> religion really needs to catch up with humanity and science
Uh religion has no need, much like information has no will.
*You* think that religion should evolve, but most religions leads to having priests which have no incentive to make things evolve and to the contrary often think that any novelty can reduce their power so avoid it at all costs.
There is no worse deaf than the one who doesn't want to listen, so any evolution, if any, will be very slow.
I had the same problem for saving files and it drove me mad but by removing the "default entry" for the MIMEtype (application/octet-stream I think) in the 'helper application' then mozilla used the file extension to identify the type of the file when the MIMEtype was the default, which happen quite often unfortunately.
IMHO this is a bug in Mozilla behaviour: it should tell the user which try to create an entry associated with application/octet-stream in the 'helper application' that it is usually a BAD idea and why..
A paper I've found interesting is on a GC which communicates with the VM systems to avoid putting too much load on the VM system. It needs a modification of the VM, but IMHO this is better than having to handtune the memory used by the GC. (Note: I'm not an expert in GC)
They are or they have been? Microsoft monopoly is largely a result of the cheap cost of the PC, they saw that by selling their OS cheap on cheap PCs they would own the market, and then the 'net effect' will ensure that they would stay dominant. What they are doing right is compatibility: as they understood that the 'net effect' is their strong point, they ensure compatibility with software installed basis so that they keep their advantage. This advantage for MS also hurt the consumers as MS don't push security very strongly as it could hurt the compatibility for the software installed base..
If your analogy worked, we could communicate 'instantaneously' using 'rotating coins': just stop it at a particular position and the other side would be able to read a message.
Whereas what's occuring in entanglement is much weirder: it is an 'instantaneous distant' action and yet it cannot be used to send data faster than light.
Wether we're browsing HTML webpages, PDF documents, etc.. the needs are the same and IMHO, the browser for readonly should appear mostly identical. To browse you need to: - navigate the document (back, forward), activate link to open a new document - zoom in, out. - register specific location....
Unfortunately some of these feature are not universal: you cannot bookmark a location in a PDF usually, which is annoying.. And those feature are usually incoherent: you do not use the same method to zoom in/out for a PDF or a for a webpage, too bad.
Sun's CPU isn't the first one to try using thread to hide latency, I remember that TERA's design was using even more thread, does anyone know if it has been successful in the marketplace? Did-it work well?
> A 16-bit memory access instruction can only access 16-bits of memory, period. It can't trash more than that.
I think that in RISCs, memory access is word aligned, so if you do a load 16, what the HW will do is fetch a 32bit word and then putting 16bit in your register. I'm not sure how writes are handled though.
Do the phone part die also or is-there some kind of dual-battery or some limitation which allows you to still use the phone but not the MP3 player?
That's my main objection to this kind of phone, while it doesn't bother me when my MP3 player goes down because of the battery, I wouldn't like to being no more able to send/receive a phone call..
Now if the battery is swappable as in an MP3 player, you can have a spare battery with you, is-it swappable?
You're right that even with 'well used' components, there may still be bugs and you must test both, unfortunately tests don't always show the problems (Murphy's "law") and using proven components may still be wise.
> It really doesn't matter what language you use: bugs can be written in any of them Sure but a VM is more complicated than a simple compiler as it adds another layer.. And being new is not an advantage either: I remember having being burnt by a GC bug in 1.1.7 (can't remember exactly which version it was in 98 I think) where the GC would remove objects when they were only referred by a static handle (classic singleton pattern). So by using a 'brand new' system, not only you have to care about your bugs but also about the bugs which weren't ironed out of the system yet.
For a system where reliability is paramount, I wouldn't go to the latest fashionable thing!
Does-it really matter? What's the problem to be in love with your 'half sister'?
I remember having seen a TV program where a brother and a sister were raised in different family, when they met, not knowing that they were related, they fell in love. They learned after that they were related but they decided to go on nonetheless: they're still together, married with normal children.
So first the odds are very low, second even when it happens the real problem is more on the 'psychological' part than on any real problem: if the couple above hadn't learn that they were related they would have been no different than any other normal couples..
> Nuclear is reliable, has a nearly inexhaustable fuel supply, and is well proven technology.
I grant one and three but not two! The uranium amount is far from being 'nearly inexhaustable', I remember vaguely that a study showed that if we switches from oil to uranium, the resource of uranium would be exhausted in two centuries. That's a long time, ok but it's quite far from being 'nearly inexhaustable'.
Someone mod the parent up? I agree and think that people put too much importance in biological links compared to what really matters: living together, educating the kids. Would it really matter if you're biological father/mother was someone else instead of your real (ie the one who have raised you) father/mother?
It takes 30sec/9 month to make a children, it takes *20 years* to raise a children!
Comparing latency in cycles with CPU with different clockspeed is stupid so I sent this email to the author of the article: >>> Hello, I noticed that in your article there is a table called latency where the various latency to access the RAM, cache are stored in cycle.
In my opinion, this is a mistake to have a table comparing latency in cycles (cycles/s is probably a mistake too) between CPUs with differing clock speed: say I have a 2GHz CPU accessing its cache in 10cycles and a 4GHz CPU accessing its cache in 15cycles, which CPU has the cache with the lower latency?
The 4GHz CPU of course because 15cycles * 1/(4*10^9)~= 3ns of latency whereas the 2GHz CPU has 10cycles * 1/(2*10^9) = 5ns of latency.
Considering that the web is a 'recipe for pornography' while the minitel isn't is a mistake: in truth FT the company operating the minitel was making a big part of the money with 'sex sites'.
Maybe this was possible only in France where sex is not too much a problem..
It probably helped that at the time, the sex was very abstract on the minitel: only crude drawings and text interaction, no photograph.
Apart from this inacurracy, I agree with the article.
> All these companies died mainly because the commodity computer makers could pump out new generations about three times faster and eventually catch up.
The improvement on general purpose CPU were mainly gained by increase of cache size, advanced pipelining and clock increase, all these factors seems to have somewhat be exploited to the max by current CPU so now Intel and AMD have to fall back on multi-core CPUs which need special purpose software to be exploited efficiently.
Still while NVidia and ATI can indeed ship new hardware generations as fast as the Intels and AMDs, they are mainly interested in customer market: I'm not sure that the 'scientific computing world' is big enough to interest them: for example, the current GPU do not provide 64-bit floating point number which are useful for scientific computing but not for games or video (32-bit being more than enough).
> Yeah, I admit it is (or it was) true. But as soon as person buys PS2 or other game console, the only reason for windows to exist on desktop dissapears. 99% of dual booting is just to play games.
Even if it was true, a console is not a replacement of a PC: try using a console for playing a flight sim for example.
> I don't think this is a very "used" or very "wanted" option anyway (you are the only person I ever heard about that wants to minimize windows that aren't in the current workview.)
Well, this is because I have my email browser which is mapped to 'all workview': when I maximise it, it is maximised in all the view, when I iconify it by using the short-cut or the desktop button, it is minimised only in the current workview which is annoying..
PS: the two days I've lost thanks to the lack of xkb documentation didn't made me smile..
2. > I'm almost sure there is an option in the control panel for this Well if there is I've not been able to find it and the help files doesn't help here. > But anyway, Windows DOES NOT HAVE multiple "workviews". And? We're talking about Linux here who cares about Windows? Linux has multiple workviews so I should be able to use them efficiently..
3. If you want to configure Windows "just a bit differently", you have to speak English, too. But why the hell are you talking about Windows? This is about Linux here.
For the record, I don't think that Windows is a good desktop either: just as yesterday my sister-in-law was locked out of her PC because the keyboard switched from AZERTY to QWERTY.. And the keyboard switcher is not accessible from the lock window (happened to me also once but I've was able to type the correct password because I'm used to switching between AZERTY and QWERTY, she isn't). And the Windows guy would throught about having shift+right click should be shot: the difference between right click and shift+right click is usually only one entry: 'Open With..' which sometimes is very handy and nobody knows about Shift+right click!
I'm not a troll, I'm just disappointed that the pundit described Linux as the best thing since sliced bread: it clearly isn't!
1. Except that it didn't do it the way I wanted: I wanted to use AltGr as a compose character to make the accents, which didn't work.
2. Nope, it iconify all windows in the current workview, not all windows on all the workview which is very annoying when you have a window shared on all workviews..
3. As said, if what you want is normal, KDE is easy, if you want to configure it just a 'bit differently', you have to speak English.
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> religion really needs to catch up with humanity and science
Uh religion has no need, much like information has no will.
*You* think that religion should evolve, but most religions leads to having priests which have no incentive to make things evolve and to the contrary often think that any novelty can reduce their power so avoid it at all costs.
There is no worse deaf than the one who doesn't want to listen, so any evolution, if any, will be very slow.
If properly configured, extensions do matter!
I had the same problem for saving files and it drove me mad but by removing the "default entry" for the MIMEtype (application/octet-stream I think) in the 'helper application' then mozilla used the file extension to identify the type of the file when the MIMEtype was the default, which happen quite often unfortunately.
IMHO this is a bug in Mozilla behaviour: it should tell the user which try to create an entry associated with application/octet-stream in the 'helper application' that it is usually a BAD idea and why..
A paper I've found interesting is on a GC which communicates with the VM systems to avoid putting too much load on the VM system.
It needs a modification of the VM, but IMHO this is better than having to handtune the memory used by the GC. (Note: I'm not an expert in GC)
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/04-16.pdf
If you do not use NULL, what do you put in say the maidden name of a man?
I think that it makes more sense to use a null value than an empty string.
> Which is true: they are doing something right.
They are or they have been? Microsoft monopoly is largely a result of the cheap cost of the PC, they saw that by selling their OS cheap on cheap PCs they would own the market, and then the 'net effect' will ensure that they would stay dominant.
What they are doing right is compatibility: as they understood that the 'net effect' is their strong point, they ensure compatibility with software installed basis so that they keep their advantage.
This advantage for MS also hurt the consumers as MS don't push security very strongly as it could hurt the compatibility for the software installed base..
If your analogy worked, we could communicate 'instantaneously' using 'rotating coins': just stop it at a particular position and the other side would be able to read a message.
Whereas what's occuring in entanglement is much weirder: it is an 'instantaneous distant' action and yet it cannot be used to send data faster than light.
Wether we're browsing HTML webpages, PDF documents, etc.. the needs are the same and IMHO, the browser for readonly should appear mostly identical. ...
To browse you need to:
- navigate the document (back, forward), activate link to open a new document
- zoom in, out.
- register specific location.
Unfortunately some of these feature are not universal: you cannot bookmark a location in a PDF usually, which is annoying..
And those feature are usually incoherent: you do not use the same method to zoom in/out for a PDF or a for a webpage, too bad.
Sun's CPU isn't the first one to try using thread to hide latency, I remember that TERA's design was using even more thread, does anyone know if it has been successful in the marketplace?
Did-it work well?
> A 16-bit memory access instruction can only access 16-bits of memory, period. It can't trash more than that.
I think that in RISCs, memory access is word aligned, so if you do a load 16, what the HW will do is fetch a 32bit word and then putting 16bit in your register.
I'm not sure how writes are handled though.
Do the phone part die also or is-there some kind of dual-battery or some limitation which allows you to still use the phone but not the MP3 player?
That's my main objection to this kind of phone, while it doesn't bother me when my MP3 player goes down because of the battery, I wouldn't like to being no more able to send/receive a phone call..
Now if the battery is swappable as in an MP3 player, you can have a spare battery with you, is-it swappable?
You're right that even with 'well used' components, there may still be bugs and you must test both, unfortunately tests don't always show the problems (Murphy's "law") and using proven components may still be wise.
> It really doesn't matter what language you use: bugs can be written in any of them
Sure but a VM is more complicated than a simple compiler as it adds another layer..
And being new is not an advantage either: I remember having being burnt by a GC bug in 1.1.7 (can't remember exactly which version it was in 98 I think) where the GC would remove objects when they were only referred by a static handle (classic singleton pattern).
So by using a 'brand new' system, not only you have to care about your bugs but also about the bugs which weren't ironed out of the system yet.
For a system where reliability is paramount, I wouldn't go to the latest fashionable thing!
Does-it really matter? What's the problem to be in love with your 'half sister'?
I remember having seen a TV program where a brother and a sister were raised in different family, when they met, not knowing that they were related, they fell in love. They learned after that they were related but they decided to go on nonetheless: they're still together, married with normal children.
So first the odds are very low, second even when it happens the real problem is more on the 'psychological' part than on any real problem: if the couple above hadn't learn that they were related they would have been no different than any other normal couples..
> Nuclear is reliable, has a nearly inexhaustable fuel supply, and is well proven technology.
I grant one and three but not two!
The uranium amount is far from being 'nearly inexhaustable', I remember vaguely that a study showed that if we switches from oil to uranium, the resource of uranium would be exhausted in two centuries.
That's a long time, ok but it's quite far from being 'nearly inexhaustable'.
> and the whiners just need to grown the fsck up already.
Agreed, but hey in this case he is fifteen years old! Give him time..
Someone mod the parent up?
I agree and think that people put too much importance in biological links compared to what really matters: living together, educating the kids.
Would it really matter if you're biological father/mother was someone else instead of your real (ie the one who have raised you) father/mother?
It takes 30sec/9 month to make a children, it takes *20 years* to raise a children!
Comparing latency in cycles with CPU with different clockspeed is stupid so I sent this email to the author of the article:
>>>
Hello,
I noticed that in your article there is a table called latency where the various latency to access the RAM, cache are stored in cycle.
In my opinion, this is a mistake to have a table comparing latency in cycles (cycles/s is probably a mistake too) between CPUs with differing clock speed: say I have a 2GHz CPU accessing its cache in 10cycles and a 4GHz CPU accessing its cache in 15cycles, which CPU has the cache with the lower latency?
The 4GHz CPU of course because 15cycles * 1/(4*10^9)~= 3ns of latency
whereas the 2GHz CPU has 10cycles * 1/(2*10^9) = 5ns of latency.
So please fix this mistake..
Considering that the web is a 'recipe for pornography' while the minitel isn't is a mistake: in truth FT the company operating the minitel was making a big part of the money with 'sex sites'.
Maybe this was possible only in France where sex is not too much a problem..
It probably helped that at the time, the sex was very abstract on the minitel: only crude drawings and text interaction, no photograph.
Apart from this inacurracy, I agree with the article.
> All these companies died mainly because the commodity computer makers could pump out new generations about three times faster and eventually catch up.
The improvement on general purpose CPU were mainly gained by increase of cache size, advanced pipelining and clock increase, all these factors seems to have somewhat be exploited to the max by current CPU so now Intel and AMD have to fall back on multi-core CPUs which need special purpose software to be exploited efficiently.
Still while NVidia and ATI can indeed ship new hardware generations as fast as the Intels and AMDs, they are mainly interested in customer market: I'm not sure that the 'scientific computing world' is big enough to interest them: for example, the current GPU do not provide 64-bit floating point number which are useful for scientific computing but not for games or video (32-bit being more than enough).
> Yeah, I admit it is (or it was) true. But as soon as person buys PS2 or other game console, the only reason for windows to exist on desktop dissapears. 99% of dual booting is just to play games.
Even if it was true, a console is not a replacement of a PC: try using a console for playing a flight sim for example.
> I don't think this is a very "used" or very "wanted" option anyway (you are the only person I ever heard about that wants to minimize windows that aren't in the current workview.)
Well, this is because I have my email browser which is mapped to 'all workview': when I maximise it, it is maximised in all the view, when I iconify it by using the short-cut or the desktop button, it is minimised only in the current workview which is annoying..
PS: the two days I've lost thanks to the lack of xkb documentation didn't made me smile..
1. and xkb documentation *suck bigtime*!
2.
> I'm almost sure there is an option in the control panel for this
Well if there is I've not been able to find it and the help files doesn't help here.
> But anyway, Windows DOES NOT HAVE multiple "workviews".
And? We're talking about Linux here who cares about Windows?
Linux has multiple workviews so I should be able to use them efficiently..
3. If you want to configure Windows "just a bit differently", you have to speak English, too.
But why the hell are you talking about Windows? This is about Linux here.
For the record, I don't think that Windows is a good desktop either: just as yesterday my sister-in-law was locked out of her PC because the keyboard switched from AZERTY to QWERTY.. And the keyboard switcher is not accessible from the lock window (happened to me also once but I've was able to type the correct password because I'm used to switching between AZERTY and QWERTY, she isn't).
And the Windows guy would throught about having shift+right click should be shot: the difference between right click and shift+right click is usually only one entry: 'Open With..' which sometimes is very handy and nobody knows about Shift+right click!
I'm not a troll, I'm just disappointed that the pundit described Linux as the best thing since sliced bread: it clearly isn't!
I speak English sure, but many people do not!
1. Except that it didn't do it the way I wanted: I wanted to use AltGr as a compose character to make the accents, which didn't work.
2. Nope, it iconify all windows in the current workview, not all windows on all the workview which is very annoying when you have a window shared on all workviews..
3. As said, if what you want is normal, KDE is easy, if you want to configure it just a 'bit differently', you have to speak English.
Thanks for the correction, you're right.
Still to put it into perspective Intel floating point goes up to 80bit (less if your using the vector units).