Does anyone know of a distro that supports SMP on the sun4m? sun4c? I haven't found documentation that says either way for debian or several others but I know none of the BSDs or slack do.
There seem to be alot of comments here about heat and power consumption. This article isn't about heat or power; it's much more about cost. A smaller chip means more chips can be fit onto the same wafer and thereby bring down the cost of each chip.
Whether the consumer sees any real savings isn't certain. AMD could choose to take a higher profit margin on each chip and pass nothing on to us. Also, a smaller process invariably means more chips come out as duds (cosmic rays and whatnot).
But, a smaller chip isn't really meant to be a feature of a of a microprocessor, except in as much as it effects price. I think this was more of an announcement intended for the corporate/investment folks, not so much us.
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1st, special relativity (which is what really pertains here) isn't really in dispute. There are very few, very radical researchers who seem to think that its false and their ideas mostly hinge on things of which there is no physical evidece, like gravity waves or such.
2nd, relativity only describes what happens, not why it happens and it accurately describes it. The GPS system had to be corrected for special relativity, particles from space can reach the surface of the earth even though their halflives would seem to forbid it. Special relativity is accurate to any percision we can measure.
When people refer to extra dimensions it is typically with reguard to string theory (a branch of particle physics), not in reguard to the tranimission of light (usually optics).
One of the greatest games made in along time is Battle Girl. Simple vector graphics, great sound and a pace that has brought me close to siezures, now thats a game! It does feel like the old games though; its simple and repetitive.
Now if they would only make a windows or linux version so I didnt have to go find a mac to play it on...
If you were to light a candle inside the room that would release particulate matter into the air. This would eventually abosrb the radiation provided the particles are big enough. Of course that doesn't address the problem of actually looking inside.
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Does anyone know of a distro that supports SMP on the sun4m? sun4c? I haven't found documentation that says either way for debian or several others but I know none of the BSDs or slack do.
There seem to be alot of comments here about heat and power consumption. This article isn't about heat or power; it's much more about cost. A smaller chip means more chips can be fit onto the same wafer and thereby bring down the cost of each chip.
Whether the consumer sees any real savings isn't certain. AMD could choose to take a higher profit margin on each chip and pass nothing on to us. Also, a smaller process invariably means more chips come out as duds (cosmic rays and whatnot).
But, a smaller chip isn't really meant to be a feature of a of a microprocessor, except in as much as it effects price. I think this was more of an announcement intended for the corporate/investment folks, not so much us.
1st, special relativity (which is what really pertains here) isn't really in dispute. There are very few, very radical researchers who seem to think that its false and their ideas mostly hinge on things of which there is no physical evidece, like gravity waves or such.
2nd, relativity only describes what happens, not why it happens and it accurately describes it. The GPS system had to be corrected for special relativity, particles from space can reach the surface of the earth even though their halflives would seem to forbid it. Special relativity is accurate to any percision we can measure.
When people refer to extra dimensions it is typically with reguard to string theory (a branch of particle physics), not in reguard to the tranimission of light (usually optics).
One of the greatest games made in along time is Battle Girl. Simple vector graphics, great sound and a pace that has brought me close to siezures, now thats a game! It does feel like the old games though; its simple and repetitive.
Now if they would only make a windows or linux version so I didnt have to go find a mac to play it on...
If you were to light a candle inside the room that would release particulate matter into the air. This would eventually abosrb the radiation provided the particles are big enough. Of course that doesn't address the problem of actually looking inside.