Especially if you are subscribed to high volume, non-public mailing list which are relevant to your job. I used to run a person search engine from altavista and the ability to pull up info from the devel lists at works was invaluable. Then I upgraded to win2k and it no longer worked all the time, and finally I had to reinstall and the software refused to install (it had been brought in origionally with an upgrade from 98SE). I would love to be able to search email so easily again but I doubt my employer would allow me to sign up an outside email address to the internal lists that would make it most valuable =(
The P4's and the 970's fetch and decode pipeline phases are similar in one very important respect: both processors break down instructions in their native ISA's format into a smaller, simpler format for use inside the CPU. The P4 breaks down each x86 CISC instruction into smaller micro-ops (or "uops"), which more or less resemble the instructions on a RISC machine. Most x86 instructions decode into 2 or 3 uops, but some of the longer, more complex and rarely used instructions decode into many more uops. The 970 breaks its instructions down into what it calls "IOPs", presumably short for "internal operations". Like uops on the P4, it is these IOPs that are actually executed out-of-order by the 970's execution core. And also like uops, cracking instructions down into multiple, more atomic and more strictly defined IOPs can help the back end squeeze out some extra instruction-level parallelism (ILP) by giving it more freedom to schedule code. link
It's true that many of the more common PPC instructions break down to only a single iop vs 2-3 uops for the P4, but the PPC is pretty far from what I would classify as a RISC chip.
Uh, why? x86 as it has been implemented since the origional Pentium actually works pretty well. You use fat, complex ops which use little space in icache and convert them to svelte, fast micro-ops for fast cores. True x86 is register starved, but that's why x86-64 added a bunch of registers and cleaned up the parts of the architecture which were truely bad. The death of x86 has been predicted for several decades and I just don't see it. People have too much invested in non-open code to just dump the architecture without a REALLY good reason.
Yep, and I believe it was one of the guys from MS Research that said he could buy new servers with RAID arrays and send them cross country for less than the cost of a network link that could support the same kind of data transfer =)
Sorry, but if someone who is not invited is in my house while I am sleeping then my immediate conclusion is that they intend me harm. I will take my chances with a jury should the cops and prosecuter be insane enough to bring charges should I never need to defend my house and family. That said, the only time I have needed to draw a weapon was when a punk from high school and a few of his friends stopped by after he got suspended for starting a fight with me. I grabbed the 12 gauge and told him to leave my property immedietly, he complied quite quickly =)
A large, loud dog. Seriously. Every interview with burglers I've ever seen says that they look for an empty house without alarms first, then ones with alarms, then occupied houses at night, and only if they are desperate for drug money do they mess with houses with dogs.
Yes, but WHY would we want to give Lance a suit. Wasn't that the whole point of his proposed trip to the ISS, to push him out an airlock and permenantly remove at least one boy band member from the planet =)
Exactly. Worldwide impact would likely be on the same order as a new gigawatt coal facility coming online without modern emissions controlls. What all the anti-nuclear people seem to miss is that there are only a handfull of instances where nuclear power facilities released measurable amounts of radioactive material, yet coal power plants (the ones most likely to replace nuclear due to abundant reserves) pour out literally tons of radioactive material every year!
Not even necessary in a domain environment, the network will find a user name and send the message to them. Not sure exactly how it handles multiple logins but I've never failed to contact someone I knew was online.
Um, read Stroustup's Design and Evolution of C++ and read up on C with Classes. Stroustup unquestionably was the lead architect of the modern C++ language, but he was not working in a vacume. Many of the ideas for C++ came from existing works and academic papers, not to mention interactions between Stroustrup and outside implementors.
Besides which C++ wasn't invented at AT&T. It was mostly outside users who built up a set of object oriented preprocessor directives. Unfortunatly since preprocessors weren't well covered by the C standards the results of using these packages varied from compiler to compiler. Eventually there was enough evidence to show the utility of these packages and they were eventually codified into a formal language.
Uh, this was carried live by CNN (world's largest news channel AFAIK) and Fox News (possibly world's worst news channel, all the commentator kept talking about was hypersonic cruise missles to use for assasinations).
Uh, you are VERY misinformed, the containment building is still too hot to enter for more than a couple hours with protective suits and there are areas in the basement that are so hot that NO amount of exposure is safe.
Yeah, sure. It's a non-event only if you realize how close they were to core meltdown which would have poisoned the water table across a large swatch of the east coast (lookup china syndrome), and ignore the fact that the reactor containment facility STILL (a quarter centyry later) has places too radioactivly hot to enter. And several years after the incident considerably more radiation was released:
For 11 days, in June-July, 1980, Met Ed illegally vented 43,000 curies of radioactive Krypton-85 (beta and gamma; 10 year half life) and other radioactive gasses into the environment without having scrubbers in place. In November 1980, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the krypton venting was illegal. link
Oh yes, I am so scared of Europe with it's socialist policies that lead to high unemployment and little incentive to seek employment. Yep. American's freak over 7% unemployment yet most of Europe hasn't been that low EVER. I will grant you that by the end of my son's lifetime China may surpass the U.S. as the world's largest economy but until they get their general education system in order it won't happen.
Not sure about crime rates but a recent study showed an astronomical association between proximity to casinos and bankruptcy filings. In fact filings went up nearly 400% for areas within 30 miles of a casino.
Eh gad, I can't even imagine how bad that looks. My preference is to have my audio at ~200-220Kbps, or about 90MB/hour, how can you stand to have audio AND video at only 50% higher bitrate?!?!?
Uh, you have windows file protection on, and it's doing exactly what it's told to do, restore a given set of OS files. If you installed an app that downgrade MSVCRT.DLL to an old version the same OS service would have replaced it with the correct version from the dllcache directory, this way stupid installers are less likely to break critical OS components. Origionally MS was going to rework DLL registration so that when an app did something like this it would place the DLL into a hidden system subdirectory under the app's install path and whenever the app was launched it would be given its own private DLL namespace with the versions of the DLL's which it installed. For some reason this was dropped (probably too difficult to make work correctly, consistently).
Besides which CIFS has been documented for some time, it is a standard afterall. Of course what the documented standard says and any given version of windows actually DOES is different, but so what. In fact the more technical members of the SAMBA team know the SMB protocol better than anyone currently working for MS.
Re-read, liscensing was $1,000/4-CPU's or $250/CPU * 16 CPU's for a total of $4,000 which is chump change for including support in an enterprise product. Of course the support doesn't sound like it was helping a lot.....
It looks to me like it cost a one time fee of $50 million to ship Suse on all IBM platforms. For someone the size of IBM that's a steal. What Suse gets in return is a LOT of exposure and no need to support those boxes because IBM is doing the support.
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Especially if you are subscribed to high volume, non-public mailing list which are relevant to your job. I used to run a person search engine from altavista and the ability to pull up info from the devel lists at works was invaluable. Then I upgraded to win2k and it no longer worked all the time, and finally I had to reinstall and the software refused to install (it had been brought in origionally with an upgrade from 98SE). I would love to be able to search email so easily again but I doubt my employer would allow me to sign up an outside email address to the internal lists that would make it most valuable =(
The P4's and the 970's fetch and decode pipeline phases are similar in one very important respect: both processors break down instructions in their native ISA's format into a smaller, simpler format for use inside the CPU. The P4 breaks down each x86 CISC instruction into smaller micro-ops (or "uops"), which more or less resemble the instructions on a RISC machine. Most x86 instructions decode into 2 or 3 uops, but some of the longer, more complex and rarely used instructions decode into many more uops. The 970 breaks its instructions down into what it calls "IOPs", presumably short for "internal operations". Like uops on the P4, it is these IOPs that are actually executed out-of-order by the 970's execution core. And also like uops, cracking instructions down into multiple, more atomic and more strictly defined IOPs can help the back end squeeze out some extra instruction-level parallelism (ILP) by giving it more freedom to schedule code.
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It's true that many of the more common PPC instructions break down to only a single iop vs 2-3 uops for the P4, but the PPC is pretty far from what I would classify as a RISC chip.
Uh, why?
x86 as it has been implemented since the origional Pentium actually works pretty well. You use fat, complex ops which use little space in icache and convert them to svelte, fast micro-ops for fast cores. True x86 is register starved, but that's why x86-64 added a bunch of registers and cleaned up the parts of the architecture which were truely bad. The death of x86 has been predicted for several decades and I just don't see it. People have too much invested in non-open code to just dump the architecture without a REALLY good reason.
Yep, and I believe it was one of the guys from MS Research that said he could buy new servers with RAID arrays and send them cross country for less than the cost of a network link that could support the same kind of data transfer =)
Haven't been to southern Ohio I see.
The core has a full mips-3 instruction set, with extensions from mips-4 and mips-5
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So yes, it is in a way MIPS derived, but the MIPS core does very little of the actual processing, it's more of a bootloader and I/O coprocessor.
Sorry, but if someone who is not invited is in my house while I am sleeping then my immediate conclusion is that they intend me harm. I will take my chances with a jury should the cops and prosecuter be insane enough to bring charges should I never need to defend my house and family. That said, the only time I have needed to draw a weapon was when a punk from high school and a few of his friends stopped by after he got suspended for starting a fight with me. I grabbed the 12 gauge and told him to leave my property immedietly, he complied quite quickly =)
A large, loud dog. Seriously. Every interview with burglers I've ever seen says that they look for an empty house without alarms first, then ones with alarms, then occupied houses at night, and only if they are desperate for drug money do they mess with houses with dogs.
Yes, but WHY would we want to give Lance a suit. Wasn't that the whole point of his proposed trip to the ISS, to push him out an airlock and permenantly remove at least one boy band member from the planet =)
Exactly. Worldwide impact would likely be on the same order as a new gigawatt coal facility coming online without modern emissions controlls. What all the anti-nuclear people seem to miss is that there are only a handfull of instances where nuclear power facilities released measurable amounts of radioactive material, yet coal power plants (the ones most likely to replace nuclear due to abundant reserves) pour out literally tons of radioactive material every year!
Not even necessary in a domain environment, the network will find a user name and send the message to them. Not sure exactly how it handles multiple logins but I've never failed to contact someone I knew was online.
Um, read Stroustup's Design and Evolution of C++ and read up on C with Classes. Stroustup unquestionably was the lead architect of the modern C++ language, but he was not working in a vacume. Many of the ideas for C++ came from existing works and academic papers, not to mention interactions between Stroustrup and outside implementors.
Besides which C++ wasn't invented at AT&T. It was mostly outside users who built up a set of object oriented preprocessor directives. Unfortunatly since preprocessors weren't well covered by the C standards the results of using these packages varied from compiler to compiler. Eventually there was enough evidence to show the utility of these packages and they were eventually codified into a formal language.
Uh, this was carried live by CNN (world's largest news channel AFAIK) and Fox News (possibly world's worst news channel, all the commentator kept talking about was hypersonic cruise missles to use for assasinations).
Additional work is limited because of high radiation dose rates in the vicinity of tanks containing contaminated water.
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There are other reports which mention the high level of radiation in the water being cleaned up from the basement.
Uh, you are VERY misinformed, the containment building is still too hot to enter for more than a couple hours with protective suits and there are areas in the basement that are so hot that NO amount of exposure is safe.
Yeah, sure. It's a non-event only if you realize how close they were to core meltdown which would have poisoned the water table across a large swatch of the east coast (lookup china syndrome), and ignore the fact that the reactor containment facility STILL (a quarter centyry later) has places too radioactivly hot to enter. And several years after the incident considerably more radiation was released:
For 11 days, in June-July, 1980, Met Ed illegally vented 43,000 curies of radioactive Krypton-85 (beta and gamma; 10 year half life) and other radioactive gasses into the environment without having scrubbers in place. In November 1980, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the krypton venting was illegal.
link
Oh yes, I am so scared of Europe with it's socialist policies that lead to high unemployment and little incentive to seek employment. Yep. American's freak over 7% unemployment yet most of Europe hasn't been that low EVER. I will grant you that by the end of my son's lifetime China may surpass the U.S. as the world's largest economy but until they get their general education system in order it won't happen.
That definitly sounds like it was coined by a marketing droid who was a failed philosohpy major!
Not sure about crime rates but a recent study showed an astronomical association between proximity to casinos and bankruptcy filings. In fact filings went up nearly 400% for areas within 30 miles of a casino.
Eh gad, I can't even imagine how bad that looks. My preference is to have my audio at ~200-220Kbps, or about 90MB/hour, how can you stand to have audio AND video at only 50% higher bitrate?!?!?
Uh, you have windows file protection on, and it's doing exactly what it's told to do, restore a given set of OS files. If you installed an app that downgrade MSVCRT.DLL to an old version the same OS service would have replaced it with the correct version from the dllcache directory, this way stupid installers are less likely to break critical OS components. Origionally MS was going to rework DLL registration so that when an app did something like this it would place the DLL into a hidden system subdirectory under the app's install path and whenever the app was launched it would be given its own private DLL namespace with the versions of the DLL's which it installed. For some reason this was dropped (probably too difficult to make work correctly, consistently).
Besides which CIFS has been documented for some time, it is a standard afterall. Of course what the documented standard says and any given version of windows actually DOES is different, but so what. In fact the more technical members of the SAMBA team know the SMB protocol better than anyone currently working for MS.
Re-read, liscensing was $1,000/4-CPU's or $250/CPU * 16 CPU's for a total of $4,000 which is chump change for including support in an enterprise product. Of course the support doesn't sound like it was helping a lot.....
It looks to me like it cost a one time fee of $50 million to ship Suse on all IBM platforms. For someone the size of IBM that's a steal. What Suse gets in return is a LOT of exposure and no need to support those boxes because IBM is doing the support.