RCC was good, I got lucky in being dirt poor when I went (Of course, now I'm not)
The Canadian University Diploma will never be worth more as long as there are institutions like Laurentian and Carleton which will pass any warm body in certain courses (LU Poli Sci & Psych come to mind).
University in Ontario is actually about $3500 to $4000, about $1000 more if it's engineering. Books are more, and Med School or Law School isn't cheap.
It's still subsidized to the tune of 70-80% of actual cost.
Of course, I paid $11,500 a year tuition (Private engineering college, ranked #1 in Canada for Electronics Engineering technician/Technologist)
For you yanks, Canada does things differently. We go to University for a B.A. or higher, our equivalent of an Associates Degree is the 2 or 3 year Diploma received from College.
Nope, Bush & Co are mostly MBA's (Business/commerce majors). engineers build the world, Commerce & Law Majors run it and liberal arts majors ask 'Would You like fries with that?'
802.11g not worth it, Hmmm, 54Mb/s vs 11Mb/s for 802.11b. Well, now if I've got two boxes on that network sharing files, 802.11g just justified itself. And Apple's built in antenna's are much better than the ones on most PCI wireless cards, try 3-4x the range.
Bluetooth is starting to take off, not a big deal.
FW800 is also a big win, becuase it improves performance with multiple devices, also there's a fair number of Oxford911 based FW HDD;s that easily eat the entire available ieee1394a bandwidth.
ANd the system bus is 167MHz, same as your Athlon.
Nope. The start of the Pentium II(i686/P6) architecture was the Pentium Pro. The P2 is a PPro with MMX and a different cache interface and some optimizations so that 16bit code didn't run like ass. The Pentium MMX is not a P2 core (Despite the fact that it did outperform the original Cacheless Celeron).
Problem is IBM won't be shipping G5's in quantity until Q3. If Apple is aggressive, we should see an announcment of the new hardware at MWNY, shipping end of August. If they aren't expect the announcement in early september (Apple traditionally introduces most hardware in January & July, with smaller announcements in May & September, and occasionally in November).
Well, given ATi's glaring advantage in Anisotrpoic Filtering and Anti-Aliasing, not to mention general 2d/3d image quality, the Nvidia advantage in floating point precision might close the gap somewhat.
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If Beta was unsuited to Video Cameras then why was it the defacto standard for profession use video cameras (Reporters & such) up until recently (S-VHS and MiniDV finally killed BetaMax cameras).
Get a Radeon 8500 and the component out cable and do that now, any Radeon 8500, 9500 or 9700 will do component out today (And probably bootstomp the ne S3 chip performance-wise).
Firewire 800 (IEEE1394b) is now a reality. It ships on the new 17" Powerbook. 800MB/s beats 480. Not to mention that Firewire at 400MB/s beats out USB 2.0 at 480MB/s due to a cleaner design with less overhead.
They already had their own Layout Engine. They simply decided to go with one that had support for current technology as the in-house browser was a bit old (Dates back to the mid/late 90's)This is actually the second Browser Apple has produced.
And no, I don't remember what it was called, gort a copy lying around somewher though.
nope, Memory Bandwidth is king at 4xAA. ANd the 9700 bootstomps the FX when it comes to bandwidth (about 20-25% more Memory Bandwidth for the 9700 Pro)
Now the most common PC graphics chips are the Intel Integrated Crap, Ati Radeon 7000/7500/9000 and NVidia MX/NForce stuff.
ATi and NVidia are big players in the Workstation Graphics area as well, NVidia's Quadro chips are the default for low-mid range cards and ATi's new FireGL is the performance lead inb sub-$5000 cards.
What are you thinking, the XBox's GPU is a byproduct of NVidia's last generation, which was delivered on schedule. The development of the NV30 began on schedule, and wasn't even affected by the already released NV2x XBox GPU.
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RCC was good, I got lucky in being dirt poor when I went (Of course, now I'm not)
The Canadian University Diploma will never be worth more as long as there are institutions like Laurentian and Carleton which will pass any warm body in certain courses (LU Poli Sci & Psych come to mind).
Waterloo is fairly different. LU and most of the universities here charge about $3500 for 2 terms.
Engineering is always more though, less government restriction on costs.
University in Ontario is actually about $3500 to $4000, about $1000 more if it's engineering. Books are more, and Med School or Law School isn't cheap.
It's still subsidized to the tune of 70-80% of actual cost.
Of course, I paid $11,500 a year tuition (Private engineering college, ranked #1 in Canada for Electronics Engineering technician/Technologist)
For you yanks, Canada does things differently. We go to University for a B.A. or higher, our equivalent of an Associates Degree is the 2 or 3 year Diploma received from College.
Nope, Bush & Co are mostly MBA's (Business/commerce majors). engineers build the world, Commerce & Law Majors run it and liberal arts majors ask 'Would You like fries with that?'
802.11g not worth it, Hmmm, 54Mb/s vs 11Mb/s for 802.11b. Well, now if I've got two boxes on that network sharing files, 802.11g just justified itself. And Apple's built in antenna's are much better than the ones on most PCI wireless cards, try 3-4x the range. Bluetooth is starting to take off, not a big deal. FW800 is also a big win, becuase it improves performance with multiple devices, also there's a fair number of Oxford911 based FW HDD;s that easily eat the entire available ieee1394a bandwidth. ANd the system bus is 167MHz, same as your Athlon.
And Boromir was the Brother of Faramir, not his son.
Nope. The start of the Pentium II(i686/P6) architecture was the Pentium Pro. The P2 is a PPro with MMX and a different cache interface and some optimizations so that 16bit code didn't run like ass. The Pentium MMX is not a P2 core (Despite the fact that it did outperform the original Cacheless Celeron).
Problem is IBM won't be shipping G5's in quantity until Q3. If Apple is aggressive, we should see an announcment of the new hardware at MWNY, shipping end of August. If they aren't expect the announcement in early september (Apple traditionally introduces most hardware in January & July, with smaller announcements in May & September, and occasionally in November).
Well, given ATi's glaring advantage in Anisotrpoic Filtering and Anti-Aliasing, not to mention general 2d/3d image quality, the Nvidia advantage in floating point precision might close the gap somewhat.
If Beta was unsuited to Video Cameras then why was it the defacto standard for profession use video cameras (Reporters & such) up until recently (S-VHS and MiniDV finally killed BetaMax cameras).
Actually there's a hole load of available resolutions, all in p or i modes. 720p and 1080i are simply the best supported ones.
Note that I'm the only one who specified which current ATI cards support HDTV out, dumbass.
Bzzt, wrong.
Toshiba is even shipping a 1080p TV.
Actually, this has been available since the AIW Radeon 8500LE and 8500DV came out, the AIW 9700 Pro was simply the first to actually bundle the cable.
The 7500 doesn't support component out.
The low end POS adaptors are often Dualhead as well.
The Radeon 7000 and 9000 are available in dualhead configs, ditto the FeForce2MX's and GeForce4MX's.
Get a Radeon 8500 and the component out cable and do that now, any Radeon 8500, 9500 or 9700 will do component out today (And probably bootstomp the ne S3 chip performance-wise).
Big whoopie frikkin do.
if_awi.ko not laoding, and the fdisk issues are the two that come to mind. I doubt the fdisk problem is on the TODO for Release, since it's minor.
The required configuration of IPv6 name resolution is rather annoying as well.
Umm, ftp.ca.freebsd.org is a CNAME to ftp.freebsd.org
There currently isn't a Canadian Mirror for FreeBSD.
There's still a few gotchas in this one. Wait for the Release if you need stability.
Barring any nasty bugs, 5.0-Release may show up this week.
Firewire 800 (IEEE1394b) is now a reality. It ships on the new 17" Powerbook. 800MB/s beats 480. Not to mention that Firewire at 400MB/s beats out USB 2.0 at 480MB/s due to a cleaner design with less overhead.
And also the G4 and an available superdrive.
The G4 is noticably faster at the same clockspeed than a G3 under OS X, especially OS X 10.2
They already had their own Layout Engine. They simply decided to go with one that had support for current technology as the in-house browser was a bit old (Dates back to the mid/late 90's)This is actually the second Browser Apple has produced.
And no, I don't remember what it was called, gort a copy lying around somewher though.
nope, Memory Bandwidth is king at 4xAA. ANd the 9700 bootstomps the FX when it comes to bandwidth (about 20-25% more Memory Bandwidth for the 9700 Pro)
Maybe 3 years ago.
Now the most common PC graphics chips are the Intel Integrated Crap, Ati Radeon 7000/7500/9000 and NVidia MX/NForce stuff.
ATi and NVidia are big players in the Workstation Graphics area as well, NVidia's Quadro chips are the default for low-mid range cards and ATi's new FireGL is the performance lead inb sub-$5000 cards.
What are you thinking, the XBox's GPU is a byproduct of NVidia's last generation, which was delivered on schedule. The development of the NV30 began on schedule, and wasn't even affected by the already released NV2x XBox GPU.