Umm, no. You still have to recompile _everything_. 64-bit processors help in absolutely no meaningful way - you can use a 64-bit time value on a 32-bit machine.
It's not like the miniscule efficiency improvement of fitting the whole value in a single register matters when you're dealing with a single 64-bit value.
Uhh, what? First, optimized code will run more "efficiently" on a P4.
Second, "efficiency" is meaningless. I'll take a 10GHz processor that's "only" twice as fast as a 4 GHz processor, all other things being nearly equal, any day.
Efficiency is a pointless measure in computing because there are always multiple ways to get better performance.
Why not offer 1 zillion bits to the consumer. They need that about as much as they need 64-bits.
For being supposedly computer savvy (e.g. pointing out that MHz isn't everything) I sure do see a lot of computer nerds who think Joe Consumer Mac User needs 64-bits, or Sally AMD User needs it. Pretty fucking ridiculous, actually.
Sorry. The GPL is a EULA whether you like it or not - you either can make someone agree to a licenses by "reading", "clicking", or "using" something (implicitly) or you can't. Which is it?
The GPL is crap, and I wish people would stop using it. Either give your software away or don't, but quit being a hippy-ass anti-corporate dimwit about it.
That's always the answer, "I'll build my own!". Well, frankly, the ones people build on their own suck ass.
I'll take a DirecTivo over anything anyone builds on their own. The quality of software and the capabilities (e.g. dual tuner) are well above any of the free crap out there now, and even the non-free crap (e.g. Windows media edition).
Deranged idiot: "64 > 32. Must get 64 bit processor".
What the hell do you think you need 64 bits for in a desktop? I assure you it won't help your porn, your games (regardless of what that AMD schill Sweeney claims), or your spreadsheets.
1. The performance readings are _not_ conservative. In real world performance (and modern benchmarks) the 3.06GHz P4 will trounce the 3200+ AMD. The 3.0 certainly beat the 3000+ in the majority of the modern benchmarks I've seen.
2. At the high end (i.e. you spend a little dough) an Intel based system will always outperform the AMD.
All in all, you're spewing typical contrarian garbage. It used to be that Intel sucked because they had this CISC architecture that didn't scale, and had a high IPC but alow clock - RISC ruled! Now that the shoe's on the other foot, and Intel has a high clock and AMD now has a better IPC AMD rules!
Fact is, Intel chips perform better - end of story. IPC is meaningless.
People just love to hate the one at the top, and they just plain love an underdog.
Hence the fanaticism you see towards AMD and Linux (though Linux does rule, I admit).
First, why do people insist on the "it's only 200Mhz, quad pumped" comments? Hint: 200 x 4 is 800.
Second, the speed rating is becoming a joke. The 3000+ couldn't even beat the 2.8GHz P4 in a lot of benchmarks. I guarantee you the 3200+ will lose in damn near every modern benchmark to the P4 3.06GHz.
TiVo is a "nice" company. They've let customers hack their machines without too much complaint.
Your "open" utopia is nonsensical - if they release the source then they lose business. Why buy their hardware/brand? They are a company, and outside the world of dirty, bitter "source wants to be free!!!!" ners, companies try to make money.
People out there - don't listen to this disgruntled nerd. Buy a TiVo. Keep them afloat - they have a good product (especially the DirecTV version). And he's lying his ass off about the "1 hour" comment.
The law is of course idiotic - I won't bother to comment on it.
But why does he think he can just move the stuff to the Netherlands? He is still a US citizen and a Michigan citizen, and he is still producing the documents that are illegal. It doesn't matter where he publishes _to_, it's where he publishes _from_.
If a Dutch citizen published it then fine - it's legal there, but he's not accomplishing anything by putting the documents in another country, and I don't know why he thinks he is. If they wanted to prosecute they could.
XML is undeniably a good thing.
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Is it the best? Probably not. But it's undeniably an effective lingua franca. A human can easily creat, edit, and manage it dynamically - you want a new tage you just do it.
Then, it's also as easy on the software side to reflect those changes. The fashionable arguments people use against it (why is it so fashionable to bash anything that happens to be a buzzword?) are non sequiturs in terms of what XML is intended for.
I use it, hell I probably overuse it. It's so damn easy to parse that I don't want to waste time building a custom format just to save that extra 1K of space or 1/100th of a second.
1. So which is it, Open Source is a panacea of quality and security or "it's free, what can you expect?"
2. Bull. How many sites actually apply the fixes that quickly? Microsoft is usually reasonably timely with the patches, it's just that people take their sweet damned time installing them.
3. Because no one gives a shit about Unix, and no one is running it. If someone developed the killer 'elm' virus, the 5 people in the world infected could just look over their cubicles and warn eachother.
I thought I did support my claims. True or false, recently (and at a fairly steady rate in the past) there have been a slew of Unix-based security flaws? What more is there to say?
The OpenBSD argument seems to me to resemble Microsoft's arguments back when then were bandying about their "C2 certified!" claims. Namely, an OS by itself had better be pretty damned secure - it doesn't _do_ much of anything. It's when you start piling on the applications that you start to see the issues. Hence, I'm lumping them all together. It's one big inbreed application domain of ancient Unix software running on them all.
Run MySQL on OpenBSD. Run Samba. Run sendmail. There goes your security.
Windows XP is completely secure if you get a decent administrator and you don't run anything on it. What's the point? In fact, as you allude to, Windows at a low level is a technologically superior operating system to most versions of Unix, regardless of what most of these drooling Slashdot retards claim.
The problem comes with applications, same as it does in Unix.
The numbers don't add up, either. The important web servers are still mostly running IIS. The ones in big businesses. It's sooo much easier to develop good web apps in Visual Studio.NET than anything the Unix world has.
In fact, it amazes me that the Unix zealots haven't addressed the glaring reason why the world runs Microsoft. It's unavoidable.
Microsoft caters the developer, and they always have. The absolute best development tools and environment is a Microsoft environment. End of story. If Unix people spent half the time they spend bickering about Gnome and KDE maybe they'd wise up and develop The Killer Development Environment. And, uhh, nerds? It ain't Emacs.
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Umm, no. You still have to recompile _everything_. 64-bit processors help in absolutely no meaningful way - you can use a 64-bit time value on a 32-bit machine.
It's not like the miniscule efficiency improvement of fitting the whole value in a single register matters when you're dealing with a single 64-bit value.
Pshaw.
Good lord. Where do you people get your "information"?
64-bit machines will do nothing for the time_t problem. That's a software problem, not a hardware problem.
Crickies.
How is this insightful?
I think you mean "more than 3GB or so of data", for one thing. What wrong, wrong orifice did you pull 2GB out of?
Second, what evidence do you have that PAE are "slow and hacky"? Just your sense of how things work in the universe?
Uhh, what? First, optimized code will run more "efficiently" on a P4.
Second, "efficiency" is meaningless. I'll take a 10GHz processor that's "only" twice as fast as a 4 GHz processor, all other things being nearly equal, any day.
Efficiency is a pointless measure in computing because there are always multiple ways to get better performance.
Why not offer 1 zillion bits to the consumer. They need that about as much as they need 64-bits.
For being supposedly computer savvy (e.g. pointing out that MHz isn't everything) I sure do see a lot of computer nerds who think Joe Consumer Mac User needs 64-bits, or Sally AMD User needs it. Pretty fucking ridiculous, actually.
Like we couldn't figure out the URL to the Washington Post. For christ's sake, just link to the fucking article, and leave the URL stew out of it.
Sorry. The GPL is a EULA whether you like it or not - you either can make someone agree to a licenses by "reading", "clicking", or "using" something (implicitly) or you can't. Which is it?
The GPL is crap, and I wish people would stop using it. Either give your software away or don't, but quit being a hippy-ass anti-corporate dimwit about it.
No, there aren't. The 2.8C beats the crap out of the 2800+. Try looking at the benchmarks, next time.
AMD is way behind, period.
Umm, how exactly does a processor manufacturer "overclock" their own processor, since by definition it should run at the speed they say it should?
That makes as little sense as the rest of your meandering inanities do.
There are plenty of benchmarks out there - the 2.8 generaly beats, ties, or spanks the "3200+" depending on what benchmark.
That's some misleading rating AMD has going, there.
Someone's lost touch with the date.
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How about that wacky Gomer Pyle? And whoa, what about that Ollie North, eh, eh, hehe
That's always the answer, "I'll build my own!". Well, frankly, the ones people build on their own suck ass.
I'll take a DirecTivo over anything anyone builds on their own. The quality of software and the capabilities (e.g. dual tuner) are well above any of the free crap out there now, and even the non-free crap (e.g. Windows media edition).
Umm, wrong? The 30 second skip isn't that useful, nor is commercial skip. Neither works all that well.
Tivo has it right - you just hit FF three times, wait a few sconds, and hit play. Commercials skipped within about 3 seconds.
Exactly. Some technical people can sure turn all luddite as soon as something with vaguely possible sinister applications pops its head up.
This is very cool technology. It hs many good uses. I'm particularly fond of using it on vermin criminals.
As a half-joking aside, next they need to add a cyanide release code to it so they can remotely trigger instand death. Sweeeeet.
Pfft. Right.
Deranged idiot: "64 > 32. Must get 64 bit processor".
What the hell do you think you need 64 bits for in a desktop? I assure you it won't help your porn, your games (regardless of what that AMD schill Sweeney claims), or your spreadsheets.
1. The performance readings are _not_ conservative. In real world performance (and modern benchmarks) the 3.06GHz P4 will trounce the 3200+ AMD. The 3.0 certainly beat the 3000+ in the majority of the modern benchmarks I've seen.
2. At the high end (i.e. you spend a little dough) an Intel based system will always outperform the AMD.
All in all, you're spewing typical contrarian garbage. It used to be that Intel sucked because they had this CISC architecture that didn't scale, and had a high IPC but alow clock - RISC ruled! Now that the shoe's on the other foot, and Intel has a high clock and AMD now has a better IPC AMD rules!
Fact is, Intel chips perform better - end of story. IPC is meaningless.
People just love to hate the one at the top, and they just plain love an underdog.
Hence the fanaticism you see towards AMD and Linux (though Linux does rule, I admit).
First, why do people insist on the "it's only 200Mhz, quad pumped" comments? Hint: 200 x 4 is 800.
Second, the speed rating is becoming a joke. The 3000+ couldn't even beat the 2.8GHz P4 in a lot of benchmarks. I guarantee you the 3200+ will lose in damn near every modern benchmark to the P4 3.06GHz.
So much for their credibility.
Yeah, those silly dolts. Paying attention to history. Pshaw.
Hell, I'm sure AMD will be around in 5 years, they're raking in so much money.
Leave it to a nerd to find humor in pranks that a 1930's housewife would have thought cutting edge.
I've shit funnier and more interesting things, and that's not even counting the expunged foreign objects.
Get a life you stupid nerds, nobody thinks this is "cute".
You don't know what you're talking about.
TiVo is a "nice" company. They've let customers hack their machines without too much complaint.
Your "open" utopia is nonsensical - if they release the source then they lose business. Why buy their hardware/brand? They are a company, and outside the world of dirty, bitter "source wants to be free!!!!" ners, companies try to make money.
People out there - don't listen to this disgruntled nerd. Buy a TiVo. Keep them afloat - they have a good product (especially the DirecTV version). And he's lying his ass off about the "1 hour" comment.
The law is of course idiotic - I won't bother to comment on it.
But why does he think he can just move the stuff to the Netherlands? He is still a US citizen and a Michigan citizen, and he is still producing the documents that are illegal. It doesn't matter where he publishes _to_, it's where he publishes _from_.
If a Dutch citizen published it then fine - it's legal there, but he's not accomplishing anything by putting the documents in another country, and I don't know why he thinks he is. If they wanted to prosecute they could.
Is it the best? Probably not. But it's undeniably an effective lingua franca. A human can easily creat, edit, and manage it dynamically - you want a new tage you just do it.
Then, it's also as easy on the software side to reflect those changes. The fashionable arguments people use against it (why is it so fashionable to bash anything that happens to be a buzzword?) are non sequiturs in terms of what XML is intended for.
I use it, hell I probably overuse it. It's so damn easy to parse that I don't want to waste time building a custom format just to save that extra 1K of space or 1/100th of a second.
Nope. Count it, Unix (outside of specific realms) is a tiny minority.
1. So which is it, Open Source is a panacea of quality and security or "it's free, what can you expect?"
2. Bull. How many sites actually apply the fixes that quickly? Microsoft is usually reasonably timely with the patches, it's just that people take their sweet damned time installing them.
3. Because no one gives a shit about Unix, and no one is running it. If someone developed the killer 'elm' virus, the 5 people in the world infected could just look over their cubicles and warn eachother.
I thought I did support my claims. True or false, recently (and at a fairly steady rate in the past) there have been a slew of Unix-based security flaws? What more is there to say?
.NET than anything the Unix world has.
The OpenBSD argument seems to me to resemble Microsoft's arguments back when then were bandying about their "C2 certified!" claims. Namely, an OS by itself had better be pretty damned secure - it doesn't _do_ much of anything. It's when you start piling on the applications that you start to see the issues. Hence, I'm lumping them all together. It's one big inbreed application domain of ancient Unix software running on them all.
Run MySQL on OpenBSD. Run Samba. Run sendmail. There goes your security.
Windows XP is completely secure if you get a decent administrator and you don't run anything on it. What's the point? In fact, as you allude to, Windows at a low level is a technologically superior operating system to most versions of Unix, regardless of what most of these drooling Slashdot retards claim.
The problem comes with applications, same as it does in Unix.
The numbers don't add up, either. The important web servers are still mostly running IIS. The ones in big businesses. It's sooo much easier to develop good web apps in Visual Studio
In fact, it amazes me that the Unix zealots haven't addressed the glaring reason why the world runs Microsoft. It's unavoidable.
Microsoft caters the developer, and they always have. The absolute best development tools and environment is a Microsoft environment. End of story. If Unix people spent half the time they spend bickering about Gnome and KDE maybe they'd wise up and develop The Killer Development Environment. And, uhh, nerds? It ain't Emacs.