Actually, the lower voltage Mobile Barton models run on 35W, albeit they don't perform as well per clock as a P-M or A64. The Low voltage A64s, on the other hand, guzzle around 30W to 40W but you have to keep in mind that the memory controller is on the chip as well. On a Pentium M setup, the chipset will be using more power as the mem controller is still on the northbridge so overall system power consumption will be close enough that you wouldn't notice on a desktop system.
He brings balance to the force because it was unbalanced int he favor of the jedi before. There were 2 sith compared to hundreds of jedi. Afterwards, there were 2 jedi left that we officially know about from the movie and 2 sith. Hence they are balanced.
The problem with that is that HT mainly helps with multiple threads that use different execution units on the CPU. There is still only one set of execution units on a P4 with HT.
In general I would agree with the OP that convergence devices usually are not anywhere near as nice as the individual products they are designed to replace. Mainly this is due to the interface. You can try to shoehorn a PDA into a cellphone, but when it comes down to it, the interfaces one would want to use for each of the these devices are completely at odds with each other. This is why such multifunction devices are either PDAs that are horrible bricks of a phone, or cellphones that are worthless as PDAs.
MP3 players, however, could have their interface adapted to be pretty useable on a cell-phone device. The only design issues are storage and battery life, both of which I think could be addressed with currently available technology or stuff that is in development right now. The smaller flash-based players already do fine with tiny interfaces and if designed correctly you should be able to get your music playing with a minimum of key presses.
The Grandparent poster had it right. Public key-based systems would be very vulnerable to being cracked by quantum computing. By their very nature, the public key has to be known by all and they work on the principle that it would take prohibitively long to brute force the corresponding private key (Millions and millions of years with a supercomputer or a huge distributed network). Quantum computing would really screw that up and we would have a lot of critical security systems that would need to be replaced quickly if someone develops practical quantum computing.
From looking up specs on Falcon 4, it looks like it's only DirectX5.0 or so compatible. So you don't have hardware transform and lighting or any of the more modern stuff that GPUs can do now. Of course it will bring a modern computer to it's knees as CPU's are generally sucky at doing all those nice vector-type calculations GPUs are so specialized at. Not to bring down falcon 4, I remember my uncle introducing me to computer games with the falcon series when I was about 10 or so.
The other side to your argument is that producing a show with the special effects of farscape, etc doesn't HAVE to cost a million dollars, it merely does with current techniques/business bureacracy.
Regular Bartons are also multiplier locked, however, and the multiplier cannot be changed via BIOS. Mobile chips have remained unlocked, mainly because the powerNow feature requires itself to be able to change the multiplier. Also, I don't recall any bartons being produced with SOI. Mobile Bartons are phycsically the same as desktop barton cores.
It's probably not the 4x AGP, but the AthlonXP 2600+ and it's (relative to the P4 and A64) weak memory bandwith that holding back your performance. If it is a 2600+ you are running is it a 333FSb or 400FSB chip?
So for you those of you that have experience with all these filesystems, which would be the best for storing "vast" amounts of multimedia files? Coming from the windows side, NTFS sucks once you start getting something like 100 to 200GB of video files on one partition. Would reiserFS on a linux box fare much better for that type of application?
6 month product cycles have been common for most digital camera manufacturers for the last 4 or 5 years. It's really only in the last 2 years have they slowed down around the 4 and 5 megapixel range and some models(I.E. the Canon A60/A70/A80) have stuck around for a while. Typically, there is a summer refresh in april or so and another in october/november to prepare for x-mas.
I once worked with a guy who had a few cameo appearances on Star Trek: TNG.(He was the waiter in the bar in the episode with scotty and he was the disposable red uniformed ensign in a few episodes) He still gets royalty checks when they rerun episodes.
No it just means that it is not available for multiple OSes. Let me put it this way, Shareaza is better enough than the other P2P solutions that it is the sole reason I haven't migrated my file/download server off XP and onto mandrake or debian.
The PR rating was introduced when willamette was still the current P4 core. The suceeding northwood cores improved per clock performance enough that the PR rating was no longer accurate compared to Northwood Cs(800Mhz FSB).
You're also assuming your non techie neighbors understand that their bandwith is shared among the node. I doubt most of them do unless they had a techie friend who told them and they actually remembered it.
All Athlons support MMX. Palamino core Athlons and later support SSE. SSe2 is present in opterons and Athlon64s. Intel and AMD have a cross licensing agreement for x86 and related tech that goes back to the days of the 8088.
I think thats a budget issue concercing the fact that most hospitals can't afford to upgrade to more modern machines and in many areas are probably still running pentium era machines. Newer machines with the ability to burn CDs in this case would eliminate quite a few of their storage problems. Remember, if they have computers that old still, they probably have hard drives of less than 3GBs. I suppose that MRI and CT scans are rather large images, but they still ought to fit on an economical amount of CDs I would think.
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Actually, the lower voltage Mobile Barton models run on 35W, albeit they don't perform as well per clock as a P-M or A64. The Low voltage A64s, on the other hand, guzzle around 30W to 40W but you have to keep in mind that the memory controller is on the chip as well. On a Pentium M setup, the chipset will be using more power as the mem controller is still on the northbridge so overall system power consumption will be close enough that you wouldn't notice on a desktop system.
Because the treaty was biased in favor of Russia and China as it declared them "developing" countries and penalized them less.
He brings balance to the force because it was unbalanced int he favor of the jedi before. There were 2 sith compared to hundreds of jedi. Afterwards, there were 2 jedi left that we officially know about from the movie and 2 sith. Hence they are balanced.
... on a bitboys video card
How many 12 year olds have a state issued ID? This system is purportedly being used to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate content somehow.
The problem with that is that HT mainly helps with multiple threads that use different execution units on the CPU. There is still only one set of execution units on a P4 with HT.
In general I would agree with the OP that convergence devices usually are not anywhere near as nice as the individual products they are designed to replace. Mainly this is due to the interface. You can try to shoehorn a PDA into a cellphone, but when it comes down to it, the interfaces one would want to use for each of the these devices are completely at odds with each other. This is why such multifunction devices are either PDAs that are horrible bricks of a phone, or cellphones that are worthless as PDAs.
MP3 players, however, could have their interface adapted to be pretty useable on a cell-phone device. The only design issues are storage and battery life, both of which I think could be addressed with currently available technology or stuff that is in development right now. The smaller flash-based players already do fine with tiny interfaces and if designed correctly you should be able to get your music playing with a minimum of key presses.
The Grandparent poster had it right. Public key-based systems would be very vulnerable to being cracked by quantum computing. By their very nature, the public key has to be known by all and they work on the principle that it would take prohibitively long to brute force the corresponding private key (Millions and millions of years with a supercomputer or a huge distributed network). Quantum computing would really screw that up and we would have a lot of critical security systems that would need to be replaced quickly if someone develops practical quantum computing.
From looking up specs on Falcon 4, it looks like it's only DirectX5.0 or so compatible. So you don't have hardware transform and lighting or any of the more modern stuff that GPUs can do now. Of course it will bring a modern computer to it's knees as CPU's are generally sucky at doing all those nice vector-type calculations GPUs are so specialized at. Not to bring down falcon 4, I remember my uncle introducing me to computer games with the falcon series when I was about 10 or so.
I think thermite is a carcinogen.
Actually, Full size ATX (not E-ATX) can accomodate 2 cpu sockets. My MSI K7D dual athlon board fits snugly into a standard ATX midtower.
The other side to your argument is that producing a show with the special effects of farscape, etc doesn't HAVE to cost a million dollars, it merely does with current techniques/business bureacracy.
Regular Bartons are also multiplier locked, however, and the multiplier cannot be changed via BIOS. Mobile chips have remained unlocked, mainly because the powerNow feature requires itself to be able to change the multiplier. Also, I don't recall any bartons being produced with SOI. Mobile Bartons are phycsically the same as desktop barton cores.
It's probably not the 4x AGP, but the AthlonXP 2600+ and it's (relative to the P4 and A64) weak memory bandwith that holding back your performance. If it is a 2600+ you are running is it a 333FSb or 400FSB chip?
So for you those of you that have experience with all these filesystems, which would be the best for storing "vast" amounts of multimedia files? Coming from the windows side, NTFS sucks once you start getting something like 100 to 200GB of video files on one partition. Would reiserFS on a linux box fare much better for that type of application?
6 month product cycles have been common for most digital camera manufacturers for the last 4 or 5 years. It's really only in the last 2 years have they slowed down around the 4 and 5 megapixel range and some models(I.E. the Canon A60/A70/A80) have stuck around for a while. Typically, there is a summer refresh in april or so and another in october/november to prepare for x-mas.
I once worked with a guy who had a few cameo appearances on Star Trek: TNG.(He was the waiter in the bar in the episode with scotty and he was the disposable red uniformed ensign in a few episodes) He still gets royalty checks when they rerun episodes.
You do realize that the sempron will be a regular athlon64 with features disabled? I.E. some of the L2 cache or the "64-bitness".
No it just means that it is not available for multiple OSes. Let me put it this way, Shareaza is better enough than the other P2P solutions that it is the sole reason I haven't migrated my file/download server off XP and onto mandrake or debian.
The PR rating was introduced when willamette was still the current P4 core. The suceeding northwood cores improved per clock performance enough that the PR rating was no longer accurate compared to Northwood Cs(800Mhz FSB).
They reverse-engineered the BIOS of the original PC and established the close market.
You're also assuming your non techie neighbors understand that their bandwith is shared among the node. I doubt most of them do unless they had a techie friend who told them and they actually remembered it.
All Athlons support MMX. Palamino core Athlons and later support SSE. SSe2 is present in opterons and Athlon64s. Intel and AMD have a cross licensing agreement for x86 and related tech that goes back to the days of the 8088.
I think thats a budget issue concercing the fact that most hospitals can't afford to upgrade to more modern machines and in many areas are probably still running pentium era machines. Newer machines with the ability to burn CDs in this case would eliminate quite a few of their storage problems. Remember, if they have computers that old still, they probably have hard drives of less than 3GBs. I suppose that MRI and CT scans are rather large images, but they still ought to fit on an economical amount of CDs I would think.
Yes and they also would not be able to exist without society.