If we do, I think it would probably be only for a brief transition period, like when they switched from the 68K line of processors to PPC. But who knows. I really hope they don't switch to AMD, that would make people less inclined to write software that is still compatible with the PPC architecture I own (assuming they don't make binaries compatible with both... i don't think they can, can they?).
This is the biggest reason I've doubted the Apple/Opteron rumors from the start. When Apple switched from 68k to PPC they chose a processor that was capable of emulating the old platform at full speed to ensure a seamless transition from the user perspective. I doubt Apple would be interested in anything but a seamless transition this time as well. Opteron, however, doesn't have enough registers (among other problems) to do a good job at emulation the PPC architecture. I would guess that there would have to be AMD chips that are 10x faster than PPC chips (they're getting there, but PPC isn't that far behind yet) or Apple would not be satisfied with the PPC emulation experience. I would believe the use of Itanium more that the use of Opteron, just because Itanium is much better suited to PPC emulation. Unfortunatly a single Itanium CPU costs more than most complete Apple systems right now, so that's probably unrealistic as well.
As for all the people that say the 970 is vaporware because of the lack of hype, well there's always been much less hype from IBM and Motorola about their new CPUs than from Intel, AMD, and (formerly) Digital (remember the old Digital Alpha CPU ads back in the late 80s/early 90s? "We're on our third generation 64bit architecture. Our compitition hasn't even started designing their first." It was the first CPU specific TV ad I remember seeing. Classic). IBM markets to manufacturers, not to end users, so unless you're a developer you don't see the hype. IBM and Apple are well suited for each other because IBM has a history of licensing portions of their CPU cores and using them to put together custom processors for the customers. Apple would love to have that kind of control, and they won't get it anywhere else.
That works for you since you (apparently) have a need to use it for server purposes. I don't.
You're right. I use my upstream more than my downstream. However if I didn't I could have easily chosen 7.5Mbit down/254Kbit up for less money. The real benefit to DSL from my perspective is the choice. I can pick an ISP that allows NAT, servers, continuous use of all the bandwith, has excelent customer service, or whatever, and then if my ISP changes the way it does business I can switch to any other ISP that supports my CLEC (Worldcom, BTW, but I've used Covad, NAS and SBC in the past at various residences) at a moment's notice. There's literally hundreds of ISPs I can choose from. That's the real benefit of DSL, not the specifics of my particular setup.
Your list was great... except for Fight Club. The movie was entertaining, but the sudden switch 3/4 of the way through from a journey through the mind of a bizzare, insane guy who could have been any one of us to obsurdity and political preachiness left me feeling like they couldn't sell how they really wanted to end it, so they blew up some buildings instead. It was like two movies that had the same actors in them, but we saw the beginning of one and the end of the other.
Most people I know on DSL are capped at 1.5Mbps, while I routinely can download on my cablemodem at home at 350KB/sec. They're also usually capped at 128kbps upload, while mine (Adelphia Powerlink in Southern California) has been raised to 256kbps.
Funny, my uploads are "capped" at 1.5Mbps. I also have 8 static IPs. Try getting that from a cable company.
The difference between cable internet and DSL from what I've seen is that you have one choice of cable provider, and hundreds of choices of DSL providers. That means you get to pick your terms of service with DSL, and you get the terms of service dictated to you with cable. For me that means DSL wins.
I thought virii were created to wreak havoc, not frame random computer users... or am I wrong?
Back in December I noticed upload speeds on my SDSL line were not quite what they used to be. A tcpdump listed loads of IRC and FTP traffic. A quick check of machines in my house led me to IRC and FTP servers running on my fiancee's windows box that were installed maliciously. The hard drive was full with porn, and lots of people were downloading. The point was niether to frame her for having kiddie porn on her machine, nor to wreak havoc, but to steal my bandwidth and hide the identity of the real distributors. The same thing easily could have happened to this guy.
"What is the directive that throttles the number of Apache processes."
The answer is, of course, the directive listed as having that function in the documentation.
The ability to solve problems that you don't know the solution to is a more useful ability than knowledge of any particular tidbit in almost every case. Your question may be able to tell you if somebody lied on their resume, but that's about it.
In this case, Penny Arcade used some kind of "Strawberry Shortcake" copyrighted material to create a parody of American McGee's videogame development preferences
Almost correct. No content created by American Greetings was used, so there is no copyright case here. This is either purely a trademark case, or a crock.
I'm way to lazy to keep track of checks I write, yet I haven't payed an overdraft fee in years. How do I do it? I *never* write checks. Ever. If something requires a check I either have my bank send them one using the on-line bill payment system (99% of the time) or I go to the post office and buy a money order with my debit card (1% of the time). That way my ATM balance *is* my balance, and I never have to keep track of anything manually. My monthly banking consists of snapping my statement (with scans of cleared, bank mailed, checks printed on them) into a three ring binder for safe keeping.
I'm sick of people with no clue spouting this shit in slashdot comments and getting modded up to propagate this incorrect information.
Repeat after me: You can patent things that have prior art.
In fact, it's completely allowed and the prior art is usually documented right in the application. A patent does NOT mean the holder has exclusive rights to everything in the patent. It only gives them exclusive rights on the claims that exceed the prior art. Half the time I see people bitching about some silly patent on here, they fail to take this into account.
Please people, before you go spouting off about prior art in patents, make sure you know what you're talking about and that you didn't get that information from a slashdot comment that was posted by somebody who could be a clueless toddler for all you know.
In fact, it has had the ironic effect of making it more likely that wiretap solutions will be proprietary and designed in quiet consultation with the FBI. Bottom line: the notion that the Net inherently resists government control is in for a bad decade.
Why did they publish this? Did they read it first? There's an amazing logical leap there. There is absolutly no rational ideas connecting the first sentence with the second one. The guy who rote this is a first class idiot who is good with twisting words.
Not only that, but he's wrong. Were there standardised methods it would be easy for the gonvernment to make circumventing those methods illegal. Since the methods will now be secret it is impossible to outlaw circumvention since it won't be public knowledge that there is something to circumvent.
Is because their retail dealers are screaming about internet (and before the net, mail order dealers,) undercutting them on price.
Most of the retail dealers *are* the internet dealers. The problem really is that other websites are taking business away from games-workshop.com.
If you ask me, the damned things are too expensive anyway. Especially when you can have just as much fun with a ruleset that doesn't require hundreds of dollars in miniatures purchases.
That looks cool, but why did they have to go and give it that "ergonomic" shape? Does the person who designes these things really think that it's good to keep the palm of your hand all curled like that all the time?
Though you wouldn't know it from our horribly out-of-date website, our primary product at the company I work for (Mission Critical Linux) is a high availability middleware product that can be tightly integrated with custom software so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to HA clustering services. I'm talking about things like inter-node communications, distributed lock management, heartbeating, service location management... If you have a tight schedule or budget, or you just don't know if you know that the problems that need to be solved are (Hint: you haven't thought of everything until it's done) we'll help. We don't just hand you the tools and libraries and leave you on your own. We'll hook you up with an experienced HA engineer and hold your hand as necissary. (The more hand holding required the higher the price, but what do you expect...) If you're concerned about performance (you obvoiusly are) we can help there too. Our stuff is 10 times faster than any other HA middleware vendor out there right now. Really. It's not necissarily just for linux, either.
Amazing, especially since Fox News is their ministry of propaganda.
How do you figure? Fox is slave to the dollar. They air what attracts eyeballs to their advertisements. They have no loyalty to the current administration. It only seems that way because a vast majority of people in the US agree with the administration's war policy. If that ever changed, Fox would change their tune. Bush (Ashcroft) would be a fool to throw Fox a bone.
but what have you found that can throttle your SMP Athlon machine?
Disk intensive processes will still slow down on the SMP machine, however the machine will still be responsive during heavy I/O unlike a uni-processor box. I can have a java vm start eating an entire CPU and not notice until I happen to run 'top' for something else. The process that's waiting for the disk will still lag just as much on an SMP machine unless the interface runs in a seperate thread as the I/O, and that's rare. Other than that I can't do much of a comparison for you. (Not trying to brag) Because I do kernel work that all has to be SMP safe, all the machines I use on a daily basis are SMP. I've got a dual P3 800, a Dual G4 450, and a dual 866Mhz alpha at work, and my dual Athlon at home... The only uniprocessor machine I still use is my powerbook, and I basically only use it as an X terminal for my other boxes, so I never really get a chance to notice the lack of a second processor.
Hate to break it to you, but that price on the dell website already has the rebate deducted from it, AND it doesn't include all the features listed. You have to pay more to get all that stuff (Specifically, you don't get the GigE). After all that you'd have a slowass 1.8Ghz celeron. I'd rather buy a 1Ghz P3 off of eBay for less to get the same performance, or build my own athlon 2500+ or a real P4 2.2Ghz for the same price. You're also not going to get 410fps in quake from the dell setup. That intel video chip will give you more like 15fps.
Actually, though, I just picked up a dual Athlon XP 1800+ for $350 (MB, two retail boxed processors, 80Gb HDD, and GeForce 4 Ti4200, Mid-tower case. Re-used my old Keyboard and mouse. Much faster than my old dual Pentium (1) 233Mhz machine.), so I don't think you need to deal with having two machines if you really want SMP and money is what's holding you back.
You should try '-j'. It'll be damned close to the fastest your system can do without having to experiment with wether 3,4,5,6... or whatever is the fastest. You'd think that all those threads spawning all at once would be detrimental, but with more recent kernels it hardly slows it at all. You're system will be fairly unresponsive while it's compiling, but it'll be over with quicker.
I have two Dell (Sony) Trinitrons at my desk. A P1110, and a P991. The 19" P991 is dark tinted at the factory, and the 21" P1110 isn't. The tinted monitor has darker blacks, and for that reason can be better color tuned and is just plain easier to look at. I spend lots of time wishing that my 21" monitor was tinted too...
I've seen no mention that these students cataloged files that were not on public shares. I'm fully aware that Windows machines have more holes by default than swiss cheese, but there's no need to break in when the doors are wide open, and there's no point confusing the issue with what's possible when all that matters is what actually happened.
Besides that, it still doesn't change the fact that the files were accessable and locatable without these student's spider programs. If the RIAA wants to nail them for the files they actually had and were sharing, that's fine. I hope , however, that the judge will see how rediculous it would be to essentially find directory services illegal.
With Windows File Sharing, you are unintentionally sharing your files with the whole world.
That's bullshit. Nothing is shared by default when you install windows. You have to share it intentionally. The windows search function can search exactly the way these spiders do. All these kids did is cache the index of file shares on the local network to make the searches faster.
Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised to see the RAM limits increased when more ram becomes necessary. Right now, MS publically says due to lack of PAE support in Exchange 2000, there is no reason to put > 3 GB of ram in a E2k box. Once apps start pushing things on a more regular basis, MS will probably have to relent. Right now I think the people who really need 64 bits have it, and are using *nix. People who would like it, find ways to deal. AMD hopefully will commoditize 64 bit computing, and make it something we don't need to worry about.
64 bit processors aren't just about supporting more physical memory. There's a lot of benifit to having a larger virtual address pool as well. People seem to overlook that when they talk about 64 bit processors being useless because people don't need more than 4GB of memory...
News flash: Humans resent people with authority over them. That means that everybody at one point in their life resents their parents. Then you grow up (literally and figuratively) and figure out wether it was actually something worth resenting them over. It's just how it is. This doesn't change that.
Besides, nobody's forcing the parents to use this thing, so if as a parent you feel this thing is a betrayal of your child's trust, just don't log in.
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If we do, I think it would probably be only for a brief transition period, like when they switched from the 68K line of processors to PPC. But who knows. I really hope they don't switch to AMD, that would make people less inclined to write software that is still compatible with the PPC architecture I own (assuming they don't make binaries compatible with both... i don't think they can, can they?).
This is the biggest reason I've doubted the Apple/Opteron rumors from the start. When Apple switched from 68k to PPC they chose a processor that was capable of emulating the old platform at full speed to ensure a seamless transition from the user perspective. I doubt Apple would be interested in anything but a seamless transition this time as well. Opteron, however, doesn't have enough registers (among other problems) to do a good job at emulation the PPC architecture. I would guess that there would have to be AMD chips that are 10x faster than PPC chips (they're getting there, but PPC isn't that far behind yet) or Apple would not be satisfied with the PPC emulation experience. I would believe the use of Itanium more that the use of Opteron, just because Itanium is much better suited to PPC emulation. Unfortunatly a single Itanium CPU costs more than most complete Apple systems right now, so that's probably unrealistic as well.
As for all the people that say the 970 is vaporware because of the lack of hype, well there's always been much less hype from IBM and Motorola about their new CPUs than from Intel, AMD, and (formerly) Digital (remember the old Digital Alpha CPU ads back in the late 80s/early 90s? "We're on our third generation 64bit architecture. Our compitition hasn't even started designing their first." It was the first CPU specific TV ad I remember seeing. Classic). IBM markets to manufacturers, not to end users, so unless you're a developer you don't see the hype. IBM and Apple are well suited for each other because IBM has a history of licensing portions of their CPU cores and using them to put together custom processors for the customers. Apple would love to have that kind of control, and they won't get it anywhere else.
That works for you since you (apparently) have a need to use it for server purposes. I don't.
You're right. I use my upstream more than my downstream. However if I didn't I could have easily chosen 7.5Mbit down/254Kbit up for less money. The real benefit to DSL from my perspective is the choice. I can pick an ISP that allows NAT, servers, continuous use of all the bandwith, has excelent customer service, or whatever, and then if my ISP changes the way it does business I can switch to any other ISP that supports my CLEC (Worldcom, BTW, but I've used Covad, NAS and SBC in the past at various residences) at a moment's notice. There's literally hundreds of ISPs I can choose from. That's the real benefit of DSL, not the specifics of my particular setup.
Fight Club
Your list was great... except for Fight Club. The movie was entertaining, but the sudden switch 3/4 of the way through from a journey through the mind of a bizzare, insane guy who could have been any one of us to obsurdity and political preachiness left me feeling like they couldn't sell how they really wanted to end it, so they blew up some buildings instead. It was like two movies that had the same actors in them, but we saw the beginning of one and the end of the other.
Most people I know on DSL are capped at 1.5Mbps, while I routinely can download on my cablemodem at home at 350KB/sec. They're also usually capped at 128kbps upload, while mine (Adelphia Powerlink in Southern California) has been raised to 256kbps.
Funny, my uploads are "capped" at 1.5Mbps. I also have 8 static IPs. Try getting that from a cable company.
The difference between cable internet and DSL from what I've seen is that you have one choice of cable provider, and hundreds of choices of DSL providers. That means you get to pick your terms of service with DSL, and you get the terms of service dictated to you with cable. For me that means DSL wins.
I thought virii were created to wreak havoc, not frame random computer users... or am I wrong?
Back in December I noticed upload speeds on my SDSL line were not quite what they used to be. A tcpdump listed loads of IRC and FTP traffic. A quick check of machines in my house led me to IRC and FTP servers running on my fiancee's windows box that were installed maliciously. The hard drive was full with porn, and lots of people were downloading. The point was niether to frame her for having kiddie porn on her machine, nor to wreak havoc, but to steal my bandwidth and hide the identity of the real distributors. The same thing easily could have happened to this guy.
"What is the directive that throttles the number of Apache processes."
The answer is, of course, the directive listed as having that function in the documentation.
The ability to solve problems that you don't know the solution to is a more useful ability than knowledge of any particular tidbit in almost every case. Your question may be able to tell you if somebody lied on their resume, but that's about it.
In this case, Penny Arcade used some kind of "Strawberry Shortcake" copyrighted material to create a parody of American McGee's videogame development preferences
Almost correct. No content created by American Greetings was used, so there is no copyright case here. This is either purely a trademark case, or a crock.
I'm way to lazy to keep track of checks I write, yet I haven't payed an overdraft fee in years. How do I do it? I *never* write checks. Ever. If something requires a check I either have my bank send them one using the on-line bill payment system (99% of the time) or I go to the post office and buy a money order with my debit card (1% of the time). That way my ATM balance *is* my balance, and I never have to keep track of anything manually. My monthly banking consists of snapping my statement (with scans of cleared, bank mailed, checks printed on them) into a three ring binder for safe keeping.
Tivo will most likely not be the first company to do this
Ever since version 1.0 Tivo could dump to an external recording device.
2) reject anything with prior art
Already done.
NO IT'S NOT!
I'm sick of people with no clue spouting this shit in slashdot comments and getting modded up to propagate this incorrect information.
Repeat after me: You can patent things that have prior art.
In fact, it's completely allowed and the prior art is usually documented right in the application. A patent does NOT mean the holder has exclusive rights to everything in the patent. It only gives them exclusive rights on the claims that exceed the prior art. Half the time I see people bitching about some silly patent on here, they fail to take this into account.
Please people, before you go spouting off about prior art in patents, make sure you know what you're talking about and that you didn't get that information from a slashdot comment that was posted by somebody who could be a clueless toddler for all you know.
In fact, it has had the ironic effect of making it more likely that wiretap solutions will be proprietary and designed in quiet consultation with the FBI. Bottom line: the notion that the Net inherently resists government control is in for a bad decade.
Why did they publish this? Did they read it first? There's an amazing logical leap there. There is absolutly no rational ideas connecting the first sentence with the second one. The guy who rote this is a first class idiot who is good with twisting words.
Not only that, but he's wrong. Were there standardised methods it would be easy for the gonvernment to make circumventing those methods illegal. Since the methods will now be secret it is impossible to outlaw circumvention since it won't be public knowledge that there is something to circumvent.
Is because their retail dealers are screaming about internet (and before the net, mail order dealers,) undercutting them on price.
Most of the retail dealers *are* the internet dealers. The problem really is that other websites are taking business away from games-workshop.com.
If you ask me, the damned things are too expensive anyway. Especially when you can have just as much fun with a ruleset that doesn't require hundreds of dollars in miniatures purchases.
That looks cool, but why did they have to go and give it that "ergonomic" shape? Does the person who designes these things really think that it's good to keep the palm of your hand all curled like that all the time?
I guess this is a good spot for a plug...
Though you wouldn't know it from our horribly out-of-date website, our primary product at the company I work for (Mission Critical Linux) is a high availability middleware product that can be tightly integrated with custom software so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to HA clustering services. I'm talking about things like inter-node communications, distributed lock management, heartbeating, service location management... If you have a tight schedule or budget, or you just don't know if you know that the problems that need to be solved are (Hint: you haven't thought of everything until it's done) we'll help. We don't just hand you the tools and libraries and leave you on your own. We'll hook you up with an experienced HA engineer and hold your hand as necissary. (The more hand holding required the higher the price, but what do you expect...) If you're concerned about performance (you obvoiusly are) we can help there too. Our stuff is 10 times faster than any other HA middleware vendor out there right now. Really. It's not necissarily just for linux, either.
Amazing, especially since Fox News is their ministry of propaganda.
How do you figure? Fox is slave to the dollar. They air what attracts eyeballs to their advertisements. They have no loyalty to the current administration. It only seems that way because a vast majority of people in the US agree with the administration's war policy. If that ever changed, Fox would change their tune. Bush (Ashcroft) would be a fool to throw Fox a bone.
but what have you found that can throttle your SMP Athlon machine?
Disk intensive processes will still slow down on the SMP machine, however the machine will still be responsive during heavy I/O unlike a uni-processor box. I can have a java vm start eating an entire CPU and not notice until I happen to run 'top' for something else. The process that's waiting for the disk will still lag just as much on an SMP machine unless the interface runs in a seperate thread as the I/O, and that's rare. Other than that I can't do much of a comparison for you. (Not trying to brag) Because I do kernel work that all has to be SMP safe, all the machines I use on a daily basis are SMP. I've got a dual P3 800, a Dual G4 450, and a dual 866Mhz alpha at work, and my dual Athlon at home... The only uniprocessor machine I still use is my powerbook, and I basically only use it as an X terminal for my other boxes, so I never really get a chance to notice the lack of a second processor.
Hate to break it to you, but that price on the dell website already has the rebate deducted from it, AND it doesn't include all the features listed. You have to pay more to get all that stuff (Specifically, you don't get the GigE). After all that you'd have a slowass 1.8Ghz celeron. I'd rather buy a 1Ghz P3 off of eBay for less to get the same performance, or build my own athlon 2500+ or a real P4 2.2Ghz for the same price. You're also not going to get 410fps in quake from the dell setup. That intel video chip will give you more like 15fps.
Actually, though, I just picked up a dual Athlon XP 1800+ for $350 (MB, two retail boxed processors, 80Gb HDD, and GeForce 4 Ti4200, Mid-tower case. Re-used my old Keyboard and mouse. Much faster than my old dual Pentium (1) 233Mhz machine.), so I don't think you need to deal with having two machines if you really want SMP and money is what's holding you back.
You should try '-j'. It'll be damned close to the fastest your system can do without having to experiment with wether 3,4,5,6... or whatever is the fastest. You'd think that all those threads spawning all at once would be detrimental, but with more recent kernels it hardly slows it at all. You're system will be fairly unresponsive while it's compiling, but it'll be over with quicker.
it puts Apple in violation of its settlement with Apple Corps, Ltd
Settlements can be renegotiated. Guilty verdicts can't.
So you don't vote? They claim to add all US voter registry info to their database...
Funny what you can find out about even the most secretive of people. Actually, I really only know that you either don't vote, or that you're a liar.
I have two Dell (Sony) Trinitrons at my desk. A P1110, and a P991. The 19" P991 is dark tinted at the factory, and the 21" P1110 isn't. The tinted monitor has darker blacks, and for that reason can be better color tuned and is just plain easier to look at. I spend lots of time wishing that my 21" monitor was tinted too...
I've seen no mention that these students cataloged files that were not on public shares. I'm fully aware that Windows machines have more holes by default than swiss cheese, but there's no need to break in when the doors are wide open, and there's no point confusing the issue with what's possible when all that matters is what actually happened.
Besides that, it still doesn't change the fact that the files were accessable and locatable without these student's spider programs. If the RIAA wants to nail them for the files they actually had and were sharing, that's fine. I hope , however, that the judge will see how rediculous it would be to essentially find directory services illegal.
With Windows File Sharing, you are unintentionally sharing your files with the whole world.
That's bullshit. Nothing is shared by default when you install windows. You have to share it intentionally. The windows search function can search exactly the way these spiders do. All these kids did is cache the index of file shares on the local network to make the searches faster.
Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised to see the RAM limits increased when more ram becomes necessary. Right now, MS publically says due to lack of PAE support in Exchange 2000, there is no reason to put > 3 GB of ram in a E2k box. Once apps start pushing things on a more regular basis, MS will probably have to relent. Right now I think the people who really need 64 bits have it, and are using *nix. People who would like it, find ways to deal. AMD hopefully will commoditize 64 bit computing, and make it something we don't need to worry about.
64 bit processors aren't just about supporting more physical memory. There's a lot of benifit to having a larger virtual address pool as well. People seem to overlook that when they talk about 64 bit processors being useless because people don't need more than 4GB of memory...
it's gonna bring feelings of resentment.
News flash: Humans resent people with authority over them. That means that everybody at one point in their life resents their parents. Then you grow up (literally and figuratively) and figure out wether it was actually something worth resenting them over. It's just how it is. This doesn't change that.
Besides, nobody's forcing the parents to use this thing, so if as a parent you feel this thing is a betrayal of your child's trust, just don't log in.