I just *knew* that the SATA interface was just too damn slow.
Seriously tho',
Didn't Gigabyte announce this last year for $50-$60. Seems they rethought how much profit they could make with it.
And I'm pretty bummed about the 4GB limit. Not killer bad, but 8 would have been so much better.
Probably wouldn't have hurt to have some more interesting tests in the review tho. Where's the kernel recompile? that would tell me more about real-world performance than the faux-tests that they showed.
feh.
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I agree with what you have said, except the part about:
All I've learned from this is that a big company is a big company whether it's Microsoft, Sony, Apple or Google
If you think for a single second, that profiling... er, demographic analysis is limited to large companies, you are in for a shock.
This behavior is done at companies of every size. 1 employee... a million. it don't matter.
Start with a site like http://www.typophile.com/ and go from there. There are a ton of fonts out there, all with personality and their own style each fitted for a different situation
That's the most fucked up site I've accidentally visited in a long while.
Let's see:
1. Fixed screen size
2. Three goofy columns, that I can't use the scroll
mouse inside. If I click in one, it jumps to some
story.
3. The text in those little columns renders weird on
my 1280x1024 19" LCD monitor. Good Lovin'
4. The story links are pretty crappy too.
I could go on-and-on all day about what I didn't like about the site. I'm not sure what the site was about, I just found it irritating to visit.
"When they're a company that exclusively promotes the use of RSS, it seems a bit self-righteous; moreover, presumptuous that Google is simply writing off Atom."
No kidding, given the rest of the facts:
Microsoft already stated that they would be using xml namespaces to add to RSS. Which is exactly what Dave Winer who published RSS 2.0 intended. Microsoft actually consulted Dave before getting very far too. Quote:"Anyway, there's a lot more to what they're doing, but I wanted to say in advance that I think what they're doing is cool. "
Additionally, Microsoft has stated support for Atom as well.
Taking away "My" is kinda like when they find something vibrating in your luggage...
Narrator: Was it ticking? Airport Security Officer: Actually throwers don't worry about ticking 'cause modern bombs don't tick. Narrator: Sorry, throwers? Airport Security Officer: Baggage handlers. But, when a suitcase vibrates, then the throwers gotta call the police. Narrator: My suitcase was vibrating? Airport Security Officer: Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while... [whispering] Airport Security Officer: it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo. Narrator: I don't own...
It's actually 3 distinct cores, each with two hardware threads (Intel calls this Hyperthreading)...
It's really like 3 hyperthreaded processors.
I'm still more curious about the actual chip design tho... They mention it's PowerPC technology, but they don't use words like G4/G5 (apple's terms anyway) or even PPC970 (IBM's name for a G5)
Everytime I see your sig, I wonder what the heck is going on.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try. -- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
1. Yoda said that, not Spock 2. Dr. Spock was an idiotic moron who wrote books about childcare in the 40s , 50s and 60s. 3. Spock on Star Trek was never a Dr. (phd or md) 4. Given that the first 3 points make your sig whacked out, where the heck did the stardate come from?
I had considered that all those factors were just there to set me up, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
I learned about how much of a problem the unchecked growth of American deer populations causes for forest ecosystems, all because of overly strict hunting limits.
I'll agree with you on the unchecked deer populations. In 1900, the whitetailed deer population was at about 500,000 for North America.
Now, its 30,000,000 . WOW
Apparently Deer eat the same thing humans do. By using the land like we do, Deer have had the opportunity to breed like crazy.
Here in Canada, there are supposed caps to deer hunting, but I've never seen them reached. I guess they are pretty hight. I have even seen situations where the licenses were free because the Fish+Wildlife dept needed to encourage hunting to thin out the population.
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,870 for "half life 2" vaporware.
Someone thought that it was vaporware.:)
I'd be more forgiving to Sun, if their track record was a tad better. Or they stopped pissing me off with Java.
Frankly, Sun seems motivated by Marketing, and less by Delivery. This leads to several irritating techniques.
1. Calling Solaris 2.6 -> 6... This kindof jump makes management itchy. They don't understand it, but they do see a big number jump, and then start hitting the panic button.
2. Calling Java 1.2 -> Java 2... Huh? this kindof crap is simply designed to make management angry. Java 1.2? No!! We want Java 2!! That conversation was painful enough. Now they did the same thing with Java 1.5 -> Java 5! What? WTF!?!?!?!
3. Oracle has a similar stick of stupidy riding their ass. Their lousy J2EE container (OC4J) version 9.0.2.1.0 is called "9i". 9.04 is called "10g" , and so is 10.1.2. Management says, Oracle has sold us on upgrading to 10g, lets go. Uh, which 10g?
All I'm really asking for is for Sun to simply place delivery above marketing. Under promise, over deliver. Not Vice Versa.
You didn't read the article, right? Or even the postings in the blog(s)?
Yup Read em'
[Moderator: +1,holier than thou]
So according to you everything that is announced to be released, but not released quickly enough, is vaporware.
Sure. I've seen more "announced" software fail than "unannounced". It does the public no good to proclaim you are going to release something, and then take your sissy-ass time doing it. As a matter of fact I've been burned by IBM, Microsoft, Sun, and Novell all at one time or another over this.
[Moderator: +1,Burned by the big 4]
Until they actually release the code, I'm calling vaporware. It seriously pisses me off when companies use their "good intensions" as a excuse for creating a press release. Why not simply hold off until it's ready? It would seem amazing and fresh when the thing rolls out of the door, and we would all be amazed that Sun would acutally do something. What's really going to happen? Sun (hopefully) is going to roll the damn thing out of the door, and we will find that 50% of the people will say "about fucking time" , 25% will say, "That's all you are releasing?" and the other 25% will say "Yay!".
[Moderator: +1,excessive profanity]
By holding off, and announcing the release without prior Grandstanding, The amazement would be huge, and very little bad would even possibly been said. (as is happening right now.)
Who needs to chill out? The people of Sun defending their product, or some kid yelling at a forum for the code to be released because he/she is getting impatient
Defending a product is one thing. Whining about Whining is another. Now I was Complaining about the Whining about the Bitching, and you were Pissing and Moaning about the Complaining about the Whining about the Bitching, and now you've caught me Monologing about the Pissing and Moaning about the Complaining about the Whining about the Bitching.
See how this works? Mayhap Sun should have kept their press releases to themselves until they were ready to release their source. At least that way it wouldn't appear as if they had been speaking from the depths of their asses.
[Moderator: +1,Funny]
I'm still not convinced that the license will truly be a free license anyway, in all likelyhood it will be more of a "community-fuck-fest" license like they keep using for Java. (or some lame derivative)
[Moderator: +2,one for the Java burn, one for the GPL is god inferrence]
Seriously, these guys need to chill the fuck out for a single minute.
Of course people are saying it is vaporware. It's not like Sun has actually released anything. That's because it IS VAPORWARE.
When(***IF***) Sun ever does release it, then perhaps it will cease to be vapor. Until such time, the proof is in the pudding.
Put up or shut up Sun.
Put your code where your Mouth is.
When life gives you lemons, Release Solaris.
In the event of a water landing, you can use your vaporware statements as a flotation device.
Frankly, I'm somewhat appalled at the sun-kids that seem to take offence at our indignance that the code is yet unreleased. At least we'll always have the HURD to look forward to. 'Cause *THAT* we at least know will get released. (chuckle)
What I hate is the computer displaying each and every mugshot/fingerprint/image it is comparing the source image with. It would waste massive amounts of processing power to do this and would just slow the whole process down.
NO SHIT!!!
Hell, I redirect stdout to/dev/null just to avoid the speed penalty on operations that spew out tons to the screen. I can only imagine how slow it would be to search those prints that way.
I'm tired of computers that can scan billions of fingerprints instantly,
Actually this irritates me so much.
The match on fingerprints is actually lighting fast (and doesn't have any graphical comparison crap), but the scanning in and identifing points can take even an experienced tech hours.
I really hate DNA match magic that CSI uses... not only does it set a false image into people's mind as to how easy it is, but jurors will often beleive that if no DNA evidence is entered, that gives them resonable doubt, regardless of the massive amount of evidence in front of them.
Hmmm, while we're at it, I'm sick of the shows where people just seem to be able to hack into stuff (NCIS--Very irritating), or where they just start spewing mumbo-fucking-jumbo. ("I hacked into the Router's backbone NAS Mainframe, where I adjusted their DSL lookup server to allow me to track the GPS Meta-quad jigaflops." ) --eh, NCIS is bad for that too.
Maybe I'm way out in left field, but wouldn't open sourcing OS/2 open what would likely be a lot of Microsoft's NT code? Weren't OS/2 and NT once the same operating system? I wouldn't be surprised if there were still a bit of shared codebase.
Not quite.
OS/2 3.0 NT was supposed to be built from NT's codebase. Obviously, that didn't happen, and microsoft took their toys and went home and made Windows 3.1 NT.
There is significant evidence that NT 3.1 (and later) Windows 32-bit APIs were influenced by OS/2 's design. The WinScrollWindow api under OS/2 has exactly the same signature as ScrollWindowEx under Win32... The win16 api does not quite match. There are a large number of these close matches in the Win32 API:: OS/2 API.
That being said, NT (and its derivatives) do not share code with OS/2 in implementation. (other than code that was inherited from OS/2 1.3 (ie: HPFS).
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I just *knew* that the SATA interface was just too damn slow.
Seriously tho',
Didn't Gigabyte announce this last year for $50-$60. Seems they rethought how much profit they could make with it.
And I'm pretty bummed about the 4GB limit. Not killer bad, but 8 would have been so much better.
Probably wouldn't have hurt to have some more interesting tests in the review tho. Where's the kernel recompile? that would tell me more about real-world performance than the faux-tests that they showed.
feh.
I agree with what you have said, except the part about:
... a million. it don't matter.
All I've learned from this is that a big company is a big company whether it's Microsoft, Sony, Apple or Google
If you think for a single second, that profiling... er, demographic analysis is limited to large companies, you are in for a shock.
This behavior is done at companies of every size. 1 employee
feh.
Start with a site like http://www.typophile.com/ and go from there. There are a ton of fonts out there, all with personality and their own style each fitted for a different situation
That's the most fucked up site I've accidentally visited in a long while.
Let's see:
1. Fixed screen size
2. Three goofy columns, that I can't use the scroll
mouse inside. If I click in one, it jumps to some
story.
3. The text in those little columns renders weird on
my 1280x1024 19" LCD monitor. Good Lovin'
4. The story links are pretty crappy too.
I could go on-and-on all day about what I didn't like about the site.
I'm not sure what the site was about, I just found it irritating to visit.
feh.
I worked for a company in 2000 where we had done exactly this.
We built an entire set of services around tracking cellphones and the first thing we demo'd was a videowall anon tracking cell users on freeways.
We did a bunch of work for the NRC (National Research Council) here in Canada and got a grant to study it further.
Then the bubble burst, VC funding dried up and they sold off their assets.
*sigh*
I'd be afraid to repeat anything that putzfuck said.
:p
This guy lucked out ONCE in his life, and everything else he touches turns to shit.
PHP rocks. Pure and Simple.
Why make claims it's going to replace anything, or succeed where anything else has failed. What possible value could this have?
Opinions are like assholes: everyone's got one, and they all smell.
"Big Iron" ? ...
:P
I think you meant "Pig Iron"
Tee hee
"When they're a company that exclusively promotes the use of RSS, it seems a bit self-righteous; moreover, presumptuous that Google is simply writing off Atom."
No kidding, given the rest of the facts:
Microsoft already stated that they would be using xml namespaces to add to RSS. Which is exactly what Dave Winer who published RSS 2.0 intended. Microsoft actually consulted Dave before getting very far too. Quote: "Anyway, there's a lot more to what they're doing, but I wanted to say in advance that I think what they're doing is cool. "
Additionally, Microsoft has stated support for Atom as well.
Heh.
So, he prefers PCs. What's the fact that he buys 'em cheap got to do with your questions.
Would it be easier for you if he plunked down $5K on a top-of-the line Alienware machine? How would the scripting be any better?
Junkions?
p ng
http://lxnay.perpetual-motion.com/images/junkion.
WreckGar Rules!
Sheesh.
:p
I started reading it this morning, and realized they were just tallying up stuff from the movie that just came out.
This is quite pathetic, but hey, it's Forbes.
Duh.
Oh, I love the truly stupid part about the "fictional forbes fifteen" list of the richest fictional retards.
Fuckabugaloo.
Taking away "My" is kinda like when they find something vibrating in your luggage...
Narrator: Was it ticking?
Airport Security Officer: Actually throwers don't worry about ticking 'cause modern bombs don't tick.
Narrator: Sorry, throwers?
Airport Security Officer: Baggage handlers. But, when a suitcase vibrates, then the throwers gotta call the police.
Narrator: My suitcase was vibrating?
Airport Security Officer: Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while...
[whispering]
Airport Security Officer: it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo.
Narrator: I don't own...
Not "My" computer, but "The" computer...
Weelllll...
:)
Techically, the GUI of Win32 has its roots in OS/2's Presentation Manager.
The Kernel, and most of the subsystems were written from the ground up, intended to replace OS/2 2.0 with OS/2 3.0 NT.
What happened?
Did they Install windows?
was the email address bgates@microsoft.com?
tee-hee
G
Somehow, I doubt that my old modchip is gonna work in the new xbox.
Backward compatable my ass!
It's actually 3 distinct cores, each with two hardware threads (Intel calls this Hyperthreading)...
It's really like 3 hyperthreaded processors.
I'm still more curious about the actual chip design tho... They mention it's PowerPC technology, but they don't use words like G4/G5 (apple's terms anyway) or even PPC970 (IBM's name for a G5)
I am suprised at the 3.2 Ghz rating tho.. Wow.
This has been driving me crazy for some time...
Everytime I see your sig, I wonder what the heck is going on.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
1. Yoda said that, not Spock
2. Dr. Spock was an idiotic moron who wrote books about childcare in the 40s , 50s and 60s.
3. Spock on Star Trek was never a Dr. (phd or md)
4. Given that the first 3 points make your sig whacked out, where the heck did the stardate come from?
I had considered that all those factors were just there to set me up, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
I learned about how much of a problem the unchecked growth of American deer populations causes for forest ecosystems, all because of overly strict hunting limits.
I'll agree with you on the unchecked deer populations. In 1900, the whitetailed deer population was at about 500,000 for North America.
Now, its 30,000,000 . WOW
Apparently Deer eat the same thing humans do. By using the land like we do, Deer have had the opportunity to breed like crazy.
Here in Canada, there are supposed caps to deer hunting, but I've never seen them reached. I guess they are pretty hight. I have even seen situations where the licenses were free because the Fish+Wildlife dept needed to encourage hunting to thin out the population.
Google says:
:)
... Huh? this kindof crap is simply designed to make management angry. Java 1.2? No!! We want Java 2!! That conversation was painful enough. Now they did the same thing with Java 1.5 -> Java 5! What? WTF!?!?!?!
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,870 for "half life 2" vaporware.
Someone thought that it was vaporware.
I'd be more forgiving to Sun, if their track record was a tad better. Or they stopped pissing me off with Java.
Frankly, Sun seems motivated by Marketing, and less by Delivery. This leads to several irritating techniques.
1. Calling Solaris 2.6 -> 6... This kindof jump makes management itchy. They don't understand it, but they do see a big number jump, and then start hitting the panic button.
2. Calling Java 1.2 -> Java 2
3. Oracle has a similar stick of stupidy riding their ass. Their lousy J2EE container (OC4J) version 9.0.2.1.0 is called "9i". 9.04 is called "10g" , and so is 10.1.2. Management says, Oracle has sold us on upgrading to 10g, lets go. Uh, which 10g?
All I'm really asking for is for Sun to simply place delivery above marketing. Under promise, over deliver. Not Vice Versa.
You didn't read the article, right? Or even the postings in the blog(s)?
Yup Read em'
[Moderator: +1,holier than thou]
So according to you everything that is announced to be released, but not released quickly enough, is vaporware.
Sure. I've seen more "announced" software fail than "unannounced". It does the public no good to proclaim you are going to release something, and then take your sissy-ass time doing it. As a matter of fact I've been burned by IBM, Microsoft, Sun, and Novell all at one time or another over this.
[Moderator: +1,Burned by the big 4]
Until they actually release the code, I'm calling vaporware. It seriously pisses me off when companies use their "good intensions" as a excuse for creating a press release. Why not simply hold off until it's ready? It would seem amazing and fresh when the thing rolls out of the door, and we would all be amazed that Sun would acutally do something. What's really going to happen? Sun (hopefully) is going to roll the damn thing out of the door, and we will find that 50% of the people will say "about fucking time" , 25% will say, "That's all you are releasing?" and the other 25% will say "Yay!".
[Moderator: +1,excessive profanity]
By holding off, and announcing the release without prior Grandstanding, The amazement would be huge, and very little bad would even possibly been said. (as is happening right now.)
Who needs to chill out? The people of Sun defending their product, or some kid yelling at a forum for the code to be released because he/she is getting impatient
Defending a product is one thing. Whining about Whining is another. Now I was Complaining about the Whining about the Bitching, and you were Pissing and Moaning about the Complaining about the Whining about the Bitching, and now you've caught me Monologing about the Pissing and Moaning about the Complaining about the Whining about the Bitching.
See how this works? Mayhap Sun should have kept their press releases to themselves until they were ready to release their source. At least that way it wouldn't appear as if they had been speaking from the depths of their asses.
[Moderator: +1,Funny]
I'm still not convinced that the license will truly be a free license anyway, in all likelyhood it will be more of a "community-fuck-fest" license like they keep using for Java. (or some lame derivative)
[Moderator: +2,one for the Java burn, one for the GPL is god inferrence]
Seriously, these guys need to chill the fuck out for a single minute.
Of course people are saying it is vaporware. It's not like Sun has actually released anything. That's because it IS VAPORWARE.
When(***IF***) Sun ever does release it, then perhaps it will cease to be vapor. Until such time, the proof is in the pudding.
Put up or shut up Sun.
Put your code where your Mouth is.
When life gives you lemons, Release Solaris.
In the event of a water landing, you can use your vaporware statements as a flotation device.
Frankly, I'm somewhat appalled at the sun-kids that seem to take offence at our indignance that the code is yet unreleased. At least we'll always have the HURD to look forward to. 'Cause *THAT* we at least know will get released. (chuckle)
*sigh*
What I hate is the computer displaying each and every mugshot/fingerprint/image it is comparing the source image with. It would waste massive amounts of processing power to do this and would just slow the whole process down.
/dev/null just to avoid the speed penalty on operations that spew out tons to the screen. I can only imagine how slow it would be to search those prints that way.
NO SHIT!!!
Hell, I redirect stdout to
I'm tired of computers that can scan billions of fingerprints instantly,
Actually this irritates me so much.
The match on fingerprints is actually lighting fast (and doesn't have any graphical comparison crap), but the scanning in and identifing points can take even an experienced tech hours.
I really hate DNA match magic that CSI uses... not only does it set a false image into people's mind as to how easy it is, but jurors will often beleive that if no DNA evidence is entered, that gives them resonable doubt, regardless of the massive amount of evidence in front of them.
Hmmm, while we're at it, I'm sick of the shows where people just seem to be able to hack into stuff (NCIS--Very irritating), or where they just start spewing mumbo-fucking-jumbo. ("I hacked into the Router's backbone NAS Mainframe, where I adjusted their DSL lookup server to allow me to track the GPS Meta-quad jigaflops." ) --eh, NCIS is bad for that too.
Maybe I'm way out in left field, but wouldn't open sourcing OS/2 open what would likely be a lot of Microsoft's NT code? Weren't OS/2 and NT once the same operating system? I wouldn't be surprised if there were still a bit of shared codebase.
:: OS/2 API.
Not quite.
OS/2 3.0 NT was supposed to be built from NT's codebase. Obviously, that didn't happen, and microsoft took their toys and went home and made Windows 3.1 NT.
There is significant evidence that NT 3.1 (and later) Windows 32-bit APIs were influenced by OS/2 's design. The WinScrollWindow api under OS/2 has exactly the same signature as ScrollWindowEx under Win32... The win16 api does not quite match. There are a large number of these close matches in the Win32 API
That being said, NT (and its derivatives) do not share code with OS/2 in implementation. (other than code that was inherited from OS/2 1.3 (ie: HPFS).
I've had it. I'm blackballing Timothy
The master of dupes has now just crossed the line into master of stupidity.
*watches his karma go down faster than a $2 vegas whore.*
Lets find out what company Daimaou works for.
:)
:)
I think the problem will pretty much solve itself after this gets out.
my bet? Daimaou works for MauiXStream (cherry os folks)
heh-heh.