The Pentium Pro doesn't have much of an instruction set to accelerate graphics, but benchmarks show that it has superior floating point calculation strength and bus data transfer. A Pentium Pro 200MHz with 256 KiloBytes of L2 cache will out perform any AMD K6-2 and K6-3 in both of the above rules. A Dual Pentium Pro 200MHz system with be verry competitive with even the latest Dual Pentium II system. With account to the obvious bandwidth range of the later bus Pentiums, the Pentium Pro examplifies how the bus is neither a limitation nor a performance increase. A Pentium Pro CPU's L2 cache operatates at the core frequency of the CPU, while today's CPUS' cache operates at the (gadzooks) data bus(!) speed.
And so, a Pentium Pro 200MHz CPU's cache will operate verry well at 200MHz, with the previous 166MHz and 180MHz models also operating at their core clock. Increasing the system's main memmory from 128MB to 512MB only causes slightly lower latency data transfers, otherwise I have seen verry little data transfer performance, but of course transfering larger files will cause a performance hinder; so it is good to have alot of system RAM available anyway. So, the larger files that must be sampled via ftp or http, then it is well worth your money to invest in more system ram.
As you must have realized, the Pentium Pro CPU still remains quite successfull in one aspect of data transfer performance. When competing with other CPUs on graphics acceleration or running applications, it will only compare with floating point calculations and data bursting. By far, the Pentium Pro 200MHz CPU is available with three different cache sizes: 256KBytes, 512KBytes, and 1MegaByte. The 1MegaByte version of the Pentium Pro CPU is most sought after. No other CPU, other than the Xeon, can compete with it. It also outperforms the Xeon in a few detailed aspects! And in the realm of cost versus performance, the Pentium Pro CPU is most worthwhile. It will eventually fade away because the later applications demand higher data bandwidth which is simply not the purpose. Whatnot with its 66MHz Bus, 200MHz core, and well-implemented caching system, the latter and poorer CPU designs will simply overpower its performance ability no matter how they compare to the Pentium Pro's specs.
Truthfully, in my observation, I see no resemblance of the Pentium Pro CPUs in todays's Pentium II's, III's, or IV's. Some people claim that Intel has been reusing the Pentium Pro's core design, but it is not apparent to me in the bencharks I have conducted. The only similarity I have seen between the Pentium Pro CPU and Intel's latest CPUs are its core power consumption. Nothing more. It simply gets real hot on the top. My system is a simple Dual Pentium Pro 200MHz-based system built upon a Micronics W6LI motherboard, with 512MB of EDO ECC DIMM DRAM, and a High Voltage Differential SCSI data storage system. Compared with the latest computer systems, it is noticably fast for its series.
MS Windows 95 was giving me a free BSD about every nth slashdot post. I couldn't handle the Blue flashing and resorted to using Blue-Blocker sunglasses for awhile. I still couldn't block out the free BSD and so I moved to Linux and X11. Now I only see the Almighty God's free BSD outside my Window, a cloud drifting by, no protection errors in mother nature...
Then those "people", those stinking relatives arived and they were pissed because they couldn't do anything on my newly protected computer system. Ever since that transitional day, I put a tux sticker on every computer I owned... Life is good... when the relatives get their stepin'...
The 1st ammendment and 2nd ammendment are more important than Microsoft's monopoly over uneducated people's decision to purchase Microsoft software. Microsoft's operating system somehow is symbiotic with their company's headquarters. Say, for example, they get split up into 4 different, government-regulated companies, and everything will still be evident. Bill Gates will just chant to everyone... "Let us shutdown and restart and maybe everything will be ok."
My point is that no matter how much competition there is, there will always be the so-called "popular" software; no matter how much you separate it, chop it down, and string it up. It is only fair that you apply your same principles of open-source contribution to the Microsoft company. Do you know how much grit and wroth the entire Microsoft company feels deep inside their small brains when they try to explain to computer-educated people of why the keep their "Linux myths" page on microsoft.com? They are suffering. Microsoft is not a healthy company and their employees aren't the sharpest broadheads in Bill Gate's quiver. Like all diseased animals, they will surely die at the feet of a much bigger bird.
Benjamin Franklin, one of the manny awesome dudes in the history of the United States , once said that any person who gave up a little freedom for a little security deserves no freedom at all. He also said that people should bathe nude once a week. Now, given all the anti-reverse-compiling laws that the government has devoted itself to enforcing, I would do my best at keeping the government out of my own business expeditions. Every law that is passed is an attack on our freedoms. Taxes are anti-freedom. Today, nobody can live somewhere and be free from debt. Debt and fear affects everyone's freedom. For example, I don't want to report the income I made at that shitty, uNsTable, fagget-founded, San Franciscan auction website that I incessantly direct my http client towards. I don't want the government to have the power to decide who is the "MONOpoly" of open or closed source software, and I sure to hell don't want to give the government any advantage over UNITED STATES' private enterprises because there are too many ill-founded computer users who think they have an intelligent vote on why Microsoft is or isn't a monopoly.
People are children in nature. Do you think an Athiest who debates on whether the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have a monopoly over good people? Then you have the wicken people claiming that they too should have equal *axxess to kindergarteners on Good Friday. Give those people no respect. Those same people that take away your freedoms live all around you. Do not take part in their traditions and do not let them educate your children. But hell, who is the person that says they are just trying to be nice and friendly and didn't mean to hurt you? String them up, no?
However how many other people sidetrack and decieve the true fighters for freedom, I have a perfect phylosophy on solving Microsoft's monopoly on ignorant computer users...
1.Linux, BSD, BeOS on everything and 2.Microsoft-inspired-overly-simplified client software that is unlike Microsoft brands by being idiot-proof; 3.for a more affordable price to the average do-it-now joe.user
I demand that Tux carry a pop-gun, complete with cork and string! YEAH!
As far as I know, many Mexican citizens are Catholics and Catholicism is somewhat a part of Christianity, but it isn't 100% Christian. I don't like Catholicism because I think they worship Mary and sanctify all the saints higher than the messiagh Jesus. I know that Mary gave birth to the son of God, Jesus, but she is only significant in that matter. In the Bible, she is blessed with that opportunity and afterwards she lives a regular life and is rarely mentioned because she has already fulfilled her quest. When I see people worshipping statues of Mary and other Saints who have been promoted by the pope and Vatican, I think that they have broken the most crucial law of the ten commandments. Idolizing people simply because they help others in the name of God does not grant them as spiritual guides who will be prayed upon and have followers. Don't get me wrong. Clean people will always be clean, but I think that the catholic religion is somewhat twisted because the vatican has misled them. The Vatican is considered more of a Gateway to God than God itself! What realy makes me most angry of the Vatican is that theyh posess some of the verry first Christian scriptures and they will not release them to the public because the scriptures offend the Vatican's beliefs of the their priesthood. I don't care what people think about their religion because it is all in faith, but what I don't tolerate is the Vatican falsifying and stealing holy scripture for their own gain. If that causes anyone to think that I am badgering their religion, than they have missed the point. I am different from a Catholic and the Catholic priesthood ois indebted to the Christian religion because they have stolen and falsified thge existence and the words of Christian scripture. So, why mix more different people together and make them squabble of their differences? I may be more kind and considerate than others, but it isn't good that the United States's economy be interupted because freedom is at stake and freedom is upheld and managed by a strong economy. Mexico's government is corrupt and its citizens have traveled to the United States to receive citizenship. Not only have they received citizenship in the United States and have been received benefits and income adjustments due to not qualifying for good employment, but they have retained citizenship in Mexico and may participate in political events and elections in both United States and Mexico. That isn't fair. In my testimony, that is evil. I know many people who have been hurt in many ways when that have visited and vacationed in Mexico. They are different people. Don't mix different people. I just want to remain free with my 1st and 2nd ammendment and care for my family. That is hard enough to do today because of taxation and freedom violations due to illegal voting. Just because you are fleeing from your country doesn't mean that you should affect my rights and freedoms with your actions. Don't tread on me.
I wondered where the Linux programmers got all their sleep. They just attend one of ESR's speeches and get a good meal of crackers and water before dozing off into Tux's dreamland. What kind of speech was this? Did he talk like dumbass inFidel Castro at 2 words-per-minute? Or did he talk like Zippy in the Xemacs environment?
You cry monopoly when everyone uses the same software package. You cry monopoly when gas costs too much. And now, you cry monopoly when you think the new RAM costs too much. Simply do not purchase it! A verry strange man once said, "..defenitely need only 640k..." Monopolies are formed when an occupational vaccuum exists in the market. If there is a monopoly on a product, all of you people should immediately ponder the profits you can make by rivalling the company that holds that monopoly and you should simply compete with them. Linux and BSDUnix is alive! Currently, there is a huge monopoly on paper or shall I say, "dead tree protocol." Nobody cries about the paper monopoly because paper is affordable by everyone. If you are angry that something isn't in your price range, then you most likely don't have your financial priorities correct. There isn't a monopoly on automobile manufacturing, but cars are so expensive that the average person must sign a contract with the dealership to make car payments on a monthly basis. RAMBUS's RDRAM is "bleeding-edge" technology and you simply must let the company dry-out for a year before they are willing to target other market levels. By not purchasing this new "RDRAM", you'ld also affect other companies that work in unison and depend on the sales of this technology. They'll have to create a new marketing strategy to entice people to buy. Now, ask yourself what happens when a monopoly forms? Yes, it takes too long for everyone to realize that a monopoly exists. "Social Security" is a much larger monopoly than Microsoft's monopoly. The U.S. government's militaries are all a monopoly on U.S. defence. NASA is a monopoly of space travel. GTE holds the Southern California monopoly of the most unqualifiend and poorly educated technicians. Depending on your priorities, you'll start to think of all kinds of monopolies that exist. Many are more damaging than any ruckus that RAMBUS or Microsoft could cause together. Monopoly affects the untrained human mind more than it will affect the actual market. You people are visualizing that RAMBUS is going to destroy the entire market when you yourselves will only destroy the opportunity of others with your false testimony and poorly coordinated actions. I'd still be stuck on a 133MHz bus if it weren't for RAMBUS. Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Boo-Hoo.
If you hate capitalism that much, then do not participate in Capitalism. Stay in your run-down shack and watch society build its walls around your stench. Lucky for you, your SOB liberal politicians are stealing from the private sector via taxation and are redistributing the money to a bunch of unproductive "suck ass" citizens as yourself. In the jungles of Brazil, there is an organism that resembles such a class of people that you are part of -- parasites. *I SPIT ON THEE AND LEAVE YOU IN THE SUN TO SHRIVELL AND DIE*
And it isn't caused by "the cheese." This'll be another positive event to Bill Clinton's legacy of whatever-the-hell-he-did-in-office-besides-doing-s ome-bitch-slapping-on-Abraham-Lincoln's- writing- table-in-the-White-House. Bill Clinton isn't doing anything useful. He demonstrates the use of internet technology better than being president of the U.S.A. This is just as lame as "The First Moma" duking it out with the produce delivery man via her Cobra... AND AND AND THERE THERE THERE AIN'T AIN'T AIN'T NO NO NO DOUBT DOUBT DOUBT ABOUT 'BOUT 'BOUT IT IT IT. He could've been more "green" by simply posting his message to a newsgroup forum.
Do not extend your cowardice to your children. God's children shouldn't be misled and lyed to by a person who extends false testimony. You must be among the actual god-fearing people to know why they think the way they do. The FOUNDING FATHERS of the original 13 colonies are the best examples of true, patriotic American citizens. Their legacy will live on. Only in the USA is there allowed a Communist and Socialist party for election. I bet dog shit to human shit that you are among them. You may lick your wounds behind China's twisted gates. Go sell crazy, irresponsible, athiest beliefs to person who is not educated. As long as I have my 2nd ammendment, you'll be too afraid because in your mind YOU know that YOU are the target and YOU will be hunted down when the time is evident, and shall I say, appropriate. Until then, please, by all means, have a nice day.:o)
My talent, on loan from God, is boosting my ego to the point where I am going to write a book. It is titled, "The fagets who respond to my posts on Slashodot, and how I conquered them." It wil be written by me and me only. AND it will contain all of MY typografical errors. Unlike other pseudo book-writers/jornalists, I will not get the MTV Music award for writing a book.
The only link beween China and Linux is they couldn't make a profit by pirating Linux software and selling it. Linux is free! Duh! Even though China isn't the only nation of people that is known to pirate software, they are the majority of the USA's losses. Microsoft is hit hardest by software piracy. I live next to Little Saigon and I know of two piracy outfits that were cracked by the local police. One was ran by some Koreans and they had themselves a nice CDROM duplication machine and the trust of some friends in a document copying center(Kinko's, I think). Anyhow, they were caught making something like 5,000 Microsoft titles in a week and reselling the stuff. Microsoft busted their asses and I was stoked at how well they handled the situation. I was rooting for Microsoft! Why? Not because they had some sort of monopoly, but because they had the time and money to prosecute those damn fools. From what I have seen, everyone is pirating Microsoft software. Microsoft software is somewhat in demand by countries that aren't allowed to purchase it legally. The list goes on... Basically, right down to the rice they grow, I HATE China's guts. At the close of World War 2, General Patton had the chance to invade Russia and beat their mongoloid asses, but that euro-bitch Eeisenflower denied Patton of the permission and dismissed him of command! Patton may actually have been alive for many more years because he would have never had that fatal car accident after being dismissed. He would have been in Russia with the new German alliance, kicking the yogurt out of those communist beasts. China was next on the agenda and we Americans got the shaft. Now we have this socialist United States president giving Chinese spyes access to our technology archives. Now, he took a trip to Russia and is giving them information on our anti-missile technology. In Russia, they have a linux distribution known as RedStorm Linux. What the fuck is up with that? It makes me want to reinstall Microsoft Windows 98 just so I can say that I payed $130 to a United States private company for an operating system that runs the majority of computer software ever made. Sure, Bill Gates voted Democratically, but in his eyes, I think He learned something.
Linux is verry easy to build from scratch. I did it by first purchasing RedHat5.2 from eBay($5) and I then built my first kernel and transfered it to another partition on my scsi hdd. After that, it takes many, many hours of configuring the filesystem and getting the modules and daemons working correctly. To this day, I am still working on getting it perfect. The many different distributions of Linux are verry thoughful in preconfiguring everything for you, except they not only configure it, but sneak all these unnecessary and especially unstable bloatware programs into your computer. Most of those bloatware programs will not even run correctly on their installation. Have you ever click an icon and nothing happens? Well, you most likely have to find the properties of that icon, open an xterm, and run it manually so you can catch the output of error messages. Web browsers and the KDE are a perfect example. I was forced to use netscape at first, but I got another console SVGAlib webbrowser named "wb0" and it has propper graphics gray-scaling as opposed to Netscape. Why would I use Kfmclient as a webrowser? Too many alternate programs are installed with Window Managers. The other problem with the every Linux distribution is that they install on average 10 different mail clients. I ask myself, "what were they thinking?" Even though it may take an average system to install a Linux distribution in 15 minutes, it takes about 5 *HOURS* to remove the unneaded programs and get everything configured *CORRECTLY*. Plus, you must hunt down those distribution-specific daemons that cause all the unnecessary DNS queries; causing Diald to bring up a link. My incesant ranting is not of dislike, but distaste. I have conjectured that every Linux ditribution's phylosophy is that everyone is stupid and needs every Linux program that exists. Even on a class install, like "base install", or "minimum server" install, on a distribution, you still get too much unnecessary programs. Linux is awesome, but it is becoming more different in every distribution. The only way to make Linux useful: stay verry close with GNU and build your own Linux from scratch and backup your handcoded configuration files. Else, you will be busy most of your time when hunting-down the configuration files that were supposed to be in/etc and you'll find them in either/usr/lib or/var or/usr/var or whatever. I have BSD and am experimenting with it. BeOS is my next test after BSD.
It is possibly the sad truth. Linux seams to be alot of bloatware Nowadays. BSD was on the first Netpliance I-opener and is known to be the first on many of the PDAs simply because it is slightly smaller than the Linux kernel. I'd like to see BSD progress past linux by means of performance. Or does it already? BSD gurus claim that it runs Linux programs faster than Linux itself and that it has better SMP support. That is verry notable.
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It doesn't take much bandwidth to use it as what is in the subject. I have only 32MB of RAM in it and a 1GB hard drive. I have it optimized to easily handle 11 quake3 connections with a damn-good ping. I got the ping on quake3 down to 20ms on an AMD 400 K6-2 system connecting to it while 7 other systems were battling it out. Whoever attempted 12th user will cause a caching problem. However, man, I have a 38650MHz computer system with only 16MB RAM and I have it running Diald, http, and ftp with no lag. And it has only 8MB of RAM! Where are you coming from? You musta had a bad experience! The joy of TurboLinux is...well...I didn't see any joy. Those TurboLinux people just made all these new configuration programs with all this BS typo-crap. Who wants to run something like turbopkg for installing RPMs? Or run turboxcfg to configure the X11 server. TurboLinux kinda made it even more corny than Caldera in setting everything configured! The configuration programs are verry lame like Caldera's. TurboLinux installs faster and I have actually noticed that it runs faster than an equivalent RH6.1 base install with the same configuration and daemons running in the background. Trust me, I checked everything down to the kernal level and for some strange reason I got a lower-latency connection than a RedHat6.1 I'm sure that there are minor differences in why this is apparent. Gotta go. Keep posting! Ya!
On one Sunday per month, me and my friends have pre-scheduled sessions in the Queen Mary's radio room to have contests to see how many contacts we can make. If you don't know, the Queen Mary is a large boat that the gay Disneyland owns and they welded the boat to a moat of large 10000 lb. rocks and are using it as a tourist area. It is pretty much an umaintained wreck now, but things change when there is a new owner. Everyone from Bob Hope to Maralyn Monroe has dined on this ship. I think CowboyNeal used it as a suiced platform, but the water wasn't shallow enough(he friggin' lived). I am not talking about a little boat that compared as a pimple on the ocean's ass, but a huge boat that I roughly estimate is 1/2 mile long, 200 ft wide, and it sits about 600ft above the water. Besides, we're a bunch of hams, as you would say, and it has a perfectly well-placed radio room that has been equipped with the latest expensive radio equipment while sporting its old bulky radio equipment just above the new stuff to campare. However, I am not just a lame-ass radio operator like everyone else plainly-is. I often experiment in radio propagation and the sort. Anyway, besides my other experiments, on the Queen Mary there is a TNC packet terminal attached to a 486 dx2/66 MHz computer system that is used for strictly packet radio communication using the AX.25 protocol. Damn them for using MS-DOS. That will change from my influence in knowing the manager. Besides the Queen Mary, A large company in southern California has a few repeaters that you can get on and they even offer a free service for you to receive packets from the internet. More specifically, they allow you 24/7 eMail access and chat via the airwaves. I am talking about the TRW building over on Marine Drive in Redondo, California. However, you must have a license to use this form of communicaion, as you would need a no-code license just to be a radio operator. Anyone who is interested in using a wireless service should pick-up a book in their local RadioShaft(RadioShack) that is titled "Now you're talking!" This book will give you all the information you need on radio operation and it will educate you on the fundumentals of electronics. Packet radio just requires you to have a TNC packet modem and a well-grounded dipole antenna. The antenna you need isn't an eye-soar, so please don't think that you need another yaggi UHF/VHF television antenna on your roof. The dipole is just like it sounds, one rod sticken' up on the roof, though you must have it at the correct wavelength for the frequency you will operate on. Packet radio is actually quite long-range. A guy I know is about 40 miles from the TRW building and he is using a 2400 baud external TNC with no problems! Best of luck to anyone interested. Packet radio is long range if you use an amplifier on both transmitting and receiving terminals. If you use an amplifier, get plenty of skip on the ionosphere, and have a nice dipole sitting on a nose-bleed tower, maybe you can route some TCP or UDP packets from your desktop to your mobile setup on your boat when you are about 1000 miles away. It is known to work. Everyone with a brain uses it. The FCC may bight your ass, but heck, go for it! It isn't a problem using an amplifier with packet radio as it would be when you use a linear amplifier on a sucky-CB Radio. You'll have about 1000ms ping with maybe some duplicated packets. Bummer on the performance meter, but usable. You'll have to use satelite phone for performance-wise. Packet radio is free. TRW offers their service for free too! Rod-Rod-ger-ger that-that-that Roa-Roa-Road-Road- Run-Run-Run-er-er-er. Those people bother like hell. That is all I hear on my CB radio, heh, not like I use it all the time. DoorMat, MudDuck, WingNut! Their ain't no doubt about it!
The United States has officially been an Elective Republic of the people for roughly over 20 years. Democracy is a failure because it allows too much power to minorities and allows them to dictate unto the majority of citizens. Like the subject says, you are in the wrong country. The remaining Demococrats in the United States of America are all immoral heathenistic porno-supporting freaks of mother nature and we are finishing-up in slaughtering them. My question, "Why don't you choose Europe as your headquarters? Your socialistic form of Democracy coupled with a bunch of Europeans is a great match." There is no honor in a modern-day democrat. Hence, applying terminology such as "Democracy" has already cursed your name. BTW, I checked your guestbook. You have a great message filter! Not one bad thing has been said about your non-profit company! Good riddens.
Gosh, I was asleep, minding my own dreams, when my/. monitoring-daemon said that someone posted the word "gun" in this forum. tyred. Look at tha pretty lights. eyes heavy. i just rest myselllllesss sssssddddddd <p><p><p><p><p>
Hi honey. You made me eggs? ah thanks. I gotta get to work. boss'll be angry if i'm 1 minute late again.
You are the typical average joe who is too afraid to speak up with anything of value. I can sware that you are the same liberal that responds to all of my extreme posts. You are always going to be a half-ass wanabee orator. I can already remember Reverend John Haggee's speach exhoing in my ears on people such as yourself. I'll say this... You will be affraid when there is a revolution. You will never understand the truth about this world with such a premature brain. I ask, "why do you even give a rat's-fart by posting cheap-shot ideas?" All of your posts suck-ass and you'll never be able to hold any facts on your arguments. I am going to *biggett* my foot up your ass if I ever find out who you are. Like your post said, you are an *A*N*O*N*Y*M*O*U*S* C:O:W:A:R:D. As a token of my friendship, so you don't feel rejected by me, I want to give you something. I call it the badge of Lameness. It looks like this... *\L/* It unmistakeably looks like the *Loser* badge. Wear it with pride. I hope I didn't make you hurt inside. Whith all those animals that you were sleeping with, who needs humans, eh? Right? Now, go in pieces. Have a nice day.:o)
On eBay, I am user "connectwithgreg" and I tried to leave negative feedback on msoft@buddy.ebay.com and have discovered the hideous truth! In light of the many negative feedbacks that the world was posting, eBay changed their feedback policy and also violated their old feedback policy by changing the negative(-1) feedback ratings to neutral(0). Gosh. When I keep seeing neutral(0) here, neutral(0) there, and neutral(0) throughout the eBay user information page, I start cracking-up. I am seeing not only angry people, but many (o)(o) digital boobies! Digital boobies! (o)(o) Microsofty's trick is to flood the page with premature tittys. Lets bust them on that too. I tried to leave negative feedback on them stating "I love Microsft", "eBay violated the feedback policy and Microsoft violated their software license policy", and "fuck Microsoft". However, eBay's changed their feedback policy only for the soar-ass-whacked benefit of Microsoft. eBay has become a sick place. Based in San Francisco, the last know place where gays are regarded as normal people. Before eBay had a user base, they did not censor anything. I bought all kinds of now-illegal items. I enjoyed looking at pictores of working and unrestored World War 2 and Persian Gulf War army devices and now those San Francisco gay pricks have removed it from my eyes. They keep-up and support the porno category and they removed the firearm category... Hey you fucking eBay fagets! I'm talking to you northern gay luvers. I bought the Anarchy stuff before you banned it. Also, I go by President Thomas Jefferson's philosphy of having freedom of knowledge. You should be affraid because your bestiality and faget fuckfest is being numbered. For every animal and gay person that you fudge-pack with, I am going to add one atom to my arsenal. One atom for each of you. You may have control of Disneyland on GayDay 2000 and 2001, but that is all you'll get in absence of Mr. Walt Disney. He is frowning on you. Keep polluting the airwaves with your filth. It only focuses my anger. "Man shall not lay with man." How did I get to gay bashing already? Wow! I am supposed to be protesting eBay, right? Well, eBay actions suggest their political ties. I must put them all in the same category. Goodbye fellow slashdoters and keep up the fight! WE ARE WINNING!
Oh. I was trying to bring-up the idea of a binary compiled for 32bit operations and ran on a 64bit CPU. My idea was that it isn't aware of the new registers and instruction sets. For example, when Intel releases its version of a 64bit CPU, Linux will undoubtedly be updated for this new architecture and someone will probabley build a compatibility library to run the binaries on previous version of Linux that are limited to their 32bit methodology. I have a program in DOS that is built for a 286 cpu, which is 16 bit and has the typical 80x86 instrctions with a few instructions for 80x286. It is a 16bit program that uses 80x286 instructions, but is ran on a 80x486, which uses a 32bit cpu. I mean to say that it runs correctly because it is all designed to be downward compatible, but this 16 bit program isn't optimized to take advantage of the new EAX, EBX, etc registers. Sure it'll run faster, but it still isn't optimized for the CPU it is running on. I compare this with commercial programs that try to remain platform independent, thus the developers may choose to not use platform specific operations to increase the performance on a given platform. Oh well...:o)
There is no better way to end a prayer... in Jesus' name, Amen. I have no fear but fear for God. That is why there is still hope to return to a better country, united by good people. The moderators of slashdot.org are kinda strange. I have seen pornographic posts receive "score: 3 funny" when they should've been "score -1: offtopic" I get bad moderation simply because I have they keyword "NRA" in my userID. I have put together a theory that the people with moderation privileges on slashdot.org are not good people.
The system RAM will be obsolete. It is easier to understand that by using a solid state storage device on a computer system in modern system, you will get better performance by forcing the operating system to use the "virtual memmory." Imagine, the smaller the system RAM, then the more performance you will get by forcing the operating system to use the virtual memmory. We'll have to invent smaller-size DIMMS to minimize the system's interaction between the physical RAM. Imagine a solid state hard drive on my 386-50MHz DX2 system... It'll perform like a Pentium... Not that I would risk attaching a $15000, 4 gigabyte hunk of static-sensitive silicon up to my apraised $15 IBM CLONE POS 386.
I know for sure that no operating system is 100% efficient and in light of the 64 bit CPUs I ask:
Besides the operating system's processes, how will you see a performance increase when *COMMERCIAL* user programs are not aware of the 64 bit CPU registers? The programs are simply not aware that they are running on a 64 bit CPU. This problem rises when developers stay within ANSI simply for easy compatibility and compilation among many operating systems. I don't actually know why this is a problem. Don't the compilers "optimize" the code when it is preprocessed? For example, on two different operating systems on a 32bit CPU, MS VC optimizes its ANSI C differently than how Linux "make" optimizes its 32bit code. I know that the low-level "optimizations" are operating system dependent, but I mean to say that the "code" will be overall desired platform *independent* and each operating system's proprietary subroutines will be most-likely ignored by the program's creator(s). What is the point to use the 64bit CPUs when data structures and definitions in a programming language are the same on all platforms? If this is true, then a program should run the same on each operating system. Microsoft's Win95/98 operating system is good for game performance simply because all of their daemons running in the background are half-ass and they have optimized most of the programs for their operating system. Even Loki Software, in Tustin, said that they only had to drop the Microsoft extensions in Quake3 to get it ported to Linux. Of course, they did more than that, but what is the result? Quake3 runs about 2% to 10% slower on Linux than on Microsft Windows. Linux is technically Unix(duhh). Unix programs are meant to be platform independent. Thus, they are not 100% optimized, right? I am talking about *COMMERCIAL* programs like Wordperfect, Netscape, Quake 1/2/3, Hexen, HeavyGear, and other unlisted high-performance-required games. So, 64bit CPUs will do what to system performance in a 32bit world? I hypothesize that the operating system's daemons will run much faster and it will leave more bandwidth for user programs. But, will we actually expect a good logarithmic performance increase on a program that is ran? I have a Dual Pentium Pro system now and before I added the second CPU, I thought my system was fast. I read that I would expect an approximate performance increase of 35% on a second CPU. Well, the performance increase on my fresh Dual CPU system is so small that I would like to compare it with the "enhancement" of 64 bit CPUs as opposed to 32 bit CPUs. Then again, these 64 bit CPUs listed in the article are of a completely differnent design than an Intel CPU. Is it comparable? Excuse me whil I enjoy my hot ice.
You are 100% correct. People should start learning a verry complex programming language first. I wish I never knew BASIC existed! I wish, I wish, I wish(stomping my feet in anger). It is a verry pointless "language" and all the "optimizing" compilers that make the executable file are verry inefficient. Ontop of that, every compiler does NOT stay within the syntax. So, good luck hunting-down the distribution-specific compile-time errors. I started off on MS Qbasic and I used the Borland Turbo Basic compiler. Verry cruddy. I thank myself for discovering the Linux world. ahhem... I mean the Unix world.
Exactly. How would he know? Not all projects are open-sourced. The majority of commercial software is distributed as highly encoded binaries that are verry difficult to reverse compile and get and useful code. I hypothesize that Blizzard will not release their source code to even Warcraft 1 simply because they may have "borrowed" code from someone else and don't want to pay royalties to the other party. I don't mean to accuse them of such a thing, but that idea frame is one example of why people don't like the open-source community. There are trade secrets that people tend to protect. And I wouldn't call it a trade secret because there is alwas something new and 10x better. At least the dude on this artical likes people scrutinizing his code and giving him and others suggestions for imrpoving it.
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And so, a Pentium Pro 200MHz CPU's cache will operate verry well at 200MHz, with the previous 166MHz and 180MHz models also operating at their core clock. Increasing the system's main memmory from 128MB to 512MB only causes slightly lower latency data transfers, otherwise I have seen verry little data transfer performance, but of course transfering larger files will cause a performance hinder; so it is good to have alot of system RAM available anyway. So, the larger files that must be sampled via ftp or http, then it is well worth your money to invest in more system ram.
As you must have realized, the Pentium Pro CPU still remains quite successfull in one aspect of data transfer performance. When competing with other CPUs on graphics acceleration or running applications, it will only compare with floating point calculations and data bursting. By far, the Pentium Pro 200MHz CPU is available with three different cache sizes: 256KBytes, 512KBytes, and 1MegaByte. The 1MegaByte version of the Pentium Pro CPU is most sought after. No other CPU, other than the Xeon, can compete with it. It also outperforms the Xeon in a few detailed aspects! And in the realm of cost versus performance, the Pentium Pro CPU is most worthwhile. It will eventually fade away because the later applications demand higher data bandwidth which is simply not the purpose. Whatnot with its 66MHz Bus, 200MHz core, and well-implemented caching system, the latter and poorer CPU designs will simply overpower its performance ability no matter how they compare to the Pentium Pro's specs.
Truthfully, in my observation, I see no resemblance of the Pentium Pro CPUs in todays's Pentium II's, III's, or IV's. Some people claim that Intel has been reusing the Pentium Pro's core design, but it is not apparent to me in the bencharks I have conducted. The only similarity I have seen between the Pentium Pro CPU and Intel's latest CPUs are its core power consumption. Nothing more. It simply gets real hot on the top. My system is a simple Dual Pentium Pro 200MHz-based system built upon a Micronics W6LI motherboard, with 512MB of EDO ECC DIMM DRAM, and a High Voltage Differential SCSI data storage system. Compared with the latest computer systems, it is noticably fast for its series.
Socialists and Communists have nothing to fear,
MS Windows 95 was giving me a free BSD about every nth slashdot post. I couldn't handle the Blue flashing and resorted to using Blue-Blocker sunglasses for awhile. I still couldn't block out the free BSD and so I moved to Linux and X11. Now I only see the Almighty God's free BSD outside my Window, a cloud drifting by, no protection errors in mother nature...
Then those "people", those stinking relatives arived and they were pissed because they couldn't do anything on my newly protected computer system. Ever since that transitional day, I put a tux sticker on every computer I owned... Life is good... when the relatives get their stepin'...
Socialists and Communists have nothing to fear,
The 1st ammendment and 2nd ammendment are more important than Microsoft's monopoly over uneducated people's decision to purchase Microsoft software. Microsoft's operating system somehow is symbiotic with their company's headquarters. Say, for example, they get split up into 4 different, government-regulated companies, and everything will still be evident. Bill Gates will just chant to everyone... "Let us shutdown and restart and maybe everything will be ok."
My point is that no matter how much competition there is, there will always be the so-called "popular" software; no matter how much you separate it, chop it down, and string it up. It is only fair that you apply your same principles of open-source contribution to the Microsoft company. Do you know how much grit and wroth the entire Microsoft company feels deep inside their small brains when they try to explain to computer-educated people of why the keep their "Linux myths" page on microsoft.com? They are suffering. Microsoft is not a healthy company and their employees aren't the sharpest broadheads in Bill Gate's quiver. Like all diseased animals, they will surely die at the feet of a much bigger bird.
Benjamin Franklin, one of the manny awesome dudes in the history of the United States , once said that any person who gave up a little freedom for a little security deserves no freedom at all. He also said that people should bathe nude once a week. Now, given all the anti-reverse-compiling laws that the government has devoted itself to enforcing, I would do my best at keeping the government out of my own business expeditions. Every law that is passed is an attack on our freedoms. Taxes are anti-freedom. Today, nobody can live somewhere and be free from debt. Debt and fear affects everyone's freedom. For example, I don't want to report the income I made at that shitty, uNsTable, fagget-founded, San Franciscan auction website that I incessantly direct my http client towards. I don't want the government to have the power to decide who is the "MONOpoly" of open or closed source software, and I sure to hell don't want to give the government any advantage over UNITED STATES' private enterprises because there are too many ill-founded computer users who think they have an intelligent vote on why Microsoft is or isn't a monopoly.
People are children in nature. Do you think an Athiest who debates on whether the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have a monopoly over good people? Then you have the wicken people claiming that they too should have equal *axxess to kindergarteners on Good Friday. Give those people no respect. Those same people that take away your freedoms live all around you. Do not take part in their traditions and do not let them educate your children. But hell, who is the person that says they are just trying to be nice and friendly and didn't mean to hurt you? String them up, no?
However how many other people sidetrack and decieve the true fighters for freedom, I have a perfect phylosophy on solving Microsoft's monopoly on ignorant computer users...
1.Linux, BSD, BeOS on everything and
2.Microsoft-inspired-overly-simplified client software that is unlike Microsoft brands by being idiot-proof;
3.for a more affordable price to the average do-it-now joe.user
I demand that Tux carry a pop-gun, complete with cork and string! YEAH!
As far as I know, many Mexican citizens are Catholics and Catholicism is somewhat a part of Christianity, but it isn't 100% Christian. I don't like Catholicism because I think they worship Mary and sanctify all the saints higher than the messiagh Jesus. I know that Mary gave birth to the son of God, Jesus, but she is only significant in that matter. In the Bible, she is blessed with that opportunity and afterwards she lives a regular life and is rarely mentioned because she has already fulfilled her quest. When I see people worshipping statues of Mary and other Saints who have been promoted by the pope and Vatican, I think that they have broken the most crucial law of the ten commandments. Idolizing people simply because they help others in the name of God does not grant them as spiritual guides who will be prayed upon and have followers. Don't get me wrong. Clean people will always be clean, but I think that the catholic religion is somewhat twisted because the vatican has misled them. The Vatican is considered more of a Gateway to God than God itself! What realy makes me most angry of the Vatican is that theyh posess some of the verry first Christian scriptures and they will not release them to the public because the scriptures offend the Vatican's beliefs of the their priesthood. I don't care what people think about their religion because it is all in faith, but what I don't tolerate is the Vatican falsifying and stealing holy scripture for their own gain. If that causes anyone to think that I am badgering their religion, than they have missed the point. I am different from a Catholic and the Catholic priesthood ois indebted to the Christian religion because they have stolen and falsified thge existence and the words of Christian scripture. So, why mix more different people together and make them squabble of their differences? I may be more kind and considerate than others, but it isn't good that the United States's economy be interupted because freedom is at stake and freedom is upheld and managed by a strong economy. Mexico's government is corrupt and its citizens have traveled to the United States to receive citizenship. Not only have they received citizenship in the United States and have been received benefits and income adjustments due to not qualifying for good employment, but they have retained citizenship in Mexico and may participate in political events and elections in both United States and Mexico. That isn't fair. In my testimony, that is evil. I know many people who have been hurt in many ways when that have visited and vacationed in Mexico. They are different people. Don't mix different people. I just want to remain free with my 1st and 2nd ammendment and care for my family. That is hard enough to do today because of taxation and freedom violations due to illegal voting. Just because you are fleeing from your country doesn't mean that you should affect my rights and freedoms with your actions. Don't tread on me.
I wondered where the Linux programmers got all their sleep. They just attend one of ESR's speeches and get a good meal of crackers and water before dozing off into Tux's dreamland. What kind of speech was this? Did he talk like dumbass inFidel Castro at 2 words-per-minute? Or did he talk like Zippy in the Xemacs environment?
You cry monopoly when everyone uses the same software package. You cry monopoly when gas costs too much. And now, you cry monopoly when you think the new RAM costs too much. Simply do not purchase it! A verry strange man once said, "..defenitely need only 640k..." Monopolies are formed when an occupational vaccuum exists in the market. If there is a monopoly on a product, all of you people should immediately ponder the profits you can make by rivalling the company that holds that monopoly and you should simply compete with them. Linux and BSDUnix is alive! Currently, there is a huge monopoly on paper or shall I say, "dead tree protocol." Nobody cries about the paper monopoly because paper is affordable by everyone. If you are angry that something isn't in your price range, then you most likely don't have your financial priorities correct. There isn't a monopoly on automobile manufacturing, but cars are so expensive that the average person must sign a contract with the dealership to make car payments on a monthly basis. RAMBUS's RDRAM is "bleeding-edge" technology and you simply must let the company dry-out for a year before they are willing to target other market levels. By not purchasing this new "RDRAM", you'ld also affect other companies that work in unison and depend on the sales of this technology. They'll have to create a new marketing strategy to entice people to buy. Now, ask yourself what happens when a monopoly forms? Yes, it takes too long for everyone to realize that a monopoly exists. "Social Security" is a much larger monopoly than Microsoft's monopoly. The U.S. government's militaries are all a monopoly on U.S. defence. NASA is a monopoly of space travel. GTE holds the Southern California monopoly of the most unqualifiend and poorly educated technicians. Depending on your priorities, you'll start to think of all kinds of monopolies that exist. Many are more damaging than any ruckus that RAMBUS or Microsoft could cause together. Monopoly affects the untrained human mind more than it will affect the actual market. You people are visualizing that RAMBUS is going to destroy the entire market when you yourselves will only destroy the opportunity of others with your false testimony and poorly coordinated actions. I'd still be stuck on a 133MHz bus if it weren't for RAMBUS. Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Boo-Hoo.
If you hate capitalism that much, then do not participate in Capitalism. Stay in your run-down shack and watch society build its walls around your stench. Lucky for you, your SOB liberal politicians are stealing from the private sector via taxation and are redistributing the money to a bunch of unproductive "suck ass" citizens as yourself. In the jungles of Brazil, there is an organism that resembles such a class of people that you are part of -- parasites. *I SPIT ON THEE AND LEAVE YOU IN THE SUN TO SHRIVELL AND DIE*
And it isn't caused by "the cheese." This'll be another positive event to Bill Clinton's legacy of whatever-the-hell-he-did-in-office-besides-doing-s ome-bitch-slapping-on-Abraham-Lincoln's- writing- table-in-the-White-House. Bill Clinton isn't doing anything useful. He demonstrates the use of internet technology better than being president of the U.S.A. This is just as lame as "The First Moma" duking it out with the produce delivery man via her Cobra... AND AND AND THERE THERE THERE AIN'T AIN'T AIN'T NO NO NO DOUBT DOUBT DOUBT ABOUT 'BOUT 'BOUT IT IT IT. He could've been more "green" by simply posting his message to a newsgroup forum.
Do not extend your cowardice to your children. God's children shouldn't be misled and lyed to by a person who extends false testimony. You must be among the actual god-fearing people to know why they think the way they do. The FOUNDING FATHERS of the original 13 colonies are the best examples of true, patriotic American citizens. Their legacy will live on. Only in the USA is there allowed a Communist and Socialist party for election. I bet dog shit to human shit that you are among them. You may lick your wounds behind China's twisted gates. Go sell crazy, irresponsible, athiest beliefs to person who is not educated. As long as I have my 2nd ammendment, you'll be too afraid because in your mind YOU know that YOU are the target and YOU will be hunted down when the time is evident, and shall I say, appropriate. Until then, please, by all means, have a nice day. :o)
My talent, on loan from God, is boosting my ego to the point where I am going to write a book. It is titled, "The fagets who respond to my posts on Slashodot, and how I conquered them." It wil be written by me and me only. AND it will contain all of MY typografical errors. Unlike other pseudo book-writers/jornalists, I will not get the MTV Music award for writing a book.
The only link beween China and Linux is they couldn't make a profit by pirating Linux software and selling it. Linux is free! Duh! Even though China isn't the only nation of people that is known to pirate software, they are the majority of the USA's losses. Microsoft is hit hardest by software piracy. I live next to Little Saigon and I know of two piracy outfits that were cracked by the local police. One was ran by some Koreans and they had themselves a nice CDROM duplication machine and the trust of some friends in a document copying center(Kinko's, I think). Anyhow, they were caught making something like 5,000 Microsoft titles in a week and reselling the stuff. Microsoft busted their asses and I was stoked at how well they handled the situation. I was rooting for Microsoft! Why? Not because they had some sort of monopoly, but because they had the time and money to prosecute those damn fools. From what I have seen, everyone is pirating Microsoft software. Microsoft software is somewhat in demand by countries that aren't allowed to purchase it legally. The list goes on... Basically, right down to the rice they grow, I HATE China's guts. At the close of World War 2, General Patton had the chance to invade Russia and beat their mongoloid asses, but that euro-bitch Eeisenflower denied Patton of the permission and dismissed him of command! Patton may actually have been alive for many more years because he would have never had that fatal car accident after being dismissed. He would have been in Russia with the new German alliance, kicking the yogurt out of those communist beasts. China was next on the agenda and we Americans got the shaft. Now we have this socialist United States president giving Chinese spyes access to our technology archives. Now, he took a trip to Russia and is giving them information on our anti-missile technology. In Russia, they have a linux distribution known as RedStorm Linux. What the fuck is up with that? It makes me want to reinstall Microsoft Windows 98 just so I can say that I payed $130 to a United States private company for an operating system that runs the majority of computer software ever made. Sure, Bill Gates voted Democratically, but in his eyes, I think He learned something.
Linux is verry easy to build from scratch. I did it by first purchasing RedHat5.2 from eBay($5) and I then built my first kernel and transfered it to another partition on my scsi hdd. After that, it takes many, many hours of configuring the filesystem and getting the modules and daemons working correctly. To this day, I am still working on getting it perfect. The many different distributions of Linux are verry thoughful in preconfiguring everything for you, except they not only configure it, but sneak all these unnecessary and especially unstable bloatware programs into your computer. Most of those bloatware programs will not even run correctly on their installation. Have you ever click an icon and nothing happens? Well, you most likely have to find the properties of that icon, open an xterm, and run it manually so you can catch the output of error messages. Web browsers and the KDE are a perfect example. I was forced to use netscape at first, but I got another console SVGAlib webbrowser named "wb0" and it has propper graphics gray-scaling as opposed to Netscape. Why would I use Kfmclient as a webrowser? Too many alternate programs are installed with Window Managers. The other problem with the every Linux distribution is that they install on average 10 different mail clients. I ask myself, "what were they thinking?" Even though it may take an average system to install a Linux distribution in 15 minutes, it takes about 5 *HOURS* to remove the unneaded programs and get everything configured *CORRECTLY*. Plus, you must hunt down those distribution-specific daemons that cause all the unnecessary DNS queries; causing Diald to bring up a link. My incesant ranting is not of dislike, but distaste. I have conjectured that every Linux ditribution's phylosophy is that everyone is stupid and needs every Linux program that exists. Even on a class install, like "base install", or "minimum server" install, on a distribution, you still get too much unnecessary programs. Linux is awesome, but it is becoming more different in every distribution. The only way to make Linux useful: stay verry close with GNU and build your own Linux from scratch and backup your handcoded configuration files. Else, you will be busy most of your time when hunting-down the configuration files that were supposed to be in /etc and you'll find them in either /usr/lib or /var or /usr/var or whatever. I have BSD and am experimenting with it. BeOS is my next test after BSD.
It is possibly the sad truth. Linux seams to be alot of bloatware Nowadays. BSD was on the first Netpliance I-opener and is known to be the first on many of the PDAs simply because it is slightly smaller than the Linux kernel. I'd like to see BSD progress past linux by means of performance. Or does it already? BSD gurus claim that it runs Linux programs faster than Linux itself and that it has better SMP support. That is verry notable.
It doesn't take much bandwidth to use it as what is in the subject. I have only 32MB of RAM in it and a 1GB hard drive. I have it optimized to easily handle 11 quake3 connections with a damn-good ping. I got the ping on quake3 down to 20ms on an AMD 400 K6-2 system connecting to it while 7 other systems were battling it out. Whoever attempted 12th user will cause a caching problem. However, man, I have a 38650MHz computer system with only 16MB RAM and I have it running Diald, http, and ftp with no lag. And it has only 8MB of RAM! Where are you coming from? You musta had a bad experience! The joy of TurboLinux is...well...I didn't see any joy. Those TurboLinux people just made all these new configuration programs with all this BS typo-crap. Who wants to run something like turbopkg for installing RPMs? Or run turboxcfg to configure the X11 server. TurboLinux kinda made it even more corny than Caldera in setting everything configured! The configuration programs are verry lame like Caldera's. TurboLinux installs faster and I have actually noticed that it runs faster than an equivalent RH6.1 base install with the same configuration and daemons running in the background. Trust me, I checked everything down to the kernal level and for some strange reason I got a lower-latency connection than a RedHat6.1 I'm sure that there are minor differences in why this is apparent. Gotta go. Keep posting! Ya!
On one Sunday per month, me and my friends have pre-scheduled sessions in the Queen Mary's radio room to have contests to see how many contacts we can make. If you don't know, the Queen Mary is a large boat that the gay Disneyland owns and they welded the boat to a moat of large 10000 lb. rocks and are using it as a tourist area. It is pretty much an umaintained wreck now, but things change when there is a new owner. Everyone from Bob Hope to Maralyn Monroe has dined on this ship. I think CowboyNeal used it as a suiced platform, but the water wasn't shallow enough(he friggin' lived). I am not talking about a little boat that compared as a pimple on the ocean's ass, but a huge boat that I roughly estimate is 1/2 mile long, 200 ft wide, and it sits about 600ft above the water. Besides, we're a bunch of hams, as you would say, and it has a perfectly well-placed radio room that has been equipped with the latest expensive radio equipment while sporting its old bulky radio equipment just above the new stuff to campare. However, I am not just a lame-ass radio operator like everyone else plainly-is. I often experiment in radio propagation and the sort. Anyway, besides my other experiments, on the Queen Mary there is a TNC packet terminal attached to a 486 dx2/66 MHz computer system that is used for strictly packet radio communication using the AX.25 protocol. Damn them for using MS-DOS. That will change from my influence in knowing the manager. Besides the Queen Mary, A large company in southern California has a few repeaters that you can get on and they even offer a free service for you to receive packets from the internet. More specifically, they allow you 24/7 eMail access and chat via the airwaves. I am talking about the TRW building over on Marine Drive in Redondo, California. However, you must have a license to use this form of communicaion, as you would need a no-code license just to be a radio operator. Anyone who is interested in using a wireless service should pick-up a book in their local RadioShaft(RadioShack) that is titled "Now you're talking!" This book will give you all the information you need on radio operation and it will educate you on the fundumentals of electronics. Packet radio just requires you to have a TNC packet modem and a well-grounded dipole antenna. The antenna you need isn't an eye-soar, so please don't think that you need another yaggi UHF/VHF television antenna on your roof. The dipole is just like it sounds, one rod sticken' up on the roof, though you must have it at the correct wavelength for the frequency you will operate on. Packet radio is actually quite long-range. A guy I know is about 40 miles from the TRW building and he is using a 2400 baud external TNC with no problems! Best of luck to anyone interested. Packet radio is long range if you use an amplifier on both transmitting and receiving terminals. If you use an amplifier, get plenty of skip on the ionosphere, and have a nice dipole sitting on a nose-bleed tower, maybe you can route some TCP or UDP packets from your desktop to your mobile setup on your boat when you are about 1000 miles away. It is known to work. Everyone with a brain uses it. The FCC may bight your ass, but heck, go for it! It isn't a problem using an amplifier with packet radio as it would be when you use a linear amplifier on a sucky-CB Radio. You'll have about 1000ms ping with maybe some duplicated packets. Bummer on the performance meter, but usable. You'll have to use satelite phone for performance-wise. Packet radio is free. TRW offers their service for free too! Rod-Rod-ger-ger that-that-that Roa-Roa-Road-Road- Run-Run-Run-er-er-er. Those people bother like hell. That is all I hear on my CB radio, heh, not like I use it all the time. DoorMat, MudDuck, WingNut! Their ain't no doubt about it!
The United States has officially been an Elective Republic of the people for roughly over 20 years. Democracy is a failure because it allows too much power to minorities and allows them to dictate unto the majority of citizens. Like the subject says, you are in the wrong country. The remaining Demococrats in the United States of America are all immoral heathenistic porno-supporting freaks of mother nature and we are finishing-up in slaughtering them. My question, "Why don't you choose Europe as your headquarters? Your socialistic form of Democracy coupled with a bunch of Europeans is a great match." There is no honor in a modern-day democrat. Hence, applying terminology such as "Democracy" has already cursed your name. BTW, I checked your guestbook. You have a great message filter! Not one bad thing has been said about your non-profit company! Good riddens.
Gosh, I was asleep, minding my own dreams, when my /. monitoring-daemon said that someone posted the word "gun" in this forum. tyred. Look at tha pretty lights. eyes heavy. i just rest myselllllesss sssssddddddd <p><p><p><p><p>
Hi honey. You made me eggs? ah thanks. I gotta get to work. boss'll be angry if i'm 1 minute late again.
You are the typical average joe who is too afraid to speak up with anything of value. I can sware that you are the same liberal that responds to all of my extreme posts. You are always going to be a half-ass wanabee orator. I can already remember Reverend John Haggee's speach exhoing in my ears on people such as yourself. I'll say this... You will be affraid when there is a revolution. You will never understand the truth about this world with such a premature brain. I ask, "why do you even give a rat's-fart by posting cheap-shot ideas?" All of your posts suck-ass and you'll never be able to hold any facts on your arguments. I am going to *biggett* my foot up your ass if I ever find out who you are. Like your post said, you are an *A*N*O*N*Y*M*O*U*S* C:O:W:A:R:D. As a token of my friendship, so you don't feel rejected by me, I want to give you something. I call it the badge of Lameness. It looks like this... *\L/* It unmistakeably looks like the *Loser* badge. Wear it with pride. I hope I didn't make you hurt inside. Whith all those animals that you were sleeping with, who needs humans, eh? Right? Now, go in pieces. Have a nice day. :o)
On eBay, I am user "connectwithgreg" and I tried to leave negative feedback on msoft@buddy.ebay.com and have discovered the hideous truth! In light of the many negative feedbacks that the world was posting, eBay changed their feedback policy and also violated their old feedback policy by changing the negative(-1) feedback ratings to neutral(0). Gosh. When I keep seeing neutral(0) here, neutral(0) there, and neutral(0) throughout the eBay user information page, I start cracking-up. I am seeing not only angry people, but many (o)(o) digital boobies! Digital boobies! (o)(o) Microsofty's trick is to flood the page with premature tittys. Lets bust them on that too. I tried to leave negative feedback on them stating "I love Microsft", "eBay violated the feedback policy and Microsoft violated their software license policy", and "fuck Microsoft". However, eBay's changed their feedback policy only for the soar-ass-whacked benefit of Microsoft. eBay has become a sick place. Based in San Francisco, the last know place where gays are regarded as normal people. Before eBay had a user base, they did not censor anything. I bought all kinds of now-illegal items. I enjoyed looking at pictores of working and unrestored World War 2 and Persian Gulf War army devices and now those San Francisco gay pricks have removed it from my eyes. They keep-up and support the porno category and they removed the firearm category... Hey you fucking eBay fagets! I'm talking to you northern gay luvers. I bought the Anarchy stuff before you banned it. Also, I go by President Thomas Jefferson's philosphy of having freedom of knowledge. You should be affraid because your bestiality and faget fuckfest is being numbered. For every animal and gay person that you fudge-pack with, I am going to add one atom to my arsenal. One atom for each of you. You may have control of Disneyland on GayDay 2000 and 2001, but that is all you'll get in absence of Mr. Walt Disney. He is frowning on you. Keep polluting the airwaves with your filth. It only focuses my anger. "Man shall not lay with man." How did I get to gay bashing already? Wow! I am supposed to be protesting eBay, right? Well, eBay actions suggest their political ties. I must put them all in the same category. Goodbye fellow slashdoters and keep up the fight! WE ARE WINNING!
Oh. I was trying to bring-up the idea of a binary compiled for 32bit operations and ran on a 64bit CPU. My idea was that it isn't aware of the new registers and instruction sets. For example, when Intel releases its version of a 64bit CPU, Linux will undoubtedly be updated for this new architecture and someone will probabley build a compatibility library to run the binaries on previous version of Linux that are limited to their 32bit methodology. I have a program in DOS that is built for a 286 cpu, which is 16 bit and has the typical 80x86 instrctions with a few instructions for 80x286. It is a 16bit program that uses 80x286 instructions, but is ran on a 80x486, which uses a 32bit cpu. I mean to say that it runs correctly because it is all designed to be downward compatible, but this 16 bit program isn't optimized to take advantage of the new EAX, EBX, etc registers. Sure it'll run faster, but it still isn't optimized for the CPU it is running on. I compare this with commercial programs that try to remain platform independent, thus the developers may choose to not use platform specific operations to increase the performance on a given platform. Oh well... :o)
There is no better way to end a prayer... in Jesus' name, Amen. I have no fear but fear for God. That is why there is still hope to return to a better country, united by good people. The moderators of slashdot.org are kinda strange. I have seen pornographic posts receive "score: 3 funny" when they should've been "score -1: offtopic" I get bad moderation simply because I have they keyword "NRA" in my userID. I have put together a theory that the people with moderation privileges on slashdot.org are not good people.
The system RAM will be obsolete. It is easier to understand that by using a solid state storage device on a computer system in modern system, you will get better performance by forcing the operating system to use the "virtual memmory." Imagine, the smaller the system RAM, then the more performance you will get by forcing the operating system to use the virtual memmory. We'll have to invent smaller-size DIMMS to minimize the system's interaction between the physical RAM. Imagine a solid state hard drive on my 386-50MHz DX2 system... It'll perform like a Pentium... Not that I would risk attaching a $15000, 4 gigabyte hunk of static-sensitive silicon up to my apraised $15 IBM CLONE POS 386.
I know for sure that no operating system is 100% efficient and in light of the 64 bit CPUs I ask:
Besides the operating system's processes, how will you see a performance increase when *COMMERCIAL* user programs are not aware of the 64 bit CPU registers? The programs are simply not aware that they are running on a 64 bit CPU. This problem rises when developers stay within ANSI simply for easy compatibility and compilation among many operating systems. I don't actually know why this is a problem. Don't the compilers "optimize" the code when it is preprocessed? For example, on two different operating systems on a 32bit CPU, MS VC optimizes its ANSI C differently than how Linux "make" optimizes its 32bit code. I know that the low-level "optimizations" are operating system dependent, but I mean to say that the "code" will be overall desired platform *independent* and each operating system's proprietary subroutines will be most-likely ignored by the program's creator(s). What is the point to use the 64bit CPUs when data structures and definitions in a programming language are the same on all platforms? If this is true, then a program should run the same on each operating system. Microsoft's Win95/98 operating system is good for game performance simply because all of their daemons running in the background are half-ass and they have optimized most of the programs for their operating system. Even Loki Software, in Tustin, said that they only had to drop the Microsoft extensions in Quake3 to get it ported to Linux. Of course, they did more than that, but what is the result? Quake3 runs about 2% to 10% slower on Linux than on Microsft Windows. Linux is technically Unix(duhh). Unix programs are meant to be platform independent. Thus, they are not 100% optimized, right? I am talking about *COMMERCIAL* programs like Wordperfect, Netscape, Quake 1/2/3, Hexen, HeavyGear, and other unlisted high-performance-required games. So, 64bit CPUs will do what to system performance in a 32bit world? I hypothesize that the operating system's daemons will run much faster and it will leave more bandwidth for user programs. But, will we actually expect a good logarithmic performance increase on a program that is ran? I have a Dual Pentium Pro system now and before I added the second CPU, I thought my system was fast. I read that I would expect an approximate performance increase of 35% on a second CPU. Well, the performance increase on my fresh Dual CPU system is so small that I would like to compare it with the "enhancement" of 64 bit CPUs as opposed to 32 bit CPUs. Then again, these 64 bit CPUs listed in the article are of a completely differnent design than an Intel CPU. Is it comparable? Excuse me whil I enjoy my hot ice.
You are 100% correct. People should start learning a verry complex programming language first. I wish I never knew BASIC existed! I wish, I wish, I wish(stomping my feet in anger). It is a verry pointless "language" and all the "optimizing" compilers that make the executable file are verry inefficient. Ontop of that, every compiler does NOT stay within the syntax. So, good luck hunting-down the distribution-specific compile-time errors. I started off on MS Qbasic and I used the Borland Turbo Basic compiler. Verry cruddy. I thank myself for discovering the Linux world. ahhem... I mean the Unix world.
Exactly. How would he know? Not all projects are open-sourced. The majority of commercial software is distributed as highly encoded binaries that are verry difficult to reverse compile and get and useful code. I hypothesize that Blizzard will not release their source code to even Warcraft 1 simply because they may have "borrowed" code from someone else and don't want to pay royalties to the other party. I don't mean to accuse them of such a thing, but that idea frame is one example of why people don't like the open-source community. There are trade secrets that people tend to protect. And I wouldn't call it a trade secret because there is alwas something new and 10x better. At least the dude on this artical likes people scrutinizing his code and giving him and others suggestions for imrpoving it.