Because AMD doesn't produce the motherboard chipsets as well as various other devices. I'd imagine Apple could buy the motherboard chipset and CPU from Intel at an enormous discount.
Yes, there is. Unless you use NUMA (where there are seperate banks of RAM), memory bandwidth is going to be more of a problem as you increase the number of cores. And yes, as you said, there's going to be more transistors, which will lead to more power consumption and heat dissipation.
There's another 'minor' issue that nobody else has mentioned yet. Regular Windows XP only supports up to 2 processors. This could cause some nasty issues between Microsoft and AMD.
I wonder if the makers of these pants determined the rate of absorption of teflon when wearing them, especially as they deteriorate. Somehow I doubt it.
Given how they would get their asses sued to bankrupcy and become infamous from even a few small incidents, I'd imagine they might just be a little bit curious about it.
I would say that depends on the protest. Some protesters organise a peaceful, dignified demonstration which is used to try and get their message across, and show a large number of people who are supporting them.
These asshats however, are making utter pricks of themselves, using (mostly hyped) fears about nanotechnology as a poor excuse to attract attention to themselves.
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Yes, completely. He's ranking the fact it's his 'Literary Work' right next to 'The GPL is the Code of Conduct for Free Software Distributors'. He obviously has a bit of an ego problem.
Call me a cynical bastard, but I think that it may partially be because that if you can get Linux for it, it makes piracy the only real use for modchips, which would make it easier to force people to stop selling them.
Yes, I totally agree. Linux/UNIX shells have been developed, tested and improved by hundreds (thousands?) of people who use them repeatedly every day over the course of more than 20 years. How the hell is MS going to make something superior in 3-5?
That totally depends on how much overall profit they make on hardware versus software. If they've been quietly working on their own version of WINE over those past 5 years, and it works well, they may very well pull it off.
It's down to Microsoft's good grace that it still exists at all.
From what I understand, Samba was created through reverse engineering, and the main reason MS hasn't sued is because basically, they can't - it's a product designed solely for interoperability, and any case would (hopefully) be thrown out.
I think we'll shortly see another article on slashdot about how students switched the faceplates between the original and the replacement. It looks ridiculously easy from the photo.
I would say it's more the other way round. For my purposes, and I assume many others, OS X really doesn't have any functionality that Linux doesn't apart from eye candy and ease of use. This may, however not be the case for people who require specific graphics software.
Linux will also run on just about any computer you can find, is completely free, and is improving at an impressive rate. Look at a Linux distro from 5 years ago, and look at one now. OS X isn't cheap and only runs on expensive hardware.
I doubt this is the result of a 5 year plan simply because Jobs loves Intel. That's just pure insanity.
The other possibility is that Apple have got seriously pissed off watching IBM spew out the 3-core G5 for the XBox 360, the Cell for the PS3, and leaving them with an aging 2.7GHz CPU.
I think the fact that Apple have switched to x86 at this point could very well mean that they've seen the Cell, and it's no where near as good as it's supposed to be.
Hmm.. interesting.. an AC fanboy post with a genuine question.
The fact that it'll be comiled for the x86 instruction set (if this isn't Intel making PPC chips) means that the answer to that is obviously, yes. However, Apple will try and make sure it won't run on cheap, generic Dell boxes. Either that or they're after MS, which will be an interesting face-off.
I think that if it won't work on generic hardware, it could be possible to run it in something like a modified VMWare or whatever. Should be interesting. If they think they can completely stop an x86 binary working on a normal x86 box, they could be horribly mistaken.
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Run Linux/Solaris/BSD.
The functionality exists in 'alternative' operating systems in order to not use Windows altogether, thanks to software like Firefox, OpenOffice, GAIM etc. not to mention that various games companies are starting to support Linux.
Don't worry about it anyway, it'll be a while before Windows actually requires DRM, because MS wants everybody to be able upgrade to their new OS.
This crap will be circumvented. There is a market for it.
In my experience, computer failure usually is a result of the motherboard or more frequently the hard disk, so it would be unlikely to be any use. I would imagine many of those computers fail as a result of hard disk failure.
However, reducing the FSB frequency may (possibly) make the motherboard more stable.
It will definitely make your system more stable. Unless you do something stupid with a refrigeration unit and/or very expensive water cooling, overclocking will make no percievable difference apart from a small increase in a synthetic benchmark.
If, however you underclock your FSB by just a small amount, it will make both your CPU and your memory more stable and dissipate less heat, and you won't notice any percievable performance difference. It will also mean that those components are substantially less likely to ever fuck up.
I would imagine that the MPAA (or whoever) would send you and/or your ISP a (probably automated) cease and desist letter asking you to remove the files. On failure to remove them, they'd download them themselves and verify them before persuing a court case.
Your smoke alarm also has radioactive materials in it. Doesn't make it dangerous. I doubt a nuclear battery would 'poison your entire neighborhood for decades' unless it was extremely large.
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Because AMD doesn't produce the motherboard chipsets as well as various other devices. I'd imagine Apple could buy the motherboard chipset and CPU from Intel at an enormous discount.
Yes, there is. Unless you use NUMA (where there are seperate banks of RAM), memory bandwidth is going to be more of a problem as you increase the number of cores. And yes, as you said, there's going to be more transistors, which will lead to more power consumption and heat dissipation.
There's another 'minor' issue that nobody else has mentioned yet. Regular Windows XP only supports up to 2 processors. This could cause some nasty issues between Microsoft and AMD.
I wonder if the makers of these pants determined the rate of absorption of teflon when wearing them, especially as they deteriorate. Somehow I doubt it.
Given how they would get their asses sued to bankrupcy and become infamous from even a few small incidents, I'd imagine they might just be a little bit curious about it.
I would say that depends on the protest. Some protesters organise a peaceful, dignified demonstration which is used to try and get their message across, and show a large number of people who are supporting them.
These asshats however, are making utter pricks of themselves, using (mostly hyped) fears about nanotechnology as a poor excuse to attract attention to themselves.
Yes, completely. He's ranking the fact it's his 'Literary Work' right next to 'The GPL is the Code of Conduct for Free Software Distributors'. He obviously has a bit of an ego problem.
Call me a cynical bastard, but I think that it may partially be because that if you can get Linux for it, it makes piracy the only real use for modchips, which would make it easier to force people to stop selling them.
Yes, I totally agree. Linux/UNIX shells have been developed, tested and improved by hundreds (thousands?) of people who use them repeatedly every day over the course of more than 20 years. How the hell is MS going to make something superior in 3-5?
That totally depends on how much overall profit they make on hardware versus software. If they've been quietly working on their own version of WINE over those past 5 years, and it works well, they may very well pull it off.
I have absolutely nothing better to do tonight.
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It's down to Microsoft's good grace that it still exists at all.
From what I understand, Samba was created through reverse engineering, and the main reason MS hasn't sued is because basically, they can't - it's a product designed solely for interoperability, and any case would (hopefully) be thrown out.
Ermm.. nobody has agreed to it yet, it's just what MS proposed. Remember that there are companies like SUSE in Europe.
I think we'll shortly see another article on slashdot about how students switched the faceplates between the original and the replacement. It looks ridiculously easy from the photo.
I would say it's more the other way round. For my purposes, and I assume many others, OS X really doesn't have any functionality that Linux doesn't apart from eye candy and ease of use. This may, however not be the case for people who require specific graphics software.
Linux will also run on just about any computer you can find, is completely free, and is improving at an impressive rate. Look at a Linux distro from 5 years ago, and look at one now. OS X isn't cheap and only runs on expensive hardware.
I doubt this is the result of a 5 year plan simply because Jobs loves Intel. That's just pure insanity.
The other possibility is that Apple have got seriously pissed off watching IBM spew out the 3-core G5 for the XBox 360, the Cell for the PS3, and leaving them with an aging 2.7GHz CPU.
I think the fact that Apple have switched to x86 at this point could very well mean that they've seen the Cell, and it's no where near as good as it's supposed to be.
Hmm.. interesting.. an AC fanboy post with a genuine question.
The fact that it'll be comiled for the x86 instruction set (if this isn't Intel making PPC chips) means that the answer to that is obviously, yes. However, Apple will try and make sure it won't run on cheap, generic Dell boxes. Either that or they're after MS, which will be an interesting face-off.
I think that if it won't work on generic hardware, it could be possible to run it in something like a modified VMWare or whatever. Should be interesting. If they think they can completely stop an x86 binary working on a normal x86 box, they could be horribly mistaken.
Run Linux/Solaris/BSD.
The functionality exists in 'alternative' operating systems in order to not use Windows altogether, thanks to software like Firefox, OpenOffice, GAIM etc. not to mention that various games companies are starting to support Linux.
Don't worry about it anyway, it'll be a while before Windows actually requires DRM, because MS wants everybody to be able upgrade to their new OS.
This crap will be circumvented. There is a market for it.
In my experience, computer failure usually is a result of the motherboard or more frequently the hard disk, so it would be unlikely to be any use. I would imagine many of those computers fail as a result of hard disk failure.
However, reducing the FSB frequency may (possibly) make the motherboard more stable.
It will definitely make your system more stable. Unless you do something stupid with a refrigeration unit and/or very expensive water cooling, overclocking will make no percievable difference apart from a small increase in a synthetic benchmark.
If, however you underclock your FSB by just a small amount, it will make both your CPU and your memory more stable and dissipate less heat, and you won't notice any percievable performance difference. It will also mean that those components are substantially less likely to ever fuck up.
I would imagine that the MPAA (or whoever) would send you and/or your ISP a (probably automated) cease and desist letter asking you to remove the files. On failure to remove them, they'd download them themselves and verify them before persuing a court case.
IANAL though.
Notice how Microsoft doesn't brag about performance any more?
What about those dubious benchmark adverts? They're even shown on slashdot.
Interesting stats. I wonder how microsoft.com is ahead of msn.com? Or for that matter, how is microsoft.com in 3rd place?
It appears that you simply have an xml file on your webserver, and you point google at it. Nothing special and certainly possible with IIS.
Remember that MS doesn't have a monopoly on web servers, so they can't be dicks about it like they can with everything else.
Your smoke alarm also has radioactive materials in it. Doesn't make it dangerous. I doubt a nuclear battery would 'poison your entire neighborhood for decades' unless it was extremely large.