Intel has always marketed the Xeon as a high end CPU for server and workstation applications. If you're going to try to be pedantic, at least be accurate about it.
The US certainly has a huge number of problems, but it still amazes me that not one thread can go by here without someone karma whoring by inserting a veiled or not so veiled reference that says 'It must be the United State's fault'.
The US Mint has never done anything at all similar. Private companies have, but those are not a Government entity. Let's keep on topic and focus on Canada for once, ok?
I do see your point, but I also don't think Jackson is the only one out there who can do it. For that matter, the tone and atmosphere of _The Hobbit_ is so different than that of the Trilogy that it might actually be a GOOD thing to get a fresh perspective.
I mean really. He did a good job overall, quibbling over storyline changes from the books notwithstanding. That being said, there are a lot of very competent directors out there who would jump at the chance at doing an adaptation of _The Hobbit_. The real genius was Tolkien, not Jackson. Let him have Tintin, hire another director and give us a good movie.
I hope you're making a joke and I just missed it, with regards to Doom. The gamer market was so very, very tiny when Doom came out. What drove x86 marketshare was cheap "IBM Compatible" clones, and applications like Lotus 1-2-3. Had Apple not shut down the Mac clonemakers we might live in an all Apple world now. Having had Doom come out on Apples would not have changed much. The initial driver of PC dominance was not home machines, it was business machines.
That being said, I agree that Apple has never been any better than MS, and in some cases has been worse. They are both profit driven companies. That's not evil, it just is what it is.
That's not very much for the height of the dot.com bubble. I hope he was siphoning tax free money off...or getting kickbacks...or something. Then again it's not bad for a geek and his hobby website.
Why don't you enlighten us then, and explain how cell phones and iPods can be used to better educate our kids? What's that? You can't? Didn't think so.
Technology is great when it's use makes sense, not just for the sake of technology. The problem with our schools is largely one of politics and political correctness, of 'outcomes based' policies instead of policies that are actually designed to TEACH.
When I got my FIOS installed late last year they asked me if I wanted to move my phone from copper to fiber. I said 'no' and they said 'ok'. Maybe they are doing this in some or many cases, but it certainly isn't a formal policy because they haven't done it to anyone on my street. Yes, my evidence is anecdotal, but so is this story.
You're comment is funny and rightly modded as such, but it really ISN'T censorship. Censorship applies to the Government taking action to silence speech; not when a corporation does it.
No, because a PC user can plug in the gamepad of his choice if he is playing a game that lends itself to that. Or a joystick...or a steering wheel...or...you get the point I hope.
His job was to sell games for Gamestop. Period. Parents, and yes I am one, should be involved enough in and aware enough of their kids lives to decide whether or not they play videogames, which games, and when. It was not this guy's job to do so. Now, if his job was at the corporate office and he presented the idea through channels and they decided the slight hit in sales would be worth the good PR, that would be great and I agree then that it would be a good idea. He overstepped his bounds and deserved punishment.
I call BS on the usability arguement, sorry. My Creative Zen Nano is just as easy to use as my daughter's iPod if not easier. The only reason iPods sell as well as they do is name and hype.
Itunes *maybe*. I personally hate it and won't use it, but I can see how it might lock in some users. Usability though? No.
While I agree with you in priciple, in order to file a lawsuit you have to be able to show some kind of damages. Now, if this update were to fubar your machine you might have standing, otherwise I'm not sure a court would take it.
Oh maybe the piece of common sense that tells you that if you steal they might catch you and hurt you? Most elements of moral codes around the world are based in social and genetic evolution and often DO involved a certain about of common sense. If you rape someone their family might come after you and cut your pee-pee off, for example Common sense would tell me that I should think carefully about such an act before doing it.
They probably padded the budget and spent the remaining money on hookers and blow. That would explain how they got delusions of grandeur and thought they built something new and innovative when all they did was link 4 motherboards via cheap gig-ethernet.
This story is literally a 'nothing to see here, move along' one.
You're talking about a very tiny niche of users. The money is in selling consumer and gaming products. Adding all those transistors and bus lines to satisfy a small minority of users doesn't make much business sense. AMD wants to grab the overall performance crown back, not be further pidgeonholed into niche markets.
I think he was talking about gamers who had Vista (which ships with DX 10 code wise) AND DX 10 capable hardware. An awful lot of people have not upgraded from DX9 gen cards yet, partially because of really bad driver support on Vista in the initial months after it's release.
I got rid of Comcast the moment FIOS was available for various reasons, but I used to download a LOT of ISO's and other large files, plus share the connection with my wife and our teenage daughter. We never once had a problem. I am sure I exceeded 100 gigabytes in a month at least a few times. I guess we just got lucky.
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That I can understand. Video processing is one of the very, very few applications that benefit from the larger address space.
Exactly what '64 bit goodness' do you need? Running a multi gigabyte database or something?
Gee...I guess that's why Intel's own page for the Xeon has big bold letters that say Server and Workstation Processors.
Intel has always marketed the Xeon as a high end CPU for server and workstation applications. If you're going to try to be pedantic, at least be accurate about it.
Translation: Lying something to make sound scary is OK if it gets your message across. End justifies the means?
The US certainly has a huge number of problems, but it still amazes me that not one thread can go by here without someone karma whoring by inserting a veiled or not so veiled reference that says 'It must be the United State's fault'.
The US Mint has never done anything at all similar. Private companies have, but those are not a Government entity. Let's keep on topic and focus on Canada for once, ok?
I do see your point, but I also don't think Jackson is the only one out there who can do it. For that matter, the tone and atmosphere of _The Hobbit_ is so different than that of the Trilogy that it might actually be a GOOD thing to get a fresh perspective.
It compares to LinuxBIOS about the same way that Apples compare to Oranges.
I mean really. He did a good job overall, quibbling over storyline changes from the books notwithstanding. That being said, there are a lot of very competent directors out there who would jump at the chance at doing an adaptation of _The Hobbit_. The real genius was Tolkien, not Jackson. Let him have Tintin, hire another director and give us a good movie.
I hope you're making a joke and I just missed it, with regards to Doom. The gamer market was so very, very tiny when Doom came out. What drove x86 marketshare was cheap "IBM Compatible" clones, and applications like Lotus 1-2-3. Had Apple not shut down the Mac clonemakers we might live in an all Apple world now. Having had Doom come out on Apples would not have changed much. The initial driver of PC dominance was not home machines, it was business machines.
That being said, I agree that Apple has never been any better than MS, and in some cases has been worse. They are both profit driven companies. That's not evil, it just is what it is.
That's not very much for the height of the dot.com bubble. I hope he was siphoning tax free money off...or getting kickbacks...or something. Then again it's not bad for a geek and his hobby website.
Why don't you enlighten us then, and explain how cell phones and iPods can be used to better educate our kids? What's that? You can't? Didn't think so.
Technology is great when it's use makes sense, not just for the sake of technology. The problem with our schools is largely one of politics and political correctness, of 'outcomes based' policies instead of policies that are actually designed to TEACH.
When I got my FIOS installed late last year they asked me if I wanted to move my phone from copper to fiber. I said 'no' and they said 'ok'. Maybe they are doing this in some or many cases, but it certainly isn't a formal policy because they haven't done it to anyone on my street. Yes, my evidence is anecdotal, but so is this story.
You're comment is funny and rightly modded as such, but it really ISN'T censorship. Censorship applies to the Government taking action to silence speech; not when a corporation does it.
No, because a PC user can plug in the gamepad of his choice if he is playing a game that lends itself to that. Or a joystick...or a steering wheel...or...you get the point I hope.
That's particularly fully, given that I have no trouble playing WMVs on Firefox on either Windows or Linux. Listening to FUD is like pulling teeth.
His job was to sell games for Gamestop. Period. Parents, and yes I am one, should be involved enough in and aware enough of their kids lives to decide whether or not they play videogames, which games, and when. It was not this guy's job to do so. Now, if his job was at the corporate office and he presented the idea through channels and they decided the slight hit in sales would be worth the good PR, that would be great and I agree then that it would be a good idea. He overstepped his bounds and deserved punishment.
I call BS on the usability arguement, sorry. My Creative Zen Nano is just as easy to use as my daughter's iPod if not easier. The only reason iPods sell as well as they do is name and hype.
Itunes *maybe*. I personally hate it and won't use it, but I can see how it might lock in some users. Usability though? No.
While I agree with you in priciple, in order to file a lawsuit you have to be able to show some kind of damages. Now, if this update were to fubar your machine you might have standing, otherwise I'm not sure a court would take it.
IANAL though.
...and offer PVR friendly listing feeds for something along the lines of $2 or $3 a month or so.
Oh maybe the piece of common sense that tells you that if you steal they might catch you and hurt you? Most elements of moral codes around the world are based in social and genetic evolution and often DO involved a certain about of common sense. If you rape someone their family might come after you and cut your pee-pee off, for example Common sense would tell me that I should think carefully about such an act before doing it.
You expected something better from Zonk?
They probably padded the budget and spent the remaining money on hookers and blow. That would explain how they got delusions of grandeur and thought they built something new and innovative when all they did was link 4 motherboards via cheap gig-ethernet.
This story is literally a 'nothing to see here, move along' one.
You're talking about a very tiny niche of users. The money is in selling consumer and gaming products. Adding all those transistors and bus lines to satisfy a small minority of users doesn't make much business sense. AMD wants to grab the overall performance crown back, not be further pidgeonholed into niche markets.
I think he was talking about gamers who had Vista (which ships with DX 10 code wise) AND DX 10 capable hardware. An awful lot of people have not upgraded from DX9 gen cards yet, partially because of really bad driver support on Vista in the initial months after it's release.
I got rid of Comcast the moment FIOS was available for various reasons, but I used to download a LOT of ISO's and other large files, plus share the connection with my wife and our teenage daughter. We never once had a problem. I am sure I exceeded 100 gigabytes in a month at least a few times. I guess we just got lucky.