Re: The EQ exchange rate: 1 platinum piece=10 cts
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EverQuest and the UN
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Last time I looked on eBay (about a yr ago, I'll admit) the exchage rate if you wanted to buy platinum pieces with US$ was about 10 cents per plat. Considering that some really high end goodies cost 10s of thousands of plats, it's a sobering thought.
-Intel officially supports 2 OSes, Win and Lin.
-Intel writes the fastest C/C++ and Fortran compilers and parallelization tools for Linux
-Intel is a founder of the Open Source Development Lab
-Intel is working on dozens of Linux projects including OSCAR cluster, ethernet, gig E and embedded StrongARM work.
-Itanium has over 500 applications for 3+ OSes while Hammer doesn't even have a finished OS yet.
(Just don't tell Microsoft...)
Why put all that silcon in a big heat cave? Link little CPU module bricks with ram bricks and storage bricks and I/O bricks to build standlones, colonies or networks of virtual systems using Infiniband (use fiber or UTP)
Check out http://developer.intel.com/technology/infiniband/
This is coming sooner than you think.
Please, please Hollywood, don't remove the World Trade Center from any movies that are supposed to occur before Sept 11 2001. This is altering history in the same manner that the Soviet Union was infamous for. Officals in the USSR who had fallen from favor would be airbrushed-out of archival photos and histories - re-written with the goal of making the "un-person" not only cease to exist, but to cease to have EVER existed. (See Orwell's 1984 for the mechanics of this)
This is wrong in a free society that (I hope) values truth over pleasing fiction. We have to get over the idea that we can wish troubling facts and events away.
For better or worse, our children and future generations seeing old movies should see towers where there were towers in the first half of 2001. If that leads kids or others to uncomfortable questions about what happened to those tall buildings, maybe a history lesson would not be such a bad thing...
As for not having any facts, this is all simple economics. Anyway, what are you disputing - that AMD is not charging enough to make money? Or that AMD users are not willing to pay more?
"Personaly I'd buy AMD over Intel even if AMD cost twice as much, as long as AMD had a better product"
Well, if enough people felt as you do, AMD could charge that same prices as Intel and they wouldn't be in trouble.
My point was that many./'rs treat AMDs lower pricing as some kind of technological superiority. Trust me, AMD does NOT have lower manufacturing costs than Intel - they are living on thinner margins. If AMD COULD raise their prices (if everybody was like you) they WOULD do so. Obviously either AMD doesn't know it's customers -and should raise their prices - or -(more likely, I think) they DO know exactly how much they can charge and still sell product. And those pricing levels are killing them. If you want to save the company you should be telling AMD how much more you would be willing to spend.
As for not having any facts, this is all simple economics.
The intense desire of/.rs and other consumers to buy AMD chips much more cheaply than they can produce them is why they're losing money, laying off and closing fabs.
If you AMD fans were really loyal to AMD, based on the belief that it really has "truly superior technology" to that of Intel, you should be willing to pay the same OR MORE for these much better products.
What? You don't want to pay even the same as you would for Intel? (You DO REALLY believe AMD CPUS are better, not just cheaper, right?)
Well, now you know why AMD is discounting themselves to death.
Feel proud when they go down, you did your bit.
-John Ashcroft called for terrorist assets to be seized, not just frozen. Presumably, the Gov would then be able to sell off any non-liquid assets held by terrorists.
-Anti-Terrorism act would brand hackers as terrorists.
-Linus Torvalds has publicly admitted to being a hacker.
-While of modest conventional assets, Linus is the owner of the trademark to "Linux"TM.
-Street value to an organization like, say, IBM to OWN the Linux brand (preventing anyone it doesn't like from using it) has got to be at least $1 Billion.
-Logically, the Anti-Terrorism act could force the notorious hacker/terrorist to turn over the his "Linux" asset to the Gov't for privatization sale to a 'responsible' corporate entity
Interesting that the post didn't clearly state the thrust of Tom's conclusions -that AMD processors, Athlon and Palamino are dangerously under-designed thermally and Intel's are very well designed thermally. You can be sure that if case was reversed and Intel CPUs died 1 sec after the fan came off, the company would be prominently mentioned. Couldn't be that Slashdot Culture likes AMD, could it?
Just for the record, (I love this part...):
We recommend that every owner of an Athlon or Duron processor should check the seat of its processor heat sink and the proper operation of the heat sink fan on an at least monthly basis. Otherwise you are indeed facing a processor and a motherboard that goes up in smoke.
btw, everyone in mensa is as dumb as a brick. it's a group for idiots to tell each other their intelligent.
I believe you meant to say "...to tell each other they're intelligent". Sorry, I don't know any way to parse what you said into something meaningful.
And I didn't need to be a Mensan to point that out.
Athlons come pre-overclocked. AMD is much less conservative about their bin splits than Intel, so driving an AMD product to 1.3X it's rated speed is living MUUUCH more dangerously....
...necks on the county, like the other vendors did? What did you expect?
That the county conducted a detailed study of the best technologies? The real failure of open source, no pushy quota clowns
... not solely a technically viable alternative CLI platform, but one that would do to.Net what Linux is begining to do to Ms Server license pricing. I talk to many execs in corporate IT who are delighted to use Linux for point tasks and (eventually) line of business apps not just because it does the job, but because every job which has an zero-cost-license open source product alternative to a Microsoft product creates pricing pressure on Ms. I'm fairly sure (believe it or not) that this has had a reining effect on Ms server licence pricing. Corporate IT despirately needs competitors to Ms to keep it in line somewhat.
A free Mono would put many elements of the Ms.Net server component ensemble under the gun. Even if companies really wanted to use true blue Ms.Net, Ms will be nervous about calling their bluff and might restrain itself from some of the really eggregous licensing practices they might otherwise seek to inflict.
If I use so much capacity that I impact the performance of others, it is not a comment on my telecom morals, it's evidence of the underprovisioning of the infrastructure of the provider. It's well known that many cable providers often sign up far too many users for the headend/switching/upstream-pipe
plant they have. Service was good during their ramp-up when their user-count was within spec, but expansion without investment killed quality. The real reason much of the population likes cable modem over dialup is not only the speed diff (when there), but (he says cynically) that they skip going through the dialup ritual and get to be ON ALL THE TIME. (Esp. Instant Msging junkies).
No doubt it would be useful to have a whole parallel stack for all of.Net in Open Source, but short term, if you examine the 22+ languages that Ms says it supports as source languages for the CLI, Java is noticeably absent. Microsoft would like to pretend that Java is so new that
1) There is no real codebase out there yet.
2) There is no real base of Java coders yet
Many would dispute both these premises.
If we could just get a java source code to CLI intermediate code compiler, we could code to Java and run in.Net or Java app servers.
Re: "Only 833MHz"?... Itanium runs at 800MHz...
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Alpha Up For Grabs?
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Not sure what you mean when you say it's impressive that Alpha is beating Itanium on floating point (not conceded by me BTW) at only 833MHz, when the first Itanium rev is running at 800MHz.
I was impressed by some of your comments on fab technology, so this lapse is perplexing...
Itanium will run faster and if future verisions at or beyond Madison/Deerfield have input from Alpha designers, it's likely some Itanium will be the fastest FP.
Fons said:
Because they know that Bush just wants to make the oil-industry happy.
"That's politics for you. It's not what's best for the country (or the environment) that matters to bush. It's who will pay for his next election campaign"
And you said:
"I resent that. YOU people have done much to create the crisis with YOUR belief that only opec members should be allowed to make money in the oil business"
I fail to see where you can draw the conclusion that someone who thinks Bush&Cheney have a lot of friends in the oil business (pretty indisputable) and feels that the environment is not Bush's favorite cause (certainly arguable) would necessarily feel that OPEC members have more right to make money than the US oil industry does. Most environmentalists (including, perhaps Fons (although I can't read his mind like you)) would probably prefer that conservation reduced domestic consumption to the point where domestic supplies could service all of the US market. In theory, this might actaully mean a LARGER $$$ value of oil sold by US firms - so that's hardly a preference for offshore oil...
Going to the directory of that link you see...
acl.shot.jpg screenshot of NT (in vmware, via VNC (from a laptop)) using Samba+ACL's under FreeBSD
Removed due to lack of bandwidth
When will TiVo validate OUR units?
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Calling Out TiVo
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www.tivo.com/linux provides the source for both the PPC production box and their x86 development boxes. But, as I understand it, Tivo will only provide service to one of their "partners" (Sony, Phillips, etc).
It's too bad they won't consider a validation API whereby if you've built your own box, you connect up, they validate and say "ok, we'll allow you to sign up for service" or "no, your unit does not interact correctly - fix it and try again". (Actually we'd probably need a host simulator to debug this.)
Boycott assumes that passenger lists from the alternatives (air travel, really) are not accessable to the DEA.
Why would you assume this? Did you check?
...you want to force labeling to announce that a processor when confronted with an out-of-supported-range thermal envronment slows downs instead of stopping. Maybe it's not unreasonable to rate a CPU in a properly built thermal enclosure, huh?
Smarten up.
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Last time I looked on eBay (about a yr ago, I'll admit) the exchage rate if you wanted to buy platinum pieces with US$ was about 10 cents per plat. Considering that some really high end goodies cost 10s of thousands of plats, it's a sobering thought.
-Intel officially supports 2 OSes, Win and Lin.
-Intel writes the fastest C/C++ and Fortran compilers and parallelization tools for Linux
-Intel is a founder of the Open Source Development Lab
-Intel is working on dozens of Linux projects including OSCAR cluster, ethernet, gig E and embedded StrongARM work.
-Itanium has over 500 applications for 3+ OSes while Hammer doesn't even have a finished OS yet.
(Just don't tell Microsoft...)
(as above)
Why put all that silcon in a big heat cave? Link little CPU module bricks with ram bricks and storage bricks and I/O bricks to build standlones, colonies or networks of virtual systems using Infiniband (use fiber or UTP)
Check out http://developer.intel.com/technology/infiniband/
This is coming sooner than you think.
Please, please Hollywood, don't remove the World Trade Center from any movies that are supposed to occur before Sept 11 2001.
This is altering history in the same manner that the Soviet Union was infamous for. Officals in the USSR who had fallen from favor would be airbrushed-out of archival photos and histories - re-written with the goal of making the "un-person" not only cease to exist, but to cease to have EVER existed. (See Orwell's 1984 for the mechanics of this)
This is wrong in a free society that (I hope) values truth over pleasing fiction. We have to get over the idea that we can wish troubling facts and events away.
For better or worse, our children and future generations seeing old movies should see towers where there were towers in the first half of 2001. If that leads kids or others to uncomfortable questions about what happened to those tall buildings, maybe a history lesson would not be such a bad thing...
As for not having any facts, this is all simple economics. Anyway, what are you disputing - that AMD is not charging enough to make money? Or that AMD users are not willing to pay more? ./'rs treat AMDs lower pricing as some kind of technological superiority. Trust me, AMD does NOT have lower manufacturing costs than Intel - they are living on thinner margins. If AMD COULD raise their prices (if everybody was like you) they WOULD do so. Obviously either AMD doesn't know it's customers -and should raise their prices - or -(more likely, I think) they DO know exactly how much they can charge and still sell product. And those pricing levels are killing them. If you want to save the company you should be telling AMD how much more you would be willing to spend.
"Personaly I'd buy AMD over Intel even if AMD cost twice as much, as long as AMD had a better product"
Well, if enough people felt as you do, AMD could charge that same prices as Intel and they wouldn't be in trouble.
My point was that many
As for not having any facts, this is all simple economics.
The intense desire of /.rs and other consumers to buy AMD chips much more cheaply than they can produce them is why they're losing money, laying off and closing fabs.
If you AMD fans were really loyal to AMD, based on the belief that it really has "truly superior technology" to that of Intel, you should be willing to pay the same OR MORE for these much better products.
What? You don't want to pay even the same as you would for Intel? (You DO REALLY believe AMD CPUS are better, not just cheaper, right?)
Well, now you know why AMD is discounting themselves to death.
Feel proud when they go down, you did your bit.
Facts:
-John Ashcroft called for terrorist assets to be seized, not just frozen. Presumably, the Gov would then be able to sell off any non-liquid assets held by terrorists.
-Anti-Terrorism act would brand hackers as terrorists.
-Linus Torvalds has publicly admitted to being a hacker.
-While of modest conventional assets, Linus is the owner of the trademark to "Linux"TM.
-Street value to an organization like, say, IBM to OWN the Linux brand (preventing anyone it doesn't like from using it) has got to be at least $1 Billion.
-Logically, the Anti-Terrorism act could force the notorious hacker/terrorist to turn over the his "Linux" asset to the Gov't for privatization sale to a 'responsible' corporate entity
-Next target: Richard Stallman's Yugo...
download, install.
Just fix the bandwidth to mobile devices problem and we get real web access - no need to dumb it down into a useless level of funtionality.
Interesting that the post didn't clearly state the thrust of Tom's conclusions -that AMD processors, Athlon and Palamino are dangerously under-designed thermally and Intel's are very well designed thermally. You can be sure that if case was reversed and Intel CPUs died 1 sec after the fan came off, the company would be prominently mentioned. Couldn't be that Slashdot Culture likes AMD, could it?
Just for the record, (I love this part...):
We recommend that every owner of an Athlon or Duron processor should check the seat of its processor heat sink and the proper operation of the heat sink fan on an at least monthly basis. Otherwise you are indeed facing a processor and a motherboard that goes up in smoke.
Have you opened up your Athlon PC this month?
btw, everyone in mensa is as dumb as a brick. it's a group for idiots to tell each other their intelligent.
I believe you meant to say "...to tell each other they're intelligent". Sorry, I don't know any way to parse what you said into something meaningful. And I didn't need to be a Mensan to point that out.
Athlons come pre-overclocked. AMD is much less conservative about their bin splits than Intel, so driving an AMD product to 1.3X it's rated speed is living MUUUCH more dangerously....
...immediately, since they aren't sneaky, greedy, corrupters out to wreck the system. They just want to impress their buds and would-be girlfriends.
...necks on the county, like the other vendors did? What did you expect? That the county conducted a detailed study of the best technologies?
The real failure of open source, no pushy quota clowns
... not solely a technically viable alternative CLI platform, but one that would do to .Net what Linux is begining to do to Ms Server license pricing. .Net server component ensemble under the gun. Even if companies really wanted to use true blue Ms .Net, Ms will be nervous about calling their bluff and might restrain itself from some of the really eggregous licensing practices they might otherwise seek to inflict.
I talk to many execs in corporate IT who are delighted to use Linux for point tasks and (eventually) line of business apps not just because it does the job, but because every job which has an zero-cost-license open source product alternative to a Microsoft product creates pricing pressure on Ms. I'm fairly sure (believe it or not) that this has had a reining effect on Ms server licence pricing. Corporate IT despirately needs competitors to Ms to keep it in line somewhat.
A free Mono would put many elements of the Ms
If I use so much capacity that I impact the performance of others, it is not a comment on my telecom morals, it's evidence of the underprovisioning of the infrastructure of the provider. It's well known that many cable providers often sign up far too many users for the headend/switching/upstream-pipe plant they have. Service was good during their ramp-up when their user-count was within spec, but expansion without investment killed quality. The real reason much of the population likes cable modem over dialup is not only the speed diff (when there), but (he says cynically) that they skip going through the dialup ritual and get to be ON ALL THE TIME. (Esp. Instant Msging junkies).
No doubt it would be useful to have a whole parallel stack for all of .Net in Open Source, but short term, if you examine the 22+ languages that Ms says it supports as source languages for the CLI, Java is noticeably absent. Microsoft would like to pretend that Java is so new that .Net or Java app servers.
1) There is no real codebase out there yet.
2) There is no real base of Java coders yet
Many would dispute both these premises. If we could just get a java source code to CLI intermediate code compiler, we could code to Java and run in
Not sure what you mean when you say it's impressive that Alpha is beating Itanium on floating point (not conceded by me BTW) at only 833MHz, when the first Itanium rev is running at 800MHz.
I was impressed by some of your comments on fab technology, so this lapse is perplexing...
Itanium will run faster and if future verisions at or beyond Madison/Deerfield have input from Alpha designers, it's likely some Itanium will be the fastest FP.
Fons said: Because they know that Bush just wants to make the oil-industry happy. "That's politics for you. It's not what's best for the country (or the environment) that matters to bush. It's who will pay for his next election campaign" And you said: "I resent that. YOU people have done much to create the crisis with YOUR belief that only opec members should be allowed to make money in the oil business" I fail to see where you can draw the conclusion that someone who thinks Bush&Cheney have a lot of friends in the oil business (pretty indisputable) and feels that the environment is not Bush's favorite cause (certainly arguable) would necessarily feel that OPEC members have more right to make money than the US oil industry does. Most environmentalists (including, perhaps Fons (although I can't read his mind like you)) would probably prefer that conservation reduced domestic consumption to the point where domestic supplies could service all of the US market. In theory, this might actaully mean a LARGER $$$ value of oil sold by US firms - so that's hardly a preference for offshore oil...
Going to the directory of that link you see... acl.shot.jpg screenshot of NT (in vmware, via VNC (from a laptop)) using Samba+ACL's under FreeBSD Removed due to lack of bandwidth
read up on it
www.tivo.com/linux provides the source for both the PPC production box and their x86 development boxes. But, as I understand it, Tivo will only provide service to one of their "partners" (Sony, Phillips, etc). It's too bad they won't consider a validation API whereby if you've built your own box, you connect up, they validate and say "ok, we'll allow you to sign up for service" or "no, your unit does not interact correctly - fix it and try again". (Actually we'd probably need a host simulator to debug this.)
Boycott assumes that passenger lists from the alternatives (air travel, really) are not accessable to the DEA. Why would you assume this? Did you check?
...you want to force labeling to announce that a processor when confronted with an out-of-supported-range thermal envronment slows downs instead of stopping. Maybe it's not unreasonable to rate a CPU in a properly built thermal enclosure, huh?
Smarten up.