Okay, the way I suppose this would work, considering that Intel had developed a chip that was compatible with the pentium series, would be an asynchronous design, with some kind of logic translator to communicate with the bus. Yes, at first you would be wasting processor power, but eventually, the bus technology would catch up (See ISA to EISA to VLB to PCI to AGP and on...). As for the RAM, it could either run on an independent clock-bus, or, I do not see why it would be a problem to develop asynchronous RAM if they have the technology for the chips. Also, the article states that the P IV utilises some asynchronous componants, maybe that is port of the reason for the push to use RDRAM with it?
I like that, a lot like the interface in William Gibson's "Idoru", basically glasses and gloves that plug into your belt CPU with 3d GUI environment that the gloves are used to manipulate, THAT is where I would like to see wearable PC's head.
I think something like the old Nintendo power glove would be great, hit a button, gesture, hit a button to confirm, all of it fingertip controlled. Either that, or a touchpad/screen. What would be more natural for gesture based control than touching the screen and making the gesture?
You notice the number of conspirato, err, posters was 23. The judge recognized this, as this was obviously a ploy by the Illuminati to hurt this company for not toeing the line in their part of the NWO.
It was all just a big conspiracy, and the judge let them off to save his own neck.
Every home schooled person I've come across (warning! sample size of one!) has had problems interacting with people.
I have come across more than one in my life, but for the most part (there are ALWAYS exceptions) I have to agree with you on this one. I believe it has something to do with the fact that, while most home schooled children get better educations more well suited for thier induvidual talents, they suffer in that they do not have constant social interaction outside of the home. This does leave a mark on a person, but ultimately, most of our genuises don't fit in anyhow, why should we start making them do so?
I wonder if because of this story we will see less postings by the Slashdot Trolls now?
I hope so.
I realized that slashdot trolling has gone way too far when I saw goatse.cx scrawled on a restroom wall of a local pizzashop/geek hangout. That was just too much.
Thats just it, according to thier license, the may not be using your cycles to cure cancer. They could be selling it to breakdown models of free nuclear reactions within the atmosphere, which would CAUSE quite a bit of cancer if it were to happen, if we lived through it. What they are saying is they are taking your cycles, not paying you for it, profiting off of it to the highest bidder, regardless of what thier cause is.
That, and if it were to lead to the cure, like they brought up in thae article, it would be 20+ years before a LOT of people would be able to afford it.
I think it has something to do with it being a new Corporate catchphrase.
Plus, what better way to get in more young Gen Y recruits to your IT dept. than putting Extreme in front of anything as mundane and corporate as coding?
That this will be a major breakthrough in space travel. For the first time, a Civilian will go into space for commercial purpouses. I feel that this could possibly open doors do a larger civilian presence in space in the future if he goes through with it. As far as the money, well I disagree with the principle of buying a ride to space, but I feel it is a precedent that needs to made.
Really, it all depends on the corporation. I used to work for one that had no need for things like CAD and whatnot, and they had a similar number of machines, and of course, they all ran windows. It would have been a perfect candidate for a large Linux rollout. Granted, there are a lot of different niche (and I use the term loosely) programs that only run on windows. So, it is easy enough to CUT the number of wndows machines you use, unless of courser, every machine in your shop runs CAD. Hell, make those IT boys work for thier pay:-) Anyhow, I think it is possible, just not probable.
...while we try to plan an optimum configuration to deal with the rising cost of ownership related to Microsoft's products.
I know this has been beaten like a dead horse but, Linux. One copy, one license, 10,000 desktops, it does th office productivity and internetworking that the windows machines do just fine, A good desktop (Gnome, KDE) is intutive enough that retraining would be minimal, not to mention the costs that could be saved. On the flip side, it would take more on the technician end, but I think dropping the cost of 10,000 M$ Windows licenses would more than make up for it.
Moral of the story: AC Moderators and the like need to
A) Learn to take a joke
B) Learn to be open to views that may diametrically oppose thiers
C) Realize that this is an open forum. Yes, we have a moderation to point out posts that may be of particualr interest. Yes, the original joke that was posted was somewhat narrowly targeted (Towards people that have heard of/Listen to the Industrial band Front 242), but, IMHO, Just because one does not get a joke, that is hardly any reason to mod it down.
My $0.02
Mod me down for posterities sake, or just to hide my opinion, anyone that has been on this forum for as long as I have either doesn't read it anymore or they browse comments at -1 anyhow.
Seriously though, it is great to see that they are finally gearing up some new designs, and I cannot wait to see some of the performance specs on these.
A computer is not a computer unluss it takes up at least 40 cubic feet
People would learn to do research. Many of these scams fall apart under the smallest pretense of scrutiny. If people were willing to question, especially if it sounds 'To good to be true', these guys would have no niche to exploit.
That one in these situations would just suicide quietly, Now, for whatever reason, they have decided to take quite a few people with them.
Does violence in media have anything to do with this? I don't know. All I know, is it sounds earily like what Heinlein wrote in 'Starship Troopers', in 1959.
Slashdot Mirror
First off, this is pure conjecture, IANAME.
Okay, the way I suppose this would work, considering that Intel had developed a chip that was compatible with the pentium series, would be an asynchronous design, with some kind of logic translator to communicate with the bus. Yes, at first you would be wasting processor power, but eventually, the bus technology would catch up (See ISA to EISA to VLB to PCI to AGP and on...). As for the RAM, it could either run on an independent clock-bus, or, I do not see why it would be a problem to develop asynchronous RAM if they have the technology for the chips. Also, the article states that the P IV utilises some asynchronous componants, maybe that is port of the reason for the push to use RDRAM with it?
Any idea just what this will provide except for possibly lower power consumption and less heat?
I like that, a lot like the interface in William Gibson's "Idoru", basically glasses and gloves that plug into your belt CPU with 3d GUI environment that the gloves are used to manipulate, THAT is where I would like to see wearable PC's head.
I think something like the old Nintendo power glove would be great, hit a button, gesture, hit a button to confirm, all of it fingertip controlled. Either that, or a touchpad/screen. What would be more natural for gesture based control than touching the screen and making the gesture?
I agree, where are we heading when a corporation can start telling an academic institution what it can or cannot teach or bring into public light?
It is almost like we are going into another dark age, where knowledge is suppressed for financial gain, and ultimately lost.
A network designed to be hacked, sounds like Microsofts corporate network to me.
I wonder if it is anything like Metamoderation for Mathemeticians
Math Trolling: x+y=z*troll if x=fp
Hail Hail! Hail Yes!
You notice the number of conspirato, err, posters was 23. The judge recognized this, as this was obviously a ploy by the Illuminati to hurt this company for not toeing the line in their part of the NWO.
It was all just a big conspiracy, and the judge let them off to save his own neck.
Every home schooled person I've come across (warning! sample size of one!) has had problems interacting with people.
I have come across more than one in my life, but for the most part (there are ALWAYS exceptions) I have to agree with you on this one. I believe it has something to do with the fact that, while most home schooled children get better educations more well suited for thier induvidual talents, they suffer in that they do not have constant social interaction outside of the home. This does leave a mark on a person, but ultimately, most of our genuises don't fit in anyhow, why should we start making them do so?
If I will be able to register Armageddon .edu now?
Learn to overthrow the gummint
Now the Borneans will be able to prosecute me for trying to take over thier country from my Network.
I wonder if because of this story we will see less postings by the Slashdot Trolls now?
I hope so.
I realized that slashdot trolling has gone way too far when I saw goatse.cx scrawled on a restroom wall of a local pizzashop/geek hangout. That was just too much.
Thats just it, according to thier license, the may not be using your cycles to cure cancer. They could be selling it to breakdown models of free nuclear reactions within the atmosphere, which would CAUSE quite a bit of cancer if it were to happen, if we lived through it. What they are saying is they are taking your cycles, not paying you for it, profiting off of it to the highest bidder, regardless of what thier cause is.
That, and if it were to lead to the cure, like they brought up in thae article, it would be 20+ years before a LOT of people would be able to afford it.
Either that or having them plug the mains into the unsheilded headset jacks, ah yes, I love the smell of end users in the morning...
I think it has something to do with it being a new Corporate catchphrase.
Plus, what better way to get in more young Gen Y recruits to your IT dept. than putting Extreme in front of anything as mundane and corporate as coding?
I am waiting for extreme end user support myself.
That this will be a major breakthrough in space travel. For the first time, a Civilian will go into space for commercial purpouses. I feel that this could possibly open doors do a larger civilian presence in space in the future if he goes through with it. As far as the money, well I disagree with the principle of buying a ride to space, but I feel it is a precedent that needs to made.
Really, it all depends on the corporation. I used to work for one that had no need for things like CAD and whatnot, and they had a similar number of machines, and of course, they all ran windows. It would have been a perfect candidate for a large Linux rollout. Granted, there are a lot of different niche (and I use the term loosely) programs that only run on windows. So, it is easy enough to CUT the number of wndows machines you use, unless of courser, every machine in your shop runs CAD. Hell, make those IT boys work for thier pay :-) Anyhow, I think it is possible, just not probable.
...while we try to plan an optimum configuration to deal with the rising cost of ownership related to Microsoft's products.
I know this has been beaten like a dead horse but, Linux. One copy, one license, 10,000 desktops, it does th office productivity and internetworking that the windows machines do just fine, A good desktop (Gnome, KDE) is intutive enough that retraining would be minimal, not to mention the costs that could be saved. On the flip side, it would take more on the technician end, but I think dropping the cost of 10,000 M$ Windows licenses would more than make up for it.
Moral of the story: AC Moderators and the like need to
A) Learn to take a joke
B) Learn to be open to views that may diametrically oppose thiers
C) Realize that this is an open forum. Yes, we have a moderation to point out posts that may be of particualr interest. Yes, the original joke that was posted was somewhat narrowly targeted (Towards people that have heard of/Listen to the Industrial band Front 242), but, IMHO, Just because one does not get a joke, that is hardly any reason to mod it down.
My $0.02
Mod me down for posterities sake, or just to hide my opinion, anyone that has been on this forum for as long as I have either doesn't read it anymore or they browse comments at -1 anyhow.
Ah, I am overrated cause the mod didna get the joke, *sigh* Should have figured.
And I just got 2.4.2 running
That, and Kernel 2.4.2 was just so industrial.
Back to the noise.
When and where can I get me one of these?
Seriously though, it is great to see that they are finally gearing up some new designs, and I cannot wait to see some of the performance specs on these.
A computer is not a computer unluss it takes up at least 40 cubic feet
People would learn to do research. Many of these scams fall apart under the smallest pretense of scrutiny. If people were willing to question, especially if it sounds 'To good to be true', these guys would have no niche to exploit.
That one in these situations would just suicide quietly, Now, for whatever reason, they have decided to take quite a few people with them.
Does violence in media have anything to do with this? I don't know. All I know, is it sounds earily like what Heinlein wrote in 'Starship Troopers', in 1959.