Would the SPEC INT and FP numbers projected by IBM for the 970 take into account programs optimized for the Altivec/Velocity Engine?I know ars tecnica has compared the SPEC benchmarks to the current P4 3.06 processor and found it wanting, but if the bus can feed with the VPU with 4x more bandwidth than the current crop of G4's, then we might have the ultimate photoshop bake-off machine on our hands:)
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Generally I don't look at CNN. It's almost all drivel.
But your assertion that Apple is for content creators and not for media consumption is crap. Have you heard of Apple's iTunes Music Store? Did you know that mac users download movies off of p2p too? Have you heard of that new media dissemination technology called "the internet"? Guess what--Mac's can access "the internet" just as well as PC's using a special "browser" technology. My god, I'm choking on my own sarcasm...save me!
These haven't been legislated. They're just recording industry recommendations from a lobby group called the Canadian Private Copying Collective. Incidentally, some large tech importers and manufacturers, as well as consumers are heavily lobbying against these tariffs, through the CCFDA. I don't think they will see the light of day.
An interim decision on tariffs for recording media can be found at here. It certainly doesn't look like the outrageous tariffs recommended are being taken seriously.
Burn your library to CD's, burn your library to DVD's. Pick a method and back it up. It's never been up to the publisher of any intellectual property to take responsibility for how you take care of what you bought. Back it up: this is exactly what I have to do with my easily-scratched CD's in order to protect my investment. Guess what happens if you play your CD too many times, or if you have a habit of not putting it back in the case, or if your cd-changer has a habit of scratching the disc? Your music gets trashed! And even if you have a receipt, you don't get a new one at the store!
Back it up, back it up, back it up. Apple has the perfect music back-up device: it's called an iPod.
And as an American, I think we ought to start calling "French Fries" "Freedom Fries" as an act of protest.
Further, I propose a campaign of media fixation on French involvement with the moon in order to better cover up our own support of the moon. You with me Rumsfeld?...Rumsfeld?
In my case, I prefer my hardware (a powerbook) to the pc offerings, so you could say I am happily "locked into" my hardware. Plus I much prefer the operating system I have chosen to "lock myself" into. In fact, as far as being "locked into" the software goes, you could call me a happy prisoner.
Hmm, does this metaphor suck or what?
Dear Anonymous Coward,
If you spent your time working instead of trolling slashdot, you might be able to afford a new
trenchcoat and move out of your parent's basement.
The last thing I wanted to achieve with my posting was another shouting match over the validity of Charlie White's benchmarks. If some more of you had bothered to read the second article, you would realize that this isn't a software "hack", it's a technique that employs adobe software included with the After Effects production bundle, and that it does, in real world terms, double render speeds on many After Effects tasks.
Charlie and Dave were both good enough to reply to my inquiries about their tests, and the relationship between them. Seems Charlie is planning another test soon, using the "render farm" technique on both the Mac and the P4, but with the latest hardware. And yes, the technique provided by Dave did come after Charlie's article.
Two things I'm disappointed with:
One, that adobe didn't recognize that the benchmarks they published didn't make full use of both processors in the mac, when they have software that will do so. Charlie wasn't aware of this trick, and that's fine, but I would have expected Adobe to know more about their own software.
Two, (yes I'm saying it again)the number of slashdotters that don't actually read the articles they comment on.
To Charlie and Dave: I publicly apologize if my invitation to revisit the results has resulted in a mass of e-mail you don't need, or otherwise inconvenienced you.
To Charlie in particular: I in no way meant to slander your test. I just wanted to show that the dual 1.25 is actually capable of much better performance with both processors being used to their full potential.
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Would the SPEC INT and FP numbers projected by IBM for the 970 take into account programs optimized for the Altivec/Velocity Engine?I know ars tecnica has compared the SPEC benchmarks to the current P4 3.06 processor and found it wanting, but if the bus can feed with the VPU with 4x more bandwidth than the current crop of G4's, then we might have the ultimate photoshop bake-off machine on our hands :)
Generally I don't look at CNN. It's almost all drivel.
But your assertion that Apple is for content creators and not for media consumption is crap. Have you heard of Apple's iTunes Music Store? Did you know that mac users download movies off of p2p too? Have you heard of that new media dissemination technology called "the internet"? Guess what--Mac's can access "the internet" just as well as PC's using a special "browser" technology. My god, I'm choking on my own sarcasm...save me!
These haven't been legislated. They're just recording industry recommendations from a lobby group called the Canadian Private Copying Collective. Incidentally, some large tech importers and manufacturers, as well as consumers are heavily lobbying against these tariffs, through the CCFDA. I don't think they will see the light of day.
An interim decision on tariffs for recording media can be found at here. It certainly doesn't look like the outrageous tariffs recommended are being taken seriously.
Burn your library to CD's, burn your library to DVD's. Pick a method and back it up. It's never been up to the publisher of any intellectual property to take responsibility for how you take care of what you bought.
Back it up: this is exactly what I have to do with my easily-scratched CD's in order to protect my investment. Guess what happens if you play your CD too many times, or if you have a habit of not putting it back in the case, or if your cd-changer has a habit of scratching the disc? Your music gets trashed! And even if you have a receipt, you don't get a new one at the store!
Back it up, back it up, back it up. Apple has the perfect music back-up device: it's called an iPod.
And as an American, I think we ought to start calling "French Fries" "Freedom Fries" as an act of protest.
Further, I propose a campaign of media fixation on French involvement with the moon in order to better cover up our own support of the moon. You with me Rumsfeld?...Rumsfeld?
In my case, I prefer my hardware (a powerbook) to the pc offerings, so you could say I am happily "locked into" my hardware. Plus I much prefer the operating system I have chosen to "lock myself" into. In fact, as far as being "locked into" the software goes, you could call me a happy prisoner. Hmm, does this metaphor suck or what?
Dear Anonymous Coward, If you spent your time working instead of trolling slashdot, you might be able to afford a new trenchcoat and move out of your parent's basement.
And people complain about eminem...
And mod me down to (-1 obviously impaired) for thinking a hardware comparison between Apples and P4's would be commented on sanely.
The last thing I wanted to achieve with my posting was another shouting match over the validity of Charlie White's benchmarks. If some more of you had bothered to read the second article, you would realize that this isn't a software "hack", it's a technique that employs adobe software included with the After Effects production bundle, and that it does, in real world terms, double render speeds on many After Effects tasks. Charlie and Dave were both good enough to reply to my inquiries about their tests, and the relationship between them. Seems Charlie is planning another test soon, using the "render farm" technique on both the Mac and the P4, but with the latest hardware. And yes, the technique provided by Dave did come after Charlie's article. Two things I'm disappointed with: One, that adobe didn't recognize that the benchmarks they published didn't make full use of both processors in the mac, when they have software that will do so. Charlie wasn't aware of this trick, and that's fine, but I would have expected Adobe to know more about their own software. Two, (yes I'm saying it again)the number of slashdotters that don't actually read the articles they comment on. To Charlie and Dave: I publicly apologize if my invitation to revisit the results has resulted in a mass of e-mail you don't need, or otherwise inconvenienced you. To Charlie in particular: I in no way meant to slander your test. I just wanted to show that the dual 1.25 is actually capable of much better performance with both processors being used to their full potential.