Want fast disk I/O - get a 50 arm RAID setup with a 1GB solid state drive as a cache... that'll be quick... and extrememly expensive. Seek times are the slowest part of any PC - there are some mechanical problems that are very hard to overcome (within a given budget).
RISC has more to do with the type of operations (reg, reg -> reg and mem -> reg, not mem, reg -> mem) rather than the number of instructions. More registers, lower CPI, that sort of thing.
Note that all good CISC procs are a special decoder run by a RISC core... but you still lose a lot of quick ops... --
>Do we call it "Manglish" or do we call it "Endarin" ?
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>Yeah, but ever try to support an office filled with those keyboards? "Help! My keyboard is getting letters mixed up!" It's a nightmare you see.
Never had that problem. - sorry... all my keys stay right where they should be - on the keyboard 8^)
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>right-clicking a spare bit of taskbar offers a "Minimise all windows" in W2k (and probably others)
Yup, in there in NT... though sometimes it can be hard to find that little bit of space... takes a while...
>Winkey+R does that in W2k and NT (and probably others).
Don't have one of those... I have 7 keyboards (granted only one hooked up), and none of them have those other keys, which are in the way... those are the spaces where my hand rests between thoughts 8^) I've been using my Gateway anykey since 1995, when I got it. Better than any other keyboard I've found yet (YMMV).
Now that I'm gone from the NYC area...I kinda miss that... Here in MN, the news doesn't cover anything, and they do it slowly... not worth watching, really. Plus, I never get Yankees and (football) Giants updates;-)
As Tau Zero noted, the reactor was a completely different design that isn't used today:
The design of the RMBK reactors used at Chernobyl was grossly unsafe. This is only a flaw in that design, it does not apply to PWR's, BWR's or HTGR's."
Human error is to be expected. Determined stupidity and willfull ignorance should be somewhat curtailed... --
Thanks for the corrections and additional info - the details were (obviously) fuzzy in my mind... I was trying to get at your first two numbered points, but I was a wee bit ticked by the troll...
Safeties off on a reactor... write that one down as a no-no;-)
You aren't the only one... NullSoft... a subsid. of AOL, is the first place where GNUtella shows up, written by some "rogue" programmers there. It is yanked within hours. They don't run the servers - heck, a lot of the people using gnutella now are running a clone. It's not like Scour, where they host the searches... not that I like AOL all that much, but I can't see how they could be held at fault...
Yeah, the '.' escaped the fingertip... I suppose the full source builds are up over 75MB now, aren't they... damn... I was trying to get M15 working on AIX properly, but they M16 came out before I got a chance... by the time I felt like d/lng that... M17... I think I've given up hope. I just stick with Linux and 'Doze for the moment.
Match this with that power-line broadband, and just think of the potential... heck, we could stream MP3s faster than the speed of light - they could even be ripped and distributed before the artist records them!
Yeah (I do exclude it), but it would be nice to be able to suck down many many many megs less... 75MB (even on a cable modem) does get a little weary, especially when I'm just trying to get a new nightly build...
Sometimes (almost always) you just want a browser, and not all that other stuff... though it does use the IE bookmarking system (never really did like that - it always moved them around on me).
Even if it isn't all that full-featured at this point, it may be an important stepping stone.
Yup, that's true... I've seen some interesting setups where the concentrated light boils water (and then we're down the same path as any other heat-based plant). Making mirrors is quite a bit more friendly than the PV energy, but you still have trouble getting high, sustained output - this can only work effectively in certain areas of the country... land area nonwithstanding, the Albany area (for example) has a tendency to be overcast from October through March, and northern sites wouldn't get much sun during the winter.
Now, if you collected it with a few sattilites, and 'beamed' it down, that's another thing altogether, but that's about the most expensive, least efficient way of doing anything, even though it would have the neatest Discovery channel special 8^)
First off, Amazon didn't start anything... they were just one of the first to make it so big that they still don't have a plan for profitability...
Please read the article. The aucion is by invite only. You can't juts sign on as '5kr1p7_k!!dd!3' and hope to get a good deal on some uranium. It's very controlled.
Try to have a clue before you start spouting things like "Nuclear power is the spawn of the devil! Repent ye and be saved!"... fool. --
Actually, the manufacture of the solar panels has a high cost to the enviornment - many toxins, heat problems, and the overall yield is fairly low, especially compared to how efficient a nuclear plant is.
If we have more nuclesar plants, they can each run at a lower capacity, and are even safer than they already are. Chernobyl was caused by incompetant people trying to run an imperfectly built reactor at over 115% capacity... not something that should ever happen.
The increase of other pollutants, especially from coal power plants and the like have a severe impact on asthma, as well as other respiratory problems. Definitely lowers the quality of life for millions of people.
Nuclear power is not inherently evil. Improper control of it is.
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Want fast disk I/O - get a 50 arm RAID setup with a 1GB solid state drive as a cache... that'll be quick... and extrememly expensive. Seek times are the slowest part of any PC - there are some mechanical problems that are very hard to overcome (within a given budget).
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RISC has more to do with the type of operations (reg, reg -> reg and mem -> reg, not mem, reg -> mem) rather than the number of instructions. More registers, lower CPI, that sort of thing.
Note that all good CISC procs are a special decoder run by a RISC core... but you still lose a lot of quick ops...
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>Do we call it "Manglish" or do we call it "Endarin" ?
"Esperanto"...
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>Yeah, but ever try to support an office filled with those keyboards? "Help! My keyboard is getting letters mixed up!" It's a nightmare you see.
Never had that problem. - sorry... all my keys stay right where they should be - on the keyboard 8^)
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>right-clicking a spare bit of taskbar offers a "Minimise all windows" in W2k (and probably others)
Yup, in there in NT... though sometimes it can be hard to find that little bit of space... takes a while...
>Winkey+R does that in W2k and NT (and probably others).
Don't have one of those... I have 7 keyboards (granted only one hooked up), and none of them have those other keys, which are in the way... those are the spaces where my hand rests between thoughts 8^) I've been using my Gateway anykey since 1995, when I got it. Better than any other keyboard I've found yet (YMMV).
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Now that I'm gone from the NYC area...I kinda miss that... Here in MN, the news doesn't cover anything, and they do it slowly... not worth watching, really. Plus, I never get Yankees and (football) Giants updates ;-)
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25 or more karma points lets you do such a thing...
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Neither one has yet been moderated. THe one was posted with a +1 bonus, the other (as AC) starts at 0, which is where it still is...
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Just redirect Netscpae/IE through an SSH session to somewhere that dosesn't have the filter. The proxy will never know...
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Always thought that the race driver Dick Trickle had a fairly amusing name...
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As Tau Zero noted, the reactor was a completely different design that isn't used today:
The design of the RMBK reactors used at Chernobyl was grossly unsafe. This is only a flaw in that design, it does not apply to PWR's, BWR's or HTGR's."
Human error is to be expected. Determined stupidity and willfull ignorance should be somewhat curtailed...
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Thanks for the corrections and additional info - the details were (obviously) fuzzy in my mind... I was trying to get at your first two numbered points, but I was a wee bit ticked by the troll...
;-)
Safeties off on a reactor... write that one down as a no-no
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I found Overcoming Procrastination for Dummies at B&N the other day (RW store).... I'll get around to buying that... eventually...
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You aren't the only one... NullSoft... a subsid. of AOL, is the first place where GNUtella shows up, written by some "rogue" programmers there. It is yanked within hours. They don't run the servers - heck, a lot of the people using gnutella now are running a clone. It's not like Scour, where they host the searches... not that I like AOL all that much, but I can't see how they could be held at fault...
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Yeah, the '.' escaped the fingertip... I suppose the full source builds are up over 75MB now, aren't they... damn... I was trying to get M15 working on AIX properly, but they M16 came out before I got a chance... by the time I felt like d/lng that... M17... I think I've given up hope. I just stick with Linux and 'Doze for the moment.
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I noticed that too, but I was told not to mention the Dark One, or the sign of the Dragon may be placed on my door... [sorry]
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Match this with that power-line broadband, and just think of the potential... heck, we could stream MP3s faster than the speed of light - they could even be ripped and distributed before the artist records them!
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Sounds like a breakthrough
Higher bandwidth radio
Shortwave Pirates Smile
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Worked on my NT4 (SP 6)...
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First post in a long time, and you use it like that?! Damn, what crawled up your ass today?
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Yeah (I do exclude it), but it would be nice to be able to suck down many many many megs less... 75MB (even on a cable modem) does get a little weary, especially when I'm just trying to get a new nightly build...
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Mozilla without the mail/news/etc...
Sometimes (almost always) you just want a browser, and not all that other stuff... though it does use the IE bookmarking system (never really did like that - it always moved them around on me).
Even if it isn't all that full-featured at this point, it may be an important stepping stone.
--
Yup, that's true... I've seen some interesting setups where the concentrated light boils water (and then we're down the same path as any other heat-based plant). Making mirrors is quite a bit more friendly than the PV energy, but you still have trouble getting high, sustained output - this can only work effectively in certain areas of the country... land area nonwithstanding, the Albany area (for example) has a tendency to be overcast from October through March, and northern sites wouldn't get much sun during the winter.
Now, if you collected it with a few sattilites, and 'beamed' it down, that's another thing altogether, but that's about the most expensive, least efficient way of doing anything, even though it would have the neatest Discovery channel special 8^)
--
First off, Amazon didn't start anything... they were just one of the first to make it so big that they still don't have a plan for profitability...
Please read the article. The aucion is by invite only. You can't juts sign on as '5kr1p7_k!!dd!3' and hope to get a good deal on some uranium. It's very controlled.
Try to have a clue before you start spouting things like "Nuclear power is the spawn of the devil! Repent ye and be saved!"... fool.
--
Actually, the manufacture of the solar panels has a high cost to the enviornment - many toxins, heat problems, and the overall yield is fairly low, especially compared to how efficient a nuclear plant is.
If we have more nuclesar plants, they can each run at a lower capacity, and are even safer than they already are. Chernobyl was caused by incompetant people trying to run an imperfectly built reactor at over 115% capacity... not something that should ever happen.
The increase of other pollutants, especially from coal power plants and the like have a severe impact on asthma, as well as other respiratory problems. Definitely lowers the quality of life for millions of people.
Nuclear power is not inherently evil. Improper control of it is.
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