The X86 compatability increased boot times.... into the dozens of minutes.
The boot time on a server with 4 Itanium processors and 64GB of memory was over an hour for a long time after the platform came out. Vendors that rely on selling a five-nines support contract with every server to make their margins couldn't do that with a server that has been down 0.001% of the time before it's even finished booting up.
You say this like getting a paper published is some magical transformative experience that turns you into a smart person. Hate to rock your little academic-elitist world view, but many if not most of the worlds smartest people don't have any papers published, and many of the people who do are still fucking idiots.
I'm not saying the parent poster was correct, but if you ignore people who don't have fancy diplomas on their walls and the ideas they present simply because they're not as institutionally recognized as yourself, it is you that is the dumbass.
AMD chose a differant design, which sacrificed a lot of transistors for x86 compatibility, limiting the scalability and performance of their chip.
Um... Intel did the same thing, but worse. IA-64, or the Itanium architecture, or whatever Intel wants you to call it this year spent tons of transistors on X86 compatibility, and the performance and scalability sucked. Not only that, but the compatability wasn't that great and the chips have all but failed in the marketplace.
Don't worry, you'll probably have to buy the Xbox 360 in a bundle with two shitty games you didn't want in the first place, so that'll even things out.
It's worth $100 not to give any more set top box marketshare than is absolutely necessary to Microsoft anyway.
I assume you say this because you don't think the taxes on companies that rely on trucking, and gas taxes don't cover the costs of the roads? For starters, without numbers I don't believe you. You know all those 18-wheelers you see on the highways? Do you have any idea how much each one of those trucks pays in taxes every year? Even if you're right about the taxes though, the economic benefits of a good transportation system far outweigh the costs of a well maintained highway system. The extent to which roads are a net positive to the government's budget is epic.
On the other hand, municipal wireless internet access for individuals doesn't provide any obvious economic benefits that would increase the taxable base. It's just a hole to pump money into.
They killed the funny. Most of what's left is a bunch of elitist snobs, and the rest are the people that can't admit it sucks now.
If you're not writing serious nodes or silly wish-they-were-blogs posts they get nuked. The whole fun before was that you could put []tags around things that were amusing out of context and see what popped up. Now if you do that you get kicked out.
I'm sure they'll have a problem with it though.. protesters tend to wrap up their identity in the fact that they're a protester. If you fix the problem they care about, they'll find something else to protest about, because otherwise they have to stop protesting.
In reality these type of people really don't care about the issue they're protesting. They care about changing people's lifestyles. They pick what to protest so that success is most likely to change people's lifestyle to what they think it should be. Once somebody comes up with a way to satisfy the curent lifestyle requirements of the general population and the protesters demands, they move on to some other strategically chosen thing to be opposed to.
Someday somebody will come up with a way to generate energy that, for all practical purposes, produces an infinite supply and is polution free. People will be able to use all the power to synthesize matter... Anything they want, like, a steak for example. Then they'll be able to get in their overpowered, overindulgent vehicle and go wherever they want whenever they want and break down any cultural barriers that still remain. Then all those lifestyle protesters will be forced to preach their ethical ideals like religous nuts in some godless cult of minimalism.
The problem is that when you look at them you think "other living being" and not "food". I bet you don't do the same about brocolli though.
You're going to kill and eat them. What difference does the rest of it make? It's not like giving them a cushy lifestyle is going to justify the ends... Hell, the ends don't even need to be justified.
...on this list that have a probablity that is in the.30 to.70 range or so speak volumes to the average knowledge level of the population that has been training this thing.
From the Geometrix website: If you want better than a 1 in 10 chance that the way you did your hair any given morning will lock you out of whatever you're protecting biometrically you have to be willing to live with something like 1 in 1000 people being mis-identified as you.
I've seen a lot of facial recognition technologies. This is the best one I've seen, and it sucks.
The state of Connecticut just bought some of this shit (yes, the swear is appropriate in this case) to verify your identity when you go to get a state issued ID card. There are millions of people in Connecticut. That means once they get everybody in the database it's likely that there will be about a thousand or so names that come up on the screen when you get scanned. Just imagine what will happen when they start running crime scene survailance photos through, or when the person stealing your identity is doing it with a valid, state issued card. This technology is dangerous in it's current form.
Hey, that looks cool in a totally random way... Kinda like how Everything used to be cool before a bunch of uptight assholes went and ruined it by trying to be all serious. Thanks!
...why can't they figure out how to make it so you can get directions to a business by typing in the business name and having the mapping tool cross reference the yellow pages? Why should the user need to know the address?
I'd like to see him put this stuff on the scope before and after each of these changes. That way we could get an idea of what he means by a 'dramatic improvement'. I can see the op-amp changes and the power supply upgrades helping a lot... However I have a hard time believing that he would be able to demonstrate a difference in the analog output with some reference tones by, say, buffering the crystal from vibration on a standard scope. I'm sceptical he can hear the jitter too. Even cheap clocks these days are pretty damned good once everything warms up.
I think its funny how all these Republicans are running away from George W. [...] there wasn't somebody in office trying to actually implement crazy ideas like privitizing social security.
That's not the problem... The problem is the deficit spending, the expansion of medicare, the gay bashing, the destruction of civil rights, and the pandering to the evangelical cultists. Last I checked none of these things were core to the 'old republican' agenda.
We used to want to cut spending.
Religion used to be non-partisan. Hell, with the exception of abortion and birth control, christians used to be considered liberal.
Taking on Social Security and the Energy bill are the only good things Bush done so far this term. Maybe - maybe - he deserves a little extra credit for not getting too involved in Iran and not giving anything money North Korea in exchange for broken promises. The problem isn't that he is actually implementing what you call 'crazy ideas'. The problem is that he's halfheartedly taking on a token few instead of actually pushing the right agenda.
It could be worse. We could be on the path towards socialized medicine.
I left a modifier out there. I'm sure there's an ideology for every individual... I meant major ideologies.. I think that many moderate republicans and moderate democrats agree signifigantly on the basics of majority of issues... At least up to the point where you start defining details. The centrists from both sides make up the third ideology I was talking about.
The guy? Your state's representatives and senators aren't subject to a national election. If they were elected in your state they're in congress.
Barring some accidental catastrophe on the part of the Republicans...
I think you overestimate the power here. Many republicans, myself included want the old style republican party back, not this social/compassionate conservative crap. There was no republican primary in the last national election. Then next time there is, I bet you'll see some changes.
There may be only two major parties in Washington, but there are three ideologies.
And my point was that it doesn't matter. In most cases it's not what your are or who you are that counts. It's how much cash you have. Individual, corporation, 'major' corporation, whatever...
Perhaps you meant nuclear bombs? You know.. The things that make an ICBM something other than a big metal tube filled with fuel? Too bad you don't need this stuff to make one though...
I think it's for much cooler stuff. Like a spy cellphone that runs linux with a standby time of 600 hours!
Uh.. You don't speak for me at least. I bet there are a whole bunch more of us you don't speak for either. If you did, we could build somehting like this somewhere else that wasn't out of everybody's way and on the border with another country.
Not to mention that you make that statement with no facts to back it up... I have a good idea! <sarcasm>Let's just kick ourselves in the asses on the off chance it'll please some other country that gives some small portion of our population an inferiority complex.</sarcasm> Or not...
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The X86 compatability increased boot times.... into the dozens of minutes.
The boot time on a server with 4 Itanium processors and 64GB of memory was over an hour for a long time after the platform came out. Vendors that rely on selling a five-nines support contract with every server to make their margins couldn't do that with a server that has been down 0.001% of the time before it's even finished booting up.
get a paper published
You say this like getting a paper published is some magical transformative experience that turns you into a smart person. Hate to rock your little academic-elitist world view, but many if not most of the worlds smartest people don't have any papers published, and many of the people who do are still fucking idiots.
I'm not saying the parent poster was correct, but if you ignore people who don't have fancy diplomas on their walls and the ideas they present simply because they're not as institutionally recognized as yourself, it is you that is the dumbass.
AMD chose a differant design, which sacrificed a lot of transistors for x86 compatibility, limiting the scalability and performance of their chip.
Um... Intel did the same thing, but worse. IA-64, or the Itanium architecture, or whatever Intel wants you to call it this year spent tons of transistors on X86 compatibility, and the performance and scalability sucked. Not only that, but the compatability wasn't that great and the chips have all but failed in the marketplace.
Don't worry, you'll probably have to buy the Xbox 360 in a bundle with two shitty games you didn't want in the first place, so that'll even things out.
It's worth $100 not to give any more set top box marketshare than is absolutely necessary to Microsoft anyway.
Neither do libraries.
Wrong again.
Consider libraries as an extension of the public education system. You don't think that public education is a negative capital investment, do you?
Roads are a public welfare system, then.
Oh how horribly wrong you are.
I assume you say this because you don't think the taxes on companies that rely on trucking, and gas taxes don't cover the costs of the roads? For starters, without numbers I don't believe you. You know all those 18-wheelers you see on the highways? Do you have any idea how much each one of those trucks pays in taxes every year? Even if you're right about the taxes though, the economic benefits of a good transportation system far outweigh the costs of a well maintained highway system. The extent to which roads are a net positive to the government's budget is epic.
On the other hand, municipal wireless internet access for individuals doesn't provide any obvious economic benefits that would increase the taxable base. It's just a hole to pump money into.
Raised it's standards?
They killed the funny. Most of what's left is a bunch of elitist snobs, and the rest are the people that can't admit it sucks now.
If you're not writing serious nodes or silly wish-they-were-blogs posts they get nuked. The whole fun before was that you could put []tags around things that were amusing out of context and see what popped up. Now if you do that you get kicked out.
I'm sure they'll have a problem with it though.. protesters tend to wrap up their identity in the fact that they're a protester. If you fix the problem they care about, they'll find something else to protest about, because otherwise they have to stop protesting.
In reality these type of people really don't care about the issue they're protesting. They care about changing people's lifestyles. They pick what to protest so that success is most likely to change people's lifestyle to what they think it should be. Once somebody comes up with a way to satisfy the curent lifestyle requirements of the general population and the protesters demands, they move on to some other strategically chosen thing to be opposed to.
Someday somebody will come up with a way to generate energy that, for all practical purposes, produces an infinite supply and is polution free. People will be able to use all the power to synthesize matter... Anything they want, like, a steak for example. Then they'll be able to get in their overpowered, overindulgent vehicle and go wherever they want whenever they want and break down any cultural barriers that still remain. Then all those lifestyle protesters will be forced to preach their ethical ideals like religous nuts in some godless cult of minimalism.
The problem is that when you look at them you think "other living being" and not "food". I bet you don't do the same about brocolli though.
You're going to kill and eat them. What difference does the rest of it make? It's not like giving them a cushy lifestyle is going to justify the ends... Hell, the ends don't even need to be justified.
Yeah, it'll be great. Instead of ending the lives of livestock so we can eat 'em we can just not bother to breed them in the first place.
Wait...
The animals aren't alive either way. What makes this 'better' again?
...on this list that have a probablity that is in the .30 to .70 range or so speak volumes to the average knowledge level of the population that has been training this thing.
From the Geometrix website: If you want better than a 1 in 10 chance that the way you did your hair any given morning will lock you out of whatever you're protecting biometrically you have to be willing to live with something like 1 in 1000 people being mis-identified as you.
I've seen a lot of facial recognition technologies. This is the best one I've seen, and it sucks.
The state of Connecticut just bought some of this shit (yes, the swear is appropriate in this case) to verify your identity when you go to get a state issued ID card. There are millions of people in Connecticut. That means once they get everybody in the database it's likely that there will be about a thousand or so names that come up on the screen when you get scanned. Just imagine what will happen when they start running crime scene survailance photos through, or when the person stealing your identity is doing it with a valid, state issued card. This technology is dangerous in it's current form.
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Hey, that looks cool in a totally random way... Kinda like how Everything used to be cool before a bunch of uptight assholes went and ruined it by trying to be all serious. Thanks!
...why can't they figure out how to make it so you can get directions to a business by typing in the business name and having the mapping tool cross reference the yellow pages? Why should the user need to know the address?
I'd like to see him put this stuff on the scope before and after each of these changes. That way we could get an idea of what he means by a 'dramatic improvement'. I can see the op-amp changes and the power supply upgrades helping a lot... However I have a hard time believing that he would be able to demonstrate a difference in the analog output with some reference tones by, say, buffering the crystal from vibration on a standard scope. I'm sceptical he can hear the jitter too. Even cheap clocks these days are pretty damned good once everything warms up.
Bleh... Stupid screwups after re-aranging sentences...
and not giving anything money North Korea in exchange
Should say "and not giving any money to North Korea..."
I think its funny how all these Republicans are running away from George W. [...] there wasn't somebody in office trying to actually implement crazy ideas like privitizing social security.
That's not the problem... The problem is the deficit spending, the expansion of medicare, the gay bashing, the destruction of civil rights, and the pandering to the evangelical cultists. Last I checked none of these things were core to the 'old republican' agenda.
We used to want to cut spending.
Religion used to be non-partisan. Hell, with the exception of abortion and birth control, christians used to be considered liberal.
Taking on Social Security and the Energy bill are the only good things Bush done so far this term. Maybe - maybe - he deserves a little extra credit for not getting too involved in Iran and not giving anything money North Korea in exchange for broken promises. The problem isn't that he is actually implementing what you call 'crazy ideas'. The problem is that he's halfheartedly taking on a token few instead of actually pushing the right agenda.
It could be worse. We could be on the path towards socialized medicine.
I left a modifier out there. I'm sure there's an ideology for every individual... I meant major ideologies.. I think that many moderate republicans and moderate democrats agree signifigantly on the basics of majority of issues... At least up to the point where you start defining details. The centrists from both sides make up the third ideology I was talking about.
The guy the state voted for didn't win.
The guy? Your state's representatives and senators aren't subject to a national election. If they were elected in your state they're in congress.
Barring some accidental catastrophe on the part of the Republicans...
I think you overestimate the power here. Many republicans, myself included want the old style republican party back, not this social/compassionate conservative crap. There was no republican primary in the last national election. Then next time there is, I bet you'll see some changes.
There may be only two major parties in Washington, but there are three ideologies.
Also, anyone -- anyone -- who supports unverifiable electronic voting should be shot.
So you're against freedom of expression?
Don't you mean:
If you use their system, you will match the schools requirements for recieving kickbacks from the hardware vendor.
And my point was that it doesn't matter. In most cases it's not what your are or who you are that counts. It's how much cash you have. Individual, corporation, 'major' corporation, whatever...
Perhaps you meant nuclear bombs? You know.. The things that make an ICBM something other than a big metal tube filled with fuel? Too bad you don't need this stuff to make one though...
I think it's for much cooler stuff. Like a spy cellphone that runs linux with a standby time of 600 hours!
On behalf of all Americans
Uh.. You don't speak for me at least. I bet there are a whole bunch more of us you don't speak for either. If you did, we could build somehting like this somewhere else that wasn't out of everybody's way and on the border with another country.
Not to mention that you make that statement with no facts to back it up... I have a good idea! <sarcasm>Let's just kick ourselves in the asses on the off chance it'll please some other country that gives some small portion of our population an inferiority complex.</sarcasm> Or not...
The marketing comment was in fact valid.
Actually it couldn't have been more false. Now gamers do have to pick, where before they had windows and that was it.