Oh, I always thought Stata did that purposely to prevent swapping. Regressions definitely run fast when you store the whole dataset in physical memory.
It's very useful for scientific research. I constantly run into the 4gb limitation when I run Stata, since it needs a contiguous chunk of memory, and the largest one of those you're going to find is about 1.5gb. Also if you're doing photo or video editing, obviously, the more RAM the better period.
For the average user I think it's pretty worthless right now. RAM requirements will creep ever northward, as do all hardware requirements, but by the time you find yourself needing (or even owning) 4gb of RAM this 64-bit thing will be old-hat.
You're out of your g*ddamn mind if you are seriously contemplating this. The fatal crash rate for general aviation is 50 times higher than for commerical airliners. It's 20 times more dangerous than driving. (All this from here.) All this to say nothing of the considerable added cost. Take a pill and call me in the morning--this reactionary nonsense is what got us into the mess we're in in the first place.
Not to make too much light of a really scary situation, but... the kill your wife guy searched 3 times for it and didn't come across this the first two?! What an idiot!
Not really. The traditional metric for processor usefulness has always been speed, and I agree that they've pretty much topped out for anyone not doing gaming, image/video editing, or other serious multimedia work. But now focus has shifted towards power consumption, and there's still a ton of headway being made. I for one am waiting for the release of Merom to upgrade my old Pentium M laptop.
You know,/. was around for a really long time with no user registration whatsoever. (Anyone remember the super-secret project, AKA Everything1? Wikipedia but years earlier.) I have a feeling most longtime/.ers, including myself, took a long look at the user signup form, yawned, and continued about our merry way while the UID counter slowly crept up. Anyways, my point is having a low UID isn't a perfect measure of l33tness or how long you've been around here.
Well "Teach," if you want to be a pedant, the missing "to" in that sentence isn't a preposition. It's one half of the full infinitive "to prove," making it a particle.
Yes, infallible logic there. uTorrent is closed source, written by one guy, and is sending God-knows-what to God-knows-whom every time you pirate those mp3s. Azureus is open source, developed by a team of people from all over the world, and would be forked faster than you can say suprnova if they tried to do something sleazy with it.
Only without ordering:-) These dipshits get paid by the pound. I think you'll agree that either would treat "Microsoft acquires Google" and "Google acquires Microsoft" as two complete separate issues, each meriting their own 800 word installment.
"News of a potential merger between these two rumor-mongering blowhards has been bouncing around San Jose for some time," said a source close to the deal. "After exhausting the n(n-1) array of potential merger rumors between companies as diverse as Google, Microsoft, General Motors, and ElectroPeru, the state-owned energy monopoly of Peru, both realized the only remaining avenue for generating baseless headlines and crucial name recognition was to themselves merge." Industry analysts speculated the new entity would assume the name Jobert K. Cringvorak, and continue publishing factually-inaccurate, worthless gossip headlines twice weekly in IT trade magazines.
Morons. Why does this shit get posted here every week, clogging up my screen real estate. I want to read about motherboards.
Seriously, does everything Google does have to make the front page? That post contains zero new information that isn't here, here, or here.
Yes, fine, I admit it, everyone at Google is smarter, happier, richer, more statuesque, and throws better parties than The Rest of Us. We're not worthy. Now stop telling me about it.
Sun's results were in line with the Street's expectations, so the only anomalous news coming out on SUNW today was his retirement. That alone was enough to send it up 8% in after hours. I think it would have been seen as really irresponsible for him to make this announcement a couple days before earnings. Not to mention ethically questionable since he's in the process of selling large blocks of shares right now.
Are you sure of that? I thought the whole point of the one FPU per chip was to dramatically cut down on power consumption, which is one of Niagara's main selling points.
Yeah, I'm definitely not contending that Sun's big iron is how it's going to bail itself out. Quite the opposite--my whole point was they're migrating their whole business model away from big fancy app servers and towards cheapo Opteron / Niagara clustered solutions. Of course, that's cheapo in the Sun sense: their prices are still 50-200% higher than comparable anonymous white box hardware. And, as we all know, it was precisely the rise of the white box cluster that brought Sun to the point it's at now. So what gives? Well, it turns out TCO for Sun hardware is actually lower even factoring in the higher hardware cost. Read it for yourself. It's a hard thing to wrap your mind around, especially if you've been hanging around/. for years like I have.
But apparently it's true. And that was my point about brand equity. A lot of the people who are now making purchasing decisions for their firm have a deep-seated belief that Sun makes more stable, more efficient, just overall better products that are worth paying a premium for. You can recognize these people because they also buy Apple for personal use.
My, I really sound like I've drink the Kool-Aid. I guess only time will tell. I don't actually have that much $$ riding on this stock, and I wouldn't even call myself one of the Sun fanboys I alluded to in the previous post. A ton of people who are a lot smarter than me got took a pass on this one. So... maybe I'll be getting reamed come Monday!:-)
Sun is trading at $5 a share, time to buy? or forgeddaboudit!?
Now's the time to decide--earnings call is on Monday. There are some credible rumors floating around that this will be the first profitable quarter in years. Sun's really revamped their product line in the last 16 months (AMD, Niagara, etc.) and in their last 10-K they mentioned they were actually having a hard time meeting demand. (Apropos the original story, there's also speculation that this would be an ideal note for McNealy to end his career on.)
If they do end up back in the black, every analyst and his brother will be on CNBC Tuesday morning shouting "Turned the corner!" and I think it would cause some major institutional buyers to jump back in. Unlike the run-up last month which got subsequently iced due to profit taking, the big guys would be in it for the long haul, creating a new support. $5.50 or maybe even $6? I haven't done the math.
And I feel like this possiblity hasn't been fully capitalized in to the current price--I'm really surprised how little talk there is about SUNW on the boards, newswires, or the Street. A lot of people seem to have written it off as a sad relic of the dot-com era. I think they're missing out on two key points: 1) how revolutionary and unique these new UltraSparc T1s are, especially for those serving up huge amounts of online content (ie everyone) or who are worried about energy costs (ie everyone), and 2) how much brand equity "Sun Microsystems" carries among a whole generation of 25+ year old geeks who grew up worshipping that awesome UltraSparc workstation in the server room/lab/etc (like everyone at Google, for one.)
To the extent that it's even possible nowadays, I feel like SUNW has been slipping under the radar for the last couple months.
P.S. I am quite obviously long on this stock, so if course it's in my best interest to convince you of all this:-)
Hahah... yes, how on Earth could somebody get confused about that. I am referring specifically to how f''(x) > 0 on the red portions of this graph and 0 for the blue.
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Oh, I always thought Stata did that purposely to prevent swapping. Regressions definitely run fast when you store the whole dataset in physical memory.
It's very useful for scientific research. I constantly run into the 4gb limitation when I run Stata, since it needs a contiguous chunk of memory, and the largest one of those you're going to find is about 1.5gb. Also if you're doing photo or video editing, obviously, the more RAM the better period.
For the average user I think it's pretty worthless right now. RAM requirements will creep ever northward, as do all hardware requirements, but by the time you find yourself needing (or even owning) 4gb of RAM this 64-bit thing will be old-hat.
Rational Rose comes to mind. They acquired that piece of junk when they bought Rational, and it still blows.
You're out of your g*ddamn mind if you are seriously contemplating this. The fatal crash rate for general aviation is 50 times higher than for commerical airliners. It's 20 times more dangerous than driving. (All this from here.) All this to say nothing of the considerable added cost. Take a pill and call me in the morning--this reactionary nonsense is what got us into the mess we're in in the first place.
Or just a brain. I ran that in my head and got "000-00-0996". Correct me if I'm wrong here.
Not to make too much light of a really scary situation, but... the kill your wife guy searched 3 times for it and didn't come across this the first two?! What an idiot!
Well, the thought never occured to me, but I just did it. If that number is publicly accessible on the web, I want to know about it.
:-)
Unfortunately, though, Google thought I was entering a subtraction problem. The answer was -966. Now go theft my ID
Not really. The traditional metric for processor usefulness has always been speed, and I agree that they've pretty much topped out for anyone not doing gaming, image/video editing, or other serious multimedia work. But now focus has shifted towards power consumption, and there's still a ton of headway being made. I for one am waiting for the release of Merom to upgrade my old Pentium M laptop.
You know, /. was around for a really long time with no user registration whatsoever. (Anyone remember the super-secret project, AKA Everything1? Wikipedia but years earlier.) I have a feeling most longtime /.ers, including myself, took a long look at the user signup form, yawned, and continued about our merry way while the UID counter slowly crept up. Anyways, my point is having a low UID isn't a perfect measure of l33tness or how long you've been around here.
I could swear those are from when I installed Slackware in 1995. Long live TWM.
:)
Yes, infallible logic there. uTorrent is closed source, written by one guy, and is sending God-knows-what to God-knows-whom every time you pirate those mp3s. Azureus is open source, developed by a team of people from all over the world, and would be forked faster than you can say suprnova if they tried to do something sleazy with it.
Only without ordering :-) These dipshits get paid by the pound. I think you'll agree that either would treat "Microsoft acquires Google" and "Google acquires Microsoft" as two complete separate issues, each meriting their own 800 word installment.
"News of a potential merger between these two rumor-mongering blowhards has been bouncing around San Jose for some time," said a source close to the deal. "After exhausting the n(n-1) array of potential merger rumors between companies as diverse as Google, Microsoft, General Motors, and ElectroPeru, the state-owned energy monopoly of Peru, both realized the only remaining avenue for generating baseless headlines and crucial name recognition was to themselves merge." Industry analysts speculated the new entity would assume the name Jobert K. Cringvorak, and continue publishing factually-inaccurate, worthless gossip headlines twice weekly in IT trade magazines.
Morons. Why does this shit get posted here every week, clogging up my screen real estate. I want to read about motherboards.
Seriously, does everything Google does have to make the front page? That post contains zero new information that isn't here, here, or here.
Yes, fine, I admit it, everyone at Google is smarter, happier, richer, more statuesque, and throws better parties than The Rest of Us. We're not worthy. Now stop telling me about it.
Sun's results were in line with the Street's expectations, so the only anomalous news coming out on SUNW today was his retirement. That alone was enough to send it up 8% in after hours. I think it would have been seen as really irresponsible for him to make this announcement a couple days before earnings. Not to mention ethically questionable since he's in the process of selling large blocks of shares right now.
Are you sure of that? I thought the whole point of the one FPU per chip was to dramatically cut down on power consumption, which is one of Niagara's main selling points.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say:
What.
The.
Fuck.
Yeah, I'm definitely not contending that Sun's big iron is how it's going to bail itself out. Quite the opposite--my whole point was they're migrating their whole business model away from big fancy app servers and towards cheapo Opteron / Niagara clustered solutions. Of course, that's cheapo in the Sun sense: their prices are still 50-200% higher than comparable anonymous white box hardware. And, as we all know, it was precisely the rise of the white box cluster that brought Sun to the point it's at now. So what gives? Well, it turns out TCO for Sun hardware is actually lower even factoring in the higher hardware cost. Read it for yourself. It's a hard thing to wrap your mind around, especially if you've been hanging around /. for years like I have.
:-)
But apparently it's true. And that was my point about brand equity. A lot of the people who are now making purchasing decisions for their firm have a deep-seated belief that Sun makes more stable, more efficient, just overall better products that are worth paying a premium for. You can recognize these people because they also buy Apple for personal use.
My, I really sound like I've drink the Kool-Aid. I guess only time will tell. I don't actually have that much $$ riding on this stock, and I wouldn't even call myself one of the Sun fanboys I alluded to in the previous post. A ton of people who are a lot smarter than me got took a pass on this one. So... maybe I'll be getting reamed come Monday!
Sun is trading at $5 a share, time to buy? or forgeddaboudit!?
:-)
Now's the time to decide--earnings call is on Monday. There are some credible rumors floating around that this will be the first profitable quarter in years. Sun's really revamped their product line in the last 16 months (AMD, Niagara, etc.) and in their last 10-K they mentioned they were actually having a hard time meeting demand. (Apropos the original story, there's also speculation that this would be an ideal note for McNealy to end his career on.)
If they do end up back in the black, every analyst and his brother will be on CNBC Tuesday morning shouting "Turned the corner!" and I think it would cause some major institutional buyers to jump back in. Unlike the run-up last month which got subsequently iced due to profit taking, the big guys would be in it for the long haul, creating a new support. $5.50 or maybe even $6? I haven't done the math.
And I feel like this possiblity hasn't been fully capitalized in to the current price--I'm really surprised how little talk there is about SUNW on the boards, newswires, or the Street. A lot of people seem to have written it off as a sad relic of the dot-com era. I think they're missing out on two key points: 1) how revolutionary and unique these new UltraSparc T1s are, especially for those serving up huge amounts of online content (ie everyone) or who are worried about energy costs (ie everyone), and 2) how much brand equity "Sun Microsystems" carries among a whole generation of 25+ year old geeks who grew up worshipping that awesome UltraSparc workstation in the server room/lab/etc (like everyone at Google, for one.)
To the extent that it's even possible nowadays, I feel like SUNW has been slipping under the radar for the last couple months.
P.S. I am quite obviously long on this stock, so if course it's in my best interest to convince you of all this
"In many ways, this is just insane rambling, but it's certainly entertaining on some levels."
:)
Wait, so you're referring to just this one column, or the entire Dvorak corpus?
Just curious, can you provide some examples of code you *have* seen that looks like someone put some thought into it?
God damn.
/., we salute you, Mr. Wouldn't-Recognize-Humor-if-it-Physically-Attacked -Him.
Wow!
You sir, are denser than antimatter. From all of us here at
You may now proceed to masturbate to a desktop wallpaper of Natalie Portman.
I think you mean http://www.raceacrossamerica.org/.
Hahah... yes, how on Earth could somebody get confused about that. I am referring specifically to how f''(x) > 0 on the red portions of this graph and 0 for the blue.