More to the point: it's a dual-core laptop CPU, without even rumour of an AMD Turion X2. Yonah has the most efficient chipset architecture of its class (because iBooks and PowerBooks are a different class and don't have 533MHz busses and DDR2 memory that the Dothans do).
The Memory bus is a DDR bus, and the Athlon64/Opteron speaks to the rest of the computer via HyperTransport (I looked at AMD's website, and their information does not describe the memory subsytem as using hypertransport. Do your DIMMs speak HT?)
Ah, the power of "Press 1 for globalization; 2 for systematic destruction of indigenous cultures for the sake of developed nations' wasteful lifestyles; 3 to listen to the improvements in dividend the shareholders made for this outsourcing; 4 for the tax dodges we did to outsource and insource again (depending on you locale); 5 for our prospective ways to write off the savings made with our call centres and so not reimburse the shareholders at all; 6 to be ignored; 7 for immediate disconnection; 8 to repeat this menu in your local dialect; 9 for the great products and services of our partner companies who are giving us more money to support this venture. Wait on the line for connection to a representative of our non-trained college-educated temp staff"
I don't know who's drinking the Kool Aid to give him that cash in the first place: the idea of Torrents working effectively with large-sacle media suppliers and their DRM is stupid.
Either every file has the same encryption/obfuscating DRM and you end up distributing it to the biggest cracking network around (perhaps even with a plug in to the torrent software that does distributed key cracking while downloading), or that the DRM is keyed to a single computer by the media suppliers at the cost of being able to use Torrents at all (because Bram's software really can't cope with cloning non-unique files). To get around this, you wrap the file with DRM as part of its transit, but there will still be a point at which the information is unlocked and can be pulled out from the system.
I admire IBM's commitment to Free/Libre Software that their own personal compiler does worse than the GNU version. Their knowledge of their own hardware and their not sharing that part of their technology with GCC is their own choice and one which makes them look bad.
The thing that I'm struck by is the efficiency of the systems: that the BlueGene/L system gets around 2GFlops/processor; 6.2 GFlops/proc for ASC/Purple; 5.1 for Columbia; 4.8 for Thunderbird; Red Storm gets 3.6; Earth Simulator, 7.7; MareNostrum, 5.8; Thunder (the highest-ranked Itanium cluster), 4.86; Korean Meteorological Administration's Cray X1E gets an outstanding 15.4GFlops/processor (with due respect to the people at Cray as was); and VTech's XServe's provide around 6GFlops/processor. I suspect that the bandwidth between nodes and the network topology to ensure that data flows smoothly is the hinderance for getting high performance per node in the larger systems.
I chose to. What would the GGP do if I was homosexual and offended by his use of that word? What would you do if the GGP had used 'black', 'chinese', 'arabic' or 'muslim'? These are adjectives that describe a group of people, and disparaging people based upon ethnicity or religion has been socially unacceptable for years. Disparaging people because of their natural sexual preferences is also unacceptable, and I chose to make that point in support of this minority.
Debian is at a comparable tech level with that hardware [/me ducks]. But seriously, Debian Etch/Sid on my P166 notebook runs Gnome 2.10 under an Xorg Xserver fine. But I did feed it lots of RAM. Before that it was running DamnSmallLinux installed to the HDD using the supplied scripts, taking up less than 300MB. It uses Xvesa and Xfb and a lightweight window manager; Dillo works great for a web browser, but Gecko-based browsers are a bit memory hungry.
The slashthink holds that this event was the impetus for softcode in processors; I'm not convinced because the Pentium begun the muddling of RISC and CISC architectures with CISC words and RISC internals through microcode. The detailed explanation of the FDIV bug at http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~dusko/cs63/fdiv.html seems to indicate that the flaw was in the microcde (without explicitly stating so, and I don't know enough about the core behaviour of Pentiums to say).
On behalf of the non-heterosexual people I know who are not in any way useless, failures, bad, irritating, enfuriating, or a let down: gay isn't an appropriate word to insult a crap computer program. My friends are cool and using 'gay' as a derogatory term is either an illustration of a prejudice or the lack of a vocabulary on your part.
I think of them as the wake of stuff (albeit big singularity-type stuff) dancing in space. To us a long distance away (many times the separation of the objects), the disruptions caused by the two things moving around should be something we can sense.
Of course there's a medium through which all things in the Cosmos move -- we have to label it and measure it; the rubber sheet metaphor is helpful for us to understand it. General relativity allows for all manner of funny space-time conditions but to do so uses maths from topology to communicate this. The key part of this maths is the Metric of the topological thingummy over which our Cosmic Bodies are dancing, which is an unavoidable indication of an invisible, insensitive substance behind our cosmology. Unfortunately, this is only the maths of the model of the cosmology, so it may not necessarily really be there (and I apologise for messing with your head).
The reason this is relevant to the news of LIGO/VIRGO/GEO/TAMA news: Michelson & Morley developed the interferometer which is the key part of all these GW observatories in order to show that the 'Ether' really existed, and had nothing positive to show after years of testing the thing. This isn't more expensive repetition of the same experiments because these devices seek something other than Michelson sought, and they are being used differently.
Uhhhh.... Forgive me for I have sinned. [To self: The least said, soonest mended. Keep quiet and hope this blows over. Did you really think you could post to Slashdot mentioning doing stuff away from the computer? And do you think you'll be able to get away with it by a quick reference to The Slashdot Basement Joke? Really?]
Surely the collaborative way in which the GNU/Linux experience comes about makes it necessary to cooperate upon the how software comes together. Rarely are there software packages which come to you in a cathedral-built lump (one example is Codeweavers' Crossover Office), and the 'peculiarities of each distribution' remains the justification I use for repositories and getting software by yum and aptitude (where appropriate).
Regarding FC3, I use FC3 at home and the chatter on their site tells me that FC3 still has security updates and should still have software support because it has not moved to Fedora Legacy yet. The FC4 install disks will upgrade your computer from 3 to 4 if you should so wish (at reasonably low risk of brokenness), and I found the repositry files from http://www.fedorafaq.org/ (be careful to read the FAQ for FC3 because the root page is for FC4) good for all my software needs, but I must admit that I'm happy to type yum install xine at a console.
Kernels 2.4 and 2.6 have come about since then, but essentially we're icing the cake with stuff that is consumer-friendly: udev does a nice job of detecting your USB/1394 devices; WLAN support has improved; there exist distributions that do a good job of working the ACPI magic with recent notebook computers.
Microsoft's 'innovation' for consumers is prettification and commoditization, which the GNU/Linux distributions are having to do the same. My computer is a household appliance and is used when I need to use it (otherwise it's off). Linux will be ready for the desktop when it has a convenient 'appliance' distribution.
I never saw the Freebies admit that the problem was at all to do with religion. There was a need for a better logo that they could be identified with in business; the Beastie remains the mascot but is copyrighted to a particular artist whose kindness they have been glad to receive. Thus a new logo was needed.
I expect that any self-respecting adware/spyware/rootkit maker will hide the bulk of their work out of sight in a virtualized environment. Were I designing a zombie clone, it would hide out-of-sight ona virtualised machine -- a no-brainer because it's harder to discover. And then people can have fresh installs of Windows which are patched up still resulting in their 14-month old 4.2GHz Pentium crawling and needing replacing.
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More to the point: it's a dual-core laptop CPU, without even rumour of an AMD Turion X2. Yonah has the most efficient chipset architecture of its class (because iBooks and PowerBooks are a different class and don't have 533MHz busses and DDR2 memory that the Dothans do).
The Memory bus is a DDR bus, and the Athlon64/Opteron speaks to the rest of the computer via HyperTransport (I looked at AMD's website, and their information does not describe the memory subsytem as using hypertransport. Do your DIMMs speak HT?)
because you're Shatner?
Don't forget to make poor Bond-style puns at every opportunity.
It's clear I drink the kool-aid when I ask: are ReactOS and Mono/DotGNU viable alternatives which would allow you to continue using this hardware?
I've already drowned, you insensitive clod!
Ah, the power of "Press 1 for globalization; 2 for systematic destruction of indigenous cultures for the sake of developed nations' wasteful lifestyles; 3 to listen to the improvements in dividend the shareholders made for this outsourcing; 4 for the tax dodges we did to outsource and insource again (depending on you locale); 5 for our prospective ways to write off the savings made with our call centres and so not reimburse the shareholders at all; 6 to be ignored; 7 for immediate disconnection; 8 to repeat this menu in your local dialect; 9 for the great products and services of our partner companies who are giving us more money to support this venture. Wait on the line for connection to a representative of our non-trained college-educated temp staff"
Go to http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/22/15 55250, which talks about New Scientist's commentary about the same patent application.
I don't know who's drinking the Kool Aid to give him that cash in the first place: the idea of Torrents working effectively with large-sacle media suppliers and their DRM is stupid.
Either every file has the same encryption/obfuscating DRM and you end up distributing it to the biggest cracking network around (perhaps even with a plug in to the torrent software that does distributed key cracking while downloading), or that the DRM is keyed to a single computer by the media suppliers at the cost of being able to use Torrents at all (because Bram's software really can't cope with cloning non-unique files). To get around this, you wrap the file with DRM as part of its transit, but there will still be a point at which the information is unlocked and can be pulled out from the system.
You couldn't help that Marzipan needed that. But it will remain a clever $sys$"& irritating" phenomenon.
Mst new Pentium 4's have the EM64T capabilities. But what proportion of the volume of P4's (and Netburst Xeons) are they?
I admire IBM's commitment to Free/Libre Software that their own personal compiler does worse than the GNU version. Their knowledge of their own hardware and their not sharing that part of their technology with GCC is their own choice and one which makes them look bad.
The thing that I'm struck by is the efficiency of the systems: that the BlueGene/L system gets around 2GFlops/processor; 6.2 GFlops/proc for ASC/Purple; 5.1 for Columbia; 4.8 for Thunderbird; Red Storm gets 3.6; Earth Simulator, 7.7; MareNostrum, 5.8; Thunder (the highest-ranked Itanium cluster), 4.86; Korean Meteorological Administration's Cray X1E gets an outstanding 15.4GFlops/processor (with due respect to the people at Cray as was); and VTech's XServe's provide around 6GFlops/processor. I suspect that the bandwidth between nodes and the network topology to ensure that data flows smoothly is the hinderance for getting high performance per node in the larger systems.
I chose to. What would the GGP do if I was homosexual and offended by his use of that word? What would you do if the GGP had used 'black', 'chinese', 'arabic' or 'muslim'? These are adjectives that describe a group of people, and disparaging people based upon ethnicity or religion has been socially unacceptable for years. Disparaging people because of their natural sexual preferences is also unacceptable, and I chose to make that point in support of this minority.
Debian is at a comparable tech level with that hardware [/me ducks]. But seriously, Debian Etch/Sid on my P166 notebook runs Gnome 2.10 under an Xorg Xserver fine. But I did feed it lots of RAM. Before that it was running DamnSmallLinux installed to the HDD using the supplied scripts, taking up less than 300MB. It uses Xvesa and Xfb and a lightweight window manager; Dillo works great for a web browser, but Gecko-based browsers are a bit memory hungry.
Like I said elsewhere today: the Wikipedia links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug to http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~dusko/cs63/fdiv.html which indicates that it's the microcode at fault.
The slashthink holds that this event was the impetus for softcode in processors; I'm not convinced because the Pentium begun the muddling of RISC and CISC architectures with CISC words and RISC internals through microcode. The detailed explanation of the FDIV bug at http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~dusko/cs63/fdiv.html seems to indicate that the flaw was in the microcde (without explicitly stating so, and I don't know enough about the core behaviour of Pentiums to say).
On behalf of the non-heterosexual people I know who are not in any way useless, failures, bad, irritating, enfuriating, or a let down: gay isn't an appropriate word to insult a crap computer program. My friends are cool and using 'gay' as a derogatory term is either an illustration of a prejudice or the lack of a vocabulary on your part.
I think of them as the wake of stuff (albeit big singularity-type stuff) dancing in space. To us a long distance away (many times the separation of the objects), the disruptions caused by the two things moving around should be something we can sense.
Of course there's a medium through which all things in the Cosmos move -- we have to label it and measure it; the rubber sheet metaphor is helpful for us to understand it. General relativity allows for all manner of funny space-time conditions but to do so uses maths from topology to communicate this. The key part of this maths is the Metric of the topological thingummy over which our Cosmic Bodies are dancing, which is an unavoidable indication of an invisible, insensitive substance behind our cosmology. Unfortunately, this is only the maths of the model of the cosmology, so it may not necessarily really be there (and I apologise for messing with your head).
The reason this is relevant to the news of LIGO/VIRGO/GEO/TAMA news: Michelson & Morley developed the interferometer which is the key part of all these GW observatories in order to show that the 'Ether' really existed, and had nothing positive to show after years of testing the thing. This isn't more expensive repetition of the same experiments because these devices seek something other than Michelson sought, and they are being used differently.
Uhhhh.... Forgive me for I have sinned. [To self: The least said, soonest mended. Keep quiet and hope this blows over. Did you really think you could post to Slashdot mentioning doing stuff away from the computer? And do you think you'll be able to get away with it by a quick reference to The Slashdot Basement Joke? Really?]
Surely the collaborative way in which the GNU/Linux experience comes about makes it necessary to cooperate upon the how software comes together. Rarely are there software packages which come to you in a cathedral-built lump (one example is Codeweavers' Crossover Office), and the 'peculiarities of each distribution' remains the justification I use for repositories and getting software by yum and aptitude (where appropriate).
Regarding FC3, I use FC3 at home and the chatter on their site tells me that FC3 still has security updates and should still have software support because it has not moved to Fedora Legacy yet. The FC4 install disks will upgrade your computer from 3 to 4 if you should so wish (at reasonably low risk of brokenness), and I found the repositry files from http://www.fedorafaq.org/ (be careful to read the FAQ for FC3 because the root page is for FC4) good for all my software needs, but I must admit that I'm happy to type yum install xine at a console.
Kernels 2.4 and 2.6 have come about since then, but essentially we're icing the cake with stuff that is consumer-friendly: udev does a nice job of detecting your USB/1394 devices; WLAN support has improved; there exist distributions that do a good job of working the ACPI magic with recent notebook computers.
Microsoft's 'innovation' for consumers is prettification and commoditization, which the GNU/Linux distributions are having to do the same. My computer is a household appliance and is used when I need to use it (otherwise it's off). Linux will be ready for the desktop when it has a convenient 'appliance' distribution.
And the MPAA would like to be able to charge the whole planet, too...
I never saw the Freebies admit that the problem was at all to do with religion. There was a need for a better logo that they could be identified with in business; the Beastie remains the mascot but is copyrighted to a particular artist whose kindness they have been glad to receive. Thus a new logo was needed.
I expect that any self-respecting adware/spyware/rootkit maker will hide the bulk of their work out of sight in a virtualized environment. Were I designing a zombie clone, it would hide out-of-sight ona virtualised machine -- a no-brainer because it's harder to discover. And then people can have fresh installs of Windows which are patched up still resulting in their 14-month old 4.2GHz Pentium crawling and needing replacing.