someone tell me - what the hell does 95% of the computer buyers need it for?
They don't. At least not yet. And the chip is not marketed to them anyways. People who are comparing a Celeron to a Duron and looking into an inegrated video/sound motherboard aren't even going to give this a secong look. They're irrelevant as far as this chip is concerned.
Now, as even faster cpus come out and the price is pushed down there won't be an excuse for buying a
And software makers will just assume everyone's running at least a P3 of some sort and that's what they will code for. CPUs just come preprogrammed for a 3-5 year obsolescence cycle.
'performance-is-absolutely-priority-one requirement' people probably also have certain, ahm, software requirements to go with their need for speed requirement. Such as running a _particular_ piece of software on their blazing fast cpu.
I myself am getting a little tired of people whining about how useless, overpriced, and power hungry the new Intel cpus are, and everyone should just ditch the crappy x86 architecture, and Alpha is just oh-so-cool and fast and efficient.
OK, but does it run Windows? Can I play Diablo in my spare time? Run exchange? There are some practical reasons for the dominance and price point of x86 architecture.
You can't separate need-extreme-speed people from have-lots-of-cash people. If you don't have the money there's no fast cpus for you I guess. Alpha or x86. And if you don't have lots of money what are you doing with all that data to analyze (oil&gas maybe)? And if you have lots of data (your research is not well funded?) maybe a (relatively) cheap off-the-shelf x86 is just the right fit for you.
What worries me is that there is absolutely no guarantee you'll get the entire service you are paying for. Since everything is in chunks (in case of a file), what happens when you can't retrieve chunk 99 of 402? The guy just says 'tough luck, that's how the real world works too'.
Well, it doesn't. If I go a music store and buy a CD, I don't have to go across the street to get the case, across town to get the printed insert, over to Bob's house for the receipt only to find out a civil war broke out in Indonesia and I can't get the CD itself! I've paid for it, but I only have parts of the service/product I've paid for. Who cares I don't have to pay for the CD only the case and the insert? I still don't have what I was expecting to pay for!
Since MN is advocating the use of the service by corporations to back up their databases... well, let's just say there won't be many takers when they find out a node with one of the chunks is no longer online and able to serve it.
It seems like a cool idea, but even if bandwidth went up drastically there probably still wouldn't be enough users with their computers on 24/7 waiting so serve a chunk for fractions of a penny. Sure this may pay for electricity and access fees eventually, but what if it doesn't? What if you find yourself with really unpopular chunks? Or what if your HD crashes and you start losing your karma/mojo rating or whatever's used to measure reliability and allow you to presumably charge more?
This is on a case by case basis already. CERT will delay (or speed up) the release of exploit details based on talks with the organization maintaining the software.
www.microsoft.ad one of the _best_ pages you've seen? Not to be jumping to conclusions, but I guess you haven't seen very many pages. Granted, it may be a better page than slashdot... but that's not saying much.
Here's the html for the main page btw. I mean, I'm just blown away by it...
Yup, stacks are a useful construct... I don't know for a fact, but I would guess gcc and other compilers represent a lot of stuff as stacks (expressions are almost a must) and then optimize and convert to assembly.
It almost reads beautifully. Except for all the +2 morons posting their crap at +2. Keep your personal comments in email or don't post them at +2! Offtopic followups (while they apparently mean so much to the posters) do't belong at that level. It is my mission in/. life to moderate such inconsiderate idiots down to the cesspool +1 has become.
Well, they'd probably have to make profit (or expect profits) from the subscription service. In any case, Napster isn't giving anything away for free, just their client software.
Intersting... it says under Linus that originally the Linux kernel had an extremely restrictive (in respect to commercial exploitation) licence, and only later the GNU licence was adopted. _More_ restrictive than GNU? I guess GNU says nothing about how much you can charge for the software, just that you must make the source easily available at no (or nominal) cost to the user. Anyone know what the original licence was?
Why are cell phones such a problem? If you don't like to be interrupted, turn off the ringer, let people leave voicemail. Don't like ICQ beping at you incessantly? Turn off the audio alerts and other incoming message alert features. Works great. Mine just sits there all day and I check it when I feel like it for new messages. Just like voicemail. You've probably missed the 'messaging' part of 'instant messaging'. As in communicating. There are other things you can do with ICQ and AIM besides chat with complete strangers at all hours of the day just because a window beeped at you.
Yep, this is called a self-selecting population, and it's really bad for your statistics. This becomes worse in things like political polls where people are self-selecting. You end up getting situations where vocal minorities who really do care about an issue can completely outweigh moderate or even apathetic majorities.
So how do you make natural gas? I'm not saying it's not possible, but it just strikes me as rather odd that a reaction with sun and some molecules in the air can produce natural gas... I mean, you'd think instead of building billions of dollars worth of pipelines and infrastructure we would just make the stuff in out backyards.
Of course there will be 'renegae' equipment out there. How much you wanna bet the 'standard' will cost a pile of $$$ to license and build into your product?
Of course 'more evil that satan himself' does not point to ms.com anymore. Instead it brings up all the pages talking about this particular search result:(
Yes, the 3M mouse thingy is great. But at the point where you _need_ that pad you should just go for an optical mouse instead. Logitech now makes them too, in case you have something against MS hardware.
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They don't. At least not yet. And the chip is not marketed to them anyways. People who are comparing a Celeron to a Duron and looking into an inegrated video/sound motherboard aren't even going to give this a secong look. They're irrelevant as far as this chip is concerned.
Now, as even faster cpus come out and the price is pushed down there won't be an excuse for buying a And software makers will just assume everyone's running at least a P3 of some sort and that's what they will code for. CPUs just come preprogrammed for a 3-5 year obsolescence cycle.
I myself am getting a little tired of people whining about how useless, overpriced, and power hungry the new Intel cpus are, and everyone should just ditch the crappy x86 architecture, and Alpha is just oh-so-cool and fast and efficient.
OK, but does it run Windows? Can I play Diablo in my spare time? Run exchange? There are some practical reasons for the dominance and price point of x86 architecture.
You can't separate need-extreme-speed people from have-lots-of-cash people. If you don't have the money there's no fast cpus for you I guess. Alpha or x86. And if you don't have lots of money what are you doing with all that data to analyze (oil&gas maybe)? And if you have lots of data (your research is not well funded?) maybe a (relatively) cheap off-the-shelf x86 is just the right fit for you.
Well, it doesn't. If I go a music store and buy a CD, I don't have to go across the street to get the case, across town to get the printed insert, over to Bob's house for the receipt only to find out a civil war broke out in Indonesia and I can't get the CD itself! I've paid for it, but I only have parts of the service/product I've paid for. Who cares I don't have to pay for the CD only the case and the insert? I still don't have what I was expecting to pay for!
Since MN is advocating the use of the service by corporations to back up their databases... well, let's just say there won't be many takers when they find out a node with one of the chunks is no longer online and able to serve it.
It seems like a cool idea, but even if bandwidth went up drastically there probably still wouldn't be enough users with their computers on 24/7 waiting so serve a chunk for fractions of a penny. Sure this may pay for electricity and access fees eventually, but what if it doesn't? What if you find yourself with really unpopular chunks? Or what if your HD crashes and you start losing your karma/mojo rating or whatever's used to measure reliability and allow you to presumably charge more?
This is on a case by case basis already. CERT will delay (or speed up) the release of exploit details based on talks with the organization maintaining the software.
What's up with the lameness filter? Not enough words?
Well, considering the guy hasn't _looked_ at the thing yet...
Here's the html for the main page btw. I mean, I'm just blown away by it...
<BODY BGCOLOR=#E9E9E9 TEXTCOLOR=#000000 LINK=#FF0000 ALINK=#FF0000 VLINK=#808080>
<TABLE COLS=1 WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="100" >
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Yup, stacks are a useful construct... I don't know for a fact, but I would guess gcc and other compilers represent a lot of stuff as stacks (expressions are almost a must) and then optimize and convert to assembly.
Oh, come on! A better headline would have been 'ACE2K Shows Windows The Door' :)
It almost reads beautifully. Except for all the +2 morons posting their crap at +2. Keep your personal comments in email or don't post them at +2! Offtopic followups (while they apparently mean so much to the posters) do't belong at that level. It is my mission in /. life to moderate such inconsiderate idiots down to the cesspool +1 has become.
Well, they'd probably have to make profit (or expect profits) from the subscription service. In any case, Napster isn't giving anything away for free, just their client software.
Intersting... it says under Linus that originally the Linux kernel had an extremely restrictive (in respect to commercial exploitation) licence, and only later the GNU licence was adopted. _More_ restrictive than GNU? I guess GNU says nothing about how much you can charge for the software, just that you must make the source easily available at no (or nominal) cost to the user. Anyone know what the original licence was?
The core of NT is actually NOT an OS, it's an OS framework. You layer all the OS parts on top of it.
You _can_ preview the message, you just can't edit it.
Why are cell phones such a problem? If you don't like to be interrupted, turn off the ringer, let people leave voicemail. Don't like ICQ beping at you incessantly? Turn off the audio alerts and other incoming message alert features. Works great. Mine just sits there all day and I check it when I feel like it for new messages. Just like voicemail. You've probably missed the 'messaging' part of 'instant messaging'. As in communicating. There are other things you can do with ICQ and AIM besides chat with complete strangers at all hours of the day just because a window beeped at you.
You mean like in elections?
So how do you make natural gas? I'm not saying it's not possible, but it just strikes me as rather odd that a reaction with sun and some molecules in the air can produce natural gas... I mean, you'd think instead of building billions of dollars worth of pipelines and infrastructure we would just make the stuff in out backyards.
Expect lots of machines to be rooted for this purpose :)
Yeah, yeah, there's always an Internet for sale on eBay...
It's a _satire_, a joke, fake news. There is no auction, not even a fake one, on eBay.
As written in the 2nd paragraph of the linked article: the 'auction' lasts for 10 days, starts at $1 and hopes to get $400B.
Huh? Lets not. The gag order has been lifted. You're not doing anything illegal.
No, no, no... your lock-door analogy is all wrong... For every better lock there is a bigger hammer to knock the door down with.
Of course there will be 'renegae' equipment out there. How much you wanna bet the 'standard' will cost a pile of $$$ to license and build into your product?
Of course 'more evil that satan himself' does not point to ms.com anymore. Instead it brings up all the pages talking about this particular search result :(
Yes, the 3M mouse thingy is great. But at the point where you _need_ that pad you should just go for an optical mouse instead. Logitech now makes them too, in case you have something against MS hardware.