Proper definition of the problem with solid requirements is an essential part of the design process. If the problem is understood, and the target is clear, everything else can go much more smoothly, and (barring changes from fiscal problems or owners of certain football teams) once solid requirements are delivered, they tend not to be changed nearly as often as soft ones... "Well, we think we'd like this, so why don't you get going on that, and we'll let you know the week before we ship that we decided to change the interface."
PPPPPP! is a very true phrase, especially for software systems. --
I've seen solid hardware from several different vendors that almost does exactly what it is supposed to... but even that is usually the third time (or more) that the chip has been put in silicon (whether full A-RITs or just more B-RITs, for those who understand that TLA).
Hardware, especially in a development cycle, is a moving target - granted, the changes don't happen as quickly as a code rebuild, but often the subtleties are a lot harder to notice...
I like that warcraft (or starcraft, etc) idea, though... dual head display, one system... I suppose you could use the front audio channels for one player and the rear for the other. Hmmm, for more graphic intensive games you'd need dual AGP slots, though, since one card might not be able to handle it so well. --
Oddly enough, it's easy(or easier) to eat ice cream with a fork (as opposed to chopsticks). Better for most soups, too - although you just can't beat a spork, especially one that has been properly fooned.
Hey, another Guinness drinker - you wouldn't believe the strange looks you get in MN when you have a beer that you can't read your watch through... You'd think I was from another planet (well, I *am* from NJ...)
Note that the POWER/PowerPC line is well past 500MHz, but the dual-core chips with Altivec are the ones that can't make it... kinda sounds like that ceiling on the PPro. Once you lower the clock to the L2, or move it onto the same die, it makes it easier (clock wise, not necessarily yield wise).
I wouldn't blame IBM for this, but then again, they give me a piece of paper twice a month... that, and I've seen [CENSORED - IBM Confidential]. So there!;-) --
SMP got a lot of attention when NT showed that they scaled significantly better than Linux... Generally, that's all that's needed, is for MS to claim a (legitimate) technical superiority to Linux, then a bunch of people work like hell to improve it. The 2.4 SMP is significantly improved from 2.2. MS doesn't really benchmark against OpenBSD (they aren't the "Big Threat"), and even if they did, security >> performance for OpenBSD, and I doubt that there would be tons of effort poured into performance enhancements...
As for the UberOS(TM) - That's where the ideas of microkernels and modules really comes into play. Granted, there are always tradeoffs, but theoretically, a microkernel is infinitely adaptable... --
Maybe I'll try something from Big Rock, but most of the Canadian "beer" that I've seen (especially the big brews) has been as cruddy as the "Rocky Mountain Urina^H^H^H^H^HStreams" that this other "beer" comes from.
My favorite Canadian beer is Elsinore, since I found a mouse in the bottle... --
I've had plenty of Sam Adams (better than most)... I wouldn't even call it local anymore - If I can buy it in NJ/NY, WI/MN, CA, LA, then it's not really 'local' anymore.
I know of many pubs that brew their own stuff on the East coast, and it's worth the trip. --
Au contraire - I was finishing up a small project for a course I'm taking (pipelined risc processor in Verilog(yuck)) and nothing gets the gate-level modeling flowing like a good pint of Guinness.
I'll agree that the US and Canada can't seem to make a decent beer... the US has a real bad track record... midwest megabrews, Natural Light, Utica, Keystone, anything that says 'ice', etc...
Of course, the Guinness doesn't taste as good here in the Midwest, either... --
True, 'most people' who use Windows seem to (because it is the default and they don't care) have the 'Hide Registered Extensions' on, too... they just see an archive icon for zip, gz, etc... tar.gzs would show up as foo.tar with an archive icon, whereas a.zip or.tgz would just list as foo, with an archive icon. The people who don't know the difference usually can't see the difference once it is on their system. Of course, if they bother to look at the filename in the browser...
Oddly enough, I have no trouble with.zip files under AIX, Linux and BSD. I'm sure they are easy to deal with on a Mac, since I can deal with sit/hqx files on Windows and Linux.
Also note that you can decompress.gz (and.tar.gz s) with WinZip and other Win utils, so you shouldn't worry about those folks being left out in the cold. In fact, with Netscape, it can download the.gz and decompress it to the text file transparently to the user. IE should be able to do this too, but I haven't tested it.
The point is, zips and gzs are pretty standard across multiple platforms. --
IBM did put a lot of work into the S/390 port, and there is work at IBM at improving Linux on PowerPC (including compiler work for GCC). So, it's not totally free for IBM, but with all of the base Linux work done, it does save a lot of cash...
But so will the other other endpoint that you are connecting to (remote servers and what not). Since the greater amount of traffic flows *to* the mobile connection than from it (images/webpages vs. HTTP requests), it's the code on the other end that you need to worry about, and that you usually have very little control over... The receiver can set some options (segment size, etc) for controlling the window, but it's the sender who ultimately does the work. --
Funny, it (KDE2 standard install) runs pretty fast on my old crufty S3 ViRGe DX (4MB) at 1024-16. Zooms on the G200, but quite a bit faster than Gnome on the S3...
Personally, I was a college/amateur baseball player (though my current job doesn't leave time for that anymore - just softball). I always enjoyed watching the baseball games there - even as a Yankees fan (what a payroll!), I do like the purity of baseball that has been less touched by money (heck, even the Little League WS is getting pretty commercial now). I enjoy seeing athletes compete in a variety of other sports, especially those (such as gymnastics) where the participants do some incredible things (I'm all for a minimum age for that, so we don't have so many anorexic 13 yr olds ruining themsleves, but that's another story). I'm from the USA, and I usually cheer for the US athletes, but I'd rather see good competition than a full US blowout.
Battlebots would be a neat addition (better than synchonized swimming), but hey, you can't have everything. --
I didn't watch the Olympics this year, though I tried real hard... It sucks when all you get is small clips of the home crowd (USA) and the medal winners for 4 minutes at a time, delayed by however many hours. I used to like watching the competition (usually with the sound down, so I didn't have to listen to the inane announcers), but they made it pretty difficult this year.
Guess I'll stick to watching "World's Strongest Man" and "Battlebots"... --
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Exactly right.
Proper definition of the problem with solid requirements is an essential part of the design process. If the problem is understood, and the target is clear, everything else can go much more smoothly, and (barring changes from fiscal problems or owners of certain football teams) once solid requirements are delivered, they tend not to be changed nearly as often as soft ones... "Well, we think we'd like this, so why don't you get going on that, and we'll let you know the week before we ship that we decided to change the interface."
PPPPPP! is a very true phrase, especially for software systems.
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I've seen solid hardware from several different vendors that almost does exactly what it is supposed to... but even that is usually the third time (or more) that the chip has been put in silicon (whether full A-RITs or just more B-RITs, for those who understand that TLA).
Hardware, especially in a development cycle, is a moving target - granted, the changes don't happen as quickly as a code rebuild, but often the subtleties are a lot harder to notice...
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I like that warcraft (or starcraft, etc) idea, though... dual head display, one system... I suppose you could use the front audio channels for one player and the rear for the other. Hmmm, for more graphic intensive games you'd need dual AGP slots, though, since one card might not be able to handle it so well.
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Oddly enough, it's easy(or easier) to eat ice cream with a fork (as opposed to chopsticks). Better for most soups, too - although you just can't beat a spork, especially one that has been properly fooned.
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Hey, another Guinness drinker - you wouldn't believe the strange looks you get in MN when you have a beer that you can't read your watch through... You'd think I was from another planet (well, I *am* from NJ...)
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Note that the POWER/PowerPC line is well past 500MHz, but the dual-core chips with Altivec are the ones that can't make it... kinda sounds like that ceiling on the PPro. Once you lower the clock to the L2, or move it onto the same die, it makes it easier (clock wise, not necessarily yield wise).
;-)
I wouldn't blame IBM for this, but then again, they give me a piece of paper twice a month... that, and I've seen [CENSORED - IBM Confidential]. So there!
--
SMP got a lot of attention when NT showed that they scaled significantly better than Linux... Generally, that's all that's needed, is for MS to claim a (legitimate) technical superiority to Linux, then a bunch of people work like hell to improve it. The 2.4 SMP is significantly improved from 2.2. MS doesn't really benchmark against OpenBSD (they aren't the "Big Threat"), and even if they did, security >> performance for OpenBSD, and I doubt that there would be tons of effort poured into performance enhancements...
As for the UberOS(TM) - That's where the ideas of microkernels and modules really comes into play. Granted, there are always tradeoffs, but theoretically, a microkernel is infinitely adaptable...
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Note also that the chips in the new AS/400 and RS/6ks make use of the SOI:
h tm l (just ignore the bit about the XML ;-)
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/23/0427224.s
The low-k stuff is newer, but should provide an ever larger boost to the various e-Server series.
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Maybe I'll try something from Big Rock, but most of the Canadian "beer" that I've seen (especially the big brews) has been as cruddy as the "Rocky Mountain Urina^H^H^H^H^HStreams" that this other "beer" comes from.
My favorite Canadian beer is Elsinore, since I found a mouse in the bottle...
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I've had plenty of Sam Adams (better than most)... I wouldn't even call it local anymore - If I can buy it in NJ/NY, WI/MN, CA, LA, then it's not really 'local' anymore.
I know of many pubs that brew their own stuff on the East coast, and it's worth the trip.
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ah yes, but:
(New Stuff - 1) = was expensive, now cheaper = good(tm).
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Dinobots!!!
You just made my day 8^)
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Au contraire - I was finishing up a small project for a course I'm taking (pipelined risc processor in Verilog(yuck)) and nothing gets the gate-level modeling flowing like a good pint of Guinness.
I'll agree that the US and Canada can't seem to make a decent beer... the US has a real bad track record... midwest megabrews, Natural Light, Utica, Keystone, anything that says 'ice', etc...
Of course, the Guinness doesn't taste as good here in the Midwest, either...
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What does that article about Oracle have to do with utility companies???
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'Pretty Soon', huh? That's in geologic time... or do I have to worry about buying a sweater for my friend in S.D. sometime next year?
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True, 'most people' who use Windows seem to (because it is the default and they don't care) have the 'Hide Registered Extensions' on, too... they just see an archive icon for zip, gz, etc... tar.gzs would show up as foo.tar with an archive icon, whereas a .zip or .tgz would just list as foo, with an archive icon. The people who don't know the difference usually can't see the difference once it is on their system. Of course, if they bother to look at the filename in the browser...
Well, people get easily confused, it seems.
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Oddly enough, I have no trouble with .zip files under AIX, Linux and BSD. I'm sure they are easy to deal with on a Mac, since I can deal with sit/hqx files on Windows and Linux.
.gz (and .tar.gz s) with WinZip and other Win utils, so you shouldn't worry about those folks being left out in the cold. In fact, with Netscape, it can download the .gz and decompress it to the text file transparently to the user. IE should be able to do this too, but I haven't tested it.
Also note that you can decompress
The point is, zips and gzs are pretty standard across multiple platforms.
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Still better than any Menards...
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IBM did put a lot of work into the S/390 port, and there is work at IBM at improving Linux on PowerPC (including compiler work for GCC). So, it's not totally free for IBM, but with all of the base Linux work done, it does save a lot of cash...
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But so will the other other endpoint that you are connecting to (remote servers and what not). Since the greater amount of traffic flows *to* the mobile connection than from it (images/webpages vs. HTTP requests), it's the code on the other end that you need to worry about, and that you usually have very little control over... The receiver can set some options (segment size, etc) for controlling the window, but it's the sender who ultimately does the work.
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When you say "Third World" are you referring to a specific place... like... Cleveland?
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touche :-P (think you are funny, you do - hmmmm? [/yoda])
:-)
1024x768@16bpp (with windows and everything)
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Funny, it (KDE2 standard install) runs pretty fast on my old crufty S3 ViRGe DX (4MB) at 1024-16. Zooms on the G200, but quite a bit faster than Gnome on the S3...
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Personally, I was a college/amateur baseball player (though my current job doesn't leave time for that anymore - just softball). I always enjoyed watching the baseball games there - even as a Yankees fan (what a payroll!), I do like the purity of baseball that has been less touched by money (heck, even the Little League WS is getting pretty commercial now). I enjoy seeing athletes compete in a variety of other sports, especially those (such as gymnastics) where the participants do some incredible things (I'm all for a minimum age for that, so we don't have so many anorexic 13 yr olds ruining themsleves, but that's another story). I'm from the USA, and I usually cheer for the US athletes, but I'd rather see good competition than a full US blowout.
Battlebots would be a neat addition (better than synchonized swimming), but hey, you can't have everything.
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I didn't watch the Olympics this year, though I tried real hard... It sucks when all you get is small clips of the home crowd (USA) and the medal winners for 4 minutes at a time, delayed by however many hours. I used to like watching the competition (usually with the sound down, so I didn't have to listen to the inane announcers), but they made it pretty difficult this year.
Guess I'll stick to watching "World's Strongest Man" and "Battlebots"...
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