I'm using it as a fitness tracker. I'm tracking steps with Pedometer++, booking exercise with the exercise app, tracking weight with MyFitnessPal, and seeing the results with a Withings Smart Scale every morning talking to MyFitnessPal. I've lost 12 pounds so far, and I'm motivated now to lose 28 or 38 more. I'm also using it as a sleep tracker.
It's an excellent companion device for driving. I like the taps on the wrist for directions.
I like the seamless integration with the Apple ecosystem.
The battery life could be better, but since I'm sitting at a desk all day, periodically I'll charge it to keep it near 100%. I'll also charge it when I'm watching Netflix at the end of the day. I haven't yet had a day when I'm away from power for an extended period of time. That'll happen later this year when I go to football games.
I dont mind having to bring my phone with my everywhere to get the most out of the watch, since I do that anyway.
I'm able to use it as a sleep tracker since I don't need to charge it overnight. That's been fantastic.
Some of the apps have been great, some are still a work in progress.
I'd at least do a google search on UMIST before I complained about it in a flame. I wouldnt say "where the hell is UMIST or whatever and why should I trust it?"
Also, tell you the truth, I didnt even know that DePaul had that server!
And thats just for undergrads! I can tell you this: Any graduate from CTI in the past 20 years must be smarter than all of the programmers what's left of the Internet Explorer unit combined!
Maybe if Microsoft, oh, didnt let IE atrophy into a piece of garbage then maybe he wouldnt be whining to internet.
Also, there is no way your Firefox install was that torturous. You can quit bullshitting people.
Mock Firefox if you will, random microsoft blogger, but since IE is the proverbial hare to Firefox's turtle, we'll zoom ahead of IE in the code signing area soon. Little incremental improvements instead of trying to hit a home run.
Customers wont buy it. If the record companies want to fool themselves that this will end piracy, its their money to spend. Fools and their money will be soon parted. If this hastens the demise of the music monopoly, hallelujah!
Then again, I nevern thought the Cubs and Red Sox would play meaningful games in october. Oh, wait, that's happening.
As for SunComm, look, you got caught with your pants down. Cry me a river. Sue every keyboard manufacturer on the planet. Sue every university. Sue here, sue there, sue everywhere. Heck, sue yourself.
Your encryption is a joke. We do what we want with your computers. We buy CDs with your "technology" when we damn well feel like it. If we disable autorun, you cant complain. Its OUR computer.
I simply dont see why using paper ballots is such a bad idea.
Without a verifiable voter trail, the potential for fraud is massive. VeriSign has been less than trustworthy these days. Lets all spike this immediately so that it never happens.
I wonder how big VeriSign contributes to Republican politicians?
This whole electronic voting thing is a major league mess. If these e-voting machines printed out a paper ballot, there would be no problem. Democracy is too important. Take the time, and do it right so that our next election will be true beyond any reasonable doubt.
If anything, vote absentee. Do NOT vote electronically.
OK Dieboldt, do you really think that suing computer scientists will give you any good PR?
Look, your voting software has more holes than swiss cheese. We are willing to help you, but there are some requirements you must follow.
1) your voting machines must have a printer attached 2) the votes must be counted electronically, optically, and by humans 3) if the printout doesnt match whats on screen, then remove the machine. 4) the paper ballot is the final record.
Look let the computer science community improve your software. We all want the election to go through in an error-free way. No one wants a florida to happen again.
But, if you fight this tooth and nail, you will have no fiercer enemy. Ignore the Slashdot nation at your own peril
Even though Barr is out of Congress, he's still an influential Republican who can spread word to those still in power. He's more of a libertarian, but unless the specifications and implmentations of the Trusted Computing stuff comes to light, we should all cast a weary eye on it. A lack of vigilance in this day and age should not be an excuse for complaining about lost rights. We can fight this battle now before the TCPA is shoved down our throats, and more importantly, we can fight with our wallets. Why should we buy computers that we cannot control? As a computer programmer, the TCPA scares me.
Since when did SCO take the RIAA approach of suing customers?
No sane IT person will buy a license. SCO must show their code.
Most likely, SCO's code is prior art, not theirs to claim, or they just dont have anything.
I see the SEC maybe investigating a pump n dump scheme by SCO execs, as well as the better business bureau investigating complains by millions of pissed off linux users.
Even then, SCO has no case because I can still download source RPMs from SCO's ftp servers. They're distributing, under the GPL, the very code they're claiming was illegally inserted. They have no case under the GPL. I hope they just crawl up and die.
IBM must be glad that it has the entire linux community doing research work for Big Blue's legal team. Obviously, IBM has contracts and whatnot, but this has gotta be helping. Go IBM! You guys rock helping out linux and helping out Apple with the G5 (970)
No, thats bullshit. The telecom companies have tons of unused fiber. The telecom industry needs to put it to use. That should stopt he problem for now. However, insert a priorty based system for p2p. Make it so slow that its almost useless to use -- for most systems. Or just dial down the speed of it. Most networks are fine, just badly configured
In 1999, I saw the Matrix 3 times in theaters - $25 I already saw the movie in theaters once. $10. I will see it with my dad. $20 I bought the first Matrix DVD. $20 I bought the Matrix Revisited DVD $20 I will buy the Animatrix DVD -- unknown cost. I will buy Reloaded on DVD - $20 I will see Revolutions, twice in theaters, $20 I will buy Revolutions on DVD - $20
Lets see. I spent (or will spend) at least $155 dollars on a high quality movie trilogy. I really like the movie. I might even buy the videogame.
The Matrix Reloaded has made $355 million dollars. In two weeks. It could easily make upwards of $1 Billion. The first one might have made that much when everything globally is added up. Production costs for all 3 movies, I am guessing are at least $350 million dollars (Matrix - 50, Reloaded, 150, Revolutions, 150).
The movie studio is turning a profit from a well-made movie with a huge following. They are decrying the very themes the movie espouses (hacking -- I mean cracking:), deviant behavior, pirate broadcasting, fighting power). Ironic. For all the money turned over to them, they are not happy. For all the profit they are making on an excellent work, they are not happy.
If you want to completely eliminate movie piracy, do not make movies. Somewhere, someone will use a DVcam and film a movie. Somewhere, someone will bribe a pimply-faced projection operator to transfer a film print onto a computer. Somewhere, someone will use DeCSS to watch a DVD they BOUGHT to remove territorial restrictions. Maybe someone with less ethics will make it widely available to downloaders everwhere else.
Billions of dollars. Many hours involved in a fictional story by millions of people. That money could have easily have gone elsewhere, whether the movie was "pirated" or not. You made a good movie. Be happy. We are paying to see it. Laugh to the bank. Gleefully. Keep making good movies and you will have our business. Just accept the fact that some people will redistribute copies of movies. If it gets people to be bigger fans of movies, then its just a cost of business.
Microsoft doesnt care too much about piracy. Why? People get hooked on their software like drug addicts. When they get in a corporate environment, its what they know. Their companies want to be properly licensed, so they pay for software.
Look at Macromedia. People download and crack trials of their software. They learn how to use it. When they get into corporate environments, they have users who will put it to good use and put it on a corporate expense account.
Piracy will always happen. Get over it and spend money on making GOOD movies, not inane shit. Your industry has the luxury of making people pay for movies before seeing them. True, somone can download a crappy cam version, but to see it in full cinematic glory on a digital projection screen is well worth the money being charged. Be happy. For your own sake and bottom line. After all, the Matrix is not ISHTAR
The thing to remember is that the PowerPC is originally based on the IBM POWER chip -- a native 64 bit chip that can do 32 bit programs as well.
IBM tends to undersestimate and overproduce. They arent just making it for Apple, they will put the 970 in their own Linux blade servers and NetVista boxes for financial stuff. Also, the 970 is a variant of the POWER4 dualcore Risc monster processor in IBMs big server iron.
IBM doesnt screw around. Motorola is becoming irrelevant.
Heres another key reason why this chip might actually be as fast as MacBidoulle claims:
The system bus runs at 900 MHZ. The current mac system bus runs at 167 mhz. Think about it. A 900 lane highway vs a 167 lane highway? This chip will have monstrous bandwith. And the power consumption will be reduced a big deal as well..
The 970, being a 64 bit chip, allows more memory than 4GB, the current 32 bit limit. Servers need more than 4 gigs, especially IBM's monster iron.
10 years ago my Mac used 32 MB's of ram. Now its up to 768 megs. Sooner or later, it will go past 4 gigs. Better to get this transition done now than later.
The current PPCs (The g4s) are wide, but shallow. The much faster Pentium 4s are deep but narrow.
This is a guess, and if any cpu engineer wants to help out, id appreciate it. The P4 stuffs all execution data down the pipe as fast as it can. If there's a break in the chain of execution instructions, the whole chain must be shoved down the pipe again.
The G4 spreads it all out over multiple pipes, but the pipes arent deep. The main work is figuring out which pipe is free to shove stuff into.
This is a gross simplification, so please bear with me.
The 970, on the other hand, has more pipes than the G4 and the Pentium 4, but the pipes are deeper than the P4. So it can stuff a whole ton of stuff down and be very efficient. Wide and deep. Theres a bit of a tradeoff, but the chip is just engineered much better.
I read the Ars technica article a long time ago and the IBM PDF file a while ago too. I would not be suprised if the data on Mac Bidoulle is accurate.
I am waiting for apple to stuff a 970 into a PowerBook, preferably the 15 inch one. I am waiting on that for my next computer. I do not want the G4. The Mobo on the G4 just doesnt have a wide enough bus to suck up massive amounts of data. The 970 mobo will.
The 970 mobo will be 900 Mhz. Intel has the 533 mhz mobo and soon will have the 800 mhz mobo.
Motorola and Apple were fighting about how to make the data path on the mobo. Motorola had the chips, they were just being strange. Motorola's problems stunted apple with the g4 for a long time. Apple had to overclock the g4 so much that the g4 tower got obscenely loud.
I welcome the 970 and want it in a Mac ASAP. I think that WWCD was delayed to show the developers the chip and a version of Panther that will have it. Bring it on! Lets see IBM take on Intel in the chipmaking business.
I didnt say that I would share my files with the rest of the planet. Ever since I learned that the Labels would be fighting back, Ive leeched isntead of shared.
I dont want them hacking me regardless of what I do. I dont want to be an innocent bystander. I want Apple's new service to work, so I will pirate files less and less.
I pay to see movies, and I can pay to download music too. I just dont want my computer raped.
I also dont want filesharing to be criminalized in any way shape or form or that the RIAA will have powers that usually a government agency would have.
Vigilante Justice will NOT be tolerated. They do not want the wrath of the Telecom industy and ISPs, who will gladly turn over reams of data detailing these illegal denial of service attacks.
They also do not want computer scientists angry at them. They have no right to go into my computer and erase MP3s of some CDs that I owned and ripped.
The RIAA does not have the power to do that. They are a trade organization, period. They are not judge, jury and executioner. They will be well advised not to start a war with us.
I have a better idea: The RIAA should ignore the fact that the internet exists. It will save them and us a lot of grief.
It never ceases to amaze me how incredibly naive these public relations and marketing folks are. Their intentions to "pitch a blog" to sell products will backfire. ]
[small objection -- for free beer I will shill anything that isnt milwaukee's best light. I'll tell everyone that im shilling the beer and then ill invite friends over to swill the shilled beer]
Blogs -- especially blogs that have been around for a while -- have established readership that knows what to expect. Blogs are set up as a portal of independent thought -- a diary. If we want mass market media, we read the newspapers of the content cartel.
The established readership of a blog will probably sniff the bullshit out and go somewhere else.
I wonder if anyone else sees that in that annoying Dr. Pepper ad, there is a representative of every single race in america. I dont see any asian men or black men, but the asian chick and the black chick are dancing to country music. There probably are a lot of asian and black women at a country revue in Nashville (or at least what Manhattan and Madison avenue think of Nashville).
The funniest thing is that grizzled old dude on the spoons. What the hell?!?
[this/. post brought to you by Doctor Pepper. Be hip - do what you do - Drink Dr. Pepper]
I dont like this at all. Concentrating internet access in the hands of fewer and fewer companies will lead to easier censoring by the concent cartel. The bells will be able to raise prices and act irresponsibly.
Michael Powell is a deregulation whore! Does this happen ever stinking recession?
RIAA, you guys really dont know your customers at all. Especially College Kids.
College Kids do not have a lot of money. The money we do have goes to our educations, drinking beer, paying off cell phone bills, and renting/buying DVD's. Yep, DVDs. You have a legitimate deterrent to people buying CD's. It's called competition and you are losing mindshare. Heck, you are almost becoming irrelevant. In this day and age, what college student can spend $20 on a CD when that $20 dollars can go to either a DVD, a movie at a theater, a couple of beers at a bar, or blank cds?
That isnt to say that blank cd's deserve a levy out of fear of piracy. I have a digital camera and use it extensively. A lot of college kids do the same. I fill up my hard drive fast, and I use blanks to back it up. Why, if I use blanks for legitimate purposes, should I have to pay off an industry fighting for relevance? No taxation w/o representation, you goddamn burglars!
Also, you guys are burglars. You guys have been convicted of price fixing. I reallly dont believe anything you say anymore.
You guys have to pay radio stations to play music and you ignore culturally wide tastes in music to make a quick buck. Make us happy and we buy your products. We are customers, not consumers. If I buy a Britney Spears cd and use it as a colonoscopy kit, thats my business. It is at that time MY property, not yours. CD's arent loaned or leased, they are bought and sold. I would never claim that the content on the CD is mine unless I was part of it. My high school choir many years ago put out a christmas cd. I can do whatever I want with that CD because it's no longer in print and I want the music out. I dont see you guys opening up your vaults. That's just greedy hoarding, you culture-killers.
College is an environment that independent thought and free speech. You guys want to stop free speech in order to influence us to buy your stuff. We arent interested in buying your material because you impede on free speech. Freedom of speech is not freedom to steal in this case. I might piss you off, but thats your loss. By entering into a public arena, you must face public scrutiny. Is the music business really ready to be under the heat lamp? I dont think so.
There is a value of paying for music. I would love to go to a best buy or a borders, swipe my credit card and plug in my ipod to download DRM-less mp3s. I will not buy any service that restricts my right. Customers have only so many dollars and we wont buy anything that looks and sounds fishy. Tough, just take it or leave it.
I will pay $1 for an album consisting of mp3 or mp4 WITHOUT DRM, and a PDF or flash movie for the cover. This is an online download. If you want a cd, you should pay more and it should be burned at the store. This will save you guys a SHITLOAD of money. Wake up and smell the coffee.
This isnt just for the RIAA, but also for the ASCAP-type institutions that are holding this up too. Work together or die separately.
Suing colleges and college students lowers expectations. You really think you can arrest or scare millions of students across the globe? You may have a slew of lawsuits, but that will just spur more people on to piss you off.
Does the content cartel really want to shut down the internet? I know Jack Valenti once tried to ban the VCR, and now Hollywood is dependent on the profits that rentals and tapes and DVDs create. Dont be a technophobe! Dont waste money on lawyers!
There are some problems to p2p applications like kazaa. One, is a risk of viruses. A central source would eliminate that. A second is bandwith hogging. That can be fixed by limiting p2p ports and streams. Colleges dont want you guys to tell them to monitor their students. What if someone is downloading gigabytes of linux isos and you guys freak out? How the hell do you think college administrators feel like dealing with your hired guns that practice bounty hunter tactics? That is shameful and I would just ignore it.
Make your customer happy and give them what they want and youll have money. Love, not war. The customer is always right .
Slashdot shouldn't jump every time the RIAA does somethining....
Yeah, we should jump on their fat asses every time the RIAA so much as sneezes.
If the RIAA had their way, I would not have my iPod, they would hack your computer on suspicion of mp3 piracy with impunity and they'd haul your ass in a court just filing a piece of paper with a court clerk.
Due Process? Innocent before proven guilty? That as much as chance for survival as a plate full of food does when Hilary Rosen goes to Old Country Buffet.
If all the RIAA did was focus on the criminals that resell bootleg recordings for profit and stick to solely music related devices, we wouldnt complain about the. The minute that overfed egotistic anachronistic trade association decided it would be in the best interest of their bottom line to reprogram our computers and turn back the clock AND bludgeon us with lawyers, they declared war on the IT community.
Just look at how the USS RIAA is doing by looking at the cover of Wired Magazine:
RIP MIX BURN -- The Death of the Recording Industry.
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Just use 1password everywhere. I've used it since 2010 and it works beautifully on phones
Disconnect the things, or failing that, put it in a soundproof box, or wrap it with duct tape. Lots of duct tape.
There should be a choice to install these things, an informed choice!
I'm using it as a fitness tracker. I'm tracking steps with Pedometer++, booking exercise with the exercise app, tracking weight with MyFitnessPal, and seeing the results with a Withings Smart Scale every morning talking to MyFitnessPal. I've lost 12 pounds so far, and I'm motivated now to lose 28 or 38 more. I'm also using it as a sleep tracker.
It's an excellent companion device for driving. I like the taps on the wrist for directions.
I like the seamless integration with the Apple ecosystem.
The battery life could be better, but since I'm sitting at a desk all day, periodically I'll charge it to keep it near 100%. I'll also charge it when I'm watching Netflix at the end of the day. I haven't yet had a day when I'm away from power for an extended period of time. That'll happen later this year when I go to football games.
I dont mind having to bring my phone with my everywhere to get the most out of the watch, since I do that anyway.
I'm able to use it as a sleep tracker since I don't need to charge it overnight. That's been fantastic.
Some of the apps have been great, some are still a work in progress.
I'm still very happy with it
I bought iWork 09 several years ago (before the app store existed) and was surprised to see it upgraded on one of my laptops!
Thanks Apple!
I'd at least do a google search on UMIST before I complained about it in a flame. I wouldnt say "where the hell is UMIST or whatever and why should I trust it?"
Also, tell you the truth, I didnt even know that DePaul had that server!
Whats wrong with being parochial?
Here's what else DePaul offers in CTI
And thats just for undergrads! I can tell you this: Any graduate from CTI in the past 20 years must be smarter than all of the programmers what's left of the Internet Explorer unit combined!
Maybe if Microsoft, oh, didnt let IE atrophy into a piece of garbage then maybe he wouldnt be whining to internet.
Also, there is no way your Firefox install was that torturous. You can quit bullshitting people.
Mock Firefox if you will, random microsoft blogger, but since IE is the proverbial hare to Firefox's turtle, we'll zoom ahead of IE in the code signing area soon. Little incremental improvements instead of trying to hit a home run.
Customers wont buy it. If the record companies want to fool themselves that this will end piracy, its their money to spend. Fools and their money will be soon parted. If this hastens the demise of the music monopoly, hallelujah!
This is hilarious. Microsoft is being beaten at their own game by someone else reverse-engineering their product!!!! Go Samba!
Then again, I nevern thought the Cubs and Red Sox would play meaningful games in october. Oh, wait, that's happening.
As for SunComm, look, you got caught with your pants down. Cry me a river. Sue every keyboard manufacturer on the planet. Sue every university. Sue here, sue there, sue everywhere. Heck, sue yourself.
Your encryption is a joke. We do what we want with your computers. We buy CDs with your "technology" when we damn well feel like it. If we disable autorun, you cant complain. Its OUR computer.
Next time invent a better mousetrap
I simply dont see why using paper ballots is such a bad idea.
Without a verifiable voter trail, the potential for fraud is massive. VeriSign has been less than trustworthy these days. Lets all spike this immediately so that it never happens.
I wonder how big VeriSign contributes to Republican politicians?
This whole electronic voting thing is a major league mess. If these e-voting machines printed out a paper ballot, there would be no problem. Democracy is too important. Take the time, and do it right so that our next election will be true beyond any reasonable doubt.
If anything, vote absentee. Do NOT vote electronically.
OK Dieboldt, do you really think that suing computer scientists will give you any good PR?
Look, your voting software has more holes than swiss cheese. We are willing to help you, but there are some requirements you must follow.
1) your voting machines must have a printer attached
2) the votes must be counted electronically, optically, and by humans
3) if the printout doesnt match whats on screen, then remove the machine.
4) the paper ballot is the final record.
Look let the computer science community improve your software. We all want the election to go through in an error-free way. No one wants a florida to happen again.
But, if you fight this tooth and nail, you will have no fiercer enemy. Ignore the Slashdot nation at your own peril
Even though Barr is out of Congress, he's still an influential Republican who can spread word to those still in power. He's more of a libertarian, but unless the specifications and implmentations of the Trusted Computing stuff comes to light, we should all cast a weary eye on it. A lack of vigilance in this day and age should not be an excuse for complaining about lost rights. We can fight this battle now before the TCPA is shoved down our throats, and more importantly, we can fight with our wallets. Why should we buy computers that we cannot control? As a computer programmer, the TCPA scares me.
Since when did SCO take the RIAA approach of suing customers?
No sane IT person will buy a license. SCO must show their code.
Most likely, SCO's code is prior art, not theirs to claim, or they just dont have anything.
I see the SEC maybe investigating a pump n dump scheme by SCO execs, as well as the better business bureau investigating complains by millions of pissed off linux users.
Even then, SCO has no case because I can still download source RPMs from SCO's ftp servers. They're distributing, under the GPL, the very code they're claiming was illegally inserted. They have no case under the GPL. I hope they just crawl up and die.
IBM must be glad that it has the entire linux community doing research work for Big Blue's legal team. Obviously, IBM has contracts and whatnot, but this has gotta be helping. Go IBM! You guys rock helping out linux and helping out Apple with the G5 (970)
No, thats bullshit.
The telecom companies have tons of unused fiber. The telecom industry needs to put it to use.
That should stopt he problem for now.
However, insert a priorty based system for p2p. Make it so slow that its almost useless to use -- for most systems.
Or just dial down the speed of it.
Most networks are fine, just badly configured
In 1999, I saw the Matrix 3 times in theaters - $25
:), deviant behavior, pirate broadcasting, fighting power). Ironic. For all the money turned over to them, they are not happy. For all the profit they are making on an excellent work, they are not happy.
I already saw the movie in theaters once. $10.
I will see it with my dad. $20
I bought the first Matrix DVD. $20
I bought the Matrix Revisited DVD $20
I will buy the Animatrix DVD -- unknown cost.
I will buy Reloaded on DVD - $20
I will see Revolutions, twice in theaters, $20
I will buy Revolutions on DVD - $20
Lets see. I spent (or will spend) at least $155 dollars on a high quality movie trilogy. I really like the movie. I might even buy the videogame.
The Matrix Reloaded has made $355 million dollars. In two weeks. It could easily make upwards of $1 Billion. The first one might have made that much when everything globally is added up.
Production costs for all 3 movies, I am guessing are at least $350 million dollars (Matrix - 50, Reloaded, 150, Revolutions, 150).
The movie studio is turning a profit from a well-made movie with a huge following. They are decrying the very themes the movie espouses (hacking -- I mean cracking
If you want to completely eliminate movie piracy, do not make movies. Somewhere, someone will use a DVcam and film a movie. Somewhere, someone will bribe a pimply-faced projection operator to transfer a film print onto a computer.
Somewhere, someone will use DeCSS to watch a DVD they BOUGHT to remove territorial restrictions. Maybe someone with less ethics will make it widely available to downloaders everwhere else.
Billions of dollars. Many hours involved in a fictional story by millions of people. That money could have easily have gone elsewhere, whether the movie was "pirated" or not. You made a good movie. Be happy. We are paying to see it. Laugh to the bank. Gleefully. Keep making good movies and you will have our business. Just accept the fact that some people will redistribute copies of movies. If it gets people to be bigger fans of movies, then its just a cost of business.
Microsoft doesnt care too much about piracy. Why? People get hooked on their software like drug addicts. When they get in a corporate environment, its what they know. Their companies want to be properly licensed, so they pay for software.
Look at Macromedia. People download and crack trials of their software. They learn how to use it. When they get into corporate environments, they have users who will put it to good use and put it on a corporate expense account.
Piracy will always happen. Get over it and spend money on making GOOD movies, not inane shit. Your industry has the luxury of making people pay for movies before seeing them. True, somone can download a crappy cam version, but to see it in full cinematic glory on a digital projection screen is well worth the money being charged. Be happy. For your own sake and bottom line.
After all, the Matrix is not ISHTAR
Thank you for getting this article out! I need a new Mac with this new chip ASAP!
Do you mean the squabbling over the bus interconnect for the 8500 series PPC chip, the oft-delayed G5?
Or is it in the past, like when apple decided to use the PPC over the 68080 chip?
Motorola makes PPCs for cisco routers and other products too, right?
All this seems very nice.
Lets get it out now.
The thing to remember is that the PowerPC is originally based on the IBM POWER chip -- a native 64 bit chip that can do 32 bit programs as well.
IBM tends to undersestimate and overproduce. They arent just making it for Apple, they will put the 970 in their own Linux blade servers and NetVista boxes for financial stuff. Also, the 970 is a variant of the POWER4 dualcore Risc monster processor in IBMs big server iron.
IBM doesnt screw around. Motorola is becoming irrelevant.
Heres another key reason why this chip might actually be as fast as MacBidoulle claims:
The system bus runs at 900 MHZ. The current mac system bus runs at 167 mhz. Think about it. A 900 lane highway vs a 167 lane highway? This chip will have monstrous bandwith. And the power consumption will be reduced a big deal as well..
Look at this official IBM presentation from last october
and this ArsTechnica review as well
The 970, being a 64 bit chip, allows more memory than 4GB, the current 32 bit limit. Servers need more than 4 gigs, especially IBM's monster iron.
10 years ago my Mac used 32 MB's of ram. Now its up to 768 megs. Sooner or later, it will go past 4 gigs. Better to get this transition done now than later.
The current PPCs (The g4s) are wide, but shallow. The much faster Pentium 4s are deep but narrow.
This is a guess, and if any cpu engineer wants to help out, id appreciate it.
The P4 stuffs all execution data down the pipe as fast as it can. If there's a break in the chain of execution instructions, the whole chain must be shoved down the pipe again.
The G4 spreads it all out over multiple pipes, but the pipes arent deep. The main work is figuring out which pipe is free to shove stuff into.
This is a gross simplification, so please bear with me.
The 970, on the other hand, has more pipes than the G4 and the Pentium 4, but the pipes are deeper than the P4. So it can stuff a whole ton of stuff down and be very efficient. Wide and deep. Theres a bit of a tradeoff, but the chip is just engineered much better.
I read the Ars technica article a long time ago and the IBM PDF file a while ago too. I would not be suprised if the data on Mac Bidoulle is accurate.
I am waiting for apple to stuff a 970 into a PowerBook, preferably the 15 inch one. I am waiting on that for my next computer. I do not want the G4. The Mobo on the G4 just doesnt have a wide enough bus to suck up massive amounts of data. The 970 mobo will.
The 970 mobo will be 900 Mhz. Intel has the 533 mhz mobo and soon will have the 800 mhz mobo.
Motorola and Apple were fighting about how to make the data path on the mobo. Motorola had the chips, they were just being strange. Motorola's problems stunted apple with the g4 for a long time. Apple had to overclock the g4 so much that the g4 tower got obscenely loud.
I welcome the 970 and want it in a Mac ASAP. I think that WWCD was delayed to show the developers the chip and a version of Panther that will have it. Bring it on! Lets see IBM take on Intel in the chipmaking business.
My bets are on IBM
I didnt say that I would share my files with the rest of the planet. Ever since I learned that the Labels would be fighting back, Ive leeched isntead of shared.
I dont want them hacking me regardless of what I do. I dont want to be an innocent bystander. I want Apple's new service to work, so I will pirate files less and less.
I pay to see movies, and I can pay to download music too. I just dont want my computer raped.
I also dont want filesharing to be criminalized in any way shape or form or that the RIAA will have powers that usually a government agency would have.
Vigilante Justice will NOT be tolerated. They do not want the wrath of the Telecom industy and ISPs, who will gladly turn over reams of data detailing these illegal denial of service attacks.
They also do not want computer scientists angry at them. They have no right to go into my computer and erase MP3s of some CDs that I owned and ripped.
The RIAA does not have the power to do that. They are a trade organization, period. They are not judge, jury and executioner. They will be well advised not to start a war with us.
I have a better idea: The RIAA should ignore the fact that the internet exists. It will save them and us a lot of grief.
What did they do? Simply download songs? Download and SHARE songs? Download and resell songs?
Donwloading songs is not a bad thing. They're low quality, and the original is not transferred from the person who made the file.
Downloading and sharing is frowned upon by the record studios, their bounty hunter companies, and lawyers.
Downloading and reselling is stupid and will get you in jail real fast.
If the record companies dont want any mp3 files copied, they ought to shut down the internet. They cant win or deter enough people.
It never ceases to amaze me how incredibly naive these public relations and marketing folks are. Their intentions to "pitch a blog" to sell products will backfire. ]
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Blogs -- especially blogs that have been around for a while -- have established readership that knows what to expect. Blogs are set up as a portal of independent thought -- a diary. If we want mass market media, we read the newspapers of the content cartel.
The established readership of a blog will probably sniff the bullshit out and go somewhere else.
I wonder if anyone else sees that in that annoying Dr. Pepper ad, there is a representative of every single race in america. I dont see any asian men or black men, but the asian chick and the black chick are dancing to country music. There probably are a lot of asian and black women at a country revue in Nashville (or at least what Manhattan and Madison avenue think of Nashville).
The funniest thing is that grizzled old dude on the spoons. What the hell?!?
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I dont like this at all. Concentrating internet access in the hands of fewer and fewer companies will lead to easier censoring by the concent cartel. The bells will be able to raise prices and act irresponsibly.
Michael Powell is a deregulation whore! Does this happen ever stinking recession?
RIAA, you guys really dont know your customers at all. Especially College Kids.
College Kids do not have a lot of money. The money we do have goes to our educations, drinking beer, paying off cell phone bills, and renting/buying DVD's. Yep, DVDs. You have a legitimate deterrent to people buying CD's. It's called competition and you are losing mindshare. Heck, you are almost becoming irrelevant. In this day and age, what college student can spend $20 on a CD when that $20 dollars can go to either a DVD, a movie at a theater, a couple of beers at a bar, or blank cds?
That isnt to say that blank cd's deserve a levy out of fear of piracy. I have a digital camera and use it extensively. A lot of college kids do the same. I fill up my hard drive fast, and I use blanks to back it up. Why, if I use blanks for legitimate purposes, should I have to pay off an industry fighting for relevance? No taxation w/o representation, you goddamn burglars!
Also, you guys are burglars. You guys have been convicted of price fixing. I reallly dont believe anything you say anymore.
You guys have to pay radio stations to play music and you ignore culturally wide tastes in music to make a quick buck. Make us happy and we buy your products. We are customers, not consumers. If I buy a Britney Spears cd and use it as a colonoscopy kit, thats my business. It is at that time MY property, not yours. CD's arent loaned or leased, they are bought and sold. I would never claim that the content on the CD is mine unless I was part of it. My high school choir many years ago put out a christmas cd. I can do whatever I want with that CD because it's no longer in print and I want the music out. I dont see you guys opening up your vaults. That's just greedy hoarding, you culture-killers.
College is an environment that independent thought and free speech. You guys want to stop free speech in order to influence us to buy your stuff. We arent interested in buying your material because you impede on free speech. Freedom of speech is not freedom to steal in this case. I might piss you off, but thats your loss. By entering into a public arena, you must face public scrutiny. Is the music business really ready to be under the heat lamp? I dont think so.
There is a value of paying for music. I would love to go to a best buy or a borders, swipe my credit card and plug in my ipod to download DRM-less mp3s. I will not buy any service that restricts my right. Customers have only so many dollars and we wont buy anything that looks and sounds fishy. Tough, just take it or leave it.
I will pay $1 for an album consisting of mp3 or mp4 WITHOUT DRM, and a PDF or flash movie for the cover. This is an online download. If you want a cd, you should pay more and it should be burned at the store. This will save you guys a SHITLOAD of money. Wake up and smell the coffee.
This isnt just for the RIAA, but also for the ASCAP-type institutions that are holding this up too. Work together or die separately.
Suing colleges and college students lowers expectations. You really think you can arrest or scare millions of students across the globe? You may have a slew of lawsuits, but that will just spur more people on to piss you off.
Does the content cartel really want to shut down the internet? I know Jack Valenti once tried to ban the VCR, and now Hollywood is dependent on the profits that rentals and tapes and DVDs create. Dont be a technophobe! Dont waste money on lawyers!
There are some problems to p2p applications like kazaa. One, is a risk of viruses. A central source would eliminate that.
A second is bandwith hogging. That can be fixed by limiting p2p ports and streams.
Colleges dont want you guys to tell them to monitor their students. What if someone is downloading gigabytes of linux isos and you guys freak out? How the hell do you think college administrators feel like dealing with your hired guns that practice bounty hunter tactics? That is shameful and I would just ignore it.
Make your customer happy and give them what they want and youll have money. Love, not war. The customer is always right .
Slashdot shouldn't jump every time the RIAA does somethining....
Yeah, we should jump on their fat asses every time the RIAA so much as sneezes.
If the RIAA had their way, I would not have my iPod, they would hack your computer on suspicion of mp3 piracy with impunity and they'd haul your ass in a court just filing a piece of paper with a court clerk.
Due Process? Innocent before proven guilty? That as much as chance for survival as a plate full of food does when Hilary Rosen goes to Old Country Buffet.
If all the RIAA did was focus on the criminals that resell bootleg recordings for profit and stick to solely music related devices, we wouldnt complain about the. The minute that overfed egotistic anachronistic trade association decided it would be in the best interest of their bottom line to reprogram our computers and turn back the clock AND bludgeon us with lawyers, they declared war on the IT community.
Just look at how the USS RIAA is doing by looking at the cover of Wired Magazine:
RIP MIX BURN -- The Death of the Recording Industry.