And France = "Everyone else in the world but the US"?
That's some twisted logic you Republicans have. But then again, you guys got us in a war based on WMD's that didn't exist, non=existant ties to al Qaeda, and then a myriad of other excuses when those were all disproved. Your used to torturing logic.
Intel, despite having a virtual monopoly on the pc-cpu business, has never been as despised as for example Microsoft for the simple reason that they have always produced top quality.
I'm a research scientist. At one point Intel made a chip with a flawed FPU. They eventually admitted it. After much harassment, they said they would be willing to replace the defective CPUs for certain people, if *Intel* thought that person really needed the accuracy. I don't need Intel to decide for me how accurate my results should be. That was the day Intel lost all credibility for me as a company treats their customers right. The most certainly have NOT always produced top quality. Long live AMD.
Probably because the article is crap. Seriously. I'm a Ph.D. who does research in basic biology for a living. The article's author proposes we don't think about converting our discoveries into applications to treat human disease. That's rubbish. Every basic research I know would absolutely love having his discoveries result in a cure for some disease. We think about it all the time. The thing is, most discoveries aren't directly translatable into a treatment.
I don't think you'll find any biologist who would have told you the creatures found weren't possible. It's a matter of time and funding to find them, that's it.
The people who settled with the RIAA didn't have a bunch of customers who might decide not to be customers anymore because they rolled over and didn't fight. That's a major difference.
No one knows, because apparently MSN, Yahoo, etc, just gave away all our info without a fight. Maybe a judge would never give the order on such weak grounds.
I think that would depend on what it was used for. If you are running software on it that is licensed per CPU as many commercial packages are, the up front cost of the Itanium CPU might be vastly vastly outweighed by the cost of the licenses for the additional AMD64s chips.
Nah, I built a similar box, but instead of using the lame GeForce 6600 he did, I used an ATI All-in-Wonder 2006 card which has a TV tuner built into it!
"It goes to 12"
(a poof of smoke goes off in the background while we lose another drummer)
#1) It's been discussed about a million times that Apple has had issues chip suppliers before producing enough of the desired chips for them. Intel has the fab capacity to handle any requests Apple makes. AMD doesn't. If Apple went to AMD, they would instantly become AMD's biggest customer. That puts a huge strain on production. AMD is pushing their production capacity as is. If I recall, there were recent shortages of the 3800+ dual core chips. That's without AMD taking on a bigger customer than they've ever had.
#2) Laptops. Laptop sales are growing, and have been higher than desktop sales for the past two years or so. While Intels desktop chips are hot and slow, the Pentium M is a nice fast low-power chip, and slightly better than any of AMD's current laptop chips.
In a few years when AMD has more fab capacity and maybe a better laptop chip than Intel, I'm sure we'll see Apple thinking about moving over to AMD, or at least offering those as optional chips. Or at least threatening to like Dell to make sure they get a sweet deal on chip prices from Intel.
It is stupid because they could have exempted him from their Windows specific policy quite easily. It is stupid because they may even have given him a hard time because they didn't even know how to exempt a non Windows boxen from their MS specific setup. All it would have taken was to send somebody up stairs to check out his setup for security and if it was OK adapt the policy.
But it wasn't ok. He had a dual boot system, with one of the OS's way behind on patches. That's not secure. Any time he rebooted into the other OS he'd be wide open for exploits that had come out since the patch was publicised. If he was admining the box properly and maintaining ALL the software on it himself it wouldn't have been an issue.
Along those lines, I've read a bit about this, but I've never read exactly what it is that this will do, just that 'it helps with virtualization'. I run VMWare now. Will this new hardware support do anything for me, or will it just make it easier for the VMWare folks to write their program?
That's funny, I play a lot of games, right after they are released, and I've *never* spent $300 or more on a video card, and I've never replace my video card after only one year. I hate to tell you, but millions of people play games all the time on middle or lower end video cards and have a good time doing it. I've spent less on gaming hardware in the past three years than any console owner I know.
You mean that.Mac subscription that costs $99/year that most folks seem to drop right after the end of the free trial period? If they don't use it, they aren't going to be backed up any more than a Windows person (who also could buy onine backup from Yahoo, etc, if they wanted to. Online backup isn't an option available only to Mac users.).
Is there a part where it's easy to call AAA or someone to tow you out? No. Kinda dumb complaining that it might still get stuck somewhere. That's obvious. It could still go many many many places a smaller rover could not.
With a SaturnV you coud send a rover big enough that it wouldn't get hung up in 6" of sand like one of the Mars Rovers did. You could send a lot more instrumentation up to examine more aspects of whatever you are looking at.
There are other uses for big rockets than just sending humans into space.
Ditto. I use both Ghost 8 and Acronis True Image all the time on machines with Spybot and I've never had any issues. Either the problem doesn't exist, or Symantec seriously messed something up in more recent versions of Ghost.
So? I've get a Yahoo mail/hosting account with my SBC DSL line. I access the mail via pop and never visit the web portal. Just because someone has an email account at an address of a company who also has a portal, it doesn't mean they actually use the portal.
1) Much upkeep of the roads is paid for in the form of a tax on gasoline, vehicle license registration, vehicle value taxes in some states, tolls on toll roads, etc. The taxes come much more from the people who use the roads than people who never do. Everyone 'uses' the roads to some extent (mail delivered to them comes via the roads, etc), even if they never drive a day in their lives. It's a horrible analogy.
2) What if your friend hasn't paid for a fast internet connection and wants a copy? It's much easier to just get a copy from you when you stop by. Passing on by other means will happen.
3) So what? Have a bunch of folks who are registered arleady download your software everytime you make a new version, wheather they actually use it or not. Your numbers go up, you get more money. The system is set up for scamming.
The article is about the addition of MySQL to their stock of databases. It doesn't say that they don't also already have many copies of Oracle and or DB2 or MS SQL. They already have databases, they are just buying more. I'm sure for many really large complex databases, they are using one of the above. They are probably buying MySQL for use in smaller databases they also need to work with. The question is why MySQL and not Postgres or any number of other fuller featured free databases. You know, databases that actually always enforce constraints as a real database should, rather than having enforcement as a new option compared to their history of not enforcing them. Using MySQL for some random persons blog is one thing, but if the goverment is putting it in a database, the numbers probably matter and data integrity should be kept a higher priority than the folks at MySQL have historically treated it.
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That's some twisted logic you Republicans have. But then again, you guys got us in a war based on WMD's that didn't exist, non=existant ties to al Qaeda, and then a myriad of other excuses when those were all disproved. Your used to torturing logic.
I'm a research scientist. At one point Intel made a chip with a flawed FPU. They eventually admitted it. After much harassment, they said they would be willing to replace the defective CPUs for certain people, if *Intel* thought that person really needed the accuracy. I don't need Intel to decide for me how accurate my results should be. That was the day Intel lost all credibility for me as a company treats their customers right. The most certainly have NOT always produced top quality. Long live AMD.
Probably because the article is crap. Seriously. I'm a Ph.D. who does research in basic biology for a living. The article's author proposes we don't think about converting our discoveries into applications to treat human disease. That's rubbish. Every basic research I know would absolutely love having his discoveries result in a cure for some disease. We think about it all the time. The thing is, most discoveries aren't directly translatable into a treatment.
I don't think you'll find any biologist who would have told you the creatures found weren't possible. It's a matter of time and funding to find them, that's it.
The people who settled with the RIAA didn't have a bunch of customers who might decide not to be customers anymore because they rolled over and didn't fight. That's a major difference.
No one knows, because apparently MSN, Yahoo, etc, just gave away all our info without a fight. Maybe a judge would never give the order on such weak grounds.
I think that would depend on what it was used for. If you are running software on it that is licensed per CPU as many commercial packages are, the up front cost of the Itanium CPU might be vastly vastly outweighed by the cost of the licenses for the additional AMD64s chips.
"It goes to 12"
(a poof of smoke goes off in the background while we lose another drummer)
Oops, that should have been 5 of 8 HP pavillion desktop models.
4 out of 8 current HP Pavilion desktop models use Intel
3 out of 4 current HP Media Center PC models use Intel
4 out of 4 current HP Pavilian Slimline PC models use Intel
1 out of 4 Compaq Presario desktop models use Intel
3 out of 4 HP x86 workstation models use Intel
You get the idea...
With Apple we are talking about a customer using only one vendor's chips. Using AMD exclusively, they would use more AMD chips than either HP or IBM.
Where have you been?
#1) It's been discussed about a million times that Apple has had issues chip suppliers before producing enough of the desired chips for them. Intel has the fab capacity to handle any requests Apple makes. AMD doesn't. If Apple went to AMD, they would instantly become AMD's biggest customer. That puts a huge strain on production. AMD is pushing their production capacity as is. If I recall, there were recent shortages of the 3800+ dual core chips. That's without AMD taking on a bigger customer than they've ever had.
#2) Laptops. Laptop sales are growing, and have been higher than desktop sales for the past two years or so. While Intels desktop chips are hot and slow, the Pentium M is a nice fast low-power chip, and slightly better than any of AMD's current laptop chips.
In a few years when AMD has more fab capacity and maybe a better laptop chip than Intel, I'm sure we'll see Apple thinking about moving over to AMD, or at least offering those as optional chips. Or at least threatening to like Dell to make sure they get a sweet deal on chip prices from Intel.
I'm not sure if this shows insight, or if it's just a shot in the dark.
But it wasn't ok. He had a dual boot system, with one of the OS's way behind on patches. That's not secure. Any time he rebooted into the other OS he'd be wide open for exploits that had come out since the patch was publicised. If he was admining the box properly and maintaining ALL the software on it himself it wouldn't have been an issue.
Have you ever run Futuremark? They tend to make pretty benchmarks. It's worth running them just to watch the eye candy.
Along those lines, I've read a bit about this, but I've never read exactly what it is that this will do, just that 'it helps with virtualization'. I run VMWare now. Will this new hardware support do anything for me, or will it just make it easier for the VMWare folks to write their program?
That's funny, I play a lot of games, right after they are released, and I've *never* spent $300 or more on a video card, and I've never replace my video card after only one year. I hate to tell you, but millions of people play games all the time on middle or lower end video cards and have a good time doing it. I've spent less on gaming hardware in the past three years than any console owner I know.
You mean that .Mac subscription that costs $99/year that most folks seem to drop right after the end of the free trial period? If they don't use it, they aren't going to be backed up any more than a Windows person (who also could buy onine backup from Yahoo, etc, if they wanted to. Online backup isn't an option available only to Mac users.).
Care to back that up with some specific points and references Mr. Anonymous Troll? I thought not.
Is there a part where it's easy to call AAA or someone to tow you out? No. Kinda dumb complaining that it might still get stuck somewhere. That's obvious. It could still go many many many places a smaller rover could not.
With a SaturnV you coud send a rover big enough that it wouldn't get hung up in 6" of sand like one of the Mars Rovers did. You could send a lot more instrumentation up to examine more aspects of whatever you are looking at.
There are other uses for big rockets than just sending humans into space.
Right. Because Win2k doesn't have anything like 'at.exe/winat.exe' or 'scheduled tasks' that you could use in place of cron...
Ditto. I use both Ghost 8 and Acronis True Image all the time on machines with Spybot and I've never had any issues. Either the problem doesn't exist, or Symantec seriously messed something up in more recent versions of Ghost.
So? I've get a Yahoo mail/hosting account with my SBC DSL line. I access the mail via pop and never visit the web portal. Just because someone has an email account at an address of a company who also has a portal, it doesn't mean they actually use the portal.
2) What if your friend hasn't paid for a fast internet connection and wants a copy? It's much easier to just get a copy from you when you stop by. Passing on by other means will happen.
3) So what? Have a bunch of folks who are registered arleady download your software everytime you make a new version, wheather they actually use it or not. Your numbers go up, you get more money. The system is set up for scamming.
The article is about the addition of MySQL to their stock of databases. It doesn't say that they don't also already have many copies of Oracle and or DB2 or MS SQL. They already have databases, they are just buying more. I'm sure for many really large complex databases, they are using one of the above. They are probably buying MySQL for use in smaller databases they also need to work with. The question is why MySQL and not Postgres or any number of other fuller featured free databases. You know, databases that actually always enforce constraints as a real database should, rather than having enforcement as a new option compared to their history of not enforcing them. Using MySQL for some random persons blog is one thing, but if the goverment is putting it in a database, the numbers probably matter and data integrity should be kept a higher priority than the folks at MySQL have historically treated it.