Actually, if people could read and look at more
than the "Gee this is 600MHz and that's 700Mhz so
the 700MHz must be better" then they'll do fine.
The fact of the matter is Intel's speedstep sucks.
I DO NOT want a laptop that gets slower as soon as
it is unplugged. Transmeta's dynamic throttling approach is MUCH better. (And I've used both of them, the overall performance on the Crusoe is fine on my Vaio C1VN).
On the flip side supporting other architectures
has the potential to be a dream for developers. Imagine for a moment a Transmeta chip that can select what architecture to boot as and what HD to
load the OS from based on this... It could be the ultimate low-budget testing environment... test
x86, Sparc, PPC, and Alpha on the same box =)
Of course they'll probably never do this, but I
can dream...
This is the same company... and I read the book too... they've been going to release a commercial product for years... basically this comes under the heading of I'll believe it when I actually see them available for sale somewhere... they seem to get an article on the technology printed every year or so and never deliver anything...
I wish there was more info on this, as I have a
Sony C1VN and it seems to be doing fine (with the
exception that X doesn't work yet, but that's being worked on...)
And I guess that he got half a million dollars as
his bail because they had no idea who he was?
But that wasn't my point. My point is that in
any situation where it comes down to a civilian's
word against a cop in a court of law, the cop will
come out the winner, every time, no questions asked. And this is from personal experience, not
from 2600's website.
I also have a friend that's a cop and another that's an EMT and they'll both tell you the same
thing.
Hope you wake up and join the rest of us in the real world sometime soon.
Am I the only one that realizes that they have maybe a 30% return from a state when the polls close? In other words, THIS COVERAGE IS BULLSHIT.
YOU CAN NOT CALL A STATE BEFORE THE VOTES ARE
ACTUALLY TALLIED. Don't believe me? Then what was up with Florida?
I personally hope Gore did win California as
I have no desire to live in a christian theocracy,
but it's just too damn early to tell.
Yup, if you can get the mpeg 2 encoded files off
the box by ethernet it will be more than worth
the $299... It will let me get all those degrading
video cassettes I have around into a nice stable
digital format =)
Basically if you can do this it gives me one of
the components I was going to build custom for a
home digital archiving system for audio/video.
(And considering the vid card I was looking at was
$250 it'll save me some cash too...)
But what REALLY isn't being taken into account
is that the benchmark suites run everything ONCE... but the Transmeta chip gets faster with
subsequent runs...
According to something else I read (sorry no link on this one) performance improves an average
of 30% on subsequent runs... so take the benchmarks with a grain of salt.
Interesting... I've got the logitech keyboard/mouse wireless combo both at home and at
work and I haven't had this problem... Well, ok, I've had it once at home but it was when the batteries on the mouse were going...
Basically the logitech combo is one of the nicest things I've worked with... I actually bought my own for work...
Just buy a switch with a VGA for the video and don't use it. I got a 2 way KVM switch with VGA for the vid... Keyboard and mouse work fine and I have the display routed to a Sony G400 with the video switch built in... no problems, everything works, and I think the switch was like $20 or $30 at CompUSA...
Anybody know if they got Xinerama support straightened out before release?
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Unfortunately the idiot is stating that an OS
is not a kernel and a shell... so basically by his
definition unless it's a gui with productivity apps it's not an OS.
From the article:
"An operating system is the software that comes with a computer (or OS distribution) that programmers and users need to make themselves productive."
Basically this is idiotic bullshit so that
he can crow that OS X is an OS but unix is not.
Apparently you no longer have to know ANYTHING
about computer science to write OS articles.
I was under the impression that Sony has always
used the term i.Link. At least that's what's been
on every Sony product I've looked at that had the
connector.
Amen. This is sort of what the x86 compatibility
layer on the Alphas did under NT... It translated
the instructions and stored them, then on each reload it optimized them further and restored
them, so the apps actually got faster. Unfortunately with the Crusoe you lose all the
translations when you shut down.
Hell, on a 12
gig drive under linux I'd be willing to give up
a gig to store optimized translations. Ah well...
Well, Sony's usually retail at about the same
price as on the Sony website, which is $2299.00.
I still want to see some real battery life figures. If I can get 8 hours on the double life
battery (hell, even 6...) I may buy one of these...
Ummm, remember this is a third party selling hardware that is NOT being supplied by the manufacturer in this country... Thus there is a
fairly large mark-up... Hell, look at the Libretto
on the same site.. if I recall it's a pentium 266
and is going for like $2700....
Now look at the Sony Picturebook being provided
by the manufacturer in this country.. $2299...
Oh, and I wouldn't hold my breath for the LOOX to
be sold in this country... but that's just MHO...
And add to this the fact that GNUstep won't compile under the egcs-compat system either...
basically those of us playing with GNUstep may
not be adopting RH 7 real soon unless some problems get fixed...
Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. In 2001 coverage will be in 3 cities as a test.. deployment of increased bandwidth is so slow it
makes me sick... and that's wired as well as wireless...
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Yup, old media is becoming useless =)
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Well, I don't remember the last time I watched news on TV... I can hit the net and get updated
coverage of pretty much anything, at any time...
The one exception is the daily newspaper, as there isn't as much info about local news online
I've also noticed that I care less and less about the magazines I subscribe to as time goes on... some of the developer mags (Java Developers Journal comes to mind) have content that's worth reading, but even Linux Journal feels dated when I get the new issue in the mail... the articles are usually good, but anything covering 'news' (ie new releases of software etc. etc.) I already knew about weeks before getting the magazine... this is an inherent limitation of magazine format print media...
And for the record I'm 28 so what demographic does that put me in in this study, Jon?
Yup, a no-brainer for the brainless... unfortunately, clock cycle for clock cycle, the P4 is actually slower than the P3, which is slower than the Athlon... there's a price for that 20 stage pipeline...
Very nice... now how about some price comparisons:
IBM 20GB 75 GXP $136
IBM 60GB 75 GXP $417
Seagate 18.4GB X15 $482
(figures from pricewatch)
So that's over 3x the capacity for LESS THAN the
same price... SCSI rocks if money is no object,
but it'll still be a while before I build a PC
with it...
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On the flip side supporting other architectures has the potential to be a dream for developers. Imagine for a moment a Transmeta chip that can select what architecture to boot as and what HD to load the OS from based on this... It could be the ultimate low-budget testing environment... test x86, Sparc, PPC, and Alpha on the same box =)
Of course they'll probably never do this, but I can dream...
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But that wasn't my point. My point is that in any situation where it comes down to a civilian's word against a cop in a court of law, the cop will come out the winner, every time, no questions asked. And this is from personal experience, not from 2600's website.
I also have a friend that's a cop and another that's an EMT and they'll both tell you the same thing.
Hope you wake up and join the rest of us in the real world sometime soon.
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I personally hope Gore did win California as I have no desire to live in a christian theocracy, but it's just too damn early to tell.
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Basically if you can do this it gives me one of the components I was going to build custom for a home digital archiving system for audio/video. (And considering the vid card I was looking at was $250 it'll save me some cash too...)
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But what REALLY isn't being taken into account is that the benchmark suites run everything ONCE... but the Transmeta chip gets faster with subsequent runs...
Check this article on Wired for more info.
According to something else I read (sorry no link on this one) performance improves an average of 30% on subsequent runs... so take the benchmarks with a grain of salt.
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Basically the logitech combo is one of the nicest things I've worked with... I actually bought my own for work...
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From the article:
"An operating system is the software that comes with a computer (or OS distribution) that programmers and users need to make themselves productive."
Basically this is idiotic bullshit so that he can crow that OS X is an OS but unix is not.
Apparently you no longer have to know ANYTHING about computer science to write OS articles.
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Hell, on a 12 gig drive under linux I'd be willing to give up a gig to store optimized translations. Ah well...
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Now look at the Sony Picturebook being provided by the manufacturer in this country.. $2299... Oh, and I wouldn't hold my breath for the LOOX to be sold in this country... but that's just MHO...
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And add to this the fact that GNUstep won't compile under the egcs-compat system either... basically those of us playing with GNUstep may not be adopting RH 7 real soon unless some problems get fixed...
hmmm.... there's actually a specific computer Goodwill here in Pittsburgh PA and they take all kinds of stuff...
in fact they recently got a donation of something like 50 Sun IPCs and IPXs... I've even see old HP Apollos in there...
Of course I have no idea if Goodwill has these stores anywhere else in the country....
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Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. In 2001 coverage will be in 3 cities as a test.. deployment of increased bandwidth is so slow it makes me sick... and that's wired as well as wireless...
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Well, I don't remember the last time I watched news on TV... I can hit the net and get updated coverage of pretty much anything, at any time... The one exception is the daily newspaper, as there isn't as much info about local news online
I've also noticed that I care less and less about the magazines I subscribe to as time goes on... some of the developer mags (Java Developers Journal comes to mind) have content that's worth reading, but even Linux Journal feels dated when I get the new issue in the mail... the articles are usually good, but anything covering 'news' (ie new releases of software etc. etc.) I already knew about weeks before getting the magazine... this is an inherent limitation of magazine format print media...
And for the record I'm 28 so what demographic does that put me in in this study, Jon?
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Yup, a no-brainer for the brainless... unfortunately, clock cycle for clock cycle, the P4 is actually slower than the P3, which is slower than the Athlon... there's a price for that 20 stage pipeline...
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Very nice... now how about some price comparisons:
IBM 20GB 75 GXP $136
IBM 60GB 75 GXP $417
Seagate 18.4GB X15 $482
(figures from pricewatch)
So that's over 3x the capacity for LESS THAN the
same price... SCSI rocks if money is no object,
but it'll still be a while before I build a PC
with it...
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Never used it myself... but is that only on AIX? How about Linux, Solaris, HP-UX?
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