I think there is a point is to have small, dedicated narrow-use devices where each device does it's job very well. This way, you can mix and match product features and have more flexible means of lightening up by not taking certain devices with you.
I'm not convinced that merging all these things is a good idea. A hard core photographer is concerned about lense quality, sensor quality, available third party lenses and so on in the camera. Products that merge a lot of functionality and have a camera in them tend to sacrifice the quality of the camera.
A lot of times felons are restricted from voting, even when they are released.
So long as they don't harrass witnesses, victims, the law, ex-jurors and judiciary, I don't see a problem with prisoners having web site priviledges. The problem is when they cross that line.
Actually, a 3.2GHz dual core P4 (the P4EE dual core) should perform just as well or slightly better on single threaded apps as a 3.2GHz single core chip does. The reason I say it might perform better is that there are OS and I/O threads that can be assigned to the second CPU.
The benchmarks look pretty impressive, the 3.2GHz dual core compares reasonably favorably against the 3.72GHz single core computer they tested it against. I didn't scrutinize the results yet though.
If ripping a CD is computationally intensive, I'd suggest making sure DMA mode is on. Being serious now, I think you might be better served by reducing the priority of the encoding program.
If firewall and antivirus protection take a noticible dent in performance, then maybe it's time to look for more efficient programs.
I want dual core, but not for just wasting CPU on inefficient programs or to make up for a bad scheduler. I had a dual CPU system a couple years ago, it was very nice despite being five years old then. I think part of the difference is that it was one of the earliest dual channel memory systems to be found on an x86, it was a ServerWorks II chipset with 500MHz Xeon CPUs. My dad needed a new computer so I bought a faster system for video encoding, only to find out that it was the software that was crap and very inefficient.
They are bright, I wonder if they are too bright. Their brightness plus the fact that the LEDs pulsate at something like 60Hz is kind of an eyesore. I think they are hooked up to a digital oscillator to take advantage of a physiological effect that makes them "appear" brighter.
Of course light bulbs need to be very powerful to work in a projector. Using LEDs is a lot more efficient for this, they use separate red, green and blue bulbs. With filament and arc bulb techs, projectors have previously needed a prism to separate and filter all the light that doesn't fit those three colors, wasting a lot of energy.
Uh... A lot of stock analysts have been boosting their projection of Apple stock prices because of recent product additions. Some of them are pretty respected names in the industry.
I think it's funny that the respective industries think that $3-$4 is fair for a low quality rendition of a music clip played through a high-pitch piezo speaker. I'll stick with the stock tones, thanks. Same for "wallpapers", a postage stamp sized image of 1k pixels is not worth $3-$4. I remember downloading my own using the phone's internet service, even making my own, put it on my web site and downloading to the phone. If either were half a dollar, then it might be a worthwhile package as a whole.
As far as I know, the nforce 4 is the first (only?) x86 chipset that doesn't pass onboard equipment through the PCI bus.
I thought NF2 had something like that. My x86 workstations seem to have multiple PCI segments, when I went through the listings, I counted devices on four PCI busses. OK, one was the AGP bus, but there were still three other segments. Most standard PCs only seem to have two full segments, PCI and AGP.
On my mini, System Profiler only shows the graphics cards on the PCI/AGP busses.
How about video capture cards? TV tuners? I have an HTPC with four video capture cards in its card cage. Overkill, yes. There are third party add-ons where people can add more drive mounts inside the PMG5, depending on the options chosen, something like up to five extra bays. Apparently some people buy PCI-X FiberChannel cards to connect to an XserveRAID. There are SCSI RAID cards that support PCI-X too.
I think the PMG5 is more aimed at a workstation market (though lacking support for ECC RAM and true workstation graphics cards). It makes sense to support PCI-X, though I think the time to move to PCIe is approaching quickly. If Apple keeps the update-only-once-a-year pattern, without a mid-cycle change, their top-of-the-line models are going to look woefully behind the times until June 2006, especially as mid-range and low-end x86 machines are starting to come out with PCIe support..
a) upgrade their video cars to something like an ATI 9600 with 64 Mb of Ram
I think an ATI 9600 with 8 Megabytes of RAM is probably a downgrade from an ATI 9200 with 32 Megabytes of RAM.
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Is the liquid cooling water-based or refrigerant-based? If it is refrigerant based, it is likely a gas at room temperature and pressure. Water is a different story.
I think Sony's offering is more stylish, but I wouldn't be caught dead with one, partly because it looks like a mascara container. Shuffle is more generic, and some even say it looks like a pregnancy tester. At least shuffle is smaller and lighter. I'm not sure what the imperative is on seeing what song is playing, but it's nice to have.
The IP is in the hardware though. I don't see how giving away information on how to use the hardware is detrimental to a company's ability to defend their hardware designs. I think it might help them, GPU design companies can't defend their IP against reverse engineered designs clean-room style, but they might defend against designs deduced from open source code.
I shudder to think what would have happened if CPU instruction sets were proprietary like they way GPU instruction sets seem to be.
I'll second the chicken/egg thing. Supposedly some of the more intensive Mac apps became multithreaded because that was the only way to increase performance, and that lots of Powermacs were being sold with it. I think we could see some games take advantage of it. The reason we haven't is because there weren't a whole lot of gamers that ran dual CPU. I kind of hoped that hyperthreading would have helped push multithreaded apps, but it wasn't that much of an improvement.
Very true. I don't really consider AMD to be "late", although both AMD and Intel are late to the dual core. Also, AMD is just focusing on the more profitable server market, I don't blame them if they are getting an extra $700 per chip.
Part of the "problem" of the claimed lost revenues is that the RIAA is signing fewer bands. They sell more volumes made by fewer people. I wonder if performers are starting to wise up to what the RIAA members are doing to people that sign.
The best I can say is that there needs to be a broader grass-roots movement for independents.
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The 244 watts figure is the power consumption of the entire system, not the chip itself.
I think there is a point is to have small, dedicated narrow-use devices where each device does it's job very well. This way, you can mix and match product features and have more flexible means of lightening up by not taking certain devices with you.
I'm not convinced that merging all these things is a good idea. A hard core photographer is concerned about lense quality, sensor quality, available third party lenses and so on in the camera. Products that merge a lot of functionality and have a camera in them tend to sacrifice the quality of the camera.
A lot of times felons are restricted from voting, even when they are released.
So long as they don't harrass witnesses, victims, the law, ex-jurors and judiciary, I don't see a problem with prisoners having web site priviledges. The problem is when they cross that line.
To be totally untouchable, they would have to offshore all their advertisers too, I think. And also offshore the owners and operators.
Actually, a 3.2GHz dual core P4 (the P4EE dual core) should perform just as well or slightly better on single threaded apps as a 3.2GHz single core chip does. The reason I say it might perform better is that there are OS and I/O threads that can be assigned to the second CPU.
The benchmarks look pretty impressive, the 3.2GHz dual core compares reasonably favorably against the 3.72GHz single core computer they tested it against. I didn't scrutinize the results yet though.
If ripping a CD is computationally intensive, I'd suggest making sure DMA mode is on. Being serious now, I think you might be better served by reducing the priority of the encoding program.
If firewall and antivirus protection take a noticible dent in performance, then maybe it's time to look for more efficient programs.
I want dual core, but not for just wasting CPU on inefficient programs or to make up for a bad scheduler. I had a dual CPU system a couple years ago, it was very nice despite being five years old then. I think part of the difference is that it was one of the earliest dual channel memory systems to be found on an x86, it was a ServerWorks II chipset with 500MHz Xeon CPUs. My dad needed a new computer so I bought a faster system for video encoding, only to find out that it was the software that was crap and very inefficient.
They are bright, I wonder if they are too bright. Their brightness plus the fact that the LEDs pulsate at something like 60Hz is kind of an eyesore. I think they are hooked up to a digital oscillator to take advantage of a physiological effect that makes them "appear" brighter.
Oops, the link didn't take, my mistake.
Did you miss this link a couple posts up?
Granted, it may be a while for the larger projectors to be converted over, but I expect that bundling these LEDs can get a greater brightness.
Did you miss this link a couple posts up?
Of course light bulbs need to be very powerful to work in a projector. Using LEDs is a lot more efficient for this, they use separate red, green and blue bulbs. With filament and arc bulb techs, projectors have previously needed a prism to separate and filter all the light that doesn't fit those three colors, wasting a lot of energy.
I think a lot of X-Files was done in Vancouver too.
The resolution for my area is about 1 meter, they haven't captured all the US at 1 meter or better. And the interface is cool and easy to use.
I thought iTunes now has a feature which lets you chain tracks so they play gaplessly.
Uh... A lot of stock analysts have been boosting their projection of Apple stock prices because of recent product additions. Some of them are pretty respected names in the industry.
I think it's funny that the respective industries think that $3-$4 is fair for a low quality rendition of a music clip played through a high-pitch piezo speaker. I'll stick with the stock tones, thanks. Same for "wallpapers", a postage stamp sized image of 1k pixels is not worth $3-$4. I remember downloading my own using the phone's internet service, even making my own, put it on my web site and downloading to the phone. If either were half a dollar, then it might be a worthwhile package as a whole.
As far as I know, the nforce 4 is the first (only?) x86 chipset that doesn't pass onboard equipment through the PCI bus.
I thought NF2 had something like that. My x86 workstations seem to have multiple PCI segments, when I went through the listings, I counted devices on four PCI busses. OK, one was the AGP bus, but there were still three other segments. Most standard PCs only seem to have two full segments, PCI and AGP.
On my mini, System Profiler only shows the graphics cards on the PCI/AGP busses.
How about video capture cards? TV tuners? I have an HTPC with four video capture cards in its card cage. Overkill, yes. There are third party add-ons where people can add more drive mounts inside the PMG5, depending on the options chosen, something like up to five extra bays. Apparently some people buy PCI-X FiberChannel cards to connect to an XserveRAID. There are SCSI RAID cards that support PCI-X too.
I think the PMG5 is more aimed at a workstation market (though lacking support for ECC RAM and true workstation graphics cards). It makes sense to support PCI-X, though I think the time to move to PCIe is approaching quickly. If Apple keeps the update-only-once-a-year pattern, without a mid-cycle change, their top-of-the-line models are going to look woefully behind the times until June 2006, especially as mid-range and low-end x86 machines are starting to come out with PCIe support..
Whether or not you think it is morally wrong, it was still judged to be illegal.
a) upgrade their video cars to something like an ATI 9600 with 64 Mb of Ram
I think an ATI 9600 with 8 Megabytes of RAM is probably a downgrade from an ATI 9200 with 32 Megabytes of RAM.
Is the liquid cooling water-based or refrigerant-based? If it is refrigerant based, it is likely a gas at room temperature and pressure. Water is a different story.
What's more impressive is I thought UK trains don't operate in imperial units anymore.
I think Sony's offering is more stylish, but I wouldn't be caught dead with one, partly because it looks like a mascara container. Shuffle is more generic, and some even say it looks like a pregnancy tester. At least shuffle is smaller and lighter. I'm not sure what the imperative is on seeing what song is playing, but it's nice to have.
The IP is in the hardware though. I don't see how giving away information on how to use the hardware is detrimental to a company's ability to defend their hardware designs. I think it might help them, GPU design companies can't defend their IP against reverse engineered designs clean-room style, but they might defend against designs deduced from open source code.
I shudder to think what would have happened if CPU instruction sets were proprietary like they way GPU instruction sets seem to be.
I'll second the chicken/egg thing. Supposedly some of the more intensive Mac apps became multithreaded because that was the only way to increase performance, and that lots of Powermacs were being sold with it. I think we could see some games take advantage of it. The reason we haven't is because there weren't a whole lot of gamers that ran dual CPU. I kind of hoped that hyperthreading would have helped push multithreaded apps, but it wasn't that much of an improvement.
It will take a while.
Very true. I don't really consider AMD to be "late", although both AMD and Intel are late to the dual core. Also, AMD is just focusing on the more profitable server market, I don't blame them if they are getting an extra $700 per chip.
Part of the "problem" of the claimed lost revenues is that the RIAA is signing fewer bands. They sell more volumes made by fewer people. I wonder if performers are starting to wise up to what the RIAA members are doing to people that sign.
The best I can say is that there needs to be a broader grass-roots movement for independents.