Better not let this guy know that the NSA has developed their own version of Linux and made the source code publicly available. Just think! The terrorists could see the source and hack the government, all because they wanted to 'save money' of free software!
I haven't read the article, but I think it's safe to say that the author needs to get a clue and a ticket back to reality rather badly.
I should know better, but I just have to comment on the fact that you're one hell of a troll. If you supposedly own an A64 and were going to bitch about the true clock speed, I'd expect you to know that the 3000+ clocks at an even 2GHz, the same as the 3200+, only difference between the two being cache.
The last line of that post was pure brilliance/troll as well. Show me ANY benchmark were a P4 2.2GHz outperforms an A64 3000+ and you might be onto something. Until then, please stop speaking out of your ass.
Regarding Firebird and Flash: The reason for this is the flash installer looks for browser entries in the registry, since Firebird =.7 were simply packaged as a zip file you didn't get that. It was still possible - you had to direct the Flash installer manually to Firebird\plugins, admittedly counterintuitive, but not really Firebird's fault.
With Firebird/Fox.8, there's now an actual installer, so those registry entries are there. All that's needed to properly install Flash is clicking "next" a few times. Hope that helps.
No, it's a very poor point, and while I may not agree with modding down of it, it certainly isn't in any way insightful. To use a cliche : "Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day. *Teach* him how to fish and you've fed him for life. Sure $600k/piece would be enough for "the same people who'd work there anyway" to live off of for a few years, but the money will do far more good creating jobs and stimulating the economy.
Let me reiterate a point here: despite what Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh would have you think, socialism is not about getting something for nothing. The basic idea is to ensure that the whole of society is better off than if everyone were concerned only for themselves - sometimes that requires a lot of effort. As a bit of side commentary here, some of the more liberal European states are about as close to a workable, real world approach to socialism as is really possible.
As far as a possible double standard goes, I think the case is pretty weak. The no-bid contracts you hear "socialists" (don't you mean commie-pinko scum? I don't think you were inflamitory enough there) complain about are because Bush, and particularly VP Cheney have VERY close ties to the companies that were awarded those contracts. And by close, we're talking about Cheney having been the head of one of these companies just prior to entering office. Show me where PM Schroeder and his cronies have a direct interest in AMD other than stimulating the German economy and you might have a point. Until then, you're just flamebait.
Nice troll, but you'll note that it said changes, not additions. All those features have been in nix for years too, and I *highly* doubt you've have XFS for years in Windows.:-P
Not really, it'd just be reverting back to where things were about 4 years ago. AMD was the first to break 1GHz, remember? It wasn't until later with the introduction of SSE2 (which the Athlons lack) and AMD hitting a brick wall with ramping up the clockspeed on the Athlons that Intel regained the overall performance lead. When it comes to price/performance, Intel has always lagged behind.
As it looks currently, HL2 is very much close to being finished.
We've seen loads of footage, a promising leaked version
(code seemed to be near perfect), and technically they're still way ahead of any game in development that I know of.
Far from it. The code that was leaked is chock-FULL of *HACK-HACK*'s and *TODO*'s. Granted, 5 months after the game's initial planned release date, I'd hope that it looks at least a little bit better, but calling the leaked code near perfect is more than a bit rose-colored-glass.
Actually, it's being designed by Ion Storm. Guess who's one of the big shots there? Warren Spector - the same guy who was the mastermind at Looking Glass.
That said, as another poster pointed out, Ion Storm just put out Deus Ex: Invisible War, which sadly forced me to remove Warren from my list of deity-like, infallible designers. Thief 3 will be running on the *exact* same engine as DX:IW (in fact, there are more than a few references to it in the DX:IW ini files). While it's possible it may improve between now and release, the engine is only slightly above average in image quality, and dog poor in frame rate. The absolute best rigs out there are doing well to get 35fps at 1280x1024.
This would be bad enough, but texture quality is horrible, maps are small and filled with load points, and the overall gameplay was simplified so that everything could be done on the limited number of buttons available on a gamepad. While I wish it were different, given how tightly interwoven DX:IW and Thief 3 have been in development, I'm afraid that it'll probably be more of the same.
Only if a reseller is clearing stock. For example, when the Barton 2600's where released, they were actually slightly cheaper than the Tbred-B 2600's at the time (basing this on NewEgg's pricing). Of course New Egg makes a point of noting which core the CPU they're selling you is, but not all resellers do that. My point was that Intel's code letters make it absolutely clear which chip revision you're getting, leaving little room for confusion.
I think you're pretty much off base here. The Athlon MP is an XP with SMP support, much as the Athlon FX is essentially a 1xx series Opteron. If you want SMP, you're going to have to spend more as the extra transistors needed to handle SMP don't come free. As it stands, an Opteron 240 runs about $215 and a board for it's going to cost your anywhere from $200 on up.
I think the biggest point that you're missing is the fact that increasing the number of processors in a system does not linearly increase the processing power of that system. For most people, it's far more cost efficient to simply opt for a faster single processor as a second CPU wouldn't be utilized properly most of the time anyway. All that said, if you absolutely have to have a consumer level SMP system, I know of at least one company that will happily sell it to you - but again, you have to be willing to spend the money if you want SMP.
The "slap a letter on the end" to distinguish chip revisions approach has worked fairly well for Intel so far. P4 2.4C, for example, would indicate a HyperThreaded P4. While I personally prefer AMD chips, this is one thing I do feel Intel has gotten right - the only real way to distinguish which core revision you're getting with AMD is to look at the chip in the package, so you had to be able to distinguish the chips visually. Not a problem for me as I spend a lot of time working with them, but it's a problem for those that aren't that familiar with the chips - especially for chips like the XP 2000+ that went through at least three different cores.
If a 4ghz Prescott is going to be much like a 3ghz Northwood, is AMD going to adjust its PR Rating to the new cores that Intel has?
My guess is, no. Despite what may seems intuitive, the AMD PR rating is not scaled against the P4. The baseline measurement for AMD's PR system is a 1GHz Duron. IE: My Athlon 2600+ is supposed to perform 2.6 times faster than a 1GHz Duron would. Hope that clears things up for you some.
The really amusing part is, if you read the article (blasphemy, I know) it goes on to state that Amazon.com cut their IT costs 25% by becoming a Linux shop. Sounds like an 11-22% increase to me, alright.
Er, where are you getting your data? Virtually every benchmark I've seen has the Athlon 64's thrashing the P4EE in everything except video encoding in 32 bit mode, something the P4 has always been traditionally very good at.
You're kidding, right? Even my $100 flash based Memorex player has a digital FM tuner, and it's far from the only one I've seen. Have you been looking hard enough?
I've owned two 3 cylinder Metros as well, so yeah, it's perfectly adequate for most people. =) It was a little underpowered overall, but was fine was you got it up to a good cruising speed. The 4 cylinder is a world better, for only a relatively small hit on mileage. Really, if I stayed around town, the 3 cylinder would be perfect.
As it is, I make runs to Atlanta about once every other week (90-110 miles each way depending on which part of town you're going to) and with the way Atlanta traffic is, having the extra acceleration from the 4 cylinder is really a godsend. There are just times you have no choice other than flooring it the get around traffic and over to where you need to be, so being able to accelerate to 85+ fairly quickly really helps.
They're both great cars, I just find the 4 Cyl is better for driving in, well, the metro area.;)
I happen to drive a 1999 Geo Metro with a 1.3L 4 cylinder engine. This car happens to get low 30's in town and 38+mpg on the highway. It's not hard at all to top 75-80mph with this car before you even leave the on ramp. In 3rd geard. I realize you still have the case of luggage, etc, but it just gets on my nerves when people reffer to small cars like they're seriously underpowered. When a car weighs ~2000lbs, it has no need to put out 300hp to be quick. In fact, my Metro only puts out around 70, and honestly, it drives smoother and accelerates quicker in traffic than my dad's brand new Malibu. It's not an uber car, but it's by far the easiest thing to drive in Atlanta traffic that I've found. (Which is no small joke.)
It's slightly annoying but nothing I worry about. In a situation like that, the best thing to do is use your emergency brake to move yourself along - engage it with your right hand while sitting, and disengage it right as the clutch starts to grab. Less wear and tear on the clutch and makes stop and go uphill much less tedious.
Honestly, I'm not sure. I haven't got my laptop loaded with Linux as I haven't had the time it'd take to get my wifi card, etc working, and my I have so many desktops running at any given time, I wouldn't really notice if one was up or not. It does seem to kick into a sort of sleep-like state when it's not crunching though. Like I said, my crashes went away, but I don't know where laptop support is at right now.
Not saying this would affect you personally, but I've found my headaches with ACPI have gone away with 2.6. Whereas I used to have to turn it off in BIOS to keep the machine from crashing, it now works flawlessly. YMMV.
The problem is, the was implemented in a rather elegant way in WA3. There's a sidecar on the playlist window listing all available playlists. Creating new ones is simply a matter of clicking the Playlist button and saying "add new" then renaming it. Yes, I could do the same thing with Media Library in WA5, but it's a MUCH clunkier solution as-is. Like I said, I'll wait until they implement the sidecar and multiplaylist support into WA5 before I switch.
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Better not let this guy know that the NSA has developed their own version of Linux and made the source code publicly available. Just think! The terrorists could see the source and hack the government, all because they wanted to 'save money' of free software!
I haven't read the article, but I think it's safe to say that the author needs to get a clue and a ticket back to reality rather badly.
I should know better, but I just have to comment on the fact that you're one hell of a troll. If you supposedly own an A64 and were going to bitch about the true clock speed, I'd expect you to know that the 3000+ clocks at an even 2GHz, the same as the 3200+, only difference between the two being cache.
The last line of that post was pure brilliance/troll as well. Show me ANY benchmark were a P4 2.2GHz outperforms an A64 3000+ and you might be onto something. Until then, please stop speaking out of your ass.
Regarding Firebird and Flash: The reason for this is the flash installer looks for browser entries in the registry, since Firebird =.7 were simply packaged as a zip file you didn't get that. It was still possible - you had to direct the Flash installer manually to Firebird\plugins, admittedly counterintuitive, but not really Firebird's fault.
.8, there's now an actual installer, so those registry entries are there. All that's needed to properly install Flash is clicking "next" a few times. Hope that helps.
With Firebird/Fox
No, it's a very poor point, and while I may not agree with modding down of it, it certainly isn't in any way insightful. To use a cliche : "Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day. *Teach* him how to fish and you've fed him for life. Sure $600k/piece would be enough for "the same people who'd work there anyway" to live off of for a few years, but the money will do far more good creating jobs and stimulating the economy.
Let me reiterate a point here: despite what Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh would have you think, socialism is not about getting something for nothing. The basic idea is to ensure that the whole of society is better off than if everyone were concerned only for themselves - sometimes that requires a lot of effort. As a bit of side commentary here, some of the more liberal European states are about as close to a workable, real world approach to socialism as is really possible.
As far as a possible double standard goes, I think the case is pretty weak. The no-bid contracts you hear "socialists" (don't you mean commie-pinko scum? I don't think you were inflamitory enough there) complain about are because Bush, and particularly VP Cheney have VERY close ties to the companies that were awarded those contracts. And by close, we're talking about Cheney having been the head of one of these companies just prior to entering office. Show me where PM Schroeder and his cronies have a direct interest in AMD other than stimulating the German economy and you might have a point. Until then, you're just flamebait.
What are these.... 'comments' you speak of? I do not understand! ;)
Nice troll, but you'll note that it said changes, not additions. All those features have been in nix for years too, and I *highly* doubt you've have XFS for years in Windows. :-P
Actually, it's being designed by Ion Storm. Guess who's one of the big shots there? Warren Spector - the same guy who was the mastermind at Looking Glass.
That said, as another poster pointed out, Ion Storm just put out Deus Ex: Invisible War, which sadly forced me to remove Warren from my list of deity-like, infallible designers. Thief 3 will be running on the *exact* same engine as DX:IW (in fact, there are more than a few references to it in the DX:IW ini files). While it's possible it may improve between now and release, the engine is only slightly above average in image quality, and dog poor in frame rate. The absolute best rigs out there are doing well to get 35fps at 1280x1024.
This would be bad enough, but texture quality is horrible, maps are small and filled with load points, and the overall gameplay was simplified so that everything could be done on the limited number of buttons available on a gamepad. While I wish it were different, given how tightly interwoven DX:IW and Thief 3 have been in development, I'm afraid that it'll probably be more of the same.
Only if a reseller is clearing stock. For example, when the Barton 2600's where released, they were actually slightly cheaper than the Tbred-B 2600's at the time (basing this on NewEgg's pricing). Of course New Egg makes a point of noting which core the CPU they're selling you is, but not all resellers do that. My point was that Intel's code letters make it absolutely clear which chip revision you're getting, leaving little room for confusion.
I think you're pretty much off base here. The Athlon MP is an XP with SMP support, much as the Athlon FX is essentially a 1xx series Opteron. If you want SMP, you're going to have to spend more as the extra transistors needed to handle SMP don't come free. As it stands, an Opteron 240 runs about $215 and a board for it's going to cost your anywhere from $200 on up.
I think the biggest point that you're missing is the fact that increasing the number of processors in a system does not linearly increase the processing power of that system. For most people, it's far more cost efficient to simply opt for a faster single processor as a second CPU wouldn't be utilized properly most of the time anyway. All that said, if you absolutely have to have a consumer level SMP system, I know of at least one company that will happily sell it to you - but again, you have to be willing to spend the money if you want SMP.
The "slap a letter on the end" to distinguish chip revisions approach has worked fairly well for Intel so far. P4 2.4C, for example, would indicate a HyperThreaded P4. While I personally prefer AMD chips, this is one thing I do feel Intel has gotten right - the only real way to distinguish which core revision you're getting with AMD is to look at the chip in the package, so you had to be able to distinguish the chips visually. Not a problem for me as I spend a lot of time working with them, but it's a problem for those that aren't that familiar with the chips - especially for chips like the XP 2000+ that went through at least three different cores.
My guess is, no. Despite what may seems intuitive, the AMD PR rating is not scaled against the P4. The baseline measurement for AMD's PR system is a 1GHz Duron. IE: My Athlon 2600+ is supposed to perform 2.6 times faster than a 1GHz Duron would. Hope that clears things up for you some.
XP Pro doesn't either in its default config. It only does so when you have the login and networking options set to do so.
The really amusing part is, if you read the article (blasphemy, I know) it goes on to state that Amazon.com cut their IT costs 25% by becoming a Linux shop. Sounds like an 11-22% increase to me, alright.
Er, where are you getting your data? Virtually every benchmark I've seen has the Athlon 64's thrashing the P4EE in everything except video encoding in 32 bit mode, something the P4 has always been traditionally very good at.
You're kidding, right? Even my $100 flash based Memorex player has a digital FM tuner, and it's far from the only one I've seen. Have you been looking hard enough?
I wish I had mod points. That's probably the best comparison of the various regional cars I've read in a long, long time.
I've owned two 3 cylinder Metros as well, so yeah, it's perfectly adequate for most people. =) It was a little underpowered overall, but was fine was you got it up to a good cruising speed. The 4 cylinder is a world better, for only a relatively small hit on mileage. Really, if I stayed around town, the 3 cylinder would be perfect.
;)
As it is, I make runs to Atlanta about once every other week (90-110 miles each way depending on which part of town you're going to) and with the way Atlanta traffic is, having the extra acceleration from the 4 cylinder is really a godsend. There are just times you have no choice other than flooring it the get around traffic and over to where you need to be, so being able to accelerate to 85+ fairly quickly really helps.
They're both great cars, I just find the 4 Cyl is better for driving in, well, the metro area.
I happen to drive a 1999 Geo Metro with a 1.3L 4 cylinder engine. This car happens to get low 30's in town and 38+mpg on the highway. It's not hard at all to top 75-80mph with this car before you even leave the on ramp. In 3rd geard. I realize you still have the case of luggage, etc, but it just gets on my nerves when people reffer to small cars like they're seriously underpowered. When a car weighs ~2000lbs, it has no need to put out 300hp to be quick. In fact, my Metro only puts out around 70, and honestly, it drives smoother and accelerates quicker in traffic than my dad's brand new Malibu. It's not an uber car, but it's by far the easiest thing to drive in Atlanta traffic that I've found. (Which is no small joke.)
It's slightly annoying but nothing I worry about. In a situation like that, the best thing to do is use your emergency brake to move yourself along - engage it with your right hand while sitting, and disengage it right as the clutch starts to grab. Less wear and tear on the clutch and makes stop and go uphill much less tedious.
Psh... that's amateur stuff. What you need is some thermite. ;)
Honestly, I'm not sure. I haven't got my laptop loaded with Linux as I haven't had the time it'd take to get my wifi card, etc working, and my I have so many desktops running at any given time, I wouldn't really notice if one was up or not. It does seem to kick into a sort of sleep-like state when it's not crunching though. Like I said, my crashes went away, but I don't know where laptop support is at right now.
Not saying this would affect you personally, but I've found my headaches with ACPI have gone away with 2.6. Whereas I used to have to turn it off in BIOS to keep the machine from crashing, it now works flawlessly. YMMV.
The problem is, the was implemented in a rather elegant way in WA3. There's a sidecar on the playlist window listing all available playlists. Creating new ones is simply a matter of clicking the Playlist button and saying "add new" then renaming it. Yes, I could do the same thing with Media Library in WA5, but it's a MUCH clunkier solution as-is. Like I said, I'll wait until they implement the sidecar and multiplaylist support into WA5 before I switch.