I agree with you there. I have a 92" Hi gain screen with an Infocus DLP projector, and DVD movies look great on it, as does NFL football from my accessDTV HDTV card in my computer.
That being said, on avsforum, they're all excited about the new HD formats, and I can see their point. I can see the pixels if I focus hard enough from 10 feet away in bright scenes with large areas of the same color. Does it bother me? No, not really. But I think HD dvds, and a HD projector (mine is 846 by 480) will look notacably sharper then standard DVDs. But still, to my eyes, regular DVDs look pretty damn good. Actually, this depends a lot on the qualtiy of the DVD transfer. Some are great, some are mediocre - for example, Goldfinger. But why would HD improve poor DVD transfers of movies with poor old film stock? Wouldn't it just make the mediocrity more apparent?
In amy event, I think this will be a lot like MP3s versus standard CDs. The quality will be good enough that most people won't care that much, certainly not to the tune of spending 1000s of $s to upgrade their home theater and DVD collection.
Also, how much better will they look on HD plamas and HD LCD TVs? The pictures is lot smaller then my projector setup, so I would think the increased resolution would be even less of an issue.
To my knowledge, nothing ever stopped anyone from buying a Mac or running IBM's OS/2 or Linux
Well, its a showstopper if the software you need is Windows only, which much software is. I'd switch to Linux in a minute if the software I use was available in Linux. Except for another show stopper, I'd have to abandon thousands of dollars of software to switch. Something which I personally can't afford.
The ancients couldn't see Neptune. Its invisible to the neaked eye. You need a telescope to see it. Where did you get you info from? Did you pull it out of your @$$?
I agree with you about The Titanic. I finally rented it last year and thought 'WTF!? This mediocre movie is the biggest blockbuster ever??' I wanted to barf. Personally, I thought Kevin Costner's widely panned movies Waterworld and The Postman were much much better then the Titanic. But that's just my taste in movies I guess.
How exactly would you expect a dual core processor to use the same socket as a single core processor?
uhh...I don't know, why not ask AMD? I'm running a dual core Athlon64 X2 in a socket 939 motherboard designed for the single core
Athon64. All the dual core Athlon64s and Opterons will run in the old single core socket motherboards. I just needed a bios update for my motherboard, and it works fine.
errr...no. Some companies, such as Sony and Tosbia actually dropped AMD products because of pressure from Intel in the form of being cut off or limited from popular Intel chips, losing end year rebates and co-marketing dollars for advertising, and other bribes.
Gateway dropped AMD processors a number of years ago, why? Pressure and threats from Intel.
According to Gateway executives, their company has paid a high price for even its limited AMD dealings. They claim that Intel has "beaten them into 'guacamole'" in retaliation.
Companies listed in AMD's lawsuit as being strong armed by Intel include Dell, Sony, NEC, Hitachi, HP, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Gateway and Supermicro. Believe me, AMD did not bring this lawsuit without merit; Intel has been strong arming computer makers, motherboard makers and retailers to not carry or to limit AMD products for years. And bringing the suit has forced Intel to ease up on their tactics and opened up the market. Supermicro refused to make motherboards for Opteron, now they do. Shelf space at Best buy has increased for AMD products since the lawsuit; Gateway bought emachines and now carries AMD again, etc.
I bought an Bob Dylan disk I used to have in my vinyl record collection, Hiway 66 Revisted. It was a combination SACD/CD. It wouldn't let me rip it in my computer so I could transfer the tracks to my 20 gig iRiver (maybe there is a way, but I didn't try very hard). I prompltly returned it to Walmart and got my money back. The thing is, my stero hasn't even been hooked up for a couple of years since I last rearranged my living room. I mainly buy CDs to rip to my iRiver. And Sony lost a sale by not letting me do this. Incidentally, I believe SACD supports 5.1 surround sound. Where do you think I have a 5.1 sound system? On my computer, not my stereo. If Sony had made these disks so they could play in the common 5.1 computer setups many people have, they may have sold a boatload, but no, their stupid copy protection killed their own product. They are about to repeat the same mistake with blue-ray DVDs, which will require copy-protected monitors and hard disks. Good luck on getting people to throw out their $5000 home theather setups to play Sony's DRMed to death crap.
I know how your feel, sort of. I have thousands of $s invested in soft synths and samplers, (Gigastudio, Kontakt, and a bunch of expensive libraries). Sometimes I wish I had just bought a Korg, Yamaha or Roland workstation instead. None of the software has a dongle, but the internet registration is bad enough. I'm the kind of person that's always upgrading and rebuilding my computer, and this makes it a pain in the ass. And what about 5 or ten years down the road? Will my thousands invested still be usable? The thing I hate about all these copy protection schemes is they are screwing over the honest user that is paying for the product, not the pirates. And if they are going to put these restrictive schemes on their software, they should offer refunds like every other product in the world. They no longer have the excuse that you can keep a copy, since it won't work without the internet registration. This is another way software developers screw us over. I don't know how many thousands of dollars I've wasted on software over the years I wasn't happy with but of course couldn't return, unlike every other product in the world, except of course music CDs and Movie DVDs.
Yea I basically agree with you. The first three were great, the fourth with all of the stuff about Roland's youth was unnecessary. Wolves was ok, but not in the same class as the first three. The last two I haven't read yet, although I have Song of Susan laying around.
If he only could have kept up the genius of the first three books! Sometimes I think Steven King needs a good editor. Even brilliant artists need some constructive criticism now and then. But unfortunately, they get to a point where no one gives it to them, either because they're to big and famous, or ego, whatever. Look at McCartney without Lennon as a critic. His music ended up with a lot of fluff content, which is King's problem at times. He goes off on tangents like the youth of Roland in book 4 that would have been better off being edited out. When reading an exciting story like the Dark Tower, I don't want to go off on a 400 page tangent of stories about the main character as a little boy, even if the stories are somewhat interesting in themselves. Its like watching the Superbowl and having an hour of video with stories of the youth of the star quarterback between the third and fourth quarter.
ebooks will never become mainstream. The mega corportations which own most of the book publishers nowadays will load them down with so much DRM crap people won't want to use them. Loan your purchased ebook to a friend, like a regular book? Forget it. The bean counters salivate at the idea of every one having to buy their own copy. They don't want you to lend yours to someone else. Their DRM will make sure of that. They don't want to protect your fair use rights, they want to take them away.
Somewhat off topic, but I was starshocked when I went to Circut City recently, and they had the original series on DVD for $129. I though, well, that's for the complete show, but it was one season. WTF. TNG is priced the same per season. I wouldn't mind owning these, but I'm not going to pay the rate of a newly released movie in widescreen enhanced def, for a forty year old TV series in low def TV format (I have an Infocus ScreenPlay projector and 6 ft wide screen).
Well, the market is supposed to set the price, but the price on these old TV shows on DVD are way overpriced, IMO, and I'm not buying. These old TV shows are worth about the same or less to me as a discounted old movie at Walmart, nowhere near $390 for 3 seasons of Star Trek. Maybe 1/4th that amount.
How can slashdotters be so ignorant? and it was labled insightful?? You and those who modded you up obviously have no idea whats going on in the x86 processor world. Intel has had 64 bit Pentiums out for months. They're a clone of AMD64. Because of Intels volume, they've already sold more x86 64 bit chips then AMD.
If I still had mod points I'd mod you up. Not that I'm saying everything your saying is necessarilly true, but it is food for thought. I'm surprised that the majoriry of posts are so right wing and pro nuking Japan. The fact is, the propaganda we're fed (Americans) is no less slanted and one sided and full of lies then the propaganda the Japanese, Arabs, Soviets etc. were\are fed. Apparently only an enlightened minority in any society realize this, and question or doubt the offical versions of history and current events. They sure aren't posting on this forum. I think what you said about the Soviet Union and the Cold War is right on target.
Well, I'm not surprised. Because I've often been surprised about how uninformed some slashdotters seem to be about the computer tech world. Not knowing about the Turion is no worse then some still thinking Athlons run hot (the heat situation was significantly improved with the Athlon XP over the original Athlon, and took a giant improvement with the Athlon 64 and SOI. Also, Athlons don't burn up up if the heatsink falls off. The chips shut down, ever since the Athlon XP (though it took a while for the motherboards to catch up.) I know this works because I put on my heatsink backwards on an Athlon XP, and it gave me a warning beep and shutdown, several times in row, before I realized the problem. But I still see comments complaining about this in various tech forums from time to time, including slashdot.
Well, I guess not everyone follows x86 news as closely as I do.
Hey, Athlons don't run hotter then hell anymore, that was fixed years ago.
I used to think like you, because at times I've run without virus software and (less often) zone alarm, with no problem.
Then I built a computer for my brother, and was setting it up for him. I decided to wait until I got DSL setup before setting up zone alarm and installing anti virus, because I was thinking of them interfering, especially because getting SBC DSL working is can be a bitch. So since their crappy setup disk didn't work, as usual, I had to call tech support to set it up. Once online, I was ready to install zone alarm, and anti virus. But my brother wants to use mozilla, since he hates microsoft (an ex mac user). So I downloaded Firefox, then had to download a zip program to unzip. In that short span of time, the computer was infected with a very nasty virus. I installed Norton, but it crippled it. It crippled Zone Alarm. I could not bring up task manager to try and figure what file was cause the problem, as it shut it down immediatly. Norton was screwed up, but it warned of a couple of files. I deleted them (had to go into safe mode to do it, it wouldn't let me in normal mode.) It restored them. I finally took the computer back home and just reformated and reinstalled everything. I am still surprised as hell it picked up a virus that quickly. My guess is it came from the zip program, but I don't know.
But I agree, you can go months online with no protection, and not have a problem, but sooner or later, you'll get hit.
gliquid is a good name for a new state of matter in between a gas and liquid. These term needs to be patented, trademarked, and copyrighted in every coutry of the world. I estimate a cost of 20 million for goverment and legal fees, including my cut for this advice.
Well, why don't you provide links to reviews? Because they don't back up what your saying. I searched Anandtech, and the only recent review which showed up pitted a 2.0 Dothan against a 2.2 AMD64. And the Dothen lost most benchmarkds.
The well know one where the Dothan won a lot of benchmarks pitted a massivly overclocked Dothan against a FX and PEE running at stock speeds, at Tom's Hardware Guide. Hardly a fair comparison. If the FX, not to mention the PEE had been overclocked to the max, they would have wiped the Dothan. Not only that, the FX was using an old core. Naturally Tom's Whoreware guide did everything it could to slant the results in Intels favor, something that site is notorious far, witness the recent stress test.
But to paraphrase Harry Truman, their are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and benchmarks. Over the last couple of years, as the A64 has become dominant, many benchmarks the P4 used to win in but the A64 took the lead in have disappeared. Just about every site is bought off by Intel to some extent, either conciously or unconciously by the huge marketing and advertising dollars Intel throws around. Its easy enought to find programs optomized for Intel architecure and synthetic benchmarks slanted to favor Intel. Unfortunately for Intel, AMD has taken such a lead, that doesn't even work anymore. And review sites, in order not to loose total credability can only distort so much without destroying their reputation, as Tom's Hardware as already done.
As for the Dothan being faster clock for clock, well duh, that doesn't mean squat. Much as the Athlon Barton XP being faster then the P4 Northwood clock for clock doesn't mean squat. If an architequres is designed to clock higher, and will do so, its faster, period.
That being said, I agree the Dothan is a very good chip, and is competive with the A64 in gaming benchmarks, but not in others, such as media creation, much the same as the P4 is dominates in some types of software over the A64. Intel would do well to bring it to the desktop and tweak it to its full potential.
I don't see any benchmarks in that link. The only time I've seen a Dothan constistantly beat a FX was when the Dothan was overclocked to the max and the FX wasn't overclocked at all. A Dothan is competive, but it doesn't beat an FX.
Finally, a National Review opinion that dares to criticize the establishment. And I thought all right wingers were goose stepping yes men to the president (see article). Nice to see a ditto head can break his mind free enough to disagree with Bush. We need more of these. Now if I could only convince my brother watching Fox News is like reading Pravda.
I wonder if Jobs could con her into doing an ad for him. That would be a coup. He could give her a choice of a hundred free songs off iTunes, or a free battery when hers goes dead.
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I agree with you there. I have a 92" Hi gain screen with an Infocus DLP projector, and DVD movies look great on it, as does NFL football from my accessDTV HDTV card in my computer.
That being said, on avsforum, they're all excited about the new HD formats, and I can see their point. I can see the pixels if I focus hard enough from 10 feet away in bright scenes with large areas of the same color. Does it bother me? No, not really. But I think HD dvds, and a HD projector (mine is 846 by 480) will look notacably sharper then standard DVDs. But still, to my eyes, regular DVDs look pretty damn good. Actually, this depends a lot on the qualtiy of the DVD transfer. Some are great, some are mediocre - for example, Goldfinger. But why would HD improve poor DVD transfers of movies with poor old film stock? Wouldn't it just make the mediocrity more apparent?
In amy event, I think this will be a lot like MP3s versus standard CDs. The quality will be good enough that most people won't care that much, certainly not to the tune of spending 1000s of $s to upgrade their home theater and DVD collection.
Also, how much better will they look on HD plamas and HD LCD TVs? The pictures is lot smaller then my projector setup, so I would think the increased resolution would be even less of an issue.
Well, its a showstopper if the software you need is Windows only, which much software is. I'd switch to Linux in a minute if the software I use was available in Linux. Except for another show stopper, I'd have to abandon thousands of dollars of software to switch. Something which I personally can't afford.
The ancients couldn't see Neptune. Its invisible to the neaked eye. You need a telescope to see it. Where did you get you info from? Did you pull it out of your @$$?
Yea, that was the stupidest part of the movie. He accomplished nothing by going to New York but get his friend killed.
I agree with you about The Titanic. I finally rented it last year and thought 'WTF!? This mediocre movie is the biggest blockbuster ever??' I wanted to barf. Personally, I thought Kevin Costner's widely panned movies Waterworld and The Postman were much much better then the Titanic. But that's just my taste in movies I guess.
uhh...I don't know, why not ask AMD? I'm running a dual core Athlon64 X2 in a socket 939 motherboard designed for the single core Athon64. All the dual core Athlon64s and Opterons will run in the old single core socket motherboards. I just needed a bios update for my motherboard, and it works fine.
According to Gateway executives, their company has paid a high price for even its limited AMD dealings. They claim that Intel has "beaten them into 'guacamole'" in retaliation.
Companies listed in AMD's lawsuit as being strong armed by Intel include Dell, Sony, NEC, Hitachi, HP, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Gateway and Supermicro. Believe me, AMD did not bring this lawsuit without merit; Intel has been strong arming computer makers, motherboard makers and retailers to not carry or to limit AMD products for years. And bringing the suit has forced Intel to ease up on their tactics and opened up the market. Supermicro refused to make motherboards for Opteron, now they do. Shelf space at Best buy has increased for AMD products since the lawsuit; Gateway bought emachines and now carries AMD again, etc.
Here's AMD's press release on the lawsuit.o m/0,,51_104_543~99713,00.html
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRo
I bought an Bob Dylan disk I used to have in my vinyl record collection, Hiway 66 Revisted. It was a combination SACD/CD. It wouldn't let me rip it in my computer so I could transfer the tracks to my 20 gig iRiver (maybe there is a way, but I didn't try very hard). I prompltly returned it to Walmart and got my money back. The thing is, my stero hasn't even been hooked up for a couple of years since I last rearranged my living room. I mainly buy CDs to rip to my iRiver. And Sony lost a sale by not letting me do this. Incidentally, I believe SACD supports 5.1 surround sound. Where do you think I have a 5.1 sound system? On my computer, not my stereo. If Sony had made these disks so they could play in the common 5.1 computer setups many people have, they may have sold a boatload, but no, their stupid copy protection killed their own product. They are about to repeat the same mistake with blue-ray DVDs, which will require copy-protected monitors and hard disks. Good luck on getting people to throw out their $5000 home theather setups to play Sony's DRMed to death crap.
I know how your feel, sort of. I have thousands of $s invested in soft synths and samplers, (Gigastudio, Kontakt, and a bunch of expensive libraries). Sometimes I wish I had just bought a Korg, Yamaha or Roland workstation instead. None of the software has a dongle, but the internet registration is bad enough. I'm the kind of person that's always upgrading and rebuilding my computer, and this makes it a pain in the ass. And what about 5 or ten years down the road? Will my thousands invested still be usable? The thing I hate about all these copy protection schemes is they are screwing over the honest user that is paying for the product, not the pirates. And if they are going to put these restrictive schemes on their software, they should offer refunds like every other product in the world. They no longer have the excuse that you can keep a copy, since it won't work without the internet registration. This is another way software developers screw us over. I don't know how many thousands of dollars I've wasted on software over the years I wasn't happy with but of course couldn't return, unlike every other product in the world, except of course music CDs and Movie DVDs.
Yea I basically agree with you. The first three were great, the fourth with all of the stuff about Roland's youth was unnecessary. Wolves was ok, but not in the same class as the first three. The last two I haven't read yet, although I have Song of Susan laying around.
If he only could have kept up the genius of the first three books! Sometimes I think Steven King needs a good editor. Even brilliant artists need some constructive criticism now and then. But unfortunately, they get to a point where no one gives it to them, either because they're to big and famous, or ego, whatever. Look at McCartney without Lennon as a critic. His music ended up with a lot of fluff content, which is King's problem at times. He goes off on tangents like the youth of Roland in book 4 that would have been better off being edited out. When reading an exciting story like the Dark Tower, I don't want to go off on a 400 page tangent of stories about the main character as a little boy, even if the stories are somewhat interesting in themselves. Its like watching the Superbowl and having an hour of video with stories of the youth of the star quarterback between the third and fourth quarter.
Where's Superman when you need him?
A more appropriate Paul Simon song to parody would be Bridge Over Troubled Water. Good parody though.
Went to the website and it froze up...slashdotted already?
ebooks will never become mainstream. The mega corportations which own most of the book publishers nowadays will load them down with so much DRM crap people won't want to use them. Loan your purchased ebook to a friend, like a regular book? Forget it. The bean counters salivate at the idea of every one having to buy their own copy. They don't want you to lend yours to someone else. Their DRM will make sure of that. They don't want to protect your fair use rights, they want to take them away.
Somewhat off topic, but I was starshocked when I went to Circut City recently, and they had the original series on DVD for $129. I though, well, that's for the complete show, but it was one season. WTF. TNG is priced the same per season. I wouldn't mind owning these, but I'm not going to pay the rate of a newly released movie in widescreen enhanced def, for a forty year old TV series in low def TV format (I have an Infocus ScreenPlay projector and 6 ft wide screen).
Well, the market is supposed to set the price, but the price on these old TV shows on DVD are way overpriced, IMO, and I'm not buying. These old TV shows are worth about the same or less to me as a discounted old movie at Walmart, nowhere near $390 for 3 seasons of Star Trek. Maybe 1/4th that amount.
How can slashdotters be so ignorant? and it was labled insightful?? You and those who modded you up obviously have no idea whats going on in the x86 processor world. Intel has had 64 bit Pentiums out for months. They're a clone of AMD64. Because of Intels volume, they've already sold more x86 64 bit chips then AMD.
If I still had mod points I'd mod you up. Not that I'm saying everything your saying is necessarilly true, but it is food for thought. I'm surprised that the majoriry of posts are so right wing and pro nuking Japan. The fact is, the propaganda we're fed (Americans) is no less slanted and one sided and full of lies then the propaganda the Japanese, Arabs, Soviets etc. were\are fed. Apparently only an enlightened minority in any society realize this, and question or doubt the offical versions of history and current events. They sure aren't posting on this forum. I think what you said about the Soviet Union and the Cold War is right on target.
Well, I'm not surprised. Because I've often been surprised about how uninformed some slashdotters seem to be about the computer tech world. Not knowing about the Turion is no worse then some still thinking Athlons run hot (the heat situation was significantly improved with the Athlon XP over the original Athlon, and took a giant improvement with the Athlon 64 and SOI. Also, Athlons don't burn up up if the heatsink falls off. The chips shut down, ever since the Athlon XP (though it took a while for the motherboards to catch up.) I know this works because I put on my heatsink backwards on an Athlon XP, and it gave me a warning beep and shutdown, several times in row, before I realized the problem. But I still see comments complaining about this in various tech forums from time to time, including slashdot.
Well, I guess not everyone follows x86 news as closely as I do.
Hey, Athlons don't run hotter then hell anymore, that was fixed years ago.
That's funny. I guess I'm the only one that got it. Or maybe they don't think its impressive because they've accomplished the same feat.
I used to think like you, because at times I've run without virus software and (less often) zone alarm, with no problem.
Then I built a computer for my brother, and was setting it up for him. I decided to wait until I got DSL setup before setting up zone alarm and installing anti virus, because I was thinking of them interfering, especially because getting SBC DSL working is can be a bitch. So since their crappy setup disk didn't work, as usual, I had to call tech support to set it up. Once online, I was ready to install zone alarm, and anti virus.
But my brother wants to use mozilla, since he hates microsoft (an ex mac user). So I downloaded Firefox, then had to download a zip program to unzip. In that short span of time, the computer was infected with a very nasty virus. I installed Norton, but it crippled it. It crippled Zone Alarm. I could not bring up task manager to try and figure what file was cause the problem, as it shut it down immediatly. Norton was screwed up, but it warned of a couple of files. I deleted them (had to go into safe mode to do it, it wouldn't let me in normal mode.) It restored them. I finally took the computer back home and just reformated and reinstalled everything. I am still surprised as hell it picked up a virus that quickly. My guess is it came from the zip program, but I don't know.
But I agree, you can go months online with no protection, and not have a problem, but sooner or later, you'll get hit.
gliquid is a good name for a new state of matter in between a gas and liquid. These term needs to be patented, trademarked, and copyrighted in every coutry of the world. I estimate a cost of 20 million for goverment and legal fees, including my cut for this advice.
Well, why don't you provide links to reviews?
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Because they don't back up what your saying. I searched Anandtech, and the only recent review which showed up pitted a 2.0 Dothan against a 2.2 AMD64. And the Dothen lost most benchmarkds.
http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=22
The well know one where the Dothan won a lot of benchmarks pitted a massivly overclocked Dothan against a FX and PEE running at stock speeds, at Tom's Hardware Guide. Hardly a fair comparison. If the FX, not to mention the PEE had been overclocked to the max, they would have wiped the Dothan. Not only that, the FX was using an old core. Naturally Tom's Whoreware guide did everything it could to slant the results in Intels favor, something that site is notorious far, witness the recent stress test.
But to paraphrase Harry Truman, their are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and benchmarks. Over the last couple of years, as the A64 has become dominant, many benchmarks the P4 used to win in but the A64 took the lead in have disappeared. Just about every site is bought off by Intel to some extent, either conciously or unconciously by the huge marketing and advertising dollars Intel throws around. Its easy enought to find programs optomized for Intel architecure and synthetic benchmarks slanted to favor Intel. Unfortunately for Intel, AMD has taken such a lead, that doesn't even work anymore. And review sites, in order not to loose total credability can only distort so much without destroying their reputation, as Tom's Hardware as already done.
As for the Dothan being faster clock for clock, well duh, that doesn't mean squat. Much as the Athlon Barton XP being faster then the P4 Northwood clock for clock doesn't mean squat. If an architequres is designed to clock higher, and will do so, its faster, period.
That being said, I agree the Dothan is a very good chip, and is competive with the A64 in gaming benchmarks, but not in others, such as media creation, much the same as the P4 is dominates in some types of software over the A64. Intel would do well to bring it to the desktop and tweak it to its full potential.
I don't see any benchmarks in that link. The only time I've seen a Dothan constistantly beat a FX was when the Dothan was overclocked to the max and the FX wasn't overclocked at all. A Dothan is competive, but it doesn't beat an FX.
Finally, a National Review opinion that dares to criticize the establishment. And I thought all right wingers were goose stepping yes men to the president (see article). Nice to see a ditto head can break his mind free enough to disagree with Bush. We need more of these. Now if I could only convince my brother watching Fox News is like reading Pravda.
I wonder if Jobs could con her into doing an ad for him. That would be a coup. He could give her a choice of a hundred free songs off iTunes, or a free battery when hers goes dead.