Urghnf. Of course that isn't part of any anounced chipset. How many chipsets have been anounced for the 970? Or for use in Macs? That bridge would be part of the chipset Apple would introduce. As for using stardard PC I/O: what about Firewire 800 and Gigabit Ethernet? How many Southgates include either, let alone both?
Oh no, wait, all this talk about Hypertransport is proof that Apple will not use the 970 but the Opteron after all.
The interesting thing is that the article claims that Apple is not likely to use hypertransport to link the CPU to the memory, but instead to link chipsets together because IBM would have to 'to adapt it to the Power architecture.' But according to arstechnica, the 970 does have a frontside bus that operates at similar speeds to Hypertransport."
First of all: A "frontside bus that operates at similar speeds to Hypertransport" most likely isn't Hypertransport - just like a car with performance similar to a Porsche isn't a Porsche. So you can't just hook up a 970 (or POWER/PowerPC) to a Hypertransport link.
Furthermore, linking a CPU to main memory via Hypertransport (a point-to-point link) means you can't share the memory with other CPUs (unless you have dual-ported RAM - uhh, yeah, good luck with that plan).
Now, a star shaped like a rugby ball (or American Football ball), that would be something to "pose an unprecedented challenge for theoretical astrophysics";-)
And who has just overthrown a secular government, thus liberating a bunch of Muslim Fundamentalists already killing Americans as a thankful gesture - based on the claim that when Bin Laden calls you an infidel, it obviously means you are giving him WMD?
Well, if it had just been "regular" excessive traffic, yes. But then why did the DNS servers get swamped, not the web servers? Nope, then it's a DOS attack. But that wasn't all.
As the other fellow said, who replied Al-J and these "other" news sites were not blocked on a national level.
Oh, no, they were just really slow all over the world for no good reason.
I think someone other than yourself would have mentioned something, or there is a much larger conspiracy out there to hide the fact.
So the fact that you didn't hear about it in the streamlined media is proof it didn't happen.
I did some looking on the Pennsynlvania stuff. Yeah, I guess there is some law that says you can't goto child porn sites. You are right there.
Just like there is a law in Germany that you can't tell lies about how the Holocaust never happened. BTW the real issue with the "Pennsynlvania stuff" is that nobody can check what they actually block, because they won't list the sites.
Anyway, there is no real problem visiting stormfront.org from Germany. Period.
Al Jadzira for one, among other non-streamlined news-sites during the war you keep getting lied to about. And the sites that Pennsylvania blocked but won't name.
Sure, ignore that the US also blocks websites. Also ignore that i had no problem accessing stormfront.org from the largest german ISP - as if I would have missed something but American Nazi Scum. But American Nazi sites don't get blocked by King Shrubya and his merry dudes.
What the PC crowd wants is a cheap computer that runs the software they can buy at Walmart or get (cough) "cheap" from work or friends without too much hassle. Unless Apple starts shipping cheap x86 with Windows (maybe Lindows) we can forgett about that.
Sure, if you think that 10% higher scores (ICC 7.0 against gcc 3.2.2) or even 20% (against gcc 2.95) are "similar" - and that includes "evil" SSE support on gcc. And if you happen to use MS C...
Last but not least: even if all you care about is raw, non-SIMD performance - unless you used a 604 based Mac over a Pentium+ PC, why should I (or infact anybody) listen to you?
"But the reality of regular high-end computing is that people don't have the time to optimize their software for the latest oddball hardware platform."
Yet you keep saying they have nothing better to do than recompile their code whenever Intel blesses them with a ne processor, like SPEC tells them to.
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You forgot 1 pound of seeds per quarter ;-)
Apple did ship all "Sawtooth" (1st generation) G4s with an internal Firewire port.
Oh no, wait, all this talk about Hypertransport is proof that Apple will not use the 970 but the Opteron after all.
According to the article Apple is even one of the founding members.
Errm, yes. That is part of the chipset, which is linked together by Hypertransport - just like the article says.
First of all: A "frontside bus that operates at similar speeds to Hypertransport" most likely isn't Hypertransport - just like a car with performance similar to a Porsche isn't a Porsche. So you can't just hook up a 970 (or POWER/PowerPC) to a Hypertransport link.
Furthermore, linking a CPU to main memory via Hypertransport (a point-to-point link) means you can't share the memory with other CPUs (unless you have dual-ported RAM - uhh, yeah, good luck with that plan).
Now, a star shaped like a rugby ball (or American Football ball), that would be something to "pose an unprecedented challenge for theoretical astrophysics" ;-)
Better yet: Ban the remote control! Now that would get people moving.
Oh, you forgott the USA. Odd. No wonder you got lost.
And who has just overthrown a secular government, thus liberating a bunch of Muslim Fundamentalists already killing Americans as a thankful gesture - based on the claim that when Bin Laden calls you an infidel, it obviously means you are giving him WMD?
Lshmael, meet sarcasm. Sarcasm - Lshmael. Maybe you would like the movie after all?-)
Well, if it had just been "regular" excessive traffic, yes. But then why did the DNS servers get swamped, not the web servers? Nope, then it's a DOS attack. But that wasn't all.
And don't tell me that the Astro-Turf campaigns to shut up people in the US are any better.
Hey, let's not talk about your sexual fantasies here.
Oh, no, they were just really slow all over the world for no good reason.
I think someone other than yourself would have mentioned something, or there is a much larger conspiracy out there to hide the fact.
So the fact that you didn't hear about it in the streamlined media is proof it didn't happen.
I did some looking on the Pennsynlvania stuff. Yeah, I guess there is some law that says you can't goto child porn sites. You are right there.
Just like there is a law in Germany that you can't tell lies about how the Holocaust never happened. BTW the real issue with the "Pennsynlvania stuff" is that nobody can check what they actually block, because they won't list the sites.
Anyway, there is no real problem visiting stormfront.org from Germany. Period.
So this is something like a First Post from the scientists?
Al Jadzira for one, among other non-streamlined news-sites during the war you keep getting lied to about. And the sites that Pennsylvania blocked but won't name.
Sure, ignore that the US also blocks websites. Also ignore that i had no problem accessing stormfront.org from the largest german ISP - as if I would have missed something but American Nazi Scum. But American Nazi sites don't get blocked by King Shrubya and his merry dudes.
So I'm supposed to buy a Dell because that makes sure their quality goes down and Apple's goes up?
What the PC crowd wants is a cheap computer that runs the software they can buy at Walmart or get (cough) "cheap" from work or friends without too much hassle. Unless Apple starts shipping cheap x86 with Windows (maybe Lindows) we can forgett about that.
Sure, if you think that 10% higher scores (ICC 7.0 against gcc 3.2.2) or even 20% (against gcc 2.95) are "similar" - and that includes "evil" SSE support on gcc. And if you happen to use MS C...
Last but not least: even if all you care about is raw, non-SIMD performance - unless you used a 604 based Mac over a Pentium+ PC, why should I (or infact anybody) listen to you?
Hey, YOU keep saying that SPEC scores are the bee's knees. But don't let the facts get into YOUR way.
Odd. All the Mac scores must be cheated then.
Yet you keep saying they have nothing better to do than recompile their code whenever Intel blesses them with a ne processor, like SPEC tells them to.
Well, Mac users are clever enough not to bother with KDE, let alone compile it ;-)