Translation: the last six months since you started reading slashdot and grew pubic hair.
History lesson: Go back before AMD bought nexgen in mid-90's. If it wasn't for Nexgen, AMD would have folded long ago. On their own, all they had was a K5, which sucked. Once they bought all of NexGen's brainpower with the chump change they made from ramping flash (Intel fumbled the flash market in 93-94, which let AMD win some capital $$$), Nexgen all but handed over the k6 and k7.
So does AMD deserve credit for the K6 and K7?
Reworded: does a company deserve credit for intellectual property that it purchases?
Tough call. I would say, yes, they do. It all comes from talented engineers, and whatever faceless company that they're a slave to owns the rights to their intellect. AMD had very little talent in the late 80's-early 90's, then they bought some. The exact same way that Intel is trying to buy dominance in the networking world. Isn't that capitalism?
Personally, I love the competition, and I want to see AMD get spanked because Sanders is an idiot and the underdog deserves a boot to the head once and while... but then again I'm a big fan of schadenfreuda (sp?)... and I own too much Intel stock.
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Careful: when you assume that your opinions are of the 'common' denominator it sounds like right tyrannical attitude. Catholics think lots of silly things are common sense, like virgin births and miracles. Pol Pot and Milosovich thought a silly thing like genocide was common sense.
But then again, someone's beliefs are always gonna get boned. Fuck, 30% of Alabama thinks the law banning interractial marriage should be left alone. What the fuck is up with that? And we expect these cretins and yokels to grapple with genetics?
who's the comic with the 'fuck common sense, we need elite sense' bit?
(sorry if this came out twice, first post was accidentally AC and I tried to halt it) --- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
If the good guys gain as much notoriety as the bad guys... you get the idea.
This was exactly my first reaction to the article.
I think this is a unique sicha-ashun because as a white hat there is more of an opportunity to be recognized: black hat, BH'ers, have to stay underground lest they be Mitnickized)
WH'ers can strut around with their real names and show how smart they are. I think this lends itself to more competition to be declared as the top dog WH.
However, BH'ers are driven by different goals. They want to screw things up for personal gratification, and are content to drop the bomb and fly away to watch the damage from afar, silently. That element will never go away.
Chicken-Egg: will there always be more holes to exploit maliciously, or more holes to fix virtuously?
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Hmph. Not a bad idea. I mean, I realize it is pure sarcasm, but isn't that what is happening already? Illegal aliens work for less than minimum wage and have limited constitutional rights. You do have a point there. How often do people rationally challenge the constitution? Should people really have all of those rights? No. Are all men (and not women!) created equal? No. Are thoughts dangerous? Yes. Just some ideas to question before assuming the bill of rights is worth the paper it's printed on.
Mao wants YOU!
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
I read something (abcnews? salon?) that said, paraphrased, "[if moores law holds and quantum computing doesn't hit the mainstraim, we should get ~30 years out of this.]"
That makes me nervous. I know that conspiracy theorists claim the government has wacky superior technology, and I'm a firm believer that the government doesn't pay well enough to retain such talent, but it makes me wonder just what they keep from us.
My question is: how long does it take to deploy this new crypto the most mission critical areas? Like banks, brokers, IRS, medical, etc.?? I'm asking because let's say IBM demonstrates a QC in the next 5 years that can crack the new crypto? How soon can the infrastructure absorb and assimilate sweeping new protocols?
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
The one where you're stuck in the dark place and it "lies"
Was that the one about the painfully bright light stabbing at the front/back of your eyes? I found it particularly nasty b/c it required more retention. You had to remember exactly what the descriptions were (beyond the typical 2-3 moves) to notice the clue. Doesn't that merit a real challenge?
Now Suspended and A Mind Forever Voyaging were a waste of money. And the end of Infidel stuck in my craw, as you put it.
And thanks for the tip on Photopia.
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
not until the first live colonoscopy. what was that bladder-in-the-butt thing in the movie "The Right Stuff"? that's why i never wanted to be an astronaut: mind-over-bowels doesn't sound heroic. --- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Infocom's rating system was dead on. They're highest difficulty level was just that. Collecting all 16 cubes to make the hypercube at the end was a feat of stamina.
But here's my question:
Is a puzzle hard because the description and interaction blows? or is it truly a hard puzzle, regardless of how well it is described?
I always wondered whether spellbreaker was just poorly described or if the puzzles were truly difficult.
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
For decades, plumbers, masons and carpenters were tradesmen heroes. That's changed for some reason: at some point, it became a joke to be a plumber, but when you really need one, its very hard to find one with integrity and skill. Most of you will learn that the first time you buy a house.
I look at IT as the tradesmen of the 21st century. ITers are like the 'physical laborers' of the new age. Granted, they need a considerable amount of skill (I've tried my hand at masonry, it ain't easy).
Vertical IT skills can be learned at one's own pace. They are very focused and are a skill, I'd say a trade. And you can definitely make a healthy living off of it.
For mature enough individuals who don't need day-care, college is a very valuable place to be for four or more years. No where else do you have the opportunity to learn so much so quickly. It is a very broad learning arena.
I question anyone who would say you can learn the same stuff at your own pace that you learn at college. That's a complete load. (Well, assuming you are referring to a real college.) College is an 50-80 hour a week job. There's no time to learn that hard, that fast, with knowledgable mentors.
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
This may be a bit offtopic, but it does relate to drivers 'n hardware from outside the company.
Does anyone have info on how to communicate with an Identix TouchSafe TS-500 fingerprint scanner. A local chop shop just got in about 100 of them and I'd like to play with it.
Thx.
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
An entirely new reality will emerge in cyberspace, ruled by a cognitive elite based in cities like Frankfurt, London, San Jose, Singapore and Tokyo.
This seems like an odd thing to say. Why would the author point out where congnitive elite would exist when it sounds like his theory does away with this type of elitism? I didn't read the book, but from the summary I got the impression of ``utopian world with like minded people living in harmony''.
To answer the author's last question:
Are we the first citizens of a new kind of society? Or simply participants in the ongoing modification of the old one?
One thing wasn't mentioned: marketing. People make up the society, and people are led by the marketeers of monopolistic coroporations. Any ideas of freedom and sovereignty are illusions given to us by the market. Putting on my conspiracy hat, I think there was quite of bit of psychology done in the past half-century, yeilding highly effective tools for mind control. Some military, some corporate. This goes light years beyond Nader's whistle-blowing on shoddy manufacturing.
My point/answer is: now that there has been several decades to observe the effects of this manipulating psychology used to convert people into consumers by the herds, it has been fine-tuned to deadly accuracy. Any discussion about our role as sovereign free agents is moot, Americans are sheep and meme of capitalism and disposable income is spreading to other countries rapidly, soon to engulf the world.
Perhaps the topic of the book is yet another marketing ploy to get us to buy more books on how we can become more sovereign.
The next rulers to supplant fatigued nation states will be invisible. The next rulers will be more user friendly the politicians. They will be virtual machines made by a market driven economy bent on making us spend even more money.
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
processor from a different company, or switch to a mac;)
According to the article, the G4 heatsink is bigger.
Unless you meant iMac, or the fanless cubicmac. Mmmm. Fanless.... --- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Think about this: as soon as _any_ transmeta system is available, the poor thing is gonna get violated in more ways than an orphan in michael jackson's playroom. everyone is gonna run every benchmark known to man to find out where it breaks and where it excels.
I'm all for challenging the wintel design in laptops, but i also think transmeta will fall off the radar faster than Sematech. Remember when Sematech was formed and was going to overthrow Intel!? I was interviewing for them at the time and god-damn the promotional videos were funny! You'd think Intel was Adolph Hitler and Sematech was Jesus Christ.
Since i'm also a proven clairvoyant;-), i already know what's gonna happen. Here's my prediction list:
1. Transmeta will get bulldozed for anything other than web page rendering, dvd playback, and whatever custom apps they insist on.
2. Transmeta at X MHz will perform as fast as.5X Mhz Intel CPU at slightly less power.
3. Intel is gonna eat their lunch using a low voltage celeron running at 300-400 MHz and Ziff-Davis benchmarks, plastering the key results EVERYWHERE.
4. Transmeta devices will pop up from big names SOLELY for the purpose of inflating the stock.
5. A few design wins for Transmeta will go to small companies b/c why would Intel ship primo product to insignificant companies?
Regardless, I see the flame-wars a-comin'...
Anantech vs. Tomshardware
Slashdot vs. Ziff-Davis
Steel cage deathmatch!
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Re:Looks like buying the StrongARM team is paying
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but I do wish that Intel would be more 'honest' with its figures.
I agree, but remember: they have to compete with the Transmeta spindoctors, who play the same game. Transmeta did quite a bit of damage to the traditional method of determining power requirements. Intel is using some of their tricks against them. AMD is starting to get the hint, but their K7 parts are way too hot to even consider jumping into this arena, which is why they still push low power K6-2.
Again, once we can put side-by-side Intel, Transmeta and AMD portables and compare them on a large variety of benchmarks (both power, performance and battery life), we'll have to wade through all of this marketing crap coming from all sides.
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
1. Non AT&T assembler syntax
2. Flat-model protected mode
(3. P6 opcodes in the assembler)
Since these are 99% of my requirements, I'm entitled to use the qualifier "way better".;-)
Also, speed isn't an issue for my code, but the website you pointed me to is very interesting. I did the same experiment a while ago with a raytracing program I wrote. I found that intel's proton compiler (w/help from Vtune) was even faster than my version of gcc and mvsc 6.0. I'd like to see the comparison.
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Let me get this straight: 19-year-old CEO of MP3.com has to pay multinational billion-dollar corporation Sony $20 million because of copyright infringement? (Heh heh, sounds like the opposite of the 80's lawsuit with the woman who burned her crotch on a hot cup of McD's coffee and won multimill$$$)
Doesn't this seem a bit like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer? MP3.com is wrong, they violated copyrights, but what the fuck... Another attempt by the courts to deter by example a-la Mitnick, perhaps?
I guess this is reassuring because whenever an enemy strikes with such excessive force, and in such a state of panic, it means they are unsure of themselves and their future.
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Anybody remember the kickass game Crossbows and Catapults
I got everything in the set, even the dragon and the battering ram, for B-day when I was like 9. Sadly I only played it once, at my birthday party, b/c I didn't have any friends when I was a kid.:( If only online gaming existed when I was younger...
Anyway, it sat in it's box for 5-6 more years and my mom sold it at tag sale with my ENTIRE set of Bantha Tracks newsletters!!! I was pissed for several years at that one.
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Then what do you suggest, That Intel and AMD simply pat each other on the back and close up shop? "Yep, we made it to a gigahertz, and no one needs anything faster than that so we can convert all of those fabs into hydroponic potato farms...";-)
Every next core that the two of them come out with has a few neat tweaks inside, but they are minor. It's pretty hard to come up with an earthshattering new archiecture every few months.
If you feel pressured to buy a new PC every year, get a different hobby, or get counseling.
Since when did people accept, without question, WITHOUT QUESTION, that they need to spend $2k on a new PC every 1-2 years!? To me, that is absurd. When did the brainwashing happen? How did we all miss it without doing anything?
Or is this just what it's like to live in on an exponential curve?
--- Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Busted. Ok, I used a tiny bit of hyperbole, I didn't exactly have "classes" for all of the subjects per se... I took University of Connecticut extensions my senior year as part of an independent study program. I took two semesters: diffeq (1) and complex (2). Keep in mind I didn't need to actually "pass" these classes. I learned basic linear (matrix math, g/j elimination, inverses) Junior year from a very good teacher.
Like other people who had taken college-level classes in highschool, I took all of these classes again as an undergrad hoping to ace everything, and got boned.
I know goths that wear leather year round and RPG/MtG addicts who wear trenchcoats even during California heatwaves.
Personally, I'd like to see Palm-like electronics (mapping, browsing, email, mp3, even cell phone) built into my sporty straightjacket from Lip Service.
If we want kids to start soaking up QM, may I suggest starting with calculus?
I think you missed my point. Right now the basics of QM computations barely exist. It's like we're pre-Turing/Babbage right now, perhaps even pre-Ptolemaic (sp?) w.r.t. QM. It would help to dislodge the predisposition for axiomatic logic through a voluntary effort on the part of anyone motivated to grasp this new science. Dr David Goodstein, in his brillian Mechanical Universe Series, compares all of the old discarded theories to a scaffolding from which new theories are engineered. But he considers his scaffolding benign, whereas I think it is damanging. Yes, I'm a meme-ist.
BTW, I had every class you mentioned before I left highschool (except topology). My original comment was addressed to aspiring young nerds like my early self. Unfortunately I was derailed in college due to sex and drugs, oh yeaaahhhh...
Word: If you're between the ages of 14-18, START STUDYING QUANTUM COMPUTING NOW!!!
Why? Long explanation:
I read half of a book called Introduction to Quantum Computing (can't remember the author, but I bought it at Siggraph'99 -- there was a huge pile of this book in one booth).
Anyway, the book is great. It's almost a step-by-step guide to the math behind quantum computing while still maintaining the physical analogy. I got to the part where they discuss Feynman's method for building a quantum adder (which was merely a trivial demonstration of how to get a QM to do a classical computation).
In chapter 5 or 6, the book starts explaining how to build a Hamiltonion (QM operator function, kinda like a Laplace transfer function H(s)) for the square root of a NOT gate, I realized that anyone who's brain has been fed classical computing concepts based on Turing and Von Neuman is DOOMED to not grok this stuff (or perhaps it's becuase I'm almost 30 and my brain has turned to sand). It's kinda like trying to go from C to LISP.
So kids, that's why I recommend that you start growing the synapses now. Start growing the synapses that will help you understand this stuff before the patterns of classical computing cure in your young gray matter.
(Yeah I love how every reporter goes from: "Fascinating new qubit which is 0 and 1 simultaneously because of spin..." to "...so the qubits add all of the numbers at once to find the asnwer in one step". If you can't explain something in a 5th grade english, you don't understand it.)
Slashdot Mirror
"Always"?
Translation: the last six months since you started reading slashdot and grew pubic hair.
History lesson: Go back before AMD bought nexgen in mid-90's. If it wasn't for Nexgen, AMD would have folded long ago. On their own, all they had was a K5, which sucked. Once they bought all of NexGen's brainpower with the chump change they made from ramping flash (Intel fumbled the flash market in 93-94, which let AMD win some capital $$$), Nexgen all but handed over the k6 and k7.
So does AMD deserve credit for the K6 and K7?
Reworded: does a company deserve credit for intellectual property that it purchases?
Tough call. I would say, yes, they do. It all comes from talented engineers, and whatever faceless company that they're a slave to owns the rights to their intellect. AMD had very little talent in the late 80's-early 90's, then they bought some. The exact same way that Intel is trying to buy dominance in the networking world. Isn't that capitalism?
Personally, I love the competition, and I want to see AMD get spanked because Sanders is an idiot and the underdog deserves a boot to the head once and while... but then again I'm a big fan of schadenfreuda (sp?)
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
it's called common sense
Careful: when you assume that your opinions are of the 'common' denominator it sounds like right tyrannical attitude. Catholics think lots of silly things are common sense, like virgin births and miracles. Pol Pot and Milosovich thought a silly thing like genocide was common sense.
But then again, someone's beliefs are always gonna get boned. Fuck, 30% of Alabama thinks the law banning interractial marriage should be left alone. What the fuck is up with that? And we expect these cretins and yokels to grapple with genetics?
who's the comic with the 'fuck common sense, we need elite sense' bit?
(sorry if this came out twice, first post was accidentally AC and I tried to halt it)
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
If the good guys gain as much notoriety as the bad guys... you get the idea.
This was exactly my first reaction to the article.
I think this is a unique sicha-ashun because as a white hat there is more of an opportunity to be recognized: black hat, BH'ers, have to stay underground lest they be Mitnickized)
WH'ers can strut around with their real names and show how smart they are. I think this lends itself to more competition to be declared as the top dog WH.
However, BH'ers are driven by different goals. They want to screw things up for personal gratification, and are content to drop the bomb and fly away to watch the damage from afar, silently. That element will never go away.
Chicken-Egg: will there always be more holes to exploit maliciously, or more holes to fix virtuously?
---
Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Hmph. Not a bad idea. I mean, I realize it is pure sarcasm, but isn't that what is happening already? Illegal aliens work for less than minimum wage and have limited constitutional rights. You do have a point there. How often do people rationally challenge the constitution? Should people really have all of those rights? No. Are all men (and not women!) created equal? No. Are thoughts dangerous? Yes. Just some ideas to question before assuming the bill of rights is worth the paper it's printed on.
Mao wants YOU!
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Oh yeah? They can scare people into submission. Fancy a twenty-something years in a federal high security facility for treason?
You can't force someone to create, nor invent.
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
I read something (abcnews? salon?) that said, paraphrased, "[if moores law holds and quantum computing doesn't hit the mainstraim, we should get ~30 years out of this.]"
That makes me nervous. I know that conspiracy theorists claim the government has wacky superior technology, and I'm a firm believer that the government doesn't pay well enough to retain such talent, but it makes me wonder just what they keep from us.
My question is: how long does it take to deploy this new crypto the most mission critical areas? Like banks, brokers, IRS, medical, etc.?? I'm asking because let's say IBM demonstrates a QC in the next 5 years that can crack the new crypto? How soon can the infrastructure absorb and assimilate sweeping new protocols?
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
The one where you're stuck in the dark place and it "lies"
Was that the one about the painfully bright light stabbing at the front/back of your eyes? I found it particularly nasty b/c it required more retention. You had to remember exactly what the descriptions were (beyond the typical 2-3 moves) to notice the clue. Doesn't that merit a real challenge?
Now Suspended and A Mind Forever Voyaging were a waste of money. And the end of Infidel stuck in my craw, as you put it.
And thanks for the tip on Photopia.
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
not until the first live colonoscopy. what was that bladder-in-the-butt thing in the movie "The Right Stuff"? that's why i never wanted to be an astronaut: mind-over-bowels doesn't sound heroic.
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Infocom's rating system was dead on. They're highest difficulty level was just that. Collecting all 16 cubes to make the hypercube at the end was a feat of stamina.
But here's my question:
Is a puzzle hard because the description and interaction blows? or is it truly a hard puzzle, regardless of how well it is described?
I always wondered whether spellbreaker was just poorly described or if the puzzles were truly difficult.
---
Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
For decades, plumbers, masons and carpenters were tradesmen heroes. That's changed for some reason: at some point, it became a joke to be a plumber, but when you really need one, its very hard to find one with integrity and skill. Most of you will learn that the first time you buy a house.
I look at IT as the tradesmen of the 21st century. ITers are like the 'physical laborers' of the new age. Granted, they need a considerable amount of skill (I've tried my hand at masonry, it ain't easy).
Vertical IT skills can be learned at one's own pace. They are very focused and are a skill, I'd say a trade. And you can definitely make a healthy living off of it.
For mature enough individuals who don't need day-care, college is a very valuable place to be for four or more years. No where else do you have the opportunity to learn so much so quickly. It is a very broad learning arena.
I question anyone who would say you can learn the same stuff at your own pace that you learn at college. That's a complete load. (Well, assuming you are referring to a real college.) College is an 50-80 hour a week job. There's no time to learn that hard, that fast, with knowledgable mentors.
---
Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
This may be a bit offtopic, but it does relate to drivers 'n hardware from outside the company.
Does anyone have info on how to communicate with an Identix TouchSafe TS-500 fingerprint scanner. A local chop shop just got in about 100 of them and I'd like to play with it.
Thx.
---
Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
An entirely new reality will emerge in cyberspace, ruled by a cognitive elite based in cities like Frankfurt, London, San Jose, Singapore and Tokyo.
This seems like an odd thing to say. Why would the author point out where congnitive elite would exist when it sounds like his theory does away with this type of elitism? I didn't read the book, but from the summary I got the impression of ``utopian world with like minded people living in harmony''.
To answer the author's last question:
Are we the first citizens of a new kind of society? Or simply participants in the ongoing modification of the old one?
One thing wasn't mentioned: marketing. People make up the society, and people are led by the marketeers of monopolistic coroporations. Any ideas of freedom and sovereignty are illusions given to us by the market. Putting on my conspiracy hat, I think there was quite of bit of psychology done in the past half-century, yeilding highly effective tools for mind control. Some military, some corporate. This goes light years beyond Nader's whistle-blowing on shoddy manufacturing.
My point/answer is: now that there has been several decades to observe the effects of this manipulating psychology used to convert people into consumers by the herds, it has been fine-tuned to deadly accuracy. Any discussion about our role as sovereign free agents is moot, Americans are sheep and meme of capitalism and disposable income is spreading to other countries rapidly, soon to engulf the world.
Perhaps the topic of the book is yet another marketing ploy to get us to buy more books on how we can become more sovereign.
The next rulers to supplant fatigued nation states will be invisible. The next rulers will be more user friendly the politicians. They will be virtual machines made by a market driven economy bent on making us spend even more money.
---
Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
processor from a different company, or switch to a mac ;)
According to the article, the G4 heatsink is bigger.
Unless you meant iMac, or the fanless cubicmac. Mmmm. Fanless....
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Think about this: as soon as _any_ transmeta system is available, the poor thing is gonna get violated in more ways than an orphan in michael jackson's playroom. everyone is gonna run every benchmark known to man to find out where it breaks and where it excels.
;-), i already know what's gonna happen. Here's my prediction list:
.5X Mhz Intel CPU at slightly less power.
I'm all for challenging the wintel design in laptops, but i also think transmeta will fall off the radar faster than Sematech. Remember when Sematech was formed and was going to overthrow Intel!? I was interviewing for them at the time and god-damn the promotional videos were funny! You'd think Intel was Adolph Hitler and Sematech was Jesus Christ.
Since i'm also a proven clairvoyant
1. Transmeta will get bulldozed for anything other than web page rendering, dvd playback, and whatever custom apps they insist on.
2. Transmeta at X MHz will perform as fast as
3. Intel is gonna eat their lunch using a low voltage celeron running at 300-400 MHz and Ziff-Davis benchmarks, plastering the key results EVERYWHERE.
4. Transmeta devices will pop up from big names SOLELY for the purpose of inflating the stock.
5. A few design wins for Transmeta will go to small companies b/c why would Intel ship primo product to insignificant companies?
Regardless, I see the flame-wars a-comin'...
Anantech vs. Tomshardware
Slashdot vs. Ziff-Davis
Steel cage deathmatch!
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
but I do wish that Intel would be more 'honest' with its figures.
I agree, but remember: they have to compete with the Transmeta spindoctors, who play the same game. Transmeta did quite a bit of damage to the traditional method of determining power requirements. Intel is using some of their tricks against them. AMD is starting to get the hint, but their K7 parts are way too hot to even consider jumping into this arena, which is why they still push low power K6-2.
Again, once we can put side-by-side Intel, Transmeta and AMD portables and compare them on a large variety of benchmarks (both power, performance and battery life), we'll have to wade through all of this marketing crap coming from all sides.
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
In what way it is better than DJGPP?
;-)
Whoops, sorry!
Two (3) main reasons:
1. Non AT&T assembler syntax
2. Flat-model protected mode
(3. P6 opcodes in the assembler)
Since these are 99% of my requirements, I'm entitled to use the qualifier "way better".
Also, speed isn't an issue for my code, but the website you pointed me to is very interesting. I did the same experiment a while ago with a raytracing program I wrote. I found that intel's proton compiler (w/help from Vtune) was even faster than my version of gcc and mvsc 6.0. I'd like to see the comparison.
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
First, are you sure the CEO is 19?
Wasn't there an article about his mom having to accompany him to some conference b/c he wasn't over 20? I thought that was MP3.com, if not, my bad.
It actually MELTED the cup.
I didn't know that. Thanks for that tidbit.
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
I've been using Watcom for the past 6 years. It is the BEST compiler for DOS-based protected mode. (Way better than DGJPP, btw).
I do quite a bit of hardware design & validation, and operating in DOS4GW mode is essential for focused testing.
This is great news b/c there are bugs I had to work around in v11, now I can fix them myself!!!
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Let me get this straight: 19-year-old CEO of MP3.com has to pay multinational billion-dollar corporation Sony $20 million because of copyright infringement? (Heh heh, sounds like the opposite of the 80's lawsuit with the woman who burned her crotch on a hot cup of McD's coffee and won multimill$$$)
Doesn't this seem a bit like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer? MP3.com is wrong, they violated copyrights, but what the fuck... Another attempt by the courts to deter by example a-la Mitnick, perhaps?
I guess this is reassuring because whenever an enemy strikes with such excessive force, and in such a state of panic, it means they are unsure of themselves and their future.
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Anybody remember the kickass game Crossbows and Catapults
:( If only online gaming existed when I was younger...
I got everything in the set, even the dragon and the battering ram, for B-day when I was like 9. Sadly I only played it once, at my birthday party, b/c I didn't have any friends when I was a kid.
Anyway, it sat in it's box for 5-6 more years and my mom sold it at tag sale with my ENTIRE set of Bantha Tracks newsletters!!! I was pissed for several years at that one.
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Then what do you suggest, That Intel and AMD simply pat each other on the back and close up shop? "Yep, we made it to a gigahertz, and no one needs anything faster than that so we can convert all of those fabs into hydroponic potato farms..." ;-)
Every next core that the two of them come out with has a few neat tweaks inside, but they are minor. It's pretty hard to come up with an earthshattering new archiecture every few months.
If you feel pressured to buy a new PC every year, get a different hobby, or get counseling.
Since when did people accept, without question, WITHOUT QUESTION, that they need to spend $2k on a new PC every 1-2 years!? To me, that is absurd. When did the brainwashing happen? How did we all miss it without doing anything?
Or is this just what it's like to live in on an exponential curve?
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Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
Busted. Ok, I used a tiny bit of hyperbole, I didn't exactly have "classes" for all of the subjects per se... I took University of Connecticut extensions my senior year as part of an independent study program. I took two semesters: diffeq (1) and complex (2). Keep in mind I didn't need to actually "pass" these classes. I learned basic linear (matrix math, g/j elimination, inverses) Junior year from a very good teacher.
Like other people who had taken college-level classes in highschool, I took all of these classes again as an undergrad hoping to ace everything, and got boned.
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Duh! Vanity isn't about comfort! ;-)
I know goths that wear leather year round and RPG/MtG addicts who wear trenchcoats even during California heatwaves.
Personally, I'd like to see Palm-like electronics (mapping, browsing, email, mp3, even cell phone) built into my sporty straightjacket from Lip Service.
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If we want kids to start soaking up QM, may I suggest starting with calculus?
I think you missed my point. Right now the basics of QM computations barely exist. It's like we're pre-Turing/Babbage right now, perhaps even pre-Ptolemaic (sp?) w.r.t. QM. It would help to dislodge the predisposition for axiomatic logic through a voluntary effort on the part of anyone motivated to grasp this new science. Dr David Goodstein, in his brillian Mechanical Universe Series, compares all of the old discarded theories to a scaffolding from which new theories are engineered. But he considers his scaffolding benign, whereas I think it is damanging. Yes, I'm a meme-ist.
BTW, I had every class you mentioned before I left highschool (except topology). My original comment was addressed to aspiring young nerds like my early self. Unfortunately I was derailed in college due to sex and drugs, oh yeaaahhhh...
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Word: If you're between the ages of 14-18, START STUDYING QUANTUM COMPUTING NOW!!!
Why? Long explanation:
I read half of a book called Introduction to Quantum Computing (can't remember the author, but I bought it at Siggraph'99 -- there was a huge pile of this book in one booth).
Anyway, the book is great. It's almost a step-by-step guide to the math behind quantum computing while still maintaining the physical analogy. I got to the part where they discuss Feynman's method for building a quantum adder (which was merely a trivial demonstration of how to get a QM to do a classical computation).
In chapter 5 or 6, the book starts explaining how to build a Hamiltonion (QM operator function, kinda like a Laplace transfer function H(s)) for the square root of a NOT gate, I realized that anyone who's brain has been fed classical computing concepts based on Turing and Von Neuman is DOOMED to not grok this stuff (or perhaps it's becuase I'm almost 30 and my brain has turned to sand). It's kinda like trying to go from C to LISP.
So kids, that's why I recommend that you start growing the synapses now. Start growing the synapses that will help you understand this stuff before the patterns of classical computing cure in your young gray matter.
(Yeah I love how every reporter goes from: "Fascinating new qubit which is 0 and 1 simultaneously because of spin..." to "...so the qubits add all of the numbers at once to find the asnwer in one step". If you can't explain something in a 5th grade english, you don't understand it.)
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