Geez, I love how moderators mod things up even though posts aren't based in reality.
3d-Now! is not merely an MMX extension. It was the first SIMD extension for floating point in the x86 architecture (Intel's SSE came later). It operates independently of MMX.
As for not being a substitute for your graphics card...well duh. But keep in mind that your CPU isn't doing nothing when pushing Quak3 out to the monitor. There's still the whole texture and lighting stage that must be done on the CPU (yes, Nvidia and all can get around this, but not all software uses those extensions).
As for "Is 3dNow used?", the answer is YES! Most modern video drivers actually incorproate 3dNow instructions in them as does some software. However, a lot of software prefers SSE since it's backed by the big guy. For reference though, the Athlon supports SSE prefetching just like the PIII.
As a small business owner, I should be able to collect some of this right? I publish software, therefore I'll expect a check from the government any day!
What do you mean it's only for big corporations??? Hey!
Excuse me? Their product release was compared to a Pentium III. And 1 watt is far more than the Dragonball uses in the Palm. The simple problem is that Transmeta's chips are currently (and yes, this will likely change, but it's still currently true) too slow for the desktop and too power hungry for the Palmtop.
Although I don't have a link to this, they were using the tether in this case to boost a satelite into orbit not via electricity, but just by letting the tether out. It was not meant for power generation, just for getting the (in this case just a test satelite) object into orbit.
Hmm, been running a webserver on a Linux box since 1996 on a K6/233. Been on pretty much 24/7 since then. Have had a drive fail, but the MB and CPU are still alive and doing their job today.
Um, but if that's the case then maybe you shouldn't be having kids. If you have to work 2 incomes to keep the house afloat (which I understand certainly), then don't have the kids that you won't be able to give proper attention to.
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That's not entirely true. If you look on the right side of an artist page, you'll see a number called "Payback Earnings". If you click that, you'll note that there are stats on how many plays the artist has (from the webpage and "MP3 radio stations, etc"). The artists get compensated per play so it's hardly just in MP3.com's interest to promote their webpages. The artists make out as well.
PC-133 - Yes, this is "there" so long as you get CAS2 latency PC-133. It's reasonably priced (only a few $$ more than PC-100) and worth it.
PC-133+ - I doubt we'll see any pure SDRAM beyond PC-133 though who knows. I'd suspect DDR to take its place (or RAMBUS, ugh)
DDR - It's sampling and there should be chipsets to support it later this year for the Athlon, but it's not there yet. No word on coost
Various *ons - Duron will be a great value for what you get (it'll perform a little better than the classic Athlon I'd bet). Thunderbird will be better of course (released same time) but eventually it'll be cheap too. Socket A looks like a viable platform for more than a year.
Should I wait - Totally up to you. Prce/performance will always get better the longer you wait
Don't confuse mp3.com's main service with the my.mp3.com service. The former does in fact sign "unsigned" artists and gives them a distribution channel. The latter provides online access to copyrighted MP3s provided they've figured out that you own them (via their Beam-It application).
It's a shame that the latter will almost surely end up resulting in the destruction of the former as they had a LOT of good artists there.
If a device existed that allowed you to do that, then yes you would have a good copy. But as I understand it, all currently available DVD-RAM devices zero out a certain header field to indicate they are not pressed discs. I assume devices that true movie "pirates" have circumvent this measure.
Therefore, yes, CSS is just to prevent playing by unlicensed devices.
Once again I think the author should have called the utility playDVD or something similar instead of DeCSS.
Last night I was watching ABC News. They were showing some websites affected by the DoS attacks. Then the showed what the "hacker sees" as he does it (their words). They cut to a machine compiling something! Vaguely looked like Linux kernel, but it was only a brief screenshot...
Then they went on to say that even if people think they're smart, they're leaving their ID behind and showed what they called a "unique ID #" on every bit of network information. They displayed something like this: 128.1.5.666 (yes they actually had 666 for the last 3 digits of the IP address). They also failed to point out IP spoofing, etc.
Is it REALLY asking too much for journalists to know something about what they report on?
Uh...AMD turned a hefty profit last quarter ($0.43 per share) mostly due to higher ASPs off of Athlons. I see no reason this won't continue through Q1 and Q2 with more retailers signing on for Athlon chips (Gateway, IBM, etc).
Once again, I feel as if deCSS should have been named something like "playdvd" or "wathdvd". Yes, the same case probably would have come to be, but there's a lot in a name.
I know the judge commented with a few remarks towards watching DVDs and deCSS, but really, everyone (including the judge) still thinks this case is about piracy.
If the app were named different, I have a feeling the case would be about something much different.
This may sound trivial, but I think it warrants some consideration. Do you think you would have caused the uproar if your software had been called something like "playdvd" or "watchdvd" instead of decss? The latter would imply to an outside observer that it is something specifically designed to defeat css whereas the first two would seem "more legitimate" in my opinion. Comments?
Ok, I have to second Ancient Art of War and AAoWaS, those were by far the best games I ever played on my PCjr (and later XT). I wish I could still play them today, but alas modern computers are too fast for them.
The worst part of this is that if you read the article carefully, you'll note that it says on items over $1000, you have to pay an ADDITIONAL 6% tax (or 12% total), so on a $2000 computer, you'd have to pay $240 to the state!
I didn't mean to imply that it didn't stand for something, but the first reaction I heard someone have to Nazalcrom was my dad when he said (paraphrased), "That proves it, they've run out of names".
Uh, why not get the K6-2/3 line then? They're (especially the 3) on par or superior for the "business world" as you put it, and I'd presume the laptop's graphics interface would have more to do with its gaming ability than a CPU...AMD has some excellent K6 offerings in notebooks.
Sorry if I was confusing, but yes you're right the cache is off die from the Athlon, but on-cartridge, not on the motherboard. This means that motherboards don't need to include SDRAM themselves, just the processor cartridge, much the same as Slot-1 PII/PIII's (until Coppermine anyway).
Interestingly, it's been hinted at that AMD may leave the on-cartridge L2 cache on the cargtridge when they do move L2 on die. This would mean you'd have 128k L1, full speed, and 512k 1/2 speed-or-so L3 on the cartridge w/o the motherboard makers have to do a thing...
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Excuse me, but I was referring to Hemos's comments that amounted to a childish, "Look, DC sucks" when it'd already been posted.
I read Slashdot because in general the article quality is high, but this is just another opportunity for people to take a potshot at a company.
Geez, I love how moderators mod things up even though posts aren't based in reality.
3d-Now! is not merely an MMX extension. It was the first SIMD extension for floating point in the x86 architecture (Intel's SSE came later). It operates independently of MMX.
As for not being a substitute for your graphics card...well duh. But keep in mind that your CPU isn't doing nothing when pushing Quak3 out to the monitor. There's still the whole texture and lighting stage that must be done on the CPU (yes, Nvidia and all can get around this, but not all software uses those extensions).
As for "Is 3dNow used?", the answer is YES! Most modern video drivers actually incorproate 3dNow instructions in them as does some software. However, a lot of software prefers SSE since it's backed by the big guy. For reference though, the Athlon supports SSE prefetching just like the PIII.
As a small business owner, I should be able to collect some of this right? I publish software, therefore I'll expect a check from the government any day!
What do you mean it's only for big corporations??? Hey!
Excuse me? Their product release was compared to a Pentium III. And 1 watt is far more than the Dragonball uses in the Palm. The simple problem is that Transmeta's chips are currently (and yes, this will likely change, but it's still currently true) too slow for the desktop and too power hungry for the Palmtop.
Attack of the killer llamas? You don't mean LlamaTron do you?
Although I don't have a link to this, they were using the tether in this case to boost a satelite into orbit not via electricity, but just by letting the tether out. It was not meant for power generation, just for getting the (in this case just a test satelite) object into orbit.
Hmm, been running a webserver on a Linux box since 1996 on a K6/233. Been on pretty much 24/7 since then. Have had a drive fail, but the MB and CPU are still alive and doing their job today.
Actually, there's no reason the Duron's won't work on the upcoming 266 MHz DDR chipset boards either, so...
Um, but if that's the case then maybe you shouldn't be having kids. If you have to work 2 incomes to keep the house afloat (which I understand certainly), then don't have the kids that you won't be able to give proper attention to.
That's not entirely true. If you look on the right side of an artist page, you'll see a number called "Payback Earnings". If you click that, you'll note that there are stats on how many plays the artist has (from the webpage and "MP3 radio stations, etc"). The artists get compensated per play so it's hardly just in MP3.com's interest to promote their webpages. The artists make out as well.
PC-133 - Yes, this is "there" so long as you get CAS2 latency PC-133. It's reasonably priced (only a few $$ more than PC-100) and worth it.
PC-133+ - I doubt we'll see any pure SDRAM beyond PC-133 though who knows. I'd suspect DDR to take its place (or RAMBUS, ugh)
DDR - It's sampling and there should be chipsets to support it later this year for the Athlon, but it's not there yet. No word on coost
Various *ons - Duron will be a great value for what you get (it'll perform a little better than the classic Athlon I'd bet). Thunderbird will be better of course (released same time) but eventually it'll be cheap too. Socket A looks like a viable platform for more than a year.
Should I wait - Totally up to you. Prce/performance will always get better the longer you wait
Other factors? - Your budget
Actually mp3.com owned those CDs. If you attempt to beam a CD to them that they don't already own it doesn't work, so this argument is invalid.
Don't confuse mp3.com's main service with the my.mp3.com service. The former does in fact sign "unsigned" artists and gives them a distribution channel. The latter provides online access to copyrighted MP3s provided they've figured out that you own them (via their Beam-It application).
It's a shame that the latter will almost surely end up resulting in the destruction of the former as they had a LOT of good artists there.
If a device existed that allowed you to do that, then yes you would have a good copy. But as I understand it, all currently available DVD-RAM devices zero out a certain header field to indicate they are not pressed discs. I assume devices that true movie "pirates" have circumvent this measure.
Therefore, yes, CSS is just to prevent playing by unlicensed devices.
Once again I think the author should have called the utility playDVD or something similar instead of DeCSS.
Last night I was watching ABC News. They were showing some websites affected by the DoS attacks. Then the showed what the "hacker sees" as he does it (their words). They cut to a machine compiling something! Vaguely looked like Linux kernel, but it was only a brief screenshot...
Then they went on to say that even if people think they're smart, they're leaving their ID behind and showed what they called a "unique ID #" on every bit of network information. They displayed something like this:
128.1.5.666 (yes they actually had 666 for the last 3 digits of the IP address). They also failed to point out IP spoofing, etc.
Is it REALLY asking too much for journalists to know something about what they report on?
Uh...AMD turned a hefty profit last quarter ($0.43 per share) mostly due to higher ASPs off of Athlons. I see no reason this won't continue through Q1 and Q2 with more retailers signing on for Athlon chips (Gateway, IBM, etc).
Once again, I feel as if deCSS should have been named something like "playdvd" or "wathdvd". Yes, the same case probably would have come to be, but there's a lot in a name.
I know the judge commented with a few remarks towards watching DVDs and deCSS, but really, everyone (including the judge) still thinks this case is about piracy.
If the app were named different, I have a feeling the case would be about something much different.
This may sound trivial, but I think it warrants some consideration. Do you think you would have caused the uproar if your software had been called something like "playdvd" or "watchdvd" instead of decss? The latter would imply to an outside observer that it is something specifically designed to defeat css whereas the first two would seem "more legitimate" in my opinion. Comments?
Ok, I have to second Ancient Art of War and AAoWaS, those were by far the best games I ever played on my PCjr (and later XT). I wish I could still play them today, but alas modern computers are too fast for them.
The worst part of this is that if you read the article carefully, you'll note that it says on items over $1000, you have to pay an ADDITIONAL 6% tax (or 12% total), so on a $2000 computer, you'd have to pay $240 to the state!
I didn't mean to imply that it didn't stand for something, but the first reaction I heard someone have to Nazalcrom was my dad when he said (paraphrased), "That proves it, they've run out of names".
Nazalcrom
Uh, why not get the K6-2/3 line then? They're (especially the 3) on par or superior for the "business world" as you put it, and I'd presume the laptop's graphics interface would have more to do with its gaming ability than a CPU...AMD has some excellent K6 offerings in notebooks.
Sigh, slashdot ate some of my test cause it was in wacca's ... that should read:
128k L1
256k or so ondie full speed L2
512k 1/2 speed or so L3
all on the Slot-A catridge...
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Why does slashdot try to interpret HTML tags when I pick "Plain Old Text"????
Sorry if I was confusing, but yes you're right the cache is off die from the Athlon, but on-cartridge, not on the motherboard. This means that motherboards don't need to include SDRAM themselves, just the processor cartridge, much the same as Slot-1 PII/PIII's (until Coppermine anyway).
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Interestingly, it's been hinted at that AMD may leave the on-cartridge L2 cache on the cargtridge when they do move L2 on die. This would mean you'd have 128k L1, full speed, and 512k 1/2 speed-or-so L3 on the cartridge w/o the motherboard makers have to do a thing...
Yes multiprocessor boards will be nice