We don't have any problems to survive due to food, housing, health-care. Such things is well built in modern society.
What is happening is that our minds is laid to waste. When the psycological situation is going extreme, bad things happen. We are watching the first surfacing problems right now.
I agree with the "plug and run" thing. I were on the phone some weeks ago and helped my sister ( who isn't interested at all in coputer-stuff ) to instal a game. She expected the game to work after she had put in the CD in CD-drive. The concept of fooling around in some arcane "explorer" loocking for a.exe file was as alien to her as to change an engine-part in her car ( she isn't interested in cars either ). It has to be easy and intutive if the masses ever will use it.
And? The first BX-board saw the light in April 1998... an concidering the pace coputer industry has, it's the a very old design..... New boards isn't very diffrent to those who came out six month ago.
But enough of that, if you have already bought the board, then I guess that you can wait for a "closing" BX-board rewiev.... or why not take a look at the K7-board rewiev that Tom has... you hardly can call that old!:-)
Seriously, I have also been frustrated over the lack of review of new BX-boards, but there are not much new about them really.
But there should have been a roundup by now, I certainly agree with that.
Think, what would happen then? Well AMD would go for sale, and Intel can't buy them ( FTC! ).
So maybe Motorola or IBM would buy them ( AMD is to valuable to simply vanish ) and what would happen then? Intel's worst nightmare, another company with good chips and lots of finacial backing.
Or am I missing something? It is the only reason I can think of why AMD still exists as a lone company ( The idea comes from Kalaran at http://www.jc-news.com/pc/absorb/kalaran/intelstri kesback.htm )
Why does a site HAVE to be updatet every other second? I also go for the meat, not the "appering-everywhere-news".
I have used Tom's site for reference, and it has worked fine. And when I have found diffrences, I have sent an e-mail with CONSTRUCTIVE critics, and usually got a response back.
Keeping "old" informtion open is very valuable, but it's not always possible. Later on such information is called history, and then are even more valuable. Hey, everyone can learn from history, how many people out there really knows human history?
Martin Widmark
P.S. Two of my machines are 486's ( Linux works fine ) and another is a K6-200 ( Linux very sweet ). But my power system is a dual P2@450 and there Linux gets wild as a virgin on the hay-loft.
The main diffrent in the chipset is how it works internally. There are many performace sapping gliches in the BX-chipset that is non-existent in Irongate.
And as stated, Irongate is just "temporary", to ensure that K7 had a chipset.
VIA has their own ready right now, and will probably ship before the end of the year ( if they dare, but maybe they don't fear Intel that much ).
Hotrail is devenloping 4-way and 8-way chipsets, and it's here the EV6-bus will really prove it's worth.
Each processor has it own hiway to the cipset in contraire to Intels GTL+ bus, there all CPU's has to cluster on the same hiway. Not to metion that EV6's hiway has about 80% higer banwith.
I agree with that attackin Id wasn't wery bright, BUT he did apologise didn't he? I don't say that an apology makes everything good again, but it helps.
I can come to think of a NUMBER of sites that NEVER admitts anything.
How do you think Tom is subjective? In what way? Towards AMD or against 3dfx?
Tom Pabs has NOT stated the above. Prove me wrong if you can.
Sure, Tom has as most humans made misstakes and overreacted, but has ALWAYS postet corrections and apologies.
And it's no wonder that Tom knows about Asus K7 motherboard, after all he seems to have close contacts at Asus.
Read his stuff critically with a open mind and you'll see what I mean.
If Intel is the cause for Asus not selleing their motherboard ( wich seems very likely ) it's not very spectaular at all.
Hey, AMD has a goal to have a third of the workstation-market by 2001, wich gives Intel about half the market ( depending on what happens to the other CPU-chip makers ). If a motherboard-maker feels that Intel don't like their product and may be hostile 'cause of it, it's a little more diplomatic to wait a while and see.
Heck, Intel don't need to brake the law at all, the just send a PM to Asus an say something like: "Maybe we should talk about how many BX-chipsets we will be able to ship to you this month" That would scare the hell out of any moterboard-maker 'cause maybe 60%-99% of their revenue comes from BX-motherboards.
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Ruler of the free world.
Yeah.
The USA is the only free world....
Martin Widmark
We don't have any problems to survive due to food, housing, health-care. Such things is well built in modern society.
What is happening is that our minds is laid to waste. When the psycological situation is going extreme, bad things happen. We are watching the first surfacing problems right now.
It will only be worse.
Martin Widmark
Capitalism isn't about lesiure, it is about PROFIT!
Stop complaining, it is what you are voting for!
A capitalistic society will NEVER decrease stress, it will increase until it blows, and then it will begin again.
Only when the goal of society stops being increased profits and becomes increased standard of living, THEN the stress will decrease. Not before.
(What kind of communist homosexual am I? None of them, so don't send spam calling me that.)
Martin Widmark
Yeah. The industry has invested too much money in
the DVD technology.
They will not let this technology appear on market
If it works, that is.
Martin Widmark
...and you are an mecanical engineer so you know about those things?
Martin Widmark
I agree. Here in Sweden no politican would get away with that.... The media watches VERY closely on finacial matters... indeed. Lobbyig = big bribes
Bwahahahahaaaa!
Very, very, VERY good!
Amazingly funny story, and a seriously good point.
I agree with the "plug and run" thing. I were on the phone some weeks ago and helped my sister ( who isn't interested at all in coputer-stuff ) to instal a game. She expected the game to work after she had put in the CD in CD-drive. The concept of fooling around in some arcane "explorer" loocking for a .exe file was as alien to her as to change an engine-part in her car ( she isn't interested in cars either ). It has to be easy and intutive if the masses ever will use it.
And? The first BX-board saw the light in April 1998... an concidering the pace coputer industry has, it's the a very old design..... New boards isn't very diffrent to those who came out six month ago.
:-)
But enough of that, if you have already bought the board, then I guess that you can wait for a "closing" BX-board rewiev.... or why not take a look at the K7-board rewiev that Tom has... you hardly can call that old!
Seriously, I have also been frustrated over the lack of review of new BX-boards, but there are not much new about them really.
But there should have been a roundup by now, I certainly agree with that.
Intel doesn't want to destroy AMD...
i kesback.htm )
Think, what would happen then? Well AMD would go for sale, and Intel can't buy them ( FTC! ).
So maybe Motorola or IBM would buy them ( AMD is to valuable to simply vanish ) and what would happen then? Intel's worst nightmare, another company with good chips and lots of finacial backing.
Or am I missing something? It is the only reason I can think of why AMD still exists as a lone company ( The idea comes from Kalaran at http://www.jc-news.com/pc/absorb/kalaran/intelstr
Thanks for the word
Martin Widmark
I agree with you Sir.
Why does a site HAVE to be updatet every other second? I also go for the meat, not the "appering-everywhere-news".
I have used Tom's site for reference, and it has worked fine. And when I have found diffrences, I have sent an e-mail with CONSTRUCTIVE critics, and usually got a response back.
Keeping "old" informtion open is very valuable, but it's not always possible. Later on such information is called history, and then are even more valuable. Hey, everyone can learn from history, how many people out there really knows human history?
Martin Widmark
P.S.
Two of my machines are 486's ( Linux works fine )
and another is a K6-200 ( Linux very sweet ).
But my power system is a dual P2@450 and there Linux gets wild as a virgin on the hay-loft.
The main diffrent in the chipset is how it works internally. There are many performace sapping gliches in the BX-chipset that is non-existent in Irongate.
And as stated, Irongate is just "temporary", to ensure that K7 had a chipset.
VIA has their own ready right now, and will probably ship before the end of the year ( if they dare, but maybe they don't fear Intel that much ).
Hotrail is devenloping 4-way and 8-way chipsets, and it's here the EV6-bus will really prove it's worth.
Each processor has it own hiway to the cipset in contraire to Intels GTL+ bus, there all CPU's has to cluster on the same hiway. Not to metion that EV6's hiway has about 80% higer banwith.
Martin Widmark
Linköping Sweden
I agree with that attackin Id wasn't wery bright,
BUT he did apologise didn't he?
I don't say that an apology makes everything good
again, but it helps.
I can come to think of a NUMBER of sites that NEVER
admitts anything.
How do you think Tom is subjective? In what way?
Towards AMD or against 3dfx?
Martin Widmark
Linköping Sweden
Tom Pabs has NOT stated the above. Prove me wrong if you can.
Sure, Tom has as most humans made misstakes and overreacted,
but has ALWAYS postet corrections and apologies.
And it's no wonder that Tom knows about Asus K7 motherboard,
after all he seems to have close contacts at Asus.
Read his stuff critically with a open mind and you'll see what I mean.
If Intel is the cause for Asus not selleing their motherboard
( wich seems very likely ) it's not very spectaular at all.
Hey, AMD has a goal to have a third of the workstation-market by 2001,
wich gives Intel about half the market ( depending on what happens to
the other CPU-chip makers ). If a motherboard-maker feels that Intel
don't like their product and may be hostile 'cause of it, it's a little more
diplomatic to wait a while and see.
Heck, Intel don't need to brake the law at all, the just send a PM to Asus
an say something like: "Maybe we should talk about how many BX-chipsets
we will be able to ship to you this month" That would scare the hell out
of any moterboard-maker 'cause maybe 60%-99% of their revenue comes
from BX-motherboards.
Rant stops here.