I believe the consumer version of the dual-core Pentium 4 will not have Hyper-Threading enabled [1] whereas the more expensive Xeon version will. Part of it is due to market segmentation and power consumption.
Marriage between a male Type A connector and a female Type A connector is fine since that preserves the sanctity of marriage. On some parts of the world, a male Type A and a female Type B getting married can cause some people to go nuts.
Then there is the current issue of a male Type A and a male Type A or B (ditto of both are female) getting married or wanting a civil union... that's up for debate, but it may become legal in Canada if the same-sex marriage bill passes;)
Birth control would be in the form of restrictive and/or overzealous DRM... but that's another episode of Good Eats, er, topic.
Remember that Ford Motor Company also own Volvo, Jaguar and some other luxury vehicle companies. Toyota owns/makes Lexus and Nissan owns/makes Infiniti. With that in mind, I wonder (it doesn't explicitly say in the NYT article) if those luxury cars are also affected along with the standard Ford, Toyota and Nissan cars.
The one big advantage I see is that the DS can play all previous gameboy games. For those millions upon millions of people with GBAs already, the DS gives them a new system with new and innovative games, and a way to play their old games too.
The DS does not support playing original Game Boy or Game Boy Color games, or allow for multiplayer mode in Game Boy or GBA games (though you can still play the game in single-player mode).
The biggest reason why I got a DS was that I can play GBA games without a Gamecube + Game Boy Player or play games in not-so-well-lighted places (I have the first GBA, passed on the GBA SP).
I've been able to copy tracks off of my Nomad Jukebox 3 using Red Chair's Notmad Explorer and according to the features page for Anapod Explorer, you should be able to copy tracks to and from an iPod/iPod Mini. Sure, it's commercialware, but for me, it's worth the price (Creative's software for music transfer for the Nomad is unstable and very, very bloated).
MS - always behind the curve, no 256bit encryption, no 64bit os
Microsoft does have a 64-bit OS, Windows Server 2003 for 64-bit systems. Of course, the version available right now is for the Itanium and for x86-64/IA-32e/EM64T. They also have a 64-bit version of SQL Server 2000 for the Itanium.
I purchased a PhatNoise kit for my Audi A4 (price is pretty good for the unit, though the harness cable kit isn't exactly cheap) and am loving it. I'm saving up to get a 60GB hard drive module.
Although most of the files on the hard drive module are MP3s from my CD collection, it handles FLAC files like a charm. I haven't tried playing any Ogg Vorbis files yet, but it is supported in the latest firmware revisions.
Of course, it runs Linux (although I'm a BSD person):)
Are you sure you read through the PDF linked in the article summary? This was discussed on last Friday's NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS. The conditions and restrictions imposed and agreed by both the Democrat and Republican candidates and parties make sure that everything is as scripted, planned and sugar coated as possible. I believe all questions that are asked must be submitted to the CPD and approved by both parties before they can be scripted , filtered and asked.
The fact that both parties and the CPD have squeezed out non-Republicrats from the debates makes sure that people watching the debates (the numbers have dwindled since the CPD took over the debates after the League of Women Voters stepped out over the demands of the two main parties) continue to think that other parties are not serious or even contending. It also helps perpetuate the problem of corporate interests who are contributing to both candidates, both parties, the so called "non-partisan" (and private) CPD, and pay for the debates. By doing so, they pretty much have bought even more shares in the mind of both candidates and hope to make them more sympathetic to the problems facing those companies.
I downloaded the stand-alone client for the File Transfer Manager and have been able to initiate the file downloads from MSDN using Firefox. Should also work for older Netscape browser and the Mozilla browser suite.
It looks like someone is releasing an 8-way Opteron pretty soon. From the specifications, it's nice to see that they are providing each processor with enough memory slots to allow for full 128-bit memory connection and Infiniband connectivity.
The Itanium can scale up to 8, 16, 32 or even 64 processor modules (where each module can contain one or two processors, a la HP's mx2) whereas the Opteron is only available in four-processor configurations. 8-way servers are still in the work and aren't available in volume yet.
The Alpha as we knew it probably won't be rising from the graves... but parts of it will get merged into the Itanium (at least that is what Intel has been showing in their pretty presentations).
I hope they do make very, very good use of the Alpha engineers that they got.
Although AMD is not directly aiming the Opteron at the Itanium (instead it's aimed more towards the Xeon DP and Xeon MP), the Opteron can be very competitive against the Itanium in a fair number of scenarios. There are some places where the Itanium will beat the AMD in performance, but it also costs more. For instance, the Itanium (with a bit of help from SGI) can scale into the hundreads of processors and still be able to run a single kernel image. Right now, that isn't exactly doable with the Opteron.
Intel is aiming their Xeon with EM64T at the Opteron while pinning the Itanium against Sun's UltraSPARC, IBM's POWER, etc. Unfortunately, the Itanium is also used as a replacement for the PA-RISC and the Alpha:\
I favor the Opteron over the Itanium because of backwards compatibility without performance problems, lower cost, lower power consumption and better I/O and memory throughput.
I have bashed the Itanium in the past... but I still think it is a bit too early to sent it crashing towards an iceberg and sinking it soon. It does have it's good qualities, but also a fair amount of downsides.
The Itanium already uses a modified GTL/GTL+ bus, the only difference is that it runs at a difference speed than the bus used by the current Xeon DP/MP processors. What will happen though is that Intel will use a common socket, bus and socket for both the Xeon and the Itanium.
Intel and HP are already doing something like that with their dual-core PA-RISC workstation, as it uses the same socket and chipset as the Itanium... the only difference is that the firmware used was designed for the PA-RISC. That right there shows that the workstation could be converted into an Itanium workstation in the future if HP wanted to.
Hypertransport is great for high bandwidth, but because it is a serialized connection, latency increases. Of course, in large servers, you are going to get pretty high latency anyway... the difference is that the Opteron does not have to share a single bus for both memory and I/O like the Xeon and the Itanium. Higher latency was a trade-off AMD had to make, but at least they are separating local memory traffic from I/O traffic for each processor.
AGP is pretty much an over-glorified PCI bus anyway, it just runs faster than your standard PCI bus. PCI-X will get you up to 1GBps and PCI-X 2.0 increases that to around 2GBps. Also, any server that is worth it's salt will have multiple PCI-X busses (instead of one or two plus AGP, which is more common in workstation boards) and relegates video to serial or a basic PCI video chip.
PCI Express will definitely help bump up performance, but it will take some time for cards to be released in x1, x2, x4 or x8 and hopefully without using PCI-to-PCI Express or PCI-X to PCI Express bridging.
That isn't the same thing as the folder in question. Under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, there are folders that are in the OS directory that contain backup copies of the files that are replaced (and registry keys if necessary) by an update.
The folder that you describe contain the updates that are downloaded and installed from. Not the same thing. The newer versions of Windows has a folder called WUTemp or something to that effect that mimic the "Windows Update Files" directory.
One of Volvo's concept cars, for "women", has an unopenable hood and only has basic openings for gas and user-refillable fluids (like windshield wiper fliud).
Nah... just nuke SCO first as they have sent letters to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, per a News.com.com article.:)
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I believe the consumer version of the dual-core Pentium 4 will not have Hyper-Threading enabled [1] whereas the more expensive Xeon version will. Part of it is due to market segmentation and power consumption.
[1]: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2329 (page 3)
Marriage between a male Type A connector and a female Type A connector is fine since that preserves the sanctity of marriage. On some parts of the world, a male Type A and a female Type B getting married can cause some people to go nuts.
;)
Then there is the current issue of a male Type A and a male Type A or B (ditto of both are female) getting married or wanting a civil union... that's up for debate, but it may become legal in Canada if the same-sex marriage bill passes
Birth control would be in the form of restrictive and/or overzealous DRM... but that's another episode of Good Eats, er, topic.
Remember that Ford Motor Company also own Volvo, Jaguar and some other luxury vehicle companies. Toyota owns/makes Lexus and Nissan owns/makes Infiniti. With that in mind, I wonder (it doesn't explicitly say in the NYT article) if those luxury cars are also affected along with the standard Ford, Toyota and Nissan cars.
The biggest reason why I got a DS was that I can play GBA games without a Gamecube + Game Boy Player or play games in not-so-well-lighted places (I have the first GBA, passed on the GBA SP).
I've been able to copy tracks off of my Nomad Jukebox 3 using Red Chair's Notmad Explorer and according to the features page for Anapod Explorer, you should be able to copy tracks to and from an iPod/iPod Mini. Sure, it's commercialware, but for me, it's worth the price (Creative's software for music transfer for the Nomad is unstable and very, very bloated).
Oops... "and for x86-64..." should have been "and not for x86-64..."
Microsoft does have a 64-bit OS, Windows Server 2003 for 64-bit systems. Of course, the version available right now is for the Itanium and for x86-64/IA-32e/EM64T. They also have a 64-bit version of SQL Server 2000 for the Itanium.
I purchased a PhatNoise kit for my Audi A4 (price is pretty good for the unit, though the harness cable kit isn't exactly cheap) and am loving it. I'm saving up to get a 60GB hard drive module.
:)
Although most of the files on the hard drive module are MP3s from my CD collection, it handles FLAC files like a charm. I haven't tried playing any Ogg Vorbis files yet, but it is supported in the latest firmware revisions.
Of course, it runs Linux (although I'm a BSD person)
Are you sure you read through the PDF linked in the article summary? This was discussed on last Friday's NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS. The conditions and restrictions imposed and agreed by both the Democrat and Republican candidates and parties make sure that everything is as scripted, planned and sugar coated as possible. I believe all questions that are asked must be submitted to the CPD and approved by both parties before they can be scripted , filtered and asked.
The fact that both parties and the CPD have squeezed out non-Republicrats from the debates makes sure that people watching the debates (the numbers have dwindled since the CPD took over the debates after the League of Women Voters stepped out over the demands of the two main parties) continue to think that other parties are not serious or even contending. It also helps perpetuate the problem of corporate interests who are contributing to both candidates, both parties, the so called "non-partisan" (and private) CPD, and pay for the debates. By doing so, they pretty much have bought even more shares in the mind of both candidates and hope to make them more sympathetic to the problems facing those companies.
I downloaded the stand-alone client for the File Transfer Manager and have been able to initiate the file downloads from MSDN using Firefox. Should also work for older Netscape browser and the Mozilla browser suite.
It looks like someone is releasing an 8-way Opteron pretty soon. From the specifications, it's nice to see that they are providing each processor with enough memory slots to allow for full 128-bit memory connection and Infiniband connectivity.
The Itanium can scale up to 8, 16, 32 or even 64 processor modules (where each module can contain one or two processors, a la HP's mx2) whereas the Opteron is only available in four-processor configurations. 8-way servers are still in the work and aren't available in volume yet.
The Alpha as we knew it probably won't be rising from the graves... but parts of it will get merged into the Itanium (at least that is what Intel has been showing in their pretty presentations).
I hope they do make very, very good use of the Alpha engineers that they got.
Although AMD is not directly aiming the Opteron at the Itanium (instead it's aimed more towards the Xeon DP and Xeon MP), the Opteron can be very competitive against the Itanium in a fair number of scenarios. There are some places where the Itanium will beat the AMD in performance, but it also costs more. For instance, the Itanium (with a bit of help from SGI) can scale into the hundreads of processors and still be able to run a single kernel image. Right now, that isn't exactly doable with the Opteron.
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Intel is aiming their Xeon with EM64T at the Opteron while pinning the Itanium against Sun's UltraSPARC, IBM's POWER, etc. Unfortunately, the Itanium is also used as a replacement for the PA-RISC and the Alpha
I favor the Opteron over the Itanium because of backwards compatibility without performance problems, lower cost, lower power consumption and better I/O and memory throughput.
I have bashed the Itanium in the past... but I still think it is a bit too early to sent it crashing towards an iceberg and sinking it soon. It does have it's good qualities, but also a fair amount of downsides.
The Itanium already uses a modified GTL/GTL+ bus, the only difference is that it runs at a difference speed than the bus used by the current Xeon DP/MP processors. What will happen though is that Intel will use a common socket, bus and socket for both the Xeon and the Itanium.
Intel and HP are already doing something like that with their dual-core PA-RISC workstation, as it uses the same socket and chipset as the Itanium... the only difference is that the firmware used was designed for the PA-RISC. That right there shows that the workstation could be converted into an Itanium workstation in the future if HP wanted to.
Hypertransport is great for high bandwidth, but because it is a serialized connection, latency increases. Of course, in large servers, you are going to get pretty high latency anyway... the difference is that the Opteron does not have to share a single bus for both memory and I/O like the Xeon and the Itanium. Higher latency was a trade-off AMD had to make, but at least they are separating local memory traffic from I/O traffic for each processor.
AGP is pretty much an over-glorified PCI bus anyway, it just runs faster than your standard PCI bus. PCI-X will get you up to 1GBps and PCI-X 2.0 increases that to around 2GBps. Also, any server that is worth it's salt will have multiple PCI-X busses (instead of one or two plus AGP, which is more common in workstation boards) and relegates video to serial or a basic PCI video chip.
PCI Express will definitely help bump up performance, but it will take some time for cards to be released in x1, x2, x4 or x8 and hopefully without using PCI-to-PCI Express or PCI-X to PCI Express bridging.
Just turn the phone to vibrate mode and call or send messages to it a couple of dozen times. mmm... personal massaging handset.
:(
Just wait a while and you'll see a soccer mom driving an H2 using her cell phone not only to talk but also as a personaly enjoyment toy
That was Network Associates. The commercial arm of PGP got spun-off into their own company, PGP Corporation.
That isn't the same thing as the folder in question. Under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, there are folders that are in the OS directory that contain backup copies of the files that are replaced (and registry keys if necessary) by an update.
The folder that you describe contain the updates that are downloaded and installed from. Not the same thing. The newer versions of Windows has a folder called WUTemp or something to that effect that mimic the "Windows Update Files" directory.
One of Volvo's concept cars, for "women", has an unopenable hood and only has basic openings for gas and user-refillable fluids (like windshield wiper fliud).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3528757.stm
There is a news bit on Ars Technica that the claims are overhyped and the spyware scanning tool returns a lot of false positives.
Nah... just nuke SCO first as they have sent letters to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, per a News.com.com article. :)
It was Nickelodeon (which is under MTV/Viacom) and not Cartoon Network (which is under the AOL^H^H^HTime Warner umbrella).
Either way, the newspaper ads and the TV ads/scrollbars were very childish and annoying even for this cable consumer, er user.
Well, he's shot off his mouth quite a few times. Maybe he had his foot in his mouth one of those times :)
Ebbers was from Worldcom, not from Enron. Skilling and Kenneth Lay are the ones from Enron.