...when suddenly your kernel download and p0rn
surfing comes to a grinding halt because Road Warrior wants a 10-10 and a steak with all the
trimmings from Big Mama down at Tonys Truck Stop
when him and his 18 wheeler arrive there in
"t minus 10 woman!"
I can't believe you really said that. Yes the drivers will make mistakes if its a manual, drivers making mistakes is how races are won and lost!! Jesus christ , if you don't understand that you know zip about motorsport!
If gravity is space being warped , whats all this talk about gravitons that particle physicists keep coming up with? It seems to me that there seem to be 2 opposing branches of physics as far as what gravity is. Unless they're saying that gravitons are somehow quantized distortions of spacetime )as photons are quantized packets of energy). However that might work...
Yes you're right - with everything else being equal a larger engine with more cylinders will always
produce more power than a smaller one with fewer
cylinders. But in the real world we have detroit
churning out engines that have to have a huge capacity to generate any decent power because
they were designed around the same time that Fred
Flintstone was born.
If you took the same technology used on small jap engines and applied it to a detroit V8 not only would it probably double its power output but it
would probably get better mpg as well!
Besides which most japanese 4 cylinder turbo engines could smoke the lumps of prehistoric V6 & V8 iron that come out of detroit anyway.
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Yes those facts are all correct. And they would have been impressive in the high end workstation world about , oh , 5 years ago. Today they're pretty lame. I suggest you take a bus ride out of your toy computer ghetto and find out some facts about high end systems.
Its a trade off , yes powering on and off causes stresses but leaving it switched on all the time wears it out. So if you're going to use your PC in 30 mins and its already on you don't want to switch it off and on again , but if you're not going to use it for 2 months then why leave it on?
Besides which , all those PCs just cause more pollution at the power station even in standby mode.
Just how many people have their PCs online ALL THE TIME?? I have mine on for a few minutes , download my email , surf slashdot then disconnect. Then I do some work and maybe play a CD. If you keep your PC online the whole time you'll have far worse problems to worry about than some spyware CD program phoning home. For crying out loud , the solution is so simple , switch off your modems! Jeez...
Readability is the province of source code , once the code is compiled any formatting and/or comments are lost so that point is irrelevant. Maintainable yes is valid, but how maintainable is program that has 10 megs of code no matter how modularised it is? I'd sooner try and maintain a 2K assembler sphagetti code app than a 10 meg monster bloatware app. I won't deny that an increase in computer power allows coders to put in extra features and take up more space than they would have done previously , and obviously the CPU word size makes a difference to the size of a binary too , but really , does a word processor *really* need 100 megs of free space on a disk to install? I don't think so. Its simply the coders and designers being lazy and just throwing in everything and not optimising. Hence these days you need machine running at a few hundred Mhz minimum to get any sort of performance out of straight forward office applications , never mind specialist ones.
Problem is that this joke was never that funny in the first place. If it barely even raised a grin for a few seconds I'd ba amazed. Now its just the last resort of losers who can't think of anything else to post.
It does annoy me that people , even though its in good humour , snigger at these old machines with their "paltry" 2K memory and slow speed. Yeah , sure they're not exactly a Cray. But look at what was done with this one. Skyscraper design , cloud droplet simulation, antenna design! Lets see even the best programmers used to point and drool GUI interfaces and hand holding wizards try and do that in 2K now using little more than paper tape!
The people who designed, built and programmed these machines REALLY knew what they were doing and probably forgot more about efficient programming and code compression than todays "top" coders ever knew in the first place.
I'm not saying its broken , its just far too complex. I'm sure it would work very well if set up probably , but getting it set up probably is a
monumental task. Being a network admin is hard enough without having to worry about all the new issues that IP6 brings to the table which for 99% of companies and home users are irrelevant anyway.
And yes there is a common posix interface for ip4 and 6 but the standard C API is not everything. I've recently had to write a network protocol and part of this required sending orginating user IP addresses in our packets. This meant reserving 16 bytes of space in packets in case we ever upgrade from just ip4 which only requires 4 bytes. Plus ip6 addresses have to be stored in an array , not a simple unsigned int making life a lot harder on low level coders like myself.
I agree about the IP6 thing. Its far too complex compared to IP4 which makes programmers and network admins lives a total pain plus as you say NAT solves the main issue that IP6 was created to address (excuse the pun), ie running out of IP addresses. Having had the misfortune to try and set up IP6 I can safely say it should be back in the lab being sorted out , it sure isn't ready for prime time yet unless you have a Phd in network engineering.
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Yes , a secure connection is nice to have , but it can all be done at a higher level just as well. It just puts an unnecessary overhead on routers and the low level drivers if its built into IP not to mention a far greater scope for bugs. If you follow that route why not just take it one layer further down and build encryption into ethernet or PPP frames ? At least that way it could be implemented in hardware and be far quicker. I get the feeling that when IP6 was designed they paid just as much attention to what they thought was "cool" as to what was actually required and the consequence is the bloated monstrosity that no network admin wants to touch with a 10 foot pole.
With the amount of re-coding that will have to be done to applications on all OS's plus changes to the OS's themselves plus the fact that IP6 addresses are an absolute pig means that it will be a LONG time coming and IMO I'm not sure it will ever arrive in its current form. Personally having dabbled in setting it up on Linux & BSD and having written network code to support it I think its just TOO complex with far to much put into the low level protocol. IP should be about transfering packets , period , it shouldn't have security and all the other higher level stuff built in.
Well the bank I work for runs its trading and reporting systems on Solaris, the London Clearing House runs everything on Solaris and UBS runs almost its entire operation under HP-UX. Yes a lot og banks still use big iron but unix is slowly taking over a lot of sites.
You and lots of other people on here seem to forget an obvious point. The content is theirs. Ok? They paid possibly 100s of millions of dollars to create that film or album etc and they OWN it. Just because you went down K-mart and paid 10.99 for the CD or DVD doesn't mean you get full rights over what you can do with it. Protecting intellectual property which is what they're doing is the EXACT OPPOSITE of communism and if you don't understand that you should go take some politics classes. Remember , you have the option not to buy any of their product. If it really bugs you so much go buy a copy of some 16mm film made by Josepee the goatherd and his friends up some alpine hill...
Most *nix systems have used for enterprise class systems for well over 20 years so how you can say its they're not suited to that use god alone knows. Yes there are still plenty of mainframes and minis around but plenty of banks bet the company on Solaris or HP-UX or AIX. None would do the same with windows (or to be honest with Linux or *BSD).
Yeah , right on comrade! Just a quick reality check - no more big corps = no more big money = no more blockbusters. unless of course you want artists to be funded by taxes. Some small budget films / albums might be ok but 99% of them suck. Try watching a low budget euro film and you'll see the true meaning of crap. (And I'm european btw)
OK , now lets move out of toytown PC land and into the high end world where 99.999% uptime is required. PC architecture just doesn't cut it here (nothing to do with the CPU I should add) simply because the reliability and failover abilities of PC hardware (motherboard components , hard drives etc) simply isn't up to the job yet. PA-RISC powers HP's unix servers. Saying that its dead because it doesn't have a version of Windows on it I'm afraid is laughable.
When was the last time Windows booted on an AS/400 or an S/390 or a Cray? Are they dead yet?
I'm not trolling or having a standard issue pop at Microsoft when I say that Windows is for low power consumer machines , it is NOT for high end ultra - reliable systems.
The ONLY reason HP are moving over to Itanium is shared cost and potential performance benefits though IMO Itanium is yet unproven and dumping PA-RISC is premature.
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...when suddenly your kernel download and p0rn surfing comes to a grinding halt because Road Warrior wants a 10-10 and a steak with all the trimmings from Big Mama down at Tonys Truck Stop when him and his 18 wheeler arrive there in "t minus 10 woman!"
I can't believe you really said that. Yes the drivers will make mistakes if its a manual, drivers making mistakes is how races are won and lost!! Jesus christ , if you don't understand that you know zip about motorsport!
700hp? This season the engines were pushing 850+! Next season I wouldn't be surprised if they go over the 900hp mark.
If gravity is space being warped , whats all this talk about gravitons that particle physicists keep coming up with? It seems to me that there seem to be 2 opposing branches of physics as far as what gravity is. Unless they're saying that gravitons are somehow quantized distortions of spacetime )as photons are quantized packets of energy). However that might work...
Yes you're right - with everything else being equal a larger engine with more cylinders will always produce more power than a smaller one with fewer cylinders. But in the real world we have detroit churning out engines that have to have a huge capacity to generate any decent power because they were designed around the same time that Fred Flintstone was born. If you took the same technology used on small jap engines and applied it to a detroit V8 not only would it probably double its power output but it would probably get better mpg as well!
Besides which most japanese 4 cylinder turbo engines could smoke the lumps of prehistoric V6 & V8 iron that come out of detroit anyway.
Yes those facts are all correct. And they would have been impressive in the high end workstation world about , oh , 5 years ago. Today they're pretty lame. I suggest you take a bus ride out of your toy computer ghetto and find out some facts about high end systems.
Its a trade off , yes powering on and off causes stresses but leaving it switched on all the time wears it out. So if you're going to use your PC in 30 mins and its already on you don't want to switch it off and on again , but if you're not going to use it for 2 months then why leave it on? Besides which , all those PCs just cause more pollution at the power station even in standby mode.
Yeah , and everyone has broadband don't they! Not! Besides , doesn't your cable modem have an off switch ??
Just how many people have their PCs online ALL THE TIME?? I have mine on for a few minutes , download my email , surf slashdot then disconnect. Then I do some work and maybe play a CD. If you keep your PC online the whole time you'll have far worse problems to worry about than some spyware CD program phoning home. For crying out loud , the solution is so simple , switch off your modems! Jeez...
Readability is the province of source code , once the code is compiled any formatting and/or comments are lost so that point is irrelevant. Maintainable yes is valid, but how maintainable is program that has 10 megs of code no matter how modularised it is? I'd sooner try and maintain a 2K assembler sphagetti code app than a 10 meg monster bloatware app. I won't deny that an increase in computer power allows coders to put in extra features and take up more space than they would have done previously , and obviously the CPU word size makes a difference to the size of a binary too , but really , does a word processor *really* need 100 megs of free space on a disk to install? I don't think so. Its simply the coders and designers being lazy and just throwing in everything and not optimising. Hence these days you need machine running at a few hundred Mhz minimum to get any sort of performance out of straight forward office applications , never mind specialist ones.
In reply I would merely point you to the bloatware that exists today on all systems. You call that the work of efficient (read good) coders? I don't.
Problem is that this joke was never that funny in the first place. If it barely even raised a grin for a few seconds I'd ba amazed. Now its just the last resort of losers who can't think of anything else to post.
It does annoy me that people , even though its in good humour , snigger at these old machines with their "paltry" 2K memory and slow speed. Yeah , sure they're not exactly a Cray. But look at what was done with this one. Skyscraper design , cloud droplet simulation, antenna design! Lets see even the best programmers used to point and drool GUI interfaces and hand holding wizards try and do that in 2K now using little more than paper tape! The people who designed, built and programmed these machines REALLY knew what they were doing and probably forgot more about efficient programming and code compression than todays "top" coders ever knew in the first place.
Give it a rest guys , the gag has been flogged to death and more. Its gone past the boring stage and is well into the damn irritating stage.
No they can't confirm. Because they ran at 4Mhz.
I'm not saying its broken , its just far too complex. I'm sure it would work very well if set up probably , but getting it set up probably is a monumental task. Being a network admin is hard enough without having to worry about all the new issues that IP6 brings to the table which for 99% of companies and home users are irrelevant anyway. And yes there is a common posix interface for ip4 and 6 but the standard C API is not everything. I've recently had to write a network protocol and part of this required sending orginating user IP addresses in our packets. This meant reserving 16 bytes of space in packets in case we ever upgrade from just ip4 which only requires 4 bytes. Plus ip6 addresses have to be stored in an array , not a simple unsigned int making life a lot harder on low level coders like myself.
I agree about the IP6 thing. Its far too complex compared to IP4 which makes programmers and network admins lives a total pain plus as you say NAT solves the main issue that IP6 was created to address (excuse the pun), ie running out of IP addresses. Having had the misfortune to try and set up IP6 I can safely say it should be back in the lab being sorted out , it sure isn't ready for prime time yet unless you have a Phd in network engineering.
Yes , a secure connection is nice to have , but it can all be done at a higher level just as well. It just puts an unnecessary overhead on routers and the low level drivers if its built into IP not to mention a far greater scope for bugs. If you follow that route why not just take it one layer further down and build encryption into ethernet or PPP frames ? At least that way it could be implemented in hardware and be far quicker. I get the feeling that when IP6 was designed they paid just as much attention to what they thought was "cool" as to what was actually required and the consequence is the bloated monstrosity that no network admin wants to touch with a 10 foot pole.
With the amount of re-coding that will have to be done to applications on all OS's plus changes to the OS's themselves plus the fact that IP6 addresses are an absolute pig means that it will be a LONG time coming and IMO I'm not sure it will ever arrive in its current form. Personally having dabbled in setting it up on Linux & BSD and having written network code to support it I think its just TOO complex with far to much put into the low level protocol. IP should be about transfering packets , period , it shouldn't have security and all the other higher level stuff built in.
Well the bank I work for runs its trading and reporting systems on Solaris, the London Clearing House runs everything on Solaris and UBS runs almost its entire operation under HP-UX. Yes a lot og banks still use big iron but unix is slowly taking over a lot of sites.
You and lots of other people on here seem to forget an obvious point. The content is theirs. Ok? They paid possibly 100s of millions of dollars to create that film or album etc and they OWN it. Just because you went down K-mart and paid 10.99 for the CD or DVD doesn't mean you get full rights over what you can do with it. Protecting intellectual property which is what they're doing is the EXACT OPPOSITE of communism and if you don't understand that you should go take some politics classes. Remember , you have the option not to buy any of their product. If it really bugs you so much go buy a copy of some 16mm film made by Josepee the goatherd and his friends up some alpine hill...
Most *nix systems have used for enterprise class systems for well over 20 years so how you can say its they're not suited to that use god alone knows. Yes there are still plenty of mainframes and minis around but plenty of banks bet the company on Solaris or HP-UX or AIX. None would do the same with windows (or to be honest with Linux or *BSD).
Yeah , right on comrade! Just a quick reality check - no more big corps = no more big money = no more blockbusters. unless of course you want artists to be funded by taxes. Some small budget films / albums might be ok but 99% of them suck. Try watching a low budget euro film and you'll see the true meaning of crap. (And I'm european btw)
OK , now lets move out of toytown PC land and into the high end world where 99.999% uptime is required. PC architecture just doesn't cut it here (nothing to do with the CPU I should add) simply because the reliability and failover abilities of PC hardware (motherboard components , hard drives etc) simply isn't up to the job yet. PA-RISC powers HP's unix servers. Saying that its dead because it doesn't have a version of Windows on it I'm afraid is laughable. When was the last time Windows booted on an AS/400 or an S/390 or a Cray? Are they dead yet? I'm not trolling or having a standard issue pop at Microsoft when I say that Windows is for low power consumer machines , it is NOT for high end ultra - reliable systems. The ONLY reason HP are moving over to Itanium is shared cost and potential performance benefits though IMO Itanium is yet unproven and dumping PA-RISC is premature.