"CNN/FOX going out of business due to low ratings is actually GOOD for US Democracy."
A democracy is two wolves and sheep voting on what's for dinner.
The US is a constitutional republic. The constitutional goes about limiting the powers of government through 17 prohibitive clauses. (Interestingly enough, the general welfare clause which is used often to expand the federal government far beyond its intended power appears in the midst of a prohibitive clause in reference to taxation apportionment, but hey, why wouldn't James Madison backdoor the constitution just for kicks. Even though he explained in letters that an expansionist view of this clause would render the document useless, but hey, he wrote it, no biggie, modern judges know more than the author about its intent)
Also worth noting is the rights enumerated in the bill of rights was perceived by some as unnecessary as the government just wrought would be so limited the 10th would take care of the rest. Thank goodness for the enumerations we got since "life liberty property" and rights reserved is somehow vague.
Without the protection of a constitution we really don't have much, and majoritarian rule will undoubtedly lead to increasing internal strife. One could argue the march towards majoritarian tyranny is part of an overarching strategy bring about a crisis.
I also have an interesting history on Rule 22 / Filibuster in the Senate.
History of the Filibuster (Rule 22) in the Senate.
A long time ago any Senator could prevent any law simply by talking about it. Any senator could stop the move to cloture. This was by design. Its to make the little states have a lot of power in the face of the big ones because representation in the house is apportioned. Its a simple and clever concept to have a working bicameral house. Its designed to stop tyrants.
Then a certain president named Wilson who brought us gems like the Federal Reserve system by sneaking it through in a December 23rd vote where almost none of congress was present. (He signed it despite the sneak attack) Think recess appointment, but treasonous. A mark of a patriot.
Anyways, Wilson gets his way and the Fed has been using the hidden tax of inflation like a weapon against the people ever since.
Wilson also helped to dupe the states into the 17th Amendment, giving the election of Senators from the State legislature (making the State legislatures more or less irrelevant in the face of today's Fedzilla) and giving it to the people - more democracy (translates to bigger Federal government)! Major shift in power there. Less checking and balancing.
Fast forward to 1917. Wilson wants to bring America to war. The Senate uses a filibuster (then, by any member just not moving to cloture) to stop Wilson's war.
Wilson can't take no and wont tolerate the filibuster, so he has the rules changed. Now a move to cloture happens if TWO THIRDS agree to move. WAR BEGINS. Typical of a tyrant, they like that stuff so it distracts from the failing state and failing policies.
More who urinate on the Constitution come over the years it erodes to THREE Fifths.
First it was one senator.
Then 23
Then 35
See the trend?
As the constitutionality of the Fedzilla comes more and more out of bounds, the more they want to force the Senate to enact unconstitutional laws.
Now we have acting federal congressman saying:
QUOTE "It is time to shut it down" "God didn't create the filibuster, it's part of the Senate rules." "It is outrageous" "It tends to be, in many cases, the senators from those smaller states that aggregate to get up to be the 40." "Less populous states end up with a disproportionate amount of power."
This was the design of the bicameral house. This is what the senate was supposed to do. Obstruct, slow down and make sure the disaffected get their say in Fedzilla lest they be crushed by majoritarian politics. It was designed to stop 51% wiping away the 49%.
Anyways, always irritating to see people adopt NEWSPEAK, especially in regards to the constitutional and the Framer's intent. Changing the meaning of words is the next best thing to banning literacy for tyrants.
I'd buy it on sight if it supported ECC. No ECC support = unstable system. I always have an ECC system, and I always get high "3DMarks" and frame rates and I never get a BSOD or other system errors.
Without ECC its impossible to know if memory errors are occurring, and 12GB of memory at 1333/1600MHz probably has a single bit event quite often.
This rusty aging theory, that the reason people age is due to accumulated damage, is under serious scrutiny at this point.
Its really simple: (1) Evolution has no reason to further improve on designs after successful reproduction, (2) lots of old people competing for the same food supply is not good for reproduction.
There are clams that live to 400, turtles that are engaging in reproduction over 100 years old and trees that live for 5000 years.
In fact, aging in humans is rapidly accelerated in the following disorders, all genetic: Werner's (WS), Cockayne, and Hutchinson-Gilford's.
I myself think that death when we experience it from aging is a desirable genetic trait, and to defeat aging we will have to learn more about epigenetics and clever gene promotion and expression.
Or you can continue to believe in biological rust and tattered telomeres, which of course is junk science.
This oxidation/cellular damage is coming under major dispute at this point. So don't quote it as fact, long lives whales and turtles are living evidence, trees can live to 5000 years and clams can live to 400.
The support is quite dodgy, really. I carry licenses for RHEL so I can get help with CENTOS via that licensed RedHat if I need it. I've done a lot of work with RedHat OSes in the past, and have used RedHat "EL" since 6.2EE when I was helping out with running OpenMail on Linux. I've had about 3 cases on my $2600 or so / year premium RedHat license and they never fixed anything in a timely fashion (if at all). I ended up fixing a problem with a module they load that crashed the machine by using install in modprobe.conf, there was a bug for crashdumps which "resolved itself", the case I filed was never resolved but some kernel that was 14 months newer finally fixed it magically, and I had a few problems with udev, etc. I'm so fed up with RedHat EL support I don't think I'll be buying another year, they are really the bottom of the barrel for one-off customers. You will get next to nothing for $2600/year IMHO.
Oh, when my subscription to the EL5 channel ran out on RHN, the case they never solved kept constantly emailing me but I could no longer log into support to close the case to have it stop emailing me all the time. Frustrating, and a lot of the service offering is "half assed" - you might think the same if you paid $2600 per year for something and get as little return on the scant number of bugs I filed cases for.
Yes, I have tried the quiet version, but I like the black 104 key from IBM FRU PN: 02K0861 - Model: KB-7953 better.
The ka-klang board offers better feedback than the rubber dome, and I feel the "crunch" of this 7953 is better than a klu-mush of the Unicomp quiet.
Really, I would got to a "computer show" (if those exist anymore?), a second hand computer store (like Weird Stuff) or some place that has piles of keyboards and fish out like 10 or so PS/2 keyboards of all different flavors and take them for a spin.
The one great thing about IBM branded keyboards is they last about as long as a selectric: Forever.
This one is black with Windows Keys, and its a softy-touch, but still makes a lot of noise, but not a ka-klang. It does not have the pronounced curvature of the IBM Type M.
Its got good inter-key pitch and excellent tactiles.
FRU PN: 02K0861 Model: KB-7953 PN: 02K0860
This keyboard is one tough little bastard. I've smashed this thing Master Shake style with great anger and never broke it.
I also have a white KB-8923. FRU PN: 07H066 PN:07H065
This one is not-so-good. I wouldn't seek this out. Its built like a brick like the others, but the keys feel all Chicony-cheap.
I have a Unicomp as well. There is nothing like it. They also make a quiet version, which has the same curved keyboard typing area and all the keys in the right places, but doesn't make the ka-klang when typing. This is good for when you don't have an office or have kids next door at home.
My typing WPM goes way up on the ka-klang style Type M clones because the feedback is exacting, there is a pressure-release feel when the button is actuated and a sound for feedback.
I'm not saying cheap Chicony style or freebie Dell style are horrible, but the ka-klanging boards and that layout for keys seem optimal and if you happen to have very large hands, the pitch between keys is ideal for a lot more than the dainty handed typers.
For the longest time I was loyal to IBM for Thinkpads largely due to the adherence to a proper properly pitched keyboard with proper tactile feedback.
Also, IBM made a "compacted" Type M. It was black, has all the nice features but has a much smaller footprint. I think I have the FRU somewhere.
IBM Black compact 104 clickey with curvature: FRU 37L0814 FCC ID: E8HKB-5323 MODEL: KB-3923
Dell also gave for some time with the Dell 1550 machines and machines from that era a ka-klanger keyboard that was excellent. Its much larger like the Type M, its black and it ka-klangs.
There was also a 486 DX 50, a fairly rare part which had a bus speed of 50MHz (not a DX2), and used to "OC" the VESA (VLB) local bus as well. This chip was seen in many EISA systems at the time and needed extra cooling.
I had a buddy with a 486 DX50, and it was a fast system for the time, It was faster in a lot of ways than a 486DX2/66.
The best was playing Wing Commander on these systems, it was way too fast:)
Please, download VMWare or Virtual PC or something and use rollbacks (always go back to the previous snapshot after running a keygen/crack) and ALWAYS run these keygens and/or cracks in a virtual machine. They are responsible for a large number of really insidious back door infections.
I know people copying software is a fact of life, but people are getting nailed on the keygens.
One of the main things that would make Nehalem attractive is a few things for blade servers. The process 45nm moving on to 32nm later will provide the smallest footprint while not giving up any CPU power. Also, the Nehalems (Bloomfield and Core i7) that I have tested don't seem to offer much in terms of better performance, but the power usage is considerably lower. Also, FB-DIMMS (and DDR2) were a bit too consumptive of power, the newer memory technology is an attempt to reduce power consumption. Also, the CPI (formerly CSI) offers the Intel CPUs a Hypertransport-like interconnect system allowing system builders to scale. The footprint of 16+ core systems with Nehalem will be far smaller than the previous generations of Xeon MP processors.
I think the idea is more memory, more CPU processing power, less power and heat and scalability with a given architecture.
I noticed in my testing the L1 Data and instruction caches (32KB per core) in the Core i7 is one cycle more latent than the core2 (4 cycles vs 3), the L2 cache (which is 256KB per core rather than the 4-6MB per two cores in Core2) is faster, down from 17 cycles to 12 cycles. With this boost in L2-speed came a cut of 3.75MB-5.75MB in size. The way they mitigated that loss was to give a "large" 8MB L3 cache that runs on a slower clock. This new system, along with a hyper-threading implementation that, unlike the previous one, seems to genuinely enhance performance in nearly every test, allows Intel to make top-performing chips (see CPU 2006 @ spec.org for the latest results) that scale better via QPI, use less power and fit into smaller spaces than previous chips.
In other news today, Physicists are still busy smashing atoms into little bits while real progress on a fusion reactor that is desperately needed now languishes.
We need another "JFK" to say "get a fusion reactor online" just as JFK said "we will go to the moon" - badly.
I think high energy physics and cosmology should always predicate the latest sexy experiment with some justification given the expense to the taxpayers as to what the applicability of all this is.
Not only that, but this new hardware isn't sporting ECC. ECC single bit correction rates as indicated by Google and EETimes are much higher than you would expect. Ever have a memory read error, or a "BSOD" or panic you cant explain? I don't. All my rigs have ECC. Until one converts to a no-compromise on ECC stance, one never knows 2 things:
Are my bits really safe? (both in memory and on disk)? Is my memory actually working ?
Its tiresome to see that at the end of 2008 ECC isn't standard fare yet.
By the way, if the anti-ECC crowd comes into play (It seems there is a religion against ECC memory - who would have thought), I have rigs with ECC that blow away most machines. The GPU does most of the work, and for the most part GPU memory can be unprotected due to a bit flip in a frame buffer doesn't result in corrupted files or machine-death for the most part.
Most of the crap written before the 20th century is: - racist - superstitious - fomenting religious wars - propaganda - lies
Programs written in C, say, IUPAC notation, metric systems, etc, and all that nice science/stark trek stuff is based on common language. It doesn't matter what it is, but someone has to win. The chicken scratch of yore is crap, recorded crap and was the language of sub-cretins be modern standards.
You all want to embrace what was seen as a punishment by God himself (Read the Tower of Bable story for a funny punishment by God), then go ahead. Seem counter-productive.
Languages are as dumb as English units (lb, oz, etc).
Using an ancient charset like 8859-1 in this millenium is nothing but retarded.
Maybe. probably not. UTF-8 and other language facilitating garbage really divides the whole world further and harder, making inter-communication from difficult, say, spanish-chinese-english [which seems to be the inevitable big-3], to impossible, where there are thousands of languages all attempting to do the exact same thing.
I would like to point out, the true national language of India is English, and it makes them a relative pleasure to deal with in a business sense. They have upwards of 24 languages there, but common glue really comes in handy both in India and internationally.
Contrast this with china, there are probably 24 dialects, one written language. They written language looks like chicken scratch to most people. And you cant spell it out, "I'm on the corner of tree slash dot up-right slash", and there are still 24 dialects. Its more or lest legacy crap. And facilitating it is a bad idea. (Not to mention the ridiculous input methods associated with chicken scratch.)
Most Languages are really only remain due to culture, which one must respect or it will be deemed highly offensive, but to not have a common language in the world today is probably the best evidence that humanity itself is on the road to failure. The one thing we need to share information and understand each other is being resisted tooth and nail. There is more agreement on computer syntax than communicating thoughts and feelings worldwide. Sad.
So, all, have the UTF-8, the NLS, and all the other horrible unnecessary complexity that creates more display issues than it solves and creates tons of unneeded bugs in otherwise perfectly good software, and waste time facilitating the one thing that is preventing everyone from understanding each other.
And this crap with the "universal translator" wont come to fruition any time soon. The fastest way to lose the intent and true meaning of something in one language is to use a computer to translate it to another.
Lets all agree on a 7-bit character set and a single language before it's too late. You have been warned.
Ooh, an Internet Tough Guy. I'm shaking in my virtual boots.
Piss off. You anonymous tyrant fuckers wouldnt last very long in the real world analog. People **hate** deletionist assholes. Then again, you wouldnt act like this in public. Compensation for something?
Sure. Also, there's unlimited space for landfills. Want one in your front yard? You, the fucking moron, cant think in the abstract apparently. A landfill takes up real space. Wikipedia's only technical excuse for not having a bunch of stuff would be search would get difficult. But wiki's search sucks shit, we all just use google anyway to find things there. site:wikipedia.org, anyone?
Are you aware there's a fairly detailed wikipedia page about 4chan? Yes, but try adding things to it. Like memes they create. Deleted. This point #2 is fucking irrelevant to the topic of deletionism.
Just so I'm sure I understand you; you're threatening violence, as in you come over here and beat me up or try to kill me? Alright, Internet tough guy. Send me a PM, I'll send you my address. We'll rock and roll. Yes, I am the AC you responded to. Nice try, DOJ fascist authoritarian totalitarian bootlicker. Like that's going to happen. Pussies like yourself would simply forward the info along to some 3/4 latter agency. You need "the man" to protect you.
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You are a fucking tyrant. You abuse the public that supports the effort, you will twist any shit to justify your actions. You are hitler, you are staling, you are mao, you are a fucking deletionist. And the only things you know are extremes. There is no middle ground, no reasoning. You are a worthless fucking asshole and you steal from the public that supports wikipedia by running a fucking autocracy.
I hope you DIAF, and then in the burn ward get fucking prostate cancer.
You lose again, deletionist. Wikipedia is chock full of Sci-Fi trivia from fiction books.
QED, 2x, and double standard and too much of a fucking coward to go non-AC, because information wants to be free, and people dislike tyrants and YOU KNOW IT.
I hope you can see the logical fallacy in maintaining a huge sub-tome of information Star Wars, more than Lucas even remembers thinking up, on a made-up religion from a movie of fiction. This is notable, yet "happycat" is not.
Its unbelievable the double standards going on at Wikipedia, and the best way to avoid being a flaming hypocrite is to save deletion for a smaller set of content. The more the deletionists delete, the more they are exposed to be the tyrant hypocrites that they are.
Not, a topic is notable only if the Inner Circle Elite let it be notable.
Wikipedia has time and time again alienated even material experts.
Notability, the phrase "non-trivial coverage" and "multiple reliable secondary sources" is all subjective trash, and Wikipedia is a cabal of highfalutin assholes who run the place like a personal fiefdom.
1) I'd like to point out that there is "unlimited" space on Wikipedia 2) 4Chan: you mean the guys who do a lot of things that make the news? 3) No, you take your arrogant attitude and DIAF. I literally think that seeking revenge with real life consequences is justified, you best remain anonymous, as those who destroy information are very evil in my estimation. 4) The deletionists have not worked on raiding quality, they just delete. Articles should be worked up and "certified", dont waste time deleting thing you have a personal problem with.
How does the Internet Meme "Happycat" which was deleted despite being very notable qualify as not notable.
There is a huge subjective component to notability. Sure, "x is the coolest person" is probably a good candidate for deletion, but time and time again I've seen these barnstar toting clowns delete perfectly good articles because they have pull and they think something isn't notable due to their unfamiliarity with a subject.
The same deletionists often have strange pet subjects , eg, an obscure record label of music they like.
Its basic: when a deletion causes an uproar its probably a notable subject.
You know, there isn't enough in pre-med programs , not too much.
For all the Academic work these people do, medical malpractice kills 80,000 people a year while guns kill about 30,000. Doctors are so bad they are literally more dangerous than guns.
I like surgeons and PT/OT/therapists, but internal medicine in the US is a drug pushing AMA partly line fascist totalitarian lobbyist regime that has formed into the medical industrial complex processing humans into soylent green.
Its bad. Its very very bad. I never want to go into a hospital again if I an help it. And if I get old I want to kill myself with a morphine drip at home, it will be cheaper and less painful than enduring the hell these animals put you through to take all your money away.
My favorite subject was organic chemistry, and if a doctor cant pass that, they must be far less intelligent than the retards that do IM today.
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"CNN/FOX going out of business due to low ratings is actually GOOD for US Democracy."
A democracy is two wolves and sheep voting on what's for dinner.
The US is a constitutional republic. The constitutional goes about limiting the powers of government through 17 prohibitive clauses. (Interestingly enough, the general welfare clause which is used often to expand the federal government far beyond its intended power appears in the midst of a prohibitive clause in reference to taxation apportionment, but hey, why wouldn't James Madison backdoor the constitution just for kicks. Even though he explained in letters that an expansionist view of this clause would render the document useless, but hey, he wrote it, no biggie, modern judges know more than the author about its intent)
Also worth noting is the rights enumerated in the bill of rights was perceived by some as unnecessary as the government just wrought would be so limited the 10th would take care of the rest. Thank goodness for the enumerations we got since "life liberty property" and rights reserved is somehow vague.
Without the protection of a constitution we really don't have much, and majoritarian rule will undoubtedly lead to increasing internal strife. One could argue the march towards majoritarian tyranny is part of an overarching strategy bring about a crisis.
I also have an interesting history on Rule 22 / Filibuster in the Senate.
History of the Filibuster (Rule 22) in the Senate.
A long time ago any Senator could prevent any law simply by talking about it. Any senator could stop the move to cloture. This was by design. Its to make the little states have a lot of power in the face of the big ones because representation in the house is apportioned. Its a simple and clever concept to have a working bicameral house. Its designed to stop tyrants.
Then a certain president named Wilson who brought us gems like the Federal Reserve system by sneaking it through in a December 23rd vote where almost none of congress was present. (He signed it despite the sneak attack) Think recess appointment, but treasonous. A mark of a patriot.
Anyways, Wilson gets his way and the Fed has been using the hidden tax of inflation like a weapon against the people ever since.
Wilson also helped to dupe the states into the 17th Amendment, giving the election of Senators from the State legislature (making the State legislatures more or less irrelevant in the face of today's Fedzilla) and giving it to the people - more democracy (translates to bigger Federal government)! Major shift in power there. Less checking and balancing.
Fast forward to 1917. Wilson wants to bring America to war. The Senate uses a filibuster (then, by any member just not moving to cloture) to stop Wilson's war.
Wilson can't take no and wont tolerate the filibuster, so he has the rules changed. Now a move to cloture happens if TWO THIRDS agree to move. WAR BEGINS. Typical of a tyrant, they like that stuff so it distracts from the failing state and failing policies.
More who urinate on the Constitution come over the years it erodes to THREE Fifths.
First it was one senator.
Then 23
Then 35
See the trend?
As the constitutionality of the Fedzilla comes more and more out of bounds, the more they want to force the Senate to enact unconstitutional laws.
Now we have acting federal congressman saying:
QUOTE
"It is time to shut it down"
"God didn't create the filibuster, it's part of the Senate rules."
"It is outrageous"
"It tends to be, in many cases, the senators from those smaller states that aggregate to get up to be the 40."
"Less populous states end up with a disproportionate amount of power."
This was the design of the bicameral house. This is what the senate was supposed to do. Obstruct, slow down and make sure the disaffected get their say in Fedzilla lest they be crushed by majoritarian politics. It was designed to stop 51% wiping away the 49%.
Anyways, always irritating to see people adopt NEWSPEAK, especially in regards to the constitutional and the Framer's intent. Changing the meaning of words is the next best thing to banning literacy for tyrants.
I'd buy it on sight if it supported ECC. No ECC support = unstable system. I always have an ECC system, and I always get high "3DMarks" and frame rates and I never get a BSOD or other system errors.
Without ECC its impossible to know if memory errors are occurring, and 12GB of memory at 1333/1600MHz probably has a single bit event quite often.
This rusty aging theory, that the reason people age is due to accumulated damage, is under serious scrutiny at this point.
Its really simple: (1) Evolution has no reason to further improve on designs after successful reproduction, (2) lots of old people competing for the same food supply is not good for reproduction.
There are clams that live to 400, turtles that are engaging in reproduction over 100 years old and trees that live for 5000 years.
In fact, aging in humans is rapidly accelerated in the following disorders, all genetic: Werner's (WS), Cockayne, and Hutchinson-Gilford's.
You might want to update yourself here:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/05/is-aging-an-acc.html
I myself think that death when we experience it from aging is a desirable genetic trait, and to defeat aging we will have to learn more about epigenetics and clever gene promotion and expression.
Or you can continue to believe in biological rust and tattered telomeres, which of course is junk science.
This oxidation/cellular damage is coming under major dispute at this point. So don't quote it as fact, long lives whales and turtles are living evidence, trees can live to 5000 years and clams can live to 400.
The support is quite dodgy, really. I carry licenses for RHEL so I can get help with CENTOS via that licensed RedHat if I need it. I've done a lot of work with RedHat OSes in the past, and have used RedHat "EL" since 6.2EE when I was helping out with running OpenMail on Linux. I've had about 3 cases on my $2600 or so / year premium RedHat license and they never fixed anything in a timely fashion (if at all). I ended up fixing a problem with a module they load that crashed the machine by using install in modprobe.conf, there was a bug for crashdumps which "resolved itself", the case I filed was never resolved but some kernel that was 14 months newer finally fixed it magically, and I had a few problems with udev, etc. I'm so fed up with RedHat EL support I don't think I'll be buying another year, they are really the bottom of the barrel for one-off customers. You will get next to nothing for $2600/year IMHO.
Oh, when my subscription to the EL5 channel ran out on RHN, the case they never solved kept constantly emailing me but I could no longer log into support to close the case to have it stop emailing me all the time. Frustrating, and a lot of the service offering is "half assed" - you might think the same if you paid $2600 per year for something and get as little return on the scant number of bugs I filed cases for.
Yes, I have tried the quiet version, but I like the black 104 key from IBM FRU PN: 02K0861 - Model: KB-7953 better.
The ka-klang board offers better feedback than the rubber dome, and I feel the "crunch" of this 7953 is better than a klu-mush of the Unicomp quiet.
Really, I would got to a "computer show" (if those exist anymore?), a second hand computer store (like Weird Stuff) or some place that has piles of keyboards and fish out like 10 or so PS/2 keyboards of all different flavors and take them for a spin.
The one great thing about IBM branded keyboards is they last about as long as a selectric: Forever.
Oh, and another great keyboard by IBM.
This one is black with Windows Keys, and its a softy-touch, but still makes a lot of noise, but not a ka-klang. It does not have the pronounced curvature of the IBM Type M.
Its got good inter-key pitch and excellent tactiles.
FRU PN: 02K0861
Model: KB-7953
PN: 02K0860
This keyboard is one tough little bastard. I've smashed this thing Master Shake style with great anger and never broke it.
I also have a white KB-8923.
FRU PN: 07H066
PN:07H065
This one is not-so-good. I wouldn't seek this out. Its built like a brick like the others, but the keys feel all Chicony-cheap.
I have a Unicomp as well. There is nothing like it. They also make a quiet version, which has the same curved keyboard typing area and all the keys in the right places, but doesn't make the ka-klang when typing. This is good for when you don't have an office or have kids next door at home.
My typing WPM goes way up on the ka-klang style Type M clones because the feedback is exacting, there is a pressure-release feel when the button is actuated and a sound for feedback.
I'm not saying cheap Chicony style or freebie Dell style are horrible, but the ka-klanging boards and that layout for keys seem optimal and if you happen to have very large hands, the pitch between keys is ideal for a lot more than the dainty handed typers.
For the longest time I was loyal to IBM for Thinkpads largely due to the adherence to a proper properly pitched keyboard with proper tactile feedback.
Also, IBM made a "compacted" Type M. It was black, has all the nice features but has a much smaller footprint. I think I have the FRU somewhere.
IBM Black compact 104 clickey with curvature: FRU 37L0814 FCC ID: E8HKB-5323 MODEL: KB-3923
Dell also gave for some time with the Dell 1550 machines and machines from that era a ka-klanger keyboard that was excellent. Its much larger like the Type M, its black and it ka-klangs.
There was also a 486 DX 50, a fairly rare part which had a bus speed of 50MHz (not a DX2), and used to "OC" the VESA (VLB) local bus as well. This chip was seen in many EISA systems at the time and needed extra cooling.
I had a buddy with a 486 DX50, and it was a fast system for the time, It was faster in a lot of ways than a 486DX2/66.
The best was playing Wing Commander on these systems, it was way too fast :)
Please, download VMWare or Virtual PC or something and use rollbacks (always go back to the previous snapshot after running a keygen/crack) and ALWAYS run these keygens and/or cracks in a virtual machine. They are responsible for a large number of really insidious back door infections.
I know people copying software is a fact of life, but people are getting nailed on the keygens.
One of the main things that would make Nehalem attractive is a few things for blade servers. The process 45nm moving on to 32nm later will provide the smallest footprint while not giving up any CPU power. Also, the Nehalems (Bloomfield and Core i7) that I have tested don't seem to offer much in terms of better performance, but the power usage is considerably lower. Also, FB-DIMMS (and DDR2) were a bit too consumptive of power, the newer memory technology is an attempt to reduce power consumption. Also, the CPI (formerly CSI) offers the Intel CPUs a Hypertransport-like interconnect system allowing system builders to scale. The footprint of 16+ core systems with Nehalem will be far smaller than the previous generations of Xeon MP processors.
I think the idea is more memory, more CPU processing power, less power and heat and scalability with a given architecture.
I noticed in my testing the L1 Data and instruction caches (32KB per core) in the Core i7 is one cycle more latent than the core2 (4 cycles vs 3), the L2 cache (which is 256KB per core rather than the 4-6MB per two cores in Core2) is faster, down from 17 cycles to 12 cycles. With this boost in L2-speed came a cut of 3.75MB-5.75MB in size. The way they mitigated that loss was to give a "large" 8MB L3 cache that runs on a slower clock. This new system, along with a hyper-threading implementation that, unlike the previous one, seems to genuinely enhance performance in nearly every test, allows Intel to make top-performing chips (see CPU 2006 @ spec.org for the latest results) that scale better via QPI, use less power and fit into smaller spaces than previous chips.
See:
Sorted SPEC CPU2006 Integer and Floating Point
CINT2006
Hardware Vendor System Result Baseline # Cores # Chips # Cores Per Chip Published Disclosure
1) YOYOtech Fi7EPOWER MLK1610 (Intel Core i7-965) 36.0 32.5 4 1 4 Jan-2009
2) ASUSTeK Computer Inc. ASUS P6T WS PRO workstation motherboard (Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition) 35.2 31.5 4 1 4
3) ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Asus P6T Deluxe (Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition) 33.6 30.2 4 1 4 Nov-2008
4) ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Asus P6T Deluxe (Intel Core i7-940) 30.8 27.8 4 1 4
5) Dell Inc. Dell Precision T7400 (Intel Xeon X5492, 3.40 GHz) 30.2 27.6 8 2 4
CFP2006
Hardware Vendor System Result Baseline # Cores # Chips # Cores Per Chip Published Disclosure
1) ASUSTeK Computer Inc. ASUS P6T WS PRO workstation motherboard (Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition) 39.3 37.4 4 1 4 Feb-2009
2) YOYOtech Fi7EPOWER MLK1610 (Intel Core i7-965) 35.7 33.6 4 1 4 Jan-2009
3)ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Asus P6T Deluxe (Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition) 33.6
In other news today, Physicists are still busy smashing atoms into little bits while real progress on a fusion reactor that is desperately needed now languishes.
We need another "JFK" to say "get a fusion reactor online" just as JFK said "we will go to the moon" - badly.
I think high energy physics and cosmology should always predicate the latest sexy experiment with some justification given the expense to the taxpayers as to what the applicability of all this is.
Not only that, but this new hardware isn't sporting ECC. ECC single bit correction rates as indicated by Google and EETimes are much higher than you would expect. Ever have a memory read error, or a "BSOD" or panic you cant explain? I don't. All my rigs have ECC. Until one converts to a no-compromise on ECC stance, one never knows 2 things:
Are my bits really safe? (both in memory and on disk)?
Is my memory actually working ?
Its tiresome to see that at the end of 2008 ECC isn't standard fare yet.
EETIMES: Microsoft says PCs may need DRAM upgrade http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199601761
By the way, if the anti-ECC crowd comes into play (It seems there is a religion against ECC memory - who would have thought), I have rigs with ECC that blow away most machines. The GPU does most of the work, and for the most part GPU memory can be unprotected due to a bit flip in a frame buffer doesn't result in corrupted files or machine-death for the most part.
Herzog was the first RTS I remember playing.
It was also a really really good game for the Genesis (Megadrive).
If you haven't played this game get an EMU and a ROM and do so immediately.
Its historic and quite a fun game.
Most of the crap written before the 20th century is:
- racist
- superstitious
- fomenting religious wars
- propaganda
- lies
Programs written in C, say, IUPAC notation, metric systems, etc, and all that nice science/stark trek stuff is based on common language. It doesn't matter what it is, but someone has to win. The chicken scratch of yore is crap, recorded crap and was the language of sub-cretins be modern standards.
You all want to embrace what was seen as a punishment by God himself (Read the Tower of Bable story for a funny punishment by God), then go ahead. Seem counter-productive.
Languages are as dumb as English units (lb, oz, etc).
Using an ancient charset like 8859-1 in this millenium is nothing but retarded.
Maybe. probably not. UTF-8 and other language facilitating garbage really divides the whole world further and harder, making inter-communication from difficult, say, spanish-chinese-english [which seems to be the inevitable big-3], to impossible, where there are thousands of languages all attempting to do the exact same thing.
I would like to point out, the true national language of India is English, and it makes them a relative pleasure to deal with in a business sense. They have upwards of 24 languages there, but common glue really comes in handy both in India and internationally.
Contrast this with china, there are probably 24 dialects, one written language. They written language looks like chicken scratch to most people. And you cant spell it out, "I'm on the corner of tree slash dot up-right slash", and there are still 24 dialects. Its more or lest legacy crap. And facilitating it is a bad idea. (Not to mention the ridiculous input methods associated with chicken scratch.)
Most Languages are really only remain due to culture, which one must respect or it will be deemed highly offensive, but to not have a common language in the world today is probably the best evidence that humanity itself is on the road to failure. The one thing we need to share information and understand each other is being resisted tooth and nail. There is more agreement on computer syntax than communicating thoughts and feelings worldwide. Sad.
So, all, have the UTF-8, the NLS, and all the other horrible unnecessary complexity that creates more display issues than it solves and creates tons of unneeded bugs in otherwise perfectly good software, and waste time facilitating the one thing that is preventing everyone from understanding each other.
And this crap with the "universal translator" wont come to fruition any time soon. The fastest way to lose the intent and true meaning of something in one language is to use a computer to translate it to another.
Lets all agree on a 7-bit character set and a single language before it's too late. You have been warned.
MSAV (Microsoft Anti-Virus) came with MS-DOS 6.x. This was a version of Central Point Anti Virus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Anti-Virus
It hardly caused the Anti-Virus as we knew it then (for Joe Six Pack or otherwise).
True,
And if EAX/DirectSound and DirectSound3D don't work, this thing is headed for the same DRM/Securepath infested garbage bin Vista is in.
Ooh, an Internet Tough Guy. I'm shaking in my virtual boots.
Piss off. You anonymous tyrant fuckers wouldnt last very long in the real world analog. People **hate** deletionist assholes. Then again, you wouldnt act like this in public. Compensation for something?
Sure. Also, there's unlimited space for landfills. Want one in your front yard?
You, the fucking moron, cant think in the abstract apparently. A landfill takes up real space. Wikipedia's only technical excuse for not having a bunch of stuff would be search would get difficult. But wiki's search sucks shit, we all just use google anyway to find things there. site:wikipedia.org, anyone?
Are you aware there's a fairly detailed wikipedia page about 4chan?
Yes, but try adding things to it. Like memes they create. Deleted. This point #2 is fucking irrelevant to the topic of deletionism.
Just so I'm sure I understand you; you're threatening violence, as in you come over here and beat me up or try to kill me? Alright, Internet tough guy. Send me a PM, I'll send you my address. We'll rock and roll. Yes, I am the AC you responded to.
Nice try, DOJ fascist authoritarian totalitarian bootlicker. Like that's going to happen. Pussies like yourself would simply forward the info along to some 3/4 latter agency. You need "the man" to protect you.
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You are a fucking tyrant. You abuse the public that supports the effort, you will twist any shit to justify your actions. You are hitler, you are staling, you are mao, you are a fucking deletionist. And the only things you know are extremes. There is no middle ground, no reasoning. You are a worthless fucking asshole and you steal from the public that supports wikipedia by running a fucking autocracy.
I hope you DIAF, and then in the burn ward get fucking prostate cancer.
Thats how much we hate you, FYI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifo-Dyas
You lose again, deletionist. Wikipedia is chock full of Sci-Fi trivia from fiction books.
QED, 2x, and double standard and too much of a fucking coward to go non-AC, because information wants to be free, and people dislike tyrants and YOU KNOW IT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi
QED.
I hope you can see the logical fallacy in maintaining a huge sub-tome of information Star Wars, more than Lucas even remembers thinking up, on a made-up religion from a movie of fiction. This is notable, yet "happycat" is not.
Its unbelievable the double standards going on at Wikipedia, and the best way to avoid being a flaming hypocrite is to save deletion for a smaller set of content. The more the deletionists delete, the more they are exposed to be the tyrant hypocrites that they are.
Not, a topic is notable only if the Inner Circle Elite let it be notable.
Wikipedia has time and time again alienated even material experts.
Notability, the phrase "non-trivial coverage" and "multiple reliable secondary sources" is all subjective trash, and Wikipedia is a cabal of highfalutin assholes who run the place like a personal fiefdom.
1) I'd like to point out that there is "unlimited" space on Wikipedia
2) 4Chan: you mean the guys who do a lot of things that make the news?
3) No, you take your arrogant attitude and DIAF. I literally think that seeking revenge with real life consequences is justified, you best remain anonymous, as those who destroy information are very evil in my estimation.
4) The deletionists have not worked on raiding quality, they just delete. Articles should be worked up and "certified", dont waste time deleting thing you have a personal problem with.
How does the Internet Meme "Happycat" which was deleted despite being very notable qualify as not notable.
There is a huge subjective component to notability. Sure, "x is the coolest person" is probably a good candidate for deletion, but time and time again I've seen these barnstar toting clowns delete perfectly good articles because they have pull and they think something isn't notable due to their unfamiliarity with a subject.
The same deletionists often have strange pet subjects , eg, an obscure record label of music they like.
Its basic: when a deletion causes an uproar its probably a notable subject.
You know, there isn't enough in pre-med programs , not too much.
For all the Academic work these people do, medical malpractice kills 80,000 people a year while guns kill about 30,000. Doctors are so bad they are literally more dangerous than guns.
I like surgeons and PT/OT/therapists, but internal medicine in the US is a drug pushing AMA partly line fascist totalitarian lobbyist regime that has formed into the medical industrial complex processing humans into soylent green.
Its bad. Its very very bad. I never want to go into a hospital again if I an help it. And if I get old I want to kill myself with a morphine drip at home, it will be cheaper and less painful than enduring the hell these animals put you through to take all your money away.
My favorite subject was organic chemistry, and if a doctor cant pass that, they must be far less intelligent than the retards that do IM today.