They shrunk the size of the gates on the transistors, basically trading reliability for performance. Considering that one of the main selling points of Apples is their longevity and ability to hold value due to it, I can't help but wondering if this is the right move.
Apparently, in order to increase the reliability of the Power4 for the high-end server market, IBM used much thicker gate oxides on the chip's transistors. The trade-off for this decreased failure rate and improved reliability was that the Power4's transistors have slower switching speeds, so even with process shrinks it's harder to push the design to higher clock speeds. Since the 970 is made for the desktop market, there's no need for such measures and therefore the new chip's clock speed will scale much higher than the Power4's. In sum, the 970 is made to be faster, cheaper, and significantly less reliable than the Power4. (Of course, when I say "significantly less reliable than the Power4," you have to understand that this puts the 970's product life and failure rate on par with other mainstream CPUs, since the Power4's increased gate oxide thickness makes it significantly more reliable than most mainstream CPUs.)
It's a given that Apple enthusiasts will be happy as can be once they fire up a brand new powerfull box, the question is how they will feel when they find out it has the lifespan of a typical Intel or AMD CPU.
Question: But are their enough/. users on Ipv6 to/. the network. Answer: Dosentmatter buddy, even though I dont have v6, I tried clicking on it twice just to see what happens.
Dont underestimate the power of a stubborn slashdotter, if i have learned anything from time here, it's that you must click every link several times to try and sneak a lucky page load in.
I probably clicked the slashdot and google V6 links 3 or 4 times a piece thinking there was no possible way slashdot or google had been/.'d;)
And I'm sure those 60 million people (plus university students) will all be watching LOTR huddled around their 17" monitors. Try again, Jack.
by the time 60 million people have broadband it's not unreasonable to assume that the DVD burners which are really now just starting to take off will be commonplace, and even Joe-Six Pack will be able to watch on his 48" big screen;)
though frankly i do remember at some point reading specs on their website about their "off road capable" model being able to hit 15.
not saying that i would like to be hit one at 12 MPH on the other hand, it certainly wouldnt be pleasant, but it's nothing like turning the sidewalks into the mini highways you imply;)
No frigging kidding, the downfall of public radio has been the deregulation that has led to the dominance of the pay for play conglomerates like Clear Channel... and they want to suggest that a new pay for radio satellite network partially owned by this same conglomerate will be radio's saviour?
Get a grip!
XM is backed by a group of industry-leading strategic investors, including General Motors and Clear Channel Communications and DIRECTV, the leading radio and satellite companies in the United States
Naturally, there are few lawyers here, but isn't it obvious that regardless of how big or scary a company is, it has no jurisdiction outside of US. Nothing in US has jurisdiction outside of US (besides the army maybe...)
Well considering the Aussies have tried the same tactics on the US how far fetched is it really? This ruling was the reult of the Aussies wanting to sue Dow Jones for an article hosted on a US webserver for libel because it was viewable in Australia... of course the US courts basically told them to shove it after the ruling though, just like the Aussies should do here;)
In some cases i agree with this sentiment, when it comes to a FPS it's hard to beat the good old mouse/keyboard of course. but for racing, sports, and RPG's console controllers are quite nice.
And don't forget the fact that sitting in a semi-comfortable computer chair and playing on a 17" monitor will never even come close to sitting in a Lazy-Boy playing on a 48" widescreen with dolby 5:1 surround sound
PS: the headset does a heck of a job replacing the keyboard for communicating with other players as well;)
actually as i remember.shn isn't totally free, just free for "non-commercial" use, FLAC is starting to pick up a little wider use now though and is totally free and open source
heh i thought it quite considerate of Slashdot to include links to SSL/SSH and VPN sniffers right in the article... wouldn't want any script kiddie to actually have to google for em or anything:)
somebody tell me where I can get a nudie mod for Jedi Knight II? Oh yeah... I wanna shoot at naked clones of Jengo Fett....
Jengo Fett????
I sense a great disturbance in the force, and i believe it's eminating from a large horde of Natalie Portman fans who are about to vocally let you know the error of your ways!
So are they saying all you need is ACCESS to the Internet to do a crime?
I don't really think they care about access to the internet, they just don't like the idea of untraceable access. Connecting directly to the net thru an ISP they can at least try to follow a paper trail and figure some things out about where you connected from... connecting to an open AP all they have is a MAC addy that any moron can change on their own.
Do you really think they care how secure your computers and network are? Heck they would probably be happy if everyone's hard drive could be inspected easily remotely (sounds like a good windfall of intelligence to them i bet), they just don't want people able to use the net anonymously is my guess.
but, Webhostingtalk's website is basically a forum with user reviews, recommendations, and gripes dedicated to exactly the questions you seek answers too;)
as i remember the PS2 linux kit doesn't give you access to read from the cd/dvd drive, not to mention that it's probably a bit easier for most people to code for the xbox's simple architecture compared to the vector system sony uses
All games are hosted at someone's XBox...just like Q3 or BF1942. I host all the games that I play to reduce lag.
just curious here, but have you actually done any bandwidth monitoring to test this theory? my understanding is that while you can "host" a game all you are really doing is being the caretaker so to speak of the room and the actual hosting really is done by the MS server.
I'm on 128 kb capped cable and haven't heard any complaints at all about 16 player games of MotoGP I have hosted that i know for a fact i dont have the upload capacity to support
the bill he helped stop was not the 500 dollar fee, the 500 dollar fee is what SoundForge decided to allow until the bill currently blocked in the Senate's situation is resolved.
The blocked bill which did pass in the House underwent some very radical last minute changes due to negotiations with a small group of webcasters and the RIAA. A bit more info about what actually happened here
the difference between that "reduced flat rate" and the 70 cents per 1000 listeners per song can really be quite huge (even to very small stations).
lets say a station reaches 100 people on average and at 4 minutes per track averages 15 songs an hour. that's 360 songs a day, or 131,400 a year... at the other rate of 7 cents per 100 listeners it works out to a fee of $9,198 a year. to someone like this a flat rate of $500 seems like a pretty huge difference... heck this flat rate would come to almost half as much even if you only averaged 10 listeners (500 vs 918).
too bad the flat rate is only good till congress acts on the pending legislation, because this deal would probably actually be fairly viable for quite a few webcasters
Since that is a pipe dream (especially considering current administration).
I would gladly settle for Bush not having the opportunity to appoint a supreme court justice during his term, that could really be scary after seeing how cabinet apppointees like Ashcroft behave.
Declan is a very knowedgable writer when it comes to tech, he regularly writes about the DMCA and other political/legal tech issues. just a quick glance at his politechbot page would convince most people of that.
This was certainly neither a mistake on his part, nor was it him mistakenly thinking it was legal... you can bet it was him knowingly trying to make a point.
The real question is whether news.com's editors were aware of the legal implications his article would create or not.
I think the voice chat feature could well be a key to online gaming with a console. Just sitting and playing against an anonymous opponent could probably get boring quite quickly, and with the way consoles controls work the feasibility of being able to type out a text message while playing like you can do with a computer is lost... there's just no way you can operate a console controller with 1 hand, and peck out a message with the other on a keyboard.
As far as i know the only PS2 game that supports voice chat so far is SOCOM, MS guaranteeing that players will be able to communicate via their headset in all online games really does seem like a pretty decent plan.
How their centralized servers hold up to the load is the biggest question mark i see. I really dont think the 50 bucks a year to play is gonna turn off all that many people who allready have invested in the x-box, buy the new games, and are paying for the broadband required by the console to connect, these are people who take gaming pretty seriously and obviously have a fair bit of disposable income.
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who wouldn't love 7 gigs of RAM disk goodness ;)
They shrunk the size of the gates on the transistors, basically trading reliability for performance. Considering that one of the main selling points of Apples is their longevity and ability to hold value due to it, I can't help but wondering if this is the right move.
Apparently, in order to increase the reliability of the Power4 for the high-end server market, IBM used much thicker gate oxides on the chip's transistors. The trade-off for this decreased failure rate and improved reliability was that the Power4's transistors have slower switching speeds, so even with process shrinks it's harder to push the design to higher clock speeds. Since the 970 is made for the desktop market, there's no need for such measures and therefore the new chip's clock speed will scale much higher than the Power4's. In sum, the 970 is made to be faster, cheaper, and significantly less reliable than the Power4. (Of course, when I say "significantly less reliable than the Power4," you have to understand that this puts the 970's product life and failure rate on par with other mainstream CPUs, since the Power4's increased gate oxide thickness makes it significantly more reliable than most mainstream CPUs.)
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It's a given that Apple enthusiasts will be happy as can be once they fire up a brand new powerfull box, the question is how they will feel when they find out it has the lifespan of a typical Intel or AMD CPU.
Question: But are their enough /. users on Ipv6 to /. the network.
/.'d ;)
Answer: Dosentmatter buddy, even though I dont have v6, I tried clicking on it twice just to see what happens.
Dont underestimate the power of a stubborn slashdotter, if i have learned anything from time here, it's that you must click every link several times to try and sneak a lucky page load in.
I probably clicked the slashdot and google V6 links 3 or 4 times a piece thinking there was no possible way slashdot or google had been
When you have Jennifer Garner filling the screen in various states of undress, basic physics is really not all that important ;)
And I'm sure those 60 million people (plus university students) will all be watching LOTR huddled around their 17" monitors. Try again, Jack.
;)
by the time 60 million people have broadband it's not unreasonable to assume that the DVD burners which are really now just starting to take off will be commonplace, and even Joe-Six Pack will be able to watch on his 48" big screen
40 MPH?????
;)
though frankly i do remember at some point reading specs on their website about their "off road capable" model being able to hit 15.
not saying that i would like to be hit one at 12 MPH on the other hand, it certainly wouldnt be pleasant, but it's nothing like turning the sidewalks into the mini highways you imply
No frigging kidding, the downfall of public radio has been the deregulation that has led to the dominance of the pay for play conglomerates like Clear Channel... and they want to suggest that a new pay for radio satellite network partially owned by this same conglomerate will be radio's saviour?
:P
Get a grip!
XM is backed by a group of industry-leading strategic investors, including General Motors and Clear Channel Communications and DIRECTV, the leading radio and satellite companies in the United States
Yay, Clear Channel to the rescue
nada... seriously the state just asked for a fine of 50 cents per license, it's going to New York, not you
Naturally, there are few lawyers here, but isn't it obvious that regardless of how big or scary a company is, it has no jurisdiction outside of US. Nothing in US has jurisdiction outside of US (besides the army maybe...)
;)
Well considering the Aussies have tried the same tactics on the US how far fetched is it really? This ruling was the reult of the Aussies wanting to sue Dow Jones for an article hosted on a US webserver for libel because it was viewable in Australia... of course the US courts basically told them to shove it after the ruling though, just like the Aussies should do here
Playing games online is best played on the PC.
;)
In some cases i agree with this sentiment, when it comes to a FPS it's hard to beat the good old mouse/keyboard of course. but for racing, sports, and RPG's console controllers are quite nice.
And don't forget the fact that sitting in a semi-comfortable computer chair and playing on a 17" monitor will never even come close to sitting in a Lazy-Boy playing on a 48" widescreen with dolby 5:1 surround sound
PS: the headset does a heck of a job replacing the keyboard for communicating with other players as well
actually as i remember .shn isn't totally free, just free for "non-commercial" use, FLAC is starting to pick up a little wider use now though and is totally free and open source
heh i thought it quite considerate of Slashdot to include links to SSL/SSH and VPN sniffers right in the article... wouldn't want any script kiddie to actually have to google for em or anything :)
somebody tell me where I can get a nudie mod for Jedi Knight II? Oh yeah... I wanna shoot at naked clones of Jengo Fett....
Jengo Fett????
I sense a great disturbance in the force, and i believe it's eminating from a large horde of Natalie Portman fans who are about to vocally let you know the error of your ways!
So are they saying all you need is ACCESS to the Internet to do a crime?
I don't really think they care about access to the internet, they just don't like the idea of untraceable access. Connecting directly to the net thru an ISP they can at least try to follow a paper trail and figure some things out about where you connected from... connecting to an open AP all they have is a MAC addy that any moron can change on their own.
Do you really think they care how secure your computers and network are? Heck they would probably be happy if everyone's hard drive could be inspected easily remotely (sounds like a good windfall of intelligence to them i bet), they just don't want people able to use the net anonymously is my guess.
but, Webhostingtalk's website is basically a forum with user reviews, recommendations, and gripes dedicated to exactly the questions you seek answers too ;)
as i remember the PS2 linux kit doesn't give you access to read from the cd/dvd drive, not to mention that it's probably a bit easier for most people to code for the xbox's simple architecture compared to the vector system sony uses
All games are hosted at someone's XBox...just like Q3 or BF1942. I host all the games that I play to reduce lag.
just curious here, but have you actually done any bandwidth monitoring to test this theory? my understanding is that while you can "host" a game all you are really doing is being the caretaker so to speak of the room and the actual hosting really is done by the MS server.
I'm on 128 kb capped cable and haven't heard any complaints at all about 16 player games of MotoGP I have hosted that i know for a fact i dont have the upload capacity to support
Just glue the bung in.
In best Beavis voice...
I am the great Cornholio! I need super-glue for my bunghole
dont know how i managed to bork a simple link
here it is
the bill he helped stop was not the 500 dollar fee, the 500 dollar fee is what SoundForge decided to allow until the bill currently blocked in the Senate's situation is resolved.
The blocked bill which did pass in the House underwent some very radical last minute changes due to negotiations with a small group of webcasters and the RIAA. A bit more info about what actually happened here
the difference between that "reduced flat rate" and the 70 cents per 1000 listeners per song can really be quite huge (even to very small stations).
lets say a station reaches 100 people on average and at 4 minutes per track averages 15 songs an hour. that's 360 songs a day, or 131,400 a year... at the other rate of 7 cents per 100 listeners it works out to a fee of $9,198 a year. to someone like this a flat rate of $500 seems like a pretty huge difference... heck this flat rate would come to almost half as much even if you only averaged 10 listeners (500 vs 918).
too bad the flat rate is only good till congress acts on the pending legislation, because this deal would probably actually be fairly viable for quite a few webcasters
Since that is a pipe dream (especially considering current administration).
I would gladly settle for Bush not having the opportunity to appoint a supreme court justice during his term, that could really be scary after seeing how cabinet apppointees like Ashcroft behave.
Declan is a very knowedgable writer when it comes to tech, he regularly writes about the DMCA and other political/legal tech issues. just a quick glance at his politechbot page would convince most people of that.
This was certainly neither a mistake on his part, nor was it him mistakenly thinking it was legal... you can bet it was him knowingly trying to make a point.
The real question is whether news.com's editors were aware of the legal implications his article would create or not.
I think the voice chat feature could well be a key to online gaming with a console. Just sitting and playing against an anonymous opponent could probably get boring quite quickly, and with the way consoles controls work the feasibility of being able to type out a text message while playing like you can do with a computer is lost... there's just no way you can operate a console controller with 1 hand, and peck out a message with the other on a keyboard.
As far as i know the only PS2 game that supports voice chat so far is SOCOM, MS guaranteeing that players will be able to communicate via their headset in all online games really does seem like a pretty decent plan.
How their centralized servers hold up to the load is the biggest question mark i see. I really dont think the 50 bucks a year to play is gonna turn off all that many people who allready have invested in the x-box, buy the new games, and are paying for the broadband required by the console to connect, these are people who take gaming pretty seriously and obviously have a fair bit of disposable income.
Sony slaps PS2 chippers
that doesnt read like they are somebody who "allows mod chips"