I don't think it's as cut and dry as that. First, I do scientific computing. So, when I look at the floating point performance of the two, the AMD chips rate very well... and extremely well on a price/performance metric. Intel chips perform very well where the application has been optimized for SSE, but for straight FP the Athlons are really nice.
>>AMD is nowhere nearby, still stuck with DDR266.
Then you'd better hurry up and buy your Intel boards with RDRAM b/c Intel is doing away with it and going with dual channel DDRAM. Guess it can't be that bad, huh?
The problem with the market right now is that it seems AMD is having all their engineers work on Hammer and so the Athlon line is slowing. In the meantime, the P4 is starting to hit its stride after its initital poor showing (remember the initial benchmarks that showed the P4 1.4GHz getting beat by a 1GHz PIII?).
They have. See this site for details of what Microsoft has to offer. There was a pretty decent sized NT cluster at NCSA for a while but it looks like they're moving on to Itanium with 64bit Linux.
I checked on edonkey and sure enough there are some 700MB DivX's that are supposed to be LOTR. Don't know if they're real or not, but that's some quick turnaround. Now, do I want to download 700MB just find out whether or not it's a hoax... ?
That sounds like what I used to do in my school's computer labs. I wrote a script called, the_herd, that rlogin'ed into all the machines in a room and moo'd. Sometimes I'd mix it up and thrown in some chickens. Imagine a lab full of 30 people and all of the sudden the computers start a moo'ing. We had a lab assistant cancel class because he thought the computers were possessed. I'll have to hand it to HP -- their OS allows anyone to login and grab the audio even when they're not at the console. I'm still not sure who's fault it was... all the HP-UX boxes on campus could do it. I would hope the admins could change that.
They have said that Hotmail should not be trusted to store valuable mail: They're right. It's a free email service that you have no direct control over. If it's important, save a copy locally.
I can't say this is a valid point anymore. MS is placing so much importance on Passport (which Hotmail is a part of) and their whole.NET strategy that this is inexcusable. Are businesses, or individuals for that matter, really supposed to trust MS with their data? Besides, what good is an account if you can't trust it for anything important? At that point, it's just another way for people to spam me. Even something as trivial as my friend sending me some digital pics -- that would irk me if they never showed up because some Hotmail Admin deleted them. It's one thing for them to say that "it's free so don't complain", but it's another thing entirely when the company saying this is rolling out a huge service that is supposed to change computing entirely. Just my $0.02.
I started reading the Guide to Securing Microsoft Windows 2000 File and Disk Resources and one of the first things they recommend is to "Apply the latest Windows 2000 service pack and security-related
hotfixes." I'm not MS bashing here, but isn't that a (cough) BAD IDEA?? I don't care if it's W2K, Linux, Solaris, etc. -- that's just not the way you run a production server, let alone a workstation that you are trying to make as secure as possible for sensitive info. You should always test out any patches/fixes/service packs. I would think the wording would be, "Apply the latest **NSA APPROVED** Windows 2000 service pack and security-related hotfixes."
I have to disagree. I am not an expert, but I was watching some documentaries on the attack, and the US apparently got a handful of planes in the air. They even mentioned the story of two very flashy pilots who... awoke after a long night out and immediately drove their car through the gunfire to a small airbase 10 miles away. They readied their planes and got in the air. These two are credited with shooting down between 6 and 8 planes. It seems they took this story and worked it into the movie.
Check out the Ig Noble awards. I think this guy could be a candidate (provided he lives - don't know if they give them posthumously). From their website:
WHAT: The Ig Nobel Prize honors individuals whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced." Ten prizes are given to people who have done remarkably goofy things -- some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise.
WHY: The Igs are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.
On this page you can see some (older) benchmarks, SPECint95 20; SPECfp95 21 for the 500MHz part. The IIe is meant to be an embedded processor. An Athlon (Classic) at 600 MHz is pretty much on par with this guy. Save your money.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think it's as cut and dry as that. First, I do scientific computing. So, when I look at the floating point performance of the two, the AMD chips rate very well... and extremely well on a price/performance metric. Intel chips perform very well where the application has been optimized for SSE, but for straight FP the Athlons are really nice.
>>AMD is nowhere nearby, still stuck with DDR266.
Then you'd better hurry up and buy your Intel boards with RDRAM b/c Intel is doing away with it and going with dual channel DDRAM. Guess it can't be that bad, huh?
The problem with the market right now is that it seems AMD is having all their engineers work on Hammer and so the Athlon line is slowing. In the meantime, the P4 is starting to hit its stride after its initital poor showing (remember the initial benchmarks that showed the P4 1.4GHz getting beat by a 1GHz PIII?).
They have. See this site for details of what Microsoft has to offer. There was a pretty decent sized NT cluster at NCSA for a while but it looks like they're moving on to Itanium with 64bit Linux.
I checked on edonkey and sure enough there are some 700MB DivX's that are supposed to be LOTR. Don't know if they're real or not, but that's some quick turnaround. Now, do I want to download 700MB just find out whether or not it's a hoax... ?
That sounds like what I used to do in my school's computer labs. I wrote a script called, the_herd, that rlogin'ed into all the machines in a room and moo'd. Sometimes I'd mix it up and thrown in some chickens. Imagine a lab full of 30 people and all of the sudden the computers start a moo'ing. We had a lab assistant cancel class because he thought the computers were possessed. I'll have to hand it to HP -- their OS allows anyone to login and grab the audio even when they're not at the console. I'm still not sure who's fault it was... all the HP-UX boxes on campus could do it. I would hope the admins could change that.
They have said that Hotmail should not be trusted to store valuable mail: They're right. It's a free email service that you have no direct control over. If it's important, save a copy locally. .NET strategy that this is inexcusable. Are businesses, or individuals for that matter, really supposed to trust MS with their data? Besides, what good is an account if you can't trust it for anything important? At that point, it's just another way for people to spam me. Even something as trivial as my friend sending me some digital pics -- that would irk me if they never showed up because some Hotmail Admin deleted them. It's one thing for them to say that "it's free so don't complain", but it's another thing entirely when the company saying this is rolling out a huge service that is supposed to change computing entirely. Just my $0.02.
I can't say this is a valid point anymore. MS is placing so much importance on Passport (which Hotmail is a part of) and their whole
I started reading the Guide to Securing Microsoft Windows 2000 File and Disk Resources and one of the first things they recommend is to "Apply the latest Windows 2000 service pack and security-related hotfixes." I'm not MS bashing here, but isn't that a (cough) BAD IDEA?? I don't care if it's W2K, Linux, Solaris, etc. -- that's just not the way you run a production server, let alone a workstation that you are trying to make as secure as possible for sensitive info. You should always test out any patches/fixes/service packs. I would think the wording would be, "Apply the latest **NSA APPROVED** Windows 2000 service pack and security-related hotfixes."
I have to disagree. I am not an expert, but I was watching some documentaries on the attack, and the US apparently got a handful of planes in the air. They even mentioned the story of two very flashy pilots who... awoke after a long night out and immediately drove their car through the gunfire to a small airbase 10 miles away. They readied their planes and got in the air. These two are credited with shooting down between 6 and 8 planes. It seems they took this story and worked it into the movie.
Check out the Ig Noble awards. I think this guy could be a candidate (provided he lives - don't know if they give them posthumously). From their website:
WHAT: The Ig Nobel Prize honors individuals whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced." Ten prizes are given to people who have done remarkably goofy things -- some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise. WHY: The Igs are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.
On this page you can see some (older) benchmarks, SPECint95 20; SPECfp95 21 for the 500MHz part. The IIe is meant to be an embedded processor. An Athlon (Classic) at 600 MHz is pretty much on par with this guy. Save your money.
I haven't seen Carnivore in Best Buy yet! I really want one.