First off, Athlons and Athlon MPs have garnered a lot of respect around the industry.
Specifically in the scientific computing community. There's also a number of companies that have latched on to Athlon MP-based web servers, too.
Cost plays a major issue, but for the average web machine, the little bit of extra oomph you get from a high-end Xeon over a high-end A-MP isn't worth the 15-20% price premium in most cases. *shrug*
They are -almost- as good as the Intel compilers (on Intel) and they're putting out a new rev that fully supports Opty.
The scientific computing community is only using Itanium in those few instances that they -need- the higher FPU marks -AND- have the cash to spend. In general, they're saving 30% and getting almost twice as many processors, so it's still a net win.
The compilers aren't the problem, provided you actually grab the right one.
Seriously. Too many people seem to either not know that there is a political philosophy called Libertarian or they are in the camp that thinks the LP has usurped it. Hint: they haven't, although their last pres. candidate was certainly a yawner.
Actually, Davis -cannot- put his name on this ballot. He's the focus of the first part of the vote (the recall) he cannot, under any circumstance, be considered as a candidate for governor on the second part.
this particular issue has already been ruled on by the CA SC.
This is essentially the same as early elections, only it involves a couple of steps: First, popular support within the state of California had to be shown via petition. Once it's demonstrated that a significant percentage of voters support the recall effort (and to be honest, 875k voters in CA ain't -THAT- much...it really should be a percentage and not a hard number...), then the recall election is scheduled and deadlines for candidacy are set, etc. The election itself is a two parter: The first part is essentially a vote of no-confidence, and the second is a vote for the replacement candidate of the voters choice.
Gray Davis currently polls in the low-20s. That basically means that close to 80% of the population of CA believe he's doing a shitty job. Bush, on the other hand, is still jumping between the 50's and mid 60's.
Ok, so -that- sucks. Although I can kinda understand it getting rejected since it would lead mostly to "Hooray!" type posts, and not discussion. *shrug* still, it -IS- relevant news!
I want nothing more than to be running my own business, reporting to noone except for my clients and my self.
A lot of programmers are going to naturally fall back on that as their jobs move overseas, and it will quickly become saturated.
This is assuming that the average programmer is -able- to do technical support work. I've worked with guys (and gals) who, outside of their IDE, knew -nothing- about the software on their systems and how to fix it. -These- are the programmers that are losing their jobs more often than the truly skilled people. That's not to say skilled people aren't losing their jobs too, because there are.
Statements RedHat could make would include "It's time for SCO to put up or shut up."
*grin* They have.
From Forbes:
"They've gone to our customers and business partners numerous times and have said publicly that Linux is infringing. We want the truth. We want them to stop engaging in unfair business practices. Basically what we're saying is put up or shut up," Szulik says.
That's pretty much -exactly- what the suit is saying, in a nutshell.
Umm, SCO is literally a -tenth- the size (market cap wise, they're even -smaller- when you compare revenue) of RedHat. SCO squish RH? Maybe the other way around...
Why would a book covering a the SQL -standard- go into implementation specific things with MySQL that either aren't standard compliant, or were added after the book was written?
I don't use MySQL except for anything outside of LAMP, and even then, I try not to use it.
Talk about clueless:) The "G5" is a PPC970 from IBM. Who the hell do you think is making them? Motorola? *snicker* IBM is making the chips for Apple, and have a -huge- plant that they need to pump more chips out of to be profitable, so they're going to throw some more wagers through and compete with Apple on the server end of things:)
I paid attention only because I worked down the street from one for a while. I, also, spent most of my money at the local comic and gaming shops. Sadly, my favorite has closed since I moved out of town:\
Actually, IIRC, Senators were elected by the legislatures of each state. But yeah, that's pretty much the gist of it, the Senate was to counter the ability of the populace to fuck everyone over and vice versa. It was, in and of itself, a check on legislative power.
This is one of the first cases in which the 900 pound gorilla is probably in the right. In addition, it's one of the few cases that has a direct impact on almost everyone who reads Slashdot regularly.
Kinda like the Democrats who seem to think that winning California, New York, Pennsylvania + 4 or 5 other states means that their candidate should be president. That's what the Electoral College was created to -prevent-: the ability of a small number of large states to, in effect, control the federal government.
Bzzzt. Wrong. They, like all the other tech stocks during the bubble, got a nice shot in the arm. I -remember- seeing AMD actively trading over $70/share pre-split. Hell, I remember for almost a -year- (right after the Athlon came out, BTW, so you can take your "They stink at turning technology into money" statement and shove it) of time where they were trading at pre-split 30-50/share. Had I the money, I'd have made a -hell- of a lot of bank on it, and I -called- it. 3 months before the run-up to 90 I was telling people to buy it. Right now, the only companies I'm telling folks to buy are those that pay out dividends (like BUD).
*shrug* But whatever, dude. Ignore the 18 months where everythign just "clicked" for AMD.
Now that said, yeah, they're back into their historic trading range (low-end, I might add). They hit $6, and folks should consider buying, as it'll probably run back up and top off between 8-12. 33-50% increases aren't bad:)
Even with that, tell me which WalMart's -ever- carried MtG cards. Because I remember that brouhaha -very- well, and the WalMarts in my area -never- carried the things. Which was irrititating;)
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First off, Athlons and Athlon MPs have garnered a lot of respect around the industry.
Specifically in the scientific computing community. There's also a number of companies that have latched on to Athlon MP-based web servers, too.
Cost plays a major issue, but for the average web machine, the little bit of extra oomph you get from a high-end Xeon over a high-end A-MP isn't worth the 15-20% price premium in most cases.
*shrug*
Portland Group Compilers.
Seriously.
They are -almost- as good as the Intel compilers (on Intel) and they're putting out a new rev that fully supports Opty.
The scientific computing community is only using Itanium in those few instances that they -need- the higher FPU marks -AND- have the cash to spend. In general, they're saving 30% and getting almost twice as many processors, so it's still a net win.
The compilers aren't the problem, provided you actually grab the right one.
They've been claiming the infringing code is in 2.4 and later kernels for a while now...
not new...
Seriously.
Too many people seem to either not know that there is a political philosophy called Libertarian or they are in the camp that thinks the LP has usurped it.
Hint: they haven't, although their last pres. candidate was certainly a yawner.
*shrug*
Actually, Davis -cannot- put his name on this ballot.
He's the focus of the first part of the vote (the recall) he cannot, under any circumstance, be considered as a candidate for governor on the second part.
this particular issue has already been ruled on by the CA SC.
This is essentially the same as early elections, only it involves a couple of steps:
First, popular support within the state of California had to be shown via petition. Once it's demonstrated that a significant percentage of voters support the recall effort (and to be honest, 875k voters in CA ain't -THAT- much...it really should be a percentage and not a hard number...), then the recall election is scheduled and deadlines for candidacy are set, etc.
The election itself is a two parter: The first part is essentially a vote of no-confidence, and the second is a vote for the replacement candidate of the voters choice.
Gray Davis currently polls in the low-20s. That basically means that close to 80% of the population of CA believe he's doing a shitty job.
Bush, on the other hand, is still jumping between the 50's and mid 60's.
*shrug*
She's a geekgrrl, and she's hot.
Now, then, why do you -THINK- she's so popular?
(Oh, and she's a twenty-something).
Ok, so -that- sucks.
Although I can kinda understand it getting rejected since it would lead mostly to "Hooray!" type posts, and not discussion.
*shrug* still, it -IS- relevant news!
Who's also not running for re-election.
Maybe there -is- a God...
I want nothing more than to be running my own business, reporting to noone except for my clients and my self.
A lot of programmers are going to naturally fall back on that as their jobs move overseas, and it will quickly become saturated.
This is assuming that the average programmer is -able- to do technical support work. I've worked with guys (and gals) who, outside of their IDE, knew -nothing- about the software on their systems and how to fix it. -These- are the programmers that are losing their jobs more often than the truly skilled people. That's not to say skilled people aren't losing their jobs too, because there are.
*grin* They have.
From Forbes: That's pretty much -exactly- what the suit is saying, in a nutshell.
Umm, SCO is literally a -tenth- the size (market cap wise, they're even -smaller- when you compare revenue) of RedHat.
SCO squish RH? Maybe the other way around...
Why would a book covering a the SQL -standard- go into implementation specific things with MySQL that either aren't standard compliant, or were added after the book was written?
I don't use MySQL except for anything outside of LAMP, and even then, I try not to use it.
Talk about clueless :) :)
The "G5" is a PPC970 from IBM. Who the hell do you think is making them? Motorola? *snicker*
IBM is making the chips for Apple, and have a -huge- plant that they need to pump more chips out of to be profitable, so they're going to throw some more wagers through and compete with Apple on the server end of things
2003 - 1994 = 9.
So like, yeah, he could have been running a P90 9 years ago.
learn basic math, yo.
You're on crack then.
I've been there, I have family that live there, and frankly, you can take your opinion and smoke it.
There's a difference between a Depression, and a Recession.
For starters, length of time.
Jesus.
You also forget the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and the Reagan Office Building in DC.
There's quite a bit that's been named after him.
I paid attention only because I worked down the street from one for a while. :\
I, also, spent most of my money at the local comic and gaming shops.
Sadly, my favorite has closed since I moved out of town
Actually, IIRC, Senators were elected by the legislatures of each state.
:\
But yeah, that's pretty much the gist of it, the Senate was to counter the ability of the populace to fuck everyone over and vice versa. It was, in and of itself, a check on legislative power.
Now, there really isn't a check at all
This is one of the first cases in which the 900 pound gorilla is probably in the right.
In addition, it's one of the few cases that has a direct impact on almost everyone who reads Slashdot regularly.
Kinda like the Democrats who seem to think that winning California, New York, Pennsylvania + 4 or 5 other states means that their candidate should be president.
That's what the Electoral College was created to -prevent-: the ability of a small number of large states to, in effect, control the federal government.
*mutters*
Bzzzt. Wrong.
:)
They, like all the other tech stocks during the bubble, got a nice shot in the arm. I -remember- seeing AMD actively trading over $70/share pre-split. Hell, I remember for almost a -year- (right after the Athlon came out, BTW, so you can take your "They stink at turning technology into money" statement and shove it) of time where they were trading at pre-split 30-50/share.
Had I the money, I'd have made a -hell- of a lot of bank on it, and I -called- it. 3 months before the run-up to 90 I was telling people to buy it.
Right now, the only companies I'm telling folks to buy are those that pay out dividends (like BUD).
*shrug* But whatever, dude. Ignore the 18 months where everythign just "clicked" for AMD.
Now that said, yeah, they're back into their historic trading range (low-end, I might add). They hit $6, and folks should consider buying, as it'll probably run back up and top off between 8-12. 33-50% increases aren't bad
So?
That 1.4Ghz offers some damned fine performance if you go look at the benchmarks.
Good lord people and their GHz envy...
Even with that, tell me which WalMart's -ever- carried MtG cards. ;)
Because I remember that brouhaha -very- well, and the WalMarts in my area -never- carried the things.
Which was irrititating