I wonder how much of an impact this will have on performance, compared to Intel's Kamati offerings with a 1/2 speed cache? Also, does anybody know what the multiplier is on Intel's newest P3's? I can't remember their stupid name.
In fact the latest Pentium III (which are replacing the old ones) are codenamed Coppermine, and the cache is not 1/2 speed of the CPU but full speed (the size is only 256 KB but this still makes it faster than the old Katmai core)
Actually you don't need a GPS in a cell-phone (GSM). As its name suggest, a cell phone communicates within a "cell", a small area a few kilometers wide covered by an antenae. Since it is possible to know in which cell a phone is (even when you don't phone, as long as it is turned on) you can know where the owner is anytime with a pretty good precision. Pretty easy to do geographically targeted ads, but also services ("where is the closest bank ?", "I need a pizza delivered fast", etc...)
Sony is treating its customers as idiots. Sure, they might be able to sue an european shop for selling non CE approved electronic appliance, but they can't do anything against individuals at all. Once the product is in the hand of the end user there's nothing they can do. What, 2 years in jail because you played on you PSX 2 ? They are smoking something bad, or more likely trying to intimidate the average user. Hey, Sony us part of the MPA and RIAA, they also sued Bleem... they are your average big bad bullying corporation.
Because WTO is against governement barriers, not corporate barriers. What bothers the WTO is that citizen can decide, with the help of their elected governement, how to run their country. The dream world of WTO is one where Microsoft, AOL-Time Warner and Monsanto decide for citizens what they can/can't do, and where governement are powerless organizations with no right at all (because lets face it, if a governement cannot decide how to run the nation's economy, it has no power at all).
(code offuscation ) Exists because C is popular, clear C code is definitely possible, and of course I can write pascal so bad that nobody can read it - but there are so few pascal programmers to impress out there...
I'm affraid this is not a valid argument. A begin...end sequence is still more readable than { }, especially when you get lots of them together (and don't get me talking about those fucking C pointers, they really suck a lot and make code even more a mess !).
Broken for sure. But compilers get fixed. And pascal has the same problems from time to time, 16-bit delphi had a lot of "don't do that" type problems.
I've been using "code optimisation" on Delphi for years without a single problem with it. On the other hand most large C programs behave differently depending of the compiler optimisation... which is, by all name, a bug and nothing else. The difficulty of writing a C code parser compared to any other *really* structured language (ADA, Pascal, whatever) shows clearly that there's something wrong with it.
I know, there are many ways to make C easier to use with macros and other defines, but why bother trying to make a bad language look good when there ARE good languages around. All studies done shows that code in C is more bugged, longer to develop and maintain that code in Pascal or ADA (no I don't have a link to provide here unfortunately). This is a reason why aerospace software is NOT written in C...
Being a programmer I know that five hours compilation is the norm on a 500MHz PIII
What ? 5 hours ? I compile all my programs, including my multithreaded web server code in less than 1 second on my PII 333... Oh wait, that is because I use Delphi, not some junk like C++;-). I think that before improving (expensive) CPU we should try to use elegant, cleanly designed software tools. Linux users, you brag so often about the cleanliness and speed of your OS against the bulky Windows... then why do you keep using one the worst language in the world ? A language that is so broken that it takes hours for the compiler to try to figure out how to compile the code ? A language that is so unreadable that there's a contest of code offuscation ? A language that sometimes looks like assembler with macros ? A language that is so wrong that compiler optimizations can output buggy code because they are not failproof !!! When I read a comment "if it crash try to compile without the speed optimization" I think this is just unacceptable, just as the Windows crash are unacceptable... I mean, if the optimization can generate buggy code then call it "beta feature" and don't release it until it produce always 100% correct code.
Well my policy is to go for best balance of performance and price... right now I would buy an Athlon over a P3. But Willamette sounds way more powerfull than an Athlon ! Just look at bus speed : 400 Mhz against the "meager" 200 Mhz of the Athlon... from every point of view Willamette looks much better than the Athlon. To fight Willamette AMD will have to design a new core, so unless the K8 is out before Willamette, Intel will take the speed crown again... and from the news and rumours around it won't happen.
As the song say "sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug". Intel is the bug now, next time it will be AMD, and so on...
Using polls to rule a country is not as good as you think it is : it is sad but true that 90% of citizens don't have a clue about politics, so their opinions are highly changing and mostly reflex, not real opinions. Sure, everyone wants lower taxes, but is lowering taxes always the best policy ? Plus, what to do about issues nobody knows about (like the UCITA for example). Because nobody cares exept the megacorpo lobby, the megacorpo wins...
This sounds much like the US ! Republican or Democrats, both of them are highly tuned electing machine, where it is not what ideas you have but what groups you get support from get you elected.
Encrypt those damn f* CC numbers ! There's nothing as secure and cost effective as encryting the database (and storing the private key out of the server of course !). Any system is supposedly crackable, but we have yet to see a cracker brute-forcing a 2048 bit/PGP encrypted CC number...
Actually Greenpeace is at the orders of the CIA : they do all mumbo jumbo about the nuclear experiments done by non-US countries, you've never heard them complain about what the US army does. Sunking the Rainbow warriors was just a spy vs spy matter (with some eco-zealots cought between the fires).
Also last times China did some nuclear test I didn't hear Greenpeace so much...
you can certainly bet that France would spy on YOU if they had the technology.
Oh yeah, as soon as France builts its first electric generator, we will start designing a prototype that will allow us to communicate over vast distances, with just a wire in between...
Man you look pretty ignorant. France (or the rest of Europe for that matter) is quite advanced in telecoms, probably more judging by the way the US cell phone works. Don't forget France owns the largest market share of commercial space launching... so they might have some sattelites too.
But not all of them have carriers, a fleet of nuclear submarines and intercontinental balistic missiles to launch those nukes... not speaking of the space launching capabilities.
Well, appart from all the software/content tweaking explained above, how about simply upgrading the hardware ? Like :
- a separate DB server, tweaked for MySQL and connected to the web server thru dedicated 100 Mbit Ethernet. - both server could have 2 fast P3 CPU, a 10000 rpm Ultra2 SCSI harddrive (or several ones so that you can span different DB tables accross different drives and get simultaneous access). Add plenty of RAM.
All this hardware is rather cheap and can be found anywhere, and can take some loads. After all with the moore law being what it is there's no need to depreciate your Web content with static stuff...
Any "reliable" source to back this up ? Reliable and neutral (please not the NRA propaganda garbage)
The news media is mostly a liberal platform, and gun control having a bad effect doesn't fit their logic or world view. So they ignore it.
I don't know what medias you're talking about, but I know quite a lot of them who are quite rightish. Of course if you are on the right of the right you'll find them leftish...
Did you ever learn that 2 events at the same time is different than one being the cause for the other ? And even if there's a relationship between gun control and crime going up - how do you know it is "the crime is going up because of gun control" and not "gun control being voted because of crime going up" ? Face it, you are full of pro-gun prejudice, but it is easier for you to complain about the world being wrong rather than questionning your opinions with an open mind...
This movie rocks !!! This is a really funny movie, and Verhoven does a great job with his paradoy of a militaristic world. Of course this movie is for people who understand 2nd degree humor (people who didn't see a 2nd degree didn't paid enough attention to the commercials inside the movie, which are inspired of the WWII US propagenda effort).
Face it, if you want technology, you must accept some level of pollution.
You drive SUV or a pickup, don't you ?
Pollution has been declining since before the enactment of the clean air and water acts, as a result of people voting with their money and media pressure.
Actually the average Americans generates 4 times more pollution than the everage Europeans, with about the same level of comfort. The global temperature is at a 400 000 years highest peak... some countries are bound to disappear soon (ask Bengladesh). Of course this is probably all a conspiracy of the US governement to steal your hard-earned cash...
So no jokes on race, sex, age, job, religion, politics and disabilities... It's not a surprise that American "comedy" movies are so lame nowadays. The problem in the US is that people don't understand what second degree means (which explain why Starship Troopers had so little success there), neither do they seem to have a sense of self-humor. Instead of fucosing on suing everyone who says "black" instead of "Afro-American" or boycotting movies that don't have at least a black, an asian and a gay character, American people should focus on why there are still so many gun-deads, homeless and illiterate people. Changing the way people talk won't save anybody from a bullet or feed a stomach.
The only legitimate reason that merchants have to keeping credit cards is so they can do reversals.
No there are other reasons, like using it to track fraud (if the same CC# is used by different people for example), or build a database of bank prefix to make a more fraud-proof CC# verificator, etc.
Alternatively they could just send a cheque to the customer.
Very bad idea, because then the customer can cash-in the check and ask his bank to cancel the CC debit too... then he just stole the price of the order - the merchant only option is to go to the police and try to recover these 200$ (which will never happen, believe me I know what I'm talking about).
Whats the point of having a secure connection, and a secure Credit Card database? Those idiots should've made sure the server was secure.
I agree on that, but since no system is 100% secure, having an encrypted database provide a last and ultimate security, should the system be cracked someday.
Well the key won't be stored on a server, usually an employee PC... finding on which PC, and in which directory, if any, is the private key is a tedious task. Plus, the key could be stored on a removable media that is not always in the drive (floppy/CD). Plus, you still need a password to open the private key, so even with the private key file the hacker still has to "unlock" it (at least that's how GnuPG and PGP work). IMHO this is still ultra-high security overall.
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I wonder how much of an impact this will have on performance, compared to Intel's Kamati offerings with a 1/2 speed cache? Also, does anybody know what the multiplier is on Intel's newest P3's? I can't remember their stupid name.
In fact the latest Pentium III (which are replacing the old ones) are codenamed Coppermine, and the cache is not 1/2 speed of the CPU but full speed (the size is only 256 KB but this still makes it faster than the old Katmai core)
Actually you don't need a GPS in a cell-phone (GSM). As its name suggest, a cell phone communicates within a "cell", a small area a few kilometers wide covered by an antenae. Since it is possible to know in which cell a phone is (even when you don't phone, as long as it is turned on) you can know where the owner is anytime with a pretty good precision. Pretty easy to do geographically targeted ads, but also services ("where is the closest bank ?", "I need a pizza delivered fast", etc...)
Sony is treating its customers as idiots. Sure, they might be able to sue an european shop for selling non CE approved electronic appliance, but they can't do anything against individuals at all. Once the product is in the hand of the end user there's nothing they can do. What, 2 years in jail because you played on you PSX 2 ? They are smoking something bad, or more likely trying to intimidate the average user. Hey, Sony us part of the MPA and RIAA, they also sued Bleem... they are your average big bad bullying corporation.
Because WTO is against governement barriers, not corporate barriers. What bothers the WTO is that citizen can decide, with the help of their elected governement, how to run their country. The dream world of WTO is one where Microsoft, AOL-Time Warner and Monsanto decide for citizens what they can/can't do, and where governement are powerless organizations with no right at all (because lets face it, if a governement cannot decide how to run the nation's economy, it has no power at all).
(code offuscation ) Exists because C is popular, clear C code is definitely possible, and of course I can write pascal so bad that nobody can read it - but there are so few pascal programmers to impress out there...
I'm affraid this is not a valid argument. A begin...end sequence is still more readable than { }, especially when you get lots of them together (and don't get me talking about those fucking C pointers, they really suck a lot and make code even more a mess !).
Broken for sure. But compilers get fixed. And pascal has the same problems from time to time, 16-bit delphi had a lot of "don't do that" type problems.
I've been using "code optimisation" on Delphi for years without a single problem with it. On the other hand most large C programs behave differently depending of the compiler optimisation... which is, by all name, a bug and nothing else. The difficulty of writing a C code parser compared to any other *really* structured language (ADA, Pascal, whatever) shows clearly that there's something wrong with it.
I know, there are many ways to make C easier to use with macros and other defines, but why bother trying to make a bad language look good when there ARE good languages around. All studies done shows that code in C is more bugged, longer to develop and maintain that code in Pascal or ADA (no I don't have a link to provide here unfortunately). This is a reason why aerospace software is NOT written in C...
Being a programmer I know that five hours compilation is the norm on a 500MHz PIII
;-). I think that before improving (expensive) CPU we should try to use elegant, cleanly designed software tools. Linux users, you brag so often about the cleanliness and speed of your OS against the bulky Windows... then why do you keep using one the worst language in the world ? A language that is so broken that it takes hours for the compiler to try to figure out how to compile the code ? A language that is so unreadable that there's a contest of code offuscation ? A language that sometimes looks like assembler with macros ? A language that is so wrong that compiler optimizations can output buggy code because they are not failproof !!! When I read a comment "if it crash try to compile without the speed optimization" I think this is just unacceptable, just as the Windows crash are unacceptable... I mean, if the optimization can generate buggy code then call it "beta feature" and don't release it until it produce always 100% correct code.
What ? 5 hours ? I compile all my programs, including my multithreaded web server code in less than 1 second on my PII 333... Oh wait, that is because I use Delphi, not some junk like C++
Well my policy is to go for best balance of performance and price... right now I would buy an Athlon over a P3. But Willamette sounds way more powerfull than an Athlon ! Just look at bus speed : 400 Mhz against the "meager" 200 Mhz of the Athlon... from every point of view Willamette looks much better than the Athlon. To fight Willamette AMD will have to design a new core, so unless the K8 is out before Willamette, Intel will take the speed crown again... and from the news and rumours around it won't happen.
As the song say "sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug". Intel is the bug now, next time it will be AMD, and so on...
Using polls to rule a country is not as good as you think it is : it is sad but true that 90% of citizens don't have a clue about politics, so their opinions are highly changing and mostly reflex, not real opinions. Sure, everyone wants lower taxes, but is lowering taxes always the best policy ? Plus, what to do about issues nobody knows about (like the UCITA for example). Because nobody cares exept the megacorpo lobby, the megacorpo wins...
This sounds much like the US ! Republican or Democrats, both of them are highly tuned electing machine, where it is not what ideas you have but what groups you get support from get you elected.
Endless maze of porn ads, misleading links and self-spawning popups !
Encrypt those damn f* CC numbers ! There's nothing as secure and cost effective as encryting the database (and storing the private key out of the server of course !). Any system is supposedly crackable, but we have yet to see a cracker brute-forcing a 2048 bit/PGP encrypted CC number...
Actually Greenpeace is at the orders of the CIA : they do all mumbo jumbo about the nuclear experiments done by non-US countries, you've never heard them complain about what the US army does. Sunking the Rainbow warriors was just a spy vs spy matter (with some eco-zealots cought between the fires).
Also last times China did some nuclear test I didn't hear Greenpeace so much...
you can certainly bet that France would spy on YOU if they had the technology.
Oh yeah, as soon as France builts its first electric generator, we will start designing a prototype that will allow us to communicate over vast distances, with just a wire in between...
Man you look pretty ignorant. France (or the rest of Europe for that matter) is quite advanced in telecoms, probably more judging by the way the US cell phone works. Don't forget France owns the largest market share of commercial space launching... so they might have some sattelites too.
Actually France never surrendered during WWI, they won (read back your history book).
But not all of them have carriers, a fleet of nuclear submarines and intercontinental balistic missiles to launch those nukes... not speaking of the space launching capabilities.
Well, appart from all the software/content tweaking explained above, how about simply upgrading the hardware ? Like :
- a separate DB server, tweaked for MySQL and connected to the web server thru dedicated 100 Mbit Ethernet.
- both server could have 2 fast P3 CPU, a 10000 rpm Ultra2 SCSI harddrive (or several ones so that you can span different DB tables accross different drives and get simultaneous access). Add plenty of RAM.
All this hardware is rather cheap and can be found anywhere, and can take some loads. After all with the moore law being what it is there's no need to depreciate your Web content with static stuff...
And how crime rates went way up as a result
Any "reliable" source to back this up ? Reliable and neutral (please not the NRA propaganda garbage)
The news media is mostly a liberal platform, and gun control having a bad effect doesn't fit their logic or world view. So they ignore it.
I don't know what medias you're talking about, but I know quite a lot of them who are quite rightish. Of course if you are on the right of the right you'll find them leftish...
Did you ever learn that 2 events at the same time is different than one being the cause for the other ? And even if there's a relationship between gun control and crime going up - how do you know it is "the crime is going up because of gun control" and not "gun control being voted because of crime going up" ? Face it, you are full of pro-gun prejudice, but it is easier for you to complain about the world being wrong rather than questionning your opinions with an open mind...
who emerged as leaders
Great - does that means more assholes with oversized-ego and no brain will get to university instead of skilled and smart people ?
Is leadership the ultimate skill nowadays ? This country (US) sucks big time.
This movie rocks !!! This is a really funny movie, and Verhoven does a great job with his paradoy of a militaristic world. Of course this movie is for people who understand 2nd degree humor (people who didn't see a 2nd degree didn't paid enough attention to the commercials inside the movie, which are inspired of the WWII US propagenda effort).
Face it, if you want technology, you must accept some level of pollution.
You drive SUV or a pickup, don't you ?
Pollution has been declining since before the enactment of the clean air and water acts, as a result of people voting with their money and media pressure.
Actually the average Americans generates 4 times more pollution than the everage Europeans, with about the same level of comfort. The global temperature is at a 400 000 years highest peak... some countries are bound to disappear soon (ask Bengladesh). Of course this is probably all a conspiracy of the US governement to steal your hard-earned cash...
Anyone with a scanner can intercept credit card numbers using these methods. Any transaction made without using cash is susceptible to fraud or theft.
True... in US ! In the rest of the world, people use GSM which by default has encryption enabled.
So no jokes on race, sex, age, job, religion, politics and disabilities... It's not a surprise that American "comedy" movies are so lame nowadays. The problem in the US is that people don't understand what second degree means (which explain why Starship Troopers had so little success there), neither do they seem to have a sense of self-humor. Instead of fucosing on suing everyone who says "black" instead of "Afro-American" or boycotting movies that don't have at least a black, an asian and a gay character, American people should focus on why there are still so many gun-deads, homeless and illiterate people. Changing the way people talk won't save anybody from a bullet or feed a stomach.
The only legitimate reason that merchants have to keeping credit cards is so they can do reversals.
No there are other reasons, like using it to track fraud (if the same CC# is used by different people for example), or build a database of bank prefix to make a more fraud-proof CC# verificator, etc.
Alternatively they could just send a cheque to the customer.
Very bad idea, because then the customer can cash-in the check and ask his bank to cancel the CC debit too... then he just stole the price of the order - the merchant only option is to go to the police and try to recover these 200$ (which will never happen, believe me I know what I'm talking about).
Whats the point of having a secure connection, and a secure Credit Card database? Those idiots should've made sure the server was secure.
I agree on that, but since no system is 100% secure, having an encrypted database provide a last and ultimate security, should the system be cracked someday.
Well the key won't be stored on a server, usually an employee PC... finding on which PC, and in which directory, if any, is the private key is a tedious task. Plus, the key could be stored on a removable media that is not always in the drive (floppy/CD). Plus, you still need a password to open the private key, so even with the private key file the hacker still has to "unlock" it (at least that's how GnuPG and PGP work). IMHO this is still ultra-high security overall.