Well, seeing as people mention it I'm sure it has been known to happen.
I don't think people are scared of how frequently it happens, but rather the fact that if it does, it could destroy their whole computer (and if they're not in front of the PC at the time, their whole house). That fact alone is enough for a lot of people to stay away from AMD. I know I'd be pretty bummed if I came back from the pub and my PC was reduced to a grey-ish puddle and intriguing scorch-marks in the corner of my room, all because I saved 100 on buying an AMD processor:)
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Using terms like "versatile" and "nimble" to describe a CPU makes me slightly wary of the rest of your point;) What's next, "majestic" RAM? "enigmatic" GPUs?:-P
"Much better workhorse" is a very subjective definition... Some would claim that durability was the essential factor in proclaiming something a better workhorse, which the Athlon definitely didn't have. Remember the cooling rigs that rivalled icebergs? Which if fell off, let all the magic smoke out of the CPU?
I'm not bashing AMD - far from it - they've injected so much life into the CPU industry it's great - but people saying their chips have no down-sides is siding in zealotry:) AMD chips run hotter than their intel equivalents. The Intel chips have always had better survival rates from failed cooling - even a P4 with no cooling (yes, NO cooling) will work.
AMD chips are cheaper in every essence. The low price is only possible because they're not fabricated to as high standards as Intel. I've got no problem with this - it makes cheap chips for us, but when people gloss over this fact it promotes a skewed (and down-and-out untrue) view of the marketplace.
I hope I'm not coming off as pro-Intel/Microsoft nutcase (I'm not). I just wanted to air what is an oft-missed point.:)
Celerons aren't "defective" P4s - that's highly emotive language:) They're P4 chips with reduced on-board cache (the expensive part, as I'm sure you know). I don't remember anyone complaining when they realised you could run a $180 300MHz chip at nearly 1GHZ a few years ago:)
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They don't have a bigger marketshare because even though the chips perform well, their construction hasn't (in the past) been up to that of Intel. Take, for example, the cooling required for AMD chips. Compare it to that of their pentium equivalents. When said cooling falls off (or stops working) - the pentiums don't burst into flames. That's the difference - higher manufacturing quality.
AMD did a great thing - they've pushed CPU development and innovation forward, but let's not pretend they're something they're not. They make cheap chips that run just as well as the intel equivalents. Just like how a souped-up Honda Civic can go just as fast as an Aston Martin... That said, I know which one I'd prefer to drive;)
You say that, but Intel are doing so much more... Centrino, celerons, mobile chips, etc. AMD just has 32-bit desktops and 64-bit desktops. Their mobile chips are just desktop chips in funky packaging.
I'm all for giving credit where credit's due, but they don't get a +1000, Innovative just because they're AMD...
If you want to make an accurate 3D model of something, using a technique like that is pretty silly - the resolution offered isn't great enough to be useful for reproduction. Weta, the guys behind the Lord of the Rings technology stuff found a New Zealander who'd made a hand-held laser 3D modeller. You just point it at bits of a model, and it instantly creates a 3D model of it. You can do whatever parts of the model you want, and it seamlessly puts it all together.
I'm sure their software is good, but it's not the best, by any means.
The RIAA and MPAA have to prove you're downloading a file before they can "get" you, right? What if your P2P app had the ability to function as an anonymous proxy - even if you were downloading things yourself, it could be argued in court that you were just acting as a proxy. Surely that would mean they'd have to raid your house just to tell if you were downloading the file or not. That amount of legal grey-area would surely put the RIAA/MPAA off the backs of the small users (ie 12-year-olds sharing Barney MP3s).
Even your ISP couldn't help the RIAA/MPAA out, as the person using your proxy might be connected to your machine via a tunnel, or over a connection from another provider (wireless, GPRS, neighbour's DSL, whatever). They'd have so much to prove before they could even fire up the lawyers (eg that no-one was connected to your machine at that time, and that all the traffic to your box stayed there - nigh-on impossible to do off-site). We know these guys are lazy - they rely on sell-out developers sitting in comfy chairs to track down sharers. The minute it starts costing them more than $0.00001 per sharer found, their new-found revenue stream starts biting them in the ass. They either lose face by stopping prosecutions, or drive themselves into the ground spending $2,000 per sharer they find.
Just having the ability to be a proxy gives you a great argument in court - it's impossible for anyone to prove what you were doing. And the best thing is, you don't have to be a proxy to use it as a defense:)
Of course not - you're missing the point. He's asking what sort of fluffy pseudo-demonstration he can use to demonstrate how good something is to people who don't know the real-world applications. They're management, not technical managers. If they can't understand how good it is from the numbers, it's not their job or place to decide how viable/useful something would be to the company.
Nice idea for techies, but if you don't know that a 2.5gb/s link is quick just from the numbers, how on earth is that going to convey the speed? they won't know what's going on! "err... my secretary usually does my spreadsheets. can I play solitaire on that link?"
If they can't tell from the numbers, what on earth do they need impressing for? If they're basing business decisions on how "gee-whizzy" they can make a machine look, my god. I fear for their company.
sieg heil, mein furhrer... jesus! Do you really think that way? Don't you think the computer revolution is a global thing? It benefits everyone around the world. By your thinking, the Brits should declare war on anyone who uses computers, as the first real computer was invented in the UK.
Your logic is horribly flawed, and only proves your xenophobia and insecurity.
If you're born to a society, it's the society's duty to look after you. That's what a society does. If everyone thought like you, we'd still be living in caves scared of the sun.
It's a sad reflection on you and your country if that's truly the way you think.
Oh, and by the way - most republican states are classified as "taker" states, ie ones that receive more funding than they pay out in taxes. go figure.
So you aren't entitled to human rights? People aren't entitled to not be killed?
Do you agree with taxes? Surely you shouldn't be forced to pay anything you don't want to... oh wait, if that was the case the US would collapse on its 7-trillion dollar debt.
Do you care about your fellow man? If the answer is yes, you need help. Health is one thing we have from birth. It's the one thing we have that gives us life. Don't we all have a right to live?
So you have to wait for the camera to write to the CF card, read the image, send it across wireless and delete it before you can send another one? Remember - the performance isn't enough to support both reading and writing at once. If you want to take shots in quick succession, you're going to need a huge intermediary buffer CF, anyway. What's the point?
I'm not being rude, but you've not looked at PC notebooks in a while. Toshiba and Sony make notebooks that are miles better design-wise than Apples. Flush black reflective panels, chrome buttons. You can't argue, they're beautiful. As for the multimedia buttons, they're mappable to whatever you want. Legacy ports? Notebooks have been legacy-free for a while, now. Annoying buttons to control everything? Funny, I could have sworn the buttons on my Dell were *exactly* the same as the shortcut keys on the PowerBook (contrast/volume etc):)
I understand where you're coming from, but to smite every single PC notebook as crappy-looking highlights how little you know of them.
Oh, and they're much MUCH cheaper than apple ones:)
"looks damn good" - hahahahahahahaaaa! seriously. That's the funniest thing I've read all day. It's a bright red notebook. By Acer. That has Ferrari written on it. I mean, really. If you want to have a mid-life crisis, then fine. Be my guest - just don't argue this thing is actually good, or of any use to anyone more than the normal version.
Or maybe you think circus clowns are smooth-talkin' suave motherfunsters, eh?
Exactly - think if you didn't have $1000, or even anything close. You'd be the hospital janitor until you died:-P
Americans seem to forget that everyone is entitled to life. They're entitled to health. It's strange that a country of such loud Christians publicly embarass themselves with their draconian and fascist healthcare. It seems the only real American is a rich, white, Christian one. Oh, and preferably a republican.:-P
I don't mean to sound like an ass here, but I've heard so many of these "Look what my mac can do! Shame PCs can't!" posts around here.
According to your post, Windows machines can't recognise monitors, don't have Instant-On technology, or bluetooth. Wrong on all counts. I know macs look cool, but have you looked at the new Toshiba or Sony notebooks? They have everything you get on a mac (and I do mean everything), and a whole lot more (even a second mouse button!). Did I mention also for a lot less?
I have a dell notebook (old-ass inspiron 3700 P3-500) and a digital projector. You don't have to "get windows to recognise" it - you just plug it in, and away you go. My notebook also has bluetooth, firewire and 54mb wifi. PC notebooks also have suspend modes that they can wake from in 3 seconds or so (and hibernation, so you can close the lid and it suspends to disk in seconds - open the lid and it turns back on just as quickly). Macs have nothing going for them that you can't get on a PC notebook. Nothing.
Again, sorry if I sound like a dick, but this bullshit has to end somewhere. If someone said things like that about a mac notebook, every mac zealot would crawl out of the woodwork and scream blue murder.
I think it's incredibly sad when people do that. I mean, if it makes you feel better, go get some therapy.
You have a jeep? nuff said. They're all about form, and no function. They're consistently poor off-roaders, and they drink the juice like it's going out of style. It's like the kids with the suped-up cars with the neon an' all. Only an idiot thinks it makes it better, but then only an idiot would drive it.
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I don't think people are scared of how frequently it happens, but rather the fact that if it does, it could destroy their whole computer (and if they're not in front of the PC at the time, their whole house). That fact alone is enough for a lot of people to stay away from AMD. I know I'd be pretty bummed if I came back from the pub and my PC was reduced to a grey-ish puddle and intriguing scorch-marks in the corner of my room, all because I saved 100 on buying an AMD processor :)
Using terms like "versatile" and "nimble" to describe a CPU makes me slightly wary of the rest of your point ;) What's next, "majestic" RAM? "enigmatic" GPUs? :-P
"Much better workhorse" is a very subjective definition... Some would claim that durability was the essential factor in proclaiming something a better workhorse, which the Athlon definitely didn't have. Remember the cooling rigs that rivalled icebergs? Which if fell off, let all the magic smoke out of the CPU?
I'm not bashing AMD - far from it - they've injected so much life into the CPU industry it's great - but people saying their chips have no down-sides is siding in zealotry :) AMD chips run hotter than their intel equivalents. The Intel chips have always had better survival rates from failed cooling - even a P4 with no cooling (yes, NO cooling) will work.
AMD chips are cheaper in every essence. The low price is only possible because they're not fabricated to as high standards as Intel. I've got no problem with this - it makes cheap chips for us, but when people gloss over this fact it promotes a skewed (and down-and-out untrue) view of the marketplace.
I hope I'm not coming off as pro-Intel/Microsoft nutcase (I'm not). I just wanted to air what is an oft-missed point. :)
strangely quiet around here...
AMD did a great thing - they've pushed CPU development and innovation forward, but let's not pretend they're something they're not. They make cheap chips that run just as well as the intel equivalents. Just like how a souped-up Honda Civic can go just as fast as an Aston Martin... That said, I know which one I'd prefer to drive ;)
I'm all for giving credit where credit's due, but they don't get a +1000, Innovative just because they're AMD...
I'm sure their software is good, but it's not the best, by any means.
I'm sure there are plenty of North Koreans who speak English better than you do, buddy. That's a pretty low shot.
Even your ISP couldn't help the RIAA/MPAA out, as the person using your proxy might be connected to your machine via a tunnel, or over a connection from another provider (wireless, GPRS, neighbour's DSL, whatever). They'd have so much to prove before they could even fire up the lawyers (eg that no-one was connected to your machine at that time, and that all the traffic to your box stayed there - nigh-on impossible to do off-site). We know these guys are lazy - they rely on sell-out developers sitting in comfy chairs to track down sharers. The minute it starts costing them more than $0.00001 per sharer found, their new-found revenue stream starts biting them in the ass. They either lose face by stopping prosecutions, or drive themselves into the ground spending $2,000 per sharer they find.
Just having the ability to be a proxy gives you a great argument in court - it's impossible for anyone to prove what you were doing. And the best thing is, you don't have to be a proxy to use it as a defense :)
Of course not - you're missing the point. He's asking what sort of fluffy pseudo-demonstration he can use to demonstrate how good something is to people who don't know the real-world applications. They're management, not technical managers. If they can't understand how good it is from the numbers, it's not their job or place to decide how viable/useful something would be to the company.
Nice idea for techies, but if you don't know that a 2.5gb/s link is quick just from the numbers, how on earth is that going to convey the speed? they won't know what's going on! "err... my secretary usually does my spreadsheets. can I play solitaire on that link?"
so under 2 seconds is "a while" for you? :-P
If they can't tell from the numbers, what on earth do they need impressing for? If they're basing business decisions on how "gee-whizzy" they can make a machine look, my god. I fear for their company.
Your logic is horribly flawed, and only proves your xenophobia and insecurity.
It's a sad reflection on you and your country if that's truly the way you think.
Oh, and by the way - most republican states are classified as "taker" states, ie ones that receive more funding than they pay out in taxes. go figure.
Do you agree with taxes? Surely you shouldn't be forced to pay anything you don't want to... oh wait, if that was the case the US would collapse on its 7-trillion dollar debt.
Do you care about your fellow man? If the answer is yes, you need help. Health is one thing we have from birth. It's the one thing we have that gives us life. Don't we all have a right to live?
How is that beneficial? With a huge card, you don't need the iPod or the card-reader. You just take photos.
So you have to wait for the camera to write to the CF card, read the image, send it across wireless and delete it before you can send another one? Remember - the performance isn't enough to support both reading and writing at once. If you want to take shots in quick succession, you're going to need a huge intermediary buffer CF, anyway. What's the point?
I understand where you're coming from, but to smite every single PC notebook as crappy-looking highlights how little you know of them.
Oh, and they're much MUCH cheaper than apple ones :)
Or maybe you think circus clowns are smooth-talkin' suave motherfunsters, eh?
How on earth is that pretty?? I mean, really. I'd hate to see your house :-P
Americans seem to forget that everyone is entitled to life. They're entitled to health. It's strange that a country of such loud Christians publicly embarass themselves with their draconian and fascist healthcare. It seems the only real American is a rich, white, Christian one. Oh, and preferably a republican. :-P
According to your post, Windows machines can't recognise monitors, don't have Instant-On technology, or bluetooth. Wrong on all counts. I know macs look cool, but have you looked at the new Toshiba or Sony notebooks? They have everything you get on a mac (and I do mean everything), and a whole lot more (even a second mouse button!). Did I mention also for a lot less?
I have a dell notebook (old-ass inspiron 3700 P3-500) and a digital projector. You don't have to "get windows to recognise" it - you just plug it in, and away you go. My notebook also has bluetooth, firewire and 54mb wifi. PC notebooks also have suspend modes that they can wake from in 3 seconds or so (and hibernation, so you can close the lid and it suspends to disk in seconds - open the lid and it turns back on just as quickly). Macs have nothing going for them that you can't get on a PC notebook. Nothing.
Again, sorry if I sound like a dick, but this bullshit has to end somewhere. If someone said things like that about a mac notebook, every mac zealot would crawl out of the woodwork and scream blue murder.
You have a jeep? nuff said. They're all about form, and no function. They're consistently poor off-roaders, and they drink the juice like it's going out of style. It's like the kids with the suped-up cars with the neon an' all. Only an idiot thinks it makes it better, but then only an idiot would drive it.