I recently received a DIMM in its antistatic sleeve in a box 10x14x8 or something. Pull out all the crappy paper, and the sleeve had slid under the bottom cardboard flaps, and almost fell out from underneath the box.
One of our suppliers always ships items in this box size.
If you search back on Vmware vs Xensource, you'll see Vmware is doing everything to discredit Xen and hardware hypervisors. Instead of saying 'it doesnt work' its more effective to say it works, we have it too, it fails on its own so it needs our software too. From everything I've read about hypervisors including the Power CPU hypervisors from IBM (which have been functional for years) and the original Cambridge paper that created Xen, Hypervisors really outperform software solutions. You do need a software mini-OS as the root on top of which you'd install the OSes which is better than using Windows as the root OS.
But Vmware's agitation is understandable. They're about to lose it all to an open source project. Where have I seen this before?
The voting machines can be assembled in a fool-proof unopenable casing at the main station, and returned to the main station after the elections. And building physically tamper-proof packages is relatively easy.
I used to wonder if in the PCI, PCIX, USB, Cardbus protocols an allowance is made to download the driver from the 'unknown' device. The machine can always be updated with newer drivers, but the machine should never report 'unknown' much like cisco routers, which have a very basic IOS in its rom before the full ios is loaded. Flash is cheap especially the size that is required for a basic driver.
Next, I suppose the driver should be either in source format, or an intermediate machine language, or (my favorite) an XSLT type language which is compiled by the kernel. Drivers with hidden sources will be tricky here. This should also allow newer OSes to simply work on all the hardware.
But like the x86 processor, like windows, like cisco, like oracle, the current system is bad but maintains somebodys monopoly at a high cost to the consumer.
This looks like a cheap swing at Sun. But do check their database benchmarks.
If you have a heavily used Oracle database, or need serious number crunching power, The T1 is a force to be reckoned with. Considering Sun doesnt have the resources to make chips like Intel, if they did their 8-cores would be even better. Intel is aiming for the general Windows XP + Office + games market while Sun was looking an no-entry-barred all out raw power given multiple threads.
I think Intel is saying noone will even need more than 640K of Ram.
Forget about 150 years, down in Texas they use electric chairs to fix up some really sick people. And psychiatric wards have been using it to fix up people who were sick in the head in the early half of the century.
Even the police and mean old ladies use it to fix other people and pets. Them doctors are a little behind.
Oh no I didnt mean on the same die. Heck it might even be in a different housing (like the FPU chip placed on top of the CPU or like the L2 cache on slot1 cartridges). The thing is instead of just standardizing a bus (AGP/PCIX) and waiting a year for people to follow and motherboard manufacturers to get it right, the CPU makers will just connect the GPU to the CPU with hyperwhatever, and clock it as far as it goes. Lower yields like celeron/duron might have no GPUs or slower bus speeds etc like the 533MHz 800MHz FSB difference. PCIX is damn fast. But we'll hit that wall soon, and someone will have to come up with a newer standard there. In fact PCIX is too fast for many applications and will soon be too slow for graphics, especially if you add a physics chip there as well.
This is where the technology is headed. I'm sure we'll see CPUs with an integrated GPU sans memory along with CPUs without GPUs for cheaper machines. We've already seen the Northbridge integrated onto the AMD CPUs.
I would like to see the first 128MB of RAM into the CPU housing as well as the GPU and the minimal southbridge. This should bring motherboard prices lower at the cost of a higher CPU, the overall cost should still be lower. Even better, it should allow for some serious speeds.
At the minimum, the GPU should move into the CPU housing but not on the same die (that'll be expensive) along with 128MB of RAM and 4 cores.
I dont care what all other comments say. This is good news.
The AGP slot has been getting faster and faster. The GPU has been getting bigger and has been doing more. There is an obvious need for a physics core and multicore CPUs. Clearly this is leading to adding the GPU to the CPU on the same chip, or at least very close to it, like the L2 cache on the slot1 Intel CPUs. After a certain AGP/PCIX bus speed, the AGP or PCIX slot will become less feasible, and it will be important to put the GPU as close to the CPU as possible.
Now think of the PS3. Its a revolution. Its not here yet, and its release is not being managed very well, but the ball on multicore CPUs (not just dual core) has gotten rolling. The Ultrasparc T1 has shown the world that multicores can be real and actually work. Not to mention the fact that most computers bought today at least has a mediocre GPU somewhere in it. This means AMD needs a GPU to add to its multicore CPUs as another core. They've already added the northbridge to it havent they? And that has saved us money hasnt it?
Intel has one-upped AMD recently with its Core chips, and AMD sounds like its really gonna one-up Intel with chips that should take the market away.
I've heard of the strangest things blamed for airplane crashes. The fact is that some pretty smart people are put on the investigation of a crash, paid handsomely and given a deadline to produce an answer. Their jobs might depend on it. As the investigation progresses, theres always a 'most likely cause' that changes. When the deadline arrives, the most likely cause of the day becomes the answer.
Supermetabolic mice will sound nice in the 21st century when everyone is trying to lose weight, and anyone going hungry isn't connected to the Internet. It sounds like 'too much metabolism', which would be terrible during the ice age when people went hungry and wanted to conserve energy.
Genetically engineer yourself without a2P and end up on a deserted island; you'll be the first to die. In many ways its similar to stapling your stomach, you'll need constantly more food. However you might also be hyperactive, incapable of sports like playing golf, precision work that requires patience etc.
Ideally there'd be a pill that would counter a2P for everyone who wants it, so theres no permanent change. It should be a hit like Viagra.
There are so many better things to do with tiny brains.
Say an electrode touches where the brain feels pleasure, another touches where it feels pain, Those can be used to teach the 'brain' basic calculations. Maybe the next Radeon will be based on a rat brain.
Stem cells can be injected into the brain to keep it going for much longer so it learns more.
So you dont have to take your rifle to the duck-pond anymore. Just take a plate and HP sauce, and the cooked birds will fall from the sky.
The stat logs on the system will show an impressive number of terrorist missiles, reason to get more of these systems. But the sky around airports will be awefully clear.
On a serious note, this can really be used against pest birds around airports. They dont need terrorists to justify this.
Sorry for not giving you a link, but there are plastic moulding companies that offer samples albeit at high prices. You'll give them an Autocad drawing with all the specs. They will clarify the tolerances they can offer. Now before you go off and pay for a mold, they commonly have this device that can create any solid plastic shape in 3D using lasers.
I remember vividly of an IBM project where they created the sharpest object with an atom tip, and they didnt even have to coat it in nitrogen.
Posted on slashdot about a year ago. Its a dupe at the U of Alberta. Wake me when they use a Hydrogen atom at the tip, with an accentuated electron orbit which adds a sharper 'tip'.
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I have you beat
I recently received a DIMM in its antistatic sleeve in a box 10x14x8 or something. Pull out all the crappy paper, and the sleeve had slid under the bottom cardboard flaps, and almost fell out from underneath the box.
One of our suppliers always ships items in this box size.
And who is talking about pacifism here?
If you search back on Vmware vs Xensource, you'll see Vmware is doing everything to discredit Xen and hardware hypervisors. Instead of saying 'it doesnt work' its more effective to say it works, we have it too, it fails on its own so it needs our software too. From everything I've read about hypervisors including the Power CPU hypervisors from IBM (which have been functional for years) and the original Cambridge paper that created Xen, Hypervisors really outperform software solutions. You do need a software mini-OS as the root on top of which you'd install the OSes which is better than using Windows as the root OS.
But Vmware's agitation is understandable. They're about to lose it all to an open source project. Where have I seen this before?
My Inbox is filled with Viagra.
The voting machines can be assembled in a fool-proof unopenable casing at the main station, and returned to the main station after the elections.
And building physically tamper-proof packages is relatively easy.
I used to wonder if in the PCI, PCIX, USB, Cardbus protocols an allowance is made to download the driver from the 'unknown' device. The machine can always be updated with newer drivers, but the machine should never report 'unknown' much like cisco routers, which have a very basic IOS in its rom before the full ios is loaded. Flash is cheap especially the size that is required for a basic driver.
Next, I suppose the driver should be either in source format, or an intermediate machine language, or (my favorite) an XSLT type language which is compiled by the kernel. Drivers with hidden sources will be tricky here. This should also allow newer OSes to simply work on all the hardware.
But like the x86 processor, like windows, like cisco, like oracle, the current system is bad but maintains somebodys monopoly at a high cost to the consumer.
The article forgot to mention "In western countries...".
I know a fair bit of people who look much older than their age and people who cant get medicine for any of their diseases.
Someone please add this to the article submission system in slashdot:
UPDATE ARTICLES SET TEXT = 'In America, ' + TEXT;
If I were Ballmer I would try to hire Theo de Raadt to replace him.
And if I were de Raadt, I'd reject the offer unless Microsoft opensources win32.
And if I were the customer I would not buy Windows at all.
Oh wait...
Oh yeah?
This looks like a cheap swing at Sun. But do check their database benchmarks.
If you have a heavily used Oracle database, or need serious number crunching power, The T1 is a force to be reckoned with. Considering Sun doesnt have the resources to make chips like Intel, if they did their 8-cores would be even better. Intel is aiming for the general Windows XP + Office + games market while Sun was looking an no-entry-barred all out raw power given multiple threads.
I think Intel is saying noone will even need more than 640K of Ram.
Forget about 150 years, down in Texas they use electric chairs to fix up some really sick people.
And psychiatric wards have been using it to fix up people who were sick in the head in the early half of the century.
Even the police and mean old ladies use it to fix other people and pets. Them doctors are a little behind.
15mbps? WOW.
Wait till you hear what we get in Canada for that money. And its actually gotten slower over the past 6 years (as vendors learned QoS).
Go figure.
Oh no I didnt mean on the same die. Heck it might even be in a different housing (like the FPU chip placed on top of the CPU or like the L2 cache on slot1 cartridges). The thing is instead of just standardizing a bus (AGP/PCIX) and waiting a year for people to follow and motherboard manufacturers to get it right, the CPU makers will just connect the GPU to the CPU with hyperwhatever, and clock it as far as it goes. Lower yields like celeron/duron might have no GPUs or slower bus speeds etc like the 533MHz 800MHz FSB difference. PCIX is damn fast. But we'll hit that wall soon, and someone will have to come up with a newer standard there. In fact PCIX is too fast for many applications and will soon be too slow for graphics, especially if you add a physics chip there as well.
Any other reasons why its a bad idea?
This is where the technology is headed. I'm sure we'll see CPUs with an integrated GPU sans memory along with CPUs without GPUs for cheaper machines. We've already seen the Northbridge integrated onto the AMD CPUs.
I would like to see the first 128MB of RAM into the CPU housing as well as the GPU and the minimal southbridge. This should bring motherboard prices lower at the cost of a higher CPU, the overall cost should still be lower. Even better, it should allow for some serious speeds.
At the minimum, the GPU should move into the CPU housing but not on the same die (that'll be expensive) along with 128MB of RAM and 4 cores.
...because theres hardly any virus out there. The virus days are gone. The Internet is clean of virii now.
Maybe thats why antispyware programs are so popular nowadays. Thats also why firefox is popular. And firewalls too.
I dont care what all other comments say. This is good news.
The AGP slot has been getting faster and faster. The GPU has been getting bigger and has been doing more. There is an obvious need for a physics core and multicore CPUs. Clearly this is leading to adding the GPU to the CPU on the same chip, or at least very close to it, like the L2 cache on the slot1 Intel CPUs. After a certain AGP/PCIX bus speed, the AGP or PCIX slot will become less feasible, and it will be important to put the GPU as close to the CPU as possible.
Now think of the PS3. Its a revolution. Its not here yet, and its release is not being managed very well, but the ball on multicore CPUs (not just dual core) has gotten rolling. The Ultrasparc T1 has shown the world that multicores can be real and actually work. Not to mention the fact that most computers bought today at least has a mediocre GPU somewhere in it. This means AMD needs a GPU to add to its multicore CPUs as another core. They've already added the northbridge to it havent they? And that has saved us money hasnt it?
Intel has one-upped AMD recently with its Core chips, and AMD sounds like its really gonna one-up Intel with chips that should take the market away.
I was looking for Trolltech. Somehow I couldnt find it.
I think I've found a bug in my firefox's search function. Its late in the day.
Can someone find the Trolltech rank somewhere in there please?
I've heard of the strangest things blamed for airplane crashes. The fact is that some pretty smart people are put on the investigation of a crash, paid handsomely and given a deadline to produce an answer. Their jobs might depend on it. As the investigation progresses, theres always a 'most likely cause' that changes. When the deadline arrives, the most likely cause of the day becomes the answer.
Some things only happen on airplane crashes.
You're right.
Supermetabolic mice will sound nice in the 21st century when everyone is trying to lose weight, and anyone going hungry isn't connected to the Internet. It sounds like 'too much metabolism', which would be terrible during the ice age when people went hungry and wanted to conserve energy.
Genetically engineer yourself without a2P and end up on a deserted island; you'll be the first to die. In many ways its similar to stapling your stomach, you'll need constantly more food. However you might also be hyperactive, incapable of sports like playing golf, precision work that requires patience etc.
Ideally there'd be a pill that would counter a2P for everyone who wants it, so theres no permanent change. It should be a hit like Viagra.
Stop promoting Japanese cars so blatantly. Where's your nationalism?
How can you freeze hundereds of pigs for an hour? (And thaw them at the same time?).
It will make a good business, freezing people so their savings would grow and they could see the future.
But it also means the meat in your freezer might be technically alive.
alive!
There are so many better things to do with tiny brains.
Say an electrode touches where the brain feels pleasure, another touches where it feels pain, Those can be used to teach the 'brain' basic calculations. Maybe the next Radeon will be based on a rat brain.
Stem cells can be injected into the brain to keep it going for much longer so it learns more.
Move over Xilinx.
If there will be a species multiplying uncontrollably, I'd rather it be a good-tasting one.
So you dont have to take your rifle to the duck-pond anymore. Just take a plate and HP sauce, and the cooked birds will fall from the sky.
The stat logs on the system will show an impressive number of terrorist missiles, reason to get more of these systems. But the sky around airports will be awefully clear.
On a serious note, this can really be used against pest birds around airports. They dont need terrorists to justify this.
Sorry for not giving you a link, but there are plastic moulding companies that offer samples albeit at high prices. You'll give them an Autocad drawing with all the specs. They will clarify the tolerances they can offer. Now before you go off and pay for a mold, they commonly have this device that can create any solid plastic shape in 3D using lasers.
I remember vividly of an IBM project where they created the sharpest object with an atom tip, and they didnt even have to coat it in nitrogen.
Posted on slashdot about a year ago. Its a dupe at the U of Alberta. Wake me when they use a Hydrogen atom at the tip, with an accentuated electron orbit which adds a sharper 'tip'.