Ever seen the SNL clip of Dana Carvey doing Ross Perot as he leaves running mate James Stockdale (VP) out in the middle of nowhere after the 1992 vice presidential debate?
If Apple is moving its computers to an x86 platform -- Intel P4s -- does something in the software development tie them to P4s only? Could they ever just, say, switch over to AMD Athlon64s if something went bad with Intel (worst case scenario, I know -- maybe even worse than this one today)? Or would the programming be tied to Intel CPUs?
I'm not a software programmer, so this is just a pure "just out of curiosity" question here.
...and buy up all the.xxx domains before they have a chance to. Someone types in analfisting.xxx, and they'll get the Salvation Army's website. Mwuahahahaha!
IronChefMorimoto
P.S. - WARNING - No association between anal fisting and the Salvation Army was intentional.
"Lisa, look -- I'm really sorry I've been sleeping with my secretary at work. I never thought you'd come looking for me in the janitorial closet at 2am on a Sunday morning."
"Harold -- there's no excuse for this -- I want a divorce, and I'm taking EVERYTHING! INCLUDING THE DOG!"
"But, Lisa -- I really want to apologize -- this card says it all..."
"Card? What? How pathetic...oh...wait...what a wonderful photo from our wedding, Harold..."
"Yeah -- I made it myself with a new printer we got at the labs at the office..."
[wife reads card -- eyes tear up -- lip trembles]
"Oh, Harold...I love you so much...I accept your apology..."
[wife tries to kiss husband]
"Wait -- I'm not worthy of that kind of love just yet...give it time...so you know it's real again..."
"You're right, Harold. I'll read this card over and over and remember that you're going to make an effort to be better and more faithful..."
[28 days later]
"Well, Harold -- it's the weirdest thing..."
"What's that, doc?"
"I have no idea how your wife got a case of bubonic plague. Did you guys have rats in your house?"
"Nope. Really odd. Oh, well."
"It's a mystery to me, Harold. She died such a painful death."
"Yes...she did... Well, I'm off for an appointment. Gotta pick up my secretary. See ya doc!"
"Toyota Eldery Care Technology support, how can I help you?"
"I've fallen, and I can't get up."
"Is your ElderCare 5000 series nearby?"
"I forgot to recharge Willy last night."
"Willy? Who is Willy?"
"Well -- that's my robot's name. After my first husband, before he died in the Vietnam War. He was such a loveable man...kind to his children...and..."
"Uh -- ma'am -- does 'Willy' have a base charge?"
"What? I can't hear ya real good. Willy has my Miracle Ear stored in his chest compartment."
"I SAID -- DOES 'WILLY' HAVE A BASE CHARGE?"
"Base charge? What's that? I only know the green lights and the one with the blinking red light."
"Can you reach Willy from where you're lying?"
"Can I touch my willy so you can spy on me? You whippersnapper pervert! I'll have you fired! How digusting..."
"Ma'am -- please hold."
[technician initiates kill mode on ElderCare 5000 via GPS and remote activation protocols]
"Ma'am -- are you still there?"
"Yes -- Willy is moving around now. What did you do?"
"It'll all be over soon."
"What? A tall rover's moon? Hey! Willy?! What are you doin'? Willy?! Put that TV down! He's gone amock! What's going on?! Willy?! WILLY?!"
[slam - click - dial-tone - ring]
"Toyota Eldery Care Technology support, how can I help you?"
HardOCP (http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Nzc4) also has a decent preview. If you look down the list of the various news items for today, the [H] has included links to other previews. Also, they have some photographs from CompuTex (???) in Taipei from this week.
I skimmed both the Anandtech and HardOCP articles, and the basic gist about ATI's "SLI" is:
- needs an ATI chipset (the 200 -- for both Intel and AMD right now) - "SLI" connector is external via some sort of weird DVI dongle - uses one (1) existing X800 or X850 flavor card + a special CrossFire edition of same card models = no real need to get TWO CrossFire cards at one time if you already have the above models
Looks like I'm gonna need a monster case to ever be able to do this setup (ATI's demos at CompuTex take up 4 friggin' slots on the back of a case).
NASA is sugar coating this for us. They don't want to admit that the "shock" was actually Voyager bouncing off the inside of the glass bowl that is our universe. They even buried the photograps Voyager sent back of the big alien child's eye looking in from outside the bowl.
Bastards. Just admit that we're pawns in a friggin' alien aquarium. So the anarchy can begin.
All cars have game controllers -- they're called steering wheels, brakes, and accelerators. With the appropriate combination of l33t combo moves, you can pretty much win the following games on your morning commute (in Atlanta):
- Gran Turismo: I-285 Edition - Need For Speed: GA400 Gridlock - Project Middle Finger Racing - Grand Theft Auto: Midtown Street Parking Edition
In Ohio, you have a car game unavailable in most parts of the country (although LA just introduced it, from what I hear):
I think it would have been great to seize some spammer's bank accounts after the hurricanes last year to help devastated families rebuild.
"What do you mean that I have no insurance or money to rebuild my South Beach home? They did what? Seized what accounts? Why? Found out I'm a spammer? Who the hell...what?! My last $1 million in spam profits is going to rebuild a church? Where? Isn't that a swamp? DAMMIT!"
Imagine all the people who have Google.com set as their homepage when they start up a web browser. I can't imagine what happened to ISP help desk lines when Joe Bob Family Man hopped onto his computer Saturday night to check a golf score only to find a 404 error or some "page not found" error when he fired up MSIE.
Think about it -- Google just doesn't go down. Not like some websites. It's so simply designed, and in some people's minds, that means it can't fail.
Hell -- I stupidly went into my Linksys router interface after FireFox gave me a startup error to see if my ISP had dropped my connection. I didn't think to look at CNN.com or another website (which were working fine, so NOT an outage). Why?
Google just doesn't go down. Reliance is a real bitch sometimes, no?
The Inquirer points to an Info Week blog via Silicon Investor that basically says that AMD can't even purchase dual core Intel CPUs to benchmark them against its own offerings -- they're not available for sale anywhere:
I agree that the costs of the AMDs are exorbitant right now as they migrate their production, but if and when they get their fabs worked out, prices could really drop and even things up on that level.
I guess the real concern, though, and some have already noted it -- so what? Until I see an AMD dual core CPU option on Dell.com's various stores, Intel isn't going to be hurtin'.
Oh for Christ's sake -- go see Natalie Portman nearly friggin' nekkid and stripping for Clive Owen in a 2-day rental of Closer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376541/ at Blockbuster Video.
Trust me -- no need to wait for Lucas to make Star Wars nerds wet dreams come true with revisions to Amidala's cloak or Leia's Hutt bikini in the "Star Wars 8th Edition Special THX Widescreen DVD Collection" to get you in trouble with the wife.
My gawking during "Closer" was plenty enough to land me on the couch last Saturday night...where I watched it again, after the wife went to sleep, in the privacy of my den.;)
...1400 WAPs in a small geographic area contributes to 2.4GHz sterility in males and females.
However, notes an unidentified Dartmouth sophomore interviewed at March 30 mixer, "most of us are into one-night stands anyway, so this'll make it less risky. Hell -- you're assuming we're getting any in the first place!"
Although students seem OK with sterility, Dartmouth human resources is retrofitting all faculty and staff cubicles and offices on campus with tin foil.
Man -- hope Jeep didn't provide the drivetrain for this little piece of hardware, 'cause finding out THIS product isn't "trail rated" could pretty much put them out of business.
You mean it's that easy? I got an idea...Let's all march on Redmond and threaten to boycott Microsoft...unless they fix all of these unnecessary security holes in their products.
Let's all march on Redmond? Did you just suggest we have a Windows Update Pride Parade?
Anandtech has an AMD dual core Opteron and Athlon64 X2 article that might compliment the original poster's story pretty well. It has a sh*tload of benchmarks:
I really wish they wouldn't do gaming benchmarks with an Opteron in stories like these. Just because the Opteron used has similar specs to the dekstop processor that hasn't been released doesn't necessarily mean that the gaming benchmarks are all that useful. Just my 2 cents.
It'll be interesting to see how soon prices fall for these AMD processors (server and desktop) when they go mainstream. Read the cost comparisons for these badboys in the article.
Finally, I'm glad that Anand decided to demonstrate that the new AMDs will be backwards compatible with Socket 939 motherboards WITH BIOS revisions. Intel's dual core processors don't offer that luxury, from what I read in the article.
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Ever seen the SNL clip of Dana Carvey doing Ross Perot as he leaves running mate James Stockdale (VP) out in the middle of nowhere after the 1992 vice presidential debate?
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I swear, Dvorak looks like Phil Hartman doing Stockdale on this website:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7
Perhaps Dvorak just talks out of his ass like Stockdale did:
"Who am I? Why am I here? I'm not a politician."
IronChefMorimoto
If Apple is moving its computers to an x86 platform -- Intel P4s -- does something in the software development tie them to P4s only? Could they ever just, say, switch over to AMD Athlon64s if something went bad with Intel (worst case scenario, I know -- maybe even worse than this one today)? Or would the programming be tied to Intel CPUs?
I'm not a software programmer, so this is just a pure "just out of curiosity" question here.
Thanks,
IronChefMorimoto
...the shit will fly everywhere and make a mess. ;-)
IronChefMorimoto
...and buy up all the .xxx domains before they have a chance to. Someone types in analfisting.xxx, and they'll get the Salvation Army's website. Mwuahahahaha!
IronChefMorimoto
P.S. - WARNING - No association between anal fisting and the Salvation Army was intentional.
"Lisa, look -- I'm really sorry I've been sleeping with my secretary at work. I never thought you'd come looking for me in the janitorial closet at 2am on a Sunday morning."
"Harold -- there's no excuse for this -- I want a divorce, and I'm taking EVERYTHING! INCLUDING THE DOG!"
"But, Lisa -- I really want to apologize -- this card says it all..."
"Card? What? How pathetic...oh...wait...what a wonderful photo from our wedding, Harold..."
"Yeah -- I made it myself with a new printer we got at the labs at the office..."
[wife reads card -- eyes tear up -- lip trembles]
"Oh, Harold...I love you so much...I accept your apology..."
[wife tries to kiss husband]
"Wait -- I'm not worthy of that kind of love just yet...give it time...so you know it's real again..."
"You're right, Harold. I'll read this card over and over and remember that you're going to make an effort to be better and more faithful..."
[28 days later]
"Well, Harold -- it's the weirdest thing..."
"What's that, doc?"
"I have no idea how your wife got a case of bubonic plague. Did you guys have rats in your house?"
"Nope. Really odd. Oh, well."
"It's a mystery to me, Harold. She died such a painful death."
"Yes...she did... Well, I'm off for an appointment. Gotta pick up my secretary. See ya doc!"
IronChefMorimoto
...and I have a few thoughts on it... ...wait...gotta check my e-mail. Be right back.
IronChefMorimoto
...Brock Samson (http://www.adultswim.com/shows/venturebros/index. html ) to kick the sh*t out of this guy running the blog.
IronChefMorimoto
"Toyota Eldery Care Technology support, how can I help you?"
"I've fallen, and I can't get up."
"Is your ElderCare 5000 series nearby?"
"I forgot to recharge Willy last night."
"Willy? Who is Willy?"
"Well -- that's my robot's name. After my first husband, before he died in the Vietnam War. He was such a loveable man...kind to his children...and..."
"Uh -- ma'am -- does 'Willy' have a base charge?"
"What? I can't hear ya real good. Willy has my Miracle Ear stored in his chest compartment."
"I SAID -- DOES 'WILLY' HAVE A BASE CHARGE?"
"Base charge? What's that? I only know the green lights and the one with the blinking red light."
"Can you reach Willy from where you're lying?"
"Can I touch my willy so you can spy on me? You whippersnapper pervert! I'll have you fired! How digusting..."
"Ma'am -- please hold."
[technician initiates kill mode on ElderCare 5000 via GPS and remote activation protocols]
"Ma'am -- are you still there?"
"Yes -- Willy is moving around now. What did you do?"
"It'll all be over soon."
"What? A tall rover's moon? Hey! Willy?! What are you doin'? Willy?! Put that TV down! He's gone amock! What's going on?! Willy?! WILLY?!"
[slam - click - dial-tone - ring]
"Toyota Eldery Care Technology support, how can I help you?"
IronChefMorimoto
HardOCP (http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Nzc4) also has a decent preview. If you look down the list of the various news items for today, the [H] has included links to other previews. Also, they have some photographs from CompuTex (???) in Taipei from this week.
I skimmed both the Anandtech and HardOCP articles, and the basic gist about ATI's "SLI" is:
- needs an ATI chipset (the 200 -- for both Intel and AMD right now)
- "SLI" connector is external via some sort of weird DVI dongle
- uses one (1) existing X800 or X850 flavor card + a special CrossFire edition of same card models = no real need to get TWO CrossFire cards at one time if you already have the above models
Looks like I'm gonna need a monster case to ever be able to do this setup (ATI's demos at CompuTex take up 4 friggin' slots on the back of a case).
IronChefMorimoto
NASA is sugar coating this for us. They don't want to admit that the "shock" was actually Voyager bouncing off the inside of the glass bowl that is our universe. They even buried the photograps Voyager sent back of the big alien child's eye looking in from outside the bowl.
Bastards. Just admit that we're pawns in a friggin' alien aquarium. So the anarchy can begin.
IronChefMorimoto
All cars have game controllers -- they're called steering wheels, brakes, and accelerators. With the appropriate combination of l33t combo moves, you can pretty much win the following games on your morning commute (in Atlanta):
- Gran Turismo: I-285 Edition
- Need For Speed: GA400 Gridlock
- Project Middle Finger Racing
- Grand Theft Auto: Midtown Street Parking Edition
In Ohio, you have a car game unavailable in most parts of the country (although LA just introduced it, from what I hear):
- Freeway Sniper Spy Hunter
IronChefMorimoto
I think it would have been great to seize some spammer's bank accounts after the hurricanes last year to help devastated families rebuild.
"What do you mean that I have no insurance or money to rebuild my South Beach home? They did what? Seized what accounts? Why? Found out I'm a spammer? Who the hell...what?! My last $1 million in spam profits is going to rebuild a church? Where? Isn't that a swamp? DAMMIT!"
IronChefMorimoto
...when I piss in the water at Sanibel Island. Screw you spammers.
IronChefMorimoto
Imagine all the people who have Google.com set as their homepage when they start up a web browser. I can't imagine what happened to ISP help desk lines when Joe Bob Family Man hopped onto his computer Saturday night to check a golf score only to find a 404 error or some "page not found" error when he fired up MSIE.
Think about it -- Google just doesn't go down. Not like some websites. It's so simply designed, and in some people's minds, that means it can't fail.
Hell -- I stupidly went into my Linksys router interface after FireFox gave me a startup error to see if my ISP had dropped my connection. I didn't think to look at CNN.com or another website (which were working fine, so NOT an outage). Why?
Google just doesn't go down. Reliance is a real bitch sometimes, no?
IronChefMorimoto
The Inquirer points to an Info Week blog via Silicon Investor that basically says that AMD can't even purchase dual core Intel CPUs to benchmark them against its own offerings -- they're not available for sale anywhere:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23018
I agree that the costs of the AMDs are exorbitant right now as they migrate their production, but if and when they get their fabs worked out, prices could really drop and even things up on that level.
I guess the real concern, though, and some have already noted it -- so what? Until I see an AMD dual core CPU option on Dell.com's various stores, Intel isn't going to be hurtin'.
IronChefMorimoto
I swear to God that photo on the Popular Mechanics website and Wikipedia article looks like a damned LEGO set.
At least NASA won't have to put much engineering into future spacesuits, what with the limited arm/leg mobility of LEGO peeps.
IronChefMorimoto
Oh for Christ's sake -- go see Natalie Portman nearly friggin' nekkid and stripping for Clive Owen in a 2-day rental of Closer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376541/ at Blockbuster Video.
;)
Trust me -- no need to wait for Lucas to make Star Wars nerds wet dreams come true with revisions to Amidala's cloak or Leia's Hutt bikini in the "Star Wars 8th Edition Special THX Widescreen DVD Collection" to get you in trouble with the wife.
My gawking during "Closer" was plenty enough to land me on the couch last Saturday night...where I watched it again, after the wife went to sleep, in the privacy of my den.
IronChefMorimoto
Must have. You did the same but at least made it to the THIRD word. ;)
IronChefMorimoto
...1400 WAPs in a small geographic area contributes to 2.4GHz sterility in males and females.
However, notes an unidentified Dartmouth sophomore interviewed at March 30 mixer, "most of us are into one-night stands anyway, so this'll make it less risky. Hell -- you're assuming we're getting any in the first place!"
Although students seem OK with sterility, Dartmouth human resources is retrofitting all faculty and staff cubicles and offices on campus with tin foil.
IronChefMorimoto
Man -- hope Jeep didn't provide the drivetrain for this little piece of hardware, 'cause finding out THIS product isn't "trail rated" could pretty much put them out of business.
IronChefMorimoto
This might tickle your brain a bit.
Nope. Didn't tickle my brain. I shit myself though.
IronChefMorimoto
This is a solid upgrade: faster CPUs, dual-layer 16X Superdrives, higher base RAM, same prices. But what does everybody say? "They're not dual core."
Uh...no offense, but what the fuck is so "solid" about
Ooh! They didn't raise the price to accommodate that $120 worth of hardware. Thank you Jesus! Ooh!
Sorry -- I love Macs, but calling this a solid upgrade is like saying power locks put a Ford Focus SE in a whole different class of luxury.
IronChefMorimoto
This isn't good -- now I have no time to prep before the first boobies begin to appear on my screen...aw...dammit.
Made a mess. See? Too much boobies too fast!
The power is too much for any mortal man!
IronChefMorimoto
You mean it's that easy? I got an idea...Let's all march on Redmond and threaten to boycott Microsoft...unless they fix all of these unnecessary security holes in their products.
Let's all march on Redmond? Did you just suggest we have a Windows Update Pride Parade?
IronChefMorimoto
Anandtech has an AMD dual core Opteron and Athlon64 X2 article that might compliment the original poster's story pretty well. It has a sh*tload of benchmarks:
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http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx
I really wish they wouldn't do gaming benchmarks with an Opteron in stories like these. Just because the Opteron used has similar specs to the dekstop processor that hasn't been released doesn't necessarily mean that the gaming benchmarks are all that useful. Just my 2 cents.
It'll be interesting to see how soon prices fall for these AMD processors (server and desktop) when they go mainstream. Read the cost comparisons for these badboys in the article.
Finally, I'm glad that Anand decided to demonstrate that the new AMDs will be backwards compatible with Socket 939 motherboards WITH BIOS revisions. Intel's dual core processors don't offer that luxury, from what I read in the article.
IronChefMorimoto