Exactly, if you could get a slotA/slotB coverter (just as Intel slot1/Slot2 converters already exist) you could have a dual SMP Athlon system running on a 21264 Alpha board, right now.
Actually they do ave heatpipes in 'em, the're as common as floppies in laptops. Also did you know some of these not so coppermine GB demo machines have heatpipe cooling - they either have a very large bondedfin heatsink with a copper base & 2 fans blowing through from the side like IMI & Alpha sinks do; or they have a copper base heatsink which has a heatpipe that leads to a heatsink at the top.
Yes, often workstation/PCs that are used for home mixing or sound recording are often underclocked, complete with a big fanless heatsink that sits under the powersuppy's fan that blows in. Also its useally a 92mm fan rather than a 80mm fan, so its quieter per CFM as it revs a bit slower. Plus they have a high powered powersupply with a low load on it. That way the thermatically controlled Papst Sintec bearing (very quiet) powersupply fan in it only comes on & revs up relatively rarelly, plus they often have another thermister on the CPU/heatsink. . so if that gets to hot the fan will cut in or rev up to (remember the CPU fanless heatsink is directly below the powersupply fan)
Yes thats right, plus a lot of websites in lots of countries dont even bother with the.com,.org,.net business. In Italy their are many sites with names like www.domainname.it, there's even an www.fuck.it.
So if you vote for a candidate that doesnt poll first or second your vote isnt wasted as your preference still matters. That the way it is in Australian, where if you have a choice of 6 candidates, you number the squares from 1 to 6 in order of preference. That way if their was a situation like in the 92 US presidential election where Clinton got 40%, Bush got 30% & Perot got 20% (well something like that), then the people who voted for Perot wouldnt had wasted their vote, as their preferences would have gone to either Clinton or Bush, which means the elected leader would have been the choice of a majority, not a minority.
My brother found the US more of a Police state than Cuba. In parts of the US if you walk down the wrong street at the wrong time, the police will hassle you all night long. My brother got arrested just for walking down a street with a beer, on his second day there. While a week before he left for Cuba he got arested for driving with a case of beer on the rear seat - What kind of law is that?. What if you boot is already full. While in Cube everyone is so easy going & the authorites don't kgive a fuck about things like that. BTW, both in totally & at a per capita leval, American law enforcement agencies kill a lot more Americans than the amount of Cubans killed by there govt. Actually by many factors - spurilous warrents, no knock raids, incarceration levals, death sentence levals, forfeiture without proof, mandatory sentencing, etc etc etc - The US could be classified as the only police state in the OECD. In more than many ways the benign Cuban dictatorship, is a lot freeer than the US. BTW did you know that most Cuban cops don't even own guns, let alone reapetedly use them on their own people.
Yes, but Switzerland has firearm storage laws similar to other parts of Western Europe & some Australian states, where the said firearm has to be stored unloaded, without any ammunition & (if possible) disable in a locked steal box that's bolted & welded or cemented down, with the ammunition & if possible the fireing pin, stored in another part of the house in a similar way. Seeing as the vast majority of firearm incidents (probably over 90%) are not acts of premeditated criminality, but due to accidents, impulsiveness, drunkeness, jealousy, domestics & that sort of thing & the fact is thats why these things happen more when there's easy avaliabilty of firearms. Also if you classify a criminal as some one who has committed more than just a couple of felonies & or get a proportion of their regular income through illegal activitiesthe, then the simple fact is the vast majority of criminals don't possess firearms themselves, & if they did, then the odds would be it would be pawned by the end of the next working day. BTW, where do you think criminals get their firearms from? They buy 'em or otherwise aquire them from average everyday mostly law abiding people. Thats why by simply making firearms less avaliable, decreases the amount of firearms avaliable to criminals too. Personlly I think that the world is vastly overpopulated with people anyway, so the more Americans who go arround shooting each other, then the better the planet's enviroment will be. So don't think I'm advocating gun control, I'm just debating the issues.
or whatever sub it was that they got the Kriegsmarine Enigma machine from (the naval ones had an extra wheel). It was an RAF Coastal Command aircraft that spotted the sub. They were British seamen on a Royal Navy Boat that disabled the sub. They were Britsh seamen who disabled the scuttling charges, & rescued the naval enigma from the sub - one died in the process. So why does Hollywood always have to change the facts to make the heros American - Remember the Great Escape, with Paul Newman (or was it Steve McQueen, I always get those to mixed up). Yet in reality their were no Americans involved in the Great Escape. Are Aamericans so insecure they can't handle it unless the hero in the Movies are yanks?
One of the great benefits of a goverment statutary authority operating a public utility monopoly is the economies of scale. After all say if you had 3 private phone companies sharing 90% of the market, all 3 would have to run a full nationwide network, with fixed costs no less than if just one telecom had 100% of the market. With public utilities its economies of scales that keeps cost to a minimum in the long run. Imagine the economies of scale if instead of having 3 GSM networks (Telstra, Optus & Vodafone) there was just one network. Imagine what the cost saving would be from just having one set of antennas per cell, rather than the 3 we have now - triplercation of resources is a waste we all pay for. Plus any net profits go back into the goverment treasury, thereby subsidising the tax payer. As any businesman would know, if a business owned telstra it would definitly not make any sense for them to sell the company off, so why should the goverment sell it off. Really the only reason the conservatives are privatising Telstra is idealology, as it definitly doesn't make economic or financial sense - Telstra has been making billions in net profits for years. Plus, by being goverment owned there are political consequences if they charge too much, ie the politicians might get voted out. So politicians in their self interest will keep prices low. The fact is many people think phone prices on average have gone down since deregulation, however if you reserch the facts, the opposite is true, relative to what it should be now. Its just too many people beleive the PR bull about privatisation etc. Really by world standards phone prices are quite low here, You wouldnt beleive what phone bills are like in Europe. Even though untimed local calls are A22c (US14c), may seem dearer than in parts of the US where local calls are free, actually many of those local phone areas are no bigger than a couple of suburbs. For instance if you were to make a call from one side of greater LA to the other side, you could be going through at least a couple of phone districts, so therefore you'd end up paying quite a bit more than you would down here in Sydney. Where I can dial a suburb 20 miles away & talk for 5 hours & its an untimed local call & as such will only cost me A22c (US14c).
2 floating point units 2 MMX units 2 3DNow units 64kB 4-way L1 cache 256kB 8-way full speed on-chip L2 cache (64b interface with a 5-clock latency) The best, most efficient X86 integer unit out there - the Cyrix 686 integer unit. No multiplyer lock, so its compatable with any FSB speed between 66mhz & all the up to nearly 150mhz, if your MoBo & memmory can go that far. Made by VIA, so should be totally compatable & stable on any VIA 133A MoBo (fingers crossed) & finally a PR rating which is 'fair dinkum', & no more than 100 points above its mhz rating (PR500 is 400mhz, PR 533 is 433mhz). Actually Cyrix's PR ratings have always been accurate for their integer units, but was always taken with a grain of salt as far as floating point performance was concerned, plus towards the end of National Semi's stewardship, the gap between the PR rating & mhz was being stretched to the limit. But now with double the L1 cache of the Celeron, double the L2 cache of the Celeron, 2 fully pipelined FPUs, 2 MMX units & 2 3DNow units, the Joshua's PR rating is now on the conservative side. Plus they are dirt cheap, with even the 533 at less than $100. Looks like things don't look too good for Intel (well until Williamette/Foster anyway), what with the Athlon competing at the high end, Joshua at the low end, VIA competing with 133SDRAM chipsets, RAMBUS being too bloody expensive (plus its high latency), poor MTH SDRAM controller performance, Transmeta now being taken on by Taiwanese OEMs on the mobile front & of course with Merced/Itanium looking worse by the day (& with AMDs 64b Sledgehammer looking like it will more than twice as fast, as far as X86 code is concerned).
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Exactly, if you could get a slotA/slotB coverter (just as Intel slot1/Slot2 converters already exist) you could have a dual SMP Athlon system running on a 21264 Alpha board, right now.
Actually they do ave heatpipes in 'em, the're as common as floppies in laptops. Also did you know some of these not so coppermine GB demo machines have heatpipe cooling - they either have a very large bondedfin heatsink with a copper base & 2 fans blowing through from the side like IMI & Alpha sinks do; or they have a copper base heatsink which has a heatpipe that leads to a heatsink at the top.
Yes, often workstation/PCs that are used for home mixing or sound recording are often underclocked, complete with a big fanless heatsink that sits under the powersuppy's fan that blows in. Also its useally a 92mm fan rather than a 80mm fan, so its quieter per CFM as it revs a bit slower. Plus they have a high powered powersupply with a low load on it. That way the thermatically controlled Papst Sintec bearing (very quiet) powersupply fan in it only comes on & revs up relatively rarelly, plus they often have another thermister on the CPU/heatsink. . so if that gets to hot the fan will cut in or rev up to (remember the CPU fanless heatsink is directly below the powersupply fan)
Yes thats right, plus a lot of websites in lots of countries dont even bother with the .com, .org, .net business. In Italy their are many sites with names like www.domainname.it, there's even an www.fuck.it.
So if you vote for a candidate that doesnt poll first or second your vote isnt wasted as your preference still matters. That the way it is in Australian, where if you have a choice of 6 candidates, you number the squares from 1 to 6 in order of preference. That way if their was a situation like in the 92 US presidential election where Clinton got 40%, Bush got 30% & Perot got 20% (well something like that), then the people who voted for Perot wouldnt had wasted their vote, as their preferences would have gone to either Clinton or Bush, which means the elected leader would have been the choice of a majority, not a minority.
My brother found the US more of a Police state than Cuba. In parts of the US if you walk down the wrong street at the wrong time, the police will hassle you all night long. My brother got arrested just for walking down a street with a beer, on his second day there. While a week before he left for Cuba he got arested for driving with a case of beer on the rear seat - What kind of law is that?. What if you boot is already full. While in Cube everyone is so easy going & the authorites don't kgive a fuck about things like that. BTW, both in totally & at a per capita leval, American law enforcement agencies kill a lot more Americans than the amount of Cubans killed by there govt. Actually by many factors - spurilous warrents, no knock raids, incarceration levals, death sentence levals, forfeiture without proof, mandatory sentencing, etc etc etc - The US could be classified as the only police state in the OECD. In more than many ways the benign Cuban dictatorship, is a lot freeer than the US. BTW did you know that most Cuban cops don't even own guns, let alone reapetedly use them on their own people.
Yes, but Switzerland has firearm storage laws similar to other parts of Western Europe & some Australian states, where the said firearm has to be stored unloaded, without any ammunition & (if possible) disable in a locked steal box that's bolted & welded or cemented down, with the ammunition & if possible the fireing pin, stored in another part of the house in a similar way. Seeing as the vast majority of firearm incidents (probably over 90%) are not acts of premeditated criminality, but due to accidents, impulsiveness, drunkeness, jealousy, domestics & that sort of thing & the fact is thats why these things happen more when there's easy avaliabilty of firearms. Also if you classify a criminal as some one who has committed more than just a couple of felonies & or get a proportion of their regular income through illegal activitiesthe, then the simple fact is the vast majority of criminals don't possess firearms themselves, & if they did, then the odds would be it would be pawned by the end of the next working day. BTW, where do you think criminals get their firearms from? They buy 'em or otherwise aquire them from average everyday mostly law abiding people. Thats why by simply making firearms less avaliable, decreases the amount of firearms avaliable to criminals too. Personlly I think that the world is vastly overpopulated with people anyway, so the more Americans who go arround shooting each other, then the better the planet's enviroment will be. So don't think I'm advocating gun control, I'm just debating the issues.
or whatever sub it was that they got the Kriegsmarine Enigma machine from (the naval ones had an extra wheel). It was an RAF Coastal Command aircraft that spotted the sub. They were British seamen on a Royal Navy Boat that disabled the sub. They were Britsh seamen who disabled the scuttling charges, & rescued the naval enigma from the sub - one died in the process. So why does Hollywood always have to change the facts to make the heros American - Remember the Great Escape, with Paul Newman (or was it Steve McQueen, I always get those to mixed up). Yet in reality their were no Americans involved in the Great Escape. Are Aamericans so insecure they can't handle it unless the hero in the Movies are yanks?
One of the great benefits of a goverment statutary authority operating a public utility monopoly is the economies of scale. After all say if you had 3 private phone companies sharing 90% of the market, all 3 would have to run a full nationwide network, with fixed costs no less than if just one telecom had 100% of the market. With public utilities its economies of scales that keeps cost to a minimum in the long run. Imagine the economies of scale if instead of having 3 GSM networks (Telstra, Optus & Vodafone) there was just one network. Imagine what the cost saving would be from just having one set of antennas per cell, rather than the 3 we have now - triplercation of resources is a waste we all pay for. Plus any net profits go back into the goverment treasury, thereby subsidising the tax payer. As any businesman would know, if a business owned telstra it would definitly not make any sense for them to sell the company off, so why should the goverment sell it off. Really the only reason the conservatives are privatising Telstra is idealology, as it definitly doesn't make economic or financial sense - Telstra has been making billions in net profits for years. Plus, by being goverment owned there are political consequences if they charge too much, ie the politicians might get voted out. So politicians in their self interest will keep prices low. The fact is many people think phone prices on average have gone down since deregulation, however if you reserch the facts, the opposite is true, relative to what it should be now. Its just too many people beleive the PR bull about privatisation etc. Really by world standards phone prices are quite low here, You wouldnt beleive what phone bills are like in Europe. Even though untimed local calls are A22c (US14c), may seem dearer than in parts of the US where local calls are free, actually many of those local phone areas are no bigger than a couple of suburbs. For instance if you were to make a call from one side of greater LA to the other side, you could be going through at least a couple of phone districts, so therefore you'd end up paying quite a bit more than you would down here in Sydney. Where I can dial a suburb 20 miles away & talk for 5 hours & its an untimed local call & as such will only cost me A22c (US14c).
well you maybe right, it turns out that Intel bought out some ex Elbrus Engineers, who were behing some of the innovations in the P6 & Merced cores.
2 floating point units 2 MMX units 2 3DNow units 64kB 4-way L1 cache 256kB 8-way full speed on-chip L2 cache (64b interface with a 5-clock latency) The best, most efficient X86 integer unit out there - the Cyrix 686 integer unit. No multiplyer lock, so its compatable with any FSB speed between 66mhz & all the up to nearly 150mhz, if your MoBo & memmory can go that far. Made by VIA, so should be totally compatable & stable on any VIA 133A MoBo (fingers crossed) & finally a PR rating which is 'fair dinkum', & no more than 100 points above its mhz rating (PR500 is 400mhz, PR 533 is 433mhz). Actually Cyrix's PR ratings have always been accurate for their integer units, but was always taken with a grain of salt as far as floating point performance was concerned, plus towards the end of National Semi's stewardship, the gap between the PR rating & mhz was being stretched to the limit. But now with double the L1 cache of the Celeron, double the L2 cache of the Celeron, 2 fully pipelined FPUs, 2 MMX units & 2 3DNow units, the Joshua's PR rating is now on the conservative side. Plus they are dirt cheap, with even the 533 at less than $100. Looks like things don't look too good for Intel (well until Williamette/Foster anyway), what with the Athlon competing at the high end, Joshua at the low end, VIA competing with 133SDRAM chipsets, RAMBUS being too bloody expensive (plus its high latency), poor MTH SDRAM controller performance, Transmeta now being taken on by Taiwanese OEMs on the mobile front & of course with Merced/Itanium looking worse by the day (& with AMDs 64b Sledgehammer looking like it will more than twice as fast, as far as X86 code is concerned).