Re:A strange combination, to say the least.
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Heh, I bet there won't be any consumer cards out in the near future that would need 64-bit PCI, but I sure would appreciate it for the Ultra160 SCSI RAID controller that I have for my own personal use;-)
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A strange combination, to say the least.
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To sum up the article, here are the most notable features of the nForce reference board that they recieved:
The chipset's North Bridge- Dubbed the "IGP", it provides for more efficient use of memory bandwidth using the GeForce3's crossbar switching technology. Note that this is the same kind of technology that SGI, Sun, and other high-performance UNIX hardware vendors have been using for their memory architecture (drool...)
Support for 128-bit DDR memory- This is just amazing. Not only will their particular implementation allow you to put different sizes of DIMMS in the board, but it will also allow DDR memory to boost it's bandwidth 100%, which means that instead of maxing out at 2.1GB/sec, it maxes out at 4.2GB/sec (again, drool...)
The link between the North and South Bridges- This will support bandwidth up to 800MB/sec, which means that it will have an excess even under unusual conditions, such as maxing out ATA/100, maxing out the PCI bus and outputting 256 streams of digital audio all at the same time. Simply awesome.
The built-in audio- The article gives a lengthy description of this. Suffice to say, it is better than any consumer card available today, built-in or otherwise.
Built-in graphics system- This actually was a little disappointing to me, because, while they may have it running at essentially AGP 6x, they used their budget system, the GeForce2 MX, for the processing. I'm also disappointed that it uses a "shared video memory" architecture that can be found in a lot of deplorable video platforms, notably the Intel i810 chipset. Basically, it uses up to 32MB of system memory for the frame buffer in addition to its onboard memory. However, with the huge amount of bandwidth available to the system memory, this may or may not be an issue.
Lack of support for 1394 and 64-bit PCI- Regrettably, they don't seem to have included support for either Firewire or 64-bit PCI. The lack of 1394 support is particularly surprising, as it has gotten increasingly better support from both Windows ME and Windows XP, as these are the main platforms which will be running on this board.
All in all, I think this is going to be an awesome board, a real leap ahead of everything else out there for the x86 market right now, at least in the consumer arena. I look forward to buying one, if the sticker shock isn't too harsh;-).
The primary reason that these hardware reviews don't include screenshots is that the reviewers have to sign an NDA in exchange for the privilige of getting an early preview of the latest and greatest hardware. This is mostly due to the fact that the company in question doesn't want to kill their product before it is even released due to reviewers badmouthing the performance of beta drivers, beta firmware, beta hardware, etc.
Some guy is standing in a crowd of people in business suits in, say, a crowded subway platform. He's discussing his stock portfolio as a train is pulling in. Then, all of the sudden, BLAM! His head explodes from the unchecked radiation emitted by the phone, showering the train station in gore and blinding several unfortunate individuals with small fragments of his skull.
The slogan then comes on screen: Are you protected?
Ahh, the entertainment that is possible when you crank up the FUD machine...
Could this be the lost city of Atlantis? Damn, it would be even cooler if Indiana Jones had found it. Seriously, though, this is really cool. It must've been very intriguing to track something like this down, and this discovery will undoubtedly make up the minds of a few kids considering their future carrers.
Couldn't you be bothered to at least read Slashdot's little blurb about the article, let alone the article? It said 9.6Kbps! You are not going to be playing Quake at that speed anyway.
And that's totally ignoring the fact that if you are traveling to a place remote enough that you would need to connect to the internet via satellite, any overwhelming urge to play Quake ought to be countered with an equally overwhelming urge to paint the walls with one's own brains. Sheesh, get a life.
So what if 90% of independent music is crap? At least with independent music, you can find bands that have different and new ideas about music, politics, and life in general.
All you hear on the radio these days is music that is all themed toward what record companies want people to think about, which right now would seem to be either complacency with life (when was the last time you heard a song on the radio with a radical political message?) or worship of shallow beauty (Britney Spears et al.) and material wealth (almost all the crap cranked out by rap labels such as Cash Money these days. Or you could look at Limp Biscut and see both).
LOL, you know what's really interesting is that both of those radio callsigns have something to do with Apple Computer. In the first instance, I'm sure you saw the banners on Slashdot a while ago advertising Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC), and, of course, most of us know that the filesystem, at least for Mac OS 9, is called "HFS".
Coincidence? I hardly think so. Obviously, both of these stations are owned by Steve Jobs. Either that, or Apple's lawyer's have just completely missed this one, and are just now typing out legal threats to the stations...
Moderators, please note: the Dead Kennedys were punk rock, not geek rock. Mod this post down accordingly, because you won't like it.
Now with that said, I present to you...
Pull my strings
By The Dead Kennedys
I'm tired of self respect
I can't afford a car
I want to be a prefab superstar
I wanna be a tool
Don't need no soul
Wanna make big money
Playing rock and roll
I'll make my music boring
I'll play my music slow
I ain't no artist
I'm a business man
No ideas of my own
I won't defend
Or rock the boat
Just sex and drugs
And rock and roll
And here we go...
Drool drool drool drool drool drool...
My Payola!
Drool drool drool drool drool drool...
My Payola!
You'll ten bucks to see me
On a fifteen foot high stage.
Fat ass bouncers kick the shit
Out of kids who try to dance.
My friends say I've lost my guts
I'll laugh and say
"That's rock and roll!"
But there's just one problem...
Is my cock big enough?
Is my brain small enough?
For you to make me a star?
Give me a toot,
I'll sell you my soul.
Pull my strings and I'll go far.
Give me a toot,
I'll sell you my soul.
Pull my strings and I'll go far.
And when I'm rich and meet Bob Hope
We'll shoot some golf
And shoot some dope
Is my cock big enough?
Is my brain small enough?
For you to make me a star?
Give me a toot,
And I'll sell you my soul
Pull my strings and I'll go far...
They don't even have this program on my local station. I guess I'll just have to hope that their website doesn't get slashdotted, so I can listen to a stream.
Well, I don't know where you are living, but here in Southwest Florida, this is indeed happening. We are in the middle of one of the worst water shortages ever here, and we can blame most of it on the phosphate industry, which tends to use a lot of water in what they do. While I can't really call what they're doing "deforestation," they are destroying huge tracts of wilderness, sometimes disturbingly close to the rivers that supply us with our water.
If you haven't ever seen a phospate mine before, I'll describe it to you: The resulting swath of land looks quite literally like the surface of the moon; craggy, grey, and desolate, save for the acidic pools of slimy water in some of the lower spots. The aforementioned pools of water also come dangerously close to overflowing during some periods in the rainy season, which, sooner or later, is bound to lead to the contamination of our rivers. It's really a sad situation, not only for the reason that our government is sitting idly by while they do this, but they are actually considering granting new land to some of the major companies.
I have just felt like such a great person ever since I bought my Apple. People are always smiling at me when I say things like "The G4 is a supercomputer" or "I pooped my pants".
I've been using similiar technology to train CowboyNeal
CmdrTaco == Homosexual S&M freak? I mean really, what the hell is with you and Cowboy Neal? His constant listing as a poll option, your electro-shock "training" of him... it really starts to make a person wonder after a while...
If weapons-grade plutonium is so hard to store on earth, why don't they do this: shoot it all off in big missles to somewhere isolated in our solar system, and then detonate them, thus destroying the plutonium all together? That way you don't have to worry about engineering to preserve anything, you're just destorying it, which, IMHO is a better solution anyways. I'm surprised that no one's mentioned this already.
Putting out fires? Putting out fires? Enough with the limp wristed engineers who are doing this to "save lives"! I want people building robots that will cause a fucking mess! I wanna have a robot that STARTS fires! My God, were all the male engineers born without balls, or was castration a course requirement for schools of engineering?
Oh, absolutely. I could have a direct connection to the telco's fiber optic network if I lived in a utopia, because there's a large fiber trunk running right through my front yard. But this isn't a perfect world, and they don't really care about customers, much less hooking one individual up with something that is too expensive for them to justify.
"A thousand pentium computers would need over 10 years to decrypt a 10 minute phone-call".
Umm... I don't know about you people, but that seems really pathetic to me. Hell, Google has 4000 such machines, and they aren't even in the crypto business. And we all know that the only thing that has kept Cray in business in the last few years was the NSA. So, put two and two together. If you are important enough for the NSA to care about hearing your calls, all they need to do is to spend a little computer time on cracking it. This is assuming that there are no "shortcuts" in the protocol, weakness that can be exploited in less time than it would take to brute force it.
To give you a comparison to what REAL encryption, like PGP, would be able to withstand, my PGP e-mails would probably take more time to brute force using all today's computing power than the time that the universe has existed.
I've been able to set up an OpenBSD router/firewall for my dad's office with Verizon DSL and it worked just fine. It's probably dependent on what part of the country you are in, I guess.
Well, let's think about this logically: If half of the run to the central office is fiber, there must be some point where they would have to change the fiber to copper lines. Usually, this involves a nifty little central-office-in-a-box from Alcatel known as a LiteSpan2000. Basically, when the telco wants to provide services such as frame relay, ISDN, and DSL to customers, they just plug an interface card into the LiteSpan unit, and it handles everything from there, such as connecting to the end user and bridging the data to the fiber lines back to the CO.
Logically speaking, you CAN'T deny DSL service with the excuse of "half the line is fiber", because that would make no sense.
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The chipset's North Bridge- Dubbed the "IGP", it provides for more efficient use of memory bandwidth using the GeForce3's crossbar switching technology. Note that this is the same kind of technology that SGI, Sun, and other high-performance UNIX hardware vendors have been using for their memory architecture (drool...)
Support for 128-bit DDR memory- This is just amazing. Not only will their particular implementation allow you to put different sizes of DIMMS in the board, but it will also allow DDR memory to boost it's bandwidth 100%, which means that instead of maxing out at 2.1GB/sec, it maxes out at 4.2GB/sec (again, drool...)
The link between the North and South Bridges- This will support bandwidth up to 800MB/sec, which means that it will have an excess even under unusual conditions, such as maxing out ATA/100, maxing out the PCI bus and outputting 256 streams of digital audio all at the same time. Simply awesome.
The built-in audio- The article gives a lengthy description of this. Suffice to say, it is better than any consumer card available today, built-in or otherwise.
Built-in graphics system- This actually was a little disappointing to me, because, while they may have it running at essentially AGP 6x, they used their budget system, the GeForce2 MX, for the processing. I'm also disappointed that it uses a "shared video memory" architecture that can be found in a lot of deplorable video platforms, notably the Intel i810 chipset. Basically, it uses up to 32MB of system memory for the frame buffer in addition to its onboard memory. However, with the huge amount of bandwidth available to the system memory, this may or may not be an issue.
Lack of support for 1394 and 64-bit PCI- Regrettably, they don't seem to have included support for either Firewire or 64-bit PCI. The lack of 1394 support is particularly surprising, as it has gotten increasingly better support from both Windows ME and Windows XP, as these are the main platforms which will be running on this board.
All in all, I think this is going to be an awesome board, a real leap ahead of everything else out there for the x86 market right now, at least in the consumer arena. I look forward to buying one, if the sticker shock isn't too harsh ;-).
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The slogan then comes on screen: Are you protected?
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And that's totally ignoring the fact that if you are traveling to a place remote enough that you would need to connect to the internet via satellite, any overwhelming urge to play Quake ought to be countered with an equally overwhelming urge to paint the walls with one's own brains. Sheesh, get a life.
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All you hear on the radio these days is music that is all themed toward what record companies want people to think about, which right now would seem to be either complacency with life (when was the last time you heard a song on the radio with a radical political message?) or worship of shallow beauty (Britney Spears et al.) and material wealth (almost all the crap cranked out by rap labels such as Cash Money these days. Or you could look at Limp Biscut and see both).
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Coincidence? I hardly think so. Obviously, both of these stations are owned by Steve Jobs. Either that, or Apple's lawyer's have just completely missed this one, and are just now typing out legal threats to the stations...
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Now with that said, I present to you...
Pull my strings
By The Dead Kennedys
I'm tired of self respect
I can't afford a car
I want to be a prefab superstar
I wanna be a tool
Don't need no soul
Wanna make big money
Playing rock and roll
I'll make my music boring
I'll play my music slow
I ain't no artist
I'm a business man
No ideas of my own
I won't defend
Or rock the boat
Just sex and drugs
And rock and roll
And here we go...
Drool drool drool drool drool drool...
My Payola!
Drool drool drool drool drool drool...
My Payola!
You'll ten bucks to see me
On a fifteen foot high stage.
Fat ass bouncers kick the shit
Out of kids who try to dance.
My friends say I've lost my guts
I'll laugh and say
"That's rock and roll!"
But there's just one problem...
Is my cock big enough?
Is my brain small enough?
For you to make me a star?
Give me a toot,
I'll sell you my soul.
Pull my strings and I'll go far.
Give me a toot,
I'll sell you my soul.
Pull my strings and I'll go far.
And when I'm rich and meet Bob Hope
We'll shoot some golf
And shoot some dope
Is my cock big enough?
Is my brain small enough?
For you to make me a star?
Give me a toot,
And I'll sell you my soul
Pull my strings and I'll go far...
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If you haven't ever seen a phospate mine before, I'll describe it to you: The resulting swath of land looks quite literally like the surface of the moon; craggy, grey, and desolate, save for the acidic pools of slimy water in some of the lower spots. The aforementioned pools of water also come dangerously close to overflowing during some periods in the rainy season, which, sooner or later, is bound to lead to the contamination of our rivers. It's really a sad situation, not only for the reason that our government is sitting idly by while they do this, but they are actually considering granting new land to some of the major companies.
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CmdrTaco == Homosexual S&M freak? I mean really, what the hell is with you and Cowboy Neal? His constant listing as a poll option, your electro-shock "training" of him... it really starts to make a person wonder after a while...
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Umm... I don't know about you people, but that seems really pathetic to me. Hell, Google has 4000 such machines, and they aren't even in the crypto business. And we all know that the only thing that has kept Cray in business in the last few years was the NSA. So, put two and two together. If you are important enough for the NSA to care about hearing your calls, all they need to do is to spend a little computer time on cracking it. This is assuming that there are no "shortcuts" in the protocol, weakness that can be exploited in less time than it would take to brute force it.
To give you a comparison to what REAL encryption, like PGP, would be able to withstand, my PGP e-mails would probably take more time to brute force using all today's computing power than the time that the universe has existed.
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Logically speaking, you CAN'T deny DSL service with the excuse of "half the line is fiber", because that would make no sense.
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