The PIII machine listed there purportedly has CPU speed L2 cache (600 MHz). But Xeons' smallest L2 setup is 256k, I thought. In any case, this PIII sounds like a next gen 'workstation' Xeon.
Anyway if these are right (and, IMO, they're not) then everything you've been told about the FPU of the K7 is wrong. Right?
The Register is not a good source for much. I am not familiar with the benchmark program, but believe time will show this to be baloney.
I'm one of that awful 'minority' you so blithely refer to in your monologue.
You really have no idea why we detest people fighting against our rights? Those enumerated in our Constitution? Give me a break!
Maybe it has something to do with our roots. We cut away from Britain and the king, where you were perfectly happy with a monarchy. All men created equal or something along those lines. Are you the equal of your queen? Why don't you ask her!?
Now, Canadians, they don't have any attitude _at all_, do they. Except that every self-admitted Canadian on this list has a slew of ways to make our country (that's the USA) like Canada. And it all has to do with guns. Who exactly has the fixation with guns?
I do not argue your assertation that the US is a land of disasterous contradictions. That is obvious to anyone with half a brain. Which is, at best, every other human.
But you don't have any room to argue against a right you have never ever enjoyed or exercised. "Bla bla you Canadians shouldn't be drinking at 18, bla, how dare you export encryption, bla bla WHINE".
Anyway, I would go right along with a registration scheme like yours if the Constitution were amended to -reiterate- that gun possession is an individual right inherent to our democracy. Really! But the left-wing gun grabbers will never bend, they are extremists as bad as the militias. No guns unless you're a cop or enlisted.
I think the NRA should suggest it and I'd go for it. Better a plan from our side than Bill Clinton or some other scumbag.
-kabloie
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I think all the gun grabbers should head right up there. It seems such a lovely quiet place. Socialized health care, heavy taxes. Why work me over, ban my guns, and get yourself generally in a tizzy over my rights when you can emigrate to a country which is exactly how you like it?
And it's not even necessary to learn another language! Quebec won't do, those Quebecois are as bad as those right wing gun nuts sometimes...
No need to apologize for being US-centric. This is a decidely American discussion.
2. Some gun control for teens.
Well, since everything you suggested there is already on the books in all 50 states, you can pull _your_ panties out of your crack now:P
Seriously, people seem to have no clue about current (extensive) gun laws. 21 for a handgun, 18 for a long gun. Period. That's Illinois and many other states. Dunno about Texas, but I'm about to find out.
21 years for a handgun nationwide, I'm pretty sure, so your above discussion about concealed weapons for 'Little Johnny' is absolutely MOOT.
Handguns on the principal of schools sounds better and better all the time. My cousin was in that school, for God's sake. She got out with her life and more kids might have if a responsible adult had the tools to fight the murderers.
Nobody has a clue about the laws on the books for anything anymore and it is proving to be a national disaster. Nothing personal. But people who don't own guns don't care to find out.
Anyway, like the letter. Dunno how you got a score of 5 though!;)
It's rather simple and this whole nuke argument is getting old. Machine guns are also destructive weapons and are highly regulated by the US government.
Oh, and if Congress declares war we will have, for every intent and purpose, an executive with dictatorial control. That it'd be Clinton makes it that much worse. The guy has no judgement and torch half the population if a poll said to.
I urge you to get more paranoid. It's much safer on our side:P
The net can survive a few MIRVs but a MS-macro can cause major disruption? Just shows how fragile it is to internal attacks. You have to go to great lengths (physically break and enter) to disrupt phones, but one upload and the wonderful world of email explodes.
Face it, the guy was aided and abetted by thousands. And he demonstrated another huge security hole. They should give him a medal for teaching the sheep once again a very valuable lesson, for selling a ton of anti-virus software (a very good thing), and for adding to the mythology of the Internet. All with a 'virus' that DESTROYED NO DATA!!!!
I'm serious! You people who go on about how this guy deserves 20 years need to quit clenching your teeth so hard and take some Ex-Lax.
I nominate the entire cellular phone industry for not providing any encryption of their traffic whatsoever. Now they are pushing for legislation to ban the sale, purchase and use of any equipment that could possibly intercept their signal.
Losers! They broadcast unencrypted voice signal across my front yard but want it to be illegal for me to detect it?
-- there are old programmers, and there are bold programmers. But there are no old, bold programmers. --
Cute. Your little saying is not new. It originates in the same phrase with airplane pilots. s/programmers/pilots/. However, it implies that bold pilots end up dead, not that old pilots are generally useless, like one would infer from your version.
I actually got to play that game at the 'Ice Chateau' in Spfld IL. Big blue sparkly molded box with a really crappy game inside! I guess I'd already been playing Space Invaders and Asteroids and was used to a good interface. If I remember, your aim direction constantly spun around your ship, so there was an added timing trick which was really hard to get used to in 1 or 2 games.
That crappy blue box is probably worth more today than ever!
Our shop is almost all Sun. 4 people got a 2,800 US dollar deal on USparc 5. IDE, 4Meg video. USparc 333 processor.
Screw that. I got a dual PII 450 ATX Full Tower with Adaptec SCSI, G200 video, SCSI 9G and 32x CD for the SAME DAMN PRICE. Redhat preinstalled from atipa.
Sun guys are already whining about having to buy a SCSI card to add all their external drives. They are about out of slots already since the PC-Card (AMD 300 computer on a card)that Sun pawned off on them takes up two slots in their mid-tower which is short on expansion slots to begin with. I'll never fill all the slots on the Tyan mobo. I'll run out of IRQs first.
Some people need the Sun stamp of approval for that fuzzy feeling. Bah. (I keep telling them they should run Linux on the Sparc processor and Solaris on the AMD):)
The ISP didn't libel this guy. There is no USENET desk editor to approve or disapprove of every 'story' that appears on the server.
The guy might as well sue the internet. He's just grubbing for money. He knows the defamation, whatever it was, will not be stopped because there are 100,000 drives spinnin the same 'libelous' comment around the world. The ISP cannot issue a retraction (which is often another payoff of a libel suit) since it did not issue the original statement! Any ISP which denies responibility/ownership of material has issued a retraction in advance, anyway. It is not up to an ISP to decide what is libelous and what is not. It's a legal term!
If a human wrote a 'libelous' comment, then sue the freakin human. Like he has done before. (How the hell do you sue someone overseas? This f*ck is the guy to ask, I guess.)
The guy is BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE. The wonders of tenure!
In addition to all of the tasks traditionally performed by supercomputers, SBS's Hypercomputer systems can perform the full range of functions requiring ultra-fast scaler processing, such as...
There, you anti-spelling flamers, is a great example of how spelling _matters_. The BS meter goes off even louder when you can't spell your wild claims about your invention.
took Creative to task for their disastrous NT drivers for Live, and supposed support for that platform. Aside from that,their SB 16 NT drivers as of this last summer were _STILL_ full of bugs! For an integrated chip on a dual processor Tyan board (my experience), you'd think they might get the F***ing drivers up to snuff for NT. Winamp-> 2 seconds -> Blue Screen.
It was that freakin bad.
Zanshin gutted their driver for Live and told them all the stupid mistakes they were making. Nice case of closed source drivers being handed out to good programmers and causing total frustration.
Whatever CL pulls off with cool hardware or graphics fanciness, they'll never get my biz. I hope this new Linux stud does a good job, at least he's already closer to the customer base.
Talking to a Stereo CD player is easy, even with a remote. "Uhh, track 3 of **** disk,please"
My MP3 CDRs have ~10-15 directories on each, so I can sort out things. How the heck would you interface, esp. with a remote? Your remote would need to have a lcd monitor. Or be a wearable.
Mmmmm, wearable....
Anybody use IR to play Mp3s right now? Who's doing the Winamp plugin?!
Trespasser is the most butt-slow dog of a game ever inflicted on gamers. It blows chow on AGP AND PCI cards. If you're gonna bench AGP vs. PCI, don't use the worst game of the year.
S3 made a QII level with a huge amount of different textures to test their (closed) Texture Compresssion Scheme over the AGP bus. Try that on your TNT AGP card and see what you get.
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Dude,
You are getting bent out of shape over an imaginary tree.
-k
The PIII machine listed there purportedly has CPU speed L2 cache (600 MHz). But Xeons' smallest L2 setup is 256k, I thought. In any case, this PIII sounds like a next gen 'workstation' Xeon.
Anyway if these are right (and, IMO, they're not) then everything you've been told about the FPU of the K7 is wrong. Right?
The Register is not a good source for much. I am not familiar with the benchmark program, but believe time will show this to be baloney.
-k
Me? Attitude?
I'm one of that awful 'minority' you so blithely refer to in your monologue.
You really have no idea why we detest people fighting against our rights? Those enumerated in our Constitution? Give me a break!
Maybe it has something to do with our roots. We cut away from Britain and the king, where you were perfectly happy with a monarchy. All men created equal or something along those lines. Are you the equal of your queen? Why don't you ask her!?
Now, Canadians, they don't have any attitude _at all_, do they. Except that every self-admitted Canadian on this list has a slew of ways to make our country (that's the USA) like Canada. And it all has to do with guns. Who exactly has the fixation with guns?
I do not argue your assertation that the US is a land of disasterous contradictions. That is obvious to anyone with half a brain. Which is, at best, every other human.
But you don't have any room to argue against a right you have never ever enjoyed or exercised. "Bla bla you Canadians shouldn't be drinking at 18, bla, how dare you export encryption, bla bla WHINE".
Anyway, I would go right along with a registration scheme like yours if the Constitution were amended to -reiterate- that gun possession is an individual right inherent to our democracy. Really! But the left-wing gun grabbers will never bend, they are extremists as bad as the militias. No guns unless you're a cop or enlisted.
I think the NRA should suggest it and I'd go for it. Better a plan from our side than Bill Clinton or some other scumbag.
-kabloie
I think all the gun grabbers should head right up
there. It seems such a lovely quiet place.
Socialized health care, heavy taxes. Why work
me over, ban my guns, and get yourself generally
in a tizzy over my rights when you can emigrate
to a country which is exactly how you like it?
And it's not even necessary to learn another
language! Quebec won't do, those Quebecois are
as bad as those right wing gun nuts sometimes...
-k
No need to apologize for being US-centric. This is a decidely American discussion.
:P
;)
2. Some gun control for teens.
Well, since everything you suggested there is already on the books in all 50 states, you can pull _your_ panties out of your crack now
Seriously, people seem to have no clue about current (extensive) gun laws. 21 for a handgun, 18 for a long gun. Period. That's Illinois and many other states. Dunno about Texas, but I'm about to find out.
21 years for a handgun nationwide, I'm pretty sure, so your above discussion about concealed weapons for 'Little Johnny' is absolutely MOOT.
Handguns on the principal of schools sounds better and better all the time. My cousin was in that school, for God's sake. She got out with her life and more kids might have if a responsible adult had the tools to fight the murderers.
Nobody has a clue about the laws on the books for anything anymore and it is proving to be a national disaster. Nothing personal. But people who don't own guns don't care to find out.
Anyway, like the letter. Dunno how you got a score of 5 though!
-k
A Nuke is a destructive weapon.
:P
A rifle is the tool of a nation's defenders.
It's rather simple and this whole nuke argument
is getting old. Machine guns are also destructive
weapons and are highly regulated by the US government.
Oh, and if Congress declares war we will have,
for every intent and purpose, an executive with
dictatorial control. That it'd be Clinton makes it that much worse. The guy has no judgement and
torch half the population if a poll said to.
I urge you to get more paranoid. It's much safer on our side
-k
The net can survive a few MIRVs but a MS-macro can cause major disruption? Just shows how fragile it is to internal attacks. You have to go to great lengths (physically break and enter) to disrupt phones, but one upload and the wonderful world of email explodes.
Face it, the guy was aided and abetted by thousands. And he demonstrated another huge security hole. They should give him a medal for teaching the sheep once again a very valuable lesson, for selling a ton of anti-virus software (a very good thing), and for adding to the mythology of the Internet. All with a 'virus' that DESTROYED NO DATA!!!!
I'm serious! You people who go on about how this guy deserves 20 years need to quit clenching your teeth so hard and take some Ex-Lax.
-kabloie
I've got dual 400MHz celerons on a 66 MHz LX SuperMicro that say they wanna throw down with a 3000 dollar BX PII dualie.
It's just rich that they stopped making PIIs for the 66 bus at 333MHz, but are planning to take
the multiplier to at least 7 (466) on the Celery.
Get your drills out guys and gals.
-k
Hear-hear!
I second this nomination!
-k
I nominate the entire cellular phone industry for not providing any encryption of their traffic whatsoever. Now they are pushing for legislation to ban the sale, purchase and use of any equipment that could possibly intercept their signal.
Losers! They broadcast unencrypted voice signal across my front yard but want it to be illegal for me to detect it?
BIG BROTHER AWARD
-- there are old programmers, and there are bold programmers. But there are no old, bold programmers. --
Cute. Your little saying is not new. It originates in the same phrase with airplane pilots. s/programmers/pilots/. However, it implies that bold pilots end up dead, not that old pilots are generally useless, like one would infer from your version.
-kabloie
I actually got to play that game at the 'Ice Chateau' in Spfld IL. Big blue sparkly molded box with a really crappy game inside! I guess I'd already been playing Space Invaders and Asteroids and was used to a good interface. If I remember, your aim direction constantly spun around your ship, so there was an added timing trick which was really hard to get used to in 1 or 2 games.
That crappy blue box is probably worth more today than ever!
-k
Our shop is almost all Sun. 4 people got a 2,800 US dollar deal on USparc 5. IDE, 4Meg video. USparc 333 processor.
:)
Screw that. I got a dual PII 450 ATX Full Tower with Adaptec SCSI, G200 video, SCSI 9G and 32x CD for the SAME DAMN PRICE. Redhat preinstalled from atipa.
Sun guys are already whining about having to buy a SCSI card to add all their external drives. They are about out of slots already since the PC-Card (AMD 300 computer on a card)that Sun pawned off on them takes up two slots in their mid-tower which is short on expansion slots to begin with. I'll never fill all the slots on the Tyan mobo. I'll run out of IRQs first.
Some people need the Sun stamp of approval for that fuzzy feeling. Bah. (I keep telling them they should run Linux on the Sparc processor and Solaris on the AMD)
Suns makes really nice servers.
-k
Back in the 166+ days, they got pretty hot and people who were new then (me) and didn't think alot about cooling had big problems.
I knew a lot less about motherboards back then, too, and could probably have picked a more stable one. BCM sucks!
my 2 cents...
-k
Doesn't matter if you do it in print .snip.
YOU being the operative word.
The ISP didn't libel this guy. There is no USENET desk editor to approve or disapprove of every 'story' that appears on the server.
The guy might as well sue the internet. He's just grubbing for money. He knows the defamation, whatever it was, will not be stopped because there are 100,000 drives spinnin the same 'libelous' comment around the world. The ISP cannot issue a retraction (which is often another payoff of a libel suit) since it did not issue the original statement! Any ISP which denies responibility/ownership of material has issued a retraction in advance, anyway. It is not up to an ISP to decide what is libelous and what is not. It's a legal term!
If a human wrote a 'libelous' comment, then sue the freakin human. Like he has done before. (How the hell do you sue someone overseas? This f*ck is the guy to ask, I guess.)
The guy is BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE. The wonders of tenure!
They spelled scalar wrong:
In addition to all of the tasks traditionally performed by supercomputers, SBS's Hypercomputer systems can perform the full range of functions requiring ultra-fast scaler processing, such as...
There, you anti-spelling flamers, is a great example of how spelling _matters_. The BS meter
goes off even louder when you can't spell your wild claims about your invention.
Zanshin at www.planetquake.com/gldojo
if you care,
took Creative to task for their disastrous NT drivers for Live, and supposed support for that platform. Aside from that,their SB 16 NT drivers as of this last summer were _STILL_ full of bugs! For an integrated chip on a dual processor Tyan board (my experience), you'd think they might get the F***ing drivers up to snuff for NT. Winamp-> 2 seconds -> Blue Screen.
It was that freakin bad.
Zanshin gutted their driver for Live and told them all the stupid mistakes they were making. Nice case of closed source drivers being handed out to good programmers and causing total frustration.
Whatever CL pulls off with cool hardware or graphics fanciness, they'll never get my biz.
I hope this new Linux stud does a good job, at least he's already closer to the customer base.
Talking to a Stereo CD player is easy, even with a remote. "Uhh, track 3 of **** disk,please"
My MP3 CDRs have ~10-15 directories on each, so I can sort out things. How the heck would you interface, esp. with a remote? Your remote would need to have a lcd monitor. Or be a wearable.
Mmmmm, wearable....
Anybody use IR to play Mp3s right now? Who's doing the Winamp plugin?!
Trespasser is the most butt-slow dog of a game
ever inflicted on gamers. It blows chow on AGP
AND PCI cards. If you're gonna bench AGP vs. PCI,
don't use the worst game of the year.
S3 made a QII level with a huge
amount of different textures to test their
(closed) Texture Compresssion Scheme over the
AGP bus. Try that on your TNT AGP card and see what you get.
My bet: a couple VIIs in SLI fry it.
Have fun!