Ask the target market of the 15" Powerbook. There's at least one Pentium M-based laptop with an nVidia 440 Go with 64 MB, the same GPU in the upcoming 17" Powerbook. And once Intel eases up the pressure with its 855 chipset, we'll see more notebook manufacturers following Samsung's lead.
This chip has the potential of turning PC notebooks into viable mobile workstations, in contrast with the 7-10 lb. portable desktops we've been seeing with the Pentium 4M. Frankly, it makes me worry for Apple's "Year of the Notebook," because suddenly PCs have the potential of becoming as small, light, and powerful as Macs. This wasn't even possible with the Pentium 4M.
And besides all that, it'll take at least the second generation of this chip to make Windows XP feel snappy.
I think the middle ground between the Pentium 4 and the Crusoe is high performance and reasonable battery life. By one speed test I read about (I think PC World's), a 1.6 GHz Pentium M-based notebook surpassed a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 desktop in some benchmarks.
The Pentium M is really just a much-improved Pentium 3.. 400 MHz FSB, 1 MB on-die cache, and the P4's better branch prediction. All with a better life of up to 7 hours. If you want real performance and can do only 5 - 7 hrs instead of 10 - 12, the Pentium M is much more appealing than anything Transmeta has out right now.
I think once PC manufacturers "get it," we'll start seeing more small, 1" thick, yet powerful notebooks, like IBM's new T, with 4 - 5 hrs battery life. Apple's huge hardware lead in the mobile market will be significantly diminished by Intel's (and AMD's, for that matter) new offering. Fortunately, I prefer my iBook for other reasons, like the OS.
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I don't think a richer experience for the sake of a richer experience is his end goal here. What he's doing is focusing on what's wrong with current solutions, and that is it owes its metaphors to hardware constraints of 20+ years ago. Since the original Mac almost 20 years ago, we haven't made significant progress past a desktop experience on a desktop computer.
Consider that since the (admittedly radical) invention of the "microcomputer" (i.e., desktop), we haven't even changed how we use computers. Laptops are still just portable desktop computers, notwithstanding occasional attempts throughout history at pen computing.
Look at pictures of people using computers in 2003, 1993, 1983, even 1973 (in Xerox PARC), and you'll find the most radical differences are in their clothes and hairstyles. They'll all be sitting at a desk in front of a monitor with some sort of box on or under the desk, using a keyboard and mouse.
Ignoring the brain for a moment... With the bluetooth headset, do you really want your phone transmitting in your pocket/briefcase, closer to your groin?
With the introduction of the PowerPC 970, IBM has taken PowerPC performance to new heights. At up to 1.8 GHz, the PowerPC 970 is the fastest PowerPC yet introduced. But the 970 employs much more than frequency to answer the demands of high-performance computing customers. The 970's multiple execution units including an AltiVec(TM) compatible vector processor are fed by an up to 900-MHz processor interface bus, which can deliver data at a rate of up to 6.4 GBps.
Robertson. They're called Robertson screws. Either you're American yourself or you're a Canadian trying to be understood by Americans. But Robertson screwdrivers and screws do rock.
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Which ratio statistic are you questioning? The Blair Witch Project got over a 2300:1 profit-to-cost ratio.. Two orders of magnitude larger than the 37:1 from the butterfly project you mentioned, and one order of magnitude larger than Mad Max's 250:1.
Actually, I suspect this situation would fall under decss's precedent. In both cases, the content is obtained legally but is being accessed in an unauthorized manner. So if you write code that can play this music, you should immediately send 2600 a link to it and see what happens.
Internet sales are just like mail-order catalogs, and the same tax rules apply. We have no need for new laws on this.
Actually, as I believe was mentioned in the first/. article about this, this measure was introduced primarily for sales from mail-order catalogs, the number of which still (?) dwarf the number of sales from the Internet.
I'm curious whether Michael Dell's campaign contributions will be affected by this measure at all. I imagine Dell Home, unlike Dell Business (which already collects state sales taxes), will suffer from the sudden $50-$200 effective price hikes this measure would create.
Nothing would stop the "average Chinaman" from pirating an American movie. However, many artistic Chinamen would then have free access to examples of creative works from which to draw their own inspiration, thereby spurring their own creative industry. Once the industry developed sufficiently to become popular internationally, China would then have an incentive to honour other countries' intellectual property rights in exchange for having its own honoured overseas.
The canonical example of this is of course the United States itself, as original copyright was given specifically to only domestic works. The law changed only when prominent American authors, such as Mark Twain and Noah Webster, complained that their works were being pirated in Britain. This movement didn't rise until after years of American pirating of British works. The penny versions of Dickens didn't draw Americans away from domestic literature, but rather inspired it.
If you're going to play the role of the obnoxious holier-than-thou slashdot poster bitch-slapping the know-it-all slashdot poster, at least get it right. It's you're, not your.
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Ask the target market of the 15" Powerbook. There's at least one Pentium M-based laptop with an nVidia 440 Go with 64 MB, the same GPU in the upcoming 17" Powerbook. And once Intel eases up the pressure with its 855 chipset, we'll see more notebook manufacturers following Samsung's lead.
This chip has the potential of turning PC notebooks into viable mobile workstations, in contrast with the 7-10 lb. portable desktops we've been seeing with the Pentium 4M. Frankly, it makes me worry for Apple's "Year of the Notebook," because suddenly PCs have the potential of becoming as small, light, and powerful as Macs. This wasn't even possible with the Pentium 4M.
And besides all that, it'll take at least the second generation of this chip to make Windows XP feel snappy.
I think the middle ground between the Pentium 4 and the Crusoe is high performance and reasonable battery life. By one speed test I read about (I think PC World's), a 1.6 GHz Pentium M-based notebook surpassed a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 desktop in some benchmarks.
The Pentium M is really just a much-improved Pentium 3.. 400 MHz FSB, 1 MB on-die cache, and the P4's better branch prediction. All with a better life of up to 7 hours. If you want real performance and can do only 5 - 7 hrs instead of 10 - 12, the Pentium M is much more appealing than anything Transmeta has out right now.
I think once PC manufacturers "get it," we'll start seeing more small, 1" thick, yet powerful notebooks, like IBM's new T, with 4 - 5 hrs battery life. Apple's huge hardware lead in the mobile market will be significantly diminished by Intel's (and AMD's, for that matter) new offering. Fortunately, I prefer my iBook for other reasons, like the OS.
I don't think a richer experience for the sake of a richer experience is his end goal here. What he's doing is focusing on what's wrong with current solutions, and that is it owes its metaphors to hardware constraints of 20+ years ago. Since the original Mac almost 20 years ago, we haven't made significant progress past a desktop experience on a desktop computer.
Consider that since the (admittedly radical) invention of the "microcomputer" (i.e., desktop), we haven't even changed how we use computers. Laptops are still just portable desktop computers, notwithstanding occasional attempts throughout history at pen computing.
Look at pictures of people using computers in 2003, 1993, 1983, even 1973 (in Xerox PARC), and you'll find the most radical differences are in their clothes and hairstyles. They'll all be sitting at a desk in front of a monitor with some sort of box on or under the desk, using a keyboard and mouse.
The article suggests the list will be ready this summer online and by a toll-free number. Can't wait.
Ignoring the brain for a moment... With the bluetooth headset, do you really want your phone transmitting in your pocket/briefcase, closer to your groin?
Think of the children...
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Robertson. They're called Robertson screws. Either you're American yourself or you're a Canadian trying to be understood by Americans. But Robertson screwdrivers and screws do rock.
In Soviet Russia, you fuck the patent owners.
I'm all for that.
Which ratio statistic are you questioning? The Blair Witch Project got over a 2300:1 profit-to-cost ratio.. Two orders of magnitude larger than the 37:1 from the butterfly project you mentioned, and one order of magnitude larger than Mad Max's 250:1.
Actually, I suspect this situation would fall under decss's precedent. In both cases, the content is obtained legally but is being accessed in an unauthorized manner. So if you write code that can play this music, you should immediately send 2600 a link to it and see what happens.
Internet sales are just like mail-order catalogs, and the same tax rules apply. We have no need for new laws on this.
/. article about this, this measure was introduced primarily for sales from mail-order catalogs, the number of which still (?) dwarf the number of sales from the Internet.
Actually, as I believe was mentioned in the first
I'm curious whether Michael Dell's campaign contributions will be affected by this measure at all. I imagine Dell Home, unlike Dell Business (which already collects state sales taxes), will suffer from the sudden $50-$200 effective price hikes this measure would create.
Copying a 20$ DVD is the same as stealing 20$ from the company that made it.
Would you lend someone $100 as easily as you would 5 DVD's? You might, but I know many who wouldn't.
Nothing would stop the "average Chinaman" from pirating an American movie. However, many artistic Chinamen would then have free access to examples of creative works from which to draw their own inspiration, thereby spurring their own creative industry. Once the industry developed sufficiently to become popular internationally, China would then have an incentive to honour other countries' intellectual property rights in exchange for having its own honoured overseas.
The canonical example of this is of course the United States itself, as original copyright was given specifically to only domestic works. The law changed only when prominent American authors, such as Mark Twain and Noah Webster, complained that their works were being pirated in Britain. This movement didn't rise until after years of American pirating of British works. The penny versions of Dickens didn't draw Americans away from domestic literature, but rather inspired it.
If you're going to play the role of the obnoxious holier-than-thou slashdot poster bitch-slapping the know-it-all slashdot poster, at least get it right. It's you're, not your.