That's the same as the pentium architecture, but it's never stopped intel from making 4-way Xeons. All serious SMP machines have cross-bar switches, such as MIPS, SPARC, Alpha, IBM POWER and Athlon.
So, does this mean that to compete, intel will have to migrate itanium down to commodity hardware in a hurry? What about recouping their R&D costs, and what about the cooling issues and prduction costs?
Believe it or not, this form of editing was a feature of the Sinclair ZX81 and Spectrum home computers in 1981 and 1982 respectively. They also had single-keystroke keyword entry, i.e. pressing P gave you PRINT etc. It worked really well. I liked it.
Why do people copy, or want to copy, proprietary software illegally when they can legally obtain copies of Free and Open Source software more easily (without doing cracks etc.), usually free of cost, and without risking fines or imprisonment? Do you see the status quo ever changing?
What does it mean?
It means that for once, a major economic force has decided to bite the bullet, be different, look for an alternative to Microsoft because that's what's approproate for their needs. It's about time something like this happened. This is exactly what's needed in the (relatively) stagnant software market (hint: someone has a monopoly and there's no significant competition).
How much extra drag will this cause, and how much harder will the engines have to work to compensate? Will it have to carry a lot more fuel? Will it be ripped off my the force of the wind rushing past?
Well, it's putting me of upgrading again
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I've had a K6-2/500 (which started out as a 400) as my main machine for nearly 3 years now and it still runs fine and I get 45+fps on Q3 at 1024x768x24 etc.
I was going to upgrade to an Athlon but when they announced Hammer, I thought I might as well just wait for that, because believe it or not, by upgrading to an Athlon I'd only see a factor of 2-3 speed increase, much less than when I went from P100 to K6-2/400/500 after 3 years. Also, I have 64-bit machines at work, and I don't want to piss about with mickey-mouse 32-bit machines at home for much longer. Well, not if a much faster and 64-bit chip with completely new motherboard architecture is just around the corner.
Maybe AMD are geting ready for the pre-Christmas ruch to buy PCs. Remember that most of their customers don't know and don't care about the difference between 32- and 64-bit. It will also be easier for AMD to make bigger margins on these 32-bit athlons, since the change in process to make them is much smaller. It's just a small evolutionary step, rather than a revolution.
The 3 months up to Christmas has never been a good time to buy a PC. Prices remain relatively flat from September on until New Year.
There is this effort OpenBIOS which tries to do just that. It's an independent implementation of Open Firmware, which is the boot code (i.e. BIOS) used on Apple and Sun machines (amongst others). What's really cool and geeky about it is that it's a FORTH system. There's a small nucleus of words coded in native assembly language and the rest is all portable FORTH!
That's good advice, since modern kernels like *BSD and Linux can and do prefer to take care of configuring PCI devices themselves. It's only users of DOS and DOS-based versions of Windows that need to have this feature enabled, AFAIK.
Don't worry, Roy and Elvis are not only working on a new Amiga and Amiga OS, but also a load of crazy new games and demos with some cool and groovy rock and roll tunes, daddy-o!:-)
>The BBC has consistantly let the UK nuclear industry off lightly as have the various governments.
This is complete and utter nonsense. The nucelar industry (civillian power) has been run down by constant cuts in the electricity price brought about to favour gas powerstations at the expense of having a viable, diverse ifrastructure in the long term. The nucelar industry, especially the old magnox stations, have been doing a wonderful job given the chronic underinvestment (a few million spent 20 years ago could have had all the magnoxes running and generating carbon-dixide free electricity safely for 50 years) etc.
Anyway, you probably listen to the likes of Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth who have an irrational hatred and fear of nucelar power.
But then I'm just ranting and you won't believe a word of it so what's the point. We could be well into our third generation of nuclear power stations in Britain just now if Maggie Thatcher hadn't cut investment in new genarating capacity, squandered the decomissioning money on privatisation and gone completely free market. A free market can not support new nucelar power stations since you do not get a substantial return on investment for 30 years.
But what does anyone care? We'll just burn loads of gas and heat up the world and build a couple or three tidly little wind farms. Super.
Because I'm paying for it directly through a television license. And, also because the BBC, in my opinion, being free from conventional commercial pressures should be unbiased, challenging, well-researched, thoughful and intelligent, not an electronic extension of the tabloid press.
I live in the UK and I am sick and tired of the BBCs biased reporting. When brown people are killed or whatever it hardly makes the news, but when something happens to a couple of white people it's a top story (I'm white by the way).
The BBC is notoriously anti-nuclear. I used to work in the nuclear industry and the BBCs lack of knowledge and the superstitious drivel it spouts about civillain nucelar power is embarrassing and makes me very angry because it panders to the luddites and ignoramuses and anti-nuclear lobbyists.
They have a tendency towards subtle sensationalism in other areas too. I could go on at length but this is a rant and I don't have time.
Oh and they're scared of GM food, mobile (cell) phones, pro-Microsoft, and their science coverage is generally ignorant, wrong or just plain dumbed down to kiddie level....and I have to pay for this since I have a television set and therefore a TV license.
How was the parent offtopic?
I can appreciate the BBCs bias in many issues. Yes, the Euro, the imminent war on Iraq ("Iraq could produce a nucelar bomb withing months" - well wake up and smell the coffee - so could we all if we had the raw materials), their rabid, incoherent rantings against and irrational fear of civillian nuclear power, Microsoft sycophancy, a whole "technology" section on their web site that is nothing more than adverts and positive propaganda for Microsoft intersperced with sensational "wow" articles about what you can do with mobile phones, email and web browsers........and to think that I'm forced to pay for this crap because I watch Television here in the UK.
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Which, of course, will only apply in the USA. The rest of us will be safe, for a while.
How very interesting :-)
That's the same as the pentium architecture, but it's never stopped intel from making 4-way Xeons. All serious SMP machines have cross-bar switches, such as MIPS, SPARC, Alpha, IBM POWER and Athlon.
So, does this mean that to compete, intel will have to migrate itanium down to commodity hardware in a hurry? What about recouping their R&D costs, and what about the cooling issues and prduction costs?
Believe it or not, this form of editing was a feature of the Sinclair ZX81 and Spectrum home computers in 1981 and 1982 respectively. They also had single-keystroke keyword entry, i.e. pressing P gave you PRINT etc. It worked really well. I liked it.
Interesting. I never thought of it like that.
Why do people copy, or want to copy, proprietary software illegally when they can legally obtain copies of Free and Open Source software more easily (without doing cracks etc.), usually free of cost, and without risking fines or imprisonment? Do you see the status quo ever changing?
Kid A was sent out encrypted? Ah, that explains it then.
What does it mean? It means that for once, a major economic force has decided to bite the bullet, be different, look for an alternative to Microsoft because that's what's approproate for their needs. It's about time something like this happened. This is exactly what's needed in the (relatively) stagnant software market (hint: someone has a monopoly and there's no significant competition).
Not only is the compiler a very small piece of code, but it's interactive too. You compile new "words" (i.e. subroutines or functions) as you go :-)
How much extra drag will this cause, and how much harder will the engines have to work to compensate? Will it have to carry a lot more fuel? Will it be ripped off my the force of the wind rushing past?
Maybe AMD are geting ready for the pre-Christmas ruch to buy PCs. Remember that most of their customers don't know and don't care about the difference between 32- and 64-bit. It will also be easier for AMD to make bigger margins on these 32-bit athlons, since the change in process to make them is much smaller. It's just a small evolutionary step, rather than a revolution.
The 3 months up to Christmas has never been a good time to buy a PC. Prices remain relatively flat from September on until New Year.
Oops, missed out the link. It's called OpenBIOS
There's a free implementation being worked on here
There is this effort OpenBIOS which tries to do just that. It's an independent implementation of Open Firmware, which is the boot code (i.e. BIOS) used on Apple and Sun machines (amongst others). What's really cool and geeky about it is that it's a FORTH system. There's a small nucleus of words coded in native assembly language and the rest is all portable FORTH!
That's good advice, since modern kernels like *BSD and Linux can and do prefer to take care of configuring PCI devices themselves. It's only users of DOS and DOS-based versions of Windows that need to have this feature enabled, AFAIK.
Don't worry, Roy and Elvis are not only working on a new Amiga and Amiga OS, but also a load of crazy new games and demos with some cool and groovy rock and roll tunes, daddy-o! :-)
Well, I've had to give up fresh coffee. She hates the smell :-(
Well, I went 6 years without a telly but finally gave in and got one so that I could get NTL's broadband internet package... :-(
>The BBC has consistantly let the UK nuclear industry off lightly as have the various governments.
This is complete and utter nonsense. The nucelar industry (civillian power) has been run down by constant cuts in the electricity price brought about to favour gas powerstations at the expense of having a viable, diverse ifrastructure in the long term. The nucelar industry, especially the old magnox stations, have been doing a wonderful job given the chronic underinvestment (a few million spent 20 years ago could have had all the magnoxes running and generating carbon-dixide free electricity safely for 50 years) etc. Anyway, you probably listen to the likes of Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth who have an irrational hatred and fear of nucelar power. But then I'm just ranting and you won't believe a word of it so what's the point. We could be well into our third generation of nuclear power stations in Britain just now if Maggie Thatcher hadn't cut investment in new genarating capacity, squandered the decomissioning money on privatisation and gone completely free market. A free market can not support new nucelar power stations since you do not get a substantial return on investment for 30 years.
But what does anyone care? We'll just burn loads of gas and heat up the world and build a couple or three tidly little wind farms. Super.
Yes, but the fecking US doesn't go around nuking people willy-nilly now, does it? Feck! Drink! Girls!
>But, overall, you're spouting drivel too.
Who's posting as AC here?
Because I'm paying for it directly through a television license. And, also because the BBC, in my opinion, being free from conventional commercial pressures should be unbiased, challenging, well-researched, thoughful and intelligent, not an electronic extension of the tabloid press.
I live in the UK and I am sick and tired of the BBCs biased reporting. When brown people are killed or whatever it hardly makes the news, but when something happens to a couple of white people it's a top story (I'm white by the way). The BBC is notoriously anti-nuclear. I used to work in the nuclear industry and the BBCs lack of knowledge and the superstitious drivel it spouts about civillain nucelar power is embarrassing and makes me very angry because it panders to the luddites and ignoramuses and anti-nuclear lobbyists. They have a tendency towards subtle sensationalism in other areas too. I could go on at length but this is a rant and I don't have time. Oh and they're scared of GM food, mobile (cell) phones, pro-Microsoft, and their science coverage is generally ignorant, wrong or just plain dumbed down to kiddie level. ...and I have to pay for this since I have a television set and therefore a TV license.
How was the parent offtopic? I can appreciate the BBCs bias in many issues. Yes, the Euro, the imminent war on Iraq ("Iraq could produce a nucelar bomb withing months" - well wake up and smell the coffee - so could we all if we had the raw materials), their rabid, incoherent rantings against and irrational fear of civillian nuclear power, Microsoft sycophancy, a whole "technology" section on their web site that is nothing more than adverts and positive propaganda for Microsoft intersperced with sensational "wow" articles about what you can do with mobile phones, email and web browsers.... ....and to think that I'm forced to pay for this crap because I watch Television here in the UK.