A while back I read an article about intel making p2 clockless chips, that performed rougly 3 times(in MHz terms not overall performance) faster.
Intel recognise clockless as the future, and hence the P4 actually has portions designed that are clockless.
Before know-it-all's follow this up with "but it runs at 2.xx GHz", let them please read an article on about how much of your chip is oscilating at that immense speed.
As it's said in the EE industry, "oh god imagine if that clock speed was let free on the whole system"
I was going to write exactly this.
Because low end apples are often used in the class room, they are one of the quietest and temperature coolest PC's available. There is nothing worse than being in a room with 25 noisy cheap PC's buzzing away. Interestingly, you'll notice Apple have been using quiet keyboards and drives for alot longer than other mainstream manufacturers. E.G. a cube is virtually silent, however change the HD to a foreign type and you'll find that you can now hear the HD cranking away.
If he wants to make a few quick bucks, (and it can be proven that it's not 'easily' broken) then he should consider selling it to his local intelligence agency. If interested, he'll be well lined for a long time.
It's good news for Boston, but NY I feel is a more relevant venue, first Macs are commonplace in the DTP & Graphic design centres in NY. (It's definitely more than 5% Apple usage in NYC). Also post all the 9/11 stuff, you'd want NY to have a bit more popularity.
And no one can go past the whole Apple in the Big Apple stigma.
In Australia we have a sort-of niche middle-upper store called David Jones, here you can purchase multiregion DVD players, however the sales staff aren't allowed to advertise them so, or lead information that suggests it's region free (it could be clearly stated on the box). The reason is some legal technicality so some stores rather just absolve themselves from the whole issue.
oh it's gotten even worse since then... looks like people are just agreeing to all their moderations and pressing ok, without actually reading the list of responses... they don't sound like overrated, flame bait, trolling or off topic, yet someone has just ticked "fair" in their mods.
not even microsoft is being called frauds and their efforts in "Trustworthy Computing", have been reaching levels of comedy hysteria. This isn't damaging the physics community as long as we have far worse examples of 'deception' in our faces.
It's precisley correct, moores law is nothing by an observed trend, and most people don't even seem to remember the numbers that were represented for it. The number of transistors in a PC chip -seems- to double every 16 months, likewise the 'moore's law' for storage was along the lines of doubling capacity every 12 months, and ram was every 18 months ( I can't recall the exact monthly figures that have been accepted) but by no means does moores law suggest that your computer will be half the size, or double the speed or half the cost in 12 months. Which is what it has been slowly exaggerated to.
this could start a new trend in the graphics market, as for powerbooks they might be even sooner: Macworld Paris is 10-13 Sept, Powerbook 'runout sale' ends on the 25 Sept. Very good chance we're going to see more than a speed bump between these two dates.(apple intend to put bluetooth inside all their pc's hence why they never developed the external bluetooth adapter.)
i like to throw this one at them "what's playdough", they usually can't answer until i go into a long spiel about how impure substances aren't can have *shock* different points where parts of them turn into liquid, however glasses are particular, as generally speaking they are too slow to be relavant, besides if so much glass did actually shift from the top of an elaborate stain to the bottom, the picture would be long blurry, as they love making a big deal about how obvious the thickness difference is.
the current powerpc g4 chip used in apple computers is a hybrid chip of a 32-bit chip, combined with a 128bit vector calculations unit. On a comparitive scale the new "64 bit" AMD chip supports legacy 32-bit operations... so electronically it is no different from a 32-bit chip, with an elaborate 64-bit extention...now back to the G4.. a 32bit chip with an elaborate 128-bit extention. I think you are getting my point.
However it's quite possible that he wasn't talking about the G4 to start with.
and for anyone else that thinks that a higher-bit chip is some non-existant miracle of computing.. check your video card chances are it's 128-bit with 256-bit extensions.
hmm i'm not sure who is modding everyone up, but they need to realise that the last few people have said almost exactly the same thing.
Their wit that I am trying to express, is to rip off one apple trademark with another, not just any apple idea, but the one that stood for a smart-alec response to a settled lawsuit. It's apple with a taste of their own old-stagnated medicine.
it's come to my attention that they may have not realised the whole sosumi/beatles issue, so their wit is lacking.. hehe it's still good. At least they didn't call it BHA.
it's good to see that linux is supported, usually such advancements are held to specific proprietry servers like sgi, former silicon graphics, offerings.
it's often difficult to read the chain of comments when you are moderating them with the meta moderate function.
I apologise if i hurt your feelings.
In future try to read the article/s before you post, that way you won't be writing incorrect assumptions in the first place that you need to correct down the aforementioned chain. Also try not to be so easily flared, you made a mistake that would not have happened if you had put more thought into your responses, and hence would have stopped this entire saga of messages.
Again I apologise if I have hurt your feelings. It can be noted that you can receive a far more furious response from other slashdotters for making even more mild mistakes. Simply asking other users to read related information before posting comments that require 2, 3, 4 or more futher corrections is totally reasonable, and is a common reply to messages that people stumble apon that lack validity that could have been found in a paragraph of linked information.
If you can ask me to further explore the chains in the first place (which i will endeavor to do so), I most certainly can ask this of you.
reading the article reveals that the control experiements with caffein only produces the lowest risk, however another chemical was talked about, which produced a lower risk of your particular cancers being melanomas (the harshest kind of skin cancer). So the title is fine, and the other chemical is just the submitter author being lazy pasting in the first paragraph before the real author talked about the second chemical.
Apple have stumbled on wealth the right way: by producing an appealing product. With microsoft still producing bug filled, insecure garbage, that has issues with the software designed to run on it, as they weren't so willing to give proper api to developers, Apple's market share will do nothing other than increase. It's a breath of fresh air.
I love how the author talks down the "Megahertz Myth" as if it's something that is merely a marketing ploy. I wonder how he could explain a Xeon outperforming a P4 chip, despite having similar or same clock frequencies.
well maybe as a solution to the question rather than bickering, it's important to realise that surfin' the web is alot like t.v without breaks for commercials, instead of getting a set time of an advertisement, we get a pop-up ad. Now i read earlier on slashdot the up-roar from slashdotters about such pop-ups in t.v, but they've been a reality in australian television for the last 3+ months, usually in prime time programming.
Microsoft are well known for polluting protocols to be microsoft only, particular examples including printing.
Some may argue it's better for the simple users, when the actual fact is that MS rarely implements anything properly (unless of course if it's to defeat some random flare of competition, aka netscape and others) A great example is the fact that it's easier to get an apple to speak to windows via dhcp(or manual gateways), than it is to get windows 98/me/2000 to speak to a windows machine.
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Intel recognise clockless as the future, and hence the P4 actually has portions designed that are clockless.
Before know-it-all's follow this up with "but it runs at 2.xx GHz", let them please read an article on about how much of your chip is oscilating at that immense speed.
As it's said in the EE industry, "oh god imagine if that clock speed was let free on the whole system"
you wrote Judge, but I read each line as Judge Judy
I was going to write exactly this. Because low end apples are often used in the class room, they are one of the quietest and temperature coolest PC's available. There is nothing worse than being in a room with 25 noisy cheap PC's buzzing away. Interestingly, you'll notice Apple have been using quiet keyboards and drives for alot longer than other mainstream manufacturers. E.G. a cube is virtually silent, however change the HD to a foreign type and you'll find that you can now hear the HD cranking away.
If he wants to make a few quick bucks, (and it can be proven that it's not 'easily' broken) then he should consider selling it to his local intelligence agency. If interested, he'll be well lined for a long time.
And no one can go past the whole Apple in the Big Apple stigma.
dear god don't make an error on a public news site, otherwise another member may come and insult you to the teeth.
In Australia we have a sort-of niche middle-upper store called David Jones, here you can purchase multiregion DVD players, however the sales staff aren't allowed to advertise them so, or lead information that suggests it's region free (it could be clearly stated on the box). The reason is some legal technicality so some stores rather just absolve themselves from the whole issue.
oh it's gotten even worse since then... looks like people are just agreeing to all their moderations and pressing ok, without actually reading the list of responses... they don't sound like overrated, flame bait, trolling or off topic, yet someone has just ticked "fair" in their mods.
not even microsoft is being called frauds and their efforts in "Trustworthy Computing", have been reaching levels of comedy hysteria. This isn't damaging the physics community as long as we have far worse examples of 'deception' in our faces.
It's precisley correct, moores law is nothing by an observed trend, and most people don't even seem to remember the numbers that were represented for it. The number of transistors in a PC chip -seems- to double every 16 months, likewise the 'moore's law' for storage was along the lines of doubling capacity every 12 months, and ram was every 18 months ( I can't recall the exact monthly figures that have been accepted) but by no means does moores law suggest that your computer will be half the size, or double the speed or half the cost in 12 months. Which is what it has been slowly exaggerated to.
this could start a new trend in the graphics market, as for powerbooks they might be even sooner: Macworld Paris is 10-13 Sept, Powerbook 'runout sale' ends on the 25 Sept. Very good chance we're going to see more than a speed bump between these two dates.(apple intend to put bluetooth inside all their pc's hence why they never developed the external bluetooth adapter.)
i like to throw this one at them "what's playdough", they usually can't answer until i go into a long spiel about how impure substances aren't can have *shock* different points where parts of them turn into liquid, however glasses are particular, as generally speaking they are too slow to be relavant, besides if so much glass did actually shift from the top of an elaborate stain to the bottom, the picture would be long blurry, as they love making a big deal about how obvious the thickness difference is.
However it's quite possible that he wasn't talking about the G4 to start with.
and for anyone else that thinks that a higher-bit chip is some non-existant miracle of computing.. check your video card chances are it's 128-bit with 256-bit extensions.
Their wit that I am trying to express, is to rip off one apple trademark with another, not just any apple idea, but the one that stood for a smart-alec response to a settled lawsuit. It's apple with a taste of their own old-stagnated medicine.
it's come to my attention that they may have not realised the whole sosumi/beatles issue, so their wit is lacking.. hehe it's still good. At least they didn't call it BHA.
closer observation reveals sumi sounds alot like "sue me", I think all their wit is perfectly intact.
it's good to see that linux is supported, usually such advancements are held to specific proprietry servers like sgi, former silicon graphics, offerings.
I apologise if i hurt your feelings.
In future try to read the article/s before you post, that way you won't be writing incorrect assumptions in the first place that you need to correct down the aforementioned chain. Also try not to be so easily flared, you made a mistake that would not have happened if you had put more thought into your responses, and hence would have stopped this entire saga of messages.
Again I apologise if I have hurt your feelings. It can be noted that you can receive a far more furious response from other slashdotters for making even more mild mistakes. Simply asking other users to read related information before posting comments that require 2, 3, 4 or more futher corrections is totally reasonable, and is a common reply to messages that people stumble apon that lack validity that could have been found in a paragraph of linked information.
If you can ask me to further explore the chains in the first place (which i will endeavor to do so), I most certainly can ask this of you.
Please read the article before posting.
Apple have stumbled on wealth the right way: by producing an appealing product. With microsoft still producing bug filled, insecure garbage, that has issues with the software designed to run on it, as they weren't so willing to give proper api to developers, Apple's market share will do nothing other than increase. It's a breath of fresh air.
I love how the author talks down the "Megahertz Myth" as if it's something that is merely a marketing ploy. I wonder how he could explain a Xeon outperforming a P4 chip, despite having similar or same clock frequencies.
well maybe as a solution to the question rather than bickering, it's important to realise that surfin' the web is alot like t.v without breaks for commercials, instead of getting a set time of an advertisement, we get a pop-up ad. Now i read earlier on slashdot the up-roar from slashdotters about such pop-ups in t.v, but they've been a reality in australian television for the last 3+ months, usually in prime time programming.
America, America, land of the free...
Microsoft are well known for polluting protocols to be microsoft only, particular examples including printing.
Some may argue it's better for the simple users, when the actual fact is that MS rarely implements anything properly (unless of course if it's to defeat some random flare of competition, aka netscape and others) A great example is the fact that it's easier to get an apple to speak to windows via dhcp(or manual gateways), than it is to get windows 98/me/2000 to speak to a windows machine.
Pie like menus have been in use in Poweranimator (now Maya) from alias wavefront for years, 3d studio max copied the idea and too share a similar menu system. They seem to speed up productivity and are rather easy to explore.