The i840 is a dual channel Rambus setup -- it's marginally the fastest PC chipset in the world. You are partially right, though -- IIRC, Intel's deal with Rambus *does* allow them to make a server/high end workstation chipset using DDR, but they are apparently not allowed to use anything but Rambus in their midrange chipset products for another year.
Rambus is going to prove that its power with the P4, but it will be too little value, demonstrated way too late. It will disappear quickly, just like MCA and VESA Local Bus.
I think the biggest lesson learned from this yearlong memor issue is this: don't mess with price/performance ratios. --
Would you get a decent.sig already? I've only seen one other.sig that was worse than yours -- somebody was using "no matter where you go... there you are". If I ever meet that guy, I'm going to kick his ass. --
I couldn't agree more. The government has NO BUSINESS in making AOL open their IM. The government has NO BUSINESS breaking up Microsoft. The government has NO BUSINESS trying to bankrupt big tobacco. If we ever want to stop these travesties of justice, big business is going to need MORE CONTROL of our government.
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and you'd have what - hardware that runs far hotter
I don't think heat dissipation is a big concern for someone building a serious cluster unless the only housing they have for it is an igloo.
gives you less performance even though it's labeled higher
The G4 may be more efficient with its MHz, but x86 has more of them to compensate. Without Altivec, the G4 is just another CPU.
Any particular reason you'd prefer them, besides the rote repeat of marketing buzzwords...?
Your deceptive presentation of the G4's performance leads me to believe you are a (victim of a?) marketroid yourself. Furthermore, your past comments lead me to believe you are in bed with Steve Jobs. --
Wireless Internet is going to be big in places where it is physically possible to do so at a better rate than what the telephone and cable companies can or are willing to charge. The UK in general is crippled by BT. Rural areas in the United States have unreliable voice service on their phone lines, much lessdata, and cable doesn't exist. I have a friend who works for a wireless Internet company in Duluth, Minnesota (not a HUGE city) that is successful for those very reasons: Superior Broadband, Inc. --
Those new cubes are proof enough that you can cram lots of PowerPC hardware into a really tiny space (without lots of fans, either). Furthermore, Altivec should make the G4 absolutely CRUSH any G3 in mathematical computation, even the ones with a meg of cache.
Of course, if I was building a cluster of anyhing, I'd want to use Athlon or Alpha -- EV6 r0x0rz... --
No, (s)he's actually talking about Nader. The left has as many thought police as the right, and FWIW, they can both go to Hades. I'd consider myself a liberal if it didn't put me in such bad company. --
Take a second look at my nick... I know what a troll is, and you don't pass muster. IMO, hate is off limits for troll fodder. Go to your room and think about what you've done. --
I just enjoy pointing out little facts that people would rather not talk about.
I'm neutral on the 2nd amendment. I'd rather not talk about it because I really don't care.
OTOH, I think plenty of people would like to talk about the fact that you're a bigot. It would be wrong to call you a racist because I don't recall you ever making comment of that nature, but I would not be wrong to call you a bigot.
You preach that whites are a superior race, which proves that you, as an individual, are an idiot. In that, I'm not saying you can't hate people because of their race. I know it's strange and foreign stuff, and if you touched or talked to one of them, you might get cooties. What I am saying is that you are wrong in believing that the white race is superior. It is a morally and socially wrong belief, not to mention that it flies in the face of fact. Buy yourself a damn clue (the only way you get sex, too), then get a fucking life. --
You make pine sound like it's some kind of chore! It's simple, configurable, and fast, even on 14.4 dialup connections -- how can you complain about that?
In any case, are you saying that Campus Pipeline is responsible for the @appstate.edu email? Ooh, bad -- if I were in the school's administration, I would NEVER let that happen. --
OMFG -- will you people just give up on lynx already?
If you don't have the bandwidth, get a new modem. I've had 256k or better access at work and at home for the past three years, with the exception of the time when I moved and the telco wouldn't install DSL for a month or so. I had to borrow a friend's cheap ass 56k WinModem, and it wasn't that painful. Surf with images turned off if you really don't need them.
If you don't have the horsepower to run a piece of software, get a new computer. Barebones K6-2's are out there for $100.
If you don't have the RAM, may I remind you that you can squeeze by with just 16 MB, and even if that is unbearable, invest another $20 to double that amount! If you can't expand, see above.
Altruism is not an excuse anymore. Mozilla is GPL -- download it, build it, and run it. See pages in the form HTML intended!
Nobody is impressed with your 1337 h4x0r ski11z. Lynx doesn't offer anything close to the functionality of lesser GUI browsers. It's one step short of WGET. Using lynx on today's web looks as smart as riding a banana seat Schwinn up a switchback mountain bike trail.
You don't have to have a pitiful system. You're a technogeek, aren't you? I'm sure you can afford it. I have a friend whose company is throwing out Pentium 75 systems as we speak.
On the information superhighway, just like any other highway, you either keep up with traffic or get the fuck off. --
There's still a big difference between announcing and shipping. The Mini-jam has been annonunced for almost a year, and I should know because I've been waiting all that time for them to ship it. --
3dfx wants to sell their manufacturing end, and they have a next generation chip coming soon, so one of these suspicions is correct:
3dfx can't make the V5 6000's in quantity, and is looking to have others make them instead.
3dfx CAN make the V5 6000 in quantity, but by the time they make it to the shelves, they will be collecting dust because they will be replaced by faster, cheaper, less cumbersome tech.
That's already implemented. Sophisticated, new color copiers have some kind of currency detection functionality -- if they didn't, counterfeit money would be a breeze to make!
Don't get me wrong, I still want the ability to timeshift or permanently archive the things I see on television... --
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When I saw the title Ash: A Secret History, I thought this would be about Ash Ketcham (Satoshi) of Pokémon fame and some of the interesting mishaps that did not make it into American OR Japanese television.
I, too, was disappointed. I was hoping for anime of the Saturday morning variety, not Princess Mononoke. --
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You're wrong. "AO" is an IMPOSTOR -- both of them are trolls.
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You should fix the link in your .sig. Instead of being http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=rejected, it should be /comments.pl?sid=rejected&commentsort=1 -- that way, you ensure that that the newest comments show up first, regardless of the user's default comment sorting preference.
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The i840 is a dual channel Rambus setup -- it's marginally the fastest PC chipset in the world. You are partially right, though -- IIRC, Intel's deal with Rambus *does* allow them to make a server/high end workstation chipset using DDR, but they are apparently not allowed to use anything but Rambus in their midrange chipset products for another year.
Rambus is going to prove that its power with the P4, but it will be too little value, demonstrated way too late. It will disappear quickly, just like MCA and VESA Local Bus.
I think the biggest lesson learned from this yearlong memor issue is this: don't mess with price/performance ratios.
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Would you get a decent .sig already? I've only seen one other .sig that was worse than yours -- somebody was using "no matter where you go... there you are". If I ever meet that guy, I'm going to kick his ass.
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Some of us are stuck with 1MB ISA Trident video, buddy -- not all of us can afford those fancy Voodoo Rush cards... ;-)
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I couldn't agree more. The government has NO BUSINESS in making AOL open their IM. The government has NO BUSINESS breaking up Microsoft. The government has NO BUSINESS trying to bankrupt big tobacco. If we ever want to stop these travesties of justice, big business is going to need MORE CONTROL of our government.
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I don't think heat dissipation is a big concern for someone building a serious cluster unless the only housing they have for it is an igloo.
gives you less performance even though it's labeled higher
The G4 may be more efficient with its MHz, but x86 has more of them to compensate. Without Altivec, the G4 is just another CPU.
Any particular reason you'd prefer them, besides the rote repeat of marketing buzzwords...?
Your deceptive presentation of the G4's performance leads me to believe you are a (victim of a?) marketroid yourself. Furthermore, your past comments lead me to believe you are in bed with Steve Jobs.
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Wireless Internet is going to be big in places where it is physically possible to do so at a better rate than what the telephone and cable companies can or are willing to charge. The UK in general is crippled by BT. Rural areas in the United States have unreliable voice service on their phone lines, much lessdata, and cable doesn't exist. I have a friend who works for a wireless Internet company in Duluth, Minnesota (not a HUGE city) that is successful for those very reasons:
Superior Broadband, Inc.
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Those new cubes are proof enough that you can cram lots of PowerPC hardware into a really tiny space (without lots of fans, either). Furthermore, Altivec should make the G4 absolutely CRUSH any G3 in mathematical computation, even the ones with a meg of cache.
Of course, if I was building a cluster of anyhing, I'd want to use Athlon or Alpha -- EV6 r0x0rz...
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You obviously missed the joke -- I was implying that an efficiently (read: privately) run prison camp wouldn't be effective.
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Well, if there's one thing that private enterprise probably couldn't do as well as the government, it would be a prison camp, wouldn't it? ;-)
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No, (s)he's actually talking about Nader. The left has as many thought police as the right, and FWIW, they can both go to Hades. I'd consider myself a liberal if it didn't put me in such bad company.
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Take a second look at my nick... I know what a troll is, and you don't pass muster. IMO, hate is off limits for troll fodder. Go to your room and think about what you've done.
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I'm neutral on the 2nd amendment. I'd rather not talk about it because I really don't care.
OTOH, I think plenty of people would like to talk about the fact that you're a bigot. It would be wrong to call you a racist because I don't recall you ever making comment of that nature, but I would not be wrong to call you a bigot.
You preach that whites are a superior race, which proves that you, as an individual, are an idiot. In that, I'm not saying you can't hate people because of their race. I know it's strange and foreign stuff, and if you touched or talked to one of them, you might get cooties. What I am saying is that you are wrong in believing that the white race is superior. It is a morally and socially wrong belief, not to mention that it flies in the face of fact. Buy yourself a damn clue (the only way you get sex, too), then get a fucking life.
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In any case, are you saying that Campus Pipeline is responsible for the @appstate.edu email? Ooh, bad -- if I were in the school's administration, I would NEVER let that happen.
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Sadly, yes. Your comment's score may presently be +3, but the loyalist moderators will come gangbang you back into oblivion.
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How is LNUX doing these days???
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wget $URL > $FILENAME && $VISUAL $FILENAME
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I remember being picked on in middle school, too. Why do you think I write so much about Columbine, and why do you think Rob likes it so much?
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OMFG -- will you people just give up on lynx already?
If you don't have the bandwidth, get a new modem. I've had 256k or better access at work and at home for the past three years, with the exception of the time when I moved and the telco wouldn't install DSL for a month or so. I had to borrow a friend's cheap ass 56k WinModem, and it wasn't that painful. Surf with images turned off if you really don't need them.
If you don't have the horsepower to run a piece of software, get a new computer. Barebones K6-2's are out there for $100.
If you don't have the RAM, may I remind you that you can squeeze by with just 16 MB, and even if that is unbearable, invest another $20 to double that amount! If you can't expand, see above.
Altruism is not an excuse anymore. Mozilla is GPL -- download it, build it, and run it. See pages in the form HTML intended!
Nobody is impressed with your 1337 h4x0r ski11z. Lynx doesn't offer anything close to the functionality of lesser GUI browsers. It's one step short of WGET. Using lynx on today's web looks as smart as riding a banana seat Schwinn up a switchback mountain bike trail.
You don't have to have a pitiful system. You're a technogeek, aren't you? I'm sure you can afford it. I have a friend whose company is throwing out Pentium 75 systems as we speak.
On the information superhighway, just like any other highway, you either keep up with traffic or get the fuck off.
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There's still a big difference between announcing and shipping. The Mini-jam has been annonunced for almost a year, and I should know because I've been waiting all that time for them to ship it.
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Quit replying to "Jon Erikson" troll account.
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3dfx wants to sell their manufacturing end, and they have a next generation chip coming soon, so one of these suspicions is correct:
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That's already implemented. Sophisticated, new color copiers have some kind of currency detection functionality -- if they didn't, counterfeit money would be a breeze to make!
Don't get me wrong, I still want the ability to timeshift or permanently archive the things I see on television...
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I, too, was disappointed. I was hoping for anime of the Saturday morning variety, not Princess Mononoke.
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