You are correct. What I was trying to say was that the relationship between the marketing department's clock speed number and the actual temprature and speed of the chip is NOT linear. The same chip with the same transistors at higher frequency will run hotter(parent's post in a nutshell).
Actually, all else being equal, higher clock speed *does* mean higher temperatures, not just for Intel, but for everyone. IIRC, it's a linear relationship, too.
Not really. The clock speed is simply how fast a crystal vibrates. So in reality it is possible to build a CPU with high clockspeeds that runs really really slowly, for example one with a 6000 step pipeline. You could probably make one of these run cool too because there would be few transistors to deal with in the chip. The real relationship is between transistors and heat. The more transistors there are producing heat the hotter the chip is going to run.
Higher clock speed does not mean higher temps(that's only in Intel land). Your P150 probably produces a good bit as much heat as your P4, because at the time it was a fast CPU and used quite a bit of power. As CPUs get better the technology for less power(and usually thus less heat) should get better too, keeping the temprature about the same as the clock speed rises. Sadly that isn't the case with Intel's clock-speed-jacking powerhouse. So though the Cell will probably run pretty hot it was probably engineered not to run too hot.
Jon "maddog" Hall was one of the first supporters of linux way back in the early 90's. If I remember correctly he was the one who donated a DEC Alpha(I think he worked for DEC) for Linux's first port. I may be wrong...
Plus most CompactFlash cards have metal in the casing to make it more rigid, and the edges are plastic welded together instead of glued. If you put an SD card in the sun the two sides seperate and you have to glue them back together. No such problems with CF.
"WTF? I can't see anything on that shitty picture. It might be some not-Linux OS just as well. This is news? You are smart enough to port Linux but not smart enough to make a decent picture? This is fucking stupid, isn't it? Well, never mind, I think I'm gonna post it on my blog anyway, because it is related to Apple.
-CmdrTaco."
What are you talking about? This is not about patents but trademarks. And MMX has been in Intel processors since the P2MMX, so it can't be delay wither.
Many are going to ask: How are you going to use 500GB? 8Mb/sec = 1MB/sec. So you would have to download(at maximum bandwidth) for 500,000 seconds = 138hrs = 5.75 days. Not very much. Then think about how much you could take in a month: There are about 60*60*24*31=2678400 seconds in a month. With 1MB/sec and 2678400 seconds you could D/L about 2,678 GB. That's 2.67TB! Still, the cap is pretty low for the speed.
TVs already have HD tuners. Either you use OTA HDTV and don't want to Fast forward/rewind, you already have a TiVo for HD, or you have cable or satillite HD and most likely have a TiVo already in your cable box. But that doesn't get movies, and there are no HD DVDs yet thus Cringely's ideas.
Way to totally miss the point. What's so standard about propriety cases with propriety motherboards that take propriety chips and are powered by propriety power supplies? If you want to see standard try here.
Since when is a PowerPC 970 propriety? It's made by IBM, and follows all PowerPC standards that I know of. For that matter, what does propriety mean? You misspelled it . There are few standards for motherboards; the chipset is usually specified by the manufacturer of the chip. All chipsets and CPUs are proprietary. There are just more chipsets for x86. But the motherboard interfaces are still non-standard. A motherboard maker who wants their own chipset still has to get the specs from Intel or AMD. There is very little that is not standards compliant in a Mac(the formfactor and PSU is basically all).
Sure, you can connect standard USB and firewire devices to your Mac, and even throw in a PCI card too (except on the Mini). Yeah, I can do that to my pile of crap, non-standard Dell too. But upgrade the motherboard? Replace a broken power supply with an off-the-shelf part? Forget about it!
Who cares? The whole concept of the Mac is that you don't need to upgrade the motherboard. Why, for that matter, do you want to upgrade a PC motherboard? If you bought the right one to start with you shouldn't need a new one (until you get a new system). By the time a new technology(for example PCI Express) comes out you'll need a new system to take advantage of it anyway(Unless you were stupid and bought a motherboard without PCI Express after PCI Express was announced and then found out you really needed it). And if Apple came out with complete standards-compliant hardware(ATX mobo/PSU) what would you do with it? Apple would still be the only ones making motherboards. About the only extra thing you could do would be switch cases or upgrade the PSU. Admittedly useful for some but not the Mac's target audience or for that matter 99% of users.
Mac hardware is standard, dipshit. It's simply a PowerPC system using CHRP and Apple Open Firmware. And if you're talking about connections, those are all standard too(PCI-X(not to be confused with Pci Express)/PCI/PCMCIA,DDR RAM, SATA hard drives, USB/1394/1394b). So, I don't know where you've been but Mac hardware is pretty standard.
co-ordination to ensure drivers are available, all the popular x86 software runs in the x86 emulation mode without any problems
Um...there is no x86 emulation mode. The AMD64 is x86 with 64 bit extensions. All x86 software runs EXACTLY the same with no emulation. Drivers are the main sticking point(ATi still has sub-optimal performance for no appearant reason).
Have you ever tried to draw/format/make stuff pretty in Word? I know it's not too but I wish you the best on Windows. This is where the mac wins hands down(and I didn't even mention PowerPoint). I don't use Entourage because it sucks. So no comment there. And I use Office X sorry. It runs fine on an old eMac G4/700 with 640MB of RAM. Word takes up 25% CPU when idle but doesn't feel slow, so it's ok.
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(OT) That's an ability sadly lacking among most writers on the Internet(or is it internet?). The funniest incorrect use I have ever seen was in an online strategy guide: "Then, You can Beat, your Friends!" or something like that, then "By the way, dont 1a1k 1ik3 1|-|15 |\|0b0dy u|\|d3r51ad5 y00." I felt like emailing the author pointing not to "Talk, Like This, Because nobody, Understands You."
The Office Mac PowerPoint has export to QuickTime built in...File->Export to MOV(or something like that). Unfourtinately, it's in only Office Mac, which is, by the way, a nearly completely different(and completely better) product than Office XP/2003/whatever on Windows.
Watch your raised floors, and use trays though...It can get *really* nasty down there without management and labeling. And yes, use patch panels, patch panels, patch panels. This way you can tell exactly where each port goes and switch switches(no pun intended) easily.
Until someone finds a buffer overflow in the server to change stats, or they fake the server into thinking they re-downloaded the app when really they didn't. Banning cheaters is the best approach, at least for the forseeable future. Though you don't get them all, you get their social network to warn them, which is probably a stronger deterrant then simply trying to keep the cheaters out from a technical standpoint. Sadly, as long as games exist, there will probably be a way for someone to cheat.
I find interesting that the poster linked to Team Xodus, a modchip maker, rather than xbox-scene.com which has much more balanced information+tutorials on how to run homebrew apps without a modchip/even opening your Xbox.
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Dust doesn't kill unless it gets in the way of cooling. Dust generally isn't conductive and thus poses no problem but blocked fans.
You are correct. What I was trying to say was that the relationship between the marketing department's clock speed number and the actual temprature and speed of the chip is NOT linear. The same chip with the same transistors at higher frequency will run hotter(parent's post in a nutshell).
Actually, all else being equal, higher clock speed *does* mean higher temperatures, not just for Intel, but for everyone. IIRC, it's a linear relationship, too.
Not really. The clock speed is simply how fast a crystal vibrates. So in reality it is possible to build a CPU with high clockspeeds that runs really really slowly, for example one with a 6000 step pipeline. You could probably make one of these run cool too because there would be few transistors to deal with in the chip. The real relationship is between transistors and heat. The more transistors there are producing heat the hotter the chip is going to run.
Higher clock speed does not mean higher temps(that's only in Intel land). Your P150 probably produces a good bit as much heat as your P4, because at the time it was a fast CPU and used quite a bit of power. As CPUs get better the technology for less power(and usually thus less heat) should get better too, keeping the temprature about the same as the clock speed rises. Sadly that isn't the case with Intel's clock-speed-jacking powerhouse. So though the Cell will probably run pretty hot it was probably engineered not to run too hot.
Jon "maddog" Hall was one of the first supporters of linux way back in the early 90's. If I remember correctly he was the one who donated a DEC Alpha(I think he worked for DEC) for Linux's first port. I may be wrong...
Come to think of it, what threshold does Google index Slashdot at?
I know it't the default. Hey, it's supposed to be funny!
Yeah, didn't you hear, they've got the UK under control too!
Plus most CompactFlash cards have metal in the casing to make it more rigid, and the edges are plastic welded together instead of glued. If you put an SD card in the sun the two sides seperate and you have to glue them back together. No such problems with CF.
"WTF? I can't see anything on that shitty picture. It might be some not-Linux OS just as well. This is news? You are smart enough to port Linux but not smart enough to make a decent picture? This is fucking stupid, isn't it? Well, never mind, I think I'm gonna post it on my blog anyway, because it is related to Apple.
-CmdrTaco."
Is this really Taco?
What are you talking about? This is not about patents but trademarks. And MMX has been in Intel processors since the P2MMX, so it can't be delay wither.
But there is no Athlon 64 21.2. But maybe AMD engineers stay sane using the Emacs Shrink? Anyway, I'm off to play a game of Emacs Snake.
Is it your plans that make you say that?
Many are going to ask: How are you going to use 500GB? 8Mb/sec = 1MB/sec. So you would have to download(at maximum bandwidth) for 500,000 seconds = 138hrs = 5.75 days. Not very much. Then think about how much you could take in a month: There are about 60*60*24*31=2678400 seconds in a month. With 1MB/sec and 2678400 seconds you could D/L about 2,678 GB. That's 2.67TB! Still, the cap is pretty low for the speed.
TVs already have HD tuners. Either you use OTA HDTV and don't want to Fast forward/rewind, you already have a TiVo for HD, or you have cable or satillite HD and most likely have a TiVo already in your cable box. But that doesn't get movies, and there are no HD DVDs yet thus Cringely's ideas.
Way to totally miss the point. What's so standard about propriety cases with propriety motherboards that take propriety chips and are powered by propriety power supplies? If you want to see standard try here.
Since when is a PowerPC 970 propriety? It's made by IBM, and follows all PowerPC standards that I know of. For that matter, what does propriety mean? You misspelled it . There are few standards for motherboards; the chipset is usually specified by the manufacturer of the chip. All chipsets and CPUs are proprietary. There are just more chipsets for x86. But the motherboard interfaces are still non-standard. A motherboard maker who wants their own chipset still has to get the specs from Intel or AMD. There is very little that is not standards compliant in a Mac(the formfactor and PSU is basically all).
Sure, you can connect standard USB and firewire devices to your Mac, and even throw in a PCI card too (except on the Mini). Yeah, I can do that to my pile of crap, non-standard Dell too. But upgrade the motherboard? Replace a broken power supply with an off-the-shelf part? Forget about it!
Who cares? The whole concept of the Mac is that you don't need to upgrade the motherboard. Why, for that matter, do you want to upgrade a PC motherboard? If you bought the right one to start with you shouldn't need a new one (until you get a new system). By the time a new technology(for example PCI Express) comes out you'll need a new system to take advantage of it anyway(Unless you were stupid and bought a motherboard without PCI Express after PCI Express was announced and then found out you really needed it). And if Apple came out with complete standards-compliant hardware(ATX mobo/PSU) what would you do with it? Apple would still be the only ones making motherboards. About the only extra thing you could do would be switch cases or upgrade the PSU. Admittedly useful for some but not the Mac's target audience or for that matter 99% of users.
The P-M chipsets etc. do not support SMP. Maybe later.
Mac hardware is standard, dipshit. It's simply a PowerPC system using CHRP and Apple Open Firmware. And if you're talking about connections, those are all standard too(PCI-X(not to be confused with Pci Express)/PCI/PCMCIA,DDR RAM, SATA hard drives, USB/1394/1394b). So, I don't know where you've been but Mac hardware is pretty standard.
co-ordination to ensure drivers are available, all the popular x86 software runs in the x86 emulation mode without any problems
Um...there is no x86 emulation mode. The AMD64 is x86 with 64 bit extensions. All x86 software runs EXACTLY the same with no emulation. Drivers are the main sticking point(ATi still has sub-optimal performance for no appearant reason).
Hello...this IS Linux. Read Linus's semi-auto biography and you will see :-). Or use google...
Have you ever tried to draw/format/make stuff pretty in Word? I know it's not too but I wish you the best on Windows. This is where the mac wins hands down(and I didn't even mention PowerPoint). I don't use Entourage because it sucks. So no comment there. And I use Office X sorry. It runs fine on an old eMac G4/700 with 640MB of RAM. Word takes up 25% CPU when idle but doesn't feel slow, so it's ok.
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Yes I know I have the brackets wrong.
(OT) That's an ability sadly lacking among most writers on the Internet(or is it internet?). The funniest incorrect use I have ever seen was in an online strategy guide: "Then, You can Beat, your Friends!" or something like that, then "By the way, dont 1a1k 1ik3 1|-|15 |\|0b0dy u|\|d3r51ad5 y00." I felt like emailing the author pointing not to "Talk, Like This, Because nobody, Understands You."
The Office Mac PowerPoint has export to QuickTime built in...File->Export to MOV(or something like that). Unfourtinately, it's in only Office Mac, which is, by the way, a nearly completely different(and completely better) product than Office XP/2003/whatever on Windows.
Watch your raised floors, and use trays though...It can get *really* nasty down there without management and labeling. And yes, use patch panels, patch panels, patch panels. This way you can tell exactly where each port goes and switch switches(no pun intended) easily.
Until someone finds a buffer overflow in the server to change stats, or they fake the server into thinking they re-downloaded the app when really they didn't. Banning cheaters is the best approach, at least for the forseeable future. Though you don't get them all, you get their social network to warn them, which is probably a stronger deterrant then simply trying to keep the cheaters out from a technical standpoint. Sadly, as long as games exist, there will probably be a way for someone to cheat.
I find interesting that the poster linked to Team Xodus, a modchip maker, rather than xbox-scene.com which has much more balanced information+tutorials on how to run homebrew apps without a modchip/even opening your Xbox.