Could be, it's been a while and I don't have my Simarillion to hand. I thought Feanor got Gothmog and then the other demons did a pile-e-on and he kind of boiled away, his spirit being too strong for his body?
Anyway, Glorfindel killing Gothmog does sound more likely, now that you mention it. For extra credit, is that the same Glorfindel we meet in LOTR?:)
When it comes to Kevin Smith, I have to defer to my wife. She got invited to see the premier of "Dogma" by one of the magazines she buys advertising with. On the way out we were greeted by the guy who arranged it, clearly hoping we'd enjoyed it and that it was a nice perk. He's also a personal friend of my wife's.
"Oh my God it was so fucking awful" was the first thing out of her mouth. She couldn't help herself.
I totally agreed and I've been reluctant since then to give certainly him, but even the characters in his movie the time of day, basically.
Cirdan was also alive then and also appears in LOTR, although only in passing.
Treebeard and Bombadil must have been alive too, since both are credited with being the oldest, Treebeard the oldest living thing and Bombadil perhaps the oldest spirit.
The Balrog under Moria dates from the time of the Silmarillion also. He is a "Balrog of Gothmog", Gothmog being the leader of the Balrogs who was slain by Feanor himself.
Finally I supose Earendil is still whizzing around the heavens on his magic boat. In the Silmarillion he was a man, if I recall correctly, but then if we get into the Gods and Demigods I guess they're all still alive, most of them hanging out chilling on Taniquetil, right?
From what I recall, different processes have different virtual memory spaces. CPUs have to translate virtual addresses into real addresses, and they cache such translations in a Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Now I'm no chip architect, but from what I've read switching TLB entries is becoming more and more expensive in terms of how long is the CPU stalled in terms of cycles. So process switching is getting slower relative to thread switching. Thread switching does have to save and restore registers, but not switch virtual address space. I seem to recall that process switching might also be harder on cache hit rates than thread switching, but not 100% sure about that (I guess it depends on whether the cache is "virtually indexed").
I know I'm offtopic, injecting facts into this debate, but I thought it might be interesting to bring up the VXA tape format. It allegedly survives all kinds of abuse like freezing, see Freezing Test
I have never tried these drives, and would love to hear from someone independent who has.
You might be giving direct injection too much credit for the the 100HP/liter figure. My E46 M3 achieves ~104HP/liter without employing direct injection or forced induction, and a Honda S2000 produces 120HP/liter the same way. Direct injection is superior to conventional EFI and there's no question that it's they way of the future, but there's more to creating a high efficiency motor than DI.
I didn't mean to imply that direct injection is the only way, it's been possible for a while with variable timing and aggressive cams. There are several normally aspirated engines exceeding 100 bhp/liter without direct injection, for example I believe the Ferrari 360 CS (Challenge Stradale) gets approaching 117 bhp/liter.
But the engines that do this without direct injection had a reputation for peakiness due to the aggressive cam profile needed, true for all of the Ferrari, BMW and Honda engines mentioned. What the Audi engine seemed to offer is competitive specific output, especially for a big engine but still with a very healthy torque curve. The Honda is particularly impressive on paper, but it uses sky-high engine speed and is reputedly gutless at lower speed. The Porsche GT3 engine in the latest version is something like 400bhp from 3.6 liters, again with a good torque curve.
So I guess my contention is direct injection increases the output without going to heroic means like 9000rpm screamers.
Audi already uses direct injection and uses a compression ratio of 12.5:1 in its 4.2 liter v8 achieving 100 horsepower/liter without a turbocharger, see
2007 Audi RS4 review at Edmunds.COM
I'm intrigued to imagine what they could do if this ethanol based charge cooling works out. I'm already forced to put 15% ethanol in my Audi V8 (sadly NOT an RS4), living in NYC, but if this works out maybe I can support the farmers AND have a powerful car for the weekends (I commute on the subway).
Agreed. Straight-up xlib is a much nicer way of seeing the Web.
I guess using other peoples Motif apps is tolerable, I appreciated Netscape on my linux box when it was all I could afford, but programming that stuff was a nightmare.
I actually did prefer my direct Xlib programming experience to my Motif-torture phase.
I remember when I tried to change the app-defaults for Netscape so that the key sequence for for Exit was different. Something like : Alt-Q is format paragraph in emacs (which I'm fairly used to) but exit in netscape, so when typing text into a web page instead of formatting my text I often lost it. Anyway, netscape crashed on me when i changed the app-defaults.
I'm not exactly in love with GTK either, but free GTK compared to $200 for the privilege of real Motif (back in 1997 or so) was definitely a no-brainer.
With this news it appears that Hayden Christiansen might NOT have had three limbs cut off and his body burned to a crisp on a lava planet during that one-in-a-billion take for the end of Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith. I feel betrayed.
Sun has been in trouble for years, and this is a smart first step to getting out of it
With respect, this is a dated analysis. I think their start first step was, you know, launching an entire range of competitive x86 compatible 64-bit servers and workstations, getting serious about storage (storagetek, thumper), upgrading the CEO, upgrading Solaris with tons of awesome new features, cutting the fat in the workforce (at least) and revitalising SPARC with impressive throughput oriented hardware multi-threading multi-core chips.
Why, you know what, that sounds like lots of steps, almost like several years of excellent progress on the recovery front.
Ok, so on the more general point of high capacity 3.5 inch drives, Does anyone really need these?
Sure, anyone doing High-def digital video. Suitable high-def camcorders start under $1k, filesize is approximately 35GB/hour, before you start editing etc. Similar problem if you use your computer as a PVR. I use a Elgato EyeTV to record formula 1 motor racing, and I also shoot my own high-def digital video. The 400GB hard disk on my powermac is almost always fully and I'm starting to fill up a second drive now.
I was just in the Sony Style store at 550 Madison Avenue (Sony's US headquarters) and they were selling PS3s. There was a line of about 15 people (ok, men) at the checkout, which is highly unusual in my experience (I shop there regularly) and the staff behind the desk had some PS3s sitting on the floor ready to be handed over. The boxes go out in a distinctive black bag with PS3 graphics on it.
My wife works in the Sony building, so I strolled past it last night.
One one side of the Sony building were the dedicated or avaricious would-be-purchasers waiting to buy at midnight, but on the other side of the building there were externally visible screens showing PS3 games being played by people in one of the Sony stores. A preview reel looked awesome, but was simply a video of lots of game clips. The only games I saw being played were : some kind of off-road racing game and Madden 2007. Neither would blow my mind if I saw them on my PS2. There was little to no sign of mindboggling performance, in fact the off-road racing game seemed a bit slow.
I'm a big fan of PS2, having completed several games, but I'm going to wait for my PS3 until a) I can buy one for normal retail price without hassle and b) I see the mind-blowing graphics we're all expecting
No, I can't get one any earlier because I know an employee. In fact they haven't heard whether there will be any available for staff at all. There might be a raffle for 3, something like that.
There wont be any legal dual format players any time soon. The Sony Blu-Ray license prohibits HD DVD playback in the same machine.
I'll take your word for it, but it did make me wonder what the definition of "machine" would be here. Say you can only put Blu-Ray, but not Blu-Ray & HDDVD in a single drive assembly, ok fine. Now, what about multiple drives? Can you put a BD-ROM and an HDDVD-ROM drive in a PC at the same time? Are Sony licensing the BD format per laser effectively? If economies of scale can be brought to bear on the enabling technology (the laser, the decoding chips, the tracking servos etc) a dual-laser drive wouldn't be impossible at all. What about DVD jukebox systems, could they have two disc drive assemblies within the system cabinet? Can they really ban you having a BD and an HD drive in your car (that is a "machine" after all!). Not that I want video in my car that much, but it's big on "Unique Whips".
The US has been forced to contend with heinously patronizing and crude TV advertising for decades
As someone who used to live in the UK and now lives in the US I'd say this is a very dated view. It was true, perhaps even as little as 10 years ago, but now it's a bit misleading.
There is quite a bit of wit, subtlety, humor, even dare I say it art in the best US TV advertising these days. In fact when I visit the UK I often find adverts who seem to have abandoned those things for straight out absurdity, inconsequentiality and contrived crudeness as an attention getter, so it feels like the US is currently in a more sophisticated phase of advertising than the UK. I do realise that contrived crudeness can be seen as even more sophisticated - like the crudeness is post-modern or satirical, but men in plastic orange suits slapping people (Tango adverts) really undermine any idea that the US is far behind the US in wit in adverts these days. Many of the "dumb" adverts are now done in a "yeah, we know" manner - the assumption is the viewer gets a chuckle because he's in on what a dumb joke it is e.g. the "Magic Fridge" beer commercial, one of my favourites.
In other news, the US now has airbags in its cars, good tea, relatively much more expensive gas, fuel-injected engines and a comparative lack of plaid polyester suits, sideburns and huge-collar leather jackets. Who knew?
My sysadmin who set up my CVS server for my team and several others.
I entered a work order which asked for the operating system to be installed, a mirrored filesystem to be installed and backups to be kicked off.
The work order was completed with the statement "did not set up backups, enter another ticket if you still want those". So the machine has not been backed for all this time (uptime ~1000 days so far).
Good job we did our own rsync mirroring of the repositories to a reliable NAS device (EMC symmetrix)!
In future I am going to try this tactic myself - when we finish projects we'll just leave out bits and put in the log "didn't add features X, Y, Z as requested, please enter another ticket if you still want them".
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No, Gothmog slew Feanor. Glorfindel slew Gothmog.
Could be, it's been a while and I don't have my Simarillion to hand. I thought Feanor got Gothmog and then the other demons did a pile-e-on and he kind of boiled away, his spirit being too strong for his body?
Anyway, Glorfindel killing Gothmog does sound more likely, now that you mention it. For extra credit, is that the same Glorfindel we meet in LOTR? :)
When it comes to Kevin Smith, I have to defer to my wife. She got invited to see the premier of "Dogma" by one of the magazines she buys advertising with. On the way out we were greeted by the guy who arranged it, clearly hoping we'd enjoyed it and that it was a nice perk. He's also a personal friend of my wife's. "Oh my God it was so fucking awful" was the first thing out of her mouth. She couldn't help herself.
I totally agreed and I've been reluctant since then to give certainly him, but even the characters in his movie the time of day, basically.
Just one button.
It dials a random number from your phonebook.
Or how about no buttons at all? Bring it close to your face, speak the name of the person you want to talk to. That's it...
Cirdan was also alive then and also appears in LOTR, although only in passing.
Treebeard and Bombadil must have been alive too, since both are credited with being the oldest, Treebeard the oldest living thing and Bombadil perhaps the oldest spirit.
The Balrog under Moria dates from the time of the Silmarillion also. He is a "Balrog of Gothmog", Gothmog being the leader of the Balrogs who was slain by Feanor himself.
Finally I supose Earendil is still whizzing around the heavens on his magic boat. In the Silmarillion he was a man, if I recall correctly, but then if we get into the Gods and Demigods I guess they're all still alive, most of them hanging out chilling on Taniquetil, right?
Not to mention who was Queen Beruthiel and what was so special about her cats?
I think this is a bit too strong a statement.
From what I recall, different processes have different virtual memory spaces. CPUs have to translate virtual addresses into real addresses, and they cache such translations in a Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Now I'm no chip architect, but from what I've read switching TLB entries is becoming more and more expensive in terms of how long is the CPU stalled in terms of cycles. So process switching is getting slower relative to thread switching. Thread switching does have to save and restore registers, but not switch virtual address space. I seem to recall that process switching might also be harder on cache hit rates than thread switching, but not 100% sure about that (I guess it depends on whether the cache is "virtually indexed").
Some good discussion on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache
Perhaps after the 20GB and 60GB PS3 editions (already out) there will be the HomeHPTC edition :)
I know I'm offtopic, injecting facts into this debate, but I thought it might be interesting to bring up the VXA tape format. It allegedly survives all kinds of abuse like freezing, see Freezing Test
I have never tried these drives, and would love to hear from someone independent who has.
You might be giving direct injection too much credit for the the 100HP/liter figure. My E46 M3 achieves ~104HP/liter without employing direct injection or forced induction, and a Honda S2000 produces 120HP/liter the same way. Direct injection is superior to conventional EFI and there's no question that it's they way of the future, but there's more to creating a high efficiency motor than DI.
I didn't mean to imply that direct injection is the only way, it's been possible for a while with variable timing and aggressive cams. There are several normally aspirated engines exceeding 100 bhp/liter without direct injection, for example I believe the Ferrari 360 CS (Challenge Stradale) gets approaching 117 bhp/liter.
But the engines that do this without direct injection had a reputation for peakiness due to the aggressive cam profile needed, true for all of the Ferrari, BMW and Honda engines mentioned. What the Audi engine seemed to offer is competitive specific output, especially for a big engine but still with a very healthy torque curve. The Honda is particularly impressive on paper, but it uses sky-high engine speed and is reputedly gutless at lower speed. The Porsche GT3 engine in the latest version is something like 400bhp from 3.6 liters, again with a good torque curve.
So I guess my contention is direct injection increases the output without going to heroic means like 9000rpm screamers.
I'm intrigued to imagine what they could do if this ethanol based charge cooling works out. I'm already forced to put 15% ethanol in my Audi V8 (sadly NOT an RS4), living in NYC, but if this works out maybe I can support the farmers AND have a powerful car for the weekends (I commute on the subway).
This guy makes it look like Wikipedia 'community leaders' are a bunch of amateurs that have no qualms about lying or deceiving.
And your point is?
Don't forget :
I have a discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition beneath your current threshold
The next truly marvelous demonstration will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
Agreed. Straight-up xlib is a much nicer way of seeing the Web.
I guess using other peoples Motif apps is tolerable, I appreciated Netscape on my linux box when it was all I could afford, but programming that stuff was a nightmare.
I actually did prefer my direct Xlib programming experience to my Motif-torture phase.
I remember when I tried to change the app-defaults for Netscape so that the key sequence for for Exit was different. Something like : Alt-Q is format paragraph in emacs (which I'm fairly used to) but exit in netscape, so when typing text into a web page instead of formatting my text I often lost it. Anyway, netscape crashed on me when i changed the app-defaults.
I'm not exactly in love with GTK either, but free GTK compared to $200 for the privilege of real Motif (back in 1997 or so) was definitely a no-brainer.
consistently use the same Motif throughout
May I suggest a better rule? Mine would be Never use Motif
Chris
- helpful as ever
It's ok, Anakin is rebuilt practically as good as new and later has a "bonding experience" with his son.
With this news it appears that Hayden Christiansen might NOT have had three limbs cut off and his body burned to a crisp on a lava planet during that one-in-a-billion take for the end of Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith. I feel betrayed.
I think he is probably specifically referring to Mac OS X
Sun has been in trouble for years, and this is a smart first step to getting out of it
With respect, this is a dated analysis. I think their start first step was, you know, launching an entire range of competitive x86 compatible 64-bit servers and workstations, getting serious about storage (storagetek, thumper), upgrading the CEO, upgrading Solaris with tons of awesome new features, cutting the fat in the workforce (at least) and revitalising SPARC with impressive throughput oriented hardware multi-threading multi-core chips.
Why, you know what, that sounds like lots of steps, almost like several years of excellent progress on the recovery front.
Disclaimer : Sun lent me an ultra 40 PC last year
Ok, so on the more general point of high capacity 3.5 inch drives, Does anyone really need these?
Sure, anyone doing High-def digital video. Suitable high-def camcorders start under $1k, filesize is approximately 35GB/hour, before you start editing etc. Similar problem if you use your computer as a PVR. I use a Elgato EyeTV to record formula 1 motor racing, and I also shoot my own high-def digital video. The 400GB hard disk on my powermac is almost always fully and I'm starting to fill up a second drive now.
some of my blog entries on this
I was just in the Sony Style store at 550 Madison Avenue (Sony's US headquarters) and they were selling PS3s. There was a line of about 15 people (ok, men) at the checkout, which is highly unusual in my experience (I shop there regularly) and the staff behind the desk had some PS3s sitting on the floor ready to be handed over. The boxes go out in a distinctive black bag with PS3 graphics on it.
What's wrong with young people?
My wife works in the Sony building, so I strolled past it last night.
One one side of the Sony building were the dedicated or avaricious would-be-purchasers waiting to buy at midnight, but on the other side of the building there were externally visible screens showing PS3 games being played by people in one of the Sony stores. A preview reel looked awesome, but was simply a video of lots of game clips. The only games I saw being played were : some kind of off-road racing game and Madden 2007. Neither would blow my mind if I saw them on my PS2. There was little to no sign of mindboggling performance, in fact the off-road racing game seemed a bit slow.
I'm a big fan of PS2, having completed several games, but I'm going to wait for my PS3 until a) I can buy one for normal retail price without hassle and b) I see the mind-blowing graphics we're all expecting
No, I can't get one any earlier because I know an employee. In fact they haven't heard whether there will be any available for staff at all. There might be a raffle for 3, something like that.
There wont be any legal dual format players any time soon. The Sony Blu-Ray license prohibits HD DVD playback in the same machine.
I'll take your word for it, but it did make me wonder what the definition of "machine" would be here. Say you can only put Blu-Ray, but not Blu-Ray & HDDVD in a single drive assembly, ok fine. Now, what about multiple drives? Can you put a BD-ROM and an HDDVD-ROM drive in a PC at the same time? Are Sony licensing the BD format per laser effectively? If economies of scale can be brought to bear on the enabling technology (the laser, the decoding chips, the tracking servos etc) a dual-laser drive wouldn't be impossible at all. What about DVD jukebox systems, could they have two disc drive assemblies within the system cabinet? Can they really ban you having a BD and an HD drive in your car (that is a "machine" after all!). Not that I want video in my car that much, but it's big on "Unique Whips".
The US has been forced to contend with heinously patronizing and crude TV advertising for decades
As someone who used to live in the UK and now lives in the US I'd say this is a very dated view. It was true, perhaps even as little as 10 years ago, but now it's a bit misleading.
There is quite a bit of wit, subtlety, humor, even dare I say it art in the best US TV advertising these days. In fact when I visit the UK I often find adverts who seem to have abandoned those things for straight out absurdity, inconsequentiality and contrived crudeness as an attention getter, so it feels like the US is currently in a more sophisticated phase of advertising than the UK. I do realise that contrived crudeness can be seen as even more sophisticated - like the crudeness is post-modern or satirical, but men in plastic orange suits slapping people (Tango adverts) really undermine any idea that the US is far behind the US in wit in adverts these days. Many of the "dumb" adverts are now done in a "yeah, we know" manner - the assumption is the viewer gets a chuckle because he's in on what a dumb joke it is e.g. the "Magic Fridge" beer commercial, one of my favourites.
In other news, the US now has airbags in its cars, good tea, relatively much more expensive gas, fuel-injected engines and a comparative lack of plaid polyester suits, sideburns and huge-collar leather jackets. Who knew?
My sysadmin who set up my CVS server for my team and several others.
I entered a work order which asked for the operating system to be installed, a mirrored filesystem to be installed and backups to be kicked off.
The work order was completed with the statement "did not set up backups, enter another ticket if you still want those". So the machine has not been backed for all this time (uptime ~1000 days so far).
Good job we did our own rsync mirroring of the repositories to a reliable NAS device (EMC symmetrix)!
In future I am going to try this tactic myself - when we finish projects we'll just leave out bits and put in the log "didn't add features X, Y, Z as requested, please enter another ticket if you still want them".