shocking who would have thought a dual core would beat a single core Turion
Saven Marek (739395), for one.
I'm guessing AMD is holding off for DDR2 before releasing Dual Core Turion
Will it matter? I tried playing the FIRST Dance Dance Revolution on my laptop, and when I took the smashed-up keyboard in to Dell for repairs, they just laughed at me!
Microsoft's new Vista operating systems and Office suite, because both should include massive 64-bit enhancements.
How is porting Office to 64-bit code going to provide any benefits whatsoever? Will we finally be able to enter a 65,537th row in Excel?
Most of the tasks that Average Users do will not be improved by having access to a double-width data bus. And that is why, 12 months from now, there will still be far more notebooks without 64-bit CPUs than with.
the AMD mobile CPUs still outperform pentium M and their offspring currently the core duo and core solo chips
What do you mean by "outperform"? Raw numbers from some benchmark? I'm interested in what brought you to your conclusion.
The only difference is the AMD laptop chips use more power, but you can always plug in somewhere and recharge so really this is no disadvantage.
If I always had somewhere to plug in my computer, I WOULDN'T NEED A LAPTOP.
Higher power consumption is indeed a disadvantage in mobile processing. If CPU A performs more instructions per second, but CPU B performs more instructions per watt, the question of which CPU has better performance is not an easy one to answer.
You're paying for your education. You have a right to critique your professors.
Everyone else in the room is paying for their education, too, so save the critiquing for office hours.
I won't argue that there aren't any teachers out there that allow their teaching to be colored, even tainted, by their personal ideologies. When that happens, drop the class. Or complain to the school ombudsman. A media witchhunt is not an appropriate response.
Indeed, the combined talents of the Alpha crew from DEC, with the PA-RISC developers from HP, the SPARC group from Sun, those behind the MIPS at SGI and MIPS Technologies, and the PPC people from IBM, for instance, could have come up with a CPU that completely trumped what Intel was putting out at the time.
Hey, this broth isn't tasty enough! Better bring in a few more cooks...
I think the value of Altivec on the PowerPC will only become more apparent over time.
I don't think any Mac users will be missing it too much once their pro-level apps that rely on AltiVec instructions are released as universal binaries optimized for Core Duo with SSE3.
Imagine having to deal with some obnoxious New Yorker who won't STFU and threatens to knife you when you tell him to.
Hey, New Yorkers aren't THAT obnoxious. We'd only knife you if you really deserved it.
They'd have to setup mini-cell towers at intervals along almost the entire length of the system.
Or, put low-power base stations in the cars themselves, and communicate with the outside world through the train's own electronic dispatch/comms system. Granted, some of the system's technology hasn't been updated in 70 years, but that just means it's due for an upgrade anyway.
Or maybe drug dealers and criminals will start taking their business into the subways, since they can be in constant phone contact with the outside world while staying mobile.
The subway system today is crawling with transit police. I normally feel safer underground than on the streets.
You don't need a suicide bomber if you can use a cell phone to detonate a bomb on the subway platform during the morning rush.
They could also put a newfangled device called a 'timer' on the bomb. Either way, it doesn't change the difficulty of placing the bomb within the station without it getting detected.
True, but the 40% of the NYC subway system which is above-ground also tends to be in more outlying areas of the system, and therefore less-traveled and sometimes less-populated areas.
A train's time spent above ground may also be quite brief, as is the case on the F line in Brooklyn, where it runs underground to Carroll Street, goes elevated for only 2 stations in order to pass over the Gowanus Canal, and then returns underground for several more stations. A short "hi, I'm on my way" call might be possible during the period spend aboveground, but a longer conversation usually is not.
It may even be time for the real conservatives in the US to stand together, members of a new party willing to fight for what conservatives truly stand for: responsibility, honesty, peace, prosperity and liberty.
I would welcome this, but it would basically mean that for the next 10-20 years a lot of elections would end up splitting 25% Republican, 30% Conservative, and 45% Democratic.
Unless the Conservatives and Democrats are willing to form a coalition government together, there's no motivation for true conservatives to schism away from the GOP. And since the Dems would gain control of government handily against a split right, there'd be no motivation for them to seek compromise with the Conservatives.
Why would MSN, Yahoo, and AOL be so eager to cooperate?
Because it's cost-effective. It's the easy way out.
Given the options of spending a couple dozen sysadmin-hours gathering logs, or hundreds of lawyer-hours arguing against the subpoena in court, most dollar-driven corporations are going to choose the former.
People with american (midwest, southern, whatever), Brittish, Irish, Kiwi or Aussie accent seem to have an easier time communicating with recruiters and interviewers than someone with a Chinese, Indian, or even Russian accent.
In American/British/ANZAC job markets, sure. I'd imagine that the accent bias would be opposite in Chinese, Indian, or Russian markets.
And to be fair, accent has a strong effect on a potential employee's ability to communicate effectively. I have coworkers who are as competent as anyone else, but I hate face-to-face meetings with them because their accents are so foreign to me that I often have to ask them to repeat something two or three times before I understand what is being said.
Your use of language, vocabulary, and compositional structure is self-evidently sharply below that level.
You are aware that IQ is indexed to age, right? A child who scores 190 at age 12 might score only 110 at age 24, as his or her peers catch up in intelligence as they mature.
As is the vocabulary and compositional quality of your other recent posts, eight of the last ten of which scored 1.
Those who live in glass houses shouldn't cast sentence fragments. I wouldn't trust Slashdot moderations as a good indicator of writing quality, anyway.
Your expository and vocabulary also jarringly conflicts with your assertion of "a nearly insatiable desire to read whatever I could get my hands on."
One doesn't have to write at a collegiate level to demonstrate intelligence. Sometimes, shorter and simpler words are better.
Let's all stop waving our intellectual dicks around and focus on the real topic of discussion: racism in hiring practices.
There's still racism in hiring practices, but these days it's in favor of non-whites.
Oh no, poor white people! Their birthright of a comfortable job is being stolen from them!
If your middle managers don't realize that a minority employee is underperforming, they wouldn't notice when a lily-white employee was underperforming either. Bad management transcends skin color.
However, good luck finding enough content worth recording. I have a PVR with 1 tuner and I struggle for stuff to record.
My Media Center PC has one tuner also, and I run into about a dozen schedule conflicts per week. Most of the time it's not important, since one or the other of the conflicting shows is likely to be rebroadcast soon afterward at a time when it doesn't conflict with anything else.
Having more than three tuners in a PVR just doesn't seem practical to me, unless it's for an appliance that's going to be used by a family of 7 with eclectic tastes or something like that. This machine just has eleven because it's one better than ten, innit?
GPL violators aren't required to release their source code
Being that the GPL is a license, not a contract, I don't see how a party could be forced to release their source code as a consequence of violating the terms of the license.
Reasonable remedial actions reulting from a violation of the GPL would for the product in violation to be removed from the marketplace to the extent possible (aka "stop profiting off the work you stole from us") and/or damages (aka "pay us all the profits you've made thus far off the work you stole from us").
$450 of profit on a $1300 machine? That's pretty sweet.
I'm sure it's not REALLY 'profit' though, as it doesn't account for recouping Apple's software and hardware development costs. Still, I bet Dell would kill to have a 33% margin on their products.
when you outright ban use of your software to any coompany using DRM you may well turn a lot of important areas away, so in the end you end up as a small time group instead of people who changed the world.
How so?
Look at some the most popular GPL-based projects out there today -- Linux, GCC, EMACS, Perl. How many of those shield their output with DRM? How have they changed the world ALREADY?
That doesn't answer the question of why you would pursue a degree that involves a heavy amount of programming work if you don't like programming. Why not study Communications, or Philosophy, or any of the hundreds of other major programs offered at four-year colleges and universities?
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shocking who would have thought a dual core
would beat a single core Turion
Saven Marek (739395), for one.
I'm guessing AMD is holding off for DDR2 before releasing Dual Core Turion
Will it matter? I tried playing the FIRST Dance Dance Revolution on my laptop, and when I took the smashed-up keyboard in to Dell for repairs, they just laughed at me!
Microsoft's new Vista operating systems and Office suite, because both should include massive 64-bit enhancements.
How is porting Office to 64-bit code going to provide any benefits whatsoever? Will we finally be able to enter a 65,537th row in Excel?
Most of the tasks that Average Users do will not be improved by having access to a double-width data bus. And that is why, 12 months from now, there will still be far more notebooks without 64-bit CPUs than with.
the AMD mobile CPUs still outperform pentium M and their offspring currently the core duo and core solo chips
What do you mean by "outperform"? Raw numbers from some benchmark? I'm interested in what brought you to your conclusion.
The only difference is the AMD laptop chips use more power, but you can always plug in somewhere and recharge so really this is no disadvantage.
If I always had somewhere to plug in my computer, I WOULDN'T NEED A LAPTOP.
Higher power consumption is indeed a disadvantage in mobile processing. If CPU A performs more instructions per second, but CPU B performs more instructions per watt, the question of which CPU has better performance is not an easy one to answer.
What about the student's rights to an education and to speak freely?
The first is a privelege, not a right, and the second is irrelevant to a student's behavior within the context of a university.
That statement assumes that those who teach are the best and the brightest...
Which statement? What?
Please provide context.
You're paying for your education. You have a right to critique your professors.
Everyone else in the room is paying for their education, too, so save the critiquing for office hours.
I won't argue that there aren't any teachers out there that allow their teaching to be colored, even tainted, by their personal ideologies. When that happens, drop the class. Or complain to the school ombudsman. A media witchhunt is not an appropriate response.
Indeed, the combined talents of the Alpha crew from DEC, with the PA-RISC developers from HP, the SPARC group from Sun, those behind the MIPS at SGI and MIPS Technologies, and the PPC people from IBM, for instance, could have come up with a CPU that completely trumped what Intel was putting out at the time.
Hey, this broth isn't tasty enough! Better bring in a few more cooks...
I think the value of Altivec on the PowerPC will only become more apparent over time.
I don't think any Mac users will be missing it too much once their pro-level apps that rely on AltiVec instructions are released as universal binaries optimized for Core Duo with SSE3.
Imagine having to deal with some obnoxious New Yorker who won't STFU and threatens to knife you when you tell him to.
Hey, New Yorkers aren't THAT obnoxious. We'd only knife you if you really deserved it.
They'd have to setup mini-cell towers at intervals along almost the entire length of the system.
Or, put low-power base stations in the cars themselves, and communicate with the outside world through the train's own electronic dispatch/comms system. Granted, some of the system's technology hasn't been updated in 70 years, but that just means it's due for an upgrade anyway.
Or maybe drug dealers and criminals will start taking their business into the subways, since they can be in constant phone contact with the outside world while staying mobile.
The subway system today is crawling with transit police. I normally feel safer underground than on the streets.
You don't need a suicide bomber if you can use a cell phone to detonate a bomb on the subway platform during the morning rush.
They could also put a newfangled device called a 'timer' on the bomb. Either way, it doesn't change the difficulty of placing the bomb within the station without it getting detected.
True, but the 40% of the NYC subway system which is above-ground also tends to be in more outlying areas of the system, and therefore less-traveled and sometimes less-populated areas.
A train's time spent above ground may also be quite brief, as is the case on the F line in Brooklyn, where it runs underground to Carroll Street, goes elevated for only 2 stations in order to pass over the Gowanus Canal, and then returns underground for several more stations. A short "hi, I'm on my way" call might be possible during the period spend aboveground, but a longer conversation usually is not.
Time to whip out the old 5 1/4" floppies!!!!!!
I take it you're a "shower", and not a "grower".
Also: plural?!?!?
It may even be time for the real conservatives in the US to stand together, members of a new party willing to fight for what conservatives truly stand for: responsibility, honesty, peace, prosperity and liberty.
I would welcome this, but it would basically mean that for the next 10-20 years a lot of elections would end up splitting 25% Republican, 30% Conservative, and 45% Democratic.
Unless the Conservatives and Democrats are willing to form a coalition government together, there's no motivation for true conservatives to schism away from the GOP. And since the Dems would gain control of government handily against a split right, there'd be no motivation for them to seek compromise with the Conservatives.
Why would MSN, Yahoo, and AOL be so eager to cooperate?
Because it's cost-effective. It's the easy way out.
Given the options of spending a couple dozen sysadmin-hours gathering logs, or hundreds of lawyer-hours arguing against the subpoena in court, most dollar-driven corporations are going to choose the former.
People with american (midwest, southern, whatever), Brittish, Irish, Kiwi or Aussie accent seem to have an easier time communicating with recruiters and interviewers than someone with a Chinese, Indian, or even Russian accent.
In American/British/ANZAC job markets, sure. I'd imagine that the accent bias would be opposite in Chinese, Indian, or Russian markets.
And to be fair, accent has a strong effect on a potential employee's ability to communicate effectively. I have coworkers who are as competent as anyone else, but I hate face-to-face meetings with them because their accents are so foreign to me that I often have to ask them to repeat something two or three times before I understand what is being said.
Your use of language, vocabulary, and compositional structure is self-evidently sharply below that level.
You are aware that IQ is indexed to age, right? A child who scores 190 at age 12 might score only 110 at age 24, as his or her peers catch up in intelligence as they mature.
As is the vocabulary and compositional quality of your other recent posts, eight of the last ten of which scored 1.
Those who live in glass houses shouldn't cast sentence fragments. I wouldn't trust Slashdot moderations as a good indicator of writing quality, anyway.
Your expository and vocabulary also jarringly conflicts with your assertion of "a nearly insatiable desire to read whatever I could get my hands on."
One doesn't have to write at a collegiate level to demonstrate intelligence. Sometimes, shorter and simpler words are better.
Let's all stop waving our intellectual dicks around and focus on the real topic of discussion: racism in hiring practices.
There's still racism in hiring practices, but these days it's in favor of non-whites.
Oh no, poor white people! Their birthright of a comfortable job is being stolen from them!
If your middle managers don't realize that a minority employee is underperforming, they wouldn't notice when a lily-white employee was underperforming either. Bad management transcends skin color.
However, good luck finding enough content worth recording. I have a PVR with 1 tuner and I struggle for stuff to record.
My Media Center PC has one tuner also, and I run into about a dozen schedule conflicts per week. Most of the time it's not important, since one or the other of the conflicting shows is likely to be rebroadcast soon afterward at a time when it doesn't conflict with anything else.
Having more than three tuners in a PVR just doesn't seem practical to me, unless it's for an appliance that's going to be used by a family of 7 with eclectic tastes or something like that. This machine just has eleven because it's one better than ten, innit?
GPL violators aren't required to release their source code
Being that the GPL is a license, not a contract, I don't see how a party could be forced to release their source code as a consequence of violating the terms of the license.
Reasonable remedial actions reulting from a violation of the GPL would for the product in violation to be removed from the marketplace to the extent possible (aka "stop profiting off the work you stole from us") and/or damages (aka "pay us all the profits you've made thus far off the work you stole from us").
Apple is only making $450 per low-end iMac sold
$450 of profit on a $1300 machine? That's pretty sweet.
I'm sure it's not REALLY 'profit' though, as it doesn't account for recouping Apple's software and hardware development costs. Still, I bet Dell would kill to have a 33% margin on their products.
when you outright ban use of your software to any coompany using DRM you may well turn a lot of important areas away, so in the end you end up as a small time group instead of people who changed the world.
How so?
Look at some the most popular GPL-based projects out there today -- Linux, GCC, EMACS, Perl. How many of those shield their output with DRM? How have they changed the world ALREADY?
There are search engines other than Google?!?
I don't think you were supposed to actually believe that was something a White House spokesperson said.
And yet, what does it say about this White House that such a statement was not immediately identifiable as satire?
fairly disappointed in the way Apple delivers their TV content (too small, can't burn to DVD, etc)
I thought iTunes movies were standard MPEG-4 Quicktime files. Why can't they be burned to DVD? Is Fairplay copy protection involved?
(Although at QVGA resolution, there's the question of why you would WANT to burn iTunes video content to DVD...)
Does the rent-a-coder have an obligation to look beyond the color of his client's money, and into the content of his character?
Cue up the "Death Star contractors" scene from Clerks...
so that the University granting $StudentX with a degree doesn't loose credibility
AAAAAAAARGH!!!
That doesn't answer the question of why you would pursue a degree that involves a heavy amount of programming work if you don't like programming. Why not study Communications, or Philosophy, or any of the hundreds of other major programs offered at four-year colleges and universities?