uh, you admit in the post that the machines aren't equivalent in your comparison (hello? higher-res screen, X1600, and digital audio I/O for professionals), and you also don't mention that MacBook Pros come with OS X and iLife and don't need money shelled out for antivirus software. it's just obviously a better value since it even dual-boots Windows
You're totally correct, sir! Now excuse me while I go install Redundant Linux Distro Flavor o' the Month #3,415, GTK and QT so that I have two entire windowing systems, Mozilla and OpenOffice so I have two more entire windowing systems, and, for good measure, multiple packaging systems. I love packages!
You young whippersnappers don't remember the days when we had to post on Slashdot using Mozilla 0.9, with no CSS, and Napster installed in our Windows 98 partitions!
Hold on. Is this the same western concept of racial equality that included the slaughtering of Native Americans, or the one that promoted "seperate but equal" as a perfectly valid way to treat people until the 1950's? If so, I'll need to recalibrate my notion of equality and re-read your post.
You act like the entire nation was 100% pro-segregation until the 1950s. It was always a divide between the free states and the slave states. The Democratic party was the pro-slavery, pro-segregation party that signed in the Jim Crow laws, while the Republican-dominated north was against it on moral and economic grounds.
Honestly, how could you not know? Nintendo mentions it all the time, and they even included the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 in both Super Mario All-Stars and the Gameboy port of Super Mario Bros. It comes up in every single Slashdot article. 500 Nintendo games and a magazine subscription? Not needed, sir.
It's like there is an underlying bitterness that Vista is coming together that is attempted to be covered up with sarcasm directed at Microsoft.
"Coming together" = delayed for three years with a possibility of another delay. This reminds me of Microsoft's incessant use of the phrase "on track" to vaguely describe Vista's progress. Ha.
I thought this was very common knowledge by now, especially on Slashdot. For crying out loud, a link to About.com? For more detailed information about the differences between the U.S. and Japanese versions of all the Mario games, check out The Mushroom Kingdom.
Well, hey, Ballmer and Co. refer to Vista as if it already exists as a shipping product, as do all the pro-Windows tech sites. We may as well do the same.
And next year (or 2) AMD will pass Intel again and you'll have to change your mind again.
Can you share your secret AMD roadmap with the rest of the group?
As for the games... who cares? Can you really see the difference between 155 fps and 187 fps? Can your monitor refresh as 200 Hz? It's just another numbers game that ALL of the manufacturers use to inspire penis envy.
Those of us who rely on raw CPU power in film editing or multitrack recording need fast processors, especially if we're on laptops. Not to mention the benefits for virtualization, emulation, etc. Also, games are taking more advantage of physics and AI, which are CPU-dependent technologies.
Actually, your post sounds a lot like desperate Intel defenders did a few years ago, which is VERY amusing.
Yeah, the comparison by the journal Nature was the only example, and it was refuted by Brittanica anyway.
Regardless of what you say, I'd trust Brittanica--a commercial entity that can afford to employ scholars and researchers--over Wikipedia, which is open to anyone with a beer and a grudge to write about how George Lucas once licked Jar-Jar's taint in the back of a Volkswagon.
Wikipedia is good if you want to read about Super Mario Bros. mythology or how many other films reference Kevin Smith's Clerks. Useless geek trivia. For serious research, forget about it.
You've got that backwards. Hardware sales drive Windows sales. The majority of Windows sales come from OEM preinstallations, which is why Vista adoption will be so slow in the mainstream market. I saw one analyst quoted many months ago guessing 38% Vista adoption by 2008. Just a guess, sure, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Actually, those on-board memory controllers of AMD's are supposedly holding back their chip designs and making them more expensive to work around. Intel apparently held back on a memory controller because they thought it would limit them down the road, so they waited on Moore's Law to catch up, which it seems to have done.
Slashdot has made itself irrelevant. Digg is just a consequence. The reasons Slashdot doesn't matter very much:
1.) Broken mod system that hasn't change since the late 90s. See me posting at -1? Piss off a moron with a script, and your +2 account is doomed.
2.) Endless dupes. Dupes now and then are understandable, but they happen a lot on Slashdot. The reason they're so irritating is that any monkey following the front page day in and day out like we do recognizes a dupe post, so it signals to readers that editors don't read their own front page. The second irritating thing is that subscribers were supposed to alleviate this, but editors don't listen to them.
3.) Crap, misleading stories and headlines. From stories dated five years ago to outright falsehoods to flamebait submission text (the recent VOIP submission snidely claiming most VOIP users use Firefox...huh?) to Roland articles.
Frankly, the editors don't act like editors. It's not that hard to post good stories, edit them for clarity, fix typos, and actually visit the links to make sure they're valid submissions. I'm a 5-digit user who's been around since the 90s, and it's sad how far this site has fallen. Pay me money and I'll do a fantastic job of a story editor. I'm sure plenty of other users here would as well. Hell, why not have an open story queue and let us all do the job of deciding what gets posted? Oh, wait, I just described Digg...
I'm posting at -1 specifically because of idiots with an agenda. Someone set up a script to watch my user page and check for new comments, then load an account with mod points and mod me down. +5 posts weeks old would still be getting marked down until they were -1. I went from +2 karma to -1 in four days. Emails to the editors did nothing.
At Digg, everyone has a voice, so if one person doesn't like me, so what? I might convince other people who will balance out the rating. Here at Slashdot, you can ruin someone's account just for fun.
This is vaguely similar to the RIAA, etc wanting us to merely rent music, or repurchase it in a new format every so often, instead of owning it outright.
The RIAA doesn't want anything like that. The RIAA is simply a lobby group representing the legislative interests and rights of various record companies. It's record companies who are offering rented music as an option, which you're free to choose not to purchase.
Years and years of scapegoating on Slashdot has made people assume the RIAA is something more than it is, so that they're referred to generically when talking about the music industry. The RIAA isn't offering any music rental services.
I found Super Mario World to be easy. That game has so many warps, you can skip right up to Bowser's castle in a very short time. Even Bowser's castle itself is very easy. I'd say this new game is as difficult as Super Mario World, though Super Mario World did have some nicely difficult secret levels. But if you're hunting for all the star coins, NSMB can be devilishly challenging.
Super Mario Bros. 3 remains the most difficult Mario game. And no saving in the original!
Vista will run on laptops. But like with most XP machines today, custom drivers will be built to handle all the embedded hardware. The problem here is that Vista is in beta, ergo it has very little driver support.
The popular Lenovo laptops aren't exactly exotic hardware, and if XP runs on them, surely the Vista Beta 2 should.
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uh, you admit in the post that the machines aren't equivalent in your comparison (hello? higher-res screen, X1600, and digital audio I/O for professionals), and you also don't mention that MacBook Pros come with OS X and iLife and don't need money shelled out for antivirus software. it's just obviously a better value since it even dual-boots Windows
"PostgreSQL sucks." - From the guy who brought us magic quotes
You're totally correct, sir! Now excuse me while I go install Redundant Linux Distro Flavor o' the Month #3,415, GTK and QT so that I have two entire windowing systems, Mozilla and OpenOffice so I have two more entire windowing systems, and, for good measure, multiple packaging systems. I love packages!
You young whippersnappers don't remember the days when we had to post on Slashdot using Mozilla 0.9, with no CSS, and Napster installed in our Windows 98 partitions!
You act like the entire nation was 100% pro-segregation until the 1950s. It was always a divide between the free states and the slave states. The Democratic party was the pro-slavery, pro-segregation party that signed in the Jim Crow laws, while the Republican-dominated north was against it on moral and economic grounds.
Honestly, how could you not know? Nintendo mentions it all the time, and they even included the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 in both Super Mario All-Stars and the Gameboy port of Super Mario Bros. It comes up in every single Slashdot article. 500 Nintendo games and a magazine subscription? Not needed, sir.
"Coming together" = delayed for three years with a possibility of another delay. This reminds me of Microsoft's incessant use of the phrase "on track" to vaguely describe Vista's progress. Ha.
I thought this was very common knowledge by now, especially on Slashdot. For crying out loud, a link to About.com? For more detailed information about the differences between the U.S. and Japanese versions of all the Mario games, check out The Mushroom Kingdom.
Yes. Isn't cache nice? Try opening Firefox cold turkey.
Well, hey, Ballmer and Co. refer to Vista as if it already exists as a shipping product, as do all the pro-Windows tech sites. We may as well do the same.
Apparently you don't understand the budget of a musician.
Can you share your secret AMD roadmap with the rest of the group?
Those of us who rely on raw CPU power in film editing or multitrack recording need fast processors, especially if we're on laptops. Not to mention the benefits for virtualization, emulation, etc. Also, games are taking more advantage of physics and AI, which are CPU-dependent technologies.
Actually, your post sounds a lot like desperate Intel defenders did a few years ago, which is VERY amusing.
Yeah, the comparison by the journal Nature was the only example, and it was refuted by Brittanica anyway.
Regardless of what you say, I'd trust Brittanica--a commercial entity that can afford to employ scholars and researchers--over Wikipedia, which is open to anyone with a beer and a grudge to write about how George Lucas once licked Jar-Jar's taint in the back of a Volkswagon.
Wikipedia is good if you want to read about Super Mario Bros. mythology or how many other films reference Kevin Smith's Clerks. Useless geek trivia. For serious research, forget about it.
I'm interested in MPEG-4 compression numbers for DVR purposes.
The Core Duo introduced in the beginning of this year also had shared L2 cache, called "Smart Cache."
You've got that backwards. Hardware sales drive Windows sales. The majority of Windows sales come from OEM preinstallations, which is why Vista adoption will be so slow in the mainstream market. I saw one analyst quoted many months ago guessing 38% Vista adoption by 2008. Just a guess, sure, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Actually, those on-board memory controllers of AMD's are supposedly holding back their chip designs and making them more expensive to work around. Intel apparently held back on a memory controller because they thought it would limit them down the road, so they waited on Moore's Law to catch up, which it seems to have done.
Slashdot has made itself irrelevant. Digg is just a consequence. The reasons Slashdot doesn't matter very much:
1.) Broken mod system that hasn't change since the late 90s. See me posting at -1? Piss off a moron with a script, and your +2 account is doomed.
2.) Endless dupes. Dupes now and then are understandable, but they happen a lot on Slashdot. The reason they're so irritating is that any monkey following the front page day in and day out like we do recognizes a dupe post, so it signals to readers that editors don't read their own front page. The second irritating thing is that subscribers were supposed to alleviate this, but editors don't listen to them.
3.) Crap, misleading stories and headlines. From stories dated five years ago to outright falsehoods to flamebait submission text (the recent VOIP submission snidely claiming most VOIP users use Firefox...huh?) to Roland articles.
Frankly, the editors don't act like editors. It's not that hard to post good stories, edit them for clarity, fix typos, and actually visit the links to make sure they're valid submissions. I'm a 5-digit user who's been around since the 90s, and it's sad how far this site has fallen. Pay me money and I'll do a fantastic job of a story editor. I'm sure plenty of other users here would as well. Hell, why not have an open story queue and let us all do the job of deciding what gets posted? Oh, wait, I just described Digg...
any idiot with an agenda moderates
I'm posting at -1 specifically because of idiots with an agenda. Someone set up a script to watch my user page and check for new comments, then load an account with mod points and mod me down. +5 posts weeks old would still be getting marked down until they were -1. I went from +2 karma to -1 in four days. Emails to the editors did nothing.
At Digg, everyone has a voice, so if one person doesn't like me, so what? I might convince other people who will balance out the rating. Here at Slashdot, you can ruin someone's account just for fun.
Well, as usual, Microsoft overshoots. It's ridiculous when it takes seven clicks to delete a desktop shortcut.
The RIAA doesn't want anything like that. The RIAA is simply a lobby group representing the legislative interests and rights of various record companies. It's record companies who are offering rented music as an option, which you're free to choose not to purchase.
Years and years of scapegoating on Slashdot has made people assume the RIAA is something more than it is, so that they're referred to generically when talking about the music industry. The RIAA isn't offering any music rental services.
You, for starters. Idiot.
I found Super Mario World to be easy. That game has so many warps, you can skip right up to Bowser's castle in a very short time. Even Bowser's castle itself is very easy. I'd say this new game is as difficult as Super Mario World, though Super Mario World did have some nicely difficult secret levels. But if you're hunting for all the star coins, NSMB can be devilishly challenging.
Super Mario Bros. 3 remains the most difficult Mario game. And no saving in the original!
Vista will run on laptops. But like with most XP machines today, custom drivers will be built to handle all the embedded hardware. The problem here is that Vista is in beta, ergo it has very little driver support.
The popular Lenovo laptops aren't exactly exotic hardware, and if XP runs on them, surely the Vista Beta 2 should.