Yeah! Tom Cruise plays an up-and-coming young lawyer who flies to a remote island near Central America in order to protect his young client from rampaging albino Mafioso dinosaurs who have time-travelled from the past in a giant sphere, but before he gets there they're all killed by a mutant strain of influenza that leaves Earth when Tom presents it with a restraining order.
Oops, sorry... I didn't kill any lawyers. OK, Tom dies on the way back from the island when a female Japanese cannibal stows away aboard his helicopter and eats him alive after having a night of wild sex with him, even though he's married - but it's OK because his wife never finds out.
The difference in FP speed between gcc and ccc isn't really because of the compiler - it's just that ccc uses a highly-tuned FP math library, compared to the strictly 'correct' but slower routines in the gcc math library.
In contrast, the Itanium actually requires the compiler to do most of the work of reordering instructions for optimal execution speed. The Alpha, on the other hand, has very good reordering built in.
Not really comparable, since the Alphas I have were designed and sold more than five years before the Athlon was put on the market.
To give you an idea though, my 600MHz 21164 can keep up with my 1GHz PIII for floating point-heavy calculations. It's about half the speed of the PIII for integer work.
The P4 has a minimum mispredict penalty of 19 clock cycles for code that's in the L1 cache--that's the minimum; the damage can be much worse, especially if the correct branch can't be found in the L1 cache. (In such a scenario, the penalty is upwards of 30 cycles). The G4e's 7-stage pipeline doesn't pay nearly as high of a price for mispredict as the P4, but it does take more of a hit for one than its 4-stage predecessor, the G4. The G4e has a minimum mispredict penalty of 6 clock cycles, as opposed to the G4's minimum penalty of only 4 cycles.
I remember seeing a news story about a town where entire families have been mutilated and diseased due to the presence of a chemical plant dumping straight into the ocean (they had a pipe running straight from the factory to the shore) where each victim ended up with ~$10k for a lifetime of heinous suffering and deformity.
That would be Minamata. A factory was dumping mercury-tainted waste into the bay; the people in the area ate fish caught nearby, which had absorbed and concentrated the mercury. What really sucks is that the lawsuit was dragged out over so many years by the prefectural government (which was also a defendant in the case, for negligence) that most of the people harmed eventually died before the case came to a conclusion.
Yeah, but now imagine that the company that supplied that tape had been informed six months ago that the same problem occurred in all its products, and still refused to do jack shit about it.
They're not after the money for themselves (hell, 10000 yen doesn't buy a hell of a lot in Japan - the FotR DVD special edition goes for around 8000 yen here), but rather to prevent Buena Vista or other companies from pulling the same trick again.
Shinjuku gets between 3 and 4 million people through a day (for the sake of argument, let's split it and say 3.5 million), and it's open from about 5am to about 1am the following morning. Assuming that a single visitor spends an average of 10 minutes in the station, that means that...
3,500,000 / ((20 * 60 * 60) / (60 * 10)) = 29166
So there's roughly 30,000 people in the station at any particular second during its operating hours.
Hello, dipshit. Just because the only colour adjectives you learned in Japanese were those sufficient to cover the range of hair colours in your porn anime rips, doesn't mean those are the only ones in the language. Try looking up 'daidaiiro', 'nezumiiro', 'kitsuneiro', 'murasaki', or 'kon'. There's plenty of others, too.
And as for the "brown is just tea-colored" thing, well, guess where English got the color adjectives 'orange' and 'violet' from.
Screw Itanium. An architecture that requires a highly-tuned compiler to optimize software well enough that it doesn't stutter from huge branch prediction misses is not a worthy successor to the Alpha. Excellent firmware, elegant architecture, good speed/MHz ratio...
I own three Alphas (a Personal Workstation 600, an Alphastation 255, and a homebuilt machine using a PC64+ motherboard), and they're great machines to use. I'm currently on the lookout for an ES40 - when I see one for below a couple of thousand dollars, I'm going to snap it up.
Unfortunately, "Number of the Beast" was a steaming pile of camel dung, written after Heinlein got onto his sex-with-young-women-who-happen-to-be-your-relativ e schtick.
Yeah, keep on believing that, dickwad. The other day, I had to spend half an hour on the phone with our tech services department in the UK because NT decided to destroy the files it required for booting off the RAID array on our mail gateway. No way of finding out what happened, no way of predicting if or when it might happen again... welcome to Microsoft's vision of the perfect OS.
Wrong one. That's his former address, apparently - it currently belongs to someone else.
The one you're after is: Buyer: ALAN M RALSKY Buyer Mailing Address: 6747 MINNOW POND DR, WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI 48322 Seller: BING CONSTRUCTION CO Property Address: 6747 MINNOW POND DR, WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI 48322 Sale Date: 8/28/2002 Recorded Date: 9/12/2002 Sale Price: $ 740,000 (Full Amount)
And a picture of the location is available at:
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/addressim ag e.aspx?t=1&s=10&lon=-83.4306683068011&lat=42.53497 71549766&alon=-83.43067008&alat=42.53497312&w=1&re f=A%7c6747+Minnow+Pond+Dr%2c+West+Bloomfield%2c+MI +48322
...since both the ATI Mobility 9000 and nVidia GeForce4 Ti4200 are no longer considered high end...
Geez, since when? Last Wednesday? I still play with a Voodoo2. and except for Tribes2, every game I've tried has been at least reasonably playable (although it'd never win any framerate competitions).
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OK, sorry. It was a cheap and easy shot ;)
So, to summarize, you hate everything that's popular.
Lemme guess... you use BSD.
Yeah! Tom Cruise plays an up-and-coming young lawyer who flies to a remote island near Central America in order to protect his young client from rampaging albino Mafioso dinosaurs who have time-travelled from the past in a giant sphere, but before he gets there they're all killed by a mutant strain of influenza that leaves Earth when Tom presents it with a restraining order.
Oops, sorry... I didn't kill any lawyers. OK, Tom dies on the way back from the island when a female Japanese cannibal stows away aboard his helicopter and eats him alive after having a night of wild sex with him, even though he's married - but it's OK because his wife never finds out.
The difference in FP speed between gcc and ccc isn't really because of the compiler - it's just that ccc uses a highly-tuned FP math library, compared to the strictly 'correct' but slower routines in the gcc math library.
In contrast, the Itanium actually requires the compiler to do most of the work of reordering instructions for optimal execution speed. The Alpha, on the other hand, has very good reordering built in.
Not really comparable, since the Alphas I have were designed and sold more than five years before the Athlon was put on the market.
To give you an idea though, my 600MHz 21164 can keep up with my 1GHz PIII for floating point-heavy calculations. It's about half the speed of the PIII for integer work.
Ahem...
The P4 has a minimum mispredict penalty of 19 clock cycles for code that's in the L1 cache--that's the minimum; the damage can be much worse, especially if the correct branch can't be found in the L1 cache. (In such a scenario, the penalty is upwards of 30 cycles). The G4e's 7-stage pipeline doesn't pay nearly as high of a price for mispredict as the P4, but it does take more of a hit for one than its 4-stage predecessor, the G4. The G4e has a minimum mispredict penalty of 6 clock cycles, as opposed to the G4's minimum penalty of only 4 cycles.
I remember seeing a news story about a town where entire families have been mutilated and diseased due to the presence of a chemical plant dumping straight into the ocean (they had a pipe running straight from the factory to the shore) where each victim ended up with ~$10k for a lifetime of heinous suffering and deformity.
That would be Minamata. A factory was dumping mercury-tainted waste into the bay; the people in the area ate fish caught nearby, which had absorbed and concentrated the mercury.
What really sucks is that the lawsuit was dragged out over so many years by the prefectural government (which was also a defendant in the case, for negligence) that most of the people harmed eventually died before the case came to a conclusion.
Yeah, but now imagine that the company that supplied that tape had been informed six months ago that the same problem occurred in all its products, and still refused to do jack shit about it.
They're not after the money for themselves (hell, 10000 yen doesn't buy a hell of a lot in Japan - the FotR DVD special edition goes for around 8000 yen here), but rather to prevent Buena Vista or other companies from pulling the same trick again.
Hmm, well, let's see...
Shinjuku gets between 3 and 4 million people through a day (for the sake of argument, let's split it and say 3.5 million), and it's open from about 5am to about 1am the following morning.
Assuming that a single visitor spends an average of 10 minutes in the station, that means that...
3,500,000 / ((20 * 60 * 60) / (60 * 10)) = 29166
So there's roughly 30,000 people in the station at any particular second during its operating hours.
Hello, dipshit. Just because the only colour adjectives you learned in Japanese were those sufficient to cover the range of hair colours in your porn anime rips, doesn't mean those are the only ones in the language. Try looking up 'daidaiiro', 'nezumiiro', 'kitsuneiro', 'murasaki', or 'kon'. There's plenty of others, too.
And as for the "brown is just tea-colored" thing, well, guess where English got the color adjectives 'orange' and 'violet' from.
Pity your "mother" and "father" didn't do the same thing before they spawned you, you sad little sack of shit.
Screw Itanium. An architecture that requires a highly-tuned compiler to optimize software well enough that it doesn't stutter from huge branch prediction misses is not a worthy successor to the Alpha. Excellent firmware, elegant architecture, good speed/MHz ratio...
I own three Alphas (a Personal Workstation 600, an Alphastation 255, and a homebuilt machine using a PC64+ motherboard), and they're great machines to use. I'm currently on the lookout for an ES40 - when I see one for below a couple of thousand dollars, I'm going to snap it up.
Unfortunately, "Number of the Beast" was a steaming pile of camel dung, written after Heinlein got onto his sex-with-young-women-who-happen-to-be-your-relativ e schtick.
I already tried this (with The Browser Formerly Known As Phoenix), and it works fine.
Download the content tarball that's listed on the same page.
Yeah, keep on believing that, dickwad.
The other day, I had to spend half an hour on the phone with our tech services department in the UK because NT decided to destroy the files it required for booting off the RAID array on our mail gateway.
No way of finding out what happened, no way of predicting if or when it might happen again... welcome to Microsoft's vision of the perfect OS.
How about a KILLER game for the *nix platform which can NOT be run on windows........
And how, exactly, does that make the *nix community better than Microsoft and the companies that produce software for Windows?
Well, you must be doing something wrong, because I've had perhaps two crashes in three months of usage of Mozilla 1.0 on NT.
On the other hand, IE tends to go down once every two or three days.
Sound works for me (Vine Linux 2.5 + Phoenix 0.4 + Flash6 beta).
Bad form to reply to my own post, I know, but...
I just gave this a try (Flash6 beta + Phoenix 0.4) and it WORKS! Woohoo!!
Mozilla + Flash was the last thing I was waiting for to set up a remote X terminal for my son.
Question - does this release fix the braindead problem with Flash that prevents it working with Mozilla on a remote display?
Wrong one. That's his former address, apparently - it currently belongs to someone else.
m ag e.aspx?t=1&s=10&lon=-83.4306683068011&lat=42.53497 71549766&alon=-83.43067008&alat=42.53497312&w=1&re f=A%7c6747+Minnow+Pond+Dr%2c+West+Bloomfield%2c+MI +48322
The one you're after is:
Buyer: ALAN M RALSKY
Buyer Mailing Address:
6747 MINNOW POND DR, WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI 48322
Seller: BING CONSTRUCTION CO
Property Address: 6747 MINNOW POND DR, WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI 48322
Sale Date: 8/28/2002
Recorded Date: 9/12/2002
Sale Price: $ 740,000 (Full Amount)
And a picture of the location is available at:
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/addressi
...since both the ATI Mobility 9000 and nVidia GeForce4 Ti4200 are no longer considered high end...
Geez, since when? Last Wednesday?
I still play with a Voodoo2. and except for Tribes2, every game I've tried has been at least reasonably playable (although it'd never win any framerate competitions).