Hey, give the kid the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she's unaware of the premise of American Idol, and furthermore she clearly doesn't know the song was written by someone else. This wouls show that she's ignorant of both TV and pop music, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Like, totally!
There are no CISC CPUs anymore. For cutting-edge processors that is definitely the case. CISC really doesn't lend itself well to techniques like pipelining, so Intel takes its "complicated" legacy CISC instructions and breaks them down into several smaller RISC operations (much like parent was saying).
I believe there are still a lot of older processors out there still being used that would be considered CISC CPUs though. This would be more true in spaces like embedded systems where they don't need the latest and greatest to accomplish what they need to do.
CFLAGS JUST KICKED IN, YO! Man I wish I had some mod points. That is awesome, and I even like Gentoo.
From the arrogance displayed on the front page of this new non-distro distro, it actually looks like Exherbo is by and for people who are too 1337 for regular Gentoo.
If you have Gentoo users calling you a bunch of assholes, you should probably check yourself.
You hit the nail right on the head. To me this article is pure flamebait. This is already being investigated, it was mentioned right in the summary, and the article was even said as being "from the we-know-we-know-already dept." for fuck's sake! All that is filtered out by Slashdot groupthink, though, so that we can launch into the latest edition of the Two Minutes Hate.
I've started tagging most MS articles with "twominuteshate" because most of them are just like this one -- they add nothing new to the discussion and are just an excuse for people to get off on an anti-MS rant. Who the hell is running this site, twitter?
Look, I'm no MS apologist but Slashdot has become like the boy who cried wolf -- even when a valid point is raised (instead of just being a flamebait article), I just can't get enthused because I'm tired of the nonsense.
Why exactly? Google is a U.S. based corporation, right? So if anything, shouldn't the people that should have to worry about laws be Parisians, not Google? Well, the rhetorical fellating of Google has reached a new height around here.
Of course it smokes both the aforementioned keyboards standing still... I may not be a professional gamer but honestly I think the only way one keyboard should be able to "smoke" another is if one catches fire.
They have fought the War on Drugs with skill, so why not the War on Piracy? Okay, we know that parent HAS to be making a (very long-winded, boring) joke just because of that line. Right?
Perhaps they see it differently from their angle. Of course they do. From their angle they see a lot more dollar signs (or whatever currency you prefer).
The contest was also sponsored by the likes of Google, Cisco, Adobe, some security folk... They must all have it in for Apple, oh no Apple is screwed! Plus if you read how the contest was run, it's hard to make the case that this was all pro-MS.
Get the facts... Up to the point where they support your agenda and then punt.
Being Slashdot I know a lot of people are just frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of the word "patent" but settle down. For starters, Seagate's CEO says he is "convinced" that their patents are being infringed -- offering no evidence at this point. So for now it's just bullshit posturing that may or may not materialize into anything. He could just be hedging his bets and making it look like Seagate has plans to protect their business to placate investors. With SSDs being an emerging technology no one really knows what's going to happen anyway. And what if it turns out that they do have a legitimate claim on patent infringement?
Microsoft even has a list of drivers that will cause the SP1 update to be unavailable for some users -- that was very handy for me in figuring out why SP1 wasn't showing up. Perusing the rest of that link shows some other reasons why users might not see the SP1 update as being available.
I had to go manually download and install two drivers. While it would have been nice for those to show up in Windows update as well it wasn't terribly painful. For anyone needing to update the Intel 965 drivers, I downloaded the ZIP file (the.EXE installer complained about the driver not being certified or some nonsense for my machine) and pointed the driver updater to the.INF file to get it installed. No issues so far...
This is a great example of mods and commenters (i.e. GP, currently modded informative) who don't know what the hell they're talking about. Parent post is correct -- while you can use Verilog for programming an FPGA (field-programmable gate array), Verilog has many uses in hardware design. It's called Verilog HDL (hardware description language) for a reason. Here is an overview of Verilog for the uninitiated.
Verilog is a hardware description language, not a programming language. It may look like a high-level language -- wire assignments look like variable assignments, module instantiations look like function calls -- but conceptually it's completely different. Furthermore I don't know how applicable it's going to be for anyone who works in software design, which is the audience this question seems geared towards.
Which is another important factor in bringing the price down. Percentage-wise with more die per wafer yields may go up as well; but in the end yields will be dependent on other things such as how good IBM is with its 45nm process.
"Basic cultural literacy." Yeah, that'll get ya laid when Star Trek is involved.
Speaking of getting laid, when I first saw this on the front page, my eyes fixed on the linked phrase "hacking the games themselves" and I thought "Kobayashi Maru" before I even read it in the summary. Take that cultural illiteracy!
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, give the kid the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she's unaware of the premise of American Idol, and furthermore she clearly doesn't know the song was written by someone else. This wouls show that she's ignorant of both TV and pop music, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Like, totally!
Apparently their business plan failed to account for people writing stuff down.
I believe there are still a lot of older processors out there still being used that would be considered CISC CPUs though. This would be more true in spaces like embedded systems where they don't need the latest and greatest to accomplish what they need to do.
From the arrogance displayed on the front page of this new non-distro distro, it actually looks like Exherbo is by and for people who are too 1337 for regular Gentoo.
If you have Gentoo users calling you a bunch of assholes, you should probably check yourself.
You hit the nail right on the head. To me this article is pure flamebait. This is already being investigated, it was mentioned right in the summary, and the article was even said as being "from the we-know-we-know-already dept." for fuck's sake! All that is filtered out by Slashdot groupthink, though, so that we can launch into the latest edition of the Two Minutes Hate.
I've started tagging most MS articles with "twominuteshate" because most of them are just like this one -- they add nothing new to the discussion and are just an excuse for people to get off on an anti-MS rant. Who the hell is running this site, twitter?
Look, I'm no MS apologist but Slashdot has become like the boy who cried wolf -- even when a valid point is raised (instead of just being a flamebait article), I just can't get enthused because I'm tired of the nonsense.
What "user" is this that you speak of? This is DESKTOP Linux we're talking about.
I think there's some humor in the fact that this was posted by a Slashdotter using the name "Original Replica" but I could be wrong.
This has already been discussed.
The contest was also sponsored by the likes of Google, Cisco, Adobe, some security folk... They must all have it in for Apple, oh no Apple is screwed! Plus if you read how the contest was run, it's hard to make the case that this was all pro-MS.
Get the facts... Up to the point where they support your agenda and then punt.
Being Slashdot I know a lot of people are just frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of the word "patent" but settle down. For starters, Seagate's CEO says he is "convinced" that their patents are being infringed -- offering no evidence at this point. So for now it's just bullshit posturing that may or may not materialize into anything. He could just be hedging his bets and making it look like Seagate has plans to protect their business to placate investors. With SSDs being an emerging technology no one really knows what's going to happen anyway. And what if it turns out that they do have a legitimate claim on patent infringement?
Until the power goes out or a reboot is needed... :)
Things like this (somewhat smaller scale) already are (somewhat bigger scale) being done.
Umm, that's why they're called slashtards.
I personally prefer the term Slashholes.
Microsoft even has a list of drivers that will cause the SP1 update to be unavailable for some users -- that was very handy for me in figuring out why SP1 wasn't showing up. Perusing the rest of that link shows some other reasons why users might not see the SP1 update as being available.
.EXE installer complained about the driver not being certified or some nonsense for my machine) and pointed the driver updater to the .INF file to get it installed. No issues so far...
I had to go manually download and install two drivers. While it would have been nice for those to show up in Windows update as well it wasn't terribly painful. For anyone needing to update the Intel 965 drivers, I downloaded the ZIP file (the
This is a great example of mods and commenters (i.e. GP, currently modded informative) who don't know what the hell they're talking about. Parent post is correct -- while you can use Verilog for programming an FPGA (field-programmable gate array), Verilog has many uses in hardware design. It's called Verilog HDL (hardware description language) for a reason. Here is an overview of Verilog for the uninitiated.
Verilog is a hardware description language, not a programming language. It may look like a high-level language -- wire assignments look like variable assignments, module instantiations look like function calls -- but conceptually it's completely different. Furthermore I don't know how applicable it's going to be for anyone who works in software design, which is the audience this question seems geared towards.
Which is another important factor in bringing the price down. Percentage-wise with more die per wafer yields may go up as well; but in the end yields will be dependent on other things such as how good IBM is with its 45nm process.
"Basic cultural literacy." Yeah, that'll get ya laid when Star Trek is involved.
Speaking of getting laid, when I first saw this on the front page, my eyes fixed on the linked phrase "hacking the games themselves" and I thought "Kobayashi Maru" before I even read it in the summary. Take that cultural illiteracy!
I would prefer to respond with my actual name but I can't.
:)
Why? Did you get duped by "sweetltlhottie69"?