1. How good is the OS is on mapping memory. If you can map RAM to isolate the uncached area for RAMDISK it may be faster. Which reminds me that for some applications and some cache strategies it may be beneficial to have the swap RAMDISK uncached (your mileage may vary).
2. Which bus does the video card sit on. AGP is hooked up more or less directly onto the CPU FSB. It also has pipelining and a couple of other nifty features to improve write performance. As a result at least on write you may end up being faster than uncached memory.
If it is really old it may be running one one of the early Intel Pentium Triton chipsets. The TX will not cache any memory above 64 and the HX needs to be reconfigured to cache above 64. Even after reconfiguration it will just about work for 512MB. There are other similar vagaries related to most old hardware. Ali depending on release and version tanks at 384 or 768 and so on. Even chipsets as recent as Intel 815e while capable of 2G were deliberately bastardised to support only 512MB in order not to undercut the inexistent market for high-end Rambus/i810 based workstations.
So there are quite a few cases where it is more cost effective to use an old and long past its hayday high end video card as a swap device. All the way up to around 2001-2002. From there onwards nearly everything supported sane memory sizes so it is pointless.
One of the biggest advantages of using VRAM for disks is the nearly 0 seek latency.
As a result even if the card is slower than disk on read you are still likely to have an overall performance gain.
In addition to that there is a number of architectural vagaries to consider. AGP is asymmetric. Reading is considerably slower than writing (can't find anywhere by how much. Damn...).
AV , Client firewall, Integrity checkers and patch deployment, VPN, Firewall, Compliance, etc in a Windows shop ramp up to somewhere around there. Actually, quite often they are even more.
You do not. Some people do. Some people need to be controlled. It is built into them. This phone is not any different from WeightWatchers or the several similar outfits which exist elsewhere around the world.
I would really like to have the original X/B-wing and Tie Fighter remade (not the later madness known as X-Wing vs Tie Fighter). These were infinitely fun to play despite the relatively low quality graphics. In fact if it is remade and released for a console or linux I will buy it straight away.
I will not. I have heard Karajan live in one of his last performances as a teenager and I am glad to shell out a couple of hundred for him conducting the Vienna Phylharmonic in a Beethoven performance.
Joe average consumer will. He has been trained that all twats are the same regardless of do you hit them again or not. He will balk at a CD priced at 60 pounds.
I have learned my lesson about "sharing" 20 years ago at the age of 17 when a couple of friends of mine "shared" the belongings from our family apartment at a party. It was further reinforced by being beaten up by a couple of payed henchmen into a nearly comatose state after the police shook out most of our stolen property from them.
Even if something is out there in the open and you can pick it up while walking by this does not mean that you should do so. It may be someone's livelihood and they may have worked hard to create it.
In addition to this, since that 20 years old adventure, I have had quite a few items and ideas pinched. In fact there are a couple of people out there sipping Daikiri on a beach in the Bahamas after making 200+ million off some of my ideas. There are a few others who have made a living and a career of claiming my work to be their own (for smaller amounts of money).
Despite that, I do not think that stealing people's work, ideas or property is justified. Ever.
And I bet a case of beer that the first PHB to purchase the device will put it to use as a lie detector in teleconference meetings straight away: "Jones, your stress levels have increased when we discussed the project deadlines. Are you hiding something?"
No thanks, I would not like something like that hooked up to my computer...
While the current model leaves 95%+ in the pockets of the MAFIAA, it is the only means to reimburse the artist for the effort do we like it or not. I would much rather pay him direct and buy direct.
As far as the article headlines are concerned I would not jump up and down with joy hearing about yet another band going truly independent. This will make the market for pop music very similar to the one for classical. Classical music is quite different from the pop. While the all of the pop is priced at roughly the same level as a consumer good, classics prices are all over the place. A single CD with Beethoven sonatas can cost anything from 5£ to 60£. A collection of Beethoven symphonies can set you back by a 3 digit number.
Do we like it or not one of the functions of the MAFIAA is to consumerise the music. With them gone the market will very quickly stratify with the top bands asking extortionate prices for their work (Radiohead is a prime example).
Some people will always steal and you are not going to succeed selling to them. They will always find a way to cheat even if you force them to buy the product through legislation. The percentage depends on geographic location, society, culture, etc. Usually these are a minority.
The rest will avoid stealing if they can. They will however steal if you force them by making the "legitimate" product unusable for them. These are the majority.
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The thing that made Microshaft Word the market winner was the integration. Regardless how much developers hate OLE, it did the job. You could take a data object from any other app and throw it in and it kind'a worked. It was not anywhere good enough from the perspective of a professional, but it was enough as far as Joe Average was concerned. What continues to make OO on non-windows platforms a losing proposition is the lack of such APIs. Even if the GUI and underlying libraries supports them OO continues to do things of its own (not surprising considering Sun's involvement). KDE embedding and full integration, gnome integration, etc. There are present in a very rudimentary fashion. As a result OO continues to be limited to a universe of its own. This hinders both its development and the development of third party aps like Dia. It also at the end of the day puts it firmly into the niche proposition area. Until this is resolved this is exactly where it will belong. Sad...
My guess is that the advantage is limited to games with "learning" AIs, where the AI attempts to extrapolate your behaviour based on your past events. The neuroticity adds an element of unpredictability which will confuse the hell out of an AI that works using extrapolation or neural net training. If the game has a rigid rule based AI there should be no advantage, just the opposite.
Wow, I just protested against a government policy, they better put me in jail before I kill someone.
Definitely. They should also put all chemistry majors there and the microbiology and molecular biology ones for good measure. After all, all of them are walking with recepies of mass destructions in their head! This is a threat to the entire human civilisation and must be eliminated at once. Alternatively, they can be reeducated to ensure they praise th e Lord instead of having idle thoughts of hexogen and smallpox: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/08/0340229.
Chemicals stimulate a specific part of the brain with the specificity level depending on the chemical. You cannot make morphine induce extreme pain and displeasure by changing the way you administer the same dose. You have to alter the chemical to achieve that and the success is by no means guaranteed.
Electrical stimulation is a different matter. Just change the area being stimulated and the feeling of extreme pleasure is replaced by extreme displeasure. If you can figure out how to provide "a touch of the divine", you can most likely figure out how to make it "a touch of divine retribution".
First of all, this sounds like Gordon Brown and his Petrol taxes to me. While you are not literally obliged to buy it, you end up having to. Even if you do not have a car you pay for it in every item you buy as its delivery is calculated in the price (after adding VAT on it). While we all grumble, I do not quite see all of us growing sunflower (or something similar) in the backyard and pressing our own diesel fuel out of it.
As far as the MAFIAA is concerned, 99% percent of the population are brainwashed into brand awareness and consumerism before they are potty trained. They are conditioned to react appropriately to stimuli like the Mouse, the SpiderTwat, neon lamps being waved and the like. In fact, if your child is not correctly brainwashed he is considered weird and bullied in school. The likelihood of overriding decades of deep conditioning is very very slim. I do not see that happening. Joe Average consumer will still pay whatever the MAFIAA and its imitators tell him. Just look at the iPhony as a prime example.
It is a very small and short step from the feeling of divine touch to the feeling of divine retribution. IMHO just thinking what can be done with it, the device should be banned under the penalty of death through its application in "retribution mode".
There is enough trouble as it is with various religious nutheads around the world. Imagine how much trouble there will be if they are armed with a direct brain inducer so they can improve their ability to condition the sect members. Further to this, having a device like this available will enable any nuthead with any belief system to found a successful sect.
Err... NO.
If announcements of changes are on Multicast everyone maintains 3-4 connections - its multicast binding and a partial mesh to recover lost frames from ones that have seen it.
Have you ever tried to drive a car with the ambient temperature at 36C? Frankly, if I have to heat my car that much to use a carpool lane I might as well give someone a lift.
This will not help if your kit is not grounded properly. In fact, sorting out the grounding on your audio rack as well as the overall ground in the house will probably improve your audio listening experience more than any vodoo cables. This and real wood panelling and flooring.
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Depends on a few things.
1. How good is the OS is on mapping memory. If you can map RAM to isolate the uncached area for RAMDISK it may be faster. Which reminds me that for some applications and some cache strategies it may be beneficial to have the swap RAMDISK uncached (your mileage may vary).
2. Which bus does the video card sit on. AGP is hooked up more or less directly onto the CPU FSB. It also has pipelining and a couple of other nifty features to improve write performance. As a result at least on write you may end up being faster than uncached memory.
Not quite so.
If it is really old it may be running one one of the early Intel Pentium Triton chipsets. The TX will not cache any memory above 64 and the HX needs to be reconfigured to cache above 64. Even after reconfiguration it will just about work for 512MB. There are other similar vagaries related to most old hardware. Ali depending on release and version tanks at 384 or 768 and so on. Even chipsets as recent as Intel 815e while capable of 2G were deliberately bastardised to support only 512MB in order not to undercut the inexistent market for high-end Rambus/i810 based workstations.
So there are quite a few cases where it is more cost effective to use an old and long past its hayday high end video card as a swap device. All the way up to around 2001-2002. From there onwards nearly everything supported sane memory sizes so it is pointless.
Err... Which hdparm timings are you looking at?
One of the biggest advantages of using VRAM for disks is the nearly 0 seek latency.
As a result even if the card is slower than disk on read you are still likely to have an overall performance gain.
In addition to that there is a number of architectural vagaries to consider. AGP is asymmetric. Reading is considerably slower than writing (can't find anywhere by how much. Damn...).
It can.
AV , Client firewall, Integrity checkers and patch deployment, VPN, Firewall, Compliance, etc in a Windows shop ramp up to somewhere around there. Actually, quite often they are even more.
You do not. Some people do. Some people need to be controlled. It is built into them. This phone is not any different from WeightWatchers or the several similar outfits which exist elsewhere around the world.
Really?
I would really like to have the original X/B-wing and Tie Fighter remade (not the later madness known as X-Wing vs Tie Fighter). These were infinitely fun to play despite the relatively low quality graphics. In fact if it is remade and released for a console or linux I will buy it straight away.
Fair point.
I will not. I have heard Karajan live in one of his last performances as a teenager and I am glad to shell out a couple of hundred for him conducting the Vienna Phylharmonic in a Beethoven performance.
Joe average consumer will. He has been trained that all twats are the same regardless of do you hit them again or not. He will balk at a CD priced at 60 pounds.
Yes I have.
I have learned my lesson about "sharing" 20 years ago at the age of 17 when a couple of friends of mine "shared" the belongings from our family apartment at a party. It was further reinforced by being beaten up by a couple of payed henchmen into a nearly comatose state after the police shook out most of our stolen property from them.
Even if something is out there in the open and you can pick it up while walking by this does not mean that you should do so. It may be someone's livelihood and they may have worked hard to create it.
In addition to this, since that 20 years old adventure, I have had quite a few items and ideas pinched. In fact there are a couple of people out there sipping Daikiri on a beach in the Bahamas after making 200+ million off some of my ideas. There are a few others who have made a living and a career of claiming my work to be their own (for smaller amounts of money).
Despite that, I do not think that stealing people's work, ideas or property is justified. Ever.
Yep.
And I bet a case of beer that the first PHB to purchase the device will put it to use as a lie detector in teleconference meetings straight away: "Jones, your stress levels have increased when we discussed the project deadlines. Are you hiding something?"
No thanks, I would not like something like that hooked up to my computer...
It is stealing.
While the current model leaves 95%+ in the pockets of the MAFIAA, it is the only means to reimburse the artist for the effort do we like it or not. I would much rather pay him direct and buy direct.
As far as the article headlines are concerned I would not jump up and down with joy hearing about yet another band going truly independent. This will make the market for pop music very similar to the one for classical. Classical music is quite different from the pop. While the all of the pop is priced at roughly the same level as a consumer good, classics prices are all over the place. A single CD with Beethoven sonatas can cost anything from 5£ to 60£. A collection of Beethoven symphonies can set you back by a 3 digit number.
Do we like it or not one of the functions of the MAFIAA is to consumerise the music. With them gone the market will very quickly stratify with the top bands asking extortionate prices for their work (Radiohead is a prime example).
Actually, it even more pronounced than this:
Some people will always steal and you are not going to succeed selling to them. They will always find a way to cheat even if you force them to buy the product through legislation. The percentage depends on geographic location, society, culture, etc. Usually these are a minority.
The rest will avoid stealing if they can. They will however steal if you force them by making the "legitimate" product unusable for them. These are the majority.
Err... For whom? For the seller or for the buyer?
The thing that made Microshaft Word the market winner was the integration. Regardless how much developers hate OLE, it did the job. You could take a data object from any other app and throw it in and it kind'a worked. It was not anywhere good enough from the perspective of a professional, but it was enough as far as Joe Average was concerned.
What continues to make OO on non-windows platforms a losing proposition is the lack of such APIs. Even if the GUI and underlying libraries supports them OO continues to do things of its own (not surprising considering Sun's involvement). KDE embedding and full integration, gnome integration, etc. There are present in a very rudimentary fashion. As a result OO continues to be limited to a universe of its own. This hinders both its development and the development of third party aps like Dia. It also at the end of the day puts it firmly into the niche proposition area. Until this is resolved this is exactly where it will belong. Sad...
Dunno about Civ4.
My guess is that the advantage is limited to games with "learning" AIs, where the AI attempts to extrapolate your behaviour based on your past events. The neuroticity adds an element of unpredictability which will confuse the hell out of an AI that works using extrapolation or neural net training. If the game has a rigid rule based AI there should be no advantage, just the opposite.
Right chemicals for what? Calcium Chloride? Are you kidding. Now Stearate would have been more interesting...
Well we all know that sedition and terrorism go together. We should also apply the appropriate measures to counter it: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fahrenheit-451-Ray-Bradbury/dp/0007181701/ref=sr_1_1/203-0373786-0805564?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191844055&sr=1-1
Definitely. They should also put all chemistry majors there and the microbiology and molecular biology ones for good measure. After all, all of them are walking with recepies of mass destructions in their head! This is a threat to the entire human civilisation and must be eliminated at once. Alternatively, they can be reeducated to ensure they praise th e Lord instead of having idle thoughts of hexogen and smallpox: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/08/0340229.
Definite "must buy" according to the appropriate recommendations by this reviewer http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2IWRKMMIH1Y6R/ref=cm_cr_auth/104-0238679-1953525?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview.
Chemicals stimulate a specific part of the brain with the specificity level depending on the chemical. You cannot make morphine induce extreme pain and displeasure by changing the way you administer the same dose. You have to alter the chemical to achieve that and the success is by no means guaranteed.
Electrical stimulation is a different matter. Just change the area being stimulated and the feeling of extreme pleasure is replaced by extreme displeasure. If you can figure out how to provide "a touch of the divine", you can most likely figure out how to make it "a touch of divine retribution".
First of all, this sounds like Gordon Brown and his Petrol taxes to me. While you are not literally obliged to buy it, you end up having to. Even if you do not have a car you pay for it in every item you buy as its delivery is calculated in the price (after adding VAT on it). While we all grumble, I do not quite see all of us growing sunflower (or something similar) in the backyard and pressing our own diesel fuel out of it.
As far as the MAFIAA is concerned, 99% percent of the population are brainwashed into brand awareness and consumerism before they are potty trained. They are conditioned to react appropriately to stimuli like the Mouse, the SpiderTwat, neon lamps being waved and the like. In fact, if your child is not correctly brainwashed he is considered weird and bullied in school. The likelihood of overriding decades of deep conditioning is very very slim. I do not see that happening. Joe Average consumer will still pay whatever the MAFIAA and its imitators tell him. Just look at the iPhony as a prime example.
Er..
I think your analogy is not the correct one. The correct one is the Crown from "The Queen of Angels". http://www.amazon.co.uk/Queen-Angels-Greg-Bear/dp/1857989430/ref=sr_1_12/203-4872377-1187120?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191823245&sr=1-12
It is a very small and short step from the feeling of divine touch to the feeling of divine retribution. IMHO just thinking what can be done with it, the device should be banned under the penalty of death through its application in "retribution mode".
There is enough trouble as it is with various religious nutheads around the world. Imagine how much trouble there will be if they are armed with a direct brain inducer so they can improve their ability to condition the sect members. Further to this, having a device like this available will enable any nuthead with any belief system to found a successful sect.
Err... NO. If announcements of changes are on Multicast everyone maintains 3-4 connections - its multicast binding and a partial mesh to recover lost frames from ones that have seen it.
Have you ever tried to drive a car with the ambient temperature at 36C? Frankly, if I have to heat my car that much to use a carpool lane I might as well give someone a lift.
Yep. A view to a kill. Same thought came to my mind. Now only pump up some water down into it...
This will not help if your kit is not grounded properly. In fact, sorting out the grounding on your audio rack as well as the overall ground in the house will probably improve your audio listening experience more than any vodoo cables. This and real wood panelling and flooring.