Lets say Pentium 4 is the biggest blunder Intel made.
That is excatly what people said about the Pentium Pro when it came out and ran 16-bit code slower than the Pentium. And look what happend. The P6 arch proved to be extremly scalable, extensible, and yes, profitable. At this early point, I see no reason to assume that PentiumIV can't repeat this.
If you uare all so proud and in love with your culture, why do you need to have arbitary restrictions to protect it? If it's so great it will surely survive on it's own merits.
Phew, for a moment I was afraid that I might have to stop masturbating in the garden. But if they double the resolution, I'll be in big trouble..
Of course, the optical resolution doesn't really matter, they can always zoom in the picture to get more detail. You know, like they do on The X-Files.
I love IBM because of things like this. While companies like Intel, Microsoft, even RedHat to some extent seem to only care about money and short term gains, it warms my hart to see a company spending almost 30 years developing a new memory technology. I love S/390 and their other mainframes, even though I've never used one (not that I know of atleast). I know I'm being too harsh on Intel, and not harsh enough on IBM - they are both in it for the money. Still, when I think of IBM all I can think is how much solid research and engineering that company has done, and the nerd in me is ready to forgive everything. I mean....how could you not love them?
Where in my post did I say I have a problem with unispaced text? I think the CODE-tag is very handy when you need to display code, and I won't be happy if ROb feels the need to remove it. Just like SUB and SUP were handy (H2O, E=mc2), but are now gone because people felt it was ok to fuck around with them.
And yes, you really should stop using Lynx, w3m is much better.
What the hell are you babbling about? Doing innovative things requires more transistors, so shrinking the beast is an absolute must. Look at your beloved UltraSPARC-III, 360mm2 die. That's not big, it's HUGE.
In any case, what is
wrong with using a smaller process? If it makes the chip faster/cooler, I don't see any reason to complain.
Isn't the DC supposed to have some kind of Internet connectivity option?
A DC distributed.net / seti@home client might be a cool thing to have (true, no real benefit in there either but consoles are basicly just toys, so what do you expect).
I suppose you could make a DCLinux-distribution with some productivity tools and turn your console into Network Computer.
Part of the reason that schedulers on modern chips are so complex is that good compilers are rare. If the compiler produced optimally-ordered code, you could dispense without-of-order execution and save a huge amount of silicon and effort. In practice, however, this kind of code is rare, so the scheduler stays in.
No, the schedulers needs to stay in because it is not possible to do all things in software. Things like register renaming and micro-op scheduling. The instruction set doesn't support it so you do it in hardware. x86 may not optimize all that well, but considering the complex ISA and the existance of multiple generations of CPUs from multiple vendors, you really cant optimize for any specific arch. RISC compilers tend to do a lot better (one vendor + good ISA = better optimization).
After 5 years of serving the demoscene community, we have run into a few problems. Like the Hornet archive, the Scene.org archive is growing exponentially and therefore, the demand on our system is also getting higher and higher. In the past few years, we always were able to solve these problems internally by finding staff members willing to invest in upgrading the system. Unfortunately, the volunteers that help run the archive can't do it themselves anymore. This is why we are asking you, our users, to help us.
How can you help?
You can help by donating money to scene.org. All money will go into upgrading the archive, and will allow us to improve our services to you and the rest of the scene.
We are also looking for corporate sponsors. The return on a sponsorship involves advertising the company on the archive. This is an ideal method for a company to reach a global potential customer base of young, talented and motivated people in the computer and design business.
Thirdly, we are looking for mirrors for our archive. Mirrors help us with lowering the demand on our main server and improve the availability of the archive around the world.
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If you dont know what scene.org is about, you're missing out. Check it out.
You know what looks even more real?
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Television. The people don't look real, the ARE real (kinda). And they kill/get killed. If kids really were unable to tell the difference between fiction and reality, half of the slashdot audience would have atleast one confirmed kill.
The chip has been out two four days, but the Pentium 4 errata is already 40 entries long. You shouldn't even consider building Pentium4 based servers at this early stage. More debugging needed.
I'm sick of this. "Gnutella's going to collapse! We need new innovation! It doesn't scale!"
Well, it doesn't scale. In it's current incarnation Gnutella isn't worth shit. I hear Freenet does nice things with automatic mirroring atc. something which gnutella definately needs.
Let Gnutella split into multiple networks.
Gnutella could be split into multiple networks based on content, one for music, one for movies etc. Geography could (should) also be used, let Europe and America have separate networks, downloading from an overseas modem user is just dumb. Still, the protocol does need work to become usable.
> Lack of Productivity Software. (Yes, I like Word and Outlook).
Do you like VBS worms?
Yet another nice, typical Linux-answer.
- "I can't do my work using Linux because I need application XYZ"
- "That's stupid and so are you, just use the same software I use. If it's good enough for me, it's good enough for the rest of the world".
If you're into legos, I might want to check this movie out. The movie itself is somewhat odd (a good thing really), but the animation is.. well, it's no Toy Story, but I liked it.
"Several officials, including members of the Senior Intelligence Service, a cadre of career officers at the upper reaches of the civil service system, have been suspended with pay for the past six months while senior CIA officials try to determine what punishment is appropriate."
No need to take further action then, these people have already been punished hard enough!
Aren't we supposed to be the very ICON of Democracy at work?
That maybe a popular mantra in American media, and I'm sure a lot of American people buy it (not all, thank God). Let me assure you though that the rest of the world really doesn't think the USA as prime example of democracy (nor does anyone think the US is the poster boy of human rights, a claim that is often made by American politicans).
I was surprised that none of the large news sites had text-only versions of the data. You don't lose a lot of information or usability converting small
tables to plain text, and you save a whole lot of bandwidth.
I believe they stopped doing that after the 1996 election becaus people were complaining about the ASCII banner ads.
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That is excatly what people said about the Pentium Pro when it came out and ran 16-bit code slower than the Pentium. And look what happend. The P6 arch proved to be extremly scalable, extensible, and yes, profitable. At this early point, I see no reason to assume that PentiumIV can't repeat this.
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Of course, the optical resolution doesn't really matter, they can always zoom in the picture to get more detail. You know, like they do on The X-Files.
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And yes, you really should stop using Lynx, w3m is much better.
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In any case, what is wrong with using a smaller process? If it makes the chip faster/cooler, I don't see any reason to complain.
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A DC distributed.net / seti@home client might be a cool thing to have (true, no real benefit in there either but consoles are basicly just toys, so what do you expect).
I suppose you could make a DCLinux-distribution with some productivity tools and turn your console into Network Computer.
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No, the schedulers needs to stay in because it is not possible to do all things in software. Things like register renaming and micro-op scheduling. The instruction set doesn't support it so you do it in hardware. x86 may not optimize all that well, but considering the complex ISA and the existance of multiple generations of CPUs from multiple vendors, you really cant optimize for any specific arch. RISC compilers tend to do a lot better (one vendor + good ISA = better optimization) .
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After 5 years of serving the demoscene community, we have run into a few problems. Like the Hornet archive, the Scene.org archive is growing exponentially and therefore, the demand on our system is also getting higher and higher. In the past few years, we always were able to solve these problems internally by finding staff members willing to invest in upgrading the system. Unfortunately, the volunteers that help run the archive can't do it themselves anymore. This is why we are asking you, our users, to help us.
How can you help?
- You can help by donating money to scene.org. All money will go into upgrading the archive, and will allow us to improve our services to you and the rest of the scene.
- We are also looking for corporate sponsors. The return on a sponsorship involves advertising the company on the archive. This is an ideal method for a company to reach a global potential customer base of young, talented and motivated people in the computer and design business.
- Thirdly, we are looking for mirrors for our archive. Mirrors help us with lowering the demand on our main server and improve the availability of the archive around the world.
</longquote>If you dont know what scene.org is about, you're missing out. Check it out.
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As stated in messages posted earlier, YES. It is legal, and has been before this too.
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Lets all hope the guy writing the eulogy doesn't come to Slashdot seeking for inspiration..
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Well, it doesn't scale. In it's current incarnation Gnutella isn't worth shit. I hear Freenet does nice things with automatic mirroring atc. something which gnutella definately needs.
Let Gnutella split into multiple networks.
Gnutella could be split into multiple networks based on content, one for music, one for movies etc. Geography could (should) also be used, let Europe and America have separate networks, downloading from an overseas modem user is just dumb. Still, the protocol does need work to become usable.
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Do you like VBS worms?
Yet another nice, typical Linux-answer.
- "I can't do my work using Linux because I need application XYZ"
- "That's stupid and so are you, just use the same software I use. If it's good enough for me, it's good enough for the rest of the world".
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I'm guessing too much, and for a long time too. It is going to take a while before there will be competition on this market.
DVD-ROM media is at $25, why should i pay it?
CD-R used to be $40, it'll come down pretty fast.
What can i do now with a $25, 4GB DVD-ROM that i cannot do with $3 worth of CD-ROMs (6 CD-ROMs)
Burn 4 gigabytes of data on one disk? Seriously, I counted having 97 CDs on my desk, I would love to have only 20 DVDs instead.
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No need to take further action then, these people have already been punished hard enough!
It's good to be thorough, but six months?
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That maybe a popular mantra in American media, and I'm sure a lot of American people buy it (not all, thank God). Let me assure you though that the rest of the world really doesn't think the USA as prime example of democracy (nor does anyone think the US is the poster boy of human rights, a claim that is often made by American politicans).
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I believe they stopped doing that after the 1996 election becaus people were complaining about the ASCII banner ads.
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