This blows me away, and for some reason, I seem to think of it a lot. Perhaps it's my technical nature, in awe at the speed of progress.
1903 was the first powered flight. 1957 was the first artificial satellite. 1969 was walking on the moon.
Only 67 years between two bicycle mechanics essentially playing with a kite to walking on the moon! That boggles the mind!
What most senior citizens in todays world have been witness to, I cannot even begin to grasp the number of times they must have been collectively blown away at some new advancement or achievement.
I just hope that we all are fortunate enough to be witness to the same progress and achievement.
Are there any sites that consistently benchmark machines with server/java apps? That seems to be the market AMD wants to target, and I'd enjoy seeing the comparisons.
Think of holding a string with a weight attached to the end of it. Now swing it around your head. The faster you swing, the more horizontal the string becomes. It's the same effect with this 'space elevator'. The idea is to have an asteroid or some other heavy body attached to the end of the space elevator, and as the earth *swings* it around, the force of that weight on the end is supposed to keep it in place.
Obviously, there has to be a pretty good anchor in the ground for it not to go flying into space.
I'm lost - how can the above possibly be moderated as troll?
I absolutely agree with the parent poster though. I develop server side java apps, and have development servers running on my machine. How will the newest batch of processors serve this? Would Intels hyperthreading give me a significant improvement in desktop response? Would a dual processor AMD setup do the job?
I'll admit that game players drive the performance market, but they are not the only ones that can utilize that capability.
MOOOO! MOOOOOOOO! MOO1 and MOO2 killed so much time for me. I just hope that this one is finished, unlike MOO2 which went through various iterations before achieving acceptable stability.
Is there such a thing? If not, there should be - and it should be illegal. You buy a Lexmark printer, and Lexmark now has a monopoly as far as you're concerned as to where and who you buy your ink/toner from.
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I'd like to make a fine distinction. I don't believe being 'Self Taught' by itself is the real reason, but a symptom of what what you nailed later in your text, that most Linux admins are probably 'tinkerers'. Those that experiment or tinker can't help but be self taught to some measure. Those that really have no desire to experiment probably have little desire to learn - those being your paper MCSEs you note above.
Isn't that a bad thing? It would increase power requirements, create heat, etc. Even if a diamond chip could stand that, not everything else in the box can - not to mention being a problem for laptop batteries.
If Sony was a well-run organization, its computer division would be making business decisions based on their own market rather than some vague spite because of some other divisions battles.
I have to respond to this. I think normally this would be a valid point, except that Microsoft has two business divisions referred to as "Office" and "Windows", which are used to fuel their slash and burn business practices.
I would love for any other Microsoft division to compete on its own merit with that from any competitor, without the immense backing they recieve from those two monopolies.
Or does the question refer to just client software only?
I think that in time, Open Office and Mozilla will gain more converts, as will Linux itself.
The only thing the above two lack in my opinion is exposure, not features in their respective interfaces. Exposure without a marketing campaign takes time.
I think its a weird word to use in almost any research or development context. How many times have people claimed something is impossible to only be proved wrong a short time later.
The person that said the above comes across as a marketing type, which is ironic, because it makes their position a little less believable.
Didn't it come out that the defensive weapons systems on the Stark, at least the side facing Iraq, were shut down?
I agree with your last sentence though.....
I used to have the same 'rule', upgrading when I can get a CPU 2x as fast for about $100. With processors as fast as they are today though, that rule is moving out to 3x for me.
In the FAAs defense, their decisions are based as much on liability concerns, as actual technical merit.
Court case after court case in the eighties essentially put the small aircraft industry out of business. If an airplane type had even a rumour of a problem, crashes of that type would often result in the family suing the pants off of the manufacturer. This sometimes despite evidence of negligence on the pilots part.
It isn't like they stamp a chip with a clock speed and then see if it'll match it. They produce these things, run them up until they croak, and throttle back for reliability.
When you exceed that at home with extra cooling/etc., that's overclocking.
I am not sure I would use the word "commercialization" in light of the fact that it had to have cost them hundreds of millions to build the thing - and they're basically giving it away.
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This blows me away, and for some reason, I seem to think of it a lot. Perhaps it's my technical nature, in awe at the speed of progress.
1903 was the first powered flight. 1957 was the first artificial satellite. 1969 was walking on the moon.
Only 67 years between two bicycle mechanics essentially playing with a kite to walking on the moon! That boggles the mind!
What most senior citizens in todays world have been witness to, I cannot even begin to grasp the number of times they must have been collectively blown away at some new advancement or achievement.
I just hope that we all are fortunate enough to be witness to the same progress and achievement.
Are there any sites that consistently benchmark machines with server/java apps? That seems to be the market AMD wants to target, and I'd enjoy seeing the comparisons.
Think of holding a string with a weight attached to the end of it. Now swing it around your head. The faster you swing, the more horizontal the string becomes. It's the same effect with this 'space elevator'. The idea is to have an asteroid or some other heavy body attached to the end of the space elevator, and as the earth *swings* it around, the force of that weight on the end is supposed to keep it in place.
Obviously, there has to be a pretty good anchor in the ground for it not to go flying into space.
I'm lost - how can the above possibly be moderated as troll?
I absolutely agree with the parent poster though. I develop server side java apps, and have development servers running on my machine. How will the newest batch of processors serve this? Would Intels hyperthreading give me a significant improvement in desktop response? Would a dual processor AMD setup do the job?
I'll admit that game players drive the performance market, but they are not the only ones that can utilize that capability.
MOOOO! MOOOOOOOO! MOO1 and MOO2 killed so much time for me. I just hope that this one is finished, unlike MOO2 which went through various iterations before achieving acceptable stability.
Is there such a thing? If not, there should be - and it should be illegal. You buy a Lexmark printer, and Lexmark now has a monopoly as far as you're concerned as to where and who you buy your ink/toner from.
I'd like to make a fine distinction. I don't believe being 'Self Taught' by itself is the real reason, but a symptom of what what you nailed later in your text, that most Linux admins are probably 'tinkerers'. Those that experiment or tinker can't help but be self taught to some measure. Those that really have no desire to experiment probably have little desire to learn - those being your paper MCSEs you note above.
Mod this one up. Nice explanation, thanks.
Isn't that a bad thing? It would increase power requirements, create heat, etc. Even if a diamond chip could stand that, not everything else in the box can - not to mention being a problem for laptop batteries.
Perhaps....amazon really is going to go bust, and they don't want to lose the patents to a bankruptcy court.
Maybe....
I have to respond to this. I think normally this would be a valid point, except that Microsoft has two business divisions referred to as "Office" and "Windows", which are used to fuel their slash and burn business practices.
I would love for any other Microsoft division to compete on its own merit with that from any competitor, without the immense backing they recieve from those two monopolies.
Or does the question refer to just client software only? I think that in time, Open Office and Mozilla will gain more converts, as will Linux itself. The only thing the above two lack in my opinion is exposure, not features in their respective interfaces. Exposure without a marketing campaign takes time.
The Seattle PI had this link on their webpage.
I think China probably views Spam as a means to help their economy. How much spam do you get that ultimately asks for money? Pretty much all of it.
I don't remember ever getting a piece that questioned or targeted the Chinese Government.
The only thing that could have made this comment funnier would be a link back to the original story. ROFL.
I think its a weird word to use in almost any research or development context. How many times have people claimed something is impossible to only be proved wrong a short time later.
The person that said the above comes across as a marketing type, which is ironic, because it makes their position a little less believable.
Didn't it come out that the defensive weapons systems on the Stark, at least the side facing Iraq, were shut down? I agree with your last sentence though.....
Coleman is marketing a Fuel Cell, but it's hardly prime time, or convenient. Cost to refill is extremely prohibitive.
Maybe Toshiba has figured it out, but you have to wonder.
I used to have the same 'rule', upgrading when I can get a CPU 2x as fast for about $100. With processors as fast as they are today though, that rule is moving out to 3x for me.
In the FAAs defense, their decisions are based as much on liability concerns, as actual technical merit. Court case after court case in the eighties essentially put the small aircraft industry out of business. If an airplane type had even a rumour of a problem, crashes of that type would often result in the family suing the pants off of the manufacturer. This sometimes despite evidence of negligence on the pilots part.
Overclocking according to who?
It isn't like they stamp a chip with a clock speed and then see if it'll match it. They produce these things, run them up until they croak, and throttle back for reliability.
When you exceed that at home with extra cooling/etc., that's overclocking.
I am not sure I would use the word "commercialization" in light of the fact that it had to have cost them hundreds of millions to build the thing - and they're basically giving it away.