In the Linux world, the deployment of a bug fix and discovery of any potential bugs is part of the testing cycle. So you get a quick turn around time when a bug is reported.
When Microsoft has to issue a bug fix (and all jokes aside about not testing), I am sure they have a team devoted to testing it, then it has to get sent to all internal Microsoft employees and tested, and then probably even has some initial customer testing with the bigger companies to make sure nothing breaks, and then finally gets released to the public.
Hopefully 165 or 365 days.. whatever it takes to make sure it is tested is a GOOD thing. I don't want to be their beta tester:)
What you have to remember about heat is that electronics only get hot because they are never perfect conductors nor perfect insulators {though we can make nearer-perfect insulators than we can conductors}. A perfect conductor will never get hot, no matter how much current you put through it, because the voltage drop across it will be nil and power = voltage * current. Nor will a perfect insulator, because this time, the current through it will be nil.
CMOS is based around two transistors, a P-channel FET which goes conductive when the gate is driven low, and an N-channel FET which goes conductive when the gate is driven high. The P-FET is trying to pull the output high and the N-FET is trying to pull it low. Both the gates are joined together, and this is the input. This is a simple NOT gate.
For a NAND gate, where any input 0 will drive the output to a 1, we have several P-FETs in parallel trying to drive the output high, and so many N-FETs in series trying to drive the output low. Each P-FET gate joined to an N-FET gate is one input. When they are all high, all the N-FETs turn on allowing the output to go low; when any one is low, the chain of N-FETs is broken, one or more P-FETs turn on, and the output goes high. For a NOR gate, where any input 1 will drive the output to a 0, we put the Ns in parallel and the Ps in series. You can make AND gates from NAND+NOT, OR gates from NOR+NOT, and any other combination you like. In fact you really don't need both NAND and NOR, because you can make either one out of the other; but it turns out they're equally as easy to make as each other in CMOS {not like many other technologies}.
In an ideal world this would never dissipate any power, since the input cannot be high and low at the same time so only one of the transistors will ever be on. In practice what happens is that the gates act like capacitors which take a finite time to charge and discharge. They do not switch instantaneously from conductive to non-conductive. So one stops conducting while the other is starting to conduct, and for a brief instant while the inputs are changing state both transistors are conducting a little. It's not a dead short circuit of course, otherwise something would give way..... hopefully a fuse.
Now every time something changes state, you get a little pulse of heat. Which is why fast processors need cooling. Additionally, to make sure that the logic gate output has changed state before the next clock pulse, you need to make the gate capacitances charge up quickly -- which means using a higher voltage than you could get away with at lower speeds. But 2x more volts means 2x more amps means 4x more watts.
Smaller transistors should have less gate capacitance, and so be capable of switching more quickly.
because of the semi-colon at the end of "if (condition);" the {} are simply considered a block and myvar is set to one no matter if condition is true or not.
Or maybe you are being sarcastic and trying to make fun of my stupidity.
I spent 2 days looking for a one character bug the other day, I hate these!
if (condition); {
myvar = 1; }
The block was a lot bigger than myvar = 1, and my eyes kept skipping over the ;.. of course when I found it I felt stupid.. and well I should have:) hey wait, maybe I should have posted this Anonymously...
Is HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Param eters REG_DWORD 30
Setting this to anything below 30 decimal will just set it to 30 anyway though.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/re sk it/en-us/default.asp?url=/windows2000/techinfo/res kit/en-us/regentry/58811.asp
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Linux, despite all of its wonderful benefits still has a long way to go to be used by grandma and grandpa who have never touched a computer. Sure, I always hear how some linux guru has set one such setup up, but they are always forced to maintain it.
What i'd like to see is a comparison of sitting 1000 people down in front of a windows box and a linux box and see how easy it is to do simple common tasks:
Write a short 1 page summmary on your life and print it (no printer setup yet) Listen to an mp3 Check the news on CNN Rip a CDROM Burn a CDROM Change your wallpaper Download and install a list of programs that people might commonly install (ie; gaim/aim, a game written for both windows and linux)
And then some more advanced tasks Setup a website (IIS or apache preinstalled) Change your screen resolution Find a file somewhere on your computer
Then compare the success/failure ratio and the average time it takes to do each task between windows and linux.
I'd bet that at this point in time and probably for quite a while windows will be far ahead in this competition. Im not saying it will always but I think there is still a long way to go.
I for one am rooting for media center. It has more features, the interface is cleaner, the guide is smoother and above all I can _easily_ upgrade the system to incorporate more room for my shows, or adding more tuners (v.Next) or if a new tv tuner comes out that just might offer a little more video quality, I can get it!
thanks for the obligatory microsoft bash, it had to come out somewhere. lets blame MS for the poor programming of 3rd parties just like everyone has been doing for years. Thief is not published by microsoft game studios which is where microsoft 'signs off' on it.
That problem is easily answered when considering 1 or 2 computers run off one interface (VNC, TS, telnet, ssh). But the problem comes when one wants to manage their whole lab infrastructure or every computer in their home from one interface. Windows 2003 comes with a neat little MMC snapin called "Remote Desktops" that lets you manage all of your TS sessions. The problem with that is that there is one process for each computer, and if you can imagine, 100-1000 mstsc.exe processes can consume quite a bit of memory. As well it doesn't support features that KVM does like being able to broadcast to all of the machines at once.
What would be nice is software that lets you split your computers into groups, allow you to broadcast to those specific groups, etc..
A lot of times small cable channels get their business or make their money by late night channel surfers who have nothing better to do. Or the mom who is at home watching days of our lives and decides that during commercials she is going to flip through channels. The show that they are watching will very often catch the eye of the 'surfer' and next thing you know, you have a customer.
If it was cheaper to go a la carte, I can't imagine anybody wanting to pay for anymore than what they already know, so you are are sort of screwing out the little guys who want to get recognized. They can't afford to buy commercial spots on other television stations (plus why would they let them), so this is their only form of advertisement. I remember a television channel that started up a couple years ago, and I was just flipping through and they had a show on the history of sex. I was interested so I started watching it.
But hopefully this will all be gone with OnDemand starting to become more common. The little guy can create a show and have it on OnDemand, and then you pay.30 or so for it. Now THAT would be cool.
Does that mean we won't be able to have our keys out in the gym anymore? Last night my fiancée called me as I was dressing and the locker room attendant politely asked me to put my cell phone away because people were afraid of getting their pictures taken with the camera phones. Now will there be a reason to limit, if not to start searching our bags everywhere we go.
And corporations have been doing this for years, this is why tobacco companies tried to market to kids, and why most kids can tell you the name brand of a product from its logo. Microsoft is no different and shouldn't be slapped on the wrist for doing what is a common business pratice.
I already have an HDTV card in my computer and I capture.ts streams to disk. If I want to keep the quality of the HD stream, it takes 9 GB per 1 hour show. Isn't that hefty:)
Except for a few select Microsoft sites which use it, (You really have the same thing for AOL), no site I have visited in the past 2 years has used Microsoft Passport (tm).
I can't believe they think that Microsoft has the market 'tied down'. How hard would it be to develop a new client authentication scheme and convince the millions of websites out there NOT using passport to use your new scheme? Sure it may be hard in some cases, but there is a hell of a lot of room for getting a huge chunk of the market.
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Russia has failed to put a five-tonne European communications satellite properly into orbit and it will now circle uselessly until it eventually falls back to Earth, space officials said.
Nice, does that mean we will have another chance at free tacos from taco bell! ??
But I currently have them up for sale. After purchasing them, I tried to get them to work with my ATI Radeon, and it had limited support.
It worked great for browsing the 3D pictures on their website, but when it came to games, nothing I did could get it to work properly.
I then tried it on my friends NVIDIA card, and we got quake3 working, and I have to admit, it is a lot better than the previous 3d glasses (ie; asus). After playing with them and being amazed for about 30 minutes, all I could really think though was 'novelty'. They didn't enhance game play in any way, and it actually took relearning some of my trained reactions in quake3.
Unfortunately my main goal was to get it working in Dungeon Siege, and I could never accomplish that.
We used to do this in our company: for/l %i in (0 1 1000000) do net send victimip HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
Because the focus is not automatically redirected to the popup message (so that you don't get annoyed by it stealing it while you are typing) this makes it a HUGE annoyance to the victim. They have to manually click all 1 million popups (no holding down the enter key). Or reboot.
I had to download a GUI automation tool that would just send the enter key to a specific window title, just to stop it. Our company didn't allow control of services and they used net send for administrative alerts:(
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In the Linux world, the deployment of a bug fix and discovery of any potential bugs is part of the testing cycle. So you get a quick turn around time when a bug is reported.
.. whatever it takes to make sure it is tested is a GOOD thing. I don't want to be their beta tester :)
When Microsoft has to issue a bug fix (and all jokes aside about not testing), I am sure they have a team devoted to testing it, then it has to get sent to all internal Microsoft employees and tested, and then probably even has some initial customer testing with the bigger companies to make sure nothing breaks, and then finally gets released to the public.
Hopefully 165 or 365 days
What you have to remember about heat is that electronics only get hot because they are never perfect conductors nor perfect insulators {though we can make nearer-perfect insulators than we can conductors}. A perfect conductor will never get hot, no matter how much current you put through it, because the voltage drop across it will be nil and power = voltage * current. Nor will a perfect insulator, because this time, the current through it will be nil.
..... hopefully a fuse.
CMOS is based around two transistors, a P-channel FET which goes conductive when the gate is driven low, and an N-channel FET which goes conductive when the gate is driven high. The P-FET is trying to pull the output high and the N-FET is trying to pull it low. Both the gates are joined together, and this is the input. This is a simple NOT gate.
For a NAND gate, where any input 0 will drive the output to a 1, we have several P-FETs in parallel trying to drive the output high, and so many N-FETs in series trying to drive the output low. Each P-FET gate joined to an N-FET gate is one input. When they are all high, all the N-FETs turn on allowing the output to go low; when any one is low, the chain of N-FETs is broken, one or more P-FETs turn on, and the output goes high. For a NOR gate, where any input 1 will drive the output to a 0, we put the Ns in parallel and the Ps in series. You can make AND gates from NAND+NOT, OR gates from NOR+NOT, and any other combination you like. In fact you really don't need both NAND and NOR, because you can make either one out of the other; but it turns out they're equally as easy to make as each other in CMOS {not like many other technologies}.
In an ideal world this would never dissipate any power, since the input cannot be high and low at the same time so only one of the transistors will ever be on. In practice what happens is that the gates act like capacitors which take a finite time to charge and discharge. They do not switch instantaneously from conductive to non-conductive. So one stops conducting while the other is starting to conduct, and for a brief instant while the inputs are changing state both transistors are conducting a little. It's not a dead short circuit of course, otherwise something would give way
Now every time something changes state, you get a little pulse of heat. Which is why fast processors need cooling. Additionally, to make sure that the logic gate output has changed state before the next clock pulse, you need to make the gate capacitances charge up quickly -- which means using a higher voltage than you could get away with at lower speeds. But 2x more volts means 2x more amps means 4x more watts.
Smaller transistors should have less gate capacitance, and so be capable of switching more quickly.
Visit talk.google.com now .. there is a website with a downloadable client now available for download. I'm using it now.
if (condition);
{
myvar = 1;
}
because of the semi-colon at the end of "if (condition);" the {} are simply considered a block and myvar is set to one no matter if condition is true or not.
Or maybe you are being sarcastic and trying to make fun of my stupidity.
I spent 2 days looking for a one character bug the other day, I hate these!
.. of course when I found it I felt stupid .. and well I should have :) hey wait, maybe I should have posted this Anonymously ...
if (condition);
{
myvar = 1;
}
The block was a lot bigger than myvar = 1, and my eyes kept skipping over the ;
Is HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Param eters
e sk it/en-us/default.asp?url=/windows2000/techinfo/res kit/en-us/regentry/58811.asp
REG_DWORD
30
Setting this to anything below 30 decimal will just set it to 30 anyway though.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/r
Linux, despite all of its wonderful benefits still has a long way to go to be used by grandma and grandpa who have never touched a computer. Sure, I always hear how some linux guru has set one such setup up, but they are always forced to maintain it.
What i'd like to see is a comparison of sitting 1000 people down in front of a windows box and a linux box and see how easy it is to do simple common tasks:
Write a short 1 page summmary on your life and print it (no printer setup yet)
Listen to an mp3
Check the news on CNN
Rip a CDROM
Burn a CDROM
Change your wallpaper
Download and install a list of programs that people might commonly install (ie; gaim/aim, a game written for both windows and linux)
And then some more advanced tasks
Setup a website (IIS or apache preinstalled)
Change your screen resolution
Find a file somewhere on your computer
Then compare the success/failure ratio and the average time it takes to do each task between windows and linux.
I'd bet that at this point in time and probably for quite a while windows will be far ahead in this competition. Im not saying it will always but I think there is still a long way to go.
I for one am rooting for media center. It has more features, the interface is cleaner, the guide is smoother and above all I can _easily_ upgrade the system to incorporate more room for my shows, or adding more tuners (v.Next) or if a new tv tuner comes out that just might offer a little more video quality, I can get it!
A linux oriented news site, posted on a windows bashing forum that says that Microsoft certified pros listen to Britney? This isn't biased at all.
kilometre
thanks for the obligatory microsoft bash, it had to come out somewhere. lets blame MS for the poor programming of 3rd parties just like everyone has been doing for years. Thief is not published by microsoft game studios which is where microsoft 'signs off' on it.
This is also the first time a Windows Server has won in the Internet2 competition:m l
http://lsr.internet2.edu/history.ht
That problem is easily answered when considering 1 or 2 computers run off one interface (VNC, TS, telnet, ssh). But the problem comes when one wants to manage their whole lab infrastructure or every computer in their home from one interface. Windows 2003 comes with a neat little MMC snapin called "Remote Desktops" that lets you manage all of your TS sessions. The problem with that is that there is one process for each computer, and if you can imagine, 100-1000 mstsc.exe processes can consume quite a bit of memory. As well it doesn't support features that KVM does like being able to broadcast to all of the machines at once.
What would be nice is software that lets you split your computers into groups, allow you to broadcast to those specific groups, etc..
A lot of times small cable channels get their business or make their money by late night channel surfers who have nothing better to do. Or the mom who is at home watching days of our lives and decides that during commercials she is going to flip through channels. The show that they are watching will very often catch the eye of the 'surfer' and next thing you know, you have a customer.
.30 or so for it. Now THAT would be cool.
If it was cheaper to go a la carte, I can't imagine anybody wanting to pay for anymore than what they already know, so you are are sort of screwing out the little guys who want to get recognized. They can't afford to buy commercial spots on other television stations (plus why would they let them), so this is their only form of advertisement. I remember a television channel that started up a couple years ago, and I was just flipping through and they had a show on the history of sex. I was interested so I started watching it.
But hopefully this will all be gone with OnDemand starting to become more common. The little guy can create a show and have it on OnDemand, and then you pay
Does that mean we won't be able to have our keys out in the gym anymore? Last night my fiancée called me as I was dressing and the locker room attendant politely asked me to put my cell phone away because people were afraid of getting their pictures taken with the camera phones. Now will there be a reason to limit, if not to start searching our bags everywhere we go.
And corporations have been doing this for years, this is why tobacco companies tried to market to kids, and why most kids can tell you the name brand of a product from its logo. Microsoft is no different and shouldn't be slapped on the wrist for doing what is a common business pratice.
I already have an HDTV card in my computer and I capture .ts streams to disk. If I want to keep the quality of the HD stream, it takes 9 GB per 1 hour show. Isn't that hefty :)
Except for a few select Microsoft sites which use it, (You really have the same thing for AOL), no site I have visited in the past 2 years has used Microsoft Passport (tm).
I can't believe they think that Microsoft has the market 'tied down'. How hard would it be to develop a new client authentication scheme and convince the millions of websites out there NOT using passport to use your new scheme? Sure it may be hard in some cases, but there is a hell of a lot of room for getting a huge chunk of the market.
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Russia has failed to put a five-tonne European communications satellite properly into orbit and it will now circle uselessly until it eventually falls back to Earth, space officials said.
Nice, does that mean we will have another chance at free tacos from taco bell! ??
But I currently have them up for sale. After purchasing them, I tried to get them to work with my ATI Radeon, and it had limited support.
It worked great for browsing the 3D pictures on their website, but when it came to games, nothing I did could get it to work properly.
I then tried it on my friends NVIDIA card, and we got quake3 working, and I have to admit, it is a lot better than the previous 3d glasses (ie; asus). After playing with them and being amazed for about 30 minutes, all I could really think though was 'novelty'. They didn't enhance game play in any way, and it actually took relearning some of my trained reactions in quake3.
Unfortunately my main goal was to get it working in Dungeon Siege, and I could never accomplish that.
2.5 stars/5
We used to do this in our company: /l %i in (0 1 1000000) do net send victimip HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
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Because the focus is not automatically redirected to the popup message (so that you don't get annoyed by it stealing it while you are typing) this makes it a HUGE annoyance to the victim. They have to manually click all 1 million popups (no holding down the enter key). Or reboot.
I had to download a GUI automation tool that would just send the enter key to a specific window title, just to stop it. Our company didn't allow control of services and they used net send for administrative alerts
So how long did it take you to create that webpage just to refute his post? ;)
Don't run windows ...
Let's just hope they do something good with this. I'm tired of reading about how supercomputers are used for military war simulations.
Does anybody know other applications that supercomputers are being used for. I know some do weather predictions.