Yeah, but even two full days of accurate weather would be nice... heck, 18 hours would be good.
Like this past weekend:
No.... it won't rain tonight (3pm forecast). Nearly a torrential downpour that night (about 12 hours later).
I'm not as worried about a week from now as tonight - can I leave the windows open to air the place out or am I going to have a couple inches of water inside?
Even *I* can tell you what it's going to be 10 seconds from now... barring an apocolypse...
Haven't look inside a Mac since a Color Classic fell down a flight of stairs;-)
You can plug it in, but it will suck the rest of the bus down to the lowest card frequency. So your X card would only be running at 33MHz if you had one pluggd in... so you'd still want two busses, so you could group them.
I can't find any of the really new stuff, but here's a dab of research for you:
16GHz SiGe HBT Fast-RISC (both room temp and cryo cooled) This was written in 1998, and more gains have been shown since. They hit 2GHz on most of the parts back in 97 or so... I'd have to fire off some mail to see where things are at now...
The/. consensus seemed to be that 'wow, that's neat, but I'd rather have a GeForce DDR or a G400 MAX'...
ATI doesn't get a whole lot of good press because, from what I've seen and used (I haven't used the MAXX), they don't deserve it. It's as simple as that.
I'll admit that was a wee bit o' trollin' there... just wanted to see if I'd get any bites.
There's been some work that shows that bipolar can still be quite a bit faster than CMOS for digital designs. This won't work for something on the scale of a P-III or Merced - there'd be even more current/heat, but for some smaller, RISC-esque processors, you can really crank. HBTs show some promise, though... (this subject is always highly debated)...
True, true... another 'easy' solution would be to have a dual-pci bridge (ala server land), where one bus could be PCI-X, and the other would be 'normal' PCI (64/66). Whatever comes along later will play a much larger role in the big servers than it will in desktops (as usual). This is the way of the world.
A couple of Coming Things for desktops that servers have had for a while now:
-- PCI 64/66 (Alphas had some 64bit slots for a few years now, but they don't qualify as typical desktops. When a Celeron board has 'em, it's 'typical'). -- DDR SDRAM. It has found its way onto certain video cards, but still not into the main box.
These all add cost, and we all know that people like cheap... but they sure help speed things along (if you are only using Word... well then, I've got a PMMX 250 for ya that'll do just fine).
GaAs is the way to go, though (from what I understand), there's still a ways to go before it can really hit the big time (mass chip market). SiGe is supposed to have a lot of promise, too, though not as much as GaAs...
Bipolar is coming back!
As for the high density RAM designs, there's always talk of making fast (though rather expensive) MCMs, where you'd have (for example) a P-III coppermine core, a meg or two of L2 cache, and a nice big chunk of DRAM (say 32MB) as an on-chip L3... there are, of course, lots of problems with this idea, but in theory... ("In theory... communism works... in THEORY!" - Homer J. Simpson)
Note that when it mentions backwards-compatability, it has the same ramifications as putting a 33 MHz PCI card in a 66MHz slot. Yeah, it works, but it slows everything else down to it's speed (bus width doesn't have the same impact). PCI-X is almost a misnomer, given how different a protocol it is from standard PCI. Good stuff, no doubt about that, and it helps fill the gap between current PCI implementations and the Next Big Thing (Future I/O? Infiniband? Sliced Bread?)
not only those, but the smaller they get, and the closer some of the features, the better chance of having parasitic bipolars in there. Great stuff, especially when they lock up...
Oh, that means no notepad.exe with a really helpful (read: annoying) paperclip/dog/shakespeare/...
This always brings up the notion that the base linux kernel actually improves in speed, given the same functionality as earlier releases. Of course, once you add all sorts of snazzy modules in... (talk about offtopic)
Yup, electrons flow pretty slowly through copper and other metals, but the electric field itself travels closer to the speed of light (depending on the dielectric). That's what is important. In AC circuits, the electrons never get very far, and in DC/switched circuits, they don't go nearly as far as the field does during a switch time.
His comment was pretty wrong though. I'd love to see a proton stream... and live through it.
Check out Infiniband for what could be the newest greatest I/O thing since sliced bread... well, maybe. At least IBM, Intel, Sun, Compaw, HP, etc. are all hoping it will. A lot of work is being put in.
Well, there's several reasons... I like the wheel for a few things (make M2 on/. a breeze, por exemplo), but I *need* a third button, and since clicking the wheel (depending on what the driver allows, or if it isn't a good whel) often brings up a strange move tool, or moves while cliking, it's a pain.
In Netscape, I usually would rather have a third button than a scroll wheel. I like Open In New Window from one click more than I need the scroll wheel (I have an arrow key that does the same thing). For CAD apps, there's no substitute for a third button, and there's little/no use for a wheel.
Remapping the wheel click to the third button is alright, but is far more clumsy than a real mouse button.
As stated in another post, my personal fav is the Logitec Trackman Marble (w/ no wheel - it is now sold with a wheel). Trackballs are also rather nice on the wrist (much less strain than a mouse), and are amazingly useful for FPS games - better in my experience, though they take some getting used to...
The logitec trackman marble is very comfortable - I no longer get the wrist soreness that came with using a mouse. Have to get one at work still. Three buttons, or a two with a wheel.
They have some other marbles that are fnkier shaped and have five or six buttons, but they weren't as comfortable for my hands (everybody is different).
I finally upgraded my PMMX 200 (@250) to a K6-2/500... cost about $40, and gives my linux box a long life, for very few additional $$$... Nothing but goodness... 8^)
I meant to write that it was product of the year primarily due to the different benchmarks it shattered (yeah, yeah - contrived benchmarks)... DB2, SAP, Oracle, all sorts of goodness.
I will now cease to rant, unless otherwise provoked 8^)
Unless you are downloading the latest W4R3Z... then you are dialed in and pumping data for days at a time...
and of course, normal service is unlimited hours now, so it doesn't make too much of a difference. 500 is a nice BIG number for the coasters, though...
I got a "AOL Gold" coaster... it came in a box (about the size of a DVD case. *Way* too much packaging for a drink holder, if you ask me 8^)
Well, the E10K is a pretty kickin' box, but it doesn't kick nearly the amount of ass that the S80 does. Of course, the E10K is a little old now, and should have been supplanted by Sun's latest stuff, but they've been having a lot of problem with the Ultra Sparc III (fab problems @ TI, among other things...).
The price point of the S80 also makes it an amazing bargain compared to the E10K... and the S80 sold 1000 units in 4 months - the E10K took over a year to reach the same sales... and the S80 was named '99 product of the year by several reports. Not too surprising. I am interested to see how well the USparc III does... it'll be a while, though...
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Yeah, but even two full days of accurate weather would be nice... heck, 18 hours would be good.
Like this past weekend:
No.... it won't rain tonight (3pm forecast). Nearly a torrential downpour that night (about 12 hours later).
I'm not as worried about a week from now as tonight - can I leave the windows open to air the place out or am I going to have a couple inches of water inside?
Even *I* can tell you what it's going to be 10 seconds from now... barring an apocolypse...
Haven't look inside a Mac since a Color Classic fell down a flight of stairs ;-)
You can plug it in, but it will suck the rest of the bus down to the lowest card frequency. So your X card would only be running at 33MHz if you had one pluggd in... so you'd still want two busses, so you could group them.
I can't find any of the really new stuff, but here's a dab of research for you:
s lides/HTMT98/index.htm
i ndex.html
16GHz SiGe HBT Fast-RISC (both room temp and cryo cooled) This was written in 1998, and more gains have been shown since. They hit 2GHz on most of the parts back in 97 or so... I'd have to fire off some mail to see where things are at now...
http://inp.cie.rpi.edu/research/mcdonald/frisc/
The main site (woefully lacking in updates) is at:
http://inp.cie.rpi.edu/research/mcdonald/frisc/
Yeah, one of my friends swears by the FX, but I never took the time to get used to it... The extra buttons would be helpful, I bet.
There was a review on the MAXX a while back...
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/. consensus seemed to be that 'wow, that's neat, but I'd rather have a GeForce DDR or a G400 MAX'...
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/05/0836237.s
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ATI doesn't get a whole lot of good press because, from what I've seen and used (I haven't used the MAXX), they don't deserve it. It's as simple as that.
I'll admit that was a wee bit o' trollin' there... just wanted to see if I'd get any bites.
There's been some work that shows that bipolar can still be quite a bit faster than CMOS for digital designs. This won't work for something on the scale of a P-III or Merced - there'd be even more current/heat, but for some smaller, RISC-esque processors, you can really crank. HBTs show some promise, though... (this subject is always highly debated)...
True, true... another 'easy' solution would be to have a dual-pci bridge (ala server land), where one bus could be PCI-X, and the other would be 'normal' PCI (64/66). Whatever comes along later will play a much larger role in the big servers than it will in desktops (as usual). This is the way of the world.
A couple of Coming Things for desktops that servers have had for a while now:
-- PCI 64/66 (Alphas had some 64bit slots for a few years now, but they don't qualify as typical desktops. When a Celeron board has 'em, it's 'typical').
-- DDR SDRAM. It has found its way onto certain video cards, but still not into the main box.
These all add cost, and we all know that people like cheap... but they sure help speed things along (if you are only using Word... well then, I've got a PMMX 250 for ya that'll do just fine).
Underclocked Cyrix's? Is there a story here?
I ran a few of the Cyrix MMXs o/cd without problem, and even one or two of the non-MMX chips.
Nowhere near the headroom of the celery or PMMX, but hey, they didn't actually cost anything 8^)
Well, a lot of embedded writers use profilers, though even in that arena there seems to be somewhat of a drop-off.
GCC still has profiling support, and last time I looked there were some options in MSVC++ (though that was a couple versions ago...)
Another good one is:
/* Works good, don't know why */
GaAs is the way to go, though (from what I understand), there's still a ways to go before it can really hit the big time (mass chip market). SiGe is supposed to have a lot of promise, too, though not as much as GaAs...
Bipolar is coming back!
As for the high density RAM designs, there's always talk of making fast (though rather expensive) MCMs, where you'd have (for example) a P-III coppermine core, a meg or two of L2 cache, and a nice big chunk of DRAM (say 32MB) as an on-chip L3... there are, of course, lots of problems with this idea, but in theory... ("In theory... communism works... in THEORY!" - Homer J. Simpson)
Note that when it mentions backwards-compatability, it has the same ramifications as putting a 33 MHz PCI card in a 66MHz slot. Yeah, it works, but it slows everything else down to it's speed (bus width doesn't have the same impact). PCI-X is almost a misnomer, given how different a protocol it is from standard PCI. Good stuff, no doubt about that, and it helps fill the gap between current PCI implementations and the Next Big Thing (Future I/O? Infiniband? Sliced Bread?)
This argument played out a couple weeks ago on another story...
Result: Everyone left still thinking that they were right
1) English is a dynamic language. What comes into common usage becomes language. Therefore, Virii/Viri is/are word/s.
2) It was a latin base, so therefore Viri/Virii is the proper plural.
3) It may have been a latin base, but it's an english word, and the dictionary says it's viruses.
4) You all suck, shut up and go away.
I think that pretty much summarizes the argument.
I won't take sides, but the longer this goes on, the more I agree with #4...
not only those, but the smaller they get, and the closer some of the features, the better chance of having parasitic bipolars in there. Great stuff, especially when they lock up...
Oh, that means no notepad.exe with a really helpful (read: annoying) paperclip/dog/shakespeare/...
This always brings up the notion that the base linux kernel actually improves in speed, given the same functionality as earlier releases. Of course, once you add all sorts of snazzy modules in...
(talk about offtopic)
Yup, electrons flow pretty slowly through copper and other metals, but the electric field itself travels closer to the speed of light (depending on the dielectric). That's what is important. In AC circuits, the electrons never get very far, and in DC/switched circuits, they don't go nearly as far as the field does during a switch time.
His comment was pretty wrong though. I'd love to see a proton stream... and live through it.
Check out Infiniband for what could be the newest greatest I/O thing since sliced bread... well, maybe. At least IBM, Intel, Sun, Compaw, HP, etc. are all hoping it will. A lot of work is being put in.
http://www.InfiniBandta.org/home.html
Well, there's several reasons... I like the wheel for a few things (make M2 on /. a breeze, por exemplo), but I *need* a third button, and since clicking the wheel (depending on what the driver allows, or if it isn't a good whel) often brings up a strange move tool, or moves while cliking, it's a pain.
In Netscape, I usually would rather have a third button than a scroll wheel. I like Open In New Window from one click more than I need the scroll wheel (I have an arrow key that does the same thing). For CAD apps, there's no substitute for a third button, and there's little/no use for a wheel.
Remapping the wheel click to the third button is alright, but is far more clumsy than a real mouse button.
As stated in another post, my personal fav is the Logitec Trackman Marble (w/ no wheel - it is now sold with a wheel). Trackballs are also rather nice on the wrist (much less strain than a mouse), and are amazingly useful for FPS games - better in my experience, though they take some getting used to...
The logitec trackman marble is very comfortable - I no longer get the wrist soreness that came with using a mouse. Have to get one at work still. Three buttons, or a two with a wheel.
They have some other marbles that are fnkier shaped and have five or six buttons, but they weren't as comfortable for my hands (everybody is different).
I finally upgraded my PMMX 200 (@250) to a K6-2/500... cost about $40, and gives my linux box a long life, for very few additional $$$... Nothing but goodness... 8^)
whaddabout wais seaches? Did they forget those?
Here's the real info:
The A root name server has doubled transaction growth in the past quarter to over 5000 queries per second with peaks up to 8000 queries per second.
Which comes out to ~430 million queries/day - as the article states...
Though several other sources seem to agree - it was a E10K...
I meant to write that it was product of the year primarily due to the different benchmarks it shattered (yeah, yeah - contrived benchmarks)... DB2, SAP, Oracle, all sorts of goodness.
I will now cease to rant, unless otherwise provoked 8^)
Unless you are downloading the latest W4R3Z... then you are dialed in and pumping data for days at a time...
and of course, normal service is unlimited hours now, so it doesn't make too much of a difference. 500 is a nice BIG number for the coasters, though...
I got a "AOL Gold" coaster... it came in a box (about the size of a DVD case. *Way* too much packaging for a drink holder, if you ask me 8^)
Well, the E10K is a pretty kickin' box, but it doesn't kick nearly the amount of ass that the S80 does. Of course, the E10K is a little old now, and should have been supplanted by Sun's latest stuff, but they've been having a lot of problem with the Ultra Sparc III (fab problems @ TI, among other things...).
The price point of the S80 also makes it an amazing bargain compared to the E10K... and the S80 sold 1000 units in 4 months - the E10K took over a year to reach the same sales... and the S80 was named '99 product of the year by several reports. Not too surprising. I am interested to see how well the USparc III does... it'll be a while, though...
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Which - the lame Sun dot ads, or any of the lame IBM ads...
If they all stopped, or actually made sense (smelling a Thinkpad?!), I'd feel a lot better.