And thats why you pay property taxes, so you DONT end up costing the government money, its just going a round-about way till it gets paid for those utilities and services
Releasing native glide drivers for nVidia cards would definately be a great thing for anyone who plays glide games, but in all reality, glide games arent as common as OpenGL, or the increasingly common DirecX...
BUT, that would require effort from nVidia which they most likely wont be willing to invest, considering that glide's lack of use, DirectX's popularty, and the lack of political interest for the company, i trully doubt that anything will come of it.
Had this happened a year ago, it would definately have been likely and probable...
but not now, sadly
With the increasingly large popularity of Linux, is anyone surprised at this?
Linux has been growing trememndously in the public eye in the past year or 2, and its time that companies begin bringing the old closed-source apps over onto linux.
While probably not something you will see on the rabid GPL-lovers system, for the casual linux user,the person whos grown tired of Window's blue screens, he's bound to try out linux, and once getting comfortable with it, and getting a casual understanding with it, chances are that he's gonna want to use some comercial programs, since in his mind, "shrinkwrap=better/easier to deal with"
Just part of the inevitable with a lot of popularity, i guess
How about using a switch, which would separate your network into diferent collision domains, but still maintaining the NetBIOS browsing intact.
Or, as was jsut mentioned, setting up routers, and subsequently putting a WINS server on the network to handle NetBIOS names.
"Corel agrees that at least one version of each Major Upgrade of each Corel Product that Corel releases after the Ship Date shall include Material Support for the.NET Framework, except for WordPerfect and Products for which Corel chooses to make no new commercial release whatsoever after the Ship Date (together, the "Excluded Products"). "
---
Obviously, M$ is being very careful to make sure that they get NO competition in the Office arena, however.
Just make sure.NET get spread out into more arenas, but that they still will get NO competition for their little cashcow, Office.
Im all for using the space available for more L3 cache, esp if it boosts performance that much..
but the one question on my mind, HOW THE HELL DO THEY NOT NOTICE 40% of the die NOT BEING USED!!!!!!!!
But better yet, are we to expect a dual(or more)-CPU version of this chip?
*drools*
"Linuxtoday's article can be found their site." Maybe the trolls are wasting so much space with their posts, Hemos is having to resort to leaving words out to save space
;-)
When will tuition prices go down?
now that running the network, obviously a big expense for a school, is "free" can we expect a drop of any kind in tuition for schools that use this service?
or are we simply paying the schools for an education along with some great advertising?
The company that AMD had licensed the Athlon bus to was HotRail, formerly Poseidon Technology, decided in June that it was no longer profitable to remain in the PC chipset business, and put their 8-way chipset on the back burner, in order to focus all their strenghs on Networking switches and transceivers.
<a href="http://www.ebnonline.com/ecomponents/commnew s/story/OEG20000501S0051">Here</a& gt; is an article about their switch of plans
The reason SMP is still unavailable for the Athlon line of CPUs is that the current chipsets have no way of supporting it.
The first Chipsets capable of supporting SMP, AMD's 760MP(a SMP-enabled version of the 760, due out very late this year or early next year) and the 770 chipset, which is expected to have support of up to 4 CPUs, and due out early next year.
As far as VIA and otehr third-party chipset manufacturers, they are still awaitin a chipset from AMD, before they can begin making their own SMP chipsets.
AMD's plans for a more advanced (4 and 8-way)chipset also had to be canceled when the company they were working with (forgot the name at the moment) decided to leave the server chipset business, leaving AMD to work on the chipsets on its own.
well, it wouldnt be useful to non-geeks, cause only a geek would be willing to open up his nomad, and perform surgery on it (swapping the hard drive, and any other changes necessary)
and as far as who has more than 6gb, im on 12, and expect to hit 20 before the end of the month:-D
Even if you assimilate properly into the population as a non-immigrant, the issue still comes up when an employer requires you to show him your social security card, and you are not a citizen, then either you will have none, or there will be some special condition on it, such as NOT VALID FOR WORK or VALID FOPR WORK ONLY WITH INS AUTHORIZATION, and you are out of luck unless the employer decides to ignore that letter, doesnt ask to see it at all (or you give an excuse that you cant find it) or you create false documents (not too hard to do, but not a good idea either)
Thats fine for the parents, but should the children, who were 2, 5, 8, 10 when they arrived in the country be held liable for the "crimes" of their parents?
One of ideals of the constitution, was that a child did not have to pay for a parents crimes, yet that is exactly what seems to be the idea with your post, and with current thinking. The parent commited a crime, so lets screw the entire family, including the children who were oh, say, 10, 15 years too young to make their own decisions at the time.
Students with their F1 Visas expiring arent the only ones with a problem; there is one class in particular that has a similar, albeit much worse problem in this country with Visas, and they are througoghly ignored:
the illegal immigrant, and their children.
Now, most think of the illegal immigrant as someone who just crawled in through the border one night, or came in stuffed into someones trunk as they drove back into the US.
But a large majority, are hard-working, knowlegdgeable people, who have come into the country legally, usually through a visitors visa, and found that they had a life that belongs in this country, and ended up staying past their visas expired, thereby becomning illegal.
A lot of people will say kick them out, they overstayed their welcome.
that could be a solution, but to the various people who have been here 5, 10, 15 years, is kicking them out the right answer, esp since they have been paying their taxes just like anyone else, just trying to earn an honest hard-working living?
and what about their children, which is where most problems tend to fall onto?
I know several children of imigrants, in that situation, who are brilliant, and extremely capable of performing amazing technical work, where most people would not even consider possible...
yet they came here with their parents, not born here, so they are illegal themselves.
When it comes time for college, how do they get in? How do they go on to put that education to use, or go get a job, with their knowledge that far outshines that of most citizens and others legally in the country.
If they go their original countries to try to obtain either a tudent or HB-1 Visa, they will be barred from re-entering the country for a minimun of 10 years, because of the period of their stay illegaly in the country.
Or do they just work jobs as dishwashers, painters, and housecleaners, putting to waste a true gift?
To those in that situation, what are their available options?
And to the/. community in general, think of ways that your countrymight be kicking its own people, albeit not their citizens, in the proverbial balls, because of where they happened to be born, and also kicking their own citizens, by allowing them not to obtain the services of the truly skiled people here?
How about a beowulf Cluster of these?
;-)
But seriously, Cisco's IOS is especially made for hte hardware, and highly integrated...
the coolness factor aside, is there much in terms of usefulness for having an expensive cisco router turned into a cheap linux box?
Here we have a large, main program that has been taken, and had several third-party components sown toguether, tryion to add functionality, or maybe just some bells and whistles. Now people are finding holes that compromise security, because of the way thse separate parts of code interact.
This goes to show the problems with the gee-whiz-gizmo addition that incorporates most bloatware of nowadays..
Windows anyone?
with windows, we have a main operating system, DOS, that is just having these bells and whistles added. First we have a GUI, we have the WIN32 API layer, we have the preemptive multitasking, we have the (slightly) protected memory..
Now, we also have an internet browser, a JVM, and several other components added to it.
and for some reason, there are constant security holes and various other bugs in windows...
I wonder why?
This is a growing problem, as companies seeking to get that software-upgrade money, try to tack toguether completely diferent programs, and try to make it the next must-have feature, to fool the novice consumer and PHB to get the latest and greatest.
in other words:
Fight the bloatware!;)
With this, and other efforts of offering bounties or prizes for development of software, how long will it be till a good majority of OSS developnent turns into a bounty-hunt for the quickest way to a desired goal?
And is this where we want OSS development to be headed, where coders will develop not for personal desire or want to enhance their machines in one way or another, but by looking for the high-paying projects?
Well, I happen to be going through this right now, and its something a LOT of techies college-age are going through.
On one hand, we can simply follow hte heard, and go to college, and achieve our precious CS or EE or computer engineering degrees. and that will prepare us all for wonderful, exciting jobs in the Computer industry 4 years from now, right?
right?
why am i not too sure?
well, for one, the courses that these colleges teach, are more or less out-dated, and when they try to update it, they try to go with the hottest latest M$ solution, since "thats what they'll encounter in the businessplace".
alright, fine.
so we learn to make BSODS.
big deal.
what about those techies (myself included) who are into some other area of computing, such as networking, and security, or something that doesnt involve coding all day? hmmm...
"Just take CS anyway, thats sure to help you get that programing job!"
Um, NO.
Until colleges can broaden their choices for degrees into fields that are 1. popular and 2. useful, then young techies will continue to opt out for the high-paying silicon valley jobs, which they can make as much in a year then they'd loose in those 4 years of school, just to learn that those valuable skills are all out-dated or vendor-specific.
Now, im not saying that we should skip out on college, and follow the lure of stock options and high salaries, but until colleges can offer us something better, why should we continue to pursue 4 years of paying high amounts of $$ in order to have not that much in marketable skills once you get out, esp if your area of interest is NOT programming?
Bah.
you dont need any fancy schmancy heatsinks for todays processors.
Esp with Intel's latest offerings, all you need is a nice big frying pan, and toss some eggs and bacon, and not only do you have a smokin' fast machine, u also get some great breakfast to go along with it!
Yes, we are now testing out the coolers for that brand-new PentiumIV system you've been drooling about!
In our labs, we have just aquired the new Intel-recomended case for these babies, and we love it!
comes complete with an AC unit to remove the extra heat that the heatsink doesnt take care of.
But for what everyones interested in, the coolers themselves.
First up, we have the Thermaltake GOLD orb, made of solid 24k gold, to improve heat transfer, complete with dual 80mm fans to remove the extra heat caused by this hot chip.
Next up, we have the GlobalWin HoT32, sized at a nice 6"x6"x6" package of pure copper, with dual 120mm fans to keep that nasty heat away.
And Last up, we have the Alpha bRN56+, at a slightly smaller 5x5x5 clock of copper, but with what could very well be the more interesting feature, the Solid gold copper inlays, and the built-in pump connectors, making this an ideal candidate to hooking up into your house's AC system for that extra cooling effect.
And now for what everyones been waiting for, how well do these babies cool?
well, time to go take a looksie
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And thats why you pay property taxes, so you DONT end up costing the government money, its just going a round-about way till it gets paid for those utilities and services
just my $.02
Releasing native glide drivers for nVidia cards would definately be a great thing for anyone who plays glide games, but in all reality, glide games arent as common as OpenGL, or the increasingly common DirecX...
BUT, that would require effort from nVidia which they most likely wont be willing to invest, considering that glide's lack of use, DirectX's popularty, and the lack of political interest for the company, i trully doubt that anything will come of it.
Had this happened a year ago, it would definately have been likely and probable...
but not now, sadly
With the increasingly large popularity of Linux, is anyone surprised at this?
Linux has been growing trememndously in the public eye in the past year or 2, and its time that companies begin bringing the old closed-source apps over onto linux.
While probably not something you will see on the rabid GPL-lovers system, for the casual linux user,the person whos grown tired of Window's blue screens, he's bound to try out linux, and once getting comfortable with it, and getting a casual understanding with it, chances are that he's gonna want to use some comercial programs, since in his mind, "shrinkwrap=better/easier to deal with"
Just part of the inevitable with a lot of popularity, i guess
-Joel
Ah, the uptimes you could get on an Intel chip before the days of Windows...
How about using a switch, which would separate your network into diferent collision domains, but still maintaining the NetBIOS browsing intact.
Or, as was jsut mentioned, setting up routers, and subsequently putting a WINS server on the network to handle NetBIOS names.
another way to crash!!
just what i wanted for christmas =P
"Corel agrees that at least one version of each Major Upgrade of each Corel Product that Corel releases after the Ship Date shall include Material Support for the .NET Framework, except for WordPerfect and Products for which Corel chooses to make no new commercial release whatsoever after the Ship Date (together, the "Excluded Products"). "
.NET get spread out into more arenas, but that they still will get NO competition for their little cashcow, Office.
---
Obviously, M$ is being very careful to make sure that they get NO competition in the Office arena, however.
Just make sure
Im all for using the space available for more L3 cache, esp if it boosts performance that much..
but the one question on my mind, HOW THE HELL DO THEY NOT NOTICE 40% of the die NOT BEING USED!!!!!!!!
But better yet, are we to expect a dual(or more)-CPU version of this chip?
*drools*
"Linuxtoday's article can be found their site."
Maybe the trolls are wasting so much space with their posts, Hemos is having to resort to leaving words out to save space
;-)
When will tuition prices go down?
now that running the network, obviously a big expense for a school, is "free" can we expect a drop of any kind in tuition for schools that use this service?
or are we simply paying the schools for an education along with some great advertising?
Here are the links working this time :-/
HotRail
and
Article
The company that AMD had licensed the Athlon bus to was HotRail, formerly Poseidon Technology, decided in June that it was no longer profitable to remain in the PC chipset business, and put their 8-way chipset on the back burner, in order to focus all their strenghs on Networking switches and transceivers.w s/story/OEG20000501S0051">Here</a& gt; is an article about their switch of plans
<a href="http://www.ebnonline.com/ecomponents/commne
The reason SMP is still unavailable for the Athlon line of CPUs is that the current chipsets have no way of supporting it.
The first Chipsets capable of supporting SMP, AMD's 760MP(a SMP-enabled version of the 760, due out very late this year or early next year) and the 770 chipset, which is expected to have support of up to 4 CPUs, and due out early next year.
As far as VIA and otehr third-party chipset manufacturers, they are still awaitin a chipset from AMD, before they can begin making their own SMP chipsets.
AMD's plans for a more advanced (4 and 8-way)chipset also had to be canceled when the company they were working with (forgot the name at the moment) decided to leave the server chipset business, leaving AMD to work on the chipsets on its own.
well, it wouldnt be useful to non-geeks, cause only a geek would be willing to open up his nomad, and perform surgery on it (swapping the hard drive, and any other changes necessary) :-D
and as far as who has more than 6gb, im on 12, and expect to hit 20 before the end of the month
Even if you assimilate properly into the population as a non-immigrant, the issue still comes up when an employer requires you to show him your social security card, and you are not a citizen, then either you will have none, or there will be some special condition on it, such as NOT VALID FOR WORK or VALID FOPR WORK ONLY WITH INS AUTHORIZATION, and you are out of luck unless the employer decides to ignore that letter, doesnt ask to see it at all (or you give an excuse that you cant find it) or you create false documents (not too hard to do, but not a good idea either)
Thats fine for the parents, but should the children, who were 2, 5, 8, 10 when they arrived in the country be held liable for the "crimes" of their parents?
One of ideals of the constitution, was that a child did not have to pay for a parents crimes, yet that is exactly what seems to be the idea with your post, and with current thinking. The parent commited a crime, so lets screw the entire family, including the children who were oh, say, 10, 15 years too young to make their own decisions at the time.
Students with their F1 Visas expiring arent the only ones with a problem; there is one class in particular that has a similar, albeit much worse problem in this country with Visas, and they are througoghly ignored: /. community in general, think of ways that your countrymight be kicking its own people, albeit not their citizens, in the proverbial balls, because of where they happened to be born, and also kicking their own citizens, by allowing them not to obtain the services of the truly skiled people here?
the illegal immigrant, and their children.
Now, most think of the illegal immigrant as someone who just crawled in through the border one night, or came in stuffed into someones trunk as they drove back into the US.
But a large majority, are hard-working, knowlegdgeable people, who have come into the country legally, usually through a visitors visa, and found that they had a life that belongs in this country, and ended up staying past their visas expired, thereby becomning illegal.
A lot of people will say kick them out, they overstayed their welcome.
that could be a solution, but to the various people who have been here 5, 10, 15 years, is kicking them out the right answer, esp since they have been paying their taxes just like anyone else, just trying to earn an honest hard-working living?
and what about their children, which is where most problems tend to fall onto?
I know several children of imigrants, in that situation, who are brilliant, and extremely capable of performing amazing technical work, where most people would not even consider possible...
yet they came here with their parents, not born here, so they are illegal themselves.
When it comes time for college, how do they get in? How do they go on to put that education to use, or go get a job, with their knowledge that far outshines that of most citizens and others legally in the country.
If they go their original countries to try to obtain either a tudent or HB-1 Visa, they will be barred from re-entering the country for a minimun of 10 years, because of the period of their stay illegaly in the country.
Or do they just work jobs as dishwashers, painters, and housecleaners, putting to waste a true gift?
To those in that situation, what are their available options?
And to the
How about a beowulf Cluster of these?
;-)
But seriously, Cisco's IOS is especially made for hte hardware, and highly integrated...
the coolness factor aside, is there much in terms of usefulness for having an expensive cisco router turned into a cheap linux box?
Prices...
;)
Die sizes on your CPUs...
Prices...
latency...
Prices...
but the colors you can use?!??!?!
c'mon!
and just when you thought it was safe to view the web in all 216-color glory, too
Here we have a large, main program that has been taken, and had several third-party components sown toguether, tryion to add functionality, or maybe just some bells and whistles. Now people are finding holes that compromise security, because of the way thse separate parts of code interact. ;)
This goes to show the problems with the gee-whiz-gizmo addition that incorporates most bloatware of nowadays..
Windows anyone?
with windows, we have a main operating system, DOS, that is just having these bells and whistles added. First we have a GUI, we have the WIN32 API layer, we have the preemptive multitasking, we have the (slightly) protected memory..
Now, we also have an internet browser, a JVM, and several other components added to it.
and for some reason, there are constant security holes and various other bugs in windows...
I wonder why?
This is a growing problem, as companies seeking to get that software-upgrade money, try to tack toguether completely diferent programs, and try to make it the next must-have feature, to fool the novice consumer and PHB to get the latest and greatest.
in other words:
Fight the bloatware!
With this, and other efforts of offering bounties or prizes for development of software, how long will it be till a good majority of OSS developnent turns into a bounty-hunt for the quickest way to a desired goal?
And is this where we want OSS development to be headed, where coders will develop not for personal desire or want to enhance their machines in one way or another, but by looking for the high-paying projects?
Well, I happen to be going through this right now, and its something a LOT of techies college-age are going through.
On one hand, we can simply follow hte heard, and go to college, and achieve our precious CS or EE or computer engineering degrees. and that will prepare us all for wonderful, exciting jobs in the Computer industry 4 years from now, right?
right?
why am i not too sure?
well, for one, the courses that these colleges teach, are more or less out-dated, and when they try to update it, they try to go with the hottest latest M$ solution, since "thats what they'll encounter in the businessplace".
alright, fine.
so we learn to make BSODS.
big deal.
what about those techies (myself included) who are into some other area of computing, such as networking, and security, or something that doesnt involve coding all day? hmmm...
"Just take CS anyway, thats sure to help you get that programing job!"
Um, NO.
Until colleges can broaden their choices for degrees into fields that are 1. popular and 2. useful, then young techies will continue to opt out for the high-paying silicon valley jobs, which they can make as much in a year then they'd loose in those 4 years of school, just to learn that those valuable skills are all out-dated or vendor-specific.
Now, im not saying that we should skip out on college, and follow the lure of stock options and high salaries, but until colleges can offer us something better, why should we continue to pursue 4 years of paying high amounts of $$ in order to have not that much in marketable skills once you get out, esp if your area of interest is NOT programming?
Bah.
you dont need any fancy schmancy heatsinks for todays processors.
Esp with Intel's latest offerings, all you need is a nice big frying pan, and toss some eggs and bacon, and not only do you have a smokin' fast machine, u also get some great breakfast to go along with it!
Yes, we are now testing out the coolers for that brand-new PentiumIV system you've been drooling about!
In our labs, we have just aquired the new Intel-recomended case for these babies, and we love it!
comes complete with an AC unit to remove the extra heat that the heatsink doesnt take care of.
But for what everyones interested in, the coolers themselves.
First up, we have the Thermaltake GOLD orb, made of solid 24k gold, to improve heat transfer, complete with dual 80mm fans to remove the extra heat caused by this hot chip.
Next up, we have the GlobalWin HoT32, sized at a nice 6"x6"x6" package of pure copper, with dual 120mm fans to keep that nasty heat away.
And Last up, we have the Alpha bRN56+, at a slightly smaller 5x5x5 clock of copper, but with what could very well be the more interesting feature, the Solid gold copper inlays, and the built-in pump connectors, making this an ideal candidate to hooking up into your house's AC system for that extra cooling effect.
And now for what everyones been waiting for, how well do these babies cool?
well, time to go take a looksie
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Do we really care if Intel stops using RAMUS?
wouldnt it be better if they just pulled the plug on RAMBUS instead?