As Jon noted in the book and elsewhere, AMD wasn't forthcoming with tech docs.
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The review doesn't mention this, so I thought I would since I know many Slashdot readers also read Ars, but may have missed this.
If you buy the book from Ars, shipping is free almost anywhere on earth (if the USPS
ships there, so can we). Yes, we charge more than Amazon, but it's a good deal if you want to support Ars. We also include a free year of access to the Ars PDF Library, and we'll
also be giving our customers a free copy of the digital edition when it's available later this year.
We did confirm it, or so we thought we did. The e-mail delivery problem is there, if you choose to call it a problem. Mail sent to JoeSixpack will arrive at Joe.Sixpack,
provided that those two GAs are not 2004-era accounts registered to different people. Some people think it's a feature, some don't.
As for the accounts mix-up, it looks as though it matters when you registered your account. As you can see from the/. discussion, a number of people ran in to GA accounts when
the service was still young. Now it won't let you register accounts with only a "." as a differentiator. It appears Google has fixed that aspect, but they are still delivering e-mail with the periods stipped out, which is how this was noticed in the first place.
As you can see from my coverage here, Intel isn't hinging support for Blu-ray on Managed Copy support. They're going to have to support it either way. Rather, Intel is trying to get the two parties together again to talk about unification, but they're stressing the importance of managed copy to the whole discussion.
Ars doesn't get "Slashdotted," nor have we for years (if you're talking about the site going down). We're quite capable of handling the load (so long as we don't happen to have beta code in at the moment;), so could you kindly stop ripping our content with our permission? If the site was going down that would be one thing, but it's not right now, and it doesn't normally.
No, the entire article is there. See the little "Next" link at the bottom of he page? Click it. It takes you to the next page (amazing, no?). If you do this 20 more times or so, you can read the entire article.
As we noted over at Ars, Sybari doesn't make an AV engine. Their main product allows customers to plug in AV engines developed by other companies, and in fact can support multiple engines at once.
Of course, MS does have their own engine now, which they bought back in 2003.
The general idea isn't so much to compete with Intel in the North American market as much as it is to undercut them massively in Asia and Latin America. You may recall that AMD killed the Duron line in 2002 only to bring it back later for sales in China (sales that they consider to be strong, and also great for branding).
Well, people have seen it running at E3. How they split the screen is not yet clear, but the key seems to be in the "software load balancer" that they are using. To me, this implies that the drivers don't see data to pass on to the cards to process before the "software" component. So, in that sense, the cards could be ignorant.
PCI-Express does support this, as did AGP. However, those technologies do not include the ability to split the same screen in half and load balance the performance. That is what Alienware is contributing. That is "new," in the sense that this methodology has not been done before (SLI was alternating scan lines).
E3 is on this week. E3 is dominated by product announcements, including products that won't see the light of day for years. So, the "vapor" aspect of it is what pretty much what happens at most of the trade shows. By that measure, half of the news out this week is "vapor." Sure, some people might blow smoke and tell you about the performance stats, but we all know that when the products actually ship, their "performance stats" will probably have changed as well.
So, you have the press release to go on. And as you noted, I threw up a flag of caution. I didn't call "vapor" on it, however, because as I noted, they are saying Q3 and Q4 for VA and X2, which seems awfully soon to be pimping vapor. I also happen to know that this is in fact happening, so I didn't feel obliged to cast aspersions on it.
From the PR, it's rather clear to me that this is a single-monitor solution. It's also likely the case that this is not just a PCI-Express matter. Call me old fashioned, but Alienware says that they have patent-pending technology, and while I would usually take the language for marketing drivel, I have no reason not to trust Alienware on this matter. In fact, they have tried this before, but the underlying technology just wasn't doable.
Jon Jannotti wrote a technical article on this over at Ars a few years ago, if anyone's interested in more information about the project and its techniques. Sorry for the shameless plug, but what can I say but that I love Rome:)
Did you bother to read the article? The whole point is that the device is not expensive at all when compared to what else you can get in the smaller storage capacity market for that price.
At the very least, it's competatively priced, and given the iTunes support and the superior UI, it's probably a no-brainer for anyone looking in that general price range.
Nope, but then they didn't modify the source to our copyrighted pages, either. Slashcache surely didn't do it on purpose, but the caching process broke the ad code. For all I know, maybe our code isn't all that portable, who knows.
In any case, I've talked to Jared, the man behind Slashcache, and he was exceedingly cool about the whole thing.
Did you happen to get permission to host that article from Ars? I don't think so. I never gave that permission, nor did the author.
I know what you're doing is with good intentions, but our server is running just fine, and what you're essentially doing is hurting our business because mirroring this document without our permissions removes our ability to see important stats about the article's readers. We kinda need that info if we're going to continue to provide free content.
Yes, I would've thought that one would want a different sell-approach to the IT professional crowd, but the sad (*and strange) fact of the matter is that the glitzy, big booths get all of the attention.
I talked to a few random people (I was going to compile an interview), and I've comer to realize that many of the suits are true busines-types: that is, they gague the success of something by its outward appearance. This is to say that some of the people I talked to assumed that Linux was still small and minor, mostly because the Linux pavillion was small and minor.
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As Jon noted in the book and elsewhere, AMD wasn't forthcoming with tech docs.
The review doesn't mention this, so I thought I would since I know many Slashdot readers also read Ars, but may have missed this.
If you buy the book from Ars, shipping is free almost anywhere on earth (if the USPS ships there, so can we). Yes, we charge more than Amazon, but it's a good deal if you want to support Ars. We also include a free year of access to the Ars PDF Library, and we'll also be giving our customers a free copy of the digital edition when it's available later this year.
No, they are different stories on related topics.
We did confirm it, or so we thought we did. The e-mail delivery problem is there, if you choose to call it a problem. Mail sent to JoeSixpack will arrive at Joe.Sixpack, provided that those two GAs are not 2004-era accounts registered to different people. Some people think it's a feature, some don't.
As for the accounts mix-up, it looks as though it matters when you registered your account. As you can see from the /. discussion, a number of people ran in to GA accounts when
the service was still young. Now it won't let you register accounts with only a "." as a differentiator. It appears Google has fixed that aspect, but they are still delivering e-mail with the periods stipped out, which is how this was noticed in the first place.
A clarification is needed.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051004-538
As you can see from my coverage here, Intel isn't hinging support for Blu-ray on Managed Copy support. They're going to have to support it either way. Rather, Intel is trying to get the two parties together again to talk about unification, but they're stressing the importance of managed copy to the whole discussion.
Ars doesn't get "Slashdotted," nor have we for years (if you're talking about the site going down). We're quite capable of handling the load (so long as we don't happen to have beta code in at the moment ;), so could you kindly stop ripping our content with our permission? If the site was going down that would be one thing, but it's not right now, and it doesn't normally.
No, the entire article is there. See the little "Next" link at the bottom of he page? Click it. It takes you to the next page (amazing, no?). If you do this 20 more times or so, you can read the entire article.
I'm pretty sure the dancing 7-Up guy was first. Either that, or the letter that mails itself. Two. Amazing. Classics. ;)
As we noted over at Ars, Sybari doesn't make an AV engine. Their main product allows customers to plug in AV engines developed by other companies, and in fact can support multiple engines at once.
Of course, MS does have their own engine now, which they bought back in 2003.
The general idea isn't so much to compete with Intel in the North American market as much as it is to undercut them massively in Asia and Latin America. You may recall that AMD killed the Duron line in 2002 only to bring it back later for sales in China (sales that they consider to be strong, and also great for branding).
Well, people have seen it running at E3. How they split the screen is not yet clear, but the key seems to be in the "software load balancer" that they are using. To me, this implies that the drivers don't see data to pass on to the cards to process before the "software" component. So, in that sense, the cards could be ignorant.
PCI-Express does support this, as did AGP. However, those technologies do not include the ability to split the same screen in half and load balance the performance. That is what Alienware is contributing. That is "new," in the sense that this methodology has not been done before (SLI was alternating scan lines).
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1084398037.html
It splits the screen in half. Alienware claims a ~50% boost.
No, please check the story again.
This is two cards working to draw one screen by splitting the workload in half.
E3 is on this week. E3 is dominated by product announcements, including products that won't see the light of day for years. So, the "vapor" aspect of it is what pretty much what happens at most of the trade shows. By that measure, half of the news out this week is "vapor." Sure, some people might blow smoke and tell you about the performance stats, but we all know that when the products actually ship, their "performance stats" will probably have changed as well.
So, you have the press release to go on. And as you noted, I threw up a flag of caution. I didn't call "vapor" on it, however, because as I noted, they are saying Q3 and Q4 for VA and X2, which seems awfully soon to be pimping vapor. I also happen to know that this is in fact happening, so I didn't feel obliged to cast aspersions on it.
From the PR, it's rather clear to me that this is a single-monitor solution. It's also likely the case that this is not just a PCI-Express matter. Call me old fashioned, but Alienware says that they have patent-pending technology, and while I would usually take the language for marketing drivel, I have no reason not to trust Alienware on this matter. In fact, they have tried this before, but the underlying technology just wasn't doable.
And now it's official: Apple has denied the report.
From our coverage at Ars, it's not entirely clear that these reports are true. Just a week ago Jobs said that all of these rumors were false.
Jon Jannotti wrote a technical article on this over at Ars a few years ago, if anyone's interested in more information about the project and its techniques. Sorry for the shameless plug, but what can I say but that I love Rome :)
Did you bother to read the article? The whole point is that the device is not expensive at all when compared to what else you can get in the smaller storage capacity market for that price.
At the very least, it's competatively priced, and given the iTunes support and the superior UI, it's probably a no-brainer for anyone looking in that general price range.
It'll survive, but I'm not sure I will when the next bill comes ;)
Nope, but then they didn't modify the source to our copyrighted pages, either. Slashcache surely didn't do it on purpose, but the caching process broke the ad code. For all I know, maybe our code isn't all that portable, who knows.
In any case, I've talked to Jared, the man behind Slashcache, and he was exceedingly cool about the whole thing.
Did you happen to get permission to host that article from Ars? I don't think so. I never gave that permission, nor did the author.
I know what you're doing is with good intentions, but our server is running just fine, and what you're essentially doing is hurting our business because mirroring this document without our permissions removes our ability to see important stats about the article's readers. We kinda need that info if we're going to continue to provide free content.
Yes, I would've thought that one would want a different sell-approach to the IT professional crowd, but the sad (*and strange) fact of the matter is that the glitzy, big booths get all of the attention.
I talked to a few random people (I was going to compile an interview), and I've comer to realize that many of the suits are true busines-types: that is, they gague the success of something by its outward appearance. This is to say that some of the people I talked to assumed that Linux was still small and minor, mostly because the Linux pavillion was small and minor.
Short-sighted, I know.