I wasn't referring to the Opterons. I can understand why they might be priced at $1000-$3000. They are competing against Xeons. I can't understand why the Athlon x2 64's are priced so high. They will soon be competing against Pentium D's for which the prices are suggested to be about half of the Athlon's current prices. AMD does not have the ability to charge that kind of premium for equivalent chips. One of the reasons AMD has done so well is that their chips generally outperform Intel's at similar prices.
It strikes me odd that AMD is pricing their Athlon x2's between $500-$1000. This seems particularly high when compared to the prices expected for Intel's offerings. The Pentium D's are supposed to be between $250-$500. I cannot see AMD getting that much higher of a price for similar processors.
Hetrogenous processors can be good things. However, you need to stipulate that they both use the same ISA. Then, it's just a matter of changing the OS scheduler to schedule the heavier process on the more powerful processor, and the lighter process on the weaker processor. No reason for anyone above the OS programmer to care. The benefit is that you can use less die space, and often achieve the same result. Or you can run your MP3 player on the smaller processor and shut off power to the larger processor. A hetrogenous processor can reduce power consumption on a modern processor substantially.
This should help reduce the long time between releases. Every 6-12 months convert testing into frozen. Frozen should be considered a release, and supported as such, with security updates for ~18-24 months. Periodically, when few bugs exist in frozen convert frozen into stable. Maintain security updates for the last two stable releases. The idea is that for mission critical servers, stable would be used, but frozen would be sufficiently stable for workstations and less reliable servers.
Just pushing out security updates for testing isn't enough because the continual upgrade process is too much for lightly administered machine. This also insures that testing is never frozen for long periods of time, which is good for desktops that want to be running the latest software. I like the concept of supporting fewer architectures, but this needs to be done properly. They should only allow bugs in the rare architectures block packages in stable. Most of these architectures are only used for servers or other rarely updated machines. Plus, since stable is not the release, these architectures won't block releases.
Try Ubuntu. It's nearly as up to date as Gentoo, but still has all the benefits of Debian. Even better, you can apt-get upgrade to it from a Debian install. I recently changed myself. The upgrade is not entirely staightforward but doable. Better yet, you can always go back to Debian relatively easily.
I sent customersupport an email asking if I could link my bookmarks to their frontpage as requested by their TOS. Here's the email I received back from them:
Dear Orbitz Member,
Thank you for contacting Orbitz.
We request you to mail to our Chief Privacy Officer regarding your
concerns.
Chief Privacy Officer
Orbitz LLC
200 South Wacker Drive,
Suite 1900,
Chicago, IL 60606.
We value your feedback and appreciate your taking the time to write to
us.
Why can't they get this straight? They ask me to email customersupport, but when I do, customersupport asks me to write to their Chief Privacy Officer. It sounds like they didn't inform customersupport of the proper linking policies.
It'll be a new heterogenous multiprocessor. It'll combine two Pentium 5's and two Pentium's on a single chip. You'll need the 2 P5's to satisfy Longhorn, leaving the Pentium's for running your spyware.
Why haven't TV stations decided to offer up torrents of recent shows? By including ads, they should be able to achieve similar levels of profit as broadcast TV. The bandwidth should not be a stumbling block if torrents are used. It might even increase revenues by exposing their product to a larger market.
QEMU is a similar open source project. It's supposed to run unmodified versions of Windows even. Does anybody know what QEMU's lastest performance numbers are?
I'm surprised that companies still provide AOL with exclusive content. Sure some of them are being "bribed". What about the remaining ones that insist on AOL.
The system requirements should be system recommendations. I've been using Verizon for 3 months now, and I haven't used any supported OS on it. They really don't care, but tech support is slightly more peeved when you call.
This article is completely inaccurate. I checked a couple of schools I'm familiar with and they were all missing multiple items. The rank is more a factor of whether the appropriate person filled out the form. In many schools, there are few administrators who actually know all of the services provided on the campus.
Sadly, it's very difficult to get accurate information about technology at a school. The best way is probably to talk to a student. The admissions office has no idea what's going on. I remember listening to the admissions tour at one school. The tour guide lied on multiple facts which I had easy methods to verify. The tour guides are just there to sell the school.
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Microprocessor manufacturers are already going to great lengths to eliminate sources of high energy particles. This is just what they need, radioactive sources on the chip. This will make IBM's radioactive acid look like a joke. They already use old lead to minimize alpha particles. Lets add some polonium. This is the same stuff IBM uses to induce alpha particles to check for vulnerabilities. Processors do not need any more high energy particles floating around.
At U of R, it's not a huge debate. The majority of the students are not overly concerned with Napster. After Napster being available to students for a couple of months, less than a third of students on campus had even signed up for it. Let me repeat: Only a third of students had even tried it. I would be surprised if more than 5-10% of students were using it weekly. I've yet to meet anyone who's even excited about it. Generally it's the administration charging the students through the nose again. By now, we're pretty much used to it.
I call bogus on this. I currently work with UR's ResNet. There was no petition 2 years ago. Also, the old hotel hasn't been used for dorms since '97, when they built the new Eastman dorms. Generally, we students are pretty pleased with the connection and the price. I'll gladly pay $50/yr for 100Mbs connection.
This is much more typical of math in a CS program than Illinois. I would guess most programs would require 3-5 semesters of math.
I completely disagree with avoiding precalculus. Make sure you understand it before coming to college. It is foundational to calculus and the only way you will stay on track to graduate. Most programs expect precalc, but not calculus.
Finally, your mileage will vary in regards to high school calculus. Figure out if the teacher knows their stuff. It can save you one terrifying freshman experience, as calculus courses tend to be large and intimidating to freshmen.
I think it would have scared people if they would have instead used a picture of the address the person first lived at. Just imagine getting a magazine with a picture and address that you hadn't lived at for years. That'd cause people to think more.
The reaction time will be better than humans. These cars should be able detect a problem well before a human can. Most humans have reaction times in the milliseconds, whereas a computer can react in microseconds.
You've missed the popups on TV!? What about all the product placement on Survivor, or what about the phony bilboards on baseball games? Admittedly they blend in better, but you still see ads.
You need to throw out you TV.
In many states, bounty hunters have to notify the local police department of what they are attempting to recover before they can legally recover the piece of property. I don't know if this applies to California though.
However, linux was doing it long before Microsoft, and they are still doing it. For example, Lindows. I don't think we can draw any conclusions until linux stops mentioning windows.
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I wasn't referring to the Opterons. I can understand why they might be priced at $1000-$3000. They are competing against Xeons. I can't understand why the Athlon x2 64's are priced so high. They will soon be competing against Pentium D's for which the prices are suggested to be about half of the Athlon's current prices. AMD does not have the ability to charge that kind of premium for equivalent chips. One of the reasons AMD has done so well is that their chips generally outperform Intel's at similar prices.
It strikes me odd that AMD is pricing their Athlon x2's between $500-$1000. This seems particularly high when compared to the prices expected for Intel's offerings. The Pentium D's are supposed to be between $250-$500. I cannot see AMD getting that much higher of a price for similar processors.
Hetrogenous processors can be good things. However, you need to stipulate that they both use the same ISA. Then, it's just a matter of changing the OS scheduler to schedule the heavier process on the more powerful processor, and the lighter process on the weaker processor. No reason for anyone above the OS programmer to care. The benefit is that you can use less die space, and often achieve the same result. Or you can run your MP3 player on the smaller processor and shut off power to the larger processor. A hetrogenous processor can reduce power consumption on a modern processor substantially.
This should help reduce the long time between releases. Every 6-12 months convert testing into frozen. Frozen should be considered a release, and supported as such, with security updates for ~18-24 months. Periodically, when few bugs exist in frozen convert frozen into stable. Maintain security updates for the last two stable releases. The idea is that for mission critical servers, stable would be used, but frozen would be sufficiently stable for workstations and less reliable servers. Just pushing out security updates for testing isn't enough because the continual upgrade process is too much for lightly administered machine. This also insures that testing is never frozen for long periods of time, which is good for desktops that want to be running the latest software. I like the concept of supporting fewer architectures, but this needs to be done properly. They should only allow bugs in the rare architectures block packages in stable. Most of these architectures are only used for servers or other rarely updated machines. Plus, since stable is not the release, these architectures won't block releases.
Try Ubuntu. It's nearly as up to date as Gentoo, but still has all the benefits of Debian. Even better, you can apt-get upgrade to it from a Debian install. I recently changed myself. The upgrade is not entirely staightforward but doable. Better yet, you can always go back to Debian relatively easily.
I sent customersupport an email asking if I could link my bookmarks to their frontpage as requested by their TOS. Here's the email I received back from them: Dear Orbitz Member, Thank you for contacting Orbitz. We request you to mail to our Chief Privacy Officer regarding your concerns. Chief Privacy Officer Orbitz LLC 200 South Wacker Drive, Suite 1900, Chicago, IL 60606. We value your feedback and appreciate your taking the time to write to us. Why can't they get this straight? They ask me to email customersupport, but when I do, customersupport asks me to write to their Chief Privacy Officer. It sounds like they didn't inform customersupport of the proper linking policies.
It'll be a new heterogenous multiprocessor. It'll combine two Pentium 5's and two Pentium's on a single chip. You'll need the 2 P5's to satisfy Longhorn, leaving the Pentium's for running your spyware.
Why haven't TV stations decided to offer up torrents of recent shows? By including ads, they should be able to achieve similar levels of profit as broadcast TV. The bandwidth should not be a stumbling block if torrents are used. It might even increase revenues by exposing their product to a larger market.
You must have missed it. The lawyers are being outsourced too. link
QEMU is a similar open source project. It's supposed to run unmodified versions of Windows even. Does anybody know what QEMU's lastest performance numbers are?
I'm surprised that companies still provide AOL with exclusive content. Sure some of them are being "bribed". What about the remaining ones that insist on AOL.
The system requirements should be system recommendations. I've been using Verizon for 3 months now, and I haven't used any supported OS on it. They really don't care, but tech support is slightly more peeved when you call.
This article is completely inaccurate. I checked a couple of schools I'm familiar with and they were all missing multiple items. The rank is more a factor of whether the appropriate person filled out the form. In many schools, there are few administrators who actually know all of the services provided on the campus. Sadly, it's very difficult to get accurate information about technology at a school. The best way is probably to talk to a student. The admissions office has no idea what's going on. I remember listening to the admissions tour at one school. The tour guide lied on multiple facts which I had easy methods to verify. The tour guides are just there to sell the school.
Microprocessor manufacturers are already going to great lengths to eliminate sources of high energy particles. This is just what they need, radioactive sources on the chip. This will make IBM's radioactive acid look like a joke. They already use old lead to minimize alpha particles. Lets add some polonium. This is the same stuff IBM uses to induce alpha particles to check for vulnerabilities. Processors do not need any more high energy particles floating around.
At U of R, it's not a huge debate. The majority of the students are not overly concerned with Napster. After Napster being available to students for a couple of months, less than a third of students on campus had even signed up for it. Let me repeat: Only a third of students had even tried it. I would be surprised if more than 5-10% of students were using it weekly. I've yet to meet anyone who's even excited about it. Generally it's the administration charging the students through the nose again. By now, we're pretty much used to it.
I call bogus on this. I currently work with UR's ResNet. There was no petition 2 years ago. Also, the old hotel hasn't been used for dorms since '97, when they built the new Eastman dorms. Generally, we students are pretty pleased with the connection and the price. I'll gladly pay $50/yr for 100Mbs connection.
This is much more typical of math in a CS program than Illinois. I would guess most programs would require 3-5 semesters of math. I completely disagree with avoiding precalculus. Make sure you understand it before coming to college. It is foundational to calculus and the only way you will stay on track to graduate. Most programs expect precalc, but not calculus. Finally, your mileage will vary in regards to high school calculus. Figure out if the teacher knows their stuff. It can save you one terrifying freshman experience, as calculus courses tend to be large and intimidating to freshmen.
I think it would have scared people if they would have instead used a picture of the address the person first lived at. Just imagine getting a magazine with a picture and address that you hadn't lived at for years. That'd cause people to think more.
The reaction time will be better than humans. These cars should be able detect a problem well before a human can. Most humans have reaction times in the milliseconds, whereas a computer can react in microseconds.
You've missed the popups on TV!? What about all the product placement on Survivor, or what about the phony bilboards on baseball games? Admittedly they blend in better, but you still see ads. You need to throw out you TV.
I think it was 1988 with the release of System 6 and Multifinder.
In many states, bounty hunters have to notify the local police department of what they are attempting to recover before they can legally recover the piece of property. I don't know if this applies to California though.
However, linux was doing it long before Microsoft, and they are still doing it. For example, Lindows. I don't think we can draw any conclusions until linux stops mentioning windows.
I was just getting around to finally installing 2.4.23. All that work gone out the window.