Thanks for the correction. I knew some Intel chips have 36bit addressing, but I wasn't sure if Athlon had it. Still, using this kind of segmented memory hack doesn't sound very complelling when compared to true 64bit addressing..
I don't really see why backward compatability is needed, Itanium is not a directed to consumer market, but to high-end servers. I don't think people really if care if their $80K web server doesn't run Quake3 60fps sustained.
The article touches on the fact that when comparing an Itanium and a 4 way Athlon that is just as fast, costs the same, and can also run 32 but instructions, it's not a hard choice.
Unless of course you'd like to have more than just 4 gigabytes of RAM in that server..
..I have to say I'm somewhat sceptical about this. IMHO the lone gunmen (along with CSM) are the best characters in X-files, but I think that has a lot to do with fact that they are shown very rarely. Give them their own show and they will probably run out of the "good stuff" pretty soon. When the lone gunmen have an appearence in the X-Files, you can always count on it being funny or weird, but I'm not sure that can carry a whole TV-Show.
Lately I haven't seen any of those comments, but I've been seeing more than enough comments like yours. It was funny the first three times, but now it's getting to be about as funny as the "First post" so please stop.
Correct me if I'm a little slow, but isn't this kind of attitude from Intel exactly what anti-trust laws are supposed to prevent? As far as I understand the Sherman Act, it is perfectly legal to be a monopoly just as long as you don't abuse that monopoly power. Surely if Intel even hinted something like that to a big OEM, anti-trust investigators would be all over them?
You're absolutely right except for on thing: Intel is not a monopoly. AMD is a very relevant competitor, so how could Intel be a monopoly? Intel was actually investigated by the FCC (or whoever investigates this stuff) and it took just a couple of weeks for them to make make their decicion: Intel != monopoly.
All I know it's a distro based on RedHat, but what are the major differences between RH Mandrake? I've heard a lot of people say they really like Mandrake, and would like to know just why it is so good. Thanks in advance.
Don't forget AMD's Sledgehammer. I have no idea of the timeline on it.
The Sledgehammer is a really interesting CPU. Not really technically innovative or interesting 64bit design (compare to x86 going from 16 bits to 32 bits), but the 32bit compatibily offered by it might be real killer in the consumer market. Intel will have the same problems as all other companies making totally new istruction sets have. All the Intel name and market muscle will needed, but even that might not be enough. I'm really eager to see if AMD can steal Intels market..
I've heard of this quantum universe. It has a lot more than just genetic code, mainly pretty colors, shapes and patterns.. People also often tell me something about a chick named Lucy in the sky with diamonds, but that part I never really understand..
Will someone care to indulge me with details on why Intel is sticking with 32-bit chips while Motorola and friends churn out faster offerings? Is incompatibility with older software the cause of this?
Haven't you ever heard of Merced/Itanium or McKinley? Intel is (with the help of HP) very hard trying to make a 64bit chip, but is not doing very well. Itanium is behind chedule, a lot. First Itanium silicons have been produced, and the rumour is that they suck badly. McKinley which is mainly HP effort *should* be coming along just fine, infact there is small chance thatit will be done before Itanium (originally it was cheduled 1.5 - 2 years after Itanium). Making a good 64bit CPU is not easy.
And yes, incompatibility with x86 is a VERY large obstacle to overcome when moving to the IA64 architecture. If it wasn't, we'd all be using 64bit alphas/whatever right now. 32 bits will be enough for consumer market for many more years, and the Intels current x86 CPU is already starting to max out in terms of clockspeed (can't find a 800MHz PIII?). Remember that PII, Celeron and PIII are all based on the PPro, which came out way back in 1996. If Intel doesn't soon come upwith a new x86 core, they will totally lose the high-end x86 market to AMD. As for the low end market...64bit CPUs are friggin huge, and thus way too expensive to be fitted into a $1000 computer.
If Intel is worried, it is worried about what AMD can do with mobile Athlon. Crusoe really doesn't compete with Intel x86 mobile CPUs. The reason for that is of course that in laptops, CPU consumes a relatively small percentage of all electricity while the HD and the LCD-display end up taking the most.
Crusoe is threat to Intel, threat to the Intel StrongARM to be more specific.
Looking at the WINE app database it appears that Starcraft runs pretty well under WINE. This makes me wonder if the port could be done simply by using WINElib and fixing the few remaining bugs (mainly multiplayer stuff) that may be left. Any thoughts?
This is a major source of headache for NASA, see this slashdot story. As for the idea of putting data in remote storage.. well, it is a good idea but it doesn't solve this particular problem since it means that while *I* am not forced to deal with the issue, someone else is.
I see a lot posts saying that the writer has gotten this and this point wrong etc. Seems to me that a lot of people just are not willing to admit the truth. It's easier to say the writer is wrong somewhere and then disregard the whole essay. I understand that a developer will easily get defensive if someone says the programs he has been making the last five years have bad UIs. But denying the problem is NOT the right thing to do. Instead you should try to listen to the persons complaining, even if you don't fully (or at all) agree with them.
If we pretend that it isn't broken, no one will fix it.
WAP (if succesful) will bring billions of dollars of revenue to cell phone operators, they wont even notice the loss of $20k.
20,000 might be problem to small WAP content providers, but it is starting to look that there probably won't many of them anyway. Cell phone operators are demanding that WAP be made more closed so that they can be the only content providers. If the operators get their way, WAP, even without the $20k fee, will never be like the web where you can surf to where ever you want, but instead are restricted to a fairly limited amount services your operator has decided to provide. This would obviously be Bad Thing(TM) for the consumers, lack of choice combined with high prices resulting from the "content monopoly" is never very appealing.
Still, saying that WAP is dead does sound a bit hasty to me.
Well if past records are anything to go on, any second now someone will post here about how we should be thanking the crackers for forcing the companies to get their acts together. This will come despite the fact that the crackers are thieves, blackmailers, and dealers (of illegally obtained information).
_These_ crackers are thieves, but not all crackers are. If some group hacks Hotmail and replaces the main page with a message saying "Your security sucks. Hacked by F00fc8C7" then I say more power to them. When someone defaces a web page, it, like you said, forces the company to get their act together. It is a PR loss to the company, but having a secure site is much more important than that. Everyone wins.
Ok, maybe this poll was way unaccurate (or maybe not), but sending 10000 Linux zealots to "correct" the poll is not going to make it any better. Every time slashdot links to a poll the results get skewed and the poll becomes worthless. Remember when Inprise/Borland did their poll of if their development tools should be ported to Linux? They had to disregard most of the votes that came in after slashdot had linked. And this was not a poll about who is your favorite Pokemon character, but valuable market research.
Has anyone experienced any similar problems? And does anyone just happen to have, handily downloadable from their home page, a set of NAV rescue floppy images with up-to-date virus defs? Pleeeeeease?
I'm running Win98 SE and am having absolutely no problems (actually, it has crashed 4 times after midnight, but that's normal for this box:I). I've never used NAV and thus have no idea where to get it, try F-Prot (DOS program) instead. It's allways very up to date, defs were updated yesterday.
This has been addressed many times before, but apparently with no result.. You don't have call every Microsoft product a piece of crap just be because it has been made by that, you know, evil company. That is one the biggest reasons that makes Linux and whole OSS community look like a bunch of hippies to many people. Going open source (even if not fully GPL compliant) is huge leap of faith to companies, why make it any harder?
Remember the days when CPUs didn't have to be cooled at all? No noisy fans, not even heatsinks, just the bare naked chip. Who wants to bet that the Itanium will be flip chip with a built-in dual layer peltier sandwich?
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I don't really see why backward compatability is needed, Itanium is not a directed to consumer market, but to high-end servers. I don't think people really if care if their $80K web server doesn't run Quake3 60fps sustained.
Unless of course you'd like to have more than just 4 gigabytes of RAM in that server..
..I have to say I'm somewhat sceptical about this. IMHO the lone gunmen (along with CSM) are the best characters in X-files, but I think that has a lot to do with fact that they are shown very rarely. Give them their own show and they will probably run out of the "good stuff" pretty soon. When the lone gunmen have an appearence in the X-Files, you can always count on it being funny or weird, but I'm not sure that can carry a whole TV-Show.
..is that an MP3 player in your pocket or are you just really happy to see me?
Nothing personal, this is meant for everybody.
You're absolutely right except for on thing: Intel is not a monopoly. AMD is a very relevant competitor, so how could Intel be a monopoly? Intel was actually investigated by the FCC (or whoever investigates this stuff) and it took just a couple of weeks for them to make make their decicion: Intel != monopoly.
All I know it's a distro based on RedHat, but what are the major differences between RH Mandrake? I've heard a lot of people say they really like Mandrake, and would like to know just why it is so good. Thanks in advance.
The Sledgehammer is a really interesting CPU. Not really technically innovative or interesting 64bit design (compare to x86 going from 16 bits to 32 bits), but the 32bit compatibily offered by it might be real killer in the consumer market. Intel will have the same problems as all other companies making totally new istruction sets have. All the Intel name and market muscle will needed, but even that might not be enough. I'm really eager to see if AMD can steal Intels market..
I've heard of this quantum universe. It has a lot more than just genetic code, mainly pretty colors, shapes and patterns.. People also often tell me something about a chick named Lucy in the sky with diamonds, but that part I never really understand..
Haven't you ever heard of Merced/Itanium or McKinley? Intel is (with the help of HP) very hard trying to make a 64bit chip, but is not doing very well. Itanium is behind chedule, a lot. First Itanium silicons have been produced, and the rumour is that they suck badly. McKinley which is mainly HP effort *should* be coming along just fine, infact there is small chance thatit will be done before Itanium (originally it was cheduled 1.5 - 2 years after Itanium). Making a good 64bit CPU is not easy.
And yes, incompatibility with x86 is a VERY large obstacle to overcome when moving to the IA64 architecture. If it wasn't, we'd all be using 64bit alphas/whatever right now. 32 bits will be enough for consumer market for many more years, and the Intels current x86 CPU is already starting to max out in terms of clockspeed (can't find a 800MHz PIII?). Remember that PII, Celeron and PIII are all based on the PPro, which came out way back in 1996. If Intel doesn't soon come upwith a new x86 core, they will totally lose the high-end x86 market to AMD. As for the low end market...64bit CPUs are friggin huge, and thus way too expensive to be fitted into a $1000 computer.
Crusoe is threat to Intel, threat to the Intel StrongARM to be more specific.
Looking at the WINE app database it appears that Starcraft runs pretty well under WINE. This makes me wonder if the port could be done simply by using WINElib and fixing the few remaining bugs (mainly multiplayer stuff) that may be left. Any thoughts?
..If you had the chance to go back in time, would you do it again?
This is a major source of headache for NASA, see this slashdot story. As for the idea of putting data in remote storage.. well, it is a good idea but it doesn't solve this particular problem since it means that while *I* am not forced to deal with the issue, someone else is.
If we pretend that it isn't broken, no one will fix it.
20,000 might be problem to small WAP content providers, but it is starting to look that there probably won't many of them anyway. Cell phone operators are demanding that WAP be made more closed so that they can be the only content providers. If the operators get their way, WAP, even without the $20k fee, will never be like the web where you can surf to where ever you want, but instead are restricted to a fairly limited amount services your operator has decided to provide. This would obviously be Bad Thing(TM) for the consumers, lack of choice combined with high prices resulting from the "content monopoly" is never very appealing.
Still, saying that WAP is dead does sound a bit hasty to me.
_These_ crackers are thieves, but not all crackers are. If some group hacks Hotmail and replaces the main page with a message saying "Your security sucks. Hacked by F00fc8C7" then I say more power to them. When someone defaces a web page, it, like you said, forces the company to get their act together. It is a PR loss to the company, but having a secure site is much more important than that. Everyone wins.
Ok, maybe this poll was way unaccurate (or maybe not), but sending 10000 Linux zealots to "correct" the poll is not going to make it any better. Every time slashdot links to a poll the results get skewed and the poll becomes worthless. Remember when Inprise/Borland did their poll of if their development tools should be ported to Linux? They had to disregard most of the votes that came in after slashdot had linked. And this was not a poll about who is your favorite Pokemon character, but valuable market research.
Windows 99 - Will give you more downtime than any competing product.
I'm running Win98 SE and am having absolutely no problems (actually, it has crashed 4 times after midnight, but that's normal for this box :I). I've never used NAV and thus have no idea where to get it, try F-Prot (DOS program) instead. It's allways very up to date, defs were updated yesterday.
don't stop drinking.
Oh great, how am I supposed to get anything done without using strings, hooks or (try) catches..
This has been addressed many times before, but apparently with no result.. You don't have call every Microsoft product a piece of crap just be because it has been made by that, you know, evil company. That is one the biggest reasons that makes Linux and whole OSS community look like a bunch of hippies to many people. Going open source (even if not fully GPL compliant) is huge leap of faith to companies, why make it any harder?
The first and only good Southpark episode. Get a copy here and teach your children the true meaning of christmas.
Remember the days when CPUs didn't have to be cooled at all? No noisy fans, not even heatsinks, just the bare naked chip. Who wants to bet that the Itanium will be flip chip with a built-in dual layer peltier sandwich?