It's been scientifically proven that for this to work you also need 30 metres of string attached to either end, and just everso slightly under 30 metres of distance between the transmitter and receiver.
Communications engineers call this the Knot principle.
I think they will stick to physical CPU's tbh, the low hanging fruit for chip makers in terms of performance seem to be multiple cores rather than increasing clockspeed, i just dont see MS saying to Joe Consumer "well your single CPU has 8 cores so you need to buy 8 copies of Windows."
Licensing may be different for Server installs, but for consumer/desktop Windows I doubt it.
All i could see is that it is a 2-dimensional helix, so it's likely to be directional, if radio waves aren't hitting it on the perpendicular they will miss.
The other thing I saw was that you tuned the antenna for a frequency with components - does this mean potentiometers or does it mean scrapping it and buying another 2d helix tuned to the specific wavelenghth?
I'm oversimplifying for sure, but aren't the heat issues (and other more difficult quantum effects) primarily due to the ever increasing demand for clock speed?
As a layman it kind of makes sense to put 2 lower speed cores on a die rather than one faster one, and get lower power consumption and more importantly less heat production, and let the software deal with utilising it?
Anyone that actually knows about this care to comment?
XP 2003, aka server supports more - if multi cpu setups were at all common in the desktop workstation market then this would be rolled up into XP Pro, but it isn't.
Pretty much the same thing has applied throughout the NT Lifecycle, with Workstation sticking to single / dual setups and Server handling 1/2/4/8 setups.
Weren't MS recently touting recommended specs of Longhorn to include dual core chips? I somehow can't imagine them insisting on people buying a dual CPU license to run it - i'd imagine they will stick to the amount of physical cpu's on a motherboard.
Hell, if it weren't so complicated to deal with, they'd probably go for something based on the overall performance of the CPU(s) in the system, as Oracle did (do they still do this? haven't dealt with the licensing in a while)
I agree, Microsoft has been very aggressive in lining up exclusive content for their platform - that has really been one of the weaknesses, the majority of the selling titles have been multiformat, and Harry Potter doesn't really look any different on the PS2 or Xbox.
'sides, the PS2 is much further advanced in it's lifecycle - the people that would buy one at 200 have bought one really, i'm half expecting a price cut to 100 soon which will give it it's second wings.
just some retail figures I found for the UK, last christmas the ps2 outsold the xbox by 2.8 times, despite being more expensive and poorer technically. the retailers here still devote more shelfspace to ps2.
First up, the article stated PS2 risked being outsold in the US market. Not that it was being outsold. Sales figures for consoles are notoriously difficult to get, and for every Analyst quoting one set of figures that they "predicted" another analyst will predict something wildly different.
Secondly, irrespective of Microsofts domestic market advantage, the xbox sells poorly in Europe and Japan compared to the PS2. Hell it probably sells poorly compared to the GC in Japan.
How much code is still SVR5? I really can't imagine Sun would have been making all this noise about OpenSourcing Solaris recently if their lawyers hadn't looked over it.
Every now and again I get an urge to hose Windows from my PC and replace it with Linux. Today is looking like one of those days.
I'm pretty comfortable with Unix, been a sysadmin for a relatively large clump of FreeBSD and Solaris machines.
So anyway, I have a few questions.
Office. I use Office 2k, Outlook and Project extensively. What options are there to get these running on Linux? (I'm not interested in using some alternative product)
Distribution. I'm comfortable with dealing with conf files in VI. I like the idea of relatively easy software installs. Which distro lets me manage it relatively easily without hiding config files in retarded places? (just want to highlight again that i'm comfortable with FreeBSD and Solaris)
Window Manager. Gnome or KDE? One of the things that bugged me last time was for some reason certain "windows" were unable to handle copy/paste - i had some text to copy from one window, and when it came to pasting into another window it wouldn't - did this get fixed?
Security. I would prefer it if there wasn't 500 random binaries SUID root - one of the things in FreeBSD I liked was the wheel group - any Linux distros like this?
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It probably picks up mainstream channels, Fractal antennas are stuck with Mandelbrotadio.
It's been scientifically proven that for this to work you also need 30 metres of string attached to either end, and just everso slightly under 30 metres of distance between the transmitter and receiver.
Communications engineers call this the Knot principle.
I just hope he hasn't taken a 30 foot antenna and bent it every 12 inches then wrapped ductape around it.
I think they will stick to physical CPU's tbh, the low hanging fruit for chip makers in terms of performance seem to be multiple cores rather than increasing clockspeed, i just dont see MS saying to Joe Consumer "well your single CPU has 8 cores so you need to buy 8 copies of Windows."
Licensing may be different for Server installs, but for consumer/desktop Windows I doubt it.
All i could see is that it is a 2-dimensional helix, so it's likely to be directional, if radio waves aren't hitting it on the perpendicular they will miss.
The other thing I saw was that you tuned the antenna for a frequency with components - does this mean potentiometers or does it mean scrapping it and buying another 2d helix tuned to the specific wavelenghth?
I'm oversimplifying for sure, but aren't the heat issues (and other more difficult quantum effects) primarily due to the ever increasing demand for clock speed?
As a layman it kind of makes sense to put 2 lower speed cores on a die rather than one faster one, and get lower power consumption and more importantly less heat production, and let the software deal with utilising it?
Anyone that actually knows about this care to comment?
XP 2003, aka server supports more - if multi cpu setups were at all common in the desktop workstation market then this would be rolled up into XP Pro, but it isn't.
Pretty much the same thing has applied throughout the NT Lifecycle, with Workstation sticking to single / dual setups and Server handling 1/2/4/8 setups.
Weren't MS recently touting recommended specs of Longhorn to include dual core chips? I somehow can't imagine them insisting on people buying a dual CPU license to run it - i'd imagine they will stick to the amount of physical cpu's on a motherboard.
Hell, if it weren't so complicated to deal with, they'd probably go for something based on the overall performance of the CPU(s) in the system, as Oracle did (do they still do this? haven't dealt with the licensing in a while)
Who said they were using the Internet to provide the backbone for their IP network?
not sure what happened there, typed reasonable
Is broadband expensive in the UK? I didn't notice. I thought 25 per month for 1mbit was Á(onable.
I agree, Microsoft has been very aggressive in lining up exclusive content for their platform - that has really been one of the weaknesses, the majority of the selling titles have been multiformat, and Harry Potter doesn't really look any different on the PS2 or Xbox.
'sides, the PS2 is much further advanced in it's lifecycle - the people that would buy one at 200 have bought one really, i'm half expecting a price cut to 100 soon which will give it it's second wings.
just some retail figures I found for the UK, last christmas the ps2 outsold the xbox by 2.8 times, despite being more expensive and poorer technically. the retailers here still devote more shelfspace to ps2.
First up, the article stated PS2 risked being outsold in the US market. Not that it was being outsold. Sales figures for consoles are notoriously difficult to get, and for every Analyst quoting one set of figures that they "predicted" another analyst will predict something wildly different.
Secondly, irrespective of Microsofts domestic market advantage, the xbox sells poorly in Europe and Japan compared to the PS2. Hell it probably sells poorly compared to the GC in Japan.
Why did this get modded up?
Well for people such as myself that aren't familiar with the case:
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book
http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200312/ed
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/articl
And how derivative is SVR5 of Berkeley Unix?
How much code is still SVR5? I really can't imagine Sun would have been making all this noise about OpenSourcing Solaris recently if their lawyers hadn't looked over it.
Every now and again I get an urge to hose Windows from my PC and replace it with Linux. Today is looking like one of those days.
I'm pretty comfortable with Unix, been a sysadmin for a relatively large clump of FreeBSD and Solaris machines.
So anyway, I have a few questions.
Office. I use Office 2k, Outlook and Project extensively. What options are there to get these running on Linux? (I'm not interested in using some alternative product)
Distribution. I'm comfortable with dealing with conf files in VI. I like the idea of relatively easy software installs. Which distro lets me manage it relatively easily without hiding config files in retarded places? (just want to highlight again that i'm comfortable with FreeBSD and Solaris)
Window Manager. Gnome or KDE? One of the things that bugged me last time was for some reason certain "windows" were unable to handle copy/paste - i had some text to copy from one window, and when it came to pasting into another window it wouldn't - did this get fixed?
Security. I would prefer it if there wasn't 500 random binaries SUID root - one of the things in FreeBSD I liked was the wheel group - any Linux distros like this?
I use a record bag for my laptop.
DEVERLOPS?
/. have a moderation option for "+invent new word"? Deverlops is a good word tho.
When will
I'm just waiting on Google to put up a statement about the evils of fixed font widths.
When I was doing support and needed someones username I always had to specifically ask them to *NOT* give me their passwords.
Have a look at RPC and XML style API's. The company I used to work for made a business out of these integration issues and did em well.
I could care less about Doom3, the latests and greatest running on Linux has never swayed me, abd it will continue to not sway me.
On windows I have a library of games that work, and in the future new games will work.
Now if you could get a few hundred thousand into the latest release of Lisp or BASH then...
on an order of magnitude smaller?