Unwired CEO David Spence said the investment will make WiMAX an absolutely mainstream technology. 'Unwired will be in the unique position of having access to the majority of the WiMAX-designated 3.5 GHz and 2.3 GHz licensed bands in Australia's major metropolitan areas,' Spence said.'"
Most monopolies do make whatever they touch a mainstream technology. Looks like competition will be scarce here however.
It's not hard to understand. Too many movies this year just plain suck.
When prices are heading north of $10 for a less than 2 hour movie, while video games offer $1/hour of good play, that better be a d@mn good and unique movie experience to get me into the thearter. This summer has had few of those. Everything else can wait for NetFlix to mail it to me.
In fact, if anything, LotR has carried this industry the last 3 years, IMnsHO.
And why is this news? Such recorders have been buildable for a couple years using 3 or 4 hard drives. Is it just because they're the first company to officially sell one?
It's fascinating that The Great Firewall of China seems able to keep out most government disapproved sites, but seems unable to keep in spam and hacking.
Translation: Of course the Chinese government is behind all this.
In addition to paying New York state $1.25 million in penalties and costs, AOL will also reimburse eligible New York consumers with a cash refund worth up to four months of service.
The operative words here are: New York. I, for one, do not believe that AOL's practices in this area were solely limited to the greater NY area.
Intel will provide Mac tools for both single-core and multicore processors based on Intel's latest compiler technology.
Bummer! I guess that rather implies that even with dual cores raplidly taking and Apple typically taking the high-performance road, that Apple is going to have cheap single processor Macs as well. Wish they'd have set the bar a bit higher, all things considered.
Intel sure keeps making a big deal of this Apple deal. Considering that 90%+ of their processors will still go into Windows-based systems that won't run OS-X (not, at least, if Apple can prevent it), and the first Apple+Intel systems are still a year away if not more, there sure seems to be a lot of Intel/Apple news press releases.
Is Intel trying to make us forget about all those IBM-powered XBox 360, PS3, and Revolution systems to come?
It really pisses me off how a company can talk up its products and convince a ton of people to buy them, then turn around and say that they really sucked and they just managed to sucker people in with marketing and brand name recognition.
Can they sue for fraud?
Can the win?
Can they get paid in something other than coupons?
And if anything, the battle between AMD and Intel should have taught everyone here on Slashdot that faster speed does not mean faster performance. There are MANY factors in architecture design that will improve or decrease overall performance. Sure, you can have a 4GHz CPU, but if it's cycles per instruction (CPI) is 100 while a 2GHz CPU has a CPI of 20, the 2GHz CPU will actually be FASTER than the 4GHz chip! Intel knows this, AMD knows this, and everyone who does serious computer design work knows this.
Err, not exactly. If only it were that simple. A 4GHz processor would be able to start approximately twice as many instructions through its 100-stage pipeline compared to a 2GHz processor. Good branch prediction, speculative execution, and long stretches of compiler optimized code without branches might well run faster. Also, knowing just where in the long pipeline it realizes it has mis-predicted that branch is important.
Remember that a modern processor doesn't wait for one instruction to complete before starting on the next one, so clock cycles/instruction may not be as important a mesaure as say pipeline length in these modern RISC-like CPU's.
1: Megahertz is all that matters.
2: Gigahertz is all that matters.
3: Model numbers are all that matter.
4: Performance per watt is all that matters.
5: Profit!
But really folks, RTFP (RTF Powerpoint) I see nothing directly comparing the performance of the new processors to the old -- just the performance per watt consumed. Is the new stuff faster than the old, and if so then by how much? THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW!
You hear a lot...but almost nothing about Next-Gen batteries.
Maybe you don't hear it, but I do.
Two next-gen battery technologies discussed here on/.:
1: Fuel cell. Fully recharges in the amount of time it takes to refill the methnol reservoir.
2: Atomic battery running on tritium beta decay emission. Sure you can't turn it off, but it can be charging a normal battery in the background, extending the life and the ability to recharge where no outlet is available.
Performance/watt doesn't automatically mean faster. Cooler, sure for the same performance, but if the performance/watt is increased by X3 while power consumption drops to 25%, that's slower folks.
So don't get too excited yet. 200fps Doom may not be around the corner.
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How does adding a second hard drive to your battery-powered notebook support improved performance per watt? Hard drives aren't exactly power misers.
You're supposed to put the follow-up explanation to your joke in an immediate (well, 2 minutes later) post.
You're right, you do need lunch.
Most monopolies do make whatever they touch a mainstream technology. Looks like competition will be scarce here however.
When prices are heading north of $10 for a less than 2 hour movie, while video games offer $1/hour of good play, that better be a d@mn good and unique movie experience to get me into the thearter. This summer has had few of those. Everything else can wait for NetFlix to mail it to me.
In fact, if anything, LotR has carried this industry the last 3 years, IMnsHO.
And why is this news? Such recorders have been buildable for a couple years using 3 or 4 hard drives. Is it just because they're the first company to officially sell one?
Translation: Of course the Chinese government is behind all this.
The operative words here are: New York. I, for one, do not believe that AOL's practices in this area were solely limited to the greater NY area.
Will that be enough to offset the loss of the XBox original?
And who gets the fine? Not likely the consumers that had the problems to start with.
Bummer! I guess that rather implies that even with dual cores raplidly taking and Apple typically taking the high-performance road, that Apple is going to have cheap single processor Macs as well. Wish they'd have set the bar a bit higher, all things considered.
Is Intel trying to make us forget about all those IBM-powered XBox 360, PS3, and Revolution systems to come?
I'm too close for lasers, switching to Scientology.
Hello Mr. Enemy Pilot, may I Audit you?
Just perfect for my UAHTV (Urban Assault High-Technical Vehicle).
Sounds exactly like the timesharing model I used on a Burroughs B5500 system circa 1970.
Which way?
None of these matter as much to me as Performance/$$.
Can they sue for fraud?
Can the win?
Can they get paid in something other than coupons?
Yeah, like this is ever going to happen.
P/W * Watts = how we will compare different processors.
So has Microsoft patented this yet?
I'm sure they'd rather let The Register name it for them.
Err, not exactly. If only it were that simple. A 4GHz processor would be able to start approximately twice as many instructions through its 100-stage pipeline compared to a 2GHz processor. Good branch prediction, speculative execution, and long stretches of compiler optimized code without branches might well run faster. Also, knowing just where in the long pipeline it realizes it has mis-predicted that branch is important.
Remember that a modern processor doesn't wait for one instruction to complete before starting on the next one, so clock cycles/instruction may not be as important a mesaure as say pipeline length in these modern RISC-like CPU's.
1: Megahertz is all that matters.
2: Gigahertz is all that matters.
3: Model numbers are all that matter.
4: Performance per watt is all that matters.
5: Profit!
But really folks, RTFP (RTF Powerpoint) I see nothing directly comparing the performance of the new processors to the old -- just the performance per watt consumed. Is the new stuff faster than the old, and if so then by how much? THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW!
Do you really want an 80W server chip? Certainly not in a blade!
Maybe you don't hear it, but I do.
Two next-gen battery technologies discussed here on /.:
1: Fuel cell. Fully recharges in the amount of time it takes to refill the methnol reservoir.
2: Atomic battery running on tritium beta decay emission. Sure you can't turn it off, but it can be charging a normal battery in the background, extending the life and the ability to recharge where no outlet is available.
So don't get too excited yet. 200fps Doom may not be around the corner.