No lyrics, but Peter Schickele has done an interesting... play-by-play commentary... of the Fifth, as if it were a football game and he were a sportscaster.
*wrong note heard from the horns section* "Wow, Bobby Corno really flubbed that note! He'll be lucky if they don't trade him to another orchestra next season!"
US defense contractors, however, aren't in the business of defense -- they're in the business of profiting off of defense contracts. If you can rationalize a need for $1M of security apparatus to fulfill a contract, you just add it (plus a 10% pad, as usual) to your bid price, and -- poof! -- you've made a free $100K off of Uncle Sam.
The last story I heard on NPR, I believe, was about US immigration policy.
Seriously, American public radio does a wonderful job. There are two stations where I live, one devoted to news during the day and jazz at night, and another devoted to classical music. Their news coverage is informed and level-headed. Their music really is DJ'd by local people. You meet them in the supermarket buying cat food and cabbage, and can call them with requests (which they'll play if they can find it).
I'm just lucky that I happen to like classical music, and don't have to brave the commercial airwaves to find music to listen to.
AMD's laptop processors have typically provided good power efficiency at low load (my entire 15.4" system with an Athlon 64 3400+ and discrete GPU runs on 20W) but drink power at high load (at full frequency my system uses ~50W).
The Pentium M doesn't use that much power (27W for the proc, so probably around 35-40W for the system) at high load, either.
Since only low frequency performance matters for battery life, the Pentium-M's lower high-frequency power use doesn't mean that P-M machines get that much better battery life; rather, it means that you can make them *smaller*, since you don't need as bulky of a cooling system. The reason Athlon 64 notebooks aren't more common is that they have to be larger to accomodate the heat from running at full speed.
Enter Turion, whose main difference from the Athlon 64 is a drastically lower power consumption at high frequency (25W vs. 62W), allowing AMD to compete with Intel on size.
If Yonah uses upwards of 45W at full load (which I've read), it won't be competitive in the business market regardless of its low-load power use (battery life) -- the machines will be 8+ pounds to accomodate cooling, just like my Athlon 64 machine.
However, it will suddenly look attractive to the market segment that wants battery life, and wants performance plugged in, but doesn't care about weight -- which is me.
It'll be interesting to see what AMD does in the realm of laptop performance processors. They've been basically coasting on the strength of the Athlon 64 platform for a long while (the Mobile Athlon 64, the desktop Athlon 64, and the Turion 64 are basically the same chip). If Intel's dual-core chips get a large market share, programs will become multithreaded, and AMD'll have to adapt the X2 to laptops (Turion X2?); everything then will hinge on how low they can push power consumption.
I have a 4200 rpm laptop hard drive, yes. Whether this counts as "crap" is up to you (it's certainly slower than most), but the point remains: emerge never gives me issues, while windows update does.
So it's not bluescreens any more, but the stability argument still stands.
My laptop dualboots Windows/Linux. The Windows half has been known to freeze, often because of a Microsoft process (explorer.exe going nuts and taking 99% CPU; Windows Update maxing out my disk I/O for 20 minutes installing SP2; and harder locks that have to be fixed with a powercycle).
Linux hasn't done that to me, and I work it just as hard.
Anecdotes don't prove a conclusion, but hard data is just a collection of data points, and this data point says: Windows is less stable.
I worked for Marshall Space Flight Center a few years ago (as a student research monkey), doing some sciencey stuff (microwave-plasma chemical vapor deposition of diamond) that involved cool purple glows coming from vacuum chambers and forests of tubes running everywhere. However, I also got drug around to fix computers, since people discovered I could do that. Now, this being a wasteful government facility (not necessarily redundant), they had a contract with Dell that everyone got a new computer every year, whether they wanted one or not. (Meanwhile, the broken Pentium-100 that controlled the electron microscope in the lab was still broken.)
This also being Alabama, any organization will have people hired on affirmative action that do no work and can't be fired; it's apparently cheaper just to pay them than to try to get rid of them. NASA, as a government outfit, was worse in this regard than most.
So, my supervisor shared an office with one of these. All I saw him do was:
1) Order office supplies by the carton and leave them sitting in his office 2) Post his passwords on stickynotes above his desk 3) Talk about golf on the phone 4) Play Solitaire
After he got his contractually-mandated "hardware refresh" (some guy wheels in a new computer, hooks it up, and wheels his old one out), he couldn't play Solitaire, because he couldn't find the icon.
This guy asked me to make him a nice userfriendly "Click here to play Solitaire" desktop icon.
This is the same facility that has these little yellow stickers on all the windows: "Warning: GLASS. Do not lean on or apply pressure; glass will break."
(Offtopic rant: I find it hard to believe that these are the organizational descendents of the Von Braun rocket team. Huntsville, AL's symbol is the large Saturn V rocket that's visible from most of the city; yet NASA can't even build one any more. Why? They've/lost the goddamn plans/, and their managers are too busy putting caution stickers on windows to fire the deadwood and work on spaceflight.)
Maybe IIS was included with my install of Windows XP.
Maybe it wasn't. I have no clue; I guess I could go look at the list of services I disabled that Microsoft enables by default and see if it's on there.
I wanted to serve webpages the other day. I downloaded Apache and set it up in ten minutes -- no fuss.
If you were to google, in succession, "Tibet", "democracy", "writings of Thomas Jefferson", "PGP", "Freenet", "steganography", and "Mao Zedong is a moron", I bet you'd be disappeared by the Chinese government.
I would like to be able to go download a recording of , and would like at least 80% of the money I pay for it to go to the composer and the performers. They, after all, did the hard work.
I would like this recording to be available as a plain old 192kbps mp3 or 160kbps ogg, or a FLAC encode, at my choice.
Does there need to be? I'm not an EE, but how much power do you really need to run a "wake me up if the potential across these two wires exceeds 10 mV" circuit?
I don't understand what a cable box needs 30-45W for, anyway. My entire computer -- display, disks, RAM, processor, etc. -- runs on 20W with the screen dimmed a bit, and it's a desktop-replacement laptop. I'm a physicist, not an engineer, so I may be missing something -- but what the hell does a cable box need that much power for?
Logitech used to make some computer speakers that would go soft off if they didn't receive a (non-noise) signal for a minute or so. Their newer ones don't seem to do that; I've got a more modern set, and the cooling fins on the back of the sub are warm when there's no signal.
Hibernate works fine on my laptop -- if I don't use all 1.25 GiB of RAM at any time before hibernating. (I have plenty of disk space -- it's a windows bug.)
Under that logic they should ban extremely strong people trained in unarmed combat (probably many members of the Marines!) from airplanes, because their fists can be used as a weapon.
The implication is that kiddies aren't going to go to the trouble to install drivers for filesystems on other partitions; the most common sort are more interested in DoS'ing IRC servers.
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In the classical world, singers are looked down upon if nobody can understand what the hell they're saying.
As far as I can tell there's nothing about guitars and drums that gives singers a free pass to unintelligibility.
No lyrics, but Peter Schickele has done an interesting ... play-by-play commentary ... of the Fifth, as if it were a football game and he were a sportscaster.
*wrong note heard from the horns section* "Wow, Bobby Corno really flubbed that note! He'll be lucky if they don't trade him to another orchestra next season!"
Does owning a recording of a song also mean that you have the rights to a copy of the lyrics? Many would say no.
I'd say this is yet another demonstration of how absurd the current incarnation of copyright law is.
Nope ... it had more of a local slant to it, since I live in Arizona, about 50 miles from the border. :P
US defense contractors, however, aren't in the business of defense -- they're in the business of profiting off of defense contracts. If you can rationalize a need for $1M of security apparatus to fulfill a contract, you just add it (plus a 10% pad, as usual) to your bid price, and -- poof! -- you've made a free $100K off of Uncle Sam.
*ring ring ring*
The last story I heard on NPR, I believe, was about US immigration policy.
Seriously, American public radio does a wonderful job. There are two stations where I live, one devoted to news during the day and jazz at night, and another devoted to classical music. Their news coverage is informed and level-headed. Their music really is DJ'd by local people. You meet them in the supermarket buying cat food and cabbage, and can call them with requests (which they'll play if they can find it).
I'm just lucky that I happen to like classical music, and don't have to brave the commercial airwaves to find music to listen to.
I'd indeed like to see this.
AMD's laptop processors have typically provided good power efficiency at low load (my entire 15.4" system with an Athlon 64 3400+ and discrete GPU runs on 20W) but drink power at high load (at full frequency my system uses ~50W).
The Pentium M doesn't use that much power (27W for the proc, so probably around 35-40W for the system) at high load, either.
Since only low frequency performance matters for battery life, the Pentium-M's lower high-frequency power use doesn't mean that P-M machines get that much better battery life; rather, it means that you can make them *smaller*, since you don't need as bulky of a cooling system. The reason Athlon 64 notebooks aren't more common is that they have to be larger to accomodate the heat from running at full speed.
Enter Turion, whose main difference from the Athlon 64 is a drastically lower power consumption at high frequency (25W vs. 62W), allowing AMD to compete with Intel on size.
If Yonah uses upwards of 45W at full load (which I've read), it won't be competitive in the business market regardless of its low-load power use (battery life) -- the machines will be 8+ pounds to accomodate cooling, just like my Athlon 64 machine.
However, it will suddenly look attractive to the market segment that wants battery life, and wants performance plugged in, but doesn't care about weight -- which is me.
It'll be interesting to see what AMD does in the realm of laptop performance processors. They've been basically coasting on the strength of the Athlon 64 platform for a long while (the Mobile Athlon 64, the desktop Athlon 64, and the Turion 64 are basically the same chip). If Intel's dual-core chips get a large market share, programs will become multithreaded, and AMD'll have to adapt the X2 to laptops (Turion X2?); everything then will hinge on how low they can push power consumption.
I bet a Turion can do that at 800MHz...
I have a 4200 rpm laptop hard drive, yes. Whether this counts as "crap" is up to you (it's certainly slower than most), but the point remains: emerge never gives me issues, while windows update does.
So it's not bluescreens any more, but the stability argument still stands.
My laptop dualboots Windows/Linux. The Windows half has been known to freeze, often because of a Microsoft process (explorer.exe going nuts and taking 99% CPU; Windows Update maxing out my disk I/O for 20 minutes installing SP2; and harder locks that have to be fixed with a powercycle).
Linux hasn't done that to me, and I work it just as hard.
Anecdotes don't prove a conclusion, but hard data is just a collection of data points, and this data point says: Windows is less stable.
The point is that your Athlon 64 uses whole whopping gobs less power than a P4.
My entire Athlon 64 system can run at full load (playing Counterstrike or something) on less power than a P4 idles on.
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I worked for Marshall Space Flight Center a few years ago (as a student research monkey), doing some sciencey stuff (microwave-plasma chemical vapor deposition of diamond) that involved cool purple glows coming from vacuum chambers and forests of tubes running everywhere. However, I also got drug around to fix computers, since people discovered I could do that. Now, this being a wasteful government facility (not necessarily redundant), they had a contract with Dell that everyone got a new computer every year, whether they wanted one or not. (Meanwhile, the broken Pentium-100 that controlled the electron microscope in the lab was still broken.)
/lost the goddamn plans/, and their managers are too busy putting caution stickers on windows to fire the deadwood and work on spaceflight.)
This also being Alabama, any organization will have people hired on affirmative action that do no work and can't be fired; it's apparently cheaper just to pay them than to try to get rid of them. NASA, as a government outfit, was worse in this regard than most.
So, my supervisor shared an office with one of these. All I saw him do was:
1) Order office supplies by the carton and leave them sitting in his office
2) Post his passwords on stickynotes above his desk
3) Talk about golf on the phone
4) Play Solitaire
After he got his contractually-mandated "hardware refresh" (some guy wheels in a new computer, hooks it up, and wheels his old one out), he couldn't play Solitaire, because he couldn't find the icon.
This guy asked me to make him a nice userfriendly "Click here to play Solitaire" desktop icon.
This is the same facility that has these little yellow stickers on all the windows: "Warning: GLASS. Do not lean on or apply pressure; glass will break."
(Offtopic rant: I find it hard to believe that these are the organizational descendents of the Von Braun rocket team. Huntsville, AL's symbol is the large Saturn V rocket that's visible from most of the city; yet NASA can't even build one any more. Why? They've
Maybe IIS was included with my install of Windows XP.
Maybe it wasn't. I have no clue; I guess I could go look at the list of services I disabled that Microsoft enables by default and see if it's on there.
I wanted to serve webpages the other day. I downloaded Apache and set it up in ten minutes -- no fuss.
If you were to google, in succession, "Tibet", "democracy", "writings of Thomas Jefferson", "PGP", "Freenet", "steganography", and "Mao Zedong is a moron", I bet you'd be disappeared by the Chinese government.
So googling is a crime in China, but massive fraud isn't?
I think some country needs to reexamine their legal system.
What I would like:
I would like to be able to go download a recording of , and would like at least 80% of the money I pay for it to go to the composer and the performers. They, after all, did the hard work.
I would like this recording to be available as a plain old 192kbps mp3 or 160kbps ogg, or a FLAC encode, at my choice.
Is that really so hard to ask?
Does there need to be? I'm not an EE, but how much power do you really need to run a "wake me up if the potential across these two wires exceeds 10 mV" circuit?
Back when I used Napster, I got a napster IM from a guy who had made one of the songs on my machine.
He was quite pleased, and kept asking me what I thought of different parts, different effects, and the like.
I don't understand what a cable box needs 30-45W for, anyway. My entire computer -- display, disks, RAM, processor, etc. -- runs on 20W with the screen dimmed a bit, and it's a desktop-replacement laptop. I'm a physicist, not an engineer, so I may be missing something -- but what the hell does a cable box need that much power for?
Logitech used to make some computer speakers that would go soft off if they didn't receive a (non-noise) signal for a minute or so. Their newer ones don't seem to do that; I've got a more modern set, and the cooling fins on the back of the sub are warm when there's no signal.
Hibernate works fine on my laptop -- if I don't use all 1.25 GiB of RAM at any time before hibernating. (I have plenty of disk space -- it's a windows bug.)
Maybe it's a laptop/desktop thing?
Parent is right -- I was talking about X, the thing that draws pretty pictures on my LCD when I type "startx".
What a dumb name for a bit of software.
Under that logic they should ban extremely strong people trained in unarmed combat (probably many members of the Marines!) from airplanes, because their fists can be used as a weapon.
The implication is that kiddies aren't going to go to the trouble to install drivers for filesystems on other partitions; the most common sort are more interested in DoS'ing IRC servers.