Mohd. "Binatang bin Goncang" literally translates to "Animal Shaker" (masturbate) in Malay. So I doubt if that is a real name (or story for that matter).
The problem is not so much of a capacity misses as much as conflict misses... really. I have ran simulations of processors with varying cache size with suprisingsly little or no improvement beyond a 16 K instruction cache using the Trace Cache method.
It is 'how' that sequence of streams are fetch, not 'how much'. You can fetch the whole 16K block of instruction, but if the insturction tend to jump to the other end of the memory location (not within the 16K window), you just spend x amount of cycle doing crap.
If you talk of capacity, the only real sufficient capacity is the cache sufficient to load up the whole instruction segment.... that way we wouldn't have instruction miss (75% of the references!).... while we are not yet there, just work on a better branch prediction.
Does not equal faster cycle time as much as faster cycle does not necessary mean faster computer (to scale with cycle time reduction).
However, more transistor means that we can afford more internal cache... but then the real problem in the cache world is miss rate and branch prediction, not capacity.
So what to do with all those unused transistors? System on chip is one of the possibility...any other suggestions?
"As reported in the Australian media (which, for all its faults, is *not* significantly influenced by the government and takes a far more international perspective than, say, the American media)"
In most cases, it is very much exaggerated. For some reason Australian media tend to hit the Malaysian government very hard.
"than repeating what has happened in Indonesia over the past couple of years."
Ok,let me get this straight... Malaysia is NOT Indonesia. Just because we speak more or less the same language and the natives are of the same race, it doesn't make us an identical country. If I were to be more naive, I would say Australia and New Zealand is same (is it?).
Recently, I attended this lecture which groups Malaysia with Indonesia as countries who burn their forest for agriculture... oh please! The last thing we need is to add to the smog created by forest fire in Indonesia. Trust me, we are cursing left and right of the air pollution thanks go Indonesia and we don't intend to contribute more.
Probably not, unless AMD do the stupid trick of splitting their instruction stages further.. All his Ghz thing is just marketing hype. To a layman.. more GHz is better.What really counts is IPC * Clock Speed. In this case, AMD wins in IPC.
"AMD can match Intel Ghz-for-Ghz, Intel is in serious trouble"
Did some math... AMD is beating Intel Ghz-for-Ghz. As for scaling it to a higher clock speed... I am not too sure about that. All I can say is that the deeper pipeline are just a trick to get the clock cycle lower. But it brings the productivity per clock cycle lower.
Well, the Model 3 hardware do is not a match to current day system but put it do good hands and you'll get superb games such as Scud Racer & Virtual Figther 3 which is years ahead of competition (even today!)
Arcades in Malaysia are not the same ones you'll find in the US.
1. They are dark, gloomy, smoky (you get the picture).
2. It is mostly filled with gambling machines rather than arcade games.
3. Usually built around schools to lure kids.
Some of you Americans might scoff thinking "how bad can this addiction be?". Well, I've known college students who lost their semester of tuition gambling at this "arcades".
Gary
Multicast works by having the router duplicate and forward the packet to vaious designation from one source. The source is continously sending packet, regardless whether the packets has been properly received (acknowledged) by the listeners.
So if the server sends 10,000 packet for the whole file and you loose packet number 5,555... you'll probably have to wait till the next round packet number 5,555 comes. The server isn't gonna to resend the packet as is a direct TCP connection. This is tolerable in video & sound as you'll only loose a second or two. But for file, you can't loose too many bytes before it becomes unusable.
A solution for this is that the listener try to absorb as many bytes as possible during the duration of the multicast, and later initiate a TCP connection to request for the packets which the listener missed.
Do agree to some extend. We're merely assembling stuff shipped in. But heck, that's the very first step towards the e-industry. Hopefullly within some time frame we would engineering chips on our own. I can see some local semiconductor fabs popping up.. And I mean those producing ICs not some dioes - and they are 'local'. Cheap labor? Not exactly. But there are many hard-to-resist incentives offered by the government to bring in these plants like from AMD and Intel.
Transparency Casing have been around in Malaysia for quite some time before Apple even announce I-Mac. What is frustrating is that my local manufacturer don't get the credit for the design (because they aren't in US of A).
Where the hell is Malaysia? Look in your chips, likely 60-70% of the time it's "Made In Malaysia".
Actually, for those who don't have the latest version of MS Word, you still can view the file with a Word Viewer available from Microsoft free of charge. I have word 95... but haven't upgrade since (don't see the advantage of all the new bells and whistles). But I still view newer word files with their viewer.
From my observation most new technology which suceed depends on its 'leap' in technology which can be felt by normal consumers. I don't see why anyone would want HDTV when their Cable or Satelite works just perfect as they are. People are happy with TV just they way it is. The higher resolution offered by HDTV is just not enough of a 'leap' from conventional TVs - not enough for normal users to really appreciate it. Here are some major technological leaps (for consumers) which succeded in the market : Zip Drive - 100 MB or conventional 1.44 MB - 2.88 MB Failed. - Someother 10s 20s MB disk failed. Cable Modem - 10 Mbs vs conventioal 28.8 Kbp - 56K modem not really a sucess. - ISDN 128K...ho hum. HDTV vs. Conventional TV I don't see how normal consumers would really feel the 'significant' benefit in their daily viewing if they were to use HDTV instead of the conventional TV. Lesson to be learned here is that in order to gain wide acceptance of a new techology, it has to have some form of quantum leap over the previous technology. HDTV just don't have the edge that cable modem have over conventional modems. Gary Note : I am applying what I said to TYPICAL CONSUMERS.
Lets put some math in use. If 1.4 billion is divided by 90 million, the average profit/loss for each CD is $15.44
Are they admitting that they are making about 90% to 110% (???) of the CDs at counter price? As in the real CD's production actually cost is actually 10% to -10% (???)
This is assuming they never produced the CD the did not ship. On the other hand if they claim the loss is due to CDs produced which is not sold, then they are admitting each CD cost them $15.44 to produce. Think, if you are really making all the money from factory to storefront, anyone is gonna distribute their products for $15.00 - $18.00 ? What I am suggesting is RIAA really is loosing only about 20-30% if the stated $1.4 billion (if the amount of CDs not shipped is true in any sense which I really doubt).
Either way, the figures seem too extreme and I believe it is a lousy lie exgerated.
Just a survey, if you are given the option to buy a song for lets say $0.30 to $0.50 range in digital format, would you rather 1) Pirate it Digitally 2) Buy it Digitally 3) Buy the CD Slashdot, why not make this a survey?
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Mohd. "Binatang bin Goncang" literally translates to "Animal Shaker" (masturbate) in Malay. So I doubt if that is a real name (or story for that matter).
bloated code = microsoft code they have been doing this for ages...
The problem is not so much of a capacity misses as much as conflict misses... really. I have ran simulations of processors with varying cache size with suprisingsly little or no improvement beyond a 16 K instruction cache using the Trace Cache method.
It is 'how' that sequence of streams are fetch, not 'how much'. You can fetch the whole 16K block of instruction, but if the insturction tend to jump to the other end of the memory location (not within the 16K window), you just spend x amount of cycle doing crap.
If you talk of capacity, the only real sufficient capacity is the cache sufficient to load up the whole instruction segment.... that way we wouldn't have instruction miss (75% of the references!).... while we are not yet there, just work on a better branch prediction.
Does not equal faster cycle time as much as faster cycle does not necessary mean faster computer (to scale with cycle time reduction).
However, more transistor means that we can afford more internal cache... but then the real problem in the cache world is miss rate and branch prediction, not capacity.
So what to do with all those unused transistors? System on chip is one of the possibility...any other suggestions?
"As reported in the Australian media (which, for all its faults, is *not* significantly influenced by the government and takes a far more international perspective than, say, the American media)"
In most cases, it is very much exaggerated. For some reason Australian media tend to hit the Malaysian government very hard.
"than repeating what has happened in Indonesia over the past couple of years."
Ok,let me get this straight... Malaysia is NOT Indonesia. Just because we speak more or less the same language and the natives are of the same race, it doesn't make us an identical country. If I were to be more naive, I would say Australia and New Zealand is same (is it?).
Recently, I attended this lecture which groups Malaysia with Indonesia as countries who burn their forest for agriculture... oh please! The last thing we need is to add to the smog created by forest fire in Indonesia. Trust me, we are cursing left and right of the air pollution thanks go Indonesia and we don't intend to contribute more.
Gary
Probably not, unless AMD do the stupid trick of splitting their instruction stages further.. All his Ghz thing is just marketing hype. To a layman.. more GHz is better.What really counts is IPC * Clock Speed. In this case, AMD wins in IPC.
Gary
"AMD can match Intel Ghz-for-Ghz, Intel is in serious trouble"
Did some math... AMD is beating Intel Ghz-for-Ghz. As for scaling it to a higher clock speed... I am not too sure about that. All I can say is that the deeper pipeline are just a trick to get the clock cycle lower. But it brings the productivity per clock cycle lower.
Well, the Model 3 hardware do is not a match to current day system but put it do good hands and you'll get superb games such as Scud Racer & Virtual Figther 3 which is years ahead of competition (even today!)
Arcades in Malaysia are not the same ones you'll find in the US. 1. They are dark, gloomy, smoky (you get the picture). 2. It is mostly filled with gambling machines rather than arcade games. 3. Usually built around schools to lure kids. Some of you Americans might scoff thinking "how bad can this addiction be?". Well, I've known college students who lost their semester of tuition gambling at this "arcades". Gary
Multicast works by having the router duplicate and forward the packet to vaious designation from one source. The source is continously sending packet, regardless whether the packets has been properly received (acknowledged) by the listeners.
So if the server sends 10,000 packet for the whole file and you loose packet number 5,555... you'll probably have to wait till the next round packet number 5,555 comes. The server isn't gonna to resend the packet as is a direct TCP connection. This is tolerable in video & sound as you'll only loose a second or two. But for file, you can't loose too many bytes before it becomes unusable.
A solution for this is that the listener try to absorb as many bytes as possible during the duration of the multicast, and later initiate a TCP connection to request for the packets which the listener missed.
Gary Cho
Hmm... didn't realize Yu Suzuki reads slashdot. Hi!
Flywheel generators tend to be heavy. If you try to fit one onto your laptop - it would weight so much that it would be unpractical for portability.
Do agree to some extend. We're merely assembling stuff shipped in. But heck, that's the very first step towards the e-industry. Hopefullly within some time frame we would engineering chips on our own. I can see some local semiconductor fabs popping up.. And I mean those producing ICs not some dioes - and they are 'local'. Cheap labor? Not exactly. But there are many hard-to-resist incentives offered by the government to bring in these plants like from AMD and Intel.
Transparency Casing have been around in Malaysia for quite some time before Apple even announce I-Mac. What is frustrating is that my local manufacturer don't get the credit for the design (because they aren't in US of A).
Where the hell is Malaysia? Look in your chips, likely 60-70% of the time it's "Made In Malaysia".
Gary
Practical - YES Price - OK Gary
Actually, for those who don't have the latest version of MS Word, you still can view the file with a Word Viewer available from Microsoft free of charge. I have word 95... but haven't upgrade since (don't see the advantage of all the new bells and whistles). But I still view newer word files with their viewer.
From my observation most new technology which suceed depends on its 'leap' in technology which can be felt by normal consumers. I don't see why anyone would want HDTV when their Cable or Satelite works just perfect as they are. People are happy with TV just they way it is. The higher resolution offered by HDTV is just not enough of a 'leap' from conventional TVs - not enough for normal users to really appreciate it. Here are some major technological leaps (for consumers) which succeded in the market : Zip Drive - 100 MB or conventional 1.44 MB - 2.88 MB Failed. - Someother 10s 20s MB disk failed. Cable Modem - 10 Mbs vs conventioal 28.8 Kbp - 56K modem not really a sucess. - ISDN 128K...ho hum. HDTV vs. Conventional TV I don't see how normal consumers would really feel the 'significant' benefit in their daily viewing if they were to use HDTV instead of the conventional TV. Lesson to be learned here is that in order to gain wide acceptance of a new techology, it has to have some form of quantum leap over the previous technology. HDTV just don't have the edge that cable modem have over conventional modems. Gary Note : I am applying what I said to TYPICAL CONSUMERS.
Lets put some math in use. If 1.4 billion is divided by 90 million, the average profit/loss for each CD is $15.44
Are they admitting that they are making about 90% to 110% (???) of the CDs at counter price? As in the real CD's production actually cost is actually 10% to -10% (???)
This is assuming they never produced the CD the did not ship. On the other hand if they claim the loss is due to CDs produced which is not sold, then they are admitting each CD cost them $15.44 to produce. Think, if you are really making all the money from factory to storefront, anyone is gonna distribute their products for $15.00 - $18.00 ? What I am suggesting is RIAA really is loosing only about 20-30% if the stated $1.4 billion (if the amount of CDs not shipped is true in any sense which I really doubt).
Either way, the figures seem too extreme and I believe it is a lousy lie exgerated.
Gary
Just a survey, if you are given the option to buy a song for lets say $0.30 to $0.50 range in digital format, would you rather 1) Pirate it Digitally 2) Buy it Digitally 3) Buy the CD Slashdot, why not make this a survey?