The article states that the Pentium M takes "the best of the P3 and the P4, but built from the ground up for mobile environments" and has a TDP of under 21-27W. The 1.6GHz Pentium M has performance better than the 2.4GHz P4 (IIRC although the P3 noticeably outperformed equally-clocked (early) P4s in certain cases, there was not *that* large a discrepancy; this therefore backs up the claim that a Pentium M is fundamentally different to both the P3 and P4).
For one thing, I'm not an American, and I don't live in the US- I'm Scottish.
Anyway, you're right. The current US administration is more nakedly about partisan self-interest and the arrogance of power than any so far.
If anyone wants to post a reply comparing the US (favourably) to the Chinese or North Korean regimes, well... duh. *Anyone* is going to look good against them- you don't even want to live in a country that needs North Korea to look good, and the US is nowhere near that bad. b
Mark my words, we'll be at war in North Korea within two years. Many (inc. me) observed the exact same thing with respect to Iraq.
Actually, when the US was gearing up for the invasion of Iraq, I remember thinking that they'd have a *heck* of a stronger case for invading North Korea.
Unfortunately, North Korea almost certainly *do* have WMDs, which makes them a lot more dangerous to invade (*that* is the irony); and that's not even starting on the massive risk to South Korea, or the danger from a Chinese response to such an invasion.
To be quite blunt, if it wasn't for such dangers, I'd have supported an invasion of North Korea.
The article is about researching how to build such systems out of cheap commodity parts, unlike the proprietary, often Windows-only parts found in laptop computers.
(The UK) Personal Computer World have an article in the current edition about using the 'Pentium M' processor in desktop machines. Mobos *are* available that support these (Abit IIRC); as well as adaptors that allow certain ordinary P4 motherboards to accept a Pentium M.
For my money, these look like a good compromise between the micro/nano-ATX mobos that take up little space and require no fans (no heatsink?), but have slow and un-upgradeable processors, and your average P4 system that sounds.... like a jet taking off.
As power requirements are low, I assume a low-powered silent power supply would do fine. I'd certainly consider this option for my next PC; I'm sick of the amount of noise my computer makes.
Actually, after I'd posted the message, I had second thoughts that I was feeding a troll, so the parent may have intentionally been veering offtopic.
But anyway, it wasn't a vi vs. Emacs thread. I said vi had a *reputation* for being arcane. I also said I disagreed and used vi as my text editor of choice, but that this *wasn't the point*.
Fact is, rightly or wrongly, it came across that the original poster was using vi's (not entirely fair) *reputation* to make text configging seem more arcane than it actually is.
Frankly, I'm not sure that mentioning the two editors in the same post is tantamount to inciting a flame war.
And, as one Slashdotter said, the old vi vs. Emacs holy war is pointless anyway. vi is better. (^_^)
Linux? If I have never have to use vi to set up a simple routing configuration again, it will be WAY too soon.
vi? Where do you *have* to use vi? Is it meant to stand for [any plaintext editor]?
Granted, editing text configs *can* be less friendly in certain situations (it can also be a lot more flexible and straightforward); but I guess invoking the name of vi (which has a reputation for being arcane) makes textual config sound more complex than it actually is.
I use and like vi in preference to Emacs (vi IMHO is less friendly on the surface, but more straightforward than Emacs once you know the basic keys). BUT.... we're discussing its reputation here, and it seems this is being exploited to make your case.
Don't like vi? Use a different editor, but don't try to rub vi's alleged arcaneness off onto text editing in general.
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I'll probably check that out; though I should make clear that I don't hate all ads- just pop-ups and animated banner ads.
Static or Google text-ads are fine...
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This is brilliant news!
Now instead of disabling the Macromedia Flash plug-in because I'm sick to the back teeth of crappy Flash ads, I can disable the free alternative instead.
I agree with you absolutely. The 'classic' Windows look is dull, ugly and dated; it's one of the reasons I disliked Windows 9x (though that was still better than 3.1's interface, which I loathed). All that ***** grey. Changing the colour scheme doesn't really improve things- it's dull.
Elegant, my arse. I'd rather have a modern, configurable interface, or failing that, something that resembled the 'classic' black/white Mac interface. But if that's the best MS can do, it's pathetic.
LOL, you hate the software and avoid it, because it crashed for you 3 years before? How pathetic.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
I hate the software and avoid it because it crashed the first time I used it. And again. And again. It crashed whenever I wanted to change the typeface in a document. In other words, I had to conciously try to avoid the problem area every time I used the damn thing and it *still* crashed.
That was a pretty fundamental bug to have slipped through testing. What did it say about the rest of the product? Not something I'd want to have to rely on.
It was the equivalent of coming to a job interview with ketchup stains all over your shirt. You can change the shirt if it affects your ability to do the job, but the fact you didn't bother in the first place gives a bad overall impression of your attitude/abilities.
You know something? If I had a good reason to, I'd probably have given it another go by now. But I have OOo, MS Word and LaTeX, and I can't be bothered. Yeah, I'm human; KWord failed me repeatedly when I didn't have time to waste, and unless there's a compelling reason to give it another go, I'm not wasting time with it.
Openoffice was only opened up after KOffice had started. I think without OOo linux office suites would actually be in a better place - koffice is cleaner, less bloated, and better documented
KOffice- or more specifically, KWord- crashed horribly on the few occasions I tried to use it (circa early 2002).
To be fair, this may have been a beta version, but I doubt it. And it happened when I was changing the font on a very basic document; the kind of bug you'd think would have been caught. Irritating as heck, especially 15 minutes before an assignment deadline.
I've avoided KOffice like the plague ever since. If OOo hadn't been available, I'd probably be rebooting into Windows to use MS Office a lot more often.
I wasn't particularly impressed with KWord's look-and-feel either; it felt slightly cheap for some reason. OTOH, that's a criticism I'd also apply to Windows XP; how on *earth* did MS end up designing something so toy-like and yet unprofessional-looking next to the Apple UI?
Me? I was genetically programmed to prefer Duracell over Energizer.
That's because you're a pink, fluffy, mechanical bunny.
The significant difference here isn't between Duracell and Energizer, it's between normal human beings (straight or gay) and toy bunnies (interested in having alkaline batteries shoved in their back orifice so they can hop around repetitively all day).
It also says they wanted Jason Connery to play Bond.
In the words of Linus Torvalds, "They are smoking crack".
But obviously not that much, because they shelved the idea. Wonder if it was because they reckoned they'd lose against MGM or because there's only so much you can wring out of the rights to a film that's already been made twice...
I'd love to see Connery reprise as James Bond called out of retirement for some emergency that needed his talent. Provided the script didn't suck.
Connery *did* do that in 1983, in "Never Say Never Again". This was essentially a remake of "Thunderball" with some mild comedy. Some guy had the (joint) rights to Thunderball due (IIRC) to some work he'd done on it with Fleming in the 1960s, and thus another company were able to make a Bond film without getting sued into oblivion by Eon productions (who made all the Bond films except this and the 1960s Casino Royale).
Unfortunately, it didn't "feel" very good; the music wasn't Bond, and many elements (including characters) from the Bond films didn't appear (or were different); presumably because Eon rather than Fleming had been responsible for those elements.
The subsequent increase in insurance costs would push commercialization of space back a decade or two.
Nah, it would push the USA's commercialisation of space back a decade or two. Other countries might be a bit behind the US currently, but they *are* going into space sooner or later, commercially or non-commercially.
Don't get me wrong; if the US was willing to go for space the way some other countries are, they'd probably be ahead for quite some time. But with the delays in the space programme, it looks like (e.g.) India and China (China in both a commercial and military sense) will start to catch up.
Rightly or wrongly, the Chinese government would not let a few deaths stop them from their attempted domination^w^w exploration of space, and it's my opinion that China will force the US back into serious space exploration in the same way that the USSR did in the 1960s.
It's actually a myth that servers overheat & melt down - the most that can happen is they get so overwhelmed with request they end up timing out far after an original request for page has occured, and are unable to serve current requests.
HERETIC! You'll be telling us that Cowboy Neal isn't Cmdr Taco's earthly incarnation next, or that the "Natalie Portman covered in hot grits" meme wasn't originally carved into the face of the earth by divine lightning. Or that the original 3 Star Wars films are no more than entertaining space flicks. (*)
Do NOT mess with/. mythology; they'll burn you at the stake for talk like that.
(*) Oh no! I think I already said that elsewhere... err, no I didn't, only, uh.. kidding... get away from me. No... No! NOOOOOOOO!
Needless to say, the Rexx team offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee uninstall Rexx from the machines and lets just say he's not with us anymore, because we had him killed.
Aaah... so *that's* what happens when programmers on those Russian-based DDOS attack blackmail schemes mess up. (^_^)
Seriously, funny twist on an otherwise cut-and-pasted troll article... you still deserve to stay at -1 though:-P
Everyone together now: Non-profit.
Once again: Non-profit.
Which doesn't mean they can't charge money for their services in order to support their activities.
So; what *exactly* are you trying to say in that deliberately simplistic manner? That those responsible for putting together such journals should be able to do so on an income of precisely $0?
Or perhaps the kid (who is probably quite a bit older and wiser now) was sick of Star Wars and wanted to put the whole damn thing behind him?
Or would he want to appear in a film series he had possibly grown to hate, with his name popping up every so often when the film was discussed, when it might have slipped into greater obscurity otherwise?
True music afficianados listen to Jimi Hendrix in non-remastered form.
I won't listen to his music in anything but the original Klingon.
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You do know of course that many of the finest mathematicians on the planet are Indian.
With respect, the population of India is absolutely massive, so of course there are going to be more great Indian mathematicians than those from Malta. (You don't need to be a great mathematician to figure that out;) )
That having been said; yes, the Indians do have a good reputation for mathematics and the like.
I can think of one other country that seems to have a disproportionate amount of technically gifted people... Iran.
Is it just me or do other people also find it disturbing that trekkies consider DS9 to be a reliable and reputable source of scientific information about wormholes?
I agree. DS9 hasn't been on TV for years; anything you learned from that is going to be out-of-date now.
I get all *my* scientific knowledge from 'Enterprise'...
Depends where you live. The street I grew up in *did* have adjacent numbers beside each other (although this is admittedly not the norm in Scotland).
I suspect that this is because the houses over the street may have been newer, or that they weren't terraced and thus wouldn't have lined up with those on the opposite side.
But that's not particularly relevant; what *is*, is that not all streets follow the odd/even sides rule.
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The article states that the Pentium M takes "the best of the P3 and the P4, but built from the ground up for mobile environments" and has a TDP of under 21-27W. The 1.6GHz Pentium M has performance better than the 2.4GHz P4 (IIRC although the P3 noticeably outperformed equally-clocked (early) P4s in certain cases, there was not *that* large a discrepancy; this therefore backs up the claim that a Pentium M is fundamentally different to both the P3 and P4).
'Your current administration'?
For one thing, I'm not an American, and I don't live in the US- I'm Scottish.
Anyway, you're right. The current US administration is more nakedly about partisan self-interest and the arrogance of power than any so far.
If anyone wants to post a reply comparing the US (favourably) to the Chinese or North Korean regimes, well... duh. *Anyone* is going to look good against them- you don't even want to live in a country that needs North Korea to look good, and the US is nowhere near that bad. b
Mark my words, we'll be at war in North Korea within two years. Many (inc. me) observed the exact same thing with respect to Iraq.
Actually, when the US was gearing up for the invasion of Iraq, I remember thinking that they'd have a *heck* of a stronger case for invading North Korea.
Unfortunately, North Korea almost certainly *do* have WMDs, which makes them a lot more dangerous to invade (*that* is the irony); and that's not even starting on the massive risk to South Korea, or the danger from a Chinese response to such an invasion.
To be quite blunt, if it wasn't for such dangers, I'd have supported an invasion of North Korea.
The article is about researching how to build such systems out of cheap commodity parts, unlike the proprietary, often Windows-only parts found in laptop computers.
(The UK) Personal Computer World have an article in the current edition about using the 'Pentium M' processor in desktop machines. Mobos *are* available that support these (Abit IIRC); as well as adaptors that allow certain ordinary P4 motherboards to accept a Pentium M.
For my money, these look like a good compromise between the micro/nano-ATX mobos that take up little space and require no fans (no heatsink?), but have slow and un-upgradeable processors, and your average P4 system that sounds.... like a jet taking off.
As power requirements are low, I assume a low-powered silent power supply would do fine. I'd certainly consider this option for my next PC; I'm sick of the amount of noise my computer makes.
Actually, after I'd posted the message, I had second thoughts that I was feeding a troll, so the parent may have intentionally been veering offtopic.
But anyway, it wasn't a vi vs. Emacs thread. I said vi had a *reputation* for being arcane. I also said I disagreed and used vi as my text editor of choice, but that this *wasn't the point*.
Fact is, rightly or wrongly, it came across that the original poster was using vi's (not entirely fair) *reputation* to make text configging seem more arcane than it actually is.
Frankly, I'm not sure that mentioning the two editors in the same post is tantamount to inciting a flame war.
And, as one Slashdotter said, the old vi vs. Emacs holy war is pointless anyway. vi is better. (^_^)
Linux? If I have never have to use vi to set up a simple routing configuration again, it will be WAY too soon.
vi? Where do you *have* to use vi? Is it meant to stand for [any plaintext editor]?
Granted, editing text configs *can* be less friendly in certain situations (it can also be a lot more flexible and straightforward); but I guess invoking the name of vi (which has a reputation for being arcane) makes textual config sound more complex than it actually is.
I use and like vi in preference to Emacs (vi IMHO is less friendly on the surface, but more straightforward than Emacs once you know the basic keys). BUT.... we're discussing its reputation here, and it seems this is being exploited to make your case.
Don't like vi? Use a different editor, but don't try to rub vi's alleged arcaneness off onto text editing in general.
I'll probably check that out; though I should make clear that I don't hate all ads- just pop-ups and animated banner ads.
Static or Google text-ads are fine...
This is brilliant news!
Now instead of disabling the Macromedia Flash plug-in because I'm sick to the back teeth of crappy Flash ads, I can disable the free alternative instead.
Yay! (^_^)
I agree with you absolutely. The 'classic' Windows look is dull, ugly and dated; it's one of the reasons I disliked Windows 9x (though that was still better than 3.1's interface, which I loathed). All that ***** grey. Changing the colour scheme doesn't really improve things- it's dull.
Elegant, my arse. I'd rather have a modern, configurable interface, or failing that, something that resembled the 'classic' black/white Mac interface. But if that's the best MS can do, it's pathetic.
LOL, you hate the software and avoid it, because it crashed for you 3 years before? How pathetic.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
I hate the software and avoid it because it crashed the first time I used it. And again. And again. It crashed whenever I wanted to change the typeface in a document. In other words, I had to conciously try to avoid the problem area every time I used the damn thing and it *still* crashed.
That was a pretty fundamental bug to have slipped through testing. What did it say about the rest of the product? Not something I'd want to have to rely on.
It was the equivalent of coming to a job interview with ketchup stains all over your shirt. You can change the shirt if it affects your ability to do the job, but the fact you didn't bother in the first place gives a bad overall impression of your attitude/abilities.
You know something? If I had a good reason to, I'd probably have given it another go by now. But I have OOo, MS Word and LaTeX, and I can't be bothered. Yeah, I'm human; KWord failed me repeatedly when I didn't have time to waste, and unless there's a compelling reason to give it another go, I'm not wasting time with it.
Openoffice was only opened up after KOffice had started. I think without OOo linux office suites would actually be in a better place - koffice is cleaner, less bloated, and better documented
KOffice- or more specifically, KWord- crashed horribly on the few occasions I tried to use it (circa early 2002).
To be fair, this may have been a beta version, but I doubt it. And it happened when I was changing the font on a very basic document; the kind of bug you'd think would have been caught. Irritating as heck, especially 15 minutes before an assignment deadline.
I've avoided KOffice like the plague ever since. If OOo hadn't been available, I'd probably be rebooting into Windows to use MS Office a lot more often.
I wasn't particularly impressed with KWord's look-and-feel either; it felt slightly cheap for some reason. OTOH, that's a criticism I'd also apply to Windows XP; how on *earth* did MS end up designing something so toy-like and yet unprofessional-looking next to the Apple UI?
Me? I was genetically programmed to prefer Duracell over Energizer.
That's because you're a pink, fluffy, mechanical bunny.
The significant difference here isn't between Duracell and Energizer, it's between normal human beings (straight or gay) and toy bunnies (interested in having alkaline batteries shoved in their back orifice so they can hop around repetitively all day).
It also says they wanted Jason Connery to play Bond.
In the words of Linus Torvalds, "They are smoking crack".
But obviously not that much, because they shelved the idea. Wonder if it was because they reckoned they'd lose against MGM or because there's only so much you can wring out of the rights to a film that's already been made twice...
I'd love to see Connery reprise as James Bond called out of retirement for some emergency that needed his talent. Provided the script didn't suck.
Connery *did* do that in 1983, in "Never Say Never Again". This was essentially a remake of "Thunderball" with some mild comedy. Some guy had the (joint) rights to Thunderball due (IIRC) to some work he'd done on it with Fleming in the 1960s, and thus another company were able to make a Bond film without getting sued into oblivion by Eon productions (who made all the Bond films except this and the 1960s Casino Royale).
Unfortunately, it didn't "feel" very good; the music wasn't Bond, and many elements (including characters) from the Bond films didn't appear (or were different); presumably because Eon rather than Fleming had been responsible for those elements.
The subsequent increase in insurance costs would push commercialization of space back a decade or two.
Nah, it would push the USA's commercialisation of space back a decade or two. Other countries might be a bit behind the US currently, but they *are* going into space sooner or later, commercially or non-commercially.
Don't get me wrong; if the US was willing to go for space the way some other countries are, they'd probably be ahead for quite some time. But with the delays in the space programme, it looks like (e.g.) India and China (China in both a commercial and military sense) will start to catch up.
Rightly or wrongly, the Chinese government would not let a few deaths stop them from their attempted domination^w^w exploration of space, and it's my opinion that China will force the US back into serious space exploration in the same way that the USSR did in the 1960s.
It's actually a myth that servers overheat & melt down - the most that can happen is they get so overwhelmed with request they end up timing out far after an original request for page has occured, and are unable to serve current requests.
/. mythology; they'll burn you at the stake for talk like that.
... get away from me. No... No! NOOOOOOOO!
HERETIC! You'll be telling us that Cowboy Neal isn't Cmdr Taco's earthly incarnation next, or that the "Natalie Portman covered in hot grits" meme wasn't originally carved into the face of the earth by divine lightning. Or that the original 3 Star Wars films are no more than entertaining space flicks. (*)
Do NOT mess with
(*) Oh no! I think I already said that elsewhere... err, no I didn't, only, uh.. kidding
Needless to say, the Rexx team offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee uninstall Rexx from the machines and lets just say he's not with us anymore, because we had him killed.
:-P
Aaah... so *that's* what happens when programmers on those Russian-based DDOS attack blackmail schemes mess up. (^_^)
Seriously, funny twist on an otherwise cut-and-pasted troll article... you still deserve to stay at -1 though
Everyone together now: Non-profit.
Once again: Non-profit.
Which doesn't mean they can't charge money for their services in order to support their activities.
So; what *exactly* are you trying to say in that deliberately simplistic manner? That those responsible for putting together such journals should be able to do so on an income of precisely $0?
Or perhaps the kid (who is probably quite a bit older and wiser now) was sick of Star Wars and wanted to put the whole damn thing behind him?
Or would he want to appear in a film series he had possibly grown to hate, with his name popping up every so often when the film was discussed, when it might have slipped into greater obscurity otherwise?
I'd have been more surprised if he'd accepted.
True music afficianados listen to Jimi Hendrix in non-remastered form.
I won't listen to his music in anything but the original Klingon.
You do know of course that many of the finest mathematicians on the planet are Indian.
;) )
With respect, the population of India is absolutely massive, so of course there are going to be more great Indian mathematicians than those from Malta. (You don't need to be a great mathematician to figure that out
That having been said; yes, the Indians do have a good reputation for mathematics and the like.
I can think of one other country that seems to have a disproportionate amount of technically gifted people... Iran.
Anyone want to take *that* ball and run with it?
Is it just me or do other people also find it disturbing that trekkies consider DS9 to be a reliable and reputable source of scientific information about wormholes?
I agree. DS9 hasn't been on TV for years; anything you learned from that is going to be out-of-date now.
I get all *my* scientific knowledge from 'Enterprise'...
wouldn't that be 668?
Depends where you live. The street I grew up in *did* have adjacent numbers beside each other (although this is admittedly not the norm in Scotland).
I suspect that this is because the houses over the street may have been newer, or that they weren't terraced and thus wouldn't have lined up with those on the opposite side.
But that's not particularly relevant; what *is*, is that not all streets follow the odd/even sides rule.
And if the resultant offspring is a jerk, can you tell it to go fuck itself?
I've never really 'got' Star Wars either (V and VI were entertaining films for me, but that's about it).
The parent comment is still pretty damn funny though. -1, indeed... get a life!