I'd also rate dental pain as probably the worst pain in the male body , it's possible child birth might be more painful but we have no way of knowing. I believe cancer tops all other pain.
According to people I know that have had all three(dental, child birth(for the women), and cancer), kidney stones are way worse.
Apparently for kidney stones, you break out the Demerol and pray.:P
But everyone has different parts of their bodies that are more or less sensitive. For me, my fingers are very sensitive. Accidentally poking them with something sharp is about as painful as when I stepped on a nail. My parents have a woodstove, and I used to have to load it. Slivers were nasty - my fingers would be irritated for days.:(
Getting four fillings was nothing compared to those slivers.
Sorry, I wasn't too clear. As a gamer, my first measure of performance is how fast a single core is, and my second is how many cores it scales well to.
You are correct that for multi-core multi-socket systems running server tasks, Nehalem is likely the best.
I'm glad that Nehalem beats an old architecture like Power6.
More likely. People can change - or perhaps no change is necessary if it was a crime of passion or accident. I wonder if those crimes are more common with genes such as this?
I would've leaned towards more time. A former alcoholic has to watch his beer intake, and possibly stay away from it altogether. An aggressive person has to keep his anger in check. This reduced sentence seems backwards to me. What's next - reduced sentences for hit and run cases and manslaughters, if the drunk driver has a gene that helps him get addicted easily?
No, I don't think so. We all have our challenges that we have to overcome. Deal with yours and fit in with society as best you can.
There's no real way around the human factor in this. I've seen drivers who two-foot drive. I've seen drivers who, when they're presented with a scary situation, take their hands off the wheel and cover their eyes. I've been in the car when a driver's panic reaction was to flail madly at the pedals with her feet and see-saw the wheel---in that case, the car rolled. While the floor mats can create a problem, and while Toyota could fix it by mounting them a little bit higher, you'll never truly idiot-proof a car until the car drives itself.
I wonder what their reaction would be if they were in the situation I was in last summer?
I was driving along a two-lane road with no dividers, and then my hands started getting itchy. I looked down, and saw little green specs all over them. Green specs...hmm...I wonder what those are? No...noo!... it couldn't be hundreds of little green bugs crawling off my wheel and onto my hands/arms, could it!?
Well shit!!
I pulled over quickly, but safely, and then braked really hard. I got out of the damn car and pulled my shirt off, then swiped as many of those things off as I could. Was quite a sight I imagine, for anyone driving by.:P
I have Ubuntu running on a VIA-C7 Nano-ITX board. First thing I noticed - desktop was way way faster feeling over VNC.
My issues: -my VIA PCI 4-port SATA card detects as an nVidia RAID Array. -Whatever kernel they are using has IO errors for my board's shitty PATA controller. DVD drive doesn't detect, although my PATA HDD seems okay. (I was booting off it, after all) -xorg.conf was being ignored, so my VNC was limited to 800x600.
So you are saying it is not X11 that is slow but Linux... Oh man you are taking it out of the frying pan and into the fire.
He's correct. Look at Gnome/KDE/XFCE. Some of these are billed as "optimized" and "lightweight".
Yes, they run fast on fast hardware. But boy do they use a lot of RAM!... and you wouldn't want to run them on an old P3 if you could avoid it.
Then compare to something like LXDE. You lose a lot of GUI goodness, but memory and CPU usage drop like a brick. I use LXDE for all my servers that need a remote desktop. (which right now is just one:P )
-ARM -Whatever IBM can design. (but IBM's stuff is expensive)
ARM CPUs tend to be cheap, power efficient, and pack a ton of performance for the price - and the company has enough cash to keep developing for years and years. Other companies fab, so that lets them keep focused on what they're good at. It's a relationship that mirrors GPU makers - ATI/nVidia/TSMC. However, ARM has a very low performance cap compared to x86, so that limits usage scenarios. Good for low power servers, but not so great for scientific computing or anything that hits the CPU hard. ARM hopes to release dual-core Cortex-A9 chips in 2010, so maybe they'll catch on - only time will tell.
IBM has always been the leader in performance, but the price would knock you flat. 5ghz Power6, anyone? It still beats everything Intel puts out, and it's years old - assuming you can foot the bill and deal with the different architecture. And look at the Cell - upon release, it was something like 30x more efficient than Intel's highest end CPUs when in supercomputers. (because Intel's CPUs of the time failed completely at scaling upwards past a few cores) Also, it was cheaper - but the architecture isn't exactly friendly, and most companies prefer to toss a few dozen extra $2000 servers at a problem rather than deal with training/hiring employees that can work with a new architecture.
And that's the problem - everyone knows x86, and even if a server costs 5 times as much, it comes out more economical.
But luckily for ARM, lots of people are getting more familiar with their instruction sets. These days just about every tiny device has an ARM CPU powering it... finding developers will not be a problem.
Since XP is licensed only for the first computer you install it on
Wasn't this only the OEM license keys?
I'm pretty sure if you stop using it (and wipe it) on one PC, you're allowed to use it on another.
You could give it to the family member that got your old PC to install beside (or in place of) Ubuntu, and Microsoft would very likely activate it on that machine.
They don't play games, so there's no point. They're used to Ubuntu now. That also doesn't deal with the issue that I need Windows to play games.:/
Ummm.... If you've removed every single origional component and replaced them with new components how is that the same computer?
Same case?:P
I sold lots of parts, and moved old parts to a different computer. The Ubuntu PC I gave to my parents was made from old parts in a new case with a new PSU. Just because I did a total overhaul of my gaming PC doesn't mean it isn't the same rig. I have a gaming PC, and a work PC - I upgrade them both periodically, and I bought Windows licenses for both. I don't appreciate Microsoft disabling my key.:/
I tried that, but they didn't believe me. I could try it again, I suppose - maybe I'd get a more helpful person - but it's less hassle going around them.
I suppose another issue is I'm an avid nLiter, so I reinstall my OS quite often. (it makes it so easy, and with addons most software can be installed automatically, which means the only steps are putting a DVD in the drive and picking a partition)
To them it probably looks like I reinstalled my OS on ~4 different machines about 30 times.
I would've thought their phone-home DRM would indicate the key was only active on one machine at a time, but I guess not.
Someone else suggested I reactivate the key on the other machine, but I ask... why? That requires phoning them again, and doesn't deal with the issue. I play games - not my parents. Ubuntu works fine for them.
Full-size games cost $30 to $40 in the United States, partly due to the cost of making and shipping Game Cards. Do you think the 3G airtime to download, say, a 64 MB game will cost more than making and shipping a Game Card?
That really depends on how many times you re-download it, doesn't it?
When you purposely push out "security patches" that only disable copies of Windows that are pirated, then yes, they are leery of using them, and rightly so
Don't forget the legit copies they disable. Any of those OEM keys that shady computer repair shops have gotten their hands on.
Microsoft also disabled my legit key. Apparently if you activate Windows on 4 different motherboards with 3 different CPUs, 4 different types of memory, 3 different GPUs, 6 different HDD setups, from 3 different IPs/ISPs, they find it suspicious and refuse to give you a new key.
Of course, what actually happened was my PSU blew up my old board. It wasn't good for overclocking, so I got a different one. Then the new PSU blew up the new board(bad luck - never going Antec again) and some memory. After getting it fixed, I sold my CPU and upgraded that and my GPU. I was running out of space, so I also got an HDD upgrade. Then later I moved most of them over to a NAS. Eventually I wanted to upgrade again, so I gave a family member my old PC(after wiping Windows and installing Ubuntu, *gasp*) and tried to reactivate again on a new board with a new CPU + GPU + RAM + more HDDs.
Microsoft found it suspicious - too suspicious - and yet I'm in the right, because my XP key was only in use on a single machine. I believe a contributing factor was the ISP switching, and my IP geolocation resolving incorrectly. For a while it resolved to Ontario, then Alberta, then BC. Originally I could even watch Hulu (and I'm Canadian), so I know the geolocation software failed pretty badly.
Right now I'm using XP, but it's not the license key I originally bought. There's no way I'm letting a company force me to pay twice! Everyone I know buys a single license and uses it on every computer in their home, but here I am doing it the right way, and they screw me! Never again!
Unfortunately for him, he doesn't seem to understand how to activate it. Every year he buys a new code, and loses it, without activating. It's now about 900 days since his subscription ended.
I took pitty and installed avast, but he doesn't know what the little A is, or even care, because he has Nod32 (which a friend recommended), and he thinks he's protected.
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Other than that, identical.
Not true. The UK ones don't smile.
And, man, you drive out of your lane and onto one of those things, you KNOW IT. The vibrations feel like an electric shock in the arse.
I've seen entire strips of highway in BC that have those.
I remember the first time I had to pull over on a road with those. I certainly wasn't expecting it. :D
Do we even need 16bit executable support in Wine?
I know some old game installers are 16bit, but even Microsoft is dropping support that old...
I'd also rate dental pain as probably the worst pain in the male body , it's possible child birth might be more painful but we have no way of knowing. I believe cancer tops all other pain.
According to people I know that have had all three(dental, child birth(for the women), and cancer), kidney stones are way worse.
Apparently for kidney stones, you break out the Demerol and pray. :P
But everyone has different parts of their bodies that are more or less sensitive. For me, my fingers are very sensitive. Accidentally poking them with something sharp is about as painful as when I stepped on a nail. My parents have a woodstove, and I used to have to load it. Slivers were nasty - my fingers would be irritated for days. :(
Getting four fillings was nothing compared to those slivers.
Although I don't disagree entirely, measuring it by hours played per gamer is of course going to show hardcore games near the top.
Why would it? Anyone playing those games that isn't hardcore will quickly quit, dragging the statistics way down.
It'll show good and fun games at the top.
Sorry, I wasn't too clear. As a gamer, my first measure of performance is how fast a single core is, and my second is how many cores it scales well to.
You are correct that for multi-core multi-socket systems running server tasks, Nehalem is likely the best.
I'm glad that Nehalem beats an old architecture like Power6.
Given his gene pool he's likely to kill again.
More likely. People can change - or perhaps no change is necessary if it was a crime of passion or accident. I wonder if those crimes are more common with genes such as this?
I would've leaned towards more time. A former alcoholic has to watch his beer intake, and possibly stay away from it altogether. An aggressive person has to keep his anger in check. This reduced sentence seems backwards to me. What's next - reduced sentences for hit and run cases and manslaughters, if the drunk driver has a gene that helps him get addicted easily?
No, I don't think so. We all have our challenges that we have to overcome. Deal with yours and fit in with society as best you can.
Looks like Firefox is dominating Ars. I'm more interested in slashdot browser share percentages, though.
Oh great and benevolent admins, please gift us with your knowledge!...
100 million? They need a more maintainable language!
And here I considered 500k to be quite large. :/
There's no real way around the human factor in this. I've seen drivers who two-foot drive. I've seen drivers who, when they're presented with a scary situation, take their hands off the wheel and cover their eyes. I've been in the car when a driver's panic reaction was to flail madly at the pedals with her feet and see-saw the wheel---in that case, the car rolled. While the floor mats can create a problem, and while Toyota could fix it by mounting them a little bit higher, you'll never truly idiot-proof a car until the car drives itself.
I wonder what their reaction would be if they were in the situation I was in last summer?
I was driving along a two-lane road with no dividers, and then my hands started getting itchy. I looked down, and saw little green specs all over them. Green specs...hmm...I wonder what those are? No...noo!... it couldn't be hundreds of little green bugs crawling off my wheel and onto my hands/arms, could it!?
Well shit!!
I pulled over quickly, but safely, and then braked really hard. I got out of the damn car and pulled my shirt off, then swiped as many of those things off as I could. Was quite a sight I imagine, for anyone driving by. :P
I have Ubuntu running on a VIA-C7 Nano-ITX board. First thing I noticed - desktop was way way faster feeling over VNC.
My issues:
-my VIA PCI 4-port SATA card detects as an nVidia RAID Array.
-Whatever kernel they are using has IO errors for my board's shitty PATA controller. DVD drive doesn't detect, although my PATA HDD seems okay. (I was booting off it, after all)
-xorg.conf was being ignored, so my VNC was limited to 800x600.
Back on 9.04 now.
I haven't seen so many bugs and reboots since the days of windows 95
Yeah, same here. It somehow confused a VIA-based 4-port SATA PCI card as an nVidia RAID array. (it's not even a raid card - just ports!)
Had to downgrade to 9.04 to get access to my HDDs.
Just imagine the amount of bashers if the news would had read;
I bash everything. I bash Windows, OSX, and Linux. But whenever I bash Linux, I get modded flamebait. Apparently bashing OSX and Windows is okay.
Oh well - this newest release is really messed up. I've had issues since 8.10, but now everyone else gets to share in the experience. :P
Did they ever get the manufacturing cost under $100?
I saw an old EEE (Celeron - 600mhz?) going for $135 new a month back.
So you are saying it is not X11 that is slow but Linux... Oh man you are taking it out of the frying pan and into the fire.
He's correct. Look at Gnome/KDE/XFCE. Some of these are billed as "optimized" and "lightweight".
Yes, they run fast on fast hardware. But boy do they use a lot of RAM!... and you wouldn't want to run them on an old P3 if you could avoid it.
Then compare to something like LXDE. You lose a lot of GUI goodness, but memory and CPU usage drop like a brick. I use LXDE for all my servers that need a remote desktop. (which right now is just one :P )
Right now x86 has only two viable competitors.
-ARM
-Whatever IBM can design. (but IBM's stuff is expensive)
ARM CPUs tend to be cheap, power efficient, and pack a ton of performance for the price - and the company has enough cash to keep developing for years and years. Other companies fab, so that lets them keep focused on what they're good at. It's a relationship that mirrors GPU makers - ATI/nVidia/TSMC. However, ARM has a very low performance cap compared to x86, so that limits usage scenarios. Good for low power servers, but not so great for scientific computing or anything that hits the CPU hard. ARM hopes to release dual-core Cortex-A9 chips in 2010, so maybe they'll catch on - only time will tell.
IBM has always been the leader in performance, but the price would knock you flat. 5ghz Power6, anyone? It still beats everything Intel puts out, and it's years old - assuming you can foot the bill and deal with the different architecture. And look at the Cell - upon release, it was something like 30x more efficient than Intel's highest end CPUs when in supercomputers. (because Intel's CPUs of the time failed completely at scaling upwards past a few cores) Also, it was cheaper - but the architecture isn't exactly friendly, and most companies prefer to toss a few dozen extra $2000 servers at a problem rather than deal with training/hiring employees that can work with a new architecture.
And that's the problem - everyone knows x86, and even if a server costs 5 times as much, it comes out more economical.
But luckily for ARM, lots of people are getting more familiar with their instruction sets. These days just about every tiny device has an ARM CPU powering it... finding developers will not be a problem.
Since XP is licensed only for the first computer you install it on
Wasn't this only the OEM license keys?
I'm pretty sure if you stop using it (and wipe it) on one PC, you're allowed to use it on another.
You could give it to the family member that got your old PC to install beside (or in place of) Ubuntu, and Microsoft would very likely activate it on that machine.
They don't play games, so there's no point. They're used to Ubuntu now. That also doesn't deal with the issue that I need Windows to play games. :/
Ummm.... If you've removed every single origional component and replaced them with new components how is that the same computer?
Same case? :P
I sold lots of parts, and moved old parts to a different computer. The Ubuntu PC I gave to my parents was made from old parts in a new case with a new PSU. Just because I did a total overhaul of my gaming PC doesn't mean it isn't the same rig. I have a gaming PC, and a work PC - I upgrade them both periodically, and I bought Windows licenses for both. I don't appreciate Microsoft disabling my key. :/
I tried that, but they didn't believe me. I could try it again, I suppose - maybe I'd get a more helpful person - but it's less hassle going around them.
I suppose another issue is I'm an avid nLiter, so I reinstall my OS quite often. (it makes it so easy, and with addons most software can be installed automatically, which means the only steps are putting a DVD in the drive and picking a partition)
To them it probably looks like I reinstalled my OS on ~4 different machines about 30 times.
I would've thought their phone-home DRM would indicate the key was only active on one machine at a time, but I guess not.
Someone else suggested I reactivate the key on the other machine, but I ask... why? That requires phoning them again, and doesn't deal with the issue. I play games - not my parents. Ubuntu works fine for them.
Not at the moment, no. :P
Full-size games cost $30 to $40 in the United States, partly due to the cost of making and shipping Game Cards. Do you think the 3G airtime to download, say, a 64 MB game will cost more than making and shipping a Game Card?
That really depends on how many times you re-download it, doesn't it?
And also where you do the downloading.
Which means rather than $4.99 games, you can expect $7.99 games.
When you purposely push out "security patches" that only disable copies of Windows that are pirated, then yes, they are leery of using them, and rightly so
Don't forget the legit copies they disable. Any of those OEM keys that shady computer repair shops have gotten their hands on.
Microsoft also disabled my legit key. Apparently if you activate Windows on 4 different motherboards with 3 different CPUs, 4 different types of memory, 3 different GPUs, 6 different HDD setups, from 3 different IPs/ISPs, they find it suspicious and refuse to give you a new key.
Of course, what actually happened was my PSU blew up my old board. It wasn't good for overclocking, so I got a different one. Then the new PSU blew up the new board(bad luck - never going Antec again) and some memory. After getting it fixed, I sold my CPU and upgraded that and my GPU. I was running out of space, so I also got an HDD upgrade. Then later I moved most of them over to a NAS. Eventually I wanted to upgrade again, so I gave a family member my old PC(after wiping Windows and installing Ubuntu, *gasp*) and tried to reactivate again on a new board with a new CPU + GPU + RAM + more HDDs.
Microsoft found it suspicious - too suspicious - and yet I'm in the right, because my XP key was only in use on a single machine. I believe a contributing factor was the ISP switching, and my IP geolocation resolving incorrectly. For a while it resolved to Ontario, then Alberta, then BC. Originally I could even watch Hulu (and I'm Canadian), so I know the geolocation software failed pretty badly.
Right now I'm using XP, but it's not the license key I originally bought. There's no way I'm letting a company force me to pay twice! Everyone I know buys a single license and uses it on every computer in their home, but here I am doing it the right way, and they screw me! Never again!
I know a guy that has Nod32 antivirus installed.
Unfortunately for him, he doesn't seem to understand how to activate it. Every year he buys a new code, and loses it, without activating. It's now about 900 days since his subscription ended.
I took pitty and installed avast, but he doesn't know what the little A is, or even care, because he has Nod32 (which a friend recommended), and he thinks he's protected.
I agree that uneducated users are the issue.
I agree with you. My Roomba says AI is advancing slowly and starting to become useful in the home.