especially since the product is 100% cross platform
Not exactly.
I'm primarily a pc user, I recently aquired a mac mini, my ipod was one of the first run of 30GB units.
I had not updated the firmware on the ipod in a while since after I had installed the new itunes it conflicted with the musicmatch applet.
When I attempted to update the ipod using the mini, it stated that it could not do so since the ipod had been formatted with a windows system. The options it presented were to update with the original windows system, or to re-initialize the ipod and lose everything currently on it.
True 100% cross platform wouldn't care what machine it was initially set up on. Or at least be able to work around a firmware upgrade without wiping the system.
A USB cable would have been nice when I bought it, the laptop I set it up with has a 4-pin 1344.
Except that MS already has a history of not allowing their programs to run on other operating systems and throwing generic error messages. You remember DR-DOS/win3.1 right?
Wasn't that judged illegal? Now if they're doing the same thing with office or their games, and they're refusing to run on wine...
When I first saw the same thing in discover.com I had high hopes.
This along with biodiesel, and better catalytic converters would go a long way towards landfill reduction and powering the nation.
Personally, even if hydrogen was economically feasible, I wonder what putting that much water vapor into the air would do. We're talking total conversion of every motor vehicle. Humidity levels would probably rise in areas that normally do not have much humidity to begin with.
We already had the x-prize for spaceflight, now how about the government put out a prize for a better catalytic converter.
Not true, there are examples of him going to sickbay because using the VISOR gives him headaches, he had to be trained to interpret what the colors and patterns meant, and that takes a lot of time and effort. He was one of a handful of people who could successfully use it.
I'd have to say that I agree with you and the previous poster both.
The flag isn't going to go away just by wishing it so/ or making it illegal. It'll just push it underground and force people to rally to it.
What I don't understand is why the black community doesn't put out some sort of statement to the effect that "Yes we understand that the flag represents state's rights to some people, and a sense of history and we respect that."
Quite simply take the symbol away from the racists not by burying it, but by co-opting it instead for their own cause.
I know of one person who was a friend of my sister. She was graduated even though she barely has a ten year old's reading comprehension. Worse for math as I understand it.
I can and will blame all schools where they tolerate that 'It'll hurt their self esteem to fail them', crap.
I blame schools where teachers are allowed to impose their political agendas on the students.
I blame schools where most of the budget goes to the football team instead of promoting academics.
I blame schools where teachers allow the football players to cheat in order to get good enough grades to keep playing.
Parents can only do so much when the system is stacked against them and the teachers work to cover each other.
Granted I don't hate the show, but when I first started watching Atlantis it seems more like "Star Trek Deep Space Voyager the Vampire Slayer".
Seriously, it's all been done.
Space Station (check) Stranded far away from home with no way back (check) Alien enemy (check) Vampires (check)
Even the episodes seem to be recycled concepts, one of the last ones where they thought they had gotten home but hadn't was basically the same as the gamemaster's VR SG1 encountered.
You're forgetting to take into account the court system which the president gets to appoint. I don't want kerry putting activist judges on the bench, the judiciary's job is to rule on the constitionality of a law, not to create new law by judicial fiat.
I'd have to agree there. When I was born, I was supposed to be delivered c-section due to wide shoulders. The regular doc wasn't there, and the attending guy was in a hurry or something, didn't bother to read the chart.
Needless to say the forceps gave me nerve damage that left me temporarily paralyzed on the right side, my right shoulder socket never formed, and from several years of neglect my right arm is partially atrophied. Previous surgeries seem to have harmed more than helped.
I had hoped a procedure like this would come along for some time now, my first attempt at a degree was mechanical engineering back in 96, and the idea of rapid prototyping of a plastic mold along with what at the time seemed a breakthrough in bone tissue replacement keyed me onto the idea. There was an article I had read about a "paste" that was chemically similar to bone tissue, could be injected into broken bones, would cure in about 24 hours, and could be broken down and replaced by the body just as normal tissue could.
The original article I read over on discover claimed that in addition to turkey offal, they can use sewage, medical waste (including needles), etc, etc. Shrink those landfills and turn oil into a renewable resource.
The itanium is extremely overclocked with a whopping 1 pound heat sink just so it can benchmark on an equal footing with pentiumIV's and Athlons and older Alpha's.
EV68 is the most recent released alpha, or were you talking itanium1?
This is why the fans are huge and chip is humongous. Eh.. most servers have large fans, I really didn't see much difference between the fans I service on alpha es45's and itanium2 rx5670's except for the fact that the rx5670 has twice as many for redundancy.
The put everything in the chip in order to make it fly but its really a brick You mean you think it's smarter to put your cache off chip on a 200mhz front side bus instead of having an l3 cache running on the 400mhz internal processor bus speed?
Please enlighten me as to how "everything" was put in the chip, or how l1-3 cache constitutes everthing. From what I understand, the internal badwidth was boosted by a faster processor bus and a wider pipe, the line size of the caches were doubled, it has additional issue ports, additional execution units, and the core frequency hasn't really gone up that much from 800mhz - 1ghz.
AMD hammer is much better chip and maybe the only option for 64bit Windows because Itanium2 systems are difficult to find. And here I heard that sales were more than double the expectations.... But then that's just a nasty rumor and we don't pay any attention to them.
I take it you have a vested interest in itanic? I take it you have a vested interest in athlon-64?
For your information I have a 64-bit dual processor Sun Ultra 60 and a Dell PC under my desk. I also run several multi-processor 64-bit servers used daily for building Open Source and Free software. And I service two of the largest alpha clusters in existence ranking 2 and 3 in the top 500 supercomputers, your point being?
were artificially removed from the market place to try to boost itanic's position Actually no, itanium was co-designed by HP and is to my understanding the successor to pa-risc which was not artificially removed, it lives on. Alpha was dropped because most companies don't want to compete with themselves. Though the alpha engineers were transfered to intel (those that didn't quit because of it) so alpha will live on in itanium as well. Alpha technology is going to be around for some time yet.
Athlon 64 will succeed simply because it is an evolutionary improvement on existing technology Read "we couldn't come up with anything better than adding 64-bit extensions to x86 microcode".
If intel made a jump to quantum processors and amd decided to add 1024-bit extensions to ia512 (just random guess) would you say the same thing? Anytime you have a major change in architecture you're going to break things, if not for these changes we'd still be running on an 8088. DEC took that gamble with the alpha early on, apple with the powerpc.
Granted, I do have an interest in itanium, I'd like to see a couple large clusters of those running linux put in here. But if they don't then it's not really going to bother me since I'll probably be here working on the alphas for the forseable future.
Heat isn't so big a problem as you think it. Even athlons can melt entire motherboards without proper cooling. Furthermore, the itanium2 boxes I've recently had the chance to learn how to service (rx5670) use heatpipe technology in the heatsinks or (rx2600/zx6000) turbofan heatsinks.
I've installed windows.net pre-release, redhat, debian, and hp-ux on these boxes. For the unices I think just about any app can be natively compiled.
Alpha and pa-risc are near end of life with ev7 for the alpha and one more pa-risc chip being produced before being discontinued, it would be suicide to stick with a dead platform. Furthermore ia64 is actually a descendant of pa-risc.
Granted itanium1 wasn't so great, the second time around it's much better, the benchmarks I've posted in another thread shows it's performance actually better than alpha, and once the alpha engineers who went to intel get integrated into the project teams it should do even better.
I work with large scale alpha clusters, and was just in maryland earlier last month learning how to support the itanium boxes so I looked a few things up while there.
Granted linkpack isn't the only benchmark, but the processor/memory and io bandwidth looks impressive from the specs I've seen.
I think you've lost me, I'm not advocating destroying the original. In fact I'm arguing against a technology that would do so.
Let's get some cloning machines using this tech churning out thousands of copies of sexy chicks! Be careful who you pick, they might be lesbian guy haters who'd create a clone army and turn earth into the planet of the amazons.
Not to mention that I think cloning will kill our genetic diversity along with making criminal prosecution much tougher where DNA evidence is the only evidence.
If you are your self-awareness, your consciousness, then you'll still be you.
But would it be your consciousness or the duplicates?
The concept of "self" derives from the interaction of electrochemical signals. It's not the same set of molecules interpreting those signals.
Same thing as using a master drive image at a computer factory. None of those produced are the original.
I think 'Spock must die' and I don't recall the episode name with the duplicate Riker, partially illustrate this concept. As the two diverge and become totally different people.
Slashdot Mirror
with the word jews and see how your question sounds?
That is why liberals don't get it.
For the record I'm mostly centrist, people like you are why I lean slightly right.
especially since the product is 100% cross platform
Not exactly.
I'm primarily a pc user, I recently aquired a mac mini, my ipod was one of the first run of 30GB units.
I had not updated the firmware on the ipod in a while since after I had installed the new itunes it conflicted with the musicmatch applet.
When I attempted to update the ipod using the mini, it stated that it could not do so since the ipod had been formatted with a windows system. The options it presented were to update with the original windows system, or to re-initialize the ipod and lose everything currently on it.
True 100% cross platform wouldn't care what machine it was initially set up on. Or at least be able to work around a firmware upgrade without wiping the system.
A USB cable would have been nice when I bought it, the laptop I set it up with has a 4-pin 1344.
Except that MS already has a history of not allowing their programs to run on other operating systems and throwing generic error messages. You remember DR-DOS/win3.1 right?
Wasn't that judged illegal?
Now if they're doing the same thing with office or their games, and they're refusing to run on wine...
To just put a higher license plate tax on hybrids/electrics to account for road wear.
I don't think the terms of sale of alpha to intel allow an AMD cross license.
Consider your vehicle to be an extension of your home. Thus private property.
When I first saw the same thing in discover.com I had high hopes.
This along with biodiesel, and better catalytic converters would go a long way towards landfill reduction and powering the nation.
Personally, even if hydrogen was economically feasible, I wonder what putting that much water vapor into the air would do. We're talking total conversion of every motor vehicle. Humidity levels would probably rise in areas that normally do not have much humidity to begin with.
We already had the x-prize for spaceflight, now how about the government put out a prize for a better catalytic converter.
Here's todays download, thanks for using MS anti-nano-virus.
Not true, there are examples of him going to sickbay because using the VISOR gives him headaches, he had to be trained to interpret what the colors and patterns meant, and that takes a lot of time and effort. He was one of a handful of people who could successfully use it.
I'd have to say that I agree with you and the previous poster both.
The flag isn't going to go away just by wishing it so/ or making it illegal. It'll just push it underground and force people to rally to it.
What I don't understand is why the black community doesn't put out some sort of statement to the effect that "Yes we understand that the flag represents state's rights to some people, and a sense of history and we respect that."
Quite simply take the symbol away from the racists not by burying it, but by co-opting it instead for their own cause.
Just take a look at the force powers for instance.
Cure a light side power at 6th level, drain life as a dark side power wasn't available until about 9th. Heal at 12th, and death field at 18th.
This seems about the same for most of the dark side powers.
Of course it doesn't help that I'm practically a paladin irl and the dialogue options for dark side made me sick in some places.
I know of one person who was a friend of my sister. She was graduated even though she barely has a ten year old's reading comprehension. Worse for math as I understand it.
I can and will blame all schools where they tolerate that 'It'll hurt their self esteem to fail them', crap.
I blame schools where teachers are allowed to impose their political agendas on the students.
I blame schools where most of the budget goes to the football team instead of promoting academics.
I blame schools where teachers allow the football players to cheat in order to get good enough grades to keep playing.
Parents can only do so much when the system is stacked against them and the teachers work to cover each other.
Granted I don't hate the show, but when I first started watching Atlantis it seems more like "Star Trek Deep Space Voyager the Vampire Slayer".
Seriously, it's all been done.
Space Station (check)
Stranded far away from home with no way back (check)
Alien enemy (check)
Vampires (check)
Even the episodes seem to be recycled concepts, one of the last ones where they thought they had gotten home but hadn't was basically the same as the gamemaster's VR SG1 encountered.
You're forgetting to take into account the court system which the president gets to appoint. I don't want kerry putting activist judges on the bench, the judiciary's job is to rule on the constitionality of a law, not to create new law by judicial fiat.
I'd have to agree there. When I was born, I was supposed to be delivered c-section due to wide shoulders. The regular doc wasn't there, and the attending guy was in a hurry or something, didn't bother to read the chart.
Needless to say the forceps gave me nerve damage that left me temporarily paralyzed on the right side, my right shoulder socket never formed, and from several years of neglect my right arm is partially atrophied. Previous surgeries seem to have harmed more than helped.
I had hoped a procedure like this would come along for some time now, my first attempt at a degree was mechanical engineering back in 96, and the idea of rapid prototyping of a plastic mold along with what at the time seemed a breakthrough in bone tissue replacement keyed me onto the idea. There was an article I had read about a "paste" that was chemically similar to bone tissue, could be injected into broken bones, would cure in about 24 hours, and could be broken down and replaced by the body just as normal tissue could.
This process seems markedly superior.
It's really just one 72 year-old virgin.
You just need to use a different process.
Something more like thermal depolymerization.
Changing world technologies
The original article I read over on discover claimed that in addition to turkey offal, they can use sewage, medical waste (including needles), etc, etc. Shrink those landfills and turn oil into a renewable resource.
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
I wonder if the CPU can be overclocked?
To the term hotfoot.
The itanium is extremely overclocked with a whopping 1 pound heat sink just so it can benchmark on an equal footing with pentiumIV's and Athlons and older Alpha's.
Linpack for 1Ghz itanium2 vs 1.25Ghz EV68 Alphas
EV68 is the most recent released alpha, or were you talking itanium1?
This is why the fans are huge and chip is humongous.
Eh.. most servers have large fans, I really didn't see much difference between the fans I service on alpha es45's and itanium2 rx5670's except for the fact that the rx5670 has twice as many for redundancy.
The put everything in the chip in order to make it fly but its really a brick
You mean you think it's smarter to put your cache off chip on a 200mhz front side bus instead of having an l3 cache running on the 400mhz internal processor bus speed?
Please enlighten me as to how "everything" was put in the chip, or how l1-3 cache constitutes everthing. From what I understand, the internal badwidth was boosted by a faster processor bus and a wider pipe, the line size of the caches were doubled, it has additional issue ports, additional execution units, and the core frequency hasn't really gone up that much from 800mhz - 1ghz.
AMD hammer is much better chip and maybe the only option for 64bit Windows because Itanium2 systems are difficult to find.
And here I heard that sales were more than double the expectations.... But then that's just a nasty rumor and we don't pay any attention to them.
I take it you have a vested interest in itanic?
I take it you have a vested interest in athlon-64?
For your information I have a 64-bit dual processor Sun Ultra 60 and a Dell PC under my desk. I also run several multi-processor 64-bit servers used daily for building Open Source and Free software.
And I service two of the largest alpha clusters in existence ranking 2 and 3 in the top 500 supercomputers, your point being?
were artificially removed from the market place to try to boost itanic's position
Actually no, itanium was co-designed by HP and is to my understanding the successor to pa-risc which was not artificially removed, it lives on. Alpha was dropped because most companies don't want to compete with themselves. Though the alpha engineers were transfered to intel (those that didn't quit because of it) so alpha will live on in itanium as well. Alpha technology is going to be around for some time yet.
Athlon 64 will succeed simply because it is an evolutionary improvement on existing technology
Read "we couldn't come up with anything better than adding 64-bit extensions to x86 microcode".
If intel made a jump to quantum processors and amd decided to add 1024-bit extensions to ia512 (just random guess) would you say the same thing? Anytime you have a major change in architecture you're going to break things, if not for these changes we'd still be running on an 8088.
DEC took that gamble with the alpha early on, apple with the powerpc.
Granted, I do have an interest in itanium, I'd like to see a couple large clusters of those running linux put in here. But if they don't then it's not really going to bother me since I'll probably be here working on the alphas for the forseable future.
Heat isn't so big a problem as you think it. Even athlons can melt entire motherboards without proper cooling. Furthermore, the itanium2 boxes I've recently had the chance to learn how to service (rx5670) use heatpipe technology in the heatsinks or (rx2600/zx6000) turbofan heatsinks.
I've installed windows.net pre-release, redhat, debian, and hp-ux on these boxes. For the unices I think just about any app can be natively compiled.
Alpha and pa-risc are near end of life with ev7 for the alpha and one more pa-risc chip being produced before being discontinued, it would be suicide to stick with a dead platform. Furthermore ia64 is actually a descendant of pa-risc.
Granted itanium1 wasn't so great, the second time around it's much better, the benchmarks I've posted in another thread shows it's performance actually better than alpha, and once the alpha engineers who went to intel get integrated into the project teams it should do even better.
Thread
linkpack itanium2 vs alpha ev68
This is the performance for ev68 equipped es45's with 1.25 and 1.0 ghz processors respectively.
LINPACK 1000 x 1000 6,847 (4 CPUs) 5,522 (4 CPUs)
Link to above
I work with large scale alpha clusters, and was just in maryland earlier last month learning how to support the itanium boxes so I looked a few things up while there.
Granted linkpack isn't the only benchmark, but the processor/memory and io bandwidth looks impressive from the specs I've seen.
I think you've lost me, I'm not advocating destroying the original. In fact I'm arguing against a technology that would do so.
Let's get some cloning machines using this tech churning out thousands of copies of sexy chicks!
Be careful who you pick, they might be lesbian guy haters who'd create a clone army and turn earth into the planet of the amazons.
Not to mention that I think cloning will kill our genetic diversity along with making criminal prosecution much tougher where DNA evidence is the only evidence.
If you are your self-awareness, your consciousness, then you'll still be you.
But would it be your consciousness or the duplicates?
The concept of "self" derives from the interaction of electrochemical signals. It's not the same set of molecules interpreting those signals.
Same thing as using a master drive image at a computer factory. None of those produced are the original.
I think 'Spock must die' and I don't recall the episode name with the duplicate Riker, partially illustrate this concept. As the two diverge and become totally different people.