gates, but it still requires more than a few atoms per gate (not really transistor based). Today's transistor's simply couldn't be built with a single atom. How do you have a gated channel with only one atom?
As for quantum computing, researchers (also at UW) are currently developing a chip that would allow for a 1024x1024 array of quantum bits (I believe), which would be astronomically larger than any quantum chip ever built. The way it works is to isolate individual electrons by thick (atomicall speaking) barriers.
I'm not sure quantum computing, however, will be able to replace current computing technologies as easily as a 'new design'. It is a fundamentally different thing, the majority of the algorithms we use today don't apply on quantum machines.
A comment posted below this says something about multiple ALU's on chip voting to select the correct answer for error correction as if it's some sort of far of revelation. I can't say for certain, but I really wouldn't be surprised if this was already implemented. Consumer level chips have had multiple ALUs for different functionality for a long time, and the concept of two sets of the same logic computing a result and comparing them for error correction is a pretty fundamental error correction task.
I've used both CDE and GNOME2 on Sun Solaris workstations. I started using CDE, and switched to GNOME2 because I wanted something that was a better GUI. Now I'm back to using CDE, because GNOME is just too slow on the machines, and CDE isn't.
Also, I don't think it's fair to assume Intel's primary domain is purely in PC Chips. Their work in Communications chips is nearly as important, and is becoming more so. I think they're trying to develop it into a stronger market force in the next few years.
Can't you see the requirements sticker on CDs now? Requires at least: Microsoft WindowsXP 256 Mb of RAM 750 MHz Processor Or something along those lines? Disgusting.
Who cares?
My friend got a chance to play on it, and he said it's pretty nice. He's about the most hard core gamer I know, so I'll take his word for it.
My room mate played in the Halo National Championships this summer, he didn't say what kind of plasma TV's they were using, but just that some things in the game were too dark on them. Apparently the winning strategy in the final game involved hiding in shadows because you were nearly invisible in the extra-dark shadows on the plasma TV.
Why do you bash the review for lacking benchmarks? This is still one of the sweetest reviews I've seen in a long time. The level of detail they get into about the hardware is awesome.
Why does this guys new "invention" sound suspiciously like public key cryptography to me, only minus the public aspect, thereby making it much less useful?
many CAD/EDA type software packages have had mouse gestures for a while. i know mentor graphics has had some extremely useful gestures since i started using it.
gEDA is also a good project for Linux people interested in open hardware: they develop a GNU liscenced set of hardware design tools.
Just my bookmarks two cents on the topic.
Besides, it's all a waste of time anyway. The open source community needs to halt its collective Palladium whining and do something about it. Palladium as a Microsoft controlled standard will never succeed if there is a superior and more openly controlled alternative.
what, no screen shots?
netscape isn't assuming percentages there, it tends to always bloats tables to fill the screen unless you somehow force them to do otherewise.
we use retrospect remote, when it works its good ( we like the mac compatability as well ), but when it doesn't it can really irritate me.
and it doesn't address the real- world fact that Macs are hit with viruses far less often than Windows machines
mac os (any version) runs on far less machines than windows (any version). therefore less people who can code are on macs. therefore less people who write virii (speaking in percentages of the population) are on macs as opposed to pcs. this means that less mac viruses will exist.
no one ever thought macs were less vulnerable than anything else. nothing is any more or less vulnerable really, everything probably has some exploitable bug if you look hard enough. there have just always been less people making virii and such for macs. percentage wise the amount of virii for macs is probably comparable to the market share of the os.
and band aids. i would have never thought to get myself band aids, but the first time i cut myself on something in my computer and was bleeding all over the place i was very happy that mommy had.
ive been using galeon's kick ass tabbed browsing for quite a while now. its awesome.
thanks for saying this. i thought it was commonly known that passwords were the weakest link in computer security....