2 Words... "That sucks". When I pay for a game, I don't want a recurring charge for whenever I need a new car. The whole point of the game is to race to get virtual money to buy a car. Look for a gameshark cheat near you!
Yes, now I can finally buy that former naval fighter I've always wanted! Hey, just make sure you don't sell to terrorists, because the last thing I want to see in a headline is "Terrorist F-14 attacks onlookers at BinLaden meeting".
But only if they let your Dell, Apple, or [perhaps] IBM laptop on the plane with a battery. Otherwise, I'd call this a good idea. Just make it available in Economy Plus, and include it as a courtisy feature...
How much will this new generation of cards cost? I'm all for more power, because 2Ghz just doesn't cut it anymore, but I'm not willing to shell out much more for the card then I would for the CPU. I paid $200 CDN for my AMD3200+ a year ago, so that means that I'd expect at least dual core performence from a videocard that cost me the same amount now. I have a 7900GTX in my system (which cost a fucking fortune!) because I like to do high performence gaming (Transgaming, fix your damn Cedega so I can play on my dual monitor setup! Nothing runs unless I kill X and go with one moniter, which I hate). The only problem is that my CPU isn't on the same level as my video card. The card can render the game fine, but the CPU lags a bit on the AI and other functions. If only the PhyX worked with linux, and didn't have a loud fan.
The HyperTransport protocol only calls for 8GB/s across the bus (I can't recall if thats one direction, or if thats the bidirectional speed). Which means that with SLi (4GB/s bidirectional on each PCIE 16X slot) you're already using all the HyperTransport space. So, I'm wondering, exactly how much more power do people expect to get from these cards. They have half the bandwidth of your CPU, so if your NB is your bottleneck, it's gonna throttle performence even more. The nice thing about AMD CPUs over Intel (flame wars, START!) is that the memory controller is integrated onto the CPU die, which means that the AMD CPU doesn't have to use the FSB (NB) to get to RAM, which means you could use the entire 8GB/s of HT for these purposes. So, if I want to spend $200 on a new card, how much extra performence would I get? Come on ATi, I'm talking a straight comparison.
Example: $200 card will get me the equiv. of a dual core 2.5Ghz 64bit CPU.
Will the CPU be able to access the superfast DDR3/4 of the video card? Or is that reserved for the video card's calculations, whether it be for gaming or processing.
For the love of all things good, please make this thing quiet!
I'm not very up-to-date on this topic, but would someone please explain to me why there is such a sudden need for this legislation? Has MJ started putting videos of him molesting little boys onto YouTube, and the Bush administration is out to catch whoever looks at it? I'd like to know more about how they plan to analyze the data, and decide who goes to a secret CIA prision, and who doesn't. Perhaps it will be based on how much money you gave the Republican Party last election. I don't know, I'm all for stopping pedophiles, but I don't really trust the government to capture and handle the data in the appropriate manner. I think I'd rather have my freedoms and not have the nanny state watching my evermove to ensure that I don't do anything they wouldn't want. Oh no, that might include going to Cuba on my non-American passport! The less freedoms Bush revokes the better off we'll all be in 2009. The next thing you know, the government will be siding with the big corporations, and we'll all have to pay outragious amounts of money to look at/. because Net Neutrality got shot by *** Cheney. This is like the Australian bill to ban all pornography sites unless the user specifies otherwise. I don't need the government making my decisions, I'm capable enough to do that myself.
So this is the nice shiny iMac that I've known about since late July when I got a tour of NVidia HQ and then never saw [that lovely, white, monster of an iMac] anything.;P
I don't have 4GB of RAM. Either you mis-interpreted, or I explained it wrong. Set your swap to the maximum capacity of your computer's motherboard and BIOS. (ie. How many sticks of RAM you can put into the slots on your motherboard. How much the BIOS will accept.) That way, even if you stock the computer with as much RAM as it'll hold, you'll have an equal amount of swap. I have 2GB of RAM, and 4GB of swap. I do run out of 2GB of RAM, often. It happens when you run a dual display setup, with 2 20 tab firefox windows open, thunderbird for email, aMSN for chatting, GIMP for photo editing, xmms, and you don't quit any of those applicaitons when you play windows games through emulation.
Example:
My motherboard, Biostar TForce939, has 4 DDR400 RAM slots (for a total capacity of 4GB, of either unbuffered or ECC DDR400 RAM). For the past 7 months, I've been running on a single 1GB Corsair value select stick of RAM, yet I had 4GB of swap. Then I bought a Corsair XMS 2GB kit (2 matched 1GB sticks), so that I'd have double the bandwidth to memory (see Dual Channel). This was to improve poor performence in games, and to speed up overall system performence. The memory bandwidth (as measured by memtest86) went from 1500MB/s to over 3000MB/s, which is a 2x increase. It did speed things up, considerably.
The wikipedia article is almost correct. The one thing I'd like to point out is that AMD has for a long time, integrated the memory controller into the CPU. This way there would only be one memory controller, since Intel CPUs use a memory controller in the chipset. This means the CPU can directly access the memory, without having to go though the Front Side Bus (FSB).
I did not know that WinRAR was shareware. I use the UnRar.exe included with the WinRAR installation on my Linux machine (with wine) to do all my decompression. The included Ubuntu tool doesn't seem to decompress.rar archives, although it will open it be default, then complain about not being able to decompresss. It works quite well, although I don't use it for backups. If you want something easy to use, perhaps you should consider k3b. I find it'll do almost anything, except that it doesn't burn dual layer DVDs yet... which I find annoying, given that the technology has been out for so long. Of course you're part of the majority, and thus need a Windows Application, so sorry, I can't help. Maybe try something less proprietary?
I have a Corsair XMS 2GB kit in my AMD64... The motherboard can hold 4GB. I have 4GB Swap. Set swap to whatever the maximum capacity of your computer is, and you'll be fine. I use swap all the time, even with 2GB, Ubuntu dual head + wine + windows games + firefox 40 tabs + thunderbird + amsn + xosview + gimp, eat up a lot of RAM. So yeah, 2GB isn't enough. Someone send me 4!
(Excuse the obvious trolling) People don't get the GP2X cause it sucks. It has almost no 3D accel to speak of, and it looks like it came out of the late 80's. I had some portable Sega thing that was about as good as this thing is. (End trolling) If you need something little than runs linux, look into a Zaurus PDA.
This is all well and good, but Slashdot's already gotten my hopes up once by saying that Futurama's returning, then beaten me to a bloody pulp when I find out it isn't really true! I'd like to actually see some episodes to prove it. You still have Zoidburg, you all still have Zoidburg!
The people around that laptop are very forntunate. All batteries used in modern laptops use Lithium Ion batteries. Now Lithium Ion, or Li-Ion (as it shall now be reffered to) is considered safe technology. However, there are exceptions to this. If a Li-Ion is shorted, overcharged, charged at too high a rate, or discharged below the minimum voltage (3V per cell) it can explode. I should rephrase that, it wont explode in the conventional sense, what it will do it burst into intese flame quite quickly. This flame is very dangerous. Because lithium is very reactive, the flame is several thousand degress F. Normal methods of extinguishing this flame don't tend to work well, and you can forget the old 'throw the glass of water on it and get on with life' solution, because it wont work. Most laptops (again, I am generalizing) have a 12V battery. This means that the battery contains 3 Li-Ion cells. Each cell runs at 3.7-4.2V. If the battery is abused (overcharged, undercharged, damaged, swelling, etc.) it can easily become a safety hazard. This is why you should always handle damaged or defective Li-Ion batteries with care. If one of those cells becomes unstable, and starts to flame, the plastic membrane of the other cells doesn't stand a chance, those other cells are gonna go up too. This is why the witness heard several explosions. I'm actually surprised that the table didn't receive more damage.
If you want to dispose of a damaged or defective Li-Ion/Li-Po battery, you must:
1) Discharge the battery to the minimum voltage per cell
2) Puncture the membrane around the cell. (remove any labels or covering. Wear eye protection!)
3) Submerge compelety in salt water. (Make sure the water is really salty. Infact, put salt in until the water doesn't absorb anymore. You don't ever want to put a lithium battery in fresh water!!! The lithium in the battery reacts with fresh water, and you will have a reaction much like an explosion.)
4) Leave in the water for at least a few hours (6+) a day to be sure.
This is an unfair comparison. The benchmarkers are using a Socket 939 FX-60, which uses the older, slower DDR RAM. If they really wanted to compare the next generation CPUs, they'd get a FX-62 Socket AM2 (940 pin) CPU, and test it with the same DDR2 RAM that was used in the intel test system. I think they'd find AMD would be able to match the performence of the Conroe platform.
Thinking is...
400/667
0.599 = 60%
That means that the DDR RAM is only 60% as fast as the DDR2 RAM they're using, and will only pass 60% as much data. (Assuming that they're Dual Channeling)
This is a great idea, because of course everyone lives in a multi-million dollar mansion, and can afford 20 computers. And as if that wasn't enough to dampen your attitude, think about how must anti-virus support for those machines must cost. The runner up of the Pimp My House contest was the home that ran off that Alienware PC! Unfortunately, Chuck Norris heard how badass the house was, and had to round house kick it. The Qual SLi rendered the resulting distruction perfectly...
I don't see why this is anything new. I've been using Mandriva 2006 on my home PCs for almost 6 months now! I'm running 2006 x86_64 (recently I've moved over to Unbuntu), and 2006 Cooker on my i686. Mandriva is a nice attempt at a distrobution. Although I find that they don't generally have as stable and well maintained software as other distro's I've used. However, Ubuntu is perfect in almost every way. When it installed, it even came with a chipset driver, which Mandriva didn't. Now this may not seem like a big deal, but when you're running an nForce4 chipset, you realise how crummy it is to recompile your Video/chipset driver everytime you use a different kernel.
I'd like to know what he's smoking. Apple will never do that for several reasons...
1) It would require LOTS of modification to Mac OS X, more than they're willing to do.
2) Windows XP will become obsolete (sorry... MORE obsolete) once Vista is out, so why bother?
3) They'd get their guts sued out by Microsoft over some patent infringement B.S.
4) It would open the flood gates for viruses to run on Mac OS X. If Mac OS X can run.exe's, it can run viruses.
5) It's a stupid idea... this is coming from the guy who said Apple should make OS X open source. He's nuts! If Apple did that, they wouldn't be able to make any money off OS X sales! I had 10.1 on my iBook, and I paid for 10.2, and 10.3. That's approx. $260 Apple got off of me for OS upgrades. Then I got a PowerBook, and gave the iBook what it deserved, a 20ft drop onto solid concrete!
eSATA seems to be the new buzz word in computing these days. The only problem is, that you're forced to use USB 2.0 or Ethernet to access the drive because very few motherboards are equipped with eSATA connectors. eSATA connectors have the same pins at the regular SATA connectors, but have different male and female connectors. Thus, although it may seem convient, if you really want to get full performence out of the drive, you'll have to buy one of the few motherboards that sports an eSATA port.
Also, mentioned in the article... the SATA bus boasts a wonderful 3Gb/s (or 300MB/s). This however, is not the bottle neck when it comes to performence. As the article mentions, the top SATA drives on the market today only get about 85MB/s read/write to the disk. So although you may get 300MB/s from the disk cache, and the controller, you'll never really get 300MB/s. Still, it's miles from Ultra-ATA.
Why is the UK government spending so much money on a supercomputer? Why don't they just buy 100 xBox 360's. Microsoft claims the overall system performence is 1 teraflop!
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I don't know, are they?
2 Words... "That sucks". When I pay for a game, I don't want a recurring charge for whenever I need a new car. The whole point of the game is to race to get virtual money to buy a car. Look for a gameshark cheat near you!
Yes, now I can finally buy that former naval fighter I've always wanted! Hey, just make sure you don't sell to terrorists, because the last thing I want to see in a headline is "Terrorist F-14 attacks onlookers at BinLaden meeting".
But only if they let your Dell, Apple, or [perhaps] IBM laptop on the plane with a battery. Otherwise, I'd call this a good idea. Just make it available in Economy Plus, and include it as a courtisy feature...
You haven't noticed yet, but your head is up your ass.
I can think of another 'cool' idea. How about learning the proper use of the Engrish language?
The HyperTransport protocol only calls for 8GB/s across the bus (I can't recall if thats one direction, or if thats the bidirectional speed). Which means that with SLi (4GB/s bidirectional on each PCIE 16X slot) you're already using all the HyperTransport space. So, I'm wondering, exactly how much more power do people expect to get from these cards. They have half the bandwidth of your CPU, so if your NB is your bottleneck, it's gonna throttle performence even more. The nice thing about AMD CPUs over Intel (flame wars, START!) is that the memory controller is integrated onto the CPU die, which means that the AMD CPU doesn't have to use the FSB (NB) to get to RAM, which means you could use the entire 8GB/s of HT for these purposes. So, if I want to spend $200 on a new card, how much extra performence would I get? Come on ATi, I'm talking a straight comparison.
Example: $200 card will get me the equiv. of a dual core 2.5Ghz 64bit CPU.
Will the CPU be able to access the superfast DDR3/4 of the video card? Or is that reserved for the video card's calculations, whether it be for gaming or processing.
For the love of all things good, please make this thing quiet!
I'm not very up-to-date on this topic, but would someone please explain to me why there is such a sudden need for this legislation? Has MJ started putting videos of him molesting little boys onto YouTube, and the Bush administration is out to catch whoever looks at it? I'd like to know more about how they plan to analyze the data, and decide who goes to a secret CIA prision, and who doesn't. Perhaps it will be based on how much money you gave the Republican Party last election. I don't know, I'm all for stopping pedophiles, but I don't really trust the government to capture and handle the data in the appropriate manner. I think I'd rather have my freedoms and not have the nanny state watching my evermove to ensure that I don't do anything they wouldn't want. Oh no, that might include going to Cuba on my non-American passport! The less freedoms Bush revokes the better off we'll all be in 2009. The next thing you know, the government will be siding with the big corporations, and we'll all have to pay outragious amounts of money to look at /. because Net Neutrality got shot by *** Cheney. This is like the Australian bill to ban all pornography sites unless the user specifies otherwise. I don't need the government making my decisions, I'm capable enough to do that myself.
Vobcopy, deploy!
So this is the nice shiny iMac that I've known about since late July when I got a tour of NVidia HQ and then never saw [that lovely, white, monster of an iMac] anything. ;P
Example: My motherboard, Biostar TForce939, has 4 DDR400 RAM slots (for a total capacity of 4GB, of either unbuffered or ECC DDR400 RAM). For the past 7 months, I've been running on a single 1GB Corsair value select stick of RAM, yet I had 4GB of swap. Then I bought a Corsair XMS 2GB kit (2 matched 1GB sticks), so that I'd have double the bandwidth to memory (see Dual Channel). This was to improve poor performence in games, and to speed up overall system performence. The memory bandwidth (as measured by memtest86) went from 1500MB/s to over 3000MB/s, which is a 2x increase. It did speed things up, considerably.
The wikipedia article is almost correct. The one thing I'd like to point out is that AMD has for a long time, integrated the memory controller into the CPU. This way there would only be one memory controller, since Intel CPUs use a memory controller in the chipset. This means the CPU can directly access the memory, without having to go though the Front Side Bus (FSB).
--End rambling.
Now how's that for irony?
I have a Corsair XMS 2GB kit in my AMD64... The motherboard can hold 4GB. I have 4GB Swap. Set swap to whatever the maximum capacity of your computer is, and you'll be fine. I use swap all the time, even with 2GB, Ubuntu dual head + wine + windows games + firefox 40 tabs + thunderbird + amsn + xosview + gimp, eat up a lot of RAM. So yeah, 2GB isn't enough. Someone send me 4!
Yes, no more fear of AIDS! Hippies unite!
Why would the US, which measures things in imperial units, be measuring the amount of contaminated ground water in liters?
That's just my 2 pence...
(Excuse the obvious trolling) People don't get the GP2X cause it sucks. It has almost no 3D accel to speak of, and it looks like it came out of the late 80's. I had some portable Sega thing that was about as good as this thing is. (End trolling) If you need something little than runs linux, look into a Zaurus PDA.
I say itsha about tyme people started learning to spell the simple waysh!
This is all well and good, but Slashdot's already gotten my hopes up once by saying that Futurama's returning, then beaten me to a bloody pulp when I find out it isn't really true! I'd like to actually see some episodes to prove it. You still have Zoidburg, you all still have Zoidburg!
If you want to dispose of a damaged or defective Li-Ion/Li-Po battery, you must:
1) Discharge the battery to the minimum voltage per cell
2) Puncture the membrane around the cell. (remove any labels or covering. Wear eye protection!)
3) Submerge compelety in salt water. (Make sure the water is really salty. Infact, put salt in until the water doesn't absorb anymore. You don't ever want to put a lithium battery in fresh water!!! The lithium in the battery reacts with fresh water, and you will have a reaction much like an explosion.)
4) Leave in the water for at least a few hours (6+) a day to be sure.
5) Throw away in normal garbage.
Thinking is...
400/667
0.599 = 60%
That means that the DDR RAM is only 60% as fast as the DDR2 RAM they're using, and will only pass 60% as much data. (Assuming that they're Dual Channeling)
This is a great idea, because of course everyone lives in a multi-million dollar mansion, and can afford 20 computers. And as if that wasn't enough to dampen your attitude, think about how must anti-virus support for those machines must cost. The runner up of the Pimp My House contest was the home that ran off that Alienware PC! Unfortunately, Chuck Norris heard how badass the house was, and had to round house kick it. The Qual SLi rendered the resulting distruction perfectly...
I don't see why this is anything new. I've been using Mandriva 2006 on my home PCs for almost 6 months now! I'm running 2006 x86_64 (recently I've moved over to Unbuntu), and 2006 Cooker on my i686. Mandriva is a nice attempt at a distrobution. Although I find that they don't generally have as stable and well maintained software as other distro's I've used. However, Ubuntu is perfect in almost every way. When it installed, it even came with a chipset driver, which Mandriva didn't. Now this may not seem like a big deal, but when you're running an nForce4 chipset, you realise how crummy it is to recompile your Video/chipset driver everytime you use a different kernel.
1) It would require LOTS of modification to Mac OS X, more than they're willing to do.
2) Windows XP will become obsolete (sorry... MORE obsolete) once Vista is out, so why bother?
3) They'd get their guts sued out by Microsoft over some patent infringement B.S.
4) It would open the flood gates for viruses to run on Mac OS X. If Mac OS X can run .exe's, it can run viruses.
5) It's a stupid idea... this is coming from the guy who said Apple should make OS X open source. He's nuts! If Apple did that, they wouldn't be able to make any money off OS X sales! I had 10.1 on my iBook, and I paid for 10.2, and 10.3. That's approx. $260 Apple got off of me for OS upgrades. Then I got a PowerBook, and gave the iBook what it deserved, a 20ft drop onto solid concrete!
And that's all I came up with.
Also, mentioned in the article... the SATA bus boasts a wonderful 3Gb/s (or 300MB/s). This however, is not the bottle neck when it comes to performence. As the article mentions, the top SATA drives on the market today only get about 85MB/s read/write to the disk. So although you may get 300MB/s from the disk cache, and the controller, you'll never really get 300MB/s. Still, it's miles from Ultra-ATA.
Why is the UK government spending so much money on a supercomputer? Why don't they just buy 100 xBox 360's. Microsoft claims the overall system performence is 1 teraflop!