It seems detractors like to harp on IPC drawbacks of the P4. The instructions per cycle comparison really doesn't hold much water. I don't think Intel intended for the P4 to have a higher IPC than its predecessors.
The Netburst trick did hold out for a couple years in giving better peak performance than AMD, and that I will give it, because Intel did keep a fair lead in high-end performance for that long with Netburst. IIRC, back when Intel had introduced the 3.06 GHz chip, AMD was just releasing their 2600+. It didn't give them enough lead to compete effectively against the Athlon 64 though.
A Pentium M reformulated to desktop would be nice though. The low power fabbing itself is probably a drawback in terms of cost, although I can see the low power being a benefit even given the added cost, especially in IT where every watt consumed costs money, and also in terms of keeping the AC going to remove that extra heat.
Either that or you get a PCI/PCIe/PCI-X bus to do the bus sharing for you, although all those interfaces can be used externally, and S-ATA wasn't really inteneded for that. S-ATA was meant to be a point-to-point interface so that it could ramp up the interface a silly lot, to 1.5Gbps.
Uh, that sort of chemistry falls under organic chemistry. Organic chemistry was the third class to take in the chemistry track at the schools I went to, but non chem-majors only needed to take the first two.
Why are there slashdotters that believe memory chips will replace hard drives on a large scale any time soon?
2TB is the addressing limit of that standard, not the amount of memory they will have. 2TB memory cards will take a loooong time to be released, esp. given that 8GB CF cards aren't available, 4GB CF cards are still pretty expensive, if available at all.
Because flash memory cards follow RAM in costs, I doubt flash drives will replace hard drives any time soon unless you want your hard drive to be as small as your RAM space. Very similar processes are used, and I don't think the cost of making 32MB RAM chips are much different than 32MB solid state chips, because they are very similar in complexity.
It depends on where software makers think they'll make money, but they could expand functionality such that you'll still want something faster yet.
10Gbit is nice, but I'm not counting on a latency that would beat a 1Gbit network inside the case. 10Gbit network is still great for remote storage though.
With your numbers, if it costs the theater $5 per person in royalties to play a movie, they come out ahead assuming the same number of people would show up either way.
Consider a Pentium M based laptop. The laptops that suck are usually based on desktop Pentium 4 chips, those are the kind that sucks batteries and the CPU burns hot like a fire, because they weren't meant to be put into a laptop, period.
Several models can take 2GB of RAM, and can be had with 2MB cache and a 2GHz clock rate. Being P6-based means that it has a good instructions per cycle (IPC) unlike Pentium 4 chips. You can get efficient laptop hard drives that still run at 7200 RPM.
More pretentious than an Alienware computer and other cases? If it isn't a plain box, it looks like some bad attempt at a warrior box. Blue LEDs? Cathode tubes? Has anyone seen the "gamer's mice"?
Frankly, just about every computer "review" site is pretentious, just pretentious to a different group.
RIAA-approved music in compressed form costs about $200/GB. So it would cost $4000 to fill up an iPod.
Well, I try to buy used CDs or at least buy them at much less than list. That isn't RIAA approved but they still haven't managed to revoke right of first sale, even if they did, they'd have to de-grandfather that to get me, which violates ex post facto.
I run the R3Mix encoding standard on LAME. On a cursory check, I fit maybe an average of 13 CDs per GB, that runs to about 250 CDs. That isn't too out of the ordinary to be able to fill an iPod.
If the INDUCE act goes through, Jobs is going down.
First things first. To be enacted, it needs to pass maybe ten steps of the legislative process, of which it is at step 1, IIRC. Not all acts pass step 1, and it takes a while.
With more recent LCD technology, such as one that allows 150dpi, you can have a full VGA resolution (not to be confuseed with 480p) on a 5.3" screen. The device would have to be about 4.5" x 3.5" though.
IIRC, the PSP is definitely having audio, and allegedly going to have video. How well it will fare in many people's opinions is dependent on price, battery time (rumored only 2hrs game play, 8hr music), usability and of course whether the DRM can be bypassed.
mpared to the flash-based players. That's the future.
Never send rotating machinery to do an IC's job.
The future, but, don't try to leap there too quickly unless you have, and lots of it. 1GB CF card costs $100.
I think it is useless to consider whether something is "advanced" enough to be cool or something. The right tool for the right job, and while small hard drives are less than ideal, if a 20GB laptop hard drive costs less than $100 and a 1GB Flash card costs $100, which do you honestly think most people will choose for most situations?
The iPod is fine, no flash-based player at a similar size can store 20 to 40GB of anything yet.
CF is also pretty slow and has orders of magnitude fewer rewrites.
If it is true, I think it is "bare back" nudity. A topless female sunbather which you don't see the other side. That is, if I'm not making it up as a figment of my memory.
What I'd like to see is some sort of evidence of it. One timy person on a beach of thousands, in a book of dozens of images is really quite a stretch anyway.
I only think you are enforcing the dilemma, not eliminating it. I think the one with the power should be held more accountable because the power meant having different forms of coersion. I don't think the ones that followed it shouldn't be unaccountable, I don't think it is fair to punish the trigger more harshly than the one that ordered it to be pulled.
I really don't know what the military procedure is on illegal orders. In totalitarian regimes, disobeying an illegal / immoral order probably means death. For most Western militaries, it might be a reprimand, but for corrupt officers that think they are just outside of being held responsible, I don't think a threat of death is outside the realm of the possibility if said officer felt a threat to the power they have.
Then you have the defense of coersion.
In a business, disobeying an unlawful order means a firing. Obeying possibly means getting put in jail.
Of course, maybe not enough information is out on this.
Is there an existing desktop search system that finds connections or similarities between files? How about what programs use what libraries? Finding orphaned libraries?
But isn't most of the communication cpu to/from memory, not cpu to cpu?
I think you might have a point, although it might depend on the task. At the moment, an Opteron running on one RAM channel isn't that much slower than a dual channel Opteron. What scares me is that when a single Opteron can effectively use dual RAM channels, then wouldn't a dual core Opteron benefit from four channels? What kind of package would that be? That makes me wonder if the on-die memory channel wasn't a viable long-term solution, meaning whether it would prove to eventually be a restraint before the AMD K9 is released.
I guess there are a lot of drivers on the road that aren't driving on the road, if you mean that licence to drive means that you are a driver.
I have to wonder what measures of desperation SCO will try now. I wish the courts would do a put-up-or-shut-up deal, allowing the case to drag on. Then again, I wish the SEC would take action.
Personal aviation used to be a lot more popular than it is now. The thing stopping people is that insurance rates skyrocketed, insurance for the aircraft makers in particular. Basic planes that used to cost as much as a typical luxury car of the time would now cost four times that of a typical luxury car now.
Unless the cars run on autopilot and manage to pass FCC muster, I doubt it will work in an affordable manner such that anyone but those already flying with a pilot's licence and own their own aircraft will be able to afford to use them.
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Wasn't security for UNIX and UNIX-like systems an afterthought? The difference being that it has had decades of work to get where it is now, by companies and organizations that had to make it good, and not just a few years on a product that only has to be "good enough" for consumers.
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It seems detractors like to harp on IPC drawbacks of the P4. The instructions per cycle comparison really doesn't hold much water. I don't think Intel intended for the P4 to have a higher IPC than its predecessors.
The Netburst trick did hold out for a couple years in giving better peak performance than AMD, and that I will give it, because Intel did keep a fair lead in high-end performance for that long with Netburst. IIRC, back when Intel had introduced the 3.06 GHz chip, AMD was just releasing their 2600+. It didn't give them enough lead to compete effectively against the Athlon 64 though.
A Pentium M reformulated to desktop would be nice though. The low power fabbing itself is probably a drawback in terms of cost, although I can see the low power being a benefit even given the added cost, especially in IT where every watt consumed costs money, and also in terms of keeping the AC going to remove that extra heat.
There are several DDR RAM modules available with integrated heat sinks - because they do nead it.
Not sure about your SRAM on PA-RISC, I had the impression that it was on-die or in the same chip package like the Pentium Pro modules.
If you want shared bus, you get SCSI, USB, FW...
Either that or you get a PCI/PCIe/PCI-X bus to do the bus sharing for you, although all those interfaces can be used externally, and S-ATA wasn't really inteneded for that. S-ATA was meant to be a point-to-point interface so that it could ramp up the interface a silly lot, to 1.5Gbps.
Uh, that sort of chemistry falls under organic chemistry. Organic chemistry was the third class to take in the chemistry track at the schools I went to, but non chem-majors only needed to take the first two.
Why are there slashdotters that believe memory chips will replace hard drives on a large scale any time soon?
2TB is the addressing limit of that standard, not the amount of memory they will have. 2TB memory cards will take a loooong time to be released, esp. given that 8GB CF cards aren't available, 4GB CF cards are still pretty expensive, if available at all.
Because flash memory cards follow RAM in costs, I doubt flash drives will replace hard drives any time soon unless you want your hard drive to be as small as your RAM space. Very similar processes are used, and I don't think the cost of making 32MB RAM chips are much different than 32MB solid state chips, because they are very similar in complexity.
Don't buy a retail / consumer HP. That advice generally applies to any other electronics product too.
Their corporate / IT stuff should be a lot better, although it depends on the model.
I think the grandparent post was a joke though.
There will never be a time when slashdotters will give up on urban legends about Bill Gates saying X something will always be enough for everyone.
Give it up, please.
It depends on where software makers think they'll make money, but they could expand functionality such that you'll still want something faster yet.
10Gbit is nice, but I'm not counting on a latency that would beat a 1Gbit network inside the case. 10Gbit network is still great for remote storage though.
I'm with the others, it is pointless. The exceptions may be if they have a UXGA projector or higher connected to PCs.
Playing console games on an IMAX would simply be a sad joke.
With your numbers, if it costs the theater $5 per person in royalties to play a movie, they come out ahead assuming the same number of people would show up either way.
Consider a Pentium M based laptop. The laptops that suck are usually based on desktop Pentium 4 chips, those are the kind that sucks batteries and the CPU burns hot like a fire, because they weren't meant to be put into a laptop, period.
Several models can take 2GB of RAM, and can be had with 2MB cache and a 2GHz clock rate. Being P6-based means that it has a good instructions per cycle (IPC) unlike Pentium 4 chips. You can get efficient laptop hard drives that still run at 7200 RPM.
More pretentious than an Alienware computer and other cases? If it isn't a plain box, it looks like some bad attempt at a warrior box. Blue LEDs? Cathode tubes? Has anyone seen the "gamer's mice"?
Frankly, just about every computer "review" site is pretentious, just pretentious to a different group.
RIAA-approved music in compressed form costs about $200/GB. So it would cost $4000 to fill up an iPod.
Well, I try to buy used CDs or at least buy them at much less than list. That isn't RIAA approved but they still haven't managed to revoke right of first sale, even if they did, they'd have to de-grandfather that to get me, which violates ex post facto.
I run the R3Mix encoding standard on LAME. On a cursory check, I fit maybe an average of 13 CDs per GB, that runs to about 250 CDs. That isn't too out of the ordinary to be able to fill an iPod.
If the INDUCE act goes through, Jobs is going down.
First things first. To be enacted, it needs to pass maybe ten steps of the legislative process, of which it is at step 1, IIRC. Not all acts pass step 1, and it takes a while.
With more recent LCD technology, such as one that allows 150dpi, you can have a full VGA resolution (not to be confuseed with 480p) on a 5.3" screen. The device would have to be about 4.5" x 3.5" though.
The thing is with a manual recount, representatives from differing political parties can observe and verify that procedure is properly followed.
IIRC, the PSP is definitely having audio, and allegedly going to have video. How well it will fare in many people's opinions is dependent on price, battery time (rumored only 2hrs game play, 8hr music), usability and of course whether the DRM can be bypassed.
Oops, I forgot the word "money":
The future, yes, but, don't try to leap there too quickly unless you have money, and lots of it. 1GB CF card costs around $100.
I think the CF players are too expensive for their limited capacity, and too slow to rotate files through often.
mpared to the flash-based players. That's the future.
Never send rotating machinery to do an IC's job.
The future, but, don't try to leap there too quickly unless you have, and lots of it. 1GB CF card costs $100.
I think it is useless to consider whether something is "advanced" enough to be cool or something. The right tool for the right job, and while small hard drives are less than ideal, if a 20GB laptop hard drive costs less than $100 and a 1GB Flash card costs $100, which do you honestly think most people will choose for most situations?
The iPod is fine, no flash-based player at a similar size can store 20 to 40GB of anything yet.
CF is also pretty slow and has orders of magnitude fewer rewrites.
If it is true, I think it is "bare back" nudity. A topless female sunbather which you don't see the other side. That is, if I'm not making it up as a figment of my memory.
What I'd like to see is some sort of evidence of it. One timy person on a beach of thousands, in a book of dozens of images is really quite a stretch anyway.
I only think you are enforcing the dilemma, not eliminating it. I think the one with the power should be held more accountable because the power meant having different forms of coersion. I don't think the ones that followed it shouldn't be unaccountable, I don't think it is fair to punish the trigger more harshly than the one that ordered it to be pulled.
I really don't know what the military procedure is on illegal orders. In totalitarian regimes, disobeying an illegal / immoral order probably means death. For most Western militaries, it might be a reprimand, but for corrupt officers that think they are just outside of being held responsible, I don't think a threat of death is outside the realm of the possibility if said officer felt a threat to the power they have.
Then you have the defense of coersion.
In a business, disobeying an unlawful order means a firing. Obeying possibly means getting put in jail.
Of course, maybe not enough information is out on this.
Is there an existing desktop search system that finds connections or similarities between files? How about what programs use what libraries? Finding orphaned libraries?
But isn't most of the communication cpu to/from memory, not cpu to cpu?
I think you might have a point, although it might depend on the task. At the moment, an Opteron running on one RAM channel isn't that much slower than a dual channel Opteron. What scares me is that when a single Opteron can effectively use dual RAM channels, then wouldn't a dual core Opteron benefit from four channels? What kind of package would that be? That makes me wonder if the on-die memory channel wasn't a viable long-term solution, meaning whether it would prove to eventually be a restraint before the AMD K9 is released.
I guess there are a lot of drivers on the road that aren't driving on the road, if you mean that licence to drive means that you are a driver.
I have to wonder what measures of desperation SCO will try now. I wish the courts would do a put-up-or-shut-up deal, allowing the case to drag on. Then again, I wish the SEC would take action.
Personal aviation used to be a lot more popular than it is now. The thing stopping people is that insurance rates skyrocketed, insurance for the aircraft makers in particular. Basic planes that used to cost as much as a typical luxury car of the time would now cost four times that of a typical luxury car now.
Unless the cars run on autopilot and manage to pass FCC muster, I doubt it will work in an affordable manner such that anyone but those already flying with a pilot's licence and own their own aircraft will be able to afford to use them.
Wasn't security for UNIX and UNIX-like systems an afterthought? The difference being that it has had decades of work to get where it is now, by companies and organizations that had to make it good, and not just a few years on a product that only has to be "good enough" for consumers.