This is the result of the pressure that AMD put on Intel. They can no longer afford to spend money on loss-making operations. It would make sense if they got rid of the Itanium as well. Surely it must be redundant now that they have Woodcrest.
I am just trying out the new version... looks like it's still beta quality. The edit boxes have 2 spaces instead of one. For instance when posting this message I see two spaces between each word in the subject edit box. Also Opera can't log in to codeproject (http://www.codeproject.com/)
Now that it has ad blocking there's no need to use Firefox anymore. Finally I have features that work 100% (password manager, download manager) and no need to close down the browser every time the memory usage gets too much
Sorry, but I don't buy that. The price cuts are because Intel is desperate to win back marketshare from AMD, before it's too late. The Conroes are also being offered at a huge discount A Conroe 2.40GHz/4M costs $316, half the price of the equivalant Athlon (the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ cost $645)
With the previous Conroe benchmarks, Intel specified which benchmarks could be run. I wonder if this is also the case in this review, because noticable absent is the SYSmark benchmarks. It is standard practice in biased tests to only include the benchmark where your product does well.
The artical says processor sales overall dropped 52%:
"After Intel stuffed the channels with chips in February and March, the floor fell out in April, and [PC processor] sales dropped 52 percent year-on-year," he added.
The underwriter company that does the IPO guarantees that there will be buyers at the agreed price. Usually they are big clients of the underwriter and they make a pile of money on the IPO, becuase normally a IPO stock shoots up and they in at a price that the normal investors can't buy. In this case the IPO actually went down, so it looks like these same investors want it both ways, to make piles of money when an IPO is sucessful and take no risk when a IPO tanks.
I think the origonal story, which stated that smartphones were unsecure, is total fud. A confirmation dialog box comes up on you screen when some one tries to connect via Bluetooth (and most people have bluetooth switched off anyways, becuase it consumes power), so really this virus would never have a chance to spread in real life and only seems to serve the purpose as a scare story
"it might not be a bad idea to have an honorable mention "collection" entry and include all of the horrible Windows versions.... (95, CE, ME, NT)"... that list is a bit incomplete: you forgot Windows XP and Vista
Ha, ha! Maybe you should follow your own advice. If you actually had *read* the google links that you posted, the 2nd one says:
"THERE IS NO MAGIC ANSWER FOR DEALING WITH UK RADIOACTIVE WASTE SAYS WATCHDOG
RWMAC Press Release - 3 December 2003
For many decades there has been the suggestion that the nuclear industry can largely solve the problem of long-term management of its radioactive waste by using chemical and nuclear technologies to transform dangerous, long-lived wastes into shorter-lived, less harmful forms. This process is known as partitioning and transmutation. However, a report of a study commissioned by Ministers from the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC) finds that this cannot, in practice, provide the answer to the UK's radioactive waste problems."
Fission power produces low radioactive waste which can be buried and also high radioactive waste (cesium-137 and strontium-90) which is too radioactive to be buried (they give off enough heat to boil ground water into steam. Steam could corrode the containers or break up surrounding rock, raising uncertainty about secure burial.) The cesium and strontium has to be kept in a storage pool that circulates cooling water for 150 years, before they cool down enough to be able to be buried. http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx? ch=biztech&sc=&id=13992&pg=1
Both fission and fusion produce neutrons as well, which makes the reaction chamber radioactive and means that the power plant has to be buried after it's decommisioned
I've being using Anti-vir for a long time and it's fine, but the auto-update feature has never worked very well. The ealier versions basically just were downloading the whole installation program and reinstalling it again, but it always asks the same questions as if it was a fresh install. They reciently had a new version, where the auto-updater seems to crash the running version of Antivir and it never gets started again. And finally the latest version comes up with some uncomprehensible message about updating a license. I am going to dump it and try out AVG to see if it's any less annoying
Agreed completely. Unfortunately because of their hysterical paranoia they cripple a lot of technology unnessecarily. Take, for instance, the JSR-75 API which allows a midlet to read and write files on the phone. This API is mostly unusable because of confirmation dialogs that appear for each and every operation - unless you buy a number of expensive certificates. The confirmation dialogs appear even for *read* access of file - there's no way a midlet can possible do any harm by reading files.
I don't even see any proper specs for MIDP 3.0, let allown source code. For instance, what new graphical functions are going to be in MIDP 3.0? " Enable richer and higher performance games"...is all it says. Seems like just mouth service with no beef behind it
The math routine libraries take a tiny amount of space... all you need is sqrt, cos, sin and arc tan... that's just a few bytes (actually I don't think CDLC 1.1 even has arc tan)
You can easily survive without CDLC 1.1, if you know a bit of maths. And there are some free fixed point libraries available as well. Suriviving without oo is a different matter, for small games no problem, but with a big code base you're going to have a horrible time. Of course, if you're only developing for mid and high end phones you don't need to take such drastic steps.
Whoever made that statement was off his mind. There is no such thing as writing cross platform software without testing and debugging on each platform. The point is that Java is mostly portable, there's no perfect solution - but it's a hunderd times better than the alternatives.
Fixfox and mozilla are unable to resume downloads across sessions. In other words if you have to reboot the PC for any reason, you will have to start that 300mb download from scratch. This bug has been outstanding for several years. There are numerous other missing features in the download manager, just compare to the download manager in Opera.
I think the main reason for manufactures staying away from it was that the earlier versions being so poor. Also fear of dealing with Microsoft also has something to do with it ( after what they did to Sendo). I seriously doubt Microsoft will ever make a comeback in the mobile world.
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This is the result of the pressure that AMD put on Intel. They can no longer afford to spend money on loss-making operations. It would make sense if they got rid of the Itanium as well. Surely it must be redundant now that they have Woodcrest.
Depends on what metric you use. The US beats the EU hands down in terms of national debt ;)
I am just trying out the new version... looks like it's still beta quality. The edit boxes have 2 spaces instead of one. For instance when posting this message I see two spaces between each word in the subject edit box.
Also Opera can't log in to codeproject (http://www.codeproject.com/)
Now that it has ad blocking there's no need to use Firefox anymore. Finally I have features that work 100% (password manager, download manager) and no need to close down the browser every time the memory usage gets too much
Sorry, but I don't buy that. The price cuts are because Intel is desperate to win back marketshare from AMD, before it's too late.
The Conroes are also being offered at a huge discount
A Conroe 2.40GHz/4M costs $316, half the price of the equivalant Athlon (the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ cost $645)
With the previous Conroe benchmarks, Intel specified which benchmarks could be run. I wonder if this is also the case in this review, because noticable absent is the SYSmark benchmarks.
It is standard practice in biased tests to only include the benchmark where your product does well.
The artical says processor sales overall dropped 52%:
"After Intel stuffed the channels with chips in February and March, the floor fell out in April, and [PC processor] sales dropped 52 percent year-on-year," he added.
So, this looks bad for AMD as well
Intel choose the benchmarks where conroe preformed better than AMD and suppressed the ones that didn't. This is standard procedure in biased tests.
The underwriter company that does the IPO guarantees that there will be buyers at the agreed price. Usually they are big clients of the underwriter and they make a pile of money on the IPO, becuase normally a IPO stock shoots up and they in at a price that the normal investors can't buy.
In this case the IPO actually went down, so it looks like these same investors want it both ways, to make piles of money when an IPO is sucessful and take no risk when a IPO tanks.
I think the origonal story, which stated that smartphones were unsecure, is total fud. A confirmation dialog box comes up on you screen when some one tries to connect via Bluetooth (and most people have bluetooth switched off anyways, becuase it consumes power), so really this virus would never have a chance to spread in real life and only seems to serve the purpose as a scare story
"Vista isn't out yet" ... yes, but I have faith in Microsoft ;)
"it might not be a bad idea to have an honorable mention "collection" entry and include all of the horrible Windows versions.... (95, CE, ME, NT)" ... that list is a bit incomplete: you forgot Windows XP and Vista
Ha, ha! Maybe you should follow your own advice. If you actually had *read* the google links that you posted, the 2nd one says:
"THERE IS NO MAGIC ANSWER FOR DEALING WITH UK RADIOACTIVE WASTE SAYS WATCHDOG
RWMAC Press Release - 3 December 2003
For many decades there has been the suggestion that the nuclear industry can largely solve the problem of long-term management of its radioactive waste by using chemical and nuclear technologies to transform dangerous, long-lived wastes into shorter-lived, less harmful forms. This process is known as partitioning and transmutation. However, a report of a study commissioned by Ministers from the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC) finds that this cannot, in practice, provide the answer to the UK's radioactive waste problems."
In case you don't already know here's the advantage of Fusion power over fision: The waste product.
? ch=biztech&sc=&id=13992&pg=1
D-T fuel cycle Fusion produces Helium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power
Fission power produces low radioactive waste which can be buried
and also high radioactive waste (cesium-137 and strontium-90) which is too radioactive to be buried (they give off enough heat to boil ground water into steam. Steam could corrode the containers or break up surrounding rock, raising uncertainty about secure burial.)
The cesium and strontium has to be kept in a storage pool that circulates cooling water for 150 years, before they cool down enough to be able to be buried.
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx
Both fission and fusion produce neutrons as well, which makes the reaction chamber radioactive and means that the power plant has to be buried after it's decommisioned
I've being using Anti-vir for a long time and it's fine, but the auto-update feature has never worked very well. The ealier versions basically just were downloading the whole installation program and reinstalling it again, but it always asks the same questions as if it was a fresh install.
They reciently had a new version, where the auto-updater seems to crash the running version of Antivir and it never gets started again.
And finally the latest version comes up with some uncomprehensible message about updating a license.
I am going to dump it and try out AVG to see if it's any less annoying
Unfortunately Fastcache doesn't work on Windows 2000, becuase the network configuration dialog won't let you enter 127.0.0.1 for DNS server.
Agreed completely.
Unfortunately because of their hysterical paranoia they cripple a lot of technology unnessecarily. Take, for instance, the JSR-75 API which allows a midlet to read and write files on the phone. This API is mostly unusable because of confirmation dialogs that appear for each and every operation - unless you buy a number of expensive certificates. The confirmation dialogs appear even for *read* access of file - there's no way a midlet can possible do any harm by reading files.
I don't even see any proper specs for MIDP 3.0, let allown source code. ...is all it says.
For instance, what new graphical functions are going to be in MIDP 3.0?
" Enable richer and higher performance games"
Seems like just mouth service with no beef behind it
The math routine libraries take a tiny amount of space ... all you need is sqrt, cos, sin and arc tan... that's just a few bytes (actually I don't think CDLC 1.1 even has arc tan)
You can easily survive without CDLC 1.1, if you know a bit of maths. And there are some free fixed point libraries available as well.
Suriviving without oo is a different matter, for small games no problem, but with a big code base you're going to have a horrible time. Of course, if you're only developing for mid and high end phones you don't need to take such drastic steps.
Whoever made that statement was off his mind. There is no such thing as writing cross platform software without testing and debugging on each platform.
The point is that Java is mostly portable, there's no perfect solution - but it's a hunderd times better than the alternatives.
Fixfox and mozilla are unable to resume downloads across sessions. In other words if you have to reboot the PC for any reason, you will have to start that 300mb download from scratch.
This bug has been outstanding for several years.
There are numerous other missing features in the download manager, just compare to the download manager in Opera.
I heard they do very interesting experiments on the effects of zero gravity on bees. What more do you want?
I think the main reason for manufactures staying away from it was that the earlier versions being so poor. Also fear of dealing with Microsoft also has something to do with it ( after what they did to Sendo).
I seriously doubt Microsoft will ever make a comeback in the mobile world.
This is just a variation of the Firefox AdSense Referral Program (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/19678) .
The disadvantage: You have to put google adds on your website.
It's not clear, but I think users also have to install the google toolbar