LGA-775 is getting a lot of flak because of reliability rumours. However it will be more suitable for higher clocking processors from Intel and is needed.
PCIe 1x is 250MB/s in each direction. That's enough for a dual Gigabit ethernet card, and each slot gets dedicated bandwidth. PCIe 4x is 1GB/s in each direction. Eight port GigE ethernet card anyone? PCIe 16x is 4GB/s in each direction.
(those will be new adjusted megabytes of 10^6 bytes, not 2^20)
Look at the extra space on the motherboard when the 1x slots are used as well - should allow more more on-board goodies or smaller boards.
BTX is Intel's idea. Because of their stupidly hot processors. Looks like it will flop badly.
Dunno what the brown slots are. Thought they might be AMR or CNR or something. They are only test boards though - see the edge connector?
> It's not so much copying someone else's work as all handing in the same work.
To be fair to them, at least they've all (hopefully) learnt from doing the work, even if it wasn't singley, but as a class. That should be the purpose.
When you plagiarise, you don't learn. You cut and paste, and submit.
This is why I don't believe in purely coursework driven courses. Exams are proof of *long term* learning. Coursework is proof of *non stressful* (albeit deadline driven) work. It is the combination that proves the person (and would be a better test of plagiarism - "hmmm, this person got 90% on the essay, but 10% on the exam, wait a minute!")
Also, it is proven that girls do better at coursework and boys are better at exams. So a mix is the best thing overall surely.
Most people don't get served super-heated coffee at over 120 degrees Celsius though... I don't know the exact figure, but it wasn't 'normal coffee'.
The coffee case is used too much by people that don't know the details.
1) the award was reduced eventually 2) however the coffee was significantly hotter than it should have been 3) McDonalds knew that the coffee machines were broken but did nothing about them
Have you ever spilt coffee over yourself that you've made? If it is over a minute old, it is just hot. It isn't scalding in any way.
However, these days in many cases, ignorance SHOULD be reasonably valid. Whenever any case gets beyond sensible morality teachings or obvious wrong doing, it should be a defence. The law doesn't allow ignorance as a defence however. We have lawyers to blame for this. If we ever evolve to having decent spacecraft, we shouldn't send off the toilet cleaners and beurocrats to another planet, we should send off the lawyers.
From the numbers of Anonymous Cowards supporting this person, I wonder if a lot of his friends are following this story and supporting him?
Fact is: the software is new. They ran his essays on it. He was caught. He was "unlucky" in that the software is new *now*, and not next year.
He cheated.
That is it. Maybe he can retake the final year and get a 2:2 by writing proper non-plagiarised essays. As this person probably has no skills because he probably plagiarised at school as well, he is going to be fucked. Fucked. FUCKED.
I suspect (as the plaigarism detection system is new in that university, and is due to be used full time from next year) that they were testing it on some papers from this year. His came up as plagiarised. They (sensibly) decided to check all of his papers. Ding! All copied. They then contacted the authorities, and he got 0 on all papers.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is all stuff detected within the past month.
I saw this a couple of days ago (at a site with more details).
How any person can get to university without realising that plaigarism is wrong is beyond me. How an *English* student can try to argue that he didn't know what the word meant (as per the student handbook that explained this)...
This person is so stupid that he doesn't deserve a degree. I think how he got his A Levels (pre-university exams in England) is also rather doubtful as well.
If the PowerPC rumours are true (which they appear to be) then that means that Windows will be made for PowerPC. Most likely a 64-bit version as well.
I wonder what the first native PowerPC software for "Windows Next" will be? Microsoft software? Yes!
So... people get an XBox Next, get Windows Next, and Office Next and IE Next and Outlook Next... and it is a year before competitors even have a port ready and Microsoft have a monopoly on a whole new area, and then slowly phase out x86 PC support over the next 5 years.
Compaq, Dell, etc, have to become XBox Next OEMs to survive after this time.
Microsoft have a 100% strangehold on the market by 2015 - hardware, software, licensing.
We'll be wondering what happened to cheap PCs that we could install Linux on.
Yeah, this might be a pessimistic view of things...
Sorted out below. Broiling is in fact what we call "grilling", or being exposed to direct radiant heat which is obviously hotter. It doesn't mean the oven gets hotter overall.
Tis healthy, as any fat runs off into the grill pan under the cooked meat/fish/etc.
Both standard ovens and fan ovens are convection ovens.
The fan just distributes the heat more evenly. No needing to put the potatoes at the top and the meat at the bottom (or whatever it is) because it is hotter at the top, etc.
In a conventional oven, the heat cycles around the oven by standard convection! In a gas oven that would mean the back would be really hot, and the top, and then the air would cool a bit and sink down the front of the oven, and the bottom would be cooler than the top.
Gas Mark is just a heat setting for gas ovens / hobs. Basically a measure of the rate of gas being burnt as far as I am aware. It is an older measurement really, before reliable temperature probes - controlling gas input in a recipe is easier than measuring temperature on those old gas ovens.
Gas Mark 9 for example was extremely hot, around 250 degrees C or more. Gas Mark 1 would be "warm up some buns" or something.
The EPIA-800... it is okay I suppose, it does what I'm using it for quite well (KDE on FreeBSD for work purposes, e-mail, light web browsing, SSH, etc). It suffers from being a first-gen product, the chipset is weak, and so on.
A 1.3GHz CN400 based board will be a lot more powerful, and should be more than enough for media applications that these boards are ideally suited for.
Unfortunately a few major spammers that always hit my email addresses with a few hundred spams a day has now fixed their clocks on their computers, so instead of getting spams in the future that I could easily delete en-masse, now it is merged with the normal e-mail. Grr.
> These spam operations consist of an estimated 500-600 professional > spammers loosely grouped into gangs ("spam gangs"), the vast majority of > whom are operating illegally
Just think what 600 bullets could do to the sanity of the Earth's population.
> I doubt it is Linux itself but the person(s) who set it up on that box.
which does not say "the user" or even imply it. It says that the employees of the company that created the box that messed it up. Which from the review is quite clear. This is simply a bad product that just happens to use Linux underneath.
Point being - I could still have posted the damn letter abroad (but within the EU) for not much more money and it should only have taken a couple of days at most.
However I have heard a LOT of BAD stuff about DeutschePost...
(I've also had things take 2 weeks from the US because of customs, bastards that they are)
I compared in terms of computing power, where the new Geode spanks an ARM into the ground.
I then said that in terms of power consumption, the new Geode was pretty bad, even compared to an old Geode. I then said that the new Geode is clearly a move away from low power embedded use (where it goes up against ARM, etc) to more standard low power x86 systems.
These Geodes are actually Mobile Athlon XP processors tweaked to run at low speeds and low power. I.e., they will spank the pants off of an old school Geode both in terms of Instructions per Clock and clock rate. It would be like putting a mouse up against a 3 headed fire breathing dragon in battle.
Of course, the Athlon based Geodes are using 5x the power of the old Geode, etc.
I think that AMD has just bought out the Geode name and is repositioning it slowly against the Pentium-M and Centrino now, and ignoring the markets that Geode used to sell in.
Whilst this is a development board, if you are into mini-iTX but want more power than the VIA C3 currently provides (i.e., you want this AMD Geode processor) without extra noise that higher-wattage processors (there is a mini-iTX P4 board out there somewhere) then...
Slashdot Mirror
BTX will flop I think. It is designed by Intel, nobody is making cases or boards, and only exists because of Intel's heat problems.
PCIe will be a big success.
PCI-X is already a success in the server area.
SATA is currently 1 device per channel. However future SATA specifications will allow chaining of drives.
That was a picoBTX board. Full size BTX has 6 expansion slots.
LGA-775 is getting a lot of flak because of reliability rumours. However it will be more suitable for higher clocking processors from Intel and is needed.
PCIe 1x is 250MB/s in each direction. That's enough for a dual Gigabit ethernet card, and each slot gets dedicated bandwidth.
PCIe 4x is 1GB/s in each direction. Eight port GigE ethernet card anyone?
PCIe 16x is 4GB/s in each direction.
(those will be new adjusted megabytes of 10^6 bytes, not 2^20)
Look at the extra space on the motherboard when the 1x slots are used as well - should allow more more on-board goodies or smaller boards.
BTX is Intel's idea. Because of their stupidly hot processors. Looks like it will flop badly.
Dunno what the brown slots are. Thought they might be AMR or CNR or something. They are only test boards though - see the edge connector?
PCI Express IS NOT PCI-X.
This has been said 100 times on here at least in the past.
PCI-X is classic old PCI running very fast and 64-bits, etc. As used on server motherboards.
PCIe is the new specification with the tiny connectors for general I/O, and longer connectors for graphics.
There is no limitation on PCIe connectors unlike AGP, apart from the chipset. Each slot is point-to-point, so you need a controller for each one.
Here is a motherboard with two PCIe slots (x4 and x16), a standard PCI slot, and 3 PCI-X slots.
> It's not so much copying someone else's work as all handing in the same work.
To be fair to them, at least they've all (hopefully) learnt from doing the work, even if it wasn't singley, but as a class. That should be the purpose.
When you plagiarise, you don't learn. You cut and paste, and submit.
This is why I don't believe in purely coursework driven courses. Exams are proof of *long term* learning. Coursework is proof of *non stressful* (albeit deadline driven) work. It is the combination that proves the person (and would be a better test of plagiarism - "hmmm, this person got 90% on the essay, but 10% on the exam, wait a minute!")
Also, it is proven that girls do better at coursework and boys are better at exams. So a mix is the best thing overall surely.
Most people don't get served super-heated coffee at over 120 degrees Celsius though ... I don't know the exact figure, but it wasn't 'normal coffee'.
The coffee case is used too much by people that don't know the details.
1) the award was reduced eventually
2) however the coffee was significantly hotter than it should have been
3) McDonalds knew that the coffee machines were broken but did nothing about them
Have you ever spilt coffee over yourself that you've made? If it is over a minute old, it is just hot. It isn't scalding in any way.
However, these days in many cases, ignorance SHOULD be reasonably valid. Whenever any case gets beyond sensible morality teachings or obvious wrong doing, it should be a defence. The law doesn't allow ignorance as a defence however. We have lawyers to blame for this. If we ever evolve to having decent spacecraft, we shouldn't send off the toilet cleaners and beurocrats to another planet, we should send off the lawyers.
From the numbers of Anonymous Cowards supporting this person, I wonder if a lot of his friends are following this story and supporting him?
Fact is: the software is new. They ran his essays on it. He was caught. He was "unlucky" in that the software is new *now*, and not next year.
He cheated.
That is it. Maybe he can retake the final year and get a 2:2 by writing proper non-plagiarised essays. As this person probably has no skills because he probably plagiarised at school as well, he is going to be fucked. Fucked. FUCKED.
And I'm glad.
I suspect (as the plaigarism detection system is new in that university, and is due to be used full time from next year) that they were testing it on some papers from this year. His came up as plagiarised. They (sensibly) decided to check all of his papers. Ding! All copied. They then contacted the authorities, and he got 0 on all papers.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is all stuff detected within the past month.
I saw this a couple of days ago (at a site with more details).
...
How any person can get to university without realising that plaigarism is wrong is beyond me. How an *English* student can try to argue that he didn't know what the word meant (as per the student handbook that explained this)
This person is so stupid that he doesn't deserve a degree. I think how he got his A Levels (pre-university exams in England) is also rather doubtful as well.
If the PowerPC rumours are true (which they appear to be) then that means that Windows will be made for PowerPC. Most likely a 64-bit version as well.
... people get an XBox Next, get Windows Next, and Office Next and IE Next and Outlook Next ... and it is a year before competitors even have a port ready and Microsoft have a monopoly on a whole new area, and then slowly phase out x86 PC support over the next 5 years.
...
I wonder what the first native PowerPC software for "Windows Next" will be? Microsoft software? Yes!
So
Compaq, Dell, etc, have to become XBox Next OEMs to survive after this time.
Microsoft have a 100% strangehold on the market by 2015 - hardware, software, licensing.
We'll be wondering what happened to cheap PCs that we could install Linux on.
Yeah, this might be a pessimistic view of things
I'd take a hint from:
:)
"Although both of these ovens use convection to carry heat"
to decide about the definition.
"Fan ovens" are called exactly that over here!
Sorted out below. Broiling is in fact what we call "grilling", or being exposed to direct radiant heat which is obviously hotter. It doesn't mean the oven gets hotter overall.
Tis healthy, as any fat runs off into the grill pan under the cooked meat/fish/etc.
Both standard ovens and fan ovens are convection ovens.
The fan just distributes the heat more evenly. No needing to put the potatoes at the top and the meat at the bottom (or whatever it is) because it is hotter at the top, etc.
In a conventional oven, the heat cycles around the oven by standard convection! In a gas oven that would mean the back would be really hot, and the top, and then the air would cool a bit and sink down the front of the oven, and the bottom would be cooler than the top.
Edit (after 6 years, you'd think that /. would have this function)
Maybe you mean "Fry" for grilling? In a pan with a little oil, over heat source?
Grill element is at the top of the oven, for radiant heat cooking, e.g., Cheese on Toast, Steaks, Fish, Bacon, etc.
Heat underneath? That is standard "oven" - baking, roasting (baking in oil/fat), etc.
Gas Mark is just a heat setting for gas ovens / hobs. Basically a measure of the rate of gas being burnt as far as I am aware. It is an older measurement really, before reliable temperature probes - controlling gas input in a recipe is easier than measuring temperature on those old gas ovens.
Gas Mark 9 for example was extremely hot, around 250 degrees C or more. Gas Mark 1 would be "warm up some buns" or something.
Broil means Roast as far as I have been able to work out.
Yeah, it took me a long time to work that out.
Broil is a horrible word, brings up images of boiling meat and then just serving it.
The EPIA-800 ... it is okay I suppose, it does what I'm using it for quite well (KDE on FreeBSD for work purposes, e-mail, light web browsing, SSH, etc). It suffers from being a first-gen product, the chipset is weak, and so on.
A 1.3GHz CN400 based board will be a lot more powerful, and should be more than enough for media applications that these boards are ideally suited for.
Unfortunately a few major spammers that always hit my email addresses with a few hundred spams a day has now fixed their clocks on their computers, so instead of getting spams in the future that I could easily delete en-masse, now it is merged with the normal e-mail. Grr.
> These spam operations consist of an estimated 500-600 professional
> spammers loosely grouped into gangs ("spam gangs"), the vast majority of
> whom are operating illegally
Just think what 600 bullets could do to the sanity of the Earth's population.
I'm glad that a spammer has been removed for doing something an awful lot of spammers do - spam from other people's addresses.
...} :P
If they had to spam from their own, then a spam filter would be easy! block all from {megaspam.com, all4spam.com, spamulike.com,
Hopefully this will send a message to other spammers, although since the majority are in other countries and won't obey the law anyway...
He wrote:
> I doubt it is Linux itself but the person(s) who set it up on that box.
which does not say "the user" or even imply it. It says that the employees of the company that created the box that messed it up. Which from the review is quite clear. This is simply a bad product that just happens to use Linux underneath.
Point being - I could still have posted the damn letter abroad (but within the EU) for not much more money and it should only have taken a couple of days at most.
...
However I have heard a LOT of BAD stuff about DeutschePost
(I've also had things take 2 weeks from the US because of customs, bastards that they are)
Why didn't he use the German post office?
Especially for a letter!
I sent a parcel from England to Scotland for 75p ($1.20) and it arrived the next day. So what?
I compared in terms of computing power, where the new Geode spanks an ARM into the ground.
... ?
I then said that in terms of power consumption, the new Geode was pretty bad, even compared to an old Geode. I then said that the new Geode is clearly a move away from low power embedded use (where it goes up against ARM, etc) to more standard low power x86 systems.
So
These Geodes are actually Mobile Athlon XP processors tweaked to run at low speeds and low power. I.e., they will spank the pants off of an old school Geode both in terms of Instructions per Clock and clock rate. It would be like putting a mouse up against a 3 headed fire breathing dragon in battle.
Of course, the Athlon based Geodes are using 5x the power of the old Geode, etc.
I think that AMD has just bought out the Geode name and is repositioning it slowly against the Pentium-M and Centrino now, and ignoring the markets that Geode used to sell in.
Whilst this is a development board, if you are into mini-iTX but want more power than the VIA C3 currently provides (i.e., you want this AMD Geode processor) without extra noise that higher-wattage processors (there is a mini-iTX P4 board out there somewhere) then ...
w nl oadableAssets/31760a-nxdb1500_devbrd.pdf
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/Do
It surely can't be long until a motherboard maker creates and markets one of these at a cheap reasonable price.