Like native American Indians we must all return to nature to decide law and punishment when our own laws become decadent, corrupt and non-intuitive
When one monkey takes a banana from another OR he refuses to share it, he gets hit over the head by the alpha male.
When one monkey *copies* what another is doing he gets hit over the head by the monkey he copied from unless he gives him kudos by pointing a finger at him and saying "Ooooh ah ah ah ah ah"
If a monkey with a new way of doing things is hungry, impatient and so wants bananas immediately with no risk, he gives his idea to a big boss monkey that spreads it to many places using a network of the big boss' minions who charge other tribes bananas to show these other tribes the artist's work. Obviously if the artist goes to other tribes and shows them his work then he is in effect stealing bananas from the big boss monkey and so the artist will be hit on the head for spreading his own work.
When one monkey tries to kill another he is restrained by the rest of the group, and then has the crap beaten out of him. If he succeeds in killing the monkey then he's exiled.
This just proves what we've known all along. Artists just want kudos and a little bit of money. The *RECORD COMPANIES* (not artists) want to put people in jail or give capital punishment for not paying for a copy because their revenue is being taken, even if it's the artist himself merely playing his sown work (because it'ssigned over to the record company). To truly defeat the big boss monkey we must invent www.internetEMI.com where artists can give over their work and receive money, and www.internetEMI.com distributes it over the Internet.
*OR* Banks can offer loans to artists to create the music (same as record companies) except not tie them into a particular distribution network nor taking ownership away from the artist. This way the artist doesn't have to pay to maintain say EMI's massive supply chain.
ANY REMAINING DOT-COM VCs I'm talking to you, if walmart and friends kept on saying that the Internet is not the way to sell products, webvan.com and other dot coms *would* have realised the stock market's dreams. Now the record companies are ignoring the internet as a distribution mechanism. There is a lot of money to be made via Internet-only music distribution. Go VCs go!
Here's the secret: many IIS have no admin. Some manager dude double-cliked on setup.exe and that was it.
Administering of server by people with "meager knowlege" as you put it... should really be stamped out
What are you suggesting? Making it illegal to set up a webserver without a licence?? Who'll issue this license? The Government? Great, that's game over in the censorship area.
Personally I'd much rather have Code Red flooding my servers all day than having to hand control of webservers over to the Government. How would you police this? Block port 80? Wouldn't this set a precedent for the (RI|MP)AA to block Kazaa ports by requiring the reconfiguring of routers that give connectivity to all Kazaa supernodes? Your statement is absolutely unacceptable.
an x86 instruction is being broken down into 1-3 micro-ops which are being packed spread over several 256-bit vliw instructions....
You are correct. In that case they should definitely call it CrusoeVLIW 800+TwinTurbo because everybody knows that turbochargers have lag. This way the customers would know that the CPU needs time to "warm up" and could be used by Sales to explain why benchmarks, etc. need to be run multiple times. Cool!
as Intel's processors change architecturally (e.g. Itanium, McKinley), they themselves will have to educate consumers that an 800MHz Itanium processor can be faster than a 2.4GHz Pentium 4
HAHAHAHA HAAAAA!!!! So Intel's advertising department is going to have to undo the advertising done by... Intel's advertising department ha ha haaaaa! Then again this is a good way to get funding in this downturn, here we've got HR emailing themselves to look busy.
Unfortunately I think it's going to be a long time before we see Itaniums replacing the P4 as Joe sixpack's standard comb-puter.
WHOA! Intel would never do this as it increases IPC, so Transmeta either have to decrease their MHz or drum into the public somehow that "MHz has nothing to do with performance". In other words Transmeta advertising vs. Intel advertising. Obviously Transmeta will fail unless they debase their packaging by hiding the MHz like AMD by showing something like Athlon 1500+ e.g. Crusoe 800+, or some crazy marketing like Crusoe 400x2+, or maybe kick-ass Crusoe 400TwinTurbo
Intel has made GHz cool and increasing IPC uncool. Transmeta is trying to blow this away. If they are succesful, Intel's marketing hype will unravel and the company will consume itself like Jabba the Hut with a banquet just out of arms reach (Jabba is immobile methinks).
Or maybe killing Intel's marketing will just cause MSOffice+email people to be happy with their PCs instead of constantly upgrading when Intel tells them to, resulting in a crash in the tech sector. Correction: been there, done that.
If you just plonk your hand down on top of it you click all three buttons. You have to use you extensors to not click. When I restarted using a computer after a lengthy illness, I rapidly got pains in my arms, from holding my fingers off the mouse buttons all the time. I had to learn to be just tense enough to stop the natural curl of my fingers from clicking the buttons. What happens when I click a mouse button? What is supposed to happen is that the extensor is turned off then the flexor is turned on, then the flexor is turned off, then the extensor is turned back on, so that they don't overlap. I've not done any electro-myography, but I don't believe it is happening like that. Briefly relaxing a muscle that is kept tense most of the time is difficult and time consumming. I bet that the flexor is turned on hard to over come the extensor. How much damage does that do
Aaaaah, yes, fascinating. I don't have any mod points. Even if I did they'd just be an insult. A nobel prize is what you deserve, matey.
It's actually better if the monitor is low and pointing up at your face, and you keep your head pointing forward but your eyes looking down.
Strongly agreed. The keyboard should be above the monitor. These desks haven't caught on because they look real ugly. Let's face it, if there's an ugly comfortable sofa and a beautiful semi-comfortable sofa, everyone would buy the good-looking sofa because nobody wants their house to look like shit, even if it gives them RSI. This is similar to the desk I use, and my friends poke fun at me all the time.
Me too, I'm a hunt and peker with 65 wpm when copying (because I have to look at the text, then look at the keyboard, then look at the text, etc.) and 85 wpm when typing by myself looking at the keyboard constanty.
I've found that fast typing doesn't help when coding, actually slowing down is better, whilst taking long breaks. Especially in Perl fast typing is the last thing you want. Changing my posture every 15 minutes also helps.
Same with me, bicep curls, tricep uhhh stuff is what I did. I can program away like that toy that goes on and on in the Duracell/Ariston advertisement. I feel really sorry for all those other people that don't get what to do. Sticking with one position is unnatural. You'll notice when kids are working at a desk they are shifting their position all the time, but with fixed desktops this is impossible.
Cavemen never sat upright for 8 hours straight, they did stuff. Even if you have the most ergonomically incorrect position, if you shift position every 10 minutes so that the stress falls on different areas I put it to you that you might not onnly cancel RSI, but it might be good for you by increasing your strength!
What we have is 2 excellent technologies that are incompatible with each other as far as humans are concerned - a table and a laptop aren't compatible. As soon as you put a laptop on a desk it becomes a wrist-curving uncomfortable machine. Not even Dhalsim (from StreetFighter 2) could avoid problems. As for keyboards Keytronics ergoforce premium suits me best, they are briliant standard QWERTY with a gentle kickback, not like those annoying clicky things.
The table needs to have an inset cut, you'd drop your laptop in there. That way your enitire forearm would rest on the table comfortably.
People on/. believe they are FREE, and yet they are brainwashed enough to believe that a standard table is the best design to put anything on. *You can never blame the table* yeah right. It's like saying "you can never blame the kernel for errors" the thought simply doesn't occur to the vast majority of people *sigh*
Plus when you're in a hurry you hold the mouse hard. This causes strain. Always gently cup the mouse in your palm. A lot of people get strain when using the mouse becase they hold onto it like it's suddenly going to scurry away. As practice, use two fingers on top of the mouse to gently move it, that's the amount of force needed. Mice follow the laws of friction, so if you hold a mouse hard it pushes back at you.
I like the Keytronic keyboards I've been using one for 4 years 14 hours a day with no problems. My hand ached when I used the Logitech mouse, BUT all you have to do is ease your mouse grip, I found I was holding onto my mouse for dear life. You should just gently let the mouse cup the palm of your hand, and the friction holds it in place. If your hand slips off the mouse don't be embarrassed. If you need to click, move your hand gently to the button. No force should be applied. But honestly, Keytronic's ergoforce technology kicks ass, best keyboard I've used in my life.
Get up and walk around every 60 minutes, do some press-ups, the people in my office got used to it within a week.
The Intel P4 processor does NOT contain a memory controller, of ANY type!
Yes. But with these damn proprietary companies, nobody would know if they put one in. Like Intel putting dormant IA-32 hardware into McKinley disabled so that if Hammer really hits hard, Intel will activate it. Or was that a dormant design for a chip, ahhh can't remember,
It doesn't matter if you're using RDRAM or DDR memory, both go through the memory controller (on the chipset) and BOTH share the system bus with all other processor chipset I/O.
You are correct, sorry, Intel's marketing got through to me while I was watching an old episode of Stargate at 2am.
However most good ideas come at unexpected times, pulling the memory (DDR or RDRAM or whatever) memory off the system bus and onto a dedicated bus straight to the CPU will make it a *lot* easier to overclock that individually and will relieve the FSB. It occured to me the L3 cache (on G4 and Alpha EV8) fits this criteria and operates on a seperate bus - the back side bus. I'm saying MOVE the whole system RAM to the backside bus. This would allow us to screw the FSB for most main memory requests.
You can keep a small amount of RAM on the FSB, this'll just be a DMA cache for HD and PCI device data transfers, etc. It sounds crazy enough to actually work.
The L3 cache will act as the main memory. The "DMA cache" and L1/L2 cache will write-through/write-back their data into this BSB main memory. Nice. I/O overclockers will work on the FSB, RAM bandwidth overclockers will work on the BSB. Overclockers' dream. Oops, I'm waking up now....
Of course, if employers were to allow that extensive of an ability to customize... we might see a sudden increase in the sales of laptops and beanbags
Yes, change your desktop for a laptop (with a big keyboard), because then you can change your egonomic position easily as many times as you want. For me, lying on my back in my sofa with the laptop rested on my stomach is comfortable for 30 minutes, changing to seated in the sofa with it rested to my left, then after 15 minutes to my right, then the classic position of sitting upright with my laptop in my lap for 1 hour, using a sleeping bag as a duvet, BUT in this position the laptop becomes VERY hot because the sleeping bag blocks the laptops bottom vents. I open the PCMCIA ports to help vent this hot air. Looking down onto the monitor from above works best for me. When my eyes start hurting from the LCD screen I switch to my desktop with the monitor set low so I have to look down by 30 degrees from horizontal to see it.
Accountants and bookworms don't get RSI because they don't dangle what they're reading in the air, it's on their desk well below head height and their arms are rested draped over their desks.
Kids at school sitting at desks don't get RSI because they're looking down by at least 45 degrees and resting their arms on the desk doodling. This is what I based my ergonomics on and it works for me, seems most natural as well, feel kinda like a native American Indian looking to nature.
In the case of RAMBUS, there's more latency involved with the access of the memory than with DDR SDRAM
<Jar Jar Binks>Exquuuuise me, ain't there nothing fa Electric Engineer? How's a me trusting you?</Jar Jar Binks> Thank you Jar Jar, good question, for the hardcore EE peeps, here's some PDFs so disable ROT13;-): DDR 133 timing sheet Rambus timing sheet
Agreed. 3% change is nothing to write home about. The RDRAM has the same bandwidth as the DDR, but DDR having to share the system bus is turning into a real disadvantage. I'm not saying RDRAM is better though - maybe we just need to redesign DDR motherboards so that it's bus goes straight to the CPU. This would mean that the increase in speed from DDR 266 to DDR 333 will be immediately effective through superficial memory bus clock changes.
I think this hybrid design of a compromise between DDR and RDRAM would give the best performance. It would relieve the need to ramp up the speed of the shared system bus AND all devices connected to it. Any ideas on fixing the problem when the memory needs to communicate with the system bus? A crossover or using the CPU as a bridge? Ah well, it was nice dreaming for a little while.
Solid state might be used as intermediate fast storage, much like TRAM (transactional RAM). But it will NEVER replace mechanical. EMP from a nuke will blow away solid state battery-backed RAM, static electricity as well in hadling. There's nothing simpler than an Ultrium tape. It's just iron filings, which fails in a predictable way so data recovery services will almost always be able to do something. A lightning strike will fry your linux box and all HD controllers (even if you've got RAID-5). So if you're feeling cosy and secure with RAID-5, think again.
Lightning is like an asteroid hit, it's rare but when it hits a power line or phone line the effect is felt for many miles around. Blowing your modem and working it's way out from there. Your line surge protector *might* protect your PSU from this happening on the mains, then again.....
Maybe they can start again with a different acronym, since the parent company is called Sun, these might be suitable, from here K-type G-type F-type A-type B-type These being the types of star, starting with the coolest
Imagine if it was called something different that had the same first letter e.g. Gargantuan GMR - Giant magnetoresistive TMR - Tunnelling magnetoresistive GMR - Garguantuan magnetoresistive
Now what were those flames about AMD not using GHz any more and therefore they're ripping people off and misleading them, well, eh?
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So before you go ranting about how you're such a "pioneer" and how "historic" you are deserving our "respect" for downloading mp3s prior to P2P, please remember where you're ranting at, this is not your neighborhood bar, this is/., news for NERDS.
<Budweiser frog>True, true...</Budweiser frog> In the pre-Google days it was Boolean search on Altavista: (sharia NEAR law) AND (osama NEAR (binladen OR "bin laden")) But still respec' wid da big up to da max to da mp3 hAxOrS
1. (RI|MP)AA tries to pass legislation to make all software DRM-compliant. Software industry says "NO!!!" 2.(RI|MP)AA will threaten to make every AD converter DRM-compliant. Electrical Engineers will shout and go "NO!!!!". 3. (RI|MP)AA will threaten both industries and say, "Look, you know piracy is wrong, either 1 or 2 will pass. Decide amongst yourselves which." 4. Hardware industry and software industry start bickering over where watermarking should go. 5. With the industries too busy fighting amongst themselves, (RI|MP)AA will quietly pass a law of their own choice, and nobody will know until it's too late.
Yeah, yeah, do a PhD. If the IT market doesn't recover then it's really sad for people like us. Cos this is what we do if you know what I mean, people in it for the money can just switch to accountancy. For people like us though, it feels like a 10 mile high and 100 mile wide brick wall's been dropped in our path.
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...when civil liberties die, civil war is inevitable (like Kashmir) in which millions die. Therefore the BSA ARE MURDERERS in the real sense...
When one monkey takes a banana from another OR he refuses to share it, he gets hit over the head by the alpha male.
When one monkey *copies* what another is doing he gets hit over the head by the monkey he copied from unless he gives him kudos by pointing a finger at him and saying "Ooooh ah ah ah ah ah"
If a monkey with a new way of doing things is hungry, impatient and so wants bananas immediately with no risk, he gives his idea to a big boss monkey that spreads it to many places using a network of the big boss' minions who charge other tribes bananas to show these other tribes the artist's work. Obviously if the artist goes to other tribes and shows them his work then he is in effect stealing bananas from the big boss monkey and so the artist will be hit on the head for spreading his own work.
When one monkey tries to kill another he is restrained by the rest of the group, and then has the crap beaten out of him. If he succeeds in killing the monkey then he's exiled.
This just proves what we've known all along. Artists just want kudos and a little bit of money. The *RECORD COMPANIES* (not artists) want to put people in jail or give capital punishment for not paying for a copy because their revenue is being taken, even if it's the artist himself merely playing his sown work (because it'ssigned over to the record company). To truly defeat the big boss monkey we must invent www.internetEMI.com where artists can give over their work and receive money, and www.internetEMI.com distributes it over the Internet.
*OR* Banks can offer loans to artists to create the music (same as record companies) except not tie them into a particular distribution network nor taking ownership away from the artist. This way the artist doesn't have to pay to maintain say EMI's massive supply chain.
ANY REMAINING DOT-COM VCs I'm talking to you, if walmart and friends kept on saying that the Internet is not the way to sell products, webvan.com and other dot coms *would* have realised the stock market's dreams. Now the record companies are ignoring the internet as a distribution mechanism. There is a lot of money to be made via Internet-only music distribution. Go VCs go!
Personally I'd much rather have Code Red flooding my servers all day than having to hand control of webservers over to the Government. How would you police this? Block port 80? Wouldn't this set a precedent for the (RI|MP)AA to block Kazaa ports by requiring the reconfiguring of routers that give connectivity to all Kazaa supernodes? Your statement is absolutely unacceptable.
Unfortunately I think it's going to be a long time before we see Itaniums replacing the P4 as Joe sixpack's standard comb-puter.
Ooooops. Parent flame was supposed to be AC, dang hit the wrong button. Try to spice things up, and lose some karma, oh the tragedy of it all.
What are you talkin' about? The chip doesn't work, how can it possibly be JEDEC-compliant? You're stupid. Get a sense of humour asshole!
I protest, this chip is obviously not JEDEC compliant and is therefore prone to silent failure. RMS and EFF ought to kick their asses.
Intel has made GHz cool and increasing IPC uncool. Transmeta is trying to blow this away. If they are succesful, Intel's marketing hype will unravel and the company will consume itself like Jabba the Hut with a banquet just out of arms reach (Jabba is immobile methinks).
Or maybe killing Intel's marketing will just cause MSOffice+email people to be happy with their PCs instead of constantly upgrading when Intel tells them to, resulting in a crash in the tech sector. Correction: been there, done that.
I've found that fast typing doesn't help when coding, actually slowing down is better, whilst taking long breaks. Especially in Perl fast typing is the last thing you want. Changing my posture every 15 minutes also helps.
Cavemen never sat upright for 8 hours straight, they did stuff. Even if you have the most ergonomically incorrect position, if you shift position every 10 minutes so that the stress falls on different areas I put it to you that you might not onnly cancel RSI, but it might be good for you by increasing your strength!
What we have is 2 excellent technologies that are incompatible with each other as far as humans are concerned - a table and a laptop aren't compatible. As soon as you put a laptop on a desk it becomes a wrist-curving uncomfortable machine. Not even Dhalsim (from StreetFighter 2) could avoid problems. As for keyboards Keytronics ergoforce premium suits me best, they are briliant standard QWERTY with a gentle kickback, not like those annoying clicky things.
The table needs to have an inset cut, you'd drop your laptop in there. That way your enitire forearm would rest on the table comfortably.
People on /. believe they are FREE, and yet they are brainwashed enough to believe that a standard table is the best design to put anything on. *You can never blame the table* yeah right. It's like saying "you can never blame the kernel for errors" the thought simply doesn't occur to the vast majority of people *sigh*
Plus when you're in a hurry you hold the mouse hard. This causes strain. Always gently cup the mouse in your palm. A lot of people get strain when using the mouse becase they hold onto it like it's suddenly going to scurry away. As practice, use two fingers on top of the mouse to gently move it, that's the amount of force needed. Mice follow the laws of friction, so if you hold a mouse hard it pushes back at you.
Get up and walk around every 60 minutes, do some press-ups, the people in my office got used to it within a week.
However most good ideas come at unexpected times, pulling the memory (DDR or RDRAM or whatever) memory off the system bus and onto a dedicated bus straight to the CPU will make it a *lot* easier to overclock that individually and will relieve the FSB. It occured to me the L3 cache (on G4 and Alpha EV8) fits this criteria and operates on a seperate bus - the back side bus. I'm saying MOVE the whole system RAM to the backside bus. This would allow us to screw the FSB for most main memory requests.
You can keep a small amount of RAM on the FSB, this'll just be a DMA cache for HD and PCI device data transfers, etc. It sounds crazy enough to actually work.
The L3 cache will act as the main memory. The "DMA cache" and L1/L2 cache will write-through/write-back their data into this BSB main memory. Nice. I/O overclockers will work on the FSB, RAM bandwidth overclockers will work on the BSB. Overclockers' dream. Oops, I'm waking up now....
Accountants and bookworms don't get RSI because they don't dangle what they're reading in the air, it's on their desk well below head height and their arms are rested draped over their desks.
Kids at school sitting at desks don't get RSI because they're looking down by at least 45 degrees and resting their arms on the desk doodling. This is what I based my ergonomics on and it works for me, seems most natural as well, feel kinda like a native American Indian looking to nature.
Thank you Jar Jar, good question, for the hardcore EE peeps, here's some PDFs so disable ROT13
DDR 133 timing sheet
Rambus timing sheet
I think this hybrid design of a compromise between DDR and RDRAM would give the best performance. It would relieve the need to ramp up the speed of the shared system bus AND all devices connected to it. Any ideas on fixing the problem when the memory needs to communicate with the system bus? A crossover or using the CPU as a bridge? Ah well, it was nice dreaming for a little while.
Lightning is like an asteroid hit, it's rare but when it hits a power line or phone line the effect is felt for many miles around. Blowing your modem and working it's way out from there. Your line surge protector *might* protect your PSU from this happening on the mains, then again.....
brightsparc
mommasparc
jesusspar
googleplexsparc
sunsparc
Maybe they can start again with a different acronym, since the parent company is called Sun, these might be suitable, from here
K-type
G-type
F-type
A-type
B-type
These being the types of star, starting with the coolest
GMR - Giant magnetoresistive
TMR - Tunnelling magnetoresistive
GMR - Garguantuan magnetoresistive
Now what were those flames about AMD not using GHz any more and therefore they're ripping people off and misleading them, well, eh?
In the pre-Google days it was Boolean search on Altavista: (sharia NEAR law) AND (osama NEAR (binladen OR "bin laden"))
But still respec' wid da big up to da max to da mp3 hAxOrS
1. (RI|MP)AA tries to pass legislation to make all software DRM-compliant. Software industry says "NO!!!"
2.(RI|MP)AA will threaten to make every AD converter DRM-compliant. Electrical Engineers will shout and go "NO!!!!".
3. (RI|MP)AA will threaten both industries and say, "Look, you know piracy is wrong, either 1 or 2 will pass. Decide amongst yourselves which."
4. Hardware industry and software industry start bickering over where watermarking should go.
5. With the industries too busy fighting amongst themselves, (RI|MP)AA will quietly pass a law of their own choice, and nobody will know until it's too late.
Textbook divide and conquer attack.
Yeah, yeah, do a PhD. If the IT market doesn't recover then it's really sad for people like us. Cos this is what we do if you know what I mean, people in it for the money can just switch to accountancy. For people like us though, it feels like a 10 mile high and 100 mile wide brick wall's been dropped in our path.