Why exactly is this strange? You, as a systems administrator, are there as technical help. You are not directly furthering the goals of the project, rather your job function is to make it easier for those who are directly involved to complete their projects. That might not be the case if you're in the CS or IT department, but it almost certainly is if your group is researching TOKOMAKS.
Apple is adopting Intel, but is not "ditching" IBM.
I'm going to go ahead and disagree with you there, bob. IBM is getting ditched to the extent that it makes economic sense for apple to do. Having designed G5s, built up the infrastructure and an entirely new architecture, it would be ludicrous for apple to drop the G5 immediately. This would be like GM switching from combustion to fuel cell cars all at once - its not gonna happen. It costs SO much more to get a chip line going than it does to make a bunch more chips. That and the fact that G5s are still popular and provide good profit margins is what will keep them around for at least a year.
Apple is basically saying "Ok guys, this was fun, but our new hardware will have intel chips", which is as close to dumping as you get in this industry. You didn't seriously expect Steve Jobs to proclaim "IBM has cooties" and run off to kiss an intel exec on the stage, did you?
I've had it up to here ^ with the muvo2 hacking scene. I can understand people wanting to get 4gb drives for their cameras, but there are some of us who would like to find *intact* muvo2s for sale to (gasp) listen to music on. Most places are usually out of stock because so many people are tearing these apart to put the drives up on ebay. I've seen people on forums trying to sell fifty drive-less muvo2's. Ugh. Guess I'll have to buy an ipod mini.
The section on Pericles, in particular, sounds very interesting. I've drawn parallels between him and other modern leaders before (say, Churchill or Bill Clinton), but an analogy to Bush is not one that was on my list.
As I read The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides seemed to suggest that the populus steered Athens toward its own destruction following the death of Pericles. Bush, on the other hand, is steering the US toward its own destruction while a large segment of the population tries to resist his movements in that direction. As far as I can tell, Bush and Pericles are complete opposites.
Thucydides's message was "Athens + Pericles = success; Athens - Pericles = failure". Maybe the author is a republican.
It appears in a number of his books actually. Another to add to the list is his co-written Songs of Distant Earth. In this, the elevators were used to lift huge blocks of ice from a waterworld type planet to build a space debris shield in front of a colony ship. Somehow it also killed people, though I can't recall what the circumstances were.
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Stop reading drudge. Air America (though terribly pulpy - not nearly up to the level of NPR) was put back on the air, and your favorite tabloidnews website neglected to mention that update.
And you have to admit that Haliburton is pretty damn sketchy. Come on, one company gets the majority of Iraq contracts, without submitting bids, and at higher prices than competitors?
To reply to a number of comments at once, the "controversial" claims in the scientific community are now those which claim global warming is not a problem. It is commonly accepted by virtually everyone but the Bush administration, and those who listen to everything its political allies say.
In response to both you and the parent, this is not the case. By the time G5s shipped in september, intel was shipping 3.2GHz parts. Additionally, opterons were available early on in the summer, 3 months before the G5. Granted, Dell didn't offer opterons (and still doesn't), but that's because Dell doesn't deal with AMD. They were most certainly available before G5s though, by anyone's definition.
1000 1954 dollars would clearly be worth more than 4000 today. According to the CPI from 1800 to 2004, $1000 from 1954 would be worth $(1000)(1/0.144) 2004 dollars, or about $7000/nitpick
A lone researcher did it to make cheap bifocals a few years back. It is an extremely inexpensive way to provide a "one size fits all" pair of glasses for everyone who needs them. No custom lenswork needed - just pump liquid in or out:)
Because the average joe doesn't read tomshardware?
Besides, you'd be surprised what the average joe can get working with an instruction manual and a computer running anything but 98SE.
If you ask me, apple took the wheel design from the original portable MP3 player: The rio pmp300. I've still got mine (from way back when in ~98/99), and it's working beautifully. Anyways, I was comparing it to my girlfriend's ipod, and the control setup is almost exactly the same size, and has the obvious similiarity of consisting of a disc bordered by buttons. The rio is still one of the easiest to use players I've come across, so it wouldn't surprise me in the least if apple smartly took some design cues from the pmp300.
I thought it was interesting that the Digi Fi "hard drive audio player" is clearly built on the same base as the hush PC.
Who is the OEM here, and where can I buy their chassis wholesale? Hush PC is, IMHO, way too expensive (although a great concept). There has to be a Sager equivalent making their stuff. Anyone know?
I agree...heh, the "big" iPod is pretty small as it is. If you look at the tech specs, there really isn't that big of a size difference between the two.
Mini size: 3.6 x 2.0 x 0.5 inches
Big size: 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches
Mini weight: 3.6 ounces
Big weight: 5.6 ounces
-2 ounces and -$50 is not worth losing 11 out of 15 Gb if you ask me.
Nobody was particularly excited about the capacity, features, size, or even potential existence of the new mini iPod - what was hard to believe about the rumor was the supposed sub-$100 price point. This is most certainly not the case. The exciting thing was that it was going to be competing price-wise with 256mb flash players. Now its competition is the other iPods. Good luck with that one apple.
I'm not quite sure I see what you're arguing - almost all the heat is dispensed with through boiling the LN2, and through nitrogen gas escaping the top of the tube. The idea of LN2 cooling is not based on metal-to-air thermal conductance on any level, as any heat lost that way would be insignificant in comparison to the heat dumped out the top of the tube in the form of gas. Additionally, the tube would be very quickly caked with ice, which, I don't need to tell you, is not going to help cooling at all. If anything, the insulation probably kept the tube colder, because the outside air couldn't "warm" it up as much.
The heatsink they used in the base of the copper tube provides a whole lot of flat, (relatively) warm surface area. I'm not sure how easily the LN2 can get down into the base of the heatsink, but it seems to have done O.K. This makes me think they should somehow 'inject' LN2 into the sides of the heatsink. A taller tube placed on the side would provide a pretty good pressure head...
As someone else pointed out, such reliable sources tell you things like "the US is winning in vietnam" in 1973. The publishing industry is very heavily politically oriented. Also, big encyclopedias are often written by a very small number of people - these guys aren't experts; they often just aggregate what's written in other encyclopedias, rephrase it, and put their own political spin on it if needed.
Just think of the torque needed to turn with those guys... they'll be like extra-massive gyroscopes. This is part of the reason that tires are filled with air, rather than solid.
Take a bicycle wheel off a bike, spin it while holding both sides of the axle, and try to turn it to see what I'm talking about.
Actually, right now I've got a P4PE - i845PE chipset, years old, and will still run the latest P4s. Thats because I looked ahead, made sure my board had HT support because the newer P4s would, and made sure it overclocked well to get to the 800MHz fsb of P4 C revision chips.
Seems to me that saves a lot of money over getting an 865/875 board to run a more recent cpu... Hell, at first those boards were over 200 bucks.
I disagree for one reason - upgrade path foresight. Personally, I cannot afford a completely new system every year or two...I have to upgrade incrementally. In order to decide which format to go with (ie, socket A, 478 etc...), I want to know how much headroom a processor architecture has. If I had been buying a p3 system when p3's were in the 900-1000MHz range, I would have been screwed because they never got higher than that (aside from the tualatin versions, which don't go a whole lot higher, and took a long time to release).
Similarly, I knew I was in trouble with my slot A athlon platform because it was obselete not long after its inital release. It only went from 600MHz (high end at initial release) to 1GHz (higest produced). And I could have told you that would be the case as soon as I saw 800MHz parts couldn't be overclocked nearly as much as their ancestors.
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Why exactly is this strange? You, as a systems administrator, are there as technical help. You are not directly furthering the goals of the project, rather your job function is to make it easier for those who are directly involved to complete their projects. That might not be the case if you're in the CS or IT department, but it almost certainly is if your group is researching TOKOMAKS.
Apple is adopting Intel, but is not "ditching" IBM.
I'm going to go ahead and disagree with you there, bob. IBM is getting ditched to the extent that it makes economic sense for apple to do. Having designed G5s, built up the infrastructure and an entirely new architecture, it would be ludicrous for apple to drop the G5 immediately. This would be like GM switching from combustion to fuel cell cars all at once - its not gonna happen. It costs SO much more to get a chip line going than it does to make a bunch more chips. That and the fact that G5s are still popular and provide good profit margins is what will keep them around for at least a year.
Apple is basically saying "Ok guys, this was fun, but our new hardware will have intel chips", which is as close to dumping as you get in this industry. You didn't seriously expect Steve Jobs to proclaim "IBM has cooties" and run off to kiss an intel exec on the stage, did you?
Oh my, if i've ever seen the spitting image of a Nanode, it's the mac mini. More Nanode action here.
I've had it up to here ^ with the muvo2 hacking scene. I can understand people wanting to get 4gb drives for their cameras, but there are some of us who would like to find *intact* muvo2s for sale to (gasp) listen to music on. Most places are usually out of stock because so many people are tearing these apart to put the drives up on ebay. I've seen people on forums trying to sell fifty drive-less muvo2's. Ugh. Guess I'll have to buy an ipod mini.
The section on Pericles, in particular, sounds very interesting. I've drawn parallels between him and other modern leaders before (say, Churchill or Bill Clinton), but an analogy to Bush is not one that was on my list.
As I read The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides seemed to suggest that the populus steered Athens toward its own destruction following the death of Pericles. Bush, on the other hand, is steering the US toward its own destruction while a large segment of the population tries to resist his movements in that direction. As far as I can tell, Bush and Pericles are complete opposites.
Thucydides's message was "Athens + Pericles = success; Athens - Pericles = failure". Maybe the author is a republican.
It appears in a number of his books actually. Another to add to the list is his co-written Songs of Distant Earth. In this, the elevators were used to lift huge blocks of ice from a waterworld type planet to build a space debris shield in front of a colony ship. Somehow it also killed people, though I can't recall what the circumstances were.
Stop reading drudge. Air America (though terribly pulpy - not nearly up to the level of NPR) was put back on the air, and your favorite tabloidnews website neglected to mention that update. And you have to admit that Haliburton is pretty damn sketchy. Come on, one company gets the majority of Iraq contracts, without submitting bids, and at higher prices than competitors? To reply to a number of comments at once, the "controversial" claims in the scientific community are now those which claim global warming is not a problem. It is commonly accepted by virtually everyone but the Bush administration, and those who listen to everything its political allies say.
By whom? I have yet to see any refutation of said page that goes beyond saying "Dude, G5 == love".
However, their scores were inconsistent, even with the index scores stated by the SPEC folks.
In response to both you and the parent, this is not the case. By the time G5s shipped in september, intel was shipping 3.2GHz parts. Additionally, opterons were available early on in the summer, 3 months before the G5. Granted, Dell didn't offer opterons (and still doesn't), but that's because Dell doesn't deal with AMD. They were most certainly available before G5s though, by anyone's definition.
1000 1954 dollars would clearly be worth more than 4000 today. According to the CPI from 1800 to 2004, $1000 from 1954 would be worth $(1000)(1/0.144) 2004 dollars, or about $7000 /nitpick
A lone researcher did it to make cheap bifocals a few years back. It is an extremely inexpensive way to provide a "one size fits all" pair of glasses for everyone who needs them. No custom lenswork needed - just pump liquid in or out :)
Because the average joe doesn't read tomshardware? Besides, you'd be surprised what the average joe can get working with an instruction manual and a computer running anything but 98SE.
If you ask me, apple took the wheel design from the original portable MP3 player: The rio pmp300. I've still got mine (from way back when in ~98/99), and it's working beautifully. Anyways, I was comparing it to my girlfriend's ipod, and the control setup is almost exactly the same size, and has the obvious similiarity of consisting of a disc bordered by buttons. The rio is still one of the easiest to use players I've come across, so it wouldn't surprise me in the least if apple smartly took some design cues from the pmp300.
I thought it was interesting that the Digi Fi "hard drive audio player" is clearly built on the same base as the hush PC. Who is the OEM here, and where can I buy their chassis wholesale? Hush PC is, IMHO, way too expensive (although a great concept). There has to be a Sager equivalent making their stuff. Anyone know?
The Rio Nitrus costs $154. The ipod mini costs ~2/3 more.
I agree...heh, the "big" iPod is pretty small as it is. If you look at the tech specs, there really isn't that big of a size difference between the two. Mini size: 3.6 x 2.0 x 0.5 inches Big size: 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches Mini weight: 3.6 ounces Big weight: 5.6 ounces -2 ounces and -$50 is not worth losing 11 out of 15 Gb if you ask me.
Nobody was particularly excited about the capacity, features, size, or even potential existence of the new mini iPod - what was hard to believe about the rumor was the supposed sub-$100 price point. This is most certainly not the case. The exciting thing was that it was going to be competing price-wise with 256mb flash players. Now its competition is the other iPods. Good luck with that one apple.
I'm not quite sure I see what you're arguing - almost all the heat is dispensed with through boiling the LN2, and through nitrogen gas escaping the top of the tube. The idea of LN2 cooling is not based on metal-to-air thermal conductance on any level, as any heat lost that way would be insignificant in comparison to the heat dumped out the top of the tube in the form of gas. Additionally, the tube would be very quickly caked with ice, which, I don't need to tell you, is not going to help cooling at all. If anything, the insulation probably kept the tube colder, because the outside air couldn't "warm" it up as much.
The heatsink they used in the base of the copper tube provides a whole lot of flat, (relatively) warm surface area. I'm not sure how easily the LN2 can get down into the base of the heatsink, but it seems to have done O.K. This makes me think they should somehow 'inject' LN2 into the sides of the heatsink. A taller tube placed on the side would provide a pretty good pressure head...
Winamp 5 does it. IMHO, it does it much better, too - if nothing else, it does it much quicker...
As someone else pointed out, such reliable sources tell you things like "the US is winning in vietnam" in 1973. The publishing industry is very heavily politically oriented. Also, big encyclopedias are often written by a very small number of people - these guys aren't experts; they often just aggregate what's written in other encyclopedias, rephrase it, and put their own political spin on it if needed.
Just think of the torque needed to turn with those guys... they'll be like extra-massive gyroscopes. This is part of the reason that tires are filled with air, rather than solid.
Take a bicycle wheel off a bike, spin it while holding both sides of the axle, and try to turn it to see what I'm talking about.
Actually, right now I've got a P4PE - i845PE chipset, years old, and will still run the latest P4s. Thats because I looked ahead, made sure my board had HT support because the newer P4s would, and made sure it overclocked well to get to the 800MHz fsb of P4 C revision chips. Seems to me that saves a lot of money over getting an 865/875 board to run a more recent cpu... Hell, at first those boards were over 200 bucks.
I disagree for one reason - upgrade path foresight. Personally, I cannot afford a completely new system every year or two...I have to upgrade incrementally. In order to decide which format to go with (ie, socket A, 478 etc...), I want to know how much headroom a processor architecture has. If I had been buying a p3 system when p3's were in the 900-1000MHz range, I would have been screwed because they never got higher than that (aside from the tualatin versions, which don't go a whole lot higher, and took a long time to release).
Similarly, I knew I was in trouble with my slot A athlon platform because it was obselete not long after its inital release. It only went from 600MHz (high end at initial release) to 1GHz (higest produced). And I could have told you that would be the case as soon as I saw 800MHz parts couldn't be overclocked nearly as much as their ancestors.