Can someone refresh my memory? How fast is a 1.5ghz Apple processor when converted into Intel ghz?
How fast is an Intel processor running @ 1.5GHz compared to all other processors out there (including the various Intel offerings)? A 1.5GHz Itanium2 is really fast, I would speculate that a 1.5GHz PIII would be faster than a 1.5GHz PIV (if the PIII existed at that speed). A 1.5GHz PentiumM chip would be between a 1.5GHz Itanium2 chip and a 1.5GHz PIV. I did not even bring the Xscale or Celeron or MP models of Intel processors.
I'm typing this on a 1.25GHz powerbook, and I have no processor issues. Memory, now thats a different story, OSX is a memory hog, and 512megs is not enough for me.
I would not do any serious CPU intensive work on a 1.5GHz G4 processor though. By this I mean video editing, possibly high DPI image processing might be a little slow as well. Especially on a powerbook, it might melt.
To answer your question, its fast enough for basic usage. No issues for everyday use. I would go for more horsepower with a G5 if I were to do any serious processing of data.
If you don't film the movie with a camcorder, you will not be dragged off to prison from the theatre.
Does anyone honestely believe that this is a privacy issue?
Yes, its clearly a violation of one's privacy to be in a public place, commit a crime (or even just break the rules of the public place like smoke, drink, etc), and get punished for it.
I'd like to see Paul Terry say this in front of everybody at the Super Computing conference where they announce the Top 500 Computers. Its worth noting that he is not bashing Linux per se, but "Linux Clusters", which is pretty arbitrary, because he should be saying "all clusters", because the OS really doesn't have too much to do with it. Supercomputing apps run in userspace, not kernel space, and the hardware, including interconnects or some kind of interprocessor communication drive the performance.
The Cray XD1 looks like a nice system, but there are only theoretical performance values given, and noone can go out and buy one of these things yet. I also don't know how much these guys cost.
I love this statement:
Linux clusters do have a place. "For applications that require low performance, they are a cheaper solution," said Terry.
Yeah, when we spend a million+ dollars on a supercomputer, we are thinking of low performance, because our applications require it. Thanks.
I'm guessing this guy is a wannabe marketer who got stuck in a CTO position. There are plenty of HPC vendors out there, and trust me if this XD1 has a good price/performance and they work (this is key), then people will buy them with little questions asked. Otherwise, this whole article is just an advertisement that makes many statements without any evidence that the XD1 is any better than 4 Xboxes connected together over a serial connection. Next....
The only thing I can't understand is why iTunes and QuickTime seem so inferior on Windows.
I don't use Office, but I've heard that its inferior on Windows as well. Hmm.
Despite the unfortunate price/performance ratio of their hardware.
Who needs performance? Any new computer can do 99% of what 99% of people need to do. Although I have plenty of gripes with OSX, I'll say that its hands down the nicest OS I've ever used. I'm a UNIX admin, I've been a Windows developer, I thought MacOS 7-9 was about the worst that there was. OSX has only crashed on me because of a bug in the wireless driver that has been fixed (that sucked). Sometimes I find window management a pain, but I always have that issue. I would give my 1st born son if the clipboard worked between X and the OS. That would about triple the available software to me.
Back on topic, I'm new to OSX and I've been looking at buying a development book (any suggestions?). I don't know the difference between carbon, cocoa, or whatever. I havn't really had the time to look into it yet. But I'm looking forward to developing some GUI apps for OSX. Again, I havn't done it but if its as easy as creating windows apps, then I'm all there.
One thing I would really like to do is write a better download manager for Safari. The one that comes with it is OK, but it has many limitations. I really like the look and feel of OSX. Very clean and professional looking. I love the little sidebar tablike things that come out from the sides of windows.
I see OSX going places. It attracts many more people than previous MacOSes. I do think that there would be much more development on the platform if X was more transparent.
So, my question to you is.......why would you want to drink 100 cups of coffee in a day?
Dunno. I also don't know why the poster didn't do a search for ld50 and caffeine (LD50 is the dosage of a substance that kills 50% of the subjects). Because the 1st link says that LDLO (lowest published lethal dose) for a human is 192 mg kg-1.
FWIW, I'm a reformed coffee drinker. I still drink about 16oz a day, but I used to drink coffee while I was awake. After 10 or so years of that it started to get to me.
I've done it and its not really worth it. I was drawn to it because it appears to be legal, there were whole albums, and I could pick my encoding. Well, I found that its not significantly different than going the "file sharing" route. I have a number of incomplete tracks (missing a few seconds, they are not incomplete downloads), I got some mislabled tracks, it was (relatively) difficult to download tracks. To download tracks, I got a mail confirming the encoding was complete. I wrote a perl script to parse these mails, and retrieve them with 5 concurrent wgets at a time. Their webserver limits donloads to 5 concurrent downloads at a time. I've also found the system to be really busy and it says to come back later.
Also, I felt really sketchy giving my credit card to a russian, questionably legal, site. And when I hit the "Yes" button to commit my order, my browser (Safari) said that it was about to give insecure data over the line, and asked me if I wanted to continue. I clicked NO, and tried it again with IE just to make sure it was not Safari being anal or somehing. Well, IE did the same thing. The funny part, is that I got billed both times? Aparently, the secure page redirected to an insecure or something, but my order went through (twice).
If the quality was better, I would continue the service. I think the price I paid for what I got is fine by me.
He was obsessed with the idea that megahertz=performance
Is a couple of months of having "the fastest PC made" really worth obsessing about? (Hint: there will always be a faster one coming out)
I would like to see PCs that are upgradeable. How hard is it to make a MB that is "overspeced" so that you can stick the fastest processor and ram in it for a couple of years?
Does it disturb anyone how much effort is put into building robots designed for distruction?
Completely offtopic and UScentric, but isn't most of our existance designed for distruction? Take out destruction and there wouldn't be much "news" on the news channels or local news. Its one of the top issues regarding the election. A movie/TV show isn't really entertaining unless something blows up or at least someone gets killed. Take out violence in video games and see whats left.
To answer you question. No, it doesn't disturb me. It gives people something to do.
I can't be the only one who has noticed that major product version numbers are a) inflated, and b) the same (+- 1) as the competetors. For example, this is Suse 9.1, Mandrake has some 9.x stuff and even a 10.0, RedHat had a version 9. RedHat even stripped the.X like Solaris, which is at version 9 and a 10 is coming. Slackware is hovering around 9.1 as well. Of course more pure distros like Debian does not participate. Nor do the current owners of all things UNIX. Hell, even Apple's OS is in the 9/10 range.
This happened when there was competition with word processors (Word vs. WordPerfect), also this happened when there was competition with Web Browsers (Netscape vs IE). etc. Microsoft has surpassed the whole version number thing by appending 2 random letters at the end of their products, so I guess that is next for everyone else to do.
Port 80 != web traffic. If the network admins are any good they look at packet signatures not port numbers, otherwise any user with any computer skills will put all of their wanted services on port 80, 443, etc.
In actuality, women IMHO don't mind not knowing something and asking to be informed where as a man wouldn't be caught dead not knowing what the hell he is talking about..
True. But also look at the differences between men and womens shopping habits. I've heard it explained as if we are sill cave people. Men are hunters, women are gatherers. Look how women shop, they go hang out, get some food, try on clothes for hours, ask questions, and sometimes they buy something. All of this with usually just a general idea of what they want to buy. Men, on the other hand, get all the info upfront, compare stuff, maybe ask a salesman some informed questions, and then blam! They buy the thing like its a weakened animal!
The more I learn about human behaviour, the more I am dissapointed in our evolution.
Oh, Apple's simple one mouse butten eh? OK, under X to copy and paste text I have to double click with the left mouse button on what I want to copy, then smash the middle button to paste. Under OSX's terminal app, I have to move my mouse button carefully over the text (why can't I configure the "cutchars" like in X????), smash command-c on the keyboard, then smash command-v on the keyboard. Or Shift-command-v to paste the selection. Try doing the latter 3 times fast. Try smashing the middle (or any mouse button) 3 times fast.
On OSX, it takes the keyboard (control button) AND the mouse to simulate the common right click on other UNIXes and windows.
Personally, I like the "complicated" way of using 3 mouse buttons, thank you very much.
Seperating audiophiles and thier money is like shooting fish in a barrel. I think there is a lot of placebo effect in high end audio. You just paid 800 bucks for a few meters of cable...
In defense of audiophiles (I'm a recovering audiophile:), I would believe that 800 bucks for a cable is an exaggation, but there are many audiophiles that when they put together a system, they do it by percentages of what they are willing to spend. Typically, its 50% of the budget for speakers, 40% on electronics (amps, cdplayers, etc), and 10% on interconnects and cables. 10% is not an excessive amount for a large purchase, and it would be stupid to spend 5, 10, or 20 grand on an audio system and be too cheap to spend a couple extra dollars for better cables. With the above percentage of 10% on cables and the above budgets this would be $500, $1,000, and $2,000 for cables.
I've done it, and it sucks and I've sold the CDs since then. I think this is a great way to market a product that we have been asking for at least a 5 years now.
I don't know about you, but many times I see the comercials on TV for greatest hits of some decade, or some other theme, I like a good many of them. One hit wonders are sometimes cool. But definetly not worth the price of a whole CD just to get one song. Especially since it may not be that great piece of music, but it remeinds you of a good time. Kinda like a photograph. And after 5 or 10 years, how much is a CD with 1 good hit. Obviosly, its 0. However, people are willing to get random to lower quality, often incomplete, mislabled, not associated with a particluar album or year, etc. download of a mp3. And the time that is spent doing this is phenominal. If you took the value of the person's time vs thier wages/hour, I would bet that they are "losing" money when compared to just going to a store and buying the music.
Anyway, the deal is that there is a market for something besides the full length CD. Singles have not been a viable commodity for at least 25 years. Digital downloads of 1 of a kinds or 1 hit wonders or anything besides thowing a bunch of money into a full length CD for one song, and then have to worry about integrating that one song from one CD of many CDs into something like a playlist, or something besides getting that CD from the shelf, open the player (often times interupting the current media playing), play that one song for 3 minutes or so, and then repeat the process. Do we do this with TV? No, we just flip around through the chanels until we find something that is OK to watch. And we are willing to pay at least 40$ a month for this, which is probably much less than the money spent on CDs a month. What is the thing that is selling to people today? Constant new good material. Look at the porn market. Look at TV. Is radio like that for you? Is shufling through a rack of CDs near as easy as the previous?
No, you can't. But for years we have with the Hz rating which is not relavant anymore. The article clearly states that Intel was having trouble with the Pentium M chip because although its a good performing processor in terms of power usage and in speed the Hz rating is lower.
The good news: I think we're going to see '5000+' processors before the end of the year now.
The bad news: They will run like 4 GHz models.
A 4GHz Itanium, Pentium M, Alpha, UltraSPARC, or any other of the lower clock speed processors would be much beyond a 5000+ Pentium rating. The article said that the Pentium M, which is a great processor, is having trouble in the marketplace because people are used to the Hz rating. This will become more of an issue with multiprocessor systems and multicore processors or even with technologies like hyperthreading.
This has been done for years with cars. There are horsepower measurements displayed on car ads all the time. Of course there are many other performance measures like 0-60 times, torque, braking, etc. But those are usually only reported in enthusiest magazines (read: car geek stuff, like we are computer geeks).
I think this is going to be welcome by average consumers, but us geeks are still going to read Tom's Hardware and other media that are full of benchmarks and other performance measures.
This is getting so ridiculous. So the FBI is going to read all of the traffic on the internet. Fine go ahead, but all of us terrorists are just going to do things like use snail mail, fedex, person to person communication, encryption, coded public conversations. Go ahead, keep pissing us off and pull tricks like in waco and see how a few of us will react.
It seems like the govn't loves these "high tech" solutions, but the "low tech" ones are ignored. Just like selectively fingerprinting ppl at airports, when the same government is trying to make illegal aliens that walked or swam into this country legal.
I say go ahead FBI, do what you want, but be prepared for a backlash by the people.
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I propose saying how free linux is and that that is what makes the big difference at the end of the day in how it is good as a system and in how it is good as a community.
No one cares how "free" Linux is aside from people like us. Windows is free to normal people because it comes with the computer. But I do tell people how bad Windows is. Its probably the 2nd worse OS I've used, next to DOS (if you can count that as an OS). And I'm not picking those because they are from the same company, I'm saying it in terms of reliability and usability (I know many will disagree with me here). People know I'm a computer person, and they come to me with Windows problems, and I tell them that they are Windows problems, and that is why I don't use it, nor know too much about it anymore. I don't tell them to run Linux either. I would never do that. I recommend for "normal" people to buy a Mac. Unfortunately, they are expensive.
I'm not flame bating here, but what does Gnome have to do with Linux aside from the fact that its one of many programs that can run on Linux? From the Gnome about page, it mentions Linux twice with "or UNIX" right beside it.
The same would go for KDE (I have KDE running on a few students' Sun workstations).
What I think is impressive is that Linux is supported by many big vendors now like HP, IBM, Dell, SUN (wtf?), etc. I'm impressed that there are many nongeek household items that come with Linux powering them like the Tivo, Linksys wireless routers, wall mounted digital picture frames, etc. I think its impressive that the thing that I played with in my dorm room and in the physics labs at school now is my career. I'm impressed with the number of archetectures that it runs on. Currently, its alpha arm arm26 cris h8300 i386 ia64 m68k m68knommu mips parisc ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc sparc64 um v850 x86_64. I'm impressed that when I went to the SuperComputing 2003 conference that Linux was pretty much _the_ OS to run clusters. I really think that Linux is a Good Thing(tm). It just happened, it works, and its not going anywhere.
The US has the highest population growth of all of the 1st world nations. The lower paying jobs are being taken from Americans by immigrants and illegals (which aren't really illegal anymore thanks to Bush). The middle paying jobs are getting farmed out overseas. The difference between the earnings of the CEO's and the workers keeps getting larger. These are not good signs.
The changes in the US economy are making it look more like a 3rd world nation's, where there is no middle class, there are the few filthy rich at the top, and most everyone else is grobbling for work. I'm not a bible thumper by any means, but the saying "The love of money is the root of all evil" is true, and we are witnessing it.
I've been in favor of it since I first started hearing about this phenominon. We have had tarifs on imported goods since day one, but not a tarif on jobs.
That is something I've been asking for a while. The only relatively pure TLD is.edu, the rest of the TLDs mean absolutely nothing..com can mean anything. I especially get pissed when I search for something to buy, see that its from a.com domain, and its a british site. I don't have anything against the brits, its just that the currency is different from mine and I would imagine that international transatlantic shipping for a $10 doodad is a bit much. Slashdot has both slashdot.org and slashdot.com. It used to be that the.com didn't forward you.org, but that appears to have changed.
I think that DNS names should be sold by NAME.anything and they are forced to pick one TLD from the list, and then entering the TLD would be optional.
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Can someone refresh my memory? How fast is a 1.5ghz Apple processor when converted into Intel ghz?
How fast is an Intel processor running @ 1.5GHz compared to all other processors out there (including the various Intel offerings)? A 1.5GHz Itanium2 is really fast, I would speculate that a 1.5GHz PIII would be faster than a 1.5GHz PIV (if the PIII existed at that speed). A 1.5GHz PentiumM chip would be between a 1.5GHz Itanium2 chip and a 1.5GHz PIV. I did not even bring the Xscale or Celeron or MP models of Intel processors.
I'm typing this on a 1.25GHz powerbook, and I have no processor issues. Memory, now thats a different story, OSX is a memory hog, and 512megs is not enough for me.
I would not do any serious CPU intensive work on a 1.5GHz G4 processor though. By this I mean video editing, possibly high DPI image processing might be a little slow as well. Especially on a powerbook, it might melt.
To answer your question, its fast enough for basic usage. No issues for everyday use. I would go for more horsepower with a G5 if I were to do any serious processing of data.
If you don't film the movie with a camcorder, you will not be dragged off to prison from the theatre.
Does anyone honestely believe that this is a privacy issue?
Yes, its clearly a violation of one's privacy to be in a public place, commit a crime (or even just break the rules of the public place like smoke, drink, etc), and get punished for it.
The lesson is clear: stay out of movie theaters and you won't get arrested.
I would bet that the number of people arrested each year outside of movie theaters is much greater than the number arrested inside of them. gheesh.
What about one of these?
I'd like to see Paul Terry say this in front of everybody at the Super Computing conference where they announce the Top 500 Computers. Its worth noting that he is not bashing Linux per se, but "Linux Clusters", which is pretty arbitrary, because he should be saying "all clusters", because the OS really doesn't have too much to do with it. Supercomputing apps run in userspace, not kernel space, and the hardware, including interconnects or some kind of interprocessor communication drive the performance.
The Cray XD1 looks like a nice system, but there are only theoretical performance values given, and noone can go out and buy one of these things yet. I also don't know how much these guys cost.
I love this statement:
Linux clusters do have a place. "For applications that require low performance, they are a cheaper solution," said Terry.
Yeah, when we spend a million+ dollars on a supercomputer, we are thinking of low performance, because our applications require it. Thanks.
I'm guessing this guy is a wannabe marketer who got stuck in a CTO position. There are plenty of HPC vendors out there, and trust me if this XD1 has a good price/performance and they work (this is key), then people will buy them with little questions asked. Otherwise, this whole article is just an advertisement that makes many statements without any evidence that the XD1 is any better than 4 Xboxes connected together over a serial connection. Next....
The only thing I can't understand is why iTunes and QuickTime seem so inferior on Windows.
I don't use Office, but I've heard that its inferior on Windows as well. Hmm.
Despite the unfortunate price/performance ratio of their hardware.
Who needs performance? Any new computer can do 99% of what 99% of people need to do. Although I have plenty of gripes with OSX, I'll say that its hands down the nicest OS I've ever used. I'm a UNIX admin, I've been a Windows developer, I thought MacOS 7-9 was about the worst that there was. OSX has only crashed on me because of a bug in the wireless driver that has been fixed (that sucked). Sometimes I find window management a pain, but I always have that issue. I would give my 1st born son if the clipboard worked between X and the OS. That would about triple the available software to me.
Back on topic, I'm new to OSX and I've been looking at buying a development book (any suggestions?). I don't know the difference between carbon, cocoa, or whatever. I havn't really had the time to look into it yet. But I'm looking forward to developing some GUI apps for OSX. Again, I havn't done it but if its as easy as creating windows apps, then I'm all there.
One thing I would really like to do is write a better download manager for Safari. The one that comes with it is OK, but it has many limitations. I really like the look and feel of OSX. Very clean and professional looking. I love the little sidebar tablike things that come out from the sides of windows.
I see OSX going places. It attracts many more people than previous MacOSes. I do think that there would be much more development on the platform if X was more transparent.
So, my question to you is.......why would you want to drink 100 cups of coffee in a day?
Dunno. I also don't know why the poster didn't do a search for ld50 and caffeine (LD50 is the dosage of a substance that kills 50% of the subjects). Because the 1st link says that LDLO (lowest published lethal dose) for a human is 192 mg kg-1.
FWIW, I'm a reformed coffee drinker. I still drink about 16oz a day, but I used to drink coffee while I was awake. After 10 or so years of that it started to get to me.
it is clever especially with regards to how it implemented colour
Many people in the TV production biz say that NTSC stands for Never The Same Color
I've done it and its not really worth it. I was drawn to it because it appears to be legal, there were whole albums, and I could pick my encoding. Well, I found that its not significantly different than going the "file sharing" route. I have a number of incomplete tracks (missing a few seconds, they are not incomplete downloads), I got some mislabled tracks, it was (relatively) difficult to download tracks. To download tracks, I got a mail confirming the encoding was complete. I wrote a perl script to parse these mails, and retrieve them with 5 concurrent wgets at a time. Their webserver limits donloads to 5 concurrent downloads at a time. I've also found the system to be really busy and it says to come back later.
Also, I felt really sketchy giving my credit card to a russian, questionably legal, site. And when I hit the "Yes" button to commit my order, my browser (Safari) said that it was about to give insecure data over the line, and asked me if I wanted to continue. I clicked NO, and tried it again with IE just to make sure it was not Safari being anal or somehing. Well, IE did the same thing. The funny part, is that I got billed both times? Aparently, the secure page redirected to an insecure or something, but my order went through (twice).
If the quality was better, I would continue the service. I think the price I paid for what I got is fine by me.
He was obsessed with the idea that megahertz=performance
Is a couple of months of having "the fastest PC made" really worth obsessing about? (Hint: there will always be a faster one coming out)
I would like to see PCs that are upgradeable. How hard is it to make a MB that is "overspeced" so that you can stick the fastest processor and ram in it for a couple of years?
Does it disturb anyone how much effort is put into building robots designed for distruction?
Completely offtopic and UScentric, but isn't most of our existance designed for distruction? Take out destruction and there wouldn't be much "news" on the news channels or local news. Its one of the top issues regarding the election. A movie/TV show isn't really entertaining unless something blows up or at least someone gets killed. Take out violence in video games and see whats left.
To answer you question. No, it doesn't disturb me. It gives people something to do.
I can't be the only one who has noticed that major product version numbers are a) inflated, and b) the same (+- 1) as the competetors. For example, this is Suse 9.1, Mandrake has some 9.x stuff and even a 10.0, RedHat had a version 9. RedHat even stripped the .X like Solaris, which is at version 9 and a 10 is coming. Slackware is hovering around 9.1 as well. Of course more pure distros like Debian does not participate. Nor do the current owners of all things UNIX. Hell, even Apple's OS is in the 9/10 range.
This happened when there was competition with word processors (Word vs. WordPerfect), also this happened when there was competition with Web Browsers (Netscape vs IE). etc. Microsoft has surpassed the whole version number thing by appending 2 random letters at the end of their products, so I guess that is next for everyone else to do.
Just an observation.
Port 80 != web traffic. If the network admins are any good they look at packet signatures not port numbers, otherwise any user with any computer skills will put all of their wanted services on port 80, 443, etc.
In actuality, women IMHO don't mind not knowing something and asking to be informed where as a man wouldn't be caught dead not knowing what the hell he is talking about..
True. But also look at the differences between men and womens shopping habits. I've heard it explained as if we are sill cave people. Men are hunters, women are gatherers. Look how women shop, they go hang out, get some food, try on clothes for hours, ask questions, and sometimes they buy something. All of this with usually just a general idea of what they want to buy. Men, on the other hand, get all the info upfront, compare stuff, maybe ask a salesman some informed questions, and then blam! They buy the thing like its a weakened animal!
The more I learn about human behaviour, the more I am dissapointed in our evolution.
Oh, Apple's simple one mouse butten eh? OK, under X to copy and paste text I have to double click with the left mouse button on what I want to copy, then smash the middle button to paste. Under OSX's terminal app, I have to move my mouse button carefully over the text (why can't I configure the "cutchars" like in X????), smash command-c on the keyboard, then smash command-v on the keyboard. Or Shift-command-v to paste the selection. Try doing the latter 3 times fast. Try smashing the middle (or any mouse button) 3 times fast.
On OSX, it takes the keyboard (control button) AND the mouse to simulate the common right click on other UNIXes and windows.
Personally, I like the "complicated" way of using 3 mouse buttons, thank you very much.
Seperating audiophiles and thier money is like shooting fish in a barrel. I think there is a lot of placebo effect in high end audio. You just paid 800 bucks for a few meters of cable...
:), I would believe that 800 bucks for a cable is an exaggation, but there are many audiophiles that when they put together a system, they do it by percentages of what they are willing to spend. Typically, its 50% of the budget for speakers, 40% on electronics (amps, cdplayers, etc), and 10% on interconnects and cables. 10% is not an excessive amount for a large purchase, and it would be stupid to spend 5, 10, or 20 grand on an audio system and be too cheap to spend a couple extra dollars for better cables. With the above percentage of 10% on cables and the above budgets this would be $500, $1,000, and $2,000 for cables.
In defense of audiophiles (I'm a recovering audiophile
And who would buy a CD with one song on it?
I've done it, and it sucks and I've sold the CDs since then. I think this is a great way to market a product that we have been asking for at least a 5 years now.
I don't know about you, but many times I see the comercials on TV for greatest hits of some decade, or some other theme, I like a good many of them. One hit wonders are sometimes cool. But definetly not worth the price of a whole CD just to get one song. Especially since it may not be that great piece of music, but it remeinds you of a good time. Kinda like a photograph. And after 5 or 10 years, how much is a CD with 1 good hit. Obviosly, its 0. However, people are willing to get random to lower quality, often incomplete, mislabled, not associated with a particluar album or year, etc. download of a mp3. And the time that is spent doing this is phenominal. If you took the value of the person's time vs thier wages/hour, I would bet that they are "losing" money when compared to just going to a store and buying the music.
Anyway, the deal is that there is a market for something besides the full length CD. Singles have not been a viable commodity for at least 25 years. Digital downloads of 1 of a kinds or 1 hit wonders or anything besides thowing a bunch of money into a full length CD for one song, and then have to worry about integrating that one song from one CD of many CDs into something like a playlist, or something besides getting that CD from the shelf, open the player (often times interupting the current media playing), play that one song for 3 minutes or so, and then repeat the process. Do we do this with TV? No, we just flip around through the chanels until we find something that is OK to watch. And we are willing to pay at least 40$ a month for this, which is probably much less than the money spent on CDs a month. What is the thing that is selling to people today? Constant new good material. Look at the porn market. Look at TV. Is radio like that for you? Is shufling through a rack of CDs near as easy as the previous?
I aplaud this. Its a creative solution.
No, you can't. But for years we have with the Hz rating which is not relavant anymore. The article clearly states that Intel was having trouble with the Pentium M chip because although its a good performing processor in terms of power usage and in speed the Hz rating is lower.
The good news: I think we're going to see '5000+' processors before the end of the year now.
The bad news: They will run like 4 GHz models.
A 4GHz Itanium, Pentium M, Alpha, UltraSPARC, or any other of the lower clock speed processors would be much beyond a 5000+ Pentium rating. The article said that the Pentium M, which is a great processor, is having trouble in the marketplace because people are used to the Hz rating. This will become more of an issue with multiprocessor systems and multicore processors or even with technologies like hyperthreading.
This has been done for years with cars. There are horsepower measurements displayed on car ads all the time. Of course there are many other performance measures like 0-60 times, torque, braking, etc. But those are usually only reported in enthusiest magazines (read: car geek stuff, like we are computer geeks).
I think this is going to be welcome by average consumers, but us geeks are still going to read Tom's Hardware and other media that are full of benchmarks and other performance measures.
This is getting so ridiculous. So the FBI is going to read all of the traffic on the internet. Fine go ahead, but all of us terrorists are just going to do things like use snail mail, fedex, person to person communication, encryption, coded public conversations. Go ahead, keep pissing us off and pull tricks like in waco and see how a few of us will react.
It seems like the govn't loves these "high tech" solutions, but the "low tech" ones are ignored. Just like selectively fingerprinting ppl at airports, when the same government is trying to make illegal aliens that walked or swam into this country legal.
I say go ahead FBI, do what you want, but be prepared for a backlash by the people.
I propose saying how free linux is and that that is what makes the big difference at the end of the day in how it is good as a system and in how it is good as a community.
No one cares how "free" Linux is aside from people like us. Windows is free to normal people because it comes with the computer. But I do tell people how bad Windows is. Its probably the 2nd worse OS I've used, next to DOS (if you can count that as an OS). And I'm not picking those because they are from the same company, I'm saying it in terms of reliability and usability (I know many will disagree with me here). People know I'm a computer person, and they come to me with Windows problems, and I tell them that they are Windows problems, and that is why I don't use it, nor know too much about it anymore. I don't tell them to run Linux either. I would never do that. I recommend for "normal" people to buy a Mac. Unfortunately, they are expensive.
I'm not flame bating here, but what does Gnome have to do with Linux aside from the fact that its one of many programs that can run on Linux? From the Gnome about page, it mentions Linux twice with "or UNIX" right beside it.
The same would go for KDE (I have KDE running on a few students' Sun workstations).
What I think is impressive is that Linux is supported by many big vendors now like HP, IBM, Dell, SUN (wtf?), etc. I'm impressed that there are many nongeek household items that come with Linux powering them like the Tivo, Linksys wireless routers, wall mounted digital picture frames, etc. I think its impressive that the thing that I played with in my dorm room and in the physics labs at school now is my career. I'm impressed with the number of archetectures that it runs on. Currently, its alpha arm arm26 cris h8300 i386 ia64 m68k m68knommu mips parisc ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc sparc64 um v850 x86_64. I'm impressed that when I went to the SuperComputing 2003 conference that Linux was pretty much _the_ OS to run clusters. I really think that Linux is a Good Thing(tm). It just happened, it works, and its not going anywhere.
The US has the highest population growth of all of the 1st world nations. The lower paying jobs are being taken from Americans by immigrants and illegals (which aren't really illegal anymore thanks to Bush). The middle paying jobs are getting farmed out overseas. The difference between the earnings of the CEO's and the workers keeps getting larger. These are not good signs.
The changes in the US economy are making it look more like a 3rd world nation's, where there is no middle class, there are the few filthy rich at the top, and most everyone else is grobbling for work. I'm not a bible thumper by any means, but the saying "The love of money is the root of all evil" is true, and we are witnessing it.
I've been in favor of it since I first started hearing about this phenominon. We have had tarifs on imported goods since day one, but not a tarif on jobs.
That is something I've been asking for a while. The only relatively pure TLD is .edu, the rest of the TLDs mean absolutely nothing. .com can mean anything. I especially get pissed when I search for something to buy, see that its from a .com domain, and its a british site. I don't have anything against the brits, its just that the currency is different from mine and I would imagine that international transatlantic shipping for a $10 doodad is a bit much. Slashdot has both slashdot.org and slashdot.com. It used to be that the .com didn't forward you .org, but that appears to have changed.
I think that DNS names should be sold by NAME.anything and they are forced to pick one TLD from the list, and then entering the TLD would be optional.