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  Thursday, 15 August 2002

.< 11:48:36 PM >

Thursday: Speed the Fruit. Unfortunately, according to Rob Art Morgan who has tested this, the new PowerMacs from Apple that use DDR (double data rate) memory like its Xserve rank-mount unit cannot access the memory any faster than the cheaper and slower SDRAM found in the previous system arch. A controller limits the data rate to 1 Gbps, while DDR could work more than twice as fast. Unfortunately, this makes mincemeat of the architecture, as it bus/memory-bounds 2D and 3D graphics and rendering. In practical terms, my chart showing the Apple vs. Dell server comparison is now pointless: the new Macs can't compete with the same-price or cheaper Dells because the Macs are just as slow as the old Macs. You can boost the processor speed somewhat (jump to dual 1.25 GHz), but you can't extract nearly enough speed from the memory ... [GlennLog]

Major whoops.


.< 11:45:55 PM >

N.B. lobster fishermen declare open season in disputed waters
Lobster fishermen in New Brunswick set out for the Grand Manan Channel on Thursday to drop their traps, nearly three months ahead of schedule in what some people are calling a "lobster war" with their American neighbours. F U L L   S T O R Y
[CBC News]

.< 12:52:02 PM >

From Sweden with love
Novelist and actor GALE ZOE GARNETT heads to the annual Strindberg Festival in Stockholm, where she (along with Alistair MacLeod, among others) discovers a country full of Canadaphiles
FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

.< 12:45:36 PM >

NATIONAL POST: ""This project is all about acoustics," said Charles Cutts, the president and CEO of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall."
So why didn't they have any musicians on hand to excite the acoustics?





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