There is an almost trivial migration path that Intel/AMD could take to get rid of those features whilst still retaining a large part of the market. They could produce x86-64 CPUs that boot into 64bit long mode right from the start, scrapping most of the compatibility modes and features (real mode and virtual 8086 mode can go). x86-64 is a really neat clean architecture when taken on its own.
Such CPUs could be badged as "pure 64bit" CPUs. They'd require an 64bit OS and drivers and they wouldn't run older software. That's not such an issue as modern OSes don't exactly run real mode or virtual mode software anyway.
Of course neither AMD or Intel could be bothered doing any of that despite it being a straightforward migration path. The fact is the real estate use of the legacy x68 features are minimal. It doesn't actually hurt to have them around. 386 had 275,000 transistors for all its features, a modern CPU has billions. It's like an bulk freighter with a toy truck in the cargo hold.
What are you talking about? The early Itaniums were x86-32 compatible. "Itanium processors released prior to 2006 had hardware support for the IA-32 architecture to permit support for legacy server applications"
I'm pro-nuclear but i'm sick of this downplaying bullshit. Reactors that require actively powered safety systems ARE flawed.
This entire crises we have had absolute dickheads claiming that the radiation levels are safe at a time when people in the immediate vicinity are being encouraged to evacuate by the authorities. There is a radiation leak. This is a fact. Up to 400mSv/h near the reactor has been confirmed (noticable radiation sickness will happen at 800 and above, but 400 is still very, very dangerous). People need to be acknowledging that fact. Much smaller than Chernobyl but there's no reason to downplay it. There are some heroes right now working in the irradiated zone trying to keep things under control. There are people in the immediate area who should leave for the next few days.
Assholes like the guy who wrote the following "even if you were standing at the top of the cooling tower you would be fine" and "fukushima is currently safe and will stay safe" should be sent to help maintain the reactors without any protective suit. Link: http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/
Enough with the downplaying. The design WAS flawed. People ARE risking their lives to contain it. We should learn from this.
We're still not entirely sure of how a brain works. Oh sure, it's a neural network of some kind, but how do the neurons in a brain form meaningful connections with each other? How do they get their weightings of activation? etc.
Chances each neuron in the brain might be representable by a simple mathematical function with only a few terms. The way the neurons connect to each other might also be representable in a simplistic way. (btw. look up dynamic markov coding if you want to see a neat way a state can reproduce in a way that gives the newly created state meaningful input/output connections to other states).
So the problem isn't necessarily that our computers aren't powerful enough. The problem is that we still don't know how a brain works.
I'm not the OP but I use it for SIP without any configuration on the phone side and it works perfectly. Do you control your own SIP server? If so you might want to look into which protocols you allow. I'd disable PCM as it's quite crappy (slow to decode, large bandwidth requirement etc etc). Get the phone to negotiate something better. I'd also be pinging your SIP server even over Wifi just to make sure it's running nicely.
Also/etc/stream-engine/gstcodecs.conf has various options you can Google about.
Actually simply add a CPU and memory stress test and this would be great for overclocking!
It's already got all the CPU identification stuff that overclockers need. It boots quick and off a USB drive too!
The only thing it's missing is a CPU and memory stress tester. With that you'd be able to quickly change settings, reboot and test them without having to stuff around loading a full OS.
Ugh. No. The trailing dot is perfectly correct and it should be there. It's actually a hack that the trailing dot is implicitly assumed in domain names.
"It's a little-known fact, but fully-qualified (unambiguous) DNS domain names have a dot at the end."
No it doesn't need to recognise the search page. It just needs to look at URLS
www.google.com/search?s=asdfds32asdfds
then a visit to www.foobar.com
Would create a link between asdfds32asdfds and the site foobar.com as both site are visited sequentially.
If Bing can be disassembled and shown to contain code specific to google.com then Google might have a point. As it stands though, Bing is simply guilty of looking at the URLs and associating them. So this Bing flaw works on any site. Nothing specific to copying Google.
Nokias N900 has the X Terminal right there if you want it and you can get root access with a simple "root" command on the shell. Nokia fully supports it. The Windowing System is X. You can SSH to the phone via it's wifi and use it just like any remote X system. It's essentially a Linux PC with a great phone application in-built. It runs Skype perfectly. Almost every app on Linux can be ported to the N900 by a simple make and configure on the phone itself (yes you can put GCC straight onto the phone).
There's no way in hell i want Nokia to take the relatively locked-down Android path. They are doing the right thing as it is.
After that incident i always found it odd how the media reacted to such things. The media never reported on just how blatant the strike was. Instead the main stories been reported around the time were "attacks on US nationals increase" as various Chinese protest groups vented their anger on American government buildings around the world. Essentially the reports were made to make the Chinese look bad.
Now it's obvious that Chinese media is a complete farce. It's state controlled and blatantly so. But i also have to wonder if our western media isn't exactly the same but just smarter about it? Sure it isn't blatant like Pravda or China Daily but our western media still seems to reach for the same goals as Pravda and China Daily would. From getting people behind support of a war to excusing completely unjustifiable actions. Our media seems no better, just smarter and less blatant. Probably makes our media more dangerous than theirs to be honest.
Similar things happened in the Hainan Island spy plane incident. The Chinese returned the crew in perfect health and the also spy plane to the US but they were the bad guys according to the media i'm exposed to. I really don't get our media. I'm sure if the roles were reversed China would still be made out to be the bad guys.
Yet again the same thing with the Iraq war. There were never any links to Al-Qaeda. No WMDs. But our media didn't even report that as a possibility in the lead up to war.
Check out GlobalStar. A much greater fuck-up than Iridium. Their low orbit satellites started failing in 2007 which was after they were already bankrupt and sold off. They sell their phones with pamphlets stating "times you can use you phone in your area".
Blizzard really don't have to go far for prior art on this at all. Starcraft 1 had a system that was essentially the same as Starcraft 2's ladder system. You could choose to play a match in the Blizzard ladder system and you'd be ranked and the results stored on the Blizzard database server. The Starcraft 1 ladder was removed in later patches as no one was using it towards the end (they were playing on other custom laddering systems) but it was there in the beginning and it was very similar to what's in Starcraft 2.
It's actually quite funny that they've chosen to sue the one company that has the most prior art on this.
You don't go around shooting everything that doesn't respond to IFF in a war. You have human intervention. Technology hasn't reached the stage where that human intervention can be removed.
Having humans in the air helps with stealth. A UAV on its own will need occasional human guidance to tell friend from foe. That means radio links. Which means the stealth is broken.
What's most surprising it that the research was on matrix dot products, something that graphics cards do in 3D operations. The FPGA beat the graphics card at its own game in both performance and performance per watt.
I'm impressed. Perhaps we'll see graphics cards made up of nothing but programmable FPGAs in the future. Instead of loading and running a CUDA kernel we'll be loading and running an FPGA core.
Only the EeePC drivers are compiled in to the kernel. It's also 32bit. So you can still do it in theory using a lot of kmodding and editing of config files but i'm not willing to do that.
I bought an EeePC which had Eee-Xandros pre-installed. I've found it to be absolutely fantastic for children with its big icons and really simplistic interface. It even came with a ton of pre-installed games and educational apps for children so it was clearly designed with that in mind.
The only issue is that I'm not sure how you go about getting the EeePC distro of Xandros without buying an EeePC (the regular Xandros distro is quite different and doesn't have the customised interface).
I mentioned this above but it is worth repeating. The loans the US government are in US currency. So paying off a US$1trillion loan by printing that much money is possible (even if it lowers the value of the currency to the point it hurts) because there is no currency conversion involved.
Zimbabwe had loans in foreign currencies. Zimbabwe could never repay a EUR$1trillion loan because as soon as it converted some Zimbabwe currency to Euros the Zimbabwe currency becomes worth slightly less. If the Zimbabwe currency halves after converting and paying off half the loan, and then halves in value again when paying off half that remainder, etc. you end up with a situation where the loan simple cannot be repaid even when printing an infinite amount of money.
The US doesn't have that problem as its loans are in US$. The loans drop in value when the currency drops in value. So while the dropping of the US$ will hurt greatly in itself at least there is a way to pay off the loans, unlike in Zimbabwe.
I'd like to point out that the loans the US takes are in US currency. So paying loans with freshly printed money is an option in the US. It's not an option in Ireland or Iceland though as their loans are largely in foreign currencies.
Obviously printing money to pay off debt isn't a good thing but it is different to what the Icelandic and Irish economies were able to do. So things may turn out far differently in the US, for better or worse.
A Voodoo2 wasn't around 3 years before Unreal. The Voodoo1 wasn't even available 3 years before Unreal was released.
So if you purchased a top of the line PC 3 years before Unreal 1 was released you would be below specifications. I'm comparing a top of the line PC 3 years before a game was released to the minimum requirements. Bringing in low end comparisons of PCs now is irrevelant. Metro 2033 will run on a top of the line PC from 3 years ago.
I played Blackthorne start-finish back in the day. It was bug free.
Starcraft 2 would have been a much better choice for criticising Blizzard (with the bnet lobby system having no chatrooms, no clan support and a crap way of listing custom games),
That's a recent thing and is OPs point. You most certainly couldn't certain play games on a 3 year old system back in the mid-late 90's for example.
eg. Unreal 1 was released 22nd May 1998. It required a 166Mhz CPU at minimum. Less than 3 years before that the top of the line CPU would have been the Pentium 120 (released 27th May 1995). So you could have bought a top of the line CPU and in less than 3 years it'd be below minimum requirements for the newest games. That sort of thing was normal in that era. It doesn't happen today though.
Yeah that's still not exactly great by Australian banking standards. I just checked and went back 7 years on my statement history without any hassle on my net banking. I'd be pissed if there was a 1 year or 3 month limit.
Australia's online banking systems are actually really good. Better than anything I've seen in the USA.
Now before any fellow Australians mod me down for saying that let me just say I've spent some time in the US. We really do have it good compared to what I've seen of their systems. In the US if you want to view the full history of your online banking you have to seriously pay a fee. Americans actually think it's normal to not be able to download the past years account transaction history with a few clicks without paying for it. You can't download PDFs or CSVs of an account via the online banking systems i used in the USA. Direct deposit to other accounts isn't nearly as easy as it is here either - I'm sure i'm not the only one who buys goods from Australian websites via Australian Direct Deposit rather than a credit card or paypal service.
Disclaimer: Most of my experience has been with Combank but i know the other Aussie banks are similar - the online banking systems here are pretty damn good. Now if only the home loan rates were a bit more reasonable here in Australia (currently pushing over 7% and rising).
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There is an almost trivial migration path that Intel/AMD could take to get rid of those features whilst still retaining a large part of the market. They could produce x86-64 CPUs that boot into 64bit long mode right from the start, scrapping most of the compatibility modes and features (real mode and virtual 8086 mode can go). x86-64 is a really neat clean architecture when taken on its own.
Such CPUs could be badged as "pure 64bit" CPUs. They'd require an 64bit OS and drivers and they wouldn't run older software. That's not such an issue as modern OSes don't exactly run real mode or virtual mode software anyway.
Of course neither AMD or Intel could be bothered doing any of that despite it being a straightforward migration path. The fact is the real estate use of the legacy x68 features are minimal. It doesn't actually hurt to have them around. 386 had 275,000 transistors for all its features, a modern CPU has billions. It's like an bulk freighter with a toy truck in the cargo hold.
What are you talking about? The early Itaniums were x86-32 compatible.
"Itanium processors released prior to 2006 had hardware support for the IA-32 architecture to permit support for legacy server applications"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#Architectural_changes
It wasn't until later the Itaniums lost their hardware based x86 compatibility.
I'm pro-nuclear but i'm sick of this downplaying bullshit. Reactors that require actively powered safety systems ARE flawed.
This entire crises we have had absolute dickheads claiming that the radiation levels are safe at a time when people in the immediate vicinity are being encouraged to evacuate by the authorities. There is a radiation leak. This is a fact. Up to 400mSv/h near the reactor has been confirmed (noticable radiation sickness will happen at 800 and above, but 400 is still very, very dangerous). People need to be acknowledging that fact. Much smaller than Chernobyl but there's no reason to downplay it. There are some heroes right now working in the irradiated zone trying to keep things under control. There are people in the immediate area who should leave for the next few days.
Assholes like the guy who wrote the following "even if you were standing at the top of the cooling tower you would be fine" and "fukushima is currently safe and will stay safe" should be sent to help maintain the reactors without any protective suit. Link: http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/
Enough with the downplaying. The design WAS flawed. People ARE risking their lives to contain it. We should learn from this.
Getting a little ahead of ourselves aren't we?
We're still not entirely sure of how a brain works. Oh sure, it's a neural network of some kind, but how do the neurons in a brain form meaningful connections with each other? How do they get their weightings of activation? etc.
Chances each neuron in the brain might be representable by a simple mathematical function with only a few terms. The way the neurons connect to each other might also be representable in a simplistic way. (btw. look up dynamic markov coding if you want to see a neat way a state can reproduce in a way that gives the newly created state meaningful input/output connections to other states).
So the problem isn't necessarily that our computers aren't powerful enough. The problem is that we still don't know how a brain works.
I'm not the OP but I use it for SIP without any configuration on the phone side and it works perfectly. Do you control your own SIP server? If so you might want to look into which protocols you allow. I'd disable PCM as it's quite crappy (slow to decode, large bandwidth requirement etc etc). Get the phone to negotiate something better. I'd also be pinging your SIP server even over Wifi just to make sure it's running nicely.
Also /etc/stream-engine/gstcodecs.conf has various options you can Google about.
Actually simply add a CPU and memory stress test and this would be great for overclocking!
It's already got all the CPU identification stuff that overclockers need. It boots quick and off a USB drive too!
The only thing it's missing is a CPU and memory stress tester. With that you'd be able to quickly change settings, reboot and test them without having to stuff around loading a full OS.
Ugh. No. The trailing dot is perfectly correct and it should be there. It's actually a hack that the trailing dot is implicitly assumed in domain names.
"It's a little-known fact, but fully-qualified (unambiguous) DNS domain names have a dot at the end."
http://www.dns-sd.org/TrailingDotsInDomainNames.html
No it doesn't need to recognise the search page. It just needs to look at URLS
www.google.com/search?s=asdfds32asdfds
then a visit to
www.foobar.com
Would create a link between asdfds32asdfds and the site foobar.com as both site are visited sequentially.
If Bing can be disassembled and shown to contain code specific to google.com then Google might have a point. As it stands though, Bing is simply guilty of looking at the URLs and associating them. So this Bing flaw works on any site. Nothing specific to copying Google.
Hell no!
Nokias N900 has the X Terminal right there if you want it and you can get root access with a simple "root" command on the shell. Nokia fully supports it. The Windowing System is X. You can SSH to the phone via it's wifi and use it just like any remote X system. It's essentially a Linux PC with a great phone application in-built. It runs Skype perfectly. Almost every app on Linux can be ported to the N900 by a simple make and configure on the phone itself (yes you can put GCC straight onto the phone).
There's no way in hell i want Nokia to take the relatively locked-down Android path. They are doing the right thing as it is.
Yes, he did cheat.
Link
http://www.gamingtruth.com/2011/01/26/update-the-kid-was-cheating
After that incident i always found it odd how the media reacted to such things. The media never reported on just how blatant the strike was. Instead the main stories been reported around the time were "attacks on US nationals increase" as various Chinese protest groups vented their anger on American government buildings around the world. Essentially the reports were made to make the Chinese look bad.
Now it's obvious that Chinese media is a complete farce. It's state controlled and blatantly so. But i also have to wonder if our western media isn't exactly the same but just smarter about it? Sure it isn't blatant like Pravda or China Daily but our western media still seems to reach for the same goals as Pravda and China Daily would. From getting people behind support of a war to excusing completely unjustifiable actions. Our media seems no better, just smarter and less blatant. Probably makes our media more dangerous than theirs to be honest.
Similar things happened in the Hainan Island spy plane incident. The Chinese returned the crew in perfect health and the also spy plane to the US but they were the bad guys according to the media i'm exposed to. I really don't get our media. I'm sure if the roles were reversed China would still be made out to be the bad guys.
Yet again the same thing with the Iraq war. There were never any links to Al-Qaeda. No WMDs. But our media didn't even report that as a possibility in the lead up to war.
Check out GlobalStar. A much greater fuck-up than Iridium. Their low orbit satellites started failing in 2007 which was after they were already bankrupt and sold off. They sell their phones with pamphlets stating "times you can use you phone in your area".
Blizzard really don't have to go far for prior art on this at all. Starcraft 1 had a system that was essentially the same as Starcraft 2's ladder system. You could choose to play a match in the Blizzard ladder system and you'd be ranked and the results stored on the Blizzard database server. The Starcraft 1 ladder was removed in later patches as no one was using it towards the end (they were playing on other custom laddering systems) but it was there in the beginning and it was very similar to what's in Starcraft 2.
It's actually quite funny that they've chosen to sue the one company that has the most prior art on this.
You don't go around shooting everything that doesn't respond to IFF in a war. You have human intervention. Technology hasn't reached the stage where that human intervention can be removed.
Having humans in the air helps with stealth. A UAV on its own will need occasional human guidance to tell friend from foe. That means radio links. Which means the stealth is broken.
What's most surprising it that the research was on matrix dot products, something that graphics cards do in 3D operations. The FPGA beat the graphics card at its own game in both performance and performance per watt.
I'm impressed. Perhaps we'll see graphics cards made up of nothing but programmable FPGAs in the future. Instead of loading and running a CUDA kernel we'll be loading and running an FPGA core.
Only the EeePC drivers are compiled in to the kernel. It's also 32bit. So you can still do it in theory using a lot of kmodding and editing of config files but i'm not willing to do that.
I bought an EeePC which had Eee-Xandros pre-installed. I've found it to be absolutely fantastic for children with its big icons and really simplistic interface. It even came with a ton of pre-installed games and educational apps for children so it was clearly designed with that in mind.
The only issue is that I'm not sure how you go about getting the EeePC distro of Xandros without buying an EeePC (the regular Xandros distro is quite different and doesn't have the customised interface).
I mentioned this above but it is worth repeating. The loans the US government are in US currency. So paying off a US$1trillion loan by printing that much money is possible (even if it lowers the value of the currency to the point it hurts) because there is no currency conversion involved.
Zimbabwe had loans in foreign currencies. Zimbabwe could never repay a EUR$1trillion loan because as soon as it converted some Zimbabwe currency to Euros the Zimbabwe currency becomes worth slightly less. If the Zimbabwe currency halves after converting and paying off half the loan, and then halves in value again when paying off half that remainder, etc. you end up with a situation where the loan simple cannot be repaid even when printing an infinite amount of money.
The US doesn't have that problem as its loans are in US$. The loans drop in value when the currency drops in value. So while the dropping of the US$ will hurt greatly in itself at least there is a way to pay off the loans, unlike in Zimbabwe.
I'd like to point out that the loans the US takes are in US currency. So paying loans with freshly printed money is an option in the US. It's not an option in Ireland or Iceland though as their loans are largely in foreign currencies.
Obviously printing money to pay off debt isn't a good thing but it is different to what the Icelandic and Irish economies were able to do. So things may turn out far differently in the US, for better or worse.
A Voodoo2 wasn't around 3 years before Unreal. The Voodoo1 wasn't even available 3 years before Unreal was released.
So if you purchased a top of the line PC 3 years before Unreal 1 was released you would be below specifications. I'm comparing a top of the line PC 3 years before a game was released to the minimum requirements. Bringing in low end comparisons of PCs now is irrevelant. Metro 2033 will run on a top of the line PC from 3 years ago.
I played Blackthorne start-finish back in the day. It was bug free.
Starcraft 2 would have been a much better choice for criticising Blizzard (with the bnet lobby system having no chatrooms, no clan support and a crap way of listing custom games),
That's a recent thing and is OPs point. You most certainly couldn't certain play games on a 3 year old system back in the mid-late 90's for example.
eg. Unreal 1 was released 22nd May 1998. It required a 166Mhz CPU at minimum. Less than 3 years before that the top of the line CPU would have been the Pentium 120 (released 27th May 1995). So you could have bought a top of the line CPU and in less than 3 years it'd be below minimum requirements for the newest games. That sort of thing was normal in that era. It doesn't happen today though.
Yeah that's still not exactly great by Australian banking standards. I just checked and went back 7 years on my statement history without any hassle on my net banking. I'd be pissed if there was a 1 year or 3 month limit.
Overdraft fees used to be an issue here but many Australian banks scrapped them after one did it and the rest followed.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/29/2639350.htm
So we have it pretty good here in some ways. The home loan rates being through the roof is the main issue though.
Australia's online banking systems are actually really good. Better than anything I've seen in the USA.
Now before any fellow Australians mod me down for saying that let me just say I've spent some time in the US. We really do have it good compared to what I've seen of their systems. In the US if you want to view the full history of your online banking you have to seriously pay a fee. Americans actually think it's normal to not be able to download the past years account transaction history with a few clicks without paying for it. You can't download PDFs or CSVs of an account via the online banking systems i used in the USA. Direct deposit to other accounts isn't nearly as easy as it is here either - I'm sure i'm not the only one who buys goods from Australian websites via Australian Direct Deposit rather than a credit card or paypal service.
Disclaimer: Most of my experience has been with Combank but i know the other Aussie banks are similar - the online banking systems here are pretty damn good. Now if only the home loan rates were a bit more reasonable here in Australia (currently pushing over 7% and rising).