Geez guys did any of you bother to READ any of these articles? The x1000 series are manufactured on a 90 nm process, the g70 was on 11 nm, and the g71-g73 are in 90 nm. And since the g71 has 30 million LESS transistors than the g70, it's a heck of an accomplishment. Now if only I could get some MXM modules of one of those cards for under 150$...
True, it's just a search engine, but with today's ever increasing reliance on digital data archival & transfer, organizing it into a coherent, searchable database is an awesome goal, from which we might reap so far unheard of progress.
Your example is a little biased... On a 1599$ machine, what are the odds the CPU alone will goble out 65% of the overall cost? High-end GPUs cost rougly 599$, those machines will seel with 1 or 2 Gygs of RAM (130-300$), a good motherboard (90-200$), etc. Add in SLI or Crossfire, the required mobo, and your 30$ suddenly looks quite unimportant
"If Matt Groening had any brains, he would avoid Fox like the plague."
So basically you're saying the creator of The Simpsons, one of the longest running, most glorious, funniest shows ever, and of Futurama as well, is dumb? I don't understand how you got modded insightful.
Their contract with Boies, Schiller & Flexner apparently has a large share of the trial's wins as remuneration, but I agree with the parent, M$ or someone else is paying their bills or giving them money or something, cuz SCO's "core business" is dwindling!
Not only is it vaporware at this point, this is a clear case where prior art exists... Audiogalaxy anyone? I'm sure there are other examples out there too.
Makes me think of a prank that I did while high school that was the most random thing ever. My friend and I photocopied pictures of hardcore gay porn and put it up on car's windshields on a couple of streets. Then in the morning we watched people's reactions from a roof with binoculars... Priceless!
Seriously... HotHardware's review just *suck*. Nothing about chipset performance, USB/firewire/ethernet throughput, no HD video playback, a bunch of cookie-cutter test suites every wannabe-1337 site uses... Do yourselves a pleasure, visit the techreport or anandtech instead!!!
Not to disagree completely, but the bundled wifi apps are really useful for older OS's that don't have native wif support... And there are still LOTS of ppl out there using w9x/2k...
What's interesting is to study the repartition of IQs on the normal curve. Men are more represented at both extremes than females. Practical IQ is also quite different from theoretical IQ. IQ as itself is useless, but when you know about the other variables and the different ways to take them into account, it can get revealing and interesting. For instance , my "theoretical language IQ" is around 160, but my "practical social skills IQ" is much lower, maybe 90? Comorbidity is also interesting to look at.
"(and who will end up being thier bosses later on)"
Somehow, I am the boss now, well in my department at least, and I was playing all sorts of computer games durin g boring lecture in college and then in university. Got an 88% average... Every now and then I'd also use the web for what is was meant to do: information retrieval. Hyperlinks are more fun than turning pages, and almost as easy to use!
I'm a pretty weird case: I smoke socially, maybe 10-15 cigarettes per month only in clubs and when drinking. I've been doing that for 10 years, and I never started smoking or felt like smoking a cigarette outside of that setting... My father smokes 2-3 cigarettes a day, my brother smokes 2-3 packs a week, and my other brother smokes like me... Moderation in everything is more important than banning it outright.
One is DDR, the other DDR2. The pentium 4's 800mhz bus is shared and since the memory controller is off the CPU, the throughput is much lower than on the athlon 64. And the performance difference between ddr ram at cas 2 and cas 3 is small, 5-7% at most at 1T, and we're comparing apples and oranges here.
From the tone of the article, the focus was on desktop/workstation usage, not server apps. So apart from Apple, the only real lack is actually the pentium m and celeron m cpus, especially the celeron m: they're the same as the "genuine" pentum m but far, far cheaper without the performance caveats of regular celeron ds.
(or Government for that matter) Here a government is developping a clone of a drug because they can't get it cheaply/fast/in sufficient quantities for their needs. I agree with you that enterprises should not be allowed to profit from a copy of someone else's pattent, but here the Taiwanese government is trying to protect its citizens, not make dinero off a drug. Big difference!
Remember... English is the bastard child of Celtic, Latin, and various other Germanic languages.
Yeah especially since celtic and latin are not very germanic languages, they're more along the lines of french, spansh, romanian, italian, etc.
I just tried firefox and mozilla, both with the prefbar extension. When selecting to hide the browser and appear as IE, the site works flawlessly. Looks like their compatibility checks are pretty limited...
5u113n
"But if you're dumping windows, you no longer have a need for those games."
Then why was Wine created? Why are many Linux afficionados still dual booting with windows? Certainly not because they need the calculator or windows media player (tm). Your analogy would be akin to saying that a driver who resorts to walking to go somewhere will never need his car again. I can't understand how you got modded to 4, interesting for such a worthless comparison.
"Or is this another one of those wacky European loopholes?"
Geez man patent & trademark law is MUCH better in Europe. For one, they don't have software patents (yet?). In America works are protected for 105 years after the death of the author, which kinda *sux* compared to canadian or european legislations. Now if you had been talking about the wacky loopholes in asian countries, then I woul've concurred:-)
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Geez guys did any of you bother to READ any of these articles? The x1000 series are manufactured on a 90 nm process, the g70 was on 11 nm, and the g71-g73 are in 90 nm. And since the g71 has 30 million LESS transistors than the g70, it's a heck of an accomplishment. Now if only I could get some MXM modules of one of those cards for under 150$...
As if it hadn't been tried before... People don't care.
French. With ladies, you want to be speaking French, not Russian or Japanese.
Actually I think f it's succesfull, the industry might ignore it, hoping to make it go away. "If I can't see it it's not a threat" kind of attitude...
True, it's just a search engine, but with today's ever increasing reliance on digital data archival & transfer, organizing it into a coherent, searchable database is an awesome goal, from which we might reap so far unheard of progress.
Your example is a little biased... On a 1599$ machine, what are the odds the CPU alone will goble out 65% of the overall cost? High-end GPUs cost rougly 599$, those machines will seel with 1 or 2 Gygs of RAM (130-300$), a good motherboard (90-200$), etc. Add in SLI or Crossfire, the required mobo, and your 30$ suddenly looks quite unimportant
"If Matt Groening had any brains, he would avoid Fox like the plague." So basically you're saying the creator of The Simpsons, one of the longest running, most glorious, funniest shows ever, and of Futurama as well, is dumb? I don't understand how you got modded insightful.
Their contract with Boies, Schiller & Flexner apparently has a large share of the trial's wins as remuneration, but I agree with the parent, M$ or someone else is paying their bills or giving them money or something, cuz SCO's "core business" is dwindling!
Not only is it vaporware at this point, this is a clear case where prior art exists... Audiogalaxy anyone? I'm sure there are other examples out there too.
Makes me think of a prank that I did while high school that was the most random thing ever. My friend and I photocopied pictures of hardcore gay porn and put it up on car's windshields on a couple of streets. Then in the morning we watched people's reactions from a roof with binoculars... Priceless!
Seriously... HotHardware's review just *suck*. Nothing about chipset performance, USB/firewire/ethernet throughput, no HD video playback, a bunch of cookie-cutter test suites every wannabe-1337 site uses... Do yourselves a pleasure, visit the techreport or anandtech instead!!!
Medeocrity?
Not to disagree completely, but the bundled wifi apps are really useful for older OS's that don't have native wif support... And there are still LOTS of ppl out there using w9x/2k...
What's interesting is to study the repartition of IQs on the normal curve. Men are more represented at both extremes than females. Practical IQ is also quite different from theoretical IQ. IQ as itself is useless, but when you know about the other variables and the different ways to take them into account, it can get revealing and interesting. For instance , my "theoretical language IQ" is around 160, but my "practical social skills IQ" is much lower, maybe 90? Comorbidity is also interesting to look at.
NVidia sells their PureVideo for $20, so the fact that ATI offers something better for FREE is pretty interesting, IMHO.
"(and who will end up being thier bosses later on)"
Somehow, I am the boss now, well in my department at least, and I was playing all sorts of computer games durin g boring lecture in college and then in university. Got an 88% average... Every now and then I'd also use the web for what is was meant to do: information retrieval. Hyperlinks are more fun than turning pages, and almost as easy to use!
I'm a pretty weird case: I smoke socially, maybe 10-15 cigarettes per month only in clubs and when drinking. I've been doing that for 10 years, and I never started smoking or felt like smoking a cigarette outside of that setting... My father smokes 2-3 cigarettes a day, my brother smokes 2-3 packs a week, and my other brother smokes like me... Moderation in everything is more important than banning it outright.
"The poster must be Quebecois." And you are probably from the ROC(Rest Of Canada). Get a life.
One is DDR, the other DDR2. The pentium 4's 800mhz bus is shared and since the memory controller is off the CPU, the throughput is much lower than on the athlon 64. And the performance difference between ddr ram at cas 2 and cas 3 is small, 5-7% at most at 1T, and we're comparing apples and oranges here.
From the tone of the article, the focus was on desktop/workstation usage, not server apps. So apart from Apple, the only real lack is actually the pentium m and celeron m cpus, especially the celeron m: they're the same as the "genuine" pentum m but far, far cheaper without the performance caveats of regular celeron ds.
(or Government for that matter)
Here a government is developping a clone of a drug because they can't get it cheaply/fast/in sufficient quantities for their needs. I agree with you that enterprises should not be allowed to profit from a copy of someone else's pattent, but here the Taiwanese government is trying to protect its citizens, not make dinero off a drug. Big difference!
Remember... English is the bastard child of Celtic, Latin, and various other Germanic languages. Yeah especially since celtic and latin are not very germanic languages, they're more along the lines of french, spansh, romanian, italian, etc.
I just tried firefox and mozilla, both with the prefbar extension. When selecting to hide the browser and appear as IE, the site works flawlessly. Looks like their compatibility checks are pretty limited... 5u113n
"But if you're dumping windows, you no longer have a need for those games." Then why was Wine created? Why are many Linux afficionados still dual booting with windows? Certainly not because they need the calculator or windows media player (tm). Your analogy would be akin to saying that a driver who resorts to walking to go somewhere will never need his car again. I can't understand how you got modded to 4, interesting for such a worthless comparison.
"Or is this another one of those wacky European loopholes?"
:-)
Geez man patent & trademark law is MUCH better in Europe. For one, they don't have software patents (yet?). In America works are protected for 105 years after the death of the author, which kinda *sux* compared to canadian or european legislations. Now if you had been talking about the wacky loopholes in asian countries, then I woul've concurred