Dude, get your facts straight. (a) transmeta chips are VLIW, not RISC. (b) the processor uses a 256-bit instruction path, but uses a mixture of 32 bit and 64 bit internal registers. This revision may include some 128 bit internal registers. Regardless, it can access 2^35 bits of memory, not even the 2^39 that intel chips can address...
Yeah. Currently the two places I'd consider are Brazil (easy to get a passport, by way of my father) and Kyrgyzstan (easy to get a passport, by way of them having a great immigration policy). Both have some problems, but both seem better and better every day. Kyrgyzstan in particular is an interesting and not-quite-ideal nation, but it's appealing to think about living in a lousy place getting better, instead of a once-great place going mad. I don't know, a month ago I would have said "only kidding" in my response here... but I'm not, any more.
I had a picture book. Loved it. 3 hours on extended battery, ran linux (with camera support), and was generally just a great machine. Then it exploded. In lots of blue sparks. In the middle of a conference call. Needless to say, I bought a mac. Which, come to think of it, just died yesterday, the day before my thesis is due. (Yes, I'm reading/. instead of doing my thesis.) Why don't people believe that I treat my laptops well?
You can do it in software on the Centrinos, I'm sure. On the other hand, with a reasonably well-designed laptop (centrino, g3, transmeta) you'll hit diminishing returns quickly. Most of these processors use between 3W and 7W of power (don't know centrino's power draw off the top of my head). Even if you manage to cut that to 1W, a 6W difference makes little difference when your monitor draws 8W-12W, your harddrive draws 2W, and even your ram and chpset draw a couple of watts between them. The difference doesn't hurt, but the performance difference probably begins to outweigh the battery life difference. A 100% performance decrease (conceptually, if we were to use a multiplier of zero on the processor) would probably correspond to a 20% battery life increase at most.
Not quite. You can go, you just can't come back. Which, to me, sounds like a better deal with every passing day. What's the procedure for renouncing US citizenship, anyone?
Yeah, except that it makes sense that some people might want to use KDE, and some might want to use GNOME. What possible justifaction is there for emacs? [ducks]
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Um, what's your source for your sig quote? Since it seems very much not like something Franklin would say... or anything from his century. "Pursuit" as in pursuit of happiness did not imply the chase, but rather the occupation... like the pursuit of stamp collecting or lock picking.
I don't get it. Presumably, a spammer is sending out a million copies of the same e-mail. So he sends out a million 'hey, pick up your mail' notices to these new mail servers... and when the people go to check their mail, their servers go and talk to the spammers, which stored it remotely. Now, why does the spammer's server need to store more than one copy of the e-mail? Where is the increase in cost?
Half of all Americans have below average intelligence.
Do you have a source for this? Half are below median intelligence, I'm sure, but mean? Or is your confusion of the two just evidence of your categorization?
...or Apple+Y... but I was pointing out that even someone who's a windows user (that is, understands menus, but doesn't know how to do stuff on a mac) could figure this out.
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Dude, get your facts straight. (a) transmeta chips are VLIW, not RISC. (b) the processor uses a 256-bit instruction path, but uses a mixture of 32 bit and 64 bit internal registers. This revision may include some 128 bit internal registers. Regardless, it can access 2^35 bits of memory, not even the 2^39 that intel chips can address...
Mortar.
Barton is 640K cache, the 512K L2 and 128K L1 are exclusive. That said, I agree that the post you were responding to was moronic.
Yeah. Currently the two places I'd consider are Brazil (easy to get a passport, by way of my father) and Kyrgyzstan (easy to get a passport, by way of them having a great immigration policy). Both have some problems, but both seem better and better every day. Kyrgyzstan in particular is an interesting and not-quite-ideal nation, but it's appealing to think about living in a lousy place getting better, instead of a once-great place going mad. I don't know, a month ago I would have said "only kidding" in my response here... but I'm not, any more.
I had a picture book. Loved it. 3 hours on extended battery, ran linux (with camera support), and was generally just a great machine. Then it exploded. In lots of blue sparks. In the middle of a conference call. Needless to say, I bought a mac. Which, come to think of it, just died yesterday, the day before my thesis is due. (Yes, I'm reading /. instead of doing my thesis.) Why don't people believe that I treat my laptops well?
You can do it in software on the Centrinos, I'm sure. On the other hand, with a reasonably well-designed laptop (centrino, g3, transmeta) you'll hit diminishing returns quickly. Most of these processors use between 3W and 7W of power (don't know centrino's power draw off the top of my head). Even if you manage to cut that to 1W, a 6W difference makes little difference when your monitor draws 8W-12W, your harddrive draws 2W, and even your ram and chpset draw a couple of watts between them. The difference doesn't hurt, but the performance difference probably begins to outweigh the battery life difference. A 100% performance decrease (conceptually, if we were to use a multiplier of zero on the processor) would probably correspond to a 20% battery life increase at most.
Just buy them on the street. It's quicker, cheaper, and less regulated.
Not quite. You can go, you just can't come back. Which, to me, sounds like a better deal with every passing day. What's the procedure for renouncing US citizenship, anyone?
Yeah, except that it makes sense that some people might want to use KDE, and some might want to use GNOME. What possible justifaction is there for emacs? [ducks]
Um, what's your source for your sig quote? Since it seems very much not like something Franklin would say... or anything from his century. "Pursuit" as in pursuit of happiness did not imply the chase, but rather the occupation... like the pursuit of stamp collecting or lock picking.
I don't get it. Presumably, a spammer is sending out a million copies of the same e-mail. So he sends out a million 'hey, pick up your mail' notices to these new mail servers... and when the people go to check their mail, their servers go and talk to the spammers, which stored it remotely. Now, why does the spammer's server need to store more than one copy of the e-mail? Where is the increase in cost?
Half of all Americans have below average intelligence.
Do you have a source for this? Half are below median intelligence, I'm sure, but mean? Or is your confusion of the two just evidence of your categorization?
URL?
Using ultracaps with a mini-itx board (EPIA 5000 with six PC-100E caps) to allow about two minutes away from wall. Low energy, outrageous lifetime.
Nerve gas and a gas mask? It wouldn't be that hard to disable a plane full of people. Never say never, even approximately.
Yes. Is this a trick question, or am I missing something?
Buy at mcdonalds and it's two days not hungry. One your fed, one's taken off your life.
If you're using an application-layer protocol anyway, just use UDP and save the bandwidth on ACK entirely.
All y'all do realize that this story is immediate +1 mock-the-editors karma, yes? Enjoy!
Hmm... they still have hair, but they're no longer warm blooded. What if we put them in the toaster?
small-is-good dept.
Nice small title there!
lobster magnets?
"all mammals learn by playing"
Not dead ones!
Slashdot masses, defend the ongs by taking them off the web before the forces of big brother find them! (They'll never know what hit 'em.)
...or Apple+Y... but I was pointing out that even someone who's a windows user (that is, understands menus, but doesn't know how to do stuff on a mac) could figure this out.