From http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/9901/29.upgrad es.shtml
Motorola's solution is more hazy. The company's website claims that AltiVec will be "100% compatible with the industry standard PowerPC architecture," but doesn't say whether processors with the added technology will fit into current ZIF slots.
Will the current blue G3s be able to handle either or both G4 processors? If IBM's roadmap is followed, it would seem most likely since clock-rate increases don't generally mean a radical shift in chip design. Since the Blue G3s are equipped with a ZIF (Zero insertion force) processor slot, a processor with similar size to the current G3s could be easily installed.
Didn't some guy already boot at somewhere around 3.6ghz by overclocking a p4 and using liquid nitro? Somehow this will make the breaking of the 3ghz barrier slightly less impressive.
So they're just changing the name of an awful product to be more like the name of a midly-decent product, and hoping it will increase sales, as far as I can tell. They should realize that the average linux user is probably smart enough to care more about the quality of the distro than what name is slapped on it.
Also, as a side note, how is one supposed to pronounce 'SCOx'? It is like 'Cox' with an s infront of it? Or is it SCO-ex? Maybe "Skokes?"
I haven't heard that many people complaining that DVDs are too small and that we need a more expensive higher-density format. There are plenty of formats out there from various companies with expensive media holding gigs and gigs of data. Most people can't afford DVD+R or DVD-R (or whatever other formats there are), and this doesn't have much use beyond backing up large files. I can't imagine people needing more space than that provided by DVDs for movies or software.
The signal-to-noise ratio in popular music always _seems_ to go down. The cruel reality is that there was always shitty music, and everyone always thought the music of the past was better. It's just that you don't remember the shit music of the past, and you're forced to acknowledge the shit music of the present. Same applies for television and movies and everything else.
I am living proof that file trading effects CD sales. I download mp3s of albums that I otherwise would have purchased. Anyone who claims that filetrading does not affect CD sales has never me me, or any one of the millions of casual mp3 pirates out there like me. Why is this question even worth looking into?
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"So, I started poking around Motorola's site looking for the G4 or my dreams."
I like Motorola's G4 processors, but their dream department leaves something to be desired. I'm glad you went with the former option.
From http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/9901/29.upgrad es.shtml
Motorola's solution is more hazy. The company's website claims that AltiVec will be "100% compatible with the industry standard PowerPC architecture," but doesn't say whether processors with the added technology will fit into current ZIF slots.
Will the current blue G3s be able to handle either or both G4 processors? If IBM's roadmap is followed, it would seem most likely since clock-rate increases don't generally mean a radical shift in chip design. Since the Blue G3s are equipped with a ZIF (Zero insertion force) processor slot, a processor with similar size to the current G3s could be easily installed.
Didn't some guy already boot at somewhere around 3.6ghz by overclocking a p4 and using liquid nitro? Somehow this will make the breaking of the 3ghz barrier slightly less impressive.
So they're just changing the name of an awful product to be more like the name of a midly-decent product, and hoping it will increase sales, as far as I can tell. They should realize that the average linux user is probably smart enough to care more about the quality of the distro than what name is slapped on it. Also, as a side note, how is one supposed to pronounce 'SCOx'? It is like 'Cox' with an s infront of it? Or is it SCO-ex? Maybe "Skokes?"
I haven't heard that many people complaining that DVDs are too small and that we need a more expensive higher-density format. There are plenty of formats out there from various companies with expensive media holding gigs and gigs of data. Most people can't afford DVD+R or DVD-R (or whatever other formats there are), and this doesn't have much use beyond backing up large files. I can't imagine people needing more space than that provided by DVDs for movies or software.
Maybe Slashdot needs "please do my tech support" topic.
The signal-to-noise ratio in popular music always _seems_ to go down. The cruel reality is that there was always shitty music, and everyone always thought the music of the past was better. It's just that you don't remember the shit music of the past, and you're forced to acknowledge the shit music of the present. Same applies for television and movies and everything else.
I am living proof that file trading effects CD sales. I download mp3s of albums that I otherwise would have purchased. Anyone who claims that filetrading does not affect CD sales has never me me, or any one of the millions of casual mp3 pirates out there like me. Why is this question even worth looking into?