The Canadian Halifax-class Guided Missile frigates (yes, we have missile frigates) has a pair of gas turbines that generate combined about 100,000 shaft horsepower.
And when it comes to military and cruise ships, you don't find a lot of big boats with a direct drivetrain between the engines and the prop. Most go to electric for finer control.
Thank god for that. You think a 767 moving at high speed carries a lot of energy? The typical long-haul freight train you see crossing the Rockies carries more energy than a large nuclear bomb. You slam on the breaks on a a five mile long double-stacked freight train and it comes to a stop 10 miles down the track.
To see people rush crossings is sad. People have no respect for the power of the train.
MS would love Apple to switch to a complete x86 architecture.
If Apple went toe-to-toe with the 1000lb Gorilla, they'd be dead within 18 months. Remember, Apple is fundamentally a hardware company. Moving into an ultra-low margin commodity hardware market from a high-margin monopolistic hardware market to compete with a software company would be moronic.
You can't create wealth by simply paying people more. Sure, if you pay people more, they'll have more money.... but then you just get inflation, and their overall purchasing power doesn't change one whit.
Wealth is a factor of how much resource you can command, and price and money is simply a flexible way of stating current relationships between the value of labour and products. Just because you pay people twice as much doesn't mean that suddenly they can extract twice the natural resources from the ground, or produce twice as many sprokets for the same amount of effort as before.
The way to increase wealth is by paying as little as possible (reasonably- this doesn't mean pay your employees shit so they quit, or are highly disgruntled); then ideally you get the employees who are best suited for the job. Those who are actually worth more (i.e., are capable of producing more wealth) will end up in positions where they are better suited and have the opportunity to produce more, thus benefitting everybody.
Am I smoking crack? Well, if McDonalds paid all their employees $150,000 a year, you'd find engineers flipping burgers instead of creating new technology. And your average hamburger would cost $50. Who wins?
Actually, first year CS students now take courses in that nasty proprietary language, Java. Of course, that has nothing to do with all the nice hardware and money Sun has donated to the university in the past. Nope, NONE AT ALL. Move along.
And due to the existence of projects like Mono and Portable.NET, and the fact that the language is an ECMA specification, there have been a number of students (small, but still there) asking for a change to C# for over a year now (C# since it's similar enough to Java that the change would be relatively non-disruptive with respect to the course material).
You're force-fed twice as many different languages?
Well, damn, in first year our profs make up a language and expect us to write a fully functional compiler for it.
Depending on how you take your courses, in first year you've already designed most of your own MIPS chip.
And I don't think you've finished ahead of Waterloo in recent years. Waterloo's taken the top spot for at least 5 years running.
Microsoft now recruits from your co-op program? I hate to break this to you, but on the Microsoft benchmark... they rank UW as the #1 university in the world (recently they tried to hire more than 80% of the graduating computer engineering class).
Waterloo CS graduates computer scientists and mathematicians who are highly capable at both theory and practice, highly motivated and excellent problem solvers. Guelph graduates code-monkeys. Your obsession with programming languages and coding really demonstrates this point nicely.
I know a guy in second year who spent the summer designing and implementing a new garbage collection system for Java that's about 5x as efficient as the garbage collector most implementations use (including the high performance ones). And no he's not top of the class or anything, just an average UW CS student.
Oh, and some advice: almost all computer languages are the same. If you actually know your stuff you can pick up a reasonable language (i.e., not malbolge) in no time at all.
Quantum entanglement can't be used to send a signal faster than the speed of light, since there's no way to encode a message without collapsing the superpositions and breaking the entanglement.
What a bad piece of reasoning. HTF did you get moderated up?
A monopoly will charge more for their monopolised good than a typical corporation would in a competitive situation, unless by holding a monopoly they can achieve a cost reduction that wouldn't be possible otherwise (a not completely unreasonable circumstance). However, a monopoly does not necessarily imply that the total cost of ownership of a product will be greater than that of a comparable product in a competitive situation, since the monopoly overhead is only a factor in the initial sale cost (the long term/total of ownership of a system is also heavily influenced by maintenance and training costs). The practical application of a monopoly can also lead to other cost reductions beyond the initial sale cost (although this obviously depends on the product in question). You don't appear to know the difference between short run and long run.
Oh yeah, and Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly in e-mail servers either. Whoops?
I have no clue how much an exchange server costs in the long run, but apparently you don't either. And if there's one thing I can't stand it's pseudo-economics.
Then thank god, since.NET and C# make a much better client side platform than Java does. WinForms blows AWT and Swing out of the water, it feels faster (when compared to JDK 1.4), it supports side-by-side versioning of libraries, etc... the list is long.
OpenGL extensions can't be added transparently. There is a standard way for adding them, but frankly they're non-standard. NVidia likes them since it makes their life easier, but Microsoft and game developers hate them since developing to OGL extensions makes their life harder.
The problem with extensions is you tend to find NVidia defining extensions designed to get the maximum performance out of their card, ATI designing extensions to get the maximum performance out of their card, etc... and then the game developers have to support every card's extensions if they want to make a good looking game. This is exactly the sort of thing standards like OpenGL are supposed to eliminate!
This is why DirectX is a lot more popular with most game developers, Microsoft plays the role of despot, sets a standard and forces everyone to follow it, instead of this fucking around with proprietary extensions.
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Google claims to use cookies to store various settings (such as your language preference, whether you want to filter offensive material from the results, etc...). If you don't want the cookie, block cookies for the google.com domain - google works just fine (it just won't save your preferences).
There's a little thing called branch prediction, speculation, and in some architectures (like EPIC) taking multiple branches at once and throwing away the results you don't want.
MHz per MHz, Itanium2 is the fastest processor out there (check the numbers for yourself at http://www.spec.org/). Sparc's are veeeery slow - most people don't buy sparcs for raw computational speed. And yes, I work with sun boxes every day.
What are you trying to do? Scar him for life and keep him from ever touching Linux again? But seriously, everything in Woody is old. Couldn't you have at least installed Potato?
They aren't. AMD made a paper release: they claimed the chip had been released to try to one-up Intel, but they won't be ready to put it into production until sometime next month; this is the exact same trick Intel used to pull when it was P3 vs. Athlon (of course, the zealots who used to whine a bitch then are notably quiet now).
Of course, most rational people ignore such 'releases' as marketting gimmicks whether they be prepetrated by Intel or AMD; the real release of the AthlonXP 2400+ and 2600+ won't be until next month. AMD's lost the speed game... until next quarter when it releases the hammers. Whoopdedo. I'm sure/. will celebraet.
Considering how blindly pro-AMD Tom's Hardware is, I find it amusing that they chose to describe the battle between the Athlon and the P4 as a Ferrari(Athlon) and a Mercedes(P4) racing on the Autobahn. Why?
The top-end Mercedes are consistently faster than any Ferrari. Whoops? Looks like they should have done their research! Nothing I like more than a zealot screwing up.
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The Canadian Halifax-class Guided Missile frigates (yes, we have missile frigates) has a pair of gas turbines that generate combined about 100,000 shaft horsepower.
And when it comes to military and cruise ships, you don't find a lot of big boats with a direct drivetrain between the engines and the prop. Most go to electric for finer control.
Thank god for that. You think a 767 moving at high speed carries a lot of energy? The typical long-haul freight train you see crossing the Rockies carries more energy than a large nuclear bomb. You slam on the breaks on a a five mile long double-stacked freight train and it comes to a stop 10 miles down the track.
To see people rush crossings is sad. People have no respect for the power of the train.
In total that's $3,684,000,000 paid in taxes over the previous 12 months. If you paid more taxes than them... can I borrow $100? :)
Any Debian user. The KDE3 packages haven't even made it into unstable yet.
Full automated security auditing is reducable to the halting problem, so don't expect a tool to do this any time soon (i.e., ever).
MS would love Apple to switch to a complete x86 architecture.
If Apple went toe-to-toe with the 1000lb Gorilla, they'd be dead within 18 months. Remember, Apple is fundamentally a hardware company. Moving into an ultra-low margin commodity hardware market from a high-margin monopolistic hardware market to compete with a software company would be moronic.
They're not even the same ISA, they just have a similar name.
Of course, Apple could switch to POWER4. Unfortunately, a single POWER4 tends to cost more than an entire Mac.
Nice try. Looks like you even caught a couple of dumb moderators too.
While Apple wants you to use Cocoa, they're provided a more typical C/C++ API called Carbon. I suggest you use that- everybody else does. :)
Worms Armageddon is really poorly written. I doubt if it'll ever work in Linux - it barely even works in Windows. :P
You can't create wealth by simply paying people more. Sure, if you pay people more, they'll have more money .... but then you just get inflation, and their overall purchasing power doesn't change one whit.
Wealth is a factor of how much resource you can command, and price and money is simply a flexible way of stating current relationships between the value of labour and products. Just because you pay people twice as much doesn't mean that suddenly they can extract twice the natural resources from the ground, or produce twice as many sprokets for the same amount of effort as before.
The way to increase wealth is by paying as little as possible (reasonably- this doesn't mean pay your employees shit so they quit, or are highly disgruntled); then ideally you get the employees who are best suited for the job. Those who are actually worth more (i.e., are capable of producing more wealth) will end up in positions where they are better suited and have the opportunity to produce more, thus benefitting everybody.
Am I smoking crack? Well, if McDonalds paid all their employees $150,000 a year, you'd find engineers flipping burgers instead of creating new technology. And your average hamburger would cost $50. Who wins?
Actually, first year CS students now take courses in that nasty proprietary language, Java. Of course, that has nothing to do with all the nice hardware and money Sun has donated to the university in the past. Nope, NONE AT ALL. Move along.
And due to the existence of projects like Mono and Portable.NET, and the fact that the language is an ECMA specification, there have been a number of students (small, but still there) asking for a change to C# for over a year now (C# since it's similar enough to Java that the change would be relatively non-disruptive with respect to the course material).
You're force-fed twice as many different languages?
Well, damn, in first year our profs make up a language and expect us to write a fully functional compiler for it.
Depending on how you take your courses, in first year you've already designed most of your own MIPS chip.
And I don't think you've finished ahead of Waterloo in recent years. Waterloo's taken the top spot for at least 5 years running.
Microsoft now recruits from your co-op program? I hate to break this to you, but on the Microsoft benchmark... they rank UW as the #1 university in the world (recently they tried to hire more than 80% of the graduating computer engineering class).
Waterloo CS graduates computer scientists and mathematicians who are highly capable at both theory and practice, highly motivated and excellent problem solvers. Guelph graduates code-monkeys. Your obsession with programming languages and coding really demonstrates this point nicely.
I know a guy in second year who spent the summer designing and implementing a new garbage collection system for Java that's about 5x as efficient as the garbage collector most implementations use (including the high performance ones). And no he's not top of the class or anything, just an average UW CS student.
Oh, and some advice: almost all computer languages are the same. If you actually know your stuff you can pick up a reasonable language (i.e., not malbolge) in no time at all.
Sorry, try again.
A monopoly will charge more for their monopolised good than a typical corporation would in a competitive situation, unless by holding a monopoly they can achieve a cost reduction that wouldn't be possible otherwise (a not completely unreasonable circumstance). However, a monopoly does not necessarily imply that the total cost of ownership of a product will be greater than that of a comparable product in a competitive situation, since the monopoly overhead is only a factor in the initial sale cost (the long term/total of ownership of a system is also heavily influenced by maintenance and training costs). The practical application of a monopoly can also lead to other cost reductions beyond the initial sale cost (although this obviously depends on the product in question). You don't appear to know the difference between short run and long run.
Oh yeah, and Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly in e-mail servers either. Whoops?
I have no clue how much an exchange server costs in the long run, but apparently you don't either. And if there's one thing I can't stand it's pseudo-economics.
See subject.
Then thank god, since .NET and C# make a much better client side platform than Java does. WinForms blows AWT and Swing out of the water, it feels faster (when compared to JDK 1.4), it supports side-by-side versioning of libraries, etc... the list is long.
OpenGL extensions can't be added transparently. There is a standard way for adding them, but frankly they're non-standard. NVidia likes them since it makes their life easier, but Microsoft and game developers hate them since developing to OGL extensions makes their life harder.
The problem with extensions is you tend to find NVidia defining extensions designed to get the maximum performance out of their card, ATI designing extensions to get the maximum performance out of their card, etc... and then the game developers have to support every card's extensions if they want to make a good looking game. This is exactly the sort of thing standards like OpenGL are supposed to eliminate!
This is why DirectX is a lot more popular with most game developers, Microsoft plays the role of despot, sets a standard and forces everyone to follow it, instead of this fucking around with proprietary extensions.
Google claims to use cookies to store various settings (such as your language preference, whether you want to filter offensive material from the results, etc...). If you don't want the cookie, block cookies for the google.com domain - google works just fine (it just won't save your preferences).
There's a little thing called branch prediction, speculation, and in some architectures (like EPIC) taking multiple branches at once and throwing away the results you don't want.
MHz per MHz, Itanium2 is the fastest processor out there (check the numbers for yourself at http://www.spec.org/). Sparc's are veeeery slow - most people don't buy sparcs for raw computational speed. And yes, I work with sun boxes every day.
Pretty much anything you want short of selling it (or any derivative of it) for profit.
- Windows
- Short-term investments (they make a lot on this)
- Long-term investments
- Server software
- X-Box
- PocketPC
- MSN
- Development tools (MSDN)
- Games and other miscellaneous software
- etc...
I don't think I'm missing anything.A pair of DSL modems can act as an ethernet bridge, but they're also modems. Unless phone lines suddenly became digital since the last time I checked.
WOODY!?
What are you trying to do? Scar him for life and keep him from ever touching Linux again? But seriously, everything in Woody is old. Couldn't you have at least installed Potato?
They aren't. AMD made a paper release: they claimed the chip had been released to try to one-up Intel, but they won't be ready to put it into production until sometime next month; this is the exact same trick Intel used to pull when it was P3 vs. Athlon (of course, the zealots who used to whine a bitch then are notably quiet now).
Of course, most rational people ignore such 'releases' as marketting gimmicks whether they be prepetrated by Intel or AMD; the real release of the AthlonXP 2400+ and 2600+ won't be until next month. AMD's lost the speed game... until next quarter when it releases the hammers. Whoopdedo. I'm sure /. will celebraet.
Considering how blindly pro-AMD Tom's Hardware is, I find it amusing that they chose to describe the battle between the Athlon and the P4 as a Ferrari(Athlon) and a Mercedes(P4) racing on the Autobahn. Why?
The top-end Mercedes are consistently faster than any Ferrari. Whoops? Looks like they should have done their research! Nothing I like more than a zealot screwing up.