It is a bit distorted. I think it means that the idle power consumption by an Athlon is higher than the idle power consumption by Pentium M. Even if the chip is running without HLT, if it isn't using its functional units or hitting to cache, then it takes less power than it would at 100%.
Yeah, the article clearly states that HP acknowledges the fact that half of their target "hardcore gamer market" assembles their own PC. Their estimated target market is 20 million, with 10 million that just assemble their own. Their estimation of the rest of the market is often people that are intelligent enough to do their own assembly work, but just want to play games, not muck around with assembling them.
I've seen the machines at Best Buy, and I really don't see much to object to. They are pretty nice as far as I can tell, and they use the standardized "enthusiast favorite" parts minus the tacky crap that some people do. They aren't G5 Powermacs, but then, G5s aren't for gamers.
The "real" argument gets stupid quickly. "real gamers do"... It turns into santimonious, jingoistic "I'm better than you" claptrap very quickly.
I think there needs to be something said for the one-stop shop on actually get a hope of getting the damn thing fixed rather than getting the run-around on whose fault it was.
Sadly, there are too many shits that tear stuff apart that had no business doing so. A lot of them are the kind of people that put tacky neon lights in their computer cases too.
Abating: To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity; lessen.
Abetting: To approve, encourage, and support (an action or a plan of action); urge and help on.
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Whinny was deliberately designed for sharing of copyrighted files, to deliberately obscure the trader's identities toward that aim. If the trading was legitimate, other P2P products would do just fine, the extra features aren't necessary.
There are a lot of legitimate products that can be used for illegal things, but when 99%+ of the uses are illegal then one might be right to question the product.
The government and industry actually primarily uses metric behind the scenes. All roads are specified in metric then converted to Imperial-ish for public use. I say Imperial-ish because it's not quite British Imperial, though mostly similar, I don't remember the proper name for the US measuring system.
Automobiles have been Metric for over two decades now. It's fun when you work on a "crossover" car where most parts are metric but run into a carry-over part that's still made for SAE (fractional standard for cars) bolts.
Of course, you have the little goofball division here and there, like in NASA, I hope they changed over.
2.4X dual layer really isn't too bad of a speed for dual layer, which is the initial speed available for dual layer.
I don't think there is a point in buying a 12x single layer-only drive. I think having a drive that writes 8x single layer and 2.4x double layer is far more useful than one that writes 12x single layer and double layer not at all.
The case of the 'b' is very important, although I suppose not as imortant as the "m", as lower case is milli, and upper case is mega.
At 12x write, I guess an 8MB buffer would be data that is exhausted in less than a tenth of a second. It is still useful for keeping things going smoothly because BURNPROOF slows things down a lot when the drive runs out of data. Many drives still have 2MB.
It is a bit of a concern as EAC says it prefers to not have any buffers at all to get the most accurate extraction, so having 4x as much of a buffer might be a problem.
The big question is, why stick with the winged vehicle? Even on a scaled-down crew-only vehicle, the extra cost of maintaining wings and lofting their weight doesn't really seem to come back.
I think AMD had made public plans for dual core Opteron a couple years ago, and I do remember "2005" in the chart relating to dual core that I saw at a presentation by an AMD engineer. Everything is a greater risk to AMD because of their underdog position, but their position is exactly why they MUST take those risks just to survive.
My Windows 2000 Professional stickers all say 1 to 2 CPU licence, despite being a dual-Xeon & hyper thread capable box. I think more might require Server.
I didn't check to see if it properly recognizes Hyperthreading as just a virtual CPU, to really test it means buying another chip, which I don't need yet.
Vandalism is still a crime, regardless of whether it is a locked residence, unlocked residence or a retailer open for business.
Absolving a virus writer of crime is like blaming a rape victim for wearing skimpy clothes and looking pretty (or whory). Just because some people think the target is "asking for it" doesn't absolve the criminal.
I am pretty sure tricorders had storage capabilities, but I don't think they were used in the respective shows to take written or oral notes. Oral notes would have been easy to tack into the design idea. PADDs were used for taking written notes and reading.
I'd say, if anything, PDAs can easily become a merging of both the tricorder and PADD idea, especially if someone makes compact flash sensor add-on and makes relevant data logging software. I know there is one Palm that has GPS.
I don't think the microbroadcasters would really kill the big ones. When transmitting less than ten watts, you have no chance against the "big ones" transmitting at tens of kilowatts unless you are at the fringe of reception.
Smart pirate broadcasters would test their frequency availability so they don't stomp on others, and at least you have a much greater range of non-overlapping frequencies, unlike wireless networking.
I really don't understand why people use the "top dog" as a means for deciding which mid range or low end part to buy. One company being top dog in the high end doesn't mean that their mid range and low end parts are the best parts to buy in the respective segments.
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I'm not really convinced by their arguments.
"VVPT systems are not certified." That doesn't mean they CAN'T be, does it?
They say that printers jam, etc, then in the next line item, they say paper records are required by Fedreal law.
I also don't see how VVPT really prevent disabled or non-English speaking people from voting properly, the argument doesn't specify. If they can't grab a slip of printed paper, I don't see how a touch screen is going to be that much better. The printing can be dynamically multi-lingual based on user selection.
I don't see VVPT really being a problem. They say VVPT isn't foolproof, but really no election system is foolproof.
Some think that Walmart has a huge market share, but in reality, at the US B&M chain, Walmart sales only accounts for about 10% of the market share of CDs sold in the US.
Somehow, that's enough for musicians to sell their soul, self-censor their own works to get on Walmart's shelves and still have the nerve to complain about it. Somehow I don't think they have much basis for complaint if a 10% increase in sales is enough for them to sell their alleged "artistic integrity".
What's funny is that the next Pentium-M iteration will have 2MB l2 cache - same as that of the top of the Xeon MP line.
And if PM will get the 64 bit extentions, then it would be a terrific 64 bit platform, IMO, consuming only 70% of the power of the AMD Athlon 64 mobile chip with about as much CPU power.
I guess this means that there is an interesting CPU race again.
First, I'll agree that both he threats ARE there, but the risks are way overblown in most cases.
DVDs aren't immune to potential rot. I've had a couple DVDs go bad but never any CDs. The DVD gets a little too cloudy and murky. Sometimes it is attributed to substandard glue or application process.
DVDs do have a small chance of delaminating too, where the two 0.6mm plastic halves separate from each other, again, attributed to poor glue but sometimes people do stress them too much by flexing them way too much when removing them from certian stubborn cases.
There is a rumor that the cheaper DVD pressing plants use non standard plastics that are more permiable to water and oxygen than the specified plastic. Short of chemical testing or a whistleblower, there's no way to be sure.
Which is kind of curious that Pentium M have 1 MB (first gen) and 2 MB (next gen) L2s and still are lower power than AMD's chips yet perform about as well.
I'd like to see AMD to be a credible force in mobile computing, but in the past, inefficient chips and IMO substandard mobile chipsets have hampered them, I don't see that improving just yet.
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It is a bit distorted. I think it means that the idle power consumption by an Athlon is higher than the idle power consumption by Pentium M. Even if the chip is running without HLT, if it isn't using its functional units or hitting to cache, then it takes less power than it would at 100%.
Yeah, the article clearly states that HP acknowledges the fact that half of their target "hardcore gamer market" assembles their own PC. Their estimated target market is 20 million, with 10 million that just assemble their own. Their estimation of the rest of the market is often people that are intelligent enough to do their own assembly work, but just want to play games, not muck around with assembling them.
I've seen the machines at Best Buy, and I really don't see much to object to. They are pretty nice as far as I can tell, and they use the standardized "enthusiast favorite" parts minus the tacky crap that some people do. They aren't G5 Powermacs, but then, G5s aren't for gamers.
The "real" argument gets stupid quickly. "real gamers do"... It turns into santimonious, jingoistic "I'm better than you" claptrap very quickly.
I think there needs to be something said for the one-stop shop on actually get a hope of getting the damn thing fixed rather than getting the run-around on whose fault it was.
Sadly, there are too many shits that tear stuff apart that had no business doing so. A lot of them are the kind of people that put tacky neon lights in their computer cases too.
Abating: To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity; lessen.
Abetting: To approve, encourage, and support (an action or a plan of action); urge and help on.
Thanks to dictionary.com
Whinny was deliberately designed for sharing of copyrighted files, to deliberately obscure the trader's identities toward that aim. If the trading was legitimate, other P2P products would do just fine, the extra features aren't necessary.
There are a lot of legitimate products that can be used for illegal things, but when 99%+ of the uses are illegal then one might be right to question the product.
The government and industry actually primarily uses metric behind the scenes. All roads are specified in metric then converted to Imperial-ish for public use. I say Imperial-ish because it's not quite British Imperial, though mostly similar, I don't remember the proper name for the US measuring system.
Automobiles have been Metric for over two decades now. It's fun when you work on a "crossover" car where most parts are metric but run into a carry-over part that's still made for SAE (fractional standard for cars) bolts.
Of course, you have the little goofball division here and there, like in NASA, I hope they changed over.
2.4X dual layer really isn't too bad of a speed for dual layer, which is the initial speed available for dual layer.
I don't think there is a point in buying a 12x single layer-only drive. I think having a drive that writes 8x single layer and 2.4x double layer is far more useful than one that writes 12x single layer and double layer not at all.
8Mb is one megabyte
8MB is eight megabytes
The case of the 'b' is very important, although I suppose not as imortant as the "m", as lower case is milli, and upper case is mega.
At 12x write, I guess an 8MB buffer would be data that is exhausted in less than a tenth of a second. It is still useful for keeping things going smoothly because BURNPROOF slows things down a lot when the drive runs out of data. Many drives still have 2MB.
It is a bit of a concern as EAC says it prefers to not have any buffers at all to get the most accurate extraction, so having 4x as much of a buffer might be a problem.
The big question is, why stick with the winged vehicle? Even on a scaled-down crew-only vehicle, the extra cost of maintaining wings and lofting their weight doesn't really seem to come back.
The transistor count you state probably includes the L2 cache, not the core transistors of the respective GPUs and CPUs.
I think AMD had made public plans for dual core Opteron a couple years ago, and I do remember "2005" in the chart relating to dual core that I saw at a presentation by an AMD engineer. Everything is a greater risk to AMD because of their underdog position, but their position is exactly why they MUST take those risks just to survive.
An advantage of dual core is redundant stories, and a bright future in redundant posts!
Crap, slash software ruined the joke with this post stopper:
"This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original..."
I wish they had this for the fucking "editors" that can't be bothered to read or check their own site!
My Windows 2000 Professional stickers all say 1 to 2 CPU licence, despite being a dual-Xeon & hyper thread capable box. I think more might require Server.
I didn't check to see if it properly recognizes Hyperthreading as just a virtual CPU, to really test it means buying another chip, which I don't need yet.
An advantage of dual core is redundant stories, and a bright future in redundant posts!
Vandalism is still a crime, regardless of whether it is a locked residence, unlocked residence or a retailer open for business.
Absolving a virus writer of crime is like blaming a rape victim for wearing skimpy clothes and looking pretty (or whory). Just because some people think the target is "asking for it" doesn't absolve the criminal.
I am pretty sure tricorders had storage capabilities, but I don't think they were used in the respective shows to take written or oral notes. Oral notes would have been easy to tack into the design idea. PADDs were used for taking written notes and reading.
I'd say, if anything, PDAs can easily become a merging of both the tricorder and PADD idea, especially if someone makes compact flash sensor add-on and makes relevant data logging software. I know there is one Palm that has GPS.
I have to wonder if the ability to disable LAN segments falls under "harmful interferance" or "jamming"?
I don't think the microbroadcasters would really kill the big ones. When transmitting less than ten watts, you have no chance against the "big ones" transmitting at tens of kilowatts unless you are at the fringe of reception.
Smart pirate broadcasters would test their frequency availability so they don't stomp on others, and at least you have a much greater range of non-overlapping frequencies, unlike wireless networking.
By Voodoo, do you mean 3Dfx?
I really don't understand why people use the "top dog" as a means for deciding which mid range or low end part to buy. One company being top dog in the high end doesn't mean that their mid range and low end parts are the best parts to buy in the respective segments.
I'm not really convinced by their arguments.
"VVPT systems are not certified." That doesn't mean they CAN'T be, does it?
They say that printers jam, etc, then in the next line item, they say paper records are required by Fedreal law.
I also don't see how VVPT really prevent disabled or non-English speaking people from voting properly, the argument doesn't specify. If they can't grab a slip of printed paper, I don't see how a touch screen is going to be that much better. The printing can be dynamically multi-lingual based on user selection.
I don't see VVPT really being a problem. They say VVPT isn't foolproof, but really no election system is foolproof.
Some think that Walmart has a huge market share, but in reality, at the US B&M chain, Walmart sales only accounts for about 10% of the market share of CDs sold in the US.
Somehow, that's enough for musicians to sell their soul, self-censor their own works to get on Walmart's shelves and still have the nerve to complain about it. Somehow I don't think they have much basis for complaint if a 10% increase in sales is enough for them to sell their alleged "artistic integrity".
What's funny is that the next Pentium-M iteration will have 2MB l2 cache - same as that of the top of the Xeon MP line.
And if PM will get the 64 bit extentions, then it would be a terrific 64 bit platform, IMO, consuming only 70% of the power of the AMD Athlon 64 mobile chip with about as much CPU power.
I guess this means that there is an interesting CPU race again.
First, I'll agree that both he threats ARE there, but the risks are way overblown in most cases.
DVDs aren't immune to potential rot. I've had a couple DVDs go bad but never any CDs. The DVD gets a little too cloudy and murky. Sometimes it is attributed to substandard glue or application process.
DVDs do have a small chance of delaminating too, where the two 0.6mm plastic halves separate from each other, again, attributed to poor glue but sometimes people do stress them too much by flexing them way too much when removing them from certian stubborn cases.
There is a rumor that the cheaper DVD pressing plants use non standard plastics that are more permiable to water and oxygen than the specified plastic. Short of chemical testing or a whistleblower, there's no way to be sure.
That was an intentional pun. I switched the word to "pirate" because of the media & media cartel business, to keep it somewhat closer to topic.
Terrorist doesn't seem too far off though given what the pundits and authorities have been trying to do.
Which is kind of curious that Pentium M have 1 MB (first gen) and 2 MB (next gen) L2s and still are lower power than AMD's chips yet perform about as well.
I'd like to see AMD to be a credible force in mobile computing, but in the past, inefficient chips and IMO substandard mobile chipsets have hampered them, I don't see that improving just yet.