Remember the PIII/K6-3 comparison on Tom's Hardware? Much of the software used to do the benchmarking used Intel's streaming SIMD extensions but did not support AMD's 3DNow! extensions (Tom made that very clear).
Now we're going to have a compiler for Linux that will no doubt enable (well, simplify) the creation of similarly optimized programs.
AMD is doing very well in chip design, less well in fabrication, and very badly in all the other things Intel does so well.
...including AVI, MOV, and MPEG. It does barf on some of them (mostly weird MPEGs). I've also noticed that its MPEG decoding performance stinks compared to the players I've used in Windows.
hawk@celine:hawk> xanim --version XAnim Rev 2.70.7.0 by Mark Podlipec (c) 1991-1998
I got it from a Debian package, version 2.70.7.0-3.
Now, what I really need is a Linux Vivo player. I'd even settle for a Windows player I could run under Wine. ` --
First: I'm pro-choice. I do not respect people who try to force their beliefs upon other people.
Having said that, I'd like to say your argument is shit. The mere fact that the law dictates punishment for action A and not for action B does not mean that A is wrong and B is right.
Compare the issues of abortion on one hand, and physician-assisted suicide on the other. People like me (and presumably most people of the pro-choice persuasion), who believe in a person's right to terminate their pregnancy and to terminate their own life, would be at odds with themselves if they cited U.S. law as some sort of ultimate reference.
Banks and various others are required by the IRS to report the SSNs of account holders to whom they pay interest. If you don't tell them your number you will probably either be refused an account or be charged a penalty such as withholding of taxes on your interest. Most banks will refuse to open safe deposit boxes without a SSN, though there is no direct governmental requirement that they collect it. One correspondent reported that he was able to open a non-interest bearing account at a US bank by presenting a passport and international driver's license. (This correspondent implied that it was a US passport. You can get an international driver's license at AAA.)
Slashdotters always point out the bad stuff, especially if big brother is anywhere in sight. I've read and agreed with most of the concerns posted here, but would like to point out some good thing that can come of this:
If I write software for a certain target group, it is now a hell of a lot easier for me to make it a hell of a lot harder for people to use the software without paying for it.
(This target group is naturally confined to owners of P3's or later, and quite possibly excludes open-source os users.)
Sure, it's not enough to do something dumb like if (cpuid()!=get_cpuid_embedded_in_executable()) { exit_and_report_pirate_to_global_police(); }; but with the cpuid, you have something to build on. Problems such as those with cpu upgrades and mass installation aren't necessarily insurmountable.
The cpuid also makes it potentially very easy to see if the chip you're about to buy is legit (not remarked or stolen). --
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...when it comes to things like this.
Remember the PIII/K6-3 comparison on Tom's Hardware? Much of the software used to do the benchmarking used Intel's streaming SIMD extensions but did not support AMD's 3DNow! extensions (Tom made that very clear).
Now we're going to have a compiler for Linux that will no doubt enable (well, simplify) the creation of similarly optimized programs.
AMD is doing very well in chip design, less well in fabrication, and very badly in all the other things Intel does so well.
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Ignoring KNI, the PIII is equal to or just marginally better than the PII.
The K6-3 is improvemed over the K6-2 in most benchmarks. If it was cheaper, I might get one.
All in all, I'm pretty disappointed with both of these new chips. I think I'll wait for the next round before I upgrade.
Any conspiracy theories regarding the late 3DNOW support and the early KNI adoption, or is that all above board?
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...including AVI, MOV, and MPEG. It does barf on some of them (mostly weird MPEGs). I've also noticed that its MPEG decoding performance stinks compared to the players I've used in Windows.
hawk@celine:hawk> xanim --version
XAnim Rev 2.70.7.0 by Mark Podlipec (c) 1991-1998
I got it from a Debian package, version 2.70.7.0-3.
Now, what I really need is a Linux Vivo player. I'd even settle for a Windows player I could run under Wine. `
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When somebody shoots your sister, you don't get angry at Smith & Wesson. You get angry at the shooter.
I think this is a perfect analogy to show how silly this whole thing is.
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Is it possible to sign away all your rights? OK, I know that's not the case, but what rights can't you sign away?
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Next time flame the right group of people.
EU!=Europe
Iceland, for instance, is in Europe and outside the EU.
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Some sites use entities without the semicolon, like this:
Barnes & Noble
instead of
Barnes & Noble
which seems to work ok, until you remove the space following the entity:
Barnes&Noble
is sometimes rendered as
Barnes&Noble
Who is to blame in this case?
PS. It sure is fun to describe HTML in HTML, especially when the slashdot code enters into the picture.
PPS: The following is encoded as Barnes&Noble. What does your browser do with it?
Barnes&Noble
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First: I'm pro-choice. I do not respect people who try to force their beliefs upon other people.
Having said that, I'd like to say your argument is shit. The mere fact that the law dictates punishment for action A and not for action B does not mean that A is wrong and B is right.
Compare the issues of abortion on one hand, and physician-assisted suicide on the other. People like me (and presumably most people of the pro-choice persuasion), who believe in a person's right to terminate their pregnancy and to terminate their own life, would be at odds with themselves if they cited U.S. law as some sort of ultimate reference.
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Yeah, that's right. Just keep pissing on people's work while calling them jerks.
BTW, would you care to sign your name to that?
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...can be found at http://cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/ssn/ssn. faq.html
The document includes this text:
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Slashdotters always point out the bad stuff, especially if big brother is anywhere in sight. I've read and agreed with most of the concerns posted here, but would like to point out some good thing that can come of this:
If I write software for a certain target group, it is now a hell of a lot easier for me to make it a hell of a lot harder for people to use the software without paying for it.
(This target group is naturally confined to owners of P3's or later, and quite possibly excludes open-source os users.)
Sure, it's not enough to do something dumb like
if (cpuid()!=get_cpuid_embedded_in_executable()) {
exit_and_report_pirate_to_global_police();
};
but with the cpuid, you have something to build on. Problems such as those with cpu upgrades and mass installation aren't necessarily insurmountable.
The cpuid also makes it potentially very easy to see if the chip you're about to buy is legit (not remarked or stolen).
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...not only that, I brought a Coke INTO Pizza Hut and was asked to put it away or leave. The bottle was empty.
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Excuse me?
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Sorry GUYS, I'm just not all there!
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