most benchmarks for amd are using either gcc or microsoft compilers in 32bit mode.
the amd64 line has on-chip memory controller leading to significantly better memory speeds than intel counterparts.
in fact the amd64 is an all round faster chip than intel 32 bit chips, despite operating at roughly 1/2 the mhz.
whether amd can continue to scale the amd64 design past 3ghz remains to be seen, but amd have a lot of margin left -- while intel is currently near the ceiling for their designs.
i've seen increases of over 50% running the same 32bit code on an opteron in 32bit mode. there have been some fundamental architectural changes that make running 32bit code a lot faster than the equivalent p4 or athlon - changes that aren't due to l1 or l2 or on-die memory controller either - but rather fundamental changes with the way instructions are dispatched and processed.
So, either he's stupid and optimized for a CPU he doesn't have, or he is horribly incorrect about that configuration he specified, because it wouldn't be running. Take you pick.
excellent tactic by microsoft to drive more users away from windows.
i'm 100% supportive of this, i hope microsoft does indeed make the checking mandatory (along with all the false positives that will arise, like the XP activation code fiascos).
As long as spam is profitable, it *will* continue.
the problem is the scale of spam.
even if one person out of 4 billion responds to a spam, the spam is still profitable.
the less people who respond to spam, the more spam these criminals will send.
the only way to stop spamming is to make it too expensive to operate. huge $$ penalties for spamming is one way to accomplish this.
of course, the laws actually have to be enforced. allowing law enforcement to sieze property of spammers would provide plenty of incentive to prosecute them.
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kinda weirds me out... something wrong about the proportions of her face that give her a creepy cheshire cat quality.
...in what way, exactly?
you can build a farm of many amd64's for the price of one itanium, get several times better performance, and failover to boot.
of course this only really applies to stuff which can be parallelized, but still.
ia64 has failed to meet nearly every single stated design goal. i wonder how much longer intel will continue to beat this dead horse.
ia64 is as dead as IBM's MCA.
Exactly. If you guys really hate MS and Intel, stop supporting them.
MS:
Linux version 2.6.7 (admin@xxx.xxx.xxx) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Wed Jun 16 17:11:01 PDT 2004
Intel:
CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 140 stepping 08
i'm doing my part. how about you?
What to you think the P4EE is?
An overpriced, underperforming disaster?
There's a reason it's mocked as "p4 - emergency edition".
I honestly don't know what Intel was thinking, to be honest.
are you really sure that you're sure, really?
youre either misinformed or a troll.
most benchmarks for amd are using either gcc or microsoft compilers in 32bit mode.
the amd64 line has on-chip memory controller leading to significantly better memory speeds than intel counterparts.
in fact the amd64 is an all round faster chip than intel 32 bit chips, despite operating at roughly 1/2 the mhz.
whether amd can continue to scale the amd64 design past 3ghz remains to be seen, but amd have a lot of margin left -- while intel is currently near the ceiling for their designs.
If anything was folly it was making the reusable shuttle in the first place when a cheaper conventional discardable design would have been better.
...much of the shuttle info was publically openly available, not classified.
if anyone "talked", it was nasa administrators who were publishing the information openly for anyone who wanted copies.
get them here:n -2004
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Microsoft SQL - relabeled sybase
Internet Explorer - relabeled spyglass browser
the problem is that your 'vocal minority' problem already exists.
the megacorporation with a few lobbyists has more power than millions of voters.
Good job, I wonder why more people are not realizing this.
/. reader is a lemming with the iq of a turnip?
because the average
Compare HL to anything that was out 6 years ago, and you'll start to understand why it won every possible award there was.
ok, now explain why counterstrike is still the #1 mp online game. and it isnt because its a good game.
The hostility mystifies me.
:)
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you're obviously new around here
ignorant hostility and moderators who cant RTFA are the core of
i've seen increases of over 50% running the same 32bit code on an opteron in 32bit mode. there have been some fundamental architectural changes that make running 32bit code a lot faster than the equivalent p4 or athlon - changes that aren't due to l1 or l2 or on-die memory controller either - but rather fundamental changes with the way instructions are dispatched and processed.
So, either he's stupid and optimized for a CPU he doesn't have, or he is horribly incorrect about that configuration he specified, because it wouldn't be running. Take you pick.
obviously someone needs glasses.
RTFA.
I quote:
Corwin (Homebrew)
Gentoo AMD64 GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6 SMP
Dual Opteron 240, Tyan K8W 2885
there you go, a dual opteron. duh?
excellent tactic by microsoft to drive more users away from windows.
i'm 100% supportive of this, i hope microsoft does indeed make the checking mandatory (along with all the false positives that will arise, like the XP activation code fiascos).
...by sco, to testify at length defending it against allegations by sco that the tool is flawed and biased against them (and them alone).
...would have found this immediately.
use it.
actually he crossed the line to troll a long time ago when it was revealed he lied about having a PhD..
instead of a cringely topic in the prefs, how about a "liars" topic?
i guess the editors thought this story was so important that they had to remind us repeatedly.
/. ?
personally, i'm looking forward to the third dupe repost of this same story.
anyone know the record for dupe stories on
5. Spammers sell fraudulent 'products' and 'services', or pitch outright criminal acts like investment scams / stock pump & dump / ponzi schemes / etc.
nah, they're not going nearly far enough.
So is Spam.
As long as spam is profitable, it *will* continue.
the problem is the scale of spam.
even if one person out of 4 billion responds to a spam, the spam is still profitable.
the less people who respond to spam, the more spam these criminals will send.
the only way to stop spamming is to make it too expensive to operate. huge $$ penalties for spamming is one way to accomplish this.
of course, the laws actually have to be enforced. allowing law enforcement to sieze property of spammers would provide plenty of incentive to prosecute them.