The obvious Apple name for their new system is: iMac. How could it be anything else?
And Apple is going to find that being on the Intel treadmill of new processor version releases is really going to wear them down. Instead of announcing new, faster Macs once or twice a year, everyone will expect the new Macs to already be in the stores the day Intel announces their latest and greatest. Wonder if Jobs thought about that?
they found that it has nonbinary processing capabilities [epcos.org].
Is Intel going to drop a bomb?
Not likely, since they're giving the developers Pentium 4 development systems and demoing it all on P4 based systems. To jump to a completely unnanounced ISA
If it doesn't support VT (Virtulization Technology), who wants it?
That's the current problem with Intel. They have lots of nice things (HT, NX-bit, VT, dual cores, 1066MHz frontside bus, large caches, etc.), but it's hard to find one chip with all the good stuff at once.
When fusion-in-a-bottle was announced those years ago the ideal of clean, cheap, essentially unlimited power brought out the naysayers quickly. Jeremy Rifkin saying "It's the worst thing that could happen to our planet" comes to mind.
I expect an even greater number of such clowns hitting the news any time now. It's only a shame that each will get far more than the 15 minutes they've already used up.
will never understand why the authors of software... do not initally release on Freenet.
Because just providing the software to the world is not their only -- or maybe even primary -- intent. Freenet denys a lot of the ego satisfaction you otherwise get from being recognized on your own web-site with your own page counters.
And besides, they'd have to actually write help files since there wouldn't be a website and e-mail link for questions, problems, and enhancement requests.
Now is the time for someone to put it on Freenet -- or Usenet.
Intel has performance and better performance per watt.
Better performance per watt is delivered by AMD, who I prefer to buy my processor from.
This just sounds like more Steve Jobs hype -- like last time when it was "The PPC will scale from 2GHz to 3GHz over the next year." Yeah, right Steve. Anything you say.
Too bad about the rumors that Intel would be making PPC's based on Apple's terms with IBM. I could see Intel wanting to get this hands on PPC IP since tens of millions of these are heading for various game consoles.
IBM supercomputer running on 22.8 teraflops of processing power
Do brains run on floating point processing?
These days the only measure of a processors power seems to be flops, yet how many uses of a computer rely on other than (obviously) vector oriented FP calculations?
I thought this was a pretty dumb article, although I did like the comparison of the heat-sink to Soviet archtecture. It was dumb because if you could produce a high-speed low-power chip this way, that's exactly what AMD and Intel would be selling for this part of the market, instead of the specialized chips they do sell.
What I want is a way for my PS* to become a standalone or back-end rendering engine to my PC. Then I could do all kinds of interesting things at a very budget price.
Hey, people are studying botnets. They know how this is spreading, numbers of infected PCs, and what the code is.
So why aren't self-destruct (e.g. remove backdoor and patch vulnerability) instructions being sent to these botnets as fast as they are becoming established?
Legal or Illegal is just a society's opinion. Posters above claim that popularity doesn't equate to legal.
That's true.
However, society's opinion can change, sometimes overnight. What was illegal yesterday may be completely legal tomorrow if the majority demands it.
There is no Universal Moral Code stating that creating your own original work by fansubbing a broadcast and distributing it to people unable to receive it otherwise is, or will always be, illegal. As a result, I always use those terms with caution.
I wonder to this day if the **AA industry has ever lost a cent to BT. Can they prove that 'x' downloads equates to 'y' lost sales amounting to 'z' dollars?
(I know in their skewed logic x always = y and z > $1e9, but I don't buy it.)
How often have you seen some person out there saying, I saved $$$'s this year by downloading instead of buying records/movies/games/whatever? I wouldn't believe them if I did because if true, they should be in jail instead of on TV.
I mean, the RIAA claims losses from songs you can't even buy any more since they lump every MP3 download into their lost sales numbers.
I may be alone in believing that the record companies and movie companies have yet to lose any money to filesharing since the items would not have been bought otherwise, but there's at least one of me here.
if you analyze performances, you'll see that an idle OS has a CPU running the "idle thread" for 99% of its time.
Yes, an idle CPU does nothing much.
But we're not talking about an idle CPU here. We're talking about a CPU running an intensive single threaded program, while the OS is taking care of all the housekeeping tasks (e.g. timer interrupts and updating the clock, disk i/o, GUI management network, and all the other services and drivers and such).
They keep saying that dual cores won't benefit users that run only a single program or game. But isn't the operating system a thread to itself? It can be handling interrupts, updating the screen, managing read/writes to the disc etc. while the main program thread runs unhindered on the second processor.
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And Apple is going to find that being on the Intel treadmill of new processor version releases is really going to wear them down. Instead of announcing new, faster Macs once or twice a year, everyone will expect the new Macs to already be in the stores the day Intel announces their latest and greatest. Wonder if Jobs thought about that?
Is Intel going to drop a bomb?
Not likely, since they're giving the developers Pentium 4 development systems and demoing it all on P4 based systems. To jump to a completely unnanounced ISA
That's the current problem with Intel. They have lots of nice things (HT, NX-bit, VT, dual cores, 1066MHz frontside bus, large caches, etc.), but it's hard to find one chip with all the good stuff at once.
I expect an even greater number of such clowns hitting the news any time now. It's only a shame that each will get far more than the 15 minutes they've already used up.
Because just providing the software to the world is not their only -- or maybe even primary -- intent. Freenet denys a lot of the ego satisfaction you otherwise get from being recognized on your own web-site with your own page counters.
And besides, they'd have to actually write help files since there wouldn't be a website and e-mail link for questions, problems, and enhancement requests.
Now is the time for someone to put it on Freenet -- or Usenet.
I mean, it's got to be good, doesn't it, if a big corporation has gone to the trouble to take it down.
Maybe it could find a new home on Sourceforge -- if the code is available.
Better performance per watt is delivered by AMD, who I prefer to buy my processor from.
This just sounds like more Steve Jobs hype -- like last time when it was "The PPC will scale from 2GHz to 3GHz over the next year." Yeah, right Steve. Anything you say.
Too bad about the rumors that Intel would be making PPC's based on Apple's terms with IBM. I could see Intel wanting to get this hands on PPC IP since tens of millions of these are heading for various game consoles.
Do brains run on floating point processing?
These days the only measure of a processors power seems to be flops, yet how many uses of a computer rely on other than (obviously) vector oriented FP calculations?
I'm not sure how much switching over Photoshop will take, given that Adobe markets a Windows/x86 version already.
Maybe Adobe told Apple we're only going to make one 64-bit version of the application suite.
I thought this was a pretty dumb article, although I did like the comparison of the heat-sink to Soviet archtecture. It was dumb because if you could produce a high-speed low-power chip this way, that's exactly what AMD and Intel would be selling for this part of the market, instead of the specialized chips they do sell.
What I want is a way for my PS* to become a standalone or back-end rendering engine to my PC. Then I could do all kinds of interesting things at a very budget price.
So why aren't self-destruct (e.g. remove backdoor and patch vulnerability) instructions being sent to these botnets as fast as they are becoming established?
So now my Pentium quad-processor cpu fits on the point of a pin. How to I attach the heatsink?
That's true.
However, society's opinion can change, sometimes overnight. What was illegal yesterday may be completely legal tomorrow if the majority demands it.
There is no Universal Moral Code stating that creating your own original work by fansubbing a broadcast and distributing it to people unable to receive it otherwise is, or will always be, illegal. As a result, I always use those terms with caution.
(I know in their skewed logic x always = y and z > $1e9, but I don't buy it.)
How often have you seen some person out there saying, I saved $$$'s this year by downloading instead of buying records/movies/games/whatever? I wouldn't believe them if I did because if true, they should be in jail instead of on TV.
I mean, the RIAA claims losses from songs you can't even buy any more since they lump every MP3 download into their lost sales numbers.
I may be alone in believing that the record companies and movie companies have yet to lose any money to filesharing since the items would not have been bought otherwise, but there's at least one of me here.
iComputer = Apple
Computer = Embrace & Extend.
But has Bill Gates dropped the My Money for Longhorn yet?
That I can believe.
Isn't it obvious? Rent a storage shed and load it up with current models. They can only increase in value while no other alternative is available.
Oh, and start planning your retirement. You leave the day the last box leaves your hands.
The knowledge that you're saying F-U to the **AA?
Order up another 55gal. drum of Mylanta and send it to the RIAA.
The meta-Turing test counts a thing as intelligent if it seeks to devise and apply Turing tests to objects of its own creation. -- Lew Mammel, Jr.
Coincidence?
Yes, an idle CPU does nothing much.
But we're not talking about an idle CPU here. We're talking about a CPU running an intensive single threaded program, while the OS is taking care of all the housekeeping tasks (e.g. timer interrupts and updating the clock, disk i/o, GUI management network, and all the other services and drivers and such).
There is a difference.
They keep saying that dual cores won't benefit users that run only a single program or game. But isn't the operating system a thread to itself? It can be handling interrupts, updating the screen, managing read/writes to the disc etc. while the main program thread runs unhindered on the second processor.