You're an anomaly because you use your computer to do video editing and 3D modeling, not because you use AutoCad.
I've been around AutoCad users for the last 6 years (machine shop and city government), and I've concluded that most people using AutoCad aren't using it anywhere near its potential.
Besides, Windows can barely keep track of 4GB of RAM as it is. I can guarentee you that Windows will be shitting all over itself for the first 18 months after Win64 is released.
Perhaps the reason you don't have any money to gamble on stocks is because you have shitty business sense. ; )
64-bit processors are absolutely unnecessary on the desktop at this time, and Intel knows it. Why the supposedly tech-savvy geek culture of Slashdot can't grapple this is beyond me.
I think Intel is still thinking about the data centre, not Joe Sixpack, with Itanium.
The problem is that Joe Sixpack doesn't need more than 4GB of RAM. Why in the hell should ANY company be trying to get 64-bit processors on the desktop?
It will be AT LEAST 3 years before desktops with more than 4GB of RAM become common.
I need more than 4GB RAM (3.5 if I want it stable) for video editing and 3D rendering.
Guess what - you're an anomaly. And making an inexpensive product that satisfies a 1% niche is just plain foolish. Having a 64-bit processor on the desktop is the technological equivalent of a slapping a big-ass spoiler on your rice-burner. It's pointless.
Intel knows this, and by the time the desktop is ready, you can bet your ass they'll have a decent 64-bit chip waiting. I hate to break it to you, but Intel did not become the world's leading processor company by making poor business decisions. They're probably one of the shrewdest technology corporations in existence.
The plan was basically this - selling Fred Estaires to disabled people restricts your target market. Ginger [Segway] could be marketed to anyone, so the market would be immensely larger.
No no no - you've got it all wrong. His plan was to get Ginger street legal in all the big cities. Once that happened and they became popular, Segway vs automobile accidents would skyrocket and he'd be rolling in invoices for the real moneymaker - handicapped transportation. Dean Kamen is a tricky, tricky white boy.
Unfortunatly you are absolutely wrong. In the example you gave the object is held in "orbit" by the tether. That is most definitely NOT how space elevators work. If it were, "a pretty good anchor" would be something of an understatement. ; )
This is a bit of a simplification, but here goes. In a space elevator, the object at the other end of the cable is in geosynchronous orbit. The cable's purpose is purely for the elevator to traverse. You could take the cable away and the object at the end would still be there*. It is not holding the object in it's orbit - that's what gravity is for.
* Technically, that's not true. Because the cable and cargo have some weight, you have to figure it into the calculations on where the object at the end will rest. It will actually be slightly farther than geosynchronous orbit.
I have wondered why a lot of these Microsoft-worms never seem to have a destructive payload.
I've thought about this before. I think the reason is that, just like a real virus, it generally doesn't pay to debilitate your host. Dead hosts aren't going to spread the infection.
Of course, it could work like AIDS. Where it could lie dormant until it's had time to infect many other machines, then kill the host. But then, the OS or antivirus vendor would surely discover it during its larval phase and write a tool to eradicate it before any damage is done.
I would think the best payload would be one that's immediately destructive to the OS, but leaves the facilities necessary for transmission intact.
Of course, this kind of speculation probably looks suspicious, so I'll shut up now. ; )
Heh - that reminds me of the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer bankrupts a couple of Japanese businessmen.
[After Kramer coaxes the businessmen into spending all their travel money.]
Kramer: "New York can be quite pricey, even with 50,000 yen." Elaine: "50,000 yen--isn't that only a few hundred dollars?" Kramer: "Evidently."
I mean, the last board I worked on was in 2002 and they used a DOS based program to do the layout for peet's sake.
That statement literally makes me cringe. Do you remember the growing pains that so many programs had as they transitioned between the trusty DOS versions and the first and second (and often current) Windows versions? Programs that did the job perfectly fine turned into a complete fucking mess when ported to Windows. Remember how bank tellers used to fly at keyboard entry? Now you have to watch them point and click and click and click...
Just because a program runs under DOS does not make it inferior.
I think we linux users should brace for an attack like nothing before from MS. They will use any meens avaliable to sustain their high revenues.
Phase 1 - Infiltrating our ranks and subverting our spelling.
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I'm surely getting some of the details wrong, but I believe that one of the big tech universities had something like this. It was a big cable that extended from the floor to the ceiling, and it moved according to the amount of network congestion being experienced. So if utilization was down around 5 or 10 percent it would be gently wiggling, but as utilization increased the degree to which it would thrash and flail increased too.
I always thought that would be wicked in a server room.
It could end up being a nasty tool for industrial sabotage if you could shut down networking at competitor's facility from a van parked outside.
The only problem with that is that it's already incredibly easy to jam WiFi as it is. Aim your directional jammer at your competition's access points and they go deaf. This development would just tell WiFi equipment to shut-up when it detects military interference rather than uselessly jabber away.
I see a lot of people stepping up and complaining that it's not Microsoft's fault as much as it is the sloppy admins. Yes - Microsoft systems that were hit by this worm were poorly managed. However, the problem is that shitty admins are exactly who Microsoft designed this "server" operating system to be managed by.
Who certifies system administrators that can barely format a floppy? Microsoft. Who crafted a Fisher-Price operating system with inadequate "wizards" to help unqualified administrators bungle their way through setting up a server? Microsoft. And who pitches their operating system as having a lower cost TCO because you don't need skilled labor to run them? Microsoft.
So when you want to complain that it's the admins that make these systems insecure, remember these are the admins that Microsoft picked.
By delaying, AMD loses in the highend desktop arena, but is now able to spend those resources on the potentially far more lucrative Opteron systems.
The only problem with your logic is that, as far as I'm aware, nobody is buying AMD servers. And so although potentially more lucrative, in reality they are not. AMD's domain is almost exclusively enthusiast desktops and budget systems. I have never in my life seen a server spec'ed with an AMD processor.
The truth is that although their processors are as good as Intel's, the chipsets for AMD processors generally suck ass. Nobody can make a medium-level chipset like Intel. I think AMD would fare considerably better if they'd back up their processors with similar quality chipsets.
Sort of the way a tick will leave its head behind if you yank it out with tweezers.
Except that's a myth - rarely does that actually happen. It's my understanding that ticks generally don't enjoy having their heads pulled off. Over the years I've plucked many a tick off my skin and not once have any left their head behind. Rather it usually has a big chunk of my flesh in its mouth.
Think about it. From an evolutionary standpoint, what possible advantage would a tick get from having it's head pop off. It would die, and you may get sick and die. What would be the point?
[Note: In case you can't tell, I find a discussion about ticks more interesting than annoying IE toolbars.]
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You're an anomaly because you use your computer to do video editing and 3D modeling, not because you use AutoCad.
I've been around AutoCad users for the last 6 years (machine shop and city government), and I've concluded that most people using AutoCad aren't using it anywhere near its potential.
Besides, Windows can barely keep track of 4GB of RAM as it is. I can guarentee you that Windows will be shitting all over itself for the first 18 months after Win64 is released.
Perhaps the reason you don't have any money to gamble on stocks is because you have shitty business sense. ; )
64-bit processors are absolutely unnecessary on the desktop at this time, and Intel knows it. Why the supposedly tech-savvy geek culture of Slashdot can't grapple this is beyond me.
I think Intel is still thinking about the data centre, not Joe Sixpack, with Itanium.
The problem is that Joe Sixpack doesn't need more than 4GB of RAM. Why in the hell should ANY company be trying to get 64-bit processors on the desktop?
It will be AT LEAST 3 years before desktops with more than 4GB of RAM become common.
I need more than 4GB RAM (3.5 if I want it stable) for video editing and 3D rendering.
Guess what - you're an anomaly. And making an inexpensive product that satisfies a 1% niche is just plain foolish. Having a 64-bit processor on the desktop is the technological equivalent of a slapping a big-ass spoiler on your rice-burner. It's pointless.
Intel knows this, and by the time the desktop is ready, you can bet your ass they'll have a decent 64-bit chip waiting. I hate to break it to you, but Intel did not become the world's leading processor company by making poor business decisions. They're probably one of the shrewdest technology corporations in existence.
Who owns the copyright on "Redhead Sticking a Cucumber up her Ass"
I don't know about copyright, but I'll bet Unisys has it patented.
Ugh. That's one thing I hope I never hear at Subway.
Not really a reference. More like blatant theft of a line.
The plan was basically this - selling Fred Estaires to disabled people restricts your target market. Ginger [Segway] could be marketed to anyone, so the market would be immensely larger.
No no no - you've got it all wrong. His plan was to get Ginger street legal in all the big cities. Once that happened and they became popular, Segway vs automobile accidents would skyrocket and he'd be rolling in invoices for the real moneymaker - handicapped transportation. Dean Kamen is a tricky, tricky white boy.
Unfortunatly you are absolutely wrong. In the example you gave the object is held in "orbit" by the tether. That is most definitely NOT how space elevators work. If it were, "a pretty good anchor" would be something of an understatement. ; )
This is a bit of a simplification, but here goes. In a space elevator, the object at the other end of the cable is in geosynchronous orbit. The cable's purpose is purely for the elevator to traverse. You could take the cable away and the object at the end would still be there*. It is not holding the object in it's orbit - that's what gravity is for.
* Technically, that's not true. Because the cable and cargo have some weight, you have to figure it into the calculations on where the object at the end will rest. It will actually be slightly farther than geosynchronous orbit.
I have wondered why a lot of these Microsoft-worms never seem to have a destructive payload.
I've thought about this before. I think the reason is that, just like a real virus, it generally doesn't pay to debilitate your host. Dead hosts aren't going to spread the infection.
Of course, it could work like AIDS. Where it could lie dormant until it's had time to infect many other machines, then kill the host. But then, the OS or antivirus vendor would surely discover it during its larval phase and write a tool to eradicate it before any damage is done.
I would think the best payload would be one that's immediately destructive to the OS, but leaves the facilities necessary for transmission intact.
Of course, this kind of speculation probably looks suspicious, so I'll shut up now. ; )
Look at me, I sound like a philosopher. He he he.
Yeah, especially with that last part. Didn't Plato say the same thing?
Oh, hands get dirty around here alright. Except it's usually bodily fluids, not grease.
I mean, the last board I worked on was in 2002 and they used a DOS based program to do the layout for peet's sake.
That statement literally makes me cringe. Do you remember the growing pains that so many programs had as they transitioned between the trusty DOS versions and the first and second (and often current) Windows versions? Programs that did the job perfectly fine turned into a complete fucking mess when ported to Windows. Remember how bank tellers used to fly at keyboard entry? Now you have to watch them point and click and click and click...
Just because a program runs under DOS does not make it inferior.
Hmmm, a Director position you say? I say stand your ground and fight the good fight!
By the way, could you please give me the phone number of the human resources office?
- Besides, USB is not to be trusted.
I'll assume you've got some figures to support this otherwise baseless claim?He's dyslexic, he meant BUS. He doesn't trust busses.
Relax. It was just a joke.
And yes, your English is much better than my Swedish.
I think we linux users should brace for an attack like nothing before from MS. They will use any meens avaliable to sustain their high revenues.
Phase 1 - Infiltrating our ranks and subverting our spelling.
I'm surely getting some of the details wrong, but I believe that one of the big tech universities had something like this. It was a big cable that extended from the floor to the ceiling, and it moved according to the amount of network congestion being experienced. So if utilization was down around 5 or 10 percent it would be gently wiggling, but as utilization increased the degree to which it would thrash and flail increased too.
I always thought that would be wicked in a server room.
The fact that they are presumably Japanese, seems to point towards an XBox partner.
Because all Japanese people do is play games?
Showoff. Since when does anyone read the article?
It could end up being a nasty tool for industrial sabotage if you could shut down networking at competitor's facility from a van parked outside.
The only problem with that is that it's already incredibly easy to jam WiFi as it is. Aim your directional jammer at your competition's access points and they go deaf. This development would just tell WiFi equipment to shut-up when it detects military interference rather than uselessly jabber away.
I see a lot of people stepping up and complaining that it's not Microsoft's fault as much as it is the sloppy admins. Yes - Microsoft systems that were hit by this worm were poorly managed. However, the problem is that shitty admins are exactly who Microsoft designed this "server" operating system to be managed by.
Who certifies system administrators that can barely format a floppy? Microsoft. Who crafted a Fisher-Price operating system with inadequate "wizards" to help unqualified administrators bungle their way through setting up a server? Microsoft. And who pitches their operating system as having a lower cost TCO because you don't need skilled labor to run them? Microsoft.
So when you want to complain that it's the admins that make these systems insecure, remember these are the admins that Microsoft picked.
By delaying, AMD loses in the highend desktop arena, but is now able to spend those resources on the potentially far more lucrative Opteron systems.
The only problem with your logic is that, as far as I'm aware, nobody is buying AMD servers. And so although potentially more lucrative, in reality they are not. AMD's domain is almost exclusively enthusiast desktops and budget systems. I have never in my life seen a server spec'ed with an AMD processor.
The truth is that although their processors are as good as Intel's, the chipsets for AMD processors generally suck ass. Nobody can make a medium-level chipset like Intel. I think AMD would fare considerably better if they'd back up their processors with similar quality chipsets.
Sort of the way a tick will leave its head behind if you yank it out with tweezers.
Except that's a myth - rarely does that actually happen. It's my understanding that ticks generally don't enjoy having their heads pulled off. Over the years I've plucked many a tick off my skin and not once have any left their head behind. Rather it usually has a big chunk of my flesh in its mouth.
Think about it. From an evolutionary standpoint, what possible advantage would a tick get from having it's head pop off. It would die, and you may get sick and die. What would be the point?
[Note: In case you can't tell, I find a discussion about ticks more interesting than annoying IE toolbars.]