You believe Nvidias naming system? I have a NVidia GeForce 4400MX and a NVidia GeForce 440MX. Which one do you pick? Sure these are old cards by now, but I'll spoil it for you: the 440MX is better.
I learnt my lesson: forget model numbers, they mean nothing.
Is english not your first language? That might explain why you didn't understand what you read.
Yes, it is not my first language and if you read/my/ comment correctly, you'd see that I said that it seemed that he/implied/ it.
Same applied to the limited-edition Honda Insight which cost just US$20,000. You shouldn't assume "limited numbers" means "expensive".
Meaning it's in the same price league as a BMW series 1, Audi A3, Volkswagen Golf... all of them who seat four people, have a trunk and with the appropriate Diesel engine do 5l/100km.
The Lupo 3L was not scrapped; it was replaced with the Fox model!
Which/I/ find extremely amusing because the Fox and the Lupo are exactly the same models! The names are different on different markets. Just like the "Jetta" used to be called "Bora" where I live. Funnily enough, the "Fox" doesn't have a "3L" version. Why is that? The Audi A2 was also supposed to have a very economic Diesel achieving 3l/100km. Where is the Audi A2? I tell you: they don't make it anymore because of... poor sales. Now we'll have to wait for the Audi A1 and hope that the promised quattro (electric on rear axle, cobustion on front axle) will deliver.
With gasoline prices at $4.00 U.S. and $8.00 E.U., there's a market for cars that save on fueling costs.
No shit? I never said anything else.... However the 1L eco-concept car of VW is going to be a tough sell. I don't see all that many Smart cars on the roads here (Central Europe).... Sure, they didn't have 1l/100km, but at least you could have your wife sitting next to you instead of behind you as in the 1L eco-concept.
I may be negative, but you're a fucking aggressive asshole.
For those wanting four wheels, Volkswagen will soon have a 1L/100km (240mpg) car.
[Citation needed]
If you refer to this, it seats two and is hardly by any definition something that seats a whole family. (Not that you claimed that, but somehow it seemed implied) It'll be there in 2010 in limited numbers... Read: "expensive" (It says 20k€ to 30k€ in the wikipedia article)
I don't object with your post, just with that statement. We're far from there.
Also note that a 3L/100km car was in production for years but was scrapped because of low sales:-/
the hard drive had bad sectors for no apparent reason. I'm not entirely sure what happened though, because it's still working, but I make regular backups in case it fails again.
A harddisk developing bad sectors is a harddisk that is dying and should be replaced ASAP. You make backups, but do you do backup verification? Because if you don't, the files backed up could be corrupt and a corrupt backup is pretty much as bad as no backup at all.
I wonder how easy it is to buy American beef or apples in the EU?
American beef? Never seen it here, but that's mainly because growth hormones allowed in the US aren't here. One can get Argentinian beef though, so importing beef is certainly possible.
Apples? Many of the apples you get here in supermarkets are from South Africa. I recently read about the apples in my own country. Only ten percent is used, the rest is left rotting on the trees. The consumer has been "trained" to prefer other kind of apples which don't grow here. I don't get it, I'm eating an apple right now from the garden of my wifes grandparents and they're delicious. It's only in the "looks" sector that they won't win prizes.
Who says I'm talking about work? At work, I boot the computer, go fetch a coffee, talk to the cute secretary and when I'm back I log in.
For me these things are issues at home: quick check for personal email before going to work. Check the train timetables for going to work, and if I'm too late anyway, I can reply to that personal email. Wife wants to go to the movies? Check the local movie theater website. It's at those moments that booting takes a long time relative to the task at hand. Now? We just have my wife PC running 24/7... Don't get me started about the electricity bill and our CO2 footprint....
I'm sure he's aware of that, but Windows Mobile isn't the Windows as we know and love/hate. He says that "Windows Vista" isn't going to run well on a Geode (if it runs at all, I think it's Pentium I compatible which might be not suppored by Vista anymore).
A 5 year old machine would be a P-IV 2++ GHz with 512Meg RAM. Up the RAM to 2Gig, and doing the whole shebang you just mentioned is perfectly possible. I've done it.... The point here being is that the CPU can handle this just fine, the bloat eats RAM. That's it.... I have even done such things (albeit for smaller projects) on a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg. Okay, when compiling you go for a coffee, but you wanted that coffee anyway.
As for older testing machines... You're right, that's the ideal situation, if the developers actually cared to test on them. Often they don't, do one run, say "boa, it's a bit slower", and shrug it off.
I know these things can happen, the problem is really that if you're optimizing for the cache yourself, you're really writing low-level stuff. Very low-level. Normally, this is the work of the compiler. I do understand it's just an example, but the examples I get are always these fringe cases. Cases that in general development do not count, since it's all abstracted.
That's what funny about it: the error they mimicked woudln't allow minimizing.... So that alone should have been a dead giveaway. On Windows, critical errors are always modal.
So is mine... Actually I don't even have a computer anymore. We decided to keep my wifes machine which wasn't as good as mine, but was less noisy. A P-IV 2.6GHz/2Gig RAM does all we need.... Bought in fall 2003, AFAIK, because I didn't know her back then.
Sure, but your concern is not the speed, but the architecture. The fact that real SMP uncovers threading problems more quickly is a well known fact in the industry.
Doesn't mean they couldn't develop on a 5 year old AMD Athlon MP, eh? (Yes, I have such a machine and it functions very well, thank you very much...)
I don't understand.... If it works quick on a low end machine, isn't it going to be quicker by default on a high-end machine, provided you enabled the compiler to support these things?
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You believe Nvidias naming system? I have a NVidia GeForce 4400MX and a NVidia GeForce 440MX. Which one do you pick? Sure these are old cards by now, but I'll spoil it for you: the 440MX is better.
I learnt my lesson: forget model numbers, they mean nothing.
Yes, it is not my first language and if you read /my/ comment correctly, you'd see that I said that it seemed that he /implied/ it.
Meaning it's in the same price league as a BMW series 1, Audi A3, Volkswagen Golf... all of them who seat four people, have a trunk and with the appropriate Diesel engine do 5l/100km.
Which /I/ find extremely amusing because the Fox and the Lupo are exactly the same models! The names are different on different markets. Just like the "Jetta" used to be called "Bora" where I live. Funnily enough, the "Fox" doesn't have a "3L" version. Why is that? The Audi A2 was also supposed to have a very economic Diesel achieving 3l/100km. Where is the Audi A2? I tell you: they don't make it anymore because of... poor sales. Now we'll have to wait for the Audi A1 and hope that the promised quattro (electric on rear axle, cobustion on front axle) will deliver.
No shit? I never said anything else.... However the 1L eco-concept car of VW is going to be a tough sell. I don't see all that many Smart cars on the roads here (Central Europe).... Sure, they didn't have 1l/100km, but at least you could have your wife sitting next to you instead of behind you as in the 1L eco-concept.
I may be negative, but you're a fucking aggressive asshole.
[Citation needed]
If you refer to this, it seats two and is hardly by any definition something that seats a whole family. (Not that you claimed that, but somehow it seemed implied) It'll be there in 2010 in limited numbers... Read: "expensive" (It says 20k€ to 30k€ in the wikipedia article)
I don't object with your post, just with that statement. We're far from there.
Also note that a 3L/100km car was in production for years but was scrapped because of low sales :-/
Have a link, that shows a hidden div. User clicks, div becomes visible, user clicks again, div becomes invisible. No need for popups.
I think you just should take a look at the Google Maps API and embed the maps directly instead of linking with an annoying popup window.
We need to invoke Rule 35.... Did a Google Image search on "slashdot rule 34" and it doesn't yield anything interesting. Yes, I have safesearch off.
A harddisk developing bad sectors is a harddisk that is dying and should be replaced ASAP. You make backups, but do you do backup verification? Because if you don't, the files backed up could be corrupt and a corrupt backup is pretty much as bad as no backup at all.
Replace that disk....
American beef? Never seen it here, but that's mainly because growth hormones allowed in the US aren't here. One can get Argentinian beef though, so importing beef is certainly possible.
Apples? Many of the apples you get here in supermarkets are from South Africa. I recently read about the apples in my own country. Only ten percent is used, the rest is left rotting on the trees. The consumer has been "trained" to prefer other kind of apples which don't grow here. I don't get it, I'm eating an apple right now from the garden of my wifes grandparents and they're delicious. It's only in the "looks" sector that they won't win prizes.
That's not the point.
Well, "fair use for educational purposes" would apply, except that the "documentary" is pure propaganda. In what sense would fair use be applicable?
The "makers of a documentary" here is "Ben Stein" and the "documentary" is "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed".
I was actually hoping that Yoko and EMI would win this one.
Who says I'm talking about work? At work, I boot the computer, go fetch a coffee, talk to the cute secretary and when I'm back I log in.
For me these things are issues at home: quick check for personal email before going to work. Check the train timetables for going to work, and if I'm too late anyway, I can reply to that personal email. Wife wants to go to the movies? Check the local movie theater website. It's at those moments that booting takes a long time relative to the task at hand. Now? We just have my wife PC running 24/7... Don't get me started about the electricity bill and our CO2 footprint....
Yes, it's a different Windows and it isn't even remotely as powerful as the fullblown Windows or as a well balanced GNU/Linux system.
But, you're right about two things: the reason is the chip not the OS, and it's exactly what MS Sideshow was supposed to be.
I'm sure he's aware of that, but Windows Mobile isn't the Windows as we know and love/hate. He says that "Windows Vista" isn't going to run well on a Geode (if it runs at all, I think it's Pentium I compatible which might be not suppored by Vista anymore).
A bit expensive... My Asus EEE 701 4G boots up incredibly fast. 5 seconds to the Xandros password screen.
That's cold boot because the sleep functionality sucks seriously on the EEE. ("sucks seriously" as in "sucks battery for breakfast")
FAIL... It's Gordon Brown these days....
With that nick? Probably Belgian beer...
A 5 year old machine would be a P-IV 2++ GHz with 512Meg RAM. Up the RAM to 2Gig, and doing the whole shebang you just mentioned is perfectly possible. I've done it.... The point here being is that the CPU can handle this just fine, the bloat eats RAM. That's it.... I have even done such things (albeit for smaller projects) on a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg. Okay, when compiling you go for a coffee, but you wanted that coffee anyway.
As for older testing machines... You're right, that's the ideal situation, if the developers actually cared to test on them. Often they don't, do one run, say "boa, it's a bit slower", and shrug it off.
I know these things can happen, the problem is really that if you're optimizing for the cache yourself, you're really writing low-level stuff. Very low-level. Normally, this is the work of the compiler. I do understand it's just an example, but the examples I get are always these fringe cases. Cases that in general development do not count, since it's all abstracted.
That's what funny about it: the error they mimicked woudln't allow minimizing.... So that alone should have been a dead giveaway. On Windows, critical errors are always modal.
So is mine... Actually I don't even have a computer anymore. We decided to keep my wifes machine which wasn't as good as mine, but was less noisy. A P-IV 2.6GHz/2Gig RAM does all we need.... Bought in fall 2003, AFAIK, because I didn't know her back then.
Sure, but your concern is not the speed, but the architecture. The fact that real SMP uncovers threading problems more quickly is a well known fact in the industry.
Doesn't mean they couldn't develop on a 5 year old AMD Athlon MP, eh? (Yes, I have such a machine and it functions very well, thank you very much...)
Ah, the good old times of "SLOWDOWN.COM"... Memories!
I don't understand.... If it works quick on a low end machine, isn't it going to be quicker by default on a high-end machine, provided you enabled the compiler to support these things?
Or do you code all your stuff in pure ASM?
You clearly don't work in Marketing.... ;-)