Which were $12 billion last year, and are $9 billion this year. That's still a lot of money, but not acceptable to Wall Street, which expects certain kinds of investments to grow consistently, no exceptions.
You neglected to subtract the money Intel paid for their stock buybacks, aka mopping up the shares dilution that would have happened when Intel management exercised their options, aka management looting of the company. They were blowing $2B every quarter for a while but they can't get away with that any longer (as they admitted during their last earnings conference call).
Check out Intel's balance sheet. Note how their cash on hand dropped $billions last quarter and their accounts payable rose. Stopping the buybacks will slow the cash burn but won't stop it. If they can get high enough yields on their next-gen chips and otherwise manage not to screw up then they'll hang in there but oh man, I would not want to be an Intel stockholder right now. Being in a high fixed cost business when your margins are plummeting is a scary thing.
2) Put skilled workers on the fast track for citizenship and skip this H1B visa nonsense. Any country that makes our marginal tax rates look good deserves to lose their best and brightest, and keeping those workers tied to a given employer is just plain wrong.
3) Annex Mexico. Seriously. Allegedly 30% of the Mexican work force is already here and there are an awful lot of American retirees down there. Auction off Pemex and distribute the money to the Mexican states on a per-capita basis to finance the transition to greater state and local control. Make English the official language of the unified federal government. We'd pick up some nice beachfront property. Pass the Flat Tax and return Socialist Security to its original mission of being old age insurance (kicking in at 3 years past average life expectancy, which was 65 when FDR got us into this mess) first to simplify things. Anyhow, this would reduce the workload on the INS quite a bit.
Turion X2, that's what AMD's going to do. Dual core within the same 35W TDP that the Turion ML singlecore uses, so it'll run cooler than the Core Duo. The rumored ship date is May 9th but without details of, say, new HP notebooks built around that there's no way to know how accurate that date is.
Wanna run 64-bit Windows Vista when it comes out? Intel's current notebooks chips can't play there. Want to run 64-bit Linux? AMD notebooks have been doing that for years.
AMD doesn't need 65nm as badly as Intel does (better design that's less dependent on massive L2 caches), so they can take their time and get it right before ramping 65nm production. Intel's 65nm yields are likely awful, but they have so many fabs that they can crank out an adequate number of working chips, even if it's terribly inefficient.
Fun test: try playing a 1080p Quicktime movie trailer with 64-bit VLC and 32-bit VLC. See how much less CPU time the 64-bit version burns. AMD64 does very nice things for codecs, crypto, and Java. It's not all just about breaking the 4GB barrier. Steve Jobs really screwed up by starting out MacOS x86 on a 32-bit codebase that's already obsolete.
(Not just responding to your post, I just like to dump everything into one reply;-))
Justifying high usage of oil because of low population density is nonsense. It's because of an overdependance on oil that Americans have to travel so much - if you had sensible city planning and people lived close to their place of work rather than in miles of endless suburbia then they wouldn't need to travel in the first place.
Agreed on the need for higher-density housing. Unfortunately, the powers-that-be here in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor (your kind of people) have done everything possible to block such development, so sprawl in the surrounding townships ensues instead (bye-bye farmland). It appears that their anti-development attitude is pretty common among the American left. Not that the right is completely innocent of monkeying with zoning laws and such, but...
As for your point about not agreeing that global warming is man-made, well, you can bury your head in the sand, but I tend to go with the opinion of the vast majority of climate experts over yours. Climate change isn't even doubted outside the US.
Most of the world used to believe that the world is flat, so spare me your popularity contests. I'll need more proof than that to convince me that global warming is man-made. I can believe in very limited localized warming from man-made effects (concrete will do that, etc), but global? Given that the Earth is 3/4 water? Given the historical record of large climate swings long predating industrialization?
Gee, my previous post has received 2 Overrated mods, 2 Underrated mods, and a Troll for a net loss of 1. The leftist thought police must be napping today.
The Kyoto treaty puts an heavy burden on the US, because the US is the country consumming the most oil per capita and rejecting the most pollutant in the atmosphere. So, as the biggest pollutant, you get the most drastic changes. It's not so much that the others dont pollute or wont get crippled, it is more that they have already started policies to curb pollution and as such dont have such a big step to take.
Again, you're assuming that global warming is man-made, to the extent that it exists at all. I don't think it is man-made, so taking drastic measures that are almost certain to cause heavy economic damage seems like a bad idea. And since the global warming cheerleaders tend to fall into the hate-America crowd, well, I get real skeptical about their objectivity and motivation. Leaving rapidly growing economies like China, India, etc. out of the Kyoto treaty makes me REALLY skeptical about the motives of the doomsday crowd. Cough up with enough hard evidence of man-made climate change or I'll continue to dismiss global warming as a pseudo-religion.
Take a look at this chart of oil consumption per capita. The US uses AT LEAST 33% more per capita than other western nations (outside of Canada). This is what the rest of the world complains about...
That chart is oil-equivalent energy consumption. The oil consumption chart looks much worse for America... until you consider that we have 300 million people and considerably lower population density than the other high-population countries. We need that oil for transportation. Today's high gasoline prices should knock that back a bit. China's already #2 though and they're growing faster than we are. China is already #1 in coal by a wide margin. Expect that to keep rising since they have no shortage of the stuff. We're also assuming that those figures are accurate, which means we're trusting the CIA and Energy Department that published them.
We have far better pollution controls than China, so energy used here does less damage than over there. That will change as China brings new nuclear power plants online, something we really ought to be doing but the same people who cry "global warming!" tend to freak out at the word "nuclear". (Which, again, makes me skeptical of their motivations...) Not that any of this matters for global warming since, as I said, I don't think man effects it, but clean air is rather nice.
Look, Earth's temperature has been rising and falling throughout history. If you're going to ask us to do things like follow the Kyoto treaty that just happens to be rigged to do disproportionate harm to America then you're going to have to come up with better proof that adding industrialization to the mix is artificially increasing those natural climate swings. The fact that the people most loudly advocating man-made global warming theories are our political adversaries and/or have a financial incentive to hype it (it would still be useful to know how the natural temperature changes work though, even if that's less alarming) doesn't instill confidence in we right-wingers. Yes, that most definitely includes government researchers.
The same reasoning applies to government workers in charge of investigating -isms. If their jobs depend on the existence of series racism, sexism, etc, then by golly it's going to be there whether the "commoners" can see it or not.
Was is an Itanium or Xeon server rack that went boom? Unisys sells both, though in the case of the Itanics I use the word "sell" in the theoretical sense.
I keep telling people to switch to Opterons, if only because they run cooler, but noooooo...
The consensus on NR about releasing the documents is "It's about damn time, and please post the rest of them". I would speculate that the usual TLA's didn't want to give up control over "their" intel and Bush displayed his usual aversion to firing people. He really needs to get over that.
There are an awful lot of Arabic speakers who would never consider working for the government but would likely look through the documents out of curiosity if they could browse them on the web. When someone finds something really interesting it can then be authenticated by multiple people.
Require full disclosure of who's-financing-what (for $ amounts above a certain cutoff), but otherwise political speech should be largely unregulated as the First Amendment states. Even that restriction probably shouldn't get past the First Amendment but it'd be an improvement over the current jobs program for lawyers.
From TFA: The way Cool'n'Quiet works is that it reduces the multiplier when at idle or reduced load. So the clock speed effectively goes down, which means the CPU draws less current. But it also means that we couldn't overclock. On our ASUS A8N32-SLI motherboard, enabling Cool'n'Quiet disables the ability to overclock.
Maybe they changed it on the A8N32-SLI, but that's not how it works on the A8N-SLI Premium. My X2 3800+ is OC'd by 15%, running 1150MHz in CnQ mode and 2300MHz at full speed. What you can't do is change the core voltage from its default settings with CnQ enabled, so forget about OC'ing a 3800+ to FX60 levels. Since AMD is very conservative with their default voltage settings you have some room to play with if you have proper cooling.
CnQ on desktop CPUs normally runs the processor at 1GHz at 1.1V core while idle and full speed at a higher core voltage under load. In practice this makes a fairly minor difference, but for a machine that runs 24x7 every little bit helps.
Notebook CPUs use 800MHz at an even lower core voltage (usually 0.95V or 1V) as their low-power setting, which makes CnQ significantly more effective than in desktops. You definitely want to keep power management enabled in notebooks.
Core voltage has a much greater effect on power consumption than clockspeed, which is why undervolting is so popular.
The 3.6 GHz of Pentium 4 power is desktop standard, and the mobile GeForce 6800
Or buy the Aurora M7700, which is the same thing but with an Athlon 64 X2 CPU. Significantly less heat and way better performance. That would be much less likely to overheat than the P4 version. Plus bringing a recently purchased P4 machine to a LAN party is a good way to scream "CLUELESS!" to your fellow gamers.
Better yet, get the same Clevo D900K notebook without the expensive bling from a vendor with a less elaborate marketing department.
My point is: doesn't HP's drivers come with this "manual" duplex feature anymore?
Yes. I use it all the time on my PSC2410 (two years old?) under WinXP. Go to Properties | Finishing Tab and check Print on Both Sides and uncheck Automatic.
Erm, no. I am writing this on my AMD64-laptop right now. It does have a Mobile Athlon64 processor, but not a Turion.
I get about 1:45h w/ all kinds of power savings enabled, no wifi, and LCD at medium brightness. And that was out of the box.
What size battery? What's your battery wear level? Use MobileMeter's Battery Info tab to find that. I've run into lots of people on r3000forums.com and the HP forum on notebookreview.com who've had battery runtime issues that were traced to their Li-ion batteries wearing out prematurely. Unfortunately, MobileMeter doesn't read the current-generation HP notebooks correctly. Hopefully it'll read your notebook (probably an eMachines or Gateway with an 8 cell battery?).
HP made two versions of their HP zv5000 and Compaq R3000 notebooks two years ago, an Intel P4 version and an AMD Athlon 64 version. With a 12 cell battery, the AMD version gets 3-4 hours of battery life in average use. I was able to play just over 3 HOURS of DVD video on mine.
The P4 version gets about an hour. HP wisely decided to drop Intel CPUs from the following year's zv6000/R4000 lines.
So, substitute "Prescott-core P4" for "AMD64" in the parent post to make it a lot more accurate.
# cpuid | grep SSE3 PNI/SSE3: Prescott New Instructions = true PNI/SSE3: Prescott New Instructions = true
From my AMD dualcore based Linux server. My Turion notebook does SSE3 too. SSE3 is a way for Intel to win synthetic benchmarks versus earlier AMD CPUs that didn't have it more than anything else.
I wonder how much Intel paid Skype to do this? There certainly isn't a technical reason for rigging their program. It had to be $millions. You don't put an asset you spent several $billion on at risk for nothing.
No problem, we could switch over to the Flat Tax very quickly. Take your income, subtract your personal and dependent deductions (well over $40K for a family of four), and pay a percentage of what's left (usually 17% in American proposals). Besides saving $billions in labor, it will likely increase compliance as it will be less worthwhile to dodge it.
Unfortunately, reformers are split between the Flat Tax and Fair Tax, aka national sales tax. The problem with the Fair Tax plan is that it will require the repeal of the income tax amendment, which will take years under the best circumstances. The Flat Tax requires no constitutional changes. At the very least the Flat Tax could be used as a stopgap measure. Then there's the slight problem of Congress losing the ability to sell tax loopholes to lobbyists (awww). Personally I think wiping out the source of much of the corruption in Washington is a Good Thing.
The extra weight for the fanless PSUs is mostly from the thick aluminum case, which does double-duty as a big heatsink. If the PSU is getting enough of a breeze from a case fan, like it would in an Antec P180 case, then that works quite well but otherwise I'd much prefer to have a PSU fan.
Fanless PSUs are a nice idea in theory but less impressive in practice.
Having used a fanless PSU before (Antec's), they're heavy, not to mention expensive. Seasonic S12's are practically silent and the PSU will run cooler with a 120mm fan giving it a little ventilation. The Enermax Liberty's are supposed to be very good too, nice to have the detachable cables in SFF machines. Spend your money on power-efficient components that don't make the cooling systems work so hard.
This is completely asinine. These layoffs are for the short-term to appease Wall Street - in the short term.
Agreed. Looks like the market isn't buying it though. ATVI was down 39 cents today. I've been an Activision stockholder for many years. I was going to hang onto it and ride out the new console transition but now I'm not so sure.
The one big company I made the mistake of working for pulls stunts like this routinely. If anything threatens their "consistent 15% EPS growth rate", layoffs ensue (but never for the managers who got them into the mess the engineers warned them was coming). It's run by Democrats, including a NJ senator, just in case anyone actually buys that propaganda about all big businesses being run by Republicans.
Gateway reported that their retail sales (though Best Buy, etc) rocketed and their direct sales (via gateway.com) plummeted last quarter.
Retail sales are mostly AMD-based. They have some very neat looking Athlon 64 X2 desktops these days. (For people who don't custom-build their desktop PCs. Not that there's anything wrong with that...)
Direct sales are 100% Intel. Let's face it, Dell pretty much owns that market.
I had hoped that their CEO could straighten out Gateway like he did eMachines, but now... ugh. I fear that the old management is going to screw up the progress that was made in the retail channel. Hopefully I'm just being overly cynical. HP needs the competition.
The threat of attack will not be a deterrent, since provoking attack was entirely the point.
It's more likely that they thought that if they hit us hard enough, we'd decide that maintaining any presence in their part of the world wasn't worth it and we'd pack up and leave. It's the same logic Imperial Japan used when they bombed Pearl Harbor. In all fairness to bin Laden it's easy to see where he'd think that would work, after eight years of "it's just the cost of doing business" from President Clinton, but if he'd have done proper due diligence he'd have known there's a helluva difference between Democrat and Republican Commanders-in-Chief.
If you think Iraq is causing Iranians want to follow that example, you're nuts. As nuts as Saddam who thought the Arab Iranians would support him when he invaded Iran. If anything, Iraq is becoming more like Iran as Iranian-backed clerics gain more power there. Please, please, please tell me that your domino theory doesn't involve invading Iran to give them a nudge if they don't follow along with the program.
Iraq was supposed to, and it may yet. They have proven that it's possible to hold nationwide elections. The big problem now is that the Iranian dictatorship is pouring resources into destabilizing Iraq. This won't necessarily dissuade the Iranian people from overthrowing their government. My understanding is that Iran is about where the Soviet Union was during their final years. They just need a push. No, we're not going to invade, the Iranian dissidents have told us not to and I don't think it's appropriate anyhow (Syria, perhaps), but we really ought to give those dissidents all the help they want that's remotely reasonable. Unfortunately the State Department and CIA, who'd normally handle that, are so overrun with former Soviet useful idiots that they're useless for that task and President Bush is too averse to firing people (and dealing with the predictable MSM screaming about "McCarthyism!") to straighten out the mess, assuming it's humanly possible. Sooooo... we're left with waiting and hoping that the Iranian people can pull it off on their own, with the Iraqis too bogged down with their own problems to offer direct help. Waiting is frustrating but I think it will ultimately work... but if Iran gets ahold of nuclear bombs before it does, watch out.
Or, from another perspective, maybe these medieval asshats will be less likely to think that they'll get away with attacking America if they know that even a Democratic Party president will see to it that the military pays them a proper visit, such as after the WTC was first bombed in 1993.
I do think kickstarting democracy in Iraq and hoping that Iraq's example is enough to put the Iranian political dissidents over the top and bring down their dictatorship, followed by the rest of the region, is our best chance of permanent peace in the Middle East. The rule that democracies don't attack other democracies should hold. It's just a damn shame some people would rather see Iraq and Afghanistan go up in flames than for President Bush to receive any credit for their success.
It can't run 64-bit Windows Vista and the Intel GPUs the Centrino Duo notebooks usually use are very poor. Buy an AMD Turion laptop with an ATI (or nVidia, whenever they get some Turion design wins) GPU if you want to be Vista-ready. Or if you want to run 64-bit Linux now. Hardly anyone who is going to go through the nuisance to upgrade the OS is going to bother with the 32-bit Vista "PHB Edition". (Unless the Pointy Haired Boss makes such technical decisions at your company... hmm...)
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Which were $12 billion last year, and are $9 billion this year. That's still a lot of money, but not acceptable to Wall Street, which expects certain kinds of investments to grow consistently, no exceptions.
You neglected to subtract the money Intel paid for their stock buybacks, aka mopping up the shares dilution that would have happened when Intel management exercised their options, aka management looting of the company. They were blowing $2B every quarter for a while but they can't get away with that any longer (as they admitted during their last earnings conference call).
Check out Intel's balance sheet. Note how their cash on hand dropped $billions last quarter and their accounts payable rose. Stopping the buybacks will slow the cash burn but won't stop it. If they can get high enough yields on their next-gen chips and otherwise manage not to screw up then they'll hang in there but oh man, I would not want to be an Intel stockholder right now. Being in a high fixed cost business when your margins are plummeting is a scary thing.
Re: #3... Why annex Mexico? Why not let the 31 Mexican states join our 50 under the US's constitution and form an even stronger nation?
a wing-north-america.html and http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com/archive/2006/04/11/ann ex-mexico.html
While I don't agree with him completely, a buddy of mine has been doing some writing about this: http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com/archive/2006/03/29/dr
YES! That's more-or-less what I meant, though having 31 states join could pose problems in terms of Senate representation. Thanks for the links!
1) Automate the heck out of the system. Duh.
2) Put skilled workers on the fast track for citizenship and skip this H1B visa nonsense. Any country that makes our marginal tax rates look good deserves to lose their best and brightest, and keeping those workers tied to a given employer is just plain wrong.
3) Annex Mexico. Seriously. Allegedly 30% of the Mexican work force is already here and there are an awful lot of American retirees down there. Auction off Pemex and distribute the money to the Mexican states on a per-capita basis to finance the transition to greater state and local control. Make English the official language of the unified federal government. We'd pick up some nice beachfront property. Pass the Flat Tax and return Socialist Security to its original mission of being old age insurance (kicking in at 3 years past average life expectancy, which was 65 when FDR got us into this mess) first to simplify things. Anyhow, this would reduce the workload on the INS quite a bit.
Turion X2, that's what AMD's going to do. Dual core within the same 35W TDP that the Turion ML singlecore uses, so it'll run cooler than the Core Duo. The rumored ship date is May 9th but without details of, say, new HP notebooks built around that there's no way to know how accurate that date is.
;-))
Wanna run 64-bit Windows Vista when it comes out? Intel's current notebooks chips can't play there. Want to run 64-bit Linux? AMD notebooks have been doing that for years.
AMD doesn't need 65nm as badly as Intel does (better design that's less dependent on massive L2 caches), so they can take their time and get it right before ramping 65nm production. Intel's 65nm yields are likely awful, but they have so many fabs that they can crank out an adequate number of working chips, even if it's terribly inefficient.
Fun test: try playing a 1080p Quicktime movie trailer with 64-bit VLC and 32-bit VLC. See how much less CPU time the 64-bit version burns. AMD64 does very nice things for codecs, crypto, and Java. It's not all just about breaking the 4GB barrier. Steve Jobs really screwed up by starting out MacOS x86 on a 32-bit codebase that's already obsolete.
(Not just responding to your post, I just like to dump everything into one reply
Justifying high usage of oil because of low population density is nonsense. It's because of an overdependance on oil that Americans have to travel so much - if you had sensible city planning and people lived close to their place of work rather than in miles of endless suburbia then they wouldn't need to travel in the first place.
Agreed on the need for higher-density housing. Unfortunately, the powers-that-be here in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor (your kind of people) have done everything possible to block such development, so sprawl in the surrounding townships ensues instead (bye-bye farmland). It appears that their anti-development attitude is pretty common among the American left. Not that the right is completely innocent of monkeying with zoning laws and such, but...
As for your point about not agreeing that global warming is man-made, well, you can bury your head in the sand, but I tend to go with the opinion of the vast majority of climate experts over yours. Climate change isn't even doubted outside the US.
Most of the world used to believe that the world is flat, so spare me your popularity contests. I'll need more proof than that to convince me that global warming is man-made. I can believe in very limited localized warming from man-made effects (concrete will do that, etc), but global? Given that the Earth is 3/4 water? Given the historical record of large climate swings long predating industrialization?
Gee, my previous post has received 2 Overrated mods, 2 Underrated mods, and a Troll for a net loss of 1. The leftist thought police must be napping today.
The Kyoto treaty puts an heavy burden on the US, because the US is the country consumming the most oil per capita and rejecting the most pollutant in the atmosphere. So, as the biggest pollutant, you get the most drastic changes. It's not so much that the others dont pollute or wont get crippled, it is more that they have already started policies to curb pollution and as such dont have such a big step to take.
Again, you're assuming that global warming is man-made, to the extent that it exists at all. I don't think it is man-made, so taking drastic measures that are almost certain to cause heavy economic damage seems like a bad idea. And since the global warming cheerleaders tend to fall into the hate-America crowd, well, I get real skeptical about their objectivity and motivation. Leaving rapidly growing economies like China, India, etc. out of the Kyoto treaty makes me REALLY skeptical about the motives of the doomsday crowd. Cough up with enough hard evidence of man-made climate change or I'll continue to dismiss global warming as a pseudo-religion.
Take a look at this chart of oil consumption per capita. The US uses AT LEAST 33% more per capita than other western nations (outside of Canada). This is what the rest of the world complains about...
That chart is oil-equivalent energy consumption. The oil consumption chart looks much worse for America... until you consider that we have 300 million people and considerably lower population density than the other high-population countries. We need that oil for transportation. Today's high gasoline prices should knock that back a bit. China's already #2 though and they're growing faster than we are. China is already #1 in coal by a wide margin. Expect that to keep rising since they have no shortage of the stuff. We're also assuming that those figures are accurate, which means we're trusting the CIA and Energy Department that published them.
We have far better pollution controls than China, so energy used here does less damage than over there. That will change as China brings new nuclear power plants online, something we really ought to be doing but the same people who cry "global warming!" tend to freak out at the word "nuclear". (Which, again, makes me skeptical of their motivations...) Not that any of this matters for global warming since, as I said, I don't think man effects it, but clean air is rather nice.
Look, Earth's temperature has been rising and falling throughout history. If you're going to ask us to do things like follow the Kyoto treaty that just happens to be rigged to do disproportionate harm to America then you're going to have to come up with better proof that adding industrialization to the mix is artificially increasing those natural climate swings. The fact that the people most loudly advocating man-made global warming theories are our political adversaries and/or have a financial incentive to hype it (it would still be useful to know how the natural temperature changes work though, even if that's less alarming) doesn't instill confidence in we right-wingers. Yes, that most definitely includes government researchers.
The same reasoning applies to government workers in charge of investigating -isms. If their jobs depend on the existence of series racism, sexism, etc, then by golly it's going to be there whether the "commoners" can see it or not.
Was is an Itanium or Xeon server rack that went boom? Unisys sells both, though in the case of the Itanics I use the word "sell" in the theoretical sense.
I keep telling people to switch to Opterons, if only because they run cooler, but noooooo...
It sounds like Hoekstra wasn't the only one annoyed with Negroponte.
The consensus on NR about releasing the documents is "It's about damn time, and please post the rest of them". I would speculate that the usual TLA's didn't want to give up control over "their" intel and Bush displayed his usual aversion to firing people. He really needs to get over that.
There are an awful lot of Arabic speakers who would never consider working for the government but would likely look through the documents out of curiosity if they could browse them on the web. When someone finds something really interesting it can then be authenticated by multiple people.
Require full disclosure of who's-financing-what (for $ amounts above a certain cutoff), but otherwise political speech should be largely unregulated as the First Amendment states. Even that restriction probably shouldn't get past the First Amendment but it'd be an improvement over the current jobs program for lawyers.
The cure for free speech is more speech.
request that it turn over anonymous search data for some lame research project.
But they roll over when the ChiCom dictatorship orders them to censor democracy.
Color me not impressed.
From TFA:
;-).
The way Cool'n'Quiet works is that it reduces the multiplier when at idle or reduced load. So the clock speed effectively goes down, which means the CPU draws less current. But it also means that we couldn't overclock. On our ASUS A8N32-SLI motherboard, enabling Cool'n'Quiet disables the ability to overclock.
Maybe they changed it on the A8N32-SLI, but that's not how it works on the A8N-SLI Premium. My X2 3800+ is OC'd by 15%, running 1150MHz in CnQ mode and 2300MHz at full speed. What you can't do is change the core voltage from its default settings with CnQ enabled, so forget about OC'ing a 3800+ to FX60 levels. Since AMD is very conservative with their default voltage settings you have some room to play with if you have proper cooling.
CnQ on desktop CPUs normally runs the processor at 1GHz at 1.1V core while idle and full speed at a higher core voltage under load. In practice this makes a fairly minor difference, but for a machine that runs 24x7 every little bit helps.
Notebook CPUs use 800MHz at an even lower core voltage (usually 0.95V or 1V) as their low-power setting, which makes CnQ significantly more effective than in desktops. You definitely want to keep power management enabled in notebooks.
Core voltage has a much greater effect on power consumption than clockspeed, which is why undervolting is so popular.
You'll want to buy AMD over Intel regardless
The 3.6 GHz of Pentium 4 power is desktop standard, and the mobile GeForce 6800
Or buy the Aurora M7700, which is the same thing but with an Athlon 64 X2 CPU. Significantly less heat and way better performance. That would be much less likely to overheat than the P4 version. Plus bringing a recently purchased P4 machine to a LAN party is a good way to scream "CLUELESS!" to your fellow gamers.
Better yet, get the same Clevo D900K notebook without the expensive bling from a vendor with a less elaborate marketing department.
My point is: doesn't HP's drivers come with this "manual" duplex feature anymore?
Yes. I use it all the time on my PSC2410 (two years old?) under WinXP. Go to Properties | Finishing Tab and check Print on Both Sides and uncheck Automatic.
Erm, no. I am writing this on my AMD64-laptop right now. It does have a Mobile Athlon64 processor, but not a Turion.
I get about 1:45h w/ all kinds of power savings enabled, no wifi, and LCD at medium brightness. And that was out of the box.
What size battery? What's your battery wear level? Use MobileMeter's Battery Info tab to find that. I've run into lots of people on r3000forums.com and the HP forum on notebookreview.com who've had battery runtime issues that were traced to their Li-ion batteries wearing out prematurely. Unfortunately, MobileMeter doesn't read the current-generation HP notebooks correctly. Hopefully it'll read your notebook (probably an eMachines or Gateway with an 8 cell battery?).
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but...
HP made two versions of their HP zv5000 and Compaq R3000 notebooks two years ago, an Intel P4 version and an AMD Athlon 64 version. With a 12 cell battery, the AMD version gets 3-4 hours of battery life in average use. I was able to play just over 3 HOURS of DVD video on mine.
The P4 version gets about an hour. HP wisely decided to drop Intel CPUs from the following year's zv6000/R4000 lines.
So, substitute "Prescott-core P4" for "AMD64" in the parent post to make it a lot more accurate.
From my AMD dualcore based Linux server. My Turion notebook does SSE3 too. SSE3 is a way for Intel to win synthetic benchmarks versus earlier AMD CPUs that didn't have it more than anything else.
I wonder how much Intel paid Skype to do this? There certainly isn't a technical reason for rigging their program. It had to be $millions. You don't put an asset you spent several $billion on at risk for nothing.
No problem, we could switch over to the Flat Tax very quickly. Take your income, subtract your personal and dependent deductions (well over $40K for a family of four), and pay a percentage of what's left (usually 17% in American proposals). Besides saving $billions in labor, it will likely increase compliance as it will be less worthwhile to dodge it.
Unfortunately, reformers are split between the Flat Tax and Fair Tax, aka national sales tax. The problem with the Fair Tax plan is that it will require the repeal of the income tax amendment, which will take years under the best circumstances. The Flat Tax requires no constitutional changes. At the very least the Flat Tax could be used as a stopgap measure. Then there's the slight problem of Congress losing the ability to sell tax loopholes to lobbyists (awww). Personally I think wiping out the source of much of the corruption in Washington is a Good Thing.
Wikipedia Flat Tax.
The extra weight for the fanless PSUs is mostly from the thick aluminum case, which does double-duty as a big heatsink. If the PSU is getting enough of a breeze from a case fan, like it would in an Antec P180 case, then that works quite well but otherwise I'd much prefer to have a PSU fan.
Fanless PSUs are a nice idea in theory but less impressive in practice.
Having used a fanless PSU before (Antec's), they're heavy, not to mention expensive. Seasonic S12's are practically silent and the PSU will run cooler with a 120mm fan giving it a little ventilation. The Enermax Liberty's are supposed to be very good too, nice to have the detachable cables in SFF machines. Spend your money on power-efficient components that don't make the cooling systems work so hard.
This is completely asinine. These layoffs are for the short-term to appease Wall Street - in the short term.
Agreed. Looks like the market isn't buying it though. ATVI was down 39 cents today. I've been an Activision stockholder for many years. I was going to hang onto it and ride out the new console transition but now I'm not so sure.
The one big company I made the mistake of working for pulls stunts like this routinely. If anything threatens their "consistent 15% EPS growth rate", layoffs ensue (but never for the managers who got them into the mess the engineers warned them was coming). It's run by Democrats, including a NJ senator, just in case anyone actually buys that propaganda about all big businesses being run by Republicans.
Gateway reported that their retail sales (though Best Buy, etc) rocketed and their direct sales (via gateway.com) plummeted last quarter.
Retail sales are mostly AMD-based. They have some very neat looking Athlon 64 X2 desktops these days. (For people who don't custom-build their desktop PCs. Not that there's anything wrong with that...)
Direct sales are 100% Intel. Let's face it, Dell pretty much owns that market.
I had hoped that their CEO could straighten out Gateway like he did eMachines, but now... ugh. I fear that the old management is going to screw up the progress that was made in the retail channel. Hopefully I'm just being overly cynical. HP needs the competition.
The threat of attack will not be a deterrent, since provoking attack was entirely the point.
It's more likely that they thought that if they hit us hard enough, we'd decide that maintaining any presence in their part of the world wasn't worth it and we'd pack up and leave. It's the same logic Imperial Japan used when they bombed Pearl Harbor. In all fairness to bin Laden it's easy to see where he'd think that would work, after eight years of "it's just the cost of doing business" from President Clinton, but if he'd have done proper due diligence he'd have known there's a helluva difference between Democrat and Republican Commanders-in-Chief.
If you think Iraq is causing Iranians want to follow that example, you're nuts. As nuts as Saddam who thought the Arab Iranians would support him when he invaded Iran. If anything, Iraq is becoming more like Iran as Iranian-backed clerics gain more power there. Please, please, please tell me that your domino theory doesn't involve invading Iran to give them a nudge if they don't follow along with the program.
Iraq was supposed to, and it may yet. They have proven that it's possible to hold nationwide elections. The big problem now is that the Iranian dictatorship is pouring resources into destabilizing Iraq. This won't necessarily dissuade the Iranian people from overthrowing their government. My understanding is that Iran is about where the Soviet Union was during their final years. They just need a push. No, we're not going to invade, the Iranian dissidents have told us not to and I don't think it's appropriate anyhow (Syria, perhaps), but we really ought to give those dissidents all the help they want that's remotely reasonable. Unfortunately the State Department and CIA, who'd normally handle that, are so overrun with former Soviet useful idiots that they're useless for that task and President Bush is too averse to firing people (and dealing with the predictable MSM screaming about "McCarthyism!") to straighten out the mess, assuming it's humanly possible. Sooooo... we're left with waiting and hoping that the Iranian people can pull it off on their own, with the Iraqis too bogged down with their own problems to offer direct help. Waiting is frustrating but I think it will ultimately work... but if Iran gets ahold of nuclear bombs before it does, watch out.
Interesting times.
Or, from another perspective, maybe these medieval asshats will be less likely to think that they'll get away with attacking America if they know that even a Democratic Party president will see to it that the military pays them a proper visit, such as after the WTC was first bombed in 1993.
I do think kickstarting democracy in Iraq and hoping that Iraq's example is enough to put the Iranian political dissidents over the top and bring down their dictatorship, followed by the rest of the region, is our best chance of permanent peace in the Middle East. The rule that democracies don't attack other democracies should hold. It's just a damn shame some people would rather see Iraq and Afghanistan go up in flames than for President Bush to receive any credit for their success.
It can't run 64-bit Windows Vista and the Intel GPUs the Centrino Duo notebooks usually use are very poor. Buy an AMD Turion laptop with an ATI (or nVidia, whenever they get some Turion design wins) GPU if you want to be Vista-ready. Or if you want to run 64-bit Linux now. Hardly anyone who is going to go through the nuisance to upgrade the OS is going to bother with the 32-bit Vista "PHB Edition". (Unless the Pointy Haired Boss makes such technical decisions at your company... hmm...)
Rather glaring ommission by BusinessWeek.