What's confusing about 'completion of the design'? AMD already said earlier this year that they were working towards a smaller process but Intel got the jump on them by going to 65nm while AMD was still using 90nm. With a reduced process size, they'll be able to squeeze a quad-core design into a dual-core space, matching the current AM2/AM3 die size.
I guess if you weren't up to speed on which manufacturers were using which process, it'd be confusing.:)
Good story on that one, circumventing protection mechanisms on heavy machinery. I've got to set the scene first.
At a major air conditioner manufacturing plant, late at night, there was a chain-feed system imbedded in the floor to move products from point to point. That particular night the 'pit' was open in the shop floor because the machinery driving the chain was broken down. The security guard in the golf cart did not know this.
Meanwhile a certain genius on a sheet metal V-bender had placed mirrors in front of the strobe/reflector system that disabled the V-press if anything blocked it's path (anything like your hands). He found he could work faster if the mirrors were in place because regardless of where his hands were, he could use the foot pedal to operate the press. This was a good idea in moron theory.
Fast forward 5 minutes and one jackass is standing on his machine with his pants down yelling and shaking his ass for comedic effect. This distracts everyone left on the floor. The security guard looks over as he's driving towards the pit. Boom, he drives the cart into the 6-foot opening in the floor and comedy ensues. Both of these combined lead to the V-bender operator looking over just as he pushes a piece of sheet metal into the machine and steps on the foot pedal to operate the press.
Seconds later he's screaming bloody murder. The press came down on one of his hands, breaking every bone past his second knuckle and trapping his hand. He had the presence of mind to hit the red Panic button with his free hand so the press was stopped with his hand trapped in it. Blood starts oozing out from the tips of his leather glove. 911 is called and he's rushed to the hospital.
From that day forward he lived with nubs on his right hand. His thumb was intact but his fingers were nearly 100% sacrificed. So the lesson here: don't circumvent safety measures, they're there for a reason.
Did you happen to see the shitty selection of video cards available for a quad-gpu system? All they have is an ATI x1900 or 4 different configurations of Nvidia's 7300. The 7300's are crap, they're like the GeforceMX series designed for cheap, low budget OEM applications. Sure, they're great for 2d, but it would probably take all four of them to equal a single 7900.
Sometimes I wonder what the hell Apple is thinking. Putting buffered DDR2 in that box was also kinda retarded...who wants to pay through the nose for server ram in the first place?
4 out of 5 of our corporate, OEM-keyed Dell laptops were nailed by WGA. One was preformatted from the factory, the rest we had installed from XP Pro SP2 discs that Dell shipped to us. Since they were Dell discs they never asked for a key. All machines shipped with keys on the stickers of course, so fixing them was a matter of using a reactivation tool, phone support, then change key procedure. Still a hassle and our CEO was frantic since the company recently went public.
Thanks for stressing us out for what we legitimately paid you money for, Microjerks.
I guess you haven't been to a print shop lately. They're all rapeage when it comes to card stock and anything semi-professional, which seems like what this guy is using it for.
It's not always true that a company has massive layoffs because they're having hard times. GM used to regularly layoff thousands of UAW workers just because they had a massive build-up and overproduced, then sent everyone home. 6 months later they're all back at work, and in the 6 month interim they got paychecks for drinking beer and watching fishing shows.
There are a number of reasons for layoffs. One is to return a struggling company to profitability by cutting the fat. However, most of the fat is middle management. Another reason is to chop off unprofitable arms or acquisitions that are draining resources the company could redirect to generate revenue. Yet another reason for layoffs is to build investor trust (i.e. raise stock values) by creating false profitability on paper. When your company goes from 1 mil. on payroll for the quarter to.5 mil. on payroll, it *looks* like the company is doing well (the balance sheets show 11.5 mil in profit instead of 11 mil). However, most companies learned the hard way with this tactic, and it's been documented that most companies that 'swing the axe wide' never really return to profitability and their stock ends up crashing sooner or later. Shareholders usually aren't fooled for long.
I'm right there with you. As the posts above clearly illustrated, there really is a city boy/country boy schism. I'm not criticizing either one, because I'm a little of both (but more city), and to each his own.
I know it sounds bizarre, but since Redhat is public and has shareholders, they have a responsibility to pursue cash flow and partnerships. Whether or not some kid in his basement, who is not a revenue stream, can boot Redhat and play around with it simply isn't relevant to Redhat anymore. That's why they 'freed' development and support of Fedora. Rather than killing a decent product, they just gave it away to the same people who are willing to use and continue development of it. That allows them to put their resources (coders) where they belong..focused on developing their enterprise server products. The Enterprise market is huge and is a potential source of a giant revenue stream and Redhat has alot of deals with big universities and corporations.
Personally I totally understand what Redhat is doing and has done. I agree with their business decisions. From the standpoint of a casual observer, yeah it was kinda shitty that they just dropped their desktop distro, but then again, how many people were really using it as a desktop at that time? How many of those people were paying customers, and what percentage of revenues did that represent? It all comes down to percentages and business decisions.
There's one more thing to consider here as well. What kind of iron Ubuntu can run on? It's well known that Redhat supports the big boys with RHEL Advanced server. From their site, they say that Advanced Server supports "...X86 systems (Intel Pentium Pro, AMD Athlon, or compatible), Itanium systems, Intel EM64T, AMD64 systems, IBM zSeries, POWER series, and S/390 series systems." I doubt most Ubuntu users have even seen an S/390 let alone a zSeries.
The people didn't elect him, the broken system did. I think in this day and age internet voting should be a viable method thereby bypassing faulty Diebold machinery and the backwards Electoral College systems altogether.
Look at where that got Beirut. They were very democratic and on their way to becoming a more liberal entity in the middle east but subversives like Hezbollah make sure they never achieve greatness. Really makes you wonder who's funding them, who wants chaos in the region and who stands to profit.
There is a fix on AMD's own website for the weirdness with dual core chips and Battlefield 2 and, I'm assuming, other games as well. The hotfix from Microsoft does nothing but the AMD patch fixes everything.
I *believe* the Dual Core optimizer patch from AMD works the magic but I could be wrong. It's one of those things that plagued me and my friends for months, and once I found the right patch and everyone applied it, I forgot all about it. I do remember the problem was caused by faulty ACPI/timing issues.
Actually alot of the production problems are nailed pre-production during the prototype and test phases. I work for a prototyping firm and they can get the process down well enough to predict manufacturability and failure rate. Of course, once the product hits a full production environment, it can be re-engineered further to make production yields higher and costs lower, but initially you nail the big bugs during prototyping.
Regardless of the roles each country played, they were still present and lending support and assistance. You don't have to supply troops to count. Canada was there in a support role as well, with engineers and repair crews on the battlefield and behind the lines.
My apologies if the tone offended you, but the angle I was looking at was the UN as a peacekeeping force, not a humanitarian one. However, the UN only began giving humanitarian aid after the sanctions were lifted after the dismal Oil for Food program was implemented. Ironically the crises Iraq faced during the sanctions weren't self inflicted.... Its like giving your little brother candy after you punch him in the face. He never needed help until you hurt him.
Please don't try to portray the UN in an angelic light. For all the good they've done in the past, under Kofi Annan they've done plenty of evil.
The US, France, Germany, Poland, Japan, Canada..the who's who of world politics. That pretty much constitutes everybody from an influential standpoint.
You make a good point which was underscored by the UN losing all credibility during the Iraqi invasion. The UN offices were abandoned faster than a French military outpost at the first sight of shelling and unrest in the streets. After all, the thin veil of authority the UN held over the Middle East was promptly yanked when the first US bombs fell from the sky. If the UN says stop, but everyone rolls in, it's obvious they have no power whatsoever.
It's really a shame for them because the UN actually used to keep alot of shit from erupting just by BEING in an unstable territory. Those days are over.
It was a brilliant move by AMD marketing to get people to think outside the GHz box because it's how much work a processor can do per cycle that counts, not how fast its internal clock rate is. They proved, with the Athlon64 chips, that a lower-clocked chip can perform as well as, or outperform, a chip with a higher clock rate.
The old timers, such as yourself, that think GHz ratings mean anything anymore are just wandering around blind. Intel proved that themselves with the switch from Pentium 4 to Pentium M for their mobile chipsets. All of a sudden you have a 1.6ghz chip that outperforms the older P4 2.xghz chip. So yeah, it seems like magic to the unitiated, but then again, everything technical does.
The drawback here is that these companies are all suppliers to all the big OEMs. Dell, HP and others use these companies for all the boxes they ship. Sometimes buying from companies like this is unavoidable.
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but they're releasing what was known as GSX for free. ESX, which is the super deluxe product, still costs plenty of money. GSX has limitations compared to ESX which are detailed here http://www.vmware.com/products/server/server_comp. html . At it's most basic, ESX is a linux 'underhost' which runs on the bare metal and has a web interface where you configure virtual servers and run them on top of this layer. The linux layer is completely hidden from the hosts and the actual hardware is abstracted. On the other hand, GSX requires a host OS to run on and therefore inherits the limitations of whatever OS it's installed on top of. There are other limitations as well but some light reading at vmware's site will clue you in.
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Oops, the new threading system has the post you replied to hidden. I got confused by that..ugh.
What's confusing about 'completion of the design'? AMD already said earlier this year that they were working towards a smaller process but Intel got the jump on them by going to 65nm while AMD was still using 90nm. With a reduced process size, they'll be able to squeeze a quad-core design into a dual-core space, matching the current AM2/AM3 die size.
:)
I guess if you weren't up to speed on which manufacturers were using which process, it'd be confusing.
Good story on that one, circumventing protection mechanisms on heavy machinery. I've got to set the scene first.
At a major air conditioner manufacturing plant, late at night, there was a chain-feed system imbedded in the floor to move products from point to point. That particular night the 'pit' was open in the shop floor because the machinery driving the chain was broken down. The security guard in the golf cart did not know this.
Meanwhile a certain genius on a sheet metal V-bender had placed mirrors in front of the strobe/reflector system that disabled the V-press if anything blocked it's path (anything like your hands). He found he could work faster if the mirrors were in place because regardless of where his hands were, he could use the foot pedal to operate the press. This was a good idea in moron theory.
Fast forward 5 minutes and one jackass is standing on his machine with his pants down yelling and shaking his ass for comedic effect. This distracts everyone left on the floor. The security guard looks over as he's driving towards the pit. Boom, he drives the cart into the 6-foot opening in the floor and comedy ensues. Both of these combined lead to the V-bender operator looking over just as he pushes a piece of sheet metal into the machine and steps on the foot pedal to operate the press.
Seconds later he's screaming bloody murder. The press came down on one of his hands, breaking every bone past his second knuckle and trapping his hand. He had the presence of mind to hit the red Panic button with his free hand so the press was stopped with his hand trapped in it. Blood starts oozing out from the tips of his leather glove. 911 is called and he's rushed to the hospital.
From that day forward he lived with nubs on his right hand. His thumb was intact but his fingers were nearly 100% sacrificed. So the lesson here: don't circumvent safety measures, they're there for a reason.
Did you happen to see the shitty selection of video cards available for a quad-gpu system? All they have is an ATI x1900 or 4 different configurations of Nvidia's 7300. The 7300's are crap, they're like the GeforceMX series designed for cheap, low budget OEM applications. Sure, they're great for 2d, but it would probably take all four of them to equal a single 7900.
Sometimes I wonder what the hell Apple is thinking. Putting buffered DDR2 in that box was also kinda retarded...who wants to pay through the nose for server ram in the first place?
Better late than never huh? ;)
4 out of 5 of our corporate, OEM-keyed Dell laptops were nailed by WGA. One was preformatted from the factory, the rest we had installed from XP Pro SP2 discs that Dell shipped to us. Since they were Dell discs they never asked for a key. All machines shipped with keys on the stickers of course, so fixing them was a matter of using a reactivation tool, phone support, then change key procedure. Still a hassle and our CEO was frantic since the company recently went public.
Thanks for stressing us out for what we legitimately paid you money for, Microjerks.
I guess you haven't been to a print shop lately. They're all rapeage when it comes to card stock and anything semi-professional, which seems like what this guy is using it for.
It's not always true that a company has massive layoffs because they're having hard times. GM used to regularly layoff thousands of UAW workers just because they had a massive build-up and overproduced, then sent everyone home. 6 months later they're all back at work, and in the 6 month interim they got paychecks for drinking beer and watching fishing shows.
.5 mil. on payroll, it *looks* like the company is doing well (the balance sheets show 11.5 mil in profit instead of 11 mil). However, most companies learned the hard way with this tactic, and it's been documented that most companies that 'swing the axe wide' never really return to profitability and their stock ends up crashing sooner or later. Shareholders usually aren't fooled for long.
There are a number of reasons for layoffs. One is to return a struggling company to profitability by cutting the fat. However, most of the fat is middle management. Another reason is to chop off unprofitable arms or acquisitions that are draining resources the company could redirect to generate revenue. Yet another reason for layoffs is to build investor trust (i.e. raise stock values) by creating false profitability on paper. When your company goes from 1 mil. on payroll for the quarter to
I'm right there with you. As the posts above clearly illustrated, there really is a city boy/country boy schism. I'm not criticizing either one, because I'm a little of both (but more city), and to each his own.
I know it sounds bizarre, but since Redhat is public and has shareholders, they have a responsibility to pursue cash flow and partnerships. Whether or not some kid in his basement, who is not a revenue stream, can boot Redhat and play around with it simply isn't relevant to Redhat anymore. That's why they 'freed' development and support of Fedora. Rather than killing a decent product, they just gave it away to the same people who are willing to use and continue development of it. That allows them to put their resources (coders) where they belong..focused on developing their enterprise server products. The Enterprise market is huge and is a potential source of a giant revenue stream and Redhat has alot of deals with big universities and corporations.
Personally I totally understand what Redhat is doing and has done. I agree with their business decisions. From the standpoint of a casual observer, yeah it was kinda shitty that they just dropped their desktop distro, but then again, how many people were really using it as a desktop at that time? How many of those people were paying customers, and what percentage of revenues did that represent? It all comes down to percentages and business decisions.
There's one more thing to consider here as well. What kind of iron Ubuntu can run on? It's well known that Redhat supports the big boys with RHEL Advanced server. From their site, they say that Advanced Server supports "...X86 systems (Intel Pentium Pro, AMD Athlon, or compatible), Itanium systems, Intel EM64T, AMD64 systems, IBM zSeries, POWER series, and S/390 series systems." I doubt most Ubuntu users have even seen an S/390 let alone a zSeries.
The people didn't elect him, the broken system did. I think in this day and age internet voting should be a viable method thereby bypassing faulty Diebold machinery and the backwards Electoral College systems altogether.
"Is it time for agile development?"
Look at where that got Beirut. They were very democratic and on their way to becoming a more liberal entity in the middle east but subversives like Hezbollah make sure they never achieve greatness. Really makes you wonder who's funding them, who wants chaos in the region and who stands to profit.
Yet another slew of reasons to develop a force field already.
Jeez, according to sci-fi magazines dating back to the 50's, we should have had them for decades. The future is really disappointing isn't it?
There is a fix on AMD's own website for the weirdness with dual core chips and Battlefield 2 and, I'm assuming, other games as well. The hotfix from Microsoft does nothing but the AMD patch fixes everything.
I *believe* the Dual Core optimizer patch from AMD works the magic but I could be wrong. It's one of those things that plagued me and my friends for months, and once I found the right patch and everyone applied it, I forgot all about it. I do remember the problem was caused by faulty ACPI/timing issues.
Actually alot of the production problems are nailed pre-production during the prototype and test phases. I work for a prototyping firm and they can get the process down well enough to predict manufacturability and failure rate. Of course, once the product hits a full production environment, it can be re-engineered further to make production yields higher and costs lower, but initially you nail the big bugs during prototyping.
I think you mean lithium ion cannon. ... it's: Dell (TM) Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
Regardless of the roles each country played, they were still present and lending support and assistance. You don't have to supply troops to count. Canada was there in a support role as well, with engineers and repair crews on the battlefield and behind the lines.
But thanks for playing.
My apologies if the tone offended you, but the angle I was looking at was the UN as a peacekeeping force, not a humanitarian one. However, the UN only began giving humanitarian aid after the sanctions were lifted after the dismal Oil for Food program was implemented. Ironically the crises Iraq faced during the sanctions weren't self inflicted.... Its like giving your little brother candy after you punch him in the face. He never needed help until you hurt him.
Please don't try to portray the UN in an angelic light. For all the good they've done in the past, under Kofi Annan they've done plenty of evil.
The US, France, Germany, Poland, Japan, Canada..the who's who of world politics. That pretty much constitutes everybody from an influential standpoint.
You make a good point which was underscored by the UN losing all credibility during the Iraqi invasion. The UN offices were abandoned faster than a French military outpost at the first sight of shelling and unrest in the streets. After all, the thin veil of authority the UN held over the Middle East was promptly yanked when the first US bombs fell from the sky. If the UN says stop, but everyone rolls in, it's obvious they have no power whatsoever.
It's really a shame for them because the UN actually used to keep alot of shit from erupting just by BEING in an unstable territory. Those days are over.
It was a brilliant move by AMD marketing to get people to think outside the GHz box because it's how much work a processor can do per cycle that counts, not how fast its internal clock rate is. They proved, with the Athlon64 chips, that a lower-clocked chip can perform as well as, or outperform, a chip with a higher clock rate.
The old timers, such as yourself, that think GHz ratings mean anything anymore are just wandering around blind. Intel proved that themselves with the switch from Pentium 4 to Pentium M for their mobile chipsets. All of a sudden you have a 1.6ghz chip that outperforms the older P4 2.xghz chip. So yeah, it seems like magic to the unitiated, but then again, everything technical does.
The drawback here is that these companies are all suppliers to all the big OEMs. Dell, HP and others use these companies for all the boxes they ship. Sometimes buying from companies like this is unavoidable.
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but they're releasing what was known as GSX for free. ESX, which is the super deluxe product, still costs plenty of money. GSX has limitations compared to ESX which are detailed here http://www.vmware.com/products/server/server_comp. html . At it's most basic, ESX is a linux 'underhost' which runs on the bare metal and has a web interface where you configure virtual servers and run them on top of this layer. The linux layer is completely hidden from the hosts and the actual hardware is abstracted. On the other hand, GSX requires a host OS to run on and therefore inherits the limitations of whatever OS it's installed on top of. There are other limitations as well but some light reading at vmware's site will clue you in.
Get Matthew Lesko's book on "LOL OMG Get amazing grant money FOR FREE!*", I think it'll explain the process in detail.
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