Has to do with things like the longer pipeline of the P4 being less efficient. The Pentium M is (loosely) based on the Pentium 3. If you remember when the Pentium 4 came out clock for clock it was worse than the Pentium 3. It is just overall more efficient - the P4 is very very inefficient simply because they can clock it higher that way, and Joe Dumba$$ comes to the store and thinks that a higher number means more performance.
Try explaining to someone why a 1.3Ghz Celeron M (based on the Pentium M - the new Celeron M is basically a Banias without the advanced power management) is higher performance than a 1.3Ghz Pentium 4! That is hard:p
yes it does, although I think you would be better off just unplugging the power/USB and running with the whole printer (assuming it is not a laser printer!) so that you can hold it at the other end, rather than holding it by the small flaming power brick.
I have noticed that the lexmark printers that I sell at my work have removeable power bricks now - just like what you find in the middle of a laptop power cable etc but it plugs directly into the printer. I always assumed this was so they could just change the power brick for each country (240v and 110v model) but maybe I was wrong...
So he destroyed a brand new Mac Mini, transplanted it into the Micro ATX case with zip ties and runs two power supplies just so he can have a larger hard drive in it?
I wonder if he realises that for half the cost of the Mac Mini he could have got a cheap Semperon 2200+ box that would have worked just as well. He could have even spent up big and built a more powerful server for the money he spent!
Push comes to shove if he *really* wanted the Mac Mini with a larger hard drive he could have cut a small hole in the vents of the chassis and run the cable out through there and put the hard drive underneath the Mac Mini. No extra hardware required, no firewire or USB conversions just plain old vanilla IDE
Here in Australia the office of film and literature does games as well. Unfortunately they can't get it out of their heads that games are played by people other than kids.
We have a rating system of: C - Children G - General Exhibition PG - Parental Guidance M - Mature Audiences Recommended MA - Mature Audiences Only (15+ only) AV - Adult Violence (mainly used for TV) R - 18+ only X = 18+, pr0n
Only problem is there is no R rating (or AV or X for that matter) for games. This means games like Manhunt and Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude get banned from Australia! Heck, even GTA3 was banned until they removed the ability to pick up hookers and made it harder to run people over.
You might think this would not affect you elsewhere in the world, but really the makers want to reach a broad audience, so a lot of games will already be toned down in the rest of the world just so they can get it into the more stringent parts of the world.
I think it is pronounced Vii v which sort of sounds like vibe. Hence it is the pentium Vibe
Think of the advertising campaigns they can do with it! It also sound a bit like five. So it could be "get the intel inside pentium five vive. The only processor that allows you to do all your media editing and viewing tasks!"
I wonder if it is going to speed up the internet, I mean we have not had any update in the speed of that since the Pentium 3 apparently did!:p
And for those of you saying why don't they change the Pentium brand name it is very clear. Unless they have a huge problem with it and everyone starts hating it they will keep it. I sell laptops and you would be amazed at the number of people who say to me "I don't want that laptop, it is not a pentium" while they are pointing at a centrino laptop! They should have called it the Intel Pentium Centrino!
well the iPod already has a address/phone book, a todo list and a calendar. Not to mention games and a notes section that can be used for USENET newsgroups or e-books - there are already programs to get various web items onto it, like one that gets google news and outputs it onto the iPod when you sync it.
But before I say any more I should probably go RTFA.
Well I for one feel it is a fake! Sure, the image looks dodgy but that is to be expected as it is not a picture of the actual product, but done up by an outsider.
I also do not believe Apple would leave off both the scroll wheel AND a screen. You can't really live without a screen with that many tunes and the wheel is Apples is one of the major features and of the iPods.
But the biggest problem I see is that it is firewire. Look at the previous releases and you will see Apple is moving to USB. First the mini came out with only USB included and then the 4G iPod came out with USB and Firewire.
The mini I feel was more aimed at the fashion conscious, especially girls. The majority I am sure would have been windows users who did not necessarily have firewire. I can see a flash based iPod being aimed at similar groups of people.
Why would they release a flash player with firewire then? Especially when they know that a large number of people purchasing these will want to use it on their old Win98 Boxes with no firewire (and probably only USB 1.1).
I think they should just release a smaller iPod mini. Chuck a 1Gb CF card in their instead and sell it at $200. Heck, maybe even release a 256Mb or 512Mb version as well! It is not like the cards are expensive!
Well we can probably expect a large number of "arcade classics" style titles.
Expect on the shelfs soon:
Pong!
Super Pong!
Pong Pro
Pong now with blue background!
They will probably release quite a few racing games, with the cars changed and the levels changed. Small things compared to creating new games.
gH6NH4EQWhen I was hacking up my Shuttle XPC, I had the mobo out (still loaded with RAM). I was carrying it along with my graphics card on a board, they both decided to slide of while I was walking and crash to the ground. Surprisingly nothing at all broke! I was surprised it didn't snap a RAM module in half!
I also had an unfortunate accident with my wireless keyboard. I was at a lan, and spilt some coke on it. raced outside to shake it off, and while I was shaking it I lost grip and it flew into the brick wall before slamming into the ground. This wasn't a little shake either, I was swinging it over my head so the coke would come off! Few scratches but it is working like a charm still!
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Has to do with things like the longer pipeline of the P4 being less efficient. The Pentium M is (loosely) based on the Pentium 3. If you remember when the Pentium 4 came out clock for clock it was worse than the Pentium 3. It is just overall more efficient - the P4 is very very inefficient simply because they can clock it higher that way, and Joe Dumba$$ comes to the store and thinks that a higher number means more performance.
:p
Try explaining to someone why a 1.3Ghz Celeron M (based on the Pentium M - the new Celeron M is basically a Banias without the advanced power management) is higher performance than a 1.3Ghz Pentium 4! That is hard
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Or they have a power outage and their UPS batteries are flat...
yes it does, although I think you would be better off just unplugging the power/USB and running with the whole printer (assuming it is not a laser printer!) so that you can hold it at the other end, rather than holding it by the small flaming power brick.
I have noticed that the lexmark printers that I sell at my work have removeable power bricks now - just like what you find in the middle of a laptop power cable etc but it plugs directly into the printer. I always assumed this was so they could just change the power brick for each country (240v and 110v model) but maybe I was wrong...
Well I did, and it is not something that could not have been easily fixed with a plug pack or similar.
AFAIK laptop hard drives use 12v also.
Hard drives only use a lot of power spinning up, if it is a server it should not be spinning down all to often.
I found that Coral Cache works:
Here
So he destroyed a brand new Mac Mini, transplanted it into the Micro ATX case with zip ties and runs two power supplies just so he can have a larger hard drive in it? I wonder if he realises that for half the cost of the Mac Mini he could have got a cheap Semperon 2200+ box that would have worked just as well. He could have even spent up big and built a more powerful server for the money he spent! Push comes to shove if he *really* wanted the Mac Mini with a larger hard drive he could have cut a small hole in the vents of the chassis and run the cable out through there and put the hard drive underneath the Mac Mini. No extra hardware required, no firewire or USB conversions just plain old vanilla IDE
Except for the fact that he is using the ATX PSU to power the Hard drive as well! So he has two power supplies running for it.
Here in Australia the office of film and literature does games as well. Unfortunately they can't get it out of their heads that games are played by people other than kids.
We have a rating system of:
C - Children
G - General Exhibition
PG - Parental Guidance
M - Mature Audiences Recommended
MA - Mature Audiences Only (15+ only)
AV - Adult Violence (mainly used for TV)
R - 18+ only
X = 18+, pr0n
Only problem is there is no R rating (or AV or X for that matter) for games. This means games like Manhunt and Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude get banned from Australia! Heck, even GTA3 was banned until they removed the ability to pick up hookers and made it harder to run people over.
You might think this would not affect you elsewhere in the world, but really the makers want to reach a broad audience, so a lot of games will already be toned down in the rest of the world just so they can get it into the more stringent parts of the world.
I think it is pronounced Vii v which sort of sounds like vibe. Hence it is the pentium Vibe Think of the advertising campaigns they can do with it! It also sound a bit like five. So it could be "get the intel inside pentium five vive. The only processor that allows you to do all your media editing and viewing tasks!" I wonder if it is going to speed up the internet, I mean we have not had any update in the speed of that since the Pentium 3 apparently did! :p
And for those of you saying why don't they change the Pentium brand name it is very clear. Unless they have a huge problem with it and everyone starts hating it they will keep it. I sell laptops and you would be amazed at the number of people who say to me "I don't want that laptop, it is not a pentium" while they are pointing at a centrino laptop! They should have called it the Intel Pentium Centrino!
well the iPod already has a address/phone book, a todo list and a calendar. Not to mention games and a notes section that can be used for USENET newsgroups or e-books - there are already programs to get various web items onto it, like one that gets google news and outputs it onto the iPod when you sync it. But before I say any more I should probably go RTFA.
Well I for one feel it is a fake! Sure, the image looks dodgy but that is to be expected as it is not a picture of the actual product, but done up by an outsider. I also do not believe Apple would leave off both the scroll wheel AND a screen. You can't really live without a screen with that many tunes and the wheel is Apples is one of the major features and of the iPods. But the biggest problem I see is that it is firewire. Look at the previous releases and you will see Apple is moving to USB. First the mini came out with only USB included and then the 4G iPod came out with USB and Firewire. The mini I feel was more aimed at the fashion conscious, especially girls. The majority I am sure would have been windows users who did not necessarily have firewire. I can see a flash based iPod being aimed at similar groups of people. Why would they release a flash player with firewire then? Especially when they know that a large number of people purchasing these will want to use it on their old Win98 Boxes with no firewire (and probably only USB 1.1). I think they should just release a smaller iPod mini. Chuck a 1Gb CF card in their instead and sell it at $200. Heck, maybe even release a 256Mb or 512Mb version as well! It is not like the cards are expensive!
According to the article it got 42.7 teraflops using only 16 of the 20 nodes, so the performance is going to be even better.
Well we can probably expect a large number of "arcade classics" style titles. Expect on the shelfs soon: Pong! Super Pong! Pong Pro Pong now with blue background! They will probably release quite a few racing games, with the cars changed and the levels changed. Small things compared to creating new games.
gH6NH4EQWhen I was hacking up my Shuttle XPC, I had the mobo out (still loaded with RAM). I was carrying it along with my graphics card on a board, they both decided to slide of while I was walking and crash to the ground. Surprisingly nothing at all broke! I was surprised it didn't snap a RAM module in half! I also had an unfortunate accident with my wireless keyboard. I was at a lan, and spilt some coke on it. raced outside to shake it off, and while I was shaking it I lost grip and it flew into the brick wall before slamming into the ground. This wasn't a little shake either, I was swinging it over my head so the coke would come off! Few scratches but it is working like a charm still!