Yep, you heard me. After going through a BA in Creative Writing and MS in Library Science, I got hired straight out of college as a Junior Unix admin. My employer is a Fortune 500 company based in a rather large city, and they pay me OK. At the time, I was also offered a webmaster job, but this gig is better. Now, exactly how this ties into my education is unclear...
This actually sounds pretty damn cool, and with a little luck will provide some nice compatition for nVidia. Since 3Dfx went bye-bye, I have been a little worried that nVidia would be the only real gaming card supplier(well, I guess that depends on if you count ATi)
> > Suppose YOU had a time machine and got stuck in some medieval time. Would you survive more than a day?
> For those of you who don't know it already, Timeline by Michael Crichton is about that subject. It's worth a read, IMHO.
Yes, but don't forget Army of Darkness, either. Now there's a true-to-life exploration of modern man in a medeival world:) -----
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Alright, I'm Swedish. I do remember the Challenger incident, but only vaguely. Now, of course, I'm intimately familiar with the footage, the circumstances, etc. But the incident that stayed with me happened about a month later (bad year in general, more on that later).
March 1, 1986 was a Saturday. I don't need to look it up, because I just know it. Being 11 years old, I got up at 8:00am to catch my favourite TV show, "Good Morning Sweden." That was a talkshow type of Saturday morning show with some cartoons, music videos, and other decent entertainment thrown in, and I always watched it. But there was no show. The TV (both channels) showed a screen instead saying that Prime Minister Olof Palme had been shot and killed during the night. I thought it was a prank; my brother turned 20 that day and he could have hooked up a VCR or something to mess with us. But it was true. To this day, the killer has not been found (or not been convicted, depending on whether you believe Christer Pettersson to be guilty).
Of course, on april 26, 1986, reactor number 4 at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant Chernobyl had a meltdown, causing untold amounts of grief and suffering, and I don't know how many lives were lost there. So let's see -- within three months, we had the Challenger accident, the Palme assassination, and the Chernobyl meltdown.
> Why do computer people always use cars as an analogy when explaining computer hardware?
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> The problem is that someone will say something general like "high RPMs means the car goes faster"
Fits perfectly: in computer-speak, "high RPMs" means you have a bloated Red Hat system:) -----
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I've always had a vision of the entire band sitting around, joking about stupid superheroes, and then writing some of it down, to create Particle Man. "OK, so if that Particle guy had a fight with Triangle Man, who'd win?" "Well dude, a particle? I dunno what a triangle can do, but it should beat a particle!" "OK!" and so on... is that how it really happened? -----
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For an example of running high-load web servers on AMD systems, check out AnandTech's Web servers. Anandtech.com is a highly trafficked site, and they run off of a mix of AMD and Intel systems. Specifically, 4 out of the 5 web servers are T-Birds, and the rest (1 webserver, forum server, couple of databases) are Xeons.
The article linked above is a fairly in-depth explanation of why Athlons are good servers (for some applications at least). Personally, since that configuration was put in place, I haven't seen Anandtech down or slow even once. Used to be crawling around major release time (GeForce, Athlon, that magnitude of news). -----
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So this guy's final argument is that with a simpler system, the excitement that is central to all sports would be gone... I'd give a little more respect than that to the issue of deciding a US President. -----
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...and as soon as you implement that "system to address the objections on a case by case basis," the people who want to make evil use of that information instantly switch to some other means of getting to it. You can't take away a tool capable of public good just to stop a few people from misusing it. It's like banning telephones because ZDnet reports that some guy used the phone to tell another guy how to steal a credit card. -----
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Uh... where in the US do you have guaranteed health care? Yeah, US taxes are low (I'm a Swedish transplant to America), but so are the benefits returned from those tax dollars. Roads still suck, I mentioned the health care, and the school system here... you know, when I have kids, I'll move back east again:P That way we'd get free health care, good schools, welfare in case we both lost our jobs, and paid new-parent time off from work mandated by law. ----- #o#
Well... the announcements are many, many moons old, but actual notebooks with the + chips are still fairly new, and not very common.
Being a broke owner of an old K6-2, I am waaayyyy interested in sticking a 550 K6-2+ in my desktop, which both Aces Hardware and Tom's Hardware say is not only possible, but also much better than a regular K6-2 550, or K6-3 400 (the highest clocked, realistically priced, Super7 chips out there).
Problem is, you can't get these chips hardly anywhere without getting a notebook around it...:P ----- #o#
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Yep, you heard me. After going through a BA in Creative Writing and MS in Library Science, I got hired straight out of college as a Junior Unix admin. My employer is a Fortune 500 company based in a rather large city, and they pay me OK. At the time, I was also offered a webmaster job, but this gig is better. Now, exactly how this ties into my education is unclear...
Oh, you mean Dead On Arrival 3? Yeah, that would be X-Box only.
This actually sounds pretty damn cool, and with a little luck will provide some nice compatition for nVidia. Since 3Dfx went bye-bye, I have been a little worried that nVidia would be the only real gaming card supplier(well, I guess that depends on if you count ATi)
And why would you not count ATI?
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This design is very similar (if not the same) as the NEC's PowerVR and PowerVR2 chipsets.
That's because the Kyro/Kyro II use the PowerVR3 architecture. NEC used to partner with Imagination to produce those older chips.
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> > Suppose YOU had a time machine and got stuck in some medieval time. Would you survive more than a day?
> For those of you who don't know it already, Timeline by Michael Crichton is about that subject. It's worth a read, IMHO.
Yes, but don't forget Army of Darkness, either. Now there's a true-to-life exploration of modern man in a medeival world :)
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March 1, 1986 was a Saturday. I don't need to look it up, because I just know it. Being 11 years old, I got up at 8:00am to catch my favourite TV show, "Good Morning Sweden." That was a talkshow type of Saturday morning show with some cartoons, music videos, and other decent entertainment thrown in, and I always watched it. But there was no show. The TV (both channels) showed a screen instead saying that Prime Minister Olof Palme had been shot and killed during the night. I thought it was a prank; my brother turned 20 that day and he could have hooked up a VCR or something to mess with us. But it was true. To this day, the killer has not been found (or not been convicted, depending on whether you believe Christer Pettersson to be guilty).
Of course, on april 26, 1986, reactor number 4 at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant Chernobyl had a meltdown, causing untold amounts of grief and suffering, and I don't know how many lives were lost there. So let's see -- within three months, we had the Challenger accident, the Palme assassination, and the Chernobyl meltdown.
Bad year, no?
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> Why do computer people always use cars as an analogy when explaining computer hardware? > ...
> The problem is that someone will say something general like "high RPMs means the car goes faster"
Fits perfectly: in computer-speak, "high RPMs" means you have a bloated Red Hat system :)
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I've always had a vision of the entire band sitting around, joking about stupid superheroes, and then writing some of it down, to create Particle Man. "OK, so if that Particle guy had a fight with Triangle Man, who'd win?" "Well dude, a particle? I dunno what a triangle can do, but it should beat a particle!" "OK!" and so on... is that how it really happened?
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The article linked above is a fairly in-depth explanation of why Athlons are good servers (for some applications at least). Personally, since that configuration was put in place, I haven't seen Anandtech down or slow even once. Used to be crawling around major release time (GeForce, Athlon, that magnitude of news).
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So this guy's final argument is that with a simpler system, the excitement that is central to all sports would be gone... I'd give a little more respect than that to the issue of deciding a US President.
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Glad to see that the International candidate is edging out Gore by a couple of votes.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for President! :)
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Just do what I did: find yourself a US citizen to marry :)
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...and as soon as you implement that "system to address the objections on a case by case basis," the people who want to make evil use of that information instantly switch to some other means of getting to it. You can't take away a tool capable of public good just to stop a few people from misusing it. It's like banning telephones because ZDnet reports that some guy used the phone to tell another guy how to steal a credit card.
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Uh... where in the US do you have guaranteed health care? Yeah, US taxes are low (I'm a Swedish transplant to America), but so are the benefits returned from those tax dollars. Roads still suck, I mentioned the health care, and the school system here... you know, when I have kids, I'll move back east again :P That way we'd get free health care, good schools, welfare in case we both lost our jobs, and paid new-parent time off from work mandated by law.
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Well... the announcements are many, many moons old, but actual notebooks with the + chips are still fairly new, and not very common.
:P
Being a broke owner of an old K6-2, I am waaayyyy interested in sticking a 550 K6-2+ in my desktop, which both Aces Hardware and Tom's Hardware say is not only possible, but also much better than a regular K6-2 550, or K6-3 400 (the highest clocked, realistically priced, Super7 chips out there).
Problem is, you can't get these chips hardly anywhere without getting a notebook around it...
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>The Motion to the Ninth Circuit, which resulted in the stay[snip]
:)
Would that be the Ninth Circuit of Hell?
'cept of course these are the good guys, darn.
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