Does anyone else see any bias with a website, called "worlds-fastest", seemingly dedicated to pro AMD benchmarks, that he has done out of the goodness of his heart?
And all the custom software he has written, doesn't have any CPU specific optimizations?
None of the open source software, has any optimizations slanted toward one side or another?
Coming out with an AMD Opteron vs Intel Netburst test result, when the newer Intel stuff had been out for 6 months?
It all looks like a bunch of PR to generate business for Neal and AMD. Plus some ego stuff going on, everytime someone feels Intel isn't giving them the time of day, they go all out into a pissing contest. (IE, on his website since "Intel claimed they had no Core systems to loan him" he goes off to benchmark 4 year old Xeon and AMD machines.
Remind me to pay a non-biased company for benchmarks, thank you.
Same here! When I was in 2nd grade (1982) my dad bought it for me from one of his friends right before we moved to Taiwan. Model I, with expansion board (I have the whole thing in a box still somewhere) and a "stringy floppy" tape drive . I had a regular tape drive also, but the stringy floppy was really neat, even if it did eat half of the tapes.
I then got a clone 808x system (Taiwan was the king of clones back then) and started playing all those cool cga games on my green screen monitor. I remember editing my characters in Ultima III with edlin (don't ask me how, but i did) but then discovering debug and all it's hex editing goodness.
I have been through every processor generation since then, except for the most recent. Haven't felt the need to upgrade for the past couple of years in my old age, lol.
Case in point, my aunt (who lives down the street), has no microwave. She recently needed a new gasket for her pressure cooker (which must be close to 20 years old or more). Which I found online btw. She has no cell phone, but does have one tv (with a remote even) and a dishwasher. What she also doesn't have? An answering machine, or a portable phone. She has this funky thing on her wall that has a round disk on it with numbers underneath the holes in the disk. You put your finger in the hole and rotate it to the right for each number you want to dial.
Unbelievable isn't it? All this technology but there are still people out there with ROTARY PHONES. Amazing, but true.
Which is illegal to do in the US. You have to pay royalties to play commercial music. You may also have to in other countries. Just fyi. The "synthiepop mozart castration" type of music exists because the music is royalty free once the initial purchase is complete.
Great, so now the doctor has an image with no identifying information, that he just has to remember who it belongs to when he goes through his list of hundreds of images on his ipod. How intelligent.
And the original article was done in DECEMBER of 2004 (A HREF="http://www.rsna.org/publications/rsnanews/de c04/ipod-1.html">http://www.rsna.org/publications/ rsnanews/dec04/ipod-1.html). Just now getting posted to CNN, because I'm sure the RSNA website is read by fewer viewers. Someone is paying off CNN to showcase ipod crap, regardless of whether it is actually new or innovative. Give us a break already.
Mod parent back up to 1 even though it may be incorrect in the assumption that the ipod is used to look at the images. He is not trolling, just misinterpreted the article. Fscking stupid moderators. He has a legitimate concern however misguided.
There is not only other hardware already out which does the same thing (and problably better) but he also says he can use "Apples Dot Mac" system to store images of patients to share with colleagues. No privacy problems there. And this was actually reported back in DECEMBER OF 2004. If you bother to read that article, the poor guy only has a 20GB HD on his laptop, so he thinks the 40GB on his iPod is some miracle. Idiot. Plus he uses iChat (I'm sure that is really secure to use over the Internet) to share the images online also. Chalk up another non-innovative use that gets posted up to slashdot that a ton of people are going to ooh and aah over for no good reason.
By surcharge I meant that hybrid cars are more expensive, not that there's a special tax on them. I think there should be a progressive tax on cars based on their impact on the environment: the higher the gas mileage, coupled with better emissions, the lower the tax. Thus, a Ford Expedition would carry, say, $10,000 in taxes while a Toyota Prius would carry about $500, and so forth. Of course, this would be politically untenable.
GAS GUZZLER TAX
Unadjusted MPG (combined)* Tax
at least 22.5 No tax
at least 21.5, but less than 22.5 $1000
at least 20.5, but less than 21.5 $1300
at least 19.5, but less than 20.5 $1700
at least 18.5, but less than 19.5 $2100
at least 17.5, but less than 18.5 $2600
at least 16.5, but less than 17.5 $3000
at least 15.5, but less than 16.5 $3700
at least 14.5, but less than 15.5 $4500
at least 13.5, but less than 14.5 $5400
at least 12.5, but less than 13.5 $6400
less than 12.5 $7700
This was caused from the oil embargo,etc.. in the 1970's. So maybe they just need to increase the taxes.
I live in Chester, Connecticut which is >10 miles away from the nearest Stop and Shop. Population I am actually kind of surprised that living in a fairly rural area with 1 gas station, no grocery store (2 liquor stores though), no fast food (in a 10 mile radius, except for a Subway which just opened in Essex about 3-4 miles away) that I have high speed cable (Comcast 8MB/768K) but no dsl. And most of the houses have septic systems instead of connections to the town sewer (which only supports a hundred or people anyways).
...and live like a pheasant from 10,000 years ago, seems fitting for you.
I haven't heard too much on how that colorful bird lived 10,000 years ago, it is probably the same as the current crop of pheasants though, but they might be a bit more domesticated. They taste good though. Are you suggesting the nobles ate their lowly peons?
Yes, only on slashdot would you get a bunch of people complaining and sniping each other about what word they should have used to describe how they took apart a video ipod.
Anybody want to complain about me using "took apart"?
Which is fine and dandy, and points out the usefulness of anonymous communication, not free software. And now that ONE person in each village has a phone, how easy is it for the people committing human rights violations to find him? Now they just torture a bunch of people until they find out who has the phone. And they might not have electricity to charge the phone when needed! So while he has good intentions, at what cost? The root problem of having a corrupt government is not fixed by this, and may even cause reprisals.
I found the following reply from Taran Rampersad (is he your friend you were speaking of? He went to the same conference.) interesting and still validates some of the points I have been trying to make. Should we not do anything at all? Of course not. But complaining about MS making their software free or having Linux on a bunch of computers is not going to do anything useful in the current situation that most underdeveloped countries are in. And I hate to say underdeveloped. There are some countries/cultures which operate fine the way they are. It is the ones which operate in anarchy and where people live in constant fear of their lives we need to worry about (which at this current moment just happens to be a lot of countries in Africa).
In that case, if someone would spend the time to put ONE computer in each village/town that got weather, markets, etc.... that would be helpful. But the parent article is just stupid in its wording that Microsoft not giving out free software because people in Africa are poor is bad. Piracy in Africa I'm sure is a problem regardless, and who is going to enforce the laws for Microsoft anyways?
I would counter India is far more dense and technologically proficient then Africa is, and actually is a single stable nation. Africa's population density is around 27/sq km while India's density is more around 300+. And while India farmers have the market to sell to, in an unstable country in Africa, most people are happy to have food, and I don't think farmers have a problem selling what they have if they have extra. People may not be able to pay for it though.
But what does a computer with free software do? Africa isn't a larger version of The Greatest American Hero. You can't give people instructions or plans and expect them to be able to do anything with it if they do not have the basic knowledge of how to use it. A computer is not a super suit that allows them to fight any of the problems they have. Nor will it protect them from any of the things that may kill them. The majority of people in Africa who are having problems are not going to have time to jump onto google and type in "what can be done to save my country", then print out that list and use it to make wine from water and unlimited fish. What are they going to do, throw the computer at the dictator of their country and hope it kills him? Plant it and watch it grow into fields of food? With a lousy power and communications infrastructure, how effective is it going to be to try to dial up to the internet? Do they have any discretionary income to pay for the monthly ISP access? Or is the Encyclopaedia Britannica going to be shipped with all the systems so they can read about how nice the rest of the world is?
Maybe iTunes will revolutionize their government or something. I am sure giving them computers instead of food is going to help them a whole lot. We should just stop sending any aid over there whatsoever and let them figure it out for themselves.
No one NEEDS a computer and software. That it may be a requirement to be successful in a "modern economy" does not make it a need. That a doctor could have one to look up symptoms and diseases may help save lives, does not negate the fact tha you need vaccines, electricity, food, and stability. Humans seem to have done ok for the past 6000 years or so of known history, most of that without electricity or computers.
I would highly suggest people go watch Hotel Rwanda and then tell me that free software is going to fix the problems in the society and government in the underdeveloped nations in Africa. And if you don't like movies based on real life, maybe just reading some history would help. It is amazing that anyone has the balls to think that software is so fucking great it is going to solve the all problems in the world. Get a clue. I am sure a Mac with OSX, AMD system with Linux, or WindowsXP on an Intel box in every house and hut in Africa will suddenly solve all their problems with war, famine, overpopulation, and genocide. De Beers creates the market for "blood diamonds", Shell funds a military dictatorship in Nigeria, and people are complaining that Microsoft won't give free software to people who really have other stuff to worry about. It never ceases to amaze me the myopic view people have when viewing the world through rose colored glasses.
I went to the positive earth page with the maps of the island, and all I can say is "What the heck was the person who setup the conference thinking?". You are having a weeklong conference on an island with no/little electricity, and are worried about having power for your laptops?
A couple of quotes from the travel pages from different bungelows: "Kaiwo has a water supply. Across the road from the bungalow there's a shower and water-seal toilet (bucket flush)."
" The windows have screens and mosquito coils are available. The doors are lockable. Bring a small padlock. Kerosene lamps are used for lighting."
"The guesthouse has a modern toilet and shower. However, the water supply is unreliable."
"The bungalow is wired but there was no electricity source in February 2005."
I'm not trying to be harsh, but even if you studying volcanoes, wouldn't it be better to bring a generator in? Go to a different island WITH electricity? And this just a personal opinion, but no electricity != underdeveloped. Sure, us "advanced cultures" can't live without it, but the world seemed to work ok before electricity was generated by man. Aside from that, it is a beautiful place to go, maybe you should all just bring notepads and pencils?
notebook computer = $999 and up ipod video = $299. i do have a notebook. its a nice 12" powerbook. most people can afford an ipod over a notebook.
His reply was to travel on a plane. People who make more than one trip a year tend to be business users. They also tend to have laptops provided for by their company. If somone cannot afford a $999 laptop, they also cannot afford to travel ofter enough to buy a $299 iPod video for travelling.
... if youre a high school student (like myself), its great.
You know, I've seen this high school student comment more than once. WTF? The only time I had in high school to do anything was at lunch. Don't you go to class? Study? Interface with people? Or is it this much vaunted "video iPod rulez" syndrome that makes it so great, even though it isn't?
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Does anyone else see any bias with a website, called "worlds-fastest", seemingly dedicated to pro AMD benchmarks, that he has done out of the goodness of his heart? And all the custom software he has written, doesn't have any CPU specific optimizations? None of the open source software, has any optimizations slanted toward one side or another? Coming out with an AMD Opteron vs Intel Netburst test result, when the newer Intel stuff had been out for 6 months? It all looks like a bunch of PR to generate business for Neal and AMD. Plus some ego stuff going on, everytime someone feels Intel isn't giving them the time of day, they go all out into a pissing contest. (IE, on his website since "Intel claimed they had no Core systems to loan him" he goes off to benchmark 4 year old Xeon and AMD machines. Remind me to pay a non-biased company for benchmarks, thank you.
Same here! When I was in 2nd grade (1982) my dad bought it for me from one of his friends right before we moved to Taiwan. Model I, with expansion board (I have the whole thing in a box still somewhere) and a "stringy floppy" tape drive . I had a regular tape drive also, but the stringy floppy was really neat, even if it did eat half of the tapes.
I then got a clone 808x system (Taiwan was the king of clones back then) and started playing all those cool cga games on my green screen monitor. I remember editing my characters in Ultima III with edlin (don't ask me how, but i did) but then discovering debug and all it's hex editing goodness.
I have been through every processor generation since then, except for the most recent. Haven't felt the need to upgrade for the past couple of years in my old age, lol.
Case in point, my aunt (who lives down the street), has no microwave. She recently needed a new gasket for her pressure cooker (which must be close to 20 years old or more). Which I found online btw. She has no cell phone, but does have one tv (with a remote even) and a dishwasher. What she also doesn't have? An answering machine, or a portable phone. She has this funky thing on her wall that has a round disk on it with numbers underneath the holes in the disk. You put your finger in the hole and rotate it to the right for each number you want to dial.
Unbelievable isn't it? All this technology but there are still people out there with ROTARY PHONES. Amazing, but true.
Which is illegal to do in the US. You have to pay royalties to play commercial music. You may also have to in other countries. Just fyi. The "synthiepop mozart castration" type of music exists because the music is royalty free once the initial purchase is complete.
More fscking stupid mods. Not offtopic. Dumbasses.
Great, so now the doctor has an image with no identifying information, that he just has to remember who it belongs to when he goes through his list of hundreds of images on his ipod. How intelligent.
PREVIEW BUTTON! http://www.rsna.org/publications/rsnanews/dec04/ip od-1.html
And the original article was done in DECEMBER of 2004 (A HREF="http://www.rsna.org/publications/rsnanews/de c04/ipod-1.html">http://www.rsna.org/publications/ rsnanews/dec04/ipod-1.html). Just now getting posted to CNN, because I'm sure the RSNA website is read by fewer viewers. Someone is paying off CNN to showcase ipod crap, regardless of whether it is actually new or innovative. Give us a break already.
Ummm, we don't need to see hi-res pictures of you. We didn't need to know they exist either.
;-p
Mod parent back up to 1 even though it may be incorrect in the assumption that the ipod is used to look at the images. He is not trolling, just misinterpreted the article. Fscking stupid moderators. He has a legitimate concern however misguided.
There is not only other hardware already out which does the same thing (and problably better) but he also says he can use "Apples Dot Mac" system to store images of patients to share with colleagues. No privacy problems there. And this was actually reported back in DECEMBER OF 2004. If you bother to read that article, the poor guy only has a 20GB HD on his laptop, so he thinks the 40GB on his iPod is some miracle. Idiot. Plus he uses iChat (I'm sure that is really secure to use over the Internet) to share the images online also. Chalk up another non-innovative use that gets posted up to slashdot that a ton of people are going to ooh and aah over for no good reason.
Actually, they do show music videos. Every Sunday at the same time when all the MTV viewers are in church.
There already is a gas guzzler tax in the US. See http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/info.shtml#guzzler
GAS GUZZLER TAX
Unadjusted MPG (combined)* Tax
at least 22.5 No tax
at least 21.5, but less than 22.5 $1000
at least 20.5, but less than 21.5 $1300
at least 19.5, but less than 20.5 $1700
at least 18.5, but less than 19.5 $2100
at least 17.5, but less than 18.5 $2600
at least 16.5, but less than 17.5 $3000
at least 15.5, but less than 16.5 $3700
at least 14.5, but less than 15.5 $4500
at least 13.5, but less than 14.5 $5400
at least 12.5, but less than 13.5 $6400
less than 12.5 $7700
This was caused from the oil embargo,etc.. in the 1970's. So maybe they just need to increase the taxes.
I live in Chester, Connecticut which is >10 miles away from the nearest Stop and Shop. Population
I am actually kind of surprised that living in a fairly rural area with 1 gas station, no grocery store (2 liquor stores though), no fast food (in a 10 mile radius, except for a Subway which just opened in Essex about 3-4 miles away) that I have high speed cable (Comcast 8MB/768K) but no dsl. And most of the houses have septic systems instead of connections to the town sewer (which only supports a hundred or people anyways).
ROFLMAO, Wiki says "This article has recently been linked from Slashdot. Please keep an eye on the page history for errors or vandalism."
/. links to Wiki?
Does this always happen when
I haven't heard too much on how that colorful bird lived 10,000 years ago, it is probably the same as the current crop of pheasants though, but they might be a bit more domesticated. They taste good though. Are you suggesting the nobles ate their lowly peons?
Yes, only on slashdot would you get a bunch of people complaining and sniping each other about what word they should have used to describe how they took apart a video ipod.
Anybody want to complain about me using "took apart"?
Which is fine and dandy, and points out the usefulness of anonymous communication, not free software. And now that ONE person in each village has a phone, how easy is it for the people committing human rights violations to find him? Now they just torture a bunch of people until they find out who has the phone. And they might not have electricity to charge the phone when needed! So while he has good intentions, at what cost? The root problem of having a corrupt government is not fixed by this, and may even cause reprisals.
I found the following reply from Taran Rampersad (is he your friend you were speaking of? He went to the same conference.) interesting and still validates some of the points I have been trying to make. Should we not do anything at all? Of course not. But complaining about MS making their software free or having Linux on a bunch of computers is not going to do anything useful in the current situation that most underdeveloped countries are in. And I hate to say underdeveloped. There are some countries/cultures which operate fine the way they are. It is the ones which operate in anarchy and where people live in constant fear of their lives we need to worry about (which at this current moment just happens to be a lot of countries in Africa).
In that case, if someone would spend the time to put ONE computer in each village/town that got weather, markets, etc.... that would be helpful. But the parent article is just stupid in its wording that Microsoft not giving out free software because people in Africa are poor is bad. Piracy in Africa I'm sure is a problem regardless, and who is going to enforce the laws for Microsoft anyways?
I would counter India is far more dense and technologically proficient then Africa is, and actually is a single stable nation. Africa's population density is around 27/sq km while India's density is more around 300+. And while India farmers have the market to sell to, in an unstable country in Africa, most people are happy to have food, and I don't think farmers have a problem selling what they have if they have extra. People may not be able to pay for it though.
But what does a computer with free software do? Africa isn't a larger version of The Greatest American Hero. You can't give people instructions or plans and expect them to be able to do anything with it if they do not have the basic knowledge of how to use it. A computer is not a super suit that allows them to fight any of the problems they have. Nor will it protect them from any of the things that may kill them. The majority of people in Africa who are having problems are not going to have time to jump onto google and type in "what can be done to save my country", then print out that list and use it to make wine from water and unlimited fish. What are they going to do, throw the computer at the dictator of their country and hope it kills him? Plant it and watch it grow into fields of food? With a lousy power and communications infrastructure, how effective is it going to be to try to dial up to the internet? Do they have any discretionary income to pay for the monthly ISP access? Or is the Encyclopaedia Britannica going to be shipped with all the systems so they can read about how nice the rest of the world is?
Maybe iTunes will revolutionize their government or something. I am sure giving them computers instead of food is going to help them a whole lot. We should just stop sending any aid over there whatsoever and let them figure it out for themselves.
No one NEEDS a computer and software. That it may be a requirement to be successful in a "modern economy" does not make it a need. That a doctor could have one to look up symptoms and diseases may help save lives, does not negate the fact tha you need vaccines, electricity, food, and stability. Humans seem to have done ok for the past 6000 years or so of known history, most of that without electricity or computers.
I would highly suggest people go watch Hotel Rwanda and then tell me that free software is going to fix the problems in the society and government in the underdeveloped nations in Africa. And if you don't like movies based on real life, maybe just reading some history would help. It is amazing that anyone has the balls to think that software is so fucking great it is going to solve the all problems in the world. Get a clue. I am sure a Mac with OSX, AMD system with Linux, or WindowsXP on an Intel box in every house and hut in Africa will suddenly solve all their problems with war, famine, overpopulation, and genocide. De Beers creates the market for "blood diamonds", Shell funds a military dictatorship in Nigeria, and people are complaining that Microsoft won't give free software to people who really have other stuff to worry about. It never ceases to amaze me the myopic view people have when viewing the world through rose colored glasses.
I went to the positive earth page with the maps of the island, and all I can say is "What the heck was the person who setup the conference thinking?". You are having a weeklong conference on an island with no/little electricity, and are worried about having power for your laptops?
A couple of quotes from the travel pages from different bungelows: "Kaiwo has a water supply. Across the road from the bungalow there's a shower and water-seal toilet (bucket flush)."
" The windows have screens and mosquito coils are available. The doors are lockable. Bring a small padlock. Kerosene lamps are used for lighting."
"The guesthouse has a modern toilet and shower. However, the water supply is unreliable."
"The bungalow is wired but there was no electricity source in February 2005."
I'm not trying to be harsh, but even if you studying volcanoes, wouldn't it be better to bring a generator in? Go to a different island WITH electricity? And this just a personal opinion, but no electricity != underdeveloped. Sure, us "advanced cultures" can't live without it, but the world seemed to work ok before electricity was generated by man. Aside from that, it is a beautiful place to go, maybe you should all just bring notepads and pencils?
His reply was to travel on a plane. People who make more than one trip a year tend to be business users. They also tend to have laptops provided for by their company. If somone cannot afford a $999 laptop, they also cannot afford to travel ofter enough to buy a $299 iPod video for travelling.
You know, I've seen this high school student comment more than once. WTF? The only time I had in high school to do anything was at lunch. Don't you go to class? Study? Interface with people? Or is it this much vaunted "video iPod rulez" syndrome that makes it so great, even though it isn't?