So much power use from the first 90nm process cpu? There can be only one reason for this... the rumored twin core intel CPU. Let's see how hyperthreading run's on THIS baby!
Mod parent as troll.
Hyperthreading and dual core are two different thing. Hyperthreading places two execution units with the same CPU core. It doesn't work very well. Dual core cpu's have two complete cpu cores inside one 'chip' package. Effectively, a dual-cpu machine 'on-a-chip'.
Actually, the Germans are known for their skill with machined parts and their engineering prowess.
This looks more like a dental tool from .
Now before you mod me a troll for bringing up Soviet Russia again, let me teach you something. In Soviet Russia, a manufacturing facility's productivity was measured not by the number of units sold, or by customer satisfaction. It was measured by the quantity of raw materials used. The problem with this, is that quality immediately goes down the toilet, and raw material consumption goes through the roof. A soviet era farm tractor, was so unreliable - but contained so much steel - that when Jonev Vladstov (That's John Doe in Russian) bought a tractor, it was worth MORE if he melted it down and sold the steel than it was as a tractor! That's called 'negative value-add' in the economic world, and that's why those old 'In Soviet Russia...' jokes use role reversal as their humor mechanism - because Soviet Russia really was backwards.
Intel Tejas. There. Now this post is not off topic.
It's interesting to see how what was once consideres "high-end" eventually makes it's way into the consumer desktop stuff.
For example, this chip appears to use a "pinless" package design. Instead of little pins that fit into the socket, it has little ever-so-slightly raised 'nubs'. These 'nubs' simply sit on top of contact points in the socket.
This pinless design was being used by Compaq for the Alpha CPU as early as 2000, so this isn't a new packaging technology. The only problem Compaq had with it, was keeping all the little 'nubs' firmly in contact with the corresponding points on the socket. They used some sort of plastic clip design at first, which ended up with a high failure rate - not for the CPU, but for the plastic retaining mechanism itself. That's probably why intel is using that big beefy metal retaining clip.
I guess intel learned something from all those Compaq Alpha engineers they bought a few years ago.
And I hate those pointy ridges that put on the end of them. And why do they insist on having feathers on some of the newer models? Why can't they just go back to making plain old whips-and-chains style stuff without all the kooky colored blinking vibrating bits. Oh well...
And what is this "mindstorms" that you speak of? Am I on the right message board here???
I wonder if they have forgotten that Asia is more than just the area of China and Japan. Turkey, Syria, Indian...and even Iraq are all Asian countries as well.
Iraq is not an Asian nation. It is in the middle east. Syria is even farther to the west. What kind of a crazy map are you looking at??
Afghanistan (which BTW borders China in one spot), India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and one other "istan" which I can't remember right now. Those are the nations of "central asia".
Just thinking... Thumb drives will be come almost obselete.. Why tranfer data on to slow as hell flash chips. Thumb Hard Drives here we come. Just imagine 2gb storage, USB2 and I imagine cheaper than flash cards.
Stop imagining and do your homework!
CF is much faster than microdrives!! Particularly the new "Ultra" and "40x" CF cards. Have you ever *used* a microdrive?? They are slooowww.
Yes, but you do not have the infrastructure of the United States in those countries. If you tried to maintain your current lifestyle in another country like Zimbabwe, you would be spending a lot of money to do so.
You would have to build roads at the level you enjoy now. You would have to build your own telecommunications infrustructure that is as nice as what you enjoy now. You would have to employ a large security force because it isnt as safe there.
MONEY != WEALTH. It is just paper. Wealth is being able to go to the grocery store and have food available. Wealth is having sanitary living conditions. Wealth is having access to public libraries, etc. Median INCOME has stayed the same in this country for some time, but we are all VERY wealthy.
I agree with you 100%. But in these "cheaper" countries where manufacturering, call centers, and programming has been moving to, the people would have nothing without these jobs that are brought into the country.
While telecommunications, paved roads, and stocked supermarkets are very nice things indeed - they aren't necessary to sustain human life, and in many of these countried, putting bread on the table is priority #1 - something that the new factory or the new call center in town enables them to do. It provides many jobs where previously there were few.
This certainly isn't the end - it's probably just the beginning for some of these nations on their road to becoming developed. One thing is for certain though - that these jobs are helping to expand their economies, which otherwise might be stagnant or shrinking - and that puts them on the road to wealth.
"Seems that future digicams won't need a compact flash anymore!"
Considering that I get over 350 high quality, FIVE megapixel photos onto my 512 MB CF card, how many people really need to store thousands of photos before uploading them to a PC???
Photo-journalists and "embeded" reporters sure, but why does joe hobbist or grandma need such capacity in a digicam??
My guess is that until price becomes dirt cheap, the power consumption is proven to be acceptable, and the reliability equals that of CF, that no average person is going to buy these.
Solid state memory like compactflash just seems so much more elegant than a tiny spinning metal disc with teeny little motors and gears... but, if these micro drives are reliable enough, then the storage capacity they offer would be mighty attractive.
I agree, spinning disks are fine in my PC, but in a device that gets tossed around, possibly dropped, and man-handled by airport baggage inspectors, I much prefer a solid-state solution. Not to mention that CF uses less power than a hard drive.
...if you have other apps with problems, please post about them below.
Well, now that you mention it, my mother hasn't been able to print for a week, my uncle's PC keeps running checkdisk on startup, and I'm having trouble compiling kernel 2.6.0.
Oh yeah, and Unreal 2k3 has crappy frame rates on the 'Antalus' level, but maybe thats just my old ti4200 card.
Um. I think that's it for now. So when are you going to help me with these?
There's software called Qcast Tuner which uses your Playstation2 as a media player. You stream music or movies or photos from your PC to your PS/2 and it plays them on your TV.
You obviously need a PS2 with LAN adapter (and optionally a wireless adapter), but it gives you the functionality. This new linksys is nice though because it's all together in one purpose-made package.
But has anyone ever thought to ask Ms. Fiorina just what an HP printer, or cartridge refill costs in India or China??? And why the cost isn't the same here and there???
Or any company for that matter... Coke, Pepsi, etc...
That's the real issue... Same as it is for drug companies and people getting their prescriptions filled in Canada or Mexico....
Two reasons. 1. median household income and 2. market system.
1. If the average American makes $20,000 per year, he can afford a $40 ink cartridge. If the average in country X makes $3,000 per year, he can NOT afford a $40 ink cartridge - but he can probably afford a $4 cartridge.
2. The market system (you learned this in econ 101). The value of an item is what someone is willing to pay for it. When you bought your printer, I'm sure you noticed the price of refills. You obviously agreed to that price because you bought that printer. There are different printers at different price points (for their refills). Please shop accordingly. In addition, there are DIY kits where you can refill the cardridge yourself at reduced cost.
The point being - if you don't like the cost of the refill, no one twisted your arm to buy that printer. If you bought the printer without first checking the price of refills, then it's your own fault for being an ignorant consumer.
Or above. Any problems with that? Same goes for Nike and their "sweatshops". No difference as far as I'm concerned.
Perhaps you've never traveled outside the US. I'm guessing that's the case here. one US dollar in America buys you exactly jack shit. A can of soda maybe. One US dollar in a country like Zimbabwe buys you 10 loaves of bread and a new kitchen table.
When we heat that some factory worker in China is getting paid "10 cents per hour", you have to take that in context. If a loaf of bread in the same town is two cents, and rent at an apartment building is 80 cents per month, then I'd say that 10 cents an hour is a pretty damn fair wage.
"I just came home from work to find a letter waiting in the old snail mail box from my Broadband ISP. It has very nice titling on it: 'Notice of Acceptable Use Policy Violations' and also has an 'Abuse Ticket Number' associated with it. Has anyone else received these from their Broadband ISPs lately? Are they being overly cautious or are they working towards throwing off any users who might possible tax their network? I am trying not to be paranoid about this, but what are other people seeing and/or doing in this situation?"
FYI- I've been using your PC to relay spam for about a year now. Just let me know what the acceptable use limits are and I'll cap my uploads accordingly. Thanks.
I've got 3 Mb/s cable (768k upstream) and I've never received a letter like that. I download ISO's and new kernel's and other large things all the time. I do not run Kazaa or any P2P software though. Make sure your machine has not been hacked - someone could be using it as their personal warez server or to relay spam.
i'm tired of this fucking gtk file selector. i just want to fucking go to sleep. it's 2:30 am and I'm staring at a fucking story about a gtk file selector?? WTF???
I've stayed far away from the KDE/Gnome debate for the past couple years, choosing instead to stick with simple, stripped-down window managers like fluxbox and FVWM.
I too prefer to avoid the cutting edge. I dual boot Windows 3.0 and RedHat 3.0.3.
Say, when is redhat going to wake up and get a GUI installer? This text mode installer crap isn't going to cut it once people see Windows 3.11
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So much power use from the first 90nm process cpu? There can be only one reason for this... the rumored twin core intel CPU. Let's see how hyperthreading run's on THIS baby!
Mod parent as troll.
Hyperthreading and dual core are two different thing. Hyperthreading places two execution units with the same CPU core. It doesn't work very well. Dual core cpu's have two complete cpu cores inside one 'chip' package. Effectively, a dual-cpu machine 'on-a-chip'.
Looks like a German dental tool.
Actually, the Germans are known for their skill with machined parts and their engineering prowess.
This looks more like a dental tool from .
Now before you mod me a troll for bringing up Soviet Russia again, let me teach you something. In Soviet Russia, a manufacturing facility's productivity was measured not by the number of units sold, or by customer satisfaction. It was measured by the quantity of raw materials used. The problem with this, is that quality immediately goes down the toilet, and raw material consumption goes through the roof. A soviet era farm tractor, was so unreliable - but contained so much steel - that when Jonev Vladstov (That's John Doe in Russian) bought a tractor, it was worth MORE if he melted it down and sold the steel than it was as a tractor! That's called 'negative value-add' in the economic world, and that's why those old 'In Soviet Russia...' jokes use role reversal as their humor mechanism - because Soviet Russia really was backwards.
Intel Tejas. There. Now this post is not off topic.
It's interesting to see how what was once consideres "high-end" eventually makes it's way into the consumer desktop stuff.
For example, this chip appears to use a "pinless" package design. Instead of little pins that fit into the socket, it has little ever-so-slightly raised 'nubs'. These 'nubs' simply sit on top of contact points in the socket.
This pinless design was being used by Compaq for the Alpha CPU as early as 2000, so this isn't a new packaging technology. The only problem Compaq had with it, was keeping all the little 'nubs' firmly in contact with the corresponding points on the socket. They used some sort of plastic clip design at first, which ended up with a high failure rate - not for the CPU, but for the plastic retaining mechanism itself. That's probably why intel is using that big beefy metal retaining clip.
I guess intel learned something from all those Compaq Alpha engineers they bought a few years ago.
And I hate those pointy ridges that put on the end of them. And why do they insist on having feathers on some of the newer models? Why can't they just go back to making plain old whips-and-chains style stuff without all the kooky colored blinking vibrating bits. Oh well...
And what is this "mindstorms" that you speak of? Am I on the right message board here???
Wouldn't LinAsia have sounded better?
That sounds like some sort of nervous system disorder. No thanks!
I wonder if they have forgotten that Asia is more than just the area of China and Japan. Turkey, Syria, Indian...and even Iraq are all Asian countries as well.
Iraq is not an Asian nation. It is in the middle east. Syria is even farther to the west. What kind of a crazy map are you looking at??
Afghanistan (which BTW borders China in one spot), India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and one other "istan" which I can't remember right now. Those are the nations of "central asia".
I guess that's better than Lasia. Not much better though.
Yeah, I had that done about a year ago. My eye doctor had been recommending it for a while. I can see so much better now! Thanks Lasia!
Cant this be solved like every other protocol security issue?? - Tunnel it through SSH.
As in Toshiba, Japan?
No. Actually, it's Toshiba, India now. Haven't you heard? Everything's moving there these days.
Yes, your job too.
Just thinking... Thumb drives will be come almost obselete.. Why tranfer data on to slow as hell flash chips. Thumb Hard Drives here we come. Just imagine 2gb storage, USB2 and I imagine cheaper than flash cards.
Stop imagining and do your homework!
CF is much faster than microdrives!! Particularly the new "Ultra" and "40x" CF cards. Have you ever *used* a microdrive?? They are slooowww.
Yes, but you do not have the infrastructure of the United States in those countries. If you tried to maintain your current lifestyle in another country like Zimbabwe, you would be spending a lot of money to do so. You would have to build roads at the level you enjoy now. You would have to build your own telecommunications infrustructure that is as nice as what you enjoy now. You would have to employ a large security force because it isnt as safe there. MONEY != WEALTH. It is just paper. Wealth is being able to go to the grocery store and have food available. Wealth is having sanitary living conditions. Wealth is having access to public libraries, etc. Median INCOME has stayed the same in this country for some time, but we are all VERY wealthy.
I agree with you 100%. But in these "cheaper" countries where manufacturering, call centers, and programming has been moving to, the people would have nothing without these jobs that are brought into the country.
While telecommunications, paved roads, and stocked supermarkets are very nice things indeed - they aren't necessary to sustain human life, and in many of these countried, putting bread on the table is priority #1 - something that the new factory or the new call center in town enables them to do. It provides many jobs where previously there were few.
This certainly isn't the end - it's probably just the beginning for some of these nations on their road to becoming developed. One thing is for certain though - that these jobs are helping to expand their economies, which otherwise might be stagnant or shrinking - and that puts them on the road to wealth.
"Seems that future digicams won't need a compact flash anymore!"
Considering that I get over 350 high quality, FIVE megapixel photos onto my 512 MB CF card, how many people really need to store thousands of photos before uploading them to a PC???
Photo-journalists and "embeded" reporters sure, but why does joe hobbist or grandma need such capacity in a digicam??
My guess is that until price becomes dirt cheap, the power consumption is proven to be acceptable, and the reliability equals that of CF, that no average person is going to buy these.
Just my 2 cents.
Solid state memory like compactflash just seems so much more elegant than a tiny spinning metal disc with teeny little motors and gears ... but, if these micro drives are reliable enough, then the storage capacity they offer would be mighty attractive.
I agree, spinning disks are fine in my PC, but in a device that gets tossed around, possibly dropped, and man-handled by airport baggage inspectors, I much prefer a solid-state solution. Not to mention that CF uses less power than a hard drive.
Why bother with this "under an inch" stuff??
I got an email this afternoon promising to add "3+ inches" or my money back!!
What? Does Toshiba think I'm a total tard or something???
...if you have other apps with problems, please post about them below.
Well, now that you mention it, my mother hasn't been able to print for a week, my uncle's PC keeps running checkdisk on startup, and I'm having trouble compiling kernel 2.6.0.
Oh yeah, and Unreal 2k3 has crappy frame rates on the 'Antalus' level, but maybe thats just my old ti4200 card.
Um. I think that's it for now. So when are you going to help me with these?
Too bad this is nothing new.
There's software called Qcast Tuner which uses your Playstation2 as a media player. You stream music or movies or photos from your PC to your PS/2 and it plays them on your TV.
You obviously need a PS2 with LAN adapter (and optionally a wireless adapter), but it gives you the functionality. This new linksys is nice though because it's all together in one purpose-made package.
But has anyone ever thought to ask Ms. Fiorina just what an HP printer, or cartridge refill costs in India or China??? And why the cost isn't the same here and there??? Or any company for that matter... Coke, Pepsi, etc... That's the real issue... Same as it is for drug companies and people getting their prescriptions filled in Canada or Mexico....
Two reasons. 1. median household income and 2. market system.
1. If the average American makes $20,000 per year, he can afford a $40 ink cartridge. If the average in country X makes $3,000 per year, he can NOT afford a $40 ink cartridge - but he can probably afford a $4 cartridge.
2. The market system (you learned this in econ 101). The value of an item is what someone is willing to pay for it. When you bought your printer, I'm sure you noticed the price of refills. You obviously agreed to that price because you bought that printer. There are different printers at different price points (for their refills). Please shop accordingly. In addition, there are DIY kits where you can refill the cardridge yourself at reduced cost.
The point being - if you don't like the cost of the refill, no one twisted your arm to buy that printer. If you bought the printer without first checking the price of refills, then it's your own fault for being an ignorant consumer.
Just my two cents.
Or above. Any problems with that? Same goes for Nike and their "sweatshops". No difference as far as I'm concerned.
Perhaps you've never traveled outside the US. I'm guessing that's the case here. one US dollar in America buys you exactly jack shit. A can of soda maybe. One US dollar in a country like Zimbabwe buys you 10 loaves of bread and a new kitchen table.
When we heat that some factory worker in China is getting paid "10 cents per hour", you have to take that in context. If a loaf of bread in the same town is two cents, and rent at an apartment building is 80 cents per month, then I'd say that 10 cents an hour is a pretty damn fair wage.
Just my two cents.
"I just came home from work to find a letter waiting in the old snail mail box from my Broadband ISP. It has very nice titling on it: 'Notice of Acceptable Use Policy Violations' and also has an 'Abuse Ticket Number' associated with it. Has anyone else received these from their Broadband ISPs lately? Are they being overly cautious or are they working towards throwing off any users who might possible tax their network? I am trying not to be paranoid about this, but what are other people seeing and/or doing in this situation?"
FYI- I've been using your PC to relay spam for about a year now. Just let me know what the acceptable use limits are and I'll cap my uploads accordingly. Thanks.
Stop hitting the refresh button on the goatse page then.
It's a static picture, not a web cam you sicko.
I've got 3 Mb/s cable (768k upstream) and I've never received a letter like that. I download ISO's and new kernel's and other large things all the time. I do not run Kazaa or any P2P software though. Make sure your machine has not been hacked - someone could be using it as their personal warez server or to relay spam.
And if I have my fingerprints surgically removed altogether? And have skin from my arse grafted in place? Then what'll ya do?
i'm tired of this fucking gtk file selector. i just want to fucking go to sleep. it's 2:30 am and I'm staring at a fucking story about a gtk file selector?? WTF???
What will they do if I sand off my fingerprints?
I've stayed far away from the KDE/Gnome debate for the past couple years, choosing instead to stick with simple, stripped-down window managers like fluxbox and FVWM.
I too prefer to avoid the cutting edge. I dual boot Windows 3.0 and RedHat 3.0.3.
Say, when is redhat going to wake up and get a GUI installer? This text mode installer crap isn't going to cut it once people see Windows 3.11