I notice that there is emphasis on the hardware scrolling feature in the hardware spec.
I had an ST, my mate had an Amiga, he had hardware scrolling, I didn't.
Funny that the feature should be deprioritiesed when it came to the home machine.
I guess they wanted to bite into the Mac DTP market, which they did _very_ sucessfully, more than they wanted to compete as a games oriented machine with the Amiga.
Bugger, I've gone off topic.
(Oh, and I'm _not_ saying that the Amiga was only good for games, far from it.)
Everyone in the world wanted to add SIMD instructions to their instruction set. Intel, Dec, Sun, IBM etc...
The marketroids sell this feature as a must-have.
And now someone is backing away and releasing processors without it.
Is someone saying that SIMD wasn't the be all and end all of computing after all?
I tried the same as you three times.
One crashed on line 25.
One crashed on line 30.
One gave me a whole table of prices of choCOLAte comestibles with two entries for Coke and Pepsi hidden in the middle.
So how do I make the regexp match only whole words?
Not quite. Explicitly tell them that you won't be shopping at Tescos. Let them know that they might be losing a customer (with enough disposable income to be mucking around on the internet).
How much good will this do?
About as much good as me walking out of John Lewis' a few months ago when I found out that even in the 21st century they still don't take credit cards.
Why are they playing these mental masturbation games on the subject of space-aliens (tm) (eugh! these humans are made of meat!) when they still haven't told us how many angels will fit on the head of a pin.
Oh, don't be so negative!
I'm sure it could be possible to subpartition the cache so that each task had a small chunk, and the chunks for the non-running tasks could be put into a lower-power refresh only state. It's a feature!
Phil
OK, the Motion Picture Experts Group, a non-commercial cooperation of engineers specialising in the field of audio and video compression spend a decade scribbling away and coming up with audio layer one, tweaking it to audio layer two (.mp2) and again tweaking it to audio leyer three (.mp3). If they are experts, why didn't they come up with the same algorithms as these smart eggs, or should that be smart oggs?
(possible reason - movie audio differs dynamically from music audio, so the different techniques exploit these differences?)
FatPhil
So all Microshaft have to do in order to not be worried is implement an import and export feature.
Then suits who sign cheques will therefore still buy M$.
I also agree with all the other "oh no - not another" comments.
The 'companies backing down from a bad decision' point is a very pertinant one for me. The company I worked for decided (without telling us) to sell the group I worked for, as it was only breaking even. 3 years later it was making a good profit, and we still got sold, completely screwing over the other groups which depended on our existance. The stupid bigwigs at the top _couldn't_ reverse/cancel the decision, as they were too proud to admit they were wrong (by being so short sighted).
So micro-kudos to Intel. But they were damn suckers for signing the deal in the first place, it had bad news written all over it.
"I agree on the issue of not having to pay for software you already paid for because you lost it over the years or because you spilled coffee on the install media or something like that."
Lost it? Your own silly fault.
Spilled coffee on it? Your own fault again.
Media unreadable due to no fault of your own -
yes a replacement should be provided (though read the smallprint about how long the warrantee holds)
"If customers of flatplanet find that gnutella users don't respond to such advertisements, they won't use flatplanet's product."
If they're sentient enough to know how effective their adverts are then you could even reply to the advert saying "as I saw your advert via a Gnutella-propogated advert I will never buy anything from your company".
However, I often doubt there's anything sentient behind any of these companies.
I want a way of spoof-request bombing them, but don't know how gnutella works to know if this is possible.
I overheard an American in Cambridge recently...
So petrol is 75p here, that's [scratch, scratch] about $1.20. Hey, that's the same as back home, what are you Brits complaining about?
"The sun is everywhere"?
I'm sorry, but while the 21 hours of sun per day was lovely in Lapland 2 weeks ago, the winter equivalent is not so favourable. Sure, use it while its there, but it isn't always there.
We aren't all at 40 degrees you know...
However, as I was sitting by the seaside last weekend, wishing I had a laptop with 4 spare batteries, I wondered if a solar panel the size of a laptop could be used to either power the laptop, or at least suppliment the power. Does anyone out there in engineer-land know?
But originally 'the internet' had no 'search facility'. The search facilities were meta-web-pages. If Publius provides any way of querying the existance of documents, it will be possible to cobble together some kind of search facility. It is likely to be a fairly transaction intensive process, so the publius servers better be prepared (like a web-suck for files asking for things even if they don't exist).
So there's a 100K limit on files? Where did that arbitrary limit come from? Thinks... Someone remind me how big a document containing just 'hello world' is in the latest version of MSWord? (I've been told it's about 80K when saved as HTML)... An attempt to stamp out use of MSWord perhaps?:-)
I'd bet that the 99 NT security holes pertain to a fairly small range of services (mail and disk sharing, I'd wager)
I'd then guess that the 84 Linux security holes pertain to a far broader range of services being provided.
What proportion of the services offered are insecure?
Candlemass?
Apocolyptica?
There's nothing new in classical/metal crossover.
Hell - Malmsteen, Vinnie Moore, George Bellas etc. overlay rock/metal with solos which are oftem plain ripped off of Paganini, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Weiss, Scarlatti, and numerous others.
Yup, kind-of.
The problems themselves have 'Amdahl factors' (or 'coefficients', horrible word), which describes how they behave when partitioned to be run multi-processor (multi-computer too).
An example of the factors which affect this is this: (please don't pick holes, it's simplified:-) )
Let us say one machine can efficiently handle a working set of 1000 chunks of data.
If the data is tabular, then its interface with its four neighbours is 4*32 = 128 units. So an eighth of the data needs to be exchanged with neighbours each iteration.
If the data is 3 dimensional, then its interface with its neighbours is 6 * 100. So 60% of the data will need to be exchanged. (I'm assuming each machine takes a cube of data).
If the machine can handle 1000000 chunks in its working set, then the 2D problem has interfaces requiring 4000 units to be exchanged, and the 3D problem requires 60000.
So we see indeed that 3D models (fluid flow etc) do have greater inter-processor communication requirement than 2D models do.
We also see that if you can partition the problem into larger jobs, the communication becomes less of an overhead.
That is probably why the focus is on very high end processors in these arrays. 3 times as many Xeons for the same price probably wouldn't be worth it...
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I notice that there is emphasis on the hardware scrolling feature in the hardware spec.
I had an ST, my mate had an Amiga, he had hardware scrolling, I didn't.
Funny that the feature should be deprioritiesed when it came to the home machine.
I guess they wanted to bite into the Mac DTP market, which they did _very_ sucessfully, more than they wanted to compete as a games oriented machine with the Amiga.
Bugger, I've gone off topic.
(Oh, and I'm _not_ saying that the Amiga was only good for games, far from it.)
FatPhil
Everyone in the world wanted to add SIMD instructions to their instruction set. Intel, Dec, Sun, IBM etc...
The marketroids sell this feature as a must-have.
And now someone is backing away and releasing processors without it.
Is someone saying that SIMD wasn't the be all and end all of computing after all?
Yours Curiously,
FatPhil
"altivec-less" is what it said.
FatPhil
I tried the same as you three times.
One crashed on line 25.
One crashed on line 30.
One gave me a whole table of prices of choCOLAte comestibles with two entries for Coke and Pepsi hidden in the middle.
So how do I make the regexp match only whole words?
FatPhil
Not quite. Explicitly tell them that you won't be shopping at Tescos. Let them know that they might be losing a customer (with enough disposable income to be mucking around on the internet).
How much good will this do?
About as much good as me walking out of John Lewis' a few months ago when I found out that even in the 21st century they still don't take credit cards.
FatPhil
Why are they playing these mental masturbation games on the subject of space-aliens (tm) (eugh! these humans are made of meat!) when they still haven't told us how many angels will fit on the head of a pin.
FatPhil
Oh, don't be so negative! I'm sure it could be possible to subpartition the cache so that each task had a small chunk, and the chunks for the non-running tasks could be put into a lower-power refresh only state. It's a feature! Phil
OK, the Motion Picture Experts Group, a non-commercial cooperation of engineers specialising in the field of audio and video compression spend a decade scribbling away and coming up with audio layer one, tweaking it to audio layer two (.mp2) and again tweaking it to audio leyer three (.mp3). If they are experts, why didn't they come up with the same algorithms as these smart eggs, or should that be smart oggs? (possible reason - movie audio differs dynamically from music audio, so the different techniques exploit these differences?) FatPhil
So all Microshaft have to do in order to not be worried is implement an import and export feature.
Then suits who sign cheques will therefore still buy M$.
I also agree with all the other "oh no - not another" comments.
FatPhil
I told you so.
The 'companies backing down from a bad decision' point is a very pertinant one for me. The company I worked for decided (without telling us) to sell the group I worked for, as it was only breaking even. 3 years later it was making a good profit, and we still got sold, completely screwing over the other groups which depended on our existance. The stupid bigwigs at the top _couldn't_ reverse/cancel the decision, as they were too proud to admit they were wrong (by being so short sighted).
So micro-kudos to Intel. But they were damn suckers for signing the deal in the first place, it had bad news written all over it.
I hope to never hear the word RAMBUS again.
FatPhil
"I agree on the issue of not having to pay for software you already paid for because you lost it over the years or because you spilled coffee on the install media or something like that."
Lost it? Your own silly fault.
Spilled coffee on it? Your own fault again.
Media unreadable due to no fault of your own -
yes a replacement should be provided (though read the smallprint about how long the warrantee holds)
FatPhil
"If customers of flatplanet find that gnutella users don't respond to such advertisements, they won't use flatplanet's product."
If they're sentient enough to know how effective their adverts are then you could even reply to the advert saying "as I saw your advert via a Gnutella-propogated advert I will never buy anything from your company".
However, I often doubt there's anything sentient behind any of these companies.
I want a way of spoof-request bombing them, but don't know how gnutella works to know if this is possible.
FatPhil
I overheard an American in Cambridge recently...
So petrol is 75p here, that's [scratch, scratch] about $1.20. Hey, that's the same as back home, what are you Brits complaining about?
As thick as two short planks.
FatPhil
"The sun is everywhere"?
I'm sorry, but while the 21 hours of sun per day was lovely in Lapland 2 weeks ago, the winter equivalent is not so favourable. Sure, use it while its there, but it isn't always there.
We aren't all at 40 degrees you know...
FatPhil
However, as I was sitting by the seaside last weekend, wishing I had a laptop with 4 spare batteries, I wondered if a solar panel the size of a laptop could be used to either power the laptop, or at least suppliment the power. Does anyone out there in engineer-land know?
FatPhil
"Publius features no search utility"
:-)
But originally 'the internet' had no 'search facility'. The search facilities were meta-web-pages. If Publius provides any way of querying the existance of documents, it will be possible to cobble together some kind of search facility. It is likely to be a fairly transaction intensive process, so the publius servers better be prepared (like a web-suck for files asking for things even if they don't exist).
So there's a 100K limit on files? Where did that arbitrary limit come from? Thinks... Someone remind me how big a document containing just 'hello world' is in the latest version of MSWord? (I've been told it's about 80K when saved as HTML)... An attempt to stamp out use of MSWord perhaps?
FatPhil
Ambuj Goyal, vice president of IBM research:
"Linux is a clone of Unix whose programming instructions can be modified"
What the buggerybollocks does that mean?
I couldn't read beyond that sentence.
(should've previewed last time I guess, ooops)
FatPhil
Ambuj Goyal, vice president of IBM research:
>>
I couldn't read past that sentence, due to the infinite bogosity of it.
FatPhil
"Any medical condition that produces a chemical signal could be a candidate"
Gak! yeast infection!
No, more seriously, one could instead do pheremone detection, and sniff for a female's fertility!
If in doubt, double bag it...
FatPhil
Does nobody remember the freshly opened pack of playing cards which made innocent people appear to have been handling explosives several years back?
Similarly - I wafting particles containing amongst other things THC - am I smuggling dope?
FatPhil
Noone simultaniously runs more than one linux on a single PC. The aggregate is meaningless anyway.
Why don't we add the NT+2000+98+95 figures, and see what it comes to.
I'm glad to see the truth will out...
FatPhil
I'd bet that the 99 NT security holes pertain to a fairly small range of services (mail and disk sharing, I'd wager)
I'd then guess that the 84 Linux security holes pertain to a far broader range of services being provided.
What proportion of the services offered are insecure?
FatPhil
Candlemass?
Apocolyptica?
There's nothing new in classical/metal crossover.
Hell - Malmsteen, Vinnie Moore, George Bellas etc. overlay rock/metal with solos which are oftem plain ripped off of Paganini, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Weiss, Scarlatti, and numerous others.
But hell do I love it!
Phil
I await the results of the catagorisations where it is proven that Bon Jovi is FALSE METAL :-) Muahahahah!
FatPhil
Yup, kind-of.
:-) )
The problems themselves have 'Amdahl factors' (or 'coefficients', horrible word), which describes how they behave when partitioned to be run multi-processor (multi-computer too).
An example of the factors which affect this is this: (please don't pick holes, it's simplified
Let us say one machine can efficiently handle a working set of 1000 chunks of data.
If the data is tabular, then its interface with its four neighbours is 4*32 = 128 units. So an eighth of the data needs to be exchanged with neighbours each iteration.
If the data is 3 dimensional, then its interface with its neighbours is 6 * 100. So 60% of the data will need to be exchanged. (I'm assuming each machine takes a cube of data).
If the machine can handle 1000000 chunks in its working set, then the 2D problem has interfaces requiring 4000 units to be exchanged, and the 3D problem requires 60000.
So we see indeed that 3D models (fluid flow etc) do have greater inter-processor communication requirement than 2D models do.
We also see that if you can partition the problem into larger jobs, the communication becomes less of an overhead.
That is probably why the focus is on very high end processors in these arrays. 3 times as many Xeons for the same price probably wouldn't be worth it...
FatPhil