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jj
April 1 appears to be an ideal date to reveal entries. :)
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Chris
Well, the article you linked to did not indicate that. Guess both articles are just putting rumours to paper [er, screen] without even trying to put it into any context. Insofar, I don't put much weight on it.
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IDC: 2005 PC outlook still growing, but weaker
http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/itspending/story/0,10801,100588,00.html
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Chris
Didn't the very same source say mobo shipments sinificantly up sequentially recently?
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Keith
Depends who you listen to. Andi never said anything else than just "2005".
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Keith
Naah, chipsets are on critical path (in terms of timeline). :)
E.g. Napa (Calistoga) has planned volume availability early next year. But then, Intel can still launch Yonah in Q3... they certainly will find couple of platform samples for reviewers.
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Keith
Blowing smoke. Neither of mentioned silicon is on critical path. Chipsets are.
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Phil
Well. Here is the part of the expectations AMD chooses to fulfill currently:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8825,00.html?redir=CPPL02
Considering x46HE models have been launched in February last year, not enough to make me sing and dance today. I'd at least expected x42EE models as well after thirteen months and by this reconfirming AMD is able to make the Turion ML envelope.
I've been critizised for being sceptical about MT recently - now I am inclined to put a questionmark behind ML envelope as well.
OTOH, I could think of good business reasons to introduce newer EE product some weeks after HE. So I leave it with just a questionmark. :)
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Keith many thanks <eom>
Keith
Strange. I have seen claims the issue is limited to higher performance systems. Can you confirm?
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Keith
Is that for all Desktop-models or for AMD-based products only?
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bobs
SMB Small and Medium Business segment.
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upndown
AMD a while ago tried to use files from a european case in the U.S. - unsuccessfully.
In case Intel is stupid enough to fight FTC in Japan (which I don't believe it is) AMD and others would have a good chance to successfully sue Intel in Japan after a ruling. However, we would only know what comes out of it in couple of years.
I guess Intel will play it the Japanese way in Japan.
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aleph
Good article. I completely agree. Sun's grid model imo is bull for the same simple reason: People don't buy this way.
Not to say grid computing is not a way to go. It's just neither its technology nor its business models are advanced enough to make it a viable business currently.
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wbmw
Seems like a lot of hot air to me, BWDIK...?
Well, you are around long enough to remember Jerry, right? :)
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Rolling AMD Calendar
Thursday, February 24, 2005
AMD Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert J. Rivet will present at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium at 3:30 p.m. MT (5:30 p.m. ET) on Thursday, February 24, 2005 in Phoenix, Arizona.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~94746,00.html
AAMMDD
Thanks for the pointer. Do you happen to know what kind of Flash they use for the handsets, in particuar is there a slot proviced for removable flash cards?
Tx
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OT neye eve
No argument. Although I am not really willing to sort out dozens of offers out first and then read through all of the rest to find some relevant "information" and then again spend time again to separate husks from grain.
Except when I am in treasury hunt mood and allow myself an hour of surfing starting from there.
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NaS
Frankly, when it comes to a game-rig I am completely incompetent to give any educated advise.
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DURL
This was my first theory as well. However, the priest-friend is firm in Theophrastus sources, and neither he not anybody else found the aphorism in his texts. But then, for other text, Jean proved to be a lousy translator. Could be he either had a source nobody else ever had from Theophrastus or he just misinterpreted sourcetext.
But in the context he made the statement it could be well his own aphorism: Basically he was working out brillantly stringent the mechanisms to systematically deceit and exploit the people. He was amused about it - and he dealt quite pragmatic with it, using his knowledge for his financial prosperity. But then, he was obviously plagued by scruples as well, from his description of the misery he was well aware to cause. There is where the tragedy begins.
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sgolds
I belong to the school which says don't deploy MS software until SP1.
Schools teaching that are worth their salt. You got company :)
Actually, (running W2K in my company client and server) and XPSP2 on one notebook, I am very close to get rid of XP after evaluationg it for a little bit more than a year now. The reason is i ran into an Windows-Installer error couple of months ago which is known and addressed in the knowledge base. Problem is none of the solutions suggested works. MS-Support finally admitted there are such cases and blamed the hardware for it. (needless to say, after fooling me around for couple of hours). Set the system up from scratch then. You guessed it: It happened again.
As soon as I find the hours to set it up again, I will. W2K.
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neye eve
It's a translation from the french source of Jean de La Bruyère
(1645 - 1696), that's why Google does not find it easily.
If you dig deeper in the internet using other engines, maybe the best you can expect to find is the quote "Live is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel" attributed to Oscar Wilde. I don't know if he ever said this. If so, he misunderstood the original quote - admittedly a mistake easy to make, considering the language code Catholics used in the 17th century is hard to read and even harder to translate.
Btw a fried who is priest today translated it into german, I did the german english part.
Hth.
While we are at it OT, I might add that I am getting more and more frustrated when I ask a question (here and elsewhere in the net) and instead of an answer get a lecture of how to google it. In many cases it is very helpful to look things up in the net (although google in particular is probably the worst possible approach to it). But in many, if not most cases, internet-content brought up by search enginges is nothing less than a very huge pile of common errors, misperceptions and public myths. At least this applies for the sparse oasis in the desert of my knowledge. I am not saying there is only rubbish posted. But to find a good answer to a problem I still prefer asking people in their field of excellence (which you demonstrated to prefer as well, cautiously stating you aready tried googling it probably for the reason above), or if I don't have access to these use a library. Online or offline.
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fpg
I can well imagine it can be done the way you suggest. And I share your opinion about the timeline of MS supporting the model deliberately. The latter being the reason of my thoughts how you could it make work without being dependent on MS.
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sgolds
Not quite. It will come free for Server clients. On the client side, the OEM version can be bundled with everything - even with a 2.95 Dollar cable. Basically, you can expect to get the code at irrelevant cost. However, no support from MS will be provided with it.
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Alloycon
Until now, neither Intel nor AMD have disclosed how virtualization will be deployed on hardware-level. Maybe it's all just smoke and mirror. Just in case they get serious with it, what I could imagine is swapping systems by hybernating one system and wake up the other within seconds. If RAM is cheap enough, it could be suspend to RAM (really fast) otherwise it is suspend to disk. Or system and app to RAM and data to disk, in case you want to share data across systems - which would require a data partition accessible by all systems.
However, app would be run in its own environment.
Not that I would expect it to be working as advertised in the first attempts, but I would expect it to sell systems. There is a broad public discussion (although as usual not on an educated level) about using Open Source apps in particular in public administration. These chaps need to buy this stuff to ease this discussion with the argument they are preparing for a migration path already by means of virtualization technology.
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mmoy
I agree. However if you get a second Linux partition set up with everything working preinstalled when you buy a system there is no headache.
Bottom line, just make it easy enough and you can count me in as soon as it is available at irrelevant cost for the next purchase. I would actually consider it as a value proposition compelling enough to drive an upgrade cycle. Probably more compelling than Win64. Switching between OS within few seconds assumed.
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mmoy
Ok. So you just upgraded the beta with RC1 i assume. Now it all makes sense. :)
Talking about dual boot, I could imagine this virtualization thing could become a real threat for Microsoft in the longer run. People having the ability to switch OS with a keystroke might want to use the feature and try Linux on a partition. More important, enterprises have a feasible (although not really seamless) migration path to change horses over couple of years. To whatever. Any Linux or Solaris.
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mmoy
Does the client type influence tpc-c?
Btw HP used the same configuration in its earlier submissions as well.
Given HPQ used the same platform as for earlier submissions as well, it would appear the CPUs used are more likely 130nm than 90nm. I did not find any specification of it in the submission though.
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mmoy
Are you saying you upgraded your production system to RC1
Or was it just a test, as "test disk" would imply?
Assume you did it from XP Pro?
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Phil
While I treated migrations differently (dual boot policy) I agree in W2K to be the most preferable OS. Neither encountered a better one before (since the early 80ies) nor thereafter.
Once in a while, these Redmont guys hit a bulls eye. I have one notebook running XP (on AMD64). For good. Prevents me from any idea to make a silly OS-move for my company.
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sgolds
Don't forget Win-64 is an OEM OS only.
MS does _not_ provide an upgrade option for the very same reason it does _not_ release retail versions of the OS.
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p.s: How do you like running this restaurant? U still doing the kitchen?
doug
I think Chipguy is relatively indolent on this part. Better save your salt for the Itanium wound. :)
On a more serious note, I appreciate his last man standing attitude fighting for a Zombie from a puristic architecture standpoint. I consider it as a religious matter, in this respect I am ultimatively tolerant for any ideology - in particular if it is as harmless as a comp.arch-philosophy.
Apart from that, whenever questions arise in his field of excellence, he is always willing to share his knowledge.
Nuff lancet breaking for now, so we can continue to talk serious BS again. :)
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Excellent Cell-Primer from David Wang
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT021005084318
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Smallpops
The HPC community as well as the Supercomputer family are well beyond Linpack for years already. The latter is just a rudiment they keep on the storefront for TOP500-publicity and the like.
As soon the public will be educated enough to understand what these numbers really mean and what not this will change. I don't expect this to happen during my lifetime.
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Phil
1. Yes
2. No
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Joe,
Well, I don't see anything wrong in the article. Maybe it does not tell the whole story, but I would not know of any article that did so, anyway. Mike is experienced enough just to write up the parts of his information his audience is prepared to receive.
If he did not restrict his articles in this respect - oh boy, then we could talk of incomprehensiveness.
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doug
Yesterday buggi pointed rightly out in an email there will likely be 130nm versions of X52 (for older platforms), while there can are 90nm flavours as well. Now that looks neither black nor white, but gray. It's everybody's choice to paint it light or dark.
Same could apply for FX55 as well.
And I did certainly not intend to get on anybody in any way. Let alone Keithish.
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