Ignore Intel's "Hyperthreading" name. There was already an established name for the technique, Symetric Multi-Threading (SMT). The basic concept is that, since most of the CPU's pipeline is usually going to waste due to stalls, especially in a CPU with a pipeline as deep as a P4, the one physical CPU can pretend to be two CPU's. When instructions for one CPU stall, the pipeline can switch to instructions for the other.
This would have been a lot harder a few years ago, but most of the hard parts (like register renaming) had already been done to implement out-of-order execution.
As for what can benefit, it's pretty much anything that can benefit from dual CPU's.
SQL Server has had an XML web gateway since version 2000. You can run any query and output it as xml
I hadn't even thought about that. If the XML format is anything reasonable, you could get query results as XML, toss them through a little XSLT, and have your report as a Word or (probably) Excel file. That would be pretty slick.
Call it apathy if you want, I call it business. For every moron who invested in some crappy dot-com, some crappy energy company, or some stupidly overvalue pet store, there is someone like myself who invests in guaranteed instruments. Savings bonds. I am going to retire a million in 40 years at the age of 61. It doesn't take much: $150 a month or so.
When financial advisors are harping on "the magic of compound interest", just remember that inflation compounds, too. A million dollars is not likely to be enough to live on in 40 years.
different congressioinal committees were threating to pull funding entirely from the SEC if Levitt didn't quit pushing for accounting reforms, the exact reforms that turned out to be so necessary.
Levitt was pushing for the separation of consulting (mainly IT, which is why Slashdot people would care about the rule, except those married to accountants, like me) from companies that do auditing. The idea here was that when Anderson Consulting is doing programming for Enron, the Anderson auditors are comprimised because they have to worry about losing the IT business if they piss Enron off too badly. If consulting is split off, they only have to worry about losing the auditing business.
That seems to make sense, until you realize that the accounting only company is now a smaller company, so that the threat of losing just the accounting business is now just as big as losing the both accounting and consulting business was previously. I don't really think the regulation change Levitt wanted would have made a bit of difference.
I don't know a heck of a lot of FORTRAN, but I'm decent with PostScript (about to get rusty, because we're converting to XSL-FO at work). I don't get to see other people's PostScript code too often.
Anyway, you've got a save at the beginning of the output, so shouldn't there be a restore? You're going to get save objects accumulating on the stack.
If the distributions are the Linux Kernel + GNU Utilities shouldn't it be called Linux/GNU?
Actually, no. I think this is the same philosophy as TCP/IP, which everyone just pronounces as "Tee See Pee Eye Pee", but really means TCP over IP (as IP is a lower level protocol, and TCP runs on top of it). By the same token, GNU/Linux would be GNU over (or on) Linux.
The way RMS says it, though, it sounds like he's trying to take credit for Linux. If he asked people to call the systems "GNU on Linux", it would come off as a lot more reasonable.
"By breaking this seal you agree to the terms of the license contained herein."
How about "By breaking this seal you agree to the terms and conditions of the curse contained herein. You further agree to hold Khufu blameless for any misfortunes resulting from this curse. Khufu's curse is not suitable for use in life support systems or nuclear power plants."
I won't dispute that downloading the movie is illegal (and probably should be). However, regardless of whether I manage to download it before the release or not, I'm pretty sure I'll see it three times in the theater and buy both versions of the DVD. Given that, I can't really consider it unethical to download.
I tried out Opera a few years ago (version 3? 4?), and dropped it because I hated the tabbed browsing. I don't care about application-centric vs. document-centric, but I hate not being able to alt-tab between all my windows.
It doesn't make sense. Either your government is that greatest in the world or they are sold-out money grabbing pigs. You can't have both.
This sort of argument seems to come up on at least half of the Slashdot discussions I see. Every time, somebody pops on to point out that there are a lot a different people on Slashdot, and it's not necessarily the same people who have the various contradictory positions. That post then usually gets moderated up to a 5, so I guess I'll be the karma whore this time.
Good Eats is a very scientific cooking show (and hilarious, sort of like Bill Nye without the music videos -- it's probably my favorite show on TV), but Alton doesn't call himself a food scientist. The commercials for Good Eats call him a filmmaker, but his food network bio says he's been both a professional chef and a professional video director.
The review here mentioned Cookwise, by Shirley Corriher (sp?) as being a similar book. She makes frequent appearances on Good Eats as the food scientist. I've got Cookwise, but I haven't gotten very far into it, mostly because it's a lot more practical advice than actual science.
I would guess that Alton Brown's book probably doesn't cover baking while Cookwise does because he's probably expecting to sell to people who also have Cookwise.
if it doesnt diaplay a phone number, my phone doesnt ring.. and that's how my relatives/friends/co-workers are told.. (if your number doesnt show it ain't gonna go.)
I don't know about other people's offices, but even personal calls that I make from work show up without a phone number. We do have telemarketers at our office (phone company), but I'm not one of them.
The libraries, in general, are actually quite well designed. Especially the database access API. The problem is, novice coders don't generally understand that there are things like non-western calendaring systems, multi-byte character sets, and alternate forms for displaying dates. These libraries make sure such novice programmers do not code a company into a box.
You start by saying the libraries are good, especially the database libraries, and then elaborate by talking about the date libraries. You do realize that doesn't make any sense, I hope.
I've heard that IBM is really good a preventing this. They have two promotion paths, one technical, one managerial.
I don't know to what extent IBM actually does that, but Fred Brooks advocated it in The Mythical Man Month, and was at IBM.
He had an additional rule. The trend is for people to assume the management postition is better, even at the same pay, so a transfer from technical to management should never include a raise, and a transfer from management to technical should always include a raise.
For my main system at work, I actually had to specify that it could not run on WinNT file servers. Anywhere I use Access databases, I open the.Mdb file exclusively (Access can be very useful, but it's only trustworthy if you treat it as single-user.), but the open mode was not respected when the file was on an NT drive. Our Novell drives worked just fine.
I hope at least that they give him a free computer or something like that. Show him some appreciation...
They're being much more rude than that. The letter from Apple specifically said they wouldn't even give him a refund for fees he paid to have access to their bug system.
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Ignore Intel's "Hyperthreading" name. There was already an established name for the technique, Symetric Multi-Threading (SMT). The basic concept is that, since most of the CPU's pipeline is usually going to waste due to stalls, especially in a CPU with a pipeline as deep as a P4, the one physical CPU can pretend to be two CPU's. When instructions for one CPU stall, the pipeline can switch to instructions for the other.
This would have been a lot harder a few years ago, but most of the hard parts (like register renaming) had already been done to implement out-of-order execution.
As for what can benefit, it's pretty much anything that can benefit from dual CPU's.
SQL Server has had an XML web gateway since version 2000. You can run any query and output it as xml
I hadn't even thought about that. If the XML format is anything reasonable, you could get query results as XML, toss them through a little XSLT, and have your report as a Word or (probably) Excel file. That would be pretty slick.
Call it apathy if you want, I call it business. For every moron who invested in some crappy dot-com, some crappy energy company, or some stupidly overvalue pet store, there is someone like myself who invests in guaranteed instruments. Savings bonds. I am going to retire a million in 40 years at the age of 61. It doesn't take much: $150 a month or so.
When financial advisors are harping on "the magic of compound interest", just remember that inflation compounds, too. A million dollars is not likely to be enough to live on in 40 years.
different congressioinal committees were threating to pull funding entirely from the SEC if Levitt didn't quit pushing for accounting reforms, the exact reforms that turned out to be so necessary.
Levitt was pushing for the separation of consulting (mainly IT, which is why Slashdot people would care about the rule, except those married to accountants, like me) from companies that do auditing. The idea here was that when Anderson Consulting is doing programming for Enron, the Anderson auditors are comprimised because they have to worry about losing the IT business if they piss Enron off too badly. If consulting is split off, they only have to worry about losing the auditing business.
That seems to make sense, until you realize that the accounting only company is now a smaller company, so that the threat of losing just the accounting business is now just as big as losing the both accounting and consulting business was previously. I don't really think the regulation change Levitt wanted would have made a bit of difference.
I don't know a heck of a lot of FORTRAN, but I'm decent with PostScript (about to get rusty, because we're converting to XSL-FO at work). I don't get to see other people's PostScript code too often.
Anyway, you've got a save at the beginning of the output, so shouldn't there be a restore? You're going to get save objects accumulating on the stack.
If the distributions are the Linux Kernel + GNU Utilities shouldn't it be called Linux/GNU?
Actually, no. I think this is the same philosophy as TCP/IP, which everyone just pronounces as "Tee See Pee Eye Pee", but really means TCP over IP (as IP is a lower level protocol, and TCP runs on top of it). By the same token, GNU/Linux would be GNU over (or on) Linux.
The way RMS says it, though, it sounds like he's trying to take credit for Linux. If he asked people to call the systems "GNU on Linux", it would come off as a lot more reasonable.
I have WinXP Pro, and just put on SP1 about a week ago. When I open a command prompt, this is at the top:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
Is 2600 a build number, or what?
I've done it. I still think my QuickBasic function that did binary searches in flat delimited ASCII files was pretty cool...
"By breaking this seal you agree to the terms of the license contained herein."
How about "By breaking this seal you agree to the terms and conditions of the curse contained herein. You further agree to hold Khufu blameless for any misfortunes resulting from this curse. Khufu's curse is not suitable for use in life support systems or nuclear power plants."
I won't dispute that downloading the movie is illegal (and probably should be). However, regardless of whether I manage to download it before the release or not, I'm pretty sure I'll see it three times in the theater and buy both versions of the DVD. Given that, I can't really consider it unethical to download.
anything you say can and will be held against you. . . . "Charisma Carpenters tits."
To hell with those. She and Kylie Minogue have the four best legs in the free world.
I tried out Opera a few years ago (version 3? 4?), and dropped it because I hated the tabbed browsing. I don't care about application-centric vs. document-centric, but I hate not being able to alt-tab between all my windows.
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Scotland!
It doesn't make sense. Either your government is that greatest in the world or they are sold-out money grabbing pigs. You can't have both.
This sort of argument seems to come up on at least half of the Slashdot discussions I see. Every time, somebody pops on to point out that there are a lot a different people on Slashdot, and it's not necessarily the same people who have the various contradictory positions. That post then usually gets moderated up to a 5, so I guess I'll be the karma whore this time.
Because Alton Brown is a food scientist.
Good Eats is a very scientific cooking show (and hilarious, sort of like Bill Nye without the music videos -- it's probably my favorite show on TV), but Alton doesn't call himself a food scientist. The commercials for Good Eats call him a filmmaker, but his food network bio says he's been both a professional chef and a professional video director.
The review here mentioned Cookwise, by Shirley Corriher (sp?) as being a similar book. She makes frequent appearances on Good Eats as the food scientist. I've got Cookwise, but I haven't gotten very far into it, mostly because it's a lot more practical advice than actual science.
I would guess that Alton Brown's book probably doesn't cover baking while Cookwise does because he's probably expecting to sell to people who also have Cookwise.
if it doesnt diaplay a phone number, my phone doesnt ring.. and that's how my relatives/friends/co-workers are told.. (if your number doesnt show it ain't gonna go.)
I don't know about other people's offices, but even personal calls that I make from work show up without a phone number. We do have telemarketers at our office (phone company), but I'm not one of them.
Ah, but the student is getting laid by somebody middle-aged, while the professor is getting a nubile young hottie.
The libraries, in general, are actually quite well designed. Especially the database access API. The problem is, novice coders don't generally understand that there are things like non-western calendaring systems, multi-byte character sets, and alternate forms for displaying dates. These libraries make sure such novice programmers do not code a company into a box.
You start by saying the libraries are good, especially the database libraries, and then elaborate by talking about the date libraries. You do realize that doesn't make any sense, I hope.
I've heard that IBM is really good a preventing this. They have two promotion paths, one technical, one managerial.
I don't know to what extent IBM actually does that, but Fred Brooks advocated it in The Mythical Man Month, and was at IBM.
He had an additional rule. The trend is for people to assume the management postition is better, even at the same pay, so a transfer from technical to management should never include a raise, and a transfer from management to technical should always include a raise.
MS servers are ideal for file print servers
.Mdb file exclusively (Access can be very useful, but it's only trustworthy if you treat it as single-user.), but the open mode was not respected when the file was on an NT drive. Our Novell drives worked just fine.
For my main system at work, I actually had to specify that it could not run on WinNT file servers. Anywhere I use Access databases, I open the
Would that be a Beowulf in sheep's clothing?
If it did, then it wouldn't mean much to say it doesn't conduct electricity.
I hope at least that they give him a free computer or something like that. Show him some appreciation...
They're being much more rude than that. The letter from Apple specifically said they wouldn't even give him a refund for fees he paid to have access to their bug system.
Of course, but the point is that there doesn't have to be anything that takes an analog signal.
If the endmost device in the chain takes an analog input, like a CRT or speaker driver, then someplace there has to be an analog signal
LCD monitors don't necessarily have an analog signal, anywhere, and actually work better if given a digital signal in the first place.