Maybe this new processor will substantiate Sun's claims of being "the dot in.com" (now isn't this untrue, since ICANN is literally the com in.com?).
I fear that any IT administrators who obtain a system with this new processor may get power-drunk, and start cutting bandwidth to 16K/sec, forbidding users from contacting tech support, et cetera. Just a worst-case scenario.
I beg to differ. You're not just using your computer to compile kernels all day, right? If you are, you're the biggest loser in computing history. Did the compilation test involve a CRC check? Because if it did, I'd like to see those results, since the Athlon is so x86-incompatible that some OEMs list a disclaimer with the Athlon systems.
You're just too afraid to face the fact that the Athlon was outperformed by a lesser-clocked Intel chip. Did you read any of the other pages of that review? You were probably too afraid to do so, since you couldn't stand seeing a hardware review site trash talking der Fuhrer AMD GmbH. Take those blinders off your eyes, and rip that green swastika armband off of your khaki shirt.
and I suppose you thought the "flat police" commercial was tactful? How about that stupid Athlon commercial which had their claim of being faster? This is the claim which I challenge.
I was referring to instruction set names, not the CPU names. Examples of instruction set names include: MMX, SIMD, Streaming SIMD (a clear improvement over the original), and SpeedStep. However, AMD seems to want everything -Now!(TM)
"As for marketing arrogance, Intel is just as guilty as ANY other major corporation - they all promise with world and rarely deliver."
Well, at least Intel doesn't make insipid commercials just to appeal to the morons of society. Real computer users know to stay away from AMD and their "92.813% x86 compatibility" goal. In the computer world, you get what you pay for. If you seem to have struck a deal, you always end up paying for it because of some bug that the AMD designers could've avoided in the first place.
How Orwellian can our government possibly get? First, they want to control what movies we watch and what games we play. Now, they want to control what we READ. How many mental casualties will it take before we protest this thought control?
...then again, maybe it can't, since NTFS was originally designed wayyyy back in 1994. However, MS might argue that the Windows 2000 version of it has enough changes to make it valid under DMCA. These Linux NTFS guys could find themselves in a pickle if MS thinks of this, cause, technically, the NTFS mounter is a method of circumvention (unless it does something like ask for the administrator password, but I don't think MS would be that lenient).
To sum up in Counter-Strike fashion, Microsoft points their AWP at the heads of these coders, while the DOJ, the big kahuna of the server of the software market, is ready to kick them into oblivion.
Seriously, these Transmeta chips probably perform only about as good as a PII-333. Sure, they're ahead in powersaving, but do any of us except for the laptop users care? Personally, I think SpeedStep was a great move for Intel's mobile P3; who wants to run at 700MHz when you can only do so for less than two hours off the battery?
Transmeta seems to be succumbing to the same thing AMD succumbs to: marketing arrogance. Remember those claims by AMD that the Athlon was faster? And remember how they were shot down when it was found that a similarly clocked P3 could perform better in high-demand applications? Sure was a wake-up call to AMD's marketing team; they couldn't use faster performance in their ads 'cause it just wasn't true.
Also, who the hell names these add-on instruction sets? At least Intel uses some variety in names, but "3d-Now!" and "Power-Now!" just seem to reflect the "instant gratification, damnit!" mentality of the general AMD user base. These names sound more like ransom demands from a terrorist faction, which I'm starting to believe is what AMD is quickly becoming.
I always find that I need something close at hand to squeeze, break, or otherwise pummel whenever the NT4 workstations give me the BSOD. Trouble is, that something is usually the mouse, keyboard, or table (I never go for the monitor; don't want to hit glass!). One great stress reliever is classic DOOM or Quake. They're fast-paced bloody stress relievers. Don't use Q2, Half-Life, or Unreal; those are more free-time games. Q3 is okay as long as it's single player or a match with a low fraglimit (don't forget about WORKING today!).
Seriously, how many times has there been a release of an all new certification method, security protocol, or whatever, when all of the sudden, it's been broken by hackers in a matter of months, sometimes days, sometimes hours?
These software designers really need to take their head out from between their butt cheeks and start thinking of something decently secure. Last I heard, breaking 128-bit SSL wasn't so much of a daunting task.
I believe that there is one rule about multimedia files: If you can see/hear it, you can capture it in a format devoid of security measures, and save it for prosperity.
This has been proven for WMA (unf*ck.exe) and ASF (ASFRecorder), and it is soon to be proven for SDMI. Remember that WMA was hacked only one day after it was announced. Its popularity fell off due to its lackluster spectrum response level. ASF wasn't bad (of course, that's because it was secured MPEG-4 and not one of Microsoft's own proprietary formats), but we have yet to see SDMI cracked for free.
Hackers have proven that even "licensed hardware" is not free from their wrath (CueCat!). I think that these capitalist Orwellians have a serious case of HDFB (head detached from body).
Funny how a "non-profit" organization is the first to receive this title.
The IOC has been doing everything in its power to bolster its bottom line. From accepting bribes to put the 2002 olympics in Utah, to making that inept moron of a journalist, Bob Costas, the sole source for fans to hear about the life of the olympic athletes. This is an Orwellian attempt to hide the real pain that is the Olympic bureaucracy.
Will this thing have a segmentation fault every time I try to do something in a specific game? There is an unspoken law that game consoles should never crash. How will this system hold up to that?
That was RedHat 6.2, and GNOME and a few other makefiles were fudging up on me. I did manage to get Quake2 running, but the voodoo2 driver modules really suck.
Let's see, there's JavaScript, Daikatana, CueCat, RealPlayer G2, RealJukebox, Fusion GS 2.1, Java servlets, and almost everything that isn't hardware related at freshmeat.net. That seems to be the breeding ground of all the programmers that are the epitome of my sig.
That's exactly why I didn't fall for the DDR thing, because I knew it'd be crap at first. Take off those distance glasses and read a little closer next time.
Didn't you see? I said >20K/sec, not >20kbps. I mean transfer rate; 56kbps actually transfers at 4K/sec. That's wicked slow; god forbid you ever try to upload a core dump.
Your definetly an FSAA addict; an addiction worse than being a girl-drink drunk. You obviously forget that all GeForce owners like to have >30fps in all situations. The only real reason why FSAA is there is to help in screenshots; FSAA's antics can really fudge up a game which uses detailed sprites (take a look at Half-Life and Soldier of Fortune under FSAA; I thought it was downright ghastly).
To sum up, I'd rather have the jaggies so I can gauge movement and angles, than having the "blurries," which serve no other purpose than lying to your eyes.
People are starving, OPEC is starting its jihad, the terrorism season is just starting, and you people are worried about getting a stinking palm on your cell phone? It's time to rethink your priorities. Stop reading your gilded, titanium-cover edition of "Evil Geniuses" and do something that actually makes the world a better place, not a "more profitable zone of commerce."
"And as for it being "fun" without a high-speed internet connection; you're not trying hard enough."
Believe me, I've tried, and this is what happened:
Segmentation fault; core dumped.
Segmentation fault; core dumped.
Segmentation fault; core dumped.
Segmentation fault; core dumped.
Maybe you should try upgrading the kernel
Now that's not a good sign. I can't even run straight without connecting to www.kernel.org toute de suite and hacking the kernel. I'm sorry, but maybe you should take your blinders off and put away your glided, titanium-cover edition of "Evil Geniuses." There isn't a single distro of Linux that can hold up without even the slightest module patch within a six month period. And why? Because Linux is a dynamic operating system; perhaps too dynamic for its own good. That's why you keep hearing about these DDoS vulnerability bugs and hackers discovering printf() loopholes in every single file in/usr/lib.
Lately, the trend throughout the motherboard business is to put on a sub-standard AC97 onboard audio chip, a really bad video subsystem, and deny the user the option to disable it. This is obviously a tactic by companies to force your system to have bugs (two big examples: the VIA 4-in-1 driver revision 4.24 [IDE Busmaster 2.1.49, VIA AGP Driver 4.03, IRQ Routing Driver 1.3a, and the VIA INF Driver 1.02, revised umpteen times for nagging problems, and yet they don't seem to go away] and the infamous Intel 810 video chipset).
I think it'll be about a year before we see some legitimate DDR motherboards; and not these turds that look like they got ganked out of a Gateway. I'm still waiting for something legit to replace my trusty 440BX. After all, that chipset has withstood the test of time, and even holds up to 133MHz. Mine's at 100MHz, so it will last much longer than these Athlons going up in flames left and right.
Obviously, you didn't read his comment close enough. He wasn't talking about human error. Right now, you have about as much logic as HAL-9000 did when he "reported" the error with the dish's PCB.
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I fear that any IT administrators who obtain a system with this new processor may get power-drunk, and start cutting bandwidth to 16K/sec, forbidding users from contacting tech support, et cetera. Just a worst-case scenario.
You're just too afraid to face the fact that the Athlon was outperformed by a lesser-clocked Intel chip. Did you read any of the other pages of that review? You were probably too afraid to do so, since you couldn't stand seeing a hardware review site trash talking der Fuhrer AMD GmbH. Take those blinders off your eyes, and rip that green swastika armband off of your khaki shirt.
and I suppose you thought the "flat police" commercial was tactful? How about that stupid Athlon commercial which had their claim of being faster? This is the claim which I challenge.
nor black barcodes a cage.
Looks kinda like our rights online are getting taken away from us, and being brought to hell in a handbasket. What's next, court-mandated lobotomies?
I was referring to instruction set names, not the CPU names. Examples of instruction set names include: MMX, SIMD, Streaming SIMD (a clear improvement over the original), and SpeedStep. However, AMD seems to want everything -Now!(TM)
Well, at least Intel doesn't make insipid commercials just to appeal to the morons of society. Real computer users know to stay away from AMD and their "92.813% x86 compatibility" goal. In the computer world, you get what you pay for. If you seem to have struck a deal, you always end up paying for it because of some bug that the AMD designers could've avoided in the first place.
How Orwellian can our government possibly get? First, they want to control what movies we watch and what games we play. Now, they want to control what we READ. How many mental casualties will it take before we protest this thought control?
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To sum up in Counter-Strike fashion, Microsoft points their AWP at the heads of these coders, while the DOJ, the big kahuna of the server of the software market, is ready to kick them into oblivion.
Transmeta seems to be succumbing to the same thing AMD succumbs to: marketing arrogance. Remember those claims by AMD that the Athlon was faster? And remember how they were shot down when it was found that a similarly clocked P3 could perform better in high-demand applications? Sure was a wake-up call to AMD's marketing team; they couldn't use faster performance in their ads 'cause it just wasn't true.
Also, who the hell names these add-on instruction sets? At least Intel uses some variety in names, but "3d-Now!" and "Power-Now!" just seem to reflect the "instant gratification, damnit!" mentality of the general AMD user base. These names sound more like ransom demands from a terrorist faction, which I'm starting to believe is what AMD is quickly becoming.
I always find that I need something close at hand to squeeze, break, or otherwise pummel whenever the NT4 workstations give me the BSOD. Trouble is, that something is usually the mouse, keyboard, or table (I never go for the monitor; don't want to hit glass!). One great stress reliever is classic DOOM or Quake. They're fast-paced bloody stress relievers. Don't use Q2, Half-Life, or Unreal; those are more free-time games. Q3 is okay as long as it's single player or a match with a low fraglimit (don't forget about WORKING today!).
These software designers really need to take their head out from between their butt cheeks and start thinking of something decently secure. Last I heard, breaking 128-bit SSL wasn't so much of a daunting task.
This has been proven for WMA (unf*ck.exe) and ASF (ASFRecorder), and it is soon to be proven for SDMI. Remember that WMA was hacked only one day after it was announced. Its popularity fell off due to its lackluster spectrum response level. ASF wasn't bad (of course, that's because it was secured MPEG-4 and not one of Microsoft's own proprietary formats), but we have yet to see SDMI cracked for free.
Hackers have proven that even "licensed hardware" is not free from their wrath (CueCat!). I think that these capitalist Orwellians have a serious case of HDFB (head detached from body).
The IOC has been doing everything in its power to bolster its bottom line. From accepting bribes to put the 2002 olympics in Utah, to making that inept moron of a journalist, Bob Costas, the sole source for fans to hear about the life of the olympic athletes. This is an Orwellian attempt to hide the real pain that is the Olympic bureaucracy.
Will this thing have a segmentation fault every time I try to do something in a specific game? There is an unspoken law that game consoles should never crash. How will this system hold up to that?
That was RedHat 6.2, and GNOME and a few other makefiles were fudging up on me. I did manage to get Quake2 running, but the voodoo2 driver modules really suck.
Let's see, there's JavaScript, Daikatana, CueCat, RealPlayer G2, RealJukebox, Fusion GS 2.1, Java servlets, and almost everything that isn't hardware related at freshmeat.net. That seems to be the breeding ground of all the programmers that are the epitome of my sig.
Let's hope we can change the computer world in less than five years. My dream project is building a soundcard that doesn't suck.
That's exactly why I didn't fall for the DDR thing, because I knew it'd be crap at first. Take off those distance glasses and read a little closer next time.
Didn't you see? I said >20K/sec, not >20kbps. I mean transfer rate; 56kbps actually transfers at 4K/sec. That's wicked slow; god forbid you ever try to upload a core dump.
To sum up, I'd rather have the jaggies so I can gauge movement and angles, than having the "blurries," which serve no other purpose than lying to your eyes.
People are starving, OPEC is starting its jihad, the terrorism season is just starting, and you people are worried about getting a stinking palm on your cell phone? It's time to rethink your priorities. Stop reading your gilded, titanium-cover edition of "Evil Geniuses" and do something that actually makes the world a better place, not a "more profitable zone of commerce."
Believe me, I've tried, and this is what happened:
Segmentation fault; core dumped.
Segmentation fault; core dumped. Segmentation fault; core dumped. Segmentation fault; core dumped. Maybe you should try upgrading the kernelNow that's not a good sign. I can't even run straight without connecting to www.kernel.org toute de suite and hacking the kernel. I'm sorry, but maybe you should take your blinders off and put away your glided, titanium-cover edition of "Evil Geniuses." There isn't a single distro of Linux that can hold up without even the slightest module patch within a six month period. And why? Because Linux is a dynamic operating system; perhaps too dynamic for its own good. That's why you keep hearing about these DDoS vulnerability bugs and hackers discovering printf() loopholes in every single file in /usr/lib.
I think it'll be about a year before we see some legitimate DDR motherboards; and not these turds that look like they got ganked out of a Gateway. I'm still waiting for something legit to replace my trusty 440BX. After all, that chipset has withstood the test of time, and even holds up to 133MHz. Mine's at 100MHz, so it will last much longer than these Athlons going up in flames left and right.
Obviously, you didn't read his comment close enough. He wasn't talking about human error. Right now, you have about as much logic as HAL-9000 did when he "reported" the error with the dish's PCB.