HP is so dull they make Gates and Ballmer look like MTV VJs in comparison.
What? Don't tell me you've never seen this video of the fearless leader Ballmer? Or perhaps this picture of Bill showing off his awesome fashion sense? I don't think you can get much cooler than those guys.;)
I'd actually be rather surprised to see the UT engine released openly inside of the next year or so. There are still a number of commercial products (IE: the infamous DNF) based on it that have yet to be released. It'd just kind of suck from a PR standpoint for Epic if they started giving away something a dev house spent a lot of money on before they could even get it out the door - all other things aside.
The only time I've seen BitTorrent run slowly were for files with just about no demand. For something like an ISO from a major distro, you should be able to essentially max out your connection. I used the Torrent of the RH9 ISOs when I was visiting a friend at Georgia Tech to test their connection and got something like 880k/s out of it. =)
Really, I thought that was one of the funnier comments in the interview. And it's typical Linus. You'll see he prefaces this with a statement about "I don't really care enough to consider myself to be Microsoft's nemesis." Which is the absolute truth. It wouldn't break his heart to see Microsoft go away, but he's not actively seeking to make it happen either. But just the same, who WOULDN'T want their baby to become the biggest, coolest thing on the block?
Ah, and you've hit on exactly why I've never understood why some people insist on doing that. Well, that and the fact that you're limiting wear on a set of brake pads that cost substantially less than the extra wear you're putting on the clutch by transmission braking since then. =)
This really is nothing more than common sense. As is pointed out, a monoculture of anything is asking for trouble, be it in computers or in agriculture. When there's only one type of target to attack, it's much more vulnerable than a diverse population is. This is a basic concept that extends all the way from basic genetics to the high tech of today - it's just that we occassionally need to be reminded of it, evidently.
And there you have the reason why I didn't even bother clicking on the link the Tom's. This kind of garbage is typical, and I promise you, not limited to Mac. I don't know about the tone they took toward s the A64 in this article, but I know when I checked the site on a whim last week, they were displaying the exact same attitude towards the A64 as they did in this article.
Hmmm, you've now given me something to possibly look forward to when I get home tonight. How long ago did you order your's? I've been waiting on mine for about a month now.
But if you're in the market for a high end machine, this seems to be the way to go right now. The benchmarks I'm seeing show it outperforming the P4 3.2GHz chip, and from the pricing I've found so far, it's nearly $200 cheaper.
Except you DO get an improvement today. The extra registers, among other things improve 32 bit performance as well. Look at the Athlon 64 numbers compared to the Athlon XP numbers. The A64 is extremely efficient at running 32 bit code.
I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember having read at one point that the Athlon64 would support a dual processor setup. Thinking about it, it makes sense since it's rumored that the AthlonFX line will just be rebranded Opterons anyway. Might be worth checking out.
I agree with you totally on the virtues of AMD64, but there WILL be a lag time between the release of the Athlon64 and native software. Official release date of the A64 is this Tues, Sept 23 (my birthday - works out nicely:) ). Windows XP for AMD64 is slated for sometime after the first of the year, so I honestly wouldn't expect much in the line of native software before then.
Architechture Review Board. AKA: the people who define the OGL API. Generally, OGL works where you have proprietary extensions or the "standard" ARB extension for doing the same thing. I'm not too familiar with OGL2, but I imagine ARB2 is just the "default" set of extensions for OGL2. Given nVidia's performance on DX9 apps so far, it wouldn't surprise me if they did just as poorly with the standard ARB2 set of calls under OGL2.
Really? Funny how I can play literally every game I want right now perfectly fine on my nForce2 based motherboard's onboard video. Somehow, I think (read: know) that a GeForce4 MX chipset is going to seriously outperform a TNT2. In fact, the only reason I'm even planning to buy a seperate video card is because I need DX9 support for some of the newer games like HL2 that are coming soon. But in the meantime, it plays everything from UT2K3, Jedi Knight, Quake III, and on and on perfectly.
A year and a half ago, you'd have had an argument. The times, however, are a changing.
Argh! I had modpoints I was going to give you only to find they'd expired. =(
Either way, you've hit the nail square on the head. This would be a great compliment for the EPIA boards, and would further their already strong utility.
For those of us stuck using an actual, windows environment, the windows are a godsend. There are about a half-dozen shortcuts using it that I use on a regular basis, and I nearly go insane when using a machine without them. I've honestly never understood how people 'accidently' hit them so often. I'm a fairly serious gamer, and it's never been an issue for me. Oh well, to each their own.
This is actually starting to change though. I just bought a 128MB memorex player. It advertises itself as fitting "Up to 2 CDs worth of music," which is actually true. I can easily fit two albums ripped at 192kbs on it. Not only that, but they actually give you pretty decent headphones with it. Enough so that I can tell 128kbs and 192kbs tracks apart.
European Escort != US Escort. They're different cars. The original poster was pointing out that the cards that are sold in Europe are built to a more exacting standard than US cars are.
The most blaring example of this is the fact that the car sold in the US as the Acura TSX is nothing more than a standard European Accord. Remember, Acura is supposed to be Honda's luxury line. That should tell you something about the difference in quality of the cars sold in the US versus those sold in Europe.
It is easy for you to hypothesize about what the ideal price point for CDs is, but you have exactly zero facts to go on. If you don't believe that the labels know exactly how the Laffer curve works then you are sadly deluded. Rest assured that they have researched CD pricing in great detail.
Well, I think the problem lies not so much in them knowing where the ideal pricepoint is as it is the fact that they ignore it. The fact that they initially responded to sagging demand by _raising_ prices alone makes me wonder if they truly are willing to grasp reality.
Universal's price drop to $12.98 is a positive sign, but the only reason it ever happened is because file sharing has broken the lock on the distribution channel. Given, it does mean there are people out there who would just pirate it and be done with it, but I honestly don't think they're the majority. Most of the people I know and have talked to are perfectly willing to buy an album, if they think the pricing's fair. Now, the definition of "fair" is debatable, but I think $13 is getting much closer to it than the $18-20 a disc that's pretty much standard now.
Really, I think that the majors might finally be starting to dig themselves out of the hole they created, and I think they're starting to realize that all they've done in the last year or two is piss off consumers. Their recent steps are an improvement, but we'll still have to wait and see if they really end up fixing things or not.
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What? Don't tell me you've never seen this video of the fearless leader Ballmer? Or perhaps this picture of Bill showing off his awesome fashion sense? I don't think you can get much cooler than those guys.
I'd actually be rather surprised to see the UT engine released openly inside of the next year or so. There are still a number of commercial products (IE: the infamous DNF) based on it that have yet to be released. It'd just kind of suck from a PR standpoint for Epic if they started giving away something a dev house spent a lot of money on before they could even get it out the door - all other things aside.
The only time I've seen BitTorrent run slowly were for files with just about no demand. For something like an ISO from a major distro, you should be able to essentially max out your connection. I used the Torrent of the RH9 ISOs when I was visiting a friend at Georgia Tech to test their connection and got something like 880k/s out of it. =)
Really, I thought that was one of the funnier comments in the interview. And it's typical Linus. You'll see he prefaces this with a statement about "I don't really care enough to consider myself to be Microsoft's nemesis." Which is the absolute truth. It wouldn't break his heart to see Microsoft go away, but he's not actively seeking to make it happen either. But just the same, who WOULDN'T want their baby to become the biggest, coolest thing on the block?
Ah, and you've hit on exactly why I've never understood why some people insist on doing that. Well, that and the fact that you're limiting wear on a set of brake pads that cost substantially less than the extra wear you're putting on the clutch by transmission braking since then. =)
This really is nothing more than common sense. As is pointed out, a monoculture of anything is asking for trouble, be it in computers or in agriculture. When there's only one type of target to attack, it's much more vulnerable than a diverse population is. This is a basic concept that extends all the way from basic genetics to the high tech of today - it's just that we occassionally need to be reminded of it, evidently.
Except the x86-64 only dissipates something to the tune of 68W. =)
And there you have the reason why I didn't even bother clicking on the link the Tom's. This kind of garbage is typical, and I promise you, not limited to Mac. I don't know about the tone they took toward s the A64 in this article, but I know when I checked the site on a whim last week, they were displaying the exact same attitude towards the A64 as they did in this article.
Free. =)
Hmmm, you've now given me something to possibly look forward to when I get home tonight. How long ago did you order your's? I've been waiting on mine for about a month now.
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Um or maybe even Windows XP 64bit edition for the Itanium that's been around for a while now?
But if you're in the market for a high end machine, this seems to be the way to go right now. The benchmarks I'm seeing show it outperforming the P4 3.2GHz chip, and from the pricing I've found so far, it's nearly $200 cheaper.
Except you DO get an improvement today. The extra registers, among other things improve 32 bit performance as well. Look at the Athlon 64 numbers compared to the Athlon XP numbers. The A64 is extremely efficient at running 32 bit code.
I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember having read at one point that the Athlon64 would support a dual processor setup. Thinking about it, it makes sense since it's rumored that the AthlonFX line will just be rebranded Opterons anyway. Might be worth checking out.
I agree with you totally on the virtues of AMD64, but there WILL be a lag time between the release of the Athlon64 and native software. Official release date of the A64 is this Tues, Sept 23 (my birthday - works out nicely :) ). Windows XP for AMD64 is slated for sometime after the first of the year, so I honestly wouldn't expect much in the line of native software before then.
Architechture Review Board. AKA: the people who define the OGL API. Generally, OGL works where you have proprietary extensions or the "standard" ARB extension for doing the same thing. I'm not too familiar with OGL2, but I imagine ARB2 is just the "default" set of extensions for OGL2. Given nVidia's performance on DX9 apps so far, it wouldn't surprise me if they did just as poorly with the standard ARB2 set of calls under OGL2.
Really? Funny how I can play literally every game I want right now perfectly fine on my nForce2 based motherboard's onboard video. Somehow, I think (read: know) that a GeForce4 MX chipset is going to seriously outperform a TNT2. In fact, the only reason I'm even planning to buy a seperate video card is because I need DX9 support for some of the newer games like HL2 that are coming soon. But in the meantime, it plays everything from UT2K3, Jedi Knight, Quake III, and on and on perfectly.
A year and a half ago, you'd have had an argument. The times, however, are a changing.
Argh! I had modpoints I was going to give you only to find they'd expired. =( Either way, you've hit the nail square on the head. This would be a great compliment for the EPIA boards, and would further their already strong utility.
For those of us stuck using an actual, windows environment, the windows are a godsend. There are about a half-dozen shortcuts using it that I use on a regular basis, and I nearly go insane when using a machine without them. I've honestly never understood how people 'accidently' hit them so often. I'm a fairly serious gamer, and it's never been an issue for me. Oh well, to each their own.
How is that a standard beige box? The computer itself is a dome with an LCD attached to it. I'd hardly call that a conservative design.
This is actually starting to change though. I just bought a 128MB memorex player. It advertises itself as fitting "Up to 2 CDs worth of music," which is actually true. I can easily fit two albums ripped at 192kbs on it. Not only that, but they actually give you pretty decent headphones with it. Enough so that I can tell 128kbs and 192kbs tracks apart.
=)
The Xenon is 32 bit. You're thinking of the Itanium.
European Escort != US Escort. They're different cars. The original poster was pointing out that the cards that are sold in Europe are built to a more exacting standard than US cars are.
The most blaring example of this is the fact that the car sold in the US as the Acura TSX is nothing more than a standard European Accord. Remember, Acura is supposed to be Honda's luxury line. That should tell you something about the difference in quality of the cars sold in the US versus those sold in Europe.
Well, I think the problem lies not so much in them knowing where the ideal pricepoint is as it is the fact that they ignore it. The fact that they initially responded to sagging demand by _raising_ prices alone makes me wonder if they truly are willing to grasp reality.
Universal's price drop to $12.98 is a positive sign, but the only reason it ever happened is because file sharing has broken the lock on the distribution channel. Given, it does mean there are people out there who would just pirate it and be done with it, but I honestly don't think they're the majority. Most of the people I know and have talked to are perfectly willing to buy an album, if they think the pricing's fair. Now, the definition of "fair" is debatable, but I think $13 is getting much closer to it than the $18-20 a disc that's pretty much standard now.
Really, I think that the majors might finally be starting to dig themselves out of the hole they created, and I think they're starting to realize that all they've done in the last year or two is piss off consumers. Their recent steps are an improvement, but we'll still have to wait and see if they really end up fixing things or not.