The problem appears when some part refuses to acknowledge you have a fixed IP because your ISP provides both fixed and non-fixed IPs.
Here we can't send e-mail to AOL, for instance, because they and my ISP cannot properly communicate and thus, AOL won't acknowledge we use a fixed IP address. And, BTW, we do have reverse DNS in place.
Blocking on IP is rather stupid. Adding to a score is acceptable and quite smart.
Today, they have Windows XP Pirate Edition competing at the same price-point of Linux and the BSDs. When they can no longer compete in the gratis market, they will sure lower their prices to compensate for that.
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Probably yes.
Because if your idea can be "stolen" by anyone, then it's because the idea is so lame anyone can implement it and succeed.
If it's really so brilliant and so smart that it is really worth something on an by itself, then you may be the only one who "gets it" and only you would be able to move it forward.
But if you avoid any investor seeing your idea (no, they won't bother signing NDA's), you'd better be able to pull the trick on your own, because they won't help.
I think the important thing in the announcement is not the 80-core thing, but the idea of a memory chip sandwich. What was described is attaching the chips with what would be several thousand connection points giving more than a terabyte per second aggregate bandwidth. I heard (I watched the presentation) each core would have 256 megabytes dedicated memory.
Assuming this memory could be used smartly, segregating incoherent memory spaces (it seems rather obvious the dedicated memory would not be a coherent image of the main memory, or we would do away with any gains we got from the scale), the chip could achieve huge throughput.
And, about Tom Yager saying Intel and AMD should stop inovating... Well... Diversity is one of the two main tools of natural evolution. It served us well in the 70s and 80s and, if we can have some more of it, I say it will be great.
Oh yeah, in geological terms, human history is less than the blink of an eye. With fossils unearthed recently showing _tropical_ weather in Northern Canada, I think it's safe to say that the Arctic ice cap is a temporary feature.
You do realise that man itself may be a temporary feature unless we are a little more careful.
New semiconductor technologies consume a lot of cash to develop, test and put into production so then, maybe, they can cover development costs. Most of them never reach this last stage and with luck, become patents so their owners can sue whoever solves the problems they didn't.
It makes a weird sound due, probably, to fluctuations in the clock.
But I agree, in order to have an audible frequency square wave, you will need to build a delay loop. There
You will need a real II to try this out. It worked in my Apple II, Unitron (II+ clone), Spectrum ED (//e clone) and CCE Exato, but not quite in my CCE Exato Pro (//e enhanced clone).
Just as an interesting side note, the Windows defragmentation tool that comes with Windows since version 2000 is based on Diskeeper, from Executive Software.
Diskeeper has its origins on the VAX. It seems its file system needed at least two contiguous free blocks to create a new file, so, on highly fragmented volumes it could become impossible to create new files while it would be possible to extend old files.
I would think some older Unix file systems had the same problems with disks filled to near-capacity. I had horrendous problems back in 1996 with a Solaris workstation and a disk full situation.
And as a curiosity, a couple weeks back my Sony Ericsson P-800 died and had to be reset because its system volume was full. Although it has no disk (it's a phone!) the message I got was "disk full".
In my experience with 5.04, 5.10 and 6.06, they mature an incredible lot in the last few weeks. 5.10 was unusable a couple weeks before launch and 5.04 was not much better. 6.06 was a huge improvement (it became my main OS a full month before launch).
There is no reason to expect much difference for the next release. I assume it is more or less safe to use right now or will be very soon.
And, of course, since this is Slashdot, I must compare it with Vista pre-RC, which is also improving and is quite nice (for a Windows release, of course) about five months before release.
ISA means the instruction set. I seems all desktop computers currently being manufactured use the x86 ISA, even if they differ internally in the implementation.
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Sorry, but I had to ask:
Was the decision announced before or after his ex-wife went missing?
Wait.
Did Nina Reiser want some non-bugfix changes on Reiser3 and met violent resistance?
never mind...
The problem appears when some part refuses to acknowledge you have a fixed IP because your ISP provides both fixed and non-fixed IPs.
Here we can't send e-mail to AOL, for instance, because they and my ISP cannot properly communicate and thus, AOL won't acknowledge we use a fixed IP address. And, BTW, we do have reverse DNS in place.
Blocking on IP is rather stupid. Adding to a score is acceptable and quite smart.
Careful.
This is not the OEM pricing. OEMs pay much less and, in exchange, have to handle customer support for Microsoft.
Eons of practice.
This and knowing they really don't have a choice. They painted thenselves into a corner.
Sure it will.
Today, they have Windows XP Pirate Edition competing at the same price-point of Linux and the BSDs. When they can no longer compete in the gratis market, they will sure lower their prices to compensate for that.
Probably yes.
Because if your idea can be "stolen" by anyone, then it's because the idea is so lame anyone can implement it and succeed.
If it's really so brilliant and so smart that it is really worth something on an by itself, then you may be the only one who "gets it" and only you would be able to move it forward.
But if you avoid any investor seeing your idea (no, they won't bother signing NDA's), you'd better be able to pull the trick on your own, because they won't help.
Hmmm. We are all speaking English now...
Ok. Ok. Just kidding.
I think the important thing in the announcement is not the 80-core thing, but the idea of a memory chip sandwich. What was described is attaching the chips with what would be several thousand connection points giving more than a terabyte per second aggregate bandwidth. I heard (I watched the presentation) each core would have 256 megabytes dedicated memory.
Assuming this memory could be used smartly, segregating incoherent memory spaces (it seems rather obvious the dedicated memory would not be a coherent image of the main memory, or we would do away with any gains we got from the scale), the chip could achieve huge throughput.
And, about Tom Yager saying Intel and AMD should stop inovating... Well... Diversity is one of the two main tools of natural evolution. It served us well in the 70s and 80s and, if we can have some more of it, I say it will be great.
Send in the Windows-proof architectures.
So, it's safe to conclude the only Mac virus that ever existed saved the world from an alien invasion. ;-)
The Face on Mars will have to be built, perhaps by some future martians.
;-)
This, and perhaps, changing the name of the planet to Barsoom
And no, I am not kidding. If I live long enough and find a way to move to Mars, these are very interesting proposals and I would stand for them.
You do realise that man itself may be a temporary feature unless we are a little more careful.
Just keep adding programs. You can still use the surviving one.
It's kind of Darwin, without the reproduction part.
Couldn't blacklisting some IP address, implying the company is a spammer (or nor trustworthy) be akin to slander?
The "stickholders" is wonderful
Cool. Not only Windows-free. It's Windows-proof ;-)
(OK... I remember there was a Windows NT for MIPS, but I bet it won't run on these. Besides that, who wants Windows NT 3.1 again?)
New semiconductor technologies consume a lot of cash to develop, test and put into production so then, maybe, they can cover development costs. Most of them never reach this last stage and with luck, become patents so their owners can sue whoever solves the problems they didn't.
It makes a weird sound due, probably, to fluctuations in the clock.
But I agree, in order to have an audible frequency square wave, you will need to build a delay loop. There
You will need a real II to try this out. It worked in my Apple II, Unitron (II+ clone), Spectrum ED (//e clone) and CCE Exato, but not quite in my CCE Exato Pro (//e enhanced clone).
Someday I will resurrect them all.
I would think 10.24 a.k.a. Silvester.
Just as an interesting side note, the Windows defragmentation tool that comes with Windows since version 2000 is based on Diskeeper, from Executive Software.
Diskeeper has its origins on the VAX. It seems its file system needed at least two contiguous free blocks to create a new file, so, on highly fragmented volumes it could become impossible to create new files while it would be possible to extend old files.
I would think some older Unix file systems had the same problems with disks filled to near-capacity. I had horrendous problems back in 1996 with a Solaris workstation and a disk full situation.
And as a curiosity, a couple weeks back my Sony Ericsson P-800 died and had to be reset because its system volume was full. Although it has no disk (it's a phone!) the message I got was "disk full".
Wow! That's really, really, cool.
I think I will learn the gory details of X screen savers real soon.
They could release Electrapaint as free software...
The current equivalent I have isn't quite the same - It moves differently.
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Boy... I miss the Apple II days. 6502 rocks.
In my experience with 5.04, 5.10 and 6.06, they mature an incredible lot in the last few weeks. 5.10 was unusable a couple weeks before launch and 5.04 was not much better. 6.06 was a huge improvement (it became my main OS a full month before launch).
There is no reason to expect much difference for the next release. I assume it is more or less safe to use right now or will be very soon.
And, of course, since this is Slashdot, I must compare it with Vista pre-RC, which is also improving and is quite nice (for a Windows release, of course) about five months before release.
ISA means the instruction set. I seems all desktop computers currently being manufactured use the x86 ISA, even if they differ internally in the implementation.