1. NO 970 MACHINE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED BY APPLE YET. Say it with me, dammit. While it may be likely, don't take as canon rumor sites and IBM press releases that don't even mention Apple Power Macs. Jeez. You're already a Mac user, eh? (And I say that being one.)
2. 980? 990? WTF? At what data are you looking? Search Google for "ibm 970 chip" and the only info you find are two random comments in some forum somewhere; search IBM for roadmap info on PowerPC, and you will find their "9xx" selection, and the only thing under that is this:
Lastly, with the release of the 970 being sometime in the second half of this year , don't you think saying we'll probably have a "990" by 2005 is a little premature?
The hue of the sky is determined by a phenomenon known as the "Tyndall Effect", the scattering of light through a colloid by dust or molecules suspended in a transparent medium.
Note that the light scattering that determines what color you see isn't due to dust in the air, as some think, but rather oxygen and nitrogen molecules.
However, all we are, as Bill and Ted once pointed out, dust in the wind, dude.
</t-i-c>;-)
Re:What the heck is 'Altivec' anyway?
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Inside the PowerPC 970
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· Score: 4, Informative
Also: "Water is special stuff that makes stuff float."
"The CPU does important stuff."
For all of your "What is AltiVec?" needs, check this out instead:
Wait, my post here got a +1 informative point? Which part was informative, the part where I mention the cookies, or the part where I mention the horny co-eds in the White House?
-/- Mikey-San Leading the charge of cluelessness since 1981.
Before I say this, I realize the government probably doesn't care at all about tracking my 'Net habits, but I thought this was particularly unsettling:
That firstgov.gov site tries to set three cookies on page load and two on page exit.
Meh. Blacklisted. Yay Moz.
Sorry for the horribly off-topic post.
Um...
*tries to steer it back on topic*
I hope they didn't just harvest my e-mail address for bulk, friendly offers from the U.S. government. Apparently, there are lots of horny co-eds in the White House, and they all want my thick--
What? I can't finish this comment, Taco? What the--
Why are you shutting down your Unix box to begin with? Log out, put it to sleep (or turn the display off, if it's not a portable), and go do your stuff. Go away for the weekend. Whatever. Come back, hit a key, log in, watch as it takes only a few seconds to start working.
of course, then what's to stop somoene from uploading it to kazaa.
This is going to sound dumb and naive, but listen for a second, my fellow Slashdotters:
Honesty.
Dishonest people will download the MP3s with/from their favourite p2p service and never buy the album. Honest people will either download the MP3s and buy the CD, or just buy the CD outright.
The world is how it's always been, and the record companies don't understand that. An honest person will be honest; a dishonest person will be dishonest.
No DRM or tricky license agreements--not even the DMCA--will ever change that. It takes only one person to rip a CD before it's available to every dishonest person out there.
Perhaps one day, this will be realized by the content providers, and they'll stop screwing the people who were going to be honest in the first fucking place. If you're gonna steal it, you're gonna steal it. Simple. You will find a way around the restrictions.
How about something an inch to the left? Something really odd, and almost akward?
Instead of:
"What is your greatest weakness?"
How about:
"What do you wish your greatest weakness was?"... Instead of the reverse of "What's your greatest strength?", it's the reverse of "What do you wish you were best at?"
Or maybe I just wanna fsck with the applicant's head. Yeah, that one. Heh.:-)
-/- Mikey-San Burninating karma at the speed of TROGDOR!
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What the /hell/ are you on?
1. NO 970 MACHINE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED BY APPLE YET. Say it with me, dammit. While it may be likely, don't take as canon rumor sites and IBM press releases that don't even mention Apple Power Macs. Jeez. You're already a Mac user, eh? (And I say that being one.)
2. 980? 990? WTF? At what data are you looking? Search Google for "ibm 970 chip" and the only info you find are two random comments in some forum somewhere; search IBM for roadmap info on PowerPC, and you will find their "9xx" selection, and the only thing under that is this:
http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/tec hdocs/A1387A29AC1C2AE087256C5200611780
Lastly, with the release of the 970 being sometime in the second half of this year , don't you think saying we'll probably have a "990" by 2005 is a little premature?
Meh.
Yeah, it sometimes doesn't work when a hugely popular update is released and the SU servers get slammed.
For the unfamiliar wondering how it's laid out:
www.mikey-san.net/softwareupdate.jpg
The hue of the sky is determined by a phenomenon known as the "Tyndall Effect", the scattering of light through a colloid by dust or molecules suspended in a transparent medium.
Note that the light scattering that determines what color you see isn't due to dust in the air, as some think, but rather oxygen and nitrogen molecules.
However, all we are, as Bill and Ted once pointed out, dust in the wind, dude.
</t-i-c>
Also: "Water is special stuff that makes stuff float."
"The CPU does important stuff."
For all of your "What is AltiVec?" needs, check this out instead:
http://www.motorola.com/SPS/PowerPC/AltiVec/
ACC? I thought March was over already.
To quote Fark: "Duke sucks."
(Funny joke, though I'm a Duke fan.)
Wait, my post here got a +1 informative point? Which part was informative, the part where I mention the cookies, or the part where I mention the horny co-eds in the White House?
-/-
Mikey-San
Leading the charge of cluelessness since 1981.
Before I say this, I realize the government probably doesn't care at all about tracking my 'Net habits, but I thought this was particularly unsettling:
...
That firstgov.gov site tries to set three cookies on page load and two on page exit.
Meh. Blacklisted. Yay Moz.
Sorry for the horribly off-topic post.
Um
*tries to steer it back on topic*
I hope they didn't just harvest my e-mail address for bulk, friendly offers from the U.S. government. Apparently, there are lots of horny co-eds in the White House, and they all want my thick--
What? I can't finish this comment, Taco? What the--
The Game Gear was nice, yeah, but man ... Battery life? It had no idea what the meaning of the word was.
... In plastic bags in the refrigerator. No, wait ..."
-/-
Mikey-San
"I like my women like I like my bread
Shut down?
Boot?
Eh?
Why are you shutting down your Unix box to begin with? Log out, put it to sleep (or turn the display off, if it's not a portable), and go do your stuff. Go away for the weekend. Whatever. Come back, hit a key, log in, watch as it takes only a few seconds to start working.
-/-
Do you know who they both steal from? BSD.
Stealing from a dead man is called scavenging.
Yeah, but in the end, SCO will sue the pimps for using Unix(tm) hookers in the pimps' open sores distribution.
Well, their newest board member /did/ invent the Internet all by himself.
(YES, I know that isn't what he said, but dammit, I'm all for cheap jokes.)
Yeah, but if it's open source, everybody gets a piece of the action.
I sumbitted this story and it was rejected. That's no shock. But why wasn't this:
m ai n/0,14179,2913456,00.html
/was/ posted? (Or am I wrong, and this isn't the actual Gartner report?)
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/
Added to the story that
Either way, an appropriate read.
The first detection of intelligent extraterrestrial life will be an unpassworded AirPort Base Station called "androme2135".
Will their trojaned MP3s have the evil bit set?
;-)
If so, that'll make it easy to know if it's malicious or not.
Just a thought.
"Wireless security"?
Is that anything like "military intelligence"?
-/-
Mikey-San
"I may be superficial, but you're fat."
You know, at the very least, this is a really convenient way to preview entire albums before you buy them.
Woot!
-/-
One good song on a Britney Spears CD? There are that many?
-/-
Mikey-San
You're talking about cable modems strictly.
:-)
If I happen to have a dedicated DSL connection, and have eight boxes behind a router connected to the DSL modem, am I hurting the provider?
I'm not trying to imply an answer here. I'm actually curious as to what people think about this.
No, they don't tell you how much shit you can power, but they tell you how much x amount of shit will cost you.
Plug in more stuff, eat up more power, pay a higher bill.
The real question is whether or not you hurt the ISP by having n computers on the same amount of bandwidth.
-/-
Ah, shit. Didn't switch that to HTML-formatted.
:-/
Very sorry for the bad formatting, people.
of course, then what's to stop somoene from uploading it to kazaa.
This is going to sound dumb and naive, but listen for a second, my fellow Slashdotters:
Honesty.
Dishonest people will download the MP3s with/from their favourite p2p service and never buy the album. Honest people will either download the MP3s and buy the CD, or just buy the CD outright.
The world is how it's always been, and the record companies don't understand that. An honest person will be honest; a dishonest person will be dishonest.
No DRM or tricky license agreements--not even the DMCA--will ever change that. It takes only one person to rip a CD before it's available to every dishonest person out there.
Perhaps one day, this will be realized by the content providers, and they'll stop screwing the people who were going to be honest in the first fucking place. If you're gonna steal it, you're gonna steal it. Simple. You will find a way around the restrictions.
-/-
Mikey-San
How about something an inch to the left? Something really odd, and almost akward?
... Instead of the reverse of "What's your greatest strength?", it's the reverse of "What do you wish you were best at?"
:-)
Instead of:
"What is your greatest weakness?"
How about:
"What do you wish your greatest weakness was?"
Or maybe I just wanna fsck with the applicant's head. Yeah, that one. Heh.
-/-
Mikey-San
Burninating karma at the speed of TROGDOR!
Why have one when you can have two at twice the cost?
/dev/fuji /dev/fuju.backup :-)
sudo cp -p