That reminds me when I see someone with HP laptop in library few days ago. With quick glance it looked like the HP logo was upside down, just like in the Apples =)
Of course you could docking station. Just attach all those 50 cables to the dock and use the laptop same way as you would use a normal desktop machine. Then when you would want to use laptop just remove it from the dock, usually with one lever or similar.
This is the solution often used in corporate environment, haven't seen it that much in home use.
Pretty much only disadvantage compared to normal desktop would be slower harddrive, but 7200 rpm 2.5" drives have just arrived so it too isn't that much of a problem anymore.
But then they're comes the issue if the same compiler is better optimized on different platforms. Since AFAIK GCC is the default compiler for OS X it chould be assumed that GCC is better optimized on the PPC platform. GCC should be considered 3rd party compiler on the x86 platform, but architecture maker's own compiler on the PPC, equivalent to Intel's compiler in x86 platform. As another post in this article points out, the SSE/SSE2 implementation in GCC is flawed, which I doubt about the Altivec implementation. I would say GCC can't really be considered the "same" compiler on different platforms. Of course using GCC eliminates the possibility of Spec optimized code ICC might produce.
The veritest SPECfp test is flawed. As described on page 27 of their report, they use gcc -O3 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse . As documented in the Pentium 4 optimization manual, scalar SSE/SSE2 math is slower than the plain old 387 math on the Pentium 4
I don't think there is simple answer to this problem. One option would be to use hand-optimized assembly as another posting suggested, which would eliminate the compiler variable, but couldn't really be considered indicative of real world performance. Other option would be to use the most commonly used compilers on both platforms, although I don't know what these would be on either platform. Best way would probably be to use several different compilers and let the readers draw their own conclusions.
Well, I think it is at least little more intelligent. I just enabled it for testing and started the scan. It pauses the scanning when ever I do somethin and resumes after I've idled for a while. For me it would be enough if it did the scanning slowly and crunch the harddrive as bad. With daily cron job it should have 24 hours time to do the indexing.
That is called Indexing service. Comes with at least Windows 2000 and XP, don't remember for sure about NT. Basically it is same as locate, but it also indexes the contents of files. I don't use it myself because I disable it with extreme prejudice. I've wondered why I do that. Probably because of the bad reputation of the Find Fast.
And I don't really like Linux aproach. I always get pissed of when I'm up late and the indexing starts raping the harddrive on my gateway. Why can't it do the indexing gradually during 24 hours. It only needs to be intelligent enough to stop it if the I/O is required for something else.
I would be really pissed of if I lost all my ID3 tags just because I wanted to transfer my mp3s to work with CDs or through FTP.
Personally, I want both. I want to have all sort information available about files in an easily searcheable manner without having all my files named like "AMV - Cowboy Bebop - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - You Don't Know How It Feels - Metal Wolf Productions - You Don't Know How It Feels to Be Spike.avi". I also like to be able to transfer the file any possible way (CD-R, FTP, HTTP, USB drives) with all it's metadata intact. I have a huge amount of files that I would have to zip if I want to burn them to to CD without the filenames getting chopped.
Also there is the aspect, that if you become dependent on the metadata you may have problems transferring to other filesystem. The problem is quite similar to mailclients with their proprietary fileformats. For me it was easier to set up my own IMAP server that to find a program for converting my mails everytime a better mail program shows up.
I want a system where the file itself includes all the "metadata" and when it is copied to or created in the filesystem, the driver copies to metadata to it's own database where it's easily searcheable.
Further: Imagine if everyone who makes a negative comment about, say, the Church of Scientology, was forced to publish the megaton of CoS rebuttal that would surely follow. And an easy trick for preventing any future negative comments would be to simply make the rebuttal so large that it used up all your allowed webspace. (And imagine the bandwidth bills after CoS drones were then instructed to slashdot your site.)
No. You would only be required to publish a link to their own website which would have the actual reply. It would have to be pretty big link to have any impact on your bandwidth costs.
I am perfectly aware that most european countries have such a law for offline media, but the big difference(imho) is that it is pretty easy to make your OWN reply on the internet - but it is quiet a bit harder to get a reply in the newspaper(Most danish newspapers dont need a law to let people defend themselves - they would gladly give the space needed i believe).
I would have to disagree on that. I admit it would be easy to publish a counter on the 'net, but the hard part would be to get anyone to see it if the other party doesn't provide me the media, for exaple public forum. The same applies to newspapers. I could easily write my reply and make 100 copies of it and then hand them out on the streets, but that is about as effective as setting up my own geocities site overnight.
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I can actually believe that quite easily, since using BitTorrent without upload capping can easily slow my pings to 5-10 second region.
When I've used BT at work with 1.5 GHz P4 but only puny 5400 RPM harddrive running few instances can slow down my whole computer. Apparently BT causes quite a bit of seeking. I can't wait for my new computer.
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As many have already mentioned, even the official client has support for upload capping, but that limits your downloads too. And the creators also considered the possibility that someone would make a hacked client without that limitiation.
That is why they made it so, that the different clients consult with each other and someone isn't doing any uploading everyone else limits their uploads to him. This is also mentioned in the BitTorrent FAQ. A very nice system which all P2P applications should have.
Nah. Mass transit is fine when you're going to work, but when it's your free time you take a taxi. Sitting on the backseat of a brand new Mercedes. It don't get better than that.
I think that could be quite easily solved by intelligently combining mass transit and cars. People could still live in their suburbs, but they would only use cars to get to their local train station or other mass transit stop from where they would continue to their work. These stations would be there to serve an area maybe 5km in radius, so there probably wouldn't be too much congestation in any part. Since industrial zones would probably be much more densely packed creating thorough bus and streetcar system shouldn't be much of a problem.
On the residential zones there should be smaller stores and services serving smaller areas that wouldn't necessarily require cars. I have a small store that supplies my daily needs on the other side of the street. If I need something more, I can visit a bigger store further away.
I don't know what NYC has done wrong, but in Helsinki there has never been such a problem. Subways and streetcars are always clean and there are hardly ever any bums. Even the 20-30 year old streetcars are in quite good shape. I much rather read some book in buses and streetcars than try to drive in rush hour traffic.
We don't expect public healthcare to be as good as private can be, but it's better than having none because you are too poor. And if you have extra money or health insurance you can go to any of the many private clinics that provide as good care as any in the US (probably better, since they have to compete with free hospitals). In public healthcare may have to wait few weeks longer, the nurses may not be as pretty and food may not be as good, but at least you won't be financially destroyed if you suddenly have to spend a week in hospital because of ear infection.
I remember a while ago on storagereview's frontpage a short article/news considering whether IDE RAID is worth it. The conclusion was pretty much that since the access isn't any faster or may be even slightly slower with RAID it isn't worth it.
New IDE drives have fast enough transfer rates around 50MB, but access time has been in the 13ms ballmark for ages.
I have tried older 10K SCSI drive in my friends machine, and although it's transfer rates are nothing compared to recent IDE drives there is no competion in the access time and it really feels like.
And that isn't really a problem. If you have swap enabled it just takes longer until the OS kills the leaking process and in the mean time your system may be unusable because the process is writing your 1GB swapfile full of garbage =(
I've considered using harddrives for backups, but harddrives are just too practical for storage. With my constant need of more HDD space I would only end up doubling my unbackup data =)
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That reminds me when I see someone with HP laptop in library few days ago. With quick glance it looked like the HP logo was upside down, just like in the Apples =)
Do your desktop LCDs have DVI. That could be one reason.
Of course you could docking station. Just attach all those 50 cables to the dock and use the laptop same way as you would use a normal desktop machine. Then when you would want to use laptop just remove it from the dock, usually with one lever or similar.
This is the solution often used in corporate environment, haven't seen it that much in home use.
Pretty much only disadvantage compared to normal desktop would be slower harddrive, but 7200 rpm 2.5" drives have just arrived so it too isn't that much of a problem anymore.
I admit usually flash shouldn't be used, but Happy Tree Friends is enough justification for it's existance.
I don't think there is simple answer to this problem. One option would be to use hand-optimized assembly as another posting suggested, which would eliminate the compiler variable, but couldn't really be considered indicative of real world performance. Other option would be to use the most commonly used compilers on both platforms, although I don't know what these would be on either platform. Best way would probably be to use several different compilers and let the readers draw their own conclusions.
No, but Intel makes a compiler for x86. There is no rule that says you must use same compilers on all platforms with Spec benchmarks.
Perhaps by using the NAGWare Fortran 95 compiler like they say in the Veritest Test Report
Well, I think it is at least little more intelligent. I just enabled it for testing and started the scan. It pauses the scanning when ever I do somethin and resumes after I've idled for a while. For me it would be enough if it did the scanning slowly and crunch the harddrive as bad. With daily cron job it should have 24 hours time to do the indexing.
That is called Indexing service. Comes with at least Windows 2000 and XP, don't remember for sure about NT. Basically it is same as locate, but it also indexes the contents of files. I don't use it myself because I disable it with extreme prejudice. I've wondered why I do that. Probably because of the bad reputation of the Find Fast.
And I don't really like Linux aproach. I always get pissed of when I'm up late and the indexing starts raping the harddrive on my gateway. Why can't it do the indexing gradually during 24 hours. It only needs to be intelligent enough to stop it if the I/O is required for something else.
I would be really pissed of if I lost all my ID3 tags just because I wanted to transfer my mp3s to work with CDs or through FTP.
Personally, I want both. I want to have all sort information available about files in an easily searcheable manner without having all my files named like "AMV - Cowboy Bebop - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - You Don't Know How It Feels - Metal Wolf Productions - You Don't Know How It Feels to Be Spike.avi". I also like to be able to transfer the file any possible way (CD-R, FTP, HTTP, USB drives) with all it's metadata intact. I have a huge amount of files that I would have to zip if I want to burn them to to CD without the filenames getting chopped.
Also there is the aspect, that if you become dependent on the metadata you may have problems transferring to other filesystem. The problem is quite similar to mailclients with their proprietary fileformats. For me it was easier to set up my own IMAP server that to find a program for converting my mails everytime a better mail program shows up.
I want a system where the file itself includes all the "metadata" and when it is copied to or created in the filesystem, the driver copies to metadata to it's own database where it's easily searcheable.
No. You would only be required to publish a link to their own website which would have the actual reply. It would have to be pretty big link to have any impact on your bandwidth costs.
Yeah, you have the courts for that.
I would have to disagree on that. I admit it would be easy to publish a counter on the 'net, but the hard part would be to get anyone to see it if the other party doesn't provide me the media, for exaple public forum. The same applies to newspapers. I could easily write my reply and make 100 copies of it and then hand them out on the streets, but that is about as effective as setting up my own geocities site overnight.
You are correct.
FAIRNESS DOCTRINE - U.S. Broadcasting Policy
I can actually believe that quite easily, since using BitTorrent without upload capping can easily slow my pings to 5-10 second region.
When I've used BT at work with 1.5 GHz P4 but only puny 5400 RPM harddrive running few instances can slow down my whole computer. Apparently BT causes quite a bit of seeking. I can't wait for my new computer.
As many have already mentioned, even the official client has support for upload capping, but that limits your downloads too. And the creators also considered the possibility that someone would make a hacked client without that limitiation.
That is why they made it so, that the different clients consult with each other and someone isn't doing any uploading everyone else limits their uploads to him. This is also mentioned in the BitTorrent FAQ. A very nice system which all P2P applications should have.
Nah. Mass transit is fine when you're going to work, but when it's your free time you take a taxi. Sitting on the backseat of a brand new Mercedes. It don't get better than that.
I think that could be quite easily solved by intelligently combining mass transit and cars. People could still live in their suburbs, but they would only use cars to get to their local train station or other mass transit stop from where they would continue to their work. These stations would be there to serve an area maybe 5km in radius, so there probably wouldn't be too much congestation in any part. Since industrial zones would probably be much more densely packed creating thorough bus and streetcar system shouldn't be much of a problem.
On the residential zones there should be smaller stores and services serving smaller areas that wouldn't necessarily require cars. I have a small store that supplies my daily needs on the other side of the street. If I need something more, I can visit a bigger store further away.
I don't know what NYC has done wrong, but in Helsinki there has never been such a problem. Subways and streetcars are always clean and there are hardly ever any bums. Even the 20-30 year old streetcars are in quite good shape. I much rather read some book in buses and streetcars than try to drive in rush hour traffic.
There already are hardware Mpeg4 players. KiSS DV-450 was the first and more is certainly coming
That's not quite how it works.
We don't expect public healthcare to be as good as private can be, but it's better than having none because you are too poor. And if you have extra money or health insurance you can go to any of the many private clinics that provide as good care as any in the US (probably better, since they have to compete with free hospitals). In public healthcare may have to wait few weeks longer, the nurses may not be as pretty and food may not be as good, but at least you won't be financially destroyed if you suddenly have to spend a week in hospital because of ear infection.
I remember a while ago on storagereview's frontpage a short article/news considering whether IDE RAID is worth it. The conclusion was pretty much that since the access isn't any faster or may be even slightly slower with RAID it isn't worth it.
New IDE drives have fast enough transfer rates around 50MB, but access time has been in the 13ms ballmark for ages.
I have tried older 10K SCSI drive in my friends machine, and although it's transfer rates are nothing compared to recent IDE drives there is no competion in the access time and it really feels like.
And that isn't really a problem. If you have swap enabled it just takes longer until the OS kills the leaking process and in the mean time your system may be unusable because the process is writing your 1GB swapfile full of garbage =(
Sounds like a time for a gigabit.
I've considered using harddrives for backups, but harddrives are just too practical for storage. With my constant need of more HDD space I would only end up doubling my unbackup data =)