I think the delay is primarily due to the use of Word in that things can appear differently on different computers or versions. Therefore they force you to submit "hard copies" by snail mail rather than an electronically using pdf.
I know it is hard to believe that scientific/engineering communities still MS Word, but it is still required and oftentimes the only way to submit documents to journals. For example, I am PhD student in mechanical engineering working in the area of tribology and MS Word is the only way to submit a doc to ASME Journal of Tribology.
It is truely amazing to me that the journal still operates this way. As an aside the review process for this journal is one of the longest I have ever seen approximately 5 months. Compared to the Journal of Physics D which encourages the use of Latex which was reviewed and published in 3 months.
I agree with you be-fan. It seems that people think that if more processors used all problems are solved. The fact is most operating systems and software are not robust enough to parallelize tasks effectively. Even if the software is parallelizable you hardly ever achieve a linear increase in speed...
I agree with ya brother. I have done my research and decided to buy a PB because I like the flexiblity that the new OSX brings to the table e.g. having a unix base I won't need third party software to bring up xterms.
The only problem is its taking 10 weeks to ship!
I am willing to bet that a very small percentage of people actually utilized the full capabilities of their current processors. Apple only needs 2.5GHz "now" as an "appearance" of being able to deliver cutting edge performance. Wintel tries to make the average consumer think that s/he needs the latest and greatest processor, when their P3 is good enough to surf the web with.
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I think the delay is primarily due to the use of Word in that things can appear differently on different computers or versions. Therefore they force you to submit "hard copies" by snail mail rather than an electronically using pdf.
I know it is hard to believe that scientific/engineering communities still MS Word, but it is still required and oftentimes the only way to submit documents to journals. For example, I am PhD student in mechanical engineering working in the area of tribology and MS Word is the only way to submit a doc to ASME Journal of Tribology. It is truely amazing to me that the journal still operates this way. As an aside the review process for this journal is one of the longest I have ever seen approximately 5 months. Compared to the Journal of Physics D which encourages the use of Latex which was reviewed and published in 3 months.
I agree with you be-fan. It seems that people think that if more processors used all problems are solved. The fact is most operating systems and software are not robust enough to parallelize tasks effectively. Even if the software is parallelizable you hardly ever achieve a linear increase in speed...
If you are doing "real work" that requires massive amounts of computing power then you need to re-think your tactics...
I agree with ya brother. I have done my research and decided to buy a PB because I like the flexiblity that the new OSX brings to the table e.g. having a unix base I won't need third party software to bring up xterms. The only problem is its taking 10 weeks to ship!
I am willing to bet that a very small percentage of people actually utilized the full capabilities of their current processors. Apple only needs 2.5GHz "now" as an "appearance" of being able to deliver cutting edge performance. Wintel tries to make the average consumer think that s/he needs the latest and greatest processor, when their P3 is good enough to surf the web with.