As for following the money...I let the SEC do that. About once a week, I get a spam message pushing one stock or another. I forward them to enforcement (at) sec.gov. The message gets looked over by a lawyer.
I don't know that it does anything about the spam, but hopefully whoever paid for the message gets paid back.
If your parents are rich and willing, you can go to college and just study. Otherwise, you work and study.
Or you take out student loans, and pay them off after you've got your degree. So you can work less, or not at all, while you study.
If you own a portable music player, you can listen to your own playlist of music as you bop around. Otherwise, you don't.
This is an advantage? Besides, you can get a cassette player for $20 at Wal-Mart. Or a cheap portable radio from a dollar store. We're not talking uber-expensive, here.
If you have (for instance) a Bowflex and a personal trainer, you now have the opportunity to outperform most of your fellow atheletes in terms of how long it takes you to reach your potential, and how close you are going to get to it.
Or you can use the campus gym, and ask advice of the phys-ed instructors.
If you have a car, you drive to school. Otherwise, you walk, sponge, or use pubtrans.
Or you can take online classes that allow you to do everything at home. (Except the occasional proctored exam.) Speaking from experience, I can tell you this frees up your schedule like you wouldn't believe.
If you have a laptop, you have many performance-enhancing tools. Otherwise, not.
Sure. You can type up your notes in class, and record your lectures. Nothing you couldn't do just as well with a Gregg shorthand textbook and tape recorder. Or bite the bullet and find an old 386 laptop with DOS that someone's trying to get rid of. (And believe me, that works fine for notetacking. MS Edit isn't a bad editor.)
All of these "advantages" have one thing in common: Money; the ability to purchase the advantage.
All of these "advantages" have another thing in common, too: There are cheaper alternatives.
It's not about money, or about the rich keeping the poor down. As for drugs, I won't take stimulants without talking to someone who's willing to prescribe them. There's a reason things like Ritalin and Adderall are perscription medications. They either have side-effects that can harm you, or they haven't been in use long enough to prove that they're generally safe.
Why hasn't anyone combined the concepts of heat pipe, heat sink, and calorimeter? Anyone who's taken high school physics knows the concept.
The foundation's already there, in water cooling systems. A rudimentary system could be built by dropping a thermometer in the reservoir, and turning off the radiator at the beginning of each test.
Granted, you're only measuring waste heat, but how much power does a CPU pump through data busses?
There's another reason to keep your cat in the house. Your cat can bring in things that you're allergic to, like pollen. When we took in our newest cat from outside, she kept giving me puffy cheeks and itchy eyes. That's because the pollen she had all over her fur kept getting onto my hands and into my eyes. Once we got all that crap out of her fur, it stopped being an issue.
I'm sure they will be delivering them spayed and neutered.
With a valid health reason...say you're extremely allergic to cats, and you get a female kitten. Said kitten grows up to be a cat. Said cat gets pregnent. Cat now has kittens that you're allergic to. (After all, what are the chances she found an allergy-free cat to mate with?)
Volume is hard to maintain when you your product is essentially identical to every other vendor out there, who may be able to draw away your customers. Having had waay too many Compaq systems, I won't buy an HP if I can avoid it.
The people that own the machines can't afford jack squat. (They're going to a free PC Clinic, after all.)
At our clinic, we install AdAware, Spybot and AVG on customer computers. (With their permission, of course.) So they're as protected as they can be from malicious software.
The people that own the machines don't know enough about computers to clean their own systems off. Why should I expect them to be able to admnister a more secure OS like Linux?
As long as vulnerability patches get backported, that'll be fine. Otherwise, no.
People bring their computers to us after they've been infected with spyware and viruses, which means that their computer habits include risky behavior, which in turn means they need to use a continually more secure browser. Using version 2.999.x is only going to help as long as there's eventually a 2.999.(x+1).
I'd make the argument that I see, today, many more Windows machines from that era than Linux machines. Microsoft has actually done a better job with API backwards-compatibility than Linux has.
Sure, Linux still supports QMAGIC and ZMAGIC A.out binaries, but last time I wanted to run a binary from that era, I had to download and compile libc5. Open source is the only thing that keeps software from that era alive. (Else we wouldn't have QuakeForge, Twilight or DarkPlaces.)
Pre-W2K systems are still in wide use in the home. I know this because my Computer Club regularly services them at PC Clinic. Dropping support for pre-W2K systems puts Firefox in a bad position for these systems. We may have to look at Opera instead.
If the drive logic caches the most recent 256MB to flash, then that's 256MB that won't have to be read off the magnetic media. On a 768MB system, that's a third of the load time.
That's what I hated about the CYOA books. The most sensible answer always seemed to be the one most likely to get you killed.
For instance, a CYOA book I have upstairs asks you if you blow hatch open with your laser rifle. (Getting through the hatch is paramount to your goal, and the hatch is stuck.) If you do, your laser beam's path is warped, takes a 90 degree turn, and hits the fuel tanks at the end of the hallway. So you do the sensible thing, and you die.
I much preferred another book I had, one that was essentially an RPG game where the plot and challenges and options were spelled out by the book; you just kept track of your supplies and rolled the dice.
And it's worse for us dial-up users. We spend half our time waiting for the server to respond after each click. (My dial-up connection has a high latency.) Then we spend another half waiting for images and flash animations to load. And then another half trying to get back to the page we meant, when we clicked on a "Click here to read more link" that was really just an ad.
Such a setup requires extremely low latency, as the processors are pulling Linux operating system images over the InfiniBand links, instead of through a local hard drive. Also, processes shared in RAM among the Linux nodes all run through the Voltaire switch.
Loading bulk data over the network (as in BOOTP) suggests high bandwidth, not latency. And it doesn't even require it; high bandwidth for BOOTP is a convenience. My 10Mb/s Ethernet hub could do it.
What's wrong with a hand-cranked computer? Do you simply dislike it because it seems like stone-age technology to you?
One might as easily dismiss a mechanically-powered flashlight or radio.
It's useful because it's portable and self-contained. And humans have a habit of finding uses for things, even if they don't seem to have an immediate use.
In addition, computers in particular have a way of channeling curiosity in the developing mind. I started programming when I was in 1st grade, on one of those school-system Apple IIs. I don't see any reason why free access to a computer wouldn't help inspire the minds of similarly-educated children.
You know, I like the Core Duo, and would love to have one in a laptop or on a desktop. (If Debian isn't ready for x86-64, then x86-64 isn't ready for me.)
Probably the most impressive thing is that the T2600 out-guns Intel's flagship Pentium Extreme Edition 965 processor, even with the massive clock speed deficit. After effortlessly overclocking our Core Duo to 2.6GHz, it beats AMD's flagship Athlon 64 FX-60 into a pulp.
As others have pointed out, the Core Duo only beat out the Athlon64 FX-60 when overclocked. If the chip, when overclocked, was safe for production environments, then the chip would have shipped at a higher default clock speed.
The whole tone of the article is wrong...it seems more interested in Intel than in technology. Notice that the "most impressive thing" is that the Core Duo chip does better than a high-end Intel chip. The only negative thing they mention in the article is a reminder that AMD's AM2 architecture is supposed to come out next week.
They're misrepresenting the product. I have to wonder if they were paid for this review.
You know game design trends have gone bad when you have to develop for a limited platform in order to have an accepted excuse to create a low end game these days.
With the exceptions of SubSpace and Solar Wolf, all the "Small but Fun" games I've seen lately have been written in Flash, and run inside a web browser.
I've got a good friend who knows a great deal about computer hardware, but every time he explains why he doesn't run Linux, it's a different reason.
It's funny, 'cause the previous reason is no longer true by the time he feels inclined to defend himself again. Usually because I've fixed the problem.
Now all that's left is for me to get wireless to work smoothly.
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The guy who owns the server, the guy who paid for an account on the server, or the ISP the server colos at or is connected to?
As for following the money...I let the SEC do that. About once a week, I get a spam message pushing one stock or another. I forward them to enforcement (at) sec.gov. The message gets looked over by a lawyer.
I don't know that it does anything about the spam, but hopefully whoever paid for the message gets paid back.
Dave had a cold. That's why HAL kept refusing his orders.
Yes, but would you rather have a conversation with a l33tsp34k3r, or with Robert Frost?
If your parents are rich and willing, you can go to college and just study. Otherwise, you work and study.
Or you take out student loans, and pay them off after you've got your degree. So you can work less, or not at all, while you study.
If you own a portable music player, you can listen to your own playlist of music as you bop around. Otherwise, you don't.
This is an advantage? Besides, you can get a cassette player for $20 at Wal-Mart. Or a cheap portable radio from a dollar store. We're not talking uber-expensive, here.
If you have (for instance) a Bowflex and a personal trainer, you now have the opportunity to outperform most of your fellow atheletes in terms of how long it takes you to reach your potential, and how close you are going to get to it.
Or you can use the campus gym, and ask advice of the phys-ed instructors.
If you have a car, you drive to school. Otherwise, you walk, sponge, or use pubtrans.
Or you can take online classes that allow you to do everything at home. (Except the occasional proctored exam.) Speaking from experience, I can tell you this frees up your schedule like you wouldn't believe.
If you have a laptop, you have many performance-enhancing tools. Otherwise, not.
Sure. You can type up your notes in class, and record your lectures. Nothing you couldn't do just as well with a Gregg shorthand textbook and tape recorder. Or bite the bullet and find an old 386 laptop with DOS that someone's trying to get rid of. (And believe me, that works fine for notetacking. MS Edit isn't a bad editor.)
All of these "advantages" have one thing in common: Money; the ability to purchase the advantage.
All of these "advantages" have another thing in common, too: There are cheaper alternatives.
It's not about money, or about the rich keeping the poor down. As for drugs, I won't take stimulants without talking to someone who's willing to prescribe them. There's a reason things like Ritalin and Adderall are perscription medications. They either have side-effects that can harm you, or they haven't been in use long enough to prove that they're generally safe.
Why hasn't anyone combined the concepts of heat pipe, heat sink, and calorimeter? Anyone who's taken high school physics knows the concept.
The foundation's already there, in water cooling systems. A rudimentary system could be built by dropping a thermometer in the reservoir, and turning off the radiator at the beginning of each test.
Granted, you're only measuring waste heat, but how much power does a CPU pump through data busses?
Probably true.
There's another reason to keep your cat in the house. Your cat can bring in things that you're allergic to, like pollen. When we took in our newest cat from outside, she kept giving me puffy cheeks and itchy eyes. That's because the pollen she had all over her fur kept getting onto my hands and into my eyes. Once we got all that crap out of her fur, it stopped being an issue.
I'm sure they will be delivering them spayed and neutered.
With a valid health reason...say you're extremely allergic to cats, and you get a female kitten. Said kitten grows up to be a cat. Said cat gets pregnent. Cat now has kittens that you're allergic to. (After all, what are the chances she found an allergy-free cat to mate with?)
Volume is hard to maintain when you your product is essentially identical to every other vendor out there, who may be able to draw away your customers. Having had waay too many Compaq systems, I won't buy an HP if I can avoid it.
You didn't read my original post.
I'm pleased to say my representative voted against it. (Which is odd...normally he votes against my interests on tech issues.)
I'll have to send him a thank-you letter. And then send a letter to my senators.
It's a trick link to a porn site.
You know, one of the "You've been blatantly tricked!" types.
As long as vulnerability patches get backported, that'll be fine. Otherwise, no.
People bring their computers to us after they've been infected with spyware and viruses, which means that their computer habits include risky behavior, which in turn means they need to use a continually more secure browser. Using version 2.999.x is only going to help as long as there's eventually a 2.999.(x+1).
I'd make the argument that I see, today, many more Windows machines from that era than Linux machines. Microsoft has actually done a better job with API backwards-compatibility than Linux has.
Sure, Linux still supports QMAGIC and ZMAGIC A.out binaries, but last time I wanted to run a binary from that era, I had to download and compile libc5. Open source is the only thing that keeps software from that era alive. (Else we wouldn't have QuakeForge, Twilight or DarkPlaces.)
Pre-W2K systems are still in wide use in the home. I know this because my Computer Club regularly services them at PC Clinic. Dropping support for pre-W2K systems puts Firefox in a bad position for these systems. We may have to look at Opera instead.
Maybe. Drop me a line. :)
If the drive logic caches the most recent 256MB to flash, then that's 256MB that won't have to be read off the magnetic media. On a 768MB system, that's a third of the load time.
That's what I hated about the CYOA books. The most sensible answer always seemed to be the one most likely to get you killed.
For instance, a CYOA book I have upstairs asks you if you blow hatch open with your laser rifle. (Getting through the hatch is paramount to your goal, and the hatch is stuck.) If you do, your laser beam's path is warped, takes a 90 degree turn, and hits the fuel tanks at the end of the hallway. So you do the sensible thing, and you die.
I much preferred another book I had, one that was essentially an RPG game where the plot and challenges and options were spelled out by the book; you just kept track of your supplies and rolled the dice.
And it's worse for us dial-up users. We spend half our time waiting for the server to respond after each click. (My dial-up connection has a high latency.) Then we spend another half waiting for images and flash animations to load. And then another half trying to get back to the page we meant, when we clicked on a "Click here to read more link" that was really just an ad.
And yes, that adds up to 150%.
Such a setup requires extremely low latency, as the processors are pulling Linux operating system images over the InfiniBand links, instead of through a local hard drive. Also, processes shared in RAM among the Linux nodes all run through the Voltaire switch.
Loading bulk data over the network (as in BOOTP) suggests high bandwidth, not latency. And it doesn't even require it; high bandwidth for BOOTP is a convenience. My 10Mb/s Ethernet hub could do it.
The author really is clueless...
What's wrong with a hand-cranked computer? Do you simply dislike it because it seems like stone-age technology to you?
One might as easily dismiss a mechanically-powered flashlight or radio.
It's useful because it's portable and self-contained. And humans have a habit of finding uses for things, even if they don't seem to have an immediate use.
In addition, computers in particular have a way of channeling curiosity in the developing mind. I started programming when I was in 1st grade, on one of those school-system Apple IIs. I don't see any reason why free access to a computer wouldn't help inspire the minds of similarly-educated children.
This could be useful for LCD goggles for people who normally need glasses.
As others have pointed out, the Core Duo only beat out the Athlon64 FX-60 when overclocked. If the chip, when overclocked, was safe for production environments, then the chip would have shipped at a higher default clock speed.
The whole tone of the article is wrong...it seems more interested in Intel than in technology. Notice that the "most impressive thing" is that the Core Duo chip does better than a high-end Intel chip. The only negative thing they mention in the article is a reminder that AMD's AM2 architecture is supposed to come out next week.
They're misrepresenting the product. I have to wonder if they were paid for this review.
You know game design trends have gone bad when you have to develop for a limited platform in order to have an accepted excuse to create a low end game these days.
With the exceptions of SubSpace and Solar Wolf, all the "Small but Fun" games I've seen lately have been written in Flash, and run inside a web browser.
I've got a good friend who knows a great deal about computer hardware, but every time he explains why he doesn't run Linux, it's a different reason.
It's funny, 'cause the previous reason is no longer true by the time he feels inclined to defend himself again. Usually because I've fixed the problem.
Now all that's left is for me to get wireless to work smoothly.