OK. You got me. Song files, not MP3's. Audio Files. Music files. Files on a Compact Disc (CD) that are sometimes converted to the MP3 format. My bad. 50 lashes with a wet noodle. I can take it. -- Alex Johns
People are wondering how we would possibly use all this space.
MP3's - right now, you're compressing them - it's lossy. With infinite space, you wouldn't compress them - average of 500MB per disk, 1000 disks - half your terabyte is used up right there. (If there aren't 1000 disks you would like to have, your interests aren't broad enough. Expand your mind.)
Movies - What format are you going to show them in? 5 years from now, when you've got your giant HDTV set hanging on the wall and you want your picture to look nice, what format are you going to need your movie in? Certainly not DivX. 2000 X 1600 X 24 bits X 30 frames a second X 7200 seconds = 2TB. Some good mpeg compression will bring that down, but how much? 10x compression will take up only (only!) 200GB. And 2000X1600 probably won't be good enough.
Images are only going to get bigger - the bigger and better the display, the more storage space will be needed.
OS's - Windows for work, games; Linux for real work, games, fun; BeOS for cool things; BSD to check compatibility. They all take up space.
Office Suites aren't going to get any smaller.
Porn - it's not likely that fewer people will start taking off their clothes.:)
Who's got the space today to archive the complete run of Babylon 5 in a viewable resolution, digitally? I know someone who's got them all analogally. 75 tapes or so. That's a nice chunk of storage space.
I'm not breaking any new ground here. Believe me, stuff will expand to fill the available storage space. It always does. -- Alex Johns
There are a lot of resources here. Lawyers, home schooled people, people who might have been in the same situation. I would love to get 100,000 people to give me advice in some situations. Especially in raising a kid. Having to read through 700 posts seems like a small price to pay for some useful ideas.
And, as a parent, I'm intensely curious to see how this plays out. My son's not quite 3 yet, but his future education is very important and something we're constantly thinking about. I'm sure it will be the largest factor in where we buy our next house. (Note: Put 'North of Dallas' as one of the places not to move to.)
/. editors and Jon Katz, keep stuff like this coming. --
All right! One guaranteed sale. Woohoo. All I have to do is get my book banned and you'll buy it. Yippee! (Note to self: yippie.com as a competitor to yahoo?)
OK, Don. As soon as I get my book written and I can figure out how to get it banned (Note to self: Figure out what gets books banned. Thoughts: sex? profanity? saying bad stuff about religion? Follow on note: Read some banned books. Look for common themes.) then I'll send you an email. I figure that if I can tell my publisher there's at least one sale, they're bound to take a chance on me.
It's a short story. It will take you less than an hour to read. It is definitely worth reading. One of the 'must-reads' of sci-fi. It's short, to the point, and stays with you forever. (At least it has for me.)
Hard to say whether you'd like it, though. It would be a good one to start on, if it's your first Ellison. Also recommended are his 'Dangerous Visions' anthologies. I've got a shelf-full of his stuff.
A few years ago, (quite a few, now) someone tried to publish something with the same name (in Britain). You can copyright the work, but you can't copyright a title. Harlan took them to court and the courts told them they couldn't use his title. It's that important. At least the Brits feel that way. Love them for that.:)
The rights of debt holders become supreme, outlasting even the death of the debtor. Those who die in debt are reanimated until they work off their debt, if they can.
In that one concept, a dozen good stories are waiting to be written. Think along the lines of Ellison's 'I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream'. Even though I have a reading list that's too long already, I may just have to add this one in. Sigh... --
For those who say that this doesn't matter to this 31337 Slashdot crowd: Realize that numerous linked to sites from Slashdot have shown that great than 80% of the readers of Slashdot who follow the link are running Win32 OS', most often with IE.
98% of the time that I read/., it's from work, where it's NT 4.0 and IE. Can't install Mozilla - don't have the privileges. Which is fine - they're not paying me to beta test other people's software. So I know I'm helping to skew the statistics. --
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ Today's Astronomy Picture of the day is all about this, too. It's got a bunch of links at the bottom for people wanting to read more. --
Ummm, L. Ron is his right-hand man in hell and Billy is his right-hand man here on earth. Or one of them is his left-hand man. (If you believe in any of that satan/god/supreme being crap.)
Let's see. Hydrogen is 1 electron, 1 proton. The proton's made of quarks, (3 I believe?) At that point, we're firmly into quantum computing.
I can see it now - a chip composed entirely of neutrinos, which upon being released from its containment field (i.e. manufacturing) will instantaneously take off at the speed of light, (since you need about 3 light-years worth of lead to even have a chance of slowing a neutrino down.) So the neutrino chip is flying through space and with random interactions with other particles eventually becomes self-aware. Haven't seen that in a sci-fi novel. Whoever writes it, you're welcome to it. Send me a free copy, why don't you.
Higgs-Boson chips competing with photonic chips, competing with qubit chips. And all in my lifetime. Interesting times, indeed. --
Not what I was saying at all. I understand that many of the people involved in protests are actually protesting. I figure that the most extreme protesters, the ones doing most of the damage and coincidentally actually hurting people, are people who like to do that sort of thing (destruction) and are latching on to a cause to 'allow' them to do nasty things.
Soccer hooligans generally don't go to matches to watch the game - they're there to fight. At least they have a love (although expressed in a not-so-nice way) for soccer. Many of the most extreme 'I-want-to-destroy-things' people probably don't care much about which cause they're associated with. IMO.
That's what I meant in my original post. It's the extremes that cause people to dismiss protesters (and, by association, the protest itself) as nothing more than a bunch of punk kids who have no self-control. The fact that many (perhaps most) protests have a legitimate message underneath all the violence gets lost in the noise. It's the reason that Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered in a much better light than Malcolm X and the reason that MLK's message is remembered better. (Not by everyone and I'm sure you have good reasons why Malcolm X was a better activist than MLK. Fine. Whatever.)
Also, if you don't accept the major media outlet's reporting, who do you believe in. The tabloids? Drudge? There's a really good independent (PBS-like) TV station here in the DC area - WNVC out of Fairfax. They show newsprograms from around the world. They often have a different slant on things, but I've never yet caught Brokaw or their ilk in a lie. You dismiss the major news outlets because they don't focus on what you want them to focus on. Doesn't mean the rest of us are sheep. Although I understand why you need to think of us as such. Let's talk again when you grow up. --
The vast majority of so called "Hactivism" just isn't. I think that in most cases the intentions are good, but the folks capable of, say, defacing a website, usually aren't the same folks able to intelligently communicate a message. Instead of looking like political activists staging a sit-in, they look like angry teens spraying graffiti obscenities on a wall which does far more damage then good.
It's more likely the other way around. People hacking websites for fun, then adding hacktivistic messages so they can say they were doing something for a cause instead of just doing something because they wanted to. Every time I see a 'defaced' website, I figure it's just someone hacking around for fun. I doubt that the majority of people that do this kind of stuff are on a moral crusade. If you're having fun and can then give your actions an air of legitimacy by adding some political messages...
Whenever I see protests against the WTO or its ilk, I always think that the most extreme people are just being 'hooligans', so to speak. They're not there because they have a legitimate desire to effect change, but because it gives them an excuse to act up. I think in this case they're giving too much credit to the online graffiti artists. Or, perhaps I'm just being too cynical. --
Because it's a lower molecular weight, from simple statistics a lot more carbon exists in the universe than similar elements (like silicon)
Nope. After Hydrogen and Helium, the next most common element in the universe is Oxygen. Elements 3, 4, and 5 are actually way down on the list of common elements. So, statistically, you're wrong on this, although I do think that Carbon is fourth in overall abundance in the universe. (But, statistically, everything after Hydrogen and Helium is about the same.)
As far as our planet is concerned, Oxygen is most abundant, then Silicon. Carbon isn't even in the top 10. Carbon is more abundant than Silicon in the universe, but on our planet (a big hunk of rock), Silicon wins the abundance battle. This is likely the case for all big life-bearing rocks (silicates). --
I can't believe a geek site wouldn't have mentioned RPG's right off. I know lots of old-time D&Ders who got their kids to start playing. The earliest I know of is about age 8, although there's anecdotal stories of some kids getting hooked on it earlier. Open ended. Lots of different genres - fantasy, superheroes, sci-fi, space opera, gothic, sleuthing, etc. Whatever your family is into.
I don't know of any other game where there's as much interaction and learning potential. If there's a particular lesson you want to impart to your kids, think about a Copper dragon dying of lung cancer or lots of people in a town hooked on a really addictive drug. Or scenarios where teamwork is the only way to achieve the objective.
Of course, if the parents suck at GMing, it probably wouldn't work. Something to think about. --
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - B.F
I can't believe Barney Fife would say that. No way! Which episode was that in? Did Otis have something to with it? Sounds more like something Floyd would say. Or Aunt Bee. --
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http://lavarand.sgi.com/
Train a camera on some lava lamps. Take a picture. Process bit stream. Random numbers.
The processing used to generate the ascii art here would probably reduce the randomness. Sorry. Try again. --
I know that not too long ago (within the last year) you (CT) said that you read almost all of the posts on/. And yet you're surprised that there's racism in the tech community? Considering that most of the people reading and posting here are techies, I can't believe you're surprised.
It doesn't happen in most discussions, but isn't there always some racist comment when there's non-white people involved in the story? Perhaps you're insulated from it, but there's lots of racism out there. Anybody remember the LOD/MOD flap about 5 years ago?
It surprises me that the person who, arguably, reads more/. posts than anyone else would be surprised at this. The problem for most racists is that they can't tell who's what color. Once they figure it out, there's usually some fallout. Know any black geeks? Ask them what their experience is. Bet if they've been online for over a year, they've had some racist comments directed at them.
That doesn't mean anyone at MS is guilty of it. And BTW, I'm as white as Rob, if that matters. --
No, no, no. You're missing the point. He understands about the trade-offs in chip design. He talks about the original spec for the P4 and then he compares it to what's out now. You have to read the whole article to understand where he's coming from.
It's as if Ferrari drew up plans for the next generation car, then in order to save costs put 14" wheels and a carburetor off a 1974 Pinto on it. It would probably be a really great chip if they hadn't crippled it. (And - I don't want to say it, but I will - I bet you can blame AMD for it. If they weren't making cheap, fast chips, Intel wouldn't have had to try to compete with them on price.)
It's important to realize that Intel can uncripple it (and surely will) and in a few years the PIV will likely be just as ubiquitous as the PII/PIII's are today. Unless AMD catches up, of course. An the stuff Cyrix is doing is cool too, and don't count out Transmeta - good little paragraph on them in the article - portable computing is going to be where the biggest growth will be in the near future. --
The bible wasn't written this millenium, either. Most of it came from the apostles, all of whom were dead by the year 50, probably. I doubt any of it was written in the last 1000 years, although you could make an argument of the King James version as being the most important book of the millenium. --
I think a lot of people need to take a chill pill. The guy's not saying Intel sucks, period. He's saying that the P4, in its present form, is not a good value for your money. That's it. That's all he's saying.
He didn't say that the overall architecture is bad. He didn't say that the P4 will lead to bad designs in the future. He said that some of the choices for the present P4 configuration are bad and that people would be better served by spending their money elsewhere. If people buy Intel chips no matter what the actual price to value ratio is, then Intel has won and the consumer has lost.
The author gives very good explanations of the limitations of the present incarnation of the P4. He also explains what he thinks needs to be fixed. With all those fixes, the P4, in a few years, will likely be a really good chip. The design isn't beyond repair, it's just flawed.
I remember the 486SX clearly - and how my father was duped by the hype. The same thing's happening here. Also, if Intel really believed the P4 was its best chip, why are the colored guys on TV hyping the P3 like there's no tomorrow? (No, that's not a racist remark. If you've seen the ad, you know what I mean.)
The bigger problem is that, even though you can get around the limitations of the P4 chip by writing a really smart compiler, the P3's and below will be around for years, so you won't necessarily be using the optimization settings in generic code. You'll likely see 'Word 2005 for the P4' and 'Word 2005 for the P3 and below', although there's nothing preventing them from being on the same DVD and the installer choosing the right version.
If you can get past some of the strong language in the article (Intel engineers are stupid; boycott Intel; etc.) you can see that he's not anti-Intel per se. He's anti-Intel's marketing guys, who seem to be running the company at the moment. The decisions made in the present P4 incarnation have to be marketing's - no other explanation holds water. You can't design the next generation chip and then deliberateley cripple it. That's like having a son and then cutting off his foot to see how he gets along in the real world. I doubt engineers had much to say in the present P4 configuration.
The author provides pretty convincing proof that the best value for your money is an Athlon system, right now. I haven't seen anyone here able to refute that statement. It's the same conclusion that a couple of other people have reached. From all I've read over the past few months, I have to agree.
Thanks. I kept coming up with 'Van Allen', which is a radiation belt but not associated with anyone's monitor as far as I know. Of course, I could have just looked it up, but I was typing in a hurry and I figured everyone would know what I was talking about anyway. --
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OK. You got me. Song files, not MP3's. Audio Files. Music files. Files on a Compact Disc (CD) that are sometimes converted to the MP3 format. My bad. 50 lashes with a wet noodle. I can take it.
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People are wondering how we would possibly use all this space.
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MP3's - right now, you're compressing them - it's lossy. With infinite space, you wouldn't compress them - average of 500MB per disk, 1000 disks - half your terabyte is used up right there. (If there aren't 1000 disks you would like to have, your interests aren't broad enough. Expand your mind.)
Movies - What format are you going to show them in? 5 years from now, when you've got your giant HDTV set hanging on the wall and you want your picture to look nice, what format are you going to need your movie in? Certainly not DivX. 2000 X 1600 X 24 bits X 30 frames a second X 7200 seconds = 2TB. Some good mpeg compression will bring that down, but how much? 10x compression will take up only (only!) 200GB. And 2000X1600 probably won't be good enough.
Images are only going to get bigger - the bigger and better the display, the more storage space will be needed.
OS's - Windows for work, games; Linux for real work, games, fun; BeOS for cool things; BSD to check compatibility. They all take up space.
Office Suites aren't going to get any smaller.
Porn - it's not likely that fewer people will start taking off their clothes.
Who's got the space today to archive the complete run of Babylon 5 in a viewable resolution, digitally? I know someone who's got them all analogally. 75 tapes or so. That's a nice chunk of storage space.
I'm not breaking any new ground here. Believe me, stuff will expand to fill the available storage space. It always does.
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Alex Johns
There are a lot of resources here. Lawyers, home schooled people, people who might have been in the same situation. I would love to get 100,000 people to give me advice in some situations. Especially in raising a kid. Having to read through 700 posts seems like a small price to pay for some useful ideas.
And, as a parent, I'm intensely curious to see how this plays out. My son's not quite 3 yet, but his future education is very important and something we're constantly thinking about. I'm sure it will be the largest factor in where we buy our next house. (Note: Put 'North of Dallas' as one of the places not to move to.)
/. editors and Jon Katz, keep stuff like this coming.
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All right! One guaranteed sale. Woohoo. All I have to do is get my book banned and you'll buy it. Yippee! (Note to self: yippie.com as a competitor to yahoo?)
OK, Don. As soon as I get my book written and I can figure out how to get it banned (Note to self: Figure out what gets books banned. Thoughts: sex? profanity? saying bad stuff about religion? Follow on note: Read some banned books. Look for common themes.) then I'll send you an email. I figure that if I can tell my publisher there's at least one sale, they're bound to take a chance on me.
Thanks, Don. You've given me new hope!
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It's a short story. It will take you less than an hour to read. It is definitely worth reading. One of the 'must-reads' of sci-fi. It's short, to the point, and stays with you forever. (At least it has for me.)
:)
_ archive/ellison/ellison1.html It's not long at all. Still affects me the same way, though. Lucky you are, for the first time experience. Can't wait for Alzheimer's. ;} (That's a joke, everyone! Settle down. My grandmother had it. Not fun.)
Hard to say whether you'd like it, though. It would be a good one to start on, if it's your first Ellison. Also recommended are his 'Dangerous Visions' anthologies. I've got a shelf-full of his stuff.
A few years ago, (quite a few, now) someone tried to publish something with the same name (in Britain). You can copyright the work, but you can't copyright a title. Harlan took them to court and the courts told them they couldn't use his title. It's that important. At least the Brits feel that way. Love them for that.
Hah! Found it online. http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics
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+1, Insightful
+1, Funny
Actually, as long as I get my work done, they don't care what I do on my lunch hour. Or whenever.
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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
Today's Astronomy Picture of the day is all about this, too. It's got a bunch of links at the bottom for people wanting to read more.
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http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/realtime/JTrack/Space craft.html
Really, really, cool stuff.
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Ummm, L. Ron is his right-hand man in hell and Billy is his right-hand man here on earth. Or one of them is his left-hand man. (If you believe in any of that satan/god/supreme being crap.)
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Let's see. Hydrogen is 1 electron, 1 proton. The proton's made of quarks, (3 I believe?) At that point, we're firmly into quantum computing.
I can see it now - a chip composed entirely of neutrinos, which upon being released from its containment field (i.e. manufacturing) will instantaneously take off at the speed of light, (since you need about 3 light-years worth of lead to even have a chance of slowing a neutrino down.) So the neutrino chip is flying through space and with random interactions with other particles eventually becomes self-aware. Haven't seen that in a sci-fi novel. Whoever writes it, you're welcome to it. Send me a free copy, why don't you.
Higgs-Boson chips competing with photonic chips, competing with qubit chips. And all in my lifetime. Interesting times, indeed.
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Not what I was saying at all. I understand that many of the people involved in protests are actually protesting. I figure that the most extreme protesters, the ones doing most of the damage and coincidentally actually hurting people, are people who like to do that sort of thing (destruction) and are latching on to a cause to 'allow' them to do nasty things.
Soccer hooligans generally don't go to matches to watch the game - they're there to fight. At least they have a love (although expressed in a not-so-nice way) for soccer. Many of the most extreme 'I-want-to-destroy-things' people probably don't care much about which cause they're associated with. IMO.
That's what I meant in my original post. It's the extremes that cause people to dismiss protesters (and, by association, the protest itself) as nothing more than a bunch of punk kids who have no self-control. The fact that many (perhaps most) protests have a legitimate message underneath all the violence gets lost in the noise. It's the reason that Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered in a much better light than Malcolm X and the reason that MLK's message is remembered better. (Not by everyone and I'm sure you have good reasons why Malcolm X was a better activist than MLK. Fine. Whatever.)
Also, if you don't accept the major media outlet's reporting, who do you believe in. The tabloids? Drudge? There's a really good independent (PBS-like) TV station here in the DC area - WNVC out of Fairfax. They show newsprograms from around the world. They often have a different slant on things, but I've never yet caught Brokaw or their ilk in a lie. You dismiss the major news outlets because they don't focus on what you want them to focus on. Doesn't mean the rest of us are sheep. Although I understand why you need to think of us as such. Let's talk again when you grow up.
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Whenever I see protests against the WTO or its ilk, I always think that the most extreme people are just being 'hooligans', so to speak. They're not there because they have a legitimate desire to effect change, but because it gives them an excuse to act up. I think in this case they're giving too much credit to the online graffiti artists. Or, perhaps I'm just being too cynical.
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Because it's a lower molecular weight, from simple statistics a lot more carbon exists in the universe than similar elements (like silicon)
Nope. After Hydrogen and Helium, the next most common element in the universe is Oxygen. Elements 3, 4, and 5 are actually way down on the list of common elements. So, statistically, you're wrong on this, although I do think that Carbon is fourth in overall abundance in the universe. (But, statistically, everything after Hydrogen and Helium is about the same.)
As far as our planet is concerned, Oxygen is most abundant, then Silicon. Carbon isn't even in the top 10. Carbon is more abundant than Silicon in the universe, but on our planet (a big hunk of rock), Silicon wins the abundance battle. This is likely the case for all big life-bearing rocks (silicates).
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I can't believe a geek site wouldn't have mentioned RPG's right off. I know lots of old-time D&Ders who got their kids to start playing. The earliest I know of is about age 8, although there's anecdotal stories of some kids getting hooked on it earlier. Open ended. Lots of different genres - fantasy, superheroes, sci-fi, space opera, gothic, sleuthing, etc. Whatever your family is into.
I don't know of any other game where there's as much interaction and learning potential. If there's a particular lesson you want to impart to your kids, think about a Copper dragon dying of lung cancer or lots of people in a town hooked on a really addictive drug. Or scenarios where teamwork is the only way to achieve the objective.
Of course, if the parents suck at GMing, it probably wouldn't work. Something to think about.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - B.F
I can't believe Barney Fife would say that. No way! Which episode was that in? Did Otis have something to with it? Sounds more like something Floyd would say. Or Aunt Bee.
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http://lavarand.sgi.com/
Train a camera on some lava lamps. Take a picture. Process bit stream. Random numbers.
The processing used to generate the ascii art here would probably reduce the randomness. Sorry. Try again.
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This seems to be the same article, pretty much.
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I know that not too long ago (within the last year) you (CT) said that you read almost all of the posts on /. And yet you're surprised that there's racism in the tech community? Considering that most of the people reading and posting here are techies, I can't believe you're surprised.
/. posts than anyone else would be surprised at this. The problem for most racists is that they can't tell who's what color. Once they figure it out, there's usually some fallout. Know any black geeks? Ask them what their experience is. Bet if they've been online for over a year, they've had some racist comments directed at them.
It doesn't happen in most discussions, but isn't there always some racist comment when there's non-white people involved in the story? Perhaps you're insulated from it, but there's lots of racism out there. Anybody remember the LOD/MOD flap about 5 years ago?
It surprises me that the person who, arguably, reads more
That doesn't mean anyone at MS is guilty of it. And BTW, I'm as white as Rob, if that matters.
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No, no, no. You're missing the point. He understands about the trade-offs in chip design. He talks about the original spec for the P4 and then he compares it to what's out now. You have to read the whole article to understand where he's coming from.
It's as if Ferrari drew up plans for the next generation car, then in order to save costs put 14" wheels and a carburetor off a 1974 Pinto on it. It would probably be a really great chip if they hadn't crippled it. (And - I don't want to say it, but I will - I bet you can blame AMD for it. If they weren't making cheap, fast chips, Intel wouldn't have had to try to compete with them on price.)
It's important to realize that Intel can uncripple it (and surely will) and in a few years the PIV will likely be just as ubiquitous as the PII/PIII's are today. Unless AMD catches up, of course. An the stuff Cyrix is doing is cool too, and don't count out Transmeta - good little paragraph on them in the article - portable computing is going to be where the biggest growth will be in the near future.
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The bible wasn't written this millenium, either. Most of it came from the apostles, all of whom were dead by the year 50, probably. I doubt any of it was written in the last 1000 years, although you could make an argument of the King James version as being the most important book of the millenium.
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I think a lot of people need to take a chill pill. The guy's not saying Intel sucks, period. He's saying that the P4, in its present form, is not a good value for your money. That's it. That's all he's saying.
He didn't say that the overall architecture is bad. He didn't say that the P4 will lead to bad designs in the future. He said that some of the choices for the present P4 configuration are bad and that people would be better served by spending their money elsewhere. If people buy Intel chips no matter what the actual price to value ratio is, then Intel has won and the consumer has lost.
The author gives very good explanations of the limitations of the present incarnation of the P4. He also explains what he thinks needs to be fixed. With all those fixes, the P4, in a few years, will likely be a really good chip. The design isn't beyond repair, it's just flawed.
I remember the 486SX clearly - and how my father was duped by the hype. The same thing's happening here. Also, if Intel really believed the P4 was its best chip, why are the colored guys on TV hyping the P3 like there's no tomorrow? (No, that's not a racist remark. If you've seen the ad, you know what I mean.)
The bigger problem is that, even though you can get around the limitations of the P4 chip by writing a really smart compiler, the P3's and below will be around for years, so you won't necessarily be using the optimization settings in generic code. You'll likely see 'Word 2005 for the P4' and 'Word 2005 for the P3 and below', although there's nothing preventing them from being on the same DVD and the installer choosing the right version.
If you can get past some of the strong language in the article (Intel engineers are stupid; boycott Intel; etc.) you can see that he's not anti-Intel per se. He's anti-Intel's marketing guys, who seem to be running the company at the moment. The decisions made in the present P4 incarnation have to be marketing's - no other explanation holds water. You can't design the next generation chip and then deliberateley cripple it. That's like having a son and then cutting off his foot to see how he gets along in the real world. I doubt engineers had much to say in the present P4 configuration.
The author provides pretty convincing proof that the best value for your money is an Athlon system, right now. I haven't seen anyone here able to refute that statement. It's the same conclusion that a couple of other people have reached. From all I've read over the past few months, I have to agree.
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Thanks. I kept coming up with 'Van Allen', which is a radiation belt but not associated with anyone's monitor as far as I know. Of course, I could have just looked it up, but I was typing in a hurry and I figured everyone would know what I was talking about anyway.
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