"...they've monopolized a fairly large niche market..."
And was Apple profitable when only graphic designers used Macintoshes? No, they were only profitable when they had a large home user and educational market.
That's what HP is trying to do. Expand their market to the educational arena. I, for one, am hoping that the 49G is really the upgrade to the 38G, not the high-end 48GX. If they had any brains at all, they'd take the GOOD features of the new 49, and put BACK the good features of the 48GX, including IR, expandibility, EQ Lib, and possibly even add a few more new features.
Well, let's try the old example again "(2+4)-((5+9)/(7+3)"... I will use = for Enter on RPN
RPN: 2 = 4 + 5 = + 9 7 = 3 / - (13 keystrokes, and once you're used to RPN [about two days] you'll never get the entry order wrong.)
Algebraic entry: ( 2 + 4 ) - ( ( 5 + 9 ) / ( 7 + 3 ) ) = (20 keystrokes, and you better hope you got the parenthesis right.)
Four function calculator entry: 7 + 3 = (write down answer) 5 + 9 = / 1 0 (ten, the answer you wrote down) = (write this down) 2 + 4 = - 1 . 4 (1.4, the answer to the division) = (21 keystrokes, plus the written down numbers, plus the completely counterintuitive entry method.)
SIIA research did not turn up a single subject as the most popular for software sales but instead clustered buying in reading, science and arts. "One of those is ahead, but not consistently."
Hmmm, I wonder which one is ahead . . . Now, if I'm not mistaken, computers should be used in schools for four things:
Learning to use computers
Help with scientific/technical subjects (including math)
Research (Encyclopedias/Internet)
Typing papers
Now, HOW would you use computers for a subject defined (by the SIIA) as "reading"? And the "arts"? Fine, I can see using a computer to create digital art, but how about painting, music, sculpture, and photography?
Exactly... The MacNN site doesn't even have ONE reference to MP3 on it's current page, and the only references to MP3 in the last week say that Quick Time 4 plays them (and badly, from what I read.) And AppleInsider just mentions that QT4 will play MP3's, it says absolutely NOTHING about Apple buying, or even licensing, the MP3 format. Just like MacNN, it only says that the QuickTime 4 player will play MP3 files. I'm curious what drugs Wolven Spectre was on when he submitted this story.
About 5 years ago, I went to a "supercomputer" conference (quite impressive, actually, Intel brought along 2 Paragon Deltas, SGI had a bunch of Onyxes and better...)
At this conference IBM had a few "toys." One of which was a PowerPC *notebook*. This is before Apple had even released a single PPC Mac, and the only PPCs were IBM workstations. This notebook was running a PPC version of OS/2 2.1. The IBM guy said it was great, and that unfortunately, the OS wasn't ready for prime time yet, as x86 emulation wasn't very good (for running Windows programs.)
So, IBM did port OS/2 to PowerPC, but for some reason, they never released it. I was a little disappointed, as PPCs looked great, and I was running (and VERY happy with) OS/2 for a few years then (and a few years after.)
About 5 years ago, I went to a "supercomputer" conference (quite impressive, actually, Intel brought along 2 Paragon Deltas, SGI had a bunch of Onyxes and better...) At this conference IBM had a few "toys." One of which was a PowerPC *notebook*. This is before Apple had even released a single PPC Mac, and the only PPCs were IBM workstations. This notebook was running a PPC version of OS/2 2.1. The IBM guy said it was great, and that unfortunately, the OS wasn't ready for prime time yet, as x86 emulation wasn't very good (for running Windows programs.) So, IBM did port OS/2 to PowerPC, but for some reason, they never released it. I was a little disappointed, as PPCs looked great, and I was running (and VERY happy with) OS/2 for a few years then (and a few years after.)
Well, I've had a bunch of mice in the past, and the best have been the Logitechs (the only reason I got a new one is because I like the new shape of the MouseMan 3's, plus I needed a PS/2 port mouse)... But, my ORIGINAL (as in, the "green button" mouse from 1985) Microsoft Mouse is still alive and well, running on my (just as old) Leading Edge 8088 PC Clone (acts as a terminal.) And, when I had the "dove-bar" mouse, it worked perfectly fine for at least 2 years, including after I took it apart and put it back together for an engineering class project. In short, while I'm not a big fan of the DESIGN of MS Mice (I do like the MS Nat Elite keyboard), they work perfectly fine. In fact, based on the look of the new one, if I can find it cheap (read: OEM pricing) I'll probably pick one up just out of curiosity.
DVD-RAM is available right now with 2.6Gig per side capacity, just as fast as one of these, and is random access. Yeah, it may not be as cheap ($500 for the drive, and $50 for a dual side 5.2G disc) but it's alot more practical.
Gotta go with the 3-drive combo:
Kenwood TrueX 52x CD-ROM (52x across the entire disc)
HP SureStore 24/4/2 CD-RW (Read 24x, Write 4x, Re-Write 2x, good for "Legacy" CD-burning)
Yeah, they're all IDE, but the Kenwood should be SCSI soon, I've seen a DVD-RAM SCSI, but it's slow and expensive, and no good CD-RW's are available in SCSI.
Well, on the Generations message board it says they took their files down yesterday. Apparently the latest beta was buggy, and they took the one before that down too (even though it worked fine.)
I don't work Tuesdays, so I'll be camping outisde the theater to get tickets (since LucasArts said tickets will not be allowed to go on sale until the 19th.) And on Wednesdays I work starting from noon to 11PM, so I think I'll get tickets for the last showing of the night, and suddenly come down with something..... at about 8PM.
Of course, with any luck, I'll be working for a hot new internet startup by then (Interview on Tuesday!)
No biggie. I was assuming I'd get flamed for it. A couple of things I forgot to mention in my original rant:
1. I am not a programmer, so having the source code does absolutely nothing for me. While I took programming courses in college, and I can hold my own READING code, I probably couldn't even write a "Hello World" in any language except BASIC anymore. (At one point, I could code in BASIC, Pascal, and FORTRAN. I've been meaning to learn C for awhile, but I'm too lazy) So if I download a piece of Linux software, and it doesn't compile on the first try, I give up on it. I don't know enough to dig through and find the error. And if I get more errors than on an equivalent Windows program, I'm not going to use it.
2. I do actually use Linux. I'm not just a Linux-bashing Microsoftie. My main computer may run Win98, but I have 2 other computers that both run Linux. An old 486, and a Mac Powerbook running MkLinux. I think it's great, but not for my main computer.
3. I hate Microsoft, the company. Unfortunately, the software I like to run is Windows software. As crappy as it is, MS Office runs lightning fast on my computer, and I like enough of the little features that I can't turn back now. After years of using all different programs, I hate Word Perfect. And KOffice isn't quite ready for prime-time yet, but it is getting there. Maybe after another year of development I'll start using KOffice and Linux as my main software, but not yet.
Basically, complain all you want, but for non-programmers, any *nix isn't quite ready for the desktop. Yes, if you write code for a living, it makes perfect sense, but for Joe User (me) being able to open the computer for the first time, hit the power button, and be ready to go is good. Your average user should never have to go through any manual process to recompile the kernel. It's been awhile since I've downloaded any recent Linux apps, so there may be ultra-user friendly configuration stuff out there, but from what I've seen, it's still too dificult for me to use to make my main computer run any *nix.
Why do you say that? After reading his reply, he goes to say that this response is all that he gets. Admitedly, I haven't seen any other posts from him, so as far as I know, he could think that Martians are responsible for the sinking of the Titanic, but his referenced article does seem to have valid points.
I, for one, use Windows 98 at home, and Windows 95 at work. At work I have no choice, but at home, I use W98 because for my uses it has what I want. It is, in my opinion, stable enough for non-critical work; it runs more software than Linux, most of which is of better quality, strictly because it has commercial support. I do graphics editing, and I feel that Gimp is just as good as Photoshop, but there isn't a single good Illustrator clone for Linux, so I use Windows.
And, with all the furvor over how integrated IE is in Win98, why is everyone complaining? I like having it integrated. I like the address bar next to my Start button, I like having the same look and feel for web browsing as I do for looking at local files, as I do for ftp sites, etc... Heck, even though it's obscenely huge, I even like the integration Office 2000 adds!
But, what do I get for this opinion? I get flamed and ignored! Yes, I think the spirit behind Linux and other Open Source products is great, but up to now, for my uses, there just isn't the software I need.
Yes, Linux has it's place, and for now, that is in the server room. Until there is a window manager that has the refinement of Windows/Macintosh/Be/OS2, and powerful, easy to use software that is more than just a web server, I will continue using non-Open Source software.
If Open Source boosters can claim to be so freedom oriented, why do you go to the opposite extreme of Bill Gates and feel that everyone should boycott Microsoft products (which happen to be perfectly good products for use on the desktop) just because they don't meet your standards? </rant>
The three truly "geek" things: 1. Any computer running a free *nix (Linux is the most prominent example) or any other suitably "alternative" OS (Amiga, Be, even OS/2) 2. A Hewlett Packard calculator (old geeks have 41's, newer geeks have 48SX's, and really recent geeks have 48GX's) 3. A PalmOS based organizer. (The most recent addition to the trilogy, before, it was just a pair.)
Subject says it all... Ironically, I went with a friend who went to actually see Wing Commander. He is (in my opinion) a bigger Star Wars fan than all the people who paid just to see the trailer. He is specifically AVOIDING all Star Wars content, so the entire movie is a surprise. He was PISSED when he accidentally looked at a movie poster and saw the title "Phantom Menace"... After Wing Commander, he asked me what I thought the best part was, I had to respond "The part you left the theater for."
(the G200 isn't 'fast enough' today, considering the cards due 'real-soon-now')
Huh? You're suffering from future envy... I hate to break the news to you, but the moment the Voodoo3 comes out, you'll be saying it's "not fast enough considering cards due real soon now." Right now, the G200 is (by all reviews I can find) the fastest commercial 2d card ever made, and the fact that for $150 you can get a 16MB AGP card capable of 1920x1200 at 32bit color in 3D is just amazing!
As for 3d? Yeah, it may not be equal to a Voodoo2, but in my opinion, it LOOKS better, and for what I do, who cares if you get 120fps in 640x480 when you can get a better looking rendering (32bit color), at 45fps (still faster than a human can process) at 1280x1024.
I assume you aren't going to buy a P3 (or K63) because you're waiting for the IA64? (or K8, because of course the K7 would be too slow considering that the IA64 is coming out soon...) Unless something is coming out within days, don't even consider it when buying parts, otherwise you'll never buy anything. My current computer was the absolute fastest/best components money could buy when I got it, I paid $2500 for it one year ago, and now you can get identical statistics (in fact, you can even get the $1000 in upgrades I've added) for $1000 now.
The best new/used bookstore on the planet, Powell's Books has 9 copies in stock. Just search on the home page for "Cracking DES". Here's the info.
Cracking Des Secrets Of Encryption Resea by GILMORE, JOHN Published by OREILLY & ASSOC INC (1565925203, 1998) Section: Networking-Computer Security In Stock: 9 at 29.95 Trade paper; New - Standard Condition; Location: Technical Bibliographic Information
But, the most common military (and probably original) meaning is: Situation Normal: All F*cked Up.
But, as with most acronyms, there are multiple meanings.
NAVY = Never Again Volunteer Yourself ARMY = Aren't Ready to be Marines Yet MARINE = Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected (or) My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment USAF = Under Sexed Ass F*ckers. (If any one knows one for full "Air Force", I'd like it... It was my service.)
"...the KNI instructions won't ever get used because all the rendering is passed off to the graphics card."
Is incorrect. All a 3d accelerator card does is speed up the DISPLAY of 3d objects, the processor still has to figure out where to PUT those objects, hence the usefulness of KNI (or SIMD, as Intel wants to call it, or even AMD's 3dNow.) See below for a more in-depth explanation.
As for 2d? Again, the only thing the card does is DISPLAY pictures, it does not do ANY calculations on where anything goes. In your standard Windowing OS, the processor has to figure out what is going to be displayed, and where it is going to go. After it figures this all out, it passes it on to the video card, which displays it. The difference between accelerated (2d) and non-accelerated is that on a non-accelerated, the processor has to tell it where every pixel goes, whereas an accelerated card can have "draw box", "put this text in box" passed to it instead.
3D explanation: There are four steps in displaying a real-time 3d scene (I'll use a first person shooter for examples): 1. Process the scene for objects (walls, cieling, floor, polygons for bad guys) 2. Plot exactly where those objects are going to be, including removing hidden lines 3. Apply textures and lightsourcing to polygons 4. Display it on the monitor. In a 3d-accelerated computer, the accelerator does steps 3 and 4. That leaves the processor to figure out where everything goes (which is where about 50% of the processing power is needed.) This is why a P2-450 without 3d accelerator is approximately equal to a P-200MMX with one. The P2 is about twice as fast, so it does the same. On VERY, VERY high end video cards ($2000+ workstation OpenGL cards) they can also do step 2, and THAT would take the hard work away from the processor.
Does this mean Ford has to give a T-bird to Chevy?
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Last time I checked, there was no law that said that an industry leader (read: dominant company) has to give specifications to smaller companies. The last time the government tried this (In the defense industry, the government made all blueprints of the AIM-9 missile public domain after 2 years.) the original developer went bankrupt when a competitor just waited for the design to become public domain, then started manufacturing it for half the cost because they didn't have to shoulder the R&D cost. Is the government trying to bring this brilliant idea to the computer industry now? While we're at it, why don't they just force the writer of the best Operating System to release the source code??? Oh, wait, that's already been done...
Well, the Saturn V rocket, (The one that launched all Apollo moon missions, and Skylab) was designed exclusively with slide rules, as were the SR-71 and X-15, the fastest airplanes ever created.
Hell, my calculator has more processing power and RAM than the space shuttle, and my watch has more than the Apollo lunar lander!
Almost everything designed before 1975 was made using only a slide rule.
Personally, I could never figure out the point of the Xeon chips. They run maybe 15% faster than an equal Mhz P2, and they cost WAY too much. I mean, I'm all for extra power, but come on!
Okay, I hate to break the news to you, but you've got it backwards. A PowerPC 750 (Apple calls it the G3) at equal Mhz to a Pentium-II is a faster CHIP, but the internals of Apple's computers (plus the only OS more bloated than Windows, MacOS) makes it slower. Try running optimized Linux on A P2-450 and a G3/300, and (if you're not running on Apple hardware), the G3 will win.
Not to be the one to point out the obvious, but it's a "y2k" bug, or "year two thousand" bug. (almost) Noone calls it the millenium bug anymore. Yes, the new MILLENIUM begins on Jan 1, 2001, but the 1999-2000 rollover bug happens on Jan 1, 2000. That is what is funny here, nowhere is it mentioning the millenium.
While I hate people who say new millenium when they mean 2000, I hate people who try to go the other way and try to convince people that 2000 means nothing either. Why do all these people want people to stay home and be bored on Dec 31, '99? Why not let them party?! Heck, how often do you take note of when your odometer (in your car) hits 100,001? No, you notice 100,000!
In short, correct people who incorrectly state 2000 to be the new millenium, but don't snap at them for just wanting to celebrate NY2k. (New Year 2000) Shit, I plan on partying like hell both years!
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P.S. I hope MY comment gets moderated down to a 0 as well...
And was Apple profitable when only graphic designers used Macintoshes? No, they were only profitable when they had a large home user and educational market.
That's what HP is trying to do. Expand their market to the educational arena. I, for one, am hoping that the 49G is really the upgrade to the 38G, not the high-end 48GX. If they had any brains at all, they'd take the GOOD features of the new 49, and put BACK the good features of the 48GX, including IR, expandibility, EQ Lib, and possibly even add a few more new features.
RPN: 2 = 4 + 5 = + 9 7 = 3 / - (13 keystrokes, and once you're used to RPN [about two days] you'll never get the entry order wrong.)
Algebraic entry: ( 2 + 4 ) - ( ( 5 + 9 ) / ( 7 + 3 ) ) = (20 keystrokes, and you better hope you got the parenthesis right.)
Four function calculator entry: 7 + 3 = (write down answer) 5 + 9 = / 1 0 (ten, the answer you wrote down) = (write this down) 2 + 4 = - 1 . 4 (1.4, the answer to the division) = (21 keystrokes, plus the written down numbers, plus the completely counterintuitive entry method.)
Which do you think is easier?
Hmmm, I wonder which one is ahead . . . Now, if I'm not mistaken, computers should be used in schools for four things:
Now, HOW would you use computers for a subject defined (by the SIIA) as "reading"? And the "arts"? Fine, I can see using a computer to create digital art, but how about painting, music, sculpture, and photography?
Exactly... The MacNN site doesn't even have ONE reference to MP3 on it's current page, and the only references to MP3 in the last week say that Quick Time 4 plays them (and badly, from what I read.)
And AppleInsider just mentions that QT4 will play MP3's, it says absolutely NOTHING about Apple buying, or even licensing, the MP3 format. Just like MacNN, it only says that the QuickTime 4 player will play MP3 files.
I'm curious what drugs Wolven Spectre was on when he submitted this story.
People, READ the articles before you submit them.
About 5 years ago, I went to a "supercomputer" conference (quite impressive, actually, Intel brought along 2 Paragon Deltas, SGI had a bunch of Onyxes and better...)
At this conference IBM had a few "toys." One of which was a PowerPC *notebook*. This is before Apple had even released a single PPC Mac, and the only PPCs were IBM workstations. This notebook was running a PPC version of OS/2 2.1. The IBM guy said it was great, and that unfortunately, the OS wasn't ready for prime time yet, as x86 emulation wasn't very good (for running Windows programs.)
So, IBM did port OS/2 to PowerPC, but for some reason, they never released it. I was a little disappointed, as PPCs looked great, and I was running (and VERY happy with) OS/2 for a few years then (and a few years after.)
About 5 years ago, I went to a "supercomputer" conference (quite impressive, actually, Intel brought along 2 Paragon Deltas, SGI had a bunch of Onyxes and better...)
At this conference IBM had a few "toys." One of which was a PowerPC *notebook*. This is before Apple had even released a single PPC Mac, and the only PPCs were IBM workstations. This notebook was running a PPC version of OS/2 2.1. The IBM guy said it was great, and that unfortunately, the OS wasn't ready for prime time yet, as x86 emulation wasn't very good (for running Windows programs.)
So, IBM did port OS/2 to PowerPC, but for some reason, they never released it. I was a little disappointed, as PPCs looked great, and I was running (and VERY happy with) OS/2 for a few years then (and a few years after.)
Well, I've had a bunch of mice in the past, and the best have been the Logitechs (the only reason I got a new one is because I like the new shape of the MouseMan 3's, plus I needed a PS/2 port mouse)...
But, my ORIGINAL (as in, the "green button" mouse from 1985) Microsoft Mouse is still alive and well, running on my (just as old) Leading Edge 8088 PC Clone (acts as a terminal.) And, when I had the "dove-bar" mouse, it worked perfectly fine for at least 2 years, including after I took it apart and put it back together for an engineering class project.
In short, while I'm not a big fan of the DESIGN of MS Mice (I do like the MS Nat Elite keyboard), they work perfectly fine.
In fact, based on the look of the new one, if I can find it cheap (read: OEM pricing) I'll probably pick one up just out of curiosity.
Gotta go with the 3-drive combo:
Kenwood TrueX 52x CD-ROM (52x across the entire disc)
Creative Labs DVD-RAM (2x DVD, 20x CD, and 5.2Gig removable storage!)
HP SureStore 24/4/2 CD-RW (Read 24x, Write 4x, Re-Write 2x, good for "Legacy" CD-burning)
Yeah, they're all IDE, but the Kenwood should be SCSI soon, I've seen a DVD-RAM SCSI, but it's slow and expensive, and no good CD-RW's are available in SCSI.
I can't wait to actually get all three...
Well, on the Generations message board it says they took their files down yesterday. Apparently the latest beta was buggy, and they took the one before that down too (even though it worked fine.)
Of course, with any luck, I'll be working for a hot new internet startup by then (Interview on Tuesday!)
A couple of things I forgot to mention in my original rant:
1. I am not a programmer, so having the source code does absolutely nothing for me. While I took programming courses in college, and I can hold my own READING code, I probably couldn't even write a "Hello World" in any language except BASIC anymore. (At one point, I could code in BASIC, Pascal, and FORTRAN. I've been meaning to learn C for awhile, but I'm too lazy) So if I download a piece of Linux software, and it doesn't compile on the first try, I give up on it. I don't know enough to dig through and find the error. And if I get more errors than on an equivalent Windows program, I'm not going to use it.
2. I do actually use Linux. I'm not just a Linux-bashing Microsoftie. My main computer may run Win98, but I have 2 other computers that both run Linux. An old 486, and a Mac Powerbook running MkLinux. I think it's great, but not for my main computer.
3. I hate Microsoft, the company. Unfortunately, the software I like to run is Windows software. As crappy as it is, MS Office runs lightning fast on my computer, and I like enough of the little features that I can't turn back now. After years of using all different programs, I hate Word Perfect. And KOffice isn't quite ready for prime-time yet, but it is getting there. Maybe after another year of development I'll start using KOffice and Linux as my main software, but not yet.
Basically, complain all you want, but for non-programmers, any *nix isn't quite ready for the desktop. Yes, if you write code for a living, it makes perfect sense, but for Joe User (me) being able to open the computer for the first time, hit the power button, and be ready to go is good. Your average user should never have to go through any manual process to recompile the kernel. It's been awhile since I've downloaded any recent Linux apps, so there may be ultra-user friendly configuration stuff out there, but from what I've seen, it's still too dificult for me to use to make my main computer run any *nix.
Again, just my 50 yen. (or is that .01 Euros?)
I, for one, use Windows 98 at home, and Windows 95 at work. At work I have no choice, but at home, I use W98 because for my uses it has what I want. It is, in my opinion, stable enough for non-critical work; it runs more software than Linux, most of which is of better quality, strictly because it has commercial support. I do graphics editing, and I feel that Gimp is just as good as Photoshop, but there isn't a single good Illustrator clone for Linux, so I use Windows.
And, with all the furvor over how integrated IE is in Win98, why is everyone complaining? I like having it integrated. I like the address bar next to my Start button, I like having the same look and feel for web browsing as I do for looking at local files, as I do for ftp sites, etc... Heck, even though it's obscenely huge, I even like the integration Office 2000 adds!
But, what do I get for this opinion? I get flamed and ignored! Yes, I think the spirit behind Linux and other Open Source products is great, but up to now, for my uses, there just isn't the software I need.
Yes, Linux has it's place, and for now, that is in the server room. Until there is a window manager that has the refinement of Windows/Macintosh/Be/OS2, and powerful, easy to use software that is more than just a web server, I will continue using non-Open Source software.
If Open Source boosters can claim to be so freedom oriented, why do you go to the opposite extreme of Bill Gates and feel that everyone should boycott Microsoft products (which happen to be perfectly good products for use on the desktop) just because they don't meet your standards?
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The three truly "geek" things:
1. Any computer running a free *nix (Linux is the most prominent example) or any other suitably "alternative" OS (Amiga, Be, even OS/2)
2. A Hewlett Packard calculator (old geeks have 41's, newer geeks have 48SX's, and really recent geeks have 48GX's)
3. A PalmOS based organizer. (The most recent addition to the trilogy, before, it was just a pair.)
Subject says it all...
Ironically, I went with a friend who went to actually see Wing Commander. He is (in my opinion) a bigger Star Wars fan than all the people who paid just to see the trailer. He is specifically AVOIDING all Star Wars content, so the entire movie is a surprise. He was PISSED when he accidentally looked at a movie poster and saw the title "Phantom Menace"...
After Wing Commander, he asked me what I thought the best part was, I had to respond "The part you left the theater for."
Huh? You're suffering from future envy... I hate to break the news to you, but the moment the Voodoo3 comes out, you'll be saying it's "not fast enough considering cards due real soon now."
Right now, the G200 is (by all reviews I can find) the fastest commercial 2d card ever made, and the fact that for $150 you can get a 16MB AGP card capable of 1920x1200 at 32bit color in 3D is just amazing!
As for 3d? Yeah, it may not be equal to a Voodoo2, but in my opinion, it LOOKS better, and for what I do, who cares if you get 120fps in 640x480 when you can get a better looking rendering (32bit color), at 45fps (still faster than a human can process) at 1280x1024.
I assume you aren't going to buy a P3 (or K63) because you're waiting for the IA64? (or K8, because of course the K7 would be too slow considering that the IA64 is coming out soon...)
Unless something is coming out within days, don't even consider it when buying parts, otherwise you'll never buy anything. My current computer was the absolute fastest/best components money could buy when I got it, I paid $2500 for it one year ago, and now you can get identical statistics (in fact, you can even get the $1000 in upgrades I've added) for $1000 now.
Here's the info.
Cracking Des Secrets Of Encryption Resea
by GILMORE, JOHN
Published by OREILLY & ASSOC INC (1565925203, 1998)
Section: Networking-Computer Security
In Stock: 9 at 29.95
Trade paper; New - Standard Condition; Location: Technical
Bibliographic Information
But, the most common military (and probably original) meaning is:
Situation Normal: All F*cked Up.
But, as with most acronyms, there are multiple meanings.
NAVY = Never Again Volunteer Yourself
ARMY = Aren't Ready to be Marines Yet
MARINE = Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected (or) My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment
USAF = Under Sexed Ass F*ckers. (If any one knows one for full "Air Force", I'd like it... It was my service.)
In fact foo originates from the whole "foo fighters" thing... Yes, but "foo fighters" comes from FUBAR...
"...the KNI instructions won't ever get
used because all the rendering is passed
off to the graphics card."
Is incorrect. All a 3d accelerator card does is speed up the DISPLAY of 3d objects, the processor still has to figure out where to PUT those objects, hence the usefulness of KNI (or SIMD, as Intel wants to call it, or even AMD's 3dNow.)
See below for a more in-depth explanation.
As for 2d? Again, the only thing the card does is DISPLAY pictures, it does not do ANY calculations on where anything goes. In your standard Windowing OS, the processor has to figure out what is going to be displayed, and where it is going to go. After it figures this all out, it passes it on to the video card, which displays it. The difference between accelerated (2d) and non-accelerated is that on a non-accelerated, the processor has to tell it where every pixel goes, whereas an accelerated card can have "draw box", "put this text in box" passed to it instead.
3D explanation:
There are four steps in displaying a real-time 3d scene (I'll use a first person shooter for examples):
1. Process the scene for objects (walls, cieling, floor, polygons for bad guys)
2. Plot exactly where those objects are going to be, including removing hidden lines
3. Apply textures and lightsourcing to polygons
4. Display it on the monitor.
In a 3d-accelerated computer, the accelerator does steps 3 and 4. That leaves the processor to figure out where everything goes (which is where about 50% of the processing power is needed.)
This is why a P2-450 without 3d accelerator is approximately equal to a P-200MMX with one. The P2 is about twice as fast, so it does the same.
On VERY, VERY high end video cards ($2000+ workstation OpenGL cards) they can also do step 2, and THAT would take the hard work away from the processor.
Last time I checked, there was no law that said that an industry leader (read: dominant company) has to give specifications to smaller companies. The last time the government tried this (In the defense industry, the government made all blueprints of the AIM-9 missile public domain after 2 years.) the original developer went bankrupt when a competitor just waited for the design to become public domain, then started manufacturing it for half the cost because they didn't have to shoulder the R&D cost.
Is the government trying to bring this brilliant idea to the computer industry now?
While we're at it, why don't they just force the writer of the best Operating System to release the source code??? Oh, wait, that's already been done...
Well, the Saturn V rocket, (The one that launched all Apollo moon missions, and Skylab) was designed exclusively with slide rules, as were the SR-71 and X-15, the fastest airplanes ever created.
Hell, my calculator has more processing power and RAM than the space shuttle, and my watch has more than the Apollo lunar lander!
Almost everything designed before 1975 was made using only a slide rule.
Personally, I could never figure out the point of the Xeon chips. They run maybe 15% faster than an equal Mhz P2, and they cost WAY too much.
I mean, I'm all for extra power, but come on!
Okay, I hate to break the news to you, but you've got it backwards. A PowerPC 750 (Apple calls it the G3) at equal Mhz to a Pentium-II is a faster CHIP, but the internals of Apple's computers (plus the only OS more bloated than Windows, MacOS) makes it slower.
Try running optimized Linux on A P2-450 and a G3/300, and (if you're not running on Apple hardware), the G3 will win.
Not to be the one to point out the obvious, but it's a "y2k" bug, or "year two thousand" bug. (almost) Noone calls it the millenium bug anymore. Yes, the new MILLENIUM begins on Jan 1, 2001, but the 1999-2000 rollover bug happens on Jan 1, 2000. That is what is funny here, nowhere is it mentioning the millenium.
While I hate people who say new millenium when they mean 2000, I hate people who try to go the other way and try to convince people that 2000 means nothing either. Why do all these people want people to stay home and be bored on Dec 31, '99? Why not let them party?! Heck, how often do you take note of when your odometer (in your car) hits 100,001? No, you notice 100,000!
In short, correct people who incorrectly state 2000 to be the new millenium, but don't snap at them for just wanting to celebrate NY2k. (New Year 2000) Shit, I plan on partying like hell both years!