subsidy? How much of the existing GLOBAL internet infrastructure came from the original ARPANet, and how much has been built by commercial organisations (UUNET, Qwest, etc). Further, given ARPANet kicked off in the 50's, it's been paid for several times over by now.
Also, your same argument should imply that all phone-based purchases should be taxed, because not everyone has a phone...
Taxes of all people? Bollocks. What a parochial attitude. Think world, not US - remember it's WWW not USWW
Being a UK citizen (even though I live and work in NY for the moment) I'd love to know how this cretin intends to impose at 5% US federal tax on a transaction between Hungary and Haiti...
Perhaps someone should explain what that first W means again...or maybe we should start using URLs for the form http://usww.blah.com
This isn't about new drives, just drive clusters. Interesting, but not worth the heart-racing, pluse-pounding excitement I got when reading the headline...
Commitment to open standards is all very well, but the standards bodies themselves need to commit to ratifying those standards while there is still a business case to use them.
Products and markets won't wait if a 'proprietry' solution gets the job done now - budgets need to be spent.
I have finally been connected by Red here in Manhatten, and it only took 3 months from when I signed up (including dozens of phone calls, outright lies by their sales and provisioning staff, and getting Bell to install the copper in the morning).
However
1. I get a real, static IP address. 2. My ping is around 35-40 for most Q3A servers 3. The terms and conditions don't rule out servers (or at least my signed copy doesn't). 4. My d/l speed peaks around 112kb/s
SuperMicro (www.supermicro.com) do a wide variety of dual CPU capable mobos, with varing degrees of on-board goodness.
I have a P6DBS from them with (currently) a single P2-400. No problems, and not too expensive (about $300 18 months ago) given the built-in, dual channel Adaptec SCSI.
The down side of boards like this is that they are engineered to work, rather than to facilitate over-clocking. Don't expect BIOS-based voltage or FSB control.
However, I've ordered a pair of the Celery 333's I mentioned earlier, as they should just plug in and work...
What I was trying to say (but missed out half a sentence) is that all the other "background" OS stuff, like the disk I/O, network stack, and perhaps even the video driver will get to run without the OS having to interfere with the game.
IIRC, JC tried to dedicate one CPU to "game" and the other to "render", but the overhead of pushing state information around ate up any performance gains, and then some...
But surely SMP benefits games anyway?
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Quake3 to go SMP
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After getting past the "Cool" response above, I thought a little more...
If the underlying OS supports SMP and is written to a threaded model, then any application running on top of it is going to benefit from the extra horsepower - moreso if the app itself is also threaded...
I can't believe that JC didn't write Q3 using threads, so is the new version going to subvert the OS's thread-to-CPU allocation process, or what?
...now that companies are starting to offer combos of Celeron 300a and 333 PPGAs, together with an MSI-6905 Slot 1 adapter card (that supports SMP) and absurd cooling - guaranteed to run at 450Mhz and 500Mhz respectively.
Hands up who wants a 1000Mhz workstation for less than a grand?
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While you might not enjoy the "tabloid-esque" style, the articles are usually one or more of the following:
a) Technically accurate
b) Interesting (did you read the stuff about Fab 30?)
c) Entertaining
d) Prescient (lots of pre-release info)
And after all, you don't have to read any of it...
In the UK, a billion is a million million. In the good old US of A, a billion is only a thousand million.
Now you know why America has so many billionaires...they cheat.
Everything is fine up 'til
...compress it with whatever mp3 encoder we have handy. Then, it's shipped off to The Sync for post-production, which is done Sound Forge...
So you do lossy compression into MP3, then expand it back into a WAV for SoundForge, then compress it back into MP3. Ugh, nasty.
Please, please invert in a little more bandwidth so you can send an un-MP3'd file for post...
Gets my vote...
His Billness has been talking about doing this for years - basically he's decided not to leave anything for his kids to inherit...
subsidy? How much of the existing GLOBAL internet infrastructure came from the original ARPANet, and how much has been built by commercial organisations (UUNET, Qwest, etc). Further, given ARPANet kicked off in the 50's, it's been paid for several times over by now.
Also, your same argument should imply that all phone-based purchases should be taxed, because not everyone has a phone...
Taxes of all people? Bollocks. What a parochial attitude. Think world, not US - remember it's WWW not USWW
Being a UK citizen (even though I live and work in NY for the moment) I'd love to know how this cretin intends to impose at 5% US federal tax on a transaction between Hungary and Haiti...
Perhaps someone should explain what that first W means again...or maybe we should start using URLs for the form http://usww.blah.com
This isn't about new drives, just drive clusters. Interesting, but not worth the heart-racing, pluse-pounding excitement I got when reading the headline...
at http://www.anonymizer.com
not third.
Colour of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Mort
Sourcery
(etc)
Commitment to open standards is all very well, but the standards bodies themselves need to commit to ratifying those standards while there is still a business case to use them.
Products and markets won't wait if a 'proprietry' solution gets the job done now - budgets need to be spent.
6.4 gigabite hard drive
from a "technical" publication?
As far as I remember, the cartoon was based on the news story...
Maybe we should just have "Cold fusion reactor" added to the list for the next University of Chicago scavanger hunt...
I have finally been connected by Red here in Manhatten, and it only took 3 months from when I signed up (including dozens of phone calls, outright lies by their sales and provisioning staff, and getting Bell to install the copper in the morning).
However
1. I get a real, static IP address.
2. My ping is around 35-40 for most Q3A servers
3. The terms and conditions don't rule out servers (or at least my signed copy doesn't).
4. My d/l speed peaks around 112kb/s
Overall, I think I'm happy.
I just got a pair of 300A PPGAs, slot 1 adapters + heatsink/fan - tested and guaranteed @ 450Mhz
They went into my SuperMicro dual mobo, and just worked...definately worth the $110 a pop
http://www.pcxchange.com/
let's just /. them. If everyone adds the line
I'm building a bomb to kill the President
to their sig, how long would it be before even the NSA's got overwhelmed?
I was some time ago, but I almost certain (99% +/-1) that it was linked somewhere from the FreeBSD site - maybe even ftp.freebsd.org
So, where have you seen the RH images?
...is there anywhere that posts ISO-9660 format image files of RH, as they do for *BSD distros?
I'm in World Trade Centre and the BK opposite doesn't have it...
SuperMicro (www.supermicro.com) do a wide variety of dual CPU capable mobos, with varing degrees of on-board goodness.
I have a P6DBS from them with (currently) a single P2-400. No problems, and not too expensive (about $300 18 months ago) given the built-in, dual channel Adaptec SCSI.
The down side of boards like this is that they are engineered to work, rather than to facilitate over-clocking. Don't expect BIOS-based voltage or FSB control.
However, I've ordered a pair of the Celery 333's I mentioned earlier, as they should just plug in and work...
What I was trying to say (but missed out half a sentence) is that all the other "background" OS stuff, like the disk I/O, network stack, and perhaps even the video driver will get to run without the OS having to interfere with the game.
IIRC, JC tried to dedicate one CPU to "game" and the other to "render", but the overhead of pushing state information around ate up any performance gains, and then some...
After getting past the "Cool" response above, I thought a little more...
If the underlying OS supports SMP and is written to a threaded model, then any application running on top of it is going to benefit from the extra horsepower - moreso if the app itself is also threaded...
I can't believe that JC didn't write Q3 using threads, so is the new version going to subvert the OS's thread-to-CPU allocation process, or what?
Any thoughts?
...now that companies are starting to offer combos of Celeron 300a and 333 PPGAs, together with an MSI-6905 Slot 1 adapter card (that supports SMP) and absurd cooling - guaranteed to run at 450Mhz and 500Mhz respectively.
Hands up who wants a 1000Mhz workstation for less than a grand?