With my last system, I went Intel because I had no faith in the AMD heat sink mounting. For one, too many people have been cracking their cores for my comfort, AMD left off the heat spreader plate that would have protected it. I think that was a cost cutting move.
Another thing is the _two_ little plastic prongs holding a paperclip that hold a heavy heatsink doesn't inspire any confidence. It worked for socket 7 chips but those heat sinks weren't half as heavy and the CPU die wasn't so exposed.
Really, I prefer a secure bolt-on heat sink mounting system, P4 isn't as strong as those in the past, such as my Xeon and Alpha processors, but it looks a lot stronger than the Athlon XP method.
I did hear from an AMD rep that the Hammer CPUs will have a better mouning method than the Athlon XP, from pictures of such boards it looks like a good improvement.
And I did price out comparible P4 and Athlon systems, at the time it was dead even, feature for feature for the same performance. I figured I didn't want anything to do with buying such a flimsy mechanical design.
I never answer calls with the caller ID blocked. I wish there was some sort of system to block phones from accepting the call as I don't want to take it. I bet the telemarketer response would be to start using a device that sends out a false phone number.
Considering Intel purchased all Alpha related technology I would n't be surprised.
I don't know what they bought specifically, but I seem to only remember that they bought the fab for Alphas, as well as DEC's NIC and StrongARM technology. IIRC, DEC kept the Alpha technology, but having been bought by Compaq and then HP, I think there are enough cross-licencing deals in place that Intel might just have a lot of those rights available to them.
I wonder where these people come from, you know the ones that submit stories that actually get accepted. I had hoped that "nerds" would have a better understanding of technology limitations, but they end up comming across as geek-wannabes that are actually technology worshipers without any idea of its limitations.
Case: a device that converts vibration into energy. Slashdot submitter's idea: use that device in a cell phone so that the phone powers itself using the vibration function. Verdict: Submitter fell asleep in physics classes about entropy and perpetual motion machines.
Case: Wanting a 5 megapixel video camera sooner. Well, Sony makes HD cameras for the movie industry, but in this case, doing it remotely affordably (IIRC, Sony's is $150,000) is a different question because of the market demands involved. There are issues with encoding high definition video to MPEG2 in real time, something I'm not sure many (if any) PCs can do right now. There might also be issues with the CCD chips used in most multi-megapixel still cameras that makes it so it can't capture a new frame 30 times a second.
I think correcting diseases of sick people and enhancing normal people are two different things.
As it is, we have surgery for "visual enhancement" of people. There are people that need it because they were deformed, had surgery or were in an accident and so on. Then there are otherwise normal people that get it that don't need it. There is a subtle difference there.
As far as I know, there is no DLP projector being sold that is better than 1280 x 1024. TI does have a production sample of a 1920x1080 chip made for a DARPA project, but somehow they don't think there is a commercial market for it.
Even a bad 35mm print is about equivalent to 1080p, and there are no DLP projectors commercially sold at that resolution. An IMAX film frame has about 10x more film area, and I really don't see enough jitter or grain to make it worth dropping the resolution, because the resolution drop by itself would tend to cover that up.
The thing is that IIRC SCO claims IBM violated copyright by transferring some of SCO's code from Monterey(?) to Linux. So far, I can't tell if anyone outside of SCO has actually seen the "evidence" in question, it wouldn't be that hard to prove to the public. The problem is that I think it might be inadmissable in court.
Another problem is, if this is so, then why target Red Hat and SUSE? Are either of them even in the Monterey project?
For one, I don't see how both of them being an open source project means that there is a name clash because they are completely orthogonal in use and functionality. But then, I don't see how there was a name clash with the BIOS company, one is just a web client and one is just system firmware. I also don't see how the firebird-db (isn't it FirebirdSQL?) team is justified in their attacks either.
Well, apparently Hemos and JN didn't get too far in their science classes.
I can imagine that this system can be used to adapt motion, such as recharging when attached to someone's body. The thing is, that concept is not new as there have long been watches that use body movement to rewind itself, and even some in recent times that derive electrical energy from that body motion. I don't know how much energy a decent cell phone takes though, my phone seems to easily operate for as much as a week on a charge. I really don't see this system or any like it worth the hassle and expense of designing into products unless they can practically eliminate the need for charging.
All storage and IO should be memory mapped, and all execution should be in place. Anything else is just silly.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. I would think that this system would merely adjust the distribution of RAM is in a computer, the only difference being that some of it has power backup for the memory.
I'm not that much older than you are and I still read paper. I use the internet a lot too.
I think ad revenue covers most of it. Fifty cents really only seems to cover the cost of pushing the paper around. There are classifieds (where you pay by the word or $15 two itty bitty lines), and the car ads, home ads, retailer ads and fliers. A lot of money goes through.
Why did it take so long for web news to catch up?
Come on now, that sounds a little impatient, the rise is practically meteoric. Going from a nothing industry to making a workable profit in less than a decade is pretty darn good.
The entire review looks like it is slightly better than a Babelfished to English version of a report originally written in an asian language. Much like what I see with most motherboard instruction manuals.
I don't see how this is so much of a troll, but the first year or two a technology is always the most expensive. Once they find that there is real demand and how to make them less expensively, they go down.
The first DVD players started out in the $1000-$2000 range, now one can get them starting at $50. I think the first VHS deck sold in the US started at $1500, now you can find better ones for $50. The first HD D-Theater D-VHS deck started out at $2000 but now can be had for $700 one year later.
I really don't have much concern with this device though, I'd rather see plasma displays drop in price, hopefully to 10% of their current cost.
CD prices seem to have gone down some, but it didn't happen too long ago, like starting early fall 2002 or so. The prices I've seen at Best Buy didn't seem too bad. Heck, Far Side of the Moon on a hybrid CD/SACD costs $14 at Best Buy. A lot more CDs seem to be available at $10 and $12 prices there.
I don't see how this alone can hurt the review credibility, that's much like dissing a book written by a Brit because they spell a particular metal aluminium or how they spell colour.
Sony's Wega line is named after the star. While the name is pronounced "vega" it is also spelled "wega".
The ability to decide when to drop a number, and when to take it to a new carrier is pretty important.
If you want a new number I think you can call up your current carrier and ask for one. But if you want to switch carriers and keep your existing number, you should be able to. I don't want to be held hostage by a carrier either. It makes competition more accessible to more people.
I wonder if the FCC can revoke licences or start fining companies over this. I think the carriers should get slapped around for this.
We would need to know what "show stopper" means. I think a show stopping problem might mean a flaw that would mean permanently grounding the fleet because it is unfixable.
Comparing the risk to to IE is not the same, in some ways worse. For IE to compare, then there would be a 2% chance that any startup would completely destroy the computer to the point of unsalvageability of parts, and also kill its user.
If the person is truly reformed, yes, but I would suggest that is hard to know for sure, but time helps. If one is in the position of hiring this type of person, I would put in some sort of system of keeping a watchfull eye on this person or risk one's own job in having hired this person if the person only reformed "for show". Even if it's been a decade since the original conviction, there's no way of knowing of the person reformed or learned how not to get caught.
I'm not too impressed with their Samus try at a female character. The only way you knew the character was female was by winning the game, and then it was IIRC, just long hair. For all I know, it could have been Fabio.
Sony _is_ on the slashdot radar because of DRM flak and other things.
Sony v. Nintendo is a case of evil v. evil. No real love lost either way.
I knew that Sony made Playstation as a result of the Nintendo CD game system deal falling apart. Because it is almost a cheap romance novel gone amok (i.e. he said, she said), I've never found any clear corroboration as to _why_, just speculation, and I've seen a few theories.
I would rather a larger, cheaper format with a known reliability and less capacity than a total unknown that is expensive (smaller size costs money!) and might be too fragile with real world use. I'll let someone else bear the brunt of being an early adopter until the reliability is established.
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Well, you could buy a Mac.
With my last system, I went Intel because I had no faith in the AMD heat sink mounting. For one, too many people have been cracking their cores for my comfort, AMD left off the heat spreader plate that would have protected it. I think that was a cost cutting move.
Another thing is the _two_ little plastic prongs holding a paperclip that hold a heavy heatsink doesn't inspire any confidence. It worked for socket 7 chips but those heat sinks weren't half as heavy and the CPU die wasn't so exposed.
Really, I prefer a secure bolt-on heat sink mounting system, P4 isn't as strong as those in the past, such as my Xeon and Alpha processors, but it looks a lot stronger than the Athlon XP method.
I did hear from an AMD rep that the Hammer CPUs will have a better mouning method than the Athlon XP, from pictures of such boards it looks like a good improvement.
And I did price out comparible P4 and Athlon systems, at the time it was dead even, feature for feature for the same performance. I figured I didn't want anything to do with buying such a flimsy mechanical design.
I never answer calls with the caller ID blocked. I wish there was some sort of system to block phones from accepting the call as I don't want to take it. I bet the telemarketer response would be to start using a device that sends out a false phone number.
Considering Intel purchased all Alpha related technology I would n't be surprised.
I don't know what they bought specifically, but I seem to only remember that they bought the fab for Alphas, as well as DEC's NIC and StrongARM technology. IIRC, DEC kept the Alpha technology, but having been bought by Compaq and then HP, I think there are enough cross-licencing deals in place that Intel might just have a lot of those rights available to them.
Agreed.
I wonder where these people come from, you know the ones that submit stories that actually get accepted. I had hoped that "nerds" would have a better understanding of technology limitations, but they end up comming across as geek-wannabes that are actually technology worshipers without any idea of its limitations.
Case: a device that converts vibration into energy. Slashdot submitter's idea: use that device in a cell phone so that the phone powers itself using the vibration function. Verdict: Submitter fell asleep in physics classes about entropy and perpetual motion machines.
Case: Wanting a 5 megapixel video camera sooner. Well, Sony makes HD cameras for the movie industry, but in this case, doing it remotely affordably (IIRC, Sony's is $150,000) is a different question because of the market demands involved. There are issues with encoding high definition video to MPEG2 in real time, something I'm not sure many (if any) PCs can do right now. There might also be issues with the CCD chips used in most multi-megapixel still cameras that makes it so it can't capture a new frame 30 times a second.
I think correcting diseases of sick people and enhancing normal people are two different things.
As it is, we have surgery for "visual enhancement" of people. There are people that need it because they were deformed, had surgery or were in an accident and so on. Then there are otherwise normal people that get it that don't need it. There is a subtle difference there.
Agreed, Omnimax stuff sucks for just about everything, even the stuff supposedly filmed for it.
About the cuts, some people preferred the IMAX version - I didn't go but they supposedly axed the romance stuff in AotC. Or did you mean cropped?
As far as I know, there is no DLP projector being sold that is better than 1280 x 1024. TI does have a production sample of a 1920x1080 chip made for a DARPA project, but somehow they don't think there is a commercial market for it.
Even a bad 35mm print is about equivalent to 1080p, and there are no DLP projectors commercially sold at that resolution. An IMAX film frame has about 10x more film area, and I really don't see enough jitter or grain to make it worth dropping the resolution, because the resolution drop by itself would tend to cover that up.
Misstatement, I was thinking that evidence presented to the public might not be admissable in court when it might have otherwise been.
The thing is that IIRC SCO claims IBM violated copyright by transferring some of SCO's code from Monterey(?) to Linux. So far, I can't tell if anyone outside of SCO has actually seen the "evidence" in question, it wouldn't be that hard to prove to the public. The problem is that I think it might be inadmissable in court.
Another problem is, if this is so, then why target Red Hat and SUSE? Are either of them even in the Monterey project?
For one, I don't see how both of them being an open source project means that there is a name clash because they are completely orthogonal in use and functionality. But then, I don't see how there was a name clash with the BIOS company, one is just a web client and one is just system firmware. I also don't see how the firebird-db (isn't it FirebirdSQL?) team is justified in their attacks either.
Well, apparently Hemos and JN didn't get too far in their science classes.
I can imagine that this system can be used to adapt motion, such as recharging when attached to someone's body. The thing is, that concept is not new as there have long been watches that use body movement to rewind itself, and even some in recent times that derive electrical energy from that body motion. I don't know how much energy a decent cell phone takes though, my phone seems to easily operate for as much as a week on a charge. I really don't see this system or any like it worth the hassle and expense of designing into products unless they can practically eliminate the need for charging.
All storage and IO should be memory mapped, and all execution should be in place. Anything else is just silly.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. I would think that this system would merely adjust the distribution of RAM is in a computer, the only difference being that some of it has power backup for the memory.
I'm not that much older than you are and I still read paper. I use the internet a lot too.
I think ad revenue covers most of it. Fifty cents really only seems to cover the cost of pushing the paper around. There are classifieds (where you pay by the word or $15 two itty bitty lines), and the car ads, home ads, retailer ads and fliers. A lot of money goes through.
Why did it take so long for web news to catch up?
Come on now, that sounds a little impatient, the rise is practically meteoric. Going from a nothing industry to making a workable profit in less than a decade is pretty darn good.
I am tired, I shouldn't have posted. What I wrote looks as bad as what is in that "review".
The entire review looks like it is slightly better than a Babelfished to English version of a report originally written in an asian language. Much like what I see with most motherboard instruction manuals.
This isn't the horridly crippled performance that we've all heard about with the Itanic.
Uh, the Itanium 2 processor at 1GHz performs about as well as a 2.5GHz P4. Even better at FP ops, close to 2.8GHz.
I don't see how this is so much of a troll, but the first year or two a technology is always the most expensive. Once they find that there is real demand and how to make them less expensively, they go down.
The first DVD players started out in the $1000-$2000 range, now one can get them starting at $50. I think the first VHS deck sold in the US started at $1500, now you can find better ones for $50. The first HD D-Theater D-VHS deck started out at $2000 but now can be had for $700 one year later.
I really don't have much concern with this device though, I'd rather see plasma displays drop in price, hopefully to 10% of their current cost.
CD prices seem to have gone down some, but it didn't happen too long ago, like starting early fall 2002 or so. The prices I've seen at Best Buy didn't seem too bad. Heck, Far Side of the Moon on a hybrid CD/SACD costs $14 at Best Buy. A lot more CDs seem to be available at $10 and $12 prices there.
I don't see how this alone can hurt the review credibility, that's much like dissing a book written by a Brit because they spell a particular metal aluminium or how they spell colour.
Sony's Wega line is named after the star. While the name is pronounced "vega" it is also spelled "wega".
The ability to decide when to drop a number, and when to take it to a new carrier is pretty important.
If you want a new number I think you can call up your current carrier and ask for one. But if you want to switch carriers and keep your existing number, you should be able to. I don't want to be held hostage by a carrier either. It makes competition more accessible to more people.
I wonder if the FCC can revoke licences or start fining companies over this. I think the carriers should get slapped around for this.
We would need to know what "show stopper" means. I think a show stopping problem might mean a flaw that would mean permanently grounding the fleet because it is unfixable.
Comparing the risk to to IE is not the same, in some ways worse. For IE to compare, then there would be a 2% chance that any startup would completely destroy the computer to the point of unsalvageability of parts, and also kill its user.
If the person is truly reformed, yes, but I would suggest that is hard to know for sure, but time helps. If one is in the position of hiring this type of person, I would put in some sort of system of keeping a watchfull eye on this person or risk one's own job in having hired this person if the person only reformed "for show". Even if it's been a decade since the original conviction, there's no way of knowing of the person reformed or learned how not to get caught.
I'm not too impressed with their Samus try at a female character. The only way you knew the character was female was by winning the game, and then it was IIRC, just long hair. For all I know, it could have been Fabio.
Sony _is_ on the slashdot radar because of DRM flak and other things.
Sony v. Nintendo is a case of evil v. evil. No real love lost either way.
I knew that Sony made Playstation as a result of the Nintendo CD game system deal falling apart. Because it is almost a cheap romance novel gone amok (i.e. he said, she said), I've never found any clear corroboration as to _why_, just speculation, and I've seen a few theories.
I would rather a larger, cheaper format with a known reliability and less capacity than a total unknown that is expensive (smaller size costs money!) and might be too fragile with real world use. I'll let someone else bear the brunt of being an early adopter until the reliability is established.