Just curious- how would an os optimize performance for different kinds of memory? The hardware already takes care of the DRAM refreshes and stuff. I always thought that the type of RAM was really transparent to the os. Am I missing something?
Since Itanium is _not_ targeted for the desktop, you are probably right that it won't be there. It is a server product. And Itanium is already making some progress against Sun:
Like it or not, but IE's acceptance of sloppy code did wonders for the growth of the internet. Suddenly it wasn't only the nerds who cared about matching brackets or tags that were publishing web sites. Ma and pa could throw some pages up there, and it still looked ok even though they didn't study the HTML syntax.
Well, golf definately is a "physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively." It might not get your heart beating like basketball or soccer, but it is a sport.
We're going to need something to replace PCI before we can use 10Gbit ethernet fully though.
Good point. We need something like 3GIO. Plus something has to be done about the bandwidth between the northbridge and the southbride. Right now it is at 266 MB/sec with plans to increase to 533 MB/sec.
IA64 was never intended to compete with AMD's Hammer or any other desktop chip. Itanium is a server chip that is designed to compete with the UltraSparc IIIs of this world. I doubt you will ever see Itanium chips on a desktop computer.
Oh- and about the legacy x86 code out there- Itanium has built in x86 emulation so they can run legacy apps. The first demonstrations of this were not all that impressive, but I'll bet that by the time the chip is released it performs better. Probably not that hard to do considering all Intel chips have been translating the x86 code to internal RISC microcode on the fly for years...
Although this story is funny, I think its also a reflection of how the Chinese view the US. They view Americans as shallow and self-centered, and a story like this would jump out at them to confirm thier beliefs. Its like they wanted it to be true so they could say "See what dumb things those Americans are doing now!"
1) I guess I misread your post- you seemed a little hostile. Sorry.
2) Multiple Personality Disorder was dropped in DSM-IV. There is still a lot of debate about whether it is a real disorder- most of Europe discounts it as fiction. If it is real, it is extremely rare - Norman Bates excluded of course:)
3) I didnt think the joke was in bad taste, but then again I am not schizophrenic.
Multiple Personality Disorder is not what YOU think it is. You might want to get your terminology straight before you try to slam somebody for a harmless (and pretty funny) joke. Multiple Personality Disorder doesn't even exist. What you are thinking of is Dissociative Identity Disorder. And both dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia work for the joke.
But code stolen from a large Microsoft customer allowed rampant illegal Windows XP copying
Does that mean that they are not letting one of their "large" customers install the service pack? I wonder how they will differentiate between the legit copies installed with that key and the pirated ones...
Wow- its amazing that you can be so defensive about your blatent contradictions. Its sounding more and more like your the one that doesnt have any idea what your "blathering about".
Wouldn't the lost productivity of the employees count as damages? If they have 80,000 employees, and it takes each employee 1 minute to read the email, figure out it is trash, and discard it, isn't that 80,000 lost man minutes (1333 man hours)? They made efforts to block his emails, and he tried to get around them to send more emails. I hope intel comes out on top on this one.
If you want to waste their time without wasting your own time, just start out the call nicely to get them started on the "pitch" and set the phone down. After a few minutes they realize that nobody is listening and they give up. Although I have to say that the parrot approach sounds pretty funny.
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Meanwhile the ISP keeps trying to charge your old credit card #, your "account" goes past due, they send you to collections, and your credit rating starts to take a beating.
I'm not saying its fair, but when you sit down to get a mortgage and they ask you to explain the bad credit mark, they probably won't like "I didn't want to wait on hold when I called to cancel my account so I just stopped paying"
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Cancelling my earthlink account took less than 5 minutes too. It went something like this:
me: I'm moving, do you offer DSL at my new address? el: (checks) No me: Can you cancel my service then? el: Sure. Anything else?
I did have to jump through 1 hoop for them- I couldnt cancel in advance, so they made me call back the night before I wanted it cancelled to start the process.
In my 2 years with earthlink, I was actually pretty impressed with the service. Around CodeRed/Nimda the service got a little flakey for a couple days, but they figured it out soon enough.
Yes, that is the real advantage, and probably the reason that ATA133 will eventually become the standard for all drives/controllers.
ATA133 will definatly NOT become the standard- parallel ATA is pretty much at the end of its road. The future standards will be with serial ATA. Where parallel ATA is reaching its limits at 133, serial ATA is planned to have speeds of 600 MB/sec within the next few years. Plus it is software compatible with the older conrollers (no new drivers), uses less power, and gets rid of those annoying ribbon cables that restrict airflow. All of the major chipset designers are moving on to serial ATA.
The newer drives with larger caches (8 MB and bigger) can burst and fill the bandwidth of the controller.
Anyway, you might notice that none of the Intel chipsets support ATA133. Its not because Intel doesnt have the technology or that they are behind- they are just choosing to spend their time and money on SerialATA. Now thats a technology that actually has a future.
You need to do some more homework- Intel started this secure environment initiative when they found out that AMD was already working with Microsoft on their own secure environment initiative. Intel has been playing catch-up to AMD.
There must be something to these HandEras- all 5 of you HandEra users are always screaming about how good they are. Are they pr0n optimized or something?
Well, wait until somebody makes a payment to you and paypal flags the transaction for fraud (their rules for checking for fraud are pretty arbitrary, too- they are often wrong). Even though you have done nothing wrong, they will freeze your $$ too. It has happend to thousands of people. There are dozens of new horror stories posted at paypalwarning.com every month. Considering a small % of the people that have problems find that site, and even fewer post their stories, that is pretty sad.
Well, if you read through the paypal TOS, you might see how it is a rights issue. Some examples:
-when you link a bank account with your paypal account, you are agreeing to let them take money out of your account at any time for any reason without warning. They have been know to empty peoples checking accounts to cover themselves if they suspect fraud. -by agreeing to the TOS, you "waive" your right to pursue legal action against them. According to them, the only way to pursue issues with them is through an independant arbitrator. Obviously this doesnt hold up under scrutiny because a suit was just filed... -paypal is not a bank- when you "deposit" money into your account, they become the legal custodians of that money. Thats how they can freeze peoples accounts on a whim. -along with that last item, they are not FDIC insured, so when (not if) they become another.com statistic, you are out of luck with any money you have in your account.
paypalwarning.com has a lot more info if you are interested.
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Just curious- how would an os optimize performance for different kinds of memory? The hardware already takes care of the DRAM refreshes and stuff. I always thought that the type of RAM was really transparent to the os. Am I missing something?
Since Itanium is _not_ targeted for the desktop, you are probably right that it won't be there. It is a server product. And Itanium is already making some progress against Sun:
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The deal with Reuters is a good start.
Like it or not, but IE's acceptance of sloppy code did wonders for the growth of the internet. Suddenly it wasn't only the nerds who cared about matching brackets or tags that were publishing web sites. Ma and pa could throw some pages up there, and it still looked ok even though they didn't study the HTML syntax.
Pretending to be IE with Mozilla (or Konq or Galeon...) is not too uncommon.
Not too uncommon for the nerd minority, but still extremely uncommon in general. Thats not going to influence the numbers.
Well, golf definately is a "physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively." It might not get your heart beating like basketball or soccer, but it is a sport.
We're going to need something to replace PCI before we can use 10Gbit ethernet fully though.
Good point. We need something like 3GIO. Plus something has to be done about the bandwidth between the northbridge and the southbride. Right now it is at 266 MB/sec with plans to increase to 533 MB/sec.
Sorry, but even after all these years its hard to beat the HP-48. After 8 years I still use mine everyday.
Yeah- Itanium 2. I think Intel would like to forget about the itanium release last year.
IA64 was never intended to compete with AMD's Hammer or any other desktop chip. Itanium is a server chip that is designed to compete with the UltraSparc IIIs of this world. I doubt you will ever see Itanium chips on a desktop computer.
Oh- and about the legacy x86 code out there- Itanium has built in x86 emulation so they can run legacy apps. The first demonstrations of this were not all that impressive, but I'll bet that by the time the chip is released it performs better. Probably not that hard to do considering all Intel chips have been translating the x86 code to internal RISC microcode on the fly for years...
Although this story is funny, I think its also a reflection of how the Chinese view the US. They view Americans as shallow and self-centered, and a story like this would jump out at them to confirm thier beliefs. Its like they wanted it to be true so they could say "See what dumb things those Americans are doing now!"
1) I guess I misread your post- you seemed a little hostile. Sorry.
:)
2) Multiple Personality Disorder was dropped in DSM-IV. There is still a lot of debate about whether it is a real disorder- most of Europe discounts it as fiction. If it is real, it is extremely rare - Norman Bates excluded of course
3) I didnt think the joke was in bad taste, but then again I am not schizophrenic.
Multiple Personality Disorder is not what YOU think it is. You might want to get your terminology straight before you try to slam somebody for a harmless (and pretty funny) joke. Multiple Personality Disorder doesn't even exist. What you are thinking of is Dissociative Identity Disorder. And both dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia work for the joke.
Intel makes systems? Go to www.shopintel.com and see how many systems they have for sale...
But code stolen from a large Microsoft customer allowed rampant illegal Windows XP copying
Does that mean that they are not letting one of their "large" customers install the service pack? I wonder how they will differentiate between the legit copies installed with that key and the pirated ones...
Wow- its amazing that you can be so defensive about your blatent contradictions. Its sounding more and more like your the one that doesnt have any idea what your "blathering about".
Wouldn't the lost productivity of the employees count as damages? If they have 80,000 employees, and it takes each employee 1 minute to read the email, figure out it is trash, and discard it, isn't that 80,000 lost man minutes (1333 man hours)? They made efforts to block his emails, and he tried to get around them to send more emails. I hope intel comes out on top on this one.
If you want to waste their time without wasting your own time, just start out the call nicely to get them started on the "pitch" and set the phone down. After a few minutes they realize that nobody is listening and they give up. Although I have to say that the parrot approach sounds pretty funny.
Meanwhile the ISP keeps trying to charge your old credit card #, your "account" goes past due, they send you to collections, and your credit rating starts to take a beating.
I'm not saying its fair, but when you sit down to get a mortgage and they ask you to explain the bad credit mark, they probably won't like "I didn't want to wait on hold when I called to cancel my account so I just stopped paying"
Cancelling my earthlink account took less than 5 minutes too. It went something like this:
me: I'm moving, do you offer DSL at my new address?
el: (checks) No
me: Can you cancel my service then?
el: Sure. Anything else?
I did have to jump through 1 hoop for them- I couldnt cancel in advance, so they made me call back the night before I wanted it cancelled to start the process.
In my 2 years with earthlink, I was actually pretty impressed with the service. Around CodeRed/Nimda the service got a little flakey for a couple days, but they figured it out soon enough.
Yes, that is the real advantage, and probably the reason that ATA133 will eventually become the standard for all drives/controllers.
ATA133 will definatly NOT become the standard- parallel ATA is pretty much at the end of its road. The future standards will be with serial ATA. Where parallel ATA is reaching its limits at 133, serial ATA is planned to have speeds of 600 MB/sec within the next few years. Plus it is software compatible with the older conrollers (no new drivers), uses less power, and gets rid of those annoying ribbon cables that restrict airflow. All of the major chipset designers are moving on to serial ATA.
The newer drives with larger caches (8 MB and bigger) can burst and fill the bandwidth of the controller.
Anyway, you might notice that none of the Intel chipsets support ATA133. Its not because Intel doesnt have the technology or that they are behind- they are just choosing to spend their time and money on SerialATA. Now thats a technology that actually has a future.
You need to do some more homework- Intel started this secure environment initiative when they found out that AMD was already working with Microsoft on their own secure environment initiative. Intel has been playing catch-up to AMD.
There must be something to these HandEras- all 5 of you HandEra users are always screaming about how good they are. Are they pr0n optimized or something?
I think I'll just stick with my Clie though.
Well, wait until somebody makes a payment to you and paypal flags the transaction for fraud (their rules for checking for fraud are pretty arbitrary, too- they are often wrong). Even though you have done nothing wrong, they will freeze your $$ too. It has happend to thousands of people. There are dozens of new horror stories posted at paypalwarning.com every month. Considering a small % of the people that have problems find that site, and even fewer post their stories, that is pretty sad.
Well, if you read through the paypal TOS, you might see how it is a rights issue. Some examples:
.com statistic, you are out of luck with any money you have in your account.
-when you link a bank account with your paypal account, you are agreeing to let them take money out of your account at any time for any reason without warning. They have been know to empty peoples checking accounts to cover themselves if they suspect fraud.
-by agreeing to the TOS, you "waive" your right to pursue legal action against them. According to them, the only way to pursue issues with them is through an independant arbitrator. Obviously this doesnt hold up under scrutiny because a suit was just filed...
-paypal is not a bank- when you "deposit" money into your account, they become the legal custodians of that money. Thats how they can freeze peoples accounts on a whim.
-along with that last item, they are not FDIC insured, so when (not if) they become another
paypalwarning.com has a lot more info if you are interested.