For everyone who keeps restating the mistake that Moore's law deals with PERFORMANCE, please educate yourselves:
"Moore's law is the empirical observation that at our rate of technological development, the complexity of an integrated circuit, with respect to minimum component cost will double in about 18 months."
There could also be censorhsip issues if these briefs are too revealing: I'm not sure what Calvin Klein has to offer for 'court briefs', but Fruit of the Loom's line of court briefs is terrifying...
great idea at some age, but completely non-applicable if you're a family who thinks an extra $20 a month is a big deal, which is a surprisingly large number of people.
Chernobyl is a good example of your point. From what I understand, Three Mile Island is a good example of how to handle the same exact error: if only Chernobyl had been as advanced as 3 Mile, they could have avoided the messy explosion.
I'll plead naivete in thinking that the next generation reactors won't ever go kaboom.
IANAE, but I've been sold on the pebble bed model w.r.t. safety. Granted, a plant still needs to produced these graphite covered balls, but word on the street is that it's impossible for a Chernobyl to happen in one of these babies. Of course, anytime someone says "impossible", that usually means it will happen.
As a person who thinks unregulated business serves only to crack the planet open and shake out the money, I considere myself a "greenie" to a large extent.
Pesonally, I love the idea of nuclear power. I'd rather have a big pile of nuclear waste to guard than a giant cloud of oil/coal pollution that enters the air and the oceans, and destroys the planet.
Thanks for following up to my troll with real info. Nice job.
I raised this with Intel through their compiler support forums. The initial response from Intel was that
"The most recent update of 8.0 compilers should have fixed the run-time issue with -xW and -xK on AMD processors. I don't believe the fix has been carried back to 7.1. It's not deliberate, it's an oversight, due to AMD processors not being supported or tested with those options."
This is grey area: why should intel check optimizations for intel compilers on non-intel CPUS. On the one hand, its good coding practice. On the other, it is extra validation cycles cause by user error. Intel should have flagged an Intel option being used on a non-Intel processor, rather than writing out bogus code.
On the third hand, there are bugs in GCC that affect specific CPU types, but no one claims GNU is biased.
Fortunately, there are an equal number of joe sixpacks who like to brag 'bout gettin' one a dem fitty gigahergetz majiggies to impress their beer swillin bretheren.
They walked in, asked for documents they had called about. Intel's lawyers were there waiting because they had been notified, and handed over everything they asked for.
So it wasn't a swat team breaking down doors catching barret with has pants down in front of a goat while grove was cramming confidential documents into his mouth.
Sad? If these were the ORIGINALS I would bid, but they look like 90's editions. Foo! Only two of them have original covers (A4 and the AD&D DMG). Ok, I'm a pedant.;-)
for those of us too nerdy even to cavort with other nerds, PC-based RPGs (and when I say PC, I mean Apple//e and C64) provide the nostalgia. my experiences finally playing D&D after years of electronic RPGs was that the former sucked balls. in fact, the Dr. Demento show did a skit on D&D that perfectly mirrored my encounters.
but i still love to read the modules by myself. i spent many years reading D&D material and hoped one day that i'd play a game that matched my expectations. never happened. now my adult ADHD prevents me from enjoying something like this.;-)
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For everyone who keeps restating the mistake that Moore's law deals with PERFORMANCE, please educate yourselves:
"Moore's law is the empirical observation that at our rate of technological development, the complexity of an integrated circuit, with respect to minimum component cost will double in about 18 months."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_Law
How bout that, NOTHING about performance.
Oh the irony.
Of course, you totally swallowed Transmeta's BS marketing hype without question. What gives? Still locked in the fantasy world of 1997?
Its funny that you don't understand Moore's law.
Go look it up on wikipedia.
Hint: it has nothing to do with performance.
Indeed! I was thinking the exact same thing while reading it.
What a nimrod.
They could argue in court briefs
There could also be censorhsip issues if these briefs are too revealing: I'm not sure what Calvin Klein has to offer for 'court briefs', but Fruit of the Loom's line of court briefs is terrifying...
Dillhole:
Pentium M is a low power pentium 3. the same old p6 architecture from 1996.
Pentium 4 architecture came after Pentium 3, hence "the latest".
Got it? Good.
In many countries like Brazil, it's completely impossible to run a business and abide by the labyrinthe of complicated and conflicting laws
Odd, that sounds just like the movie "Brazil".
great idea at some age, but completely non-applicable if you're a family who thinks an extra $20 a month is a big deal, which is a surprisingly large number of people.
Sounds Vaguely familiar to this:
http://www.epic.org/crypto/clipper/
I'd love to blame this on the paranoid Republican control-freak administrations of the 80's, but the clipper lasted into the Clinton years.
Is this new FCC initiative similar?
Great. That's $500 x 300,000 of US taxpayer money.
Stupid idea.
Linux machines need a support staff. Windows machines can get by with phone support.
Nice job, whoever wrote the article!
/. community.
You managed to scare up 1200+ posts with a poorly written rant.
Not sure who looks worse: you or the
Nicely done!
Chernobyl is a good example of your point. From what I understand, Three Mile Island is a good example of how to handle the same exact error: if only Chernobyl had been as advanced as 3 Mile, they could have avoided the messy explosion.
I'll plead naivete in thinking that the next generation reactors won't ever go kaboom.
IANAE, but I've been sold on the pebble bed model w.r.t. safety. Granted, a plant still needs to produced these graphite covered balls, but word on the street is that it's impossible for a Chernobyl to happen in one of these babies. Of course, anytime someone says "impossible", that usually means it will happen.
As a person who thinks unregulated business serves only to crack the planet open and shake out the money, I considere myself a "greenie" to a large extent.
Pesonally, I love the idea of nuclear power. I'd rather have a big pile of nuclear waste to guard than a giant cloud of oil/coal pollution that enters the air and the oceans, and destroys the planet.
"Giant Fucking Flamewar on /.: Story @ 11"
Thanks for following up to my troll with real info. Nice job.
I raised this with Intel through their compiler support forums. The initial response from Intel was that
"The most recent update of 8.0 compilers should have fixed the run-time issue with -xW and -xK on AMD processors. I don't believe the fix has been carried back to 7.1. It's not deliberate, it's an oversight, due to AMD processors not being supported or tested with those options."
This is grey area: why should intel check optimizations for intel compilers on non-intel CPUS. On the one hand, its good coding practice. On the other, it is extra validation cycles cause by user error. Intel should have flagged an Intel option being used on a non-Intel processor, rather than writing out bogus code.
On the third hand, there are bugs in GCC that affect specific CPU types, but no one claims GNU is biased.
I'm out of hands, but thanks for the example.
Fortunately, there are an equal number of joe sixpacks who like to brag 'bout gettin' one a dem fitty gigahergetz majiggies to impress their beer swillin bretheren.
An insignificant sub-% of the market. Rock on.
8 years == 1997.
Yawn.
Or half your life if you're 16.
Maybe a big deal.
Does it run on my 80286 "Leading Edge" clone? That would be impressive.
I don't see the trend today.
That's because you don't see Intel's roadmaps. IBM and Apple and every other OEM do.
A bit overzealous term.
They walked in, asked for documents they had called about. Intel's lawyers were there waiting because they had been notified, and handed over everything they asked for.
So it wasn't a swat team breaking down doors catching barret with has pants down in front of a goat while grove was cramming confidential documents into his mouth.
Yes, Intel should spend its R&D budget developing an optimized compiler for AMD.
I'm glad we have a bunch of liberal socialists supporting AMD.
Excuse me while I go listen to Rush's "The Trees" and read some Ayn Rand.
Maybe you should RTFA...
AMD claims that Intel compilers cause AMD cpus to crash based on CPUID.
that's just pathetic--
intel compilers make AMD CPUs crash?
please.
specify exactly how intel compilers do this and maybe you have a case. show an ASM code snippet at least.
the two paragraphs that bitch about CPUID are complete bullshit.
can't win? sue.
it's the american way.
Sad? If these were the ORIGINALS I would bid, but they look like 90's editions. Foo! Only two of them have original covers (A4 and the AD&D DMG). Ok, I'm a pedant. ;-)
for those of us too nerdy even to cavort with other nerds, PC-based RPGs (and when I say PC, I mean Apple //e and C64) provide the nostalgia. my experiences finally playing D&D after years of electronic RPGs was that the former sucked balls. in fact, the Dr. Demento show did a skit on D&D that perfectly mirrored my encounters.
;-)
but i still love to read the modules by myself. i spent many years reading D&D material and hoped one day that i'd play a game that matched my expectations. never happened. now my adult ADHD prevents me from enjoying something like this.
Morpheme?
"Cure for Pain" was an awesome album!