Do you really think that gangs would quit useing guns if they were illegal? Oh yeah, look at drugs. Making marijuana illegal sure did a great job, it's pretty much completely gone from the streets, right?
An icon or shortcut is often used in multiple ways. You might want to delete it, rename it, copy it, or of course activate it. On the other and, it's a very rare case that you ever want to do anything except activate a hyperlink, the start menu, a button on MS Word, or a task on the task bar.
Yes I have. Copying files from one drive to another over the PCI bus often transfers at 15-25MB per second, which works out to 120-200mb/sec. The CPU shows some usage and things are a little sluggish, but the OS is still totally usable, especially if it's on a 3rd drive that is not involved in the copying.
Besides, due to inefficiency in TCP/IP you can't really get the full 100mb/sec, it's mostly limited around 80mb/sec for the better NICs.
Intel would have you think otherwise. They rate their chips with max "typical" thermal output, while AMD rates chips with the true maximum thermal output. If you go to the effort to determine the real maximum thermal output, yes the fastest pentium 4 is hotter than the fastest Athlon XP.
Here is why they don't charge based on bandwidth: they would make less money. How much bandwidth do you think the "average" person uses? A little web browsing, a little email, *maybe* a total of 3MB/day, for around 90MB/month. Any reasonable system of paying for bandwidth would have to be in the ballpark of $10/GB or less (really far less would still be generous to the cable companies, a Commercial T1 line capable of 300GB/month is $400), and so the majority of users paying $40/month now would instead be paying $1/month. Ouch, there goes the profit.
It's not the size, it's reliability/speed. I would be fine with a 600MB drive if it was as fast as a modern drive, and reasonably reliable- but I don't expect much from 6 year old storage. For that reason I'll toss or give away pretty much any drive under 6GB these days.
When was the last time you saw a 10,000RPM IDE drive? As far as an *interface*, IDE is fine and the slight advantages of SCSI don't justify the cost. However, purely due to the drive manufacturers stuborness, you can not find anything faster than 7200RPM in an IDE drive. While the fastest IDE drives are *VERY* competitive with SCSI performance, SCSI still has the top drives. Nothing touches the Seagate X15-36LP, and the "cheap" ($200) maxtor 10k III is still faster than anything available in IDE.
Zerg actually have another *huge* strategy- early expansion. Since they can have a full base with just a hatchery, it's very easy for zerg to expand early and take over the best spots. This is often made even easier when your opponent is EXPECTING a rush, and turtles from the beginning. You let him sit tight in his little base, and than 10 minutes later drop 50 hydras and 100 zerglings in his base VIA overloard traqnsports. Or, on a wide open map, you attack with ultralisks and defilers to cast swarm, making the ultralisks immune to virtually every defense in common use.
In any case, there is much more to it than you think. The biggest flaw in starcraft is IMO battlenet- there is no way to filter out all the stupid custom maps, and all the idiotic "mucho money" games, and the players are mostly obessed with ratings, 90% of the time when I win the loser begs me to draw with him so he doesn't get a loss.
Hrm, it seems to me that monarchy, as an example, was a successfull form of government for much longer than a century.
SPEC isn't a good benchmark for consumer CPU's
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Why? Because it's all about how much the compilers can be optimized for it. Even worse, compiliers highly optimized for SPEC often produce poor code for realworld applicatios. The fact is, very little software is optimized for SSE2 anyway. Especially consumer software, which for the most part is written to the least common denominator. Without the special optimizations, Pentium 4's just don't compete well with Athlons.
I bought a 20 GB 75GXP back in october of 2000, and later a pair of 45GB's for RAID1. They are all still working fine. I have a feeling that part of the problem is environment related- maybe the 75GXP doesn't handle heat or weak power supplies, or vibrations, or something. Otherwise, there isn't much explanation for some people having 3+ failures while folks like me have run multiple drives for months without issues.
How is useing an archive link instead of the usual link "stealing"? Wouldn't it be trivialy easy for NYT to remove the archived stories if they really didn't want anyone on the internet to access them?
Roche is relying on artificial IP laws. Laws which are meaningless in reality, only usefull in the context they are in. In the same way that US currency is worthless without the common agreements that it has an artificial value. Just as US currency is worthless when there is nothing to buy, the IP is worthless if the customer's can't afford to pay for it's use.
Are you trying to say that you believe it's OK to simply ignore any law that you don't agree with?
Yes.
I believe even criminals believe in the majority of the laws they are breaking, I mean do you really think a thief wants to have his own things stolen from him? On the other hand there are laws that were never created by the people, and do not benefit the people, there isn't much reason to follow them.
IP is more of a contractual agreement than a law. It's rather arbitrary and not really based on reality at all. If the citizens of Brazil never agreed to it, there isn't much reason for them to follow it.
This is they way things actually work. The world we live in is mostly created through artificial laws and regulations that have no real basis in reality. Intellectual property? Yeah, whatever. If the drug is so simple to recreate that the government of brazil can do so without assistance from the drug's owners, so be it. When did Brazil's citizens agree to go along with IP Laws?
The real issue is this: intel can't controll VIA, and the P4X266 chipset shows decent performance. This screws up intel's original plan: release i845 with SDR ram support, with poor performance. Later add DDR support, but artificially cripple the chipset so it still performs poorly. Then, say "we told you so, RAMBUS RAM is the only way to get good performance with the processors of the future, look we tried DDR and it still sucks, so you just have to pay the extra and use RDRAM".
As the story goes, when VIA purchased S3 they also acquired all the IP they need to legally produce chipsets for any intel CPU in the next so many years. Intel doesn't have much of a case.
Unfortunatly for Intel, VIA acquired all the IP it needs to produce a P4 chipset from it's purchase of S3. VIA isn't afraid of a lawsuit, and I doubt Intel will actually go through with a suit when VIA call's their bluff.
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Do you really think that gangs would quit useing guns if they were illegal? Oh yeah, look at drugs. Making marijuana illegal sure did a great job, it's pretty much completely gone from the streets, right?
An icon or shortcut is often used in multiple ways. You might want to delete it, rename it, copy it, or of course activate it. On the other and, it's a very rare case that you ever want to do anything except activate a hyperlink, the start menu, a button on MS Word, or a task on the task bar.
Thus the difference.
I don't have a 4800X4000 res screen.
I realize it's a bug, but damn it has been
affecting slashdot for MONTHS now. Fix it!
Mod me down, but don't mod me as offtopic.
It's not offtopic because it's affecting
this story.
Yes I have. Copying files from one drive to another over the PCI bus often transfers at 15-25MB per second, which works out to 120-200mb/sec. The CPU shows some usage and things are a little sluggish, but the OS is still totally usable, especially if it's on a 3rd drive that is not involved in the copying.
Besides, due to inefficiency in TCP/IP you can't really get the full 100mb/sec, it's mostly limited around 80mb/sec for the better NICs.
Intel would have you think otherwise. They rate their chips with max "typical" thermal output, while AMD rates chips with the true maximum thermal output. If you go to the effort to determine the real maximum thermal output, yes the fastest pentium 4 is hotter than the fastest Athlon XP.
Here is why they don't charge based on bandwidth: they would make less money. How much bandwidth do you think the "average" person uses? A little web browsing, a little email, *maybe* a total of 3MB/day, for around 90MB/month. Any reasonable system of paying for bandwidth would have to be in the ballpark of $10/GB or less (really far less would still be generous to the cable companies, a Commercial T1 line capable of 300GB/month is $400), and so the majority of users paying $40/month now would instead be paying $1/month. Ouch, there goes the profit.
Yes, it's an artificial distinction. I guess the manufacturers think a 10,000RPM IDE drive would cut into the SCSI sales.
It's not the size, it's reliability/speed. I would be fine with a 600MB drive if it was as fast as a modern drive, and reasonably reliable- but I don't expect much from 6 year old storage. For that reason I'll toss or give away pretty much any drive under 6GB these days.
When was the last time you saw a 10,000RPM IDE drive? As far as an *interface*, IDE is fine and the slight advantages of SCSI don't justify the cost. However, purely due to the drive manufacturers stuborness, you can not find anything faster than 7200RPM in an IDE drive. While the fastest IDE drives are *VERY* competitive with SCSI performance, SCSI still has the top drives. Nothing touches the Seagate X15-36LP, and the "cheap" ($200) maxtor 10k III is still faster than anything available in IDE.
*nix? You mean like Linix? Oh wait, thats wrong. I guess you mean BSDix. Opps, not an OS either. Clearly you mean Qnix. Oh, thats QNX, my bad.
Zerg actually have another *huge* strategy- early expansion. Since they can have a full base with just a hatchery, it's very easy for zerg to expand early and take over the best spots. This is often made even easier when your opponent is EXPECTING a rush, and turtles from the beginning. You let him sit tight in his little base, and than 10 minutes later drop 50 hydras and 100 zerglings in his base VIA overloard traqnsports. Or, on a wide open map, you attack with ultralisks and defilers to cast swarm, making the ultralisks immune to virtually every defense in common use.
In any case, there is much more to it than you think. The biggest flaw in starcraft is IMO battlenet- there is no way to filter out all the stupid custom maps, and all the idiotic "mucho money" games, and the players are mostly obessed with ratings, 90% of the time when I win the loser begs me to draw with him so he doesn't get a loss.
Hrm, it seems to me that monarchy, as an example, was a successfull form of government for much longer than a century.
Why? Because it's all about how much the compilers can be optimized for it. Even worse, compiliers highly optimized for SPEC often produce poor code for realworld applicatios. The fact is, very little software is optimized for SSE2 anyway. Especially consumer software, which for the most part is written to the least common denominator. Without the special optimizations, Pentium 4's just don't compete well with Athlons.
I bought a 20 GB 75GXP back in october of 2000, and later a pair of 45GB's for RAID1. They are all still working fine. I have a feeling that part of the problem is environment related- maybe the 75GXP doesn't handle heat or weak power supplies, or vibrations, or something. Otherwise, there isn't much explanation for some people having 3+ failures while folks like me have run multiple drives for months without issues.
How is useing an archive link instead of the usual link "stealing"? Wouldn't it be trivialy easy for NYT to remove the archived stories if they really didn't want anyone on the internet to access them?
Roche is relying on artificial IP laws. Laws which are meaningless in reality, only usefull in the context they are in. In the same way that US currency is worthless without the common agreements that it has an artificial value. Just as US currency is worthless when there is nothing to buy, the IP is worthless if the customer's can't afford to pay for it's use.
The transport of bags of ice is actually a service. "allowing" the use of IP is not.
Are you trying to say that you believe it's OK to simply ignore any law that you don't agree with?
Yes.
I believe even criminals believe in the majority of the laws they are breaking, I mean do you really think a thief wants to have his own things stolen from him? On the other hand there are laws that were never created by the people, and do not benefit the people, there isn't much reason to follow them.
Yeah thats just too bad, poor companies. Instead we will be getting all the advances from public money at univerisities. Ask me if I care.
IP is more of a contractual agreement than a law. It's rather arbitrary and not really based on reality at all. If the citizens of Brazil never agreed to it, there isn't much reason for them to follow it.
This is they way things actually work. The world we live in is mostly created through artificial laws and regulations that have no real basis in reality. Intellectual property? Yeah, whatever. If the drug is so simple to recreate that the government of brazil can do so without assistance from the drug's owners, so be it. When did Brazil's citizens agree to go along with IP Laws?
The real issue is this: intel can't controll VIA, and the P4X266 chipset shows decent performance. This screws up intel's original plan: release i845 with SDR ram support, with poor performance. Later add DDR support, but artificially cripple the chipset so it still performs poorly. Then, say "we told you so, RAMBUS RAM is the only way to get good performance with the processors of the future, look we tried DDR and it still sucks, so you just have to pay the extra and use RDRAM".
As the story goes, when VIA purchased S3 they also acquired all the IP they need to legally produce chipsets for any intel CPU in the next so many years. Intel doesn't have much of a case.
Unfortunatly for Intel, VIA acquired all the IP it needs to produce a P4 chipset from it's purchase of S3. VIA isn't afraid of a lawsuit, and I doubt Intel will actually go through with a suit when VIA call's their bluff.
I'll use an AMD chipset instead, and build a dual AthlonMP system.