I love it. Intel even has side-by-side benchmarks showing their chips have surpassed AMD's, and someone on Slashdot will find some way to make it a victory for AMD.
Conroe's not going anywhere. AMD hasn't even gone to 65nm yet!
No, perhaps you should pay attention. Read the benchmarks. The separate memory controller is taken into account. The Core Duo consumes less power at 100% than the AMD at idle, even with AMD's on-die memory controller.
I know this is Slashdot where "AMD is better" is the taught mantra, but power consumption tests have already shown Intel's new chips kicking AMD's butt in performance-per-watt.
The Core Duo consumes less power at 100% than the Athlon 64 3800+ X2 does at idle.
Merom is now due this September, and AMD hasn't even switched over to 65nm yet. I know people around here love AMD, but they've always struck me as riding coattails and playing up the "underdog" aspect while copying whatever new thing Intel has done, be it SSE, Viiv, etc.
How many of these are server machines running Apache and OpenSSH? Only a tiny percentage -- OS X Server has something like a 0.2% marketshare last I heard.
The poster said "usually" and in reference to all recent articles, not one specifically. Lots of the press have said OS X isn't UNIX, particularly in the recent Library/StartupItems articles, because UNIX doesn't allow any old code to run as root. Never mind that this behavior doesn't exist in Tiger.
Lots of press has also claimed that security analysts are unhappy with the speed at which Apple fixes security issues.
...more and more iPod accessories being released by Apple all the time...
Last I checked, there was an armband, some socks, and a few more accessories. Now there are expensive leather cases and a high-end speaker system. That's not as many products as this statement in the submission implies, especially when compared to the thousands of products from third parties. I think Apple wants a little slice of the pie, but doesn't want to take it over, as it's obviously against common business sense since all these products add value to the iPod. Jobs has always referenced the burgeoning "iPod economy" in his keynotes, so Apple is aware of the support this mini-economy provides for their product.
But he was handing out local accounts to anybody on request. Handing out local accounts over the Internet immediately disqualifies this as any sort of real-world security test. You can always find a hole if you leave the door open for anyone to come in!
Agreed. That was the goal with my submission (which apparently didn't reach the judges, see my post earlier). I believe hitting users with a totally different paradigm they're not familiar with is a hindrance. Just keep it simple.
I tried to organize functionality so there was only a relevant subset showing at a time that appeared in a context-sensitive sidebar and arranged in rows called "strips." Different sets of controls were available in mini-tabs at the top of the sidebar, so editing a text document would show text formatting strips, and at the top would be tabs for revealing strips for lists, wrapping, and more. E.g., working with lists would mean clicking the Lists tab and revealing those controls. Formatting the text would mean clicking back to those controls with the Text tab. I managed to strip the application toolbar down so it had five buttons max. The idea was that it would be easy to just look at the sidebar and see how to get the functionality you needed instead of wondering where it was at buried in some toolbar or menu.
That was the very idea. I believe KOffice simply needs some cleaning up. The temptation is to invent some radical new paradigm, but we don't reinvent books or automobiles, do we? Their interfaces have well-defined paradigms that we're all familiar with. I thought it best to pack all the esoteric functionality away into a side column of controls that appears based on context, divided into two modes of editing and annotation, and to clean up everything else so that there are at most five large buttons on the toolbar, and you can find the functionality you need in the sidebar (and if it's really esoteric, it's in the menus).
The contest called only for an interface redesign searching for ideas that may be implemented in KOffice 2; perhaps it wouldn't have mattered either way if my submission went through, but I gave the link for anyone curious. Sidebars are hardly new, but I tried my best to document a set of workflow behaviors for each application to follow that makes the sidebar a useful tool. You can make things easier to remember for users, and that will go a long way toward speeding up their productivity. Office 12, despite its ribbon controls, is still a massive orgy of toolbar buttons that you'll hunt and peck through because it's all exposed at once. I tried to organize functionality so that you're always looking at only the functions you need at the time, yet you can easily move to a different set when needed (like clicking the Wrap tab to get functions to modify an object's layout, or clicking the List tab to format it as a bullet item).
The invite list was really small. The event was held in Apple's cafeteria! There was no over-hype here. Just having the CEO announce it doesn't hype anything--Steve Jobs isn't just an ordinary CEO, he's Apple's main orator, and of course he'll announce these things. This small press event was held to get the new products into the news, but that's not hype.
Apple DID announce these without their usual fanfare. These goofy press people were buying into Thinksecret and Appleinsider's rumors.
When will people realize these rumors sites are hurting Apple? This isn't the first time in the last six months that all the rumor sites said one thing, and Apple fell short (dual-core G5s, which ended up coming out much later).
1.) Apple sent out a very plain invite that breezily mentioned "fun, new products." 2.) The invite list is very small, only around 100 people. 3.) The event is held in Apple's cafeteria, for crying out loud.
Everything about this obviously screamed "routine product announcements." Every rational person should have realized it was going to be another Intel-transitioned Mac product (one of the low-end ones like the Mac mini or iBook) and maybe some iPod stuff.
But, no. All the Mac rumor sites and the press hyped up this tiny little event with touchscreen iPods, Mac mini PVR media centers, tablet Macs, and more.
I cannot believe this CNET author is actually claiming Apple overhyped the event. They didn't--you media bastards did!
I'm hugely disappointed; I sent my PDF entry to three email addresses, even contacted Ingwa on IRC for confirmation of receiving my entry, and it's still not shown on the results page. I wonder if they ever received it.
I don't know if my idea sucked or was plain and obvious, but it's a huge bummer it's not even on the results page for some reason, as though they never received it. Mine was an interface reorganization with an emphasis on a context-sensitive area to keep things familiar and free of clutter (first thing to go was that horrible toolbar).
I can't believe all this time I've been sitting here thinking they were reading it. I put a lot of work into it. I wonder what the heck happened.:-(
Since it doesn't matter now, I offer it to Slashdot. Click here to read my entry in original PDF form if you want to check it out. Let me know what you think. It's nothing revolutionary, but it's not intended to be. These crazy experimental office interfaces are exactly what the user doesn't need.
Man, what a disappointment that they never even got it. Figures. But hey, I offer mine here as GPL too--if someone wants to use it for something, go right ahead.
This is Slashdot, where it's totally okay to pirate music and blame the RIAA for it, but if someone pirates GPL code, they demand that company be sued.
The right tool for the right job. AJAX for news? Why?
Because AJAX allows you to actually watch the live feed of story activity on Digg, and it's the coolest thing you've ever seen. It also allows you to digg an article by just clicking a link and having it happen instantly, instead of waiting for the entire site to reload, which is ridiculous.
Digg users are immature. NO DIGG FAGS
Slashdot users are just as immature. FIRST PROST! Mod down those posts.
Digg comments are a bitch to read through.
No, they're not. You don't really explain what you're talking about here.
The background gradient behind comments is buggy for long comments.
Yeah, and Slashdot's new CSS often puts graphics in front of text on my browser. Bugs will get fixed.
Most front page stories on Digg aren't very good.
And Slashdot's are? Remember Taco's super-long emo angst essay about not getting to use his nick in World of Warcraft? If you want better stories digg up better ones or submit them yourself. You are the editor at Digg.
Too many front page stories on Digg are blog links.
So you rate it as such and it gets removed automatically.
Slashdot users are an older generation of internet users. Digg is all Web 2.0, and we don't get it.
Heh...yeah, I agree with you 100% here.
Lots of front page Digg links are beginner tutorials for css, perl etc. This does not appeal to the Slashdot demographic.
Lots of Slashdot front page links are reviews of tutorial books and such.
Slashdot is about discussion. Digg isn't. They are completely different sites.
No, they are not "completely different sites." Digg has a threaded discussion system now. However, I will agree that the focus is, as it should be, on the news submission and not the blowhard opinions in the comments. Here at Slashdot, you'll find all kinds of misinformation get marked up with nobody to challenge it.
Hey, if you want to stick with the old and the dying, that's fine. This place, in the year 2006, still uses a -1 to 5 moderation scale for a post. It's insane. Digg is where actual new features and innovation are taking place, and already Digg is overtaking Slashdot's traffic. I'm sure you'll move over eventually.
What are you suggesting, total socialism? I think "greed" is really the over-used moniker jealous anti-capitalists have given to personal success.
It's become a cliche to hear someone criticize human nature and say we need to "evolve" to some sort of ideal social position they have in their head. It's not going to happen--we're the way we are now specifically because of evolution. Survival of the fittest breeds creatures that learn to take care of themselves to increase the chances of spreading their genes.
Referencing old Star Trek episodes certainly doesn't do much to bolster the idea behind your post.
Since Slashdot's editors obviously don't care anymore, why not visit Digg and check out the new AJAX threaded comment system? You can actually rate comments in real-time, set friend flags, and more. At Digg, if a story is a dupe, the users rate it as such, and it gets removed automatically. You can even rate articles as inaccurate. Slashdot is the biggest piece of abandonware on the Internet, so why don't we all go to Digg and set up camp at the new epicenter for geek news on the net?
The money wasn't given to persuade Skype's views or conduct. It was given as payment for a contract agreement between two parties. You just want to use the word "bribe" because of the negative connotations it has. By that definition, AMD bribed CryTek to put out the 64-bit version of Far Cry for AMD64 processors and add higher-resolution textures to make it look like the 64-bit version was somehow different.
Lied about the reason? They can "cripple" their product if they want to. It's their right to do that.
By the way, why do Slashdotters complain about our sue-happy, lawsuit-ridden world, but then when something happens that they don't like, they cry out that someone should be sued over it?
Uh...since when was a company not allowed to release a product for a specific set of users? If Skype wants to do this, it's perfectly within their right. A lawsuit probably won't be successful, and it shouldn't be, no matter what sour grapes AMD fanboys have about the issue.
I've got karma to burn. It's officially over for Slashdot--Digg's new comment system is released. That's right, CmdrTaco has been promising a new comment system on Slashdot for years, and Digg has updated theirs in less than a year. I suggest we all go over there and start a whole new tech community.
Enjoy an AJAX threaded comment system with real-time ratings, in-place editing, friend flags, and more. What has Slashdot got? Why, they just got around to adding "tagging" for subscribers. Utterly lame. Slashcode is the biggest piece of abandonware on the net.
Ah, the tact of the Apple-hater with nothing left to say--accuse me of having blinders. Many Mac Fanboys get modded up, as do many Apple haters. It's amazing how people discover an opposing opinion has been given a voice, and they latch onto it and decide the entire site is reflected in that single post.
I don't believe you because you're simply flat-out wrong.
They're not circumventing any laws; the law gives them that authority.
It could be argued Microsoft software has done more to harm citizens (in the computing sense, of course). If it wasn't for the illegal OEM deals of the 90s, we might not have had to suffer through the Windows 9x series. Ugh. With history in mind, the EU probably views these antitrust hearings as preventive measures--they see how the American economy has come to rely on software that's unreliable, and they don't want to let Microsoft run free as it has in the States.
They weren't ambiguous about it. They clearly stated the documentation was one big spambomb of API declarations and sparse descriptions that weren't helpful at all. Microsoft clearly just gathered up a bunch of functions from all over the place and threw them at the EU in a half-assed "fuck you" maneuver. This is typical Microsoft, a strategy of stalling to make things lose steam and blow over. I wonder how the EU will react to this and if they'll take kindly to this gigantic American company making public accusations.
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I love it. Intel even has side-by-side benchmarks showing their chips have surpassed AMD's, and someone on Slashdot will find some way to make it a victory for AMD.
Conroe's not going anywhere. AMD hasn't even gone to 65nm yet!
No, perhaps you should pay attention. Read the benchmarks. The separate memory controller is taken into account. The Core Duo consumes less power at 100% than the AMD at idle, even with AMD's on-die memory controller.
I know this is Slashdot where "AMD is better" is the taught mantra, but power consumption tests have already shown Intel's new chips kicking AMD's butt in performance-per-watt.
The Core Duo consumes less power at 100% than the Athlon 64 3800+ X2 does at idle.
Merom is now due this September, and AMD hasn't even switched over to 65nm yet. I know people around here love AMD, but they've always struck me as riding coattails and playing up the "underdog" aspect while copying whatever new thing Intel has done, be it SSE, Viiv, etc.
How many of these are server machines running Apache and OpenSSH? Only a tiny percentage -- OS X Server has something like a 0.2% marketshare last I heard.
But the ones that do run OS X Server are pretty high-profile targets.
The poster said "usually" and in reference to all recent articles, not one specifically. Lots of the press have said OS X isn't UNIX, particularly in the recent Library/StartupItems articles, because UNIX doesn't allow any old code to run as root. Never mind that this behavior doesn't exist in Tiger.
Lots of press has also claimed that security analysts are unhappy with the speed at which Apple fixes security issues.
...more and more iPod accessories being released by Apple all the time...
Last I checked, there was an armband, some socks, and a few more accessories. Now there are expensive leather cases and a high-end speaker system. That's not as many products as this statement in the submission implies, especially when compared to the thousands of products from third parties. I think Apple wants a little slice of the pie, but doesn't want to take it over, as it's obviously against common business sense since all these products add value to the iPod. Jobs has always referenced the burgeoning "iPod economy" in his keynotes, so Apple is aware of the support this mini-economy provides for their product.
But he was handing out local accounts to anybody on request. Handing out local accounts over the Internet immediately disqualifies this as any sort of real-world security test. You can always find a hole if you leave the door open for anyone to come in!
Agreed. That was the goal with my submission (which apparently didn't reach the judges, see my post earlier). I believe hitting users with a totally different paradigm they're not familiar with is a hindrance. Just keep it simple.
I tried to organize functionality so there was only a relevant subset showing at a time that appeared in a context-sensitive sidebar and arranged in rows called "strips." Different sets of controls were available in mini-tabs at the top of the sidebar, so editing a text document would show text formatting strips, and at the top would be tabs for revealing strips for lists, wrapping, and more. E.g., working with lists would mean clicking the Lists tab and revealing those controls. Formatting the text would mean clicking back to those controls with the Text tab. I managed to strip the application toolbar down so it had five buttons max. The idea was that it would be easy to just look at the sidebar and see how to get the functionality you needed instead of wondering where it was at buried in some toolbar or menu.
That was the very idea. I believe KOffice simply needs some cleaning up. The temptation is to invent some radical new paradigm, but we don't reinvent books or automobiles, do we? Their interfaces have well-defined paradigms that we're all familiar with. I thought it best to pack all the esoteric functionality away into a side column of controls that appears based on context, divided into two modes of editing and annotation, and to clean up everything else so that there are at most five large buttons on the toolbar, and you can find the functionality you need in the sidebar (and if it's really esoteric, it's in the menus).
The contest called only for an interface redesign searching for ideas that may be implemented in KOffice 2; perhaps it wouldn't have mattered either way if my submission went through, but I gave the link for anyone curious. Sidebars are hardly new, but I tried my best to document a set of workflow behaviors for each application to follow that makes the sidebar a useful tool. You can make things easier to remember for users, and that will go a long way toward speeding up their productivity. Office 12, despite its ribbon controls, is still a massive orgy of toolbar buttons that you'll hunt and peck through because it's all exposed at once. I tried to organize functionality so that you're always looking at only the functions you need at the time, yet you can easily move to a different set when needed (like clicking the Wrap tab to get functions to modify an object's layout, or clicking the List tab to format it as a bullet item).
The invite list was really small. The event was held in Apple's cafeteria! There was no over-hype here. Just having the CEO announce it doesn't hype anything--Steve Jobs isn't just an ordinary CEO, he's Apple's main orator, and of course he'll announce these things. This small press event was held to get the new products into the news, but that's not hype.
Apple DID announce these without their usual fanfare. These goofy press people were buying into Thinksecret and Appleinsider's rumors.
When will people realize these rumors sites are hurting Apple? This isn't the first time in the last six months that all the rumor sites said one thing, and Apple fell short (dual-core G5s, which ended up coming out much later).
No kidding! Fucking Christ, people!
1.) Apple sent out a very plain invite that breezily mentioned "fun, new products."
2.) The invite list is very small, only around 100 people.
3.) The event is held in Apple's cafeteria, for crying out loud.
Everything about this obviously screamed "routine product announcements." Every rational person should have realized it was going to be another Intel-transitioned Mac product (one of the low-end ones like the Mac mini or iBook) and maybe some iPod stuff.
But, no. All the Mac rumor sites and the press hyped up this tiny little event with touchscreen iPods, Mac mini PVR media centers, tablet Macs, and more.
I cannot believe this CNET author is actually claiming Apple overhyped the event. They didn't--you media bastards did!
I'm hugely disappointed; I sent my PDF entry to three email addresses, even contacted Ingwa on IRC for confirmation of receiving my entry, and it's still not shown on the results page. I wonder if they ever received it.
:-(
I don't know if my idea sucked or was plain and obvious, but it's a huge bummer it's not even on the results page for some reason, as though they never received it. Mine was an interface reorganization with an emphasis on a context-sensitive area to keep things familiar and free of clutter (first thing to go was that horrible toolbar).
I can't believe all this time I've been sitting here thinking they were reading it. I put a lot of work into it. I wonder what the heck happened.
Since it doesn't matter now, I offer it to Slashdot. Click here to read my entry in original PDF form if you want to check it out. Let me know what you think. It's nothing revolutionary, but it's not intended to be. These crazy experimental office interfaces are exactly what the user doesn't need.
Man, what a disappointment that they never even got it. Figures. But hey, I offer mine here as GPL too--if someone wants to use it for something, go right ahead.
This is Slashdot, where it's totally okay to pirate music and blame the RIAA for it, but if someone pirates GPL code, they demand that company be sued.
AJAX is bloaty. Digg takes an age to load.
Digg loads instantly my old 1Ghz laptop.
The right tool for the right job. AJAX for news? Why?
Because AJAX allows you to actually watch the live feed of story activity on Digg, and it's the coolest thing you've ever seen. It also allows you to digg an article by just clicking a link and having it happen instantly, instead of waiting for the entire site to reload, which is ridiculous.
Digg users are immature. NO DIGG FAGS
Slashdot users are just as immature. FIRST PROST! Mod down those posts.
Digg comments are a bitch to read through.
No, they're not. You don't really explain what you're talking about here.
The background gradient behind comments is buggy for long comments.
Yeah, and Slashdot's new CSS often puts graphics in front of text on my browser. Bugs will get fixed.
Most front page stories on Digg aren't very good.
And Slashdot's are? Remember Taco's super-long emo angst essay about not getting to use his nick in World of Warcraft? If you want better stories digg up better ones or submit them yourself. You are the editor at Digg.
Too many front page stories on Digg are blog links.
So you rate it as such and it gets removed automatically.
Slashdot users are an older generation of internet users. Digg is all Web 2.0, and we don't get it.
Heh...yeah, I agree with you 100% here.
Lots of front page Digg links are beginner tutorials for css, perl etc. This does not appeal to the Slashdot demographic.
Lots of Slashdot front page links are reviews of tutorial books and such.
Slashdot is about discussion. Digg isn't. They are completely different sites.
No, they are not "completely different sites." Digg has a threaded discussion system now. However, I will agree that the focus is, as it should be, on the news submission and not the blowhard opinions in the comments. Here at Slashdot, you'll find all kinds of misinformation get marked up with nobody to challenge it.
Hey, if you want to stick with the old and the dying, that's fine. This place, in the year 2006, still uses a -1 to 5 moderation scale for a post. It's insane. Digg is where actual new features and innovation are taking place, and already Digg is overtaking Slashdot's traffic. I'm sure you'll move over eventually.
What are you suggesting, total socialism? I think "greed" is really the over-used moniker jealous anti-capitalists have given to personal success.
It's become a cliche to hear someone criticize human nature and say we need to "evolve" to some sort of ideal social position they have in their head. It's not going to happen--we're the way we are now specifically because of evolution. Survival of the fittest breeds creatures that learn to take care of themselves to increase the chances of spreading their genes.
Referencing old Star Trek episodes certainly doesn't do much to bolster the idea behind your post.
Since Slashdot's editors obviously don't care anymore, why not visit Digg and check out the new AJAX threaded comment system? You can actually rate comments in real-time, set friend flags, and more. At Digg, if a story is a dupe, the users rate it as such, and it gets removed automatically. You can even rate articles as inaccurate. Slashdot is the biggest piece of abandonware on the Internet, so why don't we all go to Digg and set up camp at the new epicenter for geek news on the net?
The money wasn't given to persuade Skype's views or conduct. It was given as payment for a contract agreement between two parties. You just want to use the word "bribe" because of the negative connotations it has. By that definition, AMD bribed CryTek to put out the 64-bit version of Far Cry for AMD64 processors and add higher-resolution textures to make it look like the 64-bit version was somehow different.
Lied about the reason? They can "cripple" their product if they want to. It's their right to do that.
By the way, why do Slashdotters complain about our sue-happy, lawsuit-ridden world, but then when something happens that they don't like, they cry out that someone should be sued over it?
Uh...since when was a company not allowed to release a product for a specific set of users? If Skype wants to do this, it's perfectly within their right. A lawsuit probably won't be successful, and it shouldn't be, no matter what sour grapes AMD fanboys have about the issue.
I've got karma to burn. It's officially over for Slashdot--Digg's new comment system is released. That's right, CmdrTaco has been promising a new comment system on Slashdot for years, and Digg has updated theirs in less than a year. I suggest we all go over there and start a whole new tech community.
Enjoy an AJAX threaded comment system with real-time ratings, in-place editing, friend flags, and more. What has Slashdot got? Why, they just got around to adding "tagging" for subscribers. Utterly lame. Slashcode is the biggest piece of abandonware on the net.
Slashdot isn't saying they disagree with VA, are they? So we can only assume they're okay with it.
If Slashdot is going to take some moral stand, it should do it with its own employer to, or it's...you guessed it, hypocrisy.
Ah, the tact of the Apple-hater with nothing left to say--accuse me of having blinders. Many Mac Fanboys get modded up, as do many Apple haters. It's amazing how people discover an opposing opinion has been given a voice, and they latch onto it and decide the entire site is reflected in that single post.
I don't believe you because you're simply flat-out wrong.
They're not circumventing any laws; the law gives them that authority.
It could be argued Microsoft software has done more to harm citizens (in the computing sense, of course). If it wasn't for the illegal OEM deals of the 90s, we might not have had to suffer through the Windows 9x series. Ugh. With history in mind, the EU probably views these antitrust hearings as preventive measures--they see how the American economy has come to rely on software that's unreliable, and they don't want to let Microsoft run free as it has in the States.
They weren't ambiguous about it. They clearly stated the documentation was one big spambomb of API declarations and sparse descriptions that weren't helpful at all. Microsoft clearly just gathered up a bunch of functions from all over the place and threw them at the EU in a half-assed "fuck you" maneuver. This is typical Microsoft, a strategy of stalling to make things lose steam and blow over. I wonder how the EU will react to this and if they'll take kindly to this gigantic American company making public accusations.
Not being "appropriate" isn't grounds for a subpoena.