The problem with the Corvair was little to do with aerodynamics. GM deleted a $5 strut in the rear suspension late in development to save money, which unfortunately allowed excessive camber changes during cornering (wheel leaning over wrt tarmac).
This lead to tail-happy handling, and under some circumstances the wheel rim could dig into the ground and flip the car.
It was a huge shame that such an innovative approach was killed because of, essentially, a detail of implementation.
When my mouth was aching like hell after a trip to the awful dentist (orthodontist), playing iD's finest kept my mind off the pain very effectively. No time to whimper when you're fragging your friends:)
And just as Open Source software proceeds towards best-of-breed status one patch and bugfix at a time,/. proceeds towards truth in a process of gradual refinement and argument. Isn't it the best sort of discussion that progresses towards everyone having a greater understanding ?
Yup, I was thinking the same. It's the 'fat, ugly, stupid, brute-force' association that really gives a bad impression of the chip to me, as if it's a dumb design that will only be able to compete by throwing gigahertz at it.
These pics could be useful for people who want to check for unexploded bombs. If you see a line of craters with a gap, the gap is likely as not the location where one fell into the earth and didn't go off. So if they include the results of bombing runs, it could be useful. I had a friend who did this, inspecting WW2 photos for signs of unexploded bombs for property companies.
When your employer is paying for your time, they have a right to measure how much of it they are getting. Just like you have a right to put that bag of sugar on the scales and check that it really is 1kg.
From the article: "As bus speeds increase, and more cache becomes available on die, hyper-threading is going to be more and more efficient. It appears to be somewhat of an engineering symbiotic relationship."
Unfortunately, historically CPU speed has increased faster than memory bandwidth. That's why we've had ever more layers of cache added to our systems, to make up for the relative deficiency.
Unless things change, a technology that works better with a higher ratio of memory bandwith / CPU speed is likely to become progressively less, not more effective.
Of course, there's always the argument that marketing reasons have pushed CPU clockspeed faster than memory bandwidth, and that Intel et al will just shift their focus more towards memory in future. But defying the tide of 'what people think they want' is usually risky.
GM, Chrysler and Ford have all put substantial time and money into developing ways to power their cars while reducing or eliminating carbon dioxide emissions. The car companies have solutions, it's just a question of whether society is ready for them yet.
Most people draw a distinction between commercial and non-commercial use of other people's intellectual property. Home piracy is non commercial, and was only recently criminalised under pressure from the copyright holders. Commercial piracy has always been criminal and held to be unacceptable by almost everyone.
In this case, devices are being sold in violation of the GPL, so it's clearly commercial.
I'm more curious about the heat output (I know the figures cited in the original article referred to power consumption, but heat was mentioned)
The heat output is precisely the same as the power input. All electrical power used by the PC is eventually converted into heat in the room, so a 450W PC consumes 450W of electricity and provides 450W of heat.
Incidentally, if you have a 500W heater in your room, you could replace it with a 500W PC for no extra electrical cost, and the same effect in terms of keeping you warm. Heat can be a good thing !
In addition, if you click the '3 new email messages' link in MSN messenger, it opens Hotmail in IE, regardless of Mozilla being my default.
I expect they have hacked up some proprietary method for MSN messenger to jump through the login and load your inbox directly, but even so I do think it's naughty how MS programs always try to run IE even though the user has chosen something else (and may not even want IE on their system).
I completely agree. I think anyone who knew about these capabilities within Outlook, should have been able to predict the problems in advance too. When a friend discovered the same capabilities in Lotus Notes, he certainly did. (this was before the run-on-open outlook stuff).
If more people actually tried to look forward and think what loopholes might be exploited in the future, rather than merely reacting, we might be able to secure more business software pro-actively rather than reactively.
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The problem with the Corvair was little to do with aerodynamics. GM deleted a $5 strut in the rear suspension late in development to save money, which unfortunately allowed excessive camber changes during cornering (wheel leaning over wrt tarmac).
This lead to tail-happy handling, and under some circumstances the wheel rim could dig into the ground and flip the car.
It was a huge shame that such an innovative approach was killed because of, essentially, a detail of implementation.
When my mouth was aching like hell after a trip to the awful dentist (orthodontist), playing iD's finest kept my mind off the pain very effectively. No time to whimper when you're fragging your friends
And just as Open Source software proceeds towards best-of-breed status one patch and bugfix at a time,
Yup, I was thinking the same. It's the 'fat, ugly, stupid, brute-force' association that really gives a bad impression of the chip to me, as if it's a dumb design that will only be able to compete by throwing gigahertz at it.
These pics could be useful for people who want to check for unexploded bombs. If you see a line of craters with a gap, the gap is likely as not the location where one fell into the earth and didn't go off. So if they include the results of bombing runs, it could be useful.
I had a friend who did this, inspecting WW2 photos for signs of unexploded bombs for property companies.
When your employer is paying for your time, they have a right to measure how much of it they are getting. Just like you have a right to put that bag of sugar on the scales and check that it really is 1kg.
Seems reasonable enough to me, anyway.
Unfortunately, historically CPU speed has increased faster than memory bandwidth. That's why we've had ever more layers of cache added to our systems, to make up for the relative deficiency.
Unless things change, a technology that works better with a higher ratio of memory bandwith / CPU speed is likely to become progressively less, not more effective.
Of course, there's always the argument that marketing reasons have pushed CPU clockspeed faster than memory bandwidth, and that Intel et al will just shift their focus more towards memory in future. But defying the tide of 'what people think they want' is usually risky.
GM, Chrysler and Ford have all put substantial time and money into developing ways to power their cars while reducing or eliminating carbon dioxide emissions.
The car companies have solutions, it's just a question of whether society is ready for them yet.
Most people draw a distinction between commercial and non-commercial use of other people's intellectual property. Home piracy is non commercial, and was only recently criminalised under pressure from the copyright holders. Commercial piracy has always been criminal and held to be unacceptable by almost everyone.
In this case, devices are being sold in violation of the GPL, so it's clearly commercial.
The heat output is precisely the same as the power input. All electrical power used by the PC is eventually converted into heat in the room, so a 450W PC consumes 450W of electricity and provides 450W of heat.
Incidentally, if you have a 500W heater in your room, you could replace it with a 500W PC for no extra electrical cost, and the same effect in terms of keeping you warm. Heat can be a good thing !
In addition, if you click the '3 new email messages' link in MSN messenger, it opens Hotmail in IE, regardless of Mozilla being my default.
I expect they have hacked up some proprietary method for MSN messenger to jump through the login and load your inbox directly, but even so I do think it's naughty how MS programs always try to run IE even though the user has chosen something else (and may not even want IE on their system).
I completely agree. I think anyone who knew about these capabilities within Outlook, should have been able to predict the problems in advance too. When a friend discovered the same capabilities in Lotus Notes, he certainly did. (this was before the run-on-open outlook stuff).
If more people actually tried to look forward and think what loopholes might be exploited in the future, rather than merely reacting, we might be able to secure more business software pro-actively rather than reactively.
Rubbish.
Any decent mail attachment worm executes as soon as you look at the text of the email, you don't have to run an executable attachment.
Also, this article isn't primarily about mail virii, but server exploits that could be used be a worm.
Finally, if the whole net get ddos'd due to a worm, you won't be feeling quite so smug and intelligent when you can't read your email.