I'm sorry but in some states, the sodomy is banned. I think that masturbation may be also illegal, but I'm not sure.
So there is the freedom of speech (even for nazis) but there isn't the freedom of the "body".
For me, the true freedom is: the freedom of speech AND the freedom of the body.
The freedom of the body implies having the right to do anything as long as it doesn't infrige on the liberty of anyone else..
From a "foreigner" POV, it is quite obvious that the USA have "glaring gaps" in their so called freedom.
It is always much more easy to see what wrong in the other country than in your own country..
I don't think that the X-Box will be powered by a NVidia GeForce2 but by a "special" (UMA memory: shared between CPU and videocard) version of their future NV20.
The NV20 will be the fist chip to implement fully in hardware the DirectX8 spec..
And as for the 700 MHz processor, remember that it is a PIII in the X-Box, so games will be optimised for the PIII..
I believe that as the X-Box is a "fixed target", there is a possibility that games will be much more optimised for this configuration than for all the other configurations..
Will this cause some troubles with AMD CPUs or not?
It's difficult to say..
OTOH I thinks that Athlon Thunderbirds are (in most benchmarks) more powerfull than PIII at the same clock, it will help alleviate the "optimised for PIII problem"..
Because if everybody starts driving heavier cars, you go back to the beginning.. a classic "prisonners dilemna" I would say.
And its the nature which loose if everybody starts using heavier cars, because heavier cars needs more energy..
Of course it supposes that people do care about ecology which is quite doubtfull for the "average american".. (we're on/. right?)
PS: this is not a flame, just what anyone can deduce from the average energy-consumption per man in the USA..
Then:
- Some RISC implementations are speed-daemons (like the Alpha at the beginning), those usually enforce strict instruction ordering to have good performances.
- Some RISC implementations are more "brainiac" type (like the last Alpha implementation): they rely more on heavy ILP than speed, those type of RISC are usually able to have good performances even with "not-so-good" compilers.
To came back to the P4 topic, I think that all this whining is that the P4 is a "speed demon" oriented design: it has all it needs to scale to a very high clock speed, but to be really usefull it needs GOOD compilers and a huge clock-speed advantage over the other CPU.
So, currently the P4 sucks IMHO, but in one year it may be the king!
They apply "catholic rules" for each user whether he is catholic or not!
So you may say, just don't use this ISP, but what-if it is the only one available for you?
It is really incredible that those church people thinks they can decide what EVERYBODY should do, should see etc.
That they can decide what is good or bad for the people that share their religion, this I can understand, but why oh why do they try to enforce their rules to all the other???
It really shows that religious people (unfortunately this is not limited to catholicism) have really NO RESPECT for all those who dares not think in the same way even if "modern religious people" pretends the opposite.
Well in your experience maybe but in my experience the speed of the GUI goes from:
- fastest: BeOS
- then Windows (without its Web-like rendering though)
- then X11.
They are usually ranked this way for speed.
And as for "better advantage of parallelism", I'd like to remind that 99% of home-users have only one CPU now. It may or may not change in the future but for now Linux is disadvantaged by the slowness of its GUI.
It has many advantages but the speed of all these graphics layers is not an advantage!
The integration is not so good.
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I have recently looked at Eiffel# for example, it is only a single-inheritence version of Eiffel!!
You can call this an Eiffel look-alike if you wish but for me it is not Eiffel..
I hope that the other # language are less castrated than Eiffel...
And I would say, that here the habit and the culture are often much more important than genes.
Your case is clearly a case of habit.
There are much more people with a weight problem in the US than in Europe, why?
Our genes are quite similar, and you can find plenty of food in Europe too.
I don't think so: there is no "cookies" in the Minitel, no hidden information was sentm so any information should be entered each time by the customer.
Of course often you had only to enter your personnal information once, after that you had a customer number which was shorter to enter the next time you wanted to shop using the same service.
Here it is:
First, I would like to remind that all the software doesn't suck: the software which is used in plane, car etc. doesn't suck usually.
Well, there are exceptions as reminded by Ariane V demise, but usually the software here is very very high quality!
So software sucks is an "over-generalisation", I would say.
You could say that "consumer oriented software" sucks but it is still not true: many oven, washing-machine, etc have software but they are rarely recalled because of a software problem..
But you can say that software for Personnal Computers (be it PC,Mac,etc) sucks, this is true IMHO.
Why? Because people always go for the less expensive software and hardware..
But I'm writting you for the following sentence:"You can't just slap any arbitrary user interface onto Unix, because Unix dictates its inner self onto all layers that ride atop it.".
Talk about an embarrassing sentence, one word: MacOSX !
X-Windows doesn't belong to Unix, so you can indeed slap whichever user interface you want ontop of Unix!
Sure it is hard work because developing ANY user interface is hard work, but you CAN.
So here Lanier is making a big, big mistake.
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IMHO Linux won't suck when you're mother will be able to use it of course it should also stay as powerfull and stable..
As a French I've witnessed the great success of the Minitel, and then the arrival of the Internet era.
E-commerce (e stands for electronic? Right, so it applies also to Minitel) has been a reality on the Minitel well before on Internet: VPC, buying train-tickets, making reservations etc..
It was quite fun seeing all the hype about the Internet when (at the beginning) it was doing much fewer things.
I've always wondered why the Minitel didn't evolve at all since its beginning : same slow connection, no images, etc.
E-commerce on the Internet has still some problems due to security concerns, when this last problem will be solved, the Minitel will be definitely dead, right now it is dying but it is not totally buried, yet:-)
While I agree with you that there have been many advance beside just fitting more transistor on a chip, I do not agree with many points.
1) You know OOO Instruction Scheduling is quite tricky to implement and takes many transistors, so unless you have a really big die size, it wouldn't have been possible with "big transistors".
3) The IC design tools are needed also because you have a huge number of transistors, even if it is not the only reason.
4) One of the most obvious subsystem advance is the cache level hierarchy.. which use a huge number of transistors.
MRAM won't be available soon, so the dilemna between RDRAM and DDRAM will be long forgotten.
An Amulet processor while having very low power consumption (no clock) is not very powerfull so in a few years it would look very underpowered for a laptop, maybe a PDA would be a better place.
Who cares about the need of a new motherboard, you wont see this until many years!
This is already done in the SPARC ISA, which means that your register number is a now an offset in the "window register" (stack) not an absolute offset.
It has already been investigated numerous times, and apparently you don't gain that much for the SPARC implementation.
Now for the IA64, it enables some kind of automatic software pipelining which is really nifty (if a bit dificult to undestand).
The only thing I'm wondering is : at which price (how mant transistors, etc) does it come?
Still avoiding code bloat while having software pipelining is really neat!
Inferior to what?
FrameMaker works on UNIX also, and last I looked there wasn't too many differences between UNIX and Linux!!
I think that it makes sense for Adobe: FrameMaker cost big bucks and many Linux users are quite cost sensitive, so the market would be quite small.
Still, it is a pity: FrameMaker is a really, really good product.
If I remember well, KWord is directly inspired by FrameMaker, but reaching the same level as FrameMaker will be hard and it will take time if it ever succeed..
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Remenber that many users don't speak English, and know nothing in computer science.
For these users, the boot messages are plain garbage..
As long as distros, gives you the ability to turn off this feature, I don't mind at all.
Ask yourself if you were installing a computer for your grandma, wouldn't you turn this feature on?
So as long as you may turn it on/off easily, this a good feature.
I'm sorry but in some states, the sodomy is banned. I think that masturbation may be also illegal, but I'm not sure.
So there is the freedom of speech (even for nazis) but there isn't the freedom of the "body".
For me, the true freedom is: the freedom of speech AND the freedom of the body.
The freedom of the body implies having the right to do anything as long as it doesn't infrige on the liberty of anyone else..
From a "foreigner" POV, it is quite obvious that the USA have "glaring gaps" in their so called freedom.
It is always much more easy to see what wrong in the other country than in your own country..
I don't think that the X-Box will be powered by a NVidia GeForce2 but by a "special" (UMA memory: shared between CPU and videocard) version of their future NV20.
The NV20 will be the fist chip to implement fully in hardware the DirectX8 spec..
And as for the 700 MHz processor, remember that it is a PIII in the X-Box, so games will be optimised for the PIII..
I believe that as the X-Box is a "fixed target", there is a possibility that games will be much more optimised for this configuration than for all the other configurations..
Will this cause some troubles with AMD CPUs or not?
It's difficult to say..
OTOH I thinks that Athlon Thunderbirds are (in most benchmarks) more powerfull than PIII at the same clock, it will help alleviate the "optimised for PIII problem"..
Yes, but this quite a simplification.
/. right?)
Because if everybody starts driving heavier cars, you go back to the beginning.. a classic "prisonners dilemna" I would say.
And its the nature which loose if everybody starts using heavier cars, because heavier cars needs more energy..
Of course it supposes that people do care about ecology which is quite doubtfull for the "average american".. (we're on
PS: this is not a flame, just what anyone can deduce from the average energy-consumption per man in the USA..
First RISC is all about ISA, not implementation.
Then:
- Some RISC implementations are speed-daemons (like the Alpha at the beginning), those usually enforce strict instruction ordering to have good performances.
- Some RISC implementations are more "brainiac" type (like the last Alpha implementation): they rely more on heavy ILP than speed, those type of RISC are usually able to have good performances even with "not-so-good" compilers.
To came back to the P4 topic, I think that all this whining is that the P4 is a "speed demon" oriented design: it has all it needs to scale to a very high clock speed, but to be really usefull it needs GOOD compilers and a huge clock-speed advantage over the other CPU.
So, currently the P4 sucks IMHO, but in one year it may be the king!
Let's wait and see...
They apply "catholic rules" for each user whether he is catholic or not!
So you may say, just don't use this ISP, but what-if it is the only one available for you?
It is really incredible that those church people thinks they can decide what EVERYBODY should do, should see etc.
That they can decide what is good or bad for the people that share their religion, this I can understand, but why oh why do they try to enforce their rules to all the other???
It really shows that religious people (unfortunately this is not limited to catholicism) have really NO RESPECT for all those who dares not think in the same way even if "modern religious people" pretends the opposite.
Well in your experience maybe but in my experience the speed of the GUI goes from:
- fastest: BeOS
- then Windows (without its Web-like rendering though)
- then X11.
They are usually ranked this way for speed.
And as for "better advantage of parallelism", I'd like to remind that 99% of home-users have only one CPU now. It may or may not change in the future but for now Linux is disadvantaged by the slowness of its GUI.
It has many advantages but the speed of all these graphics layers is not an advantage!
I have recently looked at Eiffel# for example, it is only a single-inheritence version of Eiffel!!
You can call this an Eiffel look-alike if you wish but for me it is not Eiffel..
I hope that the other # language are less castrated than Eiffel...
"is bad" in the sence of having too many people with an overweight problem.
..
Because of the MacDonald / fast food / junk food
Why?
Well you need a cheap Internet connection or even better a broadband connection.
I would like to remenber CmdrTaco (and other) that a huge part of the planet have not such things, so do not be so US centrics..
And I would say, that here the habit and the culture are often much more important than genes.
Your case is clearly a case of habit.
There are much more people with a weight problem in the US than in Europe, why?
Our genes are quite similar, and you can find plenty of food in Europe too.
It is a matter of cultural differences..
You misread, the diameter is on the order of a nanometer not micrometer.
I don't think so: there is no "cookies" in the Minitel, no hidden information was sentm so any information should be entered each time by the customer.
Of course often you had only to enter your personnal information once, after that you had a customer number which was shorter to enter the next time you wanted to shop using the same service.
Here it is:
First, I would like to remind that all the software doesn't suck: the software which is used in plane, car etc. doesn't suck usually.
Well, there are exceptions as reminded by Ariane V demise, but usually the software here is very very high quality!
So software sucks is an "over-generalisation", I would say.
You could say that "consumer oriented software" sucks but it is still not true: many oven, washing-machine, etc have software but they are rarely recalled because of a software problem..
But you can say that software for Personnal Computers (be it PC,Mac,etc) sucks, this is true IMHO.
Why? Because people always go for the less expensive software and hardware..
But I'm writting you for the following sentence:"You can't just slap any arbitrary user interface onto Unix, because Unix dictates its inner self onto all layers that ride atop it.".
Talk about an embarrassing sentence, one word: MacOSX !
X-Windows doesn't belong to Unix, so you can indeed slap whichever user interface you want ontop of Unix!
Sure it is hard work because developing ANY user interface is hard work, but you CAN.
So here Lanier is making a big, big mistake.
********
IMHO Linux won't suck when you're mother will be able to use it of course it should also stay as powerfull and stable..
is quite interesting really.
:-)
As a French I've witnessed the great success of the Minitel, and then the arrival of the Internet era.
E-commerce (e stands for electronic? Right, so it applies also to Minitel) has been a reality on the Minitel well before on Internet: VPC, buying train-tickets, making reservations etc..
It was quite fun seeing all the hype about the Internet when (at the beginning) it was doing much fewer things.
I've always wondered why the Minitel didn't evolve at all since its beginning : same slow connection, no images, etc.
E-commerce on the Internet has still some problems due to security concerns, when this last problem will be solved, the Minitel will be definitely dead, right now it is dying but it is not totally buried, yet
It's not totally black or totally white!
.. which use a huge number of transistors.
While I agree with you that there have been many advance beside just fitting more transistor on a chip, I do not agree with many points.
1) You know OOO Instruction Scheduling is quite tricky to implement and takes many transistors, so unless you have a really big die size, it wouldn't have been possible with "big transistors".
3) The IC design tools are needed also because you have a huge number of transistors, even if it is not the only reason.
4) One of the most obvious subsystem advance is the cache level hierarchy
And worrying about if a new motherboard will be needed in two years is insightfull??
And if you believe the release-date of new product like this, then I have a bridge to sell to you.
I don't care at all about this moderation system if you want to know.
Moderators, come on! This is not insightfull.
MRAM won't be available soon, so the dilemna between RDRAM and DDRAM will be long forgotten.
An Amulet processor while having very low power consumption (no clock) is not very powerfull so in a few years it would look very underpowered for a laptop, maybe a PDA would be a better place.
Who cares about the need of a new motherboard, you wont see this until many years!
I realised my mistake two hours after having posted.
:-)
Indeed the "register window" and "rotating the register" are different things.
And I was trying to clear a mistake about rotating a register vs rotating the register stack. How ironical !
Some says that it helps getting a better memory.
You already posted this on November the First.
If you can't rely on your own memory, why don't you do a search before?
Not bitwise rotating a register.
This is already done in the SPARC ISA, which means that your register number is a now an offset in the "window register" (stack) not an absolute offset.
It has already been investigated numerous times, and apparently you don't gain that much for the SPARC implementation.
Now for the IA64, it enables some kind of automatic software pipelining which is really nifty (if a bit dificult to undestand).
The only thing I'm wondering is : at which price (how mant transistors, etc) does it come?
Still avoiding code bloat while having software pipelining is really neat!
DDR? Boring!
Here is a really interesting link about a possible successor of DDR: EDDR.
Warning! It is only for those who are really interested in memory as it goes quite into details..
To summarise for everyone, the EDDR memory is trying to reduce latency by adding some SRAM next to the memory.
I don't know why this interview came on /.
There is nothing to learn, it is just marketing bla-bla.
They ask: Why aren't you shipping ReiserFS, or Mandrake ?
He doesn't answer at all!
I think that RedHat suffer from a serious case of NIH syndrome for some parts..
>> * Inferior architecture
Inferior to what?
FrameMaker works on UNIX also, and last I looked there wasn't too many differences between UNIX and Linux!!
I think that it makes sense for Adobe: FrameMaker cost big bucks and many Linux users are quite cost sensitive, so the market would be quite small.
Still, it is a pity: FrameMaker is a really, really good product.
If I remember well, KWord is directly inspired by FrameMaker, but reaching the same level as FrameMaker will be hard and it will take time if it ever succeed..
The "9. To Do" list seems quite long!
Will the 2.4 version will be released before the "To Do" list is cleared?
Strange..