Other than the PowerPoint graphic, do you know what specifically in the GUI they are using OpenGL for?
My reading of that graphic is that OpenGL and QuickTime are available as parts of the display API, not that GUI elements would necessarily be rendered with QT movies or OGL elements.
Yup, Apple was pretty much forced to give the software away. They had all sorts of advertising distributed showing G4s and PowerBooks with a video camera, and text informing people that they could edit home movies with their Firewire macs.
Problem was, they couldn't. At least not without the software. Apple has gotten in trouble before with advertising claims, so this time, they decided to play it clean and give the software away.
I have little doubt that the intent was anything other than overclocking the processor
Did you follow the link? Take a look at the picture of the CPU -- torn AMD sticker, smashed plastic. I'd do more research too, even if I wasn't overclocking.
Check the boards on http://www.ntcompatible.com/, and you will see a laundry list of problems people are having with homerolled AMD (and some Intel) systems and Windows 2000. So, it's not quite as simple as AMD + Abit/Asus = Working System.
The problems seem to range from shady ACPI support to bad RAM to weak power supplies to beta drivers. Of course, Win NT/2000 is much more finicky about it's hardware than Linux or Win98 (so no need to respond re-making that point), but it does point to the greater risks with rolling your own system.
The original question was about a 'vendor approved' commercial-quality system, where you are paying for the integration services to avoid hardware debugging headaches. Unfortunately, this market is primarily dominated by Intel -- primarily for marketing reasons, but also due to the fact that AMD doesn't sell 2-way SMP systems, which are essential for the workstation/low-end server market.
From everything I've heard, AMD/Asus/Abit make a quality product, and people have lots of success with their stuff. However, they've yet to convince Dell or Compaq or IBM to put AMD hardware in a commerical system, leaving AMD's market to the lower-end desktops and commodity systems.
I did read your so prestigious link which you continually site. It's stupid -- a bunch of guys who in 1997 wanted cross-x86 Unix binary standard, which they never bothered creating, and they gave up because nobody cares. How authoritative.
So now go and run a modern binary on a 1997 Linux distribution...
I also know that the LSB isn't making much progress. Here's a big fat cluestick for you (right out of my ass) -- Linux is changing too quickly to 'standardize' for binaries. The C library is constantly up in the air. Nobody can decide which gcc to use. And on and on.
And guess what? That's a good thing. Maybe glibc 4.0 will settle down, but until then, nobody in the Linux community is really interested in setting any sort of binary 'standard', because for the most part, they have the source code. Meanwhile you and the 86open people are running around telling SCO and BSD and Solaris users to just run Linux binaries, when even Linux users can't necessarily run those binaries.
Ha! "Linux binaries" are about as much of a standard as my stinky asshole. Linux hasn't had a stable C library for longer than 15 minutes, so um, what's so "standard" about it?
In fact, if your standard existed as you suggest it does, we wouldn't have RedHatIsNotLinux.com and we wouldn't have 2000 posts on this thread. So what's your point again?
Most geeks wouldn't consider Linux an operating system, as it is simply a kernel. Debian is an operating system
No, "Debian" is a project or a non-profit organization. "Debian GNU/Linux" is an Operating System, as is the planned "Debian GNU/HURD". Oh, I can also go to the store and purchase a box that says "RedHat Linux Operating System" or "Mandrake Linux Operating System", etc. This is shorthand for nothing -- the Debian and RedHat OSes operate my system, where the Linux kernel alone does not.
So, the conclusion should be that "Linux" is either an OS or just an OS kernel, depending on the context of the discussion.
It's also time that we called bullshit on this whole "distribution" word, when what we really mean to say is "Different, Semi-compatible Operating System that uses a distribution of the Linux kernel." Maybe this will become clear when someone builds an OS with a totally un-UNIX like user space on top of the Linux kernel.
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so they have no intrest in selling you a Thunderbird in three months by not selling a K7 now
The key words here are three months. If the new chips are going to be out next month (as some AMD luvers here are saying), we would be hearing all about them right now.
Well, I have never gotten spam from Sony. But I did receive legitimate spam from Electronic Arts, advertising a bunch of Sony Playstation EA Sports games.
The worst thing is that they are spamming my address from a registration card I sent in for SimCity (not 3000, not 2000 either, it was from the naive days of the 16 color version that ran on Mac II machines - I've had the same address for that long). They have no idea if I even own a Playstation - the last machine they have in their database is a Mac LC. And not even an opt-out either.
So, after 20 years in this business, EA is nothing more than a bunch of sorry chickenboners. Feel free not to buy their products.
The voice over contains explainations of what is going on in this futuristic society -- what "off-world" is, and what language people are speaking, why it's illegal for replicants to be on earth, and so on. (It's been a long time, so this is from memory.)
Sure, some of the voice-over is over-explaination, and you could probably figure some of this out. But, it's a richer film when the background is explained.
Try watching it again -- you might have difficulty seperating what you see in the director's cut from what you aready know about the film, probably from the voice-over version, or from the book, or just from being steeped in sci-fi. I don't think you'll find that the director's cut stands up very well on it's own.
As for the director's "cut", did anyone else notice that other than the end, the editing is pretty much exactly the same? (I could only find three shots that were different.)
Correct. Sure selling out their supply early is a good thing for AMD. However, it's also a bad thing because the missing sales are essentially lost marketshare and lost profits. If a large company like HP or Compaq decides that AMD is an unreliable supplier (as they have been in the past), this could a disaster for them.
The real question is that if they will be able to get their next line-up of chips in production quickly and in greater numbers. If they do this, and the economy doesn't crash in the next couple months, AMD will be a permenent player in the mainstream CPU world. If not, they might be stuck at 15% marketshare.
Furthermore, short chip supplies are a bad thing for consumers. Don't expect any price cuts in the next couple months, both AMD and Intel will be cleaning up.
Re:Shouldn't we consider this a "good" thing?
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Demand has outstripped supply for the two largest CPU companies. They are both having production problems because they can't meet demand. However, incredibly high demand isn't the worst problem they could have, obviously.
Yeah, but think of consumer space where people have historically taken pictures with crappy 110 or Disc cameras or even those plastic boxes you buy at the supermarket.
Video tape has already eradicated film for pretty much everything non-'pro', I would expect digital still cameras to do the same. Most people are happy even with a 72dpi image on a web page or TV set.
Still, where resolution matters (like HDTV), you are going to have trouble replacing film. Kodak is running a bunch of advertisments driving this point home in video magazines.
"dumbed down narration (as in the original Blade Runner)"
Well, I for one didn't mind the voice over in Blade Runner. For one, I was eleven when I first saw the movie, and I probably wouldn't have understood what was going on as well. When the director's cut was released in theaters, we took a friend who had never seen the movie before. He was confused at certain points, which of course we all understood because we remembered the narration. Conclusion, the narrative was serving some purpose, although maybe not a required purpose when you've seeen the movie 39 times like I have.
Also, first person voice-over narration is a somewhat standard element in film noir detective movies. It does serve to portray Decker as a more internal character. I do agree that the 'happy ending' in BR wasn't that necessary, well because it wasn't really that happy anyway.
You are correct about Photoshop being RAM and disk dependant -- although that depends on the size of the images you work with.
One thing to note is that Adobe is on the Intel PIII payroll (Photoshop being featured in their television ads), so don't expect any AMD support anytime soon.
The horrible magazine The Industry Standard printed a pie chart showing total reciepts for web advertising dollars. The top 20 sites garnered something like 90% of the ad revenue.
That leaves 10% of the advertising money spent to be split among the other 99,999,980 websites.
So, the question is why would advertisers want to track users when they are going to spend most of their money on the big sites like Yahoo and MSN? It looks like they are optimising the 10% of the pie, and not the 90%.
"but the likeliest effect of PocketPC will be to grow the overall market rather than to erode Palm's market share"
Well, everyone I know who has purchased a CE device has sooner-or-later given up on it and bought a Palm. So the market has grown by two machines, but Palm keeps a 50% share and gains an active user. So far, CE machines have been the best advertising Palm has ever had.
It couldn't be too difficult to create your own Tivo-like device with a PC, a video capture card, and an extra hard drive. Someone just needs to write the "digital VCR" software, if they haven't already.
What you would be missing is the programming schedule service (as far as I know, this is never free), and the associative database which allows it to predict what you might want to watch. But this is Slashdot, so presumably we all know how to read TV Guide and program our VCRs.
Yeah, but "white males in their 20's with disposable income who like gadgets" are a very important market. The key words are "disposable income". It's pretty much the sweet spot in product marketing.
While it's true that you might not get valuable data about "Touched By an Angel", you will get valuable data about shows targeted at your demographic segment.
For example, you might find that 10% of the audience changed the channel during a particular scene of Star Trek:Voyager. Then you can exclude scenes like that in future episodes. Or maybe an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer had a 20% greater audience than normal among people earning over $80,000. Call the BMW ad rep and make more episodes like that one.
This is all 'fine tuning' of the demographic appeal of the market. Apparently males are especially hard to market to because they watch less television and change the channels more. Every little bit of data helps.
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Other than the PowerPoint graphic, do you know what specifically in the GUI they are using OpenGL for?
My reading of that graphic is that OpenGL and QuickTime are available as parts of the display API, not that GUI elements would necessarily be rendered with QT movies or OGL elements.
Yup, Apple was pretty much forced to give the software away. They had all sorts of advertising distributed showing G4s and PowerBooks with a video camera, and text informing people that they could edit home movies with their Firewire macs.
Problem was, they couldn't. At least not without the software. Apple has gotten in trouble before with advertising claims, so this time, they decided to play it clean and give the software away.
I have little doubt that the intent was anything other than overclocking the processor
Did you follow the link? Take a look at the picture of the CPU -- torn AMD sticker, smashed plastic. I'd do more research too, even if I wasn't overclocking.
Check the boards on http://www.ntcompatible.com/, and you will see a laundry list of problems people are having with homerolled AMD (and some Intel) systems and Windows 2000. So, it's not quite as simple as AMD + Abit/Asus = Working System.
The problems seem to range from shady ACPI support to bad RAM to weak power supplies to beta drivers. Of course, Win NT/2000 is much more finicky about it's hardware than Linux or Win98 (so no need to respond re-making that point), but it does point to the greater risks with rolling your own system.
The original question was about a 'vendor approved' commercial-quality system, where you are paying for the integration services to avoid hardware debugging headaches. Unfortunately, this market is primarily dominated by Intel -- primarily for marketing reasons, but also due to the fact that AMD doesn't sell 2-way SMP systems, which are essential for the workstation/low-end server market.
From everything I've heard, AMD/Asus/Abit make a quality product, and people have lots of success with their stuff. However, they've yet to convince Dell or Compaq or IBM to put AMD hardware in a commerical system, leaving AMD's market to the lower-end desktops and commodity systems.
Yeah, cite site, I'm bending over - give it to me.
GNU System? Well, that's another flamewar...
Yeah, I didn't see that coming when I wrote it, oh master of wit. Go back to saying homophobic insults to your faggoty Quake friends.
I did read your so prestigious link which you continually site. It's stupid -- a bunch of guys who in 1997 wanted cross-x86 Unix binary standard, which they never bothered creating, and they gave up because nobody cares. How authoritative.
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So now go and run a modern binary on a 1997 Linux distribution
I also know that the LSB isn't making much progress. Here's a big fat cluestick for you (right out of my ass) -- Linux is changing too quickly to 'standardize' for binaries. The C library is constantly up in the air. Nobody can decide which gcc to use. And on and on.
And guess what? That's a good thing. Maybe glibc 4.0 will settle down, but until then, nobody in the Linux community is really interested in setting any sort of binary 'standard', because for the most part, they have the source code. Meanwhile you and the 86open people are running around telling SCO and BSD and Solaris users to just run Linux binaries, when even Linux users can't necessarily run those binaries.
Ha! "Linux binaries" are about as much of a standard as my stinky asshole. Linux hasn't had a stable C library for longer than 15 minutes, so um, what's so "standard" about it?
In fact, if your standard existed as you suggest it does, we wouldn't have RedHatIsNotLinux.com and we wouldn't have 2000 posts on this thread. So what's your point again?
Most geeks wouldn't consider Linux an operating system, as it is simply a kernel. Debian is an operating system
No, "Debian" is a project or a non-profit organization. "Debian GNU/Linux" is an Operating System, as is the planned "Debian GNU/HURD". Oh, I can also go to the store and purchase a box that says "RedHat Linux Operating System" or "Mandrake Linux Operating System", etc. This is shorthand for nothing -- the Debian and RedHat OSes operate my system, where the Linux kernel alone does not.
So, the conclusion should be that "Linux" is either an OS or just an OS kernel, depending on the context of the discussion.
It's also time that we called bullshit on this whole "distribution" word, when what we really mean to say is "Different, Semi-compatible Operating System that uses a distribution of the Linux kernel." Maybe this will become clear when someone builds an OS with a totally un-UNIX like user space on top of the Linux kernel.
so they have no intrest in selling you a Thunderbird in three months by not selling a K7 now
The key words here are three months. If the new chips are going to be out next month (as some AMD luvers here are saying), we would be hearing all about them right now.
Well, I have never gotten spam from Sony. But I did receive legitimate spam from Electronic Arts, advertising a bunch of Sony Playstation EA Sports games.
The worst thing is that they are spamming my address from a registration card I sent in for SimCity (not 3000, not 2000 either, it was from the naive days of the 16 color version that ran on Mac II machines - I've had the same address for that long). They have no idea if I even own a Playstation - the last machine they have in their database is a Mac LC. And not even an opt-out either.
So, after 20 years in this business, EA is nothing more than a bunch of sorry chickenboners. Feel free not to buy their products.
The voice over contains explainations of what is going on in this futuristic society -- what "off-world" is, and what language people are speaking, why it's illegal for replicants to be on earth, and so on. (It's been a long time, so this is from memory.)
Sure, some of the voice-over is over-explaination, and you could probably figure some of this out. But, it's a richer film when the background is explained.
Try watching it again -- you might have difficulty seperating what you see in the director's cut from what you aready know about the film, probably from the voice-over version, or from the book, or just from being steeped in sci-fi. I don't think you'll find that the director's cut stands up very well on it's own.
As for the director's "cut", did anyone else notice that other than the end, the editing is pretty much exactly the same? (I could only find three shots that were different.)
Correct. Sure selling out their supply early is a good thing for AMD. However, it's also a bad thing because the missing sales are essentially lost marketshare and lost profits. If a large company like HP or Compaq decides that AMD is an unreliable supplier (as they have been in the past), this could a disaster for them.
The real question is that if they will be able to get their next line-up of chips in production quickly and in greater numbers. If they do this, and the economy doesn't crash in the next couple months, AMD will be a permenent player in the mainstream CPU world. If not, they might be stuck at 15% marketshare.
Furthermore, short chip supplies are a bad thing for consumers. Don't expect any price cuts in the next couple months, both AMD and Intel will be cleaning up.
Demand has outstripped supply for the two largest CPU companies. They are both having production problems because they can't meet demand. However, incredibly high demand isn't the worst problem they could have, obviously.
Yeah, but think of consumer space where people have historically taken pictures with crappy 110 or Disc cameras or even those plastic boxes you buy at the supermarket.
Video tape has already eradicated film for pretty much everything non-'pro', I would expect digital still cameras to do the same. Most people are happy even with a 72dpi image on a web page or TV set.
Still, where resolution matters (like HDTV), you are going to have trouble replacing film. Kodak is running a bunch of advertisments driving this point home in video magazines.
"dumbed down narration (as in the original Blade Runner)"
Well, I for one didn't mind the voice over in Blade Runner. For one, I was eleven when I first saw the movie, and I probably wouldn't have understood what was going on as well. When the director's cut was released in theaters, we took a friend who had never seen the movie before. He was confused at certain points, which of course we all understood because we remembered the narration. Conclusion, the narrative was serving some purpose, although maybe not a required purpose when you've seeen the movie 39 times like I have.
Also, first person voice-over narration is a somewhat standard element in film noir detective movies. It does serve to portray Decker as a more internal character. I do agree that the 'happy ending' in BR wasn't that necessary, well because it wasn't really that happy anyway.
If it takes your server 20 seconds to build a dynamic page, it doesn't matter how fast or slow the connection is -- that's too slow.
I think what you are trying to say is that the HTTP server itself is rarely the bottleneck, which is true. The problem is usually the cgi/script part.
Fire up the NT Performance Monitor and check the %Privileged Time versus the %CPU time as a whole. It could be a slow driver or an IO problem.
You are correct about Photoshop being RAM and disk dependant -- although that depends on the size of the images you work with.
One thing to note is that Adobe is on the Intel PIII payroll (Photoshop being featured in their television ads), so don't expect any AMD support anytime soon.
Does a G4 still beat a 2-way PIII setup?
As for the "big bucks", I wonder...
The horrible magazine The Industry Standard printed a pie chart showing total reciepts for web advertising dollars. The top 20 sites garnered something like 90% of the ad revenue.
That leaves 10% of the advertising money spent to be split among the other 99,999,980 websites.
So, the question is why would advertisers want to track users when they are going to spend most of their money on the big sites like Yahoo and MSN? It looks like they are optimising the 10% of the pie, and not the 90%.
"but the likeliest effect of PocketPC will be to grow the overall market rather than to erode Palm's market share"
Well, everyone I know who has purchased a CE device has sooner-or-later given up on it and bought a Palm. So the market has grown by two machines, but Palm keeps a 50% share and gains an active user. So far, CE machines have been the best advertising Palm has ever had.
It couldn't be too difficult to create your own Tivo-like device with a PC, a video capture card, and an extra hard drive. Someone just needs to write the "digital VCR" software, if they haven't already.
What you would be missing is the programming schedule service (as far as I know, this is never free), and the associative database which allows it to predict what you might want to watch. But this is Slashdot, so presumably we all know how to read TV Guide and program our VCRs.
Yeah, but "white males in their 20's with disposable income who like gadgets" are a very important market. The key words are "disposable income". It's pretty much the sweet spot in product marketing.
While it's true that you might not get valuable data about "Touched By an Angel", you will get valuable data about shows targeted at your demographic segment.
For example, you might find that 10% of the audience changed the channel during a particular scene of Star Trek:Voyager. Then you can exclude scenes like that in future episodes. Or maybe an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer had a 20% greater audience than normal among people earning over $80,000. Call the BMW ad rep and make more episodes like that one.
This is all 'fine tuning' of the demographic appeal of the market. Apparently males are especially hard to market to because they watch less television and change the channels more. Every little bit of data helps.
Nope, Terraserver is on Compaq Alpha, which means that they will be running NT 4.0 SP 6a for-ever...