I am wondering if it is like the extended warranty model the computer companies are using. You buy the consumer version of a computer, and you get 90 days or a year, small businesses maybe two years and large corporations a full three years. Parts bought through the corporate division might have a cross-ship arrangtement, but the consumer division might have a delay, where they wait to see the defective part before sending a replacement.
Not much. But dual processor has previously been the domain of workstations, servers and Macs. Soon it looks like dual core will bring dual processing to the consumer x86 PC level.
Also, for Intel, I think having a single physical CPU die means that the FSB can be higher. With previous Intel designs, the dual processor chips had a slower FSB because it is a multi-drop bus, being harder to make work right than a point-to-point bus.
In contrast, AMD's dual core offering will offer no increase in TDP over their present single core designs.
Wait a minute. The very article you linked said this: Competitor AMD so far has not released TDP specifications for its dual-core processors, which initially will be available only for servers.
Unless AMD has released this info in the last two weeks, then there's nothing to go on to make such a claim.
Their ability to scale frequency is diminishing, lately, the ability to lay down more transistors meant bigger caches, which often has less impact than a second core would. Don't forget that nearly every CPU manufacturer is going dual core, not just Intel and AMD, it is just that they are relatively late into the game now.
I don't think it is too out of line to expect that programmers are going to start considering better multitreaded design. There are limits to what can be done, but for most software, that limit hasn't been approached, in my opinion.
In the past, dual CPU Intels had a slower bus because of transmission line issues, a multi-drop bus is harder to make work properly than a point to point bus. But given that there isn't a distance between CPUs, and that the CPU bus is prossibly wired together on-die, that transmission line issue drops back down to a point-to-point bus.
Sharing scientific information now falls within the domain of information technology. Science is IMO more noble than enlarging music collections.
Nothing is inherently lost if you share your knowledge
I've seen a Karl Marx quote saying that knowledge shared is power lost. And I believe that is true in many cases.
With car pooling, sometimes you have to deal with the annoyance of other people, driving places you wouldn't wotherwise go and so on. The benefits are there, just that the analogy doesn't fit.
I'm disappointed that SuSE, RedHat, Debian, etc. all try to do the same thing so many different ways, and put the same files in different places. Linux might as well be UNIX, so many ways to do things, but only a few of them work on any particular distribution.
Maybe you got quoted a different model? The 720 model is made to fit 64GB of RAM, and fits four CPUs.
From The Register: Big Blue bills its OpenPower line as a serious threat to Unix gear from the likes of HP and Sun Microsystems. But at a starting price of $3,449 the OpenPower 710 will also rival systems running on Intel and AMD processors.
Cars shouldn't have to be rebooted. What would you do if your engine management computer needs to be restarted? If you are on the road at highway speeds and stalls? Cars generally don't have redundancies, they are generally built and coded better than PCs because they must operate over much harsher temperature ranges.
A lot of microcontrollers do have watchdog timers to automatically reboot the chip should the software be unresponsive.
and no you cannot " build a machine to project film out of junk". do you know how much film projectors cost? (hint a good lens alone, is over $5000,00.
I think it is possible. Such an expensive lense isn't necessary. The best film projectors cost a lot, but I don't see it as that difficult to fabricate a basic one from scratch. It won't be the best but it could actually be watchable on a small scale.
It might look hard to the monkeys that assembles ATX computers but I think a decent one could be made from scratch as a small senior engineering project for college, and probably could be adjustable with different sprockets and such. A little more complex than just shining a light through it. It may be hard to imagine, but there was a time when people had portable film cameras for home videos. It wasn't fancy and didn't need to be.
Kodak announcing they'll stop producing film has little to do with anything, IMO. Five years is a lot of time but thus far, the drive to push digital projection is going much slower than people expected. Lucas wanted his Episode III to be exclusively projected in digital video, but it's not going to happen unless he wants to drastically cut the number of screens, I'm thinking a tenth of the screens is not an unrealistic figure.
Of course, part of that is political and economic, because it saves the film distributors from major costs, but they refuse to pass on the savings to the theater companies that must invest as much as a quarter million dollars just to get started.
It's 10 digits and 26 letters, minus 6 vowels "to avoid the possibility of the algorithm inadvertently generating real words that could be offensive". Funny. B00BZB4BY.
IF they sold OSX for $200 for x86, it would fly off the shelf and pretty much be 99% profit.
But then people will complain they have to buy something that has the same functionality as what they got with the computer for free. And they'll complain that they can't use the exact same software as they did with their Windows system. I am serious.
There is a lot more to it than saying you can get 99% profit on an OS. Even Microsoft doesn't get that, I think their Windows division is a little over 80% profit. Remember, Microsoft operating systems are on about 90% of PCs.
Apple would have to start (nearly) from scratch to get native support for all devices on the main board of every x86 system, and make it easy to add support for nearly every other device out there, even if it was designed to be Windows-specific. In short, you'd have to sign on every device maker to make drivers. Darwin for x86 is being maintained and apparently does work but there is more to it than just putting the Aqua UI on it and shipping it.
Then people would expect OSX x86 to run all their Windows programs flawlessly. I'm not sure if the Linux Windows translation/emulation is up to that yet.
i find it to be the most usable mp3 player out there. about the only thing i feel it's missing is a radio.
I too found the iPod to be a perfectly usable device. I also consider "missing a radio" a feature. That is one things Apple and its fans have right. I suppose it would be nice to have for NPR but those dozens of stations with dozens of transmitters are serving up "material" I don't want.
The Mac mini is decently upgradeable, save the video card and CPU. The options are more limited than would be for a standard ATX style case (or even a Shuttle-type), but it would serve fine for the average user. IMO, typically only enthusiasts and occasionally professionals upgrade CPUs and video cards, the only time nearly anyone upgrades or expands is if something dies.
Even before the mini, a there are a lot of upgrades that can be done by simply plugging in an external device. From what I've seen, typically the external device is an added hard drive or optical drive.
I think there's a big problem if I'm only pulling in a single digit KBps rate on one of the files, and the other's not comming through at all. If it is possible to slashdot a torrent then something is wrong.
Thats an order of magnitude faster than a PCI bus too.
A PCI bus (32 bit / 33MHz) is equivalent to about 1.06 gigabit, which leaves teeny bit to spare if you are lucky. PCI 66/64 can theoretically handle 4.25 gigabit transfer. It doesn't matter as motherboard SATA controllers are generally not connected to the PCI bus but have a dedicated link to the chipset. The current mainstreaim SATA speed is 1.5 gigabit, 3.0 is comming. I don't know if SATA has a separate address line or if that takes away from the data speed. PCI has separate address and data lines.
I don't see it as a problem if the drive and media can be written to at slower speeds. This tech is a bit off, I wouldn't expect to see it for maybe five years.
I had bought a Compaq Evo N600c on ebay earlier this year. The CPU is a 1.2GHz PIII, I think that makes it roughly equivalent to the Linare's Athlon XP 1800+. The only issue there is that the Linare site says it is a 1.8 GHz chip and Tom's says 1800+, which I'll take Tom's word until more reliable info comes along.
The laptop I bought included a 30GB hard drive (smaller than Linare), a dual Windows 2000/XP licence. It still has a year's warranty left. The screen is SXGA+ (vs. Linare's XGA). I have a CD-RW / DVD-ROM drive, Linare can't write. It had twice the memory at 256MB, I added a 512 later. Mine didn't include wireless. My laptop has a 32MB Mobility Radeon chip vs. Linare's S3 video chip "up to 64MB", not clear. I paid $650 for my laptop.
Overall, I've been pretty pleased with it even as it was, I bet much more than I would be with the Linare laptop. I did increase the memory, added a bluetooth module, added a PCMCIA WLAN card.
There is a subsection of JPEG where it allows you to make lossless JPEG files. It is rarely used though, and I think support is hard to find. I don't know how support and file sizes compare against PNG though.
Sorry. Vested interest and conflict of interest is of great consequence. It helps me tell whether they really believe it from an objective standpoint or are simply looking for personal gain. For certain parts of congested freeways, cars need to get out of there ASAP. I think it is one area that the government needs to get into for the safety of that driver and all the others on the freeway.
Those antennas do work pretty well, but I suggest keeping their return policy in mind. Or rather, their don't return policy. HyperLink doesn't accept returns except for exchanges on defective equipment. Maybe they changed their policy, but read it first.
You are stuck if you order the wrong one. I nearly got burned buying from them. I never did get the lightning arrestors to work properly, they just degraded range and signal quality unacceptably for reasons I can't figure out.
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I am wondering if it is like the extended warranty model the computer companies are using. You buy the consumer version of a computer, and you get 90 days or a year, small businesses maybe two years and large corporations a full three years. Parts bought through the corporate division might have a cross-ship arrangtement, but the consumer division might have a delay, where they wait to see the defective part before sending a replacement.
This is all speculative though.
Not much. But dual processor has previously been the domain of workstations, servers and Macs. Soon it looks like dual core will bring dual processing to the consumer x86 PC level.
Also, for Intel, I think having a single physical CPU die means that the FSB can be higher. With previous Intel designs, the dual processor chips had a slower FSB because it is a multi-drop bus, being harder to make work right than a point-to-point bus.
In contrast, AMD's dual core offering will offer no increase in TDP over their present single core designs.
Wait a minute. The very article you linked said this:
Competitor AMD so far has not released TDP specifications for its dual-core processors, which initially will be available only for servers.
Unless AMD has released this info in the last two weeks, then there's nothing to go on to make such a claim.
Their ability to scale frequency is diminishing, lately, the ability to lay down more transistors meant bigger caches, which often has less impact than a second core would. Don't forget that nearly every CPU manufacturer is going dual core, not just Intel and AMD, it is just that they are relatively late into the game now.
I don't think it is too out of line to expect that programmers are going to start considering better multitreaded design. There are limits to what can be done, but for most software, that limit hasn't been approached, in my opinion.
Isn't 130 still less than the power needed by the latest ATI and nVidia graphics boards?
In the past, dual CPU Intels had a slower bus because of transmission line issues, a multi-drop bus is harder to make work properly than a point to point bus. But given that there isn't a distance between CPUs, and that the CPU bus is prossibly wired together on-die, that transmission line issue drops back down to a point-to-point bus.
The sharing of scientific information
Sharing scientific information now falls within the domain of information technology. Science is IMO more noble than enlarging music collections.
Nothing is inherently lost if you share your knowledge
I've seen a Karl Marx quote saying that knowledge shared is power lost. And I believe that is true in many cases.
With car pooling, sometimes you have to deal with the annoyance of other people, driving places you wouldn't wotherwise go and so on. The benefits are there, just that the analogy doesn't fit.
I wonder how much of a problem Paypal really is. Problems affecting only 0.1% of customers can be a real big deal on the Internet.
I'm disappointed that SuSE, RedHat, Debian, etc. all try to do the same thing so many different ways, and put the same files in different places. Linux might as well be UNIX, so many ways to do things, but only a few of them work on any particular distribution.
I would call this a fork, a bad one at that.
Maybe you got quoted a different model? The 720 model is made to fit 64GB of RAM, and fits four CPUs.
From The Register:
Big Blue bills its OpenPower line as a serious threat to Unix gear from the likes of HP and Sun Microsystems. But at a starting price of $3,449 the OpenPower 710 will also rival systems running on Intel and AMD processors.
The anonymous reader doesn't bother to state where that info came from. I would assume to be a member of the group putting on the expo/convention.
Cars shouldn't have to be rebooted. What would you do if your engine management computer needs to be restarted? If you are on the road at highway speeds and stalls? Cars generally don't have redundancies, they are generally built and coded better than PCs because they must operate over much harsher temperature ranges.
A lot of microcontrollers do have watchdog timers to automatically reboot the chip should the software be unresponsive.
and no you cannot " build a machine to project film out of junk". do you know how much film projectors cost? (hint a good lens alone, is over $5000,00.
I think it is possible. Such an expensive lense isn't necessary. The best film projectors cost a lot, but I don't see it as that difficult to fabricate a basic one from scratch. It won't be the best but it could actually be watchable on a small scale.
It might look hard to the monkeys that assembles ATX computers but I think a decent one could be made from scratch as a small senior engineering project for college, and probably could be adjustable with different sprockets and such. A little more complex than just shining a light through it. It may be hard to imagine, but there was a time when people had portable film cameras for home videos. It wasn't fancy and didn't need to be.
Kodak announcing they'll stop producing film has little to do with anything, IMO. Five years is a lot of time but thus far, the drive to push digital projection is going much slower than people expected. Lucas wanted his Episode III to be exclusively projected in digital video, but it's not going to happen unless he wants to drastically cut the number of screens, I'm thinking a tenth of the screens is not an unrealistic figure.
Of course, part of that is political and economic, because it saves the film distributors from major costs, but they refuse to pass on the savings to the theater companies that must invest as much as a quarter million dollars just to get started.
It's 10 digits and 26 letters, minus 6 vowels "to avoid the possibility of the algorithm inadvertently generating real words that could be offensive". Funny.
B00BZB4BY.
IF they sold OSX for $200 for x86, it would fly off the shelf and pretty much be 99% profit.
But then people will complain they have to buy something that has the same functionality as what they got with the computer for free. And they'll complain that they can't use the exact same software as they did with their Windows system. I am serious.
There is a lot more to it than saying you can get 99% profit on an OS. Even Microsoft doesn't get that, I think their Windows division is a little over 80% profit. Remember, Microsoft operating systems are on about 90% of PCs.
Apple would have to start (nearly) from scratch to get native support for all devices on the main board of every x86 system, and make it easy to add support for nearly every other device out there, even if it was designed to be Windows-specific. In short, you'd have to sign on every device maker to make drivers. Darwin for x86 is being maintained and apparently does work but there is more to it than just putting the Aqua UI on it and shipping it.
Then people would expect OSX x86 to run all their Windows programs flawlessly. I'm not sure if the Linux Windows translation/emulation is up to that yet.
i find it to be the most usable mp3 player out there. about the only thing i feel it's missing is a radio.
I too found the iPod to be a perfectly usable device. I also consider "missing a radio" a feature. That is one things Apple and its fans have right. I suppose it would be nice to have for NPR but those dozens of stations with dozens of transmitters are serving up "material" I don't want.
The Mac mini is decently upgradeable, save the video card and CPU. The options are more limited than would be for a standard ATX style case (or even a Shuttle-type), but it would serve fine for the average user. IMO, typically only enthusiasts and occasionally professionals upgrade CPUs and video cards, the only time nearly anyone upgrades or expands is if something dies.
Even before the mini, a there are a lot of upgrades that can be done by simply plugging in an external device. From what I've seen, typically the external device is an added hard drive or optical drive.
I seem to remember a physicist or chemist that made up a bunch of hogwash and managed to get it published in a psych journal.
I think there's a big problem if I'm only pulling in a single digit KBps rate on one of the files, and the other's not comming through at all. If it is possible to slashdot a torrent then something is wrong.
Thats an order of magnitude faster than a PCI bus too.
A PCI bus (32 bit / 33MHz) is equivalent to about 1.06 gigabit, which leaves teeny bit to spare if you are lucky. PCI 66/64 can theoretically handle 4.25 gigabit transfer. It doesn't matter as motherboard SATA controllers are generally not connected to the PCI bus but have a dedicated link to the chipset. The current mainstreaim SATA speed is 1.5 gigabit, 3.0 is comming. I don't know if SATA has a separate address line or if that takes away from the data speed. PCI has separate address and data lines.
I don't see it as a problem if the drive and media can be written to at slower speeds. This tech is a bit off, I wouldn't expect to see it for maybe five years.
I had bought a Compaq Evo N600c on ebay earlier this year. The CPU is a 1.2GHz PIII, I think that makes it roughly equivalent to the Linare's Athlon XP 1800+. The only issue there is that the Linare site says it is a 1.8 GHz chip and Tom's says 1800+, which I'll take Tom's word until more reliable info comes along.
The laptop I bought included a 30GB hard drive (smaller than Linare), a dual Windows 2000/XP licence. It still has a year's warranty left. The screen is SXGA+ (vs. Linare's XGA). I have a CD-RW / DVD-ROM drive, Linare can't write. It had twice the memory at 256MB, I added a 512 later. Mine didn't include wireless. My laptop has a 32MB Mobility Radeon chip vs. Linare's S3 video chip "up to 64MB", not clear. I paid $650 for my laptop.
Overall, I've been pretty pleased with it even as it was, I bet much more than I would be with the Linare laptop. I did increase the memory, added a bluetooth module, added a PCMCIA WLAN card.
I have no idea how I typed "Atlon" not just once, but twice. I should have known better. Sorry.
I have to ask what the heck an Atlon 4 is. Trying to make it seem like Atlon is as good because it has the same number attached (vs. Pentium 4)
There is a subsection of JPEG where it allows you to make lossless JPEG files. It is rarely used though, and I think support is hard to find. I don't know how support and file sizes compare against PNG though.
Sorry. Vested interest and conflict of interest is of great consequence. It helps me tell whether they really believe it from an objective standpoint or are simply looking for personal gain. For certain parts of congested freeways, cars need to get out of there ASAP. I think it is one area that the government needs to get into for the safety of that driver and all the others on the freeway.
Those antennas do work pretty well, but I suggest keeping their return policy in mind. Or rather, their don't return policy. HyperLink doesn't accept returns except for exchanges on defective equipment. Maybe they changed their policy, but read it first.
You are stuck if you order the wrong one. I nearly got burned buying from them. I never did get the lightning arrestors to work properly, they just degraded range and signal quality unacceptably for reasons I can't figure out.