I've been running some flavor of linux since before 1.2.xx, and this bullshit is exactly what has caused me to turn to FreeBSD from time to time.
I am sort of a sadist, though... Whenever I install a system, it immediately gets glibc, kernel, desktop, and hardware upgrades which aren't exactly packaged for me, and need third party whizbangs in order for me to do whirly-gigs with gonkublonks.
In other words, what the hell do I really care anyway? I live for this shit!
Back around '84, the ancestors of what is now known as ia64, or, EPIC, was VLIW, or Very Long Instruction Word. This new way of thinking about CPU instructions which did away with runtime pipelining and pushed it into compile time optimization. This would allow them to rid a CPU of the expensive task of pipelining, and use transistors for processing instead of organizing instructions.
They found, back in those days, that the memory architecture and processor speed required to generate the variable length (>= 256 bit) words cramming smaller sub-instructions into a single word, and move them from memory into a CPU were too demanding for hardware of the day, and found they would benefit more by removing those bottlenecks first.
Intel and HP then decided back in the early 90's that it was finally time to use the earlier research and develope what is now known as EPIC.
I've inevitably made some historical mistakes, but those aside, it's really easy to see some key reasons why 64 bit (in the for of EPIC) is not ready for Joe Sixpak. 1. Being different, the hardware is completely new, and therefore expensive. HP and Intel will be looking to big business to pay for all that R&D over the last decade and a half through large systems and their equally large price tags. 2. "Compatible" has always played out as "better" in the marketplace. Currently, what Intel has for 64 bit is compatible, but is slower than anything made with older technology in compat mode making the point moot. 3. 64 bits mean larger code size on disk, and people still like getting software on CDs. Think "MS Office 64", shuffling cds like the floppies of old... No thank you. Plus, size does matter when it comes to application speed.
AMD, however, is taking the practicle approach. I, for one, am ready for 64 bit... At least as AMD defines it. (Or Sun... or Motorola...)
I'm really starting to think Intel and HP were just jerking themselves off with technology all this time.. Technological masturbation.
However, it's possible this was an intentional thread-stopping Nazi/Hitler posting, and in which case, Godwin's law states that said post will not end the thread. "...there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful."
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g/Godwin_s_ La w.html
I'm not sure if usenetisms necessarily apply to the/. crowd, though.
The point is that Hitler got SUPREME DICTATORIAL CONTROL OF HIS COUNTRY, and he used brutality from the very beginning, and his STATED goal was to overthrow all of europe.
This whole story smacks of having been massaged to intentionally bloat those aspects of Nazi germany which parallel what's been happening in the past year or two in the US.
1. Had Hitler gotten a majority of Europe to agree with his policies before acting upon them?
2. Were Hitler's goals to obliterate a threat, or to take over Europe and exterminate the Jews?
3. Do you really think Bush hates Arabs? We support a legitimate Palestinian state, even though they have done nothing but kill and break cease fires. The last four times our country's armed forces went into action before September 11, we did so to protect and defend Moslems -- in Somalia, Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo. (And in both Bosnia and Kosovo, we were protecting Moslems from aggression by Serbia, which is Christian.
4. Go to hell, you fuck. Go get facts, instead of fucking them over to agree with you.
Practical application of qbit based computers will, at least for the forseeable future, be limited to the scientific community and government due to its high cost and specialized application. The casual user doesn't even have use for quantum tech, for the most part, beyond where FPGAs can take us. Only simulation and codebreaking, amung other very special and parallelizable tasks can easily utilize the unique superpositional states a qbit provides, giving the circuit an inherently parallel nature. However, not long ago they had a breakthrough in reading the state of a qbit circuit without having to destroy it.
Now communications, that's an area where quantum research has more practical and forseeable application in ways we will see...
Stupid... By saying there was conflict you simply restate the argument of one side, not addressing whether that premise is actually valid.
What conflict was there?
Ok, looks like even you don't have it straight. The USSC can accept jurisdiction where the laws of municipalities, states, etc violate constitutional law, or lower courts make decisions based on laws that are unconstitutional, or decisions based on unconstitutional law.
There MUST be a directly federal concern.
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Nah, he should die at age 111111.
I've been running some flavor of linux since before 1.2.xx, and this bullshit is exactly what has caused me to turn to FreeBSD from time to time.
I am sort of a sadist, though... Whenever I install a system, it immediately gets glibc, kernel, desktop, and hardware upgrades which aren't exactly packaged for me, and need third party whizbangs in order for me to do whirly-gigs with gonkublonks.
In other words, what the hell do I really care anyway? I live for this shit!
Now we have to bump all the variants up one major number...
I really think we could have seen kernel 2.6 before a 9.0 came out, or, at least readiness for it.
Anyone know if RH 9.0 will have the required tools already there for 2.[56].xx?
Back around '84, the ancestors of what is now known as ia64, or, EPIC, was VLIW, or Very Long Instruction Word. This new way of thinking about CPU instructions which did away with runtime pipelining and pushed it into compile time optimization. This would allow them to rid a CPU of the expensive task of pipelining, and use transistors for processing instead of organizing instructions.
They found, back in those days, that the memory architecture and processor speed required to generate the variable length (>= 256 bit) words cramming smaller sub-instructions into a single word, and move them from memory into a CPU were too demanding for hardware of the day, and found they would benefit more by removing those bottlenecks first.
Intel and HP then decided back in the early 90's that it was finally time to use the earlier research and develope what is now known as EPIC.
I've inevitably made some historical mistakes, but those aside, it's really easy to see some key reasons why 64 bit (in the for of EPIC) is not ready for Joe Sixpak.
1. Being different, the hardware is completely new, and therefore expensive. HP and Intel will be looking to big business to pay for all that R&D over the last decade and a half through large systems and their equally large price tags.
2. "Compatible" has always played out as "better" in the marketplace. Currently, what Intel has for 64 bit is compatible, but is slower than anything made with older technology in compat mode making the point moot.
3. 64 bits mean larger code size on disk, and people still like getting software on CDs. Think "MS Office 64", shuffling cds like the floppies of old... No thank you. Plus, size does matter when it comes to application speed.
AMD, however, is taking the practicle approach. I, for one, am ready for 64 bit... At least as AMD defines it. (Or Sun... or Motorola...)
I'm really starting to think Intel and HP were just jerking themselves off with technology all this time.. Technological masturbation.
Blame babelfish... And of course the fifteen years it's been since I've read any German.
I can't believe your reply was "Score:0", it was quite funny!
"Fuck" is a wonderful word. A noun, verb, adjective, adverb, etc.
As a noun, it acts as both a adjective and a noun.
So, sprinkle liberally your speach with the most wonderful word in use.
Watch Farscape!
If you put back in ANY of the relevant facts?
Hmm... only Hitler???
Doy!?!?
Now this was funny...
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/. crowd, though.
However, it's possible this was an intentional thread-stopping Nazi/Hitler posting, and in which case, Godwin's law states that said post will not end the thread. "...there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful."
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g/Godwin_s
I'm not sure if usenetisms necessarily apply to the
It is better to let me call you a fucking idiot and keep your mouth shut, than open it and prove me right.
What a fucking load.
The point is that Hitler got SUPREME DICTATORIAL CONTROL OF HIS COUNTRY, and he used brutality from the very beginning, and his STATED goal was to overthrow all of europe.
Erinnern sie Mien Kampf heir dumkopf? (sp?)
Maybe that's because you're a frelling idiot.
You, sir, are an idiot.
This whole story smacks of having been massaged to intentionally bloat those aspects of Nazi germany which parallel what's been happening in the past year or two in the US.
1. Had Hitler gotten a majority of Europe to agree with his policies before acting upon them?
2. Were Hitler's goals to obliterate a threat, or to take over Europe and exterminate the Jews?
3. Do you really think Bush hates Arabs? We support a legitimate Palestinian state, even though they have done nothing but kill and break cease fires. The last four times our country's armed forces went into action before September 11, we did so to protect and defend Moslems -- in Somalia, Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo. (And in both Bosnia and Kosovo, we were protecting Moslems from aggression by Serbia, which is Christian.
4. Go to hell, you fuck. Go get facts, instead of fucking them over to agree with you.
Deeeeaaahhhhh!?!?! UDP is connectionless.
The hand-challenged can wack off with full articulation!
Practical application of qbit based computers will, at least for the forseeable future, be limited to the scientific community and government due to its high cost and specialized application. The casual user doesn't even have use for quantum tech, for the most part, beyond where FPGAs can take us. Only simulation and codebreaking, amung other very special and parallelizable tasks can easily utilize the unique superpositional states a qbit provides, giving the circuit an inherently parallel nature. However, not long ago they had a breakthrough in reading the state of a qbit circuit without having to destroy it. Now communications, that's an area where quantum research has more practical and forseeable application in ways we will see...
Stupid... By saying there was conflict you simply restate the argument of one side, not addressing whether that premise is actually valid. What conflict was there?
Ok, looks like even you don't have it straight. The USSC can accept jurisdiction where the laws of municipalities, states, etc violate constitutional law, or lower courts make decisions based on laws that are unconstitutional, or decisions based on unconstitutional law. There MUST be a directly federal concern.