I'm sure AMD knows intel's chip designs inside and out, almost as well as intel knows them, and vice versa. Its mostly patents and such that protect their "innovations" at that level.
Nevertheless, like I said, I'd be shocked to see Intel open source their compiler...But I wouldn't be shocked (and I think it makes a lot of sense for them to do this) if they started giving away the Win32 binary for free (as in beer). Otherwise the majority of developers are going to keep using Visual C++ and/or Cygwin/gcc and Intel's chips are going to continue to look inferior to AMD's, even if that view is not entirely accurate.
Its kind of hard to remember more than one random number sequence password. So if users do use random characters (I assume you really mean random characters, since limiting yourself to just numbers reduces the possible keyspace quite a bit), they are likely to either:
A) use the same password everywhere. Which is pretty stupid or
B) Write their passwords down in a list somewhere, which is also stupid.
CmdrTaco is a shitty writier/editor, I agree, but it was pretty clear to me that he was listing these things chronologically, as opposed to order of importance. No biggie.
The most likely solution for the short term is that developers will compile multiple versions of DLLs (or.so's in Linux/UNIX space) holding their hotspot code and use dynamic library linking to load in the right one after doing a CPU detection routine. This sort of thing is already being done to a certain degree with Windows based games that might support 3dNow, SSE, SSE2, etc.
Your sig is quite funny considering your post is mostly garbage. Did you read the article? Intel chips actually perform fairly poorly on current Microsoft compilers. That's one of the primary arguments of the article. The P4 shines when used with (surprise) Intel's compilers.
Microsoft's current compilers, while inferior to Intel's on the new Intel processors, are better with Pentium Pro style architecture than gcc, but that's just because of different development goals (gcc tries to serve everyone, Microsoft can focus on a much more limited set of CPUs). Its not a grand conspiracy or anything.
Intel should consider giving their compiler away. Currently they charge hundreds of dollars per license for it. Considering their market in compiler tools is relatively small beans, you'd think it would make more sense for them to just give the compiler away to entice developers to use it and thus wind up with executables that really showcase the next-gen Intel processor's speed.
I won't even get into the argument about how it might help them to Open Source the thing so that parts of the technology might be rolled into other compilers like gcc, because I just can't imagine that happening anytime soon.
It annoys me to see "Quake 2" listed in the "low-lights" of Quake in this article.
Quite simply, Quake 2 is the best First Person Shooter created, ever.
Its too bad the people at id listened to the extremely vocal minority of 'hardcore' gamers that couldn't adjust to Quake 2's more cerebral style of gameplay and they made Quake 3 far too Quake 1 like.
Actually, quite a bit of the backstory for Episode I has been around since the original trilogy. If you read the first drafts of the original Star Wars script and/or look at a lot of the concept art that was done previous to the start of the first film, you'll see a lot of familiar things.
I don't understand why people accuse Lucas of money-grabbing. He already had more money than God (but not as much as Bill Gates) before Phantom Menace made him anything, and its not as if ILM or any of his other companies are in any financial danger. He has more money than he or his kids could ever spend. Now, I'm not saying people have to respect Phantom Menace as a movie, but saying it was done just for money doesn't really make any sense.
Kevin Smith had nothing to do with it. That rumor has been proved false weeks ago. Please don't spread it further. For more information on The Phantom Edit, check out www.theforce.net or other such Star Wars fan sites.
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Well, if you think it isn't worth it, don't buy a motherboard based on this chipset.
The simple fact is that the current generation of PC architecture is at a dead end. Making faster processors and faster video cards is great, but at the high end they are being seriously hobbled by poor system memory performance and bus speeds.
NVidia is offering a solution to this problem. AMD is also offering a seperate solution. I'm sure Intel will 'answer' with their own solution...
That South Park episode had references to a lot of horror movies, but if it was a "take off" on any specific movie(s), its the George Romero zombie flicks, not Evil Dead.
This is true, but even if you do have 'hard' skills its often much harder to find a job now than it was previously simply because so many companies were hit by the downturn and have hiring freezes, cost cutting, etc.
People with real skills still can find employment, but the actual job search has become relatively far more difficult, the options for employment (I mean, options for doing what you want to do, not stock options) are less, and the pay has generally turned downwards, even for highly skilled people.
But in terms of the original article -- yes, it sounds like these people in homeless sheltered were the bandwagon-jumpers of the dot.com boom and not people really driven by technology.
Its clear some of the participants in Monty Python were talented -- As you said, A Fish Called Wanda was very funny (as was the psuedo-sequel, er, Dangerous Creatures I think?). They were, of course, (co)written by John Cleese, who was a member of Monty Python. And Terry Gilliam is a brilliant director.
But when I watch the old Python stuff, TV series or movie, I just find myself not finding it very funny. Not because I don't 'get' it, because I do get the references, I just don't see much funny going on.
OTOH, I've never cared much for a lot of the 'BBC stuff', the comedies or the sci-fi series or the offshoots of such....The big exception being Douglas Adams, whose work I liked very much.
I don't understand where Full House came from. Troll perhaps? Or is there some other Full House I'm not aware of (thinking of that terrible show with john stamos).
However, Pee Wee's Big Adventure is actually a great movie/comedy. Still one of Tim Burton's finest films. The sequel was...not so good, IMO.
I agree. Losing SourceForge, in particular, is a big deal. But I don't see how they will manage to survive.
Hopefully people who host their code at sourceforge will at least start making copious local backups in the event the site just disappears one day, along with VA Linux as a corporate entity.
I've come to the conclusion that the Slashdot editors are in fact not trolls, but ingenious page-hit-count-generators. Some of the posts they allow are so outrageously stupid they HAVE to know its flamebait. My guess is they do this because the flamey articles tend to get a lot more page hits, posts, reponses, etc than the stuff that makes sense.
Oh well, all the page views in the universe isn't going to help VA Linux survive through this year.
Heh. Considering the rest of his post seemed non-trollish and mostly intelligent, I'm guessing that what he meant was support for XML in a standard way. It would be nice if Linux (*NIX in general) had one single standard library based on XML that was used for all *.conf type files.
It really can be a pain editing different file types and doing things differently depending upon if the software you are configuring uses ':' to seperate keys from values, or ',' or something even more obscure.
Why you would want that support in the kernel, though.. well, its a bad idea. Perhaps the original poster assumes this will trojan horse the XML support into all distributions and then software programmers will be more likely to use the library...
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Nevertheless, like I said, I'd be shocked to see Intel open source their compiler...But I wouldn't be shocked (and I think it makes a lot of sense for them to do this) if they started giving away the Win32 binary for free (as in beer). Otherwise the majority of developers are going to keep using Visual C++ and/or Cygwin/gcc and Intel's chips are going to continue to look inferior to AMD's, even if that view is not entirely accurate.
A) use the same password everywhere. Which is pretty stupid or
B) Write their passwords down in a list somewhere, which is also stupid.
But that's where I get all my porn!
The world is not fair!
CmdrTaco is a shitty writier/editor, I agree, but it was pretty clear to me that he was listing these things chronologically, as opposed to order of importance. No biggie.
The most likely solution for the short term is that developers will compile multiple versions of DLLs (or .so's in Linux/UNIX space) holding their hotspot code and use dynamic library linking to load in the right one after doing a CPU detection routine. This sort of thing is already being done to a certain degree with Windows based games that might support 3dNow, SSE, SSE2, etc.
Considering how long it took just to get support for the original SSE and 3dNow extentions in inline asm, I'm guessing it'll be quite a while yet.
Microsoft's current compilers, while inferior to Intel's on the new Intel processors, are better with Pentium Pro style architecture than gcc, but that's just because of different development goals (gcc tries to serve everyone, Microsoft can focus on a much more limited set of CPUs). Its not a grand conspiracy or anything.
I won't even get into the argument about how it might help them to Open Source the thing so that parts of the technology might be rolled into other compilers like gcc, because I just can't imagine that happening anytime soon.
Quite simply, Quake 2 is the best First Person Shooter created, ever.
Its too bad the people at id listened to the extremely vocal minority of 'hardcore' gamers that couldn't adjust to Quake 2's more cerebral style of gameplay and they made Quake 3 far too Quake 1 like.
Ah well.
I don't understand why people accuse Lucas of money-grabbing. He already had more money than God (but not as much as Bill Gates) before Phantom Menace made him anything, and its not as if ILM or any of his other companies are in any financial danger. He has more money than he or his kids could ever spend. Now, I'm not saying people have to respect Phantom Menace as a movie, but saying it was done just for money doesn't really make any sense.
Kevin Smith had nothing to do with it. That rumor has been proved false weeks ago. Please don't spread it further. For more information on The Phantom Edit, check out www.theforce.net or other such Star Wars fan sites.
The simple fact is that the current generation of PC architecture is at a dead end. Making faster processors and faster video cards is great, but at the high end they are being seriously hobbled by poor system memory performance and bus speeds.
NVidia is offering a solution to this problem. AMD is also offering a seperate solution. I'm sure Intel will 'answer' with their own solution...
That South Park episode had references to a lot of horror movies, but if it was a "take off" on any specific movie(s), its the George Romero zombie flicks, not Evil Dead.
Its for the episodic Duke Nukem game, Manhattan Project.
People with real skills still can find employment, but the actual job search has become relatively far more difficult, the options for employment (I mean, options for doing what you want to do, not stock options) are less, and the pay has generally turned downwards, even for highly skilled people.
But in terms of the original article -- yes, it sounds like these people in homeless sheltered were the bandwagon-jumpers of the dot .com boom and not people really driven by technology.
You are in the minority and irrelevent in the great scheme of things.
Graham Chapman is, well, dead, so he isn't doing much these days.
IMDB (www.imdb.com) is a pretty great resource for looking things like this up, btw.
Its clear some of the participants in Monty Python were talented -- As you said, A Fish Called Wanda was very funny (as was the psuedo-sequel, er, Dangerous Creatures I think?). They were, of course, (co)written by John Cleese, who was a member of Monty Python. And Terry Gilliam is a brilliant director.
But when I watch the old Python stuff, TV series or movie, I just find myself not finding it very funny. Not because I don't 'get' it, because I do get the references, I just don't see much funny going on.
OTOH, I've never cared much for a lot of the 'BBC stuff', the comedies or the sci-fi series or the offshoots of such....The big exception being Douglas Adams, whose work I liked very much.
However, Pee Wee's Big Adventure is actually a great movie/comedy. Still one of Tim Burton's finest films. The sequel was...not so good, IMO.
No need to snoop on the poor bastard and steal his bits off the network for your own pleasure.
Hopefully people who host their code at sourceforge will at least start making copious local backups in the event the site just disappears one day, along with VA Linux as a corporate entity.
Its just what you're looking for, it allows you to view a list of the URLs that have been viewed without blocking access to most of the net.
I meant to say:
I've come to the conclusion that the Slashdot editors are in fact not stupid, but ingenious page-hit-count-generators.
Which in fact makes them trolls
Oh well, all the page views in the universe isn't going to help VA Linux survive through this year.
Heh. Considering the rest of his post seemed non-trollish and mostly intelligent, I'm guessing that what he meant was support for XML in a standard way. It would be nice if Linux (*NIX in general) had one single standard library based on XML that was used for all *.conf type files. It really can be a pain editing different file types and doing things differently depending upon if the software you are configuring uses ':' to seperate keys from values, or ',' or something even more obscure.
Why you would want that support in the kernel, though.. well, its a bad idea. Perhaps the original poster assumes this will trojan horse the XML support into all distributions and then software programmers will be more likely to use the library...