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Our editors work tirelessly trying to beat even the most rough submission into shape to present to you, after all it's their job! However, every now and then, work goes quiet. It's then you know that you need to be careful as the editors are thinking. Who knows what thoughts might lurk in their heads?
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Written by Gizmo
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Thursday, 03 August 2006 14:34 |
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The Enquirer has an article that points to a CNET interview with an exec at IBM , Ross Mauri. In this article, Mr. Mauri mentions that the Power 6 chip (due in early- to mid-2007) will debut at somewhere between 4 and 5 GHz. However, CNET has another interview with no less than the chief architect of the Power 6, Brad McCredie, which was published back in Febrary . In THAT article, Mr. McCredie ALSO stated that the Power 6 would come out at somewhere between 4 and 5 GHz. In addition, they expect to hit these performance levels while maintaining the same power envelope as they see for the Power 5 chip. So, why is this significant? Well, remember that AMD and IBM are research and development partners. From what I understand, IBM is using a variant of the same socket 1207 interface that AMD is using for AM2. The Power 6 core is due out in a time-frame slightly trailing the 65nM AMD chips, but still using 65nM tech. We posted here that 65nM AMD chips had been spotted in Taiwan, and were hitting 2 GHz already, several months before release. Add it all up, and it seems like there is a distinct possibility that IBM is going to use AMD to help iron the wrinkles out of their production process, and the 65nM chips might be some serious performers. What do you think? Am I taking some really good drugs? Does Intel just completely own AMD until the end of time, or is AMD getting ready to strike back hard? Tell me, in the forums!
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Written by wild_andy_c
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 01:00 |
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Wild_andy_c comes out of the closet and gives us an overview of the realities of the motherboard manufacturing business specifically, the hardware business in general, and how cut-throat competition and the 'RMA Culture' have affected all of us. Discuss this in the forums! |
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Written by Gizmo
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Tuesday, 06 June 2006 09:54 |
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By now, I'm sure many of you know about the shutdown and seizure of
hardware used to run The Pirate Bay, a web site that purports to provide
links to resources for downloading copyrighted content. For those of you that don't, the short version goes like this: Late last week, Swedish police raided the data centers for Internet Service
Provider Rix|Port80 in 10 different locations and seized the hardware which was being used to run The Pirate Bay web site. Here's
where the trouble starts. The Pirate Bay was hosted by web hosting
company PRQ. Every site hosted by PRQ was seized; somewhere between
200 and 300 domains, almost all of which had nothing to do with The
Pirate Bay, were shut down. In addition, although the officers had
search warrants, the seizure itself appears to have been illegal.
Apparently, The Pirate Bay was operating entirely within the bounds of
Swedish law. Although annoying to the MPAA, irritating to the
international copyright community, and potentially damaging to
copyright holders, what The Pirate Bay was doing was LEGAL IN SWEDEN! Now,
we can argue all day long about whether Swedish law should be changed.
However, what appears to have happened here is that justice was
purchased by the MPAA, rather than determined through due process.
There are poeple who should be going to jail over this, but I'm not
convinced they are with The Pirate Bay. Do
I think what The Pirate Bay is doing is wrong? Probably. But what's
wrong and what's legal are different things, and so long as they
operate within the limits of the law of their country, they should be
free from prosecution.
Even this discussion, though, is missing the larger
issue, at least to me. When a company or organization can essentially
buy justice, as appears to have been done here with the MPAA and the
Swedish authorities, there is a fundamental problem with the legal
system. To make matters worse, it appears that the U.S. government has
had at least SOME involvement in pressuring Swedish authorities into
taking this action. Finally, this action has resulted in harm to a number of innocent bystanders, and the response has essentially been "When you make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs".
The laws of civilized countries are supposed
to work for the protection of ALL their people, not just those who can
'pay the price'. If you think the law is wrong, then you should
absolutely work to change it. But do it the right way; don't just go
out and 'buy' your justice. Sooner or later, the justice that you
purchased will be bought by someone with deeper pockets than you. Discuss this in the forums.
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Written by Gizmo
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Tuesday, 25 April 2006 08:40 |
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A little over a year ago, the RIAA filed a lawsuit against a lady alleging copyright infringement of over 700 titles by serving them over P2P networks. There was just one problem. She was dead. So, the RIAA allowed that they might have made a mistake, and went on to sue hundreds of other people, many of whom apparently were guilty, some of whom were not. All in an effort to ensure that people get the message that sharing music is illegal. We've had the same kind of thing going on in the realm of video, and the new standards coming out are going to attempt to prevent us from being able to make copies of our favorite DVDs by using new copy protection measures. Ok, I get this. The content providers don't want us going to Block Buster, renting a movie, making 25,000 copies for our friends, and sending it over the Internet to millions of other people for free. I get that, and I don't have a problem with it, per se. After all, there is a lot of hard work that went into producing that stuff, and the people who did all that work deserve to be fairly compensated for it. Where I get really confused, though, is when an outfit like Sony creates a viral content protection system (supposedly to prevent copyright abuses) and then turns around and sells items that not only allow, but could be argued to actually ENCOURAGE such abuses (Here, and here)! Did I miss something? Tell me, in the forums!
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Written by Gizmo
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Friday, 24 February 2006 20:24 |
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On 2-23-2006 we published a picture of what we believed to be a prototype of a new Abit NF5 motherboard. It now appears that picture was nothing more than a doctored photograph of the MSI K9N prototype that was previewed over at gathering.tweakers.net. If you look closely at the second picture shown there, and compare it to our picture, you will see that the two motherboards are in fact identical. Our apologies for all those who started salivating for nothing. The picture was presented in good faith, both on our part and on the part of the member who posted it. All we can say is that sometimes, in an effort to be ahead of the curve on breaking news, mistakes are made. When they are made and we discover them, we will make sure that we come clean.
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