Let us look at these numbers. They exclude most of the market (I know very few people that buy retail computers). I am not suprized that AMD beat intel in the retail market. Most people that are buying preconfigured boxes from a retail store are usually looking for a cheap computer. AMD will win in this case. I think this is a sign that AMD is getting a shelf presence. That is it. 5 years ago, you couldn't find a computer with AMD inside it without doing some serious looking. Now you can find 4 out of 9 on walmarts computer page. I personally build only with AMD for now, but I have no issue with Intel processors (other than the loss of my left arm to pay for it). It is a good sign that AMD is becoming mainstream to the public, not just the enthusiast.
It should only be a couple of years more before Dell ships an AMD system. HP, shuttle, alienware, velocity micro, and monarch already do. I dont know about Gateway 2000.
all in all, Good for AMD!
FYI, 1 Athlon XP, 1 Duron, 1 G4, 2 Xenon, and 1 P4M at home.
The average home user (I'll say a 60 year old whippersnapper is getting there ) is becomming more accustomed to being able to do more advanced things on the computer with just the click of a button. Backing up a dvd is a perfect example. Or even better, transferring a VHS to DVD. On windows, they buy a piece of crap software that barely works, but does what it says it will do, and thats copy VHS to DVD. Stop and think how many steps it takes to do that in Linux. Every one is saying its mainstream now. IT IS NOT! It is industrial right now. Mainstream is when it is a house hold name. I actually keep a windows box around for several reasons (mostly multimedia in nature)just because I can get what I want to do done in a quarter of the time with that particular os. I use linux on all of my other computers because it does all that I need for those particular machines. When they make a distro that is so dummed down that my 60 year old father can pick it up and go "Why didn't you show me this earlier??" it will be ready for mainstream. There is too much configuration to do for now (/etc/hdparm.conf, ipchains, samba, etc.) that isn't done automagically or through a very easy to use UI (Suse is an exception, but it is so crippled in other respects that it can't do what else I need it to do with out doing the dependancy dance). Personally, I think Ubuntu is a good start, but it isnt perfect either. All of the distros have something to them, but none are ready for my old man...yet. Till then, It will always be 5 years away. After then, it will be the now.
From TFA, this is a "checklist" for CIO's. Last thing I need is my PHB having a list to check off and thinking they are requirements instead of suggestions. You never give a PHB this much info. They dont know what you are doing a good part of the time anyways... and a little info is more dangerous than none.
It can be a good idea if the techs get a hold of it though and stop giving my 2 inches of slack on these fiber runs and give be a proper service loop with good cable dressing instead of the rats nests I've had to fix recently.
I agree completely. The "industry standards" for many things are used alot, even if they dont partularly apply to your site. I would love to see people dress the cables in the back of a cabnet with uniform bending radius' and with a proper service loop. I would love to see that in every data center I work in. I wouldn't have to replace cables when a channel bank gets moved. I would love to see this fiber I have to deal with be secured properly and not cinched down hard enough to break your 1st. 6th, 18th, 32nd, and 72nd strand. That would save me a lot of work. I am not going to pay to see what they say... but I bet its just a culmination of proper install techniques and "industry standard" dressings to make the tech's and the installers times easier. Remeber "if it aint pretty, it dont work", err... that's what they told me in BICC anyways.
After making my living as an installer... raised floors are a GOD SEND!! They are a pain, but they look 1000 times better than cable tray or ladder rack with 2000 cables in them. They make routing cables easier. It is no fun setting up some rig in order to hang cable tray 20 ft. off the ground. You dont want ladder rack the whole way... nothing wrong with it, but why when you can use a cable trough with a cover that allows the use of a pull tape. Raised floors help with cooling (forced air from under the cabnet). Also, they dont have to get nasty under there.... just make sure your standards for presentation are clearly stated in the contracts and enforce them.
I am BICC certified. There is a difference between CAT3 and CAT 5. The twists are much more pronounced on CAT 5. It may not look like it, but there is a big differnece. There is also different amounts of twists per pair. CAT 6 is something I havent had much hands on with (we use mostly fiber for that stuff). CAT 3 has much lower frequency response per pair than CAT 5. A good cable tester can actually verify that for me if you can get your hands on one (see network analyser).
Just from looking online, CAT 6 has a minimum 250MHz bandwith while CAT 5 has a minimum 100 MHz bandwith per pair.
http://www.lanshack.com/cat5e-tutorial.asp check here. It says CAT 5e is the same as CAT 6 but CAT 6 is manufactured to a higher standard. I guess that the fab tolerances are tighter for Cat
6.
Actually... the arrangement may not be patentable... but how it is displayed is. I believe IBM has a patent (which was brought up in the counter suit in against SCOG) that covered "The method of displaying a directry structure using a graphical tree" or something like that. There was a big stink because all of the current OS's do that. There may be issues with the patent (prior art, obvious) but as it stands... it might be almost valid if and total bs at the same time.
if the system is sec/unclass, then yes, network is forbidden. If it is sec only, it can be connected to a sec high network. Not going to get into those details though.
No network is not a DoD requirement. Not being connected to an unencrypted netowk is. If you have an accredidted Secure Network.... you can network these.
It is worth the extra money... trust me. I have been in your shoes. Contract writers like warrenties.
I see a few comments about how there is a learning curve for linux. I see a few more comments that it takes a while, but one can become fully MS free if they take the time to learn the F/OSS software out there.
I DISAGREE (wth, its slashdot and I have karma to burn). I have found many things that windows does more easily or better than the linux or OS X counterparts do.
My wife refuses to use GNUCash over Quicken (luck has it there is a mac version).
Nothing touches the simplicity of DVD Shrink or DVDecrypter. I have found dvd's that dvdecss wont decode at all. Multimedia is *NIX's biggest problem right now.
I keep one MS computer around for these purposes... other than that, I have a Knoppix, an Ubuntu, and a Mac box.
Windows still has its place even if it is just as a honeypot.
I actually did get your point... I also know a lot of technophobes that will upgrade in order to get a new feature... or it looks prettier. They just pay people to do it (me usually). If it was that easy... it might be easier to get them to upgrade. Yes a throw away computer would be nice... but most people will use it till it is physically incapable of doing what they would like it to do. Thats the reason people still use win98 (could be said that they dont want to install software, but i think its more of "it does what i want" than the pain of installing software).
I am sure... with some engineering.... that the os would still be upgradeable. The os is on a rom chip. Who says you couldnt buy a new rom chip... with a panel on a side (any of them) where you can easily replace the chip.... instant upgrade. It'd be like running a couple of word processors I had on the C64. Slap a cartridge in the back and have it boot off the cartridge. New os on a cartridge, but where would we write our personal data... make em eeproms?
You think yellows are expensive??? try searchin for a good quality blue diamond. A natural blue will run somewhere around 13000-15000 USD for a 1 carat.
quite true, but its not the total calorie count that matters in this case. Its the glucose content. If an item is pure glucose.... it would help the power generator... even if it took more calories to digest than it produced. On the other hand.... I dont know how glucose relates to calories, so it is possible that glucose is high calorie gain.
I was wrong, glucose levels in the blood are lowered by eating onions. Onions act kinda like insulin... it lowers blood sugar levels by helping the glucose get to the cells. I forgot where I just read that, but i googled for it and it was the first link. google for glucose onions if you wish to verify.
I may be wrong, but I think onions are converted into almost pure glucose in the body. Its worth more than the apples are for the energy.
I know, I took that way too seriously.
there is no need for power on a subcutinous (sp?) national id card. My dog has been chipped. It is powered by the scanner, kinda like an rfid. an implant like that would work very well for a national id card...... oh wait, nm that wouldn't work.
As for the tracking device... it would have to use some real power, rfids are only readable from what, a mile. would work in a prison though, lose the signal......man hunt is on.
Damn you Daemon128.... you had to open your mouth and now the gov. has formed a plan.
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Let us look at these numbers. They exclude most of the market (I know very few people that buy retail computers). I am not suprized that AMD beat intel in the retail market. Most people that are buying preconfigured boxes from a retail store are usually looking for a cheap computer. AMD will win in this case.
I think this is a sign that AMD is getting a shelf presence. That is it. 5 years ago, you couldn't find a computer with AMD inside it without doing some serious looking. Now you can find 4 out of 9 on walmarts computer page. I personally build only with AMD for now, but I have no issue with Intel processors (other than the loss of my left arm to pay for it). It is a good sign that AMD is becoming mainstream to the public, not just the enthusiast.
It should only be a couple of years more before Dell ships an AMD system. HP, shuttle, alienware, velocity micro, and monarch already do. I dont know about Gateway 2000.
all in all, Good for AMD!
FYI, 1 Athlon XP, 1 Duron, 1 G4, 2 Xenon, and 1 P4M at home.
The average home user (I'll say a 60 year old whippersnapper is getting there ) is becomming more accustomed to being able to do more advanced things on the computer with just the click of a button. Backing up a dvd is a perfect example. Or even better, transferring a VHS to DVD. On windows, they buy a piece of crap software that barely works, but does what it says it will do, and thats copy VHS to DVD. Stop and think how many steps it takes to do that in Linux. Every one is saying its mainstream now. IT IS NOT! It is industrial right now. Mainstream is when it is a house hold name. I actually keep a windows box around for several reasons (mostly multimedia in nature)just because I can get what I want to do done in a quarter of the time with that particular os. I use linux on all of my other computers because it does all that I need for those particular machines. When they make a distro that is so dummed down that my 60 year old father can pick it up and go "Why didn't you show me this earlier??" it will be ready for mainstream. There is too much configuration to do for now (/etc/hdparm.conf, ipchains, samba, etc.) that isn't done automagically or through a very easy to use UI (Suse is an exception, but it is so crippled in other respects that it can't do what else I need it to do with out doing the dependancy dance). Personally, I think Ubuntu is a good start, but it isnt perfect either. All of the distros have something to them, but none are ready for my old man...yet. Till then, It will always be 5 years away. After then, it will be the now.
I B M.
do we really want to alienate them?? You are 100 percent correct mr parent poster.
From TFA, this is a "checklist" for CIO's. Last thing I need is my PHB having a list to check off and thinking they are requirements instead of suggestions. You never give a PHB this much info. They dont know what you are doing a good part of the time anyways... and a little info is more dangerous than none.
It can be a good idea if the techs get a hold of it though and stop giving my 2 inches of slack on these fiber runs and give be a proper service loop with good cable dressing instead of the rats nests I've had to fix recently.
I agree completely. The "industry standards" for many things are used alot, even if they dont partularly apply to your site. I would love to see people dress the cables in the back of a cabnet with uniform bending radius' and with a proper service loop. I would love to see that in every data center I work in. I wouldn't have to replace cables when a channel bank gets moved. I would love to see this fiber I have to deal with be secured properly and not cinched down hard enough to break your 1st. 6th, 18th, 32nd, and 72nd strand. That would save me a lot of work. I am not going to pay to see what they say... but I bet its just a culmination of proper install techniques and "industry standard" dressings to make the tech's and the installers times easier. Remeber "if it aint pretty, it dont work", err... that's what they told me in BICC anyways.
After making my living as an installer... raised floors are a GOD SEND!! They are a pain, but they look 1000 times better than cable tray or ladder rack with 2000 cables in them. They make routing cables easier. It is no fun setting up some rig in order to hang cable tray 20 ft. off the ground. You dont want ladder rack the whole way... nothing wrong with it, but why when you can use a cable trough with a cover that allows the use of a pull tape. Raised floors help with cooling (forced air from under the cabnet). Also, they dont have to get nasty under there.... just make sure your standards for presentation are clearly stated in the contracts and enforce them.
I am BICC certified. There is a difference between CAT3 and CAT 5. The twists are much more pronounced on CAT 5. It may not look like it, but there is a big differnece. There is also different amounts of twists per pair. CAT 6 is something I havent had much hands on with (we use mostly fiber for that stuff). CAT 3 has much lower frequency response per pair than CAT 5. A good cable tester can actually verify that for me if you can get your hands on one (see network analyser). Just from looking online, CAT 6 has a minimum 250MHz bandwith while CAT 5 has a minimum 100 MHz bandwith per pair. http://www.lanshack.com/cat5e-tutorial.asp check here. It says CAT 5e is the same as CAT 6 but CAT 6 is manufactured to a higher standard. I guess that the fab tolerances are tighter for Cat 6.
Actually... the arrangement may not be patentable... but how it is displayed is. I believe IBM has a patent (which was brought up in the counter suit in against SCOG) that covered "The method of displaying a directry structure using a graphical tree" or something like that. There was a big stink because all of the current OS's do that. There may be issues with the patent (prior art, obvious) but as it stands... it might be almost valid if and total bs at the same time.
LOL!! I meant about the details of a sec high network. The info stated was no where near classified :)
if the system is sec/unclass, then yes, network is forbidden. If it is sec only, it can be connected to a sec high network. Not going to get into those details though.
Two words. TRUSTED SOLARIS.
No network is not a DoD requirement. Not being connected to an unencrypted netowk is. If you have an accredidted Secure Network.... you can network these. It is worth the extra money... trust me. I have been in your shoes. Contract writers like warrenties.
I see a few comments about how there is a learning curve for linux. I see a few more comments that it takes a while, but one can become fully MS free if they take the time to learn the F/OSS software out there.
I DISAGREE (wth, its slashdot and I have karma to burn). I have found many things that windows does more easily or better than the linux or OS X counterparts do.
My wife refuses to use GNUCash over Quicken (luck has it there is a mac version).
Nothing touches the simplicity of DVD Shrink or DVDecrypter. I have found dvd's that dvdecss wont decode at all. Multimedia is *NIX's biggest problem right now.
I keep one MS computer around for these purposes... other than that, I have a Knoppix, an Ubuntu, and a Mac box.
Windows still has its place even if it is just as a honeypot.
there are even romance novels about nerds, so my wife informs me. Something about "Nerd in shining armor by Vicki Lewis Thompson".
I actually did get your point... I also know a lot of technophobes that will upgrade in order to get a new feature... or it looks prettier. They just pay people to do it (me usually). If it was that easy... it might be easier to get them to upgrade. Yes a throw away computer would be nice... but most people will use it till it is physically incapable of doing what they would like it to do. Thats the reason people still use win98 (could be said that they dont want to install software, but i think its more of "it does what i want" than the pain of installing software).
I am sure... with some engineering.... that the os would still be upgradeable. The os is on a rom chip. Who says you couldnt buy a new rom chip... with a panel on a side (any of them) where you can easily replace the chip.... instant upgrade. It'd be like running a couple of word processors I had on the C64. Slap a cartridge in the back and have it boot off the cartridge. New os on a cartridge, but where would we write our personal data... make em eeproms?
The immortality comment ... a way to come back from the force... was put in to explain how obe and yoda are looking down at luke in the end of ROJ.
You think yellows are expensive??? try searchin for a good quality blue diamond. A natural blue will run somewhere around 13000-15000 USD for a 1 carat.
that was my point
sun may be dieing, but it still has a military contract. They will stay alive for a little while longer.
I stand corrected.
quite true, but its not the total calorie count that matters in this case. Its the glucose content. If an item is pure glucose.... it would help the power generator... even if it took more calories to digest than it produced. On the other hand.... I dont know how glucose relates to calories, so it is possible that glucose is high calorie gain.
I was wrong, glucose levels in the blood are lowered by eating onions. Onions act kinda like insulin... it lowers blood sugar levels by helping the glucose get to the cells. I forgot where I just read that, but i googled for it and it was the first link. google for glucose onions if you wish to verify.
I may be wrong, but I think onions are converted into almost pure glucose in the body. Its worth more than the apples are for the energy. I know, I took that way too seriously.
there is no need for power on a subcutinous (sp?) national id card. My dog has been chipped. It is powered by the scanner, kinda like an rfid. an implant like that would work very well for a national id card...... oh wait, nm that wouldn't work.
As for the tracking device... it would have to use some real power, rfids are only readable from what, a mile. would work in a prison though, lose the signal......man hunt is on.
Damn you Daemon128.... you had to open your mouth and now the gov. has formed a plan.