Mandrake knows how to run a business, it's the damn old CEO they had that was appointed by the SHAREHOLDERS that steered the company into Debtville. How many Mandrake posts do you need to read before this sinks into your thick skull?
At this point in time they have a new CEO who hopefully can bring some much-needed capital to the table. If he can get a shot of cash, or this Chapter 11 works out the right way, they can save their ass from the frying pan and get back on track.
After Enron and all the other debacles we've witnessed, everyone is well aware of how a CEO and the shareholders can kill a company. The engineers, Gael Duval, and all the other Mandrake folks have been doing a good job all along.
Invading canada was no more the "main cause" of the war than outrage over impressed sailors.
And as we all know too well, sailors are really easy to impress.
WTF are you talking about man? You've said impressed this or that once in each of your posts. Do you mean 'opressed' because there's a gigantic difference between the two.
I was illustrating a point and thus pulled some numbers from my nether regions. Thanks for supplying both a sharp razor and the hair to be split. Regardless of your nitpicking, it still stands that peak hp is made with much higher rpms than peak torque on most cars.
Now I recall that the ultra-low rpm torque number belongs to the new Neon SRT. The link is here: http://www.allpar.com/neon/neon-srt-4.html, scroll down and you'll find "SRT-4 offers continuous torque peak from 2000 rpm to 4800 rpm".
"Internal combustion engines generate torque (and HP) as their RPM's increase"
Well that's all up to the transmission, displacement, and a few other factors. Most cars generate peak torque low in the rpm range and higher horsepower as the rpms increase. Nearly every VTEC equipped Honda will generate peak torque around 3000-3500 rpms, while the peak hp comes at redline in each gear. On the other hand, your garden variety Subaru Impreza WRX generates peak torque at a low low 2200rpm, and peak hp near 6000rpm.
At any rate, comparing rc cars to full sized vehicles is just a ruse. Thanks for the insight.
Uh, yeah it is. Honda's been making cars that'll do 120mph with less than 90hp for decades. 97mph is a joke. Then again, I've never fully understood why cars in the US can go 120mph which is double the old national speed limit.
Last time I went to Best Buy...they're not the cheapest but they're definitely more expensive than winmodems or nics. Once broadband has enough penetration (maybe in 2020) modems will be a thing of the past.
I'd actually rather see all motherboards (at least the ones that try to save you cash/remove your options) shipped with nvidia embedded, an emu10k1 chip for audio (screw ac97 and the horrible codec/processor time it uses), and the Tulip chipset for nics.
Modems doing hardware processing is a pipe dream. No wait, it's nearly ancient history at this point as fewer and fewer manufacturers even build internal ones anymore. You can take solace in the fact that USR will probably always make a nice 56k serial port hardware modem for $200. It's amazing that over the years, external modems just never got cheaper.
Actually, you just did. Thanks for the insight. I tried using the Testdrive program around 2 years ago but it was just a disaster online. If it's improved I might take a look again.
Do they give you guys a time machine for the Test Drive program? From the page: "November 25, 2002
We have just added our fourth Itanium I system! This ProLiant DL590/64 is running Mandrake 8.1..."
It'd be difficult just to come up with a copy of 8.1 now. 8.2 has been out forever and a day, and 9.0 hit a few months ago. Is it due to Mandrake having an Itanium release that's based on a really old distro?
X developers have been trying to accelerate 3d in the S3 chipsets for nearly a decade now. DRI might actually produce something, but I doubt we'll see any bleeding turnips anytime soon.
Yeah S3 is the famous 'too little too late' company. Something has to be keeping them alive besides their chronic late-to-market and worse-than-others video chipsets.
I bet they're having fab problems, retoolilng for a.13 micron process isn't cheap or fast, and that's if they manufacture chips themselves, which I imagine they do.
Will anyone ever be able to provide a REAL alternative to Nvidia and ATI? I seriously doubt it. When you get to the level the Big Two have reached, cost of entry is insanely high, kinda like the Big Two of processors (Intel and AMD). There will always be one or two companies with products a few years behind in the technology race that have price on their side, but for performance, unfortunately, we just don't have much choice.
I'm not complaining though, my Geforce4 ti4200 runs like a champ, but it'd be nice to have more options in the future.
I'll agree with this. I've done my fair share of professional digital retouching, editing documents that were destined to be enormous (8' x 6' and no that's not a typo, that's FEET) can eat up all kinds of hd space and ram. Thank god I had a maxed-out powermac 9500 at the time (many years ago when p3 233's were all the rage). Those 300 dpi scans will end up printing at or close to 300 dpi, and a single 8 1/2" x 11" photo is massive at that res.
Just for fun try to scan something that's ridiculously large and stitch the image together. Something unusually shaped...and do it on a schedule with your boss going nuts about the rush. Also make sure the thing is damn ancient (circa 1855), fragile, and full of mismatched/aged/faded colors. Oh the horror of digital retouching. I don't miss it for a second.
Hmm, sounds like you worked the same place I did years ago...Glamour Shots world HQ using the Pegasus LED printer. Not laser but LED's on a drum that printed hella fast onto photographic paper.
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You should try Mandrake 9. The hardware support is there, recompiling the kernel is pointless since nearly all of the options for the kernel are modules and are already built for you. Modprobe whatever, and it's there.
Talk to Microsoft about the moving target that is NTFS. I think last time I checked there were 4 or more iterations out there. It's hard to pin down reliable NTFS write support because of this. FAT32 is FAT32 but NTFS can be any of a number of things.
Joe User will only benefit when he learns about the good alternatives to his old favorites. KDE has done alot to supply this (excellent email and browser) and other apps fill the gap. Wine is only necessary for a small subset of apps for which there is no analog in linux, like DirectX games and other stuff.
Why should they band together for a packaging system? Texstar already has synaptic and apt-get implemented and downloadable in rpm format.
If things keep going like this, Debian people will have nothing to hold up as being 'unique' or 'superior'. All they'll have left is apparent 'leetness from installing such a difficult distro.
Um, yeah...that's a shitload of carbs. As most athletes know, you can 'carb load' by eating alot of pasta like this the night before competition. The next day you'll have lots of long-term energy reserves stored up. The drawback is that you don't have much energy that night because the complex carbo chains get stored almost immediately; they're slow-burning as well, so they will make you feel sluggish.
For a quick boost eat some chicken (not some greasy fried crap either) or some type of meat soup. The proteins are easier to break down and the soup makes it easier for your body to put it to use i.e. less time soaking into your colon.
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Mandrake knows how to run a business, it's the damn old CEO they had that was appointed by the SHAREHOLDERS that steered the company into Debtville. How many Mandrake posts do you need to read before this sinks into your thick skull?
At this point in time they have a new CEO who hopefully can bring some much-needed capital to the table. If he can get a shot of cash, or this Chapter 11 works out the right way, they can save their ass from the frying pan and get back on track.
After Enron and all the other debacles we've witnessed, everyone is well aware of how a CEO and the shareholders can kill a company. The engineers, Gael Duval, and all the other Mandrake folks have been doing a good job all along.
Ah, now I see. Enlightenment comes at the cost of karma.
Invading canada was no more the "main cause" of the war than outrage over impressed sailors.
And as we all know too well, sailors are really easy to impress.
WTF are you talking about man? You've said impressed this or that once in each of your posts. Do you mean 'opressed' because there's a gigantic difference between the two.
Just build it to match the Lexus prototype in Minority Report. It'll sell billions.
I was illustrating a point and thus pulled some numbers from my nether regions. Thanks for supplying both a sharp razor and the hair to be split. Regardless of your nitpicking, it still stands that peak hp is made with much higher rpms than peak torque on most cars.
Now I recall that the ultra-low rpm torque number belongs to the new Neon SRT. The link is here: http://www.allpar.com/neon/neon-srt-4.html, scroll down and you'll find "SRT-4 offers continuous torque peak from 2000 rpm to 4800 rpm".
Oh yeah? I'll find this...this "one" and give him a good 'what for'.
"Of course, then you've just invented the four wheel version of the Tron Light Cycle."
It'll bring a whole new dimension of fun and entertainment to cutting people off in traffic.
"Internal combustion engines generate torque (and HP) as their RPM's increase"
Well that's all up to the transmission, displacement, and a few other factors. Most cars generate peak torque low in the rpm range and higher horsepower as the rpms increase. Nearly every VTEC equipped Honda will generate peak torque around 3000-3500 rpms, while the peak hp comes at redline in each gear. On the other hand, your garden variety Subaru Impreza WRX generates peak torque at a low low 2200rpm, and peak hp near 6000rpm.
At any rate, comparing rc cars to full sized vehicles is just a ruse. Thanks for the insight.
"97+ MPH out of 130ish horespower is not bad."
Uh, yeah it is. Honda's been making cars that'll do 120mph with less than 90hp for decades. 97mph is a joke. Then again, I've never fully understood why cars in the US can go 120mph which is double the old national speed limit.
"there will be holes in the floor and you will be both driving and steering with your feet"
Ah yes, a page from the infamous Flintstones Big Book of Engineering.
Too bad they couldn't prevent the cars from tipping over when you slap a rack of Brontosaurus ribs on the driver's side door.
Last time I went to Best Buy...they're not the cheapest but they're definitely more expensive than winmodems or nics. Once broadband has enough penetration (maybe in 2020) modems will be a thing of the past.
Well, we can all dream, can't we?
I'd actually rather see all motherboards (at least the ones that try to save you cash/remove your options) shipped with nvidia embedded, an emu10k1 chip for audio (screw ac97 and the horrible codec/processor time it uses), and the Tulip chipset for nics.
Modems doing hardware processing is a pipe dream. No wait, it's nearly ancient history at this point as fewer and fewer manufacturers even build internal ones anymore. You can take solace in the fact that USR will probably always make a nice 56k serial port hardware modem for $200. It's amazing that over the years, external modems just never got cheaper.
"I may work for HP, but I don't speak for them."
Actually, you just did. Thanks for the insight. I tried using the Testdrive program around 2 years ago but it was just a disaster online. If it's improved I might take a look again.
Again, thanks for the clues.
As long as there are no more crappy Intel i810 chips integrated into motherboards, people should be happy.
Do they give you guys a time machine for the Test Drive program? From the page: "November 25, 2002
We have just added our fourth Itanium I system! This ProLiant DL590/64 is running Mandrake 8.1..."
It'd be difficult just to come up with a copy of 8.1 now. 8.2 has been out forever and a day, and 9.0 hit a few months ago. Is it due to Mandrake having an Itanium release that's based on a really old distro?
Maybe that's just a clear sign that BSD is dying? Alot less demand than a linux distro announcement would create....
Slow, sucky, and super late?
X developers have been trying to accelerate 3d in the S3 chipsets for nearly a decade now. DRI might actually produce something, but I doubt we'll see any bleeding turnips anytime soon.
Yeah S3 is the famous 'too little too late' company. Something has to be keeping them alive besides their chronic late-to-market and worse-than-others video chipsets.
.13 micron process isn't cheap or fast, and that's if they manufacture chips themselves, which I imagine they do.
I bet they're having fab problems, retoolilng for a
Will anyone ever be able to provide a REAL alternative to Nvidia and ATI? I seriously doubt it. When you get to the level the Big Two have reached, cost of entry is insanely high, kinda like the Big Two of processors (Intel and AMD). There will always be one or two companies with products a few years behind in the technology race that have price on their side, but for performance, unfortunately, we just don't have much choice.
I'm not complaining though, my Geforce4 ti4200 runs like a champ, but it'd be nice to have more options in the future.
I'll agree with this. I've done my fair share of professional digital retouching, editing documents that were destined to be enormous (8' x 6' and no that's not a typo, that's FEET) can eat up all kinds of hd space and ram. Thank god I had a maxed-out powermac 9500 at the time (many years ago when p3 233's were all the rage). Those 300 dpi scans will end up printing at or close to 300 dpi, and a single 8 1/2" x 11" photo is massive at that res.
Just for fun try to scan something that's ridiculously large and stitch the image together. Something unusually shaped...and do it on a schedule with your boss going nuts about the rush. Also make sure the thing is damn ancient (circa 1855), fragile, and full of mismatched/aged/faded colors. Oh the horror of digital retouching. I don't miss it for a second.
Hmm, sounds like you worked the same place I did years ago...Glamour Shots world HQ using the Pegasus LED printer. Not laser but LED's on a drum that printed hella fast onto photographic paper.
You should try Mandrake 9. The hardware support is there, recompiling the kernel is pointless since nearly all of the options for the kernel are modules and are already built for you. Modprobe whatever, and it's there.
Talk to Microsoft about the moving target that is NTFS. I think last time I checked there were 4 or more iterations out there. It's hard to pin down reliable NTFS write support because of this. FAT32 is FAT32 but NTFS can be any of a number of things.
Joe User will only benefit when he learns about the good alternatives to his old favorites. KDE has done alot to supply this (excellent email and browser) and other apps fill the gap. Wine is only necessary for a small subset of apps for which there is no analog in linux, like DirectX games and other stuff.
Why should they band together for a packaging system? Texstar already has synaptic and apt-get implemented and downloadable in rpm format.
If things keep going like this, Debian people will have nothing to hold up as being 'unique' or 'superior'. All they'll have left is apparent 'leetness from installing such a difficult distro.
...or has nearly every interesting link to anything been instantly /.'ed within minutes of the article getting posted?
Jesus, people, get some real servers for crying out loud.
Um, yeah...that's a shitload of carbs. As most athletes know, you can 'carb load' by eating alot of pasta like this the night before competition. The next day you'll have lots of long-term energy reserves stored up. The drawback is that you don't have much energy that night because the complex carbo chains get stored almost immediately; they're slow-burning as well, so they will make you feel sluggish.
For a quick boost eat some chicken (not some greasy fried crap either) or some type of meat soup. The proteins are easier to break down and the soup makes it easier for your body to put it to use i.e. less time soaking into your colon.