Bart: That sucked.
Lisa: I can't believe 'The Gathering Shadow' was senate redistricting.
Jeff Albertson (aka Comic Book Guy): Worst Cosmic Wars Ever !! I will only see it three more times... today.
Whenever something is described as an XKiller, it never kills product X and such claims are usually FUD or just hype.
Voodoo Killer? 3Dfx's Voodoo cards were the first products I can remember being targeted for "killing." Graphics history buffs know Voodoo got eaten by NVIDIA.
Unless the market leader makes it very difficult and/or inconvenient to switch, they can get killed. What makes the Blackberry so un-killable?
I believe you'll find that all '1920x1080' recording today (with the possible exception of the really high-end cameras used by Lucas and friends) is anamorphic and actually recording 1440x1080.
Certainly the HDV 1080i cameras do that and I'm pretty sure HDCAM does too.
I'm pretty sure grandparent was talking about the Panasonic AG-HVX200, which apparently actually records at 1920x1080 (DVCPRO HD/50/25). There are lots of articles about it at Google News.
It was being shown at NAB, but it's not available today. I believe it will ship in Q4 2005 for about $6000.
A $200 19" CRT computer monitor will display more than 1080p (let alone i) with no problem.
But does a $200 19" CRT have enough "dots" to display all the pixels in a 1920x1080p picture? (I'm not sure. I really want to know.) My knowledge of display technologies is limited, but I think 19" CRTs in this price range don't have enough "dots" (calculated from dot pitch) to display all of the pixels and will not give a "true" 1920x1080p picture.
Example: I've been thinking about getting a Samsung 997DF, which has a max resolution of 1920x1440 (a resolution I'd only use for 1080p video). However, it also has a horizontal dot pitch of 0.20mm and a viewable width of about 14.4" (about 365.76mm). That's about 1829 viewable dots across the screen, which is less than the number of horizontal pixels in a 1920x1080p picture.
The ability to display 1920x1080p is the biggest reason I'd choose a $200 19" CRT over a $230 17" LCD. However, if the 1080p video is "messed up," then I'd rather get a 17" LCD and just convert everything to 720p.
One thing sitting in front of the computer all day does is give you plenty of time to do research on the web on proper nutrition and workout techniques also.
The web also has a lot of quacks selling products based on bogus research/information on "proper nutrition and workout techniques." Browser beware.
Nutrition is about 80% of it. If you want a nice quick recipe without doing much research, check out this.
That link has a nice summary of James Jordan's "Underground Mass Building Secrets." However, for a good laugh, check out the product's web page. My favorite part:
Look, if you're:
Sick and tired of being made fun of because you weigh about as much as a petite girl.
Angry that you have such a bony body girls would laugh at you should you take off your t-shirt.
Infuriated that girls instantly want your "buff" friends but are never interested in you.
Pissed off about how much hard painstaking work you've put into long workouts for nothing.
So outraged by how worthless all the supplements you've wasted your money on that you feel like beating someone up!
If this is you then.....
"Here's What It Really Takes For Skinny Guy's To Get Big-Bulging Muscles In Just 4 Weeks - With No Un-Natural Supplements - Lifting 3 Times A Week - With No Single Workout Lasting More Than 45 Minutes!"
I think James Jordan might be a quack. For some interesting articles about quackery, I highly recommend Quackwatch.
One thing I haven't seen yet is what the costs will be of this x64 version of Windows XP. Will it be a free upgrade? If not, any idea on what it's going to cost?
Japanese retailers have apparently already started selling Windows XP Pro x64 and the article says: "Pricing is on par with the regular professional version of Windows XP."
The photos from the article show the OEM version of XP Pro x64 edition (no fancy box or printed manual). The OEM version of XP Pro costs about $140 at newegg.com.
One reason I never tried out the pre-release version of x64 is that it seemed to require an XP Pro key, which I didn't have.
I think it will also be required for the "free upgrade" to the x64 edition. Everything I've read about the "free upgrade from 32-bit Windows XP" (like this article) only mentions the Professional edition and excludes the Home edition.
it will not open older Word documents in Office 2003 that were created in office 97 correctly. OO.o opens them far closer to the actual desired output.
yes, this is true, after upgrading marketing tyo office 2003 we had a rash of complaints opening word documents from 1998 was causing problems or looked wierd.
Even if the converter pack solves all of the Office 97 compatibility problems, I expect decent compatibility "out of the box." That said, the first thing I always do after installing software (especially "boxed" software) is check the support site for updates and "additional features/add-ons" not included on the installation CDs.
They used to have their own chipset and it sucked(speedwise and feature wise) compared to the VIA chipset that was out at the same time.
That's because the first VIA chipset for the AMD Athlon (Apollo KX133) didn't ship until about 6 months after the Athlon (and AMD 750 chipset) launch. I'd expect a brand new chipset (with PC133 and AGP 4x) to outperform and have more features than a six-month-old chipset (with PC100 and AGP 2x).
If I remember correctly, AMD has said they are not in the chipset business (for desktops, anyway). They only made the 750 chipset for the platform's launch and expected others (VIA, SiS, ALi) to produce chipsets in volume eventually.
Besides, the grandparent's point was about stability (and probably compatibility). At that time, I wouldn't have trusted VIA chipsets to be stable and compatible with my PCI/ISA cards.
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Bender: Nah, I'm trying to watch my input. I need plenty of wholesome nutricious alcohol. The chemical energy keeps my fuel cells charged. Fry: What are the cigars for? Bender: They make me look cool.
You don't want a G5 powerbook. You want a dual-G4 powerbook. the new Freescale dual-G4 chip breaks the G4 166 MHz system bus bottleneck, *and* gives you dual-core as well.
I think more people will want a single-G4 iBook that uses the single-core version of Freescale's next-generation, fast bus (up to 667MHz) G4 chip. Yes, a pin-for-pin compatible single-core version has also been announced. If these products ever get released, I think they will make nice low-power alternatives to the Pentium-M/Celeron-M platform.
The MPC8641D device is designed to offer all this performance within a power range that is expected to be 15-25 Watts (typical), according to the company's estimations.
...To minimize chip-level bottlenecks, the MPC8641D processor offers low-latency access to its dual e600 cores through a high-bandwidth integrated MPX bus that is designed to scale to 667MHz.
...In addition to unveiling the MPC8641D processor, Freescale is disclosing development of two additional processors based on the e600 PowerPC core: the highly integrated MPC8641 processor, a pin-for-pin compatible single core implementation of the dual core device...
I chose to go with the Mac mini solution, and will be submitting a review of the pros and cons of going the route I went (warts and all) in the near future over at modmini.com
For those that haven't seen it, Anand Lal Shimpi tried the Mac Mini as an HTPC and wrote an article about it: The Mac mini as a Media Computer.
(16 Feb 2005)
My summary of the article: The Mini is very nice for importing HD video via FireWire and HD video editing with iMovie HD. However, HD playback is unacceptable with current OS X software and DVD image quality (using Apple's DVD decoder) is not up to par. The Mini has potential as an SD DVR, but DVR software with "media-centric interface" is currently lacking for OS X.
I'd mod you up if I had mod points, but I'll add to your comments instead...
Firstly, your G4/450 tower isn't over 6 years old, because they were released August 31, 1999.
Actually, they were only announced on August 31, 1999. They didn't ship until October 1999, with the G4/450 being the top model and the G4/500 being delayed until 2000. "Over 6 years old" was one heck of an exaggeration or miscalculation. The fastest Mac six years ago was a G3 without AGP.
FYI, a PC of roughly the same era as your G4 (mid 1999) would be something along the lines of a 600Mhz P3...
Television and movies, on the other hand, demand the use of both your eyes and ears, and thus your full attention. The utility of portable video as opposed to portable music therefore seems greatly diminished.
A PC, on the other hand, demands the use of both your eyes and hands, and thus your full attention. The utility of notebook computers as opposed to portable music players therefore seems greatly diminished.
Boy, that was lamer than I thought it would be.
Anyhoo, to be successful, portable video players do not have to be used in the same situations as portable music players (e.g. while reading, running, studying, working). I can see portable video players being used in the same places you see notebook computers or Game Boys being used, but by people who prefer to watch videos in those situations (or do not want to spend $1000+ on a notebook).
I have no idea if the PSP will be successful as a video platform, but I can see video screens being a standard feature on most MP3 players sometime in the future. Maybe when cheap, low-power OLEDs finally become available from Sony.
In five years, getting an MP3 player without video might be as difficult as getting a plain cell phone without all that extra shit. I hope not.
Chances are they (MS) have put more effort into the Japanese one. I didn't see one english character except for the boot up screen when I played with the Japanese localized version.
I'm pretty sure this has to do with Microsoft's long history dealing with Japanese customers (since the late '70s), MS's large revenues from Japan (over 10%), and (maybe) the relatively low piracy rates in Japan compared to other non-English speaking countries.
With the help of Kay Nishi, Microsoft established its first international sales office in Japan in late 1978. This was before DOS when MS was primarily a language company and early Japanese PCs needed languages.
Even if we disregard MS's "head start" in Japan, Japan probably has been the largest non-English speaking market. Despite Japan's relatively low population, Japan has a highly developed economy, relatively low piracy rates, and a long history with computers (NEC). At the end of 2002 (one year after Windows XP), MS got 20% of its revenue from the Asia-Pacific region, but half of it was from Japan alone.
I'm sure MS is working damn hard on the Portuguese versions of their software.
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Movies, however, are region-locked.
So I can't watch hentai anime movies while riding the subway? Forget about it.
If I understood correctly, the problem wasn't that Microsoft included MediaPlayer with Windows, but that it _forbid_ OEM's to install Quicktime or Realplayer on systems shipped.
If I read the correct articles from EUROPA (portal site of the EU) and understood them correctly, then I don't think forbidding OEM's from installing other media players was the problem. According to those articles from EUROPA's "Antitrust cases" section, the problem was merely the "tying" of WMP to its "dominant" OS.
The articles I read were only press releases, but I'm hoping they would not have excluded an important fact like forbidding OEMs from installing rival media players. They only mentioned WMP's supposedly unfair advantage of being "tied" to MS's dominant OS. If there was testimony from OEMs about MS forbidding them from installing rival media players, then I'd appreciate a link from anybody who can provide one. I haven't really been following the EU case.
In 2000, the Commission enlarged its investigation, on its own initiative, to study the effects of the tying of Microsoft's Windows Media Player with the company's Windows 2000 PC operating system.
This part of the investigation concluded that the ubiquity which was immediately afforded to WMP as a result of it being tied with the Windows PC OS artificially reduces the incentives of music, film and other media companies, as well software developers and content providers to develop their offerings to competing media players.
As a result, Microsoft's tying of its media player product has the effect of foreclosing the market to competitors, and hence ultimately reducing consumer choice, since competing products are set at a disadvantage which is not related to their price or quality.
Available data already show a clear trend in favour of WMP and Windows Media technology. Absent intervention from the Commission, the tying of WMP with Windows is likely to make the market "tip" definitively in Microsoft's favour. This would allow Microsoft to control related markets in the digital media sector, such as encoding technology, software for broadcasting of music over the Internet and digital rights management etc.
More generally, the Commission is concerned that Microsoft's tying of WMP is an example of a more general business model which, given Microsoft's virtual monopoly in PC operating systems, deters innovation and reduces consumer choice in any technologies which Microsoft could conceivably take interest in and tie with Windows in the future.
It was obvious that much of the design of QDOS was done by reading the documentation for CP/M. There's nothing illegal about that. Many people did the same thing to UNIX.
I might be wrong about this, but I think CP/M was a proprietary spec protected by copyrights while UNIX is an "open standard" spec currently defined by the Open Group.
In fact, DRI did consider legal action against Microsoft and IBM. Instead, DRI and IBM agreed to offer customers a choice of either DOS or CP/M when buying the original IBM PC (no OS was pre-installed). However, DRI was surprised when IBM charged $240 for CP/M and $40 for DOS. Guess which OS the customers chose.
But his problem was that software copyright had just become law three years earlier, and it wasn't clear what constituted infringement. Davis, the DRI lawyer, believes that based on the number of similarities DRI's forensic consultants found between the original DOS and CP/M, "in today's world, you could take it to court and get an infringement." But not in 1981. So rather than sue, Kildall agreed to license CP/M to Big Blue. He was floored when the PC was released and IBM charged $240 per copy for CP/M and just $40 for DOS. Kildall's conclusion, according to his memoir: "I believe the entire scenario was contrived by IBM to garner the existing standard at almost no cost."
DVI is both analog and digital on the same port. That's why you can plug a simple adapter cable into a DVI port and get VGA out.
MostDVI ports have both analog and digital video, not all DVI ports.
DVI-I has both analog and digital and is the most common port. DVI-D is digital only and is somewhat less common. DVI-A is analog only and is rarely seen. The digital part of DVI can also be implemented in dual link.
I think Admiral Llama is correct. I'm pretty darned sure HDMI only uses the digital part of DVI.
Intel has already announced pricing for dual-core Smithfields. They start at ~$250USD for the dual-core 2.8GHz part. Compare that to your favorite shopping spot to other single-core Intel parts.
Intel will likely cut the prices of current single-core CPUs when the dual-core Pentium 4's (Smithfield) are launched in Q2 2005. So it's a little hard to predict what the price premium will be over single core CPUs. However, the pricing for Smithfield seems consistent with Intel's past pricing for mainstream single-core CPUs whenever they introduced a new core.
The fastest dual-core Pentium 4 is actually priced lower than the top-end single-core Pentium 4's (non-Extreme) which are typically over $600. However, the per-core clockspeed of the fastest dual-core (3.2GHz) will be less than the fastest single-core (3.8GHz).
At those prices, there doesn't seem to be any big price premium for the extra core. At each price point ($241, $316, $530), a Pentium 4 buyer can either choose a slower (per core) dual-core CPU or a faster single-core CPU.
Movie bosses financing forthcoming prequel Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith are threatening to take legal action against internet sites that leak pictures and plot details.
Blockbuster does not actually censor the films themselves, but they are a powerful player and have exerted their influence in order to get directors to release "R" version of certain films rather than the "NC-17" unedited cut.
However, I think you are wrong about Rogers. The Rogers Video on Lonsdale in North Vancouver has an adult video room with full fledged porn
I also know a local Blockbuster franchise store that stocks the unrated version of Requiem for a Dream. Apparently, only the corporate owned/operated Blockbuster stores (about 82%) have the "no worse than R" policy.
I've never heard of Rogers Video, but I suspect they also have different policies for corporate stores and franchise stores.
I always stress the importance of getting a good power supply when I give advice for building PCs...
Furthermore, why aren't Sparkle or Antec power supplies tested? Along with Enermax, they're widely regarded as some of the best around.
That's why I like to recommend Antec and In Win cases, which are bundled with Antec and Power Man (rebranded Sparkle) power supplies. When you consider the quality of the bundled power supplies, those cases seem very reasonably priced (on Newegg at least).
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Bart: That sucked. ... today.
Lisa: I can't believe 'The Gathering Shadow' was senate redistricting.
Jeff Albertson (aka Comic Book Guy): Worst Cosmic Wars Ever !! I will only see it three more times
Voodoo Killer? 3Dfx's Voodoo cards were the first products I can remember being targeted for "killing." Graphics history buffs know Voodoo got eaten by NVIDIA.
Unless the market leader makes it very difficult and/or inconvenient to switch, they can get killed. What makes the Blackberry so un-killable?
Certainly the HDV 1080i cameras do that and I'm pretty sure HDCAM does too.
I'm pretty sure grandparent was talking about the Panasonic AG-HVX200, which apparently actually records at 1920x1080 (DVCPRO HD/50/25). There are lots of articles about it at Google News.
It was being shown at NAB, but it's not available today. I believe it will ship in Q4 2005 for about $6000.
But does a $200 19" CRT have enough "dots" to display all the pixels in a 1920x1080p picture? (I'm not sure. I really want to know.) My knowledge of display technologies is limited, but I think 19" CRTs in this price range don't have enough "dots" (calculated from dot pitch) to display all of the pixels and will not give a "true" 1920x1080p picture.
Example: I've been thinking about getting a Samsung 997DF, which has a max resolution of 1920x1440 (a resolution I'd only use for 1080p video). However, it also has a horizontal dot pitch of 0.20mm and a viewable width of about 14.4" (about 365.76mm). That's about 1829 viewable dots across the screen, which is less than the number of horizontal pixels in a 1920x1080p picture.
The ability to display 1920x1080p is the biggest reason I'd choose a $200 19" CRT over a $230 17" LCD. However, if the 1080p video is "messed up," then I'd rather get a 17" LCD and just convert everything to 720p.
The web also has a lot of quacks selling products based on bogus research/information on "proper nutrition and workout techniques." Browser beware.
Nutrition is about 80% of it. If you want a nice quick recipe without doing much research, check out this.
That link has a nice summary of James Jordan's "Underground Mass Building Secrets." However, for a good laugh, check out the product's web page. My favorite part:
I think James Jordan might be a quack. For some interesting articles about quackery, I highly recommend Quackwatch.Japanese retailers have apparently already started selling Windows XP Pro x64 and the article says: "Pricing is on par with the regular professional version of Windows XP."
The photos from the article show the OEM version of XP Pro x64 edition (no fancy box or printed manual). The OEM version of XP Pro costs about $140 at newegg.com.
One reason I never tried out the pre-release version of x64 is that it seemed to require an XP Pro key, which I didn't have.
I think it will also be required for the "free upgrade" to the x64 edition. Everything I've read about the "free upgrade from 32-bit Windows XP" (like this article) only mentions the Professional edition and excludes the Home edition.
yes, this is true, after upgrading marketing tyo office 2003 we had a rash of complaints opening word documents from 1998 was causing problems or looked wierd.
Did you install the Office Converter Pack for Microsoft Office 2003? One of the text converters included in the pack is called "Microsoft Word 97 and above import converter (MsWrd832.CNV)." Here's the related Knowledge Base article: Additional text converters and image filters are available in the Microsoft Office Converter Pack.
Even if the converter pack solves all of the Office 97 compatibility problems, I expect decent compatibility "out of the box." That said, the first thing I always do after installing software (especially "boxed" software) is check the support site for updates and "additional features/add-ons" not included on the installation CDs.
That's because the first VIA chipset for the AMD Athlon (Apollo KX133) didn't ship until about 6 months after the Athlon (and AMD 750 chipset) launch. I'd expect a brand new chipset (with PC133 and AGP 4x) to outperform and have more features than a six-month-old chipset (with PC100 and AGP 2x).
If I remember correctly, AMD has said they are not in the chipset business (for desktops, anyway). They only made the 750 chipset for the platform's launch and expected others (VIA, SiS, ALi) to produce chipsets in volume eventually.
Besides, the grandparent's point was about stability (and probably compatibility). At that time, I wouldn't have trusted VIA chipsets to be stable and compatible with my PCI/ISA cards.
I think more people will want a single-G4 iBook that uses the single-core version of Freescale's next-generation, fast bus (up to 667MHz) G4 chip. Yes, a pin-for-pin compatible single-core version has also been announced. If these products ever get released, I think they will make nice low-power alternatives to the Pentium-M/Celeron-M platform.
Here's a nice, short article on about Freescale's next generation G4s: Freescale Discloses Dual-Core PowerPC's Details
From the article:
Shweet.For those that haven't seen it, Anand Lal Shimpi tried the Mac Mini as an HTPC and wrote an article about it: The Mac mini as a Media Computer. (16 Feb 2005)
My summary of the article: The Mini is very nice for importing HD video via FireWire and HD video editing with iMovie HD. However, HD playback is unacceptable with current OS X software and DVD image quality (using Apple's DVD decoder) is not up to par. The Mini has potential as an SD DVR, but DVR software with "media-centric interface" is currently lacking for OS X.
Another good reason to buy XP Pro over XP Home, even for single CPU systems: free exchange for the 64-bit edition of XP Pro.
Firstly, your G4/450 tower isn't over 6 years old, because they were released August 31, 1999.
Actually, they were only announced on August 31, 1999. They didn't ship until October 1999, with the G4/450 being the top model and the G4/500 being delayed until 2000. "Over 6 years old" was one heck of an exaggeration or miscalculation. The fastest Mac six years ago was a G3 without AGP.
FYI, a PC of roughly the same era as your G4 (mid 1999) would be something along the lines of a 600Mhz P3...
In October 1999 (the month the G4 actually shipped), the P3 was available at 733Mhz.
The G4/450 was priced at $2500 when it was announced on August 31, 1999, but the price was raised to $3500 on October 14 when the G4/500 was delayed.
A PC, on the other hand, demands the use of both your eyes and hands, and thus your full attention. The utility of notebook computers as opposed to portable music players therefore seems greatly diminished.
Boy, that was lamer than I thought it would be.
Anyhoo, to be successful, portable video players do not have to be used in the same situations as portable music players (e.g. while reading, running, studying, working). I can see portable video players being used in the same places you see notebook computers or Game Boys being used, but by people who prefer to watch videos in those situations (or do not want to spend $1000+ on a notebook).
I have no idea if the PSP will be successful as a video platform, but I can see video screens being a standard feature on most MP3 players sometime in the future. Maybe when cheap, low-power OLEDs finally become available from Sony.
In five years, getting an MP3 player without video might be as difficult as getting a plain cell phone without all that extra shit. I hope not.
I'm pretty sure this has to do with Microsoft's long history dealing with Japanese customers (since the late '70s), MS's large revenues from Japan (over 10%), and (maybe) the relatively low piracy rates in Japan compared to other non-English speaking countries.
With the help of Kay Nishi, Microsoft established its first international sales office in Japan in late 1978. This was before DOS when MS was primarily a language company and early Japanese PCs needed languages.
Even if we disregard MS's "head start" in Japan, Japan probably has been the largest non-English speaking market. Despite Japan's relatively low population, Japan has a highly developed economy, relatively low piracy rates, and a long history with computers (NEC). At the end of 2002 (one year after Windows XP), MS got 20% of its revenue from the Asia-Pacific region, but half of it was from Japan alone.
I'm sure MS is working damn hard on the Portuguese versions of their software.
So I can't watch hentai anime movies while riding the subway? Forget about it.
If I read the correct articles from EUROPA (portal site of the EU) and understood them correctly, then I don't think forbidding OEM's from installing other media players was the problem. According to those articles from EUROPA's "Antitrust cases" section, the problem was merely the "tying" of WMP to its "dominant" OS.
The articles I read were only press releases, but I'm hoping they would not have excluded an important fact like forbidding OEMs from installing rival media players. They only mentioned WMP's supposedly unfair advantage of being "tied" to MS's dominant OS. If there was testimony from OEMs about MS forbidding them from installing rival media players, then I'd appreciate a link from anybody who can provide one. I haven't really been following the EU case.
I think the March 2004 press release "Commission concludes on Microsoft investigation, imposes conduct remedies and a fine" gave the best summary:
iPod Shuffle 512M -- $99
Network Walkman NW-E105 512M -- $99.95
iPod Shuffle 1G -- $150
Network Walkman NW-E107 1G -- $149.95
Did you exclude these on purpose to strengthen your point? These models were mentioned in the article.
I might be wrong about this, but I think CP/M was a proprietary spec protected by copyrights while UNIX is an "open standard" spec currently defined by the Open Group.
In fact, DRI did consider legal action against Microsoft and IBM. Instead, DRI and IBM agreed to offer customers a choice of either DOS or CP/M when buying the original IBM PC (no OS was pre-installed). However, DRI was surprised when IBM charged $240 for CP/M and $40 for DOS. Guess which OS the customers chose.
From the BusinessWeek article "The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates":
Most DVI ports have both analog and digital video, not all DVI ports.
DVI-I has both analog and digital and is the most common port. DVI-D is digital only and is somewhat less common. DVI-A is analog only and is rarely seen. The digital part of DVI can also be implemented in dual link.
I think Admiral Llama is correct. I'm pretty darned sure HDMI only uses the digital part of DVI.
Intel will likely cut the prices of current single-core CPUs when the dual-core Pentium 4's (Smithfield) are launched in Q2 2005. So it's a little hard to predict what the price premium will be over single core CPUs. However, the pricing for Smithfield seems consistent with Intel's past pricing for mainstream single-core CPUs whenever they introduced a new core.
According to Anandtech's latest Intel roadmap article, the dual-core Pentium 4's will be launched at the following prices:
- Pentium 4 820 (2.80GHz, 2x1MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB): $241
- Pentium 4 830 (3.00GHz, 2x1MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB): $316
- Pentium 4 840 (3.20GHz, 2x1MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB): $530
The fastest dual-core Pentium 4 is actually priced lower than the top-end single-core Pentium 4's (non-Extreme) which are typically over $600. However, the per-core clockspeed of the fastest dual-core (3.2GHz) will be less than the fastest single-core (3.8GHz).At those prices, there doesn't seem to be any big price premium for the extra core. At each price point ($241, $316, $530), a Pentium 4 buyer can either choose a slower (per core) dual-core CPU or a faster single-core CPU.
From the IMDb.com news story 'Star Wars' Bosses Warn Websites Again :
However, I think you are wrong about Rogers. The Rogers Video on Lonsdale in North Vancouver has an adult video room with full fledged porn
I also know a local Blockbuster franchise store that stocks the unrated version of Requiem for a Dream. Apparently, only the corporate owned/operated Blockbuster stores (about 82%) have the "no worse than R" policy.
I've never heard of Rogers Video, but I suspect they also have different policies for corporate stores and franchise stores.
Furthermore, why aren't Sparkle or Antec power supplies tested? Along with Enermax, they're widely regarded as some of the best around.
That's why I like to recommend Antec and In Win cases, which are bundled with Antec and Power Man (rebranded Sparkle) power supplies. When you consider the quality of the bundled power supplies, those cases seem very reasonably priced (on Newegg at least).