It means that 50% of the chips manufactured don't need to be scrapped due to some defect in the process. They will work on it to get that percentage higher, but it means they could start shipping functional units now, at no more than 2x the cost.
Well you could do that -- or you could buy an 4-way Operton system for about the same price once it becomes available. The difference being that those will be *real* processors, as opposed to "virtual" processors.
Even better than reading the Fing article, you could have actually listened to Ruiz present his whole Comdex speech on www.news.com during the weekday. Ruiz was downplaying the PC market as a prelude to discussing the Cray deal, that's all.
AMD is quoted as saying Opteron has been above 50% yield months ago. Further, Opterons are smaller than Athlons (better circuit design, optimized for SOI process) meaning they have lower manufacturing cost. What makes you think Opterons are going to be priced any higher than P4s or Itanics, if they are cheaper to make than Athlons?
ClawHammers (the low end Opterons, which will be released under the name "Athlon XP 64") will almost surely continue where the old Athlons have left off, in terms of price and market focus.
SledgeHammer, will have more cache and ECC enabled, which makes it more appropriate for high end servers -- this is the one AMD will charge a premium for. But, its just a showcase chip meant to win benchmarks, sell to Cray, and open the market for server CPUs for AMD.
What could they do if they concentrated on a desktop processor?
In short -- they did. But they have not yet learned Moore's law. So they have left themselves in a position where they can only compete in a space where their slow frequency is not such a liability.
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The lack of sse2 support greatly hindered this chip in any fps demo, where it was brutalized by the p4 (I'm sure even an amd athlon could beat it under those conditions!).
Why do uniformed people open their mouths about processor capabilities? Athlons are not worse than the P4, and especially not worse where SSE is concerned. Whether or not an FPS is slow is not necessarily due solely to SSE support. For example, none of Id software's games have ever supported the SSE instruction set.
The activities of the robot are ultimately up to the robot. What I am suggesting is that there could be hinting which would allow the robot to make better guesses about how to react. The robot could also *learn* that a site's hints are not very useful.
Perhaps we need to propose an extension to the robots.txt file to tell certain classes of search crawler to visit more frequently or at specific times?
PDF, HTML, and.DOC files ought to compress fairly well.
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Well the other reason for doing encryption after compression, is to mitigate dictionary attacks. So the cost of breaking in by brute force includes both decryption as well as decompressing.
If we just accept everything that works great on WINE, then why would anyone bother writing applications for linux?
If the application works under WINE, then it *IS* an application for Linux. Unless of course you are under the belief that Microsoft is somehow the *OWNER* of certain bit sequences...
Quicken - only a move by the government to stop Microsoft from buying Intuit prevented MS from taking them over.
Norton - They were bought out by Symantec as a defensive move since MS was encrouching on them on the tools market. They basically survive from their anti-virus product alone, these days.
McAfee was similarly bought out (Network Solutions? The name escapes me at the moment) and similarly have been reduced to a niche player in the anti-Virus market.
Games were doing well on consoles and on DOS irrespective of MS's involvement.
The damn thing doesn't work. I am an artist of reasonable skill (see?) and so tried it out. I attempted the following:
1. A hand with index finger extended. 2. An upright pyramid. 3. A cylinder. 4. A sphere. 5. A skull.
I also put the obvious thing into the text field. It failed to find any match for any of these. The hand and skull, I understand. Missing the pyramid was disappointing, but not matching either the cylinder or sphere?!?! Forget it -- this thing is garbage.
Sorry, but your post reeks of "armchair CPU designer" : It's all so clear and so obvious. I mean, it's not like Intel and AMD have a lot of extremely clever people who seek the best balance between all of the systems...is it?
Yes, they are slowly improving, but modern PCs are still behind where workstations were years ago, and a modern Intel based server is well behind a SPARC based machine.
I have my own website, and I monitor how people reach it. And guess what I have found -- above all other methods (excluding their own bookmarks) more people find my site from google, than by any other method.
I put up a page describing some doodling exercises (with a very obscure link in my own website) I have been doing recently, and within 3 days it showed up on google, and has started attracting traffic.
Google is still the best searching technology out there.
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This is why /. needs a special "6" score for certain posts. God damnit, that's fricking funniest thing I have ever seen!
It means that 50% of the chips manufactured don't need to be scrapped due to some defect in the process. They will work on it to get that percentage higher, but it means they could start shipping functional units now, at no more than 2x the cost.
Well you could do that -- or you could buy an 4-way Operton system for about the same price once it becomes available. The difference being that those will be *real* processors, as opposed to "virtual" processors.
Even better than reading the Fing article, you could have actually listened to Ruiz present his whole Comdex speech on www.news.com during the weekday. Ruiz was downplaying the PC market as a prelude to discussing the Cray deal, that's all.
AMD is quoted as saying Opteron has been above 50% yield months ago. Further, Opterons are smaller than Athlons (better circuit design, optimized for SOI process) meaning they have lower manufacturing cost. What makes you think Opterons are going to be priced any higher than P4s or Itanics, if they are cheaper to make than Athlons?
ClawHammers (the low end Opterons, which will be released under the name "Athlon XP 64") will almost surely continue where the old Athlons have left off, in terms of price and market focus.
SledgeHammer, will have more cache and ECC enabled, which makes it more appropriate for high end servers -- this is the one AMD will charge a premium for. But, its just a showcase chip meant to win benchmarks, sell to Cray, and open the market for server CPUs for AMD.
Its called FUD. Glad you saw through it, even if the editors here cannot. AMD != Transmeta.
Here educate yourself:
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/. moderation is so uninformed.
http://murl.microsoft.com/LectureDetails.asp?59
Note the date.
The activities of the robot are ultimately up to the robot. What I am suggesting is that there could be hinting which would allow the robot to make better guesses about how to react. The robot could also *learn* that a site's hints are not very useful.
Perhaps we need to propose an extension to the robots.txt file to tell certain classes of search crawler to visit more frequently or at specific times?
I hardly think they are discouraged to the point of quitting. Read Carmack's first sentence from here.
They need to learn all the hard lessons *before* they do any *really serious* testing (i.e., with pilots at non-trivial heights).
- *ahem* SGI's IRIX has been doing this for more than a decade.
Amiga predates IRIX dude.- Go ahead and buy it if you want, but it really won't make your dick any bigger.
Yeah, you have to wait for them to come out with SSE-3. I hear that's going to have pr0n acceleration.-
Apparently it helps out in a few other strange cases as well. See here.Actually, the hyperthreading only helps in apps that support hyperthreading.
Uhh ... excuse me, but why aim at such a lowly achievment? As a piece of serious tehcnology BZIP sucks serious ass in terms of compression ratio.
.rar format. What would be the point??)
See here. There are over a dozen better alternatives that have better compression than bzip.
(And of course winrar won't create bzip files -- they are *bloated* in comparison to the
PDF, HTML, and .DOC files ought to compress fairly well.
Well the other reason for doing encryption after compression, is to mitigate dictionary attacks. So the cost of breaking in by brute force includes both decryption as well as decompressing.
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If the application works under WINE, then it *IS* an application for Linux. Unless of course you are under the belief that Microsoft is somehow the *OWNER* of certain bit sequencesIf we just accept everything that works great on WINE, then why would anyone bother writing applications for linux?
Well how about I tell it to Compaq and Packard Bell instead?
Quicken - only a move by the government to stop Microsoft from buying Intuit prevented MS from taking them over.
Norton - They were bought out by Symantec as a defensive move since MS was encrouching on them on the tools market. They basically survive from their anti-virus product alone, these days.
McAfee was similarly bought out (Network Solutions? The name escapes me at the moment) and similarly have been reduced to a niche player in the anti-Virus market.
Games were doing well on consoles and on DOS irrespective of MS's involvement.
The damn thing doesn't work. I am an artist of reasonable skill (see?) and so tried it out. I attempted the following:
1. A hand with index finger extended.
2. An upright pyramid.
3. A cylinder.
4. A sphere.
5. A skull.
I also put the obvious thing into the text field. It failed to find any match for any of these. The hand and skull, I understand. Missing the pyramid was disappointing, but not matching either the cylinder or sphere?!?! Forget it -- this thing is garbage.
- Sorry, but your post reeks of "armchair CPU designer" : It's all so clear and so obvious. I mean, it's not like Intel and AMD have a lot of extremely clever people who seek the best balance between all of the systems...is it?
*Ahem* You live in a dream world.Yes, they are slowly improving, but modern PCs are still behind where workstations were years ago, and a modern Intel based server is well behind a SPARC based machine.
Yes, but does your XT system have Netburst technology?
I have my own website, and I monitor how people reach it. And guess what I have found -- above all other methods (excluding their own bookmarks) more people find my site from google, than by any other method.
I put up a page describing some doodling exercises (with a very obscure link in my own website) I have been doing recently, and within 3 days it showed up on google, and has started attracting traffic.
Google is still the best searching technology out there.