The Itanium is one of the few good things to come out of Intel. x86 is inelegant and Intel knows it. Massive amounts of engineering effort goes into keeping x86 performing the best, and a more elegant RISCish CPU architecture such as the Itanium would require alot less to go alot further. Personally i hate AMD for extending x86 with AMD64, now the bilnd masses will be clinging onto x86 for many more years. Shame on AMD for their inelegant choice. Yeah yeah i know they're a company so it's socially acceptable for them to be brutally pratical to make money and not do nice things but it is unfair to reap the benefits of their raw praticality (teh monies!) and still be "allowed" to be immune to criticism of their lack of elegance. Intels marketing revolts me but i despise x86 and I'd like to have an Itanium but definately not an Athlon 64. And i wouldn't be seen dead with a Pentium 4. I won't get started on Netburst, suffice to say that even x86 looks elegant compared to it.
Ars seems to downplay the fact that IBM missed their 3 GHz target for the G5. More than that, they missed the laptop ready version of the G5, which some could argue is even more serious. People seem to want to blame Jobs or Apple's arrogance, but the point is, IBM hasn't been delivering. Results matter, and Apple's hardware is falling behind. Jobs is a smart guy to say, "we can't keep doing this" and he found a solution in Intel. I say, good for him. Now give me a laptop where two years of progress is noticeable.
IBM is not falling behind. Where's the 3Ghz G5 that we were promised you say? I say, where's the 4Ghz Pentium 4 that Intel had roadmapped for the end of 2004? It was canceled. Intel hasn't been delivering either. Using thier roadmap as an excuse just isn't good enough given their record. There were 10Ghz Pentium 4's on Intel's roadmap. Where are they? What if jobs had switched 2 years ago to Intel based on Intel's amazing 10Ghz roadmap?
"After today, I expect the travelling public will be more prepared to put up with a greater level of surveillance." Mr Stringer said.
I find it personally very disturbing how much people are willing to sell away their liberties for "security". We've all been to see Episode 3, but did we let its message get lost in the pretty effects? Better security could be gotten from not inflicting massive suffering on the world through plain wrong foreign policy.
So that have people in 15 years will talk nostalgically about having a last generation PPC machine like they do when someone talks about having an old Hemi car.
Hear hear!!! I'll be right there with my last generation PowerPC PowerMac, holding out as the last bastion of light against the x86 horde forever.
There's nothing here significantly stronger that what we've had for the last several months. Sure, dual core vs. dual G5 has benefits, but without a clock boost or anything else, it's not much more than packaging.
Most slashdotians don't allow you to say anything positive about the prequels. Apparently poor graphics and Deus ex Machina weaknesses in small moon sized objects are teh cool here.
You've twisted my words. Your comparison to a tree is wrong as this is a social thing and is completely different to a physical event such as a lightning strike.
Your extrapolation is taking what i said completely out of context. What i meant was if someone makes a large influential one off mistake in whatever environment, in that particular environment they will be less likely than most to make the same mistake, due to the large psychological impact the big mistake has had on them. I didn't take it any further than that. Ridiculous extrapolations can make any logic seem crazy.
She made a mistake, but now that she has she's much less likely to make that mistake again. She's the ideal person for the job. I seem to recall some story where the guy who invented the light bulb had a boy carry up to this place to be presented to whoever and he dropped it and it took months to remake. When it was remade the inventor let the same boy carry it, saying that that boy was the least likely person of all to drop the lightbulb now, after his previous mistake. People make mistakes. It happens. Blaming people for the sake of it is just childish. Things like this are just witch burnings, to satify the "outrage" of other people, who by the looks of it must have never made a mistake in their lives.
Far too often, after becoming the victim of a brilliant post in an argument, the target of this post will resort to nit picking his opponents spelling in a pathetic attempt to "win" the argument. People who correct spelling usually have nothing insightful to add to a discussion, and so lash out at others spelling in order to cover their own inadequacy. Arbitrary rules are not as important as what is being said.
"It also helps when I'm recommending a card to someone. If I tell them to get something ATI and their latest cards are the X800 I can tell them to get an X800. Its much easier than trying to explain to them "Oh, get the 7800GT, not the 7800LT" (or whatever their latest business-class card is for that generation) and less confusing when the clueless gamer (or the gamer's parents, which is more likely) goes to buy the card in question."
That's completely incorrect. ATI's naming of their "X" series is absolutely without doubt the most confusing naming series for graphics cards ever. Here are their current cards all called X8 something:
X850 XT PLATINUM EDITION
X850 XT
X800 PRO
X800 XL
X800 SE
X800 XT
X800 XT PLATINUM EDITION
I actually have no idea how these cards perform relative to each other. And I know the X800 SE is a crippled version of the series that you claim the clueless gamer might fall for. ATI is much more guilty of the naming crime than nVidia. I actually fully understand nVidia's naming scheme and can visualise each cards rough performance. Whoever thought of ATI's naming scheme should be shot.
I don't see how balancing is a problem at all. I wish everyone would just ignore completely the relative strengths and weaknesses of a class when choosing it, and just choose a class because it suits their personality or whatever. Basically choose ideologically if you know what i mean. But instead the "pro" (wow they're soooo cool!) players go off and all choose a class that in general may be better than others in whatever situation and the people who loose to them start crying because all everyone wants to be is the winner, the boy on top of the sandcatle. I remember when i first started playing online games I had great fun ever when loosing, which happened most of the time and still does, though I win sometimes (!), because I loved saying "well at least i fought hard and it was such an epic battle and what glory!" etc. I won sometimes and obviously felt great about those. But i was shocked the way nearly everyone else, with the exception of a few magnificent people, were all like "omg we're loosing lets surrender" or "this is so shit I'm joining their team". I really cannot understand how winning is the only way people get enjoyment out of the games. And i think, so what if an enemy mage/kingdom/team is really powerful, we'll go out there and throw ourselves into battle and not give up and give it our all. And we'll do loads of damage and the enemy will certainly have been worse off than they were before they faced our brave onslaught. And we'd tell tales of the battle and talk all day and night with our friends and it would be such fun!
Alas most people are but little boys who have to be on the winning team.
That's such a typical Linux users response. You say it's better and then when it's shown that it isn't you say "Oh well it's free so it's allowed to not work!" You're like the people who have endless betas so that they can't be given out to for having buggy code.
He should add Deus ex Machina to the list. Asides from one of two things i felt really relieved after reading this that i wasn't the only one to have experienced what he talks about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dates_in_Star_Wars/ It seems the gyst of Episode VII VIII and IX have already been laid down. Though i think alot of that information is from the expanded universe which often contradicts the Films.
"I used to be an avid opera user until I was hired by a company that does web development. I had to switch to firefox to evade ridicule."
I don't understand people like you. You changed browsers cause the people at work thought you should, even though you preferred your old browser. I would be proud to be using the system i think is the best for whatever reasons (ideological usually) and I cannot comprehend how you could so easily be beaten into submission. Are you not proud of who you are? You should let your colours shine!
"Overseas"? Something being made overseas in no way indicates its quality. I assume you are an American to have made such a statement. American's can make crap just like everyone else.
Sorry for my poor formatting of my post I'm quite new here....post was meant to read:
"Further, all the hand-wringing over the artist's "rights" is a crock. Untalented "artists" try to compensate for lack of talent with sensational special effects, gore, sex, etc. Most of them should study the classics (Citizen Caine, Casablanca, The Magnificant Seven, et al) and get a clue about what real artists do."
If you personally believe that untalented artists use "sensational special effects, gore, sex, etc." to compensate for their lack of talent then that is fine you don't have to see that content. But you should deprive others of the right to view it.
"Further, all the hand-wringing over the artist's "rights" is a crock. Untalented "artists" try to compensate for lack of talent with sensational special effects, gore, sex, etc. Most of them should study the classics (Citizen Caine, Casablanca, The Magnificant Seven, et al) and get a clue about what real artists do."
If you personally believe that untalented artists use "sensational special effects, gore, sex, etc." to compensate for their lack of talent then that is fine you don't have to see that content. But you should deprive others of the right to view it.
Hoping for 3d Acceleration support, though that's largely out of their hands. Other than that I think OpenBSD is pratically as usable as Linux, and considering the joys of the dependancyless ports tree, perhaps even more usable.
I use OpenBSD with GNOME as my main OS and surprisingly it's the only Open Source OS that supports my wireless card, although I have to use a nightly build as support only came after the last release. Wireless functionality is one of the main aims of the upcoming release and it certainly has gained OpenBSD at least one new user. (me!)
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The Itanium is one of the few good things to come out of Intel. x86 is inelegant and Intel knows it. Massive amounts of engineering effort goes into keeping x86 performing the best, and a more elegant RISCish CPU architecture such as the Itanium would require alot less to go alot further. Personally i hate AMD for extending x86 with AMD64, now the bilnd masses will be clinging onto x86 for many more years. Shame on AMD for their inelegant choice. Yeah yeah i know they're a company so it's socially acceptable for them to be brutally pratical to make money and not do nice things but it is unfair to reap the benefits of their raw praticality (teh monies!) and still be "allowed" to be immune to criticism of their lack of elegance. Intels marketing revolts me but i despise x86 and I'd like to have an Itanium but definately not an Athlon 64. And i wouldn't be seen dead with a Pentium 4. I won't get started on Netburst, suffice to say that even x86 looks elegant compared to it.
Ars seems to downplay the fact that IBM missed their 3 GHz target for the G5. More than that, they missed the laptop ready version of the G5, which some could argue is even more serious. People seem to want to blame Jobs or Apple's arrogance, but the point is, IBM hasn't been delivering. Results matter, and Apple's hardware is falling behind. Jobs is a smart guy to say, "we can't keep doing this" and he found a solution in Intel. I say, good for him. Now give me a laptop where two years of progress is noticeable.
IBM is not falling behind. Where's the 3Ghz G5 that we were promised you say? I say, where's the 4Ghz Pentium 4 that Intel had roadmapped for the end of 2004? It was canceled. Intel hasn't been delivering either. Using thier roadmap as an excuse just isn't good enough given their record. There were 10Ghz Pentium 4's on Intel's roadmap. Where are they? What if jobs had switched 2 years ago to Intel based on Intel's amazing 10Ghz roadmap?
"After today, I expect the travelling public will be more prepared to put up with a greater level of surveillance." Mr Stringer said.
I find it personally very disturbing how much people are willing to sell away their liberties for "security". We've all been to see Episode 3, but did we let its message get lost in the pretty effects? Better security could be gotten from not inflicting massive suffering on the world through plain wrong foreign policy.
So that have people in 15 years will talk nostalgically about having a last generation PPC machine like they do when someone talks about having an old Hemi car.
Hear hear!!! I'll be right there with my last generation PowerPC PowerMac, holding out as the last bastion of light against the x86 horde forever.
There's nothing here significantly stronger that what we've had for the last several months. Sure, dual core vs. dual G5 has benefits, but without a clock boost or anything else, it's not much more than packaging.
The L2 cache was doubled.
There was a 10Ghz Pentium 4 on Intels roadmap.
Most slashdotians don't allow you to say anything positive about the prequels. Apparently poor graphics and Deus ex Machina weaknesses in small moon sized objects are teh cool here.
You've twisted my words. Your comparison to a tree is wrong as this is a social thing and is completely different to a physical event such as a lightning strike.
Your extrapolation is taking what i said completely out of context. What i meant was if someone makes a large influential one off mistake in whatever environment, in that particular environment they will be less likely than most to make the same mistake, due to the large psychological impact the big mistake has had on them. I didn't take it any further than that. Ridiculous extrapolations can make any logic seem crazy.
She made a mistake, but now that she has she's much less likely to make that mistake again. She's the ideal person for the job. I seem to recall some story where the guy who invented the light bulb had a boy carry up to this place to be presented to whoever and he dropped it and it took months to remake. When it was remade the inventor let the same boy carry it, saying that that boy was the least likely person of all to drop the lightbulb now, after his previous mistake. People make mistakes. It happens. Blaming people for the sake of it is just childish. Things like this are just witch burnings, to satify the "outrage" of other people, who by the looks of it must have never made a mistake in their lives.
Far too often, after becoming the victim of a brilliant post in an argument, the target of this post will resort to nit picking his opponents spelling in a pathetic attempt to "win" the argument. People who correct spelling usually have nothing insightful to add to a discussion, and so lash out at others spelling in order to cover their own inadequacy. Arbitrary rules are not as important as what is being said.
"It also helps when I'm recommending a card to someone. If I tell them to get something ATI and their latest cards are the X800 I can tell them to get an X800. Its much easier than trying to explain to them "Oh, get the 7800GT, not the 7800LT" (or whatever their latest business-class card is for that generation) and less confusing when the clueless gamer (or the gamer's parents, which is more likely) goes to buy the card in question."
That's completely incorrect. ATI's naming of their "X" series is absolutely without doubt the most confusing naming series for graphics cards ever. Here are their current cards all called X8 something:
X850 XT PLATINUM EDITION
X850 XT
X800 PRO
X800 XL
X800 SE
X800 XT
X800 XT PLATINUM EDITION
I actually have no idea how these cards perform relative to each other. And I know the X800 SE is a crippled version of the series that you claim the clueless gamer might fall for. ATI is much more guilty of the naming crime than nVidia. I actually fully understand nVidia's naming scheme and can visualise each cards rough performance. Whoever thought of ATI's naming scheme should be shot.
I don't see how balancing is a problem at all. I wish everyone would just ignore completely the relative strengths and weaknesses of a class when choosing it, and just choose a class because it suits their personality or whatever. Basically choose ideologically if you know what i mean. But instead the "pro" (wow they're soooo cool!) players go off and all choose a class that in general may be better than others in whatever situation and the people who loose to them start crying because all everyone wants to be is the winner, the boy on top of the sandcatle. I remember when i first started playing online games I had great fun ever when loosing, which happened most of the time and still does, though I win sometimes (!), because I loved saying "well at least i fought hard and it was such an epic battle and what glory!" etc. I won sometimes and obviously felt great about those. But i was shocked the way nearly everyone else, with the exception of a few magnificent people, were all like "omg we're loosing lets surrender" or "this is so shit I'm joining their team". I really cannot understand how winning is the only way people get enjoyment out of the games. And i think, so what if an enemy mage/kingdom/team is really powerful, we'll go out there and throw ourselves into battle and not give up and give it our all. And we'll do loads of damage and the enemy will certainly have been worse off than they were before they faced our brave onslaught. And we'd tell tales of the battle and talk all day and night with our friends and it would be such fun!
Alas most people are but little boys who have to be on the winning team.
That's such a typical Linux users response. You say it's better and then when it's shown that it isn't you say "Oh well it's free so it's allowed to not work!" You're like the people who have endless betas so that they can't be given out to for having buggy code.
I wouldn't be seen dead with an Intel Mac. If they go down this road then I will desert them, and I'm a really devoted Mac fanboy.
He should add Deus ex Machina to the list. Asides from one of two things i felt really relieved after reading this that i wasn't the only one to have experienced what he talks about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dates_in_Star_Wars/ It seems the gyst of Episode VII VIII and IX have already been laid down. Though i think alot of that information is from the expanded universe which often contradicts the Films.
The shroud of the darkside has fallen!
"I used to be an avid opera user until I was hired by a company that does web development. I had to switch to firefox to evade ridicule."
I don't understand people like you. You changed browsers cause the people at work thought you should, even though you preferred your old browser. I would be proud to be using the system i think is the best for whatever reasons (ideological usually) and I cannot comprehend how you could so easily be beaten into submission. Are you not proud of who you are? You should let your colours shine!
"There was no clever plan by Gates & co. to screw IBM over, they simply benefitted from the tremendous inertia that IBM and the cloners had created."
Begun this clone war has!
"Overseas"? Something being made overseas in no way indicates its quality. I assume you are an American to have made such a statement. American's can make crap just like everyone else.
Sorry for my poor formatting of my post I'm quite new here....post was meant to read:
"Further, all the hand-wringing over the artist's "rights" is a crock. Untalented "artists" try to compensate for lack of talent with sensational special effects, gore, sex, etc. Most of them should study the classics (Citizen Caine, Casablanca, The Magnificant Seven, et al) and get a clue about what real artists do."
If you personally believe that untalented artists use "sensational special effects, gore, sex, etc." to compensate for their lack of talent then that is fine you don't have to see that content. But you should deprive others of the right to view it.
"Further, all the hand-wringing over the artist's "rights" is a crock. Untalented "artists" try to compensate for lack of talent with sensational special effects, gore, sex, etc. Most of them should study the classics (Citizen Caine, Casablanca, The Magnificant Seven, et al) and get a clue about what real artists do." If you personally believe that untalented artists use "sensational special effects, gore, sex, etc." to compensate for their lack of talent then that is fine you don't have to see that content. But you should deprive others of the right to view it.
Hoping for 3d Acceleration support, though that's largely out of their hands. Other than that I think OpenBSD is pratically as usable as Linux, and considering the joys of the dependancyless ports tree, perhaps even more usable. I use OpenBSD with GNOME as my main OS and surprisingly it's the only Open Source OS that supports my wireless card, although I have to use a nightly build as support only came after the last release. Wireless functionality is one of the main aims of the upcoming release and it certainly has gained OpenBSD at least one new user. (me!)
I'm a bit confused, is this a full os or does it run over linux/windows/whatever?