Both are right, THW is more right, but neither are really wrong. TomsHardware used equipment that is currently available to people today. AMD responded by correcting the problem, and then making a new demonstration based on the corrections. So now, going foward, new motherboards are likely to be based on the corrections.
If we do write our senators, will they ever receive it?
My guess would be there is a staff of people who open and read the mail and create a report which is then delivered to the Senator. One or two letters aren't likely to make it into this theoretical report. But hundreds or thousands would.
No doubt... and with a cable modem you can get mega fast downloads using apt-get. Once someone was done installing from the DVD the first they are going to do is "apt-get upgrade" 80% of their packages anyway...
Such programs are just too damned cool. Are there any others like it?
The Taliban has a similar program. Only it works the other way around. They take decent respectable impressionable young Muslims and turn them into terrorists who hijack jumbo jets and crash them into buildings.
What does XP offer me over and above my current win2k? I'm tired of updating to the latest and greatest just for the fun of it. My current os runs all of my applications without much trouble, so what do I get for my money?
If what you have works, don't fix it. Seriously you don't change out your CPU every time Intel/AMD brings out a new one do you? (Which, perhaps ironically, would make a hell of a lot more sense than ?upgrading? to XP.)
"Odyssey turns on its telemetry and begins transmitting data at 40 bits per second. The Deep Space Network will take several minutes to synchronize their equipment with the pattern in the telemetry because of the slow rate at which the data is being received."
"The spacecraft is currently 1.53e+11 meters from Earth. Even with a directional antenna, signal power drops with distance squared, so the path loss is on the order of 200 dB. That is, if the transmitter power is (say) 50 watts/m^2 at 1 meter away from the spacecraft, as measured from Earth it would be something like 10^-20 watts/m^2, not counting antenna gains. At those powers you'd be lucky to get 40 bits/s, simply by running into Shannon's limit. (Somebody check my math, I haven't had coffee this morning.)"
Now some quick math...
1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes... which = 8,388,608 bits... divided by 40 is 209,715.2 seconds. divided by 60 seconds = 3,495.25 minutes. divided by 60 minutes = 58.25 hours... So it would take 2 days 10 hours and 15 minutes to send 1 megabyte of data.
Now lets have some fun...
It would take 8 days and 6 hours to download an average 3 1/2 minute song in MP3 format.
It would take 1,553 days (or about 4 years and 3 months) to download the entire contents of a CD.
It would take about 425 years to download the entire contents of an average 60GB hard-drive.
1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes... which = 8,388,608 bits... divided by 40 is 209,715.2 seconds. divided by 60 seconds = 3,495.25 minutes. divided by 60 minutes = 58.25 hours... So it would take 2 days 10 hours and 15 minutes to send 1 megabyte of data.
I don't care for the Aqua style theme personally but the tranparency in those screen shots are very cool. The only transparency I've seen in Linux/XFree86 is transparency to the desktop... (Which is achieved by automatically copying a pixmap of the desktop into the window of your terminal program.)
They're not called cowards because they lack the bravery to give their lives for their cause.
Yes they are cowards. The fact that they tie dynamite to their chests and walk into a room and give their lives for their cause just makes them stupid on top of being a coward.
The United States uses technology to smite out it's enemies from afar. That's intelligence.
If you lived in one of the countries USA has attacted in the past by "cowardly" using stealth bombers...
Oh...so just because we don't tie dynamite to our chests and walk into a crowded room and blow away ourselves and everyone around us makes us cowards? Get a clue.
Umm... well lets see. Ummm... they attacked my country. Maybe you remember hearing about it? They attacked the world trade center and collapsed both of the towers and killed thousands of innocent people. Was my mom or wife on those flights? Fortunately not... so according to your logic I shouldn't care right? It didn't effect me personally so why should I care?
Psh... whatever dude. I feel sympathy for the tens of thousands of wives, husbands, sisters, brothers, aunts, nieces, nephews, best friends, cousins, uncles, etc... who did personally know someone who died.
If a single innocent Afganistan citizen is killed by our military actions, then we are no better than terrorists ourselves.
Not true. First of all we are responding to what they started. Secondly, we are not attacking innocent civilians like those cowards did. We are going after their terrorist camps, communication systems, weapon installations, etc... If one or two innocent civilians die in the process, that is sad but it's an acceptable loss all things considered. Go up to New York City at ground zero and try to find sympathy for the loss of one or two of their civilians in the midst of the 6,000+ we lost.
I prefer AMD at this point in the game. But I do think it's interesting to see AMD taking this kind of "strategy". If you remember back just 18 months ago, AMD had no problem proudly boasting and displaying their true CPU speed when they released the first 1GHz CPU.
I would think the amount of time saved compiling the Linux kernel would more than justify the \outrageous $27 price tag of an AMD 700MHz Duron processor.\
Get a freaking clue man... Those 4MB 72 pin SIMMs in that 486 computer cost over $100 each back when they were installed. You can now buy a 256MB DDR SDRAM module for 30 bucks.
Think of it in terms of cost/performance efficiency as opposed to running Linux on a 486 just because you *can*.
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...but you learn from using and installing windows 95.
You learn how to turn a computer into a door stop.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
So both articles are right adn wrong?
Ummm... like, read the articles dude.
Both are right, THW is more right, but neither are really wrong. TomsHardware used equipment that is currently available to people today. AMD responded by correcting the problem, and then making a new demonstration based on the corrections. So now, going foward, new motherboards are likely to be based on the corrections.
...AMD wouldn't replace my CPU when it went up in flames when the fan failed.
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If we do write our senators, will they ever receive it?
My guess would be there is a staff of people who open and read the mail and create a report which is then delivered to the Senator. One or two letters aren't likely to make it into this theoretical report. But hundreds or thousands would.
Because I can pull 20M/s sustained from my DVD drive and only 4.5K/s from the network.
...and when you're done installing from DVD, you have to "apt-get upgrade" 90% of your packages anyway... 4.5K/s? eeeek... 56k dial-up eh?
It only takes 2 1.44 meg disks
No doubt... and with a cable modem you can get mega fast downloads using apt-get. Once someone was done installing from the DVD the first they are going to do is "apt-get upgrade" 80% of their packages anyway...
Such programs are just too damned cool. Are there any others like it?
The Taliban has a similar program. Only it works the other way around. They take decent respectable impressionable young Muslims and turn them into terrorists who hijack jumbo jets and crash them into buildings.
What does XP offer me over and above my current win2k? I'm tired of updating to the latest and greatest just for the fun of it. My current os runs all of my applications without much trouble, so what do I get for my money?
If what you have works, don't fix it. Seriously you don't change out your CPU every time Intel/AMD brings out a new one do you? (Which, perhaps ironically, would make a hell of a lot more sense than ?upgrading? to XP.)
"Odyssey turns on its telemetry and begins transmitting data at 40 bits per second. The Deep Space Network will take several minutes to synchronize their equipment with the pattern in the telemetry because of the slow rate at which the data is being received."
"The spacecraft is currently 1.53e+11 meters from Earth. Even with a directional antenna, signal power drops with distance squared, so the path loss is on the order of 200 dB. That is, if the transmitter power is (say) 50 watts/m^2 at 1 meter away from the spacecraft, as measured from Earth it would be something like 10^-20 watts/m^2, not counting antenna gains. At those powers you'd be lucky to get 40 bits/s, simply by running into Shannon's limit. (Somebody check my math, I haven't had coffee this morning.)"
Now some quick math...
1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes... which = 8,388,608 bits... divided by 40 is 209,715.2 seconds. divided by 60 seconds = 3,495.25 minutes. divided by 60 minutes = 58.25 hours... So it would take 2 days 10 hours and 15 minutes to send 1 megabyte of data.
Now lets have some fun...
It would take 8 days and 6 hours to download an average 3 1/2 minute song in MP3 format.
It would take 1,553 days (or about 4 years and 3 months) to download the entire contents of a CD.
It would take about 425 years to download the entire contents of an average 60GB hard-drive.
Sound about right?
1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes... which = 8,388,608 bits... divided by 40 is 209,715.2 seconds. divided by 60 seconds = 3,495.25 minutes. divided by 60 minutes = 58.25 hours... So it would take 2 days 10 hours and 15 minutes to send 1 megabyte of data.
Does that sound right?
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I don't care for the Aqua style theme personally but the tranparency in those screen shots are very cool. The only transparency I've seen in Linux/XFree86 is transparency to the desktop... (Which is achieved by automatically copying a pixmap of the desktop into the window of your terminal program.)
They're not called cowards because they lack the bravery to give their lives for their cause.
Yes they are cowards. The fact that they tie dynamite to their chests and walk into a room and give their lives for their cause just makes them stupid on top of being a coward.
The United States uses technology to smite out it's enemies from afar. That's intelligence.
If you lived in one of the countries USA has attacted in the past by "cowardly" using stealth bombers...
Oh...so just because we don't tie dynamite to our chests and walk into a crowded room and blow away ourselves and everyone around us makes us cowards? Get a clue.
Cowards is a misleading propaganda term used by the govt. to try to hide the true cause of these attacks.
Blah blah blah... If your wife or mom would have died in the attacks you wouldn't be saying the same thing.
What has the taliban military done to you?
Umm... well lets see. Ummm... they attacked my country. Maybe you remember hearing about it? They attacked the world trade center and collapsed both of the towers and killed thousands of innocent people. Was my mom or wife on those flights? Fortunately not... so according to your logic I shouldn't care right? It didn't effect me personally so why should I care?
Psh... whatever dude. I feel sympathy for the tens of thousands of wives, husbands, sisters, brothers, aunts, nieces, nephews, best friends, cousins, uncles, etc... who did personally know someone who died.
If a single innocent Afganistan citizen is killed by our military actions, then we are no better than terrorists ourselves.
Not true. First of all we are responding to what they started. Secondly, we are not attacking innocent civilians like those cowards did. We are going after their terrorist camps, communication systems, weapon installations, etc... If one or two innocent civilians die in the process, that is sad but it's an acceptable loss all things considered. Go up to New York City at ground zero and try to find sympathy for the loss of one or two of their civilians in the midst of the 6,000+ we lost.
Shit, here we fucking go.
I doubt it. The entire world supports the U.S. including Pakistan.
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Well, what do you know, he's right!
That would be 10 bits, not bytes.
Does anyone know if the version Loki is selling will install on Windows as well as Linux with the same CD without downloading additional software?
I prefer AMD at this point in the game. But I do think it's interesting to see AMD taking this kind of "strategy". If you remember back just 18 months ago, AMD had no problem proudly boasting and displaying their true CPU speed when they released the first 1GHz CPU.
"My cock is bigger than yours."
Voltage is *NOT* "the rate at which energy is drawn from a source". What you are describing is power
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voltage n 1: the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit
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excuse me? it depends on the current flowing and stuff.. for example, I got shocked by 240v two days ago, and i bloody well fealt it.
Voltage = the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit
Amperage = The strength of an electric current
I would think the amount of time saved compiling the Linux kernel would more than justify the \outrageous $27 price tag of an AMD 700MHz Duron processor.\
Get a freaking clue man... Those 4MB 72 pin SIMMs in that 486 computer cost over $100 each back when they were installed. You can now buy a 256MB DDR SDRAM module for 30 bucks.
Think of it in terms of cost/performance efficiency as opposed to running Linux on a 486 just because you *can*.