Have you seen the power consumption and heat dissipation of the new A64s?
Yes, I have. Do you know how they got to that level? They got there by changing the type of transistor they use in manufacturing those processors. They switched from a fast/hot transistor to a slower/cooler transistor. If anything, that change lowered the speed ceiling, not raised it. They can't just shrink and speed it up the way you claim unless they go back to the faster/hotter gates.
Apple may be using Intel processors, but the rest of the hardware will not be compatible with the windows world. You have to buy Apple hardware from Apple to get OSX. You can't buy a cheaper machine from Dell or someone and run OSX on it. The price is for Apple software, Apple quality and Apple name. That's usually been enough in the past, regardless of the CPU.
which I'm not at all sure it is, why does everyone think it's going to be an x86 chip?
which I'm not at all sure it is, why does everyone think it's going to be a CPU? Why not a co-processor, chip set or even something as simply as a network controller? There are all kinds of things that could be added.
NeXT used a custom Signal Processor on their machines. Apple could be thinking of something along those lines.
Fact: NeXT used an i860 (64-bit RISC) graphics accelerator. Manufactured by Intel.
Probably the more relevant of those facts listed. I'd guess Apple is thinking of adding some custom hardware that Intel makes. It's a lot more reasonable than replacing the CPU or some other major component.
While the scenario is possible, (And I don't know the details of Apples contract with IBM), I would suspect that what Apple would get from IBM in the way of chip specs would be the current generation PowerPC chip. That design would only be useful until IBM came out with their next generation POWER 6 or whatever. Apple loses out on future enhancements from IBM. Then Apple has to either go back to IBM for the new design, rely on Intel to enhance the older design (shudder!), or sit and stew in the old design until it rots.
What Apple gets from IBM is more than just parts, they get a solid future in R&D. This is why they left Motorola 68K family: no future.
When Intel sells about 40 times more CPUs, how can IBM afford the R&D to stay competitive?
IBM R&D is different than Intel. IBM is R&Ding server processors. All their power designs are made first for the server machines. These are high dollar processors and they do sell a fair number of those in all their lines. These are far more complex than what Intel makes in terms of function and reliability. The 970 is just a striped down version of the server spec. Striping down is easy and cheap when the design is already in front of you.
Intel on the other hand designs desktop chips first, then tries to improve them into server chips. That's a harder task, because server chips are more demanding than desktop in terms of capabilites and reliability. And when you already have a chip that has certain shortcuts in favor of speed over reliability, its harder to mod it later for reliability.
This, by the way, is one of the reasons AMD is doing such a job on Intel: They designed the server version first, and striped it down for desktop versions after. It's cheaper to maintain both lines that way, and the desktop versions tend to be better for it.
I will only buy glass. Better resolution. Adjustable resolution. Better lighting in all situations. Easier to view from wide angles/side angles. Faster refresh. Cheaper.
CONS: Heavy, power hungry, take up more space. Someone above was complaining about color. It may not be perfect, but compared to LCD? Gimmi a break. Show me an LCD that has better color than the equivelant glass.
Once it's in place, most of those size problems are gone. Picture quality is something you have to look at every day.
E-mail is not the addiction. What people want and need is the social interaction. Different people use different means and technologies to get it, but the basics are the same.
Like this article is trying to make an issue out of a particular technology that is used. It's no worse than the old ladies that just have to go down to the beauty salon every day. They go for the chit-chat. The salon is just the place where it all happens.
E-Mail, forums, Blogs, Cell Phones, Text. They are all just communications mediums. Make fun of each others technology, but know that the underlying need of each is to stay in touch and communicate.
I have not heard who is manufacturing the proposed chip, but...
The reasons given in the article are all solid resons, but I would not be surprised if some small encouragement behind this is from a US chip manufacturer who is looking to expand and consolidate a larger market for their products. They would ask the US government to press other countries into using their products. It would give them a large locked in market and lots of control. The current administration is enough in the pocket of many corporation on such matters to make this believable.
By the same token, any security service should probably be carefully of making their security procedures and technology dependant on foreign companies. They might be friendly now, but you never know what will happen afer the next election.
If the keys are weighted differently based on the standard typing position of the fingers, then they would be weighted wrong for gamers position of the fingers.
Don't ask me. I was shooting for funny. It's satire. I know it's not correct, but it seemed like an interesting twist to take on the subject. It's yet another way to slice MS over their apparently hypocritical stance on piracy.
Cuba used Windows. But they can't legally purchase Windows from Microsoft due to trade embargo, so they pirate it.
Now, Cuba does not want Windows any more. They want Linux.
So MS should be delighted that Cuba is no longer pirating their software. It's a win-win situation. I can't wait to hear MSs take on this.
My father has a lot of guns he aquired in the 40's-60's. All of them have side switch locks, and when the lock is on, the trigger won't pull, PERIOD. I about flipped when I saw this comment about trigger release safeties. I'd never ehard of that (not that I follow gun news at all).
As a guess, I think it would be more like they would require a lot of popup messages to indicate that "Something is trying to be installed, do you really want this?"
So technically, the user "knows". That in itself does not guarentee the elimination of spyware. The scammers just have to overload the user with so many that they automatically click through just to get what they want and don't pay attention.
On the flip side, there were some complaints a few years ago from driver writers/vendors about how hard it was to get their driver installed, and that they had to make the user navigate through many pages and forms to get installed. They wanted a much more streamlined installation procedure, that required less input from the user. Making it difficult to install stuff doesn't make it better all around, just more annoying.
I saw a few years ago (probably here on/.) where someone put a MB into a tank filled with glycerin, then put an air conditioner cooler grid into the tank with it. A pump curculated the glycerin over the cooling grid and around the MB. I thought that was pretty extreme. I guess the main point is that you don't want something corrosive or conductive, and you do want something with a sufficiently high specific heat to take the heat away without cooking the board.
Three Drives for the Movie-kings who plunder and ply,
Seven for the Hardware-lords all but clones,
Nine for Portal Men doomed to buy
One for the DRM Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Discs where the data lies.
One Drive to read them all, One Drive to write them,
One Drive to bring them all and with their lasers byte them
In the Land of Discs where the data lies.
Good or bad, that is probably what a lot of people will say. You'll end up with people going into OS not because they love the idea or the software, but to avoid worse alternatives. People without the correct motivation will go in and submit junk just to say they are doing something to get their "service" credit. Even if their code does not make it in, you've wasted the time of the reviewers to look at it and reject it.
When you change the motivation for entering Open Source, you change the people, the work routine and the quality of what is produced in Open source.
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You have showed why Microsoft can not lose. They have plenty of money and can stand up to anyone and not be run down.
But that is not the same thing as winning, at least as far as Bill is concerned. MS has only two major wins, OS and Office. Their DB offering is behind Oracle. Their online services are marginal. Media player is battling Quicktime and Real. They have not won any of those areas, though they are trying very hard. Simply having money does not guarentee a win.
In the case of Google, Google is very intrenched across the internet. They have search, they have adds, they have mindshare all over the place. That is more than product. That is content and it is wide networked support. MS can't easily overcome that even by levereging their monopoly. And most things that they might try to leverage would probably land them in anti-trust court.
It's not different from open standards. If we had open standards, we wouldn't need this.
The problem is that there is no open standard that the existing manufacturers are using.
But really, it is less about standards. It's more about open. None of the existing manufacturers publish their hardware specs enough to allow open drivers. The alternatives are to reverse engineer it (very difficult), convence the manufacturere to publish specs (not likely) or make your own damn card (expensive).
Actually, if some third teir card maker were to jump on the bandwagon and offer to publish specs and help the project, they would probably get a lot of publicity, along with a lot of open source customers. It might be a big boost for the likes of Matrox or S3.
Fun Fact: U.S. government subsidizes Boeing.
When you ride Southwest (or any carrier who flies Boeing jets), American taxpayers helped pay for your ticket. Enjoy your flight.
Fun Fact: Europian governments subsidize Airbus.
When you ride any carrier who flies AirBus jets, Europian taxpayers helped pay for your ticket, not United States. Who's tax money would you rather spend? Enjoy your flight.
After Jedi, people were squeeling loudly about Ewoks and a bad story. The compalining was as bad then as EP I is now. But time settled it out, people got used to the story the way was it was, and old wounds healed.
It will happen again. People will get used to EP I and II ( and III ?) if they are viewed as bad now. They will become history rather than something to complain about.
Lucas needs to take another ten year break before tackling EP VII, VIII, IX.
Maybe this is a good thing for Star Wars. Something will continue to exist for now while we wait for new, fresh storylines to fill in after EP VI.
What's the worst that could happen? Someone could write a bunch of bad stories that go nowhere and distort the future timeline of a beloved sci-fi series. It'll run a few seasons and get canceled over the pitiful cries of a few diehard fans while the rest of the original fan base yawn? Baah, It could never happen!
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Yes, I have. Do you know how they got to that level? They got there by changing the type of transistor they use in manufacturing those processors. They switched from a fast/hot transistor to a slower/cooler transistor. If anything, that change lowered the speed ceiling, not raised it. They can't just shrink and speed it up the way you claim unless they go back to the faster/hotter gates.
OS X in Intel will only emulate OS X in G3. Not G4 or G5, not Altivec, not OS 9 and not 68K.
Anand coveres it pretty well here.
Apple may be using Intel processors, but the rest of the hardware will not be compatible with the windows world. You have to buy Apple hardware from Apple to get OSX. You can't buy a cheaper machine from Dell or someone and run OSX on it. The price is for Apple software, Apple quality and Apple name. That's usually been enough in the past, regardless of the CPU.
which I'm not at all sure it is, why does everyone think it's going to be a CPU? Why not a co-processor, chip set or even something as simply as a network controller? There are all kinds of things that could be added.
NeXT used a custom Signal Processor on their machines. Apple could be thinking of something along those lines.
Probably the more relevant of those facts listed. I'd guess Apple is thinking of adding some custom hardware that Intel makes. It's a lot more reasonable than replacing the CPU or some other major component.
What Apple gets from IBM is more than just parts, they get a solid future in R&D. This is why they left Motorola 68K family: no future.
IBM R&D is different than Intel. IBM is R&Ding server processors. All their power designs are made first for the server machines. These are high dollar processors and they do sell a fair number of those in all their lines. These are far more complex than what Intel makes in terms of function and reliability. The 970 is just a striped down version of the server spec. Striping down is easy and cheap when the design is already in front of you.
Intel on the other hand designs desktop chips first, then tries to improve them into server chips. That's a harder task, because server chips are more demanding than desktop in terms of capabilites and reliability. And when you already have a chip that has certain shortcuts in favor of speed over reliability, its harder to mod it later for reliability.
This, by the way, is one of the reasons AMD is doing such a job on Intel: They designed the server version first, and striped it down for desktop versions after. It's cheaper to maintain both lines that way, and the desktop versions tend to be better for it.
I will only buy glass. Better resolution. Adjustable resolution. Better lighting in all situations. Easier to view from wide angles/side angles. Faster refresh. Cheaper.
CONS: Heavy, power hungry, take up more space. Someone above was complaining about color. It may not be perfect, but compared to LCD? Gimmi a break. Show me an LCD that has better color than the equivelant glass.
Once it's in place, most of those size problems are gone. Picture quality is something you have to look at every day.
E-mail is not the addiction. What people want and need is the social interaction. Different people use different means and technologies to get it, but the basics are the same.
Like this article is trying to make an issue out of a particular technology that is used. It's no worse than the old ladies that just have to go down to the beauty salon every day. They go for the chit-chat. The salon is just the place where it all happens.
E-Mail, forums, Blogs, Cell Phones, Text. They are all just communications mediums. Make fun of each others technology, but know that the underlying need of each is to stay in touch and communicate.
The reasons given in the article are all solid resons, but I would not be surprised if some small encouragement behind this is from a US chip manufacturer who is looking to expand and consolidate a larger market for their products. They would ask the US government to press other countries into using their products. It would give them a large locked in market and lots of control. The current administration is enough in the pocket of many corporation on such matters to make this believable.
By the same token, any security service should probably be carefully of making their security procedures and technology dependant on foreign companies. They might be friendly now, but you never know what will happen afer the next election.
So, any word on who the chip maker is?
If the keys are weighted differently based on the standard typing position of the fingers, then they would be weighted wrong for gamers position of the fingers.
Don't ask me. I was shooting for funny. It's satire. I know it's not correct, but it seemed like an interesting twist to take on the subject. It's yet another way to slice MS over their apparently hypocritical stance on piracy.
Who gets the moderators around here?
Cuba used Windows. But they can't legally purchase Windows from Microsoft due to trade embargo, so they pirate it.
Now, Cuba does not want Windows any more. They want Linux.
So MS should be delighted that Cuba is no longer pirating their software. It's a win-win situation. I can't wait to hear MSs take on this.
My father has a lot of guns he aquired in the 40's-60's. All of them have side switch locks, and when the lock is on, the trigger won't pull, PERIOD. I about flipped when I saw this comment about trigger release safeties. I'd never ehard of that (not that I follow gun news at all).
So technically, the user "knows". That in itself does not guarentee the elimination of spyware. The scammers just have to overload the user with so many that they automatically click through just to get what they want and don't pay attention.
On the flip side, there were some complaints a few years ago from driver writers/vendors about how hard it was to get their driver installed, and that they had to make the user navigate through many pages and forms to get installed. They wanted a much more streamlined installation procedure, that required less input from the user. Making it difficult to install stuff doesn't make it better all around, just more annoying.
I saw a few years ago (probably here on /.) where someone put a MB into a tank filled with glycerin, then put an air conditioner cooler grid into the tank with it. A pump curculated the glycerin over the cooling grid and around the MB. I thought that was pretty extreme. I guess the main point is that you don't want something corrosive or conductive, and you do want something with a sufficiently high specific heat to take the heat away without cooking the board.
Three Drives for the Movie-kings who plunder and ply,
Seven for the Hardware-lords all but clones,
Nine for Portal Men doomed to buy
One for the DRM Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Discs where the data lies.
One Drive to read them all, One Drive to write them,
One Drive to bring them all and with their lasers byte them
In the Land of Discs where the data lies.
Goldfingers solution was much sexier.
Good or bad, that is probably what a lot of people will say. You'll end up with people going into OS not because they love the idea or the software, but to avoid worse alternatives. People without the correct motivation will go in and submit junk just to say they are doing something to get their "service" credit. Even if their code does not make it in, you've wasted the time of the reviewers to look at it and reject it.
When you change the motivation for entering Open Source, you change the people, the work routine and the quality of what is produced in Open source.
But that is not the same thing as winning, at least as far as Bill is concerned. MS has only two major wins, OS and Office. Their DB offering is behind Oracle. Their online services are marginal. Media player is battling Quicktime and Real. They have not won any of those areas, though they are trying very hard. Simply having money does not guarentee a win.
In the case of Google, Google is very intrenched across the internet. They have search, they have adds, they have mindshare all over the place. That is more than product. That is content and it is wide networked support. MS can't easily overcome that even by levereging their monopoly. And most things that they might try to leverage would probably land them in anti-trust court.
But really, it is less about standards. It's more about open. None of the existing manufacturers publish their hardware specs enough to allow open drivers. The alternatives are to reverse engineer it (very difficult), convence the manufacturere to publish specs (not likely) or make your own damn card (expensive).
Actually, if some third teir card maker were to jump on the bandwagon and offer to publish specs and help the project, they would probably get a lot of publicity, along with a lot of open source customers. It might be a big boost for the likes of Matrox or S3.
"You have been charged with two counts of Privacy. How do you pleed?"
Fun Fact: Europian governments subsidize Airbus.
When you ride any carrier who flies AirBus jets, Europian taxpayers helped pay for your ticket, not United States. Who's tax money would you rather spend? Enjoy your flight.
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It will happen again. People will get used to EP I and II ( and III ?) if they are viewed as bad now. They will become history rather than something to complain about.
Lucas needs to take another ten year break before tackling EP VII, VIII, IX.
Maybe this is a good thing for Star Wars. Something will continue to exist for now while we wait for new, fresh storylines to fill in after EP VI.
What's the worst that could happen? Someone could write a bunch of bad stories that go nowhere and distort the future timeline of a beloved sci-fi series. It'll run a few seasons and get canceled over the pitiful cries of a few diehard fans while the rest of the original fan base yawn?
Baah, It could never happen!