Generally RDRAM comes with two channels, while DDR generally comes with one.
The NForce2 chipset for AMD Athlon XPs is widely available, widely used, and supports dual channel DDR. So "generally", if you want it, you can have dual-channel DDR.
"none of the claims in its patents and pending patent applications reads on that standard"
That's obviously legalese, but from what I've gathered reading other responses, doesn't that mean "Rambus didn't break the JEDEC rules, because none of its patents and pending patents applied to SDRAM"?
In other words, the court has said "you can't sue rambus for illegaly using its patent to leverage SDRAM royalties, because Rambus patents do not apply to SDRAM"?
Anyone who knows more about this than I do care to put me out of my misery and tell me that I'm interpreting this far too positively?
If as you say "Income tax may reduce spending", it discourages spending just the same as a sales tax. Calling it a different name doesn't change the beast.
And high taxes on high income brackets lead to brain and money drain - those in your economy who earn high figures will feel they are unfairly targeted and they (or their money)will leave the country for greener pastures. Progressive taxation is a nice idea, but only if people can't get away from it, and they can.
As an aside, a reasonably radical new Belgian political party is advocating the complete abolishing of all income tax in favour of sales tax, in combination with a guaranteed minimum living allowance (regardless of employment status). They hope it will lead to fairness and transparant paperwork - because everyone is guaranteed the basic income that you need to purchase the necessary goods for a minimal standard of living. It would also theoretically stimulate business because they no longer have to pay taxes on wages.
Of course, cynical old me says "the money has to come from somewhere anyway, doesn't matter where"
By making sysadmins unnecessary! Have everyone running WINDOWS XP! That doesn't need any system admistration at all, it has perfect uptime and is fully transparent for even the dumbest user!
At least you had a recovery disk that actually contained the OS. My laptop had a preinstalled XP, with a recovery disk that just tried to fix stuff. Nuking the OS and wanting it back would mean sending it to tech support!
I'm now running Suse Linux on it, after accidentally nuking (don't try to resize NTFS partitions with freeware tools:P) that XP install. It's growing on me.
Just have a timeline slider at the top of your document instead of the anal "undo" button which undoes only one action at a time IF YOU ARE LUCKY (MS Visual Studio 6.0 macros spring to mind, they actually undo one command at a time, UGH!).
Just slide the slider back until the document looks like how you wanted it. Instant document replay! You could add "waypoints" to the slider, perhaps even forks and the like, and you'd be able to see the lifetime of your document.
As well, there could be a "finalise" button that erases all undo history from disk and leaves you with a single (perhaps not directly editable) version of your file that's marked as the final product. Your way of telling the PC "I'm done with this". Dangerous button though:)
[I]"The coin slot on my computer ate my quarter! I was just trying to pay for my Amazon order in cash..."[/I]
Wouldn't 25c only be sufficient for micro-payments at UberNapster though? I'd think Amazon would be charging at least $250 for shipping by the time this tech is finally really available;)
It's the 10% - 90% reasoning error
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No, sorry, the article is wrong.
What is the 10%-90% rule? Basically: 90% of your users only use 10% of your features. Which seems to lead directly to version fatigue - what are all these features doing here that nobody needs?
Unfortunately, the 10% that gets used is different for each user - making ALL of your software package necessary. A single user might object, but on the whole, a lot more users will be happy with the product, yet using only 10% of it.
You've just described optimal load balancing, which can't be a bad thing! Though I agree that alternatives to commuting should be proactively explored - I'd LOVE to "work" from home at my research job.
So you want that Mercedes in polka-dots, but they don't offer it in polka-dots, and that makes it okay for you to steal one and get it repainted? Or you only want the Mercedes star, but it isn't offered separately, so that's okay to steal too?
Just because the original provider of the content doesn't offer exactly what every single customer wants doesn't make it okay for you to take it.
Do not group the stealing of copyrighted content and the fact that a lot of content is crap into the same argument. Yes, a lot of bands put out CDs with one semi-memorable song and 11 pieces of filler, but that still doesn't change the fact that you're stealing. I'm a musician too, and my bands' songs become freely available on MP3 as soon as the next CD is in the works. That's just good business sense, and I also wouldn't bust your ass for sharing those over a peer-to-peer network. But if I WOULDN'T want you to share, I'd like you to respect that too. Just because you don't like the soft slow songs doesn't give you the right to rip me off if I want to sell them as a package.
but as servers get more powerful, and workstations become smaller, quieter, and dumber,
When did that happen? Did I miss something?
*checks under the desk*
Nope, that machine there is DEFINATELY smarter than my previous one. Smaller, yes. Quieter, not yet a priority, but because of the way I've positioned it now, yes. Dumber? No bloody way. Moore's Law.
Decentralisation is what made the internet so big. Now Sun is indeed the O in Old Economy, what's next, steam engines?
Tom is actually a smart guy but unfortunately lets total morons write stories for his site
Which makes him a total moron. He condones the shitty reviews, faking, and Van Smithing, so the only reason he is a "smart guy" is because he's taking in lots of money from *ntel sponsoring.
They already do, as do full Doctors. If you read the entire article, you'd have seen that the patent ownership was given to the University, but internal regulation at the University stated that part of the royalty payments should go to the inventor or inventors.
Quote: "In the old world (Europe) people ceratainly wasn't equal, it was built into the system (both law and social) that the upper class was the upper class and the lower class is the lower class. You should be stuck where you where. "(SIC)
What's this bullshit? You have your head stuck in your arse I believe. The US isn't half as free as you Americans like to believe, and Europe is founded on socialist ideas like "everyone has a right not to die in the street for lack of food and shelter". You people with an attitude like the person I quoted say "it's your own fault" when someone doesn't have any money, disregarding any social or economic factors. At least we care for our people, instead of just for ourselves.
Stupid right-wing handpuppet.
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The NForce2 chipset for AMD Athlon XPs is widely available, widely used, and supports dual channel DDR. So "generally", if you want it, you can have dual-channel DDR.
"none of the claims in its patents and pending patent applications reads on that standard"
That's obviously legalese, but from what I've gathered reading other responses, doesn't that mean "Rambus didn't break the JEDEC rules, because none of its patents and pending patents applied to SDRAM"?
In other words, the court has said "you can't sue rambus for illegaly using its patent to leverage SDRAM royalties, because Rambus patents do not apply to SDRAM"?
Anyone who knows more about this than I do care to put me out of my misery and tell me that I'm interpreting this far too positively?
Just think how dumb the average person is... and then realise that _half_ of the people are even dumber than that!
If as you say "Income tax may reduce spending", it discourages spending just the same as a sales tax. Calling it a different name doesn't change the beast.
And high taxes on high income brackets lead to brain and money drain - those in your economy who earn high figures will feel they are unfairly targeted and they (or their money)will leave the country for greener pastures.
Progressive taxation is a nice idea, but only if people can't get away from it, and they can.
As an aside, a reasonably radical new Belgian political party is advocating the complete abolishing of all income tax in favour of sales tax, in combination with a guaranteed minimum living allowance (regardless of employment status).
They hope it will lead to fairness and transparant paperwork - because everyone is guaranteed the basic income that you need to purchase the necessary goods for a minimal standard of living.
It would also theoretically stimulate business because they no longer have to pay taxes on wages.
Of course, cynical old me says "the money has to come from somewhere anyway, doesn't matter where"
By making sysadmins unnecessary!
Have everyone running WINDOWS XP! That doesn't need any system admistration at all, it has perfect uptime and is fully transparent for even the dumbest user!
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Women can rape too, you know ;-).
(i.e. a penis is not a prerequisite for being a potential rapist, breathing will suffice).
At least you had a recovery disk that actually contained the OS. My laptop had a preinstalled XP, with a recovery disk that just tried to fix stuff. Nuking the OS and wanting it back would mean sending it to tech support!
:P) that XP install. It's growing on me.
I'm now running Suse Linux on it, after accidentally nuking (don't try to resize NTFS partitions with freeware tools
Bless you :)
The story title is off, it isn't "censored", it's "moderated", there's a difference.
Content isn't altered, content is accepted or rejected.
Just have a timeline slider at the top of your document instead of the anal "undo" button which undoes only one action at a time IF YOU ARE LUCKY (MS Visual Studio 6.0 macros spring to mind, they actually undo one command at a time, UGH!).
:)
Just slide the slider back until the document looks like how you wanted it. Instant document replay!
You could add "waypoints" to the slider, perhaps even forks and the like, and you'd be able to see the lifetime of your document.
As well, there could be a "finalise" button that erases all undo history from disk and leaves you with a single (perhaps not directly editable) version of your file that's marked as the final product. Your way of telling the PC "I'm done with this". Dangerous button though
I prefer playing with my girlfriend's software anyway ;)
Now I'll have 20k of useful e-mails, but a trash folder with 319Gb of spam.
[I]"The coin slot on my computer ate my quarter! I was just trying to pay for my Amazon order in cash..."[/I]
;)
Wouldn't 25c only be sufficient for micro-payments at UberNapster though? I'd think Amazon would be charging at least $250 for shipping by the time this tech is finally really available
No, sorry, the article is wrong.
What is the 10%-90% rule? Basically: 90% of your users only use 10% of your features.
Which seems to lead directly to version fatigue - what are all these features doing here that nobody needs?
Unfortunately, the 10% that gets used is different for each user - making ALL of your software package necessary. A single user might object, but on the whole, a lot more users will be happy with the product, yet using only 10% of it.
Soon we'll finally be able to properly verify if Britney's boobs are indeed unnaturally big... without getting into a sexual harassment lawsuit.
What... is your name!? Steve Jobs.
What... is your quest!? To buy the Silicon Grail.
What... is the average performance of a Dual G4 when compared to an Intel Pentium 4? What, Rambus, or DDR powered?
I don't know that... AAAAAAAAARGHHH!H
You've just described optimal load balancing, which can't be a bad thing! Though I agree that alternatives to commuting should be proactively explored - I'd LOVE to "work" from home at my research job.
;)
Researching Neverwinter Nights for instance
They use this to determine if you've been speeding?
:)
"Jim, this guy only took 5 minutes between node 1 and node 2, he must have been travelling over the speed limit!"
Oh well, I guess they've secured funding for this project that way
Especially if they have some inside knowledge on a technology that will wipe out the hard drive market in 10-15 years...
:)
Cash now, AND cash later
All conjecture, of course... but isn't that what Big Blue is about these days? Research, research and more research?
So you want that Mercedes in polka-dots, but they don't offer it in polka-dots, and that makes it okay for you to steal one and get it repainted?
Or you only want the Mercedes star, but it isn't offered separately, so that's okay to steal too?
Just because the original provider of the content doesn't offer exactly what every single customer wants doesn't make it okay for you to take it.
Do not group the stealing of copyrighted content and the fact that a lot of content is crap into the same argument. Yes, a lot of bands put out CDs with one semi-memorable song and 11 pieces of filler, but that still doesn't change the fact that you're stealing. I'm a musician too, and my bands' songs become freely available on MP3 as soon as the next CD is in the works. That's just good business sense, and I also wouldn't bust your ass for sharing those over a peer-to-peer network. But if I WOULDN'T want you to share, I'd like you to respect that too. Just because you don't like the soft slow songs doesn't give you the right to rip me off if I want to sell them as a package.
Now that I'm getting ready to graduate, I'm starting to wonder what my next best alternative is, any suggestions.
Getting a job, and paying for the music, maybe?
but as servers get more powerful, and workstations become smaller, quieter, and dumber,
When did that happen?
Did I miss something?
*checks under the desk*
Nope, that machine there is DEFINATELY smarter than my previous one. Smaller, yes. Quieter, not yet a priority, but because of the way I've positioned it now, yes. Dumber? No bloody way. Moore's Law.
Decentralisation is what made the internet so big. Now Sun is indeed the O in Old Economy, what's next, steam engines?
Tom is actually a smart guy but unfortunately lets total morons write stories for his site
Which makes him a total moron.
He condones the shitty reviews, faking, and Van Smithing, so the only reason he is a "smart guy" is because he's taking in lots of money from *ntel sponsoring.
They already do, as do full Doctors. If you read the entire article, you'd have seen that the patent ownership was given to the University, but internal regulation at the University stated that part of the royalty payments should go to the inventor or inventors.
Quote: "In the old world (Europe) people ceratainly wasn't equal, it was built into the system (both law and social) that the upper class was the upper class and the lower class is the lower class. You should be stuck where you where. "(SIC) What's this bullshit? You have your head stuck in your arse I believe. The US isn't half as free as you Americans like to believe, and Europe is founded on socialist ideas like "everyone has a right not to die in the street for lack of food and shelter". You people with an attitude like the person I quoted say "it's your own fault" when someone doesn't have any money, disregarding any social or economic factors. At least we care for our people, instead of just for ourselves. Stupid right-wing handpuppet.