A cop can't just stop me on the street and demand ID or a SSN (he can, but he can't arrest me for not producing it). That's the difference between a national ID and a driver's liscence.
"Suddenly a 2800+ is a 2083 MHz part instead of a 2250 MHz part?..because of 256K more L2?"
Yes. AMD's numbering system is based on equvilent performance to a Pentium 4. And yes, a 2800+ does perform quite similarly to a 2.8ghz P4. Extra cache does make a difference, and AMD decided to adjust their scale. Look at THG or Anandtech and compare the P4 2.8 and the XP 2800+; the XP comes out very favorably.
"Now Athlon 64 gets delayed...and they still think they can compete with Intel, who has a huge headstart in the 64-bit race. AMD's put all their eggs in one basket and it's looking more and more like IA-64 will win by a TKO."
IA-64 is a turkey. It's a great chip, but it's expensive ($2000+) and not much faster than P4 (especially in integer). It requires entirely different code (EPIC), and the IA-32 emulator is dog slow).
Opteron, on the other hand, is much less expensive than Itanium2, almost if not just as fast, and it runs existing 32-bit applications as fast as the fastest Athlon or Pentium 4.
Now, Opteron may never take off. But, neither will Itanium2.
"Where is that 2800+ anyway? I tried to get one at NewEgg and they didn't have any"
The XP2800+ was only produced in limited quantaties; it was designed to bridge the gap between TBred and Barton. Barton is the new Athlon XP and will debut at 3000+ within a couple of weeks.
"I'll be more enthusiastic when Palm gets its act together and uses all that newly found horsepower to make Grafitti far more accurate and less of a pain in the butt to use."
The're just liscencing CIC Jot. It's the same thing that's been used in Windows CE since the Palm-Sized PC. Palm users always used to comment on how Jot was less efficent (actually, I agree). Now it seems that, ironically, Pocket PC will be the only place with Grafitti (Block Recognizer) and Jot (Character Recognizer). Unless, of course, Palm includes "Grafitti Classic".
"like a tivo bigot" Buy a TiVo. You'll soon agree that TiVo is the ONLY real PVR, and that the $12.95/mo we pay to TiVo is well worth it.
"$15 a month" $12.95 for SA $5/Mo for DTiVo (free to TC Platinum subs)
"can live with tivo's offensive advertising" One menu item. That's it. It's not even annoying - it's not like banner ads or anything. Do you complain about the text ads on Google
"But for the rest of us" So the "rest of us" want something differnt? Right. So that's why TiVo is the #1 DVR out there (excluding DishPVR; Echostar gave out 500,000 of those for free so they could have the "#1" DVR)
"we want something that does what we want" TiVo does what I want. It records TV and it does a damn good job of it. It list my programs, manages conflicts, deletes shows when it has to, makes suggustions, lets me search TV, never crashes, never misses a recording, tells me exactly what will be recorded, and lets me skip ads with a 30 second skip or 60x autocorrecting fast forward.
"rather than something that does what tivo corporation wants" Uh...huh. I don't quite know what you're referring to. My TiVo does not steal from my bank account, and it does not record TiVo sponsored content instead of my programs. TiVo service has gone up for some subscribers (from $10/mo to $13/mo) and down for the rest ($10/mo to $5/mo).
TiVo gives 500,000 people what they want. Reliable, dependable, easy PVR service.
I am a TiVo bigot because TiVo works better than any other product on the market. TiVo is not a tapeless VCR. It is an advanced databased-backed television service. It can search descriptions. It can record any episode of a show even if the show changes times or dates. It can skip reruns. It can record two shows at once while playing back a third (DirecTV/TiVo only). It can prioritize my recordings. It manages space. It knows when every show will be recorded and when every show will be deleted and it will warn you if a show will be canceled or deleted early. To put it simply, it does a heck of a lot.
Absolutely. It also supports on-the-fly Dolby Digital 5.1 encoding.
It may not be as good as a SB Audigy, but it is perfectly fine for anyone but an audiophile. Audiophiles probably won't want a hot, noisy GPU in their system anyway.
I just looked up some info on the R350. It's Q2 2003 planned. Still.15 micron. DDR2 memory, probably higher clock, possibly with an extra TMU per pipeline.
Not very impressive.
GeForceFX is at the beginning of it's live. TSMC's.13 micron process will improve and NVidia will be able to scale it up.
Without a process change, the R300/R350 is nearing the end of it's life. It can only be clocked up so much.
"It would be unfeasible for nVidia to respond until the summer with the NV31/34, at which time ATI will announce the R400."
So ATI can release a new product in the next five months, then announce another new product three months later? ATI would be foolish to do so.
"FX show it to only be marginally faster than the Radeon 9700 Pro. Not to mention that it's 500MHz vs. 325MHz"
First: The GeForceFX is not a pixel pushing monster. NVidia has stated that. It is a part designed to be ready for all that DX9 can put out.
Second: Who cares? You're the kind of person who would claim that the P4 is inferior because a lower clocked Athlon can do the same work.
"The GeForce FX is in my opinion, not going to be what the world has expected from nVidia."
We expect faster GPUs every year. The GeForceFX is a faster GPU. Is it a Radeon 9700 killer? Not really. Today's games aren't really pushed by today's GPUs because the're designed for "Intel Integrated 3D graphics", or "NVidia GeForce4 MX 420" at best. UT2003 will run at insane framerates on both cards - and there won't be a lot of distance between them. Doom 3 will probably be a different story.
" the difference between "activating" OS X (press "install") and activating Windows XP is noticed"
Really?
Activation is the most hated feature of Windows XP.
I am constantly changing the hardware in my computer. Sometimes this causes Windows to deactivate.
It takes five minutes on the phone to fix the problem. The CSRs have always been polite and prompt and I have never been accused of anything.
Most people will never have any problems - it takes two seconds over the internet. Those who do have a problem can resolve it easily.
My point is this: activation is not a big deal. Most people don't care. Those who do are usually the same people who installed one copy of Windows on all of their PCs.
Gotta agree about the Smart Board. I have an AP Calc teacher with one and it's really helpful. He teaches Trig too and last year he had the unit circle on there - much better than an overhead because he could do work on the whiteboard and on the Smart Board without having to sit down at the overhead.
Don't build radically new when what you have already works fine.
We don't see radical new car designs every year. Instead, we see minor improvments on last year's model. Or they take a truck and add a van frame and call it an SUV. Or they shorten a van and call it a minivan.
Or they take an existing model and make it cost 15% less to operate.
15% is big. Really big. Less fuel = less cost = cheaper tickets. Would you fly on a "cooler" airbus for 30% more? Perhaps, but probably not. Few people fly first/business class.
Airbus is looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Look for HPCs that support this feature - while it was rare on PocketPCs, it was quite common on later HPCs. The Panasonic Toughbook 01 comes to mind. It's a bit steep at $1350 but it is ruggedized, compact, and it includes your choice of wireless modem (CDPD, Cingular, etc.). Also take a look at Internmec's products.
You programmed (for) it. It locks up. Now we're blaming the hardware. How does that make sense?
"What evidence did you provide to support the assertion that your products did not fail?"
None. I don't have the burden of proof, however. I don't go around telling people how reliable Samsung products are because I honestly don't know (my oldest product is only five years old). You made the claim that Samsung products are unreliable based on results from one DVD player - citing a problem that could be anything from (your) programming to scratched discs. I was simply stating that I had not experienced similar results and that your claim was based on virtually no data. To do a real comparison, one would need return/warranty/repair rates.
I have never had a Samsung product fail on me. I have two HDDs (they are one of the few companies with a 3 year warranty), two CRT monitors, an LCD, a 32" HDTV, and a DVD player. None have ever given me trouble.
To be fair, neither has my Sony reciever, Discman, or CD changer.
YMMV, but I have found Samsung products to be of excellent quality and durability.
Please do provide some evidence before bad-mouthing a manufacturer. At least say what products you have and what has happened to them - one vague reference to a DVD player is not exactly evidence (BTW: Samsung didn't even program your DVD player; )
TiVo already has a box like this. No, it doesn't have as many features. It's also $199.
DirecTV DVR powered by TiVo (basically a renamed Series II combo box) has a 200mhz MIPS processor, 32M of RAM, 2 tuners, hardware MPEG2 decoding, 40GB disk, USB 2.0, etc.
There is DRM in ONE AND ONLY ONE Windows XP App: Windows Media Player. The DRM is ONLY USED to play encryped content. You can TURN OFF DRM when ripping CDs.
Palladium NEVER WAS, and NEVER WILL BE a total DRM system. Palladium provides certification to software that it is running with a trusted operating system and not a data-grabbing fake. THAT'S IT. How developers use the new API is up to them.
Everyone hates Palladium. Frankly, I don't like the idea. But Palladium isn't that bad. You can still install your own OS, and Windows will still run on non-Palladium computers. The only thing that you will miss out on will be DRM in Windows Media Player - meaning no encryped content for Johnny.
Apple is also not stupid. If the time comes, they will implement DRM.
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A cop can't just stop me on the street and demand ID or a SSN (he can, but he can't arrest me for not producing it). That's the difference between a national ID and a driver's liscence.
"Suddenly a 2800+ is a 2083 MHz part instead of a 2250 MHz part?..because of 256K more L2?"
Yes. AMD's numbering system is based on equvilent performance to a Pentium 4. And yes, a 2800+ does perform quite similarly to a 2.8ghz P4. Extra cache does make a difference, and AMD decided to adjust their scale. Look at THG or Anandtech and compare the P4 2.8 and the XP 2800+; the XP comes out very favorably.
"Now Athlon 64 gets delayed...and they still think they can compete with Intel, who has a huge headstart in the 64-bit race. AMD's put all their eggs in one basket and it's looking more and more like IA-64 will win by a TKO."
IA-64 is a turkey. It's a great chip, but it's expensive ($2000+) and not much faster than P4 (especially in integer). It requires entirely different code (EPIC), and the IA-32 emulator is dog slow).
Opteron, on the other hand, is much less expensive than Itanium2, almost if not just as fast, and it runs existing 32-bit applications as fast as the fastest Athlon or Pentium 4.
Now, Opteron may never take off. But, neither will Itanium2.
"Where is that 2800+ anyway? I tried to get one at NewEgg and they didn't have any"
The XP2800+ was only produced in limited quantaties; it was designed to bridge the gap between TBred and Barton. Barton is the new Athlon XP and will debut at 3000+ within a couple of weeks.
"I'll be more enthusiastic when Palm gets its act together and uses all that newly found horsepower to make Grafitti far more accurate and less of a pain in the butt to use."
The're just liscencing CIC Jot. It's the same thing that's been used in Windows CE since the Palm-Sized PC. Palm users always used to comment on how Jot was less efficent (actually, I agree). Now it seems that, ironically, Pocket PC will be the only place with Grafitti (Block Recognizer) and Jot (Character Recognizer). Unless, of course, Palm includes "Grafitti Classic".
The're not stealing. The're committing copyright infringment.
There is a difference.
AT&T Broadband Internet. I constantly get 250KBytes/S. That's faster than a T1.
Now, the upstream sucks and I have a dynamic IP. It's obviously not a T1. But it sure acts like one a lot of the time.
"like a tivo bigot"
Buy a TiVo. You'll soon agree that TiVo is the ONLY real PVR, and that the $12.95/mo we pay to TiVo is well worth it.
"$15 a month"
$12.95 for SA
$5/Mo for DTiVo (free to TC Platinum subs)
"can live with tivo's offensive advertising"
One menu item. That's it. It's not even annoying - it's not like banner ads or anything. Do you complain about the text ads on Google
"But for the rest of us"
So the "rest of us" want something differnt? Right. So that's why TiVo is the #1 DVR out there (excluding DishPVR; Echostar gave out 500,000 of those for free so they could have the "#1" DVR)
"we want something that does what we want"
TiVo does what I want. It records TV and it does a damn good job of it. It list my programs, manages conflicts, deletes shows when it has to, makes suggustions, lets me search TV, never crashes, never misses a recording, tells me exactly what will be recorded, and lets me skip ads with a 30 second skip or 60x autocorrecting fast forward.
"rather than something that does what tivo corporation wants"
Uh...huh. I don't quite know what you're referring to. My TiVo does not steal from my bank account, and it does not record TiVo sponsored content instead of my programs. TiVo service has gone up for some subscribers (from $10/mo to $13/mo) and down for the rest ($10/mo to $5/mo).
TiVo gives 500,000 people what they want. Reliable, dependable, easy PVR service.
I am a TiVo bigot because TiVo works better than any other product on the market. TiVo is not a tapeless VCR. It is an advanced databased-backed television service. It can search descriptions. It can record any episode of a show even if the show changes times or dates. It can skip reruns. It can record two shows at once while playing back a third (DirecTV/TiVo only). It can prioritize my recordings. It manages space. It knows when every show will be recorded and when every show will be deleted and it will warn you if a show will be canceled or deleted early. To put it simply, it does a heck of a lot.
Buy a TiVo. You'll become a "TiVo Bigot" too.
"Does it support 3D Audio or Surround Sound?"
Absolutely. It also supports on-the-fly Dolby Digital 5.1 encoding.
It may not be as good as a SB Audigy, but it is perfectly fine for anyone but an audiophile. Audiophiles probably won't want a hot, noisy GPU in their system anyway.
I just looked up some info on the R350. .15 micron. DDR2 memory, probably higher clock, possibly with an extra TMU per pipeline.
.13 micron process will improve and NVidia will be able to scale it up.
It's Q2 2003 planned. Still
Not very impressive.
GeForceFX is at the beginning of it's live. TSMC's
Without a process change, the R300/R350 is nearing the end of it's life. It can only be clocked up so much.
"It would be unfeasible for nVidia to respond until the summer with the NV31/34, at which time ATI will announce the R400."
So ATI can release a new product in the next five months, then announce another new product three months later? ATI would be foolish to do so.
"FX show it to only be marginally faster than the Radeon 9700 Pro. Not to mention that it's 500MHz vs. 325MHz"
First: The GeForceFX is not a pixel pushing monster. NVidia has stated that. It is a part designed to be ready for all that DX9 can put out.
Second: Who cares? You're the kind of person who would claim that the P4 is inferior because a lower clocked Athlon can do the same work.
"The GeForce FX is in my opinion, not going to be what the world has expected from nVidia."
We expect faster GPUs every year. The GeForceFX is a faster GPU. Is it a Radeon 9700 killer? Not really. Today's games aren't really pushed by today's GPUs because the're designed for "Intel Integrated 3D graphics", or "NVidia GeForce4 MX 420" at best. UT2003 will run at insane framerates on both cards - and there won't be a lot of distance between them. Doom 3 will probably be a different story.
"ATI will simply respond with the R350, which is likely going to be an improved R300 core, as well as DDR2 and manufactured with the .13u process."
Uh...huh
Please tell me where I can find more information on this R350.
Do they have final silicon? Is it in production? Drivers? Debugging?
If not, it's most likely eight months out.
" the difference between "activating" OS X (press "install") and activating Windows XP is noticed"
Really?
Activation is the most hated feature of Windows XP.
I am constantly changing the hardware in my computer. Sometimes this causes Windows to deactivate.
It takes five minutes on the phone to fix the problem. The CSRs have always been polite and prompt and I have never been accused of anything.
Most people will never have any problems - it takes two seconds over the internet. Those who do have a problem can resolve it easily.
My point is this: activation is not a big deal. Most people don't care. Those who do are usually the same people who installed one copy of Windows on all of their PCs.
Try a stinking dual-band phone.
We have GSM already.
We also have CDMA.
We also have AMPS.
We also have CDPD.
Radio anyone?
Choose OTA, XM, or Sirius
TV?
OTA, Cable, DirecTV, Echostar (Dish)
Internet?
Dial-Up (gobs of providers), DSL, IDSN, Satellite, Radio (802.11), Ricochet, Wireless (2.5G), Cable
Phone?
In my area, Qwest, McLeodUSA, or TelcomStar
Wireless?
In my area:
AT&T, Sprint, Verizion, T-Mobile, Cingular, Nextel, Cricket, Qwest, more
See a trend?
Consider Parqagraph Breaks.
Gotta agree about the Smart Board. I have an AP Calc teacher with one and it's really helpful. He teaches Trig too and last year he had the unit circle on there - much better than an overhead because he could do work on the whiteboard and on the Smart Board without having to sit down at the overhead.
Rule number one of business:
Don't fix what isn't broken.
Don't build radically new when what you have already works fine.
We don't see radical new car designs every year. Instead, we see minor improvments on last year's model. Or they take a truck and add a van frame and call it an SUV. Or they shorten a van and call it a minivan.
Or they take an existing model and make it cost 15% less to operate.
15% is big. Really big. Less fuel = less cost = cheaper tickets. Would you fly on a "cooler" airbus for 30% more? Perhaps, but probably not. Few people fly first/business class.
Airbus is looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Except that it has been fixed already, and because of auto-update everyone has recieved the patch
Info on the Panasonic Toughbook 01.
Look for HPCs that support this feature - while it was rare on PocketPCs, it was quite common on later HPCs. The Panasonic Toughbook 01 comes to mind. It's a bit steep at $1350 but it is ruggedized, compact, and it includes your choice of wireless modem (CDPD, Cingular, etc.).
Also take a look at Internmec's products.
BTW: In the bay area (US) you can get 10mb down for about what you're paying. So, no, Tokyo is not alone in having high-speed, low-cost internet.
You programmed (for) it. It locks up.
Now we're blaming the hardware.
How does that make sense?
"What evidence did you provide to support the assertion that your products did not fail?"
None. I don't have the burden of proof, however. I don't go around telling people how reliable Samsung products are because I honestly don't know (my oldest product is only five years old). You made the claim that Samsung products are unreliable based on results from one DVD player - citing a problem that could be anything from (your) programming to scratched discs. I was simply stating that I had not experienced similar results and that your claim was based on virtually no data. To do a real comparison, one would need return/warranty/repair rates.
I have never had a Samsung product fail on me. I have two HDDs (they are one of the few companies with a 3 year warranty), two CRT monitors, an LCD, a 32" HDTV, and a DVD player. None have ever given me trouble.
To be fair, neither has my Sony reciever, Discman, or CD changer.
YMMV, but I have found Samsung products to be of excellent quality and durability.
Please do provide some evidence before bad-mouthing a manufacturer. At least say what products you have and what has happened to them - one vague reference to a DVD player is not exactly evidence (BTW: Samsung didn't even program your DVD player; )
TiVo already has a box like this. No, it doesn't have as many features. It's also $199.
DirecTV DVR powered by TiVo (basically a renamed Series II combo box) has a 200mhz MIPS processor, 32M of RAM, 2 tuners, hardware MPEG2 decoding, 40GB disk, USB 2.0, etc.
It's also powered by Linux.
"as Microsoft long has been."
Huh? I can run Windows 3.1 apps on Windows 2000.
How is that not compatible?
Hold on a minute:
There is DRM in ONE AND ONLY ONE Windows XP App: Windows Media Player. The DRM is ONLY USED to play encryped content. You can TURN OFF DRM when ripping CDs.
Palladium NEVER WAS, and NEVER WILL BE a total DRM system. Palladium provides certification to software that it is running with a trusted operating system and not a data-grabbing fake. THAT'S IT. How developers use the new API is up to them.
Everyone hates Palladium. Frankly, I don't like the idea. But Palladium isn't that bad. You can still install your own OS, and Windows will still run on non-Palladium computers. The only thing that you will miss out on will be DRM in Windows Media Player - meaning no encryped content for Johnny.
Apple is also not stupid. If the time comes, they will implement DRM.
Whoops!
I thought you meant video from a camera. Sorry. Next time I'll read it better.
I do know that you can still use Virtualdub for this application - you just need a capture card and a video card with TV-out.
Also consider Windows Media Encoder. Not GPL, but still free (as in beer).
Virtualdub, Virtualdub, Virtualdub
GPL, free, Win32
Captures to AVI. Any bitrate, any codec, any framerate.
http://www.virtualdub.org/