Unless and until they can come up with a P4-type chip capable of SMP, IMO they're not even going to be in the high-end market.
Has anyone got a link to any sort of comparison site for P3/Athlon SMP benchmarking? I'd like to see some numbers on how each one stacks up in either a server farm or image processing installation with multiple CPUs.
Based just on the numbers, I can't see where Intel is going to be able to make up the ground it's lost, no matter how much they cut prices. Combine their loss of market share with the RAMBUS troubles, and I can see the end of the "official" x86 line.
Prediction: AMD is going to have the personal-desktop CPU market solidly in hand within two years, if they don't already. Intel has just plain made too many technological and marketing gaffes to easily recover from, no matter how many cutesy Blue Man Group ads they make.
Can you truly have a discussion about School violence without adressing the issue of firearms?
Yes, very easily, by ignoring the symptom and examining the cause...as someone wrote earlier in this topic.
School violence is nothing new. Anywhere. What is new, or at least newer, is the level that violence has escalated to. And as someone else wrote earlier, the cause boils down to apathy on the part of the "grownups" (in quotes because all I see are mature bodies, not mature minds). Day-care centers are holding pens for the kids while the parents go off and try to increase their stashes of the Almighty Dollar(tm). Kids aren't spending any (here comes the buzzword...wait for it...) quality time with parents because a lot of parents don't seem to care. The few that get pushed too far make the news. Others either hide it better, control it better or get the attention and help they need (instead of want).
IMO the school staff and administration are as much to blame in this as the parents, if blame is something that must be assigned (I'm not convinced it is yet). For exactly the same reasons...more concerned with their careers and income streams and mortgages and credit card bills than they are with the welfare of the children placed into their care.
Simply blaming the so-called "ready availability" of firearms is a kneejerk reaction to a symptom. Look for the cause of that symptom; it's a lot deeper and harder to spot than the local pawn shop, sporting-goods store or gun show. And eliminating that cause is, IMO, what's going to take the most time and effort. But again, we run into the same problem: apathy. Or perhaps laziness would be a better word. In this instant-gratification society of easy 'Net access, microwave dinners, and so on, nobody seems to be willing to step up to the mill and grind out the proper actions needed to eliminate that cause. And the problem isn't restricted to the US, either, not by a long shot...but the US gets most of the attention for it because of our vaunted First Amendment rights to free speech. No, I'm not advocating eliminating those rights. But I am all for working very hard to convince "news" editors that by playing up these episodes, they're perpetuating the problem.
Our society needs to rethink its priorities. And those priorities need to include the children we've brought into the world, and who will inherit that world once we move on. We need to teach a lot more in the way of ethical and moral behaviour, and a lot less about economics and accounting and quick-fix living. That's the logical first step in reducing the problems that are resulting in such events as Columbine, Santee or Fort Gibson.
Okay, maybe I'm getting paranoid...blame M$ for that. But when someone starts saying their product is the latest and greatest, it makes me both curious and nervous.
I don't mind paying for a good, rock-solid distro, but I don't feel compelled to be on the bleeding edge. And I learned (the hard way) about slapping an OS package on a machine and expecting it to perform as advertised without some testing and comparison. I'd like to see how this runs and compares side-by-side with Red Hat, Debian and SuSE boxen. If...if...it runs and compiles and does OS stuff at least as well as any one of the other major distros, yes, I'll sink money into it. But I've been bitten by blindly believing claims before, and that's made me twice shy.
So USD15 isn't all that much. I've spent several times more than that on OS packages in the last six months. But if it's going onto a production machine, I want to beat on it a bit first.
I'll keep pulling.iso images for now. Thank you for your time.
What's even better is getting logged intrusion attempts from people with static IPs. Six and seven times a day for a week. Then watching them completely go away after you email their provider once.
I'm glad I have my log size limited...otherwise I'd have a drive full of logs and no room to run Quake III.
Actually, the first four digits are (theoretically) bank-specific, so you've really only got 12 to work with. But that's still going to make a pretty good-sized range of valid numbers to go through before they have to start recycling.
First, I know that copyrights are valid for the life of the original creator plus 50 years, if the creator is who files the copyright. (I've had opportunity to copyright a couple of things, so I do know that little bit. Not much, but sufficent for my needs at the time.)
My question regarding this...what if a corporation is the filing and holding entity? Major corporations don't suffer from mortality the same way individuals do; it's conceivable that they could exist for five or six lifetimes. So, since IANAL, what's the lifetime of a corporation-held copyright? My own paranoid mind says it's theoretically indefinite...any attorneys out there care to comment?
Closed captioning only requires two scan lines to encode...IIRC there are eight lines allocated. So where's the problem in putting the other six to use? Besides, it's not like there isn't enough to go around...of the 525 scan lines in the NTSC standard, only 480 are considered part of the viewable image (which is one of the places we get the VGA standard, btw!). The remaining lines are taken by closed captioning, VITS...and that's about it.
As I read the article, people with analog sets aren't losing anything, except the pressing need to buy an HDTV receiver within the next five years. And broadcasters don't have to buy as much new equipment to make the mandated cutover; just enough to maintain back-compatibility. I'm betting their transmitters are even up to the task with very little, if any, modification.
Just my two cents' worth...donate the change to your local TV station's equipment fund.
IMO Micro$oft hasn't moved an inch in order to meet market needs...it saw an opportunity to get some good press by "giving away" a crippled version of W2k to run a device which, by its definition, will only go into a comparative niche market. The big money is still the sheer volume of sales to end users on workstations. If that weren't true, we would have already seen the demise of HP and Sun in the server arena.
Just my two cents' worth...donate the change to your network tech so he can buy a new crimper.
Okay, so nobody in Australia can forward email without permission...there goes a lot of things like a tech-support rep forwarding a sticky question or problem from a customer to their second-tier people. Especially (heaven forbid!) if it includes a screenshot of the error message.
What's going to be targeted next? Blogging with embedded links or images? (I know, some people would say "big fscking deal", but to others, it IS a big fscking deal...think about it!) Web pages that generate email to their operators, like feedback forms or catalog requests?
IMHO the Australian government, with this one piece of legislature, has both insured that their country stays unnecessarily insular AND set a very dangerous precedent for other governments to look at.
Just my 2c (US) worth...donate the change to your sysadmin's Vegemite fund.
The RIAA is proving, with their proponency of such technology as this, that they don't give a rat's ass about Fair Use...all they care about is lining their pockets and those of their attorneys, and giving what little is left over to the artists they "represent."
What I'm really curious about, though, is how they plan to implement their apparent intent... a "pay per play" model...on commercial radio. Are we going to wind up with thousands of high-power, stereo talk radio stations? IMO, that's where things will wind up if their current push is continued.
No, I won't buy into this one. Like others who have mentioned it, I remember DIVX, and how long it didn't last, and why.
The trouble, IMO, is that Micro$oft DOES have credibility...with old-school IT managers, CIOs, CEOs, and people who know more about their own companies' bottom lines than software development. So Micro$oft is going to pile onto any opportunity they can find, fake or manufacture to discredit anything that doesn't support their business model.
Just my two cents' worth...donate the change to your company's "educate the CIO" fund.
And who says this will be used for purposes of defeating copy protection? I've been lusting after a digital video editing package for a long time...a VERY long time...and this seems like just the ticket, and at the right price.
Don't automatically assume or assert the worst possible usage for innovation. You only wind up making the status quo harder to break past.
Just my two cents' worth...donate the change to your company coffee fund. And feel free to moderate down as flamebait at will...I know I would.
This will probably get modded down severely as troll flamebait redundant whatever, but it's my two cents' worth. (Donate the change to your company coffee fund.)
The Microsoft product, IMO, was never meant for high-end server operations...it was made for consumers and managers to be able to prepare their correspondence and play 'what-if' with spreadsheets. In other words, write letters and balance checkbooks, and that's about it. Server-level operability wasn't even considered for quite a long time, and wasn't stabilized (again, IMO) until NT 4.0 was released. By stark contrast, Sun has had high-end server software (and hardware, of course) for quite a few years, and has only refined and improved operability as time has progressed.
As to the excellence of the software...there are two versions of the same question you ask, depending on who you're talking to. If you're talking to an administrator of an NT box, you ask how often he has to reboot. If you're talking to an administrator of a Sun box, you ask when s/he had to reboot last. Chances are the NT admin will relate his answer to a number of hours; the Sun admin will likely reference his answer to a specific calendar date.
Ya gets what ya pays fer. 'Nuff said.
This could do wonders for the sales of USB hubs...especially in educational institutions, where the back of the brainbox is almost always inaccessible.
Just my two cents' worth...donate the change to your company coffee fund.
I'm trying to figure out what sort of loopholes companies like Doubleclick can make use of to qualify a potential spam recipient as having "opted in" for the "service." IANAL, so I'm going to show a certain amount of ignorance; can such companies make "opting in" a requirement of visitors to a site featuring their banner ads? Or would they have to wait for someone to actually click on the banner before they could say "See, he's interested, let's send him tons of UCE!"
Any attorneys out there who might care to tackle this question? At least as it might relate to current or proposed US or Canadian law?
Ooooh, now THERE'S a design conundrum...make a cooling fan with enough airflow to keep the CPU from overheating, but not so much that you have to chase it across the room every time you boot...
Sorry, it was there, I had to use it before it went bad.
Sega's been in the pay-per-play industry for a LONG time...you'd be surprised to find out how many casino games they've successfully put into place. 'Nuff said.
How many people think that perhaps we need more free (or minimum-pay) services like SpamCop? I forward spam to them on a fairly regular basis, with an average of one out of eight spammers' accounts being reported closed by their ISP. And to date, after a year and a half of usage, only two spammers have managed to avoid identification, the last being about seven months ago.
Questions, comments, flames? Operators are standing by...
I doubt it takes that long...that's probably just the assigned time block for transferring the data from the server (remember FidoNet?). The actual data transfer wouldn't take more than a few minutes on a crappy phone line.
I think the TiVo is still one of the neatest things since AM stereo (insert your own quadrophonic headphones joke here), but I still don't like the idea that they're able (note: no proof that they're DOING it, but they CAN) to target ads to users based on memorized preferences. It's one of the VERY few things keeping me from dropping the Big Bucks on one before Christmas.
I'm not surprised about the poor sales; the bug list and stability problem reports have preceded the marketing efforts in most big shops. M$ has yet to demonstrate (not TALK ABOUT but DEMONSTRATE) a real good reason for any of their big clients (I work for one) to "upgrade."
So here we still sit with probably (at least in my little hole) 15 NT4 servers and six HPUX machines. And a dozen or so NT4 workstations. And IT won't let management buy W2K to install on the NT4 boxes...probably one of their best decisions to date. 'Nuff said.
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Unless and until they can come up with a P4-type chip capable of SMP, IMO they're not even going to be in the high-end market.
Has anyone got a link to any sort of comparison site for P3/Athlon SMP benchmarking? I'd like to see some numbers on how each one stacks up in either a server farm or image processing installation with multiple CPUs.
Based just on the numbers, I can't see where Intel is going to be able to make up the ground it's lost, no matter how much they cut prices. Combine their loss of market share with the RAMBUS troubles, and I can see the end of the "official" x86 line.
Prediction: AMD is going to have the personal-desktop CPU market solidly in hand within two years, if they don't already. Intel has just plain made too many technological and marketing gaffes to easily recover from, no matter how many cutesy Blue Man Group ads they make.
'Nuff said.
void rant_on_violence(void) {
Can you truly have a discussion about School violence without adressing the issue of firearms?
Yes, very easily, by ignoring the symptom and examining the cause...as someone wrote earlier in this topic.
School violence is nothing new. Anywhere. What is new, or at least newer, is the level that violence has escalated to. And as someone else wrote earlier, the cause boils down to apathy on the part of the "grownups" (in quotes because all I see are mature bodies, not mature minds). Day-care centers are holding pens for the kids while the parents go off and try to increase their stashes of the Almighty Dollar(tm). Kids aren't spending any (here comes the buzzword...wait for it...) quality time with parents because a lot of parents don't seem to care. The few that get pushed too far make the news. Others either hide it better, control it better or get the attention and help they need (instead of want).
IMO the school staff and administration are as much to blame in this as the parents, if blame is something that must be assigned (I'm not convinced it is yet). For exactly the same reasons...more concerned with their careers and income streams and mortgages and credit card bills than they are with the welfare of the children placed into their care.
Simply blaming the so-called "ready availability" of firearms is a kneejerk reaction to a symptom. Look for the cause of that symptom; it's a lot deeper and harder to spot than the local pawn shop, sporting-goods store or gun show. And eliminating that cause is, IMO, what's going to take the most time and effort. But again, we run into the same problem: apathy. Or perhaps laziness would be a better word. In this instant-gratification society of easy 'Net access, microwave dinners, and so on, nobody seems to be willing to step up to the mill and grind out the proper actions needed to eliminate that cause. And the problem isn't restricted to the US, either, not by a long shot...but the US gets most of the attention for it because of our vaunted First Amendment rights to free speech. No, I'm not advocating eliminating those rights. But I am all for working very hard to convince "news" editors that by playing up these episodes, they're perpetuating the problem.
Our society needs to rethink its priorities. And those priorities need to include the children we've brought into the world, and who will inherit that world once we move on. We need to teach a lot more in the way of ethical and moral behaviour, and a lot less about economics and accounting and quick-fix living. That's the logical first step in reducing the problems that are resulting in such events as Columbine, Santee or Fort Gibson.
'Nuff said.
} ;
Okay, maybe I'm getting paranoid...blame M$ for that. But when someone starts saying their product is the latest and greatest, it makes me both curious and nervous.
I don't mind paying for a good, rock-solid distro, but I don't feel compelled to be on the bleeding edge. And I learned (the hard way) about slapping an OS package on a machine and expecting it to perform as advertised without some testing and comparison. I'd like to see how this runs and compares side-by-side with Red Hat, Debian and SuSE boxen. If...if...it runs and compiles and does OS stuff at least as well as any one of the other major distros, yes, I'll sink money into it. But I've been bitten by blindly believing claims before, and that's made me twice shy.
So USD15 isn't all that much. I've spent several times more than that on OS packages in the last six months. But if it's going onto a production machine, I want to beat on it a bit first.
I'll keep pulling .iso images for now. Thank you for your time.
What's even better is getting logged intrusion attempts from people with static IPs. Six and seven times a day for a week. Then watching them completely go away after you email their provider once.
I'm glad I have my log size limited...otherwise I'd have a drive full of logs and no room to run Quake III.
Actually, the first four digits are (theoretically) bank-specific, so you've really only got 12 to work with. But that's still going to make a pretty good-sized range of valid numbers to go through before they have to start recycling.
First, I know that copyrights are valid for the life of the original creator plus 50 years, if the creator is who files the copyright. (I've had opportunity to copyright a couple of things, so I do know that little bit. Not much, but sufficent for my needs at the time.)
My question regarding this...what if a corporation is the filing and holding entity? Major corporations don't suffer from mortality the same way individuals do; it's conceivable that they could exist for five or six lifetimes. So, since IANAL, what's the lifetime of a corporation-held copyright? My own paranoid mind says it's theoretically indefinite...any attorneys out there care to comment?
Closed captioning only requires two scan lines to encode...IIRC there are eight lines allocated. So where's the problem in putting the other six to use? Besides, it's not like there isn't enough to go around...of the 525 scan lines in the NTSC standard, only 480 are considered part of the viewable image (which is one of the places we get the VGA standard, btw!). The remaining lines are taken by closed captioning, VITS...and that's about it.
As I read the article, people with analog sets aren't losing anything, except the pressing need to buy an HDTV receiver within the next five years. And broadcasters don't have to buy as much new equipment to make the mandated cutover; just enough to maintain back-compatibility. I'm betting their transmitters are even up to the task with very little, if any, modification.
Just my two cents' worth...donate the change to your local TV station's equipment fund.
IMO Micro$oft hasn't moved an inch in order to meet market needs...it saw an opportunity to get some good press by "giving away" a crippled version of W2k to run a device which, by its definition, will only go into a comparative niche market. The big money is still the sheer volume of sales to end users on workstations. If that weren't true, we would have already seen the demise of HP and Sun in the server arena.
Just my two cents' worth...donate the change to your network tech so he can buy a new crimper.
Okay, so nobody in Australia can forward email without permission...there goes a lot of things like a tech-support rep forwarding a sticky question or problem from a customer to their second-tier people. Especially (heaven forbid!) if it includes a screenshot of the error message.
What's going to be targeted next? Blogging with embedded links or images? (I know, some people would say "big fscking deal", but to others, it IS a big fscking deal...think about it!) Web pages that generate email to their operators, like feedback forms or catalog requests?
IMHO the Australian government, with this one piece of legislature, has both insured that their country stays unnecessarily insular AND set a very dangerous precedent for other governments to look at.
Just my 2c (US) worth...donate the change to your sysadmin's Vegemite fund.
The RIAA is proving, with their proponency of such technology as this, that they don't give a rat's ass about Fair Use...all they care about is lining their pockets and those of their attorneys, and giving what little is left over to the artists they "represent."
What I'm really curious about, though, is how they plan to implement their apparent intent... a "pay per play" model...on commercial radio. Are we going to wind up with thousands of high-power, stereo talk radio stations? IMO, that's where things will wind up if their current push is continued.
No, I won't buy into this one. Like others who have mentioned it, I remember DIVX, and how long it didn't last, and why.
The trouble, IMO, is that Micro$oft DOES have credibility...with old-school IT managers, CIOs, CEOs, and people who know more about their own companies' bottom lines than software development. So Micro$oft is going to pile onto any opportunity they can find, fake or manufacture to discredit anything that doesn't support their business model.
Just my two cents' worth...donate the change to your company's "educate the CIO" fund.
DCS1000...it's like the DCS4000, but without the graphic interface, and only comes in beige...
And who says this will be used for purposes of defeating copy protection? I've been lusting after a digital video editing package for a long time...a VERY long time...and this seems like just the ticket, and at the right price.
Don't automatically assume or assert the worst possible usage for innovation. You only wind up making the status quo harder to break past.
Just my two cents' worth...donate the change to your company coffee fund. And feel free to moderate down as flamebait at will...I know I would.
This will probably get modded down severely as troll flamebait redundant whatever, but it's my two cents' worth. (Donate the change to your company coffee fund.)
The Microsoft product, IMO, was never meant for high-end server operations...it was made for consumers and managers to be able to prepare their correspondence and play 'what-if' with spreadsheets. In other words, write letters and balance checkbooks, and that's about it. Server-level operability wasn't even considered for quite a long time, and wasn't stabilized (again, IMO) until NT 4.0 was released. By stark contrast, Sun has had high-end server software (and hardware, of course) for quite a few years, and has only refined and improved operability as time has progressed.
As to the excellence of the software...there are two versions of the same question you ask, depending on who you're talking to. If you're talking to an administrator of an NT box, you ask how often he has to reboot. If you're talking to an administrator of a Sun box, you ask when s/he had to reboot last. Chances are the NT admin will relate his answer to a number of hours; the Sun admin will likely reference his answer to a specific calendar date.
Ya gets what ya pays fer. 'Nuff said.
This could do wonders for the sales of USB hubs...especially in educational institutions, where the back of the brainbox is almost always inaccessible.
Just my two cents' worth...donate the change to your company coffee fund.
I'm trying to figure out what sort of loopholes companies like Doubleclick can make use of to qualify a potential spam recipient as having "opted in" for the "service." IANAL, so I'm going to show a certain amount of ignorance; can such companies make "opting in" a requirement of visitors to a site featuring their banner ads? Or would they have to wait for someone to actually click on the banner before they could say "See, he's interested, let's send him tons of UCE!"
Any attorneys out there who might care to tackle this question? At least as it might relate to current or proposed US or Canadian law?
Ooooh, now THERE'S a design conundrum...make a cooling fan with enough airflow to keep the CPU from overheating, but not so much that you have to chase it across the room every time you boot...
Sorry, it was there, I had to use it before it went bad.
Sega's been in the pay-per-play industry for a LONG time...you'd be surprised to find out how many casino games they've successfully put into place.
'Nuff said.
It already exists...last I heard it consisted of the House of Representatives and Senate.
(You knew someone would make this comparison sooner or later, didn't you? C'mon, didn't you...?)
How many people think that perhaps we need more free (or minimum-pay) services like SpamCop? I forward spam to them on a fairly regular basis, with an average of one out of eight spammers' accounts being reported closed by their ISP. And to date, after a year and a half of usage, only two spammers have managed to avoid identification, the last being about seven months ago.
Questions, comments, flames? Operators are standing by...
I doubt it takes that long...that's probably just the assigned time block for transferring the data from the server (remember FidoNet?). The actual data transfer wouldn't take more than a few minutes on a crappy phone line.
I think the TiVo is still one of the neatest things since AM stereo (insert your own quadrophonic headphones joke here), but I still don't like the idea that they're able (note: no proof that they're DOING it, but they CAN) to target ads to users based on memorized preferences. It's one of the VERY few things keeping me from dropping the Big Bucks on one before Christmas.
I'm not surprised about the poor sales; the bug list and stability problem reports have preceded the marketing efforts in most big shops. M$ has yet to demonstrate (not TALK ABOUT but DEMONSTRATE) a real good reason for any of their big clients (I work for one) to "upgrade."
So here we still sit with probably (at least in my little hole) 15 NT4 servers and six HPUX machines. And a dozen or so NT4 workstations. And IT won't let management buy W2K to install on the NT4 boxes...probably one of their best decisions to date. 'Nuff said.