my P4 @ 2.6 GHZ and a gig of DDR400 was having problems running KDE as smoothly as I thought it would be
I call bullshit.
One of my old machines was a PII 450. Back when I used it as my secondary machine, I ran KDE 3.0 on Mandrake Linux 9. I had very little problems. Sure, it didn't run completely smooth, but that's the same complaint you had, and there's a world of difference between a PII 450 and a P4 2.6.
Let's see...if running a light distro on a P4 2.6 has noticable smoothness problems, then a bloated distro on a PII 450 should be unusable. Yeah, it's safe to say you're lying.
a 3ghz computer to run a text editor
I know you're exaggerating, but anything even remotely near that is bullshit. My 1.86 GHz laptop has run everything I've thrown at it at lightning-fast speeds, no matter how huge or bloated it is.
At no time will the full-resolution digital signal be exposed in non-encrypted form.
Except that the signal will have to be decrypted in order to be displayed on the monitor. That's where you put the little box. Inside the monitor. Stick it inside just before the data reaches the phosphors, and route it to a capture card elsewhere.
I find that, having listened to lots and lots of Anisong (mostly from tokusatsu, however, and not anime), that it's hard for me to like any mainstream music nowadays, Japanese or not.
The quality of the singing in Anisong music is usually far superior to most mainstream artists, and I find the composition of the songs more interesting. I'll eat up, for example, an Anisong piece sung by Takayuki Miyauchi (or Isao Sasaki, Shin'ichi Ishihara, Hironobu Kageyama, etc) with an amazing tune, but mainstream J-Pop and American music just bore me. Hell, when Anisong artists try to sing their own solo albums, it doesn't sound nearly as good. I've recently listened to some of Takayuki Miyauchi's rare solo work (IIRC, he only sung one album that wasn't connected to a tokusatsu or anime series), and while his singing is as beautiful as ever, the songs themselves were just bland and uninspired compared to his Anisong work.
This is a little off-topic, but I'm curious: how good is the VNF4/Ultra's Linux support? I'm considering getting that board when I build my next machine, but I've heard horror stories about nForce on Linux, so I'm curious to hear from someone who's had experience using a recent nForce-based board on Linux.
I was originally going to get a board with a VIA K8T890 chipset, but since K8T890 doesn't support dual-core (which I didn't find out until recently), nF4 seems to be my only choice if I want my next machine to be upgradeable.
Of course, me building this machine is still pretty far off, as I still haven't met the all-important "find a job so I can get the money to build it" prerequisite, and by that time, there might be a better solution out there...
One former professor of mine uses the phrase "10 years of Java experience" as an indicator of when to throw out a resume. He does some consulting work, and companies tend to ask him to go over the resumes of their applicants and junk those that he feels are unqualified. First, those who don't have CS or SE degrees get thrown out. Second, he throws out anything with obvious lies such as "10 years of Java experience".
When you posted that, I immediately thought of that story, because it really shows how some people can be utter dumbasses.
You raise some interesting points, but the fact remains that every single source that I've found refers to the SledgeHammer as the 130nm Opteron, ClawHammer as the 130nm Athlon 64 with 1024KB L2, and Newcastle as the 130nm Athlon 64 with 512KB L2.
Furthermore, even if you were right, you haven't accounted for the existance of the Newcastle name. If ClawHammer is the 130nm Athlon 64 with 512KB L2, then what is Newcastle, and where did the name come from?
Before I get into that, I'll admit that my description of the differences between ClawHammer and SlegeHammer (unbuffered vs. registered RAM) was speculation. However, it has been the only difference between ClawHammer and SledgeHammer that is consistant among all models. I'll also say that the same parallels exist between pairs of more recent cores: San Diego/Venus and Toledo/Denmark. The only differences between the members of each pair are the brand name, socket, and supported RAM type.
I've been thinking about a possible reason why these issues exist, and an explanation that will reconcile both of our views, and I think I have it. The following is speculation, but the more I think about it, the more it makes perfect sense:
Yes, the Opteron, with the "SledgeHammer" core was to have 1024KB of L2, and the Athlon 64, with the "ClawHammer" core was to have 512KB of L2 (I'm using quotes for a reason here). For some reason, "ClawHammer" was delayed, but AMD wanted Opteron to launch with a "SledgeHammer" core and Athlon 64 to launch with a "ClawHammer" core, probably so they can claim some level of consistency with their roadmaps. The solution? Screw with the names. The core that was called "ClawHammer" was renamed "Newcastle". The name "ClawHammer" was then redefined to mean "'SledgeHammer' in a Socket 754 (and later 939) package".
It's not the first time AMD has altered codenames to fit some naming scheme, like how Corvette became Palomino, and I'm still not sure what the whole Appaloosa/Applebred story was.
The differences between San Diego & Venus and Toledo & Denmark? AMD wanted to use one codename to refer to Opteron-branded products and another to refer to Athlon 64, FX, and X2-branded products. If Intel can do that (they've been doing the same thing with P4 and Xeon codenames), so can AMD.
$6600 is a drop in the bucket for any company that deserves to stay in business. Regardless, the ecomonic benefits of using Qt far outweigh the costs--a cross-platform development toolkit saves massive amounts of coding time, and time is money.
There is no discrimination against fields of endeavour in the GPL, which is the Qt license. Furthermore, the GPL is clearly listed on the OSI website as an OSI-compliant license.
ClawHammer and SledgeHammer both have 1024KB (1MB) of L2 cache. The variant on ClawHammer that only has 512KB of L2 is called Newcastle if it's for desktop use, or Odessa if it's for mobile use.
Three desktop ClawHammer models (2800+, 3000+, 3500+) and one mobile ClawHammer model (2700+) have half of the L2 disabled, but it is still physically present on the die. This is likely because up to half of the cache was damaged, so rather than throw out the whole chip, they disabled half the cache and adjusted the model number and/or clock speed to compensate.
There is one, and only one difference between SledgeHammer and ClawHammer: the memory controller. SledgeHammer requires registered RAM, and ClawHammer requires normal (unbuffered) RAM.
SledgeHammer has been released under the Opteron (x40-x50) and Athlon 64 FX (51 and 53) brands, both of them only on Socket 940.
ClawHammer has been released under the Athlon 64 (2800+, 3200+, 3400+, 3500+, 3700+, and 4000+), Mobile Athlon 64 (2700+, 2800+, 3000+, 3200+, 3400+, and 3700+), and Athlon 64 FX (53 and 55) brands. All ClawHammer FXes were released on Socket 939. All Mobile Athlon 64s were released on Socket 754. Most ClawHammer Athlon 64s were released on Socket 754, except the 3500+ and 4000+, which were released on Socket 939.
Trust me on this--the guy you're arguing with is usually wrong (look at its posting history), but he's right here. I've spent a lot of time doing research on and documenting the specs of all the different models of the Athlon 64, and I know what a ClawHammer is.
I've been an AMD zealot since the P3 and its Processor Serial Number came out, and I've only started to look back towards Intel recently.
They've come a long way in a short time. PSN is long gone. The Pentium M is the single best notebook processor in the world, and it's only going to get better (*drools over Yonah and Merom*). Conroe and Ridgefield are going to be better than anything else when they come out in the next few years, and AMD will need to pull one huge rabbit out of their hat to beat them.
I ended my long-held avoidance of Intel products and bought a Centrino laptop a few months ago. I'm seriously considering building a Conroe-based machine when it comes out in late 2006/early 2007.
There's really only one thing that Intel can do to improve, and that's putting a stop to their monopolistic business practices. If they do that, even if it's a result of a lawsuit, and assuming they deliver the goods with the Merom and Nehalem generations of processors, I might end up leaving AMD behind...
Hmm..I just noticed that the 630's $225.99 was a one-day sale price, so it's normally much more expensive. The next cheapest Intel processor is a Pentium 4 3.2E, at $211.99, which is about as fast as the 630 (the 630 is 200MHz slower, but has twice the cache, which have been shown in benchmarks to almost exactly make up for the clock speed drop), and thus also gets hammered by the 3400+.
Now AMD is just as expensive. And now they have all that 3000xp bullshit. Because of that I planned on getting a P4 for my next computer. $200 is still my price point. But now Intel is pulling even more crap wiht is BMW naming style. 660, etc.
Model numbers are a Good Thing, dammit. Using clock speed in place of model numbers was a horrible idea that gave Intel a huge marketing advantage with their equally horrible NetBurst architecture.
AMDs are still cheaper for equivalent performance. A Sempron 3100+ goes for $108 on NewEgg, it performs just slightly under an Athlon 64 2800+, and it beats the hell out of any and every Celeron.
Or, as a more specific example, take your Athlon 1.4's $225 price tag. Today, you can buy a Pentium 4 630 for $225.99, and an Athlon 64 3400+ for $215 (again, quoting NewEgg prices). The 3400+ runs circles around the 630.
How, by violating those same freedoms and making everyone a slave?
Go back to China, you damn commie.
If anything like this ever happens, you can bet that I'll renounce my US citizenship the day it passes. I have no love for any specific country...I just live here, and if it becomes unbearable, I'll live somewhere else, and I won't have any specific love for that place, either.
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Transsexuality is probably one of the more reliable signs of fucked-uppedness out there.
I never realised how many terrorist sympathisers posted on Slashdot until today.
You are nothing more than a filthy animal, Al Qaeda lover.
One of the W brothers wants to be a woman. Don't you find that a little odd/disgusting/unstable?
If you don't, maybe you should grow up!
Go back to Al-Qaeda, terrorist lover.
my P4 @ 2.6 GHZ and a gig of DDR400 was having problems running KDE as smoothly as I thought it would be
I call bullshit.
One of my old machines was a PII 450. Back when I used it as my secondary machine, I ran KDE 3.0 on Mandrake Linux 9. I had very little problems. Sure, it didn't run completely smooth, but that's the same complaint you had, and there's a world of difference between a PII 450 and a P4 2.6.
Let's see...if running a light distro on a P4 2.6 has noticable smoothness problems, then a bloated distro on a PII 450 should be unusable. Yeah, it's safe to say you're lying.
a 3ghz computer to run a text editor
I know you're exaggerating, but anything even remotely near that is bullshit. My 1.86 GHz laptop has run everything I've thrown at it at lightning-fast speeds, no matter how huge or bloated it is.
At no time will the full-resolution digital signal be exposed in non-encrypted form.
Except that the signal will have to be decrypted in order to be displayed on the monitor. That's where you put the little box. Inside the monitor. Stick it inside just before the data reaches the phosphors, and route it to a capture card elsewhere.
Indeed.
Anisong is awesome.
I find that, having listened to lots and lots of Anisong (mostly from tokusatsu, however, and not anime), that it's hard for me to like any mainstream music nowadays, Japanese or not.
The quality of the singing in Anisong music is usually far superior to most mainstream artists, and I find the composition of the songs more interesting. I'll eat up, for example, an Anisong piece sung by Takayuki Miyauchi (or Isao Sasaki, Shin'ichi Ishihara, Hironobu Kageyama, etc) with an amazing tune, but mainstream J-Pop and American music just bore me. Hell, when Anisong artists try to sing their own solo albums, it doesn't sound nearly as good. I've recently listened to some of Takayuki Miyauchi's rare solo work (IIRC, he only sung one album that wasn't connected to a tokusatsu or anime series), and while his singing is as beautiful as ever, the songs themselves were just bland and uninspired compared to his Anisong work.
This is a little off-topic, but I'm curious: how good is the VNF4/Ultra's Linux support? I'm considering getting that board when I build my next machine, but I've heard horror stories about nForce on Linux, so I'm curious to hear from someone who's had experience using a recent nForce-based board on Linux.
I was originally going to get a board with a VIA K8T890 chipset, but since K8T890 doesn't support dual-core (which I didn't find out until recently), nF4 seems to be my only choice if I want my next machine to be upgradeable.
Of course, me building this machine is still pretty far off, as I still haven't met the all-important "find a job so I can get the money to build it" prerequisite, and by that time, there might be a better solution out there...
It's funny you should mention that...
One former professor of mine uses the phrase "10 years of Java experience" as an indicator of when to throw out a resume. He does some consulting work, and companies tend to ask him to go over the resumes of their applicants and junk those that he feels are unqualified. First, those who don't have CS or SE degrees get thrown out. Second, he throws out anything with obvious lies such as "10 years of Java experience".
When you posted that, I immediately thought of that story, because it really shows how some people can be utter dumbasses.
save $50 on a floppy drive
What kind of ripoff house are you shopping at? One can easily buy a floppy drive for less than $10.
You raise some interesting points, but the fact remains that every single source that I've found refers to the SledgeHammer as the 130nm Opteron, ClawHammer as the 130nm Athlon 64 with 1024KB L2, and Newcastle as the 130nm Athlon 64 with 512KB L2.
Furthermore, even if you were right, you haven't accounted for the existance of the Newcastle name. If ClawHammer is the 130nm Athlon 64 with 512KB L2, then what is Newcastle, and where did the name come from?
Before I get into that, I'll admit that my description of the differences between ClawHammer and SlegeHammer (unbuffered vs. registered RAM) was speculation. However, it has been the only difference between ClawHammer and SledgeHammer that is consistant among all models. I'll also say that the same parallels exist between pairs of more recent cores: San Diego/Venus and Toledo/Denmark. The only differences between the members of each pair are the brand name, socket, and supported RAM type.
I've been thinking about a possible reason why these issues exist, and an explanation that will reconcile both of our views, and I think I have it. The following is speculation, but the more I think about it, the more it makes perfect sense:
Yes, the Opteron, with the "SledgeHammer" core was to have 1024KB of L2, and the Athlon 64, with the "ClawHammer" core was to have 512KB of L2 (I'm using quotes for a reason here). For some reason, "ClawHammer" was delayed, but AMD wanted Opteron to launch with a "SledgeHammer" core and Athlon 64 to launch with a "ClawHammer" core, probably so they can claim some level of consistency with their roadmaps. The solution? Screw with the names. The core that was called "ClawHammer" was renamed "Newcastle". The name "ClawHammer" was then redefined to mean "'SledgeHammer' in a Socket 754 (and later 939) package".
It's not the first time AMD has altered codenames to fit some naming scheme, like how Corvette became Palomino, and I'm still not sure what the whole Appaloosa/Applebred story was.
The differences between San Diego & Venus and Toledo & Denmark? AMD wanted to use one codename to refer to Opteron-branded products and another to refer to Athlon 64, FX, and X2-branded products. If Intel can do that (they've been doing the same thing with P4 and Xeon codenames), so can AMD.
$6600 is a drop in the bucket for any company that deserves to stay in business. Regardless, the ecomonic benefits of using Qt far outweigh the costs--a cross-platform development toolkit saves massive amounts of coding time, and time is money.
There is no discrimination against fields of endeavour in the GPL, which is the Qt license. Furthermore, the GPL is clearly listed on the OSI website as an OSI-compliant license.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong.
ClawHammer and SledgeHammer both have 1024KB (1MB) of L2 cache. The variant on ClawHammer that only has 512KB of L2 is called Newcastle if it's for desktop use, or Odessa if it's for mobile use.
Three desktop ClawHammer models (2800+, 3000+, 3500+) and one mobile ClawHammer model (2700+) have half of the L2 disabled, but it is still physically present on the die. This is likely because up to half of the cache was damaged, so rather than throw out the whole chip, they disabled half the cache and adjusted the model number and/or clock speed to compensate.
There is one, and only one difference between SledgeHammer and ClawHammer: the memory controller. SledgeHammer requires registered RAM, and ClawHammer requires normal (unbuffered) RAM.
SledgeHammer has been released under the Opteron (x40-x50) and Athlon 64 FX (51 and 53) brands, both of them only on Socket 940.
ClawHammer has been released under the Athlon 64 (2800+, 3200+, 3400+, 3500+, 3700+, and 4000+), Mobile Athlon 64 (2700+, 2800+, 3000+, 3200+, 3400+, and 3700+), and Athlon 64 FX (53 and 55) brands. All ClawHammer FXes were released on Socket 939. All Mobile Athlon 64s were released on Socket 754. Most ClawHammer Athlon 64s were released on Socket 754, except the 3500+ and 4000+, which were released on Socket 939.
Trust me on this--the guy you're arguing with is usually wrong (look at its posting history), but he's right here. I've spent a lot of time doing research on and documenting the specs of all the different models of the Athlon 64, and I know what a ClawHammer is.
If you want more detailed information, look towards Wikipedia.
For the record, not all Opteron models are MP-capable. None of the models in the 1xx series support SMP.
treats the current US administration as if it were legitimate.
It is legitimate. I'm no fan of Bush, but he was elected according to standard US election procedure. He won both the popular and electoral votes.
why the hell is it anyone's business what regime a foreign nation has?
If their regime is evil, it must either be destroyed or forcibly changed.
does Iran have the right to change the US regime?
No, because the Iran regime is more evil than the US regime.
i didn't realize until now that you are suffering from psychotic delusions.
Hey, I get modded down as a troll because I pointed out someone committing an act of impersonation.
Well, anonymous moderator, whoever you are, you have just proven that you have no testicles.
Let me guess--the mod was "Theo de Raabt" using a different account and ISP.
Did you even read my post, cunt?
"There's really only one thing that Intel can do to improve, and that's putting a stop to their monopolistic business practices."
Now go back to school, because you won't amount to anything in life if you're illiterate.
I'm not so sure Theo.
Look at his name. The real Theo is Theo de Raadt, not Theo de Raabt.
You've been suckered.
The real founder of OpenBSD is named Theo de Raadt, not Theo de Raabt.
Nice try, impostor.
I've been an AMD zealot since the P3 and its Processor Serial Number came out, and I've only started to look back towards Intel recently.
They've come a long way in a short time. PSN is long gone. The Pentium M is the single best notebook processor in the world, and it's only going to get better (*drools over Yonah and Merom*). Conroe and Ridgefield are going to be better than anything else when they come out in the next few years, and AMD will need to pull one huge rabbit out of their hat to beat them.
I ended my long-held avoidance of Intel products and bought a Centrino laptop a few months ago. I'm seriously considering building a Conroe-based machine when it comes out in late 2006/early 2007.
There's really only one thing that Intel can do to improve, and that's putting a stop to their monopolistic business practices. If they do that, even if it's a result of a lawsuit, and assuming they deliver the goods with the Merom and Nehalem generations of processors, I might end up leaving AMD behind...
Hmm..I just noticed that the 630's $225.99 was a one-day sale price, so it's normally much more expensive. The next cheapest Intel processor is a Pentium 4 3.2E, at $211.99, which is about as fast as the 630 (the 630 is 200MHz slower, but has twice the cache, which have been shown in benchmarks to almost exactly make up for the clock speed drop), and thus also gets hammered by the 3400+.
Now AMD is just as expensive. And now they have all that 3000xp bullshit. Because of that I planned on getting a P4 for my next computer. $200 is still my price point. But now Intel is pulling even more crap wiht is BMW naming style. 660, etc.
Model numbers are a Good Thing, dammit. Using clock speed in place of model numbers was a horrible idea that gave Intel a huge marketing advantage with their equally horrible NetBurst architecture.
AMDs are still cheaper for equivalent performance. A Sempron 3100+ goes for $108 on NewEgg, it performs just slightly under an Athlon 64 2800+, and it beats the hell out of any and every Celeron.
Or, as a more specific example, take your Athlon 1.4's $225 price tag. Today, you can buy a Pentium 4 630 for $225.99, and an Athlon 64 3400+ for $215 (again, quoting NewEgg prices). The 3400+ runs circles around the 630.
What college are you going to where basic math classes require installed software?
So far, I've never had an issue with using Linux in any class I've had. In fact, having LaTeX has massively helped me with some of my classes.
And people wonder why I want to get the fuck out of this horrible country the day I graduate college.
make people appreciate their freedoms a bit more.
How, by violating those same freedoms and making everyone a slave?
Go back to China, you damn commie.
If anything like this ever happens, you can bet that I'll renounce my US citizenship the day it passes. I have no love for any specific country...I just live here, and if it becomes unbearable, I'll live somewhere else, and I won't have any specific love for that place, either.
Simple logic, really.
Illegal, by definition, means "against the law".
The Constitution is the "supreme Law of the Land" (Article VI, clause 2).
If a law is unconstitutional, it is against the supreme Law of the Land.
Therefore, an unconstitutional law is an illegal law.
QED.