Actually that sort of makes sense. The question then is does it effect other IO? Maybe writing to a drive? Would it show up in task manager? So far I find you explanation the most likely if unpopular. I sort of want some proof before I start stringing people up.
Well one would be to design an OS that needs fewer reboots to fix problems. Unless I get a kernel update my Linux box doesn't need to reboot. Most drivers should be designed to be updated without a reboot. Some like the mass storage my need to reboot. With a properly designed modular operating system you should rarely need to reboot. It goes back to FIX WINDOWS!
Well I question if the X86 is the way to go. This one size fits all mentality with CPUs needs to go. For things like web serving why not something like the SunT1 or T2. For NAS the PowerPC, ARM. and MIPS might be more power efficent. For render farms, database servers, and HPCs the X86-64 and Power5, UltraSparc T2.
The X86-64 does a good job at about everything but it is not the best at anything. The new low power laptop cpus are not terrible but I don't think they can match the ARM, PowerPC, or Mips in the low power area yet.
Well yes but the real truth is that DVDs have been beating Blu Ray and HD DVD by about 500:1 I don't think that blu ray has all that much in the way of momentum.
I always hated the term fan because it has the same root as fanatic. I would say that some people are now moving well past fan and fanatic right to zealot. Pop culture has become the new religion for many people. Doesn't matter if it is Linux, FOSS, Star Trek, the PS3, or Firefly.
I would say why ARM is because it is small and actively being developed. Why MIPS? Well you named them. It is simple, inexpensive, well known, and it is a good ISA. I thought that HyperTransport was faster than PCI Express and also freely available I would think that with 64 cores that memory speed would be a bottleneck. It would also allow the Tilera to fit into an AMD socket. It is an interesting critter no matter how you look at it.
What I find interesting is that they are using MIPS instead of ARM. It does seem to have on die memory controlers so that leads me to wonder if they are using hyper-transport as well?
There is also Linkedin but the I have to wonder when these "Social networking" sites time will be past. Just how different are they from all the "personal" webpages that people used to put up on the web? These social networking sites seem to be trying to become a sub-set of the internet or recreated Compuserve/Delphi/Bix/.
Personal webpages? Every ISP used to give you a little web space for that. Groups? Usenet and or web based forums. Chat? IRC, ICQ, AIM, Jabber. Friends list? Guest books on your personal website and or links to your friends pages.
"you would need to replace the Skype mono-culture, not the Windows mono-culture." Not really why do you think that any exploit for Windows is so dangerous? Even then if you think about it the idea that EVERY windows system is going to have to reboot on a certian day is just laughable.
"Windows Mobile is no better than, and just as proprietary as, the iPhone's OS." Proprietary yes. Open no. You can get a lot of Windows Mobil apps and install them without hacks. Not so with the iPhone yet...
"I mean who the hell was actually willing to use an operating system with adware built into it (or spend 30 dollars)? Not trying to troll, just stating that Opera started off with a terrible strategy, and they are paying for it now in the desktop market." Well it wasn't an operating system it was a browser. Spend $30 why not since it was a better browser than IE. The problems that Opera faced on the Desktop where. 1. IE was free and started to define "the standard" for HTML in the internet. The majority of sites on the Web do not follow standards just to work with IE. 2. Firefox was free and pretty dang good.
Opera is still doing well in the embedded market. The Wii and the DS are good examples of places where Opera is doing well. I really like Opera but to be honest I am so used to using Firefox that Opera is an also ran for me.
You need to get a grip. I was kidding it is Slashdot afterall. But I still have to admit that I am disappointed that he did run a trojan. It just isn't that hard to not run attachments.
We all know the real answer to the problem is to copy your CDs and or put them on some type of MP3 Player. Back in the old days I would buy records and then copy them onto tape to listen at home or in my care. I then put the LPs away for safe keeping. Music CDs should be treated like installation media. You use it once to make a working copy and the store the master. It is also a LOT easier to carry an iPod or Zune with you then a bunch of CDs.
"They just fire up front page and drag pretty pictures and type on the screen and hit publish." Naw they just use Word and save as HTML.... Shudder.....
The dust bowl was cause by some very poor agricultural practices. The drought was caused by the the temperatures. So to be 100% accurate the dust bowl was caused by poor agricultural practices combined with the naturally accruing high temperatures and drought.
Just don't use flash ads. I unblocked doubleclick because some of the ads on Slashdot are things I am interested in. What do I see but flash banners! I wish I could unblock the Slashdot ads but I can not stand animated ads!
Lets see... I have at my company purchased at least $400,000 of goods and services on the internet. We have standardized Firefox at my office. Good shooting Tex. BTW I am not a big fan of wholesale ad blocking. I am actually pretty selective in what ads I block. If they would all go to simple text ads then I would be happy to not block. If they use 1. Flash, 2. Java, 3 Any animation, or 4 pop up or under or sideways then I ban them and the domain they come from. I will do the same with IE, Opera, Or any other browser I use.
Sorry but I have hundreds of CDs And maybe one or two have any problems. I am not neat freak or anything but you must abuse the daylights out of your CDs. AS to cassettes tapes all I can say is what???? I have had more of them wear out and or get eaten by a tape deck than any amount of CD failures.
The ARM core isn't slow by any stretch I would bet that a good dual or quad core ARM would run all the software the average desktop needs. It would probably work just fine for most business systems. Since the ARM core is so small compared to say an Core2Duo or AthlonX2 I would bet that you could put 16 or more on a single die and then use Hyper transport for memory IO. You would need to add something like SSE and maybe an FPU but the end result could be very interesting for servers.
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Actually that sort of makes sense. The question then is does it effect other IO? Maybe writing to a drive? Would it show up in task manager?
So far I find you explanation the most likely if unpopular.
I sort of want some proof before I start stringing people up.
Well one would be to design an OS that needs fewer reboots to fix problems.
Unless I get a kernel update my Linux box doesn't need to reboot.
Most drivers should be designed to be updated without a reboot. Some like the mass storage my need to reboot.
With a properly designed modular operating system you should rarely need to reboot.
It goes back to FIX WINDOWS!
Well I question if the X86 is the way to go. This one size fits all mentality with CPUs needs to go. For things like web serving why not something like the SunT1 or T2. For NAS the PowerPC, ARM. and MIPS might be more power efficent.
For render farms, database servers, and HPCs the X86-64 and Power5, UltraSparc T2.
The X86-64 does a good job at about everything but it is not the best at anything. The new low power laptop cpus are not terrible but I don't think they can match the ARM, PowerPC, or Mips in the low power area yet.
There isn't that is what so terrible is that once a month or so a huge percentage of systems are being forced to reboot!
Well yes but the real truth is that DVDs have been beating Blu Ray and HD DVD by about 500:1
I don't think that blu ray has all that much in the way of momentum.
I always hated the term fan because it has the same root as fanatic. I would say that some people are now moving well past fan and fanatic right to zealot. Pop culture has become the new religion for many people. Doesn't matter if it is Linux, FOSS, Star Trek, the PS3, or Firefly.
I would say why ARM is because it is small and actively being developed. Why MIPS? Well you named them. It is simple, inexpensive, well known, and it is a good ISA.
I thought that HyperTransport was faster than PCI Express and also freely available I would think that with 64 cores that memory speed would be a bottleneck. It would also allow the Tilera to fit into an AMD socket. It is an interesting critter no matter how you look at it.
What I find interesting is that they are using MIPS instead of ARM. It does seem to have on die memory controlers so that leads me to wonder if they are using hyper-transport as well?
There is also Linkedin but the I have to wonder when these "Social networking" sites time will be past.
Just how different are they from all the "personal" webpages that people used to put up on the web? These social networking sites seem to be trying to become a sub-set of the internet or recreated Compuserve/Delphi/Bix/.
Personal webpages? Every ISP used to give you a little web space for that.
Groups? Usenet and or web based forums.
Chat? IRC, ICQ, AIM, Jabber.
Friends list? Guest books on your personal website and or links to your friends pages.
"you would need to replace the Skype mono-culture, not the Windows mono-culture."
Not really why do you think that any exploit for Windows is so dangerous? Even then if you think about it the idea that EVERY windows system is going to have to reboot on a certian day is just laughable.
"Windows Mobile is no better than, and just as proprietary as, the iPhone's OS."
Proprietary yes. Open no.
You can get a lot of Windows Mobil apps and install them without hacks. Not so with the iPhone yet...
If you are a subscriber then you are a customer. If you are not then you are just a user.
"I mean who the hell was actually willing to use an operating system with adware built into it (or spend 30 dollars)? Not trying to troll, just stating that Opera started off with a terrible strategy, and they are paying for it now in the desktop market."
Well it wasn't an operating system it was a browser. Spend $30 why not since it was a better browser than IE.
The problems that Opera faced on the Desktop where.
1. IE was free and started to define "the standard" for HTML in the internet. The majority of sites on the Web do not follow standards just to work with IE.
2. Firefox was free and pretty dang good.
Opera is still doing well in the embedded market. The Wii and the DS are good examples of places where Opera is doing well. I really like Opera but to be honest I am so used to using Firefox that Opera is an also ran for me.
"Not one item from the list looks like from outer space - all are concepts which any monkey can bring into a browser. "
Yea.. Sure they do.
Everything is easy once someone else does it.
Weather? Weather.com. News? Lots of news sources on the Internet.
You need to get a grip. I was kidding it is Slashdot afterall.
But I still have to admit that I am disappointed that he did run a trojan. It just isn't that hard to not run attachments.
You can still copy the CDs onto CDrs.
If your car supports it you could put a lot of them onto a CDR as MP3s.
But what idiot runs a trojan?
Not only that what is he doing running Windows?
Well I will not need to go to Fark every again.
We all know the real answer to the problem is to copy your CDs and or put them on some type of MP3 Player.
Back in the old days I would buy records and then copy them onto tape to listen at home or in my care. I then put the LPs away for safe keeping.
Music CDs should be treated like installation media. You use it once to make a working copy and the store the master.
It is also a LOT easier to carry an iPod or Zune with you then a bunch of CDs.
"They just fire up front page and drag pretty pictures and type on the screen and hit publish." Naw they just use Word and save as HTML.... Shudder.....
The dust bowl was cause by some very poor agricultural practices. The drought was caused by the the temperatures.
So to be 100% accurate the dust bowl was caused by poor agricultural practices combined with the naturally accruing high temperatures and drought.
Just don't use flash ads.
I unblocked doubleclick because some of the ads on Slashdot are things I am interested in. What do I see but flash banners!
I wish I could unblock the Slashdot ads but I can not stand animated ads!
Lets see... I have at my company purchased at least $400,000 of goods and services on the internet.
We have standardized Firefox at my office.
Good shooting Tex.
BTW I am not a big fan of wholesale ad blocking. I am actually pretty selective in what ads I block. If they would all go to simple text ads then I would be happy to not block. If they use 1. Flash, 2. Java, 3 Any animation, or 4 pop up or under or sideways then I ban them and the domain they come from.
I will do the same with IE, Opera, Or any other browser I use.
Sorry but I have hundreds of CDs And maybe one or two have any problems. I am not neat freak or anything but you must abuse the daylights out of your CDs.
AS to cassettes tapes all I can say is what???? I have had more of them wear out and or get eaten by a tape deck than any amount of CD failures.
The ARM core isn't slow by any stretch I would bet that a good dual or quad core ARM would run all the software the average desktop needs. It would probably work just fine for most business systems. Since the ARM core is so small compared to say an Core2Duo or AthlonX2 I would bet that you could put 16 or more on a single die and then use Hyper transport for memory IO. You would need to add something like SSE and maybe an FPU but the end result could be very interesting for servers.