And exactly since when do satellite uplink transmissions stop at the satellite? The uplink is a radio wave, albeit a directed one. It might still be possible to pick up an alien uplink signal.
Fuck... if aliens are anything like us, the signal is going to have DRM all over it.. you know, to ward off space pirates.
According to Barefeats the Opteron and G5 are basically neck and neck.
http://www.barefeats.com/g5op.html
That's very interesting. But it's a little unfair. He's using parallel ATA and slower ram on the opteron, and his tests use the harddrives heavily. He should use a SATA drive and faster ram just like the G5 uses.
It's also a little outdated. His price comparison is way off. Pricing out the systems he tested gives me: $2826 for the Dual Opteron, and $3099 for the Dual G5. And I was able to get identical ram (512MB PC3200), identical video cards (dual head GF6800) and identical harddrives (250GB 7200RPM SATA) unlike the tester.
Also, ATI does offer 64bit Radeon drivers now.
With the identical ram and identical harddrives, the Opteron would have a better showing.
I was careful with my words "taking my hands off the keyboard to get to the mouse" is not the same as "type and move a mouse at the same time".
At first I thought that's what you meant, but then I thought of the laptop/touchpad thing and thought I must be wrong since that seemed to easy a solution.
I wonder if anyone sells a keyboard with a wristrest with an integrated touchpad.
No! QWERTY was designed to spread out the letters. Two letters close to each other typed at the same time could cause a jam, so they spread common letters out to reduce jamming.
If I can type 50 wpm without taking my hands off the keyboard to get to the mouse i'd be very very happy.
There's no way you can type and move a mouse at the same time. Anyone with a trackpad on a laptop can attest. My right thumb doesn't do anything when typing, but I cannot possibly use it to move the mouse while typing.. even though I can reach it just fine.
OK, fine, but then do the same when comparing a Dell
Why does every apple defender point to Dell? Dell has the same fucking problem Apple does! When Dell starts selling AMD processors, then you can use Dell for a price point.
Right now the comparison is between the Opteron and the G5, and the Opteron wins by a long shot.
SP2? That's not an update, silly boy, that's a collection of patches as well as a few other patches. When was the last time I got a free patch? hmmm let me see, today actually
Oh please. SP2 is a big update. We're not talking about a bunch of security bug fixes here.. we're talking about serious architecture changes.
Things like DEP. SP2 will support the NX bit if the hardware supports it, if it doesn't support it, SP2 uses a software mechanism.
This is literally the death of buffer overflow bugs.. at least on Intel/AMD hardware.
SP2 also turns off raw socket sending. You can read raw sockets but cannot write to them.
The new outlook marks an executable as dirty if it came as an attachment.. making it impossible to run an attachment even if you save it to the disk and try and run it by hand.
Plus the whole Security Center thing.
Then we hear that MS is probably going to offer IE7 outside of longhorn. This is a good thing in my opinion.
Everyone rips on MS for "integrating" IE into the OS, but Apple is just as guilty. I cannot get the newest version of Safari on a Jaguar system. Apple will abandon Panther just as soon as Tiger is out.
Except Apple did license the Mac OS to companies. And they nearly went bankrupt because of it. UMAX, Motorola, PowerComputing, Radius. They all had licenses. Apple's share just decreased even more rapidly.
It's not fair to say that's what caused Apple's marketshare to decline.
It's also around that time that Apple switched from being "the easy to use computer" to "the computer used by elitist asses". Which they've remained ever since.
Yes. It is infact hotplug/hotswap capable. I dunno how good your os (*cough*windows*cough*) will react to you unplugging the VC though...I'm sure that Linux will have wonky support for it initially
So that's why I couldn't see anything, I forgot to mount my videocard!
Reality was predicted to be 80 million triangles/second (with 25 pixel per triangle?). Just about every console system and graphics card now exceeds this.
Only if all 80 million triangles/second were grey. Add texturemapping, bumpmapping and pixel shaders and you're looking at a fraction of that.
I subscribe to the famous "If I can't have it, no one can" theory.
If I see an unguarded locked laptop, I dump a cup of coffee onto the keyboard.
Ok, not really.. but I wonder if anyone does this. I remember Denial of Service was a huge thing to do in highschool. People would beat the shit out of random combination locks on peoples lockers, you couldn't get your locker open. Bastards.
I'm a little concerned about our company policy. I work for a newspaper and our policy is that all reporters should delete their notes after a story has run. This policy was created specifically so that reporters notes cannot be subpoenaed.
So, I had a linksys wifi router and an AT&T 2.4 gHz phone... They fought like dogs!
I'm willing to bet that the linksys you've got is the first generation BEFW11S4. I had problems with my 2.4ghz phones but when I upgraded to linksys's 802.11g router, all my problems went away.
I'd recommend upgrading because if a 2.4ghz phone causes your router to die, then its likely that your router won't play well with others. If your neighbors get 802.11b/g, your router will die a horrible death.
Yes, it makes sense -- space marines in 2045 should have duct tape and/or helmets with flashlights and/or nightvision and/or fucking-A genetically engineered cat-eye night-proof eyes-from-hell.
But that's not what this space marine happened to have handy when the shit hit the fan.
Exactly. If the year 2045 is anything like the year 2004, the duct tape is in that drawer with dominos coupons, scissors, random notes, a few screws, a can opener, a few overdue bills, a popsicle, some salad tongs, a few bottle openers, and a bunch of other shit.
Obviously the marines couldn't get the drawer open.
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And exactly since when do satellite uplink transmissions stop at the satellite? The uplink is a radio wave, albeit a directed one. It might still be possible to pick up an alien uplink signal.
Fuck... if aliens are anything like us, the signal is going to have DRM all over it.. you know, to ward off space pirates.
This has been pointed out in other sub-threads, but the original Mac was 512x342. I remember being distinctly unimpressed upon seeing it.
Was it? I had to look it up. Guess wikipedia is wrong.
According to Barefeats the Opteron and G5 are basically neck and neck.
http://www.barefeats.com/g5op.html
That's very interesting. But it's a little unfair. He's using parallel ATA and slower ram on the opteron, and his tests use the harddrives heavily. He should use a SATA drive and faster ram just like the G5 uses.
It's also a little outdated. His price comparison is way off. Pricing out the systems he tested gives me: $2826 for the Dual Opteron, and $3099 for the Dual G5. And I was able to get identical ram (512MB PC3200), identical video cards (dual head GF6800) and identical harddrives (250GB 7200RPM SATA) unlike the tester.
Also, ATI does offer 64bit Radeon drivers now.
With the identical ram and identical harddrives, the Opteron would have a better showing.
some of the demos make great stress relievers.
True, but some of them create stress.. the dead horse and deer ragdolls were just disturbing.
That didn't prevent me from throwing them high in the air just to watch them hit the ground, however.
I need help.
Scratching your crotch with a controller still isn't testing very well, except amongst a surprisingly high percentage of female testers.
Woah, it has a rumble feature too?!
I was careful with my words "taking my hands off the keyboard to get to the mouse" is not the same as "type and move a mouse at the same time".
At first I thought that's what you meant, but then I thought of the laptop/touchpad thing and thought I must be wrong since that seemed to easy a solution.
I wonder if anyone sells a keyboard with a wristrest with an integrated touchpad.
And QWERTY was designed to slow people down!
No! QWERTY was designed to spread out the letters. Two letters close to each other typed at the same time could cause a jam, so they spread common letters out to reduce jamming.
QWERTY was designed to speed people up.
If I can type 50 wpm without taking my hands off the keyboard to get to the mouse i'd be very very happy.
There's no way you can type and move a mouse at the same time. Anyone with a trackpad on a laptop can attest. My right thumb doesn't do anything when typing, but I cannot possibly use it to move the mouse while typing.. even though I can reach it just fine.
And the fact that I can go out and guy any USB peripheral (keyboard, printer, camera) is another way owning a mac is just as affordable as a PC.
Except for *most* USB2.0 cdburners and *all* USB 802.11g devices.
USB2.0 support in OSX is practically non existant.
OK, fine, but then do the same when comparing a Dell
Why does every apple defender point to Dell? Dell has the same fucking problem Apple does! When Dell starts selling AMD processors, then you can use Dell for a price point.
Right now the comparison is between the Opteron and the G5, and the Opteron wins by a long shot.
SP2? That's not an update, silly boy, that's a collection of patches as well as a few other patches. When was the last time I got a free patch? hmmm let me see, today actually
Oh please. SP2 is a big update. We're not talking about a bunch of security bug fixes here.. we're talking about serious architecture changes.
Things like DEP. SP2 will support the NX bit if the hardware supports it, if it doesn't support it, SP2 uses a software mechanism.
This is literally the death of buffer overflow bugs.. at least on Intel/AMD hardware.
SP2 also turns off raw socket sending. You can read raw sockets but cannot write to them.
The new outlook marks an executable as dirty if it came as an attachment.. making it impossible to run an attachment even if you save it to the disk and try and run it by hand.
Plus the whole Security Center thing.
Then we hear that MS is probably going to offer IE7 outside of longhorn. This is a good thing in my opinion.
Everyone rips on MS for "integrating" IE into the OS, but Apple is just as guilty. I cannot get the newest version of Safari on a Jaguar system. Apple will abandon Panther just as soon as Tiger is out.
$ uname -vm
Darwin Kernel Version 7.4.0: Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.7.7.obj~7/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh
Thanks for playing.
(though it was - the Mac back then had a huge ROM, 1MB or so, and most screens were CGA).
No, the Mac had a 64k ROM. And EGA was introduced in 1984 (same year as the mac). EGA did 640x350 in 16 colors. The Mac did 512x384 in B&W.
Even back in 1984, the Mac hardware was nothing special (overpriced, underpowered) it was the OS that was something to look at.
And now even though Mac hardware is very affordable now they have to fight that old reputation.
It's still not "very affordable". Especially when you look at the price of the AMD64 and Opteron lines... the G5 is still too expensive.
Apple will always be more expensive because of their small marketshare.
Except Apple did license the Mac OS to companies. And they nearly went bankrupt because of it. UMAX, Motorola, PowerComputing, Radius. They all had licenses. Apple's share just decreased even more rapidly.
It's not fair to say that's what caused Apple's marketshare to decline.
It's also around that time that Apple switched from being "the easy to use computer" to "the computer used by elitist asses". Which they've remained ever since.
Say what you want about the FX5200, but for it's price it can't be beaten.
Except that it's beaten by the Radeon 9600. Just $99
Yes. It is infact hotplug/hotswap capable. I dunno how good your os (*cough*windows*cough*) will react to you unplugging the VC though...I'm sure that Linux will have wonky support for it initially
So that's why I couldn't see anything, I forgot to mount my videocard!
Reality was predicted to be 80 million triangles/second (with 25 pixel per triangle?). Just about every console system and graphics card now exceeds this.
Only if all 80 million triangles/second were grey. Add texturemapping, bumpmapping and pixel shaders and you're looking at a fraction of that.
Its like saying: Coca-cola, has been original, 'new', classic, etc, but couldn't they call it something else?
Coca-cola is the name of the company. They have hundreds of brand names
NVidia has 2 brand names. GeForce and Quaddro.
I subscribe to the famous "If I can't have it, no one can" theory.
If I see an unguarded locked laptop, I dump a cup of coffee onto the keyboard.
Ok, not really.. but I wonder if anyone does this. I remember Denial of Service was a huge thing to do in highschool. People would beat the shit out of random combination locks on peoples lockers, you couldn't get your locker open. Bastards.
I prefer the concept of storing a large key on your thumbdrive, which you then need to plug in in order to log into your machine.
I'm a little concerned about our company policy. I work for a newspaper and our policy is that all reporters should delete their notes after a story has run. This policy was created specifically so that reporters notes cannot be subpoenaed.
Mod parent up. It seems like this material is not transparent, but a 90% translucent.
No. It's transparent. Translucent means you can see a shadow cast against it from the other side. My honeycomb blinds are translucent.
So, I had a linksys wifi router and an AT&T 2.4 gHz phone... They fought like dogs!
I'm willing to bet that the linksys you've got is the first generation BEFW11S4. I had problems with my 2.4ghz phones but when I upgraded to linksys's 802.11g router, all my problems went away.
I'd recommend upgrading because if a 2.4ghz phone causes your router to die, then its likely that your router won't play well with others. If your neighbors get 802.11b/g, your router will die a horrible death.
Yes, it makes sense -- space marines in 2045 should have duct tape and/or helmets with flashlights and/or nightvision and/or fucking-A genetically engineered cat-eye night-proof eyes-from-hell.
But that's not what this space marine happened to have handy when the shit hit the fan.
Exactly. If the year 2045 is anything like the year 2004, the duct tape is in that drawer with dominos coupons, scissors, random notes, a few screws, a can opener, a few overdue bills, a popsicle, some salad tongs, a few bottle openers, and a bunch of other shit.
Obviously the marines couldn't get the drawer open.