I'm astonished that there's any kind of warranty for broken/melted cores at all.
I've got an Athlon 1GHz. I'm still using the stock HSF and it hovers around 65 degrees celcius in the winter. During a summer day my core can hit nearly 80 degrees.
Now I know the core is rated to go to 105 degrees but if my core melted while running at 80 degrees I'd expect it to be replaced for an Athlon that does run properly at up to 105 degrees.
And the really, really sad thing is that even though IE supposedly forces you to its update site half the time it starts, people still don't download the god damn patches.
What about those hostile states that possess dangerous weapons? I'm not just talking Iraq here, America's got nukes and the President isn't a nice person.
The IM landscape suffers from the same "network effects" that pervade(d) the operating system market.
Since when was there a law disallowing me to use more than one IM at a time?
If the program is good enough then you'll see a large group of early adopters that run two IMs at once. Then they start telling the cosmopolitan friends how "cool" this other IM is and all the "cool features" it has.
Then the other friends switch over or figure out how to use two IMs and tell all their friends.
Process continues ad infinitum and the IM network changeover is complete.
Don't believe me? Go look at the IM user figures. MSN has had one hell of a catchup in market share lately. While this may be in part due to its inclusion in Windows XP, the better interface, hotmail integration and better features (one click voice/video conversations) makes it far superior to AIM.
They're supposed to not compete due to arbitrary restrictions set (in terms of Internet time) eons ago?
The IM landscape isn't the same as it was a year ago or even two years ago. Thanks to cheap high spec PCs, USB webcams and cheap high speed internet, the once expensive realm of videoconfrencing is now a dime-a-dozen.
Why should they not be allowed to compete now that everything to do videoconfrencing is easy and ubiquitous?
Why don't we try an engineering textbook? Something that the people at "The Register" have obviously never touched in their lives.
Broadband - Where the bandwidth is divided into ranges. Each range typically carries seperate coded information, which allows the transmission of multiple data streams over the same cable simultanesouly. Special equipment is used to combine the signals at the source and seperate them at the end.
Baseband - The cable's bandwidth is devoted to a single stream of data. Thus, the high bandiwdth capability allows high data rates over a cable. This is typical in local area networks, where only one data stream is present at any time.
In other words, any form of DSL is automatically broadband by definition. Voice travels between 0-3300Hz while DSL travels above the voice. The signals combine at the phone cable and they are seperated at the exchange at the CMUX.
Not only that, DSL uses DMT to seperate the huge frequency band into multiple smaller channels.
The sad thing is that people make all false assumptions about copyright law based on experiences with US copyright law.
Even if I show people the PDFs from the copyright comission they still don't believe they aren't allowed to make backups for personal use.
If the ARIA (our version of the RIAA) wanted to crack down on burnt copies of CDs it could do so very easily since even burnt copies of legitimately purchased CDs ARE illegal in Australia.
8mbps ADSL connections over in Japan are extremely common with 12mbps starting to be introduced.
Hell, you can get free 64K ISDN through one of the many ISDN ISPs over there.
They have the infrastructure to support it. If you were using multicast or something like that, Internet TV could be very usable even at high bitrates.
If Mr. coolmacdude had bothered to do the slightest bit of research before writing another baseless comment, he would know that Apple already uses IBM processors.
IBM has been fabricating PowerPC stuff for donkey's years and have been supplying stuff for Apple on and off. IBM supplied most of the PPC 750 chips to Apple for G3 machines and I'm pretty sure they were doing the PPC 7400 stuff too.
There was a huge hoohah between IBM and Motorola over Altivec. I don't remember how it worked out and I'm too lazy to go looking.
I'm honestly not up to speed on the kernel support for ACPI or FireWire. But lets face it, there are what now, a billion computers out there? And how many of them have ACPI or FireWire? Not the majority, thats for certain.
ACPI has been around since the 440LX days. It went mainstream in the 440BX chipset (which, IIRC, was the most popular chipset for P6s).
Given that anything newer than a P2-300 uses the 440BX I'd say the chances of ACPI being in a majority of machines out there is rather good.
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I'm astonished that there's any kind of warranty for broken/melted cores at all.
I've got an Athlon 1GHz. I'm still using the stock HSF and it hovers around 65 degrees celcius in the winter. During a summer day my core can hit nearly 80 degrees.
Now I know the core is rated to go to 105 degrees but if my core melted while running at 80 degrees I'd expect it to be replaced for an Athlon that does run properly at up to 105 degrees.
And the really, really sad thing is that even though IE supposedly forces you to its update site half the time it starts, people still don't download the god damn patches.
What about those hostile states that possess dangerous weapons? I'm not just talking Iraq here, America's got nukes and the President isn't a nice person.
Myths, apparently, never die.
Naturally. Half the people here still believe the pinnacle of Windows' stability is Windows 98.
3. Attack the VCs. ... and then maybe a second time, for fun!
Known colloquially in the industry as "the second round of funding".
Enough said really
HA! Are you really that delusional?
MSN Messenger has had a steady growth rate before Windows XP. Not everybody has Windows XP either.
The IM landscape suffers from the same "network effects" that pervade(d) the operating system market.
Since when was there a law disallowing me to use more than one IM at a time?
If the program is good enough then you'll see a large group of early adopters that run two IMs at once. Then they start telling the cosmopolitan friends how "cool" this other IM is and all the "cool features" it has.
Then the other friends switch over or figure out how to use two IMs and tell all their friends.
Process continues ad infinitum and the IM network changeover is complete.
Don't believe me? Go look at the IM user figures. MSN has had one hell of a catchup in market share lately. While this may be in part due to its inclusion in Windows XP, the better interface, hotmail integration and better features (one click voice/video conversations) makes it far superior to AIM.
They're supposed to not compete due to arbitrary restrictions set (in terms of Internet time) eons ago?
The IM landscape isn't the same as it was a year ago or even two years ago. Thanks to cheap high spec PCs, USB webcams and cheap high speed internet, the once expensive realm of videoconfrencing is now a dime-a-dozen.
Why should they not be allowed to compete now that everything to do videoconfrencing is easy and ubiquitous?
Still applies.
Cable divides up the spectrum of its transmission medium to provide TV, telephony or internet access.
Hence cable is still broadband.
Why don't we try an engineering textbook? Something that the people at "The Register" have obviously never touched in their lives.
Broadband - Where the bandwidth is divided into ranges. Each range typically carries seperate coded information, which allows the transmission of multiple data streams over the same cable simultanesouly. Special equipment is used to combine the signals at the source and seperate them at the end.
Baseband - The cable's bandwidth is devoted to a single stream of data. Thus, the high bandiwdth capability allows high data rates over a cable. This is typical in local area networks, where only one data stream is present at any time.
In other words, any form of DSL is automatically broadband by definition. Voice travels between 0-3300Hz while DSL travels above the voice. The signals combine at the phone cable and they are seperated at the exchange at the CMUX.
Not only that, DSL uses DMT to seperate the huge frequency band into multiple smaller channels.
The sad thing is that people make all false assumptions about copyright law based on experiences with US copyright law.
Even if I show people the PDFs from the copyright comission they still don't believe they aren't allowed to make backups for personal use.
If the ARIA (our version of the RIAA) wanted to crack down on burnt copies of CDs it could do so very easily since even burnt copies of legitimately purchased CDs ARE illegal in Australia.
Sad isn't it?
Good to see the Linux kernel making such leaps and bounds.
Keep at it guys!
They want to blackmail each other to increase revenue :P
Hey its not about the size you got. Were hackers here on slashdot... were good at using what we got to do more than anyone else could.
Is that why your sig is all UNIX commands rather than a link to your sexual conquests?
Why do I forsee this domino effect of people all jerking off to each other using hidden X-10 cams.
It'd be like some virtual circle jerk *cringe*
What? 400ms satellite vs 150ms 28K modem?
:P
If I was trying to play games online I know which one I'd pick!
If you're not lucky enough to be eligible for DSL or Cable its satellite for you.
Welcome to the world of high latency "broadband".
Thankfully my exchange was upgraded to DSL and now I'm sitting pretty on a 512K connection.
8mbps ADSL connections over in Japan are extremely common with 12mbps starting to be introduced.
Hell, you can get free 64K ISDN through one of the many ISDN ISPs over there.
They have the infrastructure to support it. If you were using multicast or something like that, Internet TV could be very usable even at high bitrates.
If Mr. coolmacdude had bothered to do the slightest bit of research before writing another baseless comment, he would know that Apple already uses IBM processors.
IBM has been fabricating PowerPC stuff for donkey's years and have been supplying stuff for Apple on and off. IBM supplied most of the PPC 750 chips to Apple for G3 machines and I'm pretty sure they were doing the PPC 7400 stuff too.
There was a huge hoohah between IBM and Motorola over Altivec. I don't remember how it worked out and I'm too lazy to go looking.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, Bizzaro World comes from ideas!
It's all so obvious now!
Why didn't I figure that out? It's just so damn simple when you look at it!
I'm honestly not up to speed on the kernel support for ACPI or FireWire. But lets face it, there are what now, a billion computers out there? And how many of them have ACPI or FireWire? Not the majority, thats for certain.
ACPI has been around since the 440LX days. It went mainstream in the 440BX chipset (which, IIRC, was the most popular chipset for P6s).
Given that anything newer than a P2-300 uses the 440BX I'd say the chances of ACPI being in a majority of machines out there is rather good.
How about IP over carrier pigeon?
Be vewy vewy qwiet... I'm hunting Steve Case!
huhuhuhuhuhuhuhu!