Or Intel can just say, go ahead and use AMD. And you will loose all those special prices and discounts we give you, so you will be much less competetive than you are now.
First, Intel motherboards are actually made by Foxconn (Hon Hai), ASUS, FIC or some third Taiwanese company. Second, those same Taiwanese companies make not only motherboards, but complete systems for Dell, HP, or any other major player -- including Apple.
My WILD guess is: audio programs NEED good looking user interface. Judging by few released screenshots, this is one of the best looking Linux applications.
Now, question is: could they make it to look this good, and work on both Gnome/KDE/whatever, without reinventing lot of hot water?
Well, in Opera, you already have it: double-click the word, select "Search" (with Google, Amazon, Ebay...), "Dictionary", "Encyclopaedia" or "Translate" from popup menu.
1) Start the download. 2) Pause it. 3) Exit the browser. You'll get the warning that downloads will be canceled. 4) Start it again. You will NOT be able to resume download, only to restart it.
Read Anand's excellent report from Taiwan on how "915 and 925X Express ushered in a new era for personal computer hardware" etc:
"Intel seems to have learned from their 925X and 915 chipset launches - multiple fundamental technology changes without performance gains don't go over well."
"The problem is that right now, no one wants 915 motherboards - they simply aren't selling well at all (925X boards aren't doing any better; I leave them out of this discussion because they are generally much lower volume boards, 915 is the mainstream product so that's what matters). "
And to answer the question from the this article's blurb:
"On the AMD side things are much simpler; just about every single motherboard manufacturer has a nForce4 solution for AMD as their high end Athlon 64 platform. In fact, NVIDIA is quickly turning into the Intel of AMD chipset manufacturers, which is something we've been asking for ever since the introduction of the Athlon.
Although there is a lot of support for ATI's upcoming chipsets (you'll read about them here next week), almost all the manufacturers were saying that their ATI products will be Intel-only. The worry is that with such a strong competitor in the Athlon 64 realm that their ATI products won't sell; there's also a lack of confidence about ATI's ability to supply their South Bridges. Whether or not the fears are well founded, none of the motherboard manufacturers expressed much interest in an ATI Athlon 64 chipset just yet. We'll see what happens next week, there may just be a few changed minds."
- Anything in name ending with "-X" at ASUS means it is a value (ie. cheap), not enthusiast model. You see, ASUS made top quality motherboards, but people thought they were too expensive and bought things like ECS instead. So they came up with -X series and Asrock brand.
- You bought a mobo with SIS chipset instead of Intel, so you kinda asked for it.
- (in reply to a parent:) Many of the Intel branded boards WERE actually produced by ASUS. Intel does not manufacture motherboards, companies like ASUS and Foxconn (Hon Hai) do it for them.
Check out Gaia Online: phpBB forum with 190,595,085 articles posted, 1,042,339 registered users -- and 10,386 of them online at this very moment. MySQL db running on one dual Opteron. Here is an interview with guy that manages it.
What's worse, he's not "reporter", he is "the author of Computer Security for the Home and Small Office, a comprehensive guide to system hardening, malware protection, online anonymity, encryption, and data hygiene for Windows and Linux." And in his educated opinion, JavaScript, MetaRefreshes and Copy/Paste in MSIE should be disabled by default.
Even worse than that. I can't even get past first page. First, he installs *professional* version of Win XP, than he complains that most of the services are not needed by *home* users. Ever heard of XP Home version?
But even then, most of his claims are just wrong. DNS and DHCP clients unnecesary to home users? Remote Access Connection manager should be disabled by default? Yeah, right, tell it to my modem and ISP. Here is a real world description for you, pal:
[DHCP Client Service] "This is how your computer gets a Dynamic IP address so you can connect to the internet. If Internet Connection Sharing is enabled, you need DHCP Client. Also required for most DSL/Cable connections." [*]
"Routing and Remote Access, disabled. About time." Well, it is disabled in SP1, and so is Telnet. WebClient: unnecessary. Maybe, if you don't need WebDAV folders integration into Explorer shell. Etc, etc...
But second sentence of the article really got me: "We installed XP with the NTFS file system, choosing all of the factory defaults, then patched it with each recommended security update including SP-1 (required), before installing SP2." And I tought point of installing SP2 is to avoid all pre-SP2 patches.
Way to go, please bring us more insightful articles like this.
could this double as a laser pointer? Imagine a cordless laser-driven mouse that also had pointing capabilities for presentations and such. that'd be rad.
Most -- or all? -- of the books posted from Distributed Proofreaders to Project Gutenberg in recent time are available both as plain ASCII text (hard formated) and as HTML -- meaning it can be converted to "soft formated" txt, PDF or anything else.
I know that one of the largest datacenters and hosting providers, The Planet (and their subsidiary Server Matrix) uses Nagios for monitoring dedicated servers... and they have tens of thousands of them.
Bulk download files within numeric ranges using the Bukster (bkstr) protocol, e.g. bkstr://www.site.com/{01-125}/{01-10}.jpg downloads 1250 jpeg images in the appropriate numeric ranges.
"IF YOU CHECK out ATI's full document for its financial quarter, you will find this item on page four of the PDF report.
"A non-recurring charge of about $6.0 million, consisting of incentive compensation and other charges associated with the signing of a development agreement".
This, almost certainly, is the $6 million ATI paid to bundle Half Life, in the multimillion auction revealed in the INQUIRER, and in which Nvidia was a bidder too."
No, it is a BAD idea. First, USB 1.0 is slooooow. I say that after waiting few minutes to copy 128MB of music to Creative MuVo MP3 player (old, USB 1.1 version).
Second, most of (all?) flash memory devices have limited number of read/writes -- few millions, maybe, but with all that swapping...
I'd just buy used hard drive... 2.1GB 2.5" HDDs are like 15-30$ on Ebay. Compared to 75$ for 8x smaller (512MB) USB Drive.
Well, (speaking of Design by Fire / Design Eye...) they could have broken the article contents to 6 or 7 separate pages, like some other websites (*cough*CNET*cough*). But as someone who IS on 56K (actually, 36-40K max) I *prefer* when everything is on single page, so I can wait that 30-45 seconds and then disconnect and read in peace.
But you can't expect from article speaking about *graphic redesign* to be text only;)
Plus, if fixed width text or small font or anything else on it bothers you -- you can change it if you use any modern browser, such as FireFox or Opera. Just switch to User mode in Opera and you will get full page width, regular font size text, with or without pictures.
With all due respect to Mr. Nielsen, he could have started by redesigning his own site, useit.com. It may be "usable", but it is... less than beautiful, to say so. He could take clue from this guys:
Call me when they put two GPUs on one card... Or even better, when they put two cores on one chip. Soon enough motherboard will be an add-on to graphic card.
Plus, many people were upset about power and cooling requirements. This monster would occupy FOUR slots and require, what, a 600W PSU? (ok, just kidding, "only" 460W should be enough)
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Or Intel can just say, go ahead and use AMD. And you will loose all those special prices and discounts we give you, so you will be much less competetive than you are now.
But if we look at the last 5 years...
Btw. Intel's market cap is 149.79B, not 51.97
First, Intel motherboards are actually made by Foxconn (Hon Hai), ASUS, FIC or some third Taiwanese company. Second, those same Taiwanese companies make not only motherboards, but complete systems for Dell, HP, or any other major player -- including Apple.
For example, see this few articles:
Foxconn re-brands PCs for integrators
Dell gets Hon Hai to make two million PCs
Hon Hai takes aim at Compaq, HP
Quanta, Hon Hai win Imac contract
If you don't trust TheInq, much better source is Digitimes, but their archives are subscribers-only.
My WILD guess is: audio programs NEED good looking user interface. Judging by few released screenshots, this is one of the best looking Linux applications.
Now, question is: could they make it to look this good, and work on both Gnome/KDE/whatever, without reinventing lot of hot water?
To be fair to the others, try Apple store:
s /A ppleStore.woa/71202/wo/Tp1uBcC8gWZv2lQEPAXn8ZQZXjG /0.0.11.1.0.6.21.1.1.1.1.0.0.1.0
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObject
It DOES take a genius to guess this is a page for buying PowerBooks.
Well, in Opera, you already have it: double-click the word, select "Search" (with Google, Amazon, Ebay...), "Dictionary", "Encyclopaedia" or "Translate" from popup menu.
1) Start the download.
2) Pause it.
3) Exit the browser. You'll get the warning that downloads will be canceled.
4) Start it again. You will NOT be able to resume download, only to restart it.
Read Anand's excellent report from Taiwan on how "915 and 925X Express ushered in a new era for personal computer hardware" etc:
And to answer the question from the this article's blurb:
Industry Update - Q4-2004: AMD adds SSE3 Support, Intel's 925/915 not selling and more
There are couple of things you should know:
- Anything in name ending with "-X" at ASUS means it is a value (ie. cheap), not enthusiast model. You see, ASUS made top quality motherboards, but people thought they were too expensive and bought things like ECS instead. So they came up with -X series and Asrock brand.
- You bought a mobo with SIS chipset instead of Intel, so you kinda asked for it.
- (in reply to a parent:) Many of the Intel branded boards WERE actually produced by ASUS. Intel does not manufacture motherboards, companies like ASUS and Foxconn (Hon Hai) do it for them.
Check out Gaia Online: phpBB forum with 190,595,085 articles posted, 1,042,339 registered users -- and 10,386 of them online at this very moment. MySQL db running on one dual Opteron. Here is an interview with guy that manages it.
Except that VIA *does* make CPUs -- ever since they bought Cytrix. See here:
VIA Antaur
VIA C3
VIA Eden
No, he wasn't, otherwise he wouldn't suggest disabling Remote Access Connection Manager.
What's worse, he's not "reporter", he is "the author of Computer Security for the Home and Small Office , a comprehensive guide to system hardening, malware protection, online anonymity, encryption, and data hygiene for Windows and Linux." And in his educated opinion, JavaScript, MetaRefreshes and Copy/Paste in MSIE should be disabled by default.
But even then, most of his claims are just wrong. DNS and DHCP clients unnecesary to home users? Remote Access Connection manager should be disabled by default? Yeah, right, tell it to my modem and ISP. Here is a real world description for you, pal:
"Routing and Remote Access, disabled. About time." Well, it is disabled in SP1, and so is Telnet. WebClient: unnecessary. Maybe, if you don't need WebDAV folders integration into Explorer shell. Etc, etc...
But second sentence of the article really got me: "We installed XP with the NTFS file system, choosing all of the factory defaults, then patched it with each recommended security update including SP-1 (required), before installing SP2." And I tought point of installing SP2 is to avoid all pre-SP2 patches.
Way to go, please bring us more insightful articles like this.
[*] From this excellent site with *really* informative description of Windows services: http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm
You mean like Logitech Cordless Presenter?
Remember Cairo?
Most -- or all? -- of the books posted from Distributed Proofreaders to Project Gutenberg in recent time are available both as plain ASCII text (hard formated) and as HTML -- meaning it can be converted to "soft formated" txt, PDF or anything else.
I know that one of the largest datacenters and hosting providers, The Planet (and their subsidiary Server Matrix) uses Nagios for monitoring dedicated servers... and they have tens of thousands of them.
:)
So you should ask them how they manage it
Bulk download files within numeric ranges using the Bukster (bkstr) protocol, e.g. bkstr://www.site.com/{01-125}/{01-10}.jpg downloads 1250 jpeg images in the appropriate numeric ranges.
Actually, it was 6 million. Quote:
"IF YOU CHECK out ATI's full document for its financial quarter, you will find this item on page four of the PDF report.
"A non-recurring charge of about $6.0 million, consisting of incentive compensation and other charges associated with the signing of a development agreement".
This, almost certainly, is the $6 million ATI paid to bundle Half Life, in the multimillion auction revealed in the INQUIRER, and in which Nvidia was a bidder too."
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11934
No, it is a BAD idea. First, USB 1.0 is slooooow. I say that after waiting few minutes to copy 128MB of music to Creative MuVo MP3 player (old, USB 1.1 version).
Second, most of (all?) flash memory devices have limited number of read/writes -- few millions, maybe, but with all that swapping...
I'd just buy used hard drive... 2.1GB 2.5" HDDs are like 15-30$ on Ebay. Compared to 75$ for 8x smaller (512MB) USB Drive.
Well, (speaking of Design by Fire / Design Eye...) they could have broken the article contents to 6 or 7 separate pages, like some other websites (*cough*CNET*cough*). But as someone who IS on 56K (actually, 36-40K max) I *prefer* when everything is on single page, so I can wait that 30-45 seconds and then disconnect and read in peace.
;)
But you can't expect from article speaking about *graphic redesign* to be text only
Plus, if fixed width text or small font or anything else on it bothers you -- you can change it if you use any modern browser, such as FireFox or Opera. Just switch to User mode in Opera and you will get full page width, regular font size text, with or without pictures.
With all due respect to Mr. Nielsen, he could have started by redesigning his own site, useit.com. It may be "usable", but it is... less than beautiful, to say so. He could take clue from this guys:
Design Eye for the Usability Guy and
Reuseit: useit.com redesign competition
Call me when they put two GPUs on one card... Or even better, when they put two cores on one chip. Soon enough motherboard will be an add-on to graphic card.
Plus, many people were upset about power and cooling requirements. This monster would occupy FOUR slots and require, what, a 600W PSU? (ok, just kidding, "only" 460W should be enough)
Absolutely. I hope they will get a clue.
:)
OTOH, if it uses "Windows® Media Center Edition" it shouldn't be difficult to add. Oh, and TV out would be nice