Well, sure, if you're talking about 970FXs at similar clock speeds. On the other hand, we can't be sure how heavily modified these processors were modified to get them to such low power consumption - they could be even slower, or even faster.
Hmm... perhaps Apple's differentiation between the iBooks and Powerbooks will be dual-core Yonahs in the latter, and single-core PowerPCs in the iBooks? That would be kinda cool, although I'm aware it'd also probably be a terrible way to go.
On the other hand, it probably takes much longer than 12 minutes to secure your Windows PC, short of removing the network cable.
I mean, unless you wisely have SP2 and some protective software already burnt to CD... but I'm unsure that as many as 50% of users would be in that group.
...Apple already has a calculator. You know, the one that's hideously inaccurate.
All jabs aside, I'd really be rather surprised if this were for something as blasé as a calculator - and it could be something cooler than spreadsheet. My hopes aren't really up, though.
Apple's OS X comes with a piece of software called Keychain, which stores passwords for encrypted disk images, websites, email or IM accounts, or... well, pretty much anything that asks to have a password saved there. All these passwords are kept encrypted, and can only be accessed by entering the user's password.
I'm aware that this technology exists for *nix (at least, I believe it does on my Ubuntu box), but I'm unsure if other similar solutions have the same versatility of Keychain. No matter: it works very well for me, and I only ever have to remember a single password despite using more than a hundred for different situations.
Of course, that all goes to hell when I try to log into something from anywhere but my home computer...
Hey! Maybe they'll make up for Australia and the USA not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol!
Or not. You never know.
It's extremely impressive, though, that they could manage to triple the output of their industrial sector for the same energy consumption - makes me feel guilty about doing nothing at all about climate change in my own home.
Well, even with $100 for the calculator, I suppose the real irony is that I, personally, will be paying $30 for a screensaver my 500Mhz iMac G3 won't even be able to run.
The G5 has always had two double-precision FPUs per processor. That was presumably a large part of why VirginiaTech originally built a cluster of them.
And you, sir, are a fuckhead. I was flaming you for needlessly, and hypocritically overreating to one individual's product choice.
I'll forgive your overly aggressive method of dealing with software you dislike. Might I recommend the game Manhunt? Believe me, you'll love it. It's just like deleting software, only with shotguns.
The interface was fairly clean, but the window was fucking HUGE.
Jesus! What a crime - I can hardly believe you had the self-control to avoid burning your hard drive, fucktard.
Has it never occurred to you that, perhaps, not everybody is the raging anti-Apple zealot that you are? Or, perhaps, that some people actually like the iPod, for reasons other than its fad/popular/awesome status? Or maybe you're just too busy fantasizing about the parent boning his iPod, who knows.
I find it particularly interesting, really, that you flame the parent for suggesting that other people might think like him... and then come up with such a piece of crap as most of us are not [going to buy Tiger]. Welcome to Hypocrisy Avoidance 101, here's your white pointy cap.
I don't believe that's necessarily true. I'm sixteen years old, and when I was four we bought our first computer: a blazing-fast 16Mhz 68k Macintosh Classic II, with a massive 2Mb RAM and an 80Mb hard disk. Remember, I was four at the time.
Now, by the time I was actually capable of using it independently, at around age eight, it was already obsolete (damn you, 604e!). By the time it died, we had owned it for no less than nine years, running pretty well constantly whenever we were home, passively cooled in the Australian summer.
We then got out first 'new' computer more than a year afterwards, when my brother dumped his old iMac G3 500 on us. Its what I'm typing on now, and is currently at least six years old (manufactured in November 1999). I also own two other iMac G3s - a 266 and a 350 - and I've never come to believe that "if I touch this, it'll CATCH FIRE AND BURN MY FAMILY", despite the fact that almost all the hardware I've ever used has had one foot in the grave. Indeed, my school's just bought another 500 Dells, and I ph34r not!:-)
I would suggest that your kids would be more likely to fear old hardware if you *make* them fear it - say, beating them if they accidentally break it, or even just punishing them verbally. If you tell them it was going to break anyway, and help them work out how to fix it, it can only benefit them in the future.
BlueGene/L has nearly doubled its performance to 135.3 Teraflops by doubling its processors.
Imagine a beowulf clust of those things!...wait a sec. Crap.:-(
Slashdot Mirror
Well, sure, if you're talking about 970FXs at similar clock speeds. On the other hand, we can't be sure how heavily modified these processors were modified to get them to such low power consumption - they could be even slower, or even faster.
Hmm... perhaps Apple's differentiation between the iBooks and Powerbooks will be dual-core Yonahs in the latter, and single-core PowerPCs in the iBooks? That would be kinda cool, although I'm aware it'd also probably be a terrible way to go.
Let me be the first to say, "omfgpwnt"
On the other hand, it probably takes much longer than 12 minutes to secure your Windows PC, short of removing the network cable.
I mean, unless you wisely have SP2 and some protective software already burnt to CD... but I'm unsure that as many as 50% of users would be in that group.
All your glitz are belong to us?
Pity.. they only mirrored the first page...
...Apple already has a calculator. You know, the one that's hideously inaccurate.
All jabs aside, I'd really be rather surprised if this were for something as blasé as a calculator - and it could be something cooler than spreadsheet. My hopes aren't really up, though.
Or you could, you know, link to the mirror
Apple's OS X comes with a piece of software called Keychain, which stores passwords for encrypted disk images, websites, email or IM accounts, or... well, pretty much anything that asks to have a password saved there. All these passwords are kept encrypted, and can only be accessed by entering the user's password.
I'm aware that this technology exists for *nix (at least, I believe it does on my Ubuntu box), but I'm unsure if other similar solutions have the same versatility of Keychain. No matter: it works very well for me, and I only ever have to remember a single password despite using more than a hundred for different situations.
Of course, that all goes to hell when I try to log into something from anywhere but my home computer...
No way, man! It's so much more efficient to have a single Pentium 4, than an AMD and an electric heater ;-)
Hey! Maybe they'll make up for Australia and the USA not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol!
Or not. You never know.
It's extremely impressive, though, that they could manage to triple the output of their industrial sector for the same energy consumption - makes me feel guilty about doing nothing at all about climate change in my own home.
You let him get away with it: same difference.
... only to have the crap beaten out of it by the latest GeForce.
The materials have degraded before it's even left Earth? Damn outsourcing...
Well, even with $100 for the calculator, I suppose the real irony is that I, personally, will be paying $30 for a screensaver my 500Mhz iMac G3 won't even be able to run.
:-(
Maybe time for an upgrade.
Wow. A $129 calculator.
Heh, I suppose I can't talk. I'm buying it for the RSS Screensaver.
The G5 has always had two double-precision FPUs per processor. That was presumably a large part of why VirginiaTech originally built a cluster of them.
Wow. Almost makes me wonder if they just ran out of toner for their printer. :-)
What a pity they had to cut it to make a realistic ship date, all DNF jokes aside. :)
I guess you're right, then. It's pretty hard to copy a competitor's product without actually having anything to sell...
And we all know how nonexistant Linux for PowerPC is...
I'll forgive your overly aggressive method of dealing with software you dislike. Might I recommend the game Manhunt? Believe me, you'll love it. It's just like deleting software, only with shotguns.
Jesus! What a crime - I can hardly believe you had the self-control to avoid burning your hard drive, fucktard.
Has it never occurred to you that, perhaps, not everybody is the raging anti-Apple zealot that you are? Or, perhaps, that some people actually like the iPod, for reasons other than its fad/popular/awesome status? Or maybe you're just too busy fantasizing about the parent boning his iPod, who knows.
I find it particularly interesting, really, that you flame the parent for suggesting that other people might think like him... and then come up with such a piece of crap as most of us are not [going to buy Tiger]. Welcome to Hypocrisy Avoidance 101, here's your white pointy cap.
I don't believe that's necessarily true. I'm sixteen years old, and when I was four we bought our first computer: a blazing-fast 16Mhz 68k Macintosh Classic II, with a massive 2Mb RAM and an 80Mb hard disk. Remember, I was four at the time.
:-)
Now, by the time I was actually capable of using it independently, at around age eight, it was already obsolete (damn you, 604e!). By the time it died, we had owned it for no less than nine years, running pretty well constantly whenever we were home, passively cooled in the Australian summer.
We then got out first 'new' computer more than a year afterwards, when my brother dumped his old iMac G3 500 on us. Its what I'm typing on now, and is currently at least six years old (manufactured in November 1999). I also own two other iMac G3s - a 266 and a 350 - and I've never come to believe that "if I touch this, it'll CATCH FIRE AND BURN MY FAMILY", despite the fact that almost all the hardware I've ever used has had one foot in the grave. Indeed, my school's just bought another 500 Dells, and I ph34r not!
I would suggest that your kids would be more likely to fear old hardware if you *make* them fear it - say, beating them if they accidentally break it, or even just punishing them verbally. If you tell them it was going to break anyway, and help them work out how to fix it, it can only benefit them in the future.
BlueGene/L has nearly doubled its performance to 135.3 Teraflops by doubling its processors. Imagine a beowulf clust of those things! ...wait a sec. Crap. :-(
As if they wouldn't be using xfce :-)
[quote]"You feel an icy blast; saving throw vs. ex-girlfriend fails. Take 50 points of damage".
:-)
[/quote]
You didn't even roll a D1?! What kind of cheating DM are you?