The best they the could do for education today is to fail the students that don't learn or can't do the material. Give them the chance to try again if they wish or give them an alternative path (different discipline, trades, whatever) but the basic truth is not everybody can do everything equally well. Allow students to figure out what they can do well and what they have trouble with. Then they can either choose to work harder on their problem subjects or focus on what they do well.
Passing a poor student just to spare his feelings really just robs him of getting the education he deserves while reducing the quality of education for everyone else (keeping things simple so everyone can pass).
Nothing wrong with a nice boardroom. But have you looked at the pictures. They had at least three complete board rooms with hardwood or marble conference tables and leather chairs. Not to mention at least 6 complete sets (1 fullsize couch, 2 or more arm chairs) of leather furniture and a handful of hardwood/antique tables which I can see no use for in a corporate environment. Throw in the other scattered leather chairs and antique desks and its no longer just a nice boardroom.
And yes, I understand image matters (unfortunately) but that can be accomplished with one nice boardroom and a nice sitting lounge. What acclaim had goes far beyond image in my opinion and borders on decadent excess, particularly for a company with financial problems.
Man some of that furniture is pretty damn nice. I wonder if the rank and file employees ever got to use any of it. Unfortunately after seeing reports like this:
I get the impression all that furniture was for the benefit of the suits. A lot of people complain about how all the dotcoms bought herman miller aeron chairs and stuff but at least the employees got to use them. These marble and cherry wood conference tables and leather chairs were just a colossal waste of money beyond even the dotcomers. It's no wonder they went under. In fact, it almost hints that somebody wanted the company to go under...
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RGB is a set of orthogonal colors, and a linear combination of RGB can express any color in the universe. Similar comments apply to CMY
No, this isn't even remotely true. Even if we assume you only meant the visible spectrum, RGB still only covers a small section of it (well, ok, a little more than half of it).
For example, how do you generate a true violet colour of around 400 nm when the blue in RGB is usually 450 nm? It can't be done (well, it can be faked but see below).
For more info about the colour gamut of RGB I recommend you go here:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mer/colour/cie.html
Really, RGB only really works because it's a close match to the 3 colours our eyes are sensitive to. The mapping of RGB to wavelength is based on purely empirical Colour Mapping Functions. Even then the CMFs fail for certain colours such as those around 500 nm (i.e. your monitor can't reproduce 500 nm).
The one very interesting thing I found about the emails was how out of touch with North American culture these people really are.
For example, they wish to,
Gather information on:
1. Information on American soldiers who frequent nightclubs in the America-Canada border areas
There really aren't that many military bases near the American-Canadian border. There's been no need for the last century.
3. If it is possible to enter America and gather information on American soldier checkpoints, or on the American army in the border areas inside America
The is an interesting look into their mentality about borders--that they are all defended by military checkpoints. Obviously they've had no experience crossing an free border like that between Canada and the States. The entire concept of travel without military interference is completely foriegn to them and this speaks volumes about their mindsets and misconceptions of western culture.
I still remember the time the Rogers Cable tech insisted he could ping and connect to my friends modem while my friend and I were sitting there staring at the modem in the middle of his floor, unpowered, and disconnected from the cable. The tech wouldn't believe us when we said there was no way in hell he was pinging this modem....oh well.
Turns out somebody else had hard coded the IP number that the Rogers was trying to assign to my friends modem. Unfortunately it took 3 hours and several higher level techs later to figure this one out and fix it.
Star Bridge Systems has been selling computers that reconfigure their own logic (with the help of compilers) for about 5 years now. True, their solution isn't a single chip, but the idea of reconfigurable computing is not at all new, and Star Brigdes implementation appears to be even more flexible.
No, there is one energy input that is not counted against the net energy cost of ethanol (as far as we are concerned) because it is for all intents and purposes free. That input is sunlight. Sunlight is the originating source of all ethanol production.
While production of ethanol can be inefficient rarely does it result in a net energy loss. Several different studies show anywhere from a 38% net gain in energy to over 100% depending on methods use. The generally cited claim of a net energy loss from producing ethanol all seem to come from only one paper written by David Pimental. To support his claims he seems to have taken a worst pratices view for every step in the production process, a realworld combination found in less than 5% of current ethanol production. The more comphrensive studies I've been able to find show a slight, albeit not stellar, net gain in energy. The most recent (2002) by Michigan State shows a net gain of 0.56 MJ/MJ of input for corn based ethanol production. If one looks at Cellulose based ethonal production, studies show almost a 2.5 net energy gain and it is easier on the environment since it requires less maintenance and fewer fertilizers.
For reference this site has some good links, including a rebuttal of the Pimental paper (as well as showing the Pimental article).
http://www.econet.sk.ca/pages/issues/ethanolinfo ne tenergybalance.htm
Personally I wouldn't argue with the likes of Michael S. Morris and Kip S. Thorne but you can if you want. Here is a nice article on the real physics behind wormholes and negative energy.
http://www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/sf/topics/worm ho le/wormhole.html
Unfortunately the energy requirements for known ways of producing negative energy pretty much limits this stuff to the realm of theory. The point though is science fact does support the possibility of wormhole or bubble travel. Whether it will ever be feasable is a matter left to the engineers:)
I wouldn't say science theory prohibits FTL travel. It just places some hefty restrictions on it, usually in terms of massive energy requirments.
Wormholes are allowed by General Relativity, and while you may think they don't exist remember that blackholes were also predicted by GR and while many naysayers in the day scoffed at such things then, their existance seems to pretty much be accepted today. Space Folding is mostly a variation of wormhole theory which also doesn't violate GR. Problem is, both methods require immense amounts of energy. A problem that could be solve if we ever find a way to tap into the free space energy.
Hyperspace could gain some support in string theory but current models tend to only allow access from higher dimensions to lower (although I could be wrong on this, I don't follow string theory much).
And then there is always the negative energy bubble. If you could somehow surround yourself in a bubble of negative energy you could travel faster than light since the bubble isn't constrained by the normal laws of mass energy in our universe (or so my understanding of the theory goes).
The question isn't whether the machine should print out a paper copy of the ballet. I think that the answer to that is a given.
The REAL question is what to do when that paper receipt doesn't agree with what the voter claims they entered. How do you "erase" the voters previous vote? And how do you ensure the integrity of a recast vote? Without answers to these questions, creating a paper trail is moot.
In your online poker example you can have a central trusted server that insures that nobody is cheating (at least technically).
There is no way to do that with FPS's (not yet at least). The amount of info that would be needed to be passed between the client and the server in FPS games would be cripling if you expected the server to be the final arbitrator of all actions.
The only way FPS games can maintain the required speed is by offloading the majority of processing to the individual clients. In order to do this you have to trust the client. One of the key ways to trust the client is to obfuscate it. Not perfect, but at least it's one level more of protection than you would have if somebody has your source.
Really, the only way to protect the code is to build in some kind of self sanity check (i.e. return some kind of checksum to the server which verifies the client). This is only as good as the verification routine though. Once the method of verification is determined you're back to square one. You can improve upon this by constantly supplying new verification code to the client but it still comes down to security through obscurity.
When you need to trust your client but you don't have control over it this is about all you can do.
You could drink it, but you wouldn't want to drink a lot of it. Heavy water in concentrations of over 50% apparently inhibits mitosis (cell division) and would lead to eventual death if not reduced. The symptons are similar to radiation poisoning/chemo with bone marrow, the stomach lining, and hair growth suffering the most damage since these tissues/process are dependent on high cell division rates.
You would have to ingest fairly significant amounts of D2O over serveral days to do this though. A concentration of 25% heavy water or less is most likely safe.
That's the entire point. The fact he doesn't have 220/240 nearby implies he's in a 110/120 standard country (all of North America). The thing is he used the term "mains power" which is a commonwealth expression. Canada is a commonwealth nation and thus the inference of the poster being from Canada. Or he could just be a Brit moved to the US or something.
Of course, we should all be using DC transmission lines anyway but that's another story....
After living through that I no longer have any confidence at all in the government to be able to implement any IT project competently. One billion (with a B) dollars to develop a database that essentially matches a gun serial number to a name and address. And they're still not done. HOW? Somebody please explain that one to me...
The only thing the proxy could do is change the request from straight text to compressed, if the http server supports sending compression.
No, if the proxy is local it can speed up the preceived connection speed by caching images. Of course just upping your browsers disk cache should amount to the same thing. If you use multiple browsers (or profiles) a central proxy is more effecient though.
Furthermore, if the proxy is local it can request all the text in compressed form itself and then serve it to the local web browser uncompressed. In this case all traffic over you modem is compressed but you don't require your browser to support it. Unfortunately SQUID doesn't support this (last time I checked) but they are working on it.
There is nothing wrong with a persistant http connection, and it certainly has nothing to do with tcp breakage recently exposed on/. I didn't really pursue that claim though so I can't comment on that.
No, there is nothing wrong with a persistent connection in http 1.1 (in fact it's actually assumed unless otherwise said). Unfortunately though, IE (apparently) assumes the connection is persistant regardless of HTTP version. Now I realize not much (if anything) these days uses 1.0 but according to the info I saw, Mircosoft has been doing this from before 1.1 was even a standard. The fact that it just happens to be the correct thing now doesn't mean it was right. In short it was still a little underhanded. This issue though is mute though. Doing a little more research on Propel I found out the persisteent connection is to their special proxy servers so it doesn't involve 3rd party webservers. I will admit I did jump the gun on this one.
How the fsck can you prefetch on a pipe that's already full?
You don't, you prefetch while the user is reading the current page and the connection is idle. Then when the user clicks on a link the data is already there. It appears to user that her connection is faster but it's really just trying to anticipate what your next move will be.
The only thing that could possibly accomplish this is compression. And, looking at the base technology, it certainly is compression that they're taking advantage of. Think about it, what kind of gzip compression ratio does one commonly see when compressing ascii text? Somewhere between 20% and 50% of original size, hence an increase in throughput of 2 to 5 times.
Which brings me to my original point that compression on images in general won't gain you anything since most images are already compressed (and yes I know jpep isn't the best compression out there but I'm pretty sure there's nothing out there 5 times better, not without mammoth processing hits that is). That said I do agree compressing HTML will net you fairly large gains but I wouldn't think it would account for enough of the traffic to give a net increase of 2 to 5 times, especially with all the banners and pop-ups out there. Maybe something like 1.5 times.
Really it just appears Propel is supplying a bunch of compressing proxies. This will not provide a net gain of 2 to 5 times over any extended period of time. It will not help with most binary downloads. And it's not worth an extra $7 a month.
* Compression. Propel Accelerator delivers text and graphics more efficiently, using a proprietary compression technology
This won't work with already compressed images unless it reduces the quality or resolution.
* Caching. Propel Accelerator intelligently retains and re-uses Web pages and page elements that have previously been sent to your PC. That's why the longer Propel Accelerator is in use on your PC, the faster your Web pages will load.
Nothing a simple proxy server doesn't already do. It may do pre-fetching of links but that won't improve the net throughput of your pipe.
* Persistent Connections. Propel Accelerator uses proprietary techniques to carefully manage and optimize the communication between your modem and our network of servers through a persistent connection. This eliminates the time wasted re-establishing and closing TCP/IP connections.
Internet Explorer already got in trouble by doing this. Leaving the TCP/IP connect unclosed violates standard practices and will only improve web speed if the server is running IIS since it expects IE to do this same trick.
Overall it's all really just a bunch of caching with maybe some pre-fetching thrown in. Just up your browsers cache settings and enable Mozilla's multiple pipe feature and you're set.
Nothing but a waste of money.
Re:This is Exactly what I did this weekend
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I did do research, that's why I got the KT133A. It was supposed to fix all the problems in the earlier KT133. Unfortunately the problems in the 133A didn't surface until after I bought the motherboard.
And yes, I know the problem is with the chipset and not the processor but the vast majority of AMD chipsets seem to have major problems when compared to the Intel side. The VIA 133/133A are junk. The SiS chipsets are slow and/or unstable. And even the latest nForce 2 motherboards have a major bios reset problem. Only the KT266 chipset appears to be halfway stable but it's another VIA and I'm nervous about going with them again.
As for "budget relpacement' I guess I should really have said "a solid reliable board with no need for RAID, gigabit ethernet, or overclocking options". Traditionally I've had good luck with ASUS boards. My main machine is a P2B-DS and has been the most reliable board I've every worked with (with the one minor exception of the USB issue that was fixed by adding a jumper). Lately though, I've not been very impressed by ASUS boards.
On friday I received the deceased computer from my mother and then spent the remainder of the weekend pounding my head against it.
First problem I diagnosed was a bad power supply. Out the door and back in 30 with a brand spanking new 300W power supply. Problem fixed, or so I thought.
After restoring the windows image I created when I first set this machine up a year ago (hidden on a Linux partition sharing the same drive) I proceeded to install service pack 3. Strangely though this 127MB "patch" always became corrupted on this machine. All my other machines handled it fine. Some more digging reveals the KT133A chipset in this machine (ASUS A7V133) has a corruption bug when transferring large files. I've tried all the fixes out there: removed the sound card, installed latest 4in1 drivers, installed 3 different BIOS's including the latest beta, installed the PCI latency patch, and nothing. Still corrupts the file. So now I'm off to the store this evening to pickup a new motherboard, chip, and RAM to replace a 1 year old computer(athlon 1.2). This was the first (and last) AMD computer I'll ever buy.
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It's not the fact the print head is in the printer, it's the fact that the print head has 3,900 nozzles allowing it to print width swaths at a time.
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The best they the could do for education today is to fail the students that don't learn or can't do the material. Give them the chance to try again if they wish or give them an alternative path (different discipline, trades, whatever) but the basic truth is not everybody can do everything equally well. Allow students to figure out what they can do well and what they have trouble with. Then they can either choose to work harder on their problem subjects or focus on what they do well.
Passing a poor student just to spare his feelings really just robs him of getting the education he deserves while reducing the quality of education for everyone else (keeping things simple so everyone can pass).
Nothing wrong with a nice boardroom. But have you looked at the pictures. They had at least three complete board rooms with hardwood or marble conference tables and leather chairs. Not to mention at least 6 complete sets (1 fullsize couch, 2 or more arm chairs) of leather furniture and a handful of hardwood/antique tables which I can see no use for in a corporate environment. Throw in the other scattered leather chairs and antique desks and its no longer just a nice boardroom.
And yes, I understand image matters (unfortunately) but that can be accomplished with one nice boardroom and a nice sitting lounge. What acclaim had goes far beyond image in my opinion and borders on decadent excess, particularly for a company with financial problems.
Man some of that furniture is pretty damn nice. I wonder if the rank and file employees ever got to use any of it. Unfortunately after seeing reports like this:
Top Heavy Business Plan
I get the impression all that furniture was for the benefit of the suits. A lot of people complain about how all the dotcoms bought herman miller aeron chairs and stuff but at least the employees got to use them. These marble and cherry wood conference tables and leather chairs were just a colossal waste of money beyond even the dotcomers. It's no wonder they went under. In fact, it almost hints that somebody wanted the company to go under...
RGB is a set of orthogonal colors, and a linear combination of RGB can express any color in the universe. Similar comments apply to CMY
No, this isn't even remotely true. Even if we assume you only meant the visible spectrum, RGB still only covers a small section of it (well, ok, a little more than half of it).
For example, how do you generate a true violet colour of around 400 nm when the blue in RGB is usually 450 nm? It can't be done (well, it can be faked but see below).
For more info about the colour gamut of RGB I recommend you go here:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mer/colour/cie.html
Really, RGB only really works because it's a close match to the 3 colours our eyes are sensitive to. The mapping of RGB to wavelength is based on purely empirical Colour Mapping Functions. Even then the CMFs fail for certain colours such as those around 500 nm (i.e. your monitor can't reproduce 500 nm).
The one very interesting thing I found about the emails was how out of touch with North American culture these people really are.
For example, they wish to,
Gather information on:
1. Information on American soldiers who frequent nightclubs in the America-Canada border areas
There really aren't that many military bases near the American-Canadian border. There's been no need for the last century.
3. If it is possible to enter America and gather information on American soldier checkpoints, or on the American army in the border areas inside America
The is an interesting look into their mentality about borders--that they are all defended by military checkpoints. Obviously they've had no experience crossing an free border like that between Canada and the States. The entire concept of travel without military interference is completely foriegn to them and this speaks volumes about their mindsets and misconceptions of western culture.
I still remember the time the Rogers Cable tech insisted he could ping and connect to my friends modem while my friend and I were sitting there staring at the modem in the middle of his floor, unpowered, and disconnected from the cable. The tech wouldn't believe us when we said there was no way in hell he was pinging this modem....oh well.
Turns out somebody else had hard coded the IP number that the Rogers was trying to assign to my friends modem. Unfortunately it took 3 hours and several higher level techs later to figure this one out and fix it.
well sorta.
Star Bridge Systems has been selling computers that reconfigure their own logic (with the help of compilers) for about 5 years now. True, their solution isn't a single chip, but the idea of reconfigurable computing is not at all new, and Star Brigdes implementation appears to be even more flexible.
No, there is one energy input that is not counted against the net energy cost of ethanol (as far as we are concerned) because it is for all intents and purposes free. That input is sunlight. Sunlight is the originating source of all ethanol production.
While production of ethanol can be inefficient rarely does it result in a net energy loss. Several different studies show anywhere from a 38% net gain in energy to over 100% depending on methods use. The generally cited claim of a net energy loss from producing ethanol all seem to come from only one paper written by David Pimental. To support his claims he seems to have taken a worst pratices view for every step in the production process, a realworld combination found in less than 5% of current ethanol production. The more comphrensive studies I've been able to find show a slight, albeit not stellar, net gain in energy. The most recent (2002) by Michigan State shows a net gain of 0.56 MJ/MJ of input for corn based ethanol production. If one looks at Cellulose based ethonal production, studies show almost a 2.5 net energy gain and it is easier on the environment since it requires less maintenance and fewer fertilizers.
o ne tenergybalance.htm
For reference this site has some good links, including a rebuttal of the Pimental paper (as well as showing the Pimental article).
http://www.econet.sk.ca/pages/issues/ethanolinf
Personally I wouldn't argue with the likes of Michael S. Morris and Kip S. Thorne but you can if you want. Here is a nice article on the real physics behind wormholes and negative energy.
http://www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/sf/topics/wor
Unfortunately the energy requirements for known ways of producing negative energy pretty much limits this stuff to the realm of theory. The point though is science fact does support the possibility of wormhole or bubble travel. Whether it will ever be feasable is a matter left to the engineers
I wouldn't say science theory prohibits FTL travel. It just places some hefty restrictions on it, usually in terms of massive energy requirments.
Wormholes are allowed by General Relativity, and while you may think they don't exist remember that blackholes were also predicted by GR and while many naysayers in the day scoffed at such things then, their existance seems to pretty much be accepted today. Space Folding is mostly a variation of wormhole theory which also doesn't violate GR. Problem is, both methods require immense amounts of energy. A problem that could be solve if we ever find a way to tap into the free space energy.
Hyperspace could gain some support in string theory but current models tend to only allow access from higher dimensions to lower (although I could be wrong on this, I don't follow string theory much).
And then there is always the negative energy bubble. If you could somehow surround yourself in a bubble of negative energy you could travel faster than light since the bubble isn't constrained by the normal laws of mass energy in our universe (or so my understanding of the theory goes).
That's if there is a difference in the electronic versus paper count.
What if I walk up to the machine and select a vote for person X and the machine spits out a receipt saying I voted for person Y. Now what?
The question isn't whether the machine should print out a paper copy of the ballet. I think that the answer to that is a given.
The REAL question is what to do when that paper receipt doesn't agree with what the voter claims they entered. How do you "erase" the voters previous vote? And how do you ensure the integrity of a recast vote? Without answers to these questions, creating a paper trail is moot.
In your online poker example you can have a central trusted server that insures that nobody is cheating (at least technically).
There is no way to do that with FPS's (not yet at least). The amount of info that would be needed to be passed between the client and the server in FPS games would be cripling if you expected the server to be the final arbitrator of all actions.
The only way FPS games can maintain the required speed is by offloading the majority of processing to the individual clients. In order to do this you have to trust the client. One of the key ways to trust the client is to obfuscate it. Not perfect, but at least it's one level more of protection than you would have if somebody has your source.
Really, the only way to protect the code is to build in some kind of self sanity check (i.e. return some kind of checksum to the server which verifies the client). This is only as good as the verification routine though. Once the method of verification is determined you're back to square one. You can improve upon this by constantly supplying new verification code to the client but it still comes down to security through obscurity.
When you need to trust your client but you don't have control over it this is about all you can do.
For one thing, SGI donated the XFS filesystem to Linux which is a vital part of some Linux enterprise level deployments.
To see further contributions by SGI you can go here:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/
You could drink it
You could drink it, but you wouldn't want to drink a lot of it. Heavy water in concentrations of over 50% apparently inhibits mitosis (cell division) and would lead to eventual death if not reduced. The symptons are similar to radiation poisoning/chemo with bone marrow, the stomach lining, and hair growth suffering the most damage since these tissues/process are dependent on high cell division rates.
You would have to ingest fairly significant amounts of D2O over serveral days to do this though. A concentration of 25% heavy water or less is most likely safe.
That's the entire point. The fact he doesn't have 220/240 nearby implies he's in a 110/120 standard country (all of North America). The thing is he used the term "mains power" which is a commonwealth expression. Canada is a commonwealth nation and thus the inference of the poster being from Canada. Or he could just be a Brit moved to the US or something.
Of course, we should all be using DC transmission lines anyway but that's another story....
You do of course realize the information saying the compromise occured in March wasn't available until several hours after the original post?
Look no further than the fiasco with Canada's National Gun Registry to see how badly the government can screw up a database project.
After living through that I no longer have any confidence at all in the government to be able to implement any IT project competently. One billion (with a B) dollars to develop a database that essentially matches a gun serial number to a name and address. And they're still not done. HOW? Somebody please explain that one to me...
The only thing the proxy could do is change the request from straight text to compressed, if the http server supports sending compression.
/. I didn't really pursue that claim though so I can't comment on that.
No, if the proxy is local it can speed up the preceived connection speed by caching images. Of course just upping your browsers disk cache should amount to the same thing. If you use multiple browsers (or profiles) a central proxy is more effecient though.
Furthermore, if the proxy is local it can request all the text in compressed form itself and then serve it to the local web browser uncompressed. In this case all traffic over you modem is compressed but you don't require your browser to support it. Unfortunately SQUID doesn't support this (last time I checked) but they are working on it.
There is nothing wrong with a persistant http connection, and it certainly has nothing to do with tcp breakage recently exposed on
No, there is nothing wrong with a persistent connection in http 1.1 (in fact it's actually assumed unless otherwise said). Unfortunately though, IE (apparently) assumes the connection is persistant regardless of HTTP version. Now I realize not much (if anything) these days uses 1.0 but according to the info I saw, Mircosoft has been doing this from before 1.1 was even a standard. The fact that it just happens to be the correct thing now doesn't mean it was right. In short it was still a little underhanded. This issue though is mute though. Doing a little more research on Propel I found out the persisteent connection is to their special proxy servers so it doesn't involve 3rd party webservers. I will admit I did jump the gun on this one.
How the fsck can you prefetch on a pipe that's already full?
You don't, you prefetch while the user is reading the current page and the connection is idle. Then when the user clicks on a link the data is already there. It appears to user that her connection is faster but it's really just trying to anticipate what your next move will be.
The only thing that could possibly accomplish this is compression. And, looking at the base technology, it certainly is compression that they're taking advantage of. Think about it, what kind of gzip compression ratio does one commonly see when compressing ascii text? Somewhere between 20% and 50% of original size, hence an increase in throughput of 2 to 5 times.
Which brings me to my original point that compression on images in general won't gain you anything since most images are already compressed (and yes I know jpep isn't the best compression out there but I'm pretty sure there's nothing out there 5 times better, not without mammoth processing hits that is). That said I do agree compressing HTML will net you fairly large gains but I wouldn't think it would account for enough of the traffic to give a net increase of 2 to 5 times, especially with all the banners and pop-ups out there. Maybe something like 1.5 times.
Really it just appears Propel is supplying a bunch of compressing proxies. This will not provide a net gain of 2 to 5 times over any extended period of time. It will not help with most binary downloads. And it's not worth an extra $7 a month.
It supposedly works by doing:
* Compression. Propel Accelerator delivers text and graphics more efficiently, using a proprietary compression technology
This won't work with already compressed images unless it reduces the quality or resolution.
* Caching. Propel Accelerator intelligently retains and re-uses Web pages and page elements that have previously been sent to your PC. That's why the longer Propel Accelerator is in use on your PC, the faster your Web pages will load.
Nothing a simple proxy server doesn't already do. It may do pre-fetching of links but that won't improve the net throughput of your pipe.
* Persistent Connections. Propel Accelerator uses proprietary techniques to carefully manage and optimize the communication between your modem and our network of servers through a persistent connection. This eliminates the time wasted re-establishing and closing TCP/IP connections.
Internet Explorer already got in trouble by doing this. Leaving the TCP/IP connect unclosed violates standard practices and will only improve web speed if the server is running IIS since it expects IE to do this same trick.
Overall it's all really just a bunch of caching with maybe some pre-fetching thrown in. Just up your browsers cache settings and enable Mozilla's multiple pipe feature and you're set.
Nothing but a waste of money.
I did do research, that's why I got the KT133A. It was supposed to fix all the problems in the earlier KT133. Unfortunately the problems in the 133A didn't surface until after I bought the motherboard.
And yes, I know the problem is with the chipset and not the processor but the vast majority of AMD chipsets seem to have major problems when compared to the Intel side. The VIA 133/133A are junk. The SiS chipsets are slow and/or unstable. And even the latest nForce 2 motherboards have a major bios reset problem. Only the KT266 chipset appears to be halfway stable but it's another VIA and I'm nervous about going with them again.
As for "budget relpacement' I guess I should really have said "a solid reliable board with no need for RAID, gigabit ethernet, or overclocking options". Traditionally I've had good luck with ASUS boards. My main machine is a P2B-DS and has been the most reliable board I've every worked with (with the one minor exception of the USB issue that was fixed by adding a jumper). Lately though, I've not been very impressed by ASUS boards.
On friday I received the deceased computer from my mother and then spent the remainder of the weekend pounding my head against it.
First problem I diagnosed was a bad power supply. Out the door and back in 30 with a brand spanking new 300W power supply. Problem fixed, or so I thought.
After restoring the windows image I created when I first set this machine up a year ago (hidden on a Linux partition sharing the same drive) I proceeded to install service pack 3. Strangely though this 127MB "patch" always became corrupted on this machine. All my other machines handled it fine. Some more digging reveals the KT133A chipset in this machine (ASUS A7V133) has a corruption bug when transferring large files. I've tried all the fixes out there: removed the sound card, installed latest 4in1 drivers, installed 3 different BIOS's including the latest beta, installed the PCI latency patch, and nothing. Still corrupts the file. So now I'm off to the store this evening to pickup a new motherboard, chip, and RAM to replace a 1 year old computer(athlon 1.2). This was the first (and last) AMD computer I'll ever buy.
Any suggestions for a budget replacement?
A very quick google search reveals
. co.ukn e.dkh lonxp.com ...
www.amdzone.com
www.amdworld.com
www.amdworld
www.amdmd.com
www.x86-64.org
www.amdonli
www.amdpower.com
www.amdtwn.com.tw
www.at
www.athlonoc.com
which are all enthusiast that use the AMD name, logo, and talk about AMD but haven't been shut down by AMD.