However, it's important to remember that there is no way to accurately gauge the performance difference between GCN's PowerPC-based architecture and the the Intel-based CPU of Xbox 360.
Very wrong. Both GCN/Revolution and X360 make use of PPC-derived cores. Xbox original made use of a Celeron/P3 proc. Somewhere in here there's a major typo.
The counter ignores you if you are using a firefox UA. It also doesn't include downloads from mirrors or updates pushed out through the browser updater.
If anything, this means that the counter is underreporting. Also that this article is mostly nullified.
Also, isn't this the 2nd link to cooltechzone in as many articles? I think someone's trolling for hits.
I fail to see how it's "money in their pocket either way" when 100% of the people interested in this are going to be obtaining it via bittorrent sites. No, owning a license to OS X for your Apple-box does not count as paying for OS X on intel.
Also true of Windows Media Player. Like iTunes, Windows Media Player 10 will rip your CD's to mp3, with no DRM.
This has not always been true. WMP7-9 (maybe it was 7-8) defaulted to having all your music automatically copy-protected when you ripped it, which made absolutely zero sense for the average user.
Except it's *not* generic hardware. OS X for x86 is not sold in stores, it's only bundled with qualifying systems. In addition, boxed copies currently say something like "Apple Macintosh with FireWire connection." You can be sure that future boxes will say something like "Apple Macintosh with Core Duo" or perhaps something more specific. Specifying Apple Mac might be enough to disqualify it from "commodity hardware."
Telecom companies pushing for a forced conversion to all-digital television broadcasts ran ads in Washington DC and elsewhere highlighting benefits for firemen, police officers, and other "first responders," who stand to receive improved communications capabilities and gear. The ad calls digital TV a "win-win solution" benefiting both consumers and the emergency responders.
The ad is true as far as it goes, but misleading because it implies that the digital-TV bill taking shape in Congress would have only winners. In fact, there would be losers, too. According to the GAO, an estimated 21 million households now get TV only through a standard, analog TV set, and would be forced either to junk their set and buy a new digital set, or to obtain a new converter that manufacturers estimate will cost about $50.
Also not mentioned is that taxpayers will be asked to contribute up to $3 billion to subsidize the conversion. That money would come from the proceeds expected from auctioning off some of the airwaves now used by TV broadcasters.
The funding of the ad is also something of a mystery. One source told us it was financed by Motorola, which stands to profit from the transition by selling new police, fire and emergency radio equipment. Motorola wouldn't confirm that, nor would they deny it.
That would be a fix for a feature request, not a security patch. I've yet to hear of a real security patch being offered up as an extension (the one instance that happened, Firefox 1.0.1 or something, was because it was a simple pref change and not something to requires a rebuild). Firefox security fixes are fixes of the actual program. Extensions add features that aren't there.
But of course you're not flamebaiting unintelligently and already knew that.
Personally I will love CSI if they have the kids yelling GIVEUSATANK or NOPOLICEPLEASE when I'M HORATIO AND I'M ALWAYS MAD/David Caruso start coming after them. Hey, it'd even set up a crappy cliche line for him to say.
I don't think the writers will be that awesome though. Tis a shame.
Good job not even reading the summary. The card you referenced is under half the speed of this ridiculously overclocked ATI card, which happens to be 1GHZ core/1.8GHZ memory.
As non-geeky as you can get? Check the front page of the inquirer. Notice how EVERY article is computer related? In fact, theinq's rather famous in computer graphics circles for their rumor mongering.
Ah right, but that was relatively short lived and resulted in the "palm-sized" marketing that I mentioned, after a trademark dispute of course.
In any case, no one's actively used PalmPC for years, and I think the new marketing name (WMPPC 5.0) is far more ridiculous:)
It's Windows CE, Pocket PC, or Windows Mobile Pocket PC 5.0. NOT PALMPC. At worst, you can use the confusing term that Microsoft came up with, "Palm-sized device," but never has Microsoft nor anyone else called it a PalmPC. That would be insulting to both Palm and Microsoft marketing.
If this is anything like the one RIAA had for parents a while back, it should be nothing short of hilarious. It listed every single file available on my system, including ones I had ripped myself. What really surprised me though, was that it listed the.VOB files off of the DVD that was in my DVD drive. THE FILES ON A READ ONLY MEDIA INSIDE A DISK DRIVE. Are they telling me my purchased DVD is all of a sudden illegal?
Agreed. I have never had any problems with my hard drive, but I just got an RMA to ship my Karma back to Rio because the scroll wheel's fubar'd. There's a fix for it on the internet, but one shouldn't have to resort to such silliness.
The Rio Carbon seemed to fix it (the wheel is much smaller and further recessed into the unit, thus decreasing the likelihood of breaking it) but unfortunately Rio isn't staying around long enough for that fix to make its way to a higher-end product.
Between Rio's flagship MP3 player (Karma) having major reliability issues (eg hard drive, scroll wheel) and absolutely zero marketing (Rio has never run tv commercials or anything of the sort) I'm not surprised this happened. I own a Rio and while I love it, it's easy to see that switching owners three times set it back considerably and strapped it for resources, at a time when Apple's outclassing them in every visible way *and* has a giant marketing budget for the iPod.
Farewell Rio. You made some great products, you made some poor ones, but I do love my partially-working Karma:) Seeing as how Denon is retaining the brand rights, they could very well attempt a comeback in the next decade or so when the market's matured considerably.
In fairness, signs point to the reason having more to do with Apple throwing it's weight around like it was still 1997. Note that IBM announced improved PPC chips just weeks after Jobs revealed the Intel Macs.
In all fairness, note that the improved processors still top out at 2.5GHz and that the mobile versions pretty much stop being useful at 1.6GHz (the power usage increases greatly between 1.6GHz and 2.0, and forget about 2.2)
Never underestimate the effect of piracy on something like this. The average college student has probably amassed quite a large collection of xvid videos and movies, thanks to nearly all the release groups standardizing on xvid for their releases. A video ipod would have significantly reduced usefulness without being able to play XVID/DivX, assuming they're targeting an established base of general videos and not specialized music videos.
Song cards tend to have very little cash value on them. The fine print on the $50 card is "Prepaid card cash value is 1/10 of one cent." I imagine it's the same for the 10000 song card.
HalfLife 2 benchmarks are generally good indicators of HalfLife2 performance. Any similarity to doom3, far cry, blah blah blah, is coincidental.
Synthetic benchmarks are useful at times. Ideally 3dm05 would be most useful for seeing what your graphics card would do with only driver-level optimizations, not application-level optimizations (which nvidia fully admits to doing and ati has committed to not do). This would be most useful for knowing if some obscure game that you like would perform well on your card.
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That's funny. Sure seems like a hardware company when most of its profits come from selling Macs and iPods.
In reality they use the software to drive the hardware sales. But they're not a software company.
Or, more than likely, sent overseas to be mined.
The counter ignores you if you are using a firefox UA.
It also doesn't include downloads from mirrors or updates pushed out through the browser updater.
If anything, this means that the counter is underreporting. Also that this article is mostly nullified.
Also, isn't this the 2nd link to cooltechzone in as many articles? I think someone's trolling for hits.
I fail to see how it's "money in their pocket either way" when 100% of the people interested in this are going to be obtaining it via bittorrent sites. No, owning a license to OS X for your Apple-box does not count as paying for OS X on intel.
Except it's *not* generic hardware. OS X for x86 is not sold in stores, it's only bundled with qualifying systems. In addition, boxed copies currently say something like "Apple Macintosh with FireWire connection." You can be sure that future boxes will say something like "Apple Macintosh with Core Duo" or perhaps something more specific. Specifying Apple Mac might be enough to disqualify it from "commodity hardware."
Seeing as how Age of Empires III is a Microsoft product, I think they might have other reasons for that restriction.
Right, they need to change the name of their fully released product because you keep mixing it up with the codename of an old Apple project.
That sure sounds smart.
That would be a fix for a feature request, not a security patch. I've yet to hear of a real security patch being offered up as an extension (the one instance that happened, Firefox 1.0.1 or something, was because it was a simple pref change and not something to requires a rebuild). Firefox security fixes are fixes of the actual program. Extensions add features that aren't there.
But of course you're not flamebaiting unintelligently and already knew that.
Personally I will love CSI if they have the kids yelling GIVEUSATANK or NOPOLICEPLEASE when I'M HORATIO AND I'M ALWAYS MAD/David Caruso start coming after them. Hey, it'd even set up a crappy cliche line for him to say.
I don't think the writers will be that awesome though. Tis a shame.
Good job not even reading the summary. The card you referenced is under half the speed of this ridiculously overclocked ATI card, which happens to be 1GHZ core/1.8GHZ memory.
As non-geeky as you can get? Check the front page of the inquirer. Notice how EVERY article is computer related? In fact, theinq's rather famous in computer graphics circles for their rumor mongering.
Yeah. Nice try though.
Ah right, but that was relatively short lived and resulted in the "palm-sized" marketing that I mentioned, after a trademark dispute of course. In any case, no one's actively used PalmPC for years, and I think the new marketing name (WMPPC 5.0) is far more ridiculous :)
STOP CALLING IT PALMPC.
It's Windows CE, Pocket PC, or Windows Mobile Pocket PC 5.0. NOT PALMPC. At worst, you can use the confusing term that Microsoft came up with, "Palm-sized device," but never has Microsoft nor anyone else called it a PalmPC. That would be insulting to both Palm and Microsoft marketing.
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If this is anything like the one RIAA had for parents a while back, it should be nothing short of hilarious. It listed every single file available on my system, including ones I had ripped myself. What really surprised me though, was that it listed the .VOB files off of the DVD that was in my DVD drive. THE FILES ON A READ ONLY MEDIA INSIDE A DISK DRIVE. Are they telling me my purchased DVD is all of a sudden illegal?
Agreed. I have never had any problems with my hard drive, but I just got an RMA to ship my Karma back to Rio because the scroll wheel's fubar'd. There's a fix for it on the internet, but one shouldn't have to resort to such silliness.
The Rio Carbon seemed to fix it (the wheel is much smaller and further recessed into the unit, thus decreasing the likelihood of breaking it) but unfortunately Rio isn't staying around long enough for that fix to make its way to a higher-end product.
Between Rio's flagship MP3 player (Karma) having major reliability issues (eg hard drive, scroll wheel) and absolutely zero marketing (Rio has never run tv commercials or anything of the sort) I'm not surprised this happened. I own a Rio and while I love it, it's easy to see that switching owners three times set it back considerably and strapped it for resources, at a time when Apple's outclassing them in every visible way *and* has a giant marketing budget for the iPod.
:) Seeing as how Denon is retaining the brand rights, they could very well attempt a comeback in the next decade or so when the market's matured considerably.
Farewell Rio. You made some great products, you made some poor ones, but I do love my partially-working Karma
I think it's fairly obvious those are photoshopped in for the purposes of looking nice and trumping up the company.
Never underestimate the effect of piracy on something like this. The average college student has probably amassed quite a large collection of xvid videos and movies, thanks to nearly all the release groups standardizing on xvid for their releases. A video ipod would have significantly reduced usefulness without being able to play XVID/DivX, assuming they're targeting an established base of general videos and not specialized music videos.
Song cards tend to have very little cash value on them. The fine print on the $50 card is "Prepaid card cash value is 1/10 of one cent." I imagine it's the same for the 10000 song card.
In the same vein...
HalfLife 2 benchmarks are generally good indicators of HalfLife2 performance. Any similarity to doom3, far cry, blah blah blah, is coincidental.
Synthetic benchmarks are useful at times. Ideally 3dm05 would be most useful for seeing what your graphics card would do with only driver-level optimizations, not application-level optimizations (which nvidia fully admits to doing and ati has committed to not do). This would be most useful for knowing if some obscure game that you like would perform well on your card.