A friend of mine bought one of their drives. It was the only one he had that spun up REAL fast, then died immediately. The replacement for it worked of for 2 months, then decided it wanted all the other devices' IRQ numbers...caused conflicts. The drive after that seemed ok...4 months down the line, smoke started pouring out of it. I say "BAH" and good riddance.
Hmm....this would be one of the few time Microsoft has ever gained anything by playing by the rules. I find it wildly ironic. Seems like it's one of those rules that everyone ignores until one person wildly breaks it. Wonder if MS will be subtly letting people "experience" XBox at the show under some "other" name. ("No, we aren't letting them test-drive the X-Box, we're letting them 'feel' the controllers. They simply are hooked up at the time.")
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the loss of Frank Jones, who in his life-time, talketh and layeth the smack down like in WWF Smackdown. While troubles seemed to come his way like chairs at the Undertaker, he handled it gracefully, like those fine manager chicks...."
Ever since.9.7, Mozilla has been running so damn fast and stable that it replaced my old Browser (Nutscrape). I'm not surprised at all. IT renders pages faster than IE does. I'm quite happy with it.
Ok...this means they can go belly up at any time. Bad timing. Never trusted someone who wants to make a universal pay system for the entire internet. Single point of faliure and all that.
Only had to use them once for E-Bay. But I got my Morpheus Glasses, and I'm happy. Yanked my card from my account as soon as I had them.:)
Do you really want to go to Hawaii to be geek'd up? Isn't the purpose of Hawaii to have a place where Geeks' take their wives so they will stop complaining? ("I want a week without you in front of a screen, where we will actually sit and talk" "Can I PLEASE just take my palmpilot? I won't even take the charger. Promise") Where a geek might actually see the daystar?
ok..I'm NOT about to start the perverbial deluge of people wanting to know about a beowulf cluster of these things. But what I will ask is this: if it can do that for a kernel, I wonder how long it will take to do Mozilla, or XFree? It'd be interesting to see those stats.
Here is where the beauty of us Electrical/Computer engineers come out. When you get into funky/new hardware, you need us guys.
What I propose that there should be a standardized set of low-level functions, with charts telling which platforms take how many cycles for each function. In this way, with just one layer, you could make truly portable code. Like a . In this way, the EEs could figure out how to make a set of hardware conform to a universal interface.
For instance, Motorola and Intel have two different Opcodes to ASCII Adjusted Addition. Motorola has AAA, Intel has something else (I forget right now). If you could make something at the very end change it, you could have code go from one device to another without much of a tweak. I realize that that is sorta the role of a compiler, but it needs to be ramped up. Linux on ANY device. Then we could focus on making it perdy.
I'll bet he had his glasses on while interviewing. If he didn't, his responses probably would have been "GAH!!" "OH DEAR LORD SHUT OFF THE LIGHT!" "TOO BRIGHT! CAN'T CODE!"
The idea is that if you have a hydrogen and an anti-hydrogen meet, there will be a huge explosion of energy. Stephen Hawking jokes that if you ever meet the "anti"-you, don't shake hands.
Look up Professor Robert Bush at Cal Poly Pomona. Ask him about Cold Fusion. Prepare for a lengthy discussion. It is repeatable, just not commercially feasible, and power output isn't reliable....yet.
RTBush@csupomona.edu if you dare. Do a search on his name here:
Yes, but taking it down to levels that it had not been since 486 days is never a good thing. The system routinely filled it's L1 Cache to the brim during testing. Very un-elegant.
Slashdot Mirror
This was an interesting link I thought.
Joe
Go ahead! Mod me down! I still win because I have this here mouse!
It's called IPv6....done.
A friend of mine bought one of their drives. It was the only one he had that spun up REAL fast, then died immediately. The replacement for it worked of for 2 months, then decided it wanted all the other devices' IRQ numbers...caused conflicts. The drive after that seemed ok...4 months down the line, smoke started pouring out of it. I say "BAH" and good riddance.
Just my $.02
JoeLinux
I'm all for it. Where do I apply for this job? I have the highest ethics....for sale.
Joe Carnes
Well, sounds like something that will be cool now, but quickly eclipsed when GPRS comes out. Too bad...this would have been cool about 2 years ago..
Too bad,
Joe
This has been on the Apache for some time now.
Joe Carnes
Which is better...something that reports back your habits, or something that uses spare cycle time for something constructive?
Joe
I say let's not read. My goodness, if it were important, it'd be on TV. Or in a pr0n site. Anything worthwhile is in those two spots.
JoeLinux
"Duke Nukem will be out by the end of the year. No, we promise. Not lying this time!"
JoeLinux
Unfortunately, for us Electrical/Computer Engineers, there is no way around that. They simply won't hire you. Sucks, but that's how it works.
Joe Carnes
Hmm....this would be one of the few time Microsoft has ever gained anything by playing by the rules. I find it wildly ironic. Seems like it's one of those rules that everyone ignores until one person wildly breaks it. Wonder if MS will be subtly letting people "experience" XBox at the show under some "other" name. ("No, we aren't letting them test-drive the X-Box, we're letting them 'feel' the controllers. They simply are hooked up at the time.")
KMFMS.
JoeLinux
Oopsie...meant "Accurate to .5%" Amazing how a few words can change the WHOLE meaning.
JoeLinux
I'd say as long as you didn't specify what the program was beng used for specifically, there shouldn't be a problem.
.5% accuracy on this, not "The targetting for the ICBM needs to be .5% accurate", etc.)
(I.E., we need
Just my $.02.
JoeLinux
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the loss of Frank Jones, who in his life-time, talketh and layeth the smack down like in WWF Smackdown. While troubles seemed to come his way like chairs at the Undertaker, he handled it gracefully, like those fine manager chicks...."
Fun stuff. Liven up any Eulogy...
JoeLinux
Ever since .9.7, Mozilla has been running so damn fast and stable that it replaced my old Browser (Nutscrape). I'm not surprised at all. IT renders pages faster than IE does. I'm quite happy with it.
JoeLinux
Ok...this means they can go belly up at any time. Bad timing. Never trusted someone who wants to make a universal pay system for the entire internet. Single point of faliure and all that.
:)
Only had to use them once for E-Bay. But I got my Morpheus Glasses, and I'm happy. Yanked my card from my account as soon as I had them.
JoeLinux
Do you really want to go to Hawaii to be geek'd up? Isn't the purpose of Hawaii to have a place where Geeks' take their wives so they will stop complaining? ("I want a week without you in front of a screen, where we will actually sit and talk" "Can I PLEASE just take my palmpilot? I won't even take the charger. Promise") Where a geek might actually see the daystar?
JoeLinux
ok..I'm NOT about to start the perverbial deluge of people wanting to know about a beowulf cluster of these things. But what I will ask is this: if it can do that for a kernel, I wonder how long it will take to do Mozilla, or XFree? It'd be interesting to see those stats.
JoeLinux
Here is where the beauty of us Electrical/Computer engineers come out. When you get into funky/new hardware, you need us guys.
What I propose that there should be a standardized set of low-level functions, with charts telling which platforms take how many cycles for each function. In this way, with just one layer, you could make truly portable code. Like a . In this way, the EEs could figure out how to make a set of hardware conform to a universal interface.
For instance, Motorola and Intel have two different Opcodes to ASCII Adjusted Addition. Motorola has AAA, Intel has something else (I forget right now). If you could make something at the very end change it, you could have code go from one device to another without much of a tweak. I realize that that is sorta the role of a compiler, but it needs to be ramped up. Linux on ANY device. Then we could focus on making it perdy.
Just my $.02.
Joe
I'll bet he had his glasses on while interviewing. If he didn't, his responses probably would have been "GAH!!" "OH DEAR LORD SHUT OFF THE LIGHT!" "TOO BRIGHT! CAN'T CODE!"
Much apologies to Userfriendly.
JoeLinux
I was hoping for the lawsuit...oh well.
JoeLinux
The idea is that if you have a hydrogen and an anti-hydrogen meet, there will be a huge explosion of energy. Stephen Hawking jokes that if you ever meet the "anti"-you, don't shake hands.
Joe
I think there are flying pigs somewhere. Hell has definitely become a ski resort. RMS conceding a point. Wow. Will wonders never cease?
Joe Carnes
Look up Professor Robert Bush at Cal Poly Pomona. Ask him about Cold Fusion. Prepare for a lengthy discussion. It is repeatable, just not commercially feasible, and power output isn't reliable....yet.
t io n/ColdFusionPrimer.html
RTBush@csupomona.edu if you dare. Do a search on his name here:
http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/SocialConstruc
Cheers,
Joe
Yes, but taking it down to levels that it had not been since 486 days is never a good thing. The system routinely filled it's L1 Cache to the brim during testing. Very un-elegant.
Joe