I'm sorry, Intel taken down? Are you smoking turpentine laced crack?:) Intel is still one of the most profitable businesses of all time, and despite AMD's performance advantage for the past few years they have only been able to increase their market share marginally. I personally love AMD to death, but now (starting with the 2.4G Northwood) benchmarkers everywhere are agreeing that Intel is now king of the speed hill. (Here's a typical review
I hate to say it, but Intel never got 'taken down', and how much more progress do you think AMD is going to make now that they have finally have the slower processors?
Sorry for the offtopic, but I have to blast these bizarre, dreamy head in the clouds claims when I see them.
Throwing out an ask slashdot that involves the combination of sex and programming languages?? This is akin to asking a bunch of pimply middle schoolers to make their best farting noises. I'm terrified at the severe display of depraved ubergeekness, and will avoid reading the comments:)
I got all excited and went to test it out. Based on my unscientific and arbitrary dozen or so tests of obscure literary phrases, rare medical conditions, and *not* so famous dead people google gave me much more relevant pages every time. Hmm... I don't care how it is supposed to function theoretically, if it doesn't provide results then I'm sticking to google.
That we finally determined was being caused by some regular electrical wiring in the wall directly next to the monitor! Moved the monitor to the other side of the desk away from the wall- problem fixed. In any event, its definitely interference from somewhere- just finding out where can be a bit of a headache.
Privacy is always a good thing. But how quickly do you think the FBI or USSS will try to regulate this sort of "uncrackable encryption"?
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Alright you're making sure poor teenagers get punished when stingy management is too cheap to adequately staff a business. Good for you, you're playing into your role as a stupid, angry consumer just like you've been taught by TV.
Not bad really, but I was very disappointed when I tried to sleep my way to the top and found out it doesn't seem to work well for pasty white male engineers.
Quantum computing will, of course, take over everything. Assuming they iron out all the kinks and make it a marketable product- which could easily still be ten years off. But the potential is absolutely mind-boggling. The acceleration in computing power will make Moore's law obsolete.
Consider the speed at which you can compute things with an abacus, and the speed of the ASCI White, the world's fastest machine, running at about 7.2 teraflops. The difference in speed between these two things is orders of magnitude smaller than the difference between a relatively simple quantum computer and the ASCI White.
If you are thinking *very* long term it might be a good idea to start learning the new programming rules of quantum computing.
I just picked up an original IBM PC (5150) at the local thrift store and would love the bragging rights of having Linux working on it. Maybe others have done this, but the main hardware issues to resolve:
1)64K RAM
2)8 bit 8088 processor
3)20MB HD
Hmm, if anyone has any info on this, please reply.
Well- the other reason I might want a Pentium 4 is I can't stand how loud every AMD box I've ever owned has been. I realize they have more significant power/heat issues than Intel, but how hard is it to design an effective, quiet fan and a good muffling case? I bought a Athlon XP 1600+ but still use my old Pentium MMX 200 90% of the time because the noise drives me crazy!
I was all excited about this "insider's look" into the "behind-the-scenes" happenings in the silicone industry, but it looks like this is really just some company that makes computers or something. Man...
"It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it."
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" - Hunter S. Thompson
I expect the good doctor's quote here would be exactly the sort of thing that would happen after exposure to Windows source (He was talking about doing ether, by the way)
The whole reason you have these metal cases over everything is to block out the *significant* amount of radio frequency interference your machine puts out. Previous poster mentioned 802.11, AM/FM/XM, etc. could stop working, but I'm more worried about other frequencies, like police/fire/ambulance services. I've read in the past about PCs without cases interfering with these signals, and these mods seem irresponsible to me. Sure the odds are pretty low that you'll happen to block out the paramedic who can't get the info on where the heart attack victim is in time and some gets killed, but I think it's a bad idea nonetheless.
Altho it does look damn cool:)
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I can just let you know my experience, granted it isn't hard scientific numbers or anything. My home machine is on 24/7 (light server duty, mostly workstation use), with the monitor on about 8 hours a day. This increased my average juice bill by $4 a month. Not too bad-- Dell Dimension 8100 P4 1.4Ghz, 256 RDRAM for the record. This is a rough unscientific comparison- $$ before owning a computer and $$ after owning a computer.
Hmm, got to figure out if I'm jealous of your teenagerhood or if I hate it. When I was a teenager in the burbs I never had free time to play video games- classes easily resulted in 6 to 8 hours of homework every night, and somehow I managed to become a semi-professional snowboarder to boot. Would less time coding and more time playing have been a good thing? Who knows...
I'm still getting over my guilt complex about clicking the link to the Lisa web server and contributing to that poor girl's painful demise, and now you tempt me with an even meeker, treasured childhood toy? These poor little things don't deserve to be slashdotted. Oh the humanity!
Just like the software they were (are?) using on Rush Limbaugh's show to cut out periods of silence between sentences and words.
This sort of thing worries me because I feel like we're losing some of our good old American entrepenurial spirit more and more all the time. It no longer seems to matter if you have a good idea, make a better product, or do something truly innovative, rather companies seem to think that the bigger the marketing department the better the company. I think sooner or later the consumer will just get pissed off at the ever-increasing advertising in all places at all times, and hopefully get back to spending her money at the companies that produce something truly innovative and superior (as opposed to just the image of something truly innovative and superior).
The thing that angered me when I first got to my University was that every rich student's parents seem to buy them a brand new $2000 laptop (not to mention the latest, most wastingest, trendy SUV, but that's another rant) which they only ever used for music and porn, while I was barely able to run netscape on my ancient box and going half-blind from a fuzzy, dying monitor (Imagine getting a headache every time you tried to study- not very encouraging). Seeming to have the least capable machine in the dorms was embarrassing enough, but the fact that I'm doing CS made it even worse.
I don't think any school should buy machines for every incoming student, but some sort of program tied into the financial aid office whereby us less-than-priviliged kids (and especially those of us who really need a decent machine, like computer scientists:) ) can get one. Also, public labs don't cut it, as I routinely need to be a sudoer or administrator, and I break my box all the time trying out bizarre things. Can't really do that in a public lab.
Also my school built something called the Wildnet- which is also a nifty idea.
This seems like a very solid move on redhat's part. The RHN is a well run system that fits in perfectly with the open source philosophy, and the only thing that kept me from getting all my machines on it was the cost. But now, I'll probably go ahead and subcribe. Also seems like a good financial move, since locking people into a monthly subscription-for-service type contract is a great way to make a lot of money, and seems to be what most companies are striving for nowadays (especially MS).
Hmmm, I wonder what kind of transfer rate I can get now on the ISO images from the T3 at work?
Yes, I've listened to a well-made record on a good turntable, and it doesn't hold a candle to a well-made DVD-Audio running out 6 channels, 16bit sampling at 96Khz and 144dB. The main thing to remember in the digital vs. analog debate is that Moore's law tends to extend to all things digital, and this exponential growth guarantees superior digital performance- it just needs time to improve and get dirt cheap. Right now, analog obviously offers the best quality, but tomorrow...
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I'm sorry, Intel taken down? Are you smoking turpentine laced crack? :) Intel is still one of the most profitable businesses of all time, and despite AMD's performance advantage for the past few years they have only been able to increase their market share marginally. I personally love AMD to death, but now (starting with the 2.4G Northwood) benchmarkers everywhere are agreeing that Intel is now king of the speed hill. (Here's a typical review
I hate to say it, but Intel never got 'taken down', and how much more progress do you think AMD is going to make now that they have finally have the slower processors?
Sorry for the offtopic, but I have to blast these bizarre, dreamy head in the clouds claims when I see them.
Throwing out an ask slashdot that involves the combination of sex and programming languages?? This is akin to asking a bunch of pimply middle schoolers to make their best farting noises. I'm terrified at the severe display of depraved ubergeekness, and will avoid reading the comments :)
I got all excited and went to test it out. Based on my unscientific and arbitrary dozen or so tests of obscure literary phrases, rare medical conditions, and *not* so famous dead people google gave me much more relevant pages every time. Hmm... I don't care how it is supposed to function theoretically, if it doesn't provide results then I'm sticking to google.
That we finally determined was being caused by some regular electrical wiring in the wall directly next to the monitor! Moved the monitor to the other side of the desk away from the wall- problem fixed. In any event, its definitely interference from somewhere- just finding out where can be a bit of a headache.
Privacy is always a good thing. But how quickly do you think the FBI or USSS will try to regulate this sort of "uncrackable encryption"?
Alright you're making sure poor teenagers get punished when stingy management is too cheap to adequately staff a business. Good for you, you're playing into your role as a stupid, angry consumer just like you've been taught by TV.
Not bad really, but I was very disappointed when I tried to sleep my way to the top and found out it doesn't seem to work well for pasty white male engineers.
Quantum computing will, of course, take over everything. Assuming they iron out all the kinks and make it a marketable product- which could easily still be ten years off. But the potential is absolutely mind-boggling. The acceleration in computing power will make Moore's law obsolete.
Consider the speed at which you can compute things with an abacus, and the speed of the ASCI White, the world's fastest machine, running at about 7.2 teraflops. The difference in speed between these two things is orders of magnitude smaller than the difference between a relatively simple quantum computer and the ASCI White.
If you are thinking *very* long term it might be a good idea to start learning the new programming rules of quantum computing.
Large western corporations willing to suppress or eliminate any freedom under the sun to boost earnings a bit? Nooo.... that could never happen.
I just picked up an original IBM PC (5150) at the local thrift store and would love the bragging rights of having Linux working on it. Maybe others have done this, but the main hardware issues to resolve:
1)64K RAM
2)8 bit 8088 processor
3)20MB HD
Hmm, if anyone has any info on this, please reply.
Well- the other reason I might want a Pentium 4 is I can't stand how loud every AMD box I've ever owned has been. I realize they have more significant power/heat issues than Intel, but how hard is it to design an effective, quiet fan and a good muffling case? I bought a Athlon XP 1600+ but still use my old Pentium MMX 200 90% of the time because the noise drives me crazy!
I was all excited about this "insider's look" into the "behind-the-scenes" happenings in the silicone industry, but it looks like this is really just some company that makes computers or something. Man...
:(
Not even a single supermodel or anything!
"It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it."
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" - Hunter S. Thompson
I expect the good doctor's quote here would be exactly the sort of thing that would happen after exposure to Windows source (He was talking about doing ether, by the way)
Did we slashdot the dot in dot com? If so, good job boys, you make me proud.
The whole reason you have these metal cases over everything is to block out the *significant* amount of radio frequency interference your machine puts out. Previous poster mentioned 802.11, AM/FM/XM, etc. could stop working, but I'm more worried about other frequencies, like police/fire/ambulance services. I've read in the past about PCs without cases interfering with these signals, and these mods seem irresponsible to me. Sure the odds are pretty low that you'll happen to block out the paramedic who can't get the info on where the heart attack victim is in time and some gets killed, but I think it's a bad idea nonetheless.
:)
Altho it does look damn cool
I can just let you know my experience, granted it isn't hard scientific numbers or anything. My home machine is on 24/7 (light server duty, mostly workstation use), with the monitor on about 8 hours a day. This increased my average juice bill by $4 a month. Not too bad-- Dell Dimension 8100 P4 1.4Ghz, 256 RDRAM for the record. This is a rough unscientific comparison- $$ before owning a computer and $$ after owning a computer.
Hmm, got to figure out if I'm jealous of your teenagerhood or if I hate it. When I was a teenager in the burbs I never had free time to play video games- classes easily resulted in 6 to 8 hours of homework every night, and somehow I managed to become a semi-professional snowboarder to boot. Would less time coding and more time playing have been a good thing? Who knows...
I'm still getting over my guilt complex about clicking the link to the Lisa web server and contributing to that poor girl's painful demise, and now you tempt me with an even meeker, treasured childhood toy? These poor little things don't deserve to be slashdotted. Oh the humanity!
Just like the software they were (are?) using on Rush Limbaugh's show to cut out periods of silence between sentences and words.
This sort of thing worries me because I feel like we're losing some of our good old American entrepenurial spirit more and more all the time. It no longer seems to matter if you have a good idea, make a better product, or do something truly innovative, rather companies seem to think that the bigger the marketing department the better the company. I think sooner or later the consumer will just get pissed off at the ever-increasing advertising in all places at all times, and hopefully get back to spending her money at the companies that produce something truly innovative and superior (as opposed to just the image of something truly innovative and superior).
The thing that angered me when I first got to my University was that every rich student's parents seem to buy them a brand new $2000 laptop (not to mention the latest, most wastingest, trendy SUV, but that's another rant) which they only ever used for music and porn, while I was barely able to run netscape on my ancient box and going half-blind from a fuzzy, dying monitor (Imagine getting a headache every time you tried to study- not very encouraging). Seeming to have the least capable machine in the dorms was embarrassing enough, but the fact that I'm doing CS made it even worse.
:) ) can get one. Also, public labs don't cut it, as I routinely need to be a sudoer or administrator, and I break my box all the time trying out bizarre things. Can't really do that in a public lab.
I don't think any school should buy machines for every incoming student, but some sort of program tied into the financial aid office whereby us less-than-priviliged kids (and especially those of us who really need a decent machine, like computer scientists
Also my school built something called the Wildnet- which is also a nifty idea.
This seems like a very solid move on redhat's part. The RHN is a well run system that fits in perfectly with the open source philosophy, and the only thing that kept me from getting all my machines on it was the cost. But now, I'll probably go ahead and subcribe. Also seems like a good financial move, since locking people into a monthly subscription-for-service type contract is a great way to make a lot of money, and seems to be what most companies are striving for nowadays (especially MS). Hmmm, I wonder what kind of transfer rate I can get now on the ISO images from the T3 at work?
Yes, I've listened to a well-made record on a good turntable, and it doesn't hold a candle to a well-made DVD-Audio running out 6 channels, 16bit sampling at 96Khz and 144dB. The main thing to remember in the digital vs. analog debate is that Moore's law tends to extend to all things digital, and this exponential growth guarantees superior digital performance- it just needs time to improve and get dirt cheap. Right now, analog obviously offers the best quality, but tomorrow...