Excuse me? I meant real computer as in commodity desktop. I'm typing this on an Epox 8k7a+ with a tbird 133, Gainward gf3, lian-li pc70, all the usual things you would expect in a computer like this. I built it by hand, after hand-picking each part. Don't accuse me of being a sheep.
Also, you compare a K6-233 to a Strongarm @ 209, even though they're wildly different architectures from different eras, for different purposes. We have low power CPUs, look at the C3. It just comes at the price of performance. No matter how efficient your chip is, you can make it faster and hotter, and that's what's being done, since most people want it. Deal.
And if a kid throws a tantrum because his cousin is molesting him and no one believes him, is not doing anything because of the tantrum an appropriate response?
How is that crazy? It just means they're getting more powerful, like real computers. Desktops had a phase when they required no cooling, as did consoles, why should only one ever change?
You know what that means? The RIAA isn't even offerring anything but straight music, maybe a couple liner notes. The MPAA, while not exactly my favorite organisation, at least pays its employees much more fairly, and think about how much more value-add a DVD has over Divx:-), than CD has over MP3. That's the reason I'm actually willing to buy DVDs of movies I like, but not CDs.
and have had them for over a year. I have nothing but praise for them, acting as a popular movie server on a technical campus, thrashing 24x7 to saturate 10 megs upstream for weeks on end without a single complaint from them. I'm not even interested in other brands of hard drives.
Yeah, and every single ATI card has awful drivers, which are always going to be improved "real soon now (tm)." Nvidia, on the other hand, has great drivers, with frequent significant speed boosts. I have no more faith that the Radeon 8500 will finally have good drivers, after the last 3 years of ATI's promises. Yes, if it happened, it might beat the Ti500. However, that won't happen, so arguing makes you sound like a Red Sox fan.
Whether the mouse actually WORKS is one thing, you also need to be aware that it's not very comfortable compared to the laptop's native controls in cramped quarters.
The main problem with that is both simple and depressing. Do you really think CNN and the White House would be so tolerant of posters posting opposing information or even illegal comments? It's a nice thought, but it would lack the almost completely uninhibited free speech of/..
The Constitution and Bill of Rights grant their protetion to all of humanity. Nowhere does it say these rights are for American citizens, but rather that humanity is endowed by its Creator, no matter skin color, nationality, blah blah blah. By our justice system, they have rights. I don't think these people deserve it, but don't cloud facts.
The point is you're expecting to run a nice, modern OS on hardware that was great 5 years ago. You can't expect all new software to run on a given system, indefinitely. If the new stuff is too slow, you have a choice between upgrading and running older software. No amount of bitching will make developers sacrifice features so that people with slow computers can run new software happily.
Oh, boo-hoo, no one agrees with everything their tax money goes for, I don't agree with subsidizing corporations, but under the threat of force, they take my money from me to do that, which I could use to speak out against it, so I'm being silenced too. Your tax money being used for things you don't agree with is part of this country, deal with it, or leave.
I agree that the P4 may eventually turn into a good processor, but its curent implementation is NOT. The current P4 is NOT as efficient per clock cycle as a T-bird, and if you say that, you obviously haven't looked at any independent benchmarks. Intel shouldn't have released it in its current form, if they had launched as a.13u socket 478, things might be different.
One more issue is that the P4 has an AWFUL FPU. Yes, you're going to say that that won't matter as soon as software seriously supports SSE2. I call BS on that, because AMD never had the luxury of defining an alternative toe the FPU that would have a serious chance of wide-spread support. Intel, however, gets teh benefit of the doubt and everyone assumes it's ok for them to demand that all new software be written with THEIR proprietary instruction set, instead of having to do it well the old-fashioned way, where AMD kicked their sorry asses in FPU.
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Excuse me? I meant real computer as in commodity desktop. I'm typing this on an Epox 8k7a+ with a tbird 133, Gainward gf3, lian-li pc70, all the usual things you would expect in a computer like this. I built it by hand, after hand-picking each part. Don't accuse me of being a sheep.
Also, you compare a K6-233 to a Strongarm @ 209, even though they're wildly different architectures from different eras, for different purposes. We have low power CPUs, look at the C3. It just comes at the price of performance. No matter how efficient your chip is, you can make it faster and hotter, and that's what's being done, since most people want it. Deal.
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And if a kid throws a tantrum because his cousin is molesting him and no one believes him, is not doing anything because of the tantrum an appropriate response?
Ooh, let's call mugging terrorism too. After all, I bet it's scary...
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How is that crazy? It just means they're getting more powerful, like real computers. Desktops had a phase when they required no cooling, as did consoles, why should only one ever change?
'Cause they don't want GM using the software they helped pay for...
You know what that means? The RIAA isn't even offerring anything but straight music, maybe a couple liner notes. The MPAA, while not exactly my favorite organisation, at least pays its employees much more fairly, and think about how much more value-add a DVD has over Divx :-), than CD has over MP3. That's the reason I'm actually willing to buy DVDs of movies I like, but not CDs.
and have had them for over a year. I have nothing but praise for them, acting as a popular movie server on a technical campus, thrashing 24x7 to saturate 10 megs upstream for weeks on end without a single complaint from them. I'm not even interested in other brands of hard drives.
Yeah, and every single ATI card has awful drivers, which are always going to be improved "real soon now (tm)." Nvidia, on the other hand, has great drivers, with frequent significant speed boosts. I have no more faith that the Radeon 8500 will finally have good drivers, after the last 3 years of ATI's promises. Yes, if it happened, it might beat the Ti500. However, that won't happen, so arguing makes you sound like a Red Sox fan.
Appointing conservatives to provide the checks and balances for laws passed by a conservative Congress IS an unpartisan travesty...
Funny you mention that, I once saw a Nissan Altima with a startling amount of Mercedes-Benz ancillaries such as floor mats and visors...
You expect 2 socket 462s, with space for cooling, 4 DIMM slots, say 4 32 bit PCI slots, and 6 64 bit PCI slots, all on 64 square inches? Get real.
Whether the mouse actually WORKS is one thing, you also need to be aware that it's not very comfortable compared to the laptop's native controls in cramped quarters.
Not to be pedantic, but you are. :p
Mod this guy up!
That says nothing about the quality of code/administration, CNN has incredibly more money than /. for boxes and bandwidth.
The main problem with that is both simple and depressing. Do you really think CNN and the White House would be so tolerant of posters posting opposing information or even illegal comments? It's a nice thought, but it would lack the almost completely uninhibited free speech of /..
What proof do you have they used encryption and steganography?
The Constitution and Bill of Rights grant their protetion to all of humanity. Nowhere does it say these rights are for American citizens, but rather that humanity is endowed by its Creator, no matter skin color, nationality, blah blah blah. By our justice system, they have rights. I don't think these people deserve it, but don't cloud facts.
There's just about no place on Earth where flaming wreckage would do more damage than a plane flying into the WTC...
Explain please?
It's Microsoft, they'll go through several generations of product without caring about success.
The point is you're expecting to run a nice, modern OS on hardware that was great 5 years ago. You can't expect all new software to run on a given system, indefinitely. If the new stuff is too slow, you have a choice between upgrading and running older software. No amount of bitching will make developers sacrifice features so that people with slow computers can run new software happily.
Oh, boo-hoo, no one agrees with everything their tax money goes for, I don't agree with subsidizing corporations, but under the threat of force, they take my money from me to do that, which I could use to speak out against it, so I'm being silenced too. Your tax money being used for things you don't agree with is part of this country, deal with it, or leave.
If you're going to flame someone for grammar, make damn sure your post is flawless...
One more issue is that the P4 has an AWFUL FPU. Yes, you're going to say that that won't matter as soon as software seriously supports SSE2. I call BS on that, because AMD never had the luxury of defining an alternative toe the FPU that would have a serious chance of wide-spread support. Intel, however, gets teh benefit of the doubt and everyone assumes it's ok for them to demand that all new software be written with THEIR proprietary instruction set, instead of having to do it well the old-fashioned way, where AMD kicked their sorry asses in FPU.