Would overclocking really hurt Intel's sales of high-end chips much? The kind of person who is going to overclock their processor is doing it because they can't afford the faster processor, or just because they can and want to be l337. Either way, that's not a lost sale.
The only reason I can see for preventing overclocking is to stop resellers selling systems with overclocked chips in to cut costs. You could prevent that by having the BIOS display a big warning message saying "This system is overclocked and may be unstable - phone Intel now" to alert normal users.
I think they just need to find an alternative to ARts. Why does arts still consume CPU even when there is no sound playing? It just sits there blocking/dev/dsp and using 1% CPU.
Exactly - focusing purely on certifications and scores is a mistake in any industry. When I was at university, there were lots of people who got much better degree scores than I did, but once it came to actually using that knowledge anywhere other than the exam room, they were stuck. Some people are just good at learning lists of facts and churning them out to order. That doesn't make the whole certification system worthless, it just means that you take the certification for what it really means - the person can learn things for a test and has at least some baseline level of knowledge.
Because it isn't a horrible kludge, it's an easy to understand method of showing the user the format of their document and allowing editing of formatting. It mirrors the use of tags in HTML, the markup commands in LaTeX and the way that typesetters markup text for publishing. It's the first thing most WP users notice is missing when they have to switch to Word, and they complain about the fact because it's such an intuitive system.
Article 11, Part 1 of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, enacted as law in (all?) EU states:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."
Unless there has been an order of magnitude improvement in Word's grammar checker since Office 2000, which was the last version I used, I wouldn't trust its corrections for anything more important than a Slashdot post. I've found that its suggestions are at best unhelpful and at worst seriously incorrect. I don't think that computer grammar checking is going to be an effective replacment for the human skill of actually being able to write for a long time yet. Wasting open source development time trying to squidge a checker into Thunderbird would be madness.
I doubt it very much. Just to make sure, why not try installing using the Zip file - just extract it to a directory and run it, without using an installer.
Aren't most message threading displays broken by the idiots whose idea of an address book is to click reply on some email you sent them three years ago? I know that's what a lot of people I work with do.
I've used a lot of distros - Debian, Gentoo, SuSE, Redhat, Arch, Mandrake - and I recently switched to slackware. I have to say it's probably the best I've used so far. I've hit no bugs at all on the two systems I use it on, unlike so many distros. The install was painless and upgrading is simple.
Ah, ignore me. Just in a bad mood with the US after seeing the idiocy of their federally-funded "abstinence is the answer" program on the news last night.
The death toll from the Troubles in N. Ireland is currently around 4,000. Large parts of Manchester city centre were flattened after the IRA set off a 3000lb bomb there. Yet nobody feels they have to tiptoe around the subject and not use it as a metaphor because someone might be offended. Stop being such a typical self-righteous American.
Come down off that bloody high horse. People use terrible things as metaphors - does saying "That was his Waterloo" show lack of respect for the thousands of soldiers who died? Does refering to the start of a major project as D-Day hurt veterans who were there? "It's like the Somme out there" - clearly, there aren't really thousands of British troops being mown down by German machine guns, but I doubt anyone would be offended. Bloody americans take everything so damn seriously.
This is a reasonably serious bug. A well-configured *nix box should not be crashable by anything a normal user can do. The amount of memory a user can allocate, the number of processes they can launch, the size and number of files they can create should all be limited through user limits. There is no way (AFICS) to prevent this bug being exploited through those kind of limits. If there are lots of people logged in, figuring out who crashed the box would be quite hard - just have the crashing program delete itself before it crashes the box.
Hitting ctrl-alt-delete or the power requires physical access, which shell users almost never have (I don't even know where most of the computers I use every day are - they could be in Timbuktu for all I care).
You can limit all those with user limits on number of processes, CPU usage, disk quotas etc. Any machine with public shell access should have those set up. This bug is different.
Removing the compiler wouldn't help, anyway - presumably most systems with public shell access also have some sort of ftp access. You could even rig up something to echo the binary to a file through a terminal, I'm sure.
A lot of people tried to put the same candidate as both first and second choice, which shows a bit of a lack of understanding of the system. The winning candidate had to have a 50%+ share of first preference votes, or a majority based on the total of second+first preferences over his nearest rival. Voting is all about preferences - everyone selects the top two candidates that best represent their opinion, and then winning candidate will better represent the electorate.
Britons seem to have a bit of a problem understanding voting in general. Most see nothing wrong with our awful First Past the Post system, and anything more complex than it ends up derided in the press as "too complex for normal people", before they go back to moaning about the arrogance of the government, which is a direct result of the voting system we use in general elections.
What is it with people saying Linux distros can't make sound cards work? After every install of the commercial distros I've used, my sound card has been auto-detected and configured fine. It's about as crappy a sound card as you can get (Muse Lt).
It's an OSNews article - what do you expect? Most of their content is "poorly written flaptrap rhetoric". Their basic pattern seems to be to get somebody to fiddle around with some program for five minutes and then write some badly thought out article that mentions something vaguely contentious so that Slashdot picks it up.
As many UI design people have said, interfaces designed by the user are rarely any good.
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Would overclocking really hurt Intel's sales of high-end chips much? The kind of person who is going to overclock their processor is doing it because they can't afford the faster processor, or just because they can and want to be l337. Either way, that's not a lost sale.
The only reason I can see for preventing overclocking is to stop resellers selling systems with overclocked chips in to cut costs. You could prevent that by having the BIOS display a big warning message saying "This system is overclocked and may be unstable - phone Intel now" to alert normal users.
No, of course not. But a stock of community good will can be a useful thing to have if times get tough.
I think they just need to find an alternative to ARts. Why does arts still consume CPU even when there is no sound playing? It just sits there blocking /dev/dsp and using 1% CPU.
Exactly - focusing purely on certifications and scores is a mistake in any industry. When I was at university, there were lots of people who got much better degree scores than I did, but once it came to actually using that knowledge anywhere other than the exam room, they were stuck.
Some people are just good at learning lists of facts and churning them out to order. That doesn't make the whole certification system worthless, it just means that you take the certification for what it really means - the person can learn things for a test and has at least some baseline level of knowledge.
Because it isn't a horrible kludge, it's an easy to understand method of showing the user the format of their document and allowing editing of formatting. It mirrors the use of tags in HTML, the markup commands in LaTeX and the way that typesetters markup text for publishing.
It's the first thing most WP users notice is missing when they have to switch to Word, and they complain about the fact because it's such an intuitive system.
Article 11, Part 1 of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, enacted as law in (all?) EU states:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."
Seems pretty simple and straightforward to me.
Unless there has been an order of magnitude improvement in Word's grammar checker since Office 2000, which was the last version I used, I wouldn't trust its corrections for anything more important than a Slashdot post. I've found that its suggestions are at best unhelpful and at worst seriously incorrect.
I don't think that computer grammar checking is going to be an effective replacment for the human skill of actually being able to write for a long time yet. Wasting open source development time trying to squidge a checker into Thunderbird would be madness.
I doubt it very much. Just to make sure, why not try installing using the Zip file - just extract it to a directory and run it, without using an installer.
Aren't most message threading displays broken by the idiots whose idea of an address book is to click reply on some email you sent them three years ago? I know that's what a lot of people I work with do.
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
I've used a lot of distros - Debian, Gentoo, SuSE, Redhat, Arch, Mandrake - and I recently switched to slackware. I have to say it's probably the best I've used so far. I've hit no bugs at all on the two systems I use it on, unlike so many distros. The install was painless and upgrading is simple.
Ah, ignore me. Just in a bad mood with the US after seeing the idiocy of their federally-funded "abstinence is the answer" program on the news last night.
The death toll from the Troubles in N. Ireland is currently around 4,000. Large parts of Manchester city centre were flattened after the IRA set off a 3000lb bomb there. Yet nobody feels they have to tiptoe around the subject and not use it as a metaphor because someone might be offended.
Stop being such a typical self-righteous American.
Come down off that bloody high horse. People use terrible things as metaphors - does saying "That was his Waterloo" show lack of respect for the thousands of soldiers who died? Does refering to the start of a major project as D-Day hurt veterans who were there? "It's like the Somme out there" - clearly, there aren't really thousands of British troops being mown down by German machine guns, but I doubt anyone would be offended.
Bloody americans take everything so damn seriously.
I tried -fomit-frame-pointer with several of the benchmarks and for many it improved performance by about 25% (matrix,fibonacci, methcall, ackermann).
Interestingly, compiling the recursive example with -fomit-frame-pointer improves performance by ~25% (2.7s vs 3.7s)
Because -O3, despite what many people say, doesn't very often generate faster code. In many cases the extra inlining can create slower code.
For example:
methcall.cpp -O2 1.8s -O3 1.8s
fib.cpp -O2 3.7s -O3 3.7s
matrix.cpp -O2 1.8s -O3 1.8s (interestingly, adding -march=athlon-xp for my machine reduces time to 1.5s)
Time with the original methcall.cpp=1.760s
Time with objects on the stack=0.789s
Time with objects on the heap but with non-virtual functions=0.799s
Looks like you're right about the inlining. That's with 100000000 for an argument and on an A1800XP+.
Why does the example use a recursive fibonnaci sequence algorithm? It's so slow, and the runtime is dominated by the function call time.
./fib_recurse 40
./fib_for_loop 40
For example:
[bdr@arthurdent tests]$ time
165580141
real 0m3.709s
user 0m3.608s
sys 0m0.005s
time
165580141
real 0m0.006s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.002s
I think a lot of these benchmarks are showing that the Hotspot optimiser is very good at avoiding function call overheads.
The 51st is how the United Kingdom is jokingly referred to. I'm not sure about the 52nd though.
This is a reasonably serious bug. A well-configured *nix box should not be crashable by anything a normal user can do. The amount of memory a user can allocate, the number of processes they can launch, the size and number of files they can create should all be limited through user limits. There is no way (AFICS) to prevent this bug being exploited through those kind of limits. If there are lots of people logged in, figuring out who crashed the box would be quite hard - just have the crashing program delete itself before it crashes the box.
Hitting ctrl-alt-delete or the power requires physical access, which shell users almost never have (I don't even know where most of the computers I use every day are - they could be in Timbuktu for all I care).
You can limit all those with user limits on number of processes, CPU usage, disk quotas etc. Any machine with public shell access should have those set up. This bug is different.
Removing the compiler wouldn't help, anyway - presumably most systems with public shell access also have some sort of ftp access. You could even rig up something to echo the binary to a file through a terminal, I'm sure.
A lot of people tried to put the same candidate as both first and second choice, which shows a bit of a lack of understanding of the system. The winning candidate had to have a 50%+ share of first preference votes, or a majority based on the total of second+first preferences over his nearest rival. Voting is all about preferences - everyone selects the top two candidates that best represent their opinion, and then winning candidate will better represent the electorate.
Britons seem to have a bit of a problem understanding voting in general. Most see nothing wrong with our awful First Past the Post system, and anything more complex than it ends up derided in the press as "too complex for normal people", before they go back to moaning about the arrogance of the government, which is a direct result of the voting system we use in general elections.
What is it with people saying Linux distros can't make sound cards work? After every install of the commercial distros I've used, my sound card has been auto-detected and configured fine. It's about as crappy a sound card as you can get (Muse Lt).
It's an OSNews article - what do you expect? Most of their content is "poorly written flaptrap rhetoric". Their basic pattern seems to be to get somebody to fiddle around with some program for five minutes and then write some badly thought out article that mentions something vaguely contentious so that Slashdot picks it up.
As many UI design people have said, interfaces designed by the user are rarely any good.