Guess who sold Saddam the helicopters and chemicals he used to gas the Kurds?
Russia, China and France. Less than 1% of Iraq's weapons came from the U.S.
I'm sorry, but if any other country made the case they wanted to liberate the Iraqis, that would have been fine with me.
Like... Who, exactly? Russia, the way they previously "liberated" Eastern Europe? China, the way they "liberated" Tibet? Maybe Germany, the way they "liberated" Poland?
The reason that Vietnam is not a democracy today is that the U.S. and allied forces pulled out after the media turned a military victory (the Tet Offensive was a huge defeat for the NVA) into a political defeat.
South Korea is a democracy. A slightly odd one, but it mostly works. North Korea is Hell on Earth. Difference? There weren't any U.S. troops in North Korea.
Iraq is still a work in progress. I notice you don't mention Afghanistan, which is now a democracy, thanks to guess who?
Or Germany and Japan. Or Italy, for that matter. Or France.
Or Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and now the Ukraine. Freed not by direct military action but by U.S. opposition to the Soviet Union.
Democracies the world over are our friends. Except France, of course.
To say they were lying, and hold them accountable some kind of liability due to their confidence in 65nm would stifle future growth of the entire technology industry.
65nm hasn't failed yet. It's 90nm that's failed. (And 130nm was a bit of a cow too.)
So, you think that using multiple iterations of an inherently power-hungry technology will somehow solve the power problem?
Yes, which is why Intel, AMD, IBM and everyone else are heading down that path as fast as possible.
Here's a little hint: The 2GHz Pentium M Dothan uses about 21W. The 1.1GHz ultra-low-power version of that chip uses about 5W. Two 1.1GHz cores gives you more total througput at half the power.
Another datapoint: The power figures for the forthcoming dual-core Opterons show the 2.4GHz version at 95W, the 2.2 GHz version at 55W, and the 1.6GHz version at 30W. So you can get six 1.6GHz cores for the same power consumption as two 2.4GHz cores. Twice the throughput, same power.
And note that this is without even redesigning the cores; this is just running the same core at lower voltage and lower speed.
No talent clowns running software where they haven't the first clue of how it operates
I'm sorry, we have to take your car away from you now.
Oh, and your body. This won't hurt a bit.
All those asshats can keep modding me down if they're so insecure but I'll still classify blogging as THE MOST OVER-RATED CONCEPT OF ALL TIME.
You're what? Fourteen?
This will fly right over your head, but I'll say it anyway: CB radio.
Aaaaaanyway, a blog is just one (convenient) way to organise a web site. Blogs will spread out in style and features until they're just part of the web, indistinguishable from any other. And the web itself is spreading out into protocol soup, so that the internet is just one big blur of data. It's amazing that it works at all, let alone works so well.
No, Slashdot is still good at digging up interesting geeky stories. And even now the comment threads still turn up good points and worthwhile discussions.
The real difference between Slashdot and blogs is that there are millions of blogs. About half of them are complete crap, and 99% of the rest are only of interest to the author and a small handful of other people. But that still leaves tens of thousands of good, interesting blogs.
Slashdot is good. Blogs are good too. Hey, Usenet is good, and I've been on Usenet for 20 years. Good things don't fade away when something new arrives on the scene, but they do settle down into their own particular niche. Television hasn't killed movies or radio or newspapers, but it has reduced them somewhat. So with Slashdot - it will continue to prosper, but its relative influence will probably diminish.
1. Russia becomes the 51st U.S. state. Of course, we'll have to rename it to something more friendly, like say East Dakota. One advantage of this is that while Putin makes a really lousy president, he'll be about in the middle as governors go.
2. That interstate commerce thing, "Congress shall make no law" and all that. Now we can pay the Russ - sorry, East Dakotans to ferry us up to ISS.
Yes, it looks lie someone too the Great Microprocessors page and stripped out everything interesting and then added random factually-challenged commentary to pad it out.
Like this:
Where is the 68000 now? As the 68000 was reaching the end of its life, Motorola entered into the Apple-IBM-Motorola "AIM" alliance which would eventually produce the first PowerPC® chips. Motorola ceased production of the 68000 in 2000.
The 68000 as a chip is no longer in production, but there are dozens of 68000-family processers available, and Motorola sells them by the boatload.
Motorola 68010 (and friends) Motorola had already introduced the MC 68000, which had a 32-bit architecture internally, but a 16-bit pinout externally. It introduced its pure 32-bit microprocessors, the MC 68010, 68012, and 68020 by 1985 or thereabouts
The 68010 and the rare 68012 had 16-bit data buses just like the 68000. The 68020 was a complete redesign, with a 32-bit bus and new instructions and addressing modes.
Cache coherence. Already solved. Both AMD and Intel handle this just fine.
Bus contention
AMD have largely solved this with their HyperTransport links between the processors, though obviously a dual-core Opteron will have less memory bandwidth than two single-core chips.
Still quite a problem for Intel.
software implementation
Not a problem. Existing SMP code will work perfectly on multi-core chips.
I run servers with Fedora (1, 2 and just recently 3) and RHEL 3.
Fedora runs better. No question.
It would seem that the fact that Fedora is more up to date with enhancements and bugfixes significantly outweighs the magic enterprise fairies you get with RHEL. Or whatever the advantage is supposed to be.
It seems to me that the problem is far more how the rest of the world behaves to the US - and I'm part of "the rest of the world".
But I agree with the parent - if you want to discuss NASA missions, great. If you want to whine incessantly about George Bush, go to MoveOn or Democratic Underground or some other such site.
Actually, most of the previous idiocies can be laid at the door of Brian Harradine. Now that he's gone and the Liberals control the senate, the government doesn't have to listen to minor-party media-whores anymore.
You can not vote, or you can vote for Nader or Badnarik - in which case your vote is merely a symbol of your estrangement from mainstream politics. Fair enough.
Or you can vote for Kerry, who stands for... Stands for... Who knows? Really, who knows? He might have gone to war in Iraq. He voted for the recent war - but against the first, UN-endorsed, war. He voted against the bill to pay for the war. (After he voted for it, he says.)
But he would have done everything differently! He says. What? Doesn't say. How? Doesn't say. But he has a plan! What is it? It's a plan!
Lame. Utterly lame. Much as I dislike many of Bush's policies, at least he has policies and we know what they are. Kerry is a hollow man, a shell, a windsock. The absolute last thing we need for president. Hell, Nader would be preferable.
It tells me that he's busy on the campaign trail and not wasting his time trying to write bills he knows wouldn't pass given the current Senate configuration.
Count the number of bills he's introduced in the past 20 years and try again.
Education has almost nothing to do with the cost of healthcare in America.
The problem is the cost of malpractice insurance, and the reason for that is the absurdly high payouts granted by juries in malpractice cases.
If you want to see medical costs come down, you need to get behind tort reform. (And you can forget about any chance of that in the next four years if Kerry/Edwards get in.)
Yes, let's split hairs when it comes to state-supported terrorism.
Saddam did have ties to al Qaeda. He is well documented as a supporter of Palestinian terrorists. He has not, however, been shown to have a connection to 9/11... But who said he did?
So all he is is a brutal tyrant and a mass murderer who has killed between 300,000 and 500,000 Iraqis, not counting a similar number of Iraqi deaths in the Iran-Iraq war, and a supporter of the murder of innocent Israelis.
Now he's gone.
That's good.
And Iraq will be holding elections within months.
That's also good.
And that would never have happened if we (we being America, Britain and Australia) hadn't invaded in 2003.
Why couldn't we leave Iraq? The containment was working. Iraq wasn't a threat to anyone.
No threat to anyone except the Iraqis.
As for the containment... You think maintaining thousands of troops on Iraq's borders and patrolling the north and south no-fly zones in perpetuity while Saddam and his boys continue on their merry way murdering and raping their people, and Kofi & Co. at the U.N. skim billions off the Oil-for-Food program... That this is somehow better than the present situation?
RTFA. Those "weapons" you're talking about sure did a lot, didn't they?
Arab armies have been notoriously ineffective since about the 12th century. (The guys who reached the walls of Vienna were Turks, not Arabs.)
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In fact, it looks like getting bombed by the U.S. is a great way to end up with a free country.
But pointing this out will get you modded down...
Guess who sold Saddam the helicopters and chemicals he used to gas the Kurds?
Russia, China and France. Less than 1% of Iraq's weapons came from the U.S.
I'm sorry, but if any other country made the case they wanted to liberate the Iraqis, that would have been fine with me.
Like... Who, exactly? Russia, the way they previously "liberated" Eastern Europe? China, the way they "liberated" Tibet? Maybe Germany, the way they "liberated" Poland?
The reason that Vietnam is not a democracy today is that the U.S. and allied forces pulled out after the media turned a military victory (the Tet Offensive was a huge defeat for the NVA) into a political defeat.
South Korea is a democracy. A slightly odd one, but it mostly works. North Korea is Hell on Earth. Difference? There weren't any U.S. troops in North Korea.
Iraq is still a work in progress. I notice you don't mention Afghanistan, which is now a democracy, thanks to guess who?
Or Germany and Japan. Or Italy, for that matter. Or France.
Or Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and now the Ukraine. Freed not by direct military action but by U.S. opposition to the Soviet Union.
Democracies the world over are our friends. Except France, of course.
To say they were lying, and hold them accountable some kind of liability due to their confidence in 65nm would stifle future growth of the entire technology industry.
65nm hasn't failed yet. It's 90nm that's failed. (And 130nm was a bit of a cow too.)
So, you think that using multiple iterations of an inherently power-hungry technology will somehow solve the power problem?
Yes, which is why Intel, AMD, IBM and everyone else are heading down that path as fast as possible.
Here's a little hint: The 2GHz Pentium M Dothan uses about 21W. The 1.1GHz ultra-low-power version of that chip uses about 5W. Two 1.1GHz cores gives you more total througput at half the power.
Another datapoint: The power figures for the forthcoming dual-core Opterons show the 2.4GHz version at 95W, the 2.2 GHz version at 55W, and the 1.6GHz version at 30W. So you can get six 1.6GHz cores for the same power consumption as two 2.4GHz cores. Twice the throughput, same power.
And note that this is without even redesigning the cores; this is just running the same core at lower voltage and lower speed.
Blogs tend to be more interconnected than other websites, and so fare better in Google's PageRank algorithm. Welcome to the real world.
Here's a copy of Debian, kid. Go write your own search engine.
Can I get one that says "Go whine about it on Slashdot"?
Yeesh. Pot. Kettle. Beam in thine own eye. Whatever.
No talent clowns running software where they haven't the first clue of how it operates
I'm sorry, we have to take your car away from you now.
Oh, and your body. This won't hurt a bit.
All those asshats can keep modding me down if they're so insecure but I'll still classify blogging as THE MOST OVER-RATED CONCEPT OF ALL TIME.
You're what? Fourteen?
This will fly right over your head, but I'll say it anyway: CB radio.
Aaaaaanyway, a blog is just one (convenient) way to organise a web site. Blogs will spread out in style and features until they're just part of the web, indistinguishable from any other. And the web itself is spreading out into protocol soup, so that the internet is just one big blur of data. It's amazing that it works at all, let alone works so well.
Ditto for Slashdot
No, Slashdot is still good at digging up interesting geeky stories. And even now the comment threads still turn up good points and worthwhile discussions.
The real difference between Slashdot and blogs is that there are millions of blogs. About half of them are complete crap, and 99% of the rest are only of interest to the author and a small handful of other people. But that still leaves tens of thousands of good, interesting blogs.
Slashdot is good. Blogs are good too. Hey, Usenet is good, and I've been on Usenet for 20 years. Good things don't fade away when something new arrives on the scene, but they do settle down into their own particular niche. Television hasn't killed movies or radio or newspapers, but it has reduced them somewhat. So with Slashdot - it will continue to prosper, but its relative influence will probably diminish.
Kuro5hin, on the other hand, is for weenies.
Ah yes, the dark side of Movable Type:
Blogs are infinitely more successful than Kuro5hin and the K5ers are going to stamp their feeties and hold their breath until they turn blue!
Kuro5hin: News for losers. People who don't matter.
I have a solution!
1. Russia becomes the 51st U.S. state. Of course, we'll have to rename it to something more friendly, like say East Dakota. One advantage of this is that while Putin makes a really lousy president, he'll be about in the middle as governors go.
2. That interstate commerce thing, "Congress shall make no law" and all that. Now we can pay the Russ - sorry, East Dakotans to ferry us up to ISS.
3. Profit!
I'd mod you down, but there isn't a -5 Stupid option.
4,000 miles of terrorist target? Dude, it's a road. What are they going to do, dig it up?
Yes, it looks lie someone too the Great Microprocessors page and stripped out everything interesting and then added random factually-challenged commentary to pad it out.
Like this:
Where is the 68000 now?
As the 68000 was reaching the end of its life, Motorola entered into the Apple-IBM-Motorola "AIM" alliance which would eventually produce the first PowerPC® chips. Motorola ceased production of the 68000 in 2000.
The 68000 as a chip is no longer in production, but there are dozens of 68000-family processers available, and Motorola sells them by the boatload.
Motorola 68010 (and friends)
Motorola had already introduced the MC 68000, which had a 32-bit architecture internally, but a 16-bit pinout externally. It introduced its pure 32-bit microprocessors, the MC 68010, 68012, and 68020 by 1985 or thereabouts
The 68010 and the rare 68012 had 16-bit data buses just like the 68000. The 68020 was a complete redesign, with a 32-bit bus and new instructions and addressing modes.
Read the Great Microprocessors page. This article is bumf.
But you have to admit, MT users are a little less likely to be whiny baby-bats than, say, livejournal users.
Or Kuro5hin readers...
Cache correnance
Cache coherence. Already solved. Both AMD and Intel handle this just fine.
Bus contention
AMD have largely solved this with their HyperTransport links between the processors, though obviously a dual-core Opteron will have less memory bandwidth than two single-core chips.
Still quite a problem for Intel.
software implementation
Not a problem. Existing SMP code will work perfectly on multi-core chips.
I run servers with Fedora (1, 2 and just recently 3) and RHEL 3.
Fedora runs better. No question.
It would seem that the fact that Fedora is more up to date with enhancements and bugfixes significantly outweighs the magic enterprise fairies you get with RHEL. Or whatever the advantage is supposed to be.
They are religious fundamentalists. It's no surprise that a fundamentalist like Leiberman was on their board.
Earth to killjoe: Lieberman is a Jewish Democrat.
It seems to me that the problem is far more how the rest of the world behaves to the US - and I'm part of "the rest of the world".
But I agree with the parent - if you want to discuss NASA missions, great. If you want to whine incessantly about George Bush, go to MoveOn or Democratic Underground or some other such site.
Helping liberate 25 million people from one of the most brutal dictators of recent memory?
Yeah, that's stupid alright.
Actually, most of the previous idiocies can be laid at the door of Brian Harradine. Now that he's gone and the Liberals control the senate, the government doesn't have to listen to minor-party media-whores anymore.
The thing is, you can't vote "Anyone But Bush".
You can not vote, or you can vote for Nader or Badnarik - in which case your vote is merely a symbol of your estrangement from mainstream politics. Fair enough.
Or you can vote for Kerry, who stands for... Stands for... Who knows? Really, who knows? He might have gone to war in Iraq. He voted for the recent war - but against the first, UN-endorsed, war. He voted against the bill to pay for the war. (After he voted for it, he says.)
But he would have done everything differently! He says. What? Doesn't say. How? Doesn't say. But he has a plan! What is it? It's a plan!
Lame. Utterly lame. Much as I dislike many of Bush's policies, at least he has policies and we know what they are. Kerry is a hollow man, a shell, a windsock. The absolute last thing we need for president. Hell, Nader would be preferable.
It tells me that he's busy on the campaign trail and not wasting his time trying to write bills he knows wouldn't pass given the current Senate configuration.
Count the number of bills he's introduced in the past 20 years and try again.
Nope.
Education has almost nothing to do with the cost of healthcare in America.
The problem is the cost of malpractice insurance, and the reason for that is the absurdly high payouts granted by juries in malpractice cases.
If you want to see medical costs come down, you need to get behind tort reform. (And you can forget about any chance of that in the next four years if Kerry/Edwards get in.)
Iraq has never supported anti-US terrorism.
Yes, let's split hairs when it comes to state-supported terrorism.
Saddam did have ties to al Qaeda. He is well documented as a supporter of Palestinian terrorists. He has not, however, been shown to have a connection to 9/11... But who said he did?
So all he is is a brutal tyrant and a mass murderer who has killed between 300,000 and 500,000 Iraqis, not counting a similar number of Iraqi deaths in the Iran-Iraq war, and a supporter of the murder of innocent Israelis.
Now he's gone.
That's good.
And Iraq will be holding elections within months.
That's also good.
And that would never have happened if we (we being America, Britain and Australia) hadn't invaded in 2003.
Why couldn't we leave Iraq? The containment was working. Iraq wasn't a threat to anyone.
No threat to anyone except the Iraqis.
As for the containment... You think maintaining thousands of troops on Iraq's borders and patrolling the north and south no-fly zones in perpetuity while Saddam and his boys continue on their merry way murdering and raping their people, and Kofi & Co. at the U.N. skim billions off the Oil-for-Food program... That this is somehow better than the present situation?
RTFA. Those "weapons" you're talking about sure did a lot, didn't they?
Arab armies have been notoriously ineffective since about the 12th century. (The guys who reached the walls of Vienna were Turks, not Arabs.)
More precise still: The number of transistors giving the lowest cost per transistor doubles every (N) months.