Well... let's see here:
The MSI K7-Master has 4 133MHz DDR slots (or 266 if you want to say that)... and the memory used was Micron PC-2100 CL 2.5 DDR... but of course, that was mentioned on page three and four of the article, which you can't be bothered to read. --
Who would continue using a tape drive on the 64 once the 1541 (5-1/4") drive came out? The Commodore PET was the last computer with which anyone should have been forced to live with a tape drive. Heck, once the 1571 was built into the C=128 - now that was loading in speed and style.
Yeah, enlarging the L2 increases can increase the die size and decrease yield, both of which help lead to increased pricing. Since AMD likes to be able to battle on cost, this probably won't happen soon. What would be interesting is once the SMP chipset comes out if they would offer several options for cache size, trying to hit the entry server market... I would guess not, but who knows. --
well, it kind of fits in context...
1) Microsoft products suck.
1a)...but they are in most places the de facto standard, and because of that...
2) Microsoft better not limit access to their software.
(note the delete of "my" from 2)
Heck, basic reading skills are all that is required around here anymore - certainly no thought or sense of humor...
Judging by the quality of the four posts (this one included) in your history log, I must say that I am completely underwhelmed, but (for whatever reason) I will justify your questions with responses:
"Do you use MS software personally?"
Yes, I do - the few games that I play don't work very well on anything but Windows right now (mostly EA Sports titles). Also, MS Money and Quicken are still head and shoulders above GNUCash or any other finance program I've found... this holds true with several other apps that are fairly useful, too. That being said, I run Linux (Mandrake on one, Slackware on another) on other systems at home, and use that for many other things. Have been doing that for a number of years, and, while things are greatly improved, software support (in terms of titles) is the single greatest factor keeping my other box running Windows full-time.
"OR does your office use it."
Actually, I run AIX on an RS/6k... but it is used on the Thinkpads (not that I have one:P)
While your Debian trolling advocacy program is going well so far, maybe a little bit of substance in your posts wouldn't hurt. --
The composting toilets I've seen run ~$1500(US). I could have my current throne gold plated for less than that, and still have enough to pay for water to flush the toilet with for several years...
We now have the option to buy windpower off of the grid for a nominally larger fee than our standard electric. There is a growing bank of wind powered generators out here (MN), and you can buy the power from them in blocks. Rather nice.
"I've replaced all my incandescent lights with fluorescent. (You'll be amazed at how much flourescent lighting will save you each month. Not only does it use fewer watts, it doesn't produce nearly as much heat)."
But here in Minnesota, I should probably change out my fluorescents in the winter... I could use the extra heat with the increased cost of nat. gas.;-)
And can be bought at "Ye Olde Lumbre Yarde Shoppe"... oh wait, that's not in the UK, only in the "Authentic" re-created villages around Williamsburg, VA... --
>Rumors say that IBM (whose latest 75gxp series are allready quite silent) are to announce a silent drive.
They did, you just didn't hear...;-)
>Also to minimize noise you can get rubber suspensions for you desktop drives to mount them in a 5.25" bay. (Allthough watch the temp. rubber isn't a good heat conductor)
Well, if you have decent airflow (most of the whisper drives are 5400rpm, and quite cool anyway) it shouldn't be a problem. Heck, the 10krpm drives now are much cooler than they were just a couple years ago.
It is mentioned in the kernel-traffic FAQ that if you send patches to Linus, don't expect a response regardless of whether or not he puts it in... especially since the 'option 3' stuff is fairly neatly spelled out in the FAQs about patches. --
Yeah, a couple of my friends here at work went to NDSU... Being as they have EE degrees, they probably saw a computer or two while they were there, though I don't think I could move that far north - leaving the tropics here (Rochester, MN) would be a harsh shock;-)
When it was capped, I had ~125 (I think)... then I had a submission posted, and it dropped to 50 on the +3 readjust... sucks sometimes. I keep getting bitten by the +2/+3 -1 syndrome... especially since the -1 is usually 'overrated' after you've hit 4 or 5 for the post. Thusly, I bounce between 47 and 50 on a slowly rolling basis... both of which are plenty high to allow the +1 bonus...
Some of the good high-speed research (like the multi-GHz 64-bit F-RISC stuff that has been going on at RPI) uses the new fabs from IBM and the like... it's hard to find a school fab that can do SiGe or GaAs... --
I wouldn't put the CueCat in the same class of hardware as anything as complex as... oh, my alarmclock (granted, it is an X-10 controller, too). After all, the hardware on the CueCat could replicated with a 556 and some other chips from The Smack (minus of course the propritary tracking bits, which we didn't want anyway). Handheld scanners aren't all that hard to implement, though theyare a lot cheaper if you get them free...
The *real* hardware industry (pick a few uProcs, DSPs, comm chips, etc) generally does a really good job with design... The fact that Winmodems are crippled hardware isn't much more than limited requirements, with low cost being the driving factor. Processors, in most cases, can run any number of operating systems, given the right motivation on the part of the programing teams. Most O/Ss need the same basic hooks, so it usually isn't a big stretch (except for those recodes of the asm).
The most important "openness" that hardware companies can provide is full interface specs on their products... register sets, timings, etc... with that information, a person or group could do almost whatever they want with a given chip (even those winmodems).
As for bz2 on modems... software compression is nice, and easily added (of course both phone-link endpoints need to support it). The hardware compression offered by (for example) USR/3Com has been pretty impressive, relatively speaking, since you have a limited block size that you will work with. The adaptive compression used in bz2 may or may not be suited for that task, but that's another debate 8^)
Right, it's like reprogramming the micro-instructions on the old Vax and PDP-11 machines... a little microprogramming, some wire-wrap... it's all good. --
>I consider the average IQ on slashdot to be about 85.
That very well might be the case now [resisting urge to flame]... the quality of discussion (especially on the science topics) has (obviously) dropped rather dramatically over time. As for myself, I don't have problems being that limited (the last IQ test had I had was quite some time ago, but I can assure you that it was nearly double the stated number... and of course, you should mention which IQ scale you are using, if you want to get picky).
I was:
A) Talking about males, not the general population, and
B) Basing my personal views on the fact that *I* consider anyone substantially shorter than 6' tall 'short' and anyone a few inches taller than that 'tall'. It is a subjective measure. If I see a man who is 5'8" I think him 'short'. If I see a woman who is 5'8", I consider her 'tall'.
While the 50th percentile (truly average) adult male on Earth is 5'9.1"(175.75cm) 172 lb (78.4 kg), that isn't representative of the society that I happen to reside in, where the average male is taller than that, statistically speaking. It probably has something to do with the large Scandanavian and German populations in the northern midwest (of the U.S.A.). The average height of the ~16 men in my department at work is about 6'1.5". Other parts of the country (like my hometown) had higher percentages of people of Italian and Slavic decent, and the average height was lower, but I am just speaking to my present situation. So take that enlightened age and guess, feel, and consider it all you like. Absolute truth without context isn't useful in many situations.
(it's Monday, and I have a lot of pent-up anger today... thanks for the release) --
That depends on your definition of average height... I consider average height 5'10" - 6'1" Anyone in that range should be 150+ lbs, unless they have a very small frame. When I had my growth spurt in high school, I hit 6' and was ~150 pounds with <4% body fat. I looked like one of the starving people in [pick your favorite starving nation]. Through college, weight lifting, and the wonders of beer, I've filled out to ~180 lbs, and my body fat % is in the 6-8 range...
Of course, if you are in some countries, average height would be closer to 5'5"... in that case, 150 would seem kind of large, wouldn't it? --
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Well... let's see here:
The MSI K7-Master has 4 133MHz DDR slots (or 266 if you want to say that)... and the memory used was Micron PC-2100 CL 2.5 DDR... but of course, that was mentioned on page three and four of the article, which you can't be bothered to read.
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Well, (1600/1400)*5Mkeys/s = ~5.5Mkeys/s
With the same proc, the scores scale very linearly with MHz (since the client fits in the cache).
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>she worked at Ace Hardware
:)
Yup, good looking women in overalls could sell me just about anything
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Who would continue using a tape drive on the 64 once the 1541 (5-1/4") drive came out? The Commodore PET was the last computer with which anyone should have been forced to live with a tape drive. Heck, once the 1571 was built into the C=128 - now that was loading in speed and style.
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Yeah, enlarging the L2 increases can increase the die size and decrease yield, both of which help lead to increased pricing. Since AMD likes to be able to battle on cost, this probably won't happen soon. What would be interesting is once the SMP chipset comes out if they would offer several options for cache size, trying to hit the entry server market... I would guess not, but who knows.
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well, it kind of fits in context... ...but they are in most places the de facto standard, and because of that...
:P)
1) Microsoft products suck.
1a)
2) Microsoft better not limit access to their software.
(note the delete of "my" from 2)
Heck, basic reading skills are all that is required around here anymore - certainly no thought or sense of humor...
Judging by the quality of the four posts (this one included) in your history log, I must say that I am completely underwhelmed, but (for whatever reason) I will justify your questions with responses:
"Do you use MS software personally?"
Yes, I do - the few games that I play don't work very well on anything but Windows right now (mostly EA Sports titles). Also, MS Money and Quicken are still head and shoulders above GNUCash or any other finance program I've found... this holds true with several other apps that are fairly useful, too. That being said, I run Linux (Mandrake on one, Slackware on another) on other systems at home, and use that for many other things. Have been doing that for a number of years, and, while things are greatly improved, software support (in terms of titles) is the single greatest factor keeping my other box running Windows full-time.
"OR does your office use it."
Actually, I run AIX on an RS/6k... but it is used on the Thinkpads (not that I have one
While your Debian trolling advocacy program is going well so far, maybe a little bit of substance in your posts wouldn't hurt.
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Yes, but where can I get a host adapter (at a reasonable price)? that's the real question...
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the trick is:
...but they are in most places the de facto standard, and because of that...
1a)
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The composting toilets I've seen run ~$1500(US). I could have my current throne gold plated for less than that, and still have enough to pay for water to flush the toilet with for several years...
We now have the option to buy windpower off of the grid for a nominally larger fee than our standard electric. There is a growing bank of wind powered generators out here (MN), and you can buy the power from them in blocks. Rather nice.
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"I've replaced all my incandescent lights with fluorescent. (You'll be amazed at how much flourescent lighting will save you each month. Not only does it use fewer watts, it doesn't produce nearly as much heat)."
;-)
But here in Minnesota, I should probably change out my fluorescents in the winter... I could use the extra heat with the increased cost of nat. gas.
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And can be bought at "Ye Olde Lumbre Yarde Shoppe"... oh wait, that's not in the UK, only in the "Authentic" re-created villages around Williamsburg, VA...
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>Rumors say that IBM (whose latest 75gxp series are allready quite silent) are to announce a silent drive.
;-)
They did, you just didn't hear...
>Also to minimize noise you can get rubber suspensions for you desktop drives to mount them in a 5.25" bay. (Allthough watch the temp. rubber isn't a good heat conductor)
Well, if you have decent airflow (most of the whisper drives are 5400rpm, and quite cool anyway) it shouldn't be a problem. Heck, the 10krpm drives now are much cooler than they were just a couple years ago.
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Bah! A pair of plain scissors or an exacto knife... non of those high-tech punches. That's what Real Men[TM] use...
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It is mentioned in the kernel-traffic FAQ that if you send patches to Linus, don't expect a response regardless of whether or not he puts it in... especially since the 'option 3' stuff is fairly neatly spelled out in the FAQs about patches.
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Yeah, a couple of my friends here at work went to NDSU... Being as they have EE degrees, they probably saw a computer or two while they were there, though I don't think I could move that far north - leaving the tropics here (Rochester, MN) would be a harsh shock ;-)
Now about 'dem hossless carriges... 8^)
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When it was capped, I had ~125 (I think)... then I had a submission posted, and it dropped to 50 on the +3 readjust... sucks sometimes. I keep getting bitten by the +2/+3 -1 syndrome... especially since the -1 is usually 'overrated' after you've hit 4 or 5 for the post. Thusly, I bounce between 47 and 50 on a slowly rolling basis... both of which are plenty high to allow the +1 bonus...
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Further proof that nobody in North Dakota owns a computer... and if they did, they would still need phone lines to connect and get a virus.
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They mention that in the FAQ - it is being considered...
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Some of the good high-speed research (like the multi-GHz 64-bit F-RISC stuff that has been going on at RPI) uses the new fabs from IBM and the like... it's hard to find a school fab that can do SiGe or GaAs...
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I wouldn't put the CueCat in the same class of hardware as anything as complex as... oh, my alarmclock (granted, it is an X-10 controller, too). After all, the hardware on the CueCat could replicated with a 556 and some other chips from The Smack (minus of course the propritary tracking bits, which we didn't want anyway). Handheld scanners aren't all that hard to implement, though theyare a lot cheaper if you get them free...
The *real* hardware industry (pick a few uProcs, DSPs, comm chips, etc) generally does a really good job with design... The fact that Winmodems are crippled hardware isn't much more than limited requirements, with low cost being the driving factor. Processors, in most cases, can run any number of operating systems, given the right motivation on the part of the programing teams. Most O/Ss need the same basic hooks, so it usually isn't a big stretch (except for those recodes of the asm).
The most important "openness" that hardware companies can provide is full interface specs on their products... register sets, timings, etc... with that information, a person or group could do almost whatever they want with a given chip (even those winmodems).
As for bz2 on modems... software compression is nice, and easily added (of course both phone-link endpoints need to support it). The hardware compression offered by (for example) USR/3Com has been pretty impressive, relatively speaking, since you have a limited block size that you will work with. The adaptive compression used in bz2 may or may not be suited for that task, but that's another debate 8^)
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Right, it's like reprogramming the micro-instructions on the old Vax and PDP-11 machines... a little microprogramming, some wire-wrap... it's all good.
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IHBT, but...
>I consider the average IQ on slashdot to be about 85.
That very well might be the case now [resisting urge to flame]... the quality of discussion (especially on the science topics) has (obviously) dropped rather dramatically over time. As for myself, I don't have problems being that limited (the last IQ test had I had was quite some time ago, but I can assure you that it was nearly double the stated number... and of course, you should mention which IQ scale you are using, if you want to get picky).
I was:
A) Talking about males, not the general population, and
B) Basing my personal views on the fact that *I* consider anyone substantially shorter than 6' tall 'short' and anyone a few inches taller than that 'tall'. It is a subjective measure. If I see a man who is 5'8" I think him 'short'. If I see a woman who is 5'8", I consider her 'tall'.
While the 50th percentile (truly average) adult male on Earth is 5'9.1"(175.75cm) 172 lb (78.4 kg), that isn't representative of the society that I happen to reside in, where the average male is taller than that, statistically speaking. It probably has something to do with the large Scandanavian and German populations in the northern midwest (of the U.S.A.). The average height of the ~16 men in my department at work is about 6'1.5". Other parts of the country (like my hometown) had higher percentages of people of Italian and Slavic decent, and the average height was lower, but I am just speaking to my present situation. So take that enlightened age and guess, feel, and consider it all you like. Absolute truth without context isn't useful in many situations.
(it's Monday, and I have a lot of pent-up anger today... thanks for the release)
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That depends on your definition of average height... I consider average height 5'10" - 6'1" Anyone in that range should be 150+ lbs, unless they have a very small frame. When I had my growth spurt in high school, I hit 6' and was ~150 pounds with <4% body fat. I looked like one of the starving people in [pick your favorite starving nation]. Through college, weight lifting, and the wonders of beer, I've filled out to ~180 lbs, and my body fat % is in the 6-8 range...
Of course, if you are in some countries, average height would be closer to 5'5"... in that case, 150 would seem kind of large, wouldn't it?
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Haven't you ever seen "Sneakers"? It was well explained ;-)
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Mmmm.... Iocaine Powder...
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