This is tax on innovation. EU, and all its members can't compete with big US software companies, so they developed this devious way to take away their profit and give it to their own, in a hope they'll catch up.
The Google's doubleclick and Microsoft's Windows Media Player are just means to get the money, the reason was stated above.
...and this comes from company that kept Pentium 4 5+ years on market? Then they didn't care for how much power that monster consume and how little it gives in return. The pwoer of marketing, theme is just different, it is not GHz, it is greenHz.
I was debating between Q6600 (2.4GHz, 4 cores) and E6700 (2.67GHz, 2 cores), and I have chosen second option, because of limited advantage of more cores, but always present advantage of higher clock speed.
No great improvements in speed in next few yrs.. remember the Pentium 4 stagnation (never gone to 4GHz, didn't release more than one model in 6 months, etc.)
And of course.. 4 core CPU has no use at homes unless you are content creator. I'm software engineer, I don't think that any of my colleagues I work with knows how to write app that will take advantage of 2 cores; let alone 4.
Conclusion? 4 cores right now need much software support.
Because here in Iowa we pay $60/mo for cable internet - it is about 5mbps down/512kbps up. Only major cable ISP is Mediacom, there are few others reduced to apartment complex or two.
...and pretty much most of US office workers. The Internet Explorer is corporate choice. Although I have local admin account, the "remove firefox" script runs daily. There's not much workaround it, most of corporate intranets do not work with anything but Internet Explorer - mostly because authentication issues.
So this should be taken into consideration, IE share at home might be lower than statistics show.
Most use Taiwan TSMC, UMC and others. Can't AMD just start to operate like these two? Offer high end fabs for anybody who has need? And why would anybody buy AMD's fabs when they are hardly a good investment due to high price.
Yes, makers don't bother to put anything but 16.7mil colors in specs. 8-bit panels are recognized by wider viewing angle (176-178 degrees), or by looking up at the LCD databases that contain mapping model to particular panel.
Indeed. Sadly, 3.0GHz Athlon 64 X2 is as fast as 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo. Maybe better for 64-bit apps, that are still nowhere.
However, intel was not desperate when they high-clocked Pentium 4, they simply decided that marketing ploy is more important than performance is.
It takes years to develop something like Core 2 Duo, AMD qill of course manage to produce something faster per clock than C2D, but not today when they need it.
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This is tax on innovation. EU, and all its members can't compete with big US software companies, so they developed this devious way to take away their profit and give it to their own, in a hope they'll catch up.
The Google's doubleclick and Microsoft's Windows Media Player are just means to get the money, the reason was stated above.
...and this comes from company that kept Pentium 4 5+ years on market? Then they didn't care for how much power that monster consume and how little it gives in return. The pwoer of marketing, theme is just different, it is not GHz, it is greenHz.
When did we got casted out from USA?
NetBeans font don't look worse than any other; it is simply using Java fonts, and I tend to like their anti-aliased fonts.
NetBeans beats Elcipse in UI development like 100:0
AppArmor isn't ubuntu's design to link to Ubuntu package. It is Novell's software, and like should have given them credit.
Instead, we have again Ubuntu users claiming everything and not doing anything but copying (yes I know GNU)
Fortune 150. There is Fortune 500, and Fortune 1000.
I was debating between Q6600 (2.4GHz, 4 cores) and E6700 (2.67GHz, 2 cores), and I have chosen second option, because of limited advantage of more cores, but always present advantage of higher clock speed.
No great improvements in speed in next few yrs .. remember the Pentium 4 stagnation (never gone to 4GHz, didn't release more than one model in 6 months, etc.)
And of course.. 4 core CPU has no use at homes unless you are content creator. I'm software engineer, I don't think that any of my colleagues I work with knows how to write app that will take advantage of 2 cores; let alone 4.
Conclusion? 4 cores right now need much software support.
Linux this, Linux that...
Linux is marginal (abysmal market share), let's talk about Windows, I propose one week without Linux on front page.
Because here in Iowa we pay $60/mo for cable internet - it is about 5mbps down/512kbps up. Only major cable ISP is Mediacom, there are few others reduced to apartment complex or two.
...but who is going to back up AMD? AMD asks for 1.5 billion
64-bit operating systems are being used for years now, still you can't port Flash to 64 bit.
TN panels=garbage that is dominating the marketplace.
Zillion:1 fake contrast ratio, viewing angles 160/160 (yeah right) and other marketing junk to hide the truth: TN is low end.
...and pretty much most of US office workers. The Internet Explorer is corporate choice. Although I have local admin account, the "remove firefox" script runs daily. There's not much workaround it, most of corporate intranets do not work with anything but Internet Explorer - mostly because authentication issues.
So this should be taken into consideration, IE share at home might be lower than statistics show.
Most use Taiwan TSMC, UMC and others. Can't AMD just start to operate like these two? Offer high end fabs for anybody who has need? And why would anybody buy AMD's fabs when they are hardly a good investment due to high price.
Yes, makers don't bother to put anything but 16.7mil colors in specs. 8-bit panels are recognized by wider viewing angle (176-178 degrees), or by looking up at the LCD databases that contain mapping model to particular panel.
I go the third (I hope so).
Why would you? It is already barely visible as is.
I used all three and I range them in other direction. Perhaps you don't have fast enough disk or CPU for Vista?
Do ubuntu zealots use default brown 'diarrhea' theme?
http://www.ubuntu.com/files/u3/desktop-tn.png Looks more like broken toilet than a desktop to me.
I pay $200 /semester for computer use. And all I use is their bandwidth.
.... on Chinese products.
So there's no big domestic player than can compete with the Chinese for hi-tech product that is not yet on the market?
Indeed. Sadly, 3.0GHz Athlon 64 X2 is as fast as 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo. Maybe better for 64-bit apps, that are still nowhere.
However, intel was not desperate when they high-clocked Pentium 4, they simply decided that marketing ploy is more important than performance is.
It takes years to develop something like Core 2 Duo, AMD qill of course manage to produce something faster per clock than C2D, but not today when they need it.
AMD is throwing itself and ATi in the pit, so nVIDIA can buy them both, as originally planned.
Windows 2000!
...and any XP driver will work there.
Everything just flies on it...
In other words, Microsoft OS from 1999 is still actual.