I think Apple's laptops are fairly competitive with Wintel laptops, and I wouldn't mind owning one.
However, the cost and lack of choice with their desktop hardware is never going to convince me to go all-out APPL. It simply isn't the most effective use of my money. Perhaps if the long-rumoured OSX for x86 arrives, I'll switch. But not before either that happens, or APPL lowers their profit margins. (And while it's cheap, the Mini is simply unsuitable for my purposes)
Falcon, the most used expert system (but not the only one) is good at spotting fraud. But it's not that good. (I know, I work for FI&Co.) It's only because the CC companies make such an insane amount of money that they can offer no liability, and it's only because of competition from debit cards that they feel they have to.
Looks nicer than the ProLiant for a bit less dosh as well. I don't think any of the Big Boys have PCI-e yet, mind you. What on earth do you need it for in a server with PCI-X slots?
What? Now that Sun finally has a decent volume manager in Solaris 10, they're going to cave in and buy a part of Veritas like everyone thought they should've done 5 years ago?
Thankfully it's noticeably faster than crap like Geforce 4 MX and GeForce FX5200.
I think that's the important thing to remember here. NV have found a way to cut costs on a budget card while including all the next generation features the OEMs want, and made it faster than the old low end cards.
I fail to see the problem.
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Not particularly surprising, when you consider that once upon a time SunOS was BSD. Long time ago, admittedly.
Well, you've hit the nail on the head there. Most PC users wouldn't bother to cram that much new stuff into an old machine. Why? Beacuse without the Apple Tax, it's only marginally more expensive to get a whole new machine.
However, in a similar way, my mom still used an old Celeron 600 that I left her for everyday things. I threw 512MB into it before I passed it on and it runs XP, burns DVDs, and so on... I don't see what this has to do with Apple except pointing out that their hardware (though quite nice, admittedly) is far too expensive.
RPeak == meaningless statistic. Machines can achieve anything between 40 and 90 percent of their RPeak. Its only value is in determining theoretical maximum performance.
Linpack is also *very* happy on the PPC architecture. Opterons regularly spank PPC chips on more common workloads.
The Cyrix chips could actually [i]crush[/i] a Pentium in integer workloads. They had abysmal FP performance, though. I can remember people wanting Cyrix 6x86s for a while... And then Quake came out and people learned that the Cx6x86 played it like a 486.
They're talking about PeerGuardian2, which runs kernel-level. PG1 is a regular program and hogs CPU a lot. There's an offshoot called PGLite that uses almost no CPU time, but you don't get reports on blocked IPs and the like. I liked being able to see that I'd blocked Sony Music 100 times a night.:)
It's not just the physical media that's a current limitation. There are a lot of PCs out there that simply aren't capable of delivering the amount of data required to burn a DVD at 16x. You need ~22MB/s of data streamed off your disk just for writing the DVD. God help you if you're trying to do something in the background. Your average Dell or Wal-Mart system can easily burst that much data, but they can't sustain it. Top-end drives at the moment can sustain around 35MB/s, which means that a 24x DVD writer (~33MB/s) is pretty much useless with current hard disk technology. Unless you move to SCSI, of course.
The reality of it is this - even at 8x, you can write a full DVD in under 10 minutes. Past that, who really cares?
Think about it. Kyoto has 1990 emissions for a baseline. Russia's heavy industry was still going ahead mostly full steam from the Soviet days. Since then, their economy has contracted quite a bit and a lot of industry sits idle. I'd wager they've already met their Kyoto requirements and the hard part will be keeping emissions down, rather than cutting more.
Britain is somewhat similar in their Kyoto targets. The government was converting coal fired plants to natural gas en-masse already, so cutting emissions by 10% was a trivial exercise.
Sadly, people will continue to vote for Tony Blair here no matter how poorly he handles Iraq. The UK Labour party's domestic fiscal policy is what keeps them in power. Quite simply, the UK hasn't seen a good, stable economy like it's had under Blair since the days of Empire. There's more than a little hate for Tony himself, but the party that he's (unfortunately) the leader of still enjoys a good amount of support.
Uh, no. H2 liquifies at 33K at one atmosphere of pressure (101kPa). Once pressurised, gasses boil at a higher temperature. H2 is frequently stored as a liquid; it's heluim that's not, because it takes a ridiculously low temperature to liquify it even at high pressures.
You bought a brand new and (I assume) expensive video card, intending to use it on an OS that's not a current version of Windows, and you didn't check to make sure the drivers worked well? I'm sorry, you get what you deserve.
NV's drivers are closed (as are ATI's later ones) for a very good reason - they contain code licensed from other companies. They can't open source the drivers without getting hit by numerous lawsuits.
The other suggestion, of course, is that they're more open with their hardware specs. That would be nice, but these companies make money off their engineering. If it were simple to kludge together a high-performance GPU, then S3 might actually sell more than 15 boards in a year. I wouldn't want completely open specs if I were them, either.
Uhm... No. You've been misinformed. Betacam SP (not sure about Betacam) doesn't read consumer Betamax tapes from the early 80s. You'd have about as much luck with a U-Matic 3/4".
As a matter of fact, I hate it when people defend Beta by using BetacamSP as an example. The two technologies are almost entirely unrelated, except for the physical tape shell itself.
Generally, I'm not logged into the net at home on a 24 hour basis - I disconnect my DSL whenever I don't need it. Paranoia can have its advantages.
Anyways, I need this tool at work. And some of us are still stuck with NT4 at work until the end of the year (when support dies and they finally upgrade us). This tool doesn't work with NT4, and I gather it doesn't work with 95/98/ME from the installer's error message. Just a heads-up for everyone.
Rubbish.
No-one other than the Americans and the Russians, neither of whom were going to buy a Canadian fighter, had operational requirements that would require the Arrow's capabilties. Well, perhaps Australia, but that's it. A horribly expensive fighter program, with basically no possibility of foreign sales - they'd have been mad *NOT* to scrap it! The British didn't have the resources for such follies (see TSR.2), and the Canadian gov't most certainly didn't.
It wouldn't have made it out of the early 80s, even if we had built it. The design was very much of its time, and not terribly practical by modern standards.
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I think Apple's laptops are fairly competitive with Wintel laptops, and I wouldn't mind owning one.
However, the cost and lack of choice with their desktop hardware is never going to convince me to go all-out APPL. It simply isn't the most effective use of my money. Perhaps if the long-rumoured OSX for x86 arrives, I'll switch. But not before either that happens, or APPL lowers their profit margins. (And while it's cheap, the Mini is simply unsuitable for my purposes)
Falcon, the most used expert system (but not the only one) is good at spotting fraud. But it's not that good. (I know, I work for FI&Co.) It's only because the CC companies make such an insane amount of money that they can offer no liability, and it's only because of competition from debit cards that they feel they have to.
Curse my free-spending ways with mod points!! I'd give them all to this post, if I could.
Anand just review a 4-way Opteron system from Sun, as well.
Looks nicer than the ProLiant for a bit less dosh as well. I don't think any of the Big Boys have PCI-e yet, mind you. What on earth do you need it for in a server with PCI-X slots?
He also was a great politician after the Tunic wars.
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Yeah, we all know how attached those Romans were to their shirt styles.
What? Now that Sun finally has a decent volume manager in Solaris 10, they're going to cave in and buy a part of Veritas like everyone thought they should've done 5 years ago?
Somehow I doubt it.
Thankfully it's noticeably faster than crap like Geforce 4 MX and GeForce FX5200.
I think that's the important thing to remember here. NV have found a way to cut costs on a budget card while including all the next generation features the OEMs want, and made it faster than the old low end cards.
I fail to see the problem.
Not particularly surprising, when you consider that once upon a time SunOS was BSD. Long time ago, admittedly.
Well, you've hit the nail on the head there. Most PC users wouldn't bother to cram that much new stuff into an old machine. Why? Beacuse without the Apple Tax, it's only marginally more expensive to get a whole new machine.
However, in a similar way, my mom still used an old Celeron 600 that I left her for everyday things. I threw 512MB into it before I passed it on and it runs XP, burns DVDs, and so on... I don't see what this has to do with Apple except pointing out that their hardware (though quite nice, admittedly) is far too expensive.
RPeak == meaningless statistic. Machines can achieve anything between 40 and 90 percent of their RPeak. Its only value is in determining theoretical maximum performance.
Linpack is also *very* happy on the PPC architecture. Opterons regularly spank PPC chips on more common workloads.
The Cyrix chips could actually [i]crush[/i] a Pentium in integer workloads. They had abysmal FP performance, though. I can remember people wanting Cyrix 6x86s for a while... And then Quake came out and people learned that the Cx6x86 played it like a 486.
They're talking about PeerGuardian2, which runs kernel-level. PG1 is a regular program and hogs CPU a lot. There's an offshoot called PGLite that uses almost no CPU time, but you don't get reports on blocked IPs and the like. I liked being able to see that I'd blocked Sony Music 100 times a night. :)
It's not just the physical media that's a current limitation. There are a lot of PCs out there that simply aren't capable of delivering the amount of data required to burn a DVD at 16x. You need ~22MB/s of data streamed off your disk just for writing the DVD. God help you if you're trying to do something in the background. Your average Dell or Wal-Mart system can easily burst that much data, but they can't sustain it. Top-end drives at the moment can sustain around 35MB/s, which means that a 24x DVD writer (~33MB/s) is pretty much useless with current hard disk technology. Unless you move to SCSI, of course.
The reality of it is this - even at 8x, you can write a full DVD in under 10 minutes. Past that, who really cares?
Think about it. Kyoto has 1990 emissions for a baseline. Russia's heavy industry was still going ahead mostly full steam from the Soviet days. Since then, their economy has contracted quite a bit and a lot of industry sits idle. I'd wager they've already met their Kyoto requirements and the hard part will be keeping emissions down, rather than cutting more.
Britain is somewhat similar in their Kyoto targets. The government was converting coal fired plants to natural gas en-masse already, so cutting emissions by 10% was a trivial exercise.
Sadly, people will continue to vote for Tony Blair here no matter how poorly he handles Iraq. The UK Labour party's domestic fiscal policy is what keeps them in power. Quite simply, the UK hasn't seen a good, stable economy like it's had under Blair since the days of Empire. There's more than a little hate for Tony himself, but the party that he's (unfortunately) the leader of still enjoys a good amount of support.
I think you'll find that you'll only get good performance with an Nvidia GPU. ATI's Linux drivers don't perform very well with recent hardware.
Uh, no. H2 liquifies at 33K at one atmosphere of pressure (101kPa). Once pressurised, gasses boil at a higher temperature. H2 is frequently stored as a liquid; it's heluim that's not, because it takes a ridiculously low temperature to liquify it even at high pressures.
Why isn't there a "+1 - The bitter truth" option?
You bought a brand new and (I assume) expensive video card, intending to use it on an OS that's not a current version of Windows, and you didn't check to make sure the drivers worked well? I'm sorry, you get what you deserve.
NV's drivers are closed (as are ATI's later ones) for a very good reason - they contain code licensed from other companies. They can't open source the drivers without getting hit by numerous lawsuits.
The other suggestion, of course, is that they're more open with their hardware specs. That would be nice, but these companies make money off their engineering. If it were simple to kludge together a high-performance GPU, then S3 might actually sell more than 15 boards in a year. I wouldn't want completely open specs if I were them, either.
Uhm... No. You've been misinformed. Betacam SP (not sure about Betacam) doesn't read consumer Betamax tapes from the early 80s. You'd have about as much luck with a U-Matic 3/4".
As a matter of fact, I hate it when people defend Beta by using BetacamSP as an example. The two technologies are almost entirely unrelated, except for the physical tape shell itself.
Untrue. Their fluid ounces are smaller. But a pint is 20 fluid ounces.
Generally, I'm not logged into the net at home on a 24 hour basis - I disconnect my DSL whenever I don't need it. Paranoia can have its advantages.
Anyways, I need this tool at work. And some of us are still stuck with NT4 at work until the end of the year (when support dies and they finally upgrade us). This tool doesn't work with NT4, and I gather it doesn't work with 95/98/ME from the installer's error message. Just a heads-up for everyone.
Personally, GTray works fine for me.
Channel 4 is not the same thing as BBC 4.
I thought the original poster was more along the line sof "+5 - Funny", based on my corporate experiences.
Rubbish. No-one other than the Americans and the Russians, neither of whom were going to buy a Canadian fighter, had operational requirements that would require the Arrow's capabilties. Well, perhaps Australia, but that's it. A horribly expensive fighter program, with basically no possibility of foreign sales - they'd have been mad *NOT* to scrap it! The British didn't have the resources for such follies (see TSR.2), and the Canadian gov't most certainly didn't.
It wouldn't have made it out of the early 80s, even if we had built it. The design was very much of its time, and not terribly practical by modern standards.