Far more interesting than the fact that they've tracked down the finder of the phone:
Police broke into and searched Gizmodo journalist Jason Chen's home, seizing basically every piece of technology in his home, under an apparently illegal warrant:
AMD's very own OverDrive utility has a CPU Stability test designed for overclockers. I'd trust it, coming straight from AMD - but the main thing is it can do independent core testing.
It tests integer calculation, stack operation, and floating point operation independently for each core, then does overall calculation tests and also checks MCA registers and the GPU. This, combined with Prime95, memtest86+, and long gaming sessions, should be a good test suite for most users' needs - are the people who are unwilling to spend a little extra cash to get a guaranteed quad-core going to need it for anything other than basic productivity and gaming (will they run into that obscure instruction)?
That having been said, a Phenom II X3 720 (2.8Ghz triple-core) costs $120. I just spent the extra $40 to get an X4 955 (3.2Ghz quad) and be done with it. That's still cheaper than any comparable Intel, and less than I paid for much less power in previous generations.
However, with the X2 550 (3.1Ghz dual) only running $85, that'd be a real nice lottery unlock to quad, since it's also a Black Edition and thus could easily match the 3.4Ghz clock of AMD's highest $180 model - for $95 cheaper.:-)
What happens when you lose is you revert to normal settings in the BIOS if the system crashes or won't boot. You either return the processor, or live with the fact that you still got more performance for your dollar than with Intel (and chances are, you didn't really NEED the extra performance anyway).
Exactly, especially if you follow the advice of the article (or any article on the subject, as this has been known for quite some time before Slashdot picked it up) and choose newer versions (steppings) of the processor. It makes sense that over time AMD would get better yields as they improve the manufacturing process - but they still have many different market segments to fill. Choose a newer chip and you have a lot better chance at having a fully-functional one.
However, nowadays the monetary benefit is somewhat diminished - you can pick up AMD's top of the line Phenom II X4 965 for $180, the X4 925 for $140, the X3 720 for $100, or an X2 550 for $80. Hell, the entire Athlon II line (just Phenom IIs without L3 cache) ranges from $65 to $105. Is the difference really worth potentially days of tinkering and testing? Depends on how much you like tinkering.:-)
Read the parent, that wasn't the point of my post. He said Apple's market share was growing "far far far" faster than Android's, when in fact Android's is growing "far far far" faster than Apple's, which is staying about the same. I'm not taking sides, just giving credit to the growth of Android where it's due.
Originally the story was that someone found the phone and had submitted a couple pics of it to various news sites. My bet is Gizmodo found this guy and outbid Engadget, etc for the phone.
Then they made a deal with Apple to return it after running a positive story on it, in exchange for no trouble with the law regarding stolen property or trade secrets - the lack of pictures / specs of the inside parts is probably per Apple's request.
My point is I don't think Apple planned the whole thing out, but once it was lost and found, both parties made the best of the situation.
If Steve Jobs would stop mushroom stamping your eyelids for one minute, you'd be able to open them and do a quick Google search to come up with this, dated April 5 2010:
From November 2009 to February 2010, Apple's mobile market share DROPPED from 25.5% to 25.4%.
In the same period, Android's share GREW from 3.8% to 9.0%.
It used to give you the option between live URL checking and a downloaded list, but now the option is missing and a quick look in about:config suggests they're indeed checking each URL now.
To be fair, the first thing Chrome asks you after being installed is whether you want to keep Google as the search engine in the address bar or change it.
Where is my option-click to close all the windows of an appliciation?
Where is my option click outside of the window to hide it?
Where is my ctrl-shift-w to close all windows of an application?
Where is my option-click for my taskbar window button to bring all windows of that application to the font?
Why can't I click this same window button to hide all the windows that just came to the front?
Where is my system level ctrl-~ to switch between windows of a single application?
I suppose I'm just being a pedantic bastard, but I'd say more like Pentium III, given the fastest phones on the market are around 1Ghz and P4 started out at 1.3Ghz.
You're right. In fact, if you install HL1 games right now on Steam, it still runs on OpenGL by default. I've always run it in OpenGL (well, since getting a better video card than my 8MB onboard ATI Rage back in '99 - I ran it in Software before that).
D3D has more saturated color than OGL in HL1, but text gets all screwed up if you force AA/AF through your video card drivers (not to mention it indeed runs better in OGL on every card I've ever had).
Probably the same reason the anti-Microsoft crowd shows up even when the post/summary/article doesn't call for it....and it's why slashdot sucks.
Don't you mean.. anti-M$? Bill, is that you? In Soviet Russia, bluescreen windoze YOU! Open source free as in speech my grandma uses Ubuntu DRM blahblahblahblahblah...
You can definitely get full non-store-credit refunds within 7 days for USED games there, I do it all the time. I'll drive to a GameStop 15 minutes farther away if they have the used copy, not because of the $5 but because I can return it if I don't like it.
Exactly - it's called Superfetch in Windows 7. Win7 indeed uses a lot of RAM when it has room to spread out, preloading applications you commonly use so they launch faster. But when another app needs the RAM, it'll release it. I can confirm this - a clean install on my 6GB machine uses 1.25 - 1.5 GB, and on my 1GB netbook Windows only uses around 400MB.
I've confirmed that Win7 has excellent memory management - with a little program using an infinite loop of fork() and malloc(rand()). On my 6GB machine, it quickly spawned over a thousand processes, using up 98% of the memory. However, as more and more processes spawned, memory usage stayed at 98%, because Windows kept releasing more and more of its own memory to the program as it requested it. The system was still responsive 10 minutes later (I don't remember how many processes were running by then). Once I killed all the processes with taskkill, Windows was only using about 200MB - about 100MB more than XP uses at a minimum.
This CTO needs to get with the program - this is 2010, and Windows has been using prefetching technology to users' advantage for 3 years now.
AFAIK, Windows 7 doesn't make NTFS partitions it comes across into Dynamic volumes (which is probably what you mean by "enhancing"), which would make them unreadable on Linux.
Maybe the directories you were trying to access were NTFS versions of symlinks, "junctions"? I've had trouble using them in Linux, and I know Win7 has them in place for backwards compatibility ('C:\Documents and Settings' points to 'C:\Users', for example).
I would have agreed with you a couple years ago, but ntfs-3g has become quite good - zero problems reading and writing large amounts here, and I use it for work almost daily.
Also, try going to Gizmodo without Adblock on. Note ALL the AT&T "Better 3G Experience" ads - especially the one with fucking Luke Wilson that is masquerading as an ACTUAL FUCKING STORY.
Yeah, I'm sure this is a completely unbiased test.
And 3G is not slow for me, on Verizon I get sustained 150 kiloBYTE/s downloads. That was my cable internet speed a few years ago, but now I have it on my phone!
I think the loud minority of Slashdotters (who should be building their own non-laptop systems anyway) complaining about the "Windows tax" has improperly skewed your perception of US computer culture.
In the Twin Cities area (midwestern US), we have many smaller local shops, and at least one big one. At Micro Center (where I go to get parts for clients), I usually stand in a long line of people with their arms full of computer components.
There's also an annual "market/swap meet" type sale at the State Fairgrounds that has the cheap Asian imports.
This is just in one relatively small metropolitan area. I know Micro Center is nationwide, and I'm sure in larger cities there's even more smaller shops.
Don't underestimate us because a few zealots complain about the extra 30 dollars they pay when they choose to buy pre-made:-)
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I noticed that too. Also, check out the judge's terrible handwriting.
Far more interesting than the fact that they've tracked down the finder of the phone:
Police broke into and searched Gizmodo journalist Jason Chen's home, seizing basically every piece of technology in his home, under an apparently illegal warrant:
Check it out.
AMD's very own OverDrive utility has a CPU Stability test designed for overclockers. I'd trust it, coming straight from AMD - but the main thing is it can do independent core testing.
:-)
It tests integer calculation, stack operation, and floating point operation independently for each core, then does overall calculation tests and also checks MCA registers and the GPU. This, combined with Prime95, memtest86+, and long gaming sessions, should be a good test suite for most users' needs - are the people who are unwilling to spend a little extra cash to get a guaranteed quad-core going to need it for anything other than basic productivity and gaming (will they run into that obscure instruction)?
That having been said, a Phenom II X3 720 (2.8Ghz triple-core) costs $120. I just spent the extra $40 to get an X4 955 (3.2Ghz quad) and be done with it. That's still cheaper than any comparable Intel, and less than I paid for much less power in previous generations.
However, with the X2 550 (3.1Ghz dual) only running $85, that'd be a real nice lottery unlock to quad, since it's also a Black Edition and thus could easily match the 3.4Ghz clock of AMD's highest $180 model - for $95 cheaper.
The first instance I remember of this was back around 2003, when you could flash a Radeon 9500 with the 9700 BIOS to turn it into a 9700. Good times.
What happens when you lose is you revert to normal settings in the BIOS if the system crashes or won't boot. You either return the processor, or live with the fact that you still got more performance for your dollar than with Intel (and chances are, you didn't really NEED the extra performance anyway).
Exactly, especially if you follow the advice of the article (or any article on the subject, as this has been known for quite some time before Slashdot picked it up) and choose newer versions (steppings) of the processor. It makes sense that over time AMD would get better yields as they improve the manufacturing process - but they still have many different market segments to fill. Choose a newer chip and you have a lot better chance at having a fully-functional one.
:-)
However, nowadays the monetary benefit is somewhat diminished - you can pick up AMD's top of the line Phenom II X4 965 for $180, the X4 925 for $140, the X3 720 for $100, or an X2 550 for $80. Hell, the entire Athlon II line (just Phenom IIs without L3 cache) ranges from $65 to $105. Is the difference really worth potentially days of tinkering and testing? Depends on how much you like tinkering.
Read the parent, that wasn't the point of my post. He said Apple's market share was growing "far far far" faster than Android's, when in fact Android's is growing "far far far" faster than Apple's, which is staying about the same. I'm not taking sides, just giving credit to the growth of Android where it's due.
Originally the story was that someone found the phone and had submitted a couple pics of it to various news sites. My bet is Gizmodo found this guy and outbid Engadget, etc for the phone.
Then they made a deal with Apple to return it after running a positive story on it, in exchange for no trouble with the law regarding stolen property or trade secrets - the lack of pictures / specs of the inside parts is probably per Apple's request.
My point is I don't think Apple planned the whole thing out, but once it was lost and found, both parties made the best of the situation.
If Steve Jobs would stop mushroom stamping your eyelids for one minute, you'd be able to open them and do a quick Google search to come up with this, dated April 5 2010: From November 2009 to February 2010, Apple's mobile market share DROPPED from 25.5% to 25.4%.
In the same period, Android's share GREW from 3.8% to 9.0%.
Weren't you saying something about growth rates?
It used to give you the option between live URL checking and a downloaded list, but now the option is missing and a quick look in about:config suggests they're indeed checking each URL now.
To be fair, the first thing Chrome asks you after being installed is whether you want to keep Google as the search engine in the address bar or change it.
In KDE?
I suppose I'm just being a pedantic bastard, but I'd say more like Pentium III, given the fastest phones on the market are around 1Ghz and P4 started out at 1.3Ghz.
You're right. In fact, if you install HL1 games right now on Steam, it still runs on OpenGL by default. I've always run it in OpenGL (well, since getting a better video card than my 8MB onboard ATI Rage back in '99 - I ran it in Software before that).
D3D has more saturated color than OGL in HL1, but text gets all screwed up if you force AA/AF through your video card drivers (not to mention it indeed runs better in OGL on every card I've ever had).
Don't you mean.. anti-M$? Bill, is that you? In Soviet Russia, bluescreen windoze YOU! Open source free as in speech my grandma uses Ubuntu DRM blahblahblahblahblah...
Yeah, Slashdot does suck.
You can definitely get full non-store-credit refunds within 7 days for USED games there, I do it all the time. I'll drive to a GameStop 15 minutes farther away if they have the used copy, not because of the $5 but because I can return it if I don't like it.
Exactly; it's barely on-par with the months-old HD 5870, and it gets taken to school by the 5970. I love when AMD wins.
Exactly - it's called Superfetch in Windows 7. Win7 indeed uses a lot of RAM when it has room to spread out, preloading applications you commonly use so they launch faster. But when another app needs the RAM, it'll release it. I can confirm this - a clean install on my 6GB machine uses 1.25 - 1.5 GB, and on my 1GB netbook Windows only uses around 400MB.
I've confirmed that Win7 has excellent memory management - with a little program using an infinite loop of fork() and malloc(rand()). On my 6GB machine, it quickly spawned over a thousand processes, using up 98% of the memory. However, as more and more processes spawned, memory usage stayed at 98%, because Windows kept releasing more and more of its own memory to the program as it requested it. The system was still responsive 10 minutes later (I don't remember how many processes were running by then). Once I killed all the processes with taskkill, Windows was only using about 200MB - about 100MB more than XP uses at a minimum.
This CTO needs to get with the program - this is 2010, and Windows has been using prefetching technology to users' advantage for 3 years now.
Yeah, if you're that loose with the term "game"...
I'd recommend Slicehost.
AFAIK, Windows 7 doesn't make NTFS partitions it comes across into Dynamic volumes (which is probably what you mean by "enhancing"), which would make them unreadable on Linux.
Maybe the directories you were trying to access were NTFS versions of symlinks, "junctions"? I've had trouble using them in Linux, and I know Win7 has them in place for backwards compatibility ('C:\Documents and Settings' points to 'C:\Users', for example).
Welcome to 2007. Try out ntfs-3g. Very reliable and fast read/write support for NTFS. Are you still running Debian-stable or something? ;-)
I would have agreed with you a couple years ago, but ntfs-3g has become quite good - zero problems reading and writing large amounts here, and I use it for work almost daily.
Also, try going to Gizmodo without Adblock on. Note ALL the AT&T "Better 3G Experience" ads - especially the one with fucking Luke Wilson that is masquerading as an ACTUAL FUCKING STORY. Yeah, I'm sure this is a completely unbiased test. And 3G is not slow for me, on Verizon I get sustained 150 kiloBYTE/s downloads. That was my cable internet speed a few years ago, but now I have it on my phone!
I think the loud minority of Slashdotters (who should be building their own non-laptop systems anyway) complaining about the "Windows tax" has improperly skewed your perception of US computer culture.
:-)
In the Twin Cities area (midwestern US), we have many smaller local shops, and at least one big one. At Micro Center (where I go to get parts for clients), I usually stand in a long line of people with their arms full of computer components.
There's also an annual "market/swap meet" type sale at the State Fairgrounds that has the cheap Asian imports.
This is just in one relatively small metropolitan area. I know Micro Center is nationwide, and I'm sure in larger cities there's even more smaller shops.
Don't underestimate us because a few zealots complain about the extra 30 dollars they pay when they choose to buy pre-made