And incidentally, hen people refer to the next millennium, they are generally speaking of the third millennium, which, in fact, begins 2001. Sheesh, you're being more pedantic about this than I am. See this article by Douglas Adams to find out what happens to pedants.
Anyone ever hear of them? They loose points from the get go in my book for spamming me.
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Significant Events of the Millennium 1 January 1000 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the second Millennium. 1 January 1001 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the second Millennium.
1 January 1100 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the twelfth century. 1 January 1101 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the twelfth century.
1 January 1200 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the thirteenth century. 1 January 1201 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the thirteenth century.
1 January 1300 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the fourteenth century. 1 January 1301 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the fourteenth century.
10 June 1381 The Pedants' Revolt reaches London. (Not the Pedants' Revolt, the Peasants' Revolt. (sgd.) A Pedant. And kindly close the brackets.) (Thank you.)
1 January 1400 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the fifteenth century. 1 January 1401 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the fifteenth century.
1 January 1500 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the sixteenth century. 1 January 1501 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the sixteenth century.
1 January 1600 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the seventeenth century. 1 January 1601 People begin to get really fed up with pedants.
1 January 1700 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the eighteenth century. 1 January 1701 A few pedants begin to notice that pedants tend not to have very good celebrations.
1 January 1800 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the nineteenth century. A splinter group of ex-pedants turn up and get very drunk. 1 January 1801 The rest of the pedants celebrate the beginning of the nineteenth century.
1 January 1900 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the twentieth century. No pedants allowed. 1 January 1901 Pedants hold a Morris dancing festival.
24 November 1996 The Digital Village web site goes online: the third Millennium starts early and catches everybody by surprise.
1 January 2000 Anybody who even mentions the Millennium gets garrotted. 1 January 2001 Massacre of the Pedants.
There was no year 0, the calendar started with 1 A.D. Supposedly based on the birth of Christ, but the guy that calculated it was off by four odd years.
It's not just that moderation. That moderation in particular was questionable at best. Did it really deserve a zero? I mean I self moderated it down to a one. Lets compare that moderation with my above post. That was a rant, pure and simple. Unquestionably deserving of a downward moderation. I left it at a two on purpose. No one has touched the thing.
Moderation has gotten appaulingly bad lately. The stories have gotten worse and worse. I think it's time for me to, at the very least, take a break from/. The fact is, I think the Slashdot system is now breaking down. (Too many people?) I would like to think I've contributed something good in the past, but it's no longer worth my while.
You know what? Fuck it. I'm tired of stupid ass slashdot moderators and stupid ass slashdot articles. This is the moderation that broke the camel's back. I tried to always make intellegent or funny comments. But most of the moderators are flatout dumbfucks.
I'm tired of the stupid ass articles, and the fucked up moderation. Goodbye slashdot.
...and they struck out, against two EFF lawyers with nothing but 48 hours to prep and a strong sense of justice.
This is exactly why community based actions, including open sourced software, are so successful:
1. People want to help. There is no incentive to help a multi-national "machine". But individuals feel like they can make a difference in situations like this, so they do.
2. When people do help, they can make all the difference in the world. This is personal empowerment at its(thanks d betamax) best, for example, this comment from Rick Moen:
Credit goes to Bay Area Linux activist Deirdre Saoirse for noticing that the plaintiff was getting away uncontested with claiming that DeCSS was a tool for copying DVDs (which it isn't) as opposed to playing them.
Deirdre got the attention of defence attorney Robin Gross, during a court recess, and made sure they understood the very vital point that DeCSS has nothing to do with DVD copying, which was possible (but uneconomical) before DeCSS was written using other tools entirely. The defence team then explained this to the judge, who was visibly surprised by the news.
The plaintiffs may well have lost the day, right there.
When is the last time you heard of an individual stepping forward like this for a corporation? Open source isn't just about free software, it's about personal empowerment!
But that's not what it's about. It's about the freedom to disseminate information to enable technology on any platform. That is why open source is such a great thing. Once you have the source code, binaries become completely irrelevant. There are a ton of platforms DeCSS could be ported to. Besides that, what if someone wanted to make an Open Sourced Windows only DVD client? Should independent developers be locked out? I think not.
Also, I believe that when they tried to block the sale of all VCR's in the US (I believe it was actually a lawsuit against the makers of Betamax), the courts ruled that if there is even one legitimate use, they must be allowed.
Of course...I should have been more specific. When you work at a near-hardware level you tend to take shortcuts in your terminology. Thanks for clarifying.
The Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC architectures date from the era when the goal was one instruction per clock cycle and a nice, simple CPU with a fast clock.
Bzzzt..wrong. From the Alpha Architecture Reference Manual, preface, first edition:
We concluded that the remaining factor of 100 would have to come from other design dimentions. If you cannot make the clock faster, the next dimension is to do more work per clock cycle. So the Alpha architecture is focused on allowing implementations that issue many instructions every clock cycle.
down the page a little:
These three dimensions therefore formed part of our design framework: * Gracefully allow fast cycle time implementations
It goes on to list specific design decisions made to meet these goals. When they designed the Alpha, they had a 25 year design horizon. BTW, that preface was written in 1992.
I could tell you...but I'd have to kill you. Seriously, though I've seen a small part of the NT source code, I worked on the compiler(Visual C++ for Alpha). So I'm in no position to comment, even if it wouldn't bring the wrath of MS apon my head. I will let you in on a little secret though. At home I run Linux.:)
Can't take that much credit. Compiler optimizations are done in the GEM backend which is written by a briliant team in New Hampshire. The VC/Alpha compiler used the Microsoft parser and a translator which wrapped around the GEM library. The real magic is in GEM. I was working on Backend/optimizer code at the time NT/Alpha was cancelled, so that code will never see the light of day. Incidentally, you get the same technology using the compiler that Compaq has now released for Linux. Sadly, this is not open sourced, which is unfortunate.
On the upside, Starting in the next month or so (After I officially leave the VC/Alpha project) I plan on fooling around independently with EGCS on my Alpha box at home. I'll certainly contribute what I can.
While calling me clueless is not very nice, you are right. I spaced and forgot VMS. In fact, a pretty big chunk of the ARM details the VAX PALCode instruction set for the Alpha. See, I'm not clueless. My clue generator simply needed a kick after just waking up.
I should hope I know something about this. I helped write the damn Alpha compiler for Visual C++.
Main Entry: order of magnitude Date: 1875 : a range of magnitude extending from some value to ten times that value
and
Main Entry: magnitude Pronunciation: 'mag-n&-"tüd, -"tyüd Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin magnitudo, from magnus Date: 15th century 1 a : great size or extent b (1) : spatial quality : SIZE (2) : QUANTITY, NUMBER 2 : the importance, quality, or caliber of something 3 : a number representing the intrinsic or apparent brightness of a celestial body on a logarithmic scale in which an increase of one unit corresponds to a reduction in the brightness of light by a factor of 2.512 4 : a numerical quantitative measure expressed usually as a multiple of a standard unit
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The fact that people approximately 2000 years ago decided to start a new count does not seem to me to be particularly important
(sigh) sorry to be pedantic, but the Gregorian calender wasn't invented until ~525A.D.
See this for the real skinny.
And incidentally, hen people refer to the next millennium, they are generally speaking of the third millennium, which, in fact, begins 2001. Sheesh, you're being more pedantic about this than I am. See this article by Douglas Adams to find out what happens to pedants.
--GnrcMan--
Anyone ever hear of them? They loose points from the get go in my book for spamming me.
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Maybe they were hosted on CIHost. :)
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If this isn't appropriate, I don't know what is:
Significant Events of the Millennium
1 January 1000 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the second Millennium.
1 January 1001 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the second Millennium.
1 January 1100 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the twelfth century.
1 January 1101 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the twelfth century.
1 January 1200 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the thirteenth century.
1 January 1201 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the thirteenth century.
1 January 1300 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the fourteenth century.
1 January 1301 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the fourteenth century.
10 June 1381 The Pedants' Revolt reaches London. (Not the Pedants' Revolt, the Peasants' Revolt. (sgd.) A Pedant. And kindly close the brackets.) (Thank you.)
1 January 1400 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the fifteenth century.
1 January 1401 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the fifteenth century.
1 January 1500 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the sixteenth century.
1 January 1501 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the sixteenth century.
1 January 1600 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the seventeenth century.
1 January 1601 People begin to get really fed up with pedants.
1 January 1700 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the eighteenth century.
1 January 1701 A few pedants begin to notice that pedants tend not to have very good celebrations.
1 January 1800 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the nineteenth century. A splinter group of ex-pedants turn up and get very drunk.
1 January 1801 The rest of the pedants celebrate the beginning of the nineteenth century.
1 January 1900 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the twentieth century. No pedants allowed.
1 January 1901 Pedants hold a Morris dancing festival.
24 November 1996 The Digital Village web site goes online: the third Millennium starts early and catches everybody by surprise.
1 January 2000 Anybody who even mentions the Millennium gets garrotted.
1 January 2001 Massacre of the Pedants.
--GnrcMan--
There was no year 0, the calendar started with 1 A.D. Supposedly based on the birth of Christ, but the guy that calculated it was off by four odd years.
--GnrcMan--
It's not just that moderation. That moderation in particular was questionable at best. Did it really deserve a zero? I mean I self moderated it down to a one. Lets compare that moderation with my above post. That was a rant, pure and simple. Unquestionably deserving of a downward moderation. I left it at a two on purpose. No one has touched the thing.
/. The fact is, I think the Slashdot system is now breaking down. (Too many people?) I would like to think I've contributed something good in the past, but it's no longer worth my while.
Moderation has gotten appaulingly bad lately. The stories have gotten worse and worse. I think it's time for me to, at the very least, take a break from
--GnrcMan--
You know what? Fuck it. I'm tired of stupid ass slashdot moderators and stupid ass slashdot articles. This is the moderation that broke the camel's back. I tried to always make intellegent or funny comments. But most of the moderators are flatout dumbfucks.
I'm tired of the stupid ass articles, and the fucked up moderation. Goodbye slashdot.
--GnrcMan--
...and they struck out, against two EFF lawyers with nothing but 48 hours to prep and a strong sense of justice.
This is exactly why community based actions, including open sourced software, are so successful:
1. People want to help. There is no incentive to help a multi-national "machine". But individuals feel like they can make a difference in situations like this, so they do.
2. When people do help, they can make all the difference in the world. This is personal empowerment at its(thanks d betamax) best, for example, this comment from Rick Moen:
Credit goes to Bay Area Linux activist Deirdre Saoirse for noticing that the plaintiff was getting away uncontested with claiming that DeCSS was a tool for copying DVDs (which it isn't) as opposed to playing them.
Deirdre got the attention of defence attorney Robin Gross, during a court recess, and made sure they understood the very vital point that DeCSS has nothing to do with DVD copying, which was possible (but uneconomical) before DeCSS was written using other tools entirely. The defence team then explained this to the judge, who was visibly surprised by the news.
The plaintiffs may well have lost the day, right there.
When is the last time you heard of an individual stepping forward like this for a corporation? Open source isn't just about free software, it's about personal empowerment!
--GnrcMan--
Good guys? Don't you mean pirates/theifs?
Actually, by good guys we mean people intelligent enough to spell "thieves".
--GnrcMan--
Here is the Wired article anouncing the denial.
--GnrcMan--
That's great news! Where are some moderators when you need them?
--GnrcMan--
But that's not what it's about. It's about the freedom to disseminate information to enable technology on any platform. That is why open source is such a great thing. Once you have the source code, binaries become completely irrelevant. There are a ton of platforms DeCSS could be ported to. Besides that, what if someone wanted to make an Open Sourced Windows only DVD client? Should independent developers be locked out? I think not.
Also, I believe that when they tried to block the sale of all VCR's in the US (I believe it was actually a lawsuit against the makers of Betamax), the courts ruled that if there is even one legitimate use, they must be allowed.
--GnrcMan--
Of course...I should have been more specific. When you work at a near-hardware level you tend to take shortcuts in your terminology. Thanks for clarifying.
--GnrcMan--
The Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC architectures date from the era when the goal was one instruction per clock cycle and a nice, simple CPU with a fast clock.
Bzzzt..wrong. From the Alpha Architecture Reference Manual, preface, first edition:
We concluded that the remaining factor of 100 would have to come from other design dimentions. If you cannot make the clock faster, the next dimension is to do more work per clock cycle. So the Alpha architecture is focused on allowing implementations that issue many instructions every clock cycle.
down the page a little:
These three dimensions therefore formed part of our design framework:
* Gracefully allow fast cycle time implementations
* Gracefully allow multiple-instruction-issue implementations
* Gracefully allow multiple-processor implementations
It goes on to list specific design decisions made to meet these goals. When they designed the Alpha, they had a 25 year design horizon. BTW, that preface was written in 1992.
--GnrcMan--
I could tell you...but I'd have to kill you. Seriously, though I've seen a small part of the NT source code, I worked on the compiler(Visual C++ for Alpha). So I'm in no position to comment, even if it wouldn't bring the wrath of MS apon my head. I will let you in on a little secret though. At home I run Linux. :)
--GnrcMan--
Can't take that much credit. Compiler optimizations are done in the GEM backend which is written by a briliant team in New Hampshire. The VC/Alpha compiler used the Microsoft parser and a translator which wrapped around the GEM library. The real magic is in GEM. I was working on Backend/optimizer code at the time NT/Alpha was cancelled, so that code will never see the light of day. Incidentally, you get the same technology using the compiler that Compaq has now released for Linux. Sadly, this is not open sourced, which is unfortunate.
On the upside, Starting in the next month or so (After I officially leave the VC/Alpha project) I plan on fooling around independently with EGCS on my Alpha box at home. I'll certainly contribute what I can.
--GnrcMan--
Usually I'm silent when people moderate my comments up or down but C'Mon!
.ps version and it's marked as Overrated. Don't you think the link might be useful for some who aren't blessed with .pdf viewers?
I post a link to a
--GnrcMan--
I think that's number 3, but I just copied it from m-w.com. Don't ask me.
--GnrcMan--
...is available here
--GnrcMan--
While calling me clueless is not very nice, you are right. I spaced and forgot VMS. In fact, a pretty big chunk of the ARM details the VAX PALCode instruction set for the Alpha. See, I'm not clueless. My clue generator simply needed a kick after just waking up.
I should hope I know something about this. I helped write the damn Alpha compiler for Visual C++.
--GnrcMan--
Uhhm...try this:
:)
Main Entry: order of magnitude
Date: 1875
: a range of magnitude extending from some value to ten times that value
and
Main Entry: magnitude
Pronunciation: 'mag-n&-"tüd, -"tyüd
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin magnitudo, from magnus
Date: 15th century
1 a : great size or extent b (1) : spatial quality : SIZE (2) : QUANTITY, NUMBER
2 : the importance, quality, or caliber of something
3 : a number representing the intrinsic or apparent brightness of a celestial body on a logarithmic scale in which an increase of one unit corresponds to a reduction in the brightness of light by a factor of 2.512
4 : a numerical quantitative measure expressed usually as a multiple of a standard unit
Seems like they have an inkling.
--GnrcMan--
I hear it already runs on IA64. Apparently Intel has been dumping quite a few resources into ensuring that this is the case.
--GnrcMan--
No...Win2K is currently a 32 bit platform. Even the Alpha versions were the same 32 bit platform. Nt64 is in development.
--GnrcMan--
You are right
--GnrcMan--
(from the back of my Miata (DECspeak for Alpha 500a)):
Model No.: PBPSMIATA
Tested to comply with FCC Standards
For Home or Office Use
This Class B digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian Interference-Causing Equipment Regulations.
(repeated in French)
--GnrcMan--