I live 5 minutes away from the first vendor for these units (Infotech) so I've been researching the Koolance cases for quite some time.
They are quieter then a normal power supply, but they still make some noise. They seem to be very well manufactured, just by eye-balling the unit. Definatly not a "hack job". I personally haven't bought one yet (my PII350 is cool enough thank you), but it's on my list if I ever go for those cool 1GHz Athlons that can be safely OC'd to 1.4GHz+. $180+ depending on configuration - but that's the price you pay for being cool (pun intended)!
Well, I'm happy of your findings. However, I'd have a hard time (ethically) supporting Rambus - even if they had the superior technology.
Unfortunatly the DDR chipsets for AMD have been weak at best. However, SiS's latest chipset is doing good. To correct your "10% faster" statement, both the AMD760 and SiS735 can be found to perform upwards of 40% faster than PC133 for memory bandwidth intensive applications.
I will agree that AMD has not been able to execute with it's chipset vendors of late. Until there's a solid Athlon/DDR or even better a solid Athlon4/DDR (Polimino[sic]) solution, I'm sticking with my PII350:).
Opera I haven't tried but it does have the problem of not being free in any sense of the word.
Opera is FREE as in FREE BEER with a banner. It is a very reasonable $40 for no banner. It really is the fastest browser on earth, and I have only found one minor bug when rendering pages (in the CSS1 implementation).
I'm all for open source, but I have absolutely NO PROBLEM PAYING FOR GOOD SOFTWARE! I also LOVE the fact that both Opera, and Eudora Pro (others as well I'm sure) give you the option to have full functionality for FREE with a banner if you don't want to pay. I believe they're both worth their price tag, but if I need a couple months before I have the money for them, I can still use them.
(NOTE: I've found that Opera on Win32 is more mature than Opera on Linux - my positive comments are a reflection of my win32 experience.)
You are forgetting the core purpose of a computer - it's supposed to do the work for US, not US the work for it. This is a concept I think many of us "tech geeks" and engineers forget. Although I don't agree with the "just throw hardware at it" attitude, abstraction exists so that we can create more "quicker and easier". You make some good points - especially applicable when it comes to small real-time OS's - but even JAVA is running great on cell phones.
No offense at all, but unless you're coding an OS, you need to let go of your outdated concepts of low "level code running super efficient" and recognize that abstraction and OOP are here to help the HUMANS - the HUMANS are not created to help the machine! Just imagine Linux being ALL ASM! Unmanageable.
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one Sun employee says that "enterprise-class Linux is not ready for the data center
Sorry, but they're right, and that doesn't mean that they think linux is a toy OS. Even google has admitted in interviews that as cool as linux is, it leaves a lot to be desired and was a pain for them to scale. The same goes for windows. Yes, the number 2 suite of sites (Microsoft) runs on Windows. This doesn't mean that windows is ready for the enterprise. Both CAN scale if needed, but does it scale WELL?
Sun is just saying that you don't need 5,000+ (see Google) servers for redundancy because 1-2 of their enterprise servers will do the trick.
Never mind, I'm an idiot and just reread the post - to early in the morning I guess:(... Just reverse my post: Cool that you're doing this! MySQL certaintly doesn't suck, but it's not an RDBMS like DB2 - good choice!;)
And you, being human and finite, believe that your reasoning is better than God's - how arrogent! Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that that something doesn't exist, or that it exists in the way you interpret it to exist.
Unless this is just a contracter for a small job, I think he's a great interviewer... if we had more applicants I would have been stricter. Anyone can learn most of this technology - it's not rocket science. The real art is staying on top of it - constantly learning.
Funny, you ignore our religion and culture: a vengeful, violent biblical God who thinks nothing of wiping people out with plague
Besides the fact that your missing the whole point of Exodus, your logic is flawed. When one understands the nature of God, while not pulling the reality of violence out of context, you will understand that the Bible comunicates a loving God. You don't have to believe that what the Bible says is true, but what it preaches is not that of what you state.
When I was ages 12-14 I locked myself in my room and played Doom and DoomII all day over the modem with friends. Although I don't agree that it was healthy behavior, I have two points:
* I was a taunted "geek" that played violent games but...
* I've never shot, threatened to shoot, beat up, or even punched someone in my LIFE.
* My parents new what I was doing, and could (should?) have stopped/limited me.
* Some argue that when matured, using such games to take out agression (in moderation) is actually a good thing.
First, ASP is much faster than you would like to think. Hence why some of the largest sites on the Internet use it.
Second, I ran a course delivery system on a dual PII 450 and 512megs/RAM with 3500 students and during the sesmester (~4months) we didn't have to restart CF or the server. Oh, and most of our page hits, even on our forums, where well under 100ms. This was also on an old version (4.0) of CF. With 5.0 (now in RC1) many are reporting huge performance increases.
Although - IMNSHOAW - I believe that you are a bit too harsh on CF's "crappy simple template expensive engine", you are right about the JSP factor. CF will be running on a J2EE engine (prob by end of year) and will be fluently integrated with JSP (a REAL language!) while allowing you to do the simple things using built in tags. The best of both worlds!
This post is completely ignorant. I've written some extremely complex apps in CF that go well outside your so called box. Just because it's an elegant and simple application server that any idiot can develop crap code on doesn't mean that it's not extremely powerful for professionals as well.
And what is this "Windows world" you speak of? CF runs on Linux, HPUX, Solaris, and Windows officially. FreeBSD and others unofficially.
CF is by no means the best for all jobs (what is?), but I think people on Slashdot focus too much on it's simplicity and it's early version performance issues and don't give it the credit that it deserves.
ASP is, at best, a weird framework for CGI development. It supports a number of languages like ActiveState's PerlScript, but the default language is the demon-haunted VBScript.
This is the most elegant explanation of ASP that I have ever seen. Thank you!
Gnutella and Napster are theft on a huge and organised scale.
That's like saying that FTP and HTTP is theft on a huge and organized scale as well. I personally use MP3.COM and Gnutella for trading of legitimate music (either not copyright or non-importable music items, as well as my own music items as I am a musician). The real reason the RIAA and MPAA are afraid of these systems is that it cuts them out as the middle man. If we just paid the artists, we'd be paying them $2 a CD, not $16.
Nevertheless, I boycott by not paying for the CD's, not by stealing. So, yes, stealing is not ethical but nieither is threatining a public prototcol for file sharing.
5-6 years ago I stopped subscribing to PC Magazine - mainly because of Dvorak. He used to hit the nail on the head. Then, he started writing crap like this. I wonder how much stock he has in advertising companies?
We scoffed at the price because you paid more for less. Now you pay a little more for less. Even with a 44% price cut, the chip is worthless for non-SSE2 optimized software. Combine this with the fact that AMD is cutting their prices tomorrow, and RAMBUS memory is still... RAMBUS memory, I still don't see how the current P4's could have an edge.
Now, if the second generation P4's (the "real" P4's) come out around these price levels, and with support for DDR memory, we may have some good competition.
When the Perl script gets the data from the RPC call, the data will be available as a standard Perl datatype.
I've been doing this between PHP, Cold Fusion, and ASP (VbScript) for quite some time. See http://www.wddx.org. Very Simple, very Elegent. It just doesn't come with a kitchen sink - and that's fine by me.
Sorry, Temporal is right. If you review the press release of the aquisition on nVidia's site, you'll see that they essentially acquired "Intellectual Property" and prototypes and the VSA stuff they did with Quantum. No employees, support staff/systems, etc. 3dFX is still a company that is still operating it's own website.
Measuring brute force speed is a very narrow analysis. The GeForce 3, albeit not worth $500, is an order of magnatude faster than the GeForce 2. You'll see this as games such as Doom3 take advantage of Bump mapping, T&L2, and higher Polys (not to mention a lot of other stuff).
It's not just "frames per second", it's the quality of the frame. GF3 didn't add much in terms of maximum throughput, they mainly added features that would allow a dramtic improvement in graphics while maintaining a high frame rate.
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I live 5 minutes away from the first vendor for these units (Infotech) so I've been researching the Koolance cases for quite some time.
They are quieter then a normal power supply, but they still make some noise. They seem to be very well manufactured, just by eye-balling the unit. Definatly not a "hack job". I personally haven't bought one yet (my PII350 is cool enough thank you), but it's on my list if I ever go for those cool 1GHz Athlons that can be safely OC'd to 1.4GHz+. $180+ depending on configuration - but that's the price you pay for being cool (pun intended)!
Well, I'm happy of your findings. However, I'd have a hard time (ethically) supporting Rambus - even if they had the superior technology.
:).
Unfortunatly the DDR chipsets for AMD have been weak at best. However, SiS's latest chipset is doing good. To correct your "10% faster" statement, both the AMD760 and SiS735 can be found to perform upwards of 40% faster than PC133 for memory bandwidth intensive applications.
I will agree that AMD has not been able to execute with it's chipset vendors of late. Until there's a solid Athlon/DDR or even better a solid Athlon4/DDR (Polimino[sic]) solution, I'm sticking with my PII350
Opera I haven't tried but it does have the problem of not being free in any sense of the word.
Opera is FREE as in FREE BEER with a banner. It is a very reasonable $40 for no banner. It really is the fastest browser on earth, and I have only found one minor bug when rendering pages (in the CSS1 implementation).
I'm all for open source, but I have absolutely NO PROBLEM PAYING FOR GOOD SOFTWARE! I also LOVE the fact that both Opera, and Eudora Pro (others as well I'm sure) give you the option to have full functionality for FREE with a banner if you don't want to pay. I believe they're both worth their price tag, but if I need a couple months before I have the money for them, I can still use them. (NOTE: I've found that Opera on Win32 is more mature than Opera on Linux - my positive comments are a reflection of my win32 experience.)
You are forgetting the core purpose of a computer - it's supposed to do the work for US, not US the work for it. This is a concept I think many of us "tech geeks" and engineers forget. Although I don't agree with the "just throw hardware at it" attitude, abstraction exists so that we can create more "quicker and easier". You make some good points - especially applicable when it comes to small real-time OS's - but even JAVA is running great on cell phones.
No offense at all, but unless you're coding an OS, you need to let go of your outdated concepts of low "level code running super efficient" and recognize that abstraction and OOP are here to help the HUMANS - the HUMANS are not created to help the machine! Just imagine Linux being ALL ASM! Unmanageable.
one Sun employee says that "enterprise-class Linux is not ready for the data center
Sorry, but they're right, and that doesn't mean that they think linux is a toy OS. Even google has admitted in interviews that as cool as linux is, it leaves a lot to be desired and was a pain for them to scale. The same goes for windows. Yes, the number 2 suite of sites (Microsoft) runs on Windows. This doesn't mean that windows is ready for the enterprise. Both CAN scale if needed, but does it scale WELL?
Sun is just saying that you don't need 5,000+ (see Google) servers for redundancy because 1-2 of their enterprise servers will do the trick.
Never mind, I'm an idiot and just reread the post - to early in the morning I guess :(... Just reverse my post: Cool that you're doing this! MySQL certaintly doesn't suck, but it's not an RDBMS like DB2 - good choice! ;)
Our company is moving to DB2 from MySQL as we speak...
Not trolling... but WHY on earth would you do this? MySQL certaintly doesn't suck, but it's NOT an RDBMS!
And you, being human and finite, believe that your reasoning is better than God's - how arrogent! Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that that something doesn't exist, or that it exists in the way you interpret it to exist.
Unless this is just a contracter for a small job, I think he's a great interviewer... if we had more applicants I would have been stricter. Anyone can learn most of this technology - it's not rocket science. The real art is staying on top of it - constantly learning.
I wonder how this will affect IBM's DB/2...
Funny, you ignore our religion and culture: a vengeful, violent biblical God who thinks nothing of wiping people out with plague
Besides the fact that your missing the whole point of Exodus, your logic is flawed. When one understands the nature of God, while not pulling the reality of violence out of context, you will understand that the Bible comunicates a loving God. You don't have to believe that what the Bible says is true, but what it preaches is not that of what you state.
When I was ages 12-14 I locked myself in my room and played Doom and DoomII all day over the modem with friends. Although I don't agree that it was healthy behavior, I have two points:
* I was a taunted "geek" that played violent games but...
* I've never shot, threatened to shoot, beat up, or even punched someone in my LIFE.
* My parents new what I was doing, and could (should?) have stopped/limited me.
* Some argue that when matured, using such games to take out agression (in moderation) is actually a good thing.
Where can i special order *BSD with 32 processor special hardware? Oh oops i can't.
:)
Oh, oops, clustering is more cost effective.
Disclaimer: I personally don't like clustering databases, so your point has some validity to it
First, ASP is much faster than you would like to think. Hence why some of the largest sites on the Internet use it.
Second, I ran a course delivery system on a dual PII 450 and 512megs/RAM with 3500 students and during the sesmester (~4months) we didn't have to restart CF or the server. Oh, and most of our page hits, even on our forums, where well under 100ms. This was also on an old version (4.0) of CF. With 5.0 (now in RC1) many are reporting huge performance increases.
Although - IMNSHOAW - I believe that you are a bit too harsh on CF's "crappy simple template expensive engine", you are right about the JSP factor. CF will be running on a J2EE engine (prob by end of year) and will be fluently integrated with JSP (a REAL language!) while allowing you to do the simple things using built in tags. The best of both worlds!
This post is completely ignorant. I've written some extremely complex apps in CF that go well outside your so called box. Just because it's an elegant and simple application server that any idiot can develop crap code on doesn't mean that it's not extremely powerful for professionals as well.
And what is this "Windows world" you speak of? CF runs on Linux, HPUX, Solaris, and Windows officially. FreeBSD and others unofficially.
CF is by no means the best for all jobs (what is?), but I think people on Slashdot focus too much on it's simplicity and it's early version performance issues and don't give it the credit that it deserves.
ASP is, at best, a weird framework for CGI development. It supports a number of languages like ActiveState's PerlScript, but the default language is the demon-haunted VBScript.
This is the most elegant explanation of ASP that I have ever seen. Thank you!
Gnutella and Napster are theft on a huge and organised scale.
That's like saying that FTP and HTTP is theft on a huge and organized scale as well. I personally use MP3.COM and Gnutella for trading of legitimate music (either not copyright or non-importable music items, as well as my own music items as I am a musician). The real reason the RIAA and MPAA are afraid of these systems is that it cuts them out as the middle man. If we just paid the artists, we'd be paying them $2 a CD, not $16.
Nevertheless, I boycott by not paying for the CD's, not by stealing. So, yes, stealing is not ethical but nieither is threatining a public prototcol for file sharing.
5-6 years ago I stopped subscribing to PC Magazine - mainly because of Dvorak. He used to hit the nail on the head. Then, he started writing crap like this. I wonder how much stock he has in advertising companies?
We scoffed at the price because you paid more for less. Now you pay a little more for less. Even with a 44% price cut, the chip is worthless for non-SSE2 optimized software. Combine this with the fact that AMD is cutting their prices tomorrow, and RAMBUS memory is still... RAMBUS memory, I still don't see how the current P4's could have an edge.
Now, if the second generation P4's (the "real" P4's) come out around these price levels, and with support for DDR memory, we may have some good competition.
When the Perl script gets the data from the RPC call, the data will be available as a standard Perl datatype.
I've been doing this between PHP, Cold Fusion, and ASP (VbScript) for quite some time. See http://www.wddx.org. Very Simple, very Elegent. It just doesn't come with a kitchen sink - and that's fine by me.
One of the new features of Microsoft's next generation home OS, "Windows XP", is enhanced security.
See, we don't have anything to worry about. We'll just upgrade to windows XP!
Sorry, Temporal is right. If you review the press release of the aquisition on nVidia's site, you'll see that they essentially acquired "Intellectual Property" and prototypes and the VSA stuff they did with Quantum. No employees, support staff/systems, etc. 3dFX is still a company that is still operating it's own website.
Measuring brute force speed is a very narrow analysis. The GeForce 3, albeit not worth $500, is an order of magnatude faster than the GeForce 2. You'll see this as games such as Doom3 take advantage of Bump mapping, T&L2, and higher Polys (not to mention a lot of other stuff).
It's not just "frames per second", it's the quality of the frame. GF3 didn't add much in terms of maximum throughput, they mainly added features that would allow a dramtic improvement in graphics while maintaining a high frame rate.
The statistics prove this: Linux is gaining market share. Solaris is losing market share.
Yes, Linux is even gaining popularity over porn according to google:
(AdWord Keyword search)
Linux: ~4.5mil impressions/month
Porn: ~2.5mil impressions/month