That means that within the space of the Sandy Bridge chip, there could be, instead, 315,873 complete 6502 cores!!... With today's technology, we could run each of these cores at least one-thousand times faster than the original!... So, finally, in the space of just one Sandy Bridge Quad Core die, we could have the processing equivalent of over 300 Million 6502 cores!(*)
That would make for one bad-ass game of LoadRunner!
You mean to tell me that the companies who designed or licensed this chip plus the chip fabs themselves have no information on how they were manufactured?
Well, sure, but they had them backed up on their Apple/// machines, and... well...
None of these are 'laws', where you get punished by breaking them. Not Moore's, not Godwin's, etc. They are more 'generalizations' than anything else. Moore's, especially, could be more acccurately terms an 'observation', as that's what was going on at the time he made it. Everyone repeat after me: "Moore's Observation"
I say we build a "Box-O-Doom". It will represent everything that is evil and shall be sacrificed in a volcano. It must have the following:
1. Case must be beige with other parts slightly discolored (yellowed) from the others. 2. P4 with RAMBUS. 3. Intel i740 AGP video card. 4. Connor IDE hard drive. 5. 1x CDROM drive that uses a CD caddy. 6. Winmodem. 7. Windows ME. 8. Office 2000 complete with Clippy. 9. MS Bob. 10. Norton System Works. 11. Subscription to AOL.
Bonus: Should have enough dust and cigarette tar, a fleece can be made of the stuff.
Don't forget the IBM PCjr keyboard, Apple iMac "hockeypuck" mouse, 14" VGA CRT, and 5 1/4" floppy drives. And a Zip Drive or something like that.
I am interested in when the hell are they going to put up 4g service nationwide so I can take advantage of the $10 mandatory extra data fee on my Epic on a regular basis instead of the rare occasions I visit New Orleans or Atlanta.
Well, it's in most metro areas at this point, I think. The real problem I have here in the Seattle area is that WiMax signals SUCK indoors. It's mostly pointless for the way and where I use my phone. Honestly, the EVO is a great 3G phone, aside from the battery life.
I'm definitely ready for a dual-core 45nm-based phone with LTE, as long as it has a big-ass screen. I couldn't use something with a screen as tiny as that of the iPhone now that I'm spoiled.
How long are we going to beat that horse? Does that many people really care? Granted, an iPhone on a non-ATT network is automatically a better iphone, but the bloom is kind of off the iphone rose these days anyway.
Yeah, sadly, a Verizon-based iPhone will be a BFD. The bloom is so NOT off that rose for non-techies, which is the vast majority of people. And a lot of techies are into the iPhone as well. Wishing it weren't so doesn't make it not so. *sigh*
I'm more interested in a dual-core LTE-based phone with a big screen (4.3" like my EVO). Running Android, of course.:)
The title should read "battery powered buses" instead, but thet's not a great advantage for a bus. A vehicle that always runs through the same route is very easily powered by cables strung along the road.
We have many of those here in Seattle, and those overhead lines are _BEYOND UGLY_.
Don't you have to prove your innocence in military trials? No presumption of innocence? That's my understanding, anyway. An automatic appeals process hardly makes up for that. And the conditions Manning is being held in are considered torture by many - even John McCain (though he won't admit it now). The military doesn't hold the moral high ground on this case.
Also, Wired releasing this supposed info could influence an eventual jury (one way or the other).
What jury? Manning is in military jail. Military trials don't work anywhere near the same way as civilian ones do. They're actually rather barbaric, rather like the conditions he's being kept in.:(
Except that, whenever I come to #lojban on IRC (I probably did that between 5 and 10 times though), I see only a short discussion in English, usually about translation of some phrase into Lojban.
It's not so long ago that everyone in the future was going to be speaking Japanese. We know how well that prediction turned out.
Which is proof enough that how easy a language is to write and speak has nothing to do with how well it will be adopted. I'm talking about using the Kana as far as the written part goes - no one in their right mind should be suggesting Kanji for anything other than putting cool-looking tattoos on foreigners who have no idea what it really says.
Japanese has very few sounds (way fewer than in English), and is extremely logical in its written form. Plus Katakana looks cool. (Hiragana, not so much, but that's just this gaijin's opinion.)
Yes, that's useful - let's have a war over which constructed language to use for universal communication.
I wonder if the same fate that is befalling Blu-Ray will happen here - the war between HD-DVD and BluRay took so long to sort out that downloads will wind up winning.
So English will wind up winning in the end, I expect. Sadly.
I think we should all learn a pidgin combination of English, Chinese and Russian, like Mannie speaks in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
The first thing that came to mind is, "People are gonna use this and love it and I'll get richer!" but "Companies are stupid and think that people want to see MORE ads - they'll love this and will give me lots of money do to this and I'll get richer!"
Might not be the business model you THINK (or that it claims). Kinda like all that Starbucks-branded junk in Starbucks is mainly sold to Starbucks employees...
I've got text files going back to my Apple//e days, and some image files from my Amiga (Deluxe Paint III FTW!), but I've brought them over and converted them to each new machine as time went on; no need to go back to any originals (which I haven't bothered with, anyway).
That's by far the best method for long-term backups - back up and do any conversion when the new technology is replacing the old - that's when it'll be the easiest to do, as everyone else will be in the same boat, and there will be techniques and products around to do it (because everyone will be in the same boat, there will be financial incentive to supply the ability). The longer you wait, the harder it gets, especially when there are hardware compatibility issues (Apple 5 1/4" floppy drive is very different from a x86 5 1/4" floppy, and you don't even want to think about an Amiga 3.5" floppy).
Backup early and often, and CONVERT early and often, too. Though if you luck you, the longer you wait, the more likely some open source dork will have deciphered an old format and supplied something for free.
You might also look for a vintage computing enthusiast who actually still HAS said old hardware who might also be able to recover something from old disks/formats and be able to help you out when necessary.
makes me wish i actually signed up when i was reading this back in high school... its ok, i'll let the other old fogeys
Wow. If Slashdot existed when you were in high school, you're no old fogey!:)
Oh yeah, get off my lawn.
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4. There really wasn't much Tron in this Tron. He practically made a cameo appearance! Since he's many people's favorite character of the original, I thought he deserved a little more screen time.
SPOILER ALERT!
Tron was in almost every fight scene in this movie, you just didn't know who he was until the end. Tron was a fucking bad-ass in this movie. And I really want to know who did his martial arts moves (and how much of that was real), because that was some amazing shit.
it turns out I shouldn't have wasted the extra few bucks on service fees getting my tickets online, in advance
I'm still surprised by how many people don't know how to get around this.
Get an AMC or Regal Cinemas membership card (they're free). Then use an online ticketing service that lets you plug in your membership account number to avoid said fees. Profit!
Do you notice how you either can't recall or can't care to recall the father and son's names? That says something about the emotional attachment you didn't develop for the characters.
What are you talking about? "Flynn" and "Son of Flynn". Perfect videogame character names! Sinistar is not amused.
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That means that within the space of the Sandy Bridge chip, there could be, instead, 315,873 complete 6502 cores!! ... ...
With today's technology, we could run each of these cores at least one-thousand times faster than the original!
So, finally, in the space of just one Sandy Bridge Quad Core die, we could have the processing equivalent of over 300 Million 6502 cores!(*)
That would make for one bad-ass game of LoadRunner!
You mean to tell me that the companies who designed or licensed this chip plus the chip fabs themselves have no information on how they were manufactured?
Well, sure, but they had them backed up on their Apple /// machines, and ... well ...
None of these are 'laws', where you get punished by breaking them. Not Moore's, not Godwin's, etc. They are more 'generalizations' than anything else. Moore's, especially, could be more acccurately terms an 'observation', as that's what was going on at the time he made it. Everyone repeat after me: "Moore's Observation"
There we go.
Even "Moore's Average" would be more accurate.
I say we build a "Box-O-Doom". It will represent everything that is evil and shall be sacrificed in a volcano. It must have the following:
1. Case must be beige with other parts slightly discolored (yellowed) from the others.
2. P4 with RAMBUS.
3. Intel i740 AGP video card.
4. Connor IDE hard drive.
5. 1x CDROM drive that uses a CD caddy.
6. Winmodem.
7. Windows ME.
8. Office 2000 complete with Clippy.
9. MS Bob.
10. Norton System Works.
11. Subscription to AOL.
Bonus: Should have enough dust and cigarette tar, a fleece can be made of the stuff.
Don't forget the IBM PCjr keyboard, Apple iMac "hockeypuck" mouse, 14" VGA CRT, and 5 1/4" floppy drives. And a Zip Drive or something like that.
I'll see you in Hell, Vista. You and RAMBUS!
Good book, I recommend it.
Good premise, though far from original. Horrible book. I don't recommend it. WAY too big, too. YMMV.
Funny. My first _three_ computers didn't even HAVE hard drives. Crap I'm old.
I am interested in when the hell are they going to put up 4g service nationwide so I can take advantage of the $10 mandatory extra data fee on my Epic on a regular basis instead of the rare occasions I visit New Orleans or Atlanta.
Well, it's in most metro areas at this point, I think. The real problem I have here in the Seattle area is that WiMax signals SUCK indoors. It's mostly pointless for the way and where I use my phone. Honestly, the EVO is a great 3G phone, aside from the battery life.
I'm definitely ready for a dual-core 45nm-based phone with LTE, as long as it has a big-ass screen. I couldn't use something with a screen as tiny as that of the iPhone now that I'm spoiled.
How long are we going to beat that horse? Does that many people really care? Granted, an iPhone on a non-ATT network is automatically a better iphone, but the bloom is kind of off the iphone rose these days anyway.
Yeah, sadly, a Verizon-based iPhone will be a BFD. The bloom is so NOT off that rose for non-techies, which is the vast majority of people. And a lot of techies are into the iPhone as well. Wishing it weren't so doesn't make it not so. *sigh*
I'm more interested in a dual-core LTE-based phone with a big screen (4.3" like my EVO). Running Android, of course. :)
The title should read "battery powered buses" instead, but thet's not a great advantage for a bus. A vehicle that always runs through the same route is very easily powered by cables strung along the road.
We have many of those here in Seattle, and those overhead lines are _BEYOND UGLY_.
I for one am surprised Chattanooga has electricity.
They do, but they call it "'lectric".
Don't you have to prove your innocence in military trials? No presumption of innocence? That's my understanding, anyway. An automatic appeals process hardly makes up for that. And the conditions Manning is being held in are considered torture by many - even John McCain (though he won't admit it now). The military doesn't hold the moral high ground on this case.
Also, Wired releasing this supposed info could influence an eventual jury (one way or the other).
What jury? Manning is in military jail. Military trials don't work anywhere near the same way as civilian ones do. They're actually rather barbaric, rather like the conditions he's being kept in. :(
Maybe I put the "only" in the wrong place. There is a short discussion in English, but none in Lojban. How often do they use Lojban on IRC?
Or maybe you replied to someone who wasn't promoting Lojban. What you think, cobber? :)
Except that, whenever I come to #lojban on IRC (I probably did that between 5 and 10 times though), I see only a short discussion in English, usually about translation of some phrase into Lojban.
That sounds logical.
It's not so long ago that everyone in the future was going to be speaking Japanese. We know how well that prediction turned out.
Which is proof enough that how easy a language is to write and speak has nothing to do with how well it will be adopted. I'm talking about using the Kana as far as the written part goes - no one in their right mind should be suggesting Kanji for anything other than putting cool-looking tattoos on foreigners who have no idea what it really says.
Japanese has very few sounds (way fewer than in English), and is extremely logical in its written form. Plus Katakana looks cool. (Hiragana, not so much, but that's just this gaijin's opinion.)
Kanji needs to die, though.
(ducks British spitball)
I don't see how British ducks throwing spitballs have anything to do with this conversation. Perhaps if you tried explaining this in Lojban?
I prefer this language myself -
Yes, that's useful - let's have a war over which constructed language to use for universal communication.
I wonder if the same fate that is befalling Blu-Ray will happen here - the war between HD-DVD and BluRay took so long to sort out that downloads will wind up winning.
So English will wind up winning in the end, I expect. Sadly.
I think we should all learn a pidgin combination of English, Chinese and Russian, like Mannie speaks in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
"What hoohoo, cobber?"
I smell a "In Soviet Russia" joke coming ....
In post-Soviet Russia, they know the USSR no longer exists! (And they use GNU/Linux!)
The first thing that came to mind is, "People are gonna use this and love it and I'll get richer!" but "Companies are stupid and think that people want to see MORE ads - they'll love this and will give me lots of money do to this and I'll get richer!"
Might not be the business model you THINK (or that it claims). Kinda like all that Starbucks-branded junk in Starbucks is mainly sold to Starbucks employees...
I've got text files going back to my Apple //e days, and some image files from my Amiga (Deluxe Paint III FTW!), but I've brought them over and converted them to each new machine as time went on; no need to go back to any originals (which I haven't bothered with, anyway).
That's by far the best method for long-term backups - back up and do any conversion when the new technology is replacing the old - that's when it'll be the easiest to do, as everyone else will be in the same boat, and there will be techniques and products around to do it (because everyone will be in the same boat, there will be financial incentive to supply the ability). The longer you wait, the harder it gets, especially when there are hardware compatibility issues (Apple 5 1/4" floppy drive is very different from a x86 5 1/4" floppy, and you don't even want to think about an Amiga 3.5" floppy).
Backup early and often, and CONVERT early and often, too. Though if you luck you, the longer you wait, the more likely some open source dork will have deciphered an old format and supplied something for free.
You might also look for a vintage computing enthusiast who actually still HAS said old hardware who might also be able to recover something from old disks/formats and be able to help you out when necessary.
makes me wish i actually signed up when i was reading this back in high school... its ok, i'll let the other old fogeys
Wow. If Slashdot existed when you were in high school, you're no old fogey! :)
Oh yeah, get off my lawn.
4. There really wasn't much Tron in this Tron. He practically made a cameo appearance! Since he's many people's favorite character of the original, I thought he deserved a little more screen time.
SPOILER ALERT!
Tron was in almost every fight scene in this movie, you just didn't know who he was until the end. Tron was a fucking bad-ass in this movie. And I really want to know who did his martial arts moves (and how much of that was real), because that was some amazing shit.
it turns out I shouldn't have wasted the extra few bucks on service fees getting my tickets online, in advance
I'm still surprised by how many people don't know how to get around this.
Get an AMC or Regal Cinemas membership card (they're free). Then use an online ticketing service that lets you plug in your membership account number to avoid said fees. Profit!
Do you notice how you either can't recall or can't care to recall the father and son's names? That says something about the emotional attachment you didn't develop for the characters.
What are you talking about? "Flynn" and "Son of Flynn". Perfect videogame character names! Sinistar is not amused.