The CCNA is almost worthless, there are over 55K CCNA's in North America alone, probably more than the demand for such people post dotbomb. The CCNP on the other hand is pretty damn valuable, only ~4,600 in N.A. The degree program I am studying since going back to school is a 2+2 program with the focus the first two years being the CCNA and the second two being the CCNP.
That's funny since the core functions for the Ti-89 and family was written in C and have self optimizing abilities for specific functions. I know this because the functions are based on Derive, and you can see an ACM paper by the authors of Derive talking about their system.
True. This topic, however, goes beyond mere maximizing of program performance. Pur simply, if you know assembler, you can take the CPU's strengths and weaknesses into consideration while still writing readable, maintainable, "good" code. If you do not know assembly, you might produce simply beautiful code, but then have no clue why it runs like a three-legged dog.
About.1% of code needs to be so optimized that CPU architecture matters. For the other 99.9% speed improvements are much more likely to come from algorithmic improvements. Not only that but real world experience shows that code written in ASM is NOT maintanable, the indepth knowledge of a specific architecture is fleeting while knowledge of most high level languages lasts a LONG time.
Actually you CAN'T, if you had bothered to check the order page you would have noted that every listed distributer is sold out! They have been talking about another pressing for some time but nothing has materialized =(
What world do you live in? My pair of sub $200 Cerwin Vega 3 ways have Neodymium magnets for the midrange with a flux density around 17K Gauss. It's not like powerfull speaker magnets are hard to come by. Besides almost every geek has at least one high strength magnet at his disposal, take out the voice coil magnet from an old HDD, many of these are rare-earth with high flux densities.
No, you sir are the idiot. Speaker flux density for even mediocre magnets can be in the 10K Gauss range as seen here , and that's for ferrite magnets, rare-earth (mostly Neodymium) magnets can easily reach twice that. Sure simple ferrous magnets in cheap speakers are only around 1K Gauss but the OP might easily have had a magnet powerfull enough to wipe his card.
Actually Cue:Cat's can decode most UPC style barcodes. If you run Win2k or XP you can use the keyboard filter driver from this site. Or for even more flexibility I like the Catnip program which allows you to alter the output including the barcode type and multiple delimiters, it can be found here among other places.
I used mine to keep track of my customers DLT tapes. Since we were up to a library of ~500 tapes and were changing them out at a rate of 25 every 10 days or so it really paid off. In fact I had my brother write a little VBA app on top of Access to keep track of their container and position. That way when the library needed new tapes I could take the reports from Veritas and pick out the tapes that were ready to be reused and know right where they were. Before doing this it took me about 3 hours a week to change out tapes, after organising things it was down under an hour.
It also came in usefull when we were pulling out over 400 PC's from a client site, recording all those asset tags by hand would have been a LOT more tedious than just stacking em and scanning. Picking in up was definitly the best $0 and 10 minutes of my life I ever spent =)
Depends on the car, Ferrari required proof of ownership of either a F40 of F50, or preferably both for purchase of the Enzo. They were also a little more likely to sell it to you if you could show track experience. When you make only 350 of a model you can be a bit picky about who you sell em to =)
Actually Windows kind of does, if you know how to use perfmon you can usually figure out where the box is being resource starved, although not necessarilly what process is being blocked. To do that on any OS you need to open up a debugger, unfortunatly when it comes to things like catching I/O interrupts the very act of debugging a process can make it behave differently.
1.2GHz/100=120MHz or about 5 times faster just based on MHz than my 486SX-25 not to mention super pipelining and an FPU! Btw that PC was the fourth fastest available in 1993 only beaten by the DX-33, SX-33 and DX-25.
Sounds almost perfect for running old early 90's era games assuming that it has SB16 support =) And for once the slowness of emulation isn't a problem since a major difficulty in running old games is often that their internal delay loops aren't large enough to run at human speed on modern hardware.
Well Pepsi probably is paying Apple full price, but remember that Apple normally only makes a couple cents per song, almost half the cost of the song goes to the credit card company, cut out that part of the transaction cost by making it an internal to Apple transaction and they can probably charge Pepsi closer to $0.50 which brings the total possible liability down to only $50 million and then factor in that Pepsi probably knows that their most sucessfull promotions have around a 30% redemption rate and suddenly you are at only $15 million assumed liability, the commercial time during the super bowl probably is costing them that much!!
This worked until the stores started getting machines that scanned the bar code on the can.
Why should that matter? The UPC code on Coke cans will be the exact same in Michigan as they are in Ohio, as they are in Canada,etc. That's kind of the point of UPC. All of the cans sold anywhere in the country contain the deposit messages even though they are normally bottled locally for each market, Coke and Pepsi don't want to redesign their cans for each market so there is no way they are going to use a unique UPC for one market.
Oh yes the 11 hours I get on my series 1 iPod is just SO terrible. Get real, there is never a situation where I will be on the go for more than ~9 hours that I can't charge the iPod. In fact the only time I've listened to it for longer than 8 hours was on cross country car rides and I use the AC charger and inverter for those.
Actually Jobs makes $1/year (or at least he did for several years), he made Apple buy him a jet and most of his income comes from appreciation of his large holdings in Apple stock and additional stock options.
God you people all act like the Internet doesn't exist! Unless the textbook is written by your professor and not used anywhere else you should be able to find an online retailer like half.com or cheapest textbooks or any of a dozen or more other sites that buy and sell textbooks that will give you money for your old books.
Actually one of the Blockbusters near me has a program that works well, if you like a title you can sign a little form when you return it then when the high demand period for the film is over they call you and let you know it's available. If you still want it you can buy it for the used price minus the cost of your origional rental, so you get to see it when it's first out AND you get to buy it at their used price without wasting any capital. Plus you are guarenteed to get one of the used copies which for very popular films can be a real bonus.
Actually RFC 1738 is supersceded by RFC 2396 which specifically does away with that artificial limitation, however it DOES warn against doing so as it is a security concern. So they removed the limitation but told you not to do it becuase they knew from experience that it would lead to problems. Sounds like a much better standard to me, let you shoot yourself in the foot if you want to =)
I like Crazy Browser, very similar and it fits on a floppy =) I used to point people to Mozilla when they complained about popups and I still do, but if they complain about things like online banking not working I tell em to grab Crazy Browser.
CISC is good for modern machines where cache latency is the big performance killer. Use CISC for the external ISA and RISC internally. Now that the x86-64 ISA is no longer GPR starved it performs pretty well, in fact it may be the best all around architecture given current knowledge in computer hardware and compiler design, there is a lot of knowledge and expertise built up around the x86 architecture, so even if you could run legacy code as fast as the current generation x86 chip your first couple generation of native software likely wouldn't be any faster.
Yep, if you consider a "computer company" to mean hardware then IBM is actually about the world's fourth largest computer company, second largest software company, and by FAR the world's largest computer services company. But by the generic definition of computer company they are probably considered by most people to be the worlds largest =)
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I work Big Blue in the professional services area.
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The CCNA is almost worthless, there are over 55K CCNA's in North America alone, probably more than the demand for such people post dotbomb. The CCNP on the other hand is pretty damn valuable, only ~4,600 in N.A. The degree program I am studying since going back to school is a 2+2 program with the focus the first two years being the CCNA and the second two being the CCNP.
Yep the Ti89 uses a Motorola 68000 running at either 10 or 12 MHz. That's not exactly a smoking hot processor.
That's funny since the core functions for the Ti-89 and family was written in C and have self optimizing abilities for specific functions. I know this because the functions are based on Derive, and you can see an ACM paper by the authors of Derive talking about their system.
True. This topic, however, goes beyond mere maximizing of program performance. Pur simply, if you know assembler, you can take the CPU's strengths and weaknesses into consideration while still writing readable, maintainable, "good" code. If you do not know assembly, you might produce simply beautiful code, but then have no clue why it runs like a three-legged dog.
.1% of code needs to be so optimized that CPU architecture matters. For the other 99.9% speed improvements are much more likely to come from algorithmic improvements. Not only that but real world experience shows that code written in ASM is NOT maintanable, the indepth knowledge of a specific architecture is fleeting while knowledge of most high level languages lasts a LONG time.
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Actually you CAN'T, if you had bothered to check the order page you would have noted that every listed distributer is sold out! They have been talking about another pressing for some time but nothing has materialized =(
Anyone know of a good DEMO party in the midwest US, preferably the rustbelt? Travel funds aren't what they once were =(
What world do you live in? My pair of sub $200 Cerwin Vega 3 ways have Neodymium magnets for the midrange with a flux density around 17K Gauss. It's not like powerfull speaker magnets are hard to come by. Besides almost every geek has at least one high strength magnet at his disposal, take out the voice coil magnet from an old HDD, many of these are rare-earth with high flux densities.
No, you sir are the idiot. Speaker flux density for even mediocre magnets can be in the 10K Gauss range as seen here , and that's for ferrite magnets, rare-earth (mostly Neodymium) magnets can easily reach twice that. Sure simple ferrous magnets in cheap speakers are only around 1K Gauss but the OP might easily have had a magnet powerfull enough to wipe his card.
Actually Cue:Cat's can decode most UPC style barcodes. If you run Win2k or XP you can use the keyboard filter driver from this site. Or for even more flexibility I like the Catnip program which allows you to alter the output including the barcode type and multiple delimiters, it can be found here among other places.
I used mine to keep track of my customers DLT tapes. Since we were up to a library of ~500 tapes and were changing them out at a rate of 25 every 10 days or so it really paid off. In fact I had my brother write a little VBA app on top of Access to keep track of their container and position. That way when the library needed new tapes I could take the reports from Veritas and pick out the tapes that were ready to be reused and know right where they were. Before doing this it took me about 3 hours a week to change out tapes, after organising things it was down under an hour.
It also came in usefull when we were pulling out over 400 PC's from a client site, recording all those asset tags by hand would have been a LOT more tedious than just stacking em and scanning. Picking in up was definitly the best $0 and 10 minutes of my life I ever spent =)
Depends on the car, Ferrari required proof of ownership of either a F40 of F50, or preferably both for purchase of the Enzo. They were also a little more likely to sell it to you if you could show track experience. When you make only 350 of a model you can be a bit picky about who you sell em to =)
I would imagine that the Win16 subsystem would in fact run under WOW64 since it makes use of 32 bit Windows system code.
Actually Windows kind of does, if you know how to use perfmon you can usually figure out where the box is being resource starved, although not necessarilly what process is being blocked. To do that on any OS you need to open up a debugger, unfortunatly when it comes to things like catching I/O interrupts the very act of debugging a process can make it behave differently.
1.2GHz/100=120MHz or about 5 times faster just based on MHz than my 486SX-25 not to mention super pipelining and an FPU! Btw that PC was the fourth fastest available in 1993 only beaten by the DX-33, SX-33 and DX-25.
Sounds almost perfect for running old early 90's era games assuming that it has SB16 support =) And for once the slowness of emulation isn't a problem since a major difficulty in running old games is often that their internal delay loops aren't large enough to run at human speed on modern hardware.
Well Pepsi probably is paying Apple full price, but remember that Apple normally only makes a couple cents per song, almost half the cost of the song goes to the credit card company, cut out that part of the transaction cost by making it an internal to Apple transaction and they can probably charge Pepsi closer to $0.50 which brings the total possible liability down to only $50 million and then factor in that Pepsi probably knows that their most sucessfull promotions have around a 30% redemption rate and suddenly you are at only $15 million assumed liability, the commercial time during the super bowl probably is costing them that much!!
This worked until the stores started getting machines that scanned the bar code on the can.
Why should that matter? The UPC code on Coke cans will be the exact same in Michigan as they are in Ohio, as they are in Canada,etc. That's kind of the point of UPC. All of the cans sold anywhere in the country contain the deposit messages even though they are normally bottled locally for each market, Coke and Pepsi don't want to redesign their cans for each market so there is no way they are going to use a unique UPC for one market.
Oh yes the 11 hours I get on my series 1 iPod is just SO terrible. Get real, there is never a situation where I will be on the go for more than ~9 hours that I can't charge the iPod. In fact the only time I've listened to it for longer than 8 hours was on cross country car rides and I use the AC charger and inverter for those.
Actually Jobs makes $1/year (or at least he did for several years), he made Apple buy him a jet and most of his income comes from appreciation of his large holdings in Apple stock and additional stock options.
God you people all act like the Internet doesn't exist! Unless the textbook is written by your professor and not used anywhere else you should be able to find an online retailer like half.com or cheapest textbooks or any of a dozen or more other sites that buy and sell textbooks that will give you money for your old books.
Actually one of the Blockbusters near me has a program that works well, if you like a title you can sign a little form when you return it then when the high demand period for the film is over they call you and let you know it's available. If you still want it you can buy it for the used price minus the cost of your origional rental, so you get to see it when it's first out AND you get to buy it at their used price without wasting any capital. Plus you are guarenteed to get one of the used copies which for very popular films can be a real bonus.
Actually RFC 1738 is supersceded by RFC 2396 which specifically does away with that artificial limitation, however it DOES warn against doing so as it is a security concern. So they removed the limitation but told you not to do it becuase they knew from experience that it would lead to problems. Sounds like a much better standard to me, let you shoot yourself in the foot if you want to =)
I like Crazy Browser, very similar and it fits on a floppy =) I used to point people to Mozilla when they complained about popups and I still do, but if they complain about things like online banking not working I tell em to grab Crazy Browser.
CISC is good for modern machines where cache latency is the big performance killer. Use CISC for the external ISA and RISC internally. Now that the x86-64 ISA is no longer GPR starved it performs pretty well, in fact it may be the best all around architecture given current knowledge in computer hardware and compiler design, there is a lot of knowledge and expertise built up around the x86 architecture, so even if you could run legacy code as fast as the current generation x86 chip your first couple generation of native software likely wouldn't be any faster.
Yep, if you consider a "computer company" to mean hardware then IBM is actually about the world's fourth largest computer company, second largest software company, and by FAR the world's largest computer services company. But by the generic definition of computer company they are probably considered by most people to be the worlds largest =) p.s. I work Big Blue in the professional services area.