You're trolling to some extent whether you realize it or not. If you're not trolling, it ought to be fairly obvious, up front, in your exposition...
And some of the commentary you give is right- but unfortunately, your examples aren't as good as you think they are. To you, they're exemplary- but they are only that because you're used to those tools and software. Visual Studio's nice, but it's not as nice, to me, that is, as Source Navigator coupled with GCC or Eclipse with the same. It's all integrated and works in a sane manner, not allowing evil practices (which VS DOES allow) to creep into your code. Some people will tell you the same thing about Anjuta, KDevelop, or even EMACS. And, they'd be right, each and every one of them.
Pretexting is a term for one aspect of Social Engineering.
It's fraudulent activity and typically is defined as such. I do hope they get convicted- they ought to have known better, from the PI that did the deed all the way to Dunn herself.
L2 is what helps a CPU compensate the disparity of the FSB to the main system memory's speed.
The larger it is, the faster the CPU will run- so long as the data and executables remain there.
If you halve the L2 on the Core CPUs (Matching the AMD's Cache size...), you will see a 20% or more drop in overall performance.
If you drop about 15-20% of the performance, you see that the Core Duo is actually SLOWER than the comparable AMD and that the only real edge is the overal TDP which goes to Intel on this round. The architechture itself isn't as good as AMD's and "wins" speed-wise only because Intel can jam double or triple the L2 on die because of process shrink. If you run an app that forces L2 thrash (which is a hell of a lot of them, actually...) you'll see the Cores running roughly neck and neck with the AMD chips in the same class- and only there because of the larger L2.
You pop off terms, but do you HONESTLY know what they all mean? From your comment, I'd say not- I could be wrong, but it strongly looks like you don't get it. I do- it's sort of what I studied in my Master's studies when I was working on my MSCS years ago.
It also shows that you actually know diddly about VC too.
Yes, it's their money. It's typically NOT given as an "investment" in the same sense as what we'd associate with investments, though. It's typically framed as a loan of X dollars, with a 2-5 year use of proceeds, and a payment term for the loan with grants of shares in the company, and options to extend the use of proceeds, etc.
Yes, it's their money, but unless you get tattooed with them having the option to exercise control at any time over your company, you typically don't have them meddling TOO much in your affairs.
Like you said, they want you to succeed- they want to see the money back at the least, if not the interest and share values for the warrants or preferred/common stock that they took in exchange for giving you that big a loan of money to do the project. Many of the VC's screw themselves up because they exercise their control clauses when they didn't need to or similar- and many people get stuck with control option terms, so we end up with the pictures we do with VC's.
Like any other loan, there's prime lenders (Goldman Sachs...) and not so prime ones (Far too many to list...); many companies go to someone other than the Goldman Sachs and Dell Ventures of the world and they end up getting screwy mortgage terms on their loan- not unlike what people typically get on their mortgage.
Just like the Duos are "faster" on the benchmarks that have been ran- they've got 2-4 times the L2 and as long as you sit in the L2 for the large part, you're going to be "faster". Take the L2 advantage away from the Duo and it's a slower system overall to the Athlons, still.
I'll consider an Intel right now, mostly because the Jury's still out on the GMA X3000 display GPU (All the reviews are using the old drivers which run it in the older mode of operation with no T&L, etc.- I've not seen ANY benchmarks using the enhanced drivers or the Tungsten Graphics developed Linux drivers for the GPU yet...); but otherwise, it's not really as compelling as the review sites make them out to be.
Not everything in the past has worked right (There's a reason I'm using FC5 or Ubuntu right at the moment for my main systems...)- their SQA has left quite a bit to be desired in the past. To be sure, 2006-1 was probably one of their best iterations; but like before in the past, things like PCMCIA not working 100% of the time on 100% of the platforms just mar the whole experience. Oh, I'll continue to be a member and install on part of my platforms, but that's because I'm needing it for testing purposes. Unless it really shows up nice and stable, it's not going on everything.
If you think that the problems will go away with Vista on 64 bits for Windows, you'd be mistaken.
Vista is XP with several major subsystems chucked out the window and completely re-written.
Vista's a nightmare for most waiting to happen- if XP64 has issues, you can bet your bottom dollar that Vista will also have many of them. As for preventing installation...
Not sure what the installer does- it probably sees a 64 bit environment and thinks it can't even really run on it. Sounds like a sloppy installer because they are attempting to install on an environ that has proper support- and their installer would just plain flat not run if there wasn't 32-bit x86 support in the first place. (While Linux is usually better about this, anything asking for CPU type will get confused, for some installer programs you will have to run them with the linux32 command in front of the installer execution to temporarily change the uname return for the CPU info so they know it's okay to install anyhow- with Windows XP, they COULD have provided such a tool, but noooooo....)
They gave an Oath of Office to be allowed to be in the position they are currently in. It included a piece stating that they would uphold the US Constitution, which includes all pieces of it including the Ammendments. Voting for this, submitting this, and signing it into law is a breach of this oath for ANY of the officials that are involved with this or the torture/habeas corpus law.
Your problem is viewing that the vote for the third party is throwing it away in the short term.
They've made it look that way so NOBODY ELSE does it either for the same reason.
There's quite a few people that aren't really very happy about any of this, but they don't see any way to fight it (You can't fight City Hall, the State, or the US Government...)
Either you're willing to "throw your vote away" and show people that they can too- or you'll need to resort to stronger measures. I don't at all advocate the latter, but it's really your only option if you're not going to vote in the manner your conscience tells you to.
Big Brother's just being lazy- he's about 22 years later than he was s'posed to be.
In all honesty, each and every Senator that voted "Yes" to this needs to be removed from office ASAP- they took a damn oath of office and they just broke it.
64-bit mode, they're not as compelling- and the reviews people are looking at are with CPUs that have an unholy amount of L2 Cache (And are actually more expensive for part price and per cycle than AMD's offerings...). It's in the domain of 4 megabytes of L2 compared to to the best AM2's 2 megs of L2. Of COURSE it's going to be "faster".
Intel came to the plate with something I'll now consider in some applications- but is it compelling enough to buy nothing but? Nope. Right now, the overall performance story doesn't go to Intel- it still goes to AMD.
Mod the grandparent post DOWN. I disagree. They shouldn't BE in a position to do this sort of thing- and if they are, they should out and out lose their job with no possibility of rehire when they do.
Sorry but unless they're publicly dismissed with no eligibility for rehire within the TSA, it's not enough. They abused their authority- overstepped it by quite a bit, actually ("Your rights end here..." my ASS...). They don't need a reprimand and "disiplinary action"- they need dismissal. If I'd done something like that in my line of work, I'd be out on my ass so fast it's not even remotely funny.
DFW International Airport - DFW International Airport (It's officially a municipality in the DFW metroplex- it's that big...)
But in all the above cases, they're ran as a function of the city or state governments- which means they're subject to the same rules in most cases (This one specifically...); but again the TSA is not a city or state government function, it's a Federal one. Whatever comes of this, the TSA employees that pulled this stunt (Especially the one that said "Your rights end here...") should be fired, not subject to rehire anywhere in the US government.
I have to question the science, since the same people said we were going into a global ice age about 10-15 years prior. While the data is pointing to warming, and they may be right, the amounts they're talking to don't mesh to anything except models- and it's the same data they used to make the ice age predictions with.
So, which is it, and WHY did you get it wrong with the other analysis?
All this is would be, Spaceballs2: The Search for More Money, in reality- and he'd already joked about doing it in the first place in the orginal, live-action feature.
Hell, if Lucas can try, why can't he? Besides, I suspect he'll bring that in as part of the overall joke (When is one of Mel's movies anything other than one Gigantic sendup anyhow?) I'm willing to wait and see how lame/cool this ends up being. As it stands, it'll probably have a cult following just like Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, and Blazing Saddles does- unless it's an outright stinker.
Note that it says BETA release on the page you just linked... They're offering 200 of the BETA units for sale on ThinkGeek- and until it's out of beta, there probably won't be any more of them unless you rate one from Neuros directly.
Budget permitting, if they still have any left now that/. knows about it, I'll be buying one. If they're out in the next couple of days, I'll probably still end up with one as I've got a few answers to their bounty problems already started- intended for other embedded devices that was going to be LGPLed anyhow.
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...I'm not trolling here...
You're trolling to some extent whether you realize it or not. If you're not trolling, it ought to be
fairly obvious, up front, in your exposition...
And some of the commentary you give is right- but unfortunately, your examples aren't as good as you
think they are. To you, they're exemplary- but they are only that because you're used
to those tools and software. Visual Studio's nice, but it's not as nice, to me, that is, as Source
Navigator coupled with GCC or Eclipse with the same. It's all integrated and works in a sane manner,
not allowing evil practices (which VS DOES allow) to creep into your code. Some people will tell you
the same thing about Anjuta, KDevelop, or even EMACS. And, they'd be right, each and every one of them.
Pretexting is a term for one aspect of Social Engineering.
It's fraudulent activity and typically is defined as such. I do hope they get convicted- they ought to have
known better, from the PI that did the deed all the way to Dunn herself.
It's not so stupid a remark.
L2 is what helps a CPU compensate the disparity of the FSB to the main system memory's speed.
The larger it is, the faster the CPU will run- so long as the data and executables remain there.
If you halve the L2 on the Core CPUs (Matching the AMD's Cache size...), you will see a 20% or
more drop in overall performance.
If you drop about 15-20% of the performance, you see that the Core Duo is actually SLOWER than
the comparable AMD and that the only real edge is the overal TDP which goes to Intel on this
round. The architechture itself isn't as good as AMD's and "wins" speed-wise only because
Intel can jam double or triple the L2 on die because of process shrink. If you run an app that
forces L2 thrash (which is a hell of a lot of them, actually...) you'll see the Cores running
roughly neck and neck with the AMD chips in the same class- and only there because of the larger
L2.
You pop off terms, but do you HONESTLY know what they all mean? From your comment, I'd say not-
I could be wrong, but it strongly looks like you don't get it. I do- it's sort of what I studied
in my Master's studies when I was working on my MSCS years ago.
It also shows that you actually know diddly about VC too.
Yes, it's their money. It's typically NOT given as an "investment" in the same sense as what we'd associate
with investments, though. It's typically framed as a loan of X dollars, with a 2-5 year use of proceeds, and
a payment term for the loan with grants of shares in the company, and options to extend the use of proceeds, etc.
Yes, it's their money, but unless you get tattooed with them having the option to exercise control
at any time over your company, you typically don't have them meddling TOO much in your affairs.
Like you said, they want you to succeed- they want to see the money back at the least, if not the interest and
share values for the warrants or preferred/common stock that they took in exchange for giving you that big a
loan of money to do the project. Many of the VC's screw themselves up because they exercise their control clauses
when they didn't need to or similar- and many people get stuck with control option terms, so we end up with the
pictures we do with VC's.
Like any other loan, there's prime lenders (Goldman Sachs...) and not so prime ones (Far too many to list...);
many companies go to someone other than the Goldman Sachs and Dell Ventures of the world and they end up getting
screwy mortgage terms on their loan- not unlike what people typically get on their mortgage.
Just like the Duos are "faster" on the benchmarks that have been ran- they've got 2-4 times the L2
and as long as you sit in the L2 for the large part, you're going to be "faster". Take the L2
advantage away from the Duo and it's a slower system overall to the Athlons, still.
I'll consider an Intel right now, mostly because the Jury's still out on the GMA X3000 display
GPU (All the reviews are using the old drivers which run it in the older mode of operation with
no T&L, etc.- I've not seen ANY benchmarks using the enhanced drivers or the Tungsten Graphics
developed Linux drivers for the GPU yet...); but otherwise, it's not really as compelling as
the review sites make them out to be.
It probably would be more aptly named Intarweb Imploder...
And to list what works 100% on all systems...
Not everything in the past has worked right (There's a reason I'm using FC5 or Ubuntu
right at the moment for my main systems...)- their SQA has left quite a bit to be
desired in the past. To be sure, 2006-1 was probably one of their best iterations;
but like before in the past, things like PCMCIA not working 100% of the time on 100%
of the platforms just mar the whole experience. Oh, I'll continue to be a member and
install on part of my platforms, but that's because I'm needing it for testing purposes.
Unless it really shows up nice and stable, it's not going on everything.
If you think that the problems will go away with Vista on 64 bits for Windows, you'd be mistaken.
Vista is XP with several major subsystems chucked out the window and completely re-written.
Vista's a nightmare for most waiting to happen- if XP64 has issues, you can bet your bottom dollar
that Vista will also have many of them. As for preventing installation...
Not sure what the installer does- it probably sees a 64 bit environment and thinks it can't even
really run on it. Sounds like a sloppy installer because they are attempting to install on an
environ that has proper support- and their installer would just plain flat not run if there wasn't
32-bit x86 support in the first place. (While Linux is usually better about this, anything asking
for CPU type will get confused, for some installer programs you will have to run them with the
linux32 command in front of the installer execution to temporarily change the uname return for
the CPU info so they know it's okay to install anyhow- with Windows XP, they COULD have provided
such a tool, but noooooo....)
Sadly, as funny as that is, it's because it's tragically so close to being dead on...
They are foresworn.
They gave an Oath of Office to be allowed to be in the position they are currently in. It included
a piece stating that they would uphold the US Constitution, which includes all pieces of it including
the Ammendments. Voting for this, submitting this, and signing it into law is a breach of this oath
for ANY of the officials that are involved with this or the torture/habeas corpus law.
Your problem is viewing that the vote for the third party is throwing it away in the short term.
They've made it look that way so NOBODY ELSE does it either for the same reason.
There's quite a few people that aren't really very happy about any of this, but they don't see
any way to fight it (You can't fight City Hall, the State, or the US Government...)
Either you're willing to "throw your vote away" and show people that they can too- or you'll
need to resort to stronger measures. I don't at all advocate the latter, but it's really your
only option if you're not going to vote in the manner your conscience tells you to.
...and he's spinning hard enough to power all of the DC metro area- no wonder why they're doing this; free energy...
As old and "worn out" as the phrase might be- it's still quite true all the same.
If it bothers you, why don't you do something about the situation that keeps bringing it back out
instead of bitching about it?
I read the article...and I still effing posted "Senators" instead of "Representatives"...
(Some mornings it just doesn't pay to get up...hopefully the trip to TRF will be uneventful...)
Big Brother's just being lazy- he's about 22 years later than he was s'posed to be.
In all honesty, each and every Senator that voted "Yes" to this needs to be removed
from office ASAP- they took a damn oath of office and they just broke it.
Only. Really. Impressive. In. 32. Bits.
64-bit mode, they're not as compelling- and the reviews people are looking at
are with CPUs that have an unholy amount of L2 Cache (And are actually more
expensive for part price and per cycle than AMD's offerings...). It's in the
domain of 4 megabytes of L2 compared to to the best AM2's 2 megs of L2. Of
COURSE it's going to be "faster".
Intel came to the plate with something I'll now consider in some applications-
but is it compelling enough to buy nothing but? Nope. Right now, the
overall performance story doesn't go to Intel- it still goes
to AMD.
Mod the grandparent post DOWN. I disagree. They shouldn't BE in a position to do this sort of thing-
and if they are, they should out and out lose their job with no possibility of rehire when they do.
Sorry but unless they're publicly dismissed with no eligibility for rehire within the TSA, it's not
enough. They abused their authority- overstepped it by quite a bit, actually ("Your rights end here..."
my ASS...). They don't need a reprimand and "disiplinary action"- they need dismissal. If I'd done
something like that in my line of work, I'd be out on my ass so fast it's not even remotely funny.
WHY should they be any damn different?
You missed one...
DFW International Airport - DFW International Airport (It's officially a municipality in the DFW metroplex- it's that big...)
But in all the above cases, they're ran as a function of the city or state governments- which means they're subject
to the same rules in most cases (This one specifically...); but again the TSA is not a city or state government
function, it's a Federal one. Whatever comes of this, the TSA employees that pulled this stunt (Especially
the one that said "Your rights end here...") should be fired, not subject to rehire anywhere in the US government.
I have to question the science, since the same people said we were going into a global
ice age about 10-15 years prior. While the data is pointing to warming, and they may
be right, the amounts they're talking to don't mesh to anything except models- and it's
the same data they used to make the ice age predictions with.
So, which is it, and WHY did you get it wrong with the other analysis?
The controversy is one of "Why has it gone as long as it has?", rather than SCO having a case- because it doesn't have one.
I'd also ask for proof that they DID, in fact, come from my machine.
With this little game, I doubt they actually did their homework there either.
All this is would be, Spaceballs2: The Search for More Money, in reality- and he'd already
joked about doing it in the first place in the orginal, live-action feature.
Hell, if Lucas can try, why can't he? Besides, I suspect he'll bring that in as part of
the overall joke (When is one of Mel's movies anything other than one Gigantic sendup
anyhow?) I'm willing to wait and see how lame/cool this ends up being. As it stands, it'll
probably have a cult following just like Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, and Blazing Saddles
does- unless it's an outright stinker.
If the battery goes off...
Note that it says BETA release on the page you just linked... They're offering 200 of the BETA units for sale
/. knows about it, I'll be buying one. If they're
on ThinkGeek- and until it's out of beta, there probably won't be any more of them unless you rate one from
Neuros directly.
Budget permitting, if they still have any left now that
out in the next couple of days, I'll probably still end up with one as I've got a few answers to their
bounty problems already started- intended for other embedded devices that was going to be LGPLed anyhow.