I have an idea to make money over FreeNet, I create some kind of repository of illegal but highly sought after material (for example kiddie porn) under FreeNet.
I create a web site, and for some money I give customer the key which allow them to retrieve the material from FreeNet. Advantage:as FreeNet transaction are totally anonymous, my customer is sure that someone won't see that they are downloading kiddie porn.
Sure you could still trace the transaction of the web site, but it adds another level of indirection which could be hard to fight..
I wonder if gcc is up to the task for compiling programs for IA64. Compaq is saying that its compilers is generating code whichs runs 2 times faster than code generated by gcc. For the Alpha, a chip for which code generation is much more easier than the IA64 (VLIW compilers are complicated beasts!). So Linux will run first on the IA64, yes, but will it have good performances ? I'm not sure at all.
Does anyone have more informations ?
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It was kscd or something like that (the kde cd player which is installed by default). Even a loop with kill -9 wouldn't help, and when I was rebooting it was ignoring the SIGTERM, so my filesystem couldn't be cleanly unmounted, so it run fsck upon restarting...
Even worst, the process was restarted automatically when I started KDE, I got rid of this annoyance by renaming the binary.
I think that it has something to do with a buggy drivers (which? soundcard, SCSI driver, CDROM ? I don't know), and I don't blame Linux for this, but it was quite annoying, right now I'm using the gnome CD audio player and it works all right...
> I don't know about anyone else here, but growing > organs in animals is slightly distasteful to me.
What is distateful is the number of people waiting for an organ. I have a card in my wallet which specify that should I die, if it is possible to give my organs to someone else, then be my guest, do it!
Using organs grown in animals should be less needed if people specified as they lived that they give their organs... EVERYONE READING THIS should think about giving its own organs (post-death of course).
If not, WHY? It won't bother at all! You'll be dead and you'll help someone else...
> may be wrong, but Intel is > having trouble getting their 64-bit > cpu higher than 400Mhz,
AFAIK Intel plan to sell Itanium this summer with speed starting at 800 MHz. As for the performance, I don't know because the VLIW-like architecture needs a VERY clever compiler to generate a good level of ILP (Instruction Level Paralelism).
We'll see, I'm sure there will be a huge number of benchmark, when it will be released.
Follow my thought: why is 1 GigaHertz important ? Because we are only human and we are impressed by round numbers, that why there are often prices at 0.9, 9.9 (in any money), because usually people thinks that 1000 is much more than 989 for example.
What does this imply ? When the price of 1GHz CPU come down, they will sell a lot! That's good for CPU makers..
BUT it has also other implications: people won't be much impressed by 1.3 GHz CPU over 1GHz CPU!!!
So once the gigahertz frontier is passed, people will care less about the speed of their CPU, and will buy more "low grade" CPU... (well if you admit that within 3 years a 1 GHz CPU will be considered as a low grade CPU...).
What do you think ?
PS: once upon a time, radio makers where comparing their radio by the number of transistors included in the radio.
I think that we will reach quickly times where you don't buy a 1.6 GHz CPU over a 1.2 GHz CPU but a computer with Firewire, or a computer which looks good, or which doesn't make too much noise...
And what are you expecting telepathy from a program ? Full hand moderation ?
Could you suggest something better than/. current moderation system which would have handled correctly the above case ? (without moderating everything by hand).
How about templates, STL, namespace ? These feature were not present in the original C++ spec, and now look how Stroustup say STL programming is important.
As for Java, yes, Sun has made quite some change since the beginning... I won't comment as I dislike very much this language.
Firewire/ATA == DDR/Rambus, wrong choices Intel!
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I think that Intel is making some really stupid choice lately: 1) Rambus vs DDR SDRAM: every memory manufacturers was against Rambus, because they would have to pay royalties to Rambus, and that the size of silicon would be much greater, and that DDR SDRAM would be much cheaper with similar performances. The result is that we're starting only now to have very pricey Rambus (after the i820 chipset disaster) and that Intel now tells that they would use Rambus for desktop and DDR SDRAM for server.. DOES IT MAKE SENSE to use a (according to Intel) better and more expensive Rambus technology for desktop and a cheaper memory technology for servers ?
If Intel had been less stubborn, we would have now DDR SDRAM at only a marginal increase of price... Thanks Intel, really!
2) USB vs Firewire vs ATA, if Intel had pushed firewire into PC instead pushing USB and ATA, in one year we would have true firewire HDD, and it would make cheaper PC because there is only a need for two bus: a cheap low-power one, for keybords, mouse and a fast one for HDD, linking to high speed external devices. Thanks to Intel, in 5 years we will still have USB-1, USB-2 (if it is released), ATA, Firewire (for anyone who wants to use a DV camera) instead of just USB-1 and Firewire.
Some could say that Apple's charging 0.25$ per Firewire port is the problem, but I don't think that it is too expensive, Intel's NIH syndrome is the major culprit here.
What puzzles me if why Intel competitors do not include Firewire in their chipset, it would be a major selling point for customers, if given the choice which chipset will they choose if someone explain them that if they choose the Intel one, if they buy a DV camera, they would have to buy also a ($100 ?) extention card to use it with their PC?
AMD, VIA are you listening ? I want DDR SDRAM and Firewire in not too expensive chipsets!
20-stage pipeline, ouch, Intel is really playing the MHz game, but as long as a regular user thinks that more MHz == more powerfull, they will keep doing this.
> 2. The FPU is running at half the speed of the ALU. > So FP performance will not be up to par for scientific applications (or games) > as compared to an AMD processor running both at the same speed. > Athlon's FPU is already known to blow PIII's out > of the water.
Do not forget that FPU are very diffent from integer unit, and that speed alone means nothing but speed and pipeline length, paralelism do counts. I think that you are jumping to the conclusion here. What I don't understand is WHY Intel keeps their FP instructions, it is notoriously known for complicating compiler works (if it is trying to reach big performance) and slowing down things. Why not add new instructions (as will AMD do with their future SlegeHammer CPU), it should have been done a loooong time ago.
Unless you're program is so small that it runs entirely from the cache, today's smoking fast CPU will spend quite some time twidling their thumbs waiting for data...
You assume that Rambus is far better than current SDRAM well, that's not sure at all, remenber that initially Rambus memory was supposed to work at far higher speed, and that many articles compared today RAM and Rambus and said that while the Rambus has a far higher maximum theoretical bandwith their latency wasn't very good, so in fact using Rambus may SLOW DOWN your system... Ironical don't you think ?
Read Hennesy & Patterson "Computer architecture" to see why saying RAM is not a bottleneck is stupid, if we could afford it, there would be no DRAM, we would use only SRAM, unfortunately it costs much more... And even in this case a small memory is usually faster than a bigger memory so we would still have to use cache to profit of the locality of references...
One of the strongest selling point of Transmeta is that their processor is low-power and 80x86 compatible.
Well the compatibility is very important for closed source software but unimportant for open-source type where you can easily recompile, so a StrongArm could be a real competitor here, not only they are cheaper I think but also more power efficient and already here now. On the other hand ARM CPU and the like often have no Floating-Point Unit which can be a bad point for some application.
Uh, I 'm quite sure that it wasn't Newton who invented the black hole. But I can't remenber who did, it was a french scientist I believe (I'm talking about "classical" black holes, not "relativistic" black holes).
Would someone moderate up the previous post?
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That's too bad, the previous post is IMHO a very good post that should be moderated up.
There is a problem with the moderation system: I am never a moderator when I want, and when I am a moderator usually I rarely find something interesting to moderate... Oh well.
In fact to make an egg stand upright, you don't have to crach the bottom at all!!
Put the (uncooked) egg on its large base, hold it for some time (warning it can take some time!) and release the egg: it will stand still because the yellow part of the egg is heavier than the white part... Of course, it isn't very stable, but it works!!
I wonder.. if this post will be marked as interesting or off-topic ??
A better analogy than the inflating ballon, is an oven in which you cook a cake: the cake's volume is growing, and still parts of the cake are moving apart.
It is a much better analogy because it's 3D, the only "catchy" point is that in reality we are in the cake and there is no oven, no "outside" of the cake.
As I understand, the 50 nm transistor was created with a vertical channel, and the 18 nm transistor was created with a gate with a special shape (a fork) in order to pinch more effectively the electron stream, (if I made some mistake feel free to correct me).
How about a transistor which combines both technologies ?:-)
Slightly off-topic, but as we are talking about scientology, I have a good news.
In France, a menber of a scientology organisation has been sentenced to jail... Some proof were misteriously distroyed before the judgement, but he was still sent to jail:-) And there is a pending request to ban the scientology organisation...
> A good and clear book about Godel's theorema, which is reasonably accesable is: > "Godel, Esscher, Bach, An Eternal Golden Braid" > I must admit that the writer's name has slipped my mind.
Douglas Hofstater(sp?).
I agree it is a good book, but it is not very easy to understand but I would say that it is not its fault: the Godel theorem is quite difficult to understand.
And what about vibrations ???
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OK so you want to read a disk with an AFM, I have a question how this thing is going to resist vibrations ??
Now, the AFM and the apparatus which hold the thing you want to probe are mounted on a special kind of basement, used to dampen vibrations if I am not mistaking... The question is how do you do this kind of thing in your computer ?? To have a good access time you have to rotate the disk quite fast, how do you prevent pin crash ? The pin has to be very close to the disk, much closer than a normal HDD head !
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I have an idea to make money over FreeNet,
I create some kind of repository of illegal but highly sought after material (for example kiddie porn) under FreeNet.
I create a web site, and for some money I give customer the key which allow them to retrieve the material from FreeNet.
Advantage:as FreeNet transaction are totally anonymous, my customer is sure that someone won't see that they are downloading kiddie porn.
Sure you could still trace the transaction of the web site, but it adds another level of indirection which could be hard to fight..
I wonder if gcc is up to the task for compiling programs for IA64.
Compaq is saying that its compilers is generating code whichs runs 2 times faster than code generated by gcc.
For the Alpha, a chip for which code generation is much more easier than the IA64 (VLIW compilers are complicated beasts!).
So Linux will run first on the IA64, yes, but will it have good performances ? I'm not sure at all.
Does anyone have more informations ?
It was kscd or something like that (the kde cd player which is installed by default). Even a loop with kill -9 wouldn't help, and when I was rebooting it was ignoring the SIGTERM, so my filesystem couldn't be cleanly unmounted, so it run fsck upon restarting...
Even worst, the process was restarted automatically when I started KDE, I got rid of this annoyance by renaming the binary.
I think that it has something to do with a buggy drivers (which? soundcard, SCSI driver, CDROM ? I don't know), and I don't blame Linux for this, but it was quite annoying, right now I'm using the gnome CD audio player and it works all right...
> I don't know about anyone else here, but growing
> organs in animals is slightly distasteful to me.
What is distateful is the number of people waiting for an organ.
I have a card in my wallet which specify that should I die, if it is possible to give my organs to someone else, then be my guest, do it!
Using organs grown in animals should be less needed if people specified as they lived that they give their organs...
EVERYONE READING THIS should think about giving its own organs (post-death of course).
If not, WHY? It won't bother at all! You'll be dead and you'll help someone else...
What could be interesting is a comparison of the performances of the G400 running under Win98 and running under Linux with XFree 4.0.
After all, Quake 3 is available under both operating systems.
It would be a good test of the performances of the open source driver...
> may be wrong, but Intel is
> having trouble getting their 64-bit
> cpu higher than 400Mhz,
AFAIK Intel plan to sell Itanium this summer with speed starting at 800 MHz.
As for the performance, I don't know because the VLIW-like architecture needs a VERY clever compiler to generate a good level of ILP (Instruction Level Paralelism).
We'll see, I'm sure there will be a huge number of benchmark, when it will be released.
Why should it be a problem with touch ?
If you think of it as a symlink, you can touch/revision control the link without touching the original file.
I don't know how it works, I'm just saying that if it is well done, there is no problem for touch and revision control.
At least Intel and AMD.
Follow my thought: why is 1 GigaHertz important ?
Because we are only human and we are impressed by round numbers, that why there are often prices at 0.9, 9.9 (in any money), because usually people thinks that 1000 is much more than 989 for example.
What does this imply ?
When the price of 1GHz CPU come down, they will sell a lot! That's good for CPU makers..
BUT it has also other implications: people won't be much impressed by 1.3 GHz CPU over 1GHz CPU!!!
So once the gigahertz frontier is passed, people will care less about the speed of their CPU, and will buy more "low grade" CPU... (well if you admit that within 3 years a 1 GHz CPU will be considered as a low grade CPU...).
What do you think ?
PS: once upon a time, radio makers where comparing their radio by the number of transistors included in the radio.
I think that we will reach quickly times where you don't buy a 1.6 GHz CPU over a 1.2 GHz CPU but a computer with Firewire, or a computer which looks good, or which doesn't make too much noise...
And what are you expecting telepathy from a program ?
/. current moderation system which would have handled correctly the above case ? (without moderating everything by hand).
Full hand moderation ?
Could you suggest something better than
You're kidding right ?
How about templates, STL, namespace ?
These feature were not present in the original C++
spec, and now look how Stroustup say STL programming is important.
As for Java, yes, Sun has made quite some change since the beginning... I won't comment as I dislike very much this language.
I think that Intel is making some really stupid choice lately:
1) Rambus vs DDR SDRAM: every memory manufacturers was against Rambus, because they would have to pay royalties to Rambus, and that the size of silicon would be much greater, and that DDR SDRAM would be much cheaper with similar performances.
The result is that we're starting only now to have very pricey Rambus (after the i820 chipset disaster) and that Intel now tells that they would use Rambus for desktop and DDR SDRAM for server..
DOES IT MAKE SENSE to use a (according to Intel) better and more expensive Rambus technology for desktop and a cheaper memory technology for servers ?
If Intel had been less stubborn, we would have now DDR SDRAM at only a marginal increase of price... Thanks Intel, really!
2) USB vs Firewire vs ATA, if Intel had pushed firewire into PC instead pushing USB and ATA, in one year we would have true firewire HDD, and it would make cheaper PC because there is only a need for two bus: a cheap low-power one, for keybords, mouse and a fast one for HDD, linking to high speed external devices.
Thanks to Intel, in 5 years we will still have USB-1, USB-2 (if it is released), ATA, Firewire (for anyone who wants to use a DV camera) instead of just USB-1 and Firewire.
Some could say that Apple's charging 0.25$ per Firewire port is the problem, but I don't think that it is too expensive, Intel's NIH syndrome is the major culprit here.
What puzzles me if why Intel competitors do not include Firewire in their chipset, it would be a major selling point for customers, if given the choice which chipset will they choose if someone explain them that if they choose the Intel one, if they buy a DV camera, they would have to buy also a ($100 ?) extention card to use it with their PC?
AMD, VIA are you listening ? I want DDR SDRAM and Firewire in not too expensive chipsets!
20-stage pipeline, ouch, Intel is really playing the MHz game, but as long as a regular user thinks that more MHz == more powerfull, they will keep doing this.
> 2. The FPU is running at half the speed of the ALU.
> So FP performance will not be up to par for scientific applications (or games)
> as compared to an AMD processor running both at the same speed.
> Athlon's FPU is already known to blow PIII's out
> of the water.
Do not forget that FPU are very diffent from integer unit, and that speed alone means nothing but speed and pipeline length, paralelism do counts. I think that you are jumping to the conclusion here.
What I don't understand is WHY Intel keeps their FP instructions, it is notoriously known for complicating compiler works (if it is trying to reach big performance) and slowing down things.
Why not add new instructions (as will AMD do with their future SlegeHammer CPU), it should have been done a loooong time ago.
Unless you're program is so small that it runs entirely from the cache, today's smoking fast CPU will spend quite some time twidling their thumbs waiting for data...
You assume that Rambus is far better than current SDRAM well, that's not sure at all, remenber that initially Rambus memory was supposed to work at far higher speed, and that many articles compared today RAM and Rambus and said that while the Rambus has a far higher maximum theoretical bandwith their latency wasn't very good, so in fact using Rambus may SLOW DOWN your system...
Ironical don't you think ?
Read Hennesy & Patterson "Computer architecture" to see why saying RAM is not a bottleneck is stupid, if we could afford it, there would be no DRAM, we would use only SRAM, unfortunately it costs much more... And even in this case a small memory is usually faster than a bigger memory so we would still have to use cache to profit of the locality of references...
I wonder if it is a mistake or volontary ?
One of the strongest selling point of Transmeta is that their processor is low-power and 80x86 compatible.
Well the compatibility is very important for closed source software but unimportant for open-source type where you can easily recompile, so a StrongArm could be a real competitor here,
not only they are cheaper I think but also more power efficient and already here now. On the other hand ARM CPU and the like often have no Floating-Point Unit which can be a bad point for some application.
Uh, I 'm quite sure that it wasn't Newton who invented the black hole. But I can't remenber who did, it was a french scientist I believe (I'm talking about "classical" black holes, not "relativistic" black holes).
That's too bad, the previous post is IMHO a very good post that should be moderated up.
There is a problem with the moderation system: I am never a moderator when I want, and when I am a moderator usually I rarely find something interesting to moderate...
Oh well.
In fact to make an egg stand upright, you don't have to crach the bottom at all!!
Put the (uncooked) egg on its large base, hold it for some time (warning it can take some time!) and release the egg: it will stand still because the yellow part of the egg is heavier than the white part... Of course, it isn't very stable, but it works!!
I wonder.. if this post will be marked as interesting or off-topic ??
A better analogy than the inflating ballon, is an oven in which you cook a cake: the cake's volume is growing, and still parts of the cake are moving apart.
It is a much better analogy because it's 3D, the only "catchy" point is that in reality we are in the cake and there is no oven, no "outside" of the cake.
As I understand, the 50 nm transistor was created with a vertical channel, and the 18 nm transistor was created with a gate with a special shape (a fork) in order to pinch more effectively the electron stream, (if I made some mistake feel free to correct me).
:-)
How about a transistor which combines both technologies ?
Slightly off-topic, but as we are talking about scientology, I have a good news.
... Some proof were misteriously distroyed before the judgement, but he was still sent to jail :-) And there is a pending request to ban the scientology organisation ...
In France, a menber of a scientology organisation has been sentenced to jail
Let's hope scientology will be banned here.
> Uncompressed DLL sizes:
> Win32: 1174k, Mac: 2382k, Linux: 2331k
I wonder why Linux and Mac version are 2* the size of the Windows version.
Anybody knows why ?
It don't understand this, it may be a buzzword or not.
It may means:
a) low power
b) mobile as in designed for radio-communication use ??? (having some DSP-like instruction?)
Come on, you slashdotters, any idea ?
> A good and clear book about Godel's theorema, which is reasonably accesable is:
> "Godel, Esscher, Bach, An Eternal Golden Braid"
> I must admit that the writer's name has slipped my mind.
Douglas Hofstater(sp?).
I agree it is a good book, but it is not very easy to understand but I would say that it is not its fault: the Godel theorem is quite difficult to understand.
OK so you want to read a disk with an AFM, I have a question how this thing is going to resist vibrations ??
Now, the AFM and the apparatus which hold the thing you want to probe are mounted on a special kind of basement, used to dampen vibrations if I am not mistaking...
The question is how do you do this kind of thing in your computer ?? To have a good access time you have to rotate the disk quite fast, how do you prevent pin crash ? The pin has to be very close to the disk, much closer than a normal HDD head !
Anyone knows how it would be possible ?