Microsoft may supply the drivers, but they don't care. It's just more work for them, for another component they will release for free with the OS.
This sort of thing benefits Intel, not Microsoft, because it demands more of those CPU cycles Intel keeps cranking out.
Of course, now, it also benefits AMD.
--Blair
Re:Titanium is also very flexible.
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You are correct sir.
This came up in the late '80s when Titanium balls first appeared.
The Titanium in the name refers to the Titanium Dioxide in the white pigment. They don't tell you that, though. You're supposed to just stand there feeling better about the $4 you just put in the lake, knowing it would have been 18 feet from shore instead of 11 if you'd only spent $2.
The regulations for storing nuclear waste long-term require that the legends on the site be durable, pictographic, and clear enough that anybody could understand that this place is bad.
Which sure helped the Pharaohs protect their treasure...
--Blair
Re:The Japanese Film was in turn a rip-off!
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I thought everyone knew that Lucas hadn't even consulted Campbell until he was starting on the actual screenplay for Empire.
The first movie of course had zero input from Campbell and was obviously inspired by stuff like Terry and the Pirates and Flash Gordon.
Well, clearly, Brilliant Digital Entertainment is trying to profit from the popularity of Kazaa, and Kazaa is only popular because children* are using it to steal from the RIAA, so in due course we should see the RIAA suing BDE for a slice of the revenues.
--Blair "Wait'll they find out what the Altnet Resource Dollar exchange rate is..."
Nonsense. I don't even think you can buy an SDRAM system from Dell, where most of the PCs will be bought. They've been selling only RDRAM every time I've checked.
And RDRAM kicks SDRAM and DDR's butt. RD800 is faster than DDR333CL2.0, and you can't get a consumer-market computer with DDR333 yet, much less one with CAS latency of 2.0. Good luck finding it on the street, period.
RDRAM is way ahead of the curve, and systems with a P4-2.4 and RD800 are as fast or faster than any out there.
Your first paragraph is a baseless denial of what I said.
Your second is an emotional denial of the reason processors are designed to scale.
And your third is just wrong. IA-64 will get to the desktop. It is a significant shift in the computing paradigm that has the potential to put 64-bit extension designs to shame. Yamhill is the stopgap to hold off AMD from taking the niche that Intel purposely left open when it invested in the effort to make IA-64 an entirely different system. But in a few years, when AMD is still making Model-T's with convertible tops and chrome-plated starter cranks, Intel will be burying it in Model-A's. AMD will have nobody they can buy in order to subsume a license to the new design.
And finally, you don't really understand pricing. Consumers have a comfort level for purchasing expensive things. What you're getting isn't lower prices, it's more MIPS for the same portion you were willing to carve out of your savings. Note that AMD actually raised its top-line price range as it began to compare favorably with Intel. Higher prices for AMD's new processors, not lower. Competition isn't as simple as you think.
Having an architecture that scales its performance beyond 2 GHz is also better design and engineering. Athlon cores won't get there. They're doing all they can to step them by 66 MHz, pouring R&D money into massaging the timings. If they could keep up to the 100-MHz/step rate, and get ahead of Intel, you bet your ass they would. And they know it won't last as long as Intel's streamlined long-pipeline system.
AMD is being forced to go to 64-bit just to keep up, while Intel has plans to clock 32-bit P4 to 6GHz and maybe beyond (there are rumors of 10 GHz, but a few 2 GHz parts have overclocked to 3.5 GHz; the trick is doing it to 40% of your yield).
And then there's the simple fact that AMD cheats on the quiz, getting a look at Intel's innovations in the field before it makes its designs. Anyone can improve on a technology. Creating one is the hard part.
Before anyone goes cheering about AMD's forthcoming Hammer, remember that it's brand new, and the compilers for it haven't had the same sort of burn-in that Intel's IA-64 compilers have been getting for a year and a half. AMD may get its 64-bit solution to the mass market first, but it won't be stable when the new features are used to their fullest.
And I hired them to take that information, and I know I'm adding to the list every time I pull out my card. And I did it because now I don't need to carry $6959.23 in greenbacks on me to buy a new HDTV (with tax).
If you assholes weren't a bunch of thieves, it wouldn't need to be this way.
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We all use the same band to talk to and hear each other.
But we only receive those who are sending from locations near to us.
--Blair
So it may not matter.
http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com crashes both IE6 and IE5.
I don't know why. Could be the address it crashes at has a hardware problem on my machine. But why is java poking around my hardware?
Java is insecure, Windows is insecure, the Internet is insecure, and everyone using them has always known that.
--Blair
Microsoft may supply the drivers, but they don't care. It's just more work for them, for another component they will release for free with the OS.
This sort of thing benefits Intel, not Microsoft, because it demands more of those CPU cycles Intel keeps cranking out.
Of course, now, it also benefits AMD.
--Blair
You are correct sir.
This came up in the late '80s when Titanium balls first appeared.
The Titanium in the name refers to the Titanium Dioxide in the white pigment. They don't tell you that, though. You're supposed to just stand there feeling better about the $4 you just put in the lake, knowing it would have been 18 feet from shore instead of 11 if you'd only spent $2.
--Blair
You aren't the first smartass to think of this.
The regulations for storing nuclear waste long-term require that the legends on the site be durable, pictographic, and clear enough that anybody could understand that this place is bad.
Which sure helped the Pharaohs protect their treasure...
--Blair
I thought everyone knew that Lucas hadn't even consulted Campbell until he was starting on the actual screenplay for Empire.
The first movie of course had zero input from Campbell and was obviously inspired by stuff like Terry and the Pirates and Flash Gordon.
Pulparama.
--Blair
The last indigestible lubricant to be used as a food additive was Olestra.
Liquid Teflon could only be orders of magnitude more effective in waterproofing your shorts.
--Blair
This goes both ways.
Anonymity also protects criminals from prosecution for their crimes.
The system has to decide who's merely unpopular and who's a criminal (spammer, harrasser, etc.) on a case-by-case basis.
Which is what they just did. So who's surprised?
--Blair
Here's a picture of Celine Dion attempting to eject a disk.
/.
And here she is making modem tones while trying to connect to
--Blair
Well, clearly, Brilliant Digital Entertainment is trying to profit from the popularity of Kazaa, and Kazaa is only popular because children* are using it to steal from the RIAA, so in due course we should see the RIAA suing BDE for a slice of the revenues.
--Blair
"Wait'll they find out what the Altnet Resource Dollar exchange rate is..."
* - yeah, you.
Nonsense. I don't even think you can buy an SDRAM system from Dell, where most of the PCs will be bought. They've been selling only RDRAM every time I've checked.
And RDRAM kicks SDRAM and DDR's butt. RD800 is faster than DDR333CL2.0, and you can't get a consumer-market computer with DDR333 yet, much less one with CAS latency of 2.0. Good luck finding it on the street, period.
RDRAM is way ahead of the curve, and systems with a P4-2.4 and RD800 are as fast or faster than any out there.
That's not bias, it's just the facts.
--Blair
And now the trolls are posting stories.
--Blair
Technology is all business.
But AMD still can't sell those chips and make more per-chip profit than Intel can.
--Blair
Thanks for the idiot mods, AMD jungen.
Just proves my point:
Some people don't want to hear the truth.
How can they tell that you "received" the email? If I were a spammer or cybersquatter, I'd set the server to forward all email to the bitbucket.
--Blair
Your first paragraph is a baseless denial of what I said.
Your second is an emotional denial of the reason processors are designed to scale.
And your third is just wrong. IA-64 will get to the desktop. It is a significant shift in the computing paradigm that has the potential to put 64-bit extension designs to shame. Yamhill is the stopgap to hold off AMD from taking the niche that Intel purposely left open when it invested in the effort to make IA-64 an entirely different system. But in a few years, when AMD is still making Model-T's with convertible tops and chrome-plated starter cranks, Intel will be burying it in Model-A's. AMD will have nobody they can buy in order to subsume a license to the new design.
And finally, you don't really understand pricing. Consumers have a comfort level for purchasing expensive things. What you're getting isn't lower prices, it's more MIPS for the same portion you were willing to carve out of your savings. Note that AMD actually raised its top-line price range as it began to compare favorably with Intel. Higher prices for AMD's new processors, not lower. Competition isn't as simple as you think.
--Blair
Having an architecture that scales its performance beyond 2 GHz is also better design and engineering. Athlon cores won't get there. They're doing all they can to step them by 66 MHz, pouring R&D money into massaging the timings. If they could keep up to the 100-MHz/step rate, and get ahead of Intel, you bet your ass they would. And they know it won't last as long as Intel's streamlined long-pipeline system.
AMD is being forced to go to 64-bit just to keep up, while Intel has plans to clock 32-bit P4 to 6GHz and maybe beyond (there are rumors of 10 GHz, but a few 2 GHz parts have overclocked to 3.5 GHz; the trick is doing it to 40% of your yield).
And then there's the simple fact that AMD cheats on the quiz, getting a look at Intel's innovations in the field before it makes its designs. Anyone can improve on a technology. Creating one is the hard part.
Before anyone goes cheering about AMD's forthcoming Hammer, remember that it's brand new, and the compilers for it haven't had the same sort of burn-in that Intel's IA-64 compilers have been getting for a year and a half. AMD may get its 64-bit solution to the mass market first, but it won't be stable when the new features are used to their fullest.
My money is still on Intel.
--Blair
Why people insist on publishing his looping rants as corporate manna is beyond me.
And I hired them to take that information, and I know I'm adding to the list every time I pull out my card. And I did it because now I don't need to carry $6959.23 in greenbacks on me to buy a new HDTV (with tax).
If you assholes weren't a bunch of thieves, it wouldn't need to be this way.
--Blair
"Yeah, you."
Look at their graphs.
Their theoretical simulations are a factor of 2 above their experimental results.
They haven't a clue how it actually works when the waves aren't dead-on the normalized filtering peak of this thing.
You can throw this article on the big pile of Popular Science notions that never see the light of mass production.
--Blair
"Hey! I just discovered that if you burn trees you don't need Saudi Oil! And they grow for free in the woods!!"
Disney, having figured out how to lose money faster by using computers, has done just that.
--Blair
We should shut down employee cafeterias because food can bring harmful bacteria into the company and we might get sued.
--Blair
Where do they get their money?
How do we stop the flow?
--Blair
I remember the stories of Pentagon staffers getting RSI from Missile Command machines in arcades near the building.