Loaded like a freight train, flying like an aeroplane, speedin' like a space briain, one more time toni-eee-ight.
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Do you mean, "like, a Sinclair ZX81" or "like a Sinclair ZX81?":-)
You must have had the patience of a saint to do such programming on such a machine and good enough humour to be able to live with the cassette interface.:-)
Something nice and simple like a modern pascal or Delphi could be a good introduction. The syntax is clean and readable and you have nice things like array bounds checking. You can get Free pascal compilers for *nix and I think you can do Delphi on Linux in the form of Kylix. Modern Pascals have object extensions, so once you've mastered the basics you can start learning about encapsulation, polymorphism, inheritance etc. It should be a relatively easy jump from there to Java or Python or something. I recommend keeping as far clear of scripting languages like PERL for as long as possible until the student has learned good practices. PERL is the 1990's equivalent of BASIC.
What HP is showing is that they're the Microsoft of the hardware world. Rather than investing in R&D to develop new stuff, they'll wait until someone else takes the lead, maybe loses their shirt and then copy them with a slightly inferior but more conformist product.
In my day HP was like DEC, IBM and other great.respected corporations. Then they got Carly and it all went downhill...
It's just the name, it's like Nike training shoes, Cocal Cola and Microsoft Windows. They might all be crap, but they're what people have heared of and are already using. It's a populist move.
Pretty smart move by HP as it puts them back in the "solutions" market and tied in with their SI business means they have a real opportunity in the custom build market.
Er no, HP have now painted themselves into a corner at the bottom of the low end. All the other big companies must be laughing all the way to the bank. Nice one again HP.
I can't understand why anyone would buy anything from HP when you can get exactly the same stuff from Dell at about 60% of the price. HP sales staff suck. They couldn't care less about your order. Dell will have you quoted up to your satisfation, and the stuff shipped to the right address withing 2-3 days. HP takes about 6 weeks, charges you more, gets your order wrong, blames you and then charges you more to put it right.
I for one will not be buying from HP ever again, except maybe for laser printers...
Do you have to uprate the brakes, suspension, transmission, wheels, tyres and seatbelts too? How much does it cost to run? How much does it cost to service? How much are spare parts for the fancy engine?
After uprating the Yugo that much, wouldn't it have been better to buy a sportscar in the first place? One that's been designed and engineered as a balanced, integrated and tuned system to begin with?
I wonder when Patrick will get round to doing it?:-)
In a moment of madness I though about installing bochs on my Athlon set up to emulate AMD64 and see if I could bootstrap a 64-bit Slackware compiled from source...
drawback: clock speed is actually important for fp math crunching, so athlon64 is handicapped here.
Only if your code and data are cache-bound. If you have large amounts of data c.f. cache size, and your FP code is not in tight loops (e.g. 1000s-10000000s iterations over a few 100 bytes of code) the Opteron's superior memory bandwidth will totally kick everything else's butt.
Prior art or no, if a big enough company patents something everyone else is screwed. No matter how daft the patent, if you can't afford the legal fees to contest it, or to stand up to ${BIGCOMPANY} lawyers, you will get nowhere other than the poor house. It's not fair.
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My prediction: Sun will return, stronger than you could possibly imagine.
Who wants a single (or dual) core 5GHz chip anyway? Think of the memory bandwidth problems.
...news and clues travel slowly. Unfortunately these people get to run countries :-(
Loaded like a freight train, flying like an aeroplane, speedin' like a space briain, one more time toni-eee-ight.
You must have had the patience of a saint to do such programming on such a machine and good enough humour to be able to live with the cassette interface. :-)
Something nice and simple like a modern pascal or Delphi could be a good introduction. The syntax is clean and readable and you have nice things like array bounds checking. You can get Free pascal compilers for *nix and I think you can do Delphi on Linux in the form of Kylix. Modern Pascals have object extensions, so once you've mastered the basics you can start learning about encapsulation, polymorphism, inheritance etc. It should be a relatively easy jump from there to Java or Python or something. I recommend keeping as far clear of scripting languages like PERL for as long as possible until the student has learned good practices. PERL is the 1990's equivalent of BASIC.
You can get one with BSD on it from Apple. That doesn't help you though...
In my day HP was like DEC, IBM and other great.respected corporations. Then they got Carly and it all went downhill...
It's just the name, it's like Nike training shoes, Cocal Cola and Microsoft Windows. They might all be crap, but they're what people have heared of and are already using. It's a populist move.
Er no, HP have now painted themselves into a corner at the bottom of the low end. All the other big companies must be laughing all the way to the bank. Nice one again HP.
I for one will not be buying from HP ever again, except maybe for laser printers...
Damn, I knew I was going wrong somewhere....
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Of course it is. Silly me. That's what you get for drinking beer.
Google wouldn't do the conversion for me :-(
Wait a minute...
Gas Mark is a Fahrenheit scale.
From this chart it is possible to infer that Gas Mark 0 is 250 Fahrenheit, and each increment of 1 Gas Mark is equal to 25 Fahrenheit degrees.
So at what Gas Mark setting did they bake/flambe the dinosaurs?
As an exercise for the interested reader, using spectroscopic data, estimate the surface temperature of Zubenelgenubi in Gas Mark.
For us ignorant Brits, wthat's that in Gas Mark?
/me ducks
I think it's all this beer they make me drink.
It'll be interesting to see what performance Cray gets out of its Red Storm Opteron supercomputer :-)
Do you have to uprate the brakes, suspension, transmission, wheels, tyres and seatbelts too? How much does it cost to run? How much does it cost to service? How much are spare parts for the fancy engine?
After uprating the Yugo that much, wouldn't it have been better to buy a sportscar in the first place? One that's been designed and engineered as a balanced, integrated and tuned system to begin with?
In a moment of madness I though about installing bochs on my Athlon set up to emulate AMD64 and see if I could bootstrap a 64-bit Slackware compiled from source...
Only if your code and data are cache-bound. If you have large amounts of data c.f. cache size, and your FP code is not in tight loops (e.g. 1000s-10000000s iterations over a few 100 bytes of code) the Opteron's superior memory bandwidth will totally kick everything else's butt.
Prior art or no, if a big enough company patents something everyone else is screwed. No matter how daft the patent, if you can't afford the legal fees to contest it, or to stand up to ${BIGCOMPANY} lawyers, you will get nowhere other than the poor house. It's not fair.
I want my live Slayer!