Let see - INTC is probably the low cost silicon manufacturer.
INTC has maintained margins around 50% AMD reported 28%
AMD is much more fab capacity and process strained than INTC
INTC made as much in Profit as AMD made in Revenue
How do you expect AMD to be able to sell chipss cheaper/better than Intel. Specifically, if AMD doubled the transister count of their CPUs (by doubling the core count) their yield plummets, significantly raising the cost of the CPUs. At the same time, you are expecting AMD to play a price war with INTC. How do you expect AMD to play a price war - they don't have margin to give at this point. If they cut their processor prices by 28% they are selling them for manufacturing BOM COST. Intel could cut their prices in half before they run across this problem.
AMD will need to figure out which is more important to them with their current financial state - smaller, more profitable market share - or higher, less profitable market share. Right now, they will probably head to the smaller market share. They had their run - lets see how Barcellona stacks up against Penryn in performance and volume manufacturing ramp.
Meanwhile real world apps favor separate caches per core.
(Where one user app isn't flushing cache entries of another app executing on different core.)
Real world apps may not favor an integrated cache - but real world workloads do. Why do I want to give my simple little 500K application a 2MB cache to run in. Why not give it 500K and let the other 3.5MB go to the larger application that is also running and needing cache space. That said - yes I agree that in a case of an application needing 4 MB cache, and a second application needing 500K - the 500K application will run much better with a dedicated cache. However, I defy you to show me a system where a dedicated cache will perform better than a unified cache for a simple workload like this.
Now, that said you need a good caching strategy - there is a LOT of effort working on caching the correct memory to have it available quickly to the processor. I don't know where you get that one active process will flush the cache at the expense of another application that also needs a heavily used memory location... YMMV
Sigh - the 4GB is the Process Memory limit. You have been able to run 64+GByte on a Xeon box for years (desktop chipsets tend not to have enough memory slots to go this high). Each process gets its 4GB with either a 2 GB Kernel/2GB user space - or the 1GB Kernel/3GB user space mentioned by the parent.
Since most environments run more than one process, they can take advantage of the extra ram assuming their total amount of allocated space is above 4GB. For that matter, I used to run a 32bit version of BSD 5 years ago that ran on a Dual PIII system with 8GB RAM. Basically we ran 2 caching processes of 4GB each, and some smaller processes that added up to a memory load of 8GB.
What you get with a 64bit operating system is a theoretical 64bit address space for each and every process. In reality different processor architectures offer somewhere between 40 and 48 bits worth of physical address space (Good for almost a Petabyte of RAM). 64bit is really only useful for a few VERY large applications such as Database, a few imaging processing apps, and some massive number crunching... Your average desktop OS application has no need for more than 32 bits, and in fact most of us would actually have slower machines with a 32bit user space
So a friend of mine in Portland belonged to a group that used to do multiple "pub Runs". A hare was sent out from the first bar to run a course to the second/third bar. They would mark a trail using a little bit of flour on the road (washes or blows away). They had been doing this for 10+ years.
Along comes the anthrax attacks - a pub run, and the men in BioHazzard suits come out investigating the strange white powder. I really wish someone would get on a pay phone and tell the police that it was flour.
Yeah - show me a company that really REALY pushes the bounds of monopolistic behavior worse than apple. Just a matter of Steve Jobs couldn't beat little BillyG at the software game and insisted on selling hardware.
I don't even begin to know where to answer this one....
Lets start with 60 being a 12% annual rate of return on 500 dollars
Lets move to the government only has your money on average for 6 months - doubling your annual rate of return
Lets just say that I don't plan on earning 10% in the market - some years I've done 25%, I've had a few years of "bad luck" in the market recently
Lets just say the 25 dollars I'd expect to earn in interest on that refund can keep me in WoW for a bit over two months
That Uncle Sam returning that nice interest free loan you have given them by over witholding is "Giving you money back". Biggest fallacy in the book, have the standard tax tables overwithold - then make people think "Gee, the government is giving me money - they are so nice".
If you are getting a large refund - look into talking to an accountant that can tell you how many deductions you REALLY need to be closer to break even. My goal is to hit somewhere between a 100 dollar refund to paying 500 dollars. I can afford 500 dollars, and I'd just assume be making the interest while the money sits in my bank account before giving it to the Man.
But PLEASE don't take my advise - talk to an accountant (IANAA) to find out what is correct for you
Wow - Title abuse is rampant... A director at 28 (5-6 years of experience?)
Where I work directors are 3rd level managers that tend to report to VPs, or will be one in a few years. Frankly someone with 5-6 years experience is no longer wet behind the ears - but frankly a Engineer. Wait until they have delivered 2-3 systems (not just a point release in a product, but 3-4 releases on a product a couple of times) before you call someone senior.
So - like the top 50% of the US population owns like 110% of the wealth - because everyone in the bottom 1/2 has a negative networth from living outside their means.
Goes to show you can get statistics to say anything you want. Why are poor people poor - well, they don't save enough or get enough of an eduction to live in the modern world. Why is that - not my fault.
If games had an AI that learned as it went then things might be different, but the state (and processing power required to implement) of current AI is lacking.
I'll disagree with you here, it is pretty easy to make an AI that will wipe the floor of all but the VERY best human players. The problem is that no one would play against it. Most AIs are criminally crippled in the types of decisions that they can make - and therefor will tend to play bad, specifically so they can be beaten.
For example - is there any particular reason that an AI would every miss in an FPS combat... They know exactly where they are, exactly where you are, what your direction and rate of movement is, how fast the projectile flys - heck they can even pick up tendencies in your movement patterns. Now they should be able to place a round pretty much exactly where you will be (given your current tendencies) each and every time. Ok, that is FPS games.
For most MMOG games, they know what kind of character you have, what your weapons are - and what the best tactics against each type of character and weapon selection is. They can move faster than you, and in fact have a lower latency connection to the server (since they ARE the server). Conversly - if every NPC in the game wiped the floor with your blood, how long will people stick with it. They set the AI for most (if not all) NPCs in games so the vast majority of people can easily defeat it. NOT so that it is a fair fight.
Look at it this way - with standard PC hardware, a chess AI can beat all but the top couple % of chess players in the world. What makes you think that NPC AI is a significantly more difficult problem than chess AI.
What is meant by this, people add percieved value to the economy and are rewarded for it. People who can't add enough value to justify minimum wage go unemployed. What has happened is that the ability to add value with certain sectors has skyrocketted over the last 50 years. Who would have thought 50 years ago that I could take about $0.10 cents of raw materials and sell it to 100,000,000 people for 199.95. That is a LOT of value for the people that created that piece of material.
So yes, over the last 50 years the economy has severely differentiated between those who produce value and those that don't. Good thing to be a producer... not so good to be a ditch digger.
Get a hold of a switch silicon vendor (broadcom, Marvell?, Intel?, switchcore - etc.) and ask them for their development board. Most of them are capable of running a customized linux distribution of your choice. Expect to pay in the serious 5 figures - if not 6.
Yeah, unless you really have a need to - customizing hardware is expensive, difficult, and prone to failure. Usually when I see questions like this, I assume they are from someone that really doesn't understand a problem and has decided to go down a path. Once you look inside and realize what the REAL problem that they are trying to solve these are pointless excersizes (why do you have to run Linux on a switch - many of them all ready run Linux). What are you really trying to do - why, and what are your limitations
Lets see - who was it that wanted to ban "dirty words" in albums - except he got beat down by the intellectually superior Frank Zappa and Dee Schnider. Oh yeah - that was the Honerable Al Gore of the "I can't even win my own state - but by god, I came close enough in Florida to throw the country in a tizzy for 6 years" fame.
Who wants to ban violent video games today - can I hear someone speak up for the Honerable Hillary Clinton of the "It was a vast right wing conspiracy that put that stain on her dress" fame?
Do I trust any politician in office - frankly the dems taking over congress is the best thing that can happen over the next two years... no one will get anything done. My only wish is they would have concentrated more on that instead of trying to get the Honorable John Kerry of the "I was a D student in Skull and Bones just like W" fame elected to president
Democrats need to spend more of their bribes on better PR, even if just so Slashdot doesn't repeat the same "Democrats are just as bad" BS as does the corporate mass media whenever Republicans are much worse.
Next you will be telling me that the democrats have never stolen an election, lied under oath, or caused the economy to crash.
They are all crooks - the only thing you can do is vote against the guy in office today.
How effective can captcha's be anyway. A nice "man in the middle" style attack. You want to hack some web forum - put up a porn site with a "read this captcha to get your porn" link on it. As your bot encounters captcha's it posts them out to your porn "clients" to hack for you with the correct brain power.
I've wondered why the big spam services haven't setup this kind of scheme. I fear that I am just ahead of the times on this particular vulnerability
So 4 of the largest oil producing countries in the world are insignificant in the global economy. Glad to hear you say it. Still haven't found the source at the bottom of the page that claims it was accessed last august, that acutally contains any data of significance.
Then again - why not trust Wiki with everything... even given prior articles on Slashdot today
You are telling me that there is enough ICE in places like antartica/greenland to raise the total volume of the ocean 200 METERS + the additional land area? I can believe a few meters, maybe 200 cm. Woooooo very scary. But 200 METERs... Go back and tell me where all this ice is now
Interesting that the link you provide shows the United States as the #9 producer of CO2 per capita... Yeah Yeah, the virgin islands. Somehow I am not sure even I can believe that number. Now to the second point - where are these numbers backed and where are numbers that are a little more recent than 2002.
as Netscape. Consider in aproximately 5 years time - they went from a unknown startup into a multi BILLION dollar company that was purchased by AOL.
They did this with relatively few employees, almost no capital - and made several bucketfulls of money for their employees, shareholders, and the VC vultures around them. Why do people say that netscape was a failure.
Now lets talk about Time Warner. Silly company let itself be bought by an upstart Internet company that was falling in market share on a dialy bassis. This is one of the two signs of the popping of the Dot-Bomb bubble. I'll leave it as an excersize to the reader to pick out the other sign.
Wirless IPS and spoofing TCP resets to throttle bit torrent are the exact same thing.
Hardly... Wireless IPS/QoS/Packet Shaping are very simple TCP flow control mechanisms that will throtle TCP mechanisms fairly and in a managed appropriate way.
Sending spoofed TCP resets into a packet flow that you don't own, manage, or control is crossing the line. There is also the difference between allocating resources that you own in a way that you want to (ie Packet Shaping) and disrupting resources that you don't own (TCP reset attacks).
Care to justify breaking my use of a shared resource so you can get a few fewer ms of ping time on WoW, how would you feel if I felt using WoW on a shared network where people were trying to get "real work" done was inappropriate and would regularly send TCP resets to your WoW session?
Uh huh - TCP resets are never an appropriate mechanism.
So let me get this straight. For your convienience you are using a free service - then complaining about the service that you receive.
Hate to tell you buddy... If you want to get a good clean connection - work from home, setup your own network - brew your own coffee, and get the quality that you need. If you want to sit in a coffee house and drink overpriced drinks, talk loudly on your cell phone, and use their connection to gring your Tier II gear in WoW - Well, you get what you pay for.
Now quit whinning and let the bandwidth hogs do what they need to do as well.
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That said - the stock market is the only game that isn't necisarily zero-sum.
INTC has maintained margins around 50% AMD reported 28%
AMD is much more fab capacity and process strained than INTC
INTC made as much in Profit as AMD made in Revenue
How do you expect AMD to be able to sell chipss cheaper/better than Intel. Specifically, if AMD doubled the transister count of their CPUs (by doubling the core count) their yield plummets, significantly raising the cost of the CPUs. At the same time, you are expecting AMD to play a price war with INTC. How do you expect AMD to play a price war - they don't have margin to give at this point. If they cut their processor prices by 28% they are selling them for manufacturing BOM COST. Intel could cut their prices in half before they run across this problem.
AMD will need to figure out which is more important to them with their current financial state - smaller, more profitable market share - or higher, less profitable market share. Right now, they will probably head to the smaller market share. They had their run - lets see how Barcellona stacks up against Penryn in performance and volume manufacturing ramp.
The last one took 41 years to be topped... lets hope the next one takes another 4 decades
Now, that said you need a good caching strategy - there is a LOT of effort working on caching the correct memory to have it available quickly to the processor. I don't know where you get that one active process will flush the cache at the expense of another application that also needs a heavily used memory location... YMMV
0x2b || ~0x2b of course anyone can answer shakespears ultimate question with 0xFF
Since most environments run more than one process, they can take advantage of the extra ram assuming their total amount of allocated space is above 4GB. For that matter, I used to run a 32bit version of BSD 5 years ago that ran on a Dual PIII system with 8GB RAM. Basically we ran 2 caching processes of 4GB each, and some smaller processes that added up to a memory load of 8GB.
What you get with a 64bit operating system is a theoretical 64bit address space for each and every process. In reality different processor architectures offer somewhere between 40 and 48 bits worth of physical address space (Good for almost a Petabyte of RAM). 64bit is really only useful for a few VERY large applications such as Database, a few imaging processing apps, and some massive number crunching... Your average desktop OS application has no need for more than 32 bits, and in fact most of us would actually have slower machines with a 32bit user space
Along comes the anthrax attacks - a pub run, and the men in BioHazzard suits come out investigating the strange white powder. I really wish someone would get on a pay phone and tell the police that it was flour.
Yeah - show me a company that really REALY pushes the bounds of monopolistic behavior worse than apple. Just a matter of Steve Jobs couldn't beat little BillyG at the software game and insisted on selling hardware.
I don't even begin to know where to answer this one....
Lets start with 60 being a 12% annual rate of return on 500 dollars
Lets move to the government only has your money on average for 6 months - doubling your annual rate of return
Lets just say that I don't plan on earning 10% in the market - some years I've done 25%, I've had a few years of "bad luck" in the market recently
Lets just say the 25 dollars I'd expect to earn in interest on that refund can keep me in WoW for a bit over two months
If you are getting a large refund - look into talking to an accountant that can tell you how many deductions you REALLY need to be closer to break even. My goal is to hit somewhere between a 100 dollar refund to paying 500 dollars. I can afford 500 dollars, and I'd just assume be making the interest while the money sits in my bank account before giving it to the Man.
But PLEASE don't take my advise - talk to an accountant (IANAA) to find out what is correct for you
Where I work directors are 3rd level managers that tend to report to VPs, or will be one in a few years. Frankly someone with 5-6 years experience is no longer wet behind the ears - but frankly a Engineer. Wait until they have delivered 2-3 systems (not just a point release in a product, but 3-4 releases on a product a couple of times) before you call someone senior.
YMMV
Or 1/50th the size of Rhode Island
Which one seems bigger to you?
Goes to show you can get statistics to say anything you want. Why are poor people poor - well, they don't save enough or get enough of an eduction to live in the modern world. Why is that - not my fault.
For example - is there any particular reason that an AI would every miss in an FPS combat... They know exactly where they are, exactly where you are, what your direction and rate of movement is, how fast the projectile flys - heck they can even pick up tendencies in your movement patterns. Now they should be able to place a round pretty much exactly where you will be (given your current tendencies) each and every time. Ok, that is FPS games.
For most MMOG games, they know what kind of character you have, what your weapons are - and what the best tactics against each type of character and weapon selection is. They can move faster than you, and in fact have a lower latency connection to the server (since they ARE the server). Conversly - if every NPC in the game wiped the floor with your blood, how long will people stick with it. They set the AI for most (if not all) NPCs in games so the vast majority of people can easily defeat it. NOT so that it is a fair fight.
Look at it this way - with standard PC hardware, a chess AI can beat all but the top couple % of chess players in the world. What makes you think that NPC AI is a significantly more difficult problem than chess AI.
What is meant by this, people add percieved value to the economy and are rewarded for it. People who can't add enough value to justify minimum wage go unemployed. What has happened is that the ability to add value with certain sectors has skyrocketted over the last 50 years. Who would have thought 50 years ago that I could take about $0.10 cents of raw materials and sell it to 100,000,000 people for 199.95. That is a LOT of value for the people that created that piece of material.
So yes, over the last 50 years the economy has severely differentiated between those who produce value and those that don't. Good thing to be a producer... not so good to be a ditch digger.
Yeah, unless you really have a need to - customizing hardware is expensive, difficult, and prone to failure. Usually when I see questions like this, I assume they are from someone that really doesn't understand a problem and has decided to go down a path. Once you look inside and realize what the REAL problem that they are trying to solve these are pointless excersizes (why do you have to run Linux on a switch - many of them all ready run Linux). What are you really trying to do - why, and what are your limitations
Who wants to ban violent video games today - can I hear someone speak up for the Honerable Hillary Clinton of the "It was a vast right wing conspiracy that put that stain on her dress" fame?
Do I trust any politician in office - frankly the dems taking over congress is the best thing that can happen over the next two years... no one will get anything done. My only wish is they would have concentrated more on that instead of trying to get the Honorable John Kerry of the "I was a D student in Skull and Bones just like W" fame elected to president
They are all crooks - the only thing you can do is vote against the guy in office today.
I've wondered why the big spam services haven't setup this kind of scheme. I fear that I am just ahead of the times on this particular vulnerability
Then again - why not trust Wiki with everything... even given prior articles on Slashdot today
I call bullshit here.
You are telling me that there is enough ICE in places like antartica/greenland to raise the total volume of the ocean 200 METERS + the additional land area? I can believe a few meters, maybe 200 cm. Woooooo very scary. But 200 METERs... Go back and tell me where all this ice is now
Interesting that the link you provide shows the United States as the #9 producer of CO2 per capita... Yeah Yeah, the virgin islands. Somehow I am not sure even I can believe that number. Now to the second point - where are these numbers backed and where are numbers that are a little more recent than 2002.
They did this with relatively few employees, almost no capital - and made several bucketfulls of money for their employees, shareholders, and the VC vultures around them. Why do people say that netscape was a failure.
Now lets talk about Time Warner. Silly company let itself be bought by an upstart Internet company that was falling in market share on a dialy bassis. This is one of the two signs of the popping of the Dot-Bomb bubble. I'll leave it as an excersize to the reader to pick out the other sign.
Sending spoofed TCP resets into a packet flow that you don't own, manage, or control is crossing the line. There is also the difference between allocating resources that you own in a way that you want to (ie Packet Shaping) and disrupting resources that you don't own (TCP reset attacks).
Care to justify breaking my use of a shared resource so you can get a few fewer ms of ping time on WoW, how would you feel if I felt using WoW on a shared network where people were trying to get "real work" done was inappropriate and would regularly send TCP resets to your WoW session?
Uh huh - TCP resets are never an appropriate mechanism.
Hate to tell you buddy... If you want to get a good clean connection - work from home, setup your own network - brew your own coffee, and get the quality that you need. If you want to sit in a coffee house and drink overpriced drinks, talk loudly on your cell phone, and use their connection to gring your Tier II gear in WoW - Well, you get what you pay for.
Now quit whinning and let the bandwidth hogs do what they need to do as well.