and once Apple machines supply a 1.8-2.5Ghz, 200+ simultaneous instruction Integer/fpu core alongside Altivec, the argument for x86 Macintoshes will entirely evaporate.
Of course by the time this happens quantum computing will likely be available for the home market, and for sale at half the price of a 2ghz G4.
So I have been planning my custom pvr lately and have come to the conclusiopns that I need
All simpsons and futurama ever, 25-30gb
All Osbourne episodes, 1gb
Enough music to last a lifetime (or the RIAA's lifetime at least) 20gb P0Rn 10gb The above 60gb is simply what I need now
Now the fun part. I go through 5dvds a week through netflix. At perfect quality thats about 25gigs a week. So my netflix embezlement scheme will require 1.3 terabytes a year.
On average there are two television shows playing a week that either I or my girlfriend watch. Thats another 50gb a year.
So, my entertainment needs require about 1.3terrabytes a year, plus a base requirement of 100gb. I like my data to be safe and fast, so lets use Raid 01 (or is it 10?). Whatever.
Final assessment, 1.9terrabytes a year are my storage requirements. We are a long ways off.
has made me relatively ignorant of this "anti-nerd" phenomenom.
Heres why. I went to a High School in an exceptionally wealthy portion of CT. The overwhelming majority of students had profesional parents that worked at the top of their respective field. The result was a school in which education and learning was prized by all.
The breakdown between nerds, and those who were normal was based not on intelligence, but rather on an individuals ability to maintain a high GPA while getting stoned/drunk/sexed constantly.
The nerds were those who could not manage anything other then school work.
Conclusion: if you feel like a nerd, move to Fairfield County Ct, where the only things that matter to social acceptance are $ and IQ.
Sidenote: The football players were tolerated but not loved. This lead to some confusion on their part, as reality often conflicted with the movies. The result was occasional outbursts of extreme frustration and stupidity, usually involving rascist or anti semetic slurs.
Im not saying we should take our lead from the french or anything, but Paris had the same problem and managed to modernize the city's layout for modern roads and rail (by 1880s standards).
Of course it did require the relocation of thousands of tenament tenants. A nice by-product of this was a vast reduction in diseases,
just get a cable modem. Seriously I dont understand you people. Cable modem service is cheaper and faster (assuming its not capped) then almost any DSL.
Yet governments often feel compelled to engage in them when two lines intersect.
Profit and Justified Security.
Perhaps you forget that Saddam had his security forces make an attempt on Bush Sr. in 96?
There are credible terrorist links involving Saddam.
There are definitive ties between Saddam and Hammass.
Regardless of what you say about the war, you would be hard pressed to defend Saddam as being a good regime. In fact, if you deny he is anything other then a genocidal dictator, your an idiot. Based on this alone, removing Saddam is a good thing. Tell me the post Iraqi nation wont be better then the current one? So what if there are tangible benefits to be had by the U.S. in the are of national security and economic growth. Ignoring the immediate casualties of the war, the word will be a better place.
You are probably French or German. You probably miss the irony. Both France and Germany were governed by genocidal lunatics until the U.S. and U.k. (and others, but whatever) liberated them. Now they go around yelling and screaming about us liberating Iraq as if we were planning on enslaving; its as if Chirac misses the Vicci government, or Schroeder the Nazis.
What makes european propaganda any better? Sure the U.S. is restricting civil liberties right now. That drives me nuts. But dont you people realize that most of these rights are rights in Germany or France. Free speach, surveillance, random security checks and intrusive governments are the norm there. I have never seen a more racist culture anywhere then in France. Yes there are divisions, mostly political in the United States alon racial lines; but in France there is tangible hatred between native white french and immigrants. There is cruelty; not legislated, but rather inflicted as part of daily life by the everyday French. The racial problems in the U.S. are symptomatic of economics; in France, it is a result of indemic racism.
My point is that until France cleans up it's act in the Ivory Coast; pays reperations to Algeria; Stops putting african immigrants in concentration camps pending extradtion and actually enters a war for anything other then self interest, they should shut the hell up.
And Germany... Germany should just not comment for a couple of centuries. I mean WTF? Its been a little over fifty years. thats nothing. thats no time. Anytime Germany has the inclicantion to form a foreign policy opinion, the whole nation should be forced to watch Schindler's list or the pity and the sorrow.
My ISP (Optimum) blocks port 80 and port 8080, and I really dont care. Their policy also bans servers and VPNs.
Thanks to No-IP+ ($18/yr per domain) I have multiple web and email servers running just find. A simple web-redirect at No-IP sends it all to port 5000. I cant think of any other way to get 9mb/s down and 1.5 up for $59 a year.
Not to mention I get free broadcast cable in case I ever decide to TV.
To date either the incompetence or the apathy of Optimum Online has kept them from truly enforcing their policy. I cant imagine they will actualize this new anti nat strategy effectively.
A couple of years ago I downloaded all of Project Guttenberg (excluding the genome project, pi and some other texts that arent 'readable' in the common sense) and wrote up some code to search the whole thing. It was fun. It wasnt even all that slow, assuming I was the only one to use it. Then one day I got stupid and put it on my school's intranet. It became unuseable with 5 simultaneous users. This wasnt a slow server; dual pIIIs and a gig of ram. Random texts were cached in memory.
My point is, unless you have the resources of google, or spread the library across a p2p network, a fully searchable library with everything is kind of unfeasable for public use.
While I find that all Microsoft OSs are pretty much universally shitty, microsoft does make the best mouse EVER.
The Intellimouse Optical Mouse is amazing. Its literally perfect. AND it does not have ONE BUTTON
or TWO BUTTONS
or THREE BUTTONS
but rather it has an amazing, astounding FOUR BUTTONS
AND
a Wheel button
How much would you expect to pay for such an amazing product? Two hundred dollars for a top of the line peripheral? Maybe, if it were made for the DOD. But no.
One hundred dollars? This would be reasonable to expect if Bill Gates werent a prince among men. but he is.
No. The amazing Optical Intellimouse from Microsoft can be had for the low low price of $30 from select retailers.
And if you hurry now, they will throw in a USB=>PS2 convertor plug Absolutly free!. Call Now!
There is a lot of literature that I consider to be science fiction that isnt regarded as such by the publishing companies, and are hense marketed quite differently. For instance Thomas Pynchon, or David Foster Wallace. Their works are labled literature, but their substance shares a great deal with our notions of Science Fiction.
Try out Inifinite Jest,Gravities Rainbow or Mason-Dixine
All good for the much of the same reasons that make sci-fi great. In some ways better as the prose is vastly superior to ordinary sci-fi.
There is also a large amount of Russian Sci-Fi that has been translated but is hard to find... Examples elude me at the moment though.
Where is it getting the seed values?
I would love a mod that would allow me to connect a seed value generator to the bios.
Using radio-decay to generate the seed value (as a friend of mine once proposed) would be neat. PLEASE STEP AWAY FROM THE USB-ENABLED PLUTONIUM.
If this were simply a piece of speciality hardware or a component from a pc-centric/mp3-enthusiast company, then it would be fairly trivial. But this is from onkyo. Onkyo is a manufacturer of fairly high-end consumer stereo equipment, with zero background in pcs. Its the equivalent of Bose or pioneer using linux on their recievers. Or sony or nintendo using linux on their consoles. Its an application of linux in a major piece of consumer electronics. Hence, its fairly major.
Sure Dimaond and Rio have similair products, but they got their start in computer based audio. This is the transition of linux to the mark at large. Id say thats news.
Except that with the exception of Photoshop and Quake3, there isnt shit out there that is optimized for MP. So your second processor sits there idol. You fucking dolt.
But even worse, why on earth would you compare a dual processor system to a single processor system. Not all macs are dual, last I checked the iMac wasnt dual processors. So make the comparison to a pare of Athlon 1800MPs or maybe a pare of PIII-S chips at 1.5ghz. Apple's high end always gets creamed by AMD or Intel's highend.
So just admit your a friggin Mac evangelist, a zealot and a quiche eater and be done with it.
Shit. I could care less about the Mac vs. PC debate; each one is a long way off from what they should be. I just wish you Mac evangelists didnt go around preaching and lieing like a fundamentalist southern christian.
no you didnt. you said: Given you cna't compare processor speeds per say (assume 1.5x to 2x speed of G4 == speed of Intel)
To which I responded with an attack on your assumptions regarding procesor comparisons. My conclusion was that as you were clearly so far off from from reality in your assessment that a G4 cycle is worth 1.5-2x a P4 cycle, that you must be a mac evangelist, a zealot and a sel loathing hermit.
Intel is NOT shipping 3.7 GHz chips... yes the are: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20021114/index.htm l
Apple only ships duals in their towers.
Well, I did disclaim this in my original post when I exluded benchmarks optimized for MP and Altivec.
Anyway... from the benchmarks I've seen... aside from SPEC which the PPC seems to do rather poorly in, the G4 usually pulled comparable FP and Int performance to an Athlon at the same speed
You are right, the G4s are pretty slow in SPEC, but they are also considerably slower then both Athlon and P4 in videoediting apps optimized for Altivec and MP. look here for some proof.
Good lord man! How do you live with yourself? Considering your espoused hatred of zealots combined with your obvious Mac Zealot status, you must obviously go from day to day in a state of self disgust.
Unless we are talking about benchmarks optimized for MP and Altivec, there is no way that a mac cycle is even close to 2x as powerful as a p4 cycle. Maybe a 33% (but really more like 20%)clock for clock advantage for Mac.
Now Apple ships a 1.25ghz chip. Intel ships a 3.7ghz chip. The flagship comparison works out to something like 1.6-2ghz Apple vs. 3.7ghz Intel, when adjusted. So just stop lieing to yourself and everyone else about speed and be proud of your beautiful design and retard freindly interface.
What? Am I the only Jew or non christian on slashdot?
This story has been out for 2 minutes, and not a single post yet. Truly unprecedented.
Of course, it could just be because of the absurdity of a fabble regarding Santa and modern business practices. Im no gentile, but I would think that the notion of associating the two would only further taint christmas.
Literally, I have not bought a single cd produced by a modern artist since David Bowie released Low.
Why?
Because I love MP3s. I dont like CDs. And you know what? I dont feel guilty either. The day I cant listen to MP3s for free or close to it, is the day I stop listening to new music.
Of course, I have bought CDs from local bands and orchestras when they are selling them directly to me. Why? Because I dont want them to go out of business. Modern popular music I hope goes out of business. I hope the RIAA and its affiliates die out. It would even bother me if they found a new business model, because inherent to their nature is the desire to destroy "art" as an expression of humanity and to instead transform it into a commodity. Art is destroyed when it is homogonized and mass produced. The MPAA is no different then the RIAA. While there are exceptions, Hollywood has produced utter crap. I dont deny that there are success stories, but the reality is that there would be even more GREAT film if the Hollywood system died out. The same can be said for music and the RIAA.
So I might be paranoid but...
on
DOD vs. 802.11b
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Could it be that the DOD just considers a widespread decentralized highspeed wireless network a threat?
Its one thing if the network is owned by a large corporation that can be dealt with easily by the dod. But as a lot of WiFi is community based, a widespread network would be harder to control or shutdown. Making 3g attractive to the DOD as their lawyers can mandate the tapping of someones account or even shut the network down in a region. But Community WiFi has no such centralized authority that can be targeted.
I dont think nintendo really had a reputation for developing games aimed at children until Nintendo 64 came out. Up until then you had some amazing titles that, while not full of gore were still not "aimed" at children.
Castlevania, Megman, Metroid . Come on, these games were just amazing. In fact they still are. But Nintendo has ceased to develop quality, wide audience games (w/ the exception of maybe zelda) and has instead mass produced crap for children under age fourteen.
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and once Apple machines supply a 1.8-2.5Ghz, 200+ simultaneous instruction Integer/fpu core alongside Altivec, the argument for x86 Macintoshes will entirely evaporate.
Of course by the time this happens quantum computing will likely be available for the home market, and for sale at half the price of a 2ghz G4.
So I have been planning my custom pvr lately and have come to the conclusiopns that I need
All simpsons and futurama ever, 25-30gb
All Osbourne episodes, 1gb
Enough music to last a lifetime (or the RIAA's lifetime at least) 20gb
P0Rn 10gb
The above 60gb is simply what I need now
Now the fun part.
I go through 5dvds a week through netflix. At perfect quality thats about 25gigs a week. So my netflix embezlement scheme will require 1.3 terabytes a year.
On average there are two television shows playing a week that either I or my girlfriend watch. Thats another 50gb a year.
So, my entertainment needs require about 1.3terrabytes a year, plus a base requirement of 100gb. I like my data to be safe and fast, so lets use Raid 01 (or is it 10?). Whatever.
Final assessment, 1.9terrabytes a year are my storage requirements. We are a long ways off.
has made me relatively ignorant of this "anti-nerd" phenomenom.
Heres why. I went to a High School in an exceptionally wealthy portion of CT. The overwhelming majority of students had profesional parents that worked at the top of their respective field. The result was a school in which education and learning was prized by all.
The breakdown between nerds, and those who were normal was based not on intelligence, but rather on an individuals ability to maintain a high GPA while getting stoned/drunk/sexed constantly.
The nerds were those who could not manage anything other then school work.
Conclusion: if you feel like a nerd, move to Fairfield County Ct, where the only things that matter to social acceptance are $ and IQ.
Sidenote: The football players were tolerated but not loved. This lead to some confusion on their part, as reality often conflicted with the movies. The result was occasional outbursts of extreme frustration and stupidity, usually involving rascist or anti semetic slurs.
but what the hell is IP6?
-phill
Im not saying we should take our lead from the french or anything, but Paris had the same problem and managed to modernize the city's layout for modern roads and rail (by 1880s standards).
Of course it did require the relocation of thousands of tenament tenants. A nice by-product of this was a vast reduction in diseases,
just get a cable modem. Seriously I dont understand you people. Cable modem service is cheaper and faster (assuming its not capped) then almost any DSL.
$50. 8mbits down, 1.5 up. Beat that.
Wow you are retrarded...
All war is nonsense...
Yet governments often feel compelled to engage in them when two lines intersect.
Profit and Justified Security.
Perhaps you forget that Saddam had his security forces make an attempt on Bush Sr. in 96?
There are credible terrorist links involving Saddam.
There are definitive ties between Saddam and Hammass.
Regardless of what you say about the war, you would be hard pressed to defend Saddam as being a good regime. In fact, if you deny he is anything other then a genocidal dictator, your an idiot. Based on this alone, removing Saddam is a good thing. Tell me the post Iraqi nation wont be better then the current one? So what if there are tangible benefits to be had by the U.S. in the are of national security and economic growth. Ignoring the immediate casualties of the war, the word will be a better place.
You are probably French or German. You probably miss the irony. Both France and Germany were governed by genocidal lunatics until the U.S. and U.k. (and others, but whatever) liberated them. Now they go around yelling and screaming about us liberating Iraq as if we were planning on enslaving; its as if Chirac misses the Vicci government, or Schroeder the Nazis.
What makes european propaganda any better? Sure the U.S. is restricting civil liberties right now. That drives me nuts. But dont you people realize that most of these rights are rights in Germany or France. Free speach, surveillance, random security checks and intrusive governments are the norm there. I have never seen a more racist culture anywhere then in France. Yes there are divisions, mostly political in the United States alon racial lines; but in France there is tangible hatred between native white french and immigrants. There is cruelty; not legislated, but rather inflicted as part of daily life by the everyday French. The racial problems in the U.S. are symptomatic of economics; in France, it is a result of indemic racism.
My point is that until France cleans up it's act in the Ivory Coast; pays reperations to Algeria; Stops putting african immigrants in concentration camps pending extradtion and actually enters a war for anything other then self interest, they should shut the hell up.
And Germany... Germany should just not comment for a couple of centuries. I mean WTF? Its been a little over fifty years. thats nothing. thats no time. Anytime Germany has the inclicantion to form a foreign policy opinion, the whole nation should be forced to watch Schindler's list or the pity and the sorrow.
God damnit....
My ISP (Optimum) blocks port 80 and port 8080, and I really dont care. Their policy also bans servers and VPNs.
Thanks to No-IP+ ($18/yr per domain) I have multiple web and email servers running just find. A simple web-redirect at No-IP sends it all to port 5000. I cant think of any other way to get 9mb/s down and 1.5 up for $59 a year.
Not to mention I get free broadcast cable in case I ever decide to TV.
To date either the incompetence or the apathy of Optimum Online has kept them from truly enforcing their policy. I cant imagine they will actualize this new anti nat strategy effectively.
A couple of years ago I downloaded all of Project Guttenberg (excluding the genome project, pi and some other texts that arent 'readable' in the common sense) and wrote up some code to search the whole thing. It was fun. It wasnt even all that slow, assuming I was the only one to use it. Then one day I got stupid and put it on my school's intranet. It became unuseable with 5 simultaneous users. This wasnt a slow server; dual pIIIs and a gig of ram. Random texts were cached in memory.
My point is, unless you have the resources of google, or spread the library across a p2p network, a fully searchable library with everything is kind of unfeasable for public use.
You are incorrect sir.
.
While I find that all Microsoft OSs are pretty much universally shitty, microsoft does make the best mouse EVER.
The Intellimouse Optical Mouse is amazing. Its literally perfect. AND it does not have ONE BUTTON
or TWO BUTTONS
or THREE BUTTONS
but rather it has an amazing, astounding FOUR BUTTONS
AND
a Wheel button
How much would you expect to pay for such an amazing product? Two hundred dollars for a top of the line peripheral? Maybe, if it were made for the DOD. But no.
One hundred dollars? This would be reasonable to expect if Bill Gates werent a prince among men. but he is.
No. The amazing Optical Intellimouse from Microsoft can be had for the low low price of $30 from select retailers.
And if you hurry now, they will throw in a USB=>PS2 convertor plug Absolutly free!
Call Now!
There is a lot of literature that I consider to be science fiction that isnt regarded as such by the publishing companies, and are hense marketed quite differently. For instance Thomas Pynchon, or David Foster Wallace. Their works are labled literature, but their substance shares a great deal with our notions of Science Fiction.
Try out Inifinite Jest,Gravities Rainbow or Mason-Dixine
All good for the much of the same reasons that make sci-fi great. In some ways better as the prose is vastly superior to ordinary sci-fi.
There is also a large amount of Russian Sci-Fi that has been translated but is hard to find... Examples elude me at the moment though.
Where is it getting the seed values?
I would love a mod that would allow me to connect a seed value generator to the bios.
Using radio-decay to generate the seed value (as a friend of mine once proposed) would be neat.
PLEASE STEP AWAY FROM THE USB-ENABLED PLUTONIUM.
If this were simply a piece of speciality hardware or a component from a pc-centric/mp3-enthusiast company, then it would be fairly trivial. But this is from onkyo. Onkyo is a manufacturer of fairly high-end consumer stereo equipment, with zero background in pcs. Its the equivalent of Bose or pioneer using linux on their recievers. Or sony or nintendo using linux on their consoles. Its an application of linux in a major piece of consumer electronics. Hence, its fairly major.
Sure Dimaond and Rio have similair products, but they got their start in computer based audio. This is the transition of linux to the mark at large. Id say thats news.
Well yeah compared to my current Dual Athlon MPs @2ghz each.
dual 1.2 g4s will not match this by a long shot.
but now I really want a Mac.
Is that wrong?
is a David Foster Wallace version.
I'd use my iVideoPod in the bathroom, mostly. Saves having to hunt around for a fresh Hustler, anyway ....
Good lord man! What you need is an iPod with airport in the bathroom. OSX is so friggin brilliant it knows whether you want teen sluts or hot anal.
Except that with the exception of Photoshop and Quake3, there isnt shit out there that is optimized for MP. So your second processor sits there idol. You fucking dolt.
But even worse, why on earth would you compare a dual processor system to a single processor system. Not all macs are dual, last I checked the iMac wasnt dual processors. So make the comparison to a pare of Athlon 1800MPs or maybe a pare of PIII-S chips at 1.5ghz. Apple's high end always gets creamed by AMD or Intel's highend.
So just admit your a friggin Mac evangelist, a zealot and a quiche eater and be done with it.
Shit. I could care less about the Mac vs. PC debate; each one is a long way off from what they should be. I just wish you Mac evangelists didnt go around preaching and lieing like a fundamentalist southern christian.
I said do a COMPERABLE system.
no you didnt. you said:
Given you cna't compare processor speeds per say (assume 1.5x to 2x speed of G4 == speed of Intel)
To which I responded with an attack on your assumptions regarding procesor comparisons. My conclusion was that as you were clearly so far off from from reality in your assessment that a G4 cycle is worth 1.5-2x a P4 cycle, that you must be a mac evangelist, a zealot and a sel loathing hermit.
Intel is NOT shipping 3.7 GHz chips...m l
yes the are: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20021114/index.ht
Apple only ships duals in their towers.
Well, I did disclaim this in my original post when I exluded benchmarks optimized for MP and Altivec.
Anyway... from the benchmarks I've seen... aside from SPEC which the PPC seems to do rather poorly in, the G4 usually pulled comparable FP and Int performance to an Athlon at the same speed
You are right, the G4s are pretty slow in SPEC, but they are also considerably slower then both Athlon and P4 in videoediting apps optimized for Altivec and MP. look here for some proof.
Good lord man! How do you live with yourself? Considering your espoused hatred of zealots combined with your obvious Mac Zealot status, you must obviously go from day to day in a state of self disgust.
Unless we are talking about benchmarks optimized for MP and Altivec, there is no way that a mac cycle is even close to 2x as powerful as a p4 cycle. Maybe a 33% (but really more like 20%)clock for clock advantage for Mac.
Now Apple ships a 1.25ghz chip. Intel ships a 3.7ghz chip. The flagship comparison works out to something like 1.6-2ghz Apple vs. 3.7ghz Intel, when adjusted. So just stop lieing to yourself and everyone else about speed and be proud of your beautiful design and retard freindly interface.
What? Am I the only Jew or non christian on slashdot?
This story has been out for 2 minutes, and not a single post yet. Truly unprecedented.
Of course, it could just be because of the absurdity of a fabble regarding Santa and modern business practices. Im no gentile, but I would think that the notion of associating the two would only further taint christmas.
Happy holdiays.
p.s. First Post
Literally, I have not bought a single cd produced by a modern artist since David Bowie released Low.
Why?
Because I love MP3s. I dont like CDs. And you know what? I dont feel guilty either. The day I cant listen to MP3s for free or close to it, is the day I stop listening to new music.
Of course, I have bought CDs from local bands and orchestras when they are selling them directly to me. Why? Because I dont want them to go out of business. Modern popular music I hope goes out of business. I hope the RIAA and its affiliates die out. It would even bother me if they found a new business model, because inherent to their nature is the desire to destroy "art" as an expression of humanity and to instead transform it into a commodity.
Art is destroyed when it is homogonized and mass produced. The MPAA is no different then the RIAA. While there are exceptions, Hollywood has produced utter crap. I dont deny that there are success stories, but the reality is that there would be even more GREAT film if the Hollywood system died out. The same can be said for music and the RIAA.
Could it be that the DOD just considers a widespread decentralized highspeed wireless network a threat?
Its one thing if the network is owned by a large corporation that can be dealt with easily by the dod. But as a lot of WiFi is community based, a widespread network would be harder to control or shutdown. Making 3g attractive to the DOD as their lawyers can mandate the tapping of someones account or even shut the network down in a region. But Community WiFi has no such centralized authority that can be targeted.
I dont think nintendo really had a reputation for developing games aimed at children until Nintendo 64 came out. Up until then you had some amazing titles that, while not full of gore were still not "aimed" at children.
Castlevania, Megman, Metroid . Come on, these games were just amazing. In fact they still are. But Nintendo has ceased to develop quality, wide audience games (w/ the exception of maybe zelda) and has instead mass produced crap for children under age fourteen.
Why cant they do both?