1) This is all bullshit anyhow.
2) When the margin of error is greater than the margin of victory, statistically, no one wins.
3) I'm ashamed we could elect a moron like Dubya. Even Jeb would have made a better president. (Is he 35 yet?)
If he distributed it, then they would be obligated to provide the source.
I think their goodwill is probably more important to Tom (and the community) in this case. If they default on that, then Tom might as well distribute the program.
But until then, I'd rather he keep reviewing with their help. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I still don't think the Pentium 4 is worth it yet, because a clock-for-clock comparison would put it about even with the current generation of chips, and a dollar-for-dollar comparison would show that it is still way too expensive, but...
It's a start, at least. I guess we'll see where it goes from here. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Eh, I didn't check all the bugs to see whose they were, you're right, I just figured that the vast majority of them were Intel's. (actually, I recognized at least three of them as such; hlt isn't just Intel, though...)
However, I knew they were all bugs that my Athlon Thunderbird didn't have...;) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I've written code like this:
n1 db ? ; most significant digit
n2 db ? ; .
n3 db ? ; .
n4 db ? ; least significant digit
[...]
mov si,offset n1;starting at the string
;--------------------------------------- Better sort code... (worst case 17)
bsort: mov ax,[word ptr n2];use al, ah as n2, n3
Data as laid out by me in the program: [n1|n2|n3|n4]
What I'm grabbing from memory: a word of data, starting at n2.
Note that when I do this, al gets n2, and ah gets n3!
___ax___
[ ah|al ]
[ n3|n2 ]
Is that funky, or what? I'm sure I could find the exact quote about this from my assembler lecture notes, but suffice it to say that these sorts of tricks aren't really necessary or desired nowadays.
The chips in question are the 8008 and the 4004. We are pretty much backwards-compatible to them TO THIS DAY (that's why DOS had those 64k segments). I don't know about you, but I would at least like a few more GPR's to play with... (AMD is at least going to do this) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
This isn't a real top 10; it's a half-hearted attempt. A complete list couldn't fit in the margin of this webpage, though.
Let's start looking...
* Segmented Memory
* Byte-swapping
* To this day, ensuring backwards compatibility with chips no one used
* Screwing over their customers
* Screwing over their employees (see Inside Intel)
* RAMBUS (ha ha ha!)
I'm sure I missed a bunch...
...oh yeah:
[pb@Lee-12-240 pb]$ cat/proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 4
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 800.060074
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 psn mmxext mmx fxsr 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 1595.80 --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
First, you can indeed make up for lost sleep by sleeping more; it'll make you feel better the next day; it just won't help you remember the previous day.
Therefore, if you had a traumatic experience in your life, don't sleep! Then, after about a day of this, get really drunk. 14 hours later, you'll have slept like a baby and you won't remember a damn thing. Isn't science great? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I agree, latency is very important. But I was pointing out that article writing is important as well, and that one was atrocious.
However, my fellow slashdotters didn't catch on, so I guess I shouldn't expect anyone else to notice, except maybe my old high-school Physics class, for instance...
Incidentally, latencies with combination satellite/modem services are absolutely *horrible* for some services, like a second sometimes... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I'd like to see how an entirely native system does. Of course, this will be a *lot* more expensive than your average system, especially with the weird RAMBUS requirements, but a lot of people will be happy that it's not x86, and that it's faster than 500Mhz...
However, my 800Mhz, non-RAMBUS Athlon should last me quite a while, thankyouverymuch.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
In Earth, by David Brin, there's a global network of computers, and the interface to it generally consists of a giant screen: entire sections of the wall can be used as a display. On that display, users interact with the 'net...
So this would be, what, local-area bandwidth, at least? Now all we need is for the displays to get cheaper. (that'll take at least 10 years, probably...)
However, this is all well before, what, 2040? Keep up the good work, Mr. Brin! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Incidentally, I've gotten to see my former arch-nemesis (or maybe she was second only to her sister at the time) more since she started hanging out with some of my friends; I consider her to be much cooler now.
Strange how the world works, eh? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I'm in the Raleigh/Durham area, I saw him once at a Barnes & Noble in Durham, when he was signing Homebody, and once in some (I forget exactly which) bookstore in Raleigh when he was signing Ender's Shadow.
Each time, I went up to him later, and asked him a question, and had him sign stuff, (ok, his new book:) well actually just about everybody did. The first time he told me he didn't intend for Ender to be an actual genetic cross between Peter and Valentine, he was just saying that Ender had that capacity for Good and Evil. The second time, I asked him if The Time Machine had an influence on his fourth book of Homecoming; he about smacked himself. He didn't do it intentionally, but now that I mentioned it, he definitely saw the obvious parallel.
Unfortunately, my girlfriend had my copy of Ender's Game, so I couldn't get that signed. But I'm glad she read it, 'cause it's a great book... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Slashdot picked up another Kuro5hin story. I just wish the book was closer to being released. So here are my comments, from there to here...
Yeah, I've seen Card talk about [his movie plans], too, (since I live in North Carolina:) but realize that he's been talking about it for years. I, for one, hope it happens sometime soon, but even if it happened tomorrow, it'd probably be at least three years before we saw anything.
I'd love it if they could film the two at once, because then you'd get all the same cast at the same time. There aren't really any other decent sequel possibilities that wouldn't be completely different, and otherwise, they'd screw up Ender's Shadow.
I really like almost everything in that series, but everything after Ender's Game originally is pretty different. They're good books, and they aren't a rehash of Ender's Game, either, like Ender's Shadow is, (even though I love that, too:) but they're slower, and they have different characters, and most importantly they aren't necessarily what his audience was expecting out of him...
Card writes a lot of stuff, and some of it hits the mark; I liked the Harmony series, and I really enjoyed Songmaster and A Planet Called Treason. Most of his short stories are really good, which is funny since he claimed that he can't write short stories decently. I didn't like the Alvin Maker series as much, but maybe I just wasn't expecting American Historical Fantasy...:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Christ, if you *must* moderate down my posts, mark that post as Overrated (like the coward you are), or pay for it in MetaMod, you incredibly clueless moderator.
But read my sig a few times first, and hit yourself over the head with an anvil a few times as well, just for good measure. It may not help you, but I'll feel better... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Well, hopefully it'll end up being more efficient in the future. I'm trying to set up a test 'hard drive' to boot right now, and I'm using Bochs to do some of it just because it's faster on my new computer.
(which is amazing, considering how *slow* Bochs used to be; Plex86 appears to be that slow at the moment, but I still have to do more testing...) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I saw that (linked from freshmeat) and downloaded it, and compiled it. Once I figured out that all the configuration files were set up for me, (in the conf/ dir.) it was easy enough to get FreeDOS booting.
I'll try Windows next, I suppose. I'm pleased with how quickly this project has developed; at least Plex86 seems a lot faster than Bochs. I'll be happy once it's competitive (speed-wise) with DOSEmu, and (compatibility-wise) with VMWare.
But in the meantime, kudos, Kevin; keep up the good work! And thanks, MandrakeSoft, for making Bochs open in the first place!:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Oh wow, they have my entry! (it's in entries/baylie.pl; no, that's not perl, it's uuencoded.:)
Ok, it was pretty pitiful, and for some reason didn't make it into a category, but I was proud. I don't remember why I didn't write something longer, though. I guess I thought there was a 256 byte limit, and it was actually 512 bytes? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Slashdot Mirror
1) This is all bullshit anyhow.
2) When the margin of error is greater than the margin of victory, statistically, no one wins.
3) I'm ashamed we could elect a moron like Dubya. Even Jeb would have made a better president. (Is he 35 yet?)
Fake Example:
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Bush: 49%
Gore: 49%
Nader: 1%
Other: 1%
Margin of error: +/- 4%
Who won?
Well, I know the American people lost.
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That's why they asked Tom not to release it.
If he distributed it, then they would be obligated to provide the source.
I think their goodwill is probably more important to Tom (and the community) in this case. If they default on that, then Tom might as well distribute the program.
But until then, I'd rather he keep reviewing with their help.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I still don't think the Pentium 4 is worth it yet, because a clock-for-clock comparison would put it about even with the current generation of chips, and a dollar-for-dollar comparison would show that it is still way too expensive, but...
It's a start, at least. I guess we'll see where it goes from here.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Eh, I didn't check all the bugs to see whose they were, you're right, I just figured that the vast majority of them were Intel's. (actually, I recognized at least three of them as such; hlt isn't just Intel, though...)
;)
However, I knew they were all bugs that my Athlon Thunderbird didn't have...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I've written code like this:
;starting at the string
;use al, ah as n2, n3
n1 db ? ; most significant digit
n2 db ? ; .
n3 db ? ; .
n4 db ? ; least significant digit
[...]
mov si,offset n1
;--------------------------------------- Better sort code... (worst case 17)
bsort: mov ax,[word ptr n2]
Data as laid out by me in the program: [n1|n2|n3|n4]
What I'm grabbing from memory: a word of data, starting at n2.
Note that when I do this, al gets n2, and ah gets n3!
___ax___
[ ah|al ]
[ n3|n2 ]
Is that funky, or what? I'm sure I could find the exact quote about this from my assembler lecture notes, but suffice it to say that these sorts of tricks aren't really necessary or desired nowadays.
The chips in question are the 8008 and the 4004. We are pretty much backwards-compatible to them TO THIS DAY (that's why DOS had those 64k segments). I don't know about you, but I would at least like a few more GPR's to play with... (AMD is at least going to do this)
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
This isn't a real top 10; it's a half-hearted attempt. A complete list couldn't fit in the margin of this webpage, though.
/proc/cpuinfo
Let's start looking...
* Segmented Memory
* Byte-swapping
* To this day, ensuring backwards compatibility with chips no one used
* Screwing over their customers
* Screwing over their employees (see Inside Intel)
* RAMBUS (ha ha ha!)
I'm sure I missed a bunch...
...oh yeah:
[pb@Lee-12-240 pb]$ cat
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 4
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 800.060074
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 psn mmxext mmx fxsr 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 1595.80
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
First, you can indeed make up for lost sleep by sleeping more; it'll make you feel better the next day; it just won't help you remember the previous day.
Therefore, if you had a traumatic experience in your life, don't sleep! Then, after about a day of this, get really drunk. 14 hours later, you'll have slept like a baby and you won't remember a damn thing. Isn't science great?
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I don't know, where are you going to be?
The alternative to a bar is, of course, a coffee house.
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I'm in the Research Triangle Park area of NC, so I see no reason to move; we have lots of tech jobs open here.
Then again, I figure my prospects are pretty good wherever I go, these days.
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Now if only they could get it to use particles, instead of waves... :)
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I agree, latency is very important. But I was pointing out that article writing is important as well, and that one was atrocious.
However, my fellow slashdotters didn't catch on, so I guess I shouldn't expect anyone else to notice, except maybe my old high-school Physics class, for instance...
Incidentally, latencies with combination satellite/modem services are absolutely *horrible* for some services, like a second sometimes...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I'd like to see how an entirely native system does. Of course, this will be a *lot* more expensive than your average system, especially with the weird RAMBUS requirements, but a lot of people will be happy that it's not x86, and that it's faster than 500Mhz...
:)
However, my 800Mhz, non-RAMBUS Athlon should last me quite a while, thankyouverymuch.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I love to see Science Fiction coming true.
In Earth, by David Brin, there's a global network of computers, and the interface to it generally consists of a giant screen: entire sections of the wall can be used as a display. On that display, users interact with the 'net...
So this would be, what, local-area bandwidth, at least? Now all we need is for the displays to get cheaper. (that'll take at least 10 years, probably...)
However, this is all well before, what, 2040? Keep up the good work, Mr. Brin!
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Ah, that's right! Thanks, Dorsey.
Incidentally, I've gotten to see my former arch-nemesis (or maybe she was second only to her sister at the time) more since she started hanging out with some of my friends; I consider her to be much cooler now.
Strange how the world works, eh?
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Hey, cool... :)
:) well actually just about everybody did. The first time he told me he didn't intend for Ender to be an actual genetic cross between Peter and Valentine, he was just saying that Ender had that capacity for Good and Evil. The second time, I asked him if The Time Machine had an influence on his fourth book of Homecoming; he about smacked himself. He didn't do it intentionally, but now that I mentioned it, he definitely saw the obvious parallel.
I'm in the Raleigh/Durham area, I saw him once at a Barnes & Noble in Durham, when he was signing Homebody, and once in some (I forget exactly which) bookstore in Raleigh when he was signing Ender's Shadow.
Each time, I went up to him later, and asked him a question, and had him sign stuff, (ok, his new book
Unfortunately, my girlfriend had my copy of Ender's Game, so I couldn't get that signed. But I'm glad she read it, 'cause it's a great book...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Slashdot picked up another Kuro5hin story. I just wish the book was closer to being released. So here are my comments, from there to here...
:) but realize that he's been talking about it for years. I, for one, hope it happens sometime soon, but even if it happened tomorrow, it'd probably be at least three years before we saw anything.
:) but they're slower, and they have different characters, and most importantly they aren't necessarily what his audience was expecting out of him...
:)
Yeah, I've seen Card talk about [his movie plans], too, (since I live in North Carolina
I'd love it if they could film the two at once, because then you'd get all the same cast at the same time. There aren't really any other decent sequel possibilities that wouldn't be completely different, and otherwise, they'd screw up Ender's Shadow.
I really like almost everything in that series, but everything after Ender's Game originally is pretty different. They're good books, and they aren't a rehash of Ender's Game, either, like Ender's Shadow is, (even though I love that, too
Card writes a lot of stuff, and some of it hits the mark; I liked the Harmony series, and I really enjoyed Songmaster and A Planet Called Treason. Most of his short stories are really good, which is funny since he claimed that he can't write short stories decently. I didn't like the Alvin Maker series as much, but maybe I just wasn't expecting American Historical Fantasy...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
What was Offtopic?
Christ, if you *must* moderate down my posts, mark that post as Overrated (like the coward you are), or pay for it in MetaMod, you incredibly clueless moderator.
But read my sig a few times first, and hit yourself over the head with an anvil a few times as well, just for good measure. It may not help you, but I'll feel better...
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Look, everybody, more numbers! It's a huge '128-bit address space'!
Suddenly, the internet is faster, my computer is smarter, the world looks brighter, slashdot posts are more intelligent....
Nah. Everything still sucks.
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Well, hopefully it'll end up being more efficient in the future. I'm trying to set up a test 'hard drive' to boot right now, and I'm using Bochs to do some of it just because it's faster on my new computer.
(which is amazing, considering how *slow* Bochs used to be; Plex86 appears to be that slow at the moment, but I still have to do more testing...)
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I saw that (linked from freshmeat) and downloaded it, and compiled it. Once I figured out that all the configuration files were set up for me, (in the conf/ dir.) it was easy enough to get FreeDOS booting.
:)
I'll try Windows next, I suppose. I'm pleased with how quickly this project has developed; at least Plex86 seems a lot faster than Bochs. I'll be happy once it's competitive (speed-wise) with DOSEmu, and (compatibility-wise) with VMWare.
But in the meantime, kudos, Kevin; keep up the good work! And thanks, MandrakeSoft, for making Bochs open in the first place!
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Oh wow, they have my entry! (it's in entries/baylie.pl; no, that's not perl, it's uuencoded. :)
Ok, it was pretty pitiful, and for some reason didn't make it into a category, but I was proud. I don't remember why I didn't write something longer, though. I guess I thought there was a 256 byte limit, and it was actually 512 bytes?
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Apparently, the only Clue worth having is the Clue Granting Clue, because once you have that, you can get all the other Clues...
...AUGH! Kerberos is eating my soul!
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That's the funniest thing I've seen on Slashdot in a long time!
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Just remember that: 70 ms is a latency, not a speed.
"Speeds up to 70mph" makes sense; "Speeds up to 70ms" does not.
Maybe I should have been more clear on this one; I had thought the quote would be enough.
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Well, first, every little bit helps; who knows, maybe whatever techniques they use could be applied here as well.
Second, that goes triple for when you can pre-compute stuff.
And finally, we'll probably see it in Final Fantasy X. I love Square...
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