i would want to have a very different valentines gift. something you don't do everyday.
- scuba
- bungee jumping
- trip to magic mountain
- kayaking/canoeing(?)
- beach
- surfboarding
- trip to nasa where you can get to train to be an astronaut
- go in a sea land (aquariums)
- skydiving
- building skydiving (or some term that i forget)
- hiking
- cruise
- sleep!
- parasailing
- trekking
- visit a zoo
- visit a museum/art gallery
- getting wed again!
- rock/wall climbing
- exercise!
- gliding
- skiing
So.... new CPUs are supposed to run slower than those they are replacing? I see...
i am not looking at the marketing aspect. i am just analyzing it from a technical perspective.
What latency? Where? How much of a latency redction are you expecting to see that you refer to it as "significant"? Do you have information sources with which to back this up, or is this something you gathered from an in-depth conversation with Ms Cleo at $4.99/min?
its just like what happened with the transition from willamette and northwood. the cache was improved (aside from increasing it) and latency decreased.
What does that mean?! I assume you mean that they're going to improve branch prediction. Well now, this helps to a certain extent with predictable branchs such as those seen in simple loops. Currently, branch prediction units are rating somewhere around 90 - 95%, depending on which Intel/AMD tech docs you're reading. How much of an improvement do you hope to accomplish above and beyond this?
from the willamette to the northwood, intel improved the branch prediction of the cpu. (sorry that i typed the wrong term of increase instead of improve.)
Again, your conversations with Ms Cleo are really just a waste of your money, as she's feeding you bad information - possibly from evil spirits. In a year from now, We'll have Tejas-core CPUs, probably called Pentium 5s, shipping to the masses. They'll probably have 64-bit instructions at the ready, if not enabled, and they'll probably also be dual-core capable. In a year from now, if they're still trying to hammer out problems with Prescott, they may as well start reselling Opteron CPUs.
does it ever occur to you that by releasing the prescott now, they will be able to refine their design. (as the stepping increases, they are able to improve the yields of higher performing cpus.) so by the time tejas arrives, it will be much easier for them.
They already have an excellent branch prediction unit. Unfortunately for your comment, it has little to do with the long pipeline. The effect of the longer pipeline is to allow for scaling to higher clock frequencies. By lowering the IPC and extending the pipeline, they can ramp up in frequency, whereas Northwood was approaching a frequency ceiling. Higher clock frequencies offset longer pipelines, just as better branch prediction somewhat offsets high latency from cache misses in certain situations.
aside from the frequency, improved branch prediction will, of course, lessen misprediction thereby reducing the stalls in the very long 31 stage pipeline. if intel did not improve on their branch predictions and increased the pipeline then you will see slow downs since you may see a lot of mispredictions. one way of improving the prediction system is increase the (memory or cache, i forget) that will store the history of commands so the chip will avoid misses in the future.
Completely incorrect. What you buy now will always be outdated in a year's time - this is true of any given time in the tech industry. However, computers being bought now will continue to function in an increasingly limited fashion for the foreseable future. I still see PCs in use from the early 1990s. They don't run the latest and greatest software, but they often do all that which is required of them by their respective users.
you may have a working computer but the resale value is no good. i am implying that big architectural changes to the computer system will start this year - not just the cpu. from the memory (ddr2), i/o (pci express), storage (sata.) almost all the internal workings of the computer in terms of interface at least will start to change by this year. it is no longer very useful if you will buy i.e. lots of hard drive that have pata while there will be sata (and of course pata will still be there but they will start reducing the number of available ports in favor to sata.) and maybe in two years time, if you may purchase a 100gb hard dri
it is quite interesting that the new prescott core has a lower latency for the caches and higher stage pipeline.
but given the fact that a big percentage of decrease in latency from existing northwood cores and big increase in pipeline does not reduce the speed *significantly.* it can still compete with the current northwood with a small drop in performance on a clock per clock basis.
given these things, i think the cpu may be designed quite well given its current performance with numerous internal slow downs. i'm sure in their next core, they will be able to reduce the latency by significant amounts and increase the branch prediction system thereby causing their future cpus to perform better than current iteration.
i believe the current purpose of prescott is to do a couple of things. first, refine their 90nm processing of the cpu. they will be able to iron out manufacturing bugs (like yields.) they will also be able to improve in the design of the cpu (to put minor revisions to improve the manufacturing or even performance.) they will be able to earn more (since 90nm should product more yields for them.)
probably, i believe that in around 1 year's time, just like their transition from williamete to northwood, their cpu will be much faster. they should be able to solve the latency of their cache. they may already adopt a very good branch prediction unit that will reduce the effects of a very long pipeline.
also, this year will be a transition year of technologies. so pretty much everything you buy not will almost be worthless by next year. the cpu packaging will be changed to lga. slots in the computer will feature pci express. i/o will be standardized with usb. storage devices will be sata. intel will be prepping up for speed wars next year. (i think this usually happends every other year where there is a speed war and there is a slow increase in speeds by both sides.)
there are lots of other advantages of ipv6 compared to ipv4:
routing - different rirs have now created policies that will make routing much efficient. it will be hierarchal so routing tables will much smaller (thus faster routing.) headers - the ipv6 headers has been optimized compared to ipv4, data transmitted includes qos (standard) multicast - no more broadcast. we don't have to worry about too much data storms in our network (better bandwidth utilization.) autoconfig - ipv6 provides for automatic configuration of ip addresses. this will make transition much easier since most devices can be made ipv6 ready and activated and it will automatically configure itself and run on ipv6. tunneling - you can do endless tunneling to seamlessly support ipv4 and ipv6 networks together. you can easily put an ipv6 backbone with ipv4 clients running (with all translation under the fe80 range.) addressing - clear policies has been made with regards to addressing (and routing as well) to prevent problems that have plagued existing ipv4 networks. the division of the/128 into multiple subbits (like/4) helps in the logical arrangement in the address.
maybe since mit has 16.7million ip addresses, they are afraid of ipv6. based on existing policies agreed upon by rirs (arin, apnic, ripe), you will be allocated a/48 (65535 subnets) if you are able to utilize 200 subnets within 2 years. by default (i don't know how they run their network - if it is efficient or they just subnet their network and waste all the ip address) they may have a hard time getting allocation from arin. they might need to get the suballocation from a provider (since it is hierarchal) so that's why they are opposed to the idea.
even if they do not switch to ipv6 (i hope they will be the last one.) the entire world will be running in ipv6. here in asia, it is much harder to get ipv4 addresses. so we are already experimenting with ipv6 (and readying for production grade native ipv6 networks with full peering and routing - we have purchased ipv6 routers in preparation for a full ipv6 backbone with ipv4 tunneled instead.)
software is increasing its support with ipv6. windows xp already has support (not so savvy end users can now start benefiting from ipv6.) linux and apps already has support. most network equipment now supports ipv6. heck my mobile phone can access an ipv6 network natively!
final words. go ipv6! it's about time. (and note to all admins, experiment with ipv6 and you'll see.)
p.s. slashdot was inaccessible for a few minutes before i posted this content
since i believe that taxes are being collected from media and now isps, to fund those copyright holders, then i think it will now be legal for users to share files over the network because they have paid for it already through taxes.
this seems to be stopping a medium because it has the capability of piracy or illegal activities. in such cases, you can argue that since they will be able to sue isps for their client's actions, then it goes that...
you can sue practically any company that hosts tv shows, movie, literature, and other media forms that foster any user to do illegal stuff. you can also sue manufacturers of appliance that support that stuff because it allows users to pirate. you will also be able to sue computer manufacturers and software that allows users to do the illegal stuff.
it is not the internet per se that is bad but what some users are doing with it that is bad. so you do not have to blame but the user.
the personal computer with the most powerful processor.
maybe the vagueness of powerful (in terms of what?) seems to concern. another personal computer can have a better video card and they can say that it is no longer the most powerful.
though i dont live in uk, i may agree of the banning because the commercial may not have enough disclaimer like an * with a footnote saying based on the spec benchmark dated mm/dd/yyyy. this will remove their liability in the commercial i guess.
in our country, philippines, one carrier already has implemented a similar system. it's called smart money (http://www.smart.com.ph/)
it allows you to create an account (with mastercard) and the credit is the actual amount loaded into it. you can then use your mobile phone to pay goods in establishments that are their partners. it also allows you to pay for someone's purchase as well.
kinda neat but i prefer a credit card for now (since I not give the money first before spending.)
basically, it improves much of the miscomings from the p800 (as a p800 user myself and basing this on reviews.) one drawback would still be the memory stick duo (not sure if it is compatible with the pro.)
but it is a great phone. it is a phone with pda functionalities and not the other way so it is easy to call with it (and it doesn't seem to be very awkward to call like a big pda.) with apps, there are now lots of apps available (both free and commercial) so it levels off with the regular pda.
for those camera freaks, a 640x480 is fine. what do you expect, a 4 megapixel camera fit in a phone with full flash and removable lens? i just want to take a picture anytime and send it to someone like mms or bluetooth. having a very high resolution camera will eat up lots of storage space and will be very difficult to send it to other people (so the camera will no longer work well with mobility) (gprs is already slow in our country, so i don't expect sending someone 400kb image file to be very convenient.)
one thing i like is the ability to play mp3 as alerts over the existing midi and wav combo (and the old formats.)
i don't also need to carry a pda with me (though i did not own one ever because it is pointless to carry too much gadgets in your pocket!)
the keypad also helps to allow you to do things on the go. unlike a pda, it will allow you to type if every you are in a car or something that is moving. as for me, i can send a text message without looking at the screen while crossing the street. time saving.
my last note, it is very helpful to me. i heavily use the calendar, task list and jotter. so i almost never forget anything and keep my schedule organized and allows me to do whatever i still need to do at work (or at home.) bonus is the synchronization with outlook (where the secretary just creates the schedule and i synch the phone to get the updated schedule.) other people will also be able to check my availability. so it increases my productivity.
recommendation, it is a good phone to invest to (unless maybe you already have a pda.) the money i invested in p800 already paid off for me in less than a year (through increased productivity.) i'll just give it to my sister.
you may think of dual screen for those high ranking officials of the company but we have tried using dual screen with the secretary and with some clerical people. they benefit better with the increased screen.
when running office applications, then can easily span spreadsheet across the two monitor to include more information in a single view. onm the other hand, they can also open two files they are working on whether be a document or spreadsheet to easily copy and move between them.
it also allows access to the internet with one screen and office apps on the other thereby allowing them to check for updates while being able to type documents. you can also open two browser windows to have the same benefits at the office application mentioned above.
for us noc people, we can easily open monitoring apps with one window and the console on the other thereby seeing realtime updates as we do emergency configurations. it also allows us to look at documentations and cut and paste easily wihtout having to switch windows. very handy if you are configuring lots of network devices.
in general, if you spend your time switching between apps, then probably you would want to seriously consider having multi monitor setup.
but matrox products for their multidisplay products. they have very serious products for those. from two monitors all the way to four in a card (with a dedicated ramdac for each video output) all the way to 10 using multiple cards! this avoids discoloration between each video. you have the option of analog or all dvi.
exposure to 3g leads to nausea and headaches of too much bad service and network of the telco company.
of course, they will have better memory and reaction times after being able to talk though the entire customer service, billing, and network departments.
oh the reaction times improve dramatically by being fast enough to redial to get through. an added bonus for practice will be to dial their ivrs line!
do not buy systems this year. first off, you will be milked into buying registered mememory which is quite expensive at the moment.
and since application support for 64 bits is catching up, expect more stable releases by next year making the cpu more attractive. and if you buy next year, you will get much faster cpus than today for relatively the same price.
maybe we can wait for the.9micron process so you will be able to get the cpus much cheaper and cooler (hopefully.)
for those regular users, windows xp will be released next year so this is mostly for gurus that mostly use linux.
intel would just use the existing ia-64 architecture and create a desktop cpu by reducing caches, etc?
what will happen now is that intel will have access to existing software created for itanium and benefit itanium because lots of software will be written for it because of the desktop level.
so in the end, 32 bits will be no more but there will be x86-64 and ia-64 only. 32 bits will be out soon.
The site of NASA is running Speedera. I doubt the video file could have slowed down the site (unless the service of Speedera is not good, which I doubt.)
Recognizing the concerns about the wildcard service, ICANN has called upon VeriSign to voluntarily suspend the service until the various reviews now underway are completed.
They are just asking for VeriSign to voluntarily suspend SiteFinder. In other words, they are not imposing anything to VeriSign and they can still continue the service. I think in this case, ICANN is helpless with what VeriSign is doing. This will go on even after ICANN has made the "necessary" studies.
I recently watched a tv show from National Geographic with the name Scientific American Frontiers : Fat and Happy (Episode Title.)
They said that you must get a low calorie (or measuring the average calorie for your daily needs like 2000 Calories) but *high* nutrition.
You do not just starve yourself but you will need to eat foods that have low caloric content but high vitamins and minerals.
They are still doing tests for mice and monkeys. They are still ongoing. They are comparing two groups with one having a regular diet and the other having a low calorie but high nutrition diet. Of course, the one having the higher nutrition and low calorie is doing better (because they are already old.)
I think it is not very difficult to follow a diet this way (maybe hard for Americans because of their lifestyle with too much fast food and fat full foods.) You can still enjoy eating good food but you must manage what you eat.
If you are going to start a diet, *consult a physician.* Based on the show, they will need to get your metabolic rate, etc, to determine your daily neeeds without starving you to death or getting you undernourished.
the 2mb additional cache will virtually make the p4 processor look like a dual p4 1.6ghz with 1mb of cache each (when hyperthreading is enabled.) their hyperthreading feature will be much more effective. the processor will be able to cache more threads and avoid too much misses thereby greatly improving performance for cache intensive applications.
this will give a big performance boost to memory and cpu intensive applications (not much on games) such as graphic programs like photoshop, aftereffects, lightwave, maya, etc. in addition, it will also perform better in low end server environments where database and application serving programs are used. this is a good option to use in blade servers using p4 (instead of getting xeon.) aside from server applications, possible scientific applications will be boosted because of the big cache (where they can use simd for faster and higher precision calculations.)
i am surprised that a lot of people look at faster cpus for just games. there are a lot more applications that will benefit than games.
can companies sue verisign for trademark infrigement or confusion?
for example, you have a domain acme.com. there may be a legal basis for suing verisign if let say the acme.net is not yet registered or variants such as acmee.com or acmes.com or acmecorp.com or acmeinc.com.
because it is being redirected to their site for commecial purpose, you can now argue that verisign is using your trademark to gain fees (for registration so you can have all the domain variants for yourself registered by verisign) or sue them because they are using your domain to gain revenue (due to their search.)
if they cannot be stopped from the technical perspective, a barrage of lawsuits by corporations will catch them off hand and hopefully return everything back to as it should be.
.ph is also doing this. it is very annoying as their service breaks dns resolution as well. also, they website is slow (and down most of the time.) instead of error messages, you get timeout when visiting the site.
i can't wait for the government to take over the regulation of the.ph domain. although they are a private company (and monopolizes the entire.ph domain,) they should be responsible.
they ban the use of microsoft products in the government or ban the entry of microsoft products in their respective countries.
however, since the government themselves invest a hefty sum on it, then it would be good if that money will be used to develop their own software. then they can distribute the software to their citizens for free (i hope so.) the consumers are still given the choice to choose between their homegrown software compared to microsoft software. it is fair since consumers are still given choice.
same with when building infrastructure or material projects. they can build it on their own without requiring or relying commercial companies to built it.
At our office, we are already in the process of using Outlook 2003 (of course with Exchange 2003.) Aside from the Outlook client, we will be needing the office suite for our business intelligence tools (Excel using Pivot Tables.) It's a tool that a few people use or even know of. But it is very useful.
Currently, there is no replacement for the Office suite that is open source. Maybe few functionality in actual typing, spreadsheet, and presentation software, but we use the software for more than what people stereotypically think of the Office suite.
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- scuba
- bungee jumping
- trip to magic mountain
- kayaking/canoeing(?)
- beach
- surfboarding
- trip to nasa where you can get to train to be an astronaut
- go in a sea land (aquariums)
- skydiving
- building skydiving (or some term that i forget)
- hiking
- cruise
- sleep!
- parasailing
- trekking
- visit a zoo
- visit a museum/art gallery
- getting wed again!
- rock/wall climbing
- exercise!
- gliding
- skiing
etc.
i am not looking at the marketing aspect. i am just analyzing it from a technical perspective.
What latency? Where? How much of a latency redction are you expecting to see that you refer to it as "significant"? Do you have information sources with which to back this up, or is this something you gathered from an in-depth conversation with Ms Cleo at $4.99/min?
its just like what happened with the transition from willamette and northwood. the cache was improved (aside from increasing it) and latency decreased.
What does that mean?! I assume you mean that they're going to improve branch prediction. Well now, this helps to a certain extent with predictable branchs such as those seen in simple loops. Currently, branch prediction units are rating somewhere around 90 - 95%, depending on which Intel/AMD tech docs you're reading. How much of an improvement do you hope to accomplish above and beyond this?
from the willamette to the northwood, intel improved the branch prediction of the cpu. (sorry that i typed the wrong term of increase instead of improve.)
Again, your conversations with Ms Cleo are really just a waste of your money, as she's feeding you bad information - possibly from evil spirits. In a year from now, We'll have Tejas-core CPUs, probably called Pentium 5s, shipping to the masses. They'll probably have 64-bit instructions at the ready, if not enabled, and they'll probably also be dual-core capable. In a year from now, if they're still trying to hammer out problems with Prescott, they may as well start reselling Opteron CPUs.
does it ever occur to you that by releasing the prescott now, they will be able to refine their design. (as the stepping increases, they are able to improve the yields of higher performing cpus.) so by the time tejas arrives, it will be much easier for them.
They already have an excellent branch prediction unit. Unfortunately for your comment, it has little to do with the long pipeline. The effect of the longer pipeline is to allow for scaling to higher clock frequencies. By lowering the IPC and extending the pipeline, they can ramp up in frequency, whereas Northwood was approaching a frequency ceiling. Higher clock frequencies offset longer pipelines, just as better branch prediction somewhat offsets high latency from cache misses in certain situations.
aside from the frequency, improved branch prediction will, of course, lessen misprediction thereby reducing the stalls in the very long 31 stage pipeline. if intel did not improve on their branch predictions and increased the pipeline then you will see slow downs since you may see a lot of mispredictions. one way of improving the prediction system is increase the (memory or cache, i forget) that will store the history of commands so the chip will avoid misses in the future.
Completely incorrect. What you buy now will always be outdated in a year's time - this is true of any given time in the tech industry. However, computers being bought now will continue to function in an increasingly limited fashion for the foreseable future. I still see PCs in use from the early 1990s. They don't run the latest and greatest software, but they often do all that which is required of them by their respective users.
you may have a working computer but the resale value is no good. i am implying that big architectural changes to the computer system will start this year - not just the cpu. from the memory (ddr2), i/o (pci express), storage (sata.) almost all the internal workings of the computer in terms of interface at least will start to change by this year. it is no longer very useful if you will buy i.e. lots of hard drive that have pata while there will be sata (and of course pata will still be there but they will start reducing the number of available ports in favor to sata.) and maybe in two years time, if you may purchase a 100gb hard dri
sorry about that. freudan slip i guess? i was thinking of increased latency times and not lower.
it is quite interesting that the new prescott core has a lower latency for the caches and higher stage pipeline.
but given the fact that a big percentage of decrease in latency from existing northwood cores and big increase in pipeline does not reduce the speed *significantly.* it can still compete with the current northwood with a small drop in performance on a clock per clock basis.
given these things, i think the cpu may be designed quite well given its current performance with numerous internal slow downs. i'm sure in their next core, they will be able to reduce the latency by significant amounts and increase the branch prediction system thereby causing their future cpus to perform better than current iteration.
i believe the current purpose of prescott is to do a couple of things. first, refine their 90nm processing of the cpu. they will be able to iron out manufacturing bugs (like yields.) they will also be able to improve in the design of the cpu (to put minor revisions to improve the manufacturing or even performance.) they will be able to earn more (since 90nm should product more yields for them.)
probably, i believe that in around 1 year's time, just like their transition from williamete to northwood, their cpu will be much faster. they should be able to solve the latency of their cache. they may already adopt a very good branch prediction unit that will reduce the effects of a very long pipeline.
also, this year will be a transition year of technologies. so pretty much everything you buy not will almost be worthless by next year. the cpu packaging will be changed to lga. slots in the computer will feature pci express. i/o will be standardized with usb. storage devices will be sata. intel will be prepping up for speed wars next year. (i think this usually happends every other year where there is a speed war and there is a slow increase in speeds by both sides.)
there are lots of other advantages of ipv6 compared to ipv4:
/128 into multiple subbits (like /4) helps in the logical arrangement in the address.
/48 (65535 subnets) if you are able to utilize 200 subnets within 2 years. by default (i don't know how they run their network - if it is efficient or they just subnet their network and waste all the ip address) they may have a hard time getting allocation from arin. they might need to get the suballocation from a provider (since it is hierarchal) so that's why they are opposed to the idea.
routing - different rirs have now created policies that will make routing much efficient. it will be hierarchal so routing tables will much smaller (thus faster routing.)
headers - the ipv6 headers has been optimized compared to ipv4, data transmitted includes qos (standard)
multicast - no more broadcast. we don't have to worry about too much data storms in our network (better bandwidth utilization.)
autoconfig - ipv6 provides for automatic configuration of ip addresses. this will make transition much easier since most devices can be made ipv6 ready and activated and it will automatically configure itself and run on ipv6.
tunneling - you can do endless tunneling to seamlessly support ipv4 and ipv6 networks together. you can easily put an ipv6 backbone with ipv4 clients running (with all translation under the fe80 range.)
addressing - clear policies has been made with regards to addressing (and routing as well) to prevent problems that have plagued existing ipv4 networks. the division of the
maybe since mit has 16.7million ip addresses, they are afraid of ipv6. based on existing policies agreed upon by rirs (arin, apnic, ripe), you will be allocated a
even if they do not switch to ipv6 (i hope they will be the last one.) the entire world will be running in ipv6. here in asia, it is much harder to get ipv4 addresses. so we are already experimenting with ipv6 (and readying for production grade native ipv6 networks with full peering and routing - we have purchased ipv6 routers in preparation for a full ipv6 backbone with ipv4 tunneled instead.)
software is increasing its support with ipv6. windows xp already has support (not so savvy end users can now start benefiting from ipv6.) linux and apps already has support. most network equipment now supports ipv6. heck my mobile phone can access an ipv6 network natively!
final words. go ipv6! it's about time. (and note to all admins, experiment with ipv6 and you'll see.)
p.s. slashdot was inaccessible for a few minutes before i posted this content
caffeine is a poison that can be used as an insecticide in plants.
that'll be enough to scare you from drinking caffeine products.
since i believe that taxes are being collected from media and now isps, to fund those copyright holders, then i think it will now be legal for users to share files over the network because they have paid for it already through taxes.
this seems to be stopping a medium because it has the capability of piracy or illegal activities. in such cases, you can argue that since they will be able to sue isps for their client's actions, then it goes that...
you can sue practically any company that hosts tv shows, movie, literature, and other media forms that foster any user to do illegal stuff. you can also sue manufacturers of appliance that support that stuff because it allows users to pirate. you will also be able to sue computer manufacturers and software that allows users to do the illegal stuff.
it is not the internet per se that is bad but what some users are doing with it that is bad. so you do not have to blame but the user.
the personal computer with the most powerful processor.
maybe the vagueness of powerful (in terms of what?) seems to concern. another personal computer can have a better video card and they can say that it is no longer the most powerful.
though i dont live in uk, i may agree of the banning because the commercial may not have enough disclaimer like an * with a footnote saying based on the spec benchmark dated mm/dd/yyyy. this will remove their liability in the commercial i guess.
since they are measuring websites including the ones that are just parked or inactive, is there any figures that relate to an active site?
the parked domains just distorts the results to a certain degree.
maybe a good monthly metric would be a web server survey of actual web sites. this will allow us to learn trends that companies use.
one thing for sure, it just measures the sites to the server. is there a metric to measure hits per server type?
in our country, philippines, one carrier already has implemented a similar system. it's called smart money (http://www.smart.com.ph/)
it allows you to create an account (with mastercard) and the credit is the actual amount loaded into it. you can then use your mobile phone to pay goods in establishments that are their partners. it also allows you to pay for someone's purchase as well.
kinda neat but i prefer a credit card for now (since I not give the money first before spending.)
can't wait to get on the new phone.
basically, it improves much of the miscomings from the p800 (as a p800 user myself and basing this on reviews.) one drawback would still be the memory stick duo (not sure if it is compatible with the pro.)
but it is a great phone. it is a phone with pda functionalities and not the other way so it is easy to call with it (and it doesn't seem to be very awkward to call like a big pda.) with apps, there are now lots of apps available (both free and commercial) so it levels off with the regular pda.
for those camera freaks, a 640x480 is fine. what do you expect, a 4 megapixel camera fit in a phone with full flash and removable lens? i just want to take a picture anytime and send it to someone like mms or bluetooth. having a very high resolution camera will eat up lots of storage space and will be very difficult to send it to other people (so the camera will no longer work well with mobility) (gprs is already slow in our country, so i don't expect sending someone 400kb image file to be very convenient.)
one thing i like is the ability to play mp3 as alerts over the existing midi and wav combo (and the old formats.)
i don't also need to carry a pda with me (though i did not own one ever because it is pointless to carry too much gadgets in your pocket!)
the keypad also helps to allow you to do things on the go. unlike a pda, it will allow you to type if every you are in a car or something that is moving. as for me, i can send a text message without looking at the screen while crossing the street. time saving.
my last note, it is very helpful to me. i heavily use the calendar, task list and jotter. so i almost never forget anything and keep my schedule organized and allows me to do whatever i still need to do at work (or at home.) bonus is the synchronization with outlook (where the secretary just creates the schedule and i synch the phone to get the updated schedule.) other people will also be able to check my availability. so it increases my productivity.
recommendation, it is a good phone to invest to (unless maybe you already have a pda.) the money i invested in p800 already paid off for me in less than a year (through increased productivity.) i'll just give it to my sister.
you may think of dual screen for those high ranking officials of the company but we have tried using dual screen with the secretary and with some clerical people. they benefit better with the increased screen.
when running office applications, then can easily span spreadsheet across the two monitor to include more information in a single view. onm the other hand, they can also open two files they are working on whether be a document or spreadsheet to easily copy and move between them.
it also allows access to the internet with one screen and office apps on the other thereby allowing them to check for updates while being able to type documents. you can also open two browser windows to have the same benefits at the office application mentioned above.
for us noc people, we can easily open monitoring apps with one window and the console on the other thereby seeing realtime updates as we do emergency configurations. it also allows us to look at documentations and cut and paste easily wihtout having to switch windows. very handy if you are configuring lots of network devices.
in general, if you spend your time switching between apps, then probably you would want to seriously consider having multi monitor setup.
but matrox products for their multidisplay products. they have very serious products for those. from two monitors all the way to four in a card (with a dedicated ramdac for each video output) all the way to 10 using multiple cards! this avoids discoloration between each video. you have the option of analog or all dvi.
exposure to 3g leads to nausea and headaches of too much bad service and network of the telco company.
of course, they will have better memory and reaction times after being able to talk though the entire customer service, billing, and network departments.
oh the reaction times improve dramatically by being fast enough to redial to get through. an added bonus for practice will be to dial their ivrs line!
do not buy systems this year. first off, you will be milked into buying registered mememory which is quite expensive at the moment.
.9micron process so you will be able to get the cpus much cheaper and cooler (hopefully.)
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and since application support for 64 bits is catching up, expect more stable releases by next year making the cpu more attractive. and if you buy next year, you will get much faster cpus than today for relatively the same price.
maybe we can wait for the
for those regular users, windows xp will be released next year so this is mostly for gurus that mostly use linux.
guess that's it.
the p4 ee has ecc disabled. this is a no no for servers. so even though the xeon and p4 ee are the same by design, features have been disabled.
intel would just use the existing ia-64 architecture and create a desktop cpu by reducing caches, etc?
what will happen now is that intel will have access to existing software created for itanium and benefit itanium because lots of software will be written for it because of the desktop level.
so in the end, 32 bits will be no more but there will be x86-64 and ia-64 only. 32 bits will be out soon.
just a thought.
The site of NASA is running Speedera. I doubt the video file could have slowed down the site (unless the service of Speedera is not good, which I doubt.)
I recently watched a tv show from National Geographic with the name Scientific American Frontiers : Fat and Happy (Episode Title.)
They said that you must get a low calorie (or measuring the average calorie for your daily needs like 2000 Calories) but *high* nutrition.
You do not just starve yourself but you will need to eat foods that have low caloric content but high vitamins and minerals.
They are still doing tests for mice and monkeys. They are still ongoing. They are comparing two groups with one having a regular diet and the other having a low calorie but high nutrition diet. Of course, the one having the higher nutrition and low calorie is doing better (because they are already old.)
I think it is not very difficult to follow a diet this way (maybe hard for Americans because of their lifestyle with too much fast food and fat full foods.) You can still enjoy eating good food but you must manage what you eat.
If you are going to start a diet, *consult a physician.* Based on the show, they will need to get your metabolic rate, etc, to determine your daily neeeds without starving you to death or getting you undernourished.
the 2mb additional cache will virtually make the p4 processor look like a dual p4 1.6ghz with 1mb of cache each (when hyperthreading is enabled.) their hyperthreading feature will be much more effective. the processor will be able to cache more threads and avoid too much misses thereby greatly improving performance for cache intensive applications.
this will give a big performance boost to memory and cpu intensive applications (not much on games) such as graphic programs like photoshop, aftereffects, lightwave, maya, etc. in addition, it will also perform better in low end server environments where database and application serving programs are used. this is a good option to use in blade servers using p4 (instead of getting xeon.) aside from server applications, possible scientific applications will be boosted because of the big cache (where they can use simd for faster and higher precision calculations.)
i am surprised that a lot of people look at faster cpus for just games. there are a lot more applications that will benefit than games.
can companies sue verisign for trademark infrigement or confusion?
for example, you have a domain acme.com. there may be a legal basis for suing verisign if let say the acme.net is not yet registered or variants such as acmee.com or acmes.com or acmecorp.com or acmeinc.com.
because it is being redirected to their site for commecial purpose, you can now argue that verisign is using your trademark to gain fees (for registration so you can have all the domain variants for yourself registered by verisign) or sue them because they are using your domain to gain revenue (due to their search.)
if they cannot be stopped from the technical perspective, a barrage of lawsuits by corporations will catch them off hand and hopefully return everything back to as it should be.
.ph is also doing this. it is very annoying as their service breaks dns resolution as well. also, they website is slow (and down most of the time.) instead of error messages, you get timeout when visiting the site.
.ph domain. although they are a private company (and monopolizes the entire .ph domain,) they should be responsible.
i can't wait for the government to take over the regulation of the
they ban the use of microsoft products in the government or ban the entry of microsoft products in their respective countries.
however, since the government themselves invest a hefty sum on it, then it would be good if that money will be used to develop their own software. then they can distribute the software to their citizens for free (i hope so.) the consumers are still given the choice to choose between their homegrown software compared to microsoft software. it is fair since consumers are still given choice.
same with when building infrastructure or material projects. they can build it on their own without requiring or relying commercial companies to built it.
At our office, we are already in the process of using Outlook 2003 (of course with Exchange 2003.) Aside from the Outlook client, we will be needing the office suite for our business intelligence tools (Excel using Pivot Tables.) It's a tool that a few people use or even know of. But it is very useful.
Currently, there is no replacement for the Office suite that is open source. Maybe few functionality in actual typing, spreadsheet, and presentation software, but we use the software for more than what people stereotypically think of the Office suite.