Any we that is enforced sounds scary to me. My guess is they'll require the credit card companies to add to tax on items billed for from outside the US. And they'll probably track what you've bought at the same time. Great so now the EU knows which perversions i've paid to see, and gets a cut of money at the same time.
As someone you had a program a online bookshop (for books about microwave engineering, total sales to date 5 books), I can tell you VAT in the europe is a total mess): VAT on books is 17.5% everywhere in europe except Germany 7%, and Netherlands %6. Cds are 17.5 everywhere except the Netherlands where its %16. If we book sells with a CD then you have to assign the CD and book each a norminal value that the VAT office will accept as fair. If you are a company with a VAT number you don't have to pay VAT at point of sale. This took almost as long to sort out as the rest of the system took to program! You'd think this would make me in faviour of European tax and currancy unification. But i'm not so sure. We work hard here in England and I don't particular want to fund the Welfare states of lazier EU countries, like say Greece.
Do free software developers really want to be putting there time and effort into helping intel push their IA64 systems onto the market?. Intel have show themselves to be just as evil as microsoft in abusing their power to push other companys out the way, up to now the've failed, no one likes Rambus, and AMD and VIA are doing better than ever. But we seen plenty of what intel is trying for, which is complete control over computer hardware from processors to serial ports. With no else being able to invent or produce anything. Intel will stop at nothing to prevent other companies from making chipsets for its processors, it tring its hardest to take over the graphics card industries, and generally being a monopolistic SOB. If we help to make IA-64 a sucess by giving a early platform to work on, then we've just given Intel the future. If we are lazy and what for someone else to do the work on IA-64, and let sledgehammer and alpha and ultrasparc architures gain market share until intel is small enough not be able a abuse its position then the next 15 years of computer hardware will be much freer and more inovative. Agree, Disagree, Give a Damn?
Re..99999 = 1 Proof 1/3 = 0.3333333..... 3* LHS = 1, 3* RHS = 0.99999.... Therefor 1 = 0.9999999.... In ordinary Arthimatic anyway. But i think this may not be true if your using sureal or hyperreal numbers, where 1+infinity != infinity and infinitemissals are considered as valid numbers just like integers and real
Celeron may be Similar to Pentium III at 466 and 533, but the slower 66 bus kills at faster MHz, Clock multipliers above 8 start to suck badly especial with a small cache. Duron stays on a 200MHz (100 DDR) bus and will slay celeron above 600. Expect Intel to push forward the celeron 100s quickly. In fact Intel with stupid not to but all the new coppermine celerons on 100 to begin with. It would be faster and wouldn't cost them a penny.
Well Abit KA7 and the Asus K7V are reported to work with all T-Birds. I believe only the deasden copper based T-Birds will have a problems with KX133 motherbirds. Besides KX266 and/or 760, with DDR and ATA-100 will be great reasons to change your motherboard too.
Well this time last year AMD had productions problems, for the same reason Intel Coppermines have problems the processors core was being pushed to MHz levels the design couldn't handle. I think Dells main problem is AMDs size. With the Autstin Fab running flat out AMD can ship 6-6.5 million chips a quarter, say 20% of the market, Desden can current do a couple million probably 6 million by years end. So even if AMD processors are a quarter of the price and twice as fasters as Intels, the Box makers will still be shifting intel chips because they aren't enough AMDs chips to go round. Expect Athlons to go out in ugly boxes with no adverts to the clued up. While the less clever follow adverts and prettier but slower intel boxes until such time as Intel catches up, cuts prices, or AMD can deliever more chips.
The Ford Mustang line works just a as well. Mustang is the codename for AMDs next core after thunderbird. Check http://www.aceshardware.com/ for details and rumors on, plus all the Mustang v Willameters guessing and flamage.
In Great Britain, a jury is free to give a 'not guilty verdict' if they don't like the law, (not that the judge or lawyers will ever say so in a trial). Isn't this true in america as well?
Actually SMP is not a problem for the cache in the Duron, because the EV6 athlon/duron bus uses a point to point networking and north bridges do the bus-snooping work.
You haven't actually read "Brave New World" have you. For one thing its about a sociallist planned "utopia". Funny how the book always gets used a for any scientific distopia that happen to spring to mind when someone (who has never read the book) starts a "is that what you want cos thats what'll happen still argument".
I don't know what their trying to hide, but their are vast number of different scientific projects going on at any one time at los alamos, hell even the physics e-print archive lives their. From pure physics to weopons research to NSA funded work on quantum computers, los almanos does at lot of different science and engineering.
I turing complete language or computer is one that is capable of running an emulator for any other computer or language. And thus is computationally equivalent to a universial turing machine.
Well i wouldn't put quake in Java applet, but their is plenty your can do in one. I consider a Java applet as a program running on computer 5 years behind the state of the art. Put thats ok theirs still plenty of stuff you can do with that. The coolest java applet i've seen was a complete ZX Spectrum 48K emulator on a web page. I got quite a way with designing a gaunlet style game in Java, before giving it up for more serious stuff. Its still around at http://194.201.87.84/ if anyone wants a look. Ok the graphics were lame, i'm a programmer not a graphic designer.
Actually, we've got an SUN E450 dual processor machine tith SUN Disk suite RAID 0+1. But for this application we need lots and lots of cheap ECC RAM. The SUN E450 will to all the disk work, while the farm of AMD linux boxes do the in memory and some integer compute work. Plus (and this is the on topic part) theirs no point in multiple processors for linux Java, because their isn't one JDK that supports SMP on linux, and thats with native or green threads.
Whadaymean off topic. I say what I going use JDK 1.3 for, and where it will be deployed and, you call it off topic. What mores on topic for an application than how and where its going to get used?
Just in time, i've got a java application to deploy on a new linux server i'm building on friday, and this'll be the JDK for me. Previously i would have used SUN/Blackdown 1.2 with the borland JIT compiler. Heres the servers spec (gloat), AMD Athlon 850 (last one with the pluto 2:5 cache), ABit KA7 motherboard, 4*256 PC100 ECC SDRAM (hey Its a server you got to go for reliable memory over fast memory.) IBM 30Gig 7200rpm ATA66 disk drive, 3Com Etherlink 3 100-Base-T networking card, Voodoo 3 3000 (just goes 3dfx does linux drivers). After testing we'll be using it as part of a server farm (with a lot of the same spec machines) for our search engines, at www.remotesearch.com P.S. Got any good keys for freenet.
Don't you really hate what happen to the amiga, a at time the fairly descent be of technology gets brought up, is left to linglish we no surport or developement and then is finally its dead husk is sold off. What a stupid waste of effort, right up there with burning up those 6 billion dollars worth or iridium satellites. Way the hell did gateway buy amiga, when they couldn't do anything with it.
Interesting analogy, because you don't in fact have to get permission in order to perform or sell cover version of song. I believe there is a fixed standard royality percentage on cover versions and thats it. And such a scheme would be very useful of the computer industry. If say you won't to write a replacement for on of microsoft library, you could do it without permission, but have to pay them 10% for using their API, sounds fair and useful.
The correct term is that the particles are entangled. The funny this can't be used send information faster than light or in fact send information at all, but when it is combined with classical (i.e. ordinary) communications it can exponientially boost the ammount of information carried by the channel. I.E. 8 entangled particles + 8 bits of ordinary information = 8 qubits = 256 classical bits. This is killer app for QM, boosting bandwiths. A quantum channel can also be designed to untappable, (search for quantum crytography to find out more). Meanwhile quantum computers can bring the same exponiential boost to some mathmatical problems, one of which is factorizing prime numbers (goodbye RSA and https). Researches are current bizzy developinf the basics for quantum computation and quantum telecommunications. Theory is still decades ahead of practice. E.g. Physists have already designed quantum telephone exchanges in theory, (using entanglement swapping) to distribute entangled pairs of particles, but it will be years before you can buy a quantum router.
The coworker sitution above is that certainly part of professionalism, but to give
even the requirements in time/money/hardware of a projects requires a good understanding of both the project and a rough outline of the solution. Even
these steps require creative thought and experience.
If you can't think of the
work load answers in the time they need they need
by the planning stage, then the only honest answers are I don't know, its possible i can't to it or I'll need to think about it more. If your managing a team then the only way your going to know how long
the project will take, is to have an outline
of a solution and also to know your team.
E.G. The president of USA want to know how much time it will take to produce the worlds first transwarp drive, my team consists of A. Einstein, R. Feynman and E. Witten. I know no physics but our standard methodology book says that a field of physics is at engineering levels after about 300 peer review papers, The guys can produce 20 papers a year. So I tell the president it will take 5 years. At this point Einstein gives up his pacifism and shoots me in the head with a 12 bore.
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Duh, sorry. I meant to say from outside the EU, not from outside the US.
Any we that is enforced sounds scary to me. My guess is they'll require the credit card companies to add to tax on items billed for from outside the US. And they'll probably track what you've bought at the same time. Great so now the EU knows which perversions i've paid to see, and gets a cut of money at the same time.
As someone you had a program a online bookshop (for books about microwave engineering, total sales to date 5 books), I can tell you VAT in the europe is a total mess): VAT on books is 17.5% everywhere in europe except Germany 7%, and Netherlands %6. Cds are 17.5 everywhere except the Netherlands where its %16. If we book sells with a CD then you have to assign the CD and book each a norminal value that the VAT office will accept as fair. If you are a company with a VAT number you don't have to pay VAT at point of sale. This took almost as long to sort out as the rest of the system took to program! You'd think this would make me in faviour of European tax and currancy unification. But i'm not so sure. We work hard here in England and I don't particular want to fund the Welfare states of lazier EU countries, like say Greece.
Oh I don't know: theres got be something ok about a company that wants you urinate on its logo.
Do free software developers really want to be putting there time and effort into helping intel push their IA64 systems onto the market?. Intel have show themselves to be just as evil as microsoft in abusing their power to push other companys out the way, up to now the've failed, no one likes Rambus, and AMD and VIA are doing better than ever. But we seen plenty of what intel is trying for, which is complete control over computer hardware from processors to serial ports. With no else being able to invent or produce anything. Intel will stop at nothing to prevent other companies from making chipsets for its processors, it tring its hardest to take over the graphics card industries, and generally being a monopolistic SOB. If we help to make IA-64 a sucess by giving a early platform to work on, then we've just given Intel the future. If we are lazy and what for someone else to do the work on IA-64, and let sledgehammer and alpha and ultrasparc architures gain market share until intel is small enough not be able a abuse its position then the next 15 years of computer hardware will be much freer and more inovative. Agree, Disagree, Give a Damn?
Re. .99999 = 1 Proof 1/3 = 0.3333333..... 3* LHS = 1, 3* RHS = 0.99999.... Therefor 1 = 0.9999999.... In ordinary Arthimatic anyway. But i think this may not be true if your using sureal or hyperreal numbers, where 1+infinity != infinity and infinitemissals are considered as valid numbers just like integers and real
Celeron may be Similar to Pentium III at 466 and 533, but the slower 66 bus kills at faster MHz, Clock multipliers above 8 start to suck badly especial with a small cache. Duron stays on a 200MHz (100 DDR) bus and will slay celeron above 600. Expect Intel to push forward the celeron 100s quickly. In fact Intel with stupid not to but all the new coppermine celerons on 100 to begin with. It would be faster and wouldn't cost them a penny.
Well Abit KA7 and the Asus K7V are reported to work with all T-Birds. I believe only the deasden copper based T-Birds will have a problems with KX133 motherbirds. Besides KX266 and/or 760, with DDR and ATA-100 will be great reasons to change your motherboard too.
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Well this time last year AMD had productions problems, for the same reason Intel Coppermines have problems the processors core was being pushed to MHz levels the design couldn't handle. I think Dells main problem is AMDs size. With the Autstin Fab running flat out AMD can ship 6-6.5 million chips a quarter, say 20% of the market, Desden can current do a couple million probably 6 million by years end. So even if AMD processors are a quarter of the price and twice as fasters as Intels, the Box makers will still be shifting intel chips because they aren't enough AMDs chips to go round. Expect Athlons to go out in ugly boxes with no adverts to the clued up. While the less clever follow adverts and prettier but slower intel boxes until such time as Intel catches up, cuts prices, or AMD can deliever more chips.
The Ford Mustang line works just a as well. Mustang is the codename for AMDs next core after thunderbird. Check http://www.aceshardware.com/ for details and rumors on, plus all the Mustang v Willameters guessing and flamage.
Corel WordPerfect Office for Linux 99 UK pounds in office world. Sun StarOffice, free. http://www.sun.com/ 2.2 Millions copies downloaded to date.
In Great Britain, a jury is free to give a 'not guilty verdict' if they don't like the law, (not that the judge or lawyers will ever say so in a trial). Isn't this true in america as well?
Actually SMP is not a problem for the cache in the Duron, because the EV6 athlon/duron bus uses a point to point networking and north bridges do the bus-snooping work.
You haven't actually read "Brave New World" have you. For one thing its about a sociallist planned "utopia". Funny how the book always gets used a for any scientific distopia that happen to spring to mind when someone (who has never read the book) starts a "is that what you want cos thats what'll happen still argument".
I don't know what their trying to hide, but their are vast number of different scientific projects going on at any one time at los alamos, hell even the physics e-print archive lives their. From pure physics to weopons research to NSA funded work on quantum computers, los almanos does at lot of different science and engineering.
I turing complete language or computer is one that is capable of running an emulator for any other computer or language. And thus is computationally equivalent to a universial turing machine.
Well i wouldn't put quake in Java applet, but their is plenty your can do in one. I consider a Java applet as a program running on computer 5 years behind the state of the art. Put thats ok theirs still plenty of stuff you can do with that. The coolest java applet i've seen was a complete ZX Spectrum 48K emulator on a web page. I got quite a way with designing a gaunlet style game in Java, before giving it up for more serious stuff. Its still around at http://194.201.87.84/ if anyone wants a look. Ok the graphics were lame, i'm a programmer not a graphic designer.
Actually, we've got an SUN E450 dual processor machine tith SUN Disk suite RAID 0+1. But for this application we need lots and lots of cheap ECC RAM. The SUN E450 will to all the disk work, while the farm of AMD linux boxes do the in memory and some integer compute work. Plus (and this is the on topic part) theirs no point in multiple processors for linux Java, because their isn't one JDK that supports SMP on linux, and thats with native or green threads.
Whadaymean off topic. I say what I going use JDK 1.3 for, and where it will be deployed and, you call it off topic. What mores on topic for an application than how and where its going to get used?
Just in time, i've got a java application to deploy on a new linux server i'm building on friday, and this'll be the JDK for me. Previously i would have used SUN/Blackdown 1.2 with the borland JIT compiler. Heres the servers spec (gloat), AMD Athlon 850 (last one with the pluto 2:5 cache), ABit KA7 motherboard, 4*256 PC100 ECC SDRAM (hey Its a server you got to go for reliable memory over fast memory.) IBM 30Gig 7200rpm ATA66 disk drive, 3Com Etherlink 3 100-Base-T networking card, Voodoo 3 3000 (just goes 3dfx does linux drivers). After testing we'll be using it as part of a server farm (with a lot of the same spec machines) for our search engines, at www.remotesearch.com P.S. Got any good keys for freenet.
Don't you really hate what happen to the amiga, a at time the fairly descent be of technology gets brought up, is left to linglish we no surport or developement and then is finally its dead husk is sold off. What a stupid waste of effort, right up there with burning up those 6 billion dollars worth or iridium satellites. Way the hell did gateway buy amiga, when they couldn't do anything with it.
Interesting analogy, because you don't in fact have to get permission in order to perform or sell cover version of song. I believe there is a fixed standard royality percentage on cover versions and thats it. And such a scheme would be very useful of the computer industry. If say you won't to write a replacement for on of microsoft library, you could do it without permission, but have to pay them 10% for using their API, sounds fair and useful.
A quantum channel can also be designed to untappable, (search for quantum crytography to find out more).
Meanwhile quantum computers can bring the same exponiential boost to some mathmatical problems, one of which is factorizing prime numbers (goodbye RSA and https).
Researches are current bizzy developinf the basics for quantum computation and quantum telecommunications. Theory is still decades ahead of practice. E.g. Physists have already designed quantum telephone exchanges in theory, (using entanglement swapping) to distribute entangled pairs of particles, but it will be years before you can buy a quantum router.
If you can't think of the work load answers in the time they need they need by the planning stage, then the only honest answers are I don't know, its possible i can't to it or I'll need to think about it more. If your managing a team then the only way your going to know how long the project will take, is to have an outline of a solution and also to know your team.
E.G. The president of USA want to know how much time it will take to produce the worlds first transwarp drive, my team consists of A. Einstein, R. Feynman and E. Witten. I know no physics but our standard methodology book says that a field of physics is at engineering levels after about 300 peer review papers, The guys can produce 20 papers a year. So I tell the president it will take 5 years. At this point Einstein gives up his pacifism and shoots me in the head with a 12 bore.