Re:Opteron Benchmarks, not Athlon 64
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144's are at $450. Probably best to compare A64 price to the single-proc. Opteron...
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The top end chip might be in the $600 dollar range, but the cheaper chips will be significantly less than that.
For comparison, the 1.8GHz Opterons are in the $460 range on Pricewatch. So the A64's will have to be somewhat lower than that in price. (Unless they skip 1.8 altogether)
Also, for many benchmarks, dual-channel memory isn't that important. What is most important with the A64's (and Opterons) for desktop application speed is the on-chip memory controller. This gives these chips dramatically lower latency. So, we can still expect the low end A64's to be good in many, many applications - including games, I think.
Yeah, my first thought was that I had suddenly aged by about a decade! I remember the launch was sometime during my primary school days... so the math didn't quite add up. Perhaps once R&D time is included it gets up to 3 decades (rounded up)?
Could one of the hams (is that the term?) on slashdot answer this basic question:
Legally, am I required to have a Ham radio license to use those handheld ham radios at Radio Shack? After reading a couple of articles on Slashdot about the usefulness of a ham radio in areas where cellphone networks are nowhere to be found, I've been considering getting one for the car.
Alternately, how "hard" is it to get a license? I almost wish I had taken the test when it was offered in my highschool electronics class... I thought it was a little too geeky at the time. Guess I've grown up/grown geeky. =)
My quote was probably a little too brief. The author claims that both counties were using the exact same make and model of voting equipment. The only difference was in how the machines were configured. "Eat spoiled ballots" in one area, and "Ask user to fix" in another.
but the best trojans make OUTGOING connections to IRC or other systems. So, assuming that your NAT functions as advertised, your network is protected from all remote attacks. However, if an internal machine gets a virus or trojan through email or installing bugged software, you still have a serious security problem. NAT's by default, let internal machines make any connections to the outside that they want.
So, turn on or add a firewall if you really are concerned. Not that that's a 100% solution either...
I just read the first few pages. I may or may not read some more of it later.
I haven't decided if I believe it or not, yet. But it definitely is an interesting read.
This interesting quote (pg. 18) should be easy enough to verify:
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mention that in white Leon County, machines automatically
kicked back faulty ballots for voter correction; whereas in
Gadsden County, very Black, the same machines were
programmed to eat mismarked ballots.
I'll take the GPL license for readability any day over just about any commercial license. It's not that long really, 2-3 pages?
The average EULA for say, Windows, or even some websites is easily twice that in length - and often squished into awful little scrolling windows that make it impossible to read.
but I'm in Vancouver. Thanks to a long lasting price war between A&B Sound (our local audio chain) and Future Shop (who also happened to start out West, I think) our CD prices are among the lowest in North America.
Make your own webpage, it doesn't have to be complex. As long as your document uses the keywords that people will google for, people will generally be able to find your page. You would need to get a couple outside links to make sure the search engines index the page, though. Using your homepage URL in your Slashdot profile will suffice.
It's amazing what happens when obscure words get posted on the web. I get dozens of hits a day on my personal online dumping grounds for a variety of search terms.
Incorporating a small corporation that is all owned "in the family" is fairly easy (at least in my part of the world, BC, Canada). You can probably do it yourself with an inexpensive "How to Incorporate" type booklet + package from Staples or Office Depot.
Since it's all in the family, you don't need to get a lawyer to teach you about dispute resolution, director selection, etc. Besides, if in the future your company grows, you can rewrite the rules of your company (and pay the associated lawyer fees) later.
Incorporating early will give you (some) liability protection. So do it. Who knows what kind of nonsense will happen with your first client!
Yeah, taxes will be extra work. But the flip side is that you can write off expenses a little more... safely.
I wonder if anyone will be clever enough to make upgrades for exisiting laptops. I supposed they'd have to cut off the "recharge" lines, but otherwise I suspect it would be theoretically possible.
I also hope this won't discourage manufacturers from using less power! These fuel cell powered laptops will still need to spit out the same amount of heat (possibly more, with the fuel cell?). We need less power consumption in laptops...
I doubt we'll see the end of pressed DVD's anytime soon.
Just an hour ago, I discovered a couple of the CDRW's in my backup rotation that are now dead to the world. Not encouraging for the world of online distribution. I suppose people could keep stuff on hard drives and flash, but those are not uniformly long-lived either.
So I suspect DVD's will be around for quite a while, if not them, then some higher-density format. Maybe something that is HDTV quality...
Just as a (very) rough point-of-reference, Nvidia spends about $57M a quarter on research and development, according to Yahoo!Finance. Granted, a lot of this cost is related to reference board designs and multiple generations and lines of chips so it's not a perfect comparison. Still, my point is that current high-end graphics technology is expensive to develop and getting more expensive every year.
It could make a lot of sense for Sony to license some IP. I agree, that they're quite unlikely to purchase "chips" from nVidia. Sony would probably want to keep the option of integrating everything into fewer chips in the future.
This seems like a good idea to me. There is bound to be a market for quick, specialized, porting services to Linux. A lot of companies are looking at moving to Linux on at least some of their desktops but in many cases there are one or two in-house or 3rd party niche software products that will prevent migration from happening. For in-house products, it might not make financial sense to rewrite the program. And smaller niche software houses often don't have the time or the Linux market size for their products to justify a "proper" port.
Enter a firm like Aclerex who comes along and says "we can port this for x dollars", suddenly a lot of migration plans fall into place.
Of course this all depends on the cost and effectiveness of the folks at Aclerex.
Sorry to say it, but from a quick glance, there doesn't seem to be anything special about your software. Whatever you think is most unique, you should probably emphasize more strongly.
Maybe you should try and hook up with some smaller digicam or scanner manufacturers to bundle your software. I have no idea what kind of revenue ACDSee gets from each unit, but their software seems to be included with a lot of gear. High volume, probably low unit revenue, but definitely good for getting your name out there and you get a few bucks to boot.
Just a shot in the dark, but maybe having an instant backup will allow them to reliably start up the backup generators? If the backups are gas driven, they could easily get cranky (no pun intended) if the power fails and the heat goes out.
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144's are at $450. Probably best to compare A64 price to the single-proc. Opteron...
The top end chip might be in the $600 dollar range, but the cheaper chips will be significantly less than that.
For comparison, the 1.8GHz Opterons are in the $460 range on Pricewatch. So the A64's will have to be somewhat lower than that in price. (Unless they skip 1.8 altogether)
Also, for many benchmarks, dual-channel memory isn't that important. What is most important with the A64's (and Opterons) for desktop application speed is the on-chip memory controller. This gives these chips dramatically lower latency. So, we can still expect the low end A64's to be good in many, many applications - including games, I think.
True.
Mind you if RIAA managed to keep the prOn out of my email, I'd thank them! Yes, I'm having a bad spam day...
Yeah, my first thought was that I had suddenly aged by about a decade! I remember the launch was sometime during my primary school days... so the math didn't quite add up. Perhaps once R&D time is included it gets up to 3 decades (rounded up)?
Could one of the hams (is that the term?) on slashdot answer this basic question:
Legally, am I required to have a Ham radio license to use those handheld ham radios at Radio Shack? After reading a couple of articles on Slashdot about the usefulness of a ham radio in areas where cellphone networks are nowhere to be found, I've been considering getting one for the car.
Alternately, how "hard" is it to get a license? I almost wish I had taken the test when it was offered in my highschool electronics class... I thought it was a little too geeky at the time. Guess I've grown up/grown geeky. =)
My quote was probably a little too brief. The author claims that both counties were using the exact same make and model of voting equipment. The only difference was in how the machines were configured. "Eat spoiled ballots" in one area, and "Ask user to fix" in another.
but the best trojans make OUTGOING connections to IRC or other systems. So, assuming that your NAT functions as advertised, your network is protected from all remote attacks. However, if an internal machine gets a virus or trojan through email or installing bugged software, you still have a serious security problem. NAT's by default, let internal machines make any connections to the outside that they want.
So, turn on or add a firewall if you really are concerned. Not that that's a 100% solution either...
I haven't decided if I believe it or not, yet. But it definitely is an interesting read.
This interesting quote (pg. 18) should be easy enough to verify:
Anyone happen to know if this is true?
I'll take the GPL license for readability any day over just about any commercial license. It's not that long really, 2-3 pages?
The average EULA for say, Windows, or even some websites is easily twice that in length - and often squished into awful little scrolling windows that make it impossible to read.
but I'm in Vancouver. Thanks to a long lasting price war between A&B Sound (our local audio chain) and Future Shop (who also happened to start out West, I think) our CD prices are among the lowest in North America.
$14-15 CAD is pretty common for the new stuff.
Always waiting for that virtual world to show up... Various obligatory jokes withheld.
I wonder if they'll toss in PDA functions with a Palm OS emulator... good way to get these sold to businesses.
"It's for business use, really!"
Make your own webpage, it doesn't have to be complex. As long as your document uses the keywords that people will google for, people will generally be able to find your page. You would need to get a couple outside links to make sure the search engines index the page, though. Using your homepage URL in your Slashdot profile will suffice.
It's amazing what happens when obscure words get posted on the web. I get dozens of hits a day on my personal online dumping grounds for a variety of search terms.
Incorporating a small corporation that is all owned "in the family" is fairly easy (at least in my part of the world, BC, Canada). You can probably do it yourself with an inexpensive "How to Incorporate" type booklet + package from Staples or Office Depot.
... safely.
Since it's all in the family, you don't need to get a lawyer to teach you about dispute resolution, director selection, etc. Besides, if in the future your company grows, you can rewrite the rules of your company (and pay the associated lawyer fees) later.
Incorporating early will give you (some) liability protection. So do it. Who knows what kind of nonsense will happen with your first client!
Yeah, taxes will be extra work. But the flip side is that you can write off expenses a little more
Well, it's slashdotted now...
Did anyone have the page text, or put up a mirror? =)
I wonder if anyone will be clever enough to make upgrades for exisiting laptops. I supposed they'd have to cut off the "recharge" lines, but otherwise I suspect it would be theoretically possible.
I also hope this won't discourage manufacturers from using less power! These fuel cell powered laptops will still need to spit out the same amount of heat (possibly more, with the fuel cell?). We need less power consumption in laptops...
I doubt we'll see the end of pressed DVD's anytime soon.
Just an hour ago, I discovered a couple of the CDRW's in my backup rotation that are now dead to the world. Not encouraging for the world of online distribution. I suppose people could keep stuff on hard drives and flash, but those are not uniformly long-lived either.
So I suspect DVD's will be around for quite a while, if not them, then some higher-density format. Maybe something that is HDTV quality...
Just as a (very) rough point-of-reference, Nvidia spends about $57M a quarter on research and development, according to Yahoo!Finance. Granted, a lot of this cost is related to reference board designs and multiple generations and lines of chips so it's not a perfect comparison. Still, my point is that current high-end graphics technology is expensive to develop and getting more expensive every year.
It could make a lot of sense for Sony to license some IP. I agree, that they're quite unlikely to purchase "chips" from nVidia. Sony would probably want to keep the option of integrating everything into fewer chips in the future.
This seems like a good idea to me. There is bound to be a market for quick, specialized, porting services to Linux. A lot of companies are looking at moving to Linux on at least some of their desktops but in many cases there are one or two in-house or 3rd party niche software products that will prevent migration from happening. For in-house products, it might not make financial sense to rewrite the program. And smaller niche software houses often don't have the time or the Linux market size for their products to justify a "proper" port.
Enter a firm like Aclerex who comes along and says "we can port this for x dollars", suddenly a lot of migration plans fall into place.
Of course this all depends on the cost and effectiveness of the folks at Aclerex.
Yeah, without oxygen, stuff doesn't decompose very well. Landfills will be treasure troves for archeolgists in a couple of centuries.
You're right, at least paper can be recycled. It isn't done with CD's, that I know of...
Sorry to say it, but from a quick glance, there doesn't seem to be anything special about your software. Whatever you think is most unique, you should probably emphasize more strongly.
Maybe you should try and hook up with some smaller digicam or scanner manufacturers to bundle your software. I have no idea what kind of revenue ACDSee gets from each unit, but their software seems to be included with a lot of gear. High volume, probably low unit revenue, but definitely good for getting your name out there and you get a few bucks to boot.
This rather reminds me of HowStuffWorks.com - I've just noticed that they have done a site redesign. A whole lot of neat documents there...
Just a shot in the dark, but maybe having an instant backup will allow them to reliably start up the backup generators? If the backups are gas driven, they could easily get cranky (no pun intended) if the power fails and the heat goes out.
What? Why would anyone ever check the links? =)
In the editor's defence, there's so much science jargon in this article, that with a cursory glance it's easy miss the fact that it's a dupe.
I'd love to see (highly accelerated) movies of these in action!
I wonder if there are any groups working on similar, ground-based, technologies? I'm sure there are, but I'm too lazy to google right now...