I saw this earlier, but didn't reply to it then... I personally liked Episode 1, but waiting MONTHS on E2? YIKES! I know as techies we tend to have little or no life, but come on, that's just STUPID!
I think it's still a ways off myself... The average user doesn't use more than say 8GB (many can live on 4GB even). As for those who need more for gaming and other home usages, they know they need more and likely won't care about the error because they don't need precisely 50GB, if it's 45 or 55GB, they'd still be fine, for example.
As for those running servers or businesses that need mass storage, they hire tech people (or they are high up tech people themselves) to handle such things. Now some day it could conceivably be a problem, but now-a-days most home users and many government and corporate users just don't need 100+ GB yet.
I personally want to see CDs and DVDs eventually (meaning I know they won't die off tomorrow) be faded out in favor of say 1394b buses + compact flash, smartmedia cards, SSDs, or <insert_your_fave_really_fast_non_volatile_mem_ type_here>:)
I mean think of the access times, Megs/sec, the size of the media, reliability, possible applications... It just seems the intelligent choice to make (and if not flash memory, maybe IBM's magnetic RAM or some similar non-volatile mem)!
OK, NI stuff isn't exactly cheap, but my university spent the $$ for us to use them in our labs... You may want to bug your university to buy the NI hardware and software because that'll give you lots of precision as far as oscilloscopes go... Not to mention you can build your own instrumentation if you so desire.
I care not if Intel uses in their chips or not as long as AMD gets ahold of it to put it in a *REAL* processor... say a Sledgehammer III or something:)
Sadly the name is like the architecture... heavily entrenched in marketing... you take away 'Pentium' and people say "What's this new 'insert_new_name_here' thingie?" Sure Intel can advertise it a ton, but that's a big cost to drop for name recognition, etc... Don't get me wrong, I'm pro-AMD, so the more money Intel loses to whatever, the better I think it is, but in a business sense I can understand Intel's sticking with their naming.
I'm a Windows 2000 user. However, I also use OS X 10.1 and I like both (albeit I'm biased to 10.1 more because of the unix functionality it has). But I don't want more eye candy for win2k as though it's new, I want it because it's kewl to me. If Apple could afford to port OS X to x86, I'd be at the store for that one ASAP (and no I'm not talking just Darwin, I can use fbsd in that case.) In any case, don't knock it because Apple is forward-thinking in such areas.
I'm so tired of us looking at "can we do it" and ignoring the "should we do it" factor. I'm a Christian and so not surprisingly I'm not for something that God intended to be one of the purposes of marriage... namely reproduction.
I'm an EE student and I'm for science, but I'm for science we actually think through and decide if we *should* not just if we *can* !!
Ok, the talk in this thread so far seems to be about the fact that there are "supposed" 100 mile or 1000 mile, etc. craters on the earth that would support such a theory as a "global killer" (from one of those asteroid movies I saw)...
For one, we already know that there's glaciers, volcanoes and other natural phenomena ON EARTH that can rip out or blow up huge sections of land leaving huge holes. So then how do we KNOW these "supposed" craters are really craters?
Secondly, my question is not just "are these really craters?" My big question is WHERE IS(ARE) THE ASTEROID(S) THAT SUPPOSEDLY HIT EARTH?
And you can't just say "They burned up in earth's atmosphere" because then they wouldn't have had the life killing impact that is proposed by Godless scientists.
Sorry, but all that article sounds like to me is flamebait by so-called scientists who refuse to believe in God because then they'd have to deal with the consequences of willfully ignoring the Bible.
You can overdo it on directory entries as much as you can with files themselves. Now 2000 files is a lot in one directory, but I guess it really depends on your preferences/paranoia/whatever as to how many/few directories you want & the number of files in each.
Well for one, mechanical hard drives have had their day in the sun and probably in the next 10 years or so having say a 15GB SSD (solid state drive - basically a drive made from nonvolatile memory) won't be unheard of. In such a case we'll have "instant on" computers and then you should really see a big difference in thinks like Hypertransport vs. AGP. Right now mechanical devices are big hindrances to electronic parts, just as electronic parts are to say fiber optics.
Precisely. Personally, with the exception of 3d rendering on occasion, my Duron 750 + 512MB PC133 does all I need and more some times. I got tired of the outclassing people stage somewhere around the K6-2 350 stage. PCs just have so much power now that most users, including comp. engineering students like myself, don't use all of it in most cases. I wouldn't mind an XP 1900+, but I wish SSD's would plummet in price, those are what the average user *REALLY* needs for performance increases.
We're not talking a couple of MHz, we're talking 130MHz for the AthlonXP 1800+ over the TBird 1.4GHz and 70MHz of the 1900+ over the 1800+. When you consider we're still barely in the GHz range, MHz still matter! If they released on every few 100 KHz that'd be different, but until we get up to say 15GHz or more MHz makes a difference, especially considering AMD's IPC over Intel's. But I'll step off the soapbox before I slip;)
I guess you do have a point though... for bleeding edge people they won't care, but Intel and AMD are competing businesses in a big market, so they can't afford to slip behind each other, it's a vicious game.
I agree! I have used a TI 81, 82, 83, 83+ and 89 before and they are awesome... However, my HP48G smokes them in features and functionality. I just need to figure out where I can buy that kernel upgrade for it to make my HP48G about 10 times faster (or so I've heard). But on the bright side, maybe that'll cause HP49's to go down a ton and I can get one for a good price!!
I have a burned copy of Solaris 8 I dl-ed from sun's site, but I've read before that Solaris is kind of slow on single CPU systems... Man I wish I could afford a nice Tyan Thunder K7 + 2 Athlon MP 1800's:)
When I first tried to use win2k with RR their staff said they didn't support 2k yet, but I think now they do since their staff is trained... same goes for XP, it's really no surprise.
"manufacture unstable products"... oh come on, there's probably I'm the 1st responding to you... because that argument isn't worth much... my Duron 750 has run perfectly fine for the year or so I've had it, the K6-2 500 I have works fine too, so did the K6 166 and K6-2 350 I used to have.
Now I would certainly like to see a ~20W Athlon (which I have heard about, can't say where) some day, but even if they don't get that low and if they do burn up with no thermal solution, I don't care...
If you run it without any thermal protection you should know better... Even a P100 needs some kind of cooling (albeit not as much as anything now-a-days), so if you're running without, tough luck... If you thermal solution fails, you better have made sure in advance that the chip was under warranty for such things or that your thermal solution provider had a warranty in case their product failed or perhaps never works in the 1st place. I hope the Tyan Tiger + AthlonXP 1800+ MPs come down in price and then I plan to buy them and have a nice SMP system, and I could care less if it runs kind of hot, as long as it does what it's supposed to do and as long as the heatsink/fan/whatever I have does what it's supposed to do.
Now if when we eventually have fiber optic processors &/or quantum computers in people's homes and they burn themselves up, yeah then that'd bug me, but face it metal conducts, it's gonna heat up, plain and simple.
And if you totally disagree with me, that's kewl, I don't mind, you're free to care about such things if you want, I just felt like saying it doesn't seem to be that critical of an issue to me.
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It may be just be rumors right now, but very delicious ones :) ...
G5 = 64bit addressing PowerPC running about 1GHz to 1.6GHz = next Mac CPU (again, rumors, but still nice to dream)
And DDR333 in the next line of macs is probable from what I gather.
So until AMD brings out clawhammer and sledgehammer (of which I'm also waiting on) Macs may very well have some new advantages over PCs for a while.
I saw this earlier, but didn't reply to it then... I personally liked Episode 1, but waiting MONTHS on E2? YIKES! I know as techies we tend to have little or no life, but come on, that's just STUPID!
As long as they don't start singing "Bye Bye Bye" whenever they blow up an imperial ship, it can't be *TOO* bad
I know it's fun to tweak things just to see if you can, but this seems worthless to me.
I think it's still a ways off myself... The average user doesn't use more than say 8GB (many can live on 4GB even). As for those who need more for gaming and other home usages, they know they need more and likely won't care about the error because they don't need precisely 50GB, if it's 45 or 55GB, they'd still be fine, for example.
As for those running servers or businesses that need mass storage, they hire tech people (or they are high up tech people themselves) to handle such things. Now some day it could conceivably be a problem, but now-a-days most home users and many government and corporate users just don't need 100+ GB yet.
Recompiling the FreeBSD kernel is pretty easy:
s /h andbook/kernelconfig-building.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/book
however, the FreeBSD authors don't go around releasing new kernels everytime you blink, they do it right the first time (=
just yawn, ignore yet another kernel update, and go about their lives.
I personally want to see CDs and DVDs eventually (meaning I know they won't die off tomorrow) be faded out in favor of say 1394b buses + compact flash, smartmedia cards, SSDs, or <insert_your_fave_really_fast_non_volatile_mem_ type_here> :)
I mean think of the access times, Megs/sec, the size of the media, reliability, possible applications... It just seems the intelligent choice to make (and if not flash memory, maybe IBM's magnetic RAM or some similar non-volatile mem)!
OK, NI stuff isn't exactly cheap, but my university spent the $$ for us to use them in our labs... You may want to bug your university to buy the NI hardware and software because that'll give you lots of precision as far as oscilloscopes go... Not to mention you can build your own instrumentation if you so desire.
I care not if Intel uses in their chips or not as long as AMD gets ahold of it to put it in a *REAL* processor... say a Sledgehammer III or something :)
Sadly the name is like the architecture... heavily entrenched in marketing... you take away 'Pentium' and people say "What's this new 'insert_new_name_here' thingie?" Sure Intel can advertise it a ton, but that's a big cost to drop for name recognition, etc... Don't get me wrong, I'm pro-AMD, so the more money Intel loses to whatever, the better I think it is, but in a business sense I can understand Intel's sticking with their naming.
I'm a Windows 2000 user. However, I also use OS X 10.1 and I like both (albeit I'm biased to 10.1 more because of the unix functionality it has). But I don't want more eye candy for win2k as though it's new, I want it because it's kewl to me. If Apple could afford to port OS X to x86, I'd be at the store for that one ASAP (and no I'm not talking just Darwin, I can use fbsd in that case.) In any case, don't knock it because Apple is forward-thinking in such areas.
I'm so tired of us looking at "can we do it" and ignoring the "should we do it" factor. I'm a Christian and so not surprisingly I'm not for something that God intended to be one of the purposes of marriage... namely reproduction.
I'm an EE student and I'm for science, but I'm for science we actually think through and decide if we *should* not just if we *can* !!
Anyways, that's my $0.02 on it :)
see I had an idea like this machine many many months back, but I figured the same thing... how in the world do you secure it for people's safety!!
Ok, the talk in this thread so far seems to be about the fact that there are "supposed" 100 mile or 1000 mile, etc. craters on the earth that would support such a theory as a "global killer" (from one of those asteroid movies I saw)...
For one, we already know that there's glaciers, volcanoes and other natural phenomena ON EARTH that can rip out or blow up huge sections of land leaving huge holes. So then how do we KNOW these "supposed" craters are really craters?
Secondly, my question is not just "are these really craters?" My big question is WHERE IS(ARE) THE ASTEROID(S) THAT SUPPOSEDLY HIT EARTH?
And you can't just say "They burned up in earth's atmosphere" because then they wouldn't have had the life killing impact that is proposed by Godless scientists.
Sorry, but all that article sounds like to me is flamebait by so-called scientists who refuse to believe in God because then they'd have to deal with the consequences of willfully ignoring the Bible.
You can overdo it on directory entries as much as you can with files themselves. Now 2000 files is a lot in one directory, but I guess it really depends on your preferences/paranoia/whatever as to how many/few directories you want & the number of files in each.
Well for one, mechanical hard drives have had their day in the sun and probably in the next 10 years or so having say a 15GB SSD (solid state drive - basically a drive made from nonvolatile memory) won't be unheard of. In such a case we'll have "instant on" computers and then you should really see a big difference in thinks like Hypertransport vs. AGP. Right now mechanical devices are big hindrances to electronic parts, just as electronic parts are to say fiber optics.
Precisely. Personally, with the exception of 3d rendering on occasion, my Duron 750 + 512MB PC133 does all I need and more some times. I got tired of the outclassing people stage somewhere around the K6-2 350 stage. PCs just have so much power now that most users, including comp. engineering students like myself, don't use all of it in most cases. I wouldn't mind an XP 1900+, but I wish SSD's would plummet in price, those are what the average user *REALLY* needs for performance increases.
We're not talking a couple of MHz, we're talking 130MHz for the AthlonXP 1800+ over the TBird 1.4GHz and 70MHz of the 1900+ over the 1800+. When you consider we're still barely in the GHz range, MHz still matter! If they released on every few 100 KHz that'd be different, but until we get up to say 15GHz or more MHz makes a difference, especially considering AMD's IPC over Intel's. But I'll step off the soapbox before I slip ;)
I guess you do have a point though... for bleeding edge people they won't care, but Intel and AMD are competing businesses in a big market, so they can't afford to slip behind each other, it's a vicious game.
I agree! I have used a TI 81, 82, 83, 83+ and 89 before and they are awesome... However, my HP48G smokes them in features and functionality. I just need to figure out where I can buy that kernel upgrade for it to make my HP48G about 10 times faster (or so I've heard). But on the bright side, maybe that'll cause HP49's to go down a ton and I can get one for a good price!!
I have a burned copy of Solaris 8 I dl-ed from sun's site, but I've read before that Solaris is kind of slow on single CPU systems... Man I wish I could afford a nice Tyan Thunder K7 + 2 Athlon MP 1800's :)
When I first tried to use win2k with RR their staff said they didn't support 2k yet, but I think now they do since their staff is trained... same goes for XP, it's really no surprise.
"manufacture unstable products" ... oh come on, there's probably I'm the 1st responding to you... because that argument isn't worth much... my Duron 750 has run perfectly fine for the year or so I've had it, the K6-2 500 I have works fine too, so did the K6 166 and K6-2 350 I used to have.
Now I would certainly like to see a ~20W Athlon (which I have heard about, can't say where) some day, but even if they don't get that low and if they do burn up with no thermal solution, I don't care...
If you run it without any thermal protection you should know better... Even a P100 needs some kind of cooling (albeit not as much as anything now-a-days), so if you're running without, tough luck... If you thermal solution fails, you better have made sure in advance that the chip was under warranty for such things or that your thermal solution provider had a warranty in case their product failed or perhaps never works in the 1st place. I hope the Tyan Tiger + AthlonXP 1800+ MPs come down in price and then I plan to buy them and have a nice SMP system, and I could care less if it runs kind of hot, as long as it does what it's supposed to do and as long as the heatsink/fan/whatever I have does what it's supposed to do.
Now if when we eventually have fiber optic processors &/or quantum computers in people's homes and they burn themselves up, yeah then that'd bug me, but face it metal conducts, it's gonna heat up, plain and simple.
And if you totally disagree with me, that's kewl, I don't mind, you're free to care about such things if you want, I just felt like saying it doesn't seem to be that critical of an issue to me.
You're still talking about massive porting to that RISC architecture and the world would likely ask "Why AMD's RISC rather than Vendor Y's RISC?"