Only if *you* try putting a full P4 (not that M smack), or Xeon in a ThinkPad. Besides, with the lower power consumption of the PPC970s, I'd be surprised if it doesn't happen before the end of the year.
OK, first of all, it's IBM playing supposed catchup to Intel and AMD, or Apple playing supposed catchup with Gateway/MS and Dell/MS. Get it straight.
And I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but it's going to be Intel and AMD keeping up with IBM. Or, if you want to persist, IBM keeping up with Intel and AMD. The G5 is hitting the market at 1.6-2.0 GHz. AMD's Athlon-64 (the desktop Opteron) looks like similar numbers, but nothing much higher than 2GHz (2.1GHz perhaps), and where, pray, is Intel's desktop 64-bit proc? The Itaniums aren't up to 1GHz yet, and the Itanium 2 just hit it, and they aren't even desktop versions. I think we can see who is trying to keep up with whom.
Well, now, Apple can't do that, that'd be comparing chips with similar clock speeds, there's not a lot to prove there. Considering this review (sorry, it's old, I know, but it was the only one I could find on short notice) of it, well, it might be a little embarrassing for AMD, especially since it looks like we won't see the Athlon-64 systems until September, and at between 1.6 and 1.8GHz, which is where Apple will have been a month before (August shipping, isn't it? Even if not, same month is pretty keen as well.).
But hey, the x86 world has lived by the MHz sword. They can die by it, too.
By far the best part is the kibosh that the Athlon-64 has put on Intel's Itaniums (MS is embracing the AMD offerings, forcing Intel to extend).
Oh hey, FSB, I'm down with the Schill. Heck, I live in AZ, and love the D-Backs, all the way down to their oft-derided swimming pool in the stadium. And Schilling, et.al., playing EverQuest and so on is probably one of the coolest things I've heard in a long time.
What I object to is the low-brow pandering that ESPN has done. So, please don't misunderstand my post, it was squarely aimed at the ESPN locker room towel snappers. Or wannabe towel snappers as the case may be.
And a dual 3.06 GHz Xeon Dell Precision 450n Workstation (with Linux, no less - eliminates the Windows tax) with similar specs (though on the Dell system the RAM is slower DDR266 and there isn't even an option for 160GB hard drive) to the dual 2GHz system runs $3,572, and where is the PCI-x? The DVD-R? FireWire?
So, thanks for the back-handed complement and all, but Apple has the dual Xeons beat on pretty much all fronts now (well . . . August), and the Xeon isn't even 64-bit. I'd love to see a comparison against the, er, what is it, 1GHz Itaniums? How fast are the Opterons?
And hey, at least they admitted that in the int case, the single proc is slower.
This is OT, but I do so love that article, with it's dismissive "whatever that is" statements, and so on.
This is why Geeks hate dumbass Jocks.
What's worse, this attitude is directed by Jocks at other Jocks who are displaying a little interest in doing something other than hitting a ball with a stick. Typical idiotic status quo attitude: attack or deride anything unacceptable.
All pets are genetically engineered. It's just that up to now, it's taken generations of breeding programs to make weiner dogs and those goldfish with the big eyes that always look up.
For that matter, cattle and sheep are engineered as well. As are wheat and corn. So, really, this has been going on since about the time we as a species said, "Hey, this hunter/gatherer gig, it's pretty over-rated. Lets try staying in one place for a while."
So, now we're using more advanced technology. It's powerful, and it's dangerous if used improperly, but then so are lots of other advanced technologies. You think we couldn't have bred fish like this "naturally" given a sufficient amount of time and motivation?
For example I really wish there was some way to do gradiated speed limits. Some sort of transponder (similar to the tolls) or a broadcasting black box that lets the police know you are qualified to go that speed (so one doesn't get stopped without cause/waste police time etc...).
How about a speed limit based on the momentum of your vehicle? If you drove your bike at 70 MPH into a grove of trees, neither you or the bike would come out the other side, but a typical SUV would plow through at least a few before coming to a halt. It's not speed that kills, but the momentum of the vehicle and the associated energy that has to be absorbed in the case of a collision. So, make the "momentum limit" something like 195000 pound-miles/hour. A 3000 pound vehicle would have to go 65. My car would be limited to 78. A Ford Explorer, 43. A light-ish motorcycle (here's a fun number): 487 (without rider). Just based on your vehicle's killing power. Maybe even have some sort of scale so the vehicle knows how much is loaded in/on it, and it adjusts it's "momentumometer" accordingly. An artificial momentum-limiter could even be installed.
It would certainly get people to purchase smaller (more fuel-efficient?) cars. And even if some stupid speed-freak on a motorcycle plows into a telephone pole, since they are all built to withstand 195000 pound-miles/hour, it's unlikely to be taken out.
Of course, that's predicated on the assumption that speed limits are somehow about safety and not about making money.
Well, sometimes there is a reason that software is expensive, it takes time and money to do right.
The most expensive Office suite in the world is MS Office, which has, as a part of it, MS Word, the most expensive word processor. Word's been around since, what, 1985? They've had plenty of time. They've had plenty of my money. Is it done right? Yet?
The end result is that I haven't seen an additional feature that I like since Word 5.1 for Mac, and many that I actively hate (you know of whom I speak). They take my money and use it to design a new file format that is incompatible with previous Word formats for the sake of being incopmatible! There is only one reason why MS continues to get away with this behavior: shiny paper. Yup. Shiny paper that has advertisements in PHB Monthly.
Oh, and possibly some anti-competitive behavior of some kind. Or so I heard once.
And to quote Dennis Miller, in reference to music making people violent: "Something was going to get this kid, a low flying helicopter, a deliquinent tax return . . . . Folks, you can't save everybody, just try not to be living next door to them when they go off."
Enjoying that computer smaller than the size of football field?
No, it wasn't pointless. It had a great deal of benefits to a wide-ranging list of disciplines.
It's also in our nature to explore. Or is that pointless as well? I suppose typing from your home between the Tiber and Euphrates, it would seem so.
Sure, there are plenty of reasons why going back now isn't in our best interest. But to say the endeavor was pointless is myopic and generally smacks of the kind of thinking that would have kept us in the Dark Ages.
The problem with this is that Microsloth can easily change their non-public interface without telling anyone and your code will break.
I agree that this is a bad thing, but it seems you're kinda assuming that they won't change their public interface without telling anyone.
IIRC, the file formats between.NET 1.0 and.NET 1.1 changed with little or no documentation. Something like that anyway. I know we had problems here with our code base when we moved from one to the other.
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Well, I don't think we need to take any advice from a country who only got around to decimalising their currency in the late '60's.
I really don't think that $60/year/server is "out the ass." I can cover that out of my own pocket simply by cutting down on my intake of caffinated beverages.
Of course, if I did that, what kind of Geek would I be?
Could someone who knows tell me what support costs/year/server for Microsoft?
The unfortunate thing is that I don't know anyone who is both (a) stupid enough to use Hotmail and (b) grotesquely stupid enough to store personal information in Passport.
I need to make some stupid friends, it seems. Well, friends who are more stupid than the ones I have now, at any rate.
But it's a good exploit, anyway. Kudos to the person who slaved for almost 15 minutes to figure it out (that's not a slander against the cracker in question, but against the pathetic sec- . . . secuuu- . . . jeez, I can't even call it what MS wants me to think it is).
Back when I was in college, I had a Mac SE/30 with the little 9" b&w screen. I played Arkanoid until I was seeing the little spinny cone things whenever I closed my eyes.
The only other game I found to be remotely as addictive was X-Wing, which burned up 4 joysticks and a week of my life (non-stop play, skipped classes, slept and ate when I couldn't focus on the TIE Fighters any more).
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Yes, they could. If we were still in the 1970s.
Only if *you* try putting a full P4 (not that M smack), or Xeon in a ThinkPad. Besides, with the lower power consumption of the PPC970s, I'd be surprised if it doesn't happen before the end of the year.
And I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but it's going to be Intel and AMD keeping up with IBM. Or, if you want to persist, IBM keeping up with Intel and AMD. The G5 is hitting the market at 1.6-2.0 GHz. AMD's Athlon-64 (the desktop Opteron) looks like similar numbers, but nothing much higher than 2GHz (2.1GHz perhaps), and where, pray, is Intel's desktop 64-bit proc? The Itaniums aren't up to 1GHz yet, and the Itanium 2 just hit it, and they aren't even desktop versions. I think we can see who is trying to keep up with whom.
But hey, the x86 world has lived by the MHz sword. They can die by it, too.
By far the best part is the kibosh that the Athlon-64 has put on Intel's Itaniums (MS is embracing the AMD offerings, forcing Intel to extend).
Yes, I *know* it's IBM, not Motorola. See, the point is that Motorola's history of speed . . . oh, forget it, it's not worth explaining to an AC.
What I object to is the low-brow pandering that ESPN has done. So, please don't misunderstand my post, it was squarely aimed at the ESPN locker room towel snappers. Or wannabe towel snappers as the case may be.
Motorola will deliver a 3GHz G4 in 12 months.
See? You're laughing already.
Now, let's argue whether or not the new PowerMac is a workstation-class machine or a desktop-class machine.
And a dual 3.06 GHz Xeon Dell Precision 450n Workstation (with Linux, no less - eliminates the Windows tax) with similar specs (though on the Dell system the RAM is slower DDR266 and there isn't even an option for 160GB hard drive) to the dual 2GHz system runs $3,572, and where is the PCI-x? The DVD-R? FireWire?
So, thanks for the back-handed complement and all, but Apple has the dual Xeons beat on pretty much all fronts now (well . . . August), and the Xeon isn't even 64-bit. I'd love to see a comparison against the, er, what is it, 1GHz Itaniums? How fast are the Opterons?
And hey, at least they admitted that in the int case, the single proc is slower.
This is why Geeks hate dumbass Jocks.
What's worse, this attitude is directed by Jocks at other Jocks who are displaying a little interest in doing something other than hitting a ball with a stick. Typical idiotic status quo attitude: attack or deride anything unacceptable.
For that matter, cattle and sheep are engineered as well. As are wheat and corn. So, really, this has been going on since about the time we as a species said, "Hey, this hunter/gatherer gig, it's pretty over-rated. Lets try staying in one place for a while."
So, now we're using more advanced technology. It's powerful, and it's dangerous if used improperly, but then so are lots of other advanced technologies. You think we couldn't have bred fish like this "naturally" given a sufficient amount of time and motivation?
How about a speed limit based on the momentum of your vehicle? If you drove your bike at 70 MPH into a grove of trees, neither you or the bike would come out the other side, but a typical SUV would plow through at least a few before coming to a halt. It's not speed that kills, but the momentum of the vehicle and the associated energy that has to be absorbed in the case of a collision. So, make the "momentum limit" something like 195000 pound-miles/hour. A 3000 pound vehicle would have to go 65. My car would be limited to 78. A Ford Explorer, 43. A light-ish motorcycle (here's a fun number): 487 (without rider). Just based on your vehicle's killing power. Maybe even have some sort of scale so the vehicle knows how much is loaded in/on it, and it adjusts it's "momentumometer" accordingly. An artificial momentum-limiter could even be installed.
It would certainly get people to purchase smaller (more fuel-efficient?) cars. And even if some stupid speed-freak on a motorcycle plows into a telephone pole, since they are all built to withstand 195000 pound-miles/hour, it's unlikely to be taken out.
Of course, that's predicated on the assumption that speed limits are somehow about safety and not about making money.
I think you meant "on", not "behind".
Because we abolished the practice of deuling in this country.
The most expensive Office suite in the world is MS Office, which has, as a part of it, MS Word, the most expensive word processor. Word's been around since, what, 1985? They've had plenty of time. They've had plenty of my money. Is it done right? Yet?
The end result is that I haven't seen an additional feature that I like since Word 5.1 for Mac, and many that I actively hate (you know of whom I speak). They take my money and use it to design a new file format that is incompatible with previous Word formats for the sake of being incopmatible! There is only one reason why MS continues to get away with this behavior: shiny paper. Yup. Shiny paper that has advertisements in PHB Monthly.
Oh, and possibly some anti-competitive behavior of some kind. Or so I heard once.
And to quote Dennis Miller, in reference to music making people violent: "Something was going to get this kid, a low flying helicopter, a deliquinent tax return . . . . Folks, you can't save everybody, just try not to be living next door to them when they go off."
Enjoying that computer smaller than the size of football field?
No, it wasn't pointless. It had a great deal of benefits to a wide-ranging list of disciplines.
It's also in our nature to explore. Or is that pointless as well? I suppose typing from your home between the Tiber and Euphrates, it would seem so.
Sure, there are plenty of reasons why going back now isn't in our best interest. But to say the endeavor was pointless is myopic and generally smacks of the kind of thinking that would have kept us in the Dark Ages.
I agree that this is a bad thing, but it seems you're kinda assuming that they won't change their public interface without telling anyone.
IIRC, the file formats between .NET 1.0 and .NET 1.1 changed with little or no documentation. Something like that anyway. I know we had problems here with our code base when we moved from one to the other.
- purely meant in jest!
Of course, if I did that, what kind of Geek would I be?
Could someone who knows tell me what support costs /year/server for Microsoft?
I need to make some stupid friends, it seems. Well, friends who are more stupid than the ones I have now, at any rate.
But it's a good exploit, anyway. Kudos to the person who slaved for almost 15 minutes to figure it out (that's not a slander against the cracker in question, but against the pathetic sec- . . . secuuu- . . . jeez, I can't even call it what MS wants me to think it is).
The only other game I found to be remotely as addictive was X-Wing, which burned up 4 joysticks and a week of my life (non-stop play, skipped classes, slept and ate when I couldn't focus on the TIE Fighters any more).
Clearly, you have not read enough BOFH. If someone decides to work late, you ensure that he can never leave the office again!
And what, really, is wrong with kicking everyone off the server at 10:30 AM and not getting the patch installed until 4:30?
Learn more user-control tips here.
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What's worse is that, AFAIK, Mac OS X is *BSD underneath, making his claim incorrect, as well as arrogant and egotistical.