No, you missed my point.
In six months Intel will have chips running at quite a lot more Mhz than now. So this chip as it stands will be significantly slower that the Intel chip at the time of it's launch. Ok, so maybe it will run faster when it's released than the sample. Lets be generous and say it runs 50% faster than it does now. That will be what, 10% faster than the fastest P4?
So maybe AMDs next generation chip will be slightly faster than *this* generation of Intel's chip. If it's released on time. And if it works.
And I expect they'll use their usual underhanded marketing trick of making up a model number that sounds like it ought to be Mhz to try to fool potential buyers.
No, this chip would need to be maybe twice as fast as Intel's *current* chips to stand a chance.
So --- AMD's next generation chip, which isn't out for 6 months proves to be only very slightly faster that Intel's current generation chip which is available now.
If I were AMD I'd be very worried about now.
Just when personal video recorders were starting to look good they do this. And tivo (in the UK at least) have decided that they, not you control what you record.
Are there no honest companies left out there who just want to make their money by selling a good product, and not by trying to exploit their customers in some underhanded way?
It's because episode one wasn't very good so it's put people off going to see episode 2. That's it. Duh.
And what is that first paragraph trying to say. The words are English, but whole sentances make no sense.
This is just stupid.
First of all, hardly anyone is going to disable these things, and secondly I expect that the first thing that most products will do in future is make you turn them back on before they install so they know what environment they are running in.
Yeah you are correct, it would be much more than $200 per mile.
The card costs $50 (Don't know where you can get them that cheap, but I'll take your word for it). The adapter card so you can actually plug it into the PC you talk about is maybe $90, the "linux box" is worth maybe $300 the antenna maybe $100. Now remember you've got to get network cables and router ports for your pc. Maybe another $40. That's not too far from $600 right there, and I'm sure there are other costs I've forgotten about.
AMD already seem to be falling behind in the clock speed race quite badly. I think it more likely that Intel will continue to pull away from AMD in clock speed.
And AMD have clearly shown that there is plenty of room for Intel to tweak their chips to run faster at the same clock rate.
Well even the GPL license states that you can't just copy the software without agreeing to the license agreement, and so it's pretty safe to assume that unless you know otherwise that it's "piracy" to just copy the software.
That's true for both "commercial" and "free" software - you need to agree to the license (including paying any fees etc.) to be able to copy the software legally.
As most "non-computer" people have little idea about how their software is actually licensed, it's probably fair to assume they don't know the difference between free software and pirated software. We might not like that level of ignorance, but I suspect it's true.
So now it's a troll to say that
a) People should pay for the commercial software they are using.
b) That they should have some idea what is installed on their machines.
They should be able to show microsoft the licenses for the machines they have and everyone will be happy. If they have a significant amount of unlicenced software on their machines then of course they should be audited.
I don't understand how they can say that 60 days isn't enough to prepare. Presumably they *know* what's on their machines already? If not what kind of incompetent management do they have?
And it's also possible to keep your telephone number while moving from one network to another. At least in theory. How easy it is in practise I don't know,
In the UK most phones that you can buy are locked to the only work on the network which they are first sold for use on and can only be used on that network.
But by either paying about £30 to the phone company, or about half that to an "unlocker" you can easiliy get your phone unlocked to work on any network. And the phone companies seem to allow any phone to work on their network. After all, its in their interest to try to prevent you from using your phone on other networks, but in their interest that you use your unlock phone on *their* network rather than another one.
And the cost of calls seem to be considerably less here that in the USA from what I've seen
Lot's of people posting half right information here:-
Yes,.net code compiles to "assemblies" but those assemblies are packaged into.exe and.dll files.
Yes you can pre-jit the code using "ngen" but this in no way modifies the assembly. It just creates a separate cache of the jitted code, which the runtime is free to load if it feels like it. I've found that in practise it doesn't actually make all that much difference to the speed.
A.net.exe file only ever contains the IL code and the metadata and the manifest. (And unmanaged code as well if you have any)
But we can pretty much do this at the moment by using the various suspend and hibernate options. Ok, so it's a different technology but the effect is the same.
But nobody not using a laptop ever does.
.NET platforms will win over from java because.NET compilers to.EXE and.DLL files which look and seem to work just like the ones you are used to.
Of course they are completely and utterly different behind the scenes, but that one simple fact makes.NET seem familier but new and exciting, and not at all like all those scary java.class files.
Ok, so I exagerate, but I think that having.EXE and.DLL files really WILL make a lot of difference to how people percieve this platform.
Because animals are horrible things. I can't imagine anything worse than not only having to live in an old people's home, but also to be surrounded by animals./shudder
"I am sorry to say so, but Windows beats the crap out of Linux for easy configuring."
You think? Find me someone who's used neither before, and get them to give you an impartial view of the "control panel" systen. Sure I know much of that inside-out on everything from win3 to 2k and back, but then I also know my way around/etc on more than one distro, and I know which I *prefer*.
An example - I plugged the USB lead of my new printer into my windows machine and then clicked "print" from my application and it all worked with *no* configuration required. Even for someone like me who has been using linux for years it's still a challenge to make this kind of thing work with linux at all, let alone with no configuration.
Similarly my adsl connection just works with windows, and requires hunting down the driver and rebuilding the kernel with linux.
The point is that you don't even need the control panel much of the time in windows any more.
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No, you missed my point. In six months Intel will have chips running at quite a lot more Mhz than now. So this chip as it stands will be significantly slower that the Intel chip at the time of it's launch. Ok, so maybe it will run faster when it's released than the sample. Lets be generous and say it runs 50% faster than it does now. That will be what, 10% faster than the fastest P4? So maybe AMDs next generation chip will be slightly faster than *this* generation of Intel's chip. If it's released on time. And if it works. And I expect they'll use their usual underhanded marketing trick of making up a model number that sounds like it ought to be Mhz to try to fool potential buyers. No, this chip would need to be maybe twice as fast as Intel's *current* chips to stand a chance.
So --- AMD's next generation chip, which isn't out for 6 months proves to be only very slightly faster that Intel's current generation chip which is available now. If I were AMD I'd be very worried about now.
Just when personal video recorders were starting to look good they do this. And tivo (in the UK at least) have decided that they, not you control what you record. Are there no honest companies left out there who just want to make their money by selling a good product, and not by trying to exploit their customers in some underhanded way?
It's because episode one wasn't very good so it's put people off going to see episode 2. That's it. Duh. And what is that first paragraph trying to say. The words are English, but whole sentances make no sense.
This is just stupid. First of all, hardly anyone is going to disable these things, and secondly I expect that the first thing that most products will do in future is make you turn them back on before they install so they know what environment they are running in.
I certainly wouldn't buy one if it didn't let me skip the adverts and I can't see that anyone else will either
surely they'll lose this, have costs awarded against them and either go bankrupt, or get the idea that this is just going to cost them money?
Yeah you are correct, it would be much more than $200 per mile. The card costs $50 (Don't know where you can get them that cheap, but I'll take your word for it). The adapter card so you can actually plug it into the PC you talk about is maybe $90, the "linux box" is worth maybe $300 the antenna maybe $100. Now remember you've got to get network cables and router ports for your pc. Maybe another $40. That's not too far from $600 right there, and I'm sure there are other costs I've forgotten about.
AMD already seem to be falling behind in the clock speed race quite badly. I think it more likely that Intel will continue to pull away from AMD in clock speed.
And AMD have clearly shown that there is plenty of room for Intel to tweak their chips to run faster at the same clock rate.
I'd be very worried now if I was AMD
Well even the GPL license states that you can't just copy the software without agreeing to the license agreement, and so it's pretty safe to assume that unless you know otherwise that it's "piracy" to just copy the software. That's true for both "commercial" and "free" software - you need to agree to the license (including paying any fees etc.) to be able to copy the software legally. As most "non-computer" people have little idea about how their software is actually licensed, it's probably fair to assume they don't know the difference between free software and pirated software. We might not like that level of ignorance, but I suspect it's true.
!!! Heat causes chemical reaction!!! --- No doesn't work even with 3 exclaimation marks.
So now it's a troll to say that a) People should pay for the commercial software they are using. b) That they should have some idea what is installed on their machines.
They should be able to show microsoft the licenses for the machines they have and everyone will be happy. If they have a significant amount of unlicenced software on their machines then of course they should be audited. I don't understand how they can say that 60 days isn't enough to prepare. Presumably they *know* what's on their machines already? If not what kind of incompetent management do they have?
And it's also possible to keep your telephone number while moving from one network to another. At least in theory. How easy it is in practise I don't know,
In the UK most phones that you can buy are locked to the only work on the network which they are first sold for use on and can only be used on that network.
But by either paying about £30 to the phone company, or about half that to an "unlocker" you can easiliy get your phone unlocked to work on any network. And the phone companies seem to allow any phone to work on their network. After all, its in their interest to try to prevent you from using your phone on other networks, but in their interest that you use your unlock phone on *their* network rather than another one.
And the cost of calls seem to be considerably less here that in the USA from what I've seen
Lot's of people posting half right information here :-
Yes, .net code compiles to "assemblies" but those assemblies are packaged into .exe and .dll files.
Yes you can pre-jit the code using "ngen" but this in no way modifies the assembly. It just creates a separate cache of the jitted code, which the runtime is free to load if it feels like it. I've found that in practise it doesn't actually make all that much difference to the speed.
A .net .exe file only ever contains the IL code and the metadata and the manifest. (And unmanaged code as well if you have any)
But we can pretty much do this at the moment by using the various suspend and hibernate options. Ok, so it's a different technology but the effect is the same. But nobody not using a laptop ever does.
.NET platforms will win over from java because .NET compilers to .EXE and .DLL files which look and seem to work just like the ones you are used to.
Of course they are completely and utterly different behind the scenes, but that one simple fact makes .NET seem familier but new and exciting, and not at all like all those scary java .class files.
Ok, so I exagerate, but I think that having .EXE and .DLL files really WILL make a lot of difference to how people percieve this platform.
Because animals are horrible things. /shudder
I can't imagine anything worse than not only having to live in an old people's home, but also to be surrounded by animals.
Robots on the other hand are cool!
Why would they want an open source strategy? They seem to be doing fine with their own business model.
But the analog networks shut down last year so that's no good. I suppose they could still be running in the USA though.
Just an estimate of many servers are required to handle the load on them.
And if it did break, how hard would it be to load a backup of the zone files onto another PC and continue as if nothing had happened.
"I am sorry to say so, but Windows beats the crap out of Linux for easy configuring." You think? Find me someone who's used neither before, and get them to give you an impartial view of the "control panel" systen. Sure I know much of that inside-out on everything from win3 to 2k and back, but then I also know my way around /etc on more than one distro, and I know which I *prefer*.
An example - I plugged the USB lead of my new printer into my windows machine and then clicked "print" from my application and it all worked with *no* configuration required. Even for someone like me who has been using linux for years it's still a challenge to make this kind of thing work with linux at all, let alone with no configuration.
Similarly my adsl connection just works with windows, and requires hunting down the driver and rebuilding the kernel with linux.
The point is that you don't even need the control panel much of the time in windows any more.