They're useful in this situation because they allow a reasonably accurate search through many possibilities (2^54, in this case), rather quickly. (21 hours, in this case)
At the time, that reserved memory went to good use. Video memory and system applications were expected to go there. (This was before the days of on-board video memory.)
I recall hearing that Unreal Tournament developers were repeatedly running into issues with available memory when designing maps and other game content.
You're forgetting about floating-point numbers. ALUs already process more bits than are contained in the data types, just so they can be more accurate. The more bits you have in a floating-point piece of data, the more decimal places you can accurately represent.
This is very important in physics simulations, which is important to scientists and game developers. Having a floating-point physics model has several advantages (large/detailed maps, accurate motion calculations).
Maybe I'm addicted, but if played any Next Gen Starfleet sound, I could identify it and tell you what it meant. I've been actually thinking of using sonic indicators for things like new email, as well as various sysadmin tasks like specific syslog entries.
I'm getting there with DS9...have season 3 waiting. I'm on the second-to-last disc of season 2.
The Sherman Act prohibits the use of a monopoly to leverage entry into other markets, and it'll be a clear violation of the Act if they bundle their music download service with WMP.
If JBoss could show that they've lost customers because of concerns caused by SCO, they could file a lawsuit.
And I'd say, let them. The more, the better. Get SCO so tied up in several different court cases, their lawyers will drain their funds long before a settlement is reached.
As far as the OS is concerned, the HT ports are just CPUs. Linux had to recognize that the processor supported HT in order to relax transfer instructions between the HT nodes.
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Oh, god, NO!
I hate technical support! It's the most miserable time of my day, every day!
Why? I'M the guy you'll be calling!
Oh, the humanity! Not again! Please, please, please, let the NT4 server not crash again! Please!
It'll also include Microsoft, since their FTP client used to be based on BSD code.
Except that the whole testing process took 21 hours. And there was a way to unit-test the performance of the resulting code.
Unless there's a way to benchmark the code, it's nearly impossible to apply a GA for performance improvement.
I want to see someone build an X-benchmarking tool. Then use a cluster to find the best compiler options for XFree86.
I can definately see ATI and NVIDIA using this to improve their driver performance.
They're useful in this situation because they allow a reasonably accurate search through many possibilities (2^54, in this case), rather quickly. (21 hours, in this case)
I'm going to run it on GCC. (evil grin)
kernel 2.4.22 in five minutes!
At the time, that reserved memory went to good use. Video memory and system applications were expected to go there. (This was before the days of on-board video memory.)
You're missing the whole point. AMD64 solves the "chicken and egg" problem by bundling the egg in with standard offerings.
I recall hearing that Unreal Tournament developers were repeatedly running into issues with available memory when designing maps and other game content.
...this for info about AMD64 and 64-bit computing in general.
You're forgetting about floating-point numbers. ALUs already process more bits than are contained in the data types, just so they can be more accurate. The more bits you have in a floating-point piece of data, the more decimal places you can accurately represent.
This is very important in physics simulations, which is important to scientists and game developers. Having a floating-point physics model has several advantages (large/detailed maps, accurate motion calculations).
Ah...but you can't sign over the phone. :)
Maybe I'm addicted, but if played any Next Gen Starfleet sound, I could identify it and tell you what it meant. I've been actually thinking of using sonic indicators for things like new email, as well as various sysadmin tasks like specific syslog entries.
I'm getting there with DS9...have season 3 waiting. I'm on the second-to-last disc of season 2.
It would be very interesting if IBM would subpoena the phone records of SCO, and, if possible Darl's home and business landlines and cellphones.
Who did he want to call today?
Usin p2p for pr0n is too risky. You might accidentally end up with illegal material on your computer.
Just use Mozilla and Leech.
The Sherman Act prohibits the use of a monopoly to leverage entry into other markets, and it'll be a clear violation of the Act if they bundle their music download service with WMP.
Why would they need to insert one? They'll still have the advantage of distribution.
Oh well, just another piece of evidence for the next antitrust case.
Oh, the fears were already there. They were probably losing customers because enterprise clients were afraid to work with open-source software.
If JBoss could show that they've lost customers because of concerns caused by SCO, they could file a lawsuit.
And I'd say, let them. The more, the better. Get SCO so tied up in several different court cases, their lawyers will drain their funds long before a settlement is reached.
It's not just SCO that might sue. It could be anyone who thinks JBoss customers might be juicy targets.
...but is it a good or bad one?
It mollifies fears about switching to open-source software, but it does leave projects without a financial backing out in the cold.
Right...that's what I meant.
As far as the OS is concerned, the HT ports are just CPUs. Linux had to recognize that the processor supported HT in order to relax transfer instructions between the HT nodes.
I read that as "Spay-MD"...
I doubt there would be any additional generations of that architecture.
When you have to run it to gauge the performance of your computer for that competition, what are the chances your cluster is going to run Windows?
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...picture him looking like the Architect.