AMD's had its chips

Subject: Western Digital launches 320GB

Dear newsdesk,

is it possible when describing storage capacity to include pirated DivX movie capacity? From my collection (2300+ titles) I roughly estimated that 1Gb storage can hold 90 minutes of quality (as content, not as picture) movies. It is very useful when you are on the move constantly.

Todorov

Subject: Microsoft slammed for badmouthing benchmark; Nick White's incolence..

Ehehe.. That was great!!

The fast-motion video gave me a laugh too.. - I mean, c'mon Nick, the 'execution speed' IS EXACTLY relative to cpu performance - as-per-resource-availability - this, directly relative to how much 'resource' the OS has left it to use!

Ehehaahah!! Dum***..

Wouldn't mind sharing thizz in letters!

Locc

Subject: AMD L3 bug

Same darn L3 bug that existed in ALL AMD mp capables, starting with k7

No, they never fixed it, they discounted it due to where it was showing up: concurrent 16bit and 32bit FP operations incorrectly flagging good cache data as bad. And that wasn't the only problem with L3. Some of them they didn't have a clue where they were coming from, and the policy was to hush-hush.

So, no, it surprises me not, AMD has cache problems. Apparently they are getting worse due to thier chosen design path.

You know as well as I do that Intel also hit critical design problems with their NetBurst, only AMD has not the capacity to Intel it's way out of it.

Robert B

Subject: Billion

"A British billion is different from an American billion. But it is still alot of zeroes."

No it isn't! They're both 1000,000,000.

And they have been taught that way in school for decades!

Martin Richards

Subject: Google / Solar conspiracy theory !
... or not.

Just noticed that as part of Google's "Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal " initiative one of the companies they're pimping is eSolar for their solar thermal solution. I recalled that eSolar is a sister company to Energy Innovations who have been working on advanced concentrating Solar PV for years and both live under the Idealab umbrella and then I remembered that Energy Innovations also has a commercial Solar PV installation arm using current off-the-shelf PV kit, EI Solutions, which somewhat coincidentally recently completed Google's 1.6 MW solar PV system.

I keep trying to inflate this into some giant conspiracy involving teams of EI Solution's ninja solar installers infiltrating the Googleplex under cover of lunch to plant glowing reports about eSolar on Sergey and Larry's desks or nobble the opposition but its far more likely that they just like eSolar's approach ... <sigh>. Then again having EI Solutions on site maybe got the eSolar boys 5 minutes in front of the Google chaps and it went from there ?

Roj

Green stuff from the G'Plex : http://www.goo gle.com/corporate/green/energy/
eSolar's not terribly informative web site : http://www.esolar.com/
EI Solutions web site : http://www.eispv.com
Energy Innovations FAQ page mentioning both eSolar and EI Solutions : http://www.energyinn ovations.com/faq/
Idealab umbrella corp. : http://www.idealab.com/

Subject: XP?

Shouldn't they being trying to put Vista on it - as XP is a dead OS, because

Vista is SO much better!

Bill

Subject: Facial recognition matches Mike Magee with Omar Sharif

ROFL!! This is one of the funniest articles I've read in a while! Thanks for the laugh :-)

Alex

Subject: Better than USPTO

Its a lot more better than USPTO approach where in it considers glowing mac icons and and inventing a product like an aeroplane(when i say aeroplane, i mean the same calibre of invention) at the same level. In my opinion software inventions should not get more than 3-4 years protection.

Anoop

Subject: Verbs

"2. Size Matters - Time Magazine. [That's not a headline, it hasn't got a verb in it. Ed.]"

"matters" is the verb..

try it in other sentences and you'll agree...if it matters..

M Wallack

Subject: Horrible experience with Dell

I am having a horrible experience with Dell. No, not their computers. I have been buying Dell with little to no problems. My problem now is that I am unable to contact them to ask questions about a new computer. When I try to customize one on their site I am required to do things that make no sense. I am unable to e-mail them to ask questions. Furthermore, they no longer provide a mailing address. I tried mailing a letter to them using an address off of the receipt from the last computer I bought but it was returned as an invalid address. After attempting to customize a computer on their site I received an e-mail from them asking questions about the use of their site. I told them my problems and ask that I be contacted by somebody. I have been completely ignored. I would like to mail the CEO and let him have it. Where is Dell located? Do you have a mailing address? Quite frankly I would rather not buy from them but my computer tech swears by them. I think they are assholes!

Ted Corporandy

Subject: Fishy

Something smells fishy. Look at their numbers.

The GT 256 scores exactly the same on Lost Planet in 12x10 and 16x10.

In Bioshock the card with twice the memory is actually SLOWER than the new one.

If these benches prove to be correct, I cannot understand their conclusion at all. The card suffers real hard in UT2k3 (any reason they benched this particularly old game?) and Stalker at relatively low res of 12x10 already. Like it's bigger brother, the 256 MB-version struggles to keep the framerate up at some point. The difference is, with less memory, this happens a lot earlier and at settings where 3850/70 are still playable.

Also, they put street price of a rarely available product up against MSRP. AMD's actual MSRP for 3870 ist 219$ and the INQ has a news up that that number has been dropped to 199$ as well.

So AMD has a card with twice the memory, better, faster memory at that, a lot higher number of stream processors and it's super-quiet dual-slot-cooler make this one a nice, checkbox-ridden card.

If you put those to up against each other in the stores, at the same price, which one do you think will be sold?

Riddling

Subject: Intel Copied Everything from AMD

You could also say they copied the IMC idea from Intel.

Remember Timna? That's Intel with, what, graphics AND memory on-die? Sure Alpha had that, but Intel STILL had it before AMD did. Obviously they still killed the product, but the idea was theirs even before AMD. And What about AGP, HDMI, PCI, USB, PCI-E? I mean Intel really pioneered a LOT of things in the industry. And of course we won't forget that AMD used to just make copies of Intel chips, and in fact sued Intel for not just giving them their designs with I believe the 286. And yes, they had an agreement to do that and Intel violated that agreement, but the fact is that AMD didn't really do anything for a while besides copy Intel.

Now I think AMD DID come up with the idea for x86-64, as far as I know, but that's about it. When you really get down to it, AMD has done almost nothing for the industry besides copy Intel, and lower Intel's prices. If it wasn't for IBM demanding that Intel finance AMD as a competitor to them so they wouldn't be dependent on Intel as a sole supplier of chips, AMD might not even exist today.

Anyway, just my two cents.

DJ Krypplephite

Subject: Trying to rationaize crime

I hope the RIAA is allowed to up the damages to $10,000 per copy plus all court costs. In addition a six month jail sentence is appropriate for the B.S. appeals when it's a known fact that the crime was willfully committed and this criminal is getting off lightly.

Randy

Subject: mis understanding of OOXML problem

The problem arising from OOXML occurred in subcommittee 34 (SC34) of the joint committee between ISO and IEC (JTC1). It never affected all of ISO. It still prevents SC34 from getting anything done.

The PDF specification is being approved by subcommittee 2 of technical committee 171. It has nothing to do with JTC1 and surely has nothing to do with SC34 of JTC1.

It's one thing for the average person to have no idea how ISO or IEC works, and to think the OOXML issue affects all of ISO, and to have no idea that IEC is just as affected by the OOXML issue as ISO is, but any respectable journalist should do some research and try to understand what they're reporting on.

The Inquirer should be ashamed to be associated with such bad reporting.

Herorev

Subject: Western Digital launches 320GB

Can you break that down into Comcast download limits?

Thanks

Dilbert

Subject: New Airport In Bangalore

The traffic in the city is too bad the old airport to AMD office takes about a 2 hours (Anytime of the day), If AMD is setting up a new office I am pretty sure they would consider this in the equation and move it closer to the New Airport.

Anoop