And if you can get 7 gauss rifles in a mech, you can get 8 PPC's one too. rec.games.mecha.
Anyhoo. This looks like a killer all-in-one setup for someone looking to do an all-in-one internet services provider. Or a guy who wants to just make all his buds GREEN with envy. Once LinuxPPC gets going, stuff like this should start making the x86 setups look sick.
I'm sorry. But I've grown QUITE tired of Tom "Got my agenda" Pabst in the last couple years. Hope his site does well and that it draws in a lot of advertising revenue. But he's NOT got his finger on the pulse of the business user.
FACT: No truly large business is going to trust their system contracts to AMD. PERIOD. Note: I'm not talking about some little 100-station computer shop. I'm talking BIG business. Whose systems number into the high thousands, if not tens of thousands.
AMD is a great home computer and enthusiast platform. Little more. Several things count against it though.
It doesn't provide complete platform soloutions. It doesn't build it's own chipsets or complete specs for it's motherboards. It relies on VIA, SIS, and ALI to build for them. None of these three has a reputation that engenders trust in companies looking for large scale system roll-outs.
AMD's current high-end CPU is inferior, stability-wise. Note that AMD's chips lack the thermal diode you'll find in every Intel chip. One that'll shut down the system long before you have a problem with cooking the core. While the AMD chips will keep running, until they blithely fry themselves. What would you rather have? A system that needs to be troubleshot when it goes down, or a system that needs to have componentry REPLACED when it goes down?
AMD's financial resources are a drop in the proverbial bucket compared to Intel. This allows Intel to do things AMD simply couldn't get away with. Like definition of standards. Intel has the 3M (money, muscle, and mindshare) to push through almost any standard they feel like. And only rarely do they encounter stumbling blocks in acceptance (like RAMBUS). Mostly due to internal politics, rather than external factors.
What this boils down to is that big business KNOWS Intel's going to be around for them to yell at if something breaks. They don't necessarily have the same comfort zone with AMD.
Feel free to refute this all you want. I merely ask that you provide me with examples and hard data.
I was always under the assumption that part of the problem with fully recycling was actually in the isolation of the materials themselves rather than that of the grosser scale of separating components.
Correction. The initial generation of P4 doesn't have SMP support enabled. It's not that they're not designed for it (any more than P3 was).
The issue is that they're focusing on single-processor systems for roll-out. This is for ease of troubleshooting. They'll work out most of the bugs in the single-processor soloution before compounding any problems trying to prematurely release the SMP boards to market.
But if they did that, you'd want to gripe about how "buggy" their SMP boards were right?
At least try to appear impartial here. Brand-zealotry makes it too easy for inaccurate statements like yours to be made with impunity.
Well. From what I learned back in grade school, "unavailable" means you can't get it. Period.
Having it priced beyond your means doesn't make it unavailable. A better term would have been "less readily available".
I DO agree with the basic sentiment of it though. The focusing on the best price/performance ratio rather than best price or highest rated speed. As a P4 system with the mandatory RAMBUS *GACK!*, easily outpaces an Athlon.....in terms of price.
I've been saying that this was an idiotic move, almost from the start. And 3dfx's descent into the financial sub-basement has pretty much borne my predictions out.
They basically figured that if they held a vertical monopoly with their chips/cards, they could dictate advances to the industry. Luckily, the industry told them exactly where they could stick those notions.
So. 3dfx has dropped some of that dead weight (namely STB's manufacturing facilities). Now, after they go crawling back to the cardmakers and OEMs on their hands and knees, they can get back to what they USED TO DO so well. Designing killer 3d chipsets.
But they better hope like hell that this 2-year-long debacle of theirs hasn't permanently damaged their chances of shouldering back into the competitive market. And if they maintain the same, arrogant "we know what you "need" attitude, they're going to need to eat a LOT of boot-polish before anyone will touch their wares.
They said it on their webpage. They initially intended it as such. But they found that the effort to do such a thing was more than they were willing to commit to.
They also found that they could accomplish nearly the same thing in an existing distro with a few scripts.
I'm sorry, I'm venting about the lack of anything resembling standards (or even PROOFREADING) in web news sites nowadays.
they've already set their "sites" on the PlayStation3
So all of Sony's websites, after PS2 is released here, will be hyping PS3?
Sony's design for the PS2 is both sophisticated and elegant, comprised of four separate processors: the "Emotion Engine," a microprocessor far more sophisticated than the Pentium III; a "Graphics Synthesizer" capable of blasting polygons to the television; and two "Vector Units," which haven't been seen before except on exotic supercomputers such as Cray's Y-MP. It's not just a video-game console, it's a cheap supercomputer.
Way to stay objective. Never mind the fact that if all you did was dedicate the P3 to outputting games to a 600x400 TV screen, you'd rip up framerate wise as well. Hence the X-Box.
upstart video-chip developer Nvidia, who swept in from obscurity a little over a year ago
Obscurity? nVidia hit the scene a lot earlier that "a little over a year ago". The Riva128 was a VERY talked about card. And the TNT became a Voodoo2 killer (though not an SLI killer). This was back in August/September of 1998. Apparently, to this guy, they didn't exist before the TNT2 Ultra.
Personally, I've been into the Anime since...sheesh, I've been watching it so long that I've forgotten exactly when I initially began watching.
I think that it was Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets). Not the double-utchered Toonami version, but the original import to the US where the littlest member of the group spoke in "bleeps"and "tootles".
After that, I got into TranzorZ, and a couple other imports to american TV (usually on a couple of the barely-established UHF channels in the Chicagoland area at the time).
Then I saw Robotech. Purists say what you will about what Carl Macek did to the three series and "combining" it into Robotech. It remains, for most people, their initial introduction into the world of Japanese Animation (c'mon, if you don't like transformable mecha, you're dead or a vegetable).
About that time, I began delving into imports and received a nasty shock (the prices and the scarcity of importers). It was WAY more than my parents were willing to invest, just to have me vegetate in front of the boob-tube. I was encouraged to get a better (read cheaper) hobby.
I got reintroduced to it while I was in the Army. I saw so much bootleg Anime in Korea (due to extremely stringent laws on japanese imports to South Korea) that I was hooked. Once I got back to the states, my collection began growing at a dangerous pace. Mostly the stock stuff, since I didn't have a lot of exposure to the medium outside of the stuff I actually watched.
Then came my first Anime convention a couple years ago. AnimeCentral.
Unfortunately, I don't exactly make SCADS of money, and my time off is limited. But I try to make it to Acen every year now. Anime's an excellent medium, and much better than 99.9% of the crap shoveled down our throats by the networks today.
A buddy of mine worked for a building contractor a couple years back. He talked about using the Quake engine for 3D walk-throughs also. But his boss was too cheap, stupid, and non-forward-thinking to approve even preliminary trials.
We also used to joke. "Oh. There's Mr. Evans, your rude gasbag of a neighbor! EAT ROCKET PUSBAG!"
HIV is a virus, a much simpler organism than a bacterium. HIV actually attacks certain building blocks of the human immune system through protein bonding and reproduction. Bacteria, even simple ones, are quite a bit larger and more complex than HIV.
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Currently, I'm the moderator of a Big Eight newsgroup. I'd most certainly be interested in at least hosting the archives for that particular newsgroup. For historical purposes if nothing else.
100mbits/sec to the backbone is nice. I could see a vastly profitable market for coloc data centers. With a monthly operating capital of around $100K, and charging $500/month for 40-50GB of transfer a month (some places I've seen charge thousands for rates of transfer that aren't even a tenth of that), building to a median of about 350 clients you could hit break-even after about 8 months and become fully profitable in just under a year. And still have spare capacity.
Again, the problem is, what's Cogent's peering setup look like? Without multiple, fairly fast peerings (at least OC3, if not more high capacity fiber links), anything that's NOT on the Cogent backbone could choke heavily at the gateway.
Yes. But in fairly balanced individuals this period is quite short and doesn't lead to anything more than some harmless daydreaming.
I don't dispute that such a thing could adversely affect someone who's mental condition isn't as stable. But is this really the fault of the catharsis itself?
So you're saying catharsis is a myth? And pray tell, how is describing a mythic battle (complete with magic and monsters) going to make someone any better at killing REAL things?
so you get more people who join up becuase they, for lack of a better way of putting it, enjoy combat.
Actually, most people in the military nowadays are in for the college bennies. The lifers are in mainly because it's a chance at a somewhat honorable career. Very, VERY few of these individuals EVER want to actually go to war. And most people like this will be weeded out in permanent party assignments.
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It just goes to show that the US can export anything!
Just hope this one isn't as badly received as McDonalds was......
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Heh. BattleTech references anyone?
And if you can get 7 gauss rifles in a mech, you can get 8 PPC's one too. rec.games.mecha.
Anyhoo. This looks like a killer all-in-one setup for someone looking to do an all-in-one internet services provider. Or a guy who wants to just make all his buds GREEN with envy. Once LinuxPPC gets going, stuff like this should start making the x86 setups look sick.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
I'm sorry. But I've grown QUITE tired of Tom "Got my agenda" Pabst in the last couple years. Hope his site does well and that it draws in a lot of advertising revenue. But he's NOT got his finger on the pulse of the business user.
FACT: No truly large business is going to trust their system contracts to AMD. PERIOD. Note: I'm not talking about some little 100-station computer shop. I'm talking BIG business. Whose systems number into the high thousands, if not tens of thousands.
AMD is a great home computer and enthusiast platform. Little more. Several things count against it though.
What this boils down to is that big business KNOWS Intel's going to be around for them to yell at if something breaks. They don't necessarily have the same comfort zone with AMD.
Feel free to refute this all you want. I merely ask that you provide me with examples and hard data.
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Can you imagine a Beowul.....NEVERMIND!
I was always under the assumption that part of the problem with fully recycling was actually in the isolation of the materials themselves rather than that of the grosser scale of separating components.
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The processor was just released. So arguments about availability are kind of meaningless.
How available were Thunderbird processors when they were released?
How available was the Athlon?
How available was the P3?
Howabout P2?
Of course components that have had more time to penetrate the market will be more available.
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He never made the distinction about commodity components vs full systems from integrators. Nor was it important to the point I was making.
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Correction. The initial generation of P4 doesn't have SMP support enabled. It's not that they're not designed for it (any more than P3 was).
The issue is that they're focusing on single-processor systems for roll-out. This is for ease of troubleshooting. They'll work out most of the bugs in the single-processor soloution before compounding any problems trying to prematurely release the SMP boards to market.
But if they did that, you'd want to gripe about how "buggy" their SMP boards were right?
At least try to appear impartial here. Brand-zealotry makes it too easy for inaccurate statements like yours to be made with impunity.
Chas - The one, the only.
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Well. From what I learned back in grade school, "unavailable" means you can't get it. Period.
Having it priced beyond your means doesn't make it unavailable. A better term would have been "less readily available".
I DO agree with the basic sentiment of it though. The focusing on the best price/performance ratio rather than best price or highest rated speed. As a P4 system with the mandatory RAMBUS *GACK!*, easily outpaces an Athlon.....in terms of price.
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Uhh. Why, exactly, is this news? The old X-Acto knife trick's been around for years.
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Well FINALLY!
I've been saying that this was an idiotic move, almost from the start. And 3dfx's descent into the financial sub-basement has pretty much borne my predictions out.
They basically figured that if they held a vertical monopoly with their chips/cards, they could dictate advances to the industry. Luckily, the industry told them exactly where they could stick those notions.
So. 3dfx has dropped some of that dead weight (namely STB's manufacturing facilities). Now, after they go crawling back to the cardmakers and OEMs on their hands and knees, they can get back to what they USED TO DO so well. Designing killer 3d chipsets.
But they better hope like hell that this 2-year-long debacle of theirs hasn't permanently damaged their chances of shouldering back into the competitive market. And if they maintain the same, arrogant "we know what you "need" attitude, they're going to need to eat a LOT of boot-polish before anyone will touch their wares.
Chas - The one, the only.
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They said it on their webpage. They initially intended it as such. But they found that the effort to do such a thing was more than they were willing to commit to.
They also found that they could accomplish nearly the same thing in an existing distro with a few scripts.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
So all of Sony's websites, after PS2 is released here, will be hyping PS3?
Way to stay objective. Never mind the fact that if all you did was dedicate the P3 to outputting games to a 600x400 TV screen, you'd rip up framerate wise as well. Hence the X-Box.
Obscurity? nVidia hit the scene a lot earlier that "a little over a year ago". The Riva128 was a VERY talked about card. And the TNT became a Voodoo2 killer (though not an SLI killer). This was back in August/September of 1998. Apparently, to this guy, they didn't exist before the TNT2 Ultra.Chas - The one, the only.
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Many service providers would rather you download your mail, attachments and all, than build them up on their system.
Unless they're charging you by the amount of disk space you're using.......
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Thanks for your input. I disagree. End of conversation.
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Personally, I've been into the Anime since...sheesh, I've been watching it so long that I've forgotten exactly when I initially began watching.
I think that it was Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets). Not the double-utchered Toonami version, but the original import to the US where the littlest member of the group spoke in "bleeps"and "tootles".
After that, I got into TranzorZ, and a couple other imports to american TV (usually on a couple of the barely-established UHF channels in the Chicagoland area at the time).
Then I saw Robotech. Purists say what you will about what Carl Macek did to the three series and "combining" it into Robotech. It remains, for most people, their initial introduction into the world of Japanese Animation (c'mon, if you don't like transformable mecha, you're dead or a vegetable).
About that time, I began delving into imports and received a nasty shock (the prices and the scarcity of importers). It was WAY more than my parents were willing to invest, just to have me vegetate in front of the boob-tube. I was encouraged to get a better (read cheaper) hobby.
I got reintroduced to it while I was in the Army. I saw so much bootleg Anime in Korea (due to extremely stringent laws on japanese imports to South Korea) that I was hooked. Once I got back to the states, my collection began growing at a dangerous pace. Mostly the stock stuff, since I didn't have a lot of exposure to the medium outside of the stuff I actually watched.
Then came my first Anime convention a couple years ago. AnimeCentral.
Unfortunately, I don't exactly make SCADS of money, and my time off is limited. But I try to make it to Acen every year now. Anime's an excellent medium, and much better than 99.9% of the crap shoveled down our throats by the networks today.
Chas - The one, the only.
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I saw this somewhere once. Don't remember where.
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A buddy of mine worked for a building contractor a couple years back. He talked about using the Quake engine for 3D walk-throughs also. But his boss was too cheap, stupid, and non-forward-thinking to approve even preliminary trials.
We also used to joke. "Oh. There's Mr. Evans, your rude gasbag of a neighbor! EAT ROCKET PUSBAG!"
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
HIV is a virus, a much simpler organism than a bacterium. HIV actually attacks certain building blocks of the human immune system through protein bonding and reproduction. Bacteria, even simple ones, are quite a bit larger and more complex than HIV.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Currently, I'm the moderator of a Big Eight newsgroup. I'd most certainly be interested in at least hosting the archives for that particular newsgroup. For historical purposes if nothing else.
Chas - The one, the only.
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100mbits/sec to the backbone is nice. I could see a vastly profitable market for coloc data centers. With a monthly operating capital of around $100K, and charging $500/month for 40-50GB of transfer a month (some places I've seen charge thousands for rates of transfer that aren't even a tenth of that), building to a median of about 350 clients you could hit break-even after about 8 months and become fully profitable in just under a year. And still have spare capacity.
Again, the problem is, what's Cogent's peering setup look like? Without multiple, fairly fast peerings (at least OC3, if not more high capacity fiber links), anything that's NOT on the Cogent backbone could choke heavily at the gateway.
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Could you provide a link to them?
I'm moving in a couple months here and I'm looking for decent places with high speed access around the Chicagoland area.
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Yes. But in fairly balanced individuals this period is quite short and doesn't lead to anything more than some harmless daydreaming.
I don't dispute that such a thing could adversely affect someone who's mental condition isn't as stable. But is this really the fault of the catharsis itself?
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That appears to be one use for it.
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So you're saying catharsis is a myth? And pray tell, how is describing a mythic battle (complete with magic and monsters) going to make someone any better at killing REAL things?
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Actually, most people in the military nowadays are in for the college bennies. The lifers are in mainly because it's a chance at a somewhat honorable career. Very, VERY few of these individuals EVER want to actually go to war. And most people like this will be weeded out in permanent party assignments.
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THANK GOD!!!