Repository could very well be/.ed at the moment. I downloaded the source about a week ago, even tested it by running the Furcadia client (I've got a few buddies I RP with over there) and it seems to work just fine. Admittedly, needs aren't as great as others', but I can say that with the tiny bit of testing I did, this version is faster than prior versions.
I was talking about compatibility between the two chipmakers. Up until now, they've been largely compatible. this is the first time when they have actually diverged in what is the best course for "mainstream" PCs
Is there some sort of legal requirement for how slow/quickly such statements have to be said?
Yep, saying it extremely quickly is still a deceptive business practice, and thus a dispute would be covered by normal legal methods. Still a hassle, as the telcos have rather stupidly decided that you can't set it up so you have to have written authorization before people can add items to your bill; though it's fraudulent to tack things onto your phone bill, might as well make it difficult to do so.
As far as population goes, that puts the average copulation for each of those metropolitan areas at about 3.75 million people per metro area, which, while a great number of people, is still small compared to the huge metro areas of LA, Chicago, NYC and the like. Really, the story I was talking about, though, was sheer numbers and quantities of cities. The US has
a lot more cities that would be very large in other nations, but don't crack the top 20 cities in terms of population. Large, regional cities such as Albuquerque, with a half million people, aren't even on the top twenty.
The tax thing is exactly why I got out of Cali, actually. Moved to New Mexico, where I actually get to keep the money I make, plus have wonderful food that's near impossible to get elsewhere. Lots of similar benefits can be found here, as this area really is a growing place; the location to places like Sandia Labs will ensure things don't change and remain techie friendly for a good long while. Plus, living just down the road from where Bill Gates was arrested (seriously, it's only a couple miles away) gives me a perverse pleasure when one of my win boxes is acting up on me -- I'm still tempted to put up a monument to the occasion, of course, that's just my sick and twisted sensibilities.
And industry won't really adopt a certain chip - I'm sure it'll be just like the x86's today; you can go back and forth between Intel and AMD pretty easily with each new computer you buy
Actually, this is a pretty major fork between AMD and Intel. Unless there's a new processor made by one of them, the two competing 64 bit "x86" systems are mutually incompatible with each other. People are going to have to commit to one or the other, because the instruction set, hell the coding style, is markedly different in the two architectures. AMD's offering, x86-64, is very much a cleanup of the x86 instruction set, with a few features that should have gone into the architecture long ago. IA-64, on the other hand, is essentially a complete abandonment of x86, which, as others mentioned, is something that really hasn't happened with intel since they made the 8080 decades ago.
While I feel that eventually there's probably going to be in-processor emulation of the competetor's code, that's not the case now. This is perhaps where the AMD-Intel war gets truly ugly. Since the days of the 286, the rivalry has been essentially tit for tat, a few added features by one side gets picked up by the other. This is a lot different -- there is no easy migration back and forth.
Totally different demographics between our two countries. The US has far greater numbers of people living in cities, and traditionally, cities have a much higher level of violence, due to sociological factors people still argue about. If you compare urban areas, you'll see that crime rates are about the same. If you do more than look at one city, you'l find that nationally, the murder rate is about 5.5 people per 100000. While still high, it's much more reasonable, and a more sensible comparison than what your trying to insinuate. You have to consider external factor like the growth rate of the city; growth pretty much always causes crime.
Plus, there are figures that seem to show that gun laws have the opposite effect to what you believe. Looking at these statistics, one is lead to believe that many criminals don't care, or perhaps are more willing to shoot when they know someone is unarmed.
I'd much rather live in a country where the state of government is to ensure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Much nicer that way, don't have to worry about insane taxation that way. Before you start on that claptrap on healthcare -- I pay $14/week for my medical insurance, and could probably pay even less for better coverage, I just need to shop around. By and large the myth of the unaffordable costs of medical care is just that, a myth.
Bullfuckingshit. First off, us Americans, unlike you Canadians, don't have the notion that everyone is too stupid to have a gun, and that mummy government has to protect us from the icky, icky things. Thus, AK-47s are legal to own, you just have to have the semi-auto version. Even the auto version's not insanely tough to obtain; you have to pay a tax and submit to a background check, but it is obtainable. As has been said earlier in the thread, carrying one of these around here is more likely to get a response of "that kicks ass" from the local police than said officer shooting you in the ass.
Clips such as these may get an interesting look from the postal clerk, and someone checking the regs, but not a visit from the police. At least, that's how it would go down in a civilized nation. Don't know how it would go down in Canada.
It seems to me that this is all about implementing a few tweaks to the protocol to allow NICs to use DMA to a much more efficient measure. It's not about letting apps coming from the network to use arbitrary memory blocks. It means programs like apache will be a bit faster because one can program the NIC to pull data directly from the buffer set aside from network access rather than having the CPU do such work. This is about UDMA for networks, not an insanely stupid backdoor.
He should spend it on something utterly useless and idiotic like a rocket ship to the moon.
What fucking good is preventing AIDS and assisting people today if you're not doing something to ensure that humanity has a chance at being around millenia from now? Face it, we're going to have to get off this rock eventually for one reason or another; could be an asteroid, could be massive solar changes that render earth's climate uninhabitable to us, could be the realization that we've already fucked this planet over and are going to need to go elsewhere for a while so earth can go through "detox". Might as well do it now, get the infrastructure in place so that all our acheivements, all our memories, and our dreams don't get scattered to the wind. Otherwise, all the money in the world used for the very worthwhile causes of AIDS research, cancer therapy and the like are a waste.
This is a HUGE advantage that a lot of OSS people simply don't have; whoever's coding NiftyApp gets bored around version 0.64 and drops it, and meanwhile, some other guys is making GniftyApp 0.4 because he doesn't feel like working with the first guy.
You've spotted a fundamental difference between closed and open source apps, but it's not a matter of patience. Open Source apps are just that, open. You can see the development as it happens, see the abandoned sourceforge projects as people either bore of the project or move on for other reasons. Such failures in closed source apps means someone wipes the info from their hard drive and that's that. There's no monument to their abandonment, there's just someone who years later may say "I wonder if I still have the source to FooBarWorks lying around...wonder if I can finish it up".
Microsoft has its dropped projects too. The difference is that you don't hear about them unless you've got someone on the inside.
It's really sad when the video games had more plot in them than the movie they inspired. Of course, the end mission in Wing Commander was pretty damn cliche. I mean, c'mon, a character played by Mark Hamill flying a spacecraft through a narrow trench in order to deliver a bomb that needs to be dropped right on target? Furrfu!
It's why I was asking. Knew there were probably reasons, just didn't know them. I guess recordable media has yet to prove how durable it really is, though I've got some CDRs from '99 that are still very much useable. Don't use them every day, but they've lasted about 4 years already. I'm probably storing them in slightly similar means, in a CD case in a dark area. Guess I'll have to follow up in another 6 years or so to see how readable those disks still are.
Though the poster below's points seem to be more reasonable. I was just more used to the 40-60GB sized tapes, which ran about $50, and DVD-Rs would be a comparable solution, provided one were to get an autoloader drive and verified batches.
It's not as simple as it seems. The NSA is essentially two organizations -- one whose job it is to break communications, another whose job it is to make sure communications don't get broken. This even means helping industry with codes - they had a major say in portions of DES, in which they designed portions such as the S-Boxes so that they were less vulnerable to still classified (at the time) types of cryptoanalysis. This isn't to say that one should blindly trust the NSA in matters of security, only to say that things are more complex than many would believe upon casual inspection.
I know that you've probably asked and/or been asked this question many times before, but what about optical media. I know that CD-Rom is out of the question, but in many cases, you can get DVD recordables for a less than the equivalent cost for magnetic media -- Blank DVDs now go for a few bucks and are only going to head down in price, while magnetic media, is going to remain the same price for some time. Of course, it's write once, and I don't know what your bank's policy is on reusing media. If you do reuse tapes, then it'll change things a bit, but unless there's extra reasoning I'm unaware of, shouldn't change matters all that much.
Like I said, I don't have access to the numbers you do -- only experience in the banking industry I have is as a mail clerk in a lockbox. Thus, I don't know what the policy of the IT department is when it comes to media reuse on vital systems. I am curious, though.
Because X86-64 doesn't have just 4+4 registers. They've added 8 more general purpose registers, plus 8 more registers for working on SIMD code like SSE and SSE2, bringing the total of general purpose and special registers to 16 64 bit registers and 16 128 bit registers. While 8-32bit x86 assembly is ugly, x86-64 has provided a good number of features that make it more like a good RISC processor. Same goes for Itanium, where technically it has 128 registers, with 32 of them being visible through "traditional" means, and the others being visible through a register stack mechanism.
The whole running around in one's skivvies thing is a plot device from the first movie. Only human flesh, and those things covered in human flesh, are able to make the time leap. Now how the T-1000, being made of "liquid metal", is able to bypass this requirement I'll never know. Course one doesn't see Shoot-em ups for a consistent plot, they watch them to see stuff go boom.
Besides, end of the world, horror, and thriller flicks have always been popular. Think back to early horror flicks like Nosferatu -- fear sells. Everyone likes the shit scared out of them if there's no fear of real damage. Psychologists have studied this. Same love of horror flicks begets a love of roller coasters in others.
Another Arnie film already beat ya there. True Lies featured a railgun in it as the gimicky plot device.
Though Gatling rocket launchers would be cool, gatling guns in and of themselves are awesome devices. The tech's been around for about 150 years with truly minimal changes. They put a lot of ammo in an area in a small amount of time, and look awesome while doing so. Such things lead up to tech that Just Works, and I don't think we're going to see any change in that for a very long while.
That's already really common outside of the US. Many broadband providers will either charge for bandwidth over a certain amount, or throttle you back if you go over the cap.
How would you Americans have felt if in October 2001 a German company had released a flight simulator that simulated a plane crashing into the World Trade Centre towers?
I'd have called it insensitive, and would seriously reconsider doing any business with them. At the same time, I wouldn't go crying to mummy government that the bad men over there made an icky game that I don't like. I've got a few brain cells, I can make decisions for myself. From what this article sounds like, the German government doesn't seem to believe that a portion of their population has the same abilities.
Depends on your needs, really. I happen to like the integrated approach KDE's taking with their Kroupware project that's supposed to be merged into KDE 3.2. It provides integrated PIM features that make sense, like being able to manage contacts, and calander information from a single group of windows; the default app is the mail app, which you'll probably have running most of the time anyways, with additional programs executed as needed. It makes sense, really. Usually when you're looking someone's info up, you're going to be using that info pretty immediately, so why not have it already at your fingertips. It's got some rough edges as far as appearance goes, but it works pretty well right now, and it's based on open standards.
I was trying to make a pun -- use Ocelot for the "big" OS and Margay for the "little" OS. However, since I had to explain the joke, I ruined it, and now I suck. *pout*
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Repository could very well be /.ed at the moment. I downloaded the source about a week ago, even tested it by running the Furcadia client (I've got a few buddies I RP with over there) and it seems to work just fine. Admittedly, needs aren't as great as others', but I can say that with the tiny bit of testing I did, this version is faster than prior versions.
I was talking about compatibility between the two chipmakers. Up until now, they've been largely compatible. this is the first time when they have actually diverged in what is the best course for "mainstream" PCs
Damn freudian slips...It's been way too long since I've seen my hon, I guess...
The tax thing is exactly why I got out of Cali, actually. Moved to New Mexico, where I actually get to keep the money I make, plus have wonderful food that's near impossible to get elsewhere. Lots of similar benefits can be found here, as this area really is a growing place; the location to places like Sandia Labs will ensure things don't change and remain techie friendly for a good long while. Plus, living just down the road from where Bill Gates was arrested (seriously, it's only a couple miles away) gives me a perverse pleasure when one of my win boxes is acting up on me -- I'm still tempted to put up a monument to the occasion, of course, that's just my sick and twisted sensibilities.
Actually, this is a pretty major fork between AMD and Intel. Unless there's a new processor made by one of them, the two competing 64 bit "x86" systems are mutually incompatible with each other. People are going to have to commit to one or the other, because the instruction set, hell the coding style, is markedly different in the two architectures. AMD's offering, x86-64, is very much a cleanup of the x86 instruction set, with a few features that should have gone into the architecture long ago. IA-64, on the other hand, is essentially a complete abandonment of x86, which, as others mentioned, is something that really hasn't happened with intel since they made the 8080 decades ago.
While I feel that eventually there's probably going to be in-processor emulation of the competetor's code, that's not the case now. This is perhaps where the AMD-Intel war gets truly ugly. Since the days of the 286, the rivalry has been essentially tit for tat, a few added features by one side gets picked up by the other. This is a lot different -- there is no easy migration back and forth.
Plus, there are figures that seem to show that gun laws have the opposite effect to what you believe. Looking at these statistics, one is lead to believe that many criminals don't care, or perhaps are more willing to shoot when they know someone is unarmed.
I'd much rather live in a country where the state of government is to ensure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Much nicer that way, don't have to worry about insane taxation that way. Before you start on that claptrap on healthcare -- I pay $14/week for my medical insurance, and could probably pay even less for better coverage, I just need to shop around. By and large the myth of the unaffordable costs of medical care is just that, a myth.
But the makers of these MP3 players aren't American, they're brits. Read the ad.
Clips such as these may get an interesting look from the postal clerk, and someone checking the regs, but not a visit from the police. At least, that's how it would go down in a civilized nation. Don't know how it would go down in Canada.
It seems to me that this is all about implementing a few tweaks to the protocol to allow NICs to use DMA to a much more efficient measure. It's not about letting apps coming from the network to use arbitrary memory blocks. It means programs like apache will be a bit faster because one can program the NIC to pull data directly from the buffer set aside from network access rather than having the CPU do such work. This is about UDMA for networks, not an insanely stupid backdoor.
What fucking good is preventing AIDS and assisting people today if you're not doing something to ensure that humanity has a chance at being around millenia from now? Face it, we're going to have to get off this rock eventually for one reason or another; could be an asteroid, could be massive solar changes that render earth's climate uninhabitable to us, could be the realization that we've already fucked this planet over and are going to need to go elsewhere for a while so earth can go through "detox". Might as well do it now, get the infrastructure in place so that all our acheivements, all our memories, and our dreams don't get scattered to the wind. Otherwise, all the money in the world used for the very worthwhile causes of AIDS research, cancer therapy and the like are a waste.
You've spotted a fundamental difference between closed and open source apps, but it's not a matter of patience. Open Source apps are just that, open. You can see the development as it happens, see the abandoned sourceforge projects as people either bore of the project or move on for other reasons. Such failures in closed source apps means someone wipes the info from their hard drive and that's that. There's no monument to their abandonment, there's just someone who years later may say "I wonder if I still have the source to FooBarWorks lying around...wonder if I can finish it up".
Microsoft has its dropped projects too. The difference is that you don't hear about them unless you've got someone on the inside.
to clarify, said game mission was the end mission in Wing Commander 3.
It's really sad when the video games had more plot in them than the movie they inspired. Of course, the end mission in Wing Commander was pretty damn cliche. I mean, c'mon, a character played by Mark Hamill flying a spacecraft through a narrow trench in order to deliver a bomb that needs to be dropped right on target? Furrfu!
Though the poster below's points seem to be more reasonable. I was just more used to the 40-60GB sized tapes, which ran about $50, and DVD-Rs would be a comparable solution, provided one were to get an autoloader drive and verified batches.
It's not as simple as it seems. The NSA is essentially two organizations -- one whose job it is to break communications, another whose job it is to make sure communications don't get broken. This even means helping industry with codes - they had a major say in portions of DES, in which they designed portions such as the S-Boxes so that they were less vulnerable to still classified (at the time) types of cryptoanalysis. This isn't to say that one should blindly trust the NSA in matters of security, only to say that things are more complex than many would believe upon casual inspection.
Like I said, I don't have access to the numbers you do -- only experience in the banking industry I have is as a mail clerk in a lockbox. Thus, I don't know what the policy of the IT department is when it comes to media reuse on vital systems. I am curious, though.
Because X86-64 doesn't have just 4+4 registers. They've added 8 more general purpose registers, plus 8 more registers for working on SIMD code like SSE and SSE2, bringing the total of general purpose and special registers to 16 64 bit registers and 16 128 bit registers. While 8-32bit x86 assembly is ugly, x86-64 has provided a good number of features that make it more like a good RISC processor. Same goes for Itanium, where technically it has 128 registers, with 32 of them being visible through "traditional" means, and the others being visible through a register stack mechanism.
Besides, end of the world, horror, and thriller flicks have always been popular. Think back to early horror flicks like Nosferatu -- fear sells. Everyone likes the shit scared out of them if there's no fear of real damage. Psychologists have studied this. Same love of horror flicks begets a love of roller coasters in others.
Course, Arnie plays so many special agents and spies and the like that they kinda all run together, ya know?
Though Gatling rocket launchers would be cool, gatling guns in and of themselves are awesome devices. The tech's been around for about 150 years with truly minimal changes. They put a lot of ammo in an area in a small amount of time, and look awesome while doing so. Such things lead up to tech that Just Works, and I don't think we're going to see any change in that for a very long while.
That's already really common outside of the US. Many broadband providers will either charge for bandwidth over a certain amount, or throttle you back if you go over the cap.
I'd have called it insensitive, and would seriously reconsider doing any business with them. At the same time, I wouldn't go crying to mummy government that the bad men over there made an icky game that I don't like. I've got a few brain cells, I can make decisions for myself. From what this article sounds like, the German government doesn't seem to believe that a portion of their population has the same abilities.
Depends on your needs, really. I happen to like the integrated approach KDE's taking with their Kroupware project that's supposed to be merged into KDE 3.2. It provides integrated PIM features that make sense, like being able to manage contacts, and calander information from a single group of windows; the default app is the mail app, which you'll probably have running most of the time anyways, with additional programs executed as needed. It makes sense, really. Usually when you're looking someone's info up, you're going to be using that info pretty immediately, so why not have it already at your fingertips. It's got some rough edges as far as appearance goes, but it works pretty well right now, and it's based on open standards.
I was trying to make a pun -- use Ocelot for the "big" OS and Margay for the "little" OS. However, since I had to explain the joke, I ruined it, and now I suck. *pout*