I have the same issue with Nvidia drivers. I updated to 8.10 during the beta cycle and when the X-server was updating frequently it caused driver breakage that I could fix by re-running the Nvidia installer.
I generally do not run Ubuntu's packaged drivers, but instead download the latest ones from Nvidia directly. One big problem that I used to have was that Ubuntu includes its version of the Nvidia driver along with ALL the other restricted drivers. Back then, I needed other restricted drivers but could not uninstall the old Nvidia driver while keeping the ones I needed.... long story short I found out about the/etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common file that allowed me to keep the restricted drivers, AND to tell the Ubuntu startup to not try to compile & rebuild the wrong version of the Nvidia driver every time I boot up. Coincidentally, those concerned with Linux boot times should look into why the hell Ubuntu will actually re-compile drivers on the fly every time there is a reboot like this... talk about unnecessary.
P.S. --> If this sounds complicated, it is. I like Ubuntu a lot, but it ain't perfect by a long shot.
Short answer... it will blow the old Celery away in every dimension (to paraphrase an AMD Vice President). My dad recently upgraded from an old Northwood P4 at 2.4Ghz to an E8400 and got SETI@ Home running approximately 12 times faster. Now that includes 2 cores, but on a per-core basis that is a 6x performance improvement... and the Core i7 is another step up from that.
Due to the fact that there are federal limits on how much an individual can donate to named political candidates (this is called "hard money"), I'm sure Buffet would have given more if he legally could. Note that Soros doesn't bother with hard money, his $30 Million went to Moveon.org which gets around traditional campaign finance limits by being an "issue advocacy" organization (both liberal & conservative organizations do the same thing).
This is true, there have been cases where a good ol' fashioned burglar breaks into a house/office, steals files, and the files are later recovered by police... but the files show that the burglary victim was involved in criminal activity. The police ARE allowed to use this evidence in establishing probable cause for further searches or arrests. About the only limitation is that the police (obviously) are not allowed to coordinate with the criminal to get the files.
Ah yes.. but remember that this is Slashdot and everything the Bush administration does must be seen as being worse than Hitler. So, even though the DoJ did something people on this site generally agree with, we have to all change our positions and say that this means the Constitution has been destroyed and America is a concentration camp on principle.
The $999 chip is only the highest-end model. In 2008 the 2.66Ghz Bloomfield (or Core i7 by its new marketdroid name) will be $284, which is still not cheap, but also affordable considering it is a brand-new next generation part. In 2009 the Lynnfield mainstream version of Nehalem will appear.
Both Intel and nVidia - proprietary driver companies - should be on defensive right now. You obviously don't know much about Intel's commitment to open-source in its drivers. Instead of recently dumping some of the specs to its chips to the community at large, Intel has actively paid developers to maintain top-quality 100% FOSS drivers for Linux and X11 for years, making its commitment light-years ahead of ATI or Nvidia. Ever hear of Keith Packard, you know, the leading developer of the entire X system? He's an Intel employee. For all the accolades that ATI gets for dumping a bunch of specs on the web, Intel has put vastly more time & money into supporting OSS, but still gets labeled as "closed source" by fanboys.
Yeah... good luck getting OSS ATI drivers that actually drive their newest chips any time soon specs or no specs. The difference is that Intel is literally making a specialized version of x86 that is massively vectorized for doing stream processing, with graphics merely being the most common task that such a processor would be built for on a desktop. The differences in programmability will be pretty massive, and "drivers" in the traditional sense might not even apply... the chip could literally be treated like a specialized CPU.
While ATI & Nvidia are probably correct that Larrabee will not beat their chips in 2010, the difference is that Intel is designing a chip that will forever alter how OSS & Linux systems operate when it comes to graphics... forget about begging for specs to some bizarre and bug-riddled chip (GPUs routinely ship with errata that would force a CPU maker to have massive recalls) Larrabee will make general purpose graphics computing a reality. Intel may be doing more for graphics on Linux than any other company in history, even though it is probably not Intel's direct intent to merely help Linux.
But then, Slashdot is now a pro-Microsoft camp - so why all the belly-aching? I see so much praise heaped up on Microsoft here nowadays that I wonder if they'd forgotten OSS and *nix which was their original focus and forgotten the damage Microsoft has perpetuated on the computing industry as a whole. After all, it's not FAT32.com - it's Slashdot.com - but then who here even knows what that stands for anymore?
Uh... WTF? Is this just stuff added onto the end of your post to get extra modpoints because your point is just that Microsoft bribed people.... with 0 evidence that bribery took place? I'm not saying that MS is squeaky clean in all this, but you just made a nebulous accusation without backing it up with substance, and then spent the bulk of your post on psychological misdirection to pander to Slashdot's moderators.... Hey wait! All flash and no substance, you don't write speeches for politicians do you?
First the bad, I recently wiped out my Kubuntu install and went to the 64 bit version of 8.04 since I recently upgraded to a Core 2 machine. It's great, but the only 64 bit packages for openoffice are stuck at 2.4 (from Ubuntu). For an open-source project OO really needs to get on the ball with 64 bit package support!
I was using the development milestones before the firs official Beta came out and have been generally happy with the new version. However, the much advertised PDF import does not work yet and that would be a nice feature. I also have a wide screen monitor and the ability to look at two pages at once is a nice (and massively overdue) feature.
Already being done. My desktop e8400 (OC'd to 3.6Ghz with a minimum of bother) uses the same speedstep technology that laptop chips have had for a long time. Even though it is overclocked it still throttles down when not in use. Additionally, the cores are throttled individually so if one is being railed, the other can still be clocked lower if it is unused.
Yeah kuz Canonical is a real pure communist outfit too. And those evil US corporations have never ever made any contributions to Linux. In fact... has Cuba ever made any contributions to Free Software of note? For that matter, what about Iran and North Korea, they hate America even more.. so why aren't they the world leaders in free software?
Yeah I had the issue with freetype bite me HARD. Everything was fine in Gutsy, and then the library updated without the (theoretically patented) font-hinting enabled. I had to download freetype sources, tweak the header files, and then manually install to replace the packaged version to make the fonts legible.
Now, for someone like me that's no big deal.. but for a newbie who is seeing ugly fonts on the screen that is not an acceptable solution.
The idea of reviving quad cores with 1 bad core is nice, but AMD is also playing a dangerous game. It is only in AMD's interest to sell triple core CPUs when the only alternative would be to throw the (large and expensive) die out since it can't work as a quad core. However, if these things became too popular AMD would be faced with the situation of either starving the market, or taking quad cores that actually DO work and intentionally blowing the fuses to make them triple cores.
I think this might explain the pretty lackluster clockspeeds. Phenom has never clocked well, but when you can buy a 2.5Ghz quad core for not much more than the top of the line 2.4Ghz triple core, it's pretty clear AMD wants to unload these things, but not to make any big waves about it. If anything the triple cores ought to clock much higher and have substantially better power usage... but that is not the case.
OK: I'm a 2L at a law school ranked in the US snooze & world reports top 20. But more importantly I'm in Fed Courts and have my final in less than 2 weeks. This case has NOTHING to do with copyrights whatsoever. It instead involves an insanely complex topic called "state sovereign immunity". What I am about to say is hopefully accurate, but is by no mean a deep analysis of sovereign immunity doctrine. Many scholars actually think (and I agree) that the Supreme Court has massively overconstitutionalized Sovereign Immunity doctrine and that it should be much more rooted in common law which would allow Congress more flexilibility in abrogating it in some circumstances. Before going any further: This ONLY applies to dragging a state into a FEDERAL court, the state court systems have their own sovereign immunity that can be different:
What is state sovereign immunity? An ancient concept that basically says "you can't sue the state unless the state gives you permission to do so". It goes all the way back to the days of Kings, and was imported into the US too. In the Constitution the states have sovereign immunity from 1. a basic "postulate" of the structure of the constitution (this is extremely fuzzy and not well defined) and 2. The 11th amendment which ONLY created sovereign immunity in diversity actions (correcting a blunder put into the original Article III language). Now, there are still plenty of times that you CAN sue a state, the courts have carved out an exception for suing a named state official, and doing so only for future prospective relief (like I want the state to stop harming me, but I can't sue to collect big money from the state).
So you might say: What about all my rights, can the state get away with everything? The answer is no. It is possible for Congress to (in limited circumstances) abrogate or take away state sovereign immunity. The problem comes from the above "postulates": State sovereign immunity is INHERENT to the Constitution (not just to common law which would be easy for Congress to override with legislation). Think of this in programming terms: In the ORIGINAL base class (constitution) there is no real way for Congress to abrogate sovereign immunity unless there is an express exception in the base class itself. However, when the 14th amendment came along LATER and amended the constitution (think of the constitution as a new inherited class with slightly different properties) it DID give Congress a window to (sometimes) abrogate a State's sovereign immunity.
To abrogate you need 2 things that the Court in this case found lacking: 1. Congress has to very clearly state in statutory language that it is abrogating state sovereign immunity (not every bill relating to the 14th amendment abrogates, section 1983 of the civil rights act is a notable case); 2. (and this is where the act failed): The right granted has to PROPERLY be rooted in the 14th amendment section 5 grant of power to Congress. This law was not rooted in the 14th amendment even if Congress said it was. The Copryight power has nothing to do with the 14th amendment. There is one exception in the original Constitution that Courts have recognized, and that is the bankruptcy power (which has some funky text associated with it in ARt I), aside from that the Court has basically held that state sovereign immunity could be abrogated for bankruptcy).
Why have all this sovereign immunity? Well there are good reasons for it, the biggest one being that it would be way too easy to sue the states for petty money in federal courts. It should be no surprise that abrogation came with the 14th amendment which was passed after the Civil War when the trust of the states was at an all time low. Remember: In a federal democracy like the U.S. the states DO have trust and sovereignty, but not absolute sovereignty, and the level of trust they get has gone up & down over the years.
Uh... AMD released a powerpoint presentation about SSE5 and if they are lucky it will be shipping at about the same time the AVX instructions appear in production Intel Silicon.
If AMD's powerpoint slides magically came true then Barcelona would have been out in April... of 2007, and it would have actually been faster and less power-hungry than Intel's chips. Unfortunately, presentations != reality.
This shit gets modded insightful? I had long suspected that to get an insightful mod on this website all you had to do was follow the formula of: 1. bash a company that has earned Slashdot's 2 minutes of hate award (Intel here); 2. blather on for more than 4 words to give the illusion of thought; 3. Throw in some non sequitur numbers to look like you know math.
I don't have time to take apart every number in this stupid troll but, first of all: AMD does not use FSB's at all, and you have no idea what the "1.6Ghz" number you are quoting actually means... you are (ironically) trying to throw around frequency numbers to make the bigger number look better for AMD (wow sounds a lot like that "megahertz myth" everyone on Slashdot adores so much). Take a look at how badly the Phenom cache architecture works sometime, you'll see that core to core communications on those chips are only about 2% faster than when Intel chips have to use the FSB, and when Intel chips in dual core are using shared cache they communicate roughly 3 times faster than the best-case for the AMD chips. Hypertransport IS useful... but only for 4+ socket server systems where there are real advantages. On desktop machines & laptops the differences are negligible, and there can even be disadvantages when talking to a graphics card on a desktop machine (but I don't think the AMD powerpoints you were working off of mentioned that did it?)
Second of all, you claim that if an Intel machine has to move a whopping 1 whole MEGAbyte of data a second around it somehow gets irreparably crippled to the point of not even being able to use a mouse or something. Lets actually run some numbers, even using your artificially low laptop ratings for the Intel FSB (desktops are much faster, and you are also failing to count the faster FSB used on Penryn laptops that are already on the market). Let's see here: 800 Mhz FSB * 8 bytes per clock (64 bit data bus) comes out to 6.4 Billion bytes per second. Your "massive" 1.2 Mbyte/sec transfer is therefore completely choking off... wait for it... about 0.02% of the bandwidth. OH NO MY COMPUTER IS GOING TO FREEZE IF ONLY 99.98% OF THE BANDWIDTH IS AVAILABLE!!
Oh wow, you apparently can count processes and found out that your computer runs more than one program at a time? Guess what, I ran firefox (version 2 mind you not the nice & faster version 3) on a 2.4Ghz P4 just fine, and I could even run other programs at the same time! Now, I was using Linux of course, but you are either 1. lying, or 2. completel y incompetent when you say that somehow it is impossible to run more than one program "smoothly" on anything but an AMD system.
Third (and this takes the fucking cake): You compare the intenionally low-power EEE PC from Asus that INTENTIONALLY uses very low power, very slow chips from Intel because it is targeting the ultra-mobile market, and then because this laptop, which is INTENTIONALLY designed to be slower & low power does not perform as well as a laptop that costs 3 times as much and comes with 4 times the RAM and has a massively more expensive and power hungry CPU and graphics processor in it. Yes you stupid fuck, I actually looked up the model number you posted. I'm sure you thought that you could put it right next to a mention of the EEE PC and think you could fool everyone into thinking the only difference was an Intel vs. an AMD chip. The only thing you've managed to prove is that there are AMD fanboys brainwashed enough to believe that because the EEE PC exists, it is physically impossible for anyone to use Intel chips in something that might run faster.
That's all I have time for. You are either truly brainwashed, or are smart enough to know the Slashdot system to getting "insightful" mods when you are literally posting objectively proveable lies.
Apple will win this case without any problems whatsoever and (if you were to print out the decisions) probably more than a ton of case law on Apple's side. The license is perfectly clear, not even close to being unconscionable, 100% enforceable, ans Psystar knows this. Apple probably has not bothered suing home enthusiasts who mod the software by hand since a. it is a waste of money going after individuals who are not making money; b. there is little to no chance of it causing problems with Apple brand perception. However, as soon as this goes from a wacky and semi-functional side-project into a money making business.
The funny thing is for all the people who think Psystar is somehow great, after doing this (assuming it's not just a prank) there is probably a GREATER chance that the hobbyists will get sued in the future since more publicity makes this more of a threat to Apple's image.
I can run almost anything that I can on Linux on OS X, but there is a lot from OS X that I _can't_ run on Linux.
Now I know that Mac fans look down on Windows, but it's rare to see them ignoring it completely as if it doesn't exist. The RDF isn't as much fun if there isn't something to look down on in contempt is there?
Slashdot Mirror
I have the same issue with Nvidia drivers. I updated to 8.10 during the beta cycle and when the X-server was updating frequently it caused driver breakage that I could fix by re-running the Nvidia installer. /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common file that allowed me to keep the restricted drivers, AND to tell the Ubuntu startup to not try to compile & rebuild the wrong version of the Nvidia driver every time I boot up. Coincidentally, those concerned with Linux boot times should look into why the hell Ubuntu will actually re-compile drivers on the fly every time there is a reboot like this... talk about unnecessary.
I generally do not run Ubuntu's packaged drivers, but instead download the latest ones from Nvidia directly. One big problem that I used to have was that Ubuntu includes its version of the Nvidia driver along with ALL the other restricted drivers. Back then, I needed other restricted drivers but could not uninstall the old Nvidia driver while keeping the ones I needed.... long story short I found out about the
P.S. --> If this sounds complicated, it is. I like Ubuntu a lot, but it ain't perfect by a long shot.
Short answer... it will blow the old Celery away in every dimension (to paraphrase an AMD Vice President). My dad recently upgraded from an old Northwood P4 at 2.4Ghz to an E8400 and got SETI@ Home running approximately 12 times faster. Now that includes 2 cores, but on a per-core basis that is a 6x performance improvement... and the Core i7 is another step up from that.
Due to the fact that there are federal limits on how much an individual can donate to named political candidates (this is called "hard money"), I'm sure Buffet would have given more if he legally could. Note that Soros doesn't bother with hard money, his $30 Million went to Moveon.org which gets around traditional campaign finance limits by being an "issue advocacy" organization (both liberal & conservative organizations do the same thing).
Yes because Campbell's gives away all their products for free and Microsoft's Chicken Noodle 7 has a $400 license.... Ever heard of a non sequitur ?
Hey Pal! Stop posting facts to counteract Slashdot's Messiah Worship / conspiracy theory groove thing!
This is true, there have been cases where a good ol' fashioned burglar breaks into a house/office, steals files, and the files are later recovered by police... but the files show that the burglary victim was involved in criminal activity. The police ARE allowed to use this evidence in establishing probable cause for further searches or arrests. About the only limitation is that the police (obviously) are not allowed to coordinate with the criminal to get the files.
Ah yes.. but remember that this is Slashdot and everything the Bush administration does must be seen as being worse than Hitler. So, even though the DoJ did something people on this site generally agree with, we have to all change our positions and say that this means the Constitution has been destroyed and America is a concentration camp on principle.
The $999 chip is only the highest-end model. In 2008 the 2.66Ghz Bloomfield (or Core i7 by its new marketdroid name) will be $284, which is still not cheap, but also affordable considering it is a brand-new next generation part. In 2009 the Lynnfield mainstream version of Nehalem will appear.
Both Intel and nVidia - proprietary driver companies - should be on defensive right now.
You obviously don't know much about Intel's commitment to open-source in its drivers. Instead of recently dumping some of the specs to its chips to the community at large, Intel has actively paid developers to maintain top-quality 100% FOSS drivers for Linux and X11 for years, making its commitment light-years ahead of ATI or Nvidia. Ever hear of Keith Packard, you know, the leading developer of the entire X system? He's an Intel employee. For all the accolades that ATI gets for dumping a bunch of specs on the web, Intel has put vastly more time & money into supporting OSS, but still gets labeled as "closed source" by fanboys.
Yeah... good luck getting OSS ATI drivers that actually drive their newest chips any time soon specs or no specs. The difference is that Intel is literally making a specialized version of x86 that is massively vectorized for doing stream processing, with graphics merely being the most common task that such a processor would be built for on a desktop. The differences in programmability will be pretty massive, and "drivers" in the traditional sense might not even apply... the chip could literally be treated like a specialized CPU.
While ATI & Nvidia are probably correct that Larrabee will not beat their chips in 2010, the difference is that Intel is designing a chip that will forever alter how OSS & Linux systems operate when it comes to graphics... forget about begging for specs to some bizarre and bug-riddled chip (GPUs routinely ship with errata that would force a CPU maker to have massive recalls) Larrabee will make general purpose graphics computing a reality. Intel may be doing more for graphics on Linux than any other company in history, even though it is probably not Intel's direct intent to merely help Linux.
But then, Slashdot is now a pro-Microsoft camp - so why all the belly-aching? I see so much praise heaped up on Microsoft here nowadays that I wonder if they'd forgotten OSS and *nix which was their original focus and forgotten the damage Microsoft has perpetuated on the computing industry as a whole. After all, it's not FAT32.com - it's Slashdot.com - but then who here even knows what that stands for anymore?
Uh... WTF? Is this just stuff added onto the end of your post to get extra modpoints because your point is just that Microsoft bribed people.... with 0 evidence that bribery took place? I'm not saying that MS is squeaky clean in all this, but you just made a nebulous accusation without backing it up with substance, and then spent the bulk of your post on psychological misdirection to pander to Slashdot's moderators.... Hey wait! All flash and no substance, you don't write speeches for politicians do you?
First the bad, I recently wiped out my Kubuntu install and went to the 64 bit version of 8.04 since I recently upgraded to a Core 2 machine. It's great, but the only 64 bit packages for openoffice are stuck at 2.4 (from Ubuntu). For an open-source project OO really needs to get on the ball with 64 bit package support!
I was using the development milestones before the firs official Beta came out and have been generally happy with the new version. However, the much advertised PDF import does not work yet and that would be a nice feature. I also have a wide screen monitor and the ability to look at two pages at once is a nice (and massively overdue) feature.
Already being done. My desktop e8400 (OC'd to 3.6Ghz with a minimum of bother) uses the same speedstep technology that laptop chips have had for a long time. Even though it is overclocked it still throttles down when not in use. Additionally, the cores are throttled individually so if one is being railed, the other can still be clocked lower if it is unused.
Yeah kuz Canonical is a real pure communist outfit too. And those evil US corporations have never ever made any contributions to Linux. In fact... has Cuba ever made any contributions to Free Software of note? For that matter, what about Iran and North Korea, they hate America even more.. so why aren't they the world leaders in free software?
Yeah I had the issue with freetype bite me HARD. Everything was fine in Gutsy, and then the library updated without the (theoretically patented) font-hinting enabled. I had to download freetype sources, tweak the header files, and then manually install to replace the packaged version to make the fonts legible.
Now, for someone like me that's no big deal.. but for a newbie who is seeing ugly fonts on the screen that is not an acceptable solution.
Yeah, especially when they don't show AMD wining! (but when AMD wins they are all great).
And the rest of us use Gentoo. If this new "open source" Java takes less than a week to compile, I will be extremely disappointed in Sun's efforts!
The idea of reviving quad cores with 1 bad core is nice, but AMD is also playing a dangerous game. It is only in AMD's interest to sell triple core CPUs when the only alternative would be to throw the (large and expensive) die out since it can't work as a quad core. However, if these things became too popular AMD would be faced with the situation of either starving the market, or taking quad cores that actually DO work and intentionally blowing the fuses to make them triple cores.
I think this might explain the pretty lackluster clockspeeds. Phenom has never clocked well, but when you can buy a 2.5Ghz quad core for not much more than the top of the line 2.4Ghz triple core, it's pretty clear AMD wants to unload these things, but not to make any big waves about it. If anything the triple cores ought to clock much higher and have substantially better power usage... but that is not the case.
OK: I'm a 2L at a law school ranked in the US snooze & world reports top 20. But more importantly I'm in Fed Courts and have my final in less than 2 weeks. This case has NOTHING to do with copyrights whatsoever. It instead involves an insanely complex topic called "state sovereign immunity". What I am about to say is hopefully accurate, but is by no mean a deep analysis of sovereign immunity doctrine. Many scholars actually think (and I agree) that the Supreme Court has massively overconstitutionalized Sovereign Immunity doctrine and that it should be much more rooted in common law which would allow Congress more flexilibility in abrogating it in some circumstances. Before going any further: This ONLY applies to dragging a state into a FEDERAL court, the state court systems have their own sovereign immunity that can be different:
What is state sovereign immunity? An ancient concept that basically says "you can't sue the state unless the state gives you permission to do so". It goes all the way back to the days of Kings, and was imported into the US too. In the Constitution the states have sovereign immunity from 1. a basic "postulate" of the structure of the constitution (this is extremely fuzzy and not well defined) and 2. The 11th amendment which ONLY created sovereign immunity in diversity actions (correcting a blunder put into the original Article III language). Now, there are still plenty of times that you CAN sue a state, the courts have carved out an exception for suing a named state official, and doing so only for future prospective relief (like I want the state to stop harming me, but I can't sue to collect big money from the state).
So you might say: What about all my rights, can the state get away with everything? The answer is no. It is possible for Congress to (in limited circumstances) abrogate or take away state sovereign immunity. The problem comes from the above "postulates": State sovereign immunity is INHERENT to the Constitution (not just to common law which would be easy for Congress to override with legislation). Think of this in programming terms: In the ORIGINAL base class (constitution) there is no real way for Congress to abrogate sovereign immunity unless there is an express exception in the base class itself. However, when the 14th amendment came along LATER and amended the constitution (think of the constitution as a new inherited class with slightly different properties) it DID give Congress a window to (sometimes) abrogate a State's sovereign immunity.
To abrogate you need 2 things that the Court in this case found lacking: 1. Congress has to very clearly state in statutory language that it is abrogating state sovereign immunity (not every bill relating to the 14th amendment abrogates, section 1983 of the civil rights act is a notable case); 2. (and this is where the act failed): The right granted has to PROPERLY be rooted in the 14th amendment section 5 grant of power to Congress. This law was not rooted in the 14th amendment even if Congress said it was. The Copryight power has nothing to do with the 14th amendment. There is one exception in the original Constitution that Courts have recognized, and that is the bankruptcy power (which has some funky text associated with it in ARt I), aside from that the Court has basically held that state sovereign immunity could be abrogated for bankruptcy).
Why have all this sovereign immunity? Well there are good reasons for it, the biggest one being that it would be way too easy to sue the states for petty money in federal courts. It should be no surprise that abrogation came with the 14th amendment which was passed after the Civil War when the trust of the states was at an all time low. Remember: In a federal democracy like the U.S. the states DO have trust and sovereignty, but not absolute sovereignty, and the level of trust they get has gone up & down over the years.
Now
s/web designers/designers/g
Wisdom is knowing when to rip out the kludge, and knowing when it isn't really a kludge and to leave it the #$@# alone.
Uh... AMD released a powerpoint presentation about SSE5 and if they are lucky it will be shipping at about the same time the AVX instructions appear in production Intel Silicon.
If AMD's powerpoint slides magically came true then Barcelona would have been out in April... of 2007, and it would have actually been faster and less power-hungry than Intel's chips. Unfortunately, presentations != reality.
This shit gets modded insightful? I had long suspected that to get an insightful mod on this website all you had to do was follow the formula of: 1. bash a company that has earned Slashdot's 2 minutes of hate award (Intel here); 2. blather on for more than 4 words to give the illusion of thought; 3. Throw in some non sequitur numbers to look like you know math.
I don't have time to take apart every number in this stupid troll but, first of all: AMD does not use FSB's at all, and you have no idea what the "1.6Ghz" number you are quoting actually means... you are (ironically) trying to throw around frequency numbers to make the bigger number look better for AMD (wow sounds a lot like that "megahertz myth" everyone on Slashdot adores so much). Take a look at how badly the Phenom cache architecture works sometime, you'll see that core to core communications on those chips are only about 2% faster than when Intel chips have to use the FSB, and when Intel chips in dual core are using shared cache they communicate roughly 3 times faster than the best-case for the AMD chips. Hypertransport IS useful... but only for 4+ socket server systems where there are real advantages. On desktop machines & laptops the differences are negligible, and there can even be disadvantages when talking to a graphics card on a desktop machine (but I don't think the AMD powerpoints you were working off of mentioned that did it?)
Second of all, you claim that if an Intel machine has to move a whopping 1 whole MEGAbyte of data a second around it somehow gets irreparably crippled to the point of not even being able to use a mouse or something. Lets actually run some numbers, even using your artificially low laptop ratings for the Intel FSB (desktops are much faster, and you are also failing to count the faster FSB used on Penryn laptops that are already on the market). Let's see here: 800 Mhz FSB * 8 bytes per clock (64 bit data bus) comes out to 6.4 Billion bytes per second. Your "massive" 1.2 Mbyte/sec transfer is therefore completely choking off... wait for it... about 0.02% of the bandwidth. OH NO MY COMPUTER IS GOING TO FREEZE IF ONLY 99.98% OF THE BANDWIDTH IS AVAILABLE!!
Oh wow, you apparently can count processes and found out that your computer runs more than one program at a time? Guess what, I ran firefox (version 2 mind you not the nice & faster version 3) on a 2.4Ghz P4 just fine, and I could even run other programs at the same time! Now, I was using Linux of course, but you are either 1. lying, or 2. completel y incompetent when you say that somehow it is impossible to run more than one program "smoothly" on anything but an AMD system.
Third (and this takes the fucking cake): You compare the intenionally low-power EEE PC from Asus that INTENTIONALLY uses very low power, very slow chips from Intel because it is targeting the ultra-mobile market, and then because this laptop, which is INTENTIONALLY designed to be slower & low power does not perform as well as a laptop that costs 3 times as much and comes with 4 times the RAM and has a massively more expensive and power hungry CPU and graphics processor in it. Yes you stupid fuck, I actually looked up the model number you posted. I'm sure you thought that you could put it right next to a mention of the EEE PC and think you could fool everyone into thinking the only difference was an Intel vs. an AMD chip. The only thing you've managed to prove is that there are AMD fanboys brainwashed enough to believe that because the EEE PC exists, it is physically impossible for anyone to use Intel chips in something that might run faster.
That's all I have time for. You are either truly brainwashed, or are smart enough to know the Slashdot system to getting "insightful" mods when you are literally posting objectively proveable lies.
One word: Torque
A few more words: Your motorcycle generates very little of it.
Apple will win this case without any problems whatsoever and (if you were to print out the decisions) probably more than a ton of case law on Apple's side. The license is perfectly clear, not even close to being unconscionable, 100% enforceable, ans Psystar knows this. Apple probably has not bothered suing home enthusiasts who mod the software by hand since a. it is a waste of money going after individuals who are not
making money; b. there is little to no chance of it causing problems with Apple brand perception. However, as soon as this goes from a wacky and semi-functional side-project into a money making business.
The funny thing is for all the people who think Psystar is somehow great, after doing this (assuming it's not just a prank) there is probably a GREATER chance that the hobbyists will get sued in the future since more publicity makes this more of a threat to Apple's image.
Now I know that Mac fans look down on Windows, but it's rare to see them ignoring it completely as if it doesn't exist. The RDF isn't as much fun if there isn't something to look down on in contempt is there?