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  1. There's more to chip architecture than clock speed.  All in all, clock speed actually isn't that important at all.

     

    For example, an AMD Opteron running at 2.4GHz (with 32bit apps) can outperform Intel chips running at 3.6Ghz or higher in everything but video rendering.

     

    PA-RISC chips (HP) are only running at 1Ghz, but they kick the crap out of AMD, Intel AND Sun.

     

    Intel is going to have to solve its lack of scaling if it wants to compete in the server market.  High end servers need more than 4 CPUs.  I'd guess that Intel is at least a decade away from being able to provide that.

    CW

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    Granted, I am an Apple shill - but, since I follow the company very closely I have noticed that normally hostile mac people are really taking notice - in particular, their Xserve line. We just bought 16 of them at work for our own "super computer".

     

    Plus, they have some storage solutions that are getting noticed:

     

    http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/01/27/stakes/index.php

     

    this from a writer from InfoWorld....

  2. As an aside, I work in a mixed shop (some OSX, lotsa XP) and as a professional, I'd say XP is FAR easier to manage than OSX.

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    "Earthlink and WebRoot Software have completed a quarterly spyware audit, documenting the current malware plague:

     

    Results from the report, which tracked the growth of spyware on consumer PCs since the report's inception on January 1, 2004, show the instances of system monitors rose 230 percent, while the instances of Trojans rose 114 percent from October 2004 to December 2004. Trojans, keystroke loggers and system monitors are capable of capturing keystrokes, online screenshots, and personally identifiable information like your social security number, bank account numbers, logins and passwords, or credit card numbers. "

     

    http://finance.lycos.com/qc/news/story.aspx?story=46604321

  3. Yeah, I hate Bill Gates and the PC industry for driving competition and keeping prices low.  What a dick.

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    ???

     

    You might make that case for Dell, but I fail to see how MS is driving competition and keeping prices of anything low.... Perhaps in those markets they where they give away stuff to drive out competitors, but certainly not in the office suite or system software market.

  4. This is pretty messed up:

     

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml.../30/wgerm30.xml

     

    Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit. Last month German unemployment rose for the 11th consecutive month to 4.5 million, taking the number out of work to its highest since reunification in 1990.

  5. That may all be true, but you have to admit Steve Sabol is a genius. 

    I really think NFL Films a contributing factor in the NFL blowing away all of the other sports.  I mean, I'm only 24 and I have all 38 SB's pretty much memorized. 

     

    It's hard to put it into words.  There''s just something very powerful about the slowmotion footage of a players breath showing in the cold weather, the dirty jersey's, and that guy's voice.

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    that's true, but these last 10 or so are so arsty-fartsy that it makes me sick. I love the OLD NFL Films, because it was non-stop football with great commentary. Now, these SB films are more about the entire "experience" instead of the game.... Like I give a rat's ass that there were lobsters on the photographers cameras during the Pack/Pats game...

  6. I'm beginning to hate NFL Films and these productions. Minus commercials - these things are 25 minutes long and the recent ones (the last 10 years) contain about 5 minutes of actual football, broken down into 5 plays - each shown 10 times, all in slow-motion, and from different angles.

     

    The other 20 minutes are filled with crap shots of goofy fans, photographers, confetti, etc....

     

    It's almost as if they are embarrassed about showing their actual product.

  7. I'll step aside while the SDS ass-kissing goes on... But before I do, I'll say that Scott, you do have a point. So there. I said it. Then again, that "filter to know when to shut up" was broken on me as a small child. So it will be tough.

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    "ass-kissing" seems to be common accusation thrown around here, why I'm not sure, but I can safely assure you that no one is kissing my ass in this thread. Charles Manson could have posted that and received the same, if not better response.... :lol:

     

    Anyhow, I cut my 1st post short because I had to hit the road...

     

    Although it was said with sarcasm, the idea of starting a blog is EXACTLY why I bought the blog software. I was hoping it would have become more popular though.... Johnny Coli and Millbank get rave reviews for their stuff, so people are reading. It is an ideal place to for any poster to call their own and to really quench their creative thurst. Maybe this spring some of our more knowledgeable posters will start some quality sports related blogs....

  8. awwww... how sweet.

     

    Avoiding me is impossible? I started the thread jackass...

    But, really, it's sweet...

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    perhaps you both are correct?

     

    Clearly you have your own fan club and that shouldn't be. But, you also need to ask yourself why you have this club.

     

    It may not be that your posts are any lamer than mine or anyone else's, but perhaps a fresh look at the frequency vs. relevancy of your posts may be helpful.

     

    You have to think that everyone reading a thread has an opinion on what is being said - in addition to having original opinions on all sorts of topics. The trick is to pick and choose which ones to post and which ones to pass on, while keeping in mind that no one wants to see any individual - you, me, ICE, SpikedLemonade, or whomever - dominate the conversation.

     

    My 2 cents....

  9. I'm trying FireFox one more time. I think I actually like it this time. My questions is this. I have seen posts here before about speeding up the browser and fixing some settings. Can anyone give me some information on it?

     

    Thanks

     

    What's the downfall to this browser?

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    do a search in the archive.

     

    the downside is that some website coders may put IE specific crap ito their sites. They should be flogged.

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