Assuming you're compiling an application that's 64-bit clean. You'd be surprised how concious most developers have to be of the size of their data in open source applications.
Take a developer who's exploring open-source for the first time, and you have someone who hasn't yet shed the assumption that he knows what architecture his code will be run on. Or you have someone who's decided to support only the architecture he's familiar with.
Re:Threat to Athlon64: Prescott (not Pentium 4)
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"Pentium 5"?
No, they'll just call it Manganese, the 25th element.
Re:Threat to Athlon64: Prescott (not Pentium 4)
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Athlon 64 Debuts
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I agree with you in your description of Intel's business practices, and while I see several refuting posts against INTEL-64, I'd like to point out a couple things:
First, if Intel was going to launch a 32-bit compatible processor with their own 64-bit extensions, they really ought to have announced it by now, to get people to put off buying AMD's Opteron and Athlon64.
On the other hand, if Prescott was going to support AMD-64, then they really ought to have announced it by now, to bring back attention over to them. The less press AMD gets, the better. (for them.)
Their strategy could make sense, if they wer planning some sort of massive surprise. If you read the Inquirer's article, you'll notice that Intel has been denying that Prescott is 64-bit.
Re:Microsoft prices its operating systems per CPU
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Is Prescott 64-bit?
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Re: Photoshop on a cluster
You could probably pull it off if you ran openMOSIX on the cluster, and the new multiprocessor VMWare under openMOSIX. (Which is just a set of patches to Linux to make a cluster look to applications as a single machine.)
Re: More power to one core
Now bring business and marketing tactics into play. Having a CPU that can handle multiple bundles is, performance-wise, much like having a CPU with HyperThreading or multiple cores. Microsoft sees a Hyperthreading CPU as two CPUs. Why would they feel inclined to price an OS that supports multibundle IA-64 CPUs the same as an OS that supports a single IA-32 CPU?
Actually, I found a great way to get a decent position in IT.
A lot of businesses in your local area may need technical assistance. For example, someone to fix their computers, or to get their office on a network. Or maybe to get all their QuickBooks licenses to use the same database.
You can make $30-40 an hour, albeit a small number of hours per client.
I'm making $6 an hour as a tutor at the local community college, and my brother makes as much as I do working one day a week. And he's only being paid $15/hour training wages.
Smooth surfaces like glass and plastic hold fingerprints much better than paper. And I wouldn't trust someone going in to wipe off the screen every few votes, either.
Currently a voterID (your name) is only used to verify that you are allowed to vote in a given district.
Putting my name and my vote on the same piece of paper is bad business.
I can see, maybe storing a large random number (NOT serial) and printing it out on a notarized slip of paper, so that people can come forward and confirm their vote (and dropping their identity) if there was a conflict ala 2000, or if they simply chose to in order to give description to their character.
Yes, Quake uses BSP trees that are *very* similar to the ones in DOOM. On a side note, other engines such as Unreal and Half-Life also use their own variations of BSP trees.
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Assuming you're compiling an application that's 64-bit clean. You'd be surprised how concious most developers have to be of the size of their data in open source applications.
Take a developer who's exploring open-source for the first time, and you have someone who hasn't yet shed the assumption that he knows what architecture his code will be run on. Or you have someone who's decided to support only the architecture he's familiar with.
"Pentium 5"?
No, they'll just call it Manganese, the 25th element.
I agree with you in your description of Intel's business practices, and while I see several refuting posts against INTEL-64, I'd like to point out a couple things:
First, if Intel was going to launch a 32-bit compatible processor with their own 64-bit extensions, they really ought to have announced it by now, to get people to put off buying AMD's Opteron and Athlon64.
On the other hand, if Prescott was going to support AMD-64, then they really ought to have announced it by now, to bring back attention over to them. The less press AMD gets, the better. (for them.)
Their strategy could make sense, if they wer planning some sort of massive surprise. If you read the Inquirer's article, you'll notice that Intel has been denying that Prescott is 64-bit.
Re: Photoshop on a cluster
You could probably pull it off if you ran openMOSIX on the cluster, and the new multiprocessor VMWare under openMOSIX. (Which is just a set of patches to Linux to make a cluster look to applications as a single machine.)
Re: More power to one core
Now bring business and marketing tactics into play. Having a CPU that can handle multiple bundles is, performance-wise, much like having a CPU with HyperThreading or multiple cores. Microsoft sees a Hyperthreading CPU as two CPUs. Why would they feel inclined to price an OS that supports multibundle IA-64 CPUs the same as an OS that supports a single IA-32 CPU?
No. Either the tides are influenced, or, assuming that only members of one sex are present, members of the other sex start migrating away.
Fortunately, I'm in a geek family, if not the parent. We don't have a noticable effect on our neighborhood.
Actually, I found a great way to get a decent position in IT.
A lot of businesses in your local area may need technical assistance. For example, someone to fix their computers, or to get their office on a network. Or maybe to get all their QuickBooks licenses to use the same database.
You can make $30-40 an hour, albeit a small number of hours per client.
I'm making $6 an hour as a tutor at the local community college, and my brother makes as much as I do working one day a week. And he's only being paid $15/hour training wages.
Well, educate people! That's what's lacking, isn't it?
It'd be interesting to see if members of any major groups who believe in intelligent design would have a tendency to go along.
I think the "trick" behind horoscopes lay in writing something that the average reader wants to believe.
The same is true with fortune cookies. Although I sometimes wonder if some were written specifically to have "in bed" appended to them.
(Warning: That's my personal opinion. I don't mean to offend anyone.)
Smooth surfaces like glass and plastic hold fingerprints much better than paper. And I wouldn't trust someone going in to wipe off the screen every few votes, either.
But then, that's probably me just being paranoid.
Two public dogmas for you: "Anything for progress" and "My computer has the same problem, and I don't care enough to do anything about it."
Currently a voterID (your name) is only used to verify that you are allowed to vote in a given district.
Putting my name and my vote on the same piece of paper is bad business.
I can see, maybe storing a large random number (NOT serial) and printing it out on a notarized slip of paper, so that people can come forward and confirm their vote (and dropping their identity) if there was a conflict ala 2000, or if they simply chose to in order to give description to their character.
But then are the mice whose doctor's orders are to eat many times their body weight of saccarin, lipstick, etc.
I expect they're already handling more traffic than ten Slashdots.
They've been up and down for days.
Re: BSP trees
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Yes, Quake uses BSP trees that are *very* similar to the ones in DOOM. On a side note, other engines such as Unreal and Half-Life also use their own variations of BSP trees.
---Mike Mol
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