The first Pentium was a stripped-together combination of 2 486-like CPUs, with shared parts. To describe this as "two discreet Prescott cores on die... sharing data caches and maybe other units..." brings together this similarity.
The closest is the Pentium Pro and it had separate cache and core dies, NOT two separate cores, but that was converted later to cartridge (PII) and then later all on one die (later PIII). I doubt that Intel produced an original Pentium anything like this, or in a dual core manner.
I think it remains necessary for the educational market. For one, inspecting the memory before a test is known easier than knowing how to check several different types of PDAs for hidden files. It is also easier and quicker to punch in a single key vs. typing out "sin(".
I still use my TI-85. What I like it best for is to see several lines of entries and to be able to edit the last entry, incase I made a mistake.
The thing is that they need to specify how much above average, because about 49% of their users take above average traffic. I don't think that specifying any percentile is acceptable, they need to specify a fixed number of bits and give users a means of tracking it.
There were data MDs for over a decade now. I've seen them in computers. Properly marketed, they would have done well against ZIP drives. It probably was more reliable than ZIP to boot.
I think it is a bummer. Of the four packages sent to mars due to arrive this season, two of them failed, one of them appears to be working so far and another has yet to arrive. Here's to hoping a 0.500 average this time around.
I wonder what is happening that Martian probes have such plain bad luck. The soviets had several failures, NASA had several, Japan's probe is DOA and it looks like Europe's latest example landed in the crater that it made.
I forget the Simpsons episode, one of the Malibu Stacey ones, and that's a login prompt?
Anyhow, video scratching? Audio scratching is bad enough, I wouldn't put up with this sort of thing. I don't think it really passes as anything but a mark showing a lack of talent.
Another way to increasing apparent memory speed is for a wider effective memory bus. It was IIRC, 16 bits 286 and before, 32 bits with 386, 64 bits with Pentium, and with selected PIII, PIV, Athlon & A64 boards, dual channel 64bits, making it 128 bits.
I think an Alpha board or two went as high as 512 bits wide.
Now, the wider memory bus doen't help x86 or A64 as much as one would think but with hyperthreading, it might.
AMD claims to have the same idea in the works for the next Athlon 64.
It was supposed to be put into the Alpha processor too, a lot of HT research was done on it and was transferred to Intel.
Most of the CPU players are toying with dual full CPU on-die as well, but keep in mind that HT accounts for under 5% of the die, rather than just requiring a second die.
So you _can_ also have two real processors and two more processors in virtual mode. If you know the Xeon line, the Xeon DP allows two real processors, plus two more virtual processors. A Xeon MP system can have four real processors and four virtual processors. I think HT was found to be very beneficial for high load web serving tasks even on a multi real CPU system.
I suppose it stems from impatience and an unwillingness to learn such a basic thing needed to find information. Google is very simple and they have a simple tutorial on how to find what you want to find something specific. I think that is an excellent system and to expect it to work properly with just two words is too much.
In the stated example, a simple change in the request should give far better hits. A Google search with these keywords would do the trick: "Paris France" "Hilton Hotel"
"I'm feeling lucky" would actually return the correct result: www.hilton-paris.com/
That link actually goes to the web site for Hilton Hotels in Paris, France.
I thought the first _public_ beta of W64 for AMD was released just a few months ago, and that people said it still needs a lot of work.
Even if it were out, I think the problem is getting people to invest into the platform, be it large and small time developers. In short, the platform needs a "killer app" to make it a worthwhile transition for most people.
A risk is inherent in such a task, there are problems making it a manageable risk and what levels are acceptable. 90%? 10%? 50%? 1%? People can complain about the possibility that the project would only kill people purely by trying this. People die all the time, and while not doing interesting things. I'd just like to know what the benefits will be.
Making sure that someone can get there, without being irradiated, with enough food to last the round trip (or one way, and send the return trip food ahead in a different vehicle).
I assume it is being worked on, the biggest problem is money and what is expected in return.
As soon as you start talking figures, you'll have people yipping that the money should be spent on social programs instead. I do have a problem with that, I mean while social programs make us feel good, they do help people to an extent, but so many social problems have no monetary fix.
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There are a lot of sacred cows, and you list them.
Too often, forums are just a means of preaching to the choir, and if you disagree then you are branded the heretic.
But there are discussions here where both sides do make decent points, I mean you have people that will never buy an Apple product, those seem to only buy Apple, and those between.
And people do share conflicting experiences on a certain product or idea.
I think it is still better to buy a brand name player and mod it. Brand name players can often be modded, but it does cost money for the mod parts.
The cheap players don't have good MPEG decoders, they don't have good deinterlacers, and their video output stage isn't all that great. Granted, it might not make much of a difference when hooked up to a cheap TV.
I'd like 3G, I just won't pay $10 a month for internet service for my 100x100 pixel phone, and I'm not buying screen savers and ringers that expire in 90 or 120 days. I'll pay that much for screen savers and ringers that I can keep forever, $1 to $3 isn't too bad compared to the time it would take to make my own, but not for something that the "owner" thinks should just be a temporary thing.
I don't know about 100 cards, but there are notable differences in how well gigabit cards operate, differing by as many as hundreds of megabits a second of performance at times. And wireless networking components can be tested for packet rates and speeds given differing distances and base stations.
I do admit that there is too high of a risk of advertisers having an influence on review methodology.
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A single bulb should last several years on the latest model projectors.
Bulb costs ammortized over their expected lives end up being about five to ten cents an hour now.
The only advantage to a national ISP is for travelling business people that want to connect, and I bet that really isn't an issue.
What are the Canadian prices? I didn't think that they were below the $30 rate that a lot of companies in the US are promoting now.
I thought Intel was using the names of rivers for their code names but it looks like it might not be true for Tejas.
The first Pentium was a stripped-together combination of 2 486-like CPUs, with shared parts. To describe this as "two discreet Prescott cores on die... sharing data caches and maybe other units..." brings together this similarity.
The closest is the Pentium Pro and it had separate cache and core dies, NOT two separate cores, but that was converted later to cartridge (PII) and then later all on one die (later PIII). I doubt that Intel produced an original Pentium anything like this, or in a dual core manner.
OK, the rest of the facts might be up for debate, but:
And likely 15% to 30% of new organisms develop.
Uh, I think evolution holds that it takes far longer to develop new species.
I guess Microsoft's tight browser / OS integration attempts backfired on them again.
That is pretty retarded.
I think it remains necessary for the educational market. For one, inspecting the memory before a test is known easier than knowing how to check several different types of PDAs for hidden files. It is also easier and quicker to punch in a single key vs. typing out "sin(".
I still use my TI-85. What I like it best for is to see several lines of entries and to be able to edit the last entry, incase I made a mistake.
The thing is that they need to specify how much above average, because about 49% of their users take above average traffic. I don't think that specifying any percentile is acceptable, they need to specify a fixed number of bits and give users a means of tracking it.
There were data MDs for over a decade now. I've seen them in computers. Properly marketed, they would have done well against ZIP drives. It probably was more reliable than ZIP to boot.
I think it is a bummer. Of the four packages sent to mars due to arrive this season, two of them failed, one of them appears to be working so far and another has yet to arrive. Here's to hoping a 0.500 average this time around.
I wonder what is happening that Martian probes have such plain bad luck. The soviets had several failures, NASA had several, Japan's probe is DOA and it looks like Europe's latest example landed in the crater that it made.
I forget the Simpsons episode, one of the Malibu Stacey ones, and that's a login prompt?
Anyhow, video scratching? Audio scratching is bad enough, I wouldn't put up with this sort of thing. I don't think it really passes as anything but a mark showing a lack of talent.
Another way to increasing apparent memory speed is for a wider effective memory bus. It was IIRC, 16 bits 286 and before, 32 bits with 386, 64 bits with Pentium, and with selected PIII, PIV, Athlon & A64 boards, dual channel 64bits, making it 128 bits.
I think an Alpha board or two went as high as 512 bits wide.
Now, the wider memory bus doen't help x86 or A64 as much as one would think but with hyperthreading, it might.
AMD claims to have the same idea in the works for the next Athlon 64.
It was supposed to be put into the Alpha processor too, a lot of HT research was done on it and was transferred to Intel.
Most of the CPU players are toying with dual full CPU on-die as well, but keep in mind that HT accounts for under 5% of the die, rather than just requiring a second die.
So you _can_ also have two real processors and two more processors in virtual mode. If you know the Xeon line, the Xeon DP allows two real processors, plus two more virtual processors. A Xeon MP system can have four real processors and four virtual processors. I think HT was found to be very beneficial for high load web serving tasks even on a multi real CPU system.
I think the logic is wrong here. Even if HT is enabled with a program that doesn't take advantage of it, usually it isn't a noticible liability.
One can still turn off the HT. With only a 128k cache, IMO, it is too much of a performance liability to make it worth the lower cost.
I just leave it on because the system seems to respond a little better under heavy load.
It is probably a lame marketing thing. "Hi-Def" is probably being treated as the new way of calling it "Hi-Fi".
I suppose it stems from impatience and an unwillingness to learn such a basic thing needed to find information. Google is very simple and they have a simple tutorial on how to find what you want to find something specific. I think that is an excellent system and to expect it to work properly with just two words is too much.
In the stated example, a simple change in the request should give far better hits. A Google search with these keywords would do the trick: "Paris France" "Hilton Hotel"
"I'm feeling lucky" would actually return the correct result: www.hilton-paris.com/
That link actually goes to the web site for Hilton Hotels in Paris, France.
Not bad for only four key words.
I thought the first _public_ beta of W64 for AMD was released just a few months ago, and that people said it still needs a lot of work.
Even if it were out, I think the problem is getting people to invest into the platform, be it large and small time developers. In short, the platform needs a "killer app" to make it a worthwhile transition for most people.
A risk is inherent in such a task, there are problems making it a manageable risk and what levels are acceptable. 90%? 10%? 50%? 1%? People can complain about the possibility that the project would only kill people purely by trying this. People die all the time, and while not doing interesting things. I'd just like to know what the benefits will be.
Making sure that someone can get there, without being irradiated, with enough food to last the round trip (or one way, and send the return trip food ahead in a different vehicle).
I assume it is being worked on, the biggest problem is money and what is expected in return.
As soon as you start talking figures, you'll have people yipping that the money should be spent on social programs instead. I do have a problem with that, I mean while social programs make us feel good, they do help people to an extent, but so many social problems have no monetary fix.
There are a lot of sacred cows, and you list them.
Too often, forums are just a means of preaching to the choir, and if you disagree then you are branded the heretic.
But there are discussions here where both sides do make decent points, I mean you have people that will never buy an Apple product, those seem to only buy Apple, and those between.
And people do share conflicting experiences on a certain product or idea.
I think it is still better to buy a brand name player and mod it. Brand name players can often be modded, but it does cost money for the mod parts.
The cheap players don't have good MPEG decoders, they don't have good deinterlacers, and their video output stage isn't all that great. Granted, it might not make much of a difference when hooked up to a cheap TV.
I'd like 3G, I just won't pay $10 a month for internet service for my 100x100 pixel phone, and I'm not buying screen savers and ringers that expire in 90 or 120 days. I'll pay that much for screen savers and ringers that I can keep forever, $1 to $3 isn't too bad compared to the time it would take to make my own, but not for something that the "owner" thinks should just be a temporary thing.
I don't know about 100 cards, but there are notable differences in how well gigabit cards operate, differing by as many as hundreds of megabits a second of performance at times. And wireless networking components can be tested for packet rates and speeds given differing distances and base stations.
I do admit that there is too high of a risk of advertisers having an influence on review methodology.
I don't think jets would be necessary. The type of weaponry protecting the White House is classified but AFIAK, it is there.
Wouldn't that be mitigated by combining altitide limits and walls? I know of CNC machines that do this.