These days, the chipsets provide features, NOT performance. As far as raw processing horsepower, the chipset is not even involved! For a benchmark which relies on a lot of disk I/O, I could see it making a difference (as chipsets provide the SATA/PATA interfaces). Check out the nForce 4 review. You will find that there is only about a 1% difference between different chipsets.
If everything else is equal, a 32bit system will out perform a 64bit system becuase it can address smaller memory blocks.
Huh??? This makes absolutely no sense. I know a bit about processor architecture. Going to a 64 bit address does mean that your instruction set must now allow for longer addresses, which MIGHT impact performance, but I can think of tricks to overcome this.
Intel has had memory controlers that allow up to 12GB of RAM on their Xeon systems for years. In addition, while yes a 64bit AMD system will support more then 4GB of ram, most of them have four DIMM slots. So unless your willing to pay an arm and a leg for 2GB memory sticks, your still stuck with 4GB.
True. But for Xeon, dump ALL of your existing software. Few apps, no games. Your point about memory prices is well taken. In a sense, I agree. There is little to be gained RIGHT NOW from 64 bits. But RAM prices will fall, software will bloat, and in 5 years, 4GB will be an entry-level $399 system from eMachines.
Jumping up to 64 bits now adds very little to the cost of the system (performance-wise, compared to a similar system from Intel), and means that you are ready for 64-bit software when it arrives, instead of having to upgrade later.
First, I am talking about x86 world here. Almost all games run on a Windows. Mapping software for my GPS runs on Windows. I am stuck with Windows (even if I dual-boot).
Second, a 32-bit processor is limited to 4GB of memory. I have 1/4 of that in my system right now. I can easily forsee that 4GB will be standard in about two to three years. To go further than that will REQUIRE 64 bits, unless you want to go to some goofy paging systems like we used to have to do back in the 80's.
Third, for some applications, 64 bits speeds things up a LOT. At the very least, the extra registers in 64-bit mode mean fewer loads and stores, which speeds things up.
Well, in a way I do. They certainly are biased towards AMD, but only in the sense that AMD generally offers better value for the money, and is the only way to get 64 bits (right now). I bet if given the choice between a thousand dollars or a kick in the head, they would be biased toward the money;)
All Intel has given us lately is a new extra-fragile socket, and PCI express (but good luck finding a PCI express vid card). In short, ho-hum. In a year or two, PCI express will be a good thing, but I will pass on it for right now.
You can get a hand-held system using the new frequency for under $500. Check HERE if you don't believe me. Less than $500 is not quite the same as "thousands of dollars."
The 121.5 system is entirely separate from the "GPS sats." GPS has NOTHING to do with EPIRBs and PLBs (except that you can hook up a GPS receiver to a PLB for better accuracy).
1) Insert CD. 2) Power on machine. 3) Wonder why no sounds come out of the speaker. Ohhhh. That's right. My sound card is not supported. 4) Try to browse the web. Whoops. Integrated NIC on nForce mobo is not supported in Knoppix. 5) Reboot into windows to browse the web and listen to music.
It should be up to the banks to register look-alike and variant domains. Considering how much fraud costs them, the cost of a few more domains spread across.net and.org should be peanuts.
And the cyber-squatting laws are on their side, too.
That would be my primary use for a dual-monitor setup. Work on one screen, and documentation on the other. It sure beats killing a tree.
And just try to do "Linux from Scratch" without either a dual monitor or twelve reams of paper and a LOT of ink. You can get by, but having one monitor just for documentation would make life much easier.
Now, if only 15" LCD panels would drop below $200 or so.
Yup! It is the "outnumbers" thing which (in my opinion) makes things unfair.
Had this been an actual prisoner's dilemma, this winning strategy would require recruiting a large number of thugs who LIKE going to prison and are willing to "take one for the team."
Although cooperation is not explicitly defined as being against the rules, IMHO, it goes against the "spirit" of the competition. The point is that each algorithm is supposed to act in a greedy manner.
This will no doubt spark a LOT of discussion, but to me, they "cheated." (OK. Maybe "worked the system" is a better phrase).
Nice quality, but the price of ink is terible. They charge more for a black cart than for any color (around $17 for K, vs $14 for C,M,Y,c,m).
This is OK for photos, but for a utility printer (mostly text, mostly black), the little 13ml cartridges go fast.
But the R200 and R300 can print directly to CDs and DVDs.
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Yup! Moore's law gets to live on - just in fluids instead of silicon. Cool.
And now that fancy water-cooling system in your box can also power your processor. Yeah!
But overclockers will then need larger and larger pumps. It's all fun and games untill some kid pokes his eye out hooking up a pressure washer pump to his computer.
Not quite. I see two posibilites for using antimatter weapons...
1) Produce when needed -- This takes a LOT of energy. Of course the aircraft will have to carry around its own nuclear or coal power plant (maybe in a trailer aircraft). Of course, and antimatter pistol would be VERY heavy - like a few dozen tons, at least. And no cow could produce enough leather for the holster.
2) Produce in advance. Perfect for bombs. But storage is EXTREMELY tricky. If the antimatter ever contacts the edges of its container, boom. At least any fissile material (uranium, plutonium, etc.) is very stable in small enough quantities. Antimatter would make great bombs, but I would not want to be within 500 miles of where these are made/stored/launched.
In short, this sounds to me like a very bad idea. You either have a system that is extremely large and heavy, or a system that is more likely to do you in than the enemy.
Maybe you could make an animated GIF to capture the "flashing screen of death" due to a bad cartridge contact on the front-load NES. That would be annoying.
Is that a joke? How is IA-64 "proprietary and closed?"
I believe that he is refering to the fact that Intel took out a lot of patents on the IA64 instruction set. For any company to make a clone would involve certain patent litigation from Intel.
But, to be completely honest, I suspect that AMD has done the same thing with x86-64. I do not know for sure, though. I see two posibilites: 1) AMD did NOT patent x86-64. 2) AMD did, but it did not make much of an impact in the press.
If it is #1, bravo for AMD (but their investors might not be too happy).
If it is #2, then you cannot blame them. That is just business.
In a truly competitive market, you'd be seeing viable desktop CPUs in the 20-40 dollar range.
Riiiiight.
Via and Transmeta are also playing in the x86 sandbox. If profit margins were that high, either one of those companies could also make a product which would compete, sell it for $60 ($20 less than AMD or Intel), and make a huge profit. But this has not happened. Why has the Via processor never reached the same speeds? Because it takes a lot of money, work, and time. Armchair quarterbacks alwas make the right decisions...
Without going too far offtopic, let me remind you that Kerry has said he won't pull troops out of Iraq, repeal PATRIOT, or basically change anything.
I do not want to stray offtopic, but I just can't resist. Nobody wants us to pull immediately out of Iraq because that is the wrong thing to do. Think of it as a nose job. First, you have to break the bones in the nose. Next, you have to set them. Well, America did the breaking, but now we are committed. We cannot leave until the bones have set. To do so would be to leave Iraq in much worse shape than we found it. We CAN debate on whether we should have gone there in the first place, but what is done is done. All that we can do now is to pick up the pieces.
To you, is there anything which doesn't suck? You sound like the type of person who could complain about anything. This is not a personal attack, but this is just how you presented yourself in your post. I wish you the best of luck finding happiness in life...
Why would anybody pay a monthly fee to RENT movies when you can buy them? Yet Blockbuster and Netflix still thrive. Isn't this the same sort of plan?
Such a scheme would be nice for some people. Not that I think that Infinium can deliver. It has already taken them two years to deliver hardware that a dedicated modder could make in two weeks.
But the idea still makes sense for a certain type of customer -- if the price is right.
I can tell 300 DPI from 600 DPI on a printout, but above that it looks about the same to me.
For monchrome text, you would have to have very good vision indeed to be able to tell the difference.
The prime reason that printers need all that resolution is because they have VERY limited colors, so they have to dither. Dithering lowers the apparent resolution. If each pixel is already capable of the full color range, then 300DPI is enough for anybody.
Welcome to our planet. What color is the sky in your world?
In the original movie, Han shoots Greedo first. This fits in with his nature of being a "scoundrel." Of course, Greedo is already pointing a weapon at Han, so it is justified.
Mr. Lucas wanted Han to seem like more of a good guy, so he adds in Greedo shooting first, and Han taking the second shot. Not only does this not make sense given the plot, it also requires Greedo to miss a shot from only three feet away, and he has had time to aim. Simply pathetic. The special edition of Star Wars was an improvement in every way, except for this one blunder. Well, I also think that they cut the Stormtrooper banging his head on the door, but that is no big deal.
Great idea -- as an afterthought. I would not be surprised if such a beast is at least launched by a 3rd part, if not by the big N themselves.
But how much better would it have been to build this into the DS in the first place. It would probably have only taken a meg or two of Flash, and maybe a meg or two of battery-backed RAM. It might have raised the price by $10, but would have made this a more attractive purchase for adults.
But, then again an extra $10 might have hurt sales. What do I know? I am just an engineer. I don't work in marketing!
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Sorry. Brain fade. I was thinking Itanium.
Xeon is VERY expensive.
So?
These days, the chipsets provide features, NOT performance. As far as raw processing horsepower, the chipset is not even involved! For a benchmark which relies on a lot of disk I/O, I could see it making a difference (as chipsets provide the SATA/PATA interfaces). Check out the nForce 4 review. You will find that there is only about a 1% difference between different chipsets.
Huh??? This makes absolutely no sense. I know a bit about processor architecture. Going to a 64 bit address does mean that your instruction set must now allow for longer addresses, which MIGHT impact performance, but I can think of tricks to overcome this.
True. But for Xeon, dump ALL of your existing software. Few apps, no games.
Your point about memory prices is well taken. In a sense, I agree. There is little to be gained RIGHT NOW from 64 bits. But RAM prices will fall, software will bloat, and in 5 years, 4GB will be an entry-level $399 system from eMachines.
Jumping up to 64 bits now adds very little to the cost of the system (performance-wise, compared to a similar system from Intel), and means that you are ready for 64-bit software when it arrives, instead of having to upgrade later.
First, I am talking about x86 world here. Almost all games run on a Windows. Mapping software for my GPS runs on Windows. I am stuck with Windows (even if I dual-boot).
Second, a 32-bit processor is limited to 4GB of memory. I have 1/4 of that in my system right now. I can easily forsee that 4GB will be standard in about two to three years. To go further than that will REQUIRE 64 bits, unless you want to go to some goofy paging systems like we used to have to do back in the 80's.
Third, for some applications, 64 bits speeds things up a LOT. At the very least, the extra registers in 64-bit mode mean fewer loads and stores, which speeds things up.
OK. I take back part my previous post. Intel HAS give the world hyper-threading. This is a good thing. Not as good as 64 bits, but significant.
I certainly don't see that.
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Well, in a way I do. They certainly are biased towards AMD, but only in the sense that AMD generally offers better value for the money, and is the only way to get 64 bits (right now). I bet if given the choice between a thousand dollars or a kick in the head, they would be biased toward the money
All Intel has given us lately is a new extra-fragile socket, and PCI express (but good luck finding a PCI express vid card). In short, ho-hum. In a year or two, PCI express will be a good thing, but I will pass on it for right now.
You can get a hand-held system using the new frequency for under $500. Check HERE if you don't believe me. Less than $500 is not quite the same as "thousands of dollars."
The 121.5 system is entirely separate from the "GPS sats." GPS has NOTHING to do with EPIRBs and PLBs (except that you can hook up a GPS receiver to a PLB for better accuracy).
I suggest reading HERE for more information.
Of course Knoppix is hard.
1) Insert CD.
2) Power on machine.
3) Wonder why no sounds come out of the speaker. Ohhhh. That's right. My sound card is not supported.
4) Try to browse the web. Whoops. Integrated NIC on nForce mobo is not supported in Knoppix.
5) Reboot into windows to browse the web and listen to music.
Simple!
Perhaps the best way to handle these is to get even.
Write a script which will go to the size and fill in bogus name/account/credit card info. Let's slashdot the phishers!
It should be up to the banks to register look-alike and variant domains. Considering how much fraud costs them, the cost of a few more domains spread across .net and .org should be peanuts.
And the cyber-squatting laws are on their side, too.
That would be my primary use for a dual-monitor setup. Work on one screen, and documentation on the other. It sure beats killing a tree.
And just try to do "Linux from Scratch" without either a dual monitor or twelve reams of paper and a LOT of ink. You can get by, but having one monitor just for documentation would make life much easier.
Now, if only 15" LCD panels would drop below $200 or so.
Yup! It is the "outnumbers" thing which (in my opinion) makes things unfair.
Had this been an actual prisoner's dilemma, this winning strategy would require recruiting a large number of thugs who LIKE going to prison and are willing to "take one for the team."
Although cooperation is not explicitly defined as being against the rules, IMHO, it goes against the "spirit" of the competition. The point is that each algorithm is supposed to act in a greedy manner.
This will no doubt spark a LOT of discussion, but to me, they "cheated." (OK. Maybe "worked the system" is a better phrase).
I have the little brother - R200.
Nice quality, but the price of ink is terible. They charge more for a black cart than for any color (around $17 for K, vs $14 for C,M,Y,c,m).
This is OK for photos, but for a utility printer (mostly text, mostly black), the little 13ml cartridges go fast.
But the R200 and R300 can print directly to CDs and DVDs.
Yup! Moore's law gets to live on - just in fluids instead of silicon. Cool.
And now that fancy water-cooling system in your box can also power your processor. Yeah!
But overclockers will then need larger and larger pumps. It's all fun and games untill some kid pokes his eye out hooking up a pressure washer pump to his computer.
Not quite. I see two posibilites for using antimatter weapons...
1) Produce when needed -- This takes a LOT of energy. Of course the aircraft will have to carry around its own nuclear or coal power plant (maybe in a trailer aircraft). Of course, and antimatter pistol would be VERY heavy - like a few dozen tons, at least. And no cow could produce enough leather for the holster.
2) Produce in advance. Perfect for bombs. But storage is EXTREMELY tricky. If the antimatter ever contacts the edges of its container, boom. At least any fissile material (uranium, plutonium, etc.) is very stable in small enough quantities. Antimatter would make great bombs, but I would not want to be within 500 miles of where these are made/stored/launched.
In short, this sounds to me like a very bad idea. You either have a system that is extremely large and heavy, or a system that is more likely to do you in than the enemy.
Anit-matter does not produce anti-gravity. Experiments have confirmed this.
Maybe you could make an animated GIF to capture the "flashing screen of death" due to a bad cartridge contact on the front-load NES. That would be annoying.
This means that it must be inserted into the body. Ouch!
I believe that he is refering to the fact that Intel took out a lot of patents on the IA64 instruction set. For any company to make a clone would involve certain patent litigation from Intel.
But, to be completely honest, I suspect that AMD has done the same thing with x86-64. I do not know for sure, though. I see two posibilites:
1) AMD did NOT patent x86-64.
2) AMD did, but it did not make much of an impact in the press.
If it is #1, bravo for AMD (but their investors might not be too happy).
If it is #2, then you cannot blame them. That is just business.
Can anybody enlighten me on which path they took?
Riiiiight.
Via and Transmeta are also playing in the x86 sandbox. If profit margins were that high, either one of those companies could also make a product which would compete, sell it for $60 ($20 less than AMD or Intel), and make a huge profit. But this has not happened. Why has the Via processor never reached the same speeds? Because it takes a lot of money, work, and time. Armchair quarterbacks alwas make the right decisions...
I do not want to stray offtopic, but I just can't resist. Nobody wants us to pull immediately out of Iraq because that is the wrong thing to do. Think of it as a nose job. First, you have to break the bones in the nose. Next, you have to set them. Well, America did the breaking, but now we are committed. We cannot leave until the bones have set. To do so would be to leave Iraq in much worse shape than we found it. We CAN debate on whether we should have gone there in the first place, but what is done is done. All that we can do now is to pick up the pieces.
To you, is there anything which doesn't suck? You sound like the type of person who could complain about anything. This is not a personal attack, but this is just how you presented yourself in your post. I wish you the best of luck finding happiness in life...
Why would anybody pay a monthly fee to RENT movies when you can buy them? Yet Blockbuster and Netflix still thrive. Isn't this the same sort of plan?
Such a scheme would be nice for some people. Not that I think that Infinium can deliver. It has already taken them two years to deliver hardware that a dedicated modder could make in two weeks.
But the idea still makes sense for a certain type of customer -- if the price is right.
You mean that all those pretty pictures of nebulae on Star Trek lied??
Damn you, Rick Berman! How could you.
My faith in sci-fi is now shattered.
For monchrome text, you would have to have very good vision indeed to be able to tell the difference.
The prime reason that printers need all that resolution is because they have VERY limited colors, so they have to dither. Dithering lowers the apparent resolution. If each pixel is already capable of the full color range, then 300DPI is enough for anybody.
Welcome to our planet. What color is the sky in your world?
In the original movie, Han shoots Greedo first. This fits in with his nature of being a "scoundrel." Of course, Greedo is already pointing a weapon at Han, so it is justified.
Mr. Lucas wanted Han to seem like more of a good guy, so he adds in Greedo shooting first, and Han taking the second shot. Not only does this not make sense given the plot, it also requires Greedo to miss a shot from only three feet away, and he has had time to aim. Simply pathetic. The special edition of Star Wars was an improvement in every way, except for this one blunder. Well, I also think that they cut the Stormtrooper banging his head on the door, but that is no big deal.
Sorry if this is OT, but he asked!
Great idea -- as an afterthought. I would not be surprised if such a beast is at least launched by a 3rd part, if not by the big N themselves.
But how much better would it have been to build this into the DS in the first place. It would probably have only taken a meg or two of Flash, and maybe a meg or two of battery-backed RAM. It might have raised the price by $10, but would have made this a more attractive purchase for adults.
But, then again an extra $10 might have hurt sales. What do I know? I am just an engineer. I don't work in marketing!