Just because an OS company isn't going to survive long term doesn't mean you can't make money off their stock. I made decent cash off of BeOS stock in the 90s.
Larger caches are slower. Moving to a larger L1 cache would either require that the chip run at a lower clock rate, or increase the latency (increasing the length of time it takes to retrieve the data).
As for registers, they did increase them, from 8 to 16 with x64. IIRC, AMD stated that moving to 16 registers gave 80% of the performance increase they would have gained by moving to 32 registers.
"In 2003, Californians sent $50 billion more to Washington in federal taxes than the state received in federal expenditures. Representing a slight increase from levels that have held steady for three preceding years, the Golden State’s imbalance set a new record for any state, surpassing the previous mark (set also by California, in 2000 and 2001) of $48 billion."
I'm not sure where you're getting your info. At my last job, we used AMD processors in desktops since the K6 days without issues. In fact, there were a few K6 systems in use less than 2 years ago. That's hundreds of desktops without issues.
As for home, I currently have 6 computers in my house, 2 are intel based, 4 are amd based. I haven't had any issues with any of them except some flakiness on the c2d based laptop (due to intel's flash cache thing).
Now, all of those systems have decent quality parts. If you buy a $30 mobo, you can expect issues. I've stuck to 2 brands over the last 10+ years and haven't had any issues.
I would be willing to guess that a lot of mainstream Christians don't realize how quickly fundamentalism is spreading. Most of them probably think they're still relegated to the "false profit" style TV preachers we saw in the 80s (pun intended).
Personally, I don't care how much my salary goes up compared to someone else's. I care about how much it goes up compared to inflation. If your or my wages don't keep up with inflation, then it's a pay cut. Not a raise.
if you're complaining about ONLY $80 for 1GB of RAM, you have no concept of what non-shitty memory for real workstations can cost.
I read that as he's buying non-shitty ECC memory, as in name brand and not generic crap. I think you read it as non-ECC memory is shitty.
Having ECC is good for servers where since you don't want the server to crash due to bad memory, but you want to know asap about memory that's gone bad. You also want to minimize down time since there could be 100s or 1000s of people using that system where as with a desktop, it's generally 1 person. In the last 10 years or so, I've had 1 server have memory go bad. The server started beeping, told me what slot had the bad memory, but never crashed. I've got to say, it was much nicer than having a random crash or having to run memtest86 to find out if it was bad memory.
In one drawer, I've got some full length ISA card that I have no idea what the hell it is. I've got stuff labeled 10base2. I've got an AT keyboard/monitor switch (no mouse). I've got manuals for software we didn't even purchase.
It's a pretty nice day today, and the dumpster is right outside...
Yeah. Every time I see someone do something stupid in a meeting I call them a dumbass to their face, especially when my boss is there. Christ, I thought epeens were exclusive to gamers.
While raid helps lessen the chance for data loss, it's mainly there to eliminate downtime when a drive fails. A few hours of downtime due to a lost drive can easy eat up the extra $300 or so that a 2nd drive costs.
Even on small servers with non-hot-swappable sata drives, you can use removable bays to make replacing a dead sata drive easy, and almost as quick as a plain old reboot.
The reason why AMD is losing these comparisons is that the core2 cores are faster. They're a newer design, and they're very good. Cache helps, and it helps more on certain applications, but the core2 is simply faster.
However, just because AMD is losing at the top end doesn't mean every AMD system loses to intel. At work, I'm still getting Athlon64 systems because you can get A64 3500+ 512MB systems with DVI and 3 year warranties for under $600. They're plenty fast for the users and DVI connection will do the users more good than a faster cpu.
Unless I'm misunderstanding ID, it simply attempts to explain why evolution occurs. It's not science, it's religion. I have no issue with people believing in ID. I think if there was a god, it would be much cooler for him to have set the initial conditions and laws and let it go unmanaged. It'd certainly be a lot tougher than doing everything manually and having to constantly tweak things.
To put it into more geekish terms: ID with evolution is like a linux server where you set it up using a script, thought of everything and wrote scripts to handle everything that could go wrong and it has 15 billion years of uptime. If you're a deist, then it's like that Novell server that people forgot in the closet that's still running, which is even more impressive. Young Earth Creationism however, is like a sysadmin working with a Windows server running buggy software. It's been running for 10,000 years, but it's going to have to be rebooted soon, so watch out the end of the world is nigh.
Well, I do use Open Office in the workplace for about 60 users. They're factory users using terminals connecting to MS server 2003 terminal servers. Installing OOo was the cheapest way for the supervisors who needed to modify a couple of excel and word docs to legally do so. We had one file that wouldn't print correctly, so we installed excel viewer so the user could print that file. Other than that it's worked pretty well. The only app that gives us problems is acrobat reader, and that's always on one user's account. People working in the offices still have MS office installed, and that's not likely to change anytime soon.
BTW, I have many users still using Lotus 123 because of macros. I've given up trying to get people to convert to one app.
Well, considering that Mars's atmosphere very thin, I'd expect it to be cold. The atmospheric pressure is less than 1% that of earth's. You have to go up 20 miles to get the same pressure on earth.
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Just because an OS company isn't going to survive long term doesn't mean you can't make money off their stock. I made decent cash off of BeOS stock in the 90s.
Fewer annoying smirks.
Xerox was the first commercial company to make a GUI. Both MS and Apple hired from the pool of people who worked at Xerox before the mac came out.
apple Market Cap: 229.19B
microsoft Market Cap: 253.10B
I wouldn't really call apple the little guy.
Larger caches are slower. Moving to a larger L1 cache would either require that the chip run at a lower clock rate, or increase the latency (increasing the length of time it takes to retrieve the data).
As for registers, they did increase them, from 8 to 16 with x64. IIRC, AMD stated that moving to 16 registers gave 80% of the performance increase they would have gained by moving to 32 registers.
"In 2003, Californians sent $50 billion more to Washington in federal taxes than the state received in federal expenditures. Representing a slight increase from levels that have held steady for three preceding years, the Golden State’s imbalance set a new record for any state, surpassing the previous mark (set also by California, in 2000 and 2001) of $48 billion."
http://www.calinst.org/pubs/balance2003.htm
Maybe if that weren't the case, California wouldn't be so broke right now.
I'm not sure where you're getting your info. At my last job, we used AMD processors in desktops since the K6 days without issues. In fact, there were a few K6 systems in use less than 2 years ago. That's hundreds of desktops without issues.
As for home, I currently have 6 computers in my house, 2 are intel based, 4 are amd based. I haven't had any issues with any of them except some flakiness on the c2d based laptop (due to intel's flash cache thing).
Now, all of those systems have decent quality parts. If you buy a $30 mobo, you can expect issues. I've stuck to 2 brands over the last 10+ years and haven't had any issues.
Funny, your ideas sound just like my dad's. He's taught at a community college for over 20 years.
Coconuts aren't animals. While they're high in saturated fat, they don't have cholesterol.
I would be willing to guess that a lot of mainstream Christians don't realize how quickly fundamentalism is spreading. Most of them probably think they're still relegated to the "false profit" style TV preachers we saw in the 80s (pun intended).
My beliefs are different now than they were when I was 30. I was always a bit immature though. I'm a late bloomer I guess.
as a cruel joke, tell someone they can take a single drive out of a raid 5 array and put it away as a backup.
Personally, I don't care how much my salary goes up compared to someone else's. I care about how much it goes up compared to inflation. If your or my wages don't keep up with inflation, then it's a pay cut. Not a raise.
if you're complaining about ONLY $80 for 1GB of RAM, you have no concept of what non-shitty memory for real workstations can cost.
I read that as he's buying non-shitty ECC memory, as in name brand and not generic crap. I think you read it as non-ECC memory is shitty.
Having ECC is good for servers where since you don't want the server to crash due to bad memory, but you want to know asap about memory that's gone bad. You also want to minimize down time since there could be 100s or 1000s of people using that system where as with a desktop, it's generally 1 person. In the last 10 years or so, I've had 1 server have memory go bad. The server started beeping, told me what slot had the bad memory, but never crashed. I've got to say, it was much nicer than having a random crash or having to run memtest86 to find out if it was bad memory.
that would depend on the time of the month.
In one drawer, I've got some full length ISA card that I have no idea what the hell it is. I've got stuff labeled 10base2. I've got an AT keyboard/monitor switch (no mouse). I've got manuals for software we didn't even purchase.
It's a pretty nice day today, and the dumpster is right outside...
Yeah. Every time I see someone do something stupid in a meeting I call them a dumbass to their face, especially when my boss is there. Christ, I thought epeens were exclusive to gamers.
While raid helps lessen the chance for data loss, it's mainly there to eliminate downtime when a drive fails. A few hours of downtime due to a lost drive can easy eat up the extra $300 or so that a 2nd drive costs.
Even on small servers with non-hot-swappable sata drives, you can use removable bays to make replacing a dead sata drive easy, and almost as quick as a plain old reboot.
The reason why AMD is losing these comparisons is that the core2 cores are faster. They're a newer design, and they're very good. Cache helps, and it helps more on certain applications, but the core2 is simply faster.
However, just because AMD is losing at the top end doesn't mean every AMD system loses to intel. At work, I'm still getting Athlon64 systems because you can get A64 3500+ 512MB systems with DVI and 3 year warranties for under $600. They're plenty fast for the users and DVI connection will do the users more good than a faster cpu.
Unless I'm misunderstanding ID, it simply attempts to explain why evolution occurs. It's not science, it's religion. I have no issue with people believing in ID. I think if there was a god, it would be much cooler for him to have set the initial conditions and laws and let it go unmanaged. It'd certainly be a lot tougher than doing everything manually and having to constantly tweak things.
To put it into more geekish terms: ID with evolution is like a linux server where you set it up using a script, thought of everything and wrote scripts to handle everything that could go wrong and it has 15 billion years of uptime. If you're a deist, then it's like that Novell server that people forgot in the closet that's still running, which is even more impressive. Young Earth Creationism however, is like a sysadmin working with a Windows server running buggy software. It's been running for 10,000 years, but it's going to have to be rebooted soon, so watch out the end of the world is nigh.
So the alternative for most companies that actually use or would Novell software is to simply use Microsoft.
So is HP going to start relabeling cheapo lexmark printers now?
Well, I do use Open Office in the workplace for about 60 users. They're factory users using terminals connecting to MS server 2003 terminal servers. Installing OOo was the cheapest way for the supervisors who needed to modify a couple of excel and word docs to legally do so. We had one file that wouldn't print correctly, so we installed excel viewer so the user could print that file. Other than that it's worked pretty well. The only app that gives us problems is acrobat reader, and that's always on one user's account. People working in the offices still have MS office installed, and that's not likely to change anytime soon.
BTW, I have many users still using Lotus 123 because of macros. I've given up trying to get people to convert to one app.
Nah, just buy sco and move the offices to Baghdad (outside the green zone of course) and transfer everyone there.
Well, considering that Mars's atmosphere very thin, I'd expect it to be cold. The atmospheric pressure is less than 1% that of earth's. You have to go up 20 miles to get the same pressure on earth.