Because more and more companies are realizing that SCSI does not provide us with substantial performance advantage.. and only few high-end motherboards have scsi controllers on-board, but they all have ATA/IDE controllers.
SCSI burners work better and tend to last longer, although the only metric I have are my Plextors who have lasted a few years now. This is versus HP IDE burners which have both failed.
That has nothing to do with scsi/ide... my IDE Plextor did not fail in 2 years too. But friends HP did.
Anyway.. we're all waiting for SATA. serial, cheap, faster, thinner cables,...
Semiconductors aren't that sensitive to moderate heat, in the way that it would destroy them; if they get too hot, you will just have system crashes, random resets, etc. (as if that isn't bad enough).
Might be.. But:
moderators are too sensitive to conduct heat, in way that it wouldn't destroy them; if they get too hot, you will just have karma crashes, random moderation, etc.
It's just figure of speech. It's same for faster slower. We say car A is 3 times slower than car B. Which is(or may seem) incorrect, but we use it anyway. We should say car A is one third as fast as car B.
So it doesn't matter how we say it.. as long as listener understands it.
We kill mosquitos because they are pests
We kill chickens because we are hungry
We kill lions because it's fun
We kill humans because they are pests... ... and because it's fun! by George Carlin
Noone cares about few % performance gain anymore. And even if Opteron would be much faster, people wouldn't care much simply because you can't buy it. Pentium4 is better because you can get it *NOW*
If you need new computer, buy it (NOW!), otherwise don't buy anything until you need it.
I think that most of linux's security risks are there because of administrators. They should only run services and modules that are essential, but nothing else.
Administrators should have physical access to machine, so they can disable anykind of remote shell access. Do not run ftpd as root.. and so on. I think that would minimize security risks.
You do not understand how computer really works. If you have more registers, more instructions for manipulating those registers and finally more cache.. you don't need high bus speeds. Processor won't need to get much of data from memory anyway, because it will have 99% of what it needs already in registers & internal cache.
We must not forget that most operations processor does are data movements and not calculations.
All three x86 problems which are described by article author are fixed with IA-64 architecture, but not so with AMD's x86-64.
If company A has new invention which gives them upper hand over company B.. it will have quite some time before company B develops this. And in this time they should cover all costs concerning invention.
I think all this patenting should be dropped. First of all they should limit patenting to things that are really revolutionary. Secondly, having a patent should not be profitable. It would be just to get credits as being first.
Why? Because simply put.. If someone invents something and patents it, it's assumed like noone else is smart enough to invent the same thing. It's idiotic. Why not allow everyone to use all availbile knowledge? It would be a better world.. more competition, lower prices, newer technology. And there will not be any more pussies who do nothing just make an idea.
ILP, VLIW, EPIC or whatever it's called without processor or PC means NOTHING.
Thrust SCC II can go 760mph(whatever mph means). Granted, it's jet powered car built for speed and definitely can't carry 8 passengers, but it's faster... here are is the pic
Point is.. it doesn't matter how fast it goes if you can't drive it that fast on normal roads. Except on german autobahns:D You can see freaks who drive at 280km/h there.
Real students(not geeks) don't have money to buy new version of windows.. they rather get drunk and shag fat local chick. They get new windows from the internet.. and campus should just put up ftp server with winXP availbile to anyone;) (heck put on few divx movies, unreal tournament 2k3, jenna jamerson XXX,...) most of students would even pay for access:)
There will be about 20year delay in moore's law.. but then it will be able to keep up again. But not with classical silicon technology. But rather with some other advanced technology... transistors at quantum level? Or maybe advanced molecules which are able to calculate electrons. We shall see...
Actually i am dead serious... Note that we already infected moon with earth bacteria. It's very sirious concern for all future space programs. Project to jupiter's moon Titan was held back for few years because of that.
However.. there is also quite huge chance that earth life came from space and didn't evolve on earth at all.
Gravity and pressure and not really a huge problem. (gravity is same as earths) and pressure on surface is 60 earth atmospheres. (equivalent of pressure in water 600m deep)
Russian probe already landed on venus and the only real problem was heat. Camera lenses melted. I think we will have samples of venus' atmosphere in 10-15years on earth.
HP officials, in Houston, disagree. Reverse engineering is just an "educated guess," and it needs to be reworked each time the targeted product changes, said Mark Sorenson, vice president of the Storage Software Division, at HP's Network Storage Solutions division. Also, reverse-engineered solutions don't give customers the mutual support agreements....
That makes me just an educated fortune teller. Go figure..
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This disk drive has life-time guarantee! fine print: When possible error situation occurs, drive will explode, killing the user.
Because more and more companies are realizing that SCSI does not provide us with substantial performance advantage.. and only few high-end motherboards have scsi controllers on-board, but they all have ATA/IDE controllers.
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SCSI burners work better and tend to last longer, although the only metric I have are my Plextors who have lasted a few years now. This is versus HP IDE burners which have both failed.
That has nothing to do with scsi/ide... my IDE Plextor did not fail in 2 years too. But friends HP did.
Anyway.. we're all waiting for SATA. serial, cheap, faster, thinner cables,
Semiconductors aren't that sensitive to moderate heat, in the way that it would destroy them; if they get too hot, you will just have system crashes, random resets, etc. (as if that isn't bad enough).
Might be.. But:
moderators are too sensitive to conduct heat, in way that it wouldn't destroy them; if they get too hot, you will just have karma crashes, random moderation, etc.
It's just figure of speech. It's same for faster slower. We say car A is 3 times slower than car B. Which is(or may seem) incorrect, but we use it anyway. We should say car A is one third as fast as car B.
So it doesn't matter how we say it.. as long as listener understands it.
I guess jewlery stores will now use transparent aluminium instead.
Humans have 3 sensors. You should recheck human ear anathomy.
We kill mosquitos because they are pests
... and because it's fun!
We kill chickens because we are hungry
We kill lions because it's fun
We kill humans because they are pests...
by George Carlin
About IP few articles back...
...so much for innovative U.S.
Newbie overclocker: I overclocked my computer by 50%! :)
Expert: Was it stable?
Newbie overclocker: I couldn't test it, it crashed after boot!
Noone cares about few % performance gain anymore. And even if Opteron would be much faster, people wouldn't care much simply because you can't buy it. Pentium4 is better because you can get it *NOW*
If you need new computer, buy it (NOW!), otherwise don't buy anything until you need it.
I think that most of linux's security risks are there because of administrators. They should only run services and modules that are essential, but nothing else.
Administrators should have physical access to machine, so they can disable anykind of remote shell access. Do not run ftpd as root.. and so on. I think that would minimize security risks.
You do not understand how computer really works. If you have more registers, more instructions for manipulating those registers and finally more cache.. you don't need high bus speeds. Processor won't need to get much of data from memory anyway, because it will have 99% of what it needs already in registers & internal cache.
We must not forget that most operations processor does are data movements and not calculations.
All three x86 problems which are described by article author are fixed with IA-64 architecture, but not so with AMD's x86-64.
If company A has new invention which gives them upper hand over company B.. it will have quite some time before company B develops this. And in this time they should cover all costs concerning invention.
I think all this patenting should be dropped. First of all they should limit patenting to things that are really revolutionary. Secondly, having a patent should not be profitable. It would be just to get credits as being first.
Why? Because simply put.. If someone invents something and patents it, it's assumed like noone else is smart enough to invent the same thing. It's idiotic. Why not allow everyone to use all availbile knowledge? It would be a better world.. more competition, lower prices, newer technology. And there will not be any more pussies who do nothing just make an idea.
ILP, VLIW, EPIC or whatever it's called without processor or PC means NOTHING.
Thrust SCC II can go 760mph(whatever mph means). Granted, it's jet powered car built for speed and definitely can't carry 8 passengers, but it's faster...
here are is the pic
Point is.. it doesn't matter how fast it goes if you can't drive it that fast on normal roads. Except on german autobahns:D You can see freaks who drive at 280km/h there.
What good is quantum cryptograhpy, if there's nothing to encrypt because you are simply "out of memory".
Internal Application Error can kiss my shiny metal ass.
now we'll be able to read slashdot in 3D.
I patented a patent and patenting. All your patents belong to me. What about that ha?
Real students(not geeks) don't have money to buy new version of windows.. they rather get drunk and shag fat local chick. ...) most of students would even pay for access:)
They get new windows from the internet.. and campus should just put up ftp server with winXP availbile to anyone;) (heck put on few divx movies, unreal tournament 2k3, jenna jamerson XXX,
There will be about 20year delay in moore's law.. but then it will be able to keep up again. But not with classical silicon technology. But rather with some other advanced technology... transistors at quantum level? Or maybe advanced molecules which are able to calculate electrons. We shall see...
Actually i am dead serious... Note that we already infected moon with earth bacteria. It's very sirious concern for all future space programs. Project to jupiter's moon Titan was held back for few years because of that.
However.. there is also quite huge chance that earth life came from space and didn't evolve on earth at all.
Gravity and pressure and not really a huge problem. (gravity is same as earths) and pressure on surface is 60 earth atmospheres. (equivalent of pressure in water 600m deep)
Russian probe already landed on venus and the only real problem was heat. Camera lenses melted. I think we will have samples of venus' atmosphere in 10-15years on earth.
Maybe numerous earth probes infected venus' atmosphere with life.
HP officials, in Houston, disagree. Reverse engineering is just an "educated guess," and it needs to be reworked each time the targeted product changes, said Mark Sorenson, vice president of the Storage Software Division, at HP's Network Storage Solutions division. Also, reverse-engineered solutions don't give customers the mutual support agreements ....
That makes me just an educated fortune teller. Go figure..
What about this?