For all the techies out there, please tell me I wasnt the only one who picked up on the fact that it's an Athlon system being offered (yes I know it's a troll) but it's got RDRAM. I didnt even need to read more than the first sentence to figure that one out
As is my understanding of the video game rating system, companies do it voluntarily. I could see companies giving games the rating below M (I'm not sure what it is, T (teen) I think.) This would then allow them to market the games and continue their normal money making ways.
They are surprisingly simalar to Microsoft, except there is no equivalent Apple in the graphics field to provide a counterpoint.
The difference here between Nvidia and microsoft is that Nvidia isn't using monopolistic tactics, and there are viable competitors on the same platform. Nvidia just has better products, and noone else has a better card. Would you say that the Radeon isn't a good card with a nice bit of market share? If you go to any Gateway store (I was there earlier today) and want one of the flat panel monitors, which card do you end up with? Not the Nvidia product, but the 32mb Radeon.
Sorry, but it's really not fair to put them in the same category as Microsoft just because they have the best cards out there that people want.
The first thing that I thought of after reading this was that it would be the perfect addition to a car MP3 player. If you could somehow get a USB port near your cars mp3 head unit, you would have an incredibly easy to use sound system. 2 or 3 of these keys with 64 megs would work for almost any long distance drive. And when you get tired of the songs on there, it would only take a few minutes to erase them and put all new ones on.
Just a thought, I guess I'll start looking into that now:)
I saw that title and thought it was another of the extreme games (eXtreme paintbrawl, snowboarding, and the 30 other very horrible eXtreme games out there that the company whose name I forgot put out)
On the other hand, I think we should all chip in and send that company a copy of this book, if anyone needs it they do;)
Linus has said many times that he's not interested in the commercial parts of Linux, it's just a hobby for him. If AMD were to buy out Transmeta and try to force Linus to put pro-AMD code into the kernel, he'd likely quit Transmeta, or at least tell AMD to go screw themselves. Transmeta has nothing to do with Linux, aside from the fact that one of the people working there happens to ALSO work on Linux in his spare time.
"Serial ATA offers about twice as much bandwidth as the current Parallel ATA standard, known as ATA 100. Serial ATA's first incarnation, dubbed Ultra Serial ATA 1500, will offer a peak bandwidth or transfer rate of 1.5 gigabits per second.
"That basically equates to about 150MB of data per second," Ravencraft said. In comparison, Parallel ATA's ATA 100 offers a peak
transfer rate of 100MB per second."
Yeah CNET, glad to see that in the new math system, double 100mbps is 150, not 200. And to think, my whole life I've been lied to. Maybe thats why my boss laughed at me when I asked him for double my pay from 10/hour to 15/hour...
I am currently in a position to be able to use the P4, right next to high end P3's and Athlons, and I've spent the day putting it through real world use (games, MP4 encoding, mp3 encoding, and any other stuff that I could think of). It's been said already, but from someone who is not just running benchmarks, but actually using it like it would be used, there is a noticable difference between the P4 and the P3/Athlon. This does not bode well for the P4, since the motherboard is stocked like it is supposed to be with dual RDRAM chips, that monstrously large heat sink, and everything else in the specs. I'll repeat it again: in real world use, the P4 seems noticably slower than both the P3 and Athlon. This isn't just with the 1.4 gHz, it's with the 1.5 also.
Well, anyways, just thought I'd throw out my opinion, based on the real world use I would have put on the comp anyways. This just reinforces my thought that the P4 is gonna flop, and take a large chunk of Intel's marketshare with it. The only thing that's gonna save it is if Intel gets the speed up to 2gHz+ very soon, and even then I still have my doubts. My advice is that noone buy this version of the chip, since once the chip moves to the.13 micron process, the existing chips and MB's are gonna be completely worthless, since they are not gonna be forwards compatible.
Well, anyways, feel free to disagree with me. I don't claim to be some computer genious, I'm just someone with enough knowledge to use a computer and do some basic testing.
Actually it smacks of Rambus tactics, which Intel has recently been decrying. Pot meet kettle?
You're right, I don't know why I had said Microsoft... well, the fact that I'd been up for about 18 hours or so and it was 3:30 in the morning might have had something to do with it...
But you are correct, I had meant to say Rambus tactics
So let Intel patent their poor-performing functions for the IA-64. How many people will really care? personally I'm not giving it more than a casual thought. When I'm ready to move up to the 64 bit processors, I'm already banking on AMD's 64 bit solution, which is also incredibly fast with 32 bit processes.
This patenting of specific functions smacks of Microsoft tactics, but oh well. This might have worked back with the 16 and 32 bit processors, but since AMD is developing a completely different architecture, the big competition is still going to be there.
Using the infrared that they use (I think)I can program furbys to start yepping FP!!! as soon as more than one congregate somewhere. Of course, the first furby to say FP will begin mocking all the others for their non-l33tness until they are separated and donated to the furby autopsy project.
Of course... if I really wanted a laugh I would reprogram the furbys to let out different screams and moans while it was being cut up in the autopsy : )
For the most part, if someone has enough technical knowledge to get linux installed on their computer, get it on the network, get the applications on that they need to be productive in the workplace... AND know enough to be able to use it voluntarily, then what is the problem? You can be pretty sure that they aren't going to be calling you for software issues anywhere near as much as the majority of people that I've worked with... You know the type... the people who call MIS every time their computer crashes, the ones who go into the preferences menu's for all of their programs and start randomly pressing buttons, the ones who bring in virus infected disks from home because they want to give someone else some recipe or picture they got before.
Really though, this is just one more piece of software that people are bringing in from home because of a personal preference. In my last company we had people bring in copies of Corel Office suite because they were sick of Word crashing on them so much. We install Netscape on all of the computers we deploy so people can make a choice, and generally make it so that the employees can be the most productive.
Besides, at least Linux is free... How many rogue copies of Quake do you have running around in your company? Most places have at least one guy who has the quake cd sitting in their desk, to be passed around when new people come in or computers get moved around;)
AFAIK there's an option to install linux on a 32 bit partition. I might be mistaken, because I'm still new to anything *nix in general, but when I was installing on my comp theres an option to do it.
The only drawback that the installer talks about is a performance decrease due to translating from 32bit partition... but for someone who just wants to try linux this might be a very good option. I was using redhat 6.2 at the time, so maybe it's not on 6.1, but hey, it's worth a shot
Actually, I'm sure there's lots of people out there that are over 12 and like DBZ. I for one, as well as about 30 people that I actively watch the show with around school... Just wanted to throw a little support out there for a show that so many people on/. seem to knock.
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I thought that you had to do that now to keep the Pentium 4 from overheating?
How did this POSSIBLY get an informative moderation? I can see funny maybe, even though the whole joke is getting rather stagnant... but informative?
What are you moderators smoking tonight???
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The difference here between Nvidia and microsoft is that Nvidia isn't using monopolistic tactics, and there are viable competitors on the same platform. Nvidia just has better products, and noone else has a better card. Would you say that the Radeon isn't a good card with a nice bit of market share? If you go to any Gateway store (I was there earlier today) and want one of the flat panel monitors, which card do you end up with? Not the Nvidia product, but the 32mb Radeon.
Sorry, but it's really not fair to put them in the same category as Microsoft just because they have the best cards out there that people want.
Just a thought, I guess I'll start looking into that now :)
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On the other hand, I think we should all chip in and send that company a copy of this book, if anyone needs it they do ;)
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Transmeta + Linus != Linux.
Linus has said many times that he's not interested in the commercial parts of Linux, it's just a hobby for him. If AMD were to buy out Transmeta and try to force Linus to put pro-AMD code into the kernel, he'd likely quit Transmeta, or at least tell AMD to go screw themselves. Transmeta has nothing to do with Linux, aside from the fact that one of the people working there happens to ALSO work on Linux in his spare time.
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A petaflop computer, running linux...
IMAGINE A BEOWULF CLUSTER OF THESE!!!!!
Sorry everyone, it's late and I saw that number and almost dropped a load when I saw it. Let the flames begin ;)
"That basically equates to about 150MB of data per second," Ravencraft said. In comparison, Parallel ATA's ATA 100 offers a peak transfer rate of 100MB per second."
Yeah CNET, glad to see that in the new math system, double 100mbps is 150, not 200. And to think, my whole life I've been lied to. Maybe thats why my boss laughed at me when I asked him for double my pay from 10/hour to 15/hour...
Go figure...
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Well, anyways, just thought I'd throw out my opinion, based on the real world use I would have put on the comp anyways. This just reinforces my thought that the P4 is gonna flop, and take a large chunk of Intel's marketshare with it. The only thing that's gonna save it is if Intel gets the speed up to 2gHz+ very soon, and even then I still have my doubts. My advice is that noone buy this version of the chip, since once the chip moves to the .13 micron process, the existing chips and MB's are gonna be completely worthless, since they are not gonna be forwards compatible.
Well, anyways, feel free to disagree with me. I don't claim to be some computer genious, I'm just someone with enough knowledge to use a computer and do some basic testing.
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You're right, I don't know why I had said Microsoft... well, the fact that I'd been up for about 18 hours or so and it was 3:30 in the morning might have had something to do with it...
But you are correct, I had meant to say Rambus tactics
This patenting of specific functions smacks of Microsoft tactics, but oh well. This might have worked back with the 16 and 32 bit processors, but since AMD is developing a completely different architecture, the big competition is still going to be there.
Of course... if I really wanted a laugh I would reprogram the furbys to let out different screams and moans while it was being cut up in the autopsy : )
Really though, this is just one more piece of software that people are bringing in from home because of a personal preference. In my last company we had people bring in copies of Corel Office suite because they were sick of Word crashing on them so much. We install Netscape on all of the computers we deploy so people can make a choice, and generally make it so that the employees can be the most productive.
Besides, at least Linux is free... How many rogue copies of Quake do you have running around in your company? Most places have at least one guy who has the quake cd sitting in their desk, to be passed around when new people come in or computers get moved around ;)
That was the funniest thing I've read all night, I couldn't breathe there for a minute.
The only drawback that the installer talks about is a performance decrease due to translating from 32bit partition... but for someone who just wants to try linux this might be a very good option. I was using redhat 6.2 at the time, so maybe it's not on 6.1, but hey, it's worth a shot
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