...and Linux isn't POSIX compliant (yet?)...
So Windows is *UNIX but Linux isn't? That's a weird world-view.
And like someone said above, XP had the NT/2k POSIX layer removed because it was mostly useless. I wouldn't call XP with Cygwin a *NIX either though, not by a long-shot.
Isn't tape very 70s? DVD is just fine for film, and I would prefer to record off the air onto a TIVO-like device. This technology seems dead in the water to me... Can anyone think of a good application for it?
Galaxies are so relatively insubstantial (ie they are mostly empty space) that they can pass through each-other without a single collision. Orbits and such would most likely be messed up though.
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Well, if you won't use PHP just because you "won't," then Perl is certainly the way to go for CGI.
As a user of both, I prefer PHP for CGI tasks because it typically requires less code to do the same thing as a result of built-in functions, particularly ones that make SQL integration so damn quick. I would still use perl for text processing tasks and some CGI though.
Basically i like em both, I am just curious about why you are adverse to using PHP.
So one day I was reading about how the 75GXPs fail, and thinking "gee, glad mine is still working," then - honest to god - at that very moment the read arm started banging against the side of the drive!
I had to send it away for a month (IBM refused to do an advance RMA) and they sent me back another refurbished 75gxp. I am wary of keeping any important data on it now, needless to say!
In Asimov's Foundation series, he suggests there could be some way of mathematically describing the universe using less complexity than the universe itself contains. That is, a few simple rules could be extrapolated like fractals into the universe as we know it. Such a computer would be significantly smaller.
Could someone please explain to me how you can make an energy efficient comparitively simple chip with 256-bit data paths? I thought increasing the bits made chips much more complex, which kind of goes against exactly what Transmeta has been all about up until now. Please explain to me as I assume they know what they are doing.
I justify it to myself in the following way:
10 years ago a full PC cost around $4000, with the video card being probably a $50 part at the most. Now the rest of the PC is comparitively cheap, but the video card is super expensive. We still pay way less now overall, just the price structure part-by-part is different. Suck it up!:)
NT's kernel32 is also a microkernel, though obviously not a *nix one.
While Linus in particular has been pretty harsh on microkernel architectures, the vast majority of PCs out there run on them.
I personally think the microkernel is the only way to go for closed-source kernels since a recompile is out of the question. I'm not sure what the advantage is with open-source though. Anyone care to tell me?
oh and to counter your ford pinto example, my Celica GTS does 180HP out of a 1.8L engine at 6800RPMs, while a Ford Mustang does 180HP at probably 3000RPMs. Which is the brute force approach?
The P4 was designed for high clock speeds by giving it a long pipeline and a trace cache. It isn't a "brute-force" option, just a different method of increasing performance.
Yes, what exactly is lousy about the P4 architecture?
Don't tell me it is lousy because of the performance / clock cycle ratio, because the chips clearly make up for that in their clock speed. The fact is, as overpriced as they are, the top-of-the-line P4 is king of the x86 performance arena right now. That doesn't happen to lousy architectures.
p.s. I own an Athlon.
We are talking about an undifferentiated clump of cells. Are you against shedding skin as well? Every time you ejaculate you are performing mass murder, tell me what the difference is.
Indeed, though I regard his and Eldridge's theory of punctuated equilibrium to be a bit sensationalized (ie. its not really an attack on traditional evolution at all, but rather a fleshing-out of some seldom-discussed issues).
His ability to promote discussion on topics normally concidered sacrosanct is impressive and should give us less open-minded individuals pause. Along with the loss of Carl Sagan several years ago, the world is now a darker place indeed.
Back in the day I had a Sierra game disk crap out on me (Space Quest II disk 2 if i recall correctly). Since I had no hard drive or secondary floppy, I had no backup, but Sierra sent me one for $2 shipping.
I wouldn't always equate moral with legal if I were you. Downloading and then buying doesn't hurt anyone, it actually helps both parties. Yes it is illegal, but I dont' recommend always following the law of the land blindly.
From my understanding, if you only link drivers into the kernel, you do not have to GPL them. Only changes to the kernel need to be GPL'd as well. I also believe that Sun's intention is to integrate more GNU applications, not necessarily kernel code.
I am referring to the mostly-traditional cultures that we are bringing technologies such as television (and thereby creating a need for electricity) to. I would agree that if this technology is applied to already-disturbed and/or struggling societies already dependent on electricity it is a good thing, however i am wary of introducing it to cultures that have not yet demonstrated a desire to have such things at all.
"where the western world was 100 years ago"
You are suggesting that we have made some sort of "progress" in the last 100 years. I am not trolling by saying this, as a cultural anthropologist I seriously question just what our "progress" means. We have less free time on our hands than most hunter-gatherers (and even chimpanzees!) do. Should we really be helping these people to be like us?
Earth organisms (well microorganisms) can even survive reentry from orbit after years in a radiated vacuum. They survive and thrive in aquatic oxygen-free sulfurous environments under thousands of atmospheres of pressure at temperatures in the hundreds of degrees celsius.
These, may I add, are our cousins. No telling what unrelated species from other planets are capable of.
I would aliken the "mind" to software and the brain to hardware. So you are correct, for my analogy a brain surgeon == a hardware tech and a programmer == a psychologist.
Oh I just answered your question! A psychologist is a doctor that operates on the mind!
I have an SV24 (the previous model, actually smaller and uses a P3 Coppermine CPU)
The thing is quite nice looking and incredibly well laid-out. Everything inside it is so tight you have to carefully fold your ribbon cables, but man does it look cool all stuffed in there. No overheating problems BTW, though it is a touch too noisy for an always-on media server. I used the extra PCI slot to throw in another NIC and now it is my very-capable home firewall/DNS/Web server running Gentoo Linux.
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...and Linux isn't POSIX compliant (yet?)... So Windows is *UNIX but Linux isn't? That's a weird world-view. And like someone said above, XP had the NT/2k POSIX layer removed because it was mostly useless. I wouldn't call XP with Cygwin a *NIX either though, not by a long-shot.
Isn't tape very 70s? DVD is just fine for film, and I would prefer to record off the air onto a TIVO-like device. This technology seems dead in the water to me... Can anyone think of a good application for it?
Galaxies are so relatively insubstantial (ie they are mostly empty space) that they can pass through each-other without a single collision. Orbits and such would most likely be messed up though.
Well, if you won't use PHP just because you "won't," then Perl is certainly the way to go for CGI. As a user of both, I prefer PHP for CGI tasks because it typically requires less code to do the same thing as a result of built-in functions, particularly ones that make SQL integration so damn quick. I would still use perl for text processing tasks and some CGI though. Basically i like em both, I am just curious about why you are adverse to using PHP.
So one day I was reading about how the 75GXPs fail, and thinking "gee, glad mine is still working," then - honest to god - at that very moment the read arm started banging against the side of the drive! I had to send it away for a month (IBM refused to do an advance RMA) and they sent me back another refurbished 75gxp. I am wary of keeping any important data on it now, needless to say!
In Asimov's Foundation series, he suggests there could be some way of mathematically describing the universe using less complexity than the universe itself contains. That is, a few simple rules could be extrapolated like fractals into the universe as we know it. Such a computer would be significantly smaller.
Could someone please explain to me how you can make an energy efficient comparitively simple chip with 256-bit data paths? I thought increasing the bits made chips much more complex, which kind of goes against exactly what Transmeta has been all about up until now. Please explain to me as I assume they know what they are doing.
I justify it to myself in the following way: 10 years ago a full PC cost around $4000, with the video card being probably a $50 part at the most. Now the rest of the PC is comparitively cheap, but the video card is super expensive. We still pay way less now overall, just the price structure part-by-part is different. Suck it up! :)
huh? I've had stable ver.2 support for well over a year now. Where have you been?
NT's kernel32 is also a microkernel, though obviously not a *nix one. While Linus in particular has been pretty harsh on microkernel architectures, the vast majority of PCs out there run on them. I personally think the microkernel is the only way to go for closed-source kernels since a recompile is out of the question. I'm not sure what the advantage is with open-source though. Anyone care to tell me?
I never get cramps with either type, but come on - that split keyboard is a lot less awkward to use once you get used to it don't you agree?
oh and to counter your ford pinto example, my Celica GTS does 180HP out of a 1.8L engine at 6800RPMs, while a Ford Mustang does 180HP at probably 3000RPMs. Which is the brute force approach?
The P4 was designed for high clock speeds by giving it a long pipeline and a trace cache. It isn't a "brute-force" option, just a different method of increasing performance.
Yes, what exactly is lousy about the P4 architecture? Don't tell me it is lousy because of the performance / clock cycle ratio, because the chips clearly make up for that in their clock speed. The fact is, as overpriced as they are, the top-of-the-line P4 is king of the x86 performance arena right now. That doesn't happen to lousy architectures. p.s. I own an Athlon.
We are talking about an undifferentiated clump of cells. Are you against shedding skin as well? Every time you ejaculate you are performing mass murder, tell me what the difference is.
Indeed, though I regard his and Eldridge's theory of punctuated equilibrium to be a bit sensationalized (ie. its not really an attack on traditional evolution at all, but rather a fleshing-out of some seldom-discussed issues). His ability to promote discussion on topics normally concidered sacrosanct is impressive and should give us less open-minded individuals pause. Along with the loss of Carl Sagan several years ago, the world is now a darker place indeed.
Back in the day I had a Sierra game disk crap out on me (Space Quest II disk 2 if i recall correctly). Since I had no hard drive or secondary floppy, I had no backup, but Sierra sent me one for $2 shipping.
I wouldn't always equate moral with legal if I were you. Downloading and then buying doesn't hurt anyone, it actually helps both parties. Yes it is illegal, but I dont' recommend always following the law of the land blindly.
From my understanding, if you only link drivers into the kernel, you do not have to GPL them. Only changes to the kernel need to be GPL'd as well. I also believe that Sun's intention is to integrate more GNU applications, not necessarily kernel code.
I am referring to the mostly-traditional cultures that we are bringing technologies such as television (and thereby creating a need for electricity) to. I would agree that if this technology is applied to already-disturbed and/or struggling societies already dependent on electricity it is a good thing, however i am wary of introducing it to cultures that have not yet demonstrated a desire to have such things at all.
"where the western world was 100 years ago" You are suggesting that we have made some sort of "progress" in the last 100 years. I am not trolling by saying this, as a cultural anthropologist I seriously question just what our "progress" means. We have less free time on our hands than most hunter-gatherers (and even chimpanzees!) do. Should we really be helping these people to be like us?
Earth organisms (well microorganisms) can even survive reentry from orbit after years in a radiated vacuum. They survive and thrive in aquatic oxygen-free sulfurous environments under thousands of atmospheres of pressure at temperatures in the hundreds of degrees celsius. These, may I add, are our cousins. No telling what unrelated species from other planets are capable of.
I would aliken the "mind" to software and the brain to hardware. So you are correct, for my analogy a brain surgeon == a hardware tech and a programmer == a psychologist. Oh I just answered your question! A psychologist is a doctor that operates on the mind!
I work for shaw as well, and we don't read scripts. The average tech support person there is pretty well informed.
I have an SV24 (the previous model, actually smaller and uses a P3 Coppermine CPU)
The thing is quite nice looking and incredibly well laid-out. Everything inside it is so tight you have to carefully fold your ribbon cables, but man does it look cool all stuffed in there. No overheating problems BTW, though it is a touch too noisy for an always-on media server. I used the extra PCI slot to throw in another NIC and now it is my very-capable home firewall/DNS/Web server running Gentoo Linux.