I'd wager that this is FX32! (allowed you to do the same on Alpha) reworked for the Itanium. Considering Intel purchased all Alpha related technology I would n't be surprised. This is not really that bad a thing since FX32 was quite good at what it did (within its limits).
In the UK you have to pay Road Tax so that you can use the puplic highways, however you are also taxed at over 300% on petrol (gas).
Of course the amount of money the government spends on roads etc does n't even come upto the amount taken in Road Tax..
As a side note the Duke of Westminster owns a large parts of Central London including the roads.
If your car has been converted to use liquid petrolium gas you dont have to pay. An LPG conversion costs around £1000 so it may or may not be worth it depending on your usage.
There are alot of places that still use NT4 and with MS EOL'ing it people will be forced to upgrade to Windows 2000. If this makes it easy for people to move over to Linux instead of Windows 2000 than all the better.
And what makes you think these kind of things don't happen in non-OSS projects? If this was a situation within a corporation where a member of a team was causing disruption they'd be sacked regardless how good they where.
Why not?
The scalable aspect means you would only have to supply one icon file for different resolutions. You could have applications where the proportions where exactly the same regardless of if the resolution was 800x600 or 1280x1024.
The Amiga and Ataris were always marketed as 16 bit machines at the time. Sure the CPU was 32 bit internally but for the Amiga atleast the CPU was only "half" the machine.
Thinkpads use lithium ion cells which have an average cycle life of only 500. You can get ones which reach upto 2000 cycles but they tend to be very specialized.
I've got a 560 and used it mainly connected to the mains. My battery died very fast as it seems the TP would keep the battery topped up even if you was using mains power. Upgrading to the latest BIOS fixed the problem but I still had to shell out for a new battery (as mentioned, not cheap).
However if you look at your typical C generated code asm code the load 32bit immediate requirement is statistically insignificant. And that is the purpose of RISC, keep the instruction decoder simple and optimize for the most common cases.
Yes you're right about that. The FTSE is a jointly owned by the FT and the LSE and is not that old (set up around 1995 I think) wherease the LSE is around 250 years old.
Not everyone is a mathmatician, infact (here in the UK atleast) a large number non business people know FT is short for Financial Times.. In fact the main UK stock exchange the FTSE is short for Financial Times Stock Exchange..
I was under the impression that there was competing "schools of thought" with regards to how extra preformance was to be gained as we start to hit the manufacturing "wall".
On one hand you have the VLIW type guys (or EPIC in intel speak) whereby you increase parallelism at the instruction level.. or the Multicore guys where you increase the number of number instructions executed by having multiple cores running different tasks.
Whilst in principle I've got no problems with merging the two, I get the impression that by going the dual core route Intel are admitting that they wont be-able to get the kind of performance out of EPIC that they where promising.
A flat tax is pretty much an income tax, I suspect the reason they did it was done is that since income tax aversion is so high in Russia it's easier to collect. Once people start paying taxes the Russians will start to milk the population with differential rates.
Actually the number one priority for the IMF is to make sure debts are paid. What normally happens is that there is a recession or some kind of financial crises regarding monetry policy (and in many cases caused by previous IMF policies such as currency pegs) or both.
The problem for these countries is that the IMF most of the time just goes in and raises taxes. Now if you are in a recession raising taxes is not going to encourage growth in fact the opposite, so you get into this downward spiral where you get less in tax revenue as a recession deepens therefore needing you to increase taxes even more.. eventually it all f'ks up and you end up calling in... yeap the IMF, whos cure is to increase the debt burden into order to pay debts.
You see the IMF will not lend you money in order to grow the economy, they lend in order to roll over debt. It is the World Bank that lends in order for growth.
The IMF gets called in since if the country does n't the interest rates they pay for money borrowed on the international markets rocket. It's kind of like a guarentee for lenders. If you don't play by the rules you end up like Argentina, which ironically until recently was an IMF "Success story".
The whole world economic system is based on debt and default means financial ruin. The IMF is there to make sure debts get paid regardless of the social costs. The problem is for every IMF success there are 10 other failures.
Of course it's not this simple, there are other factors such as politcal stability, corruption, external factors such as currency speculation, etc etc.. but the IMF "debt police" are always at hand to swoop in.
It sounds to me like an addiction, there's a supplier who wants to supply on their own terms and more than willing public who will lap it up because they "need" it.
Personally I dont really care about the PIAA/MPAA either way, just making an observation.
By "Europe" I mean the Council Of Europe which includes alot more countries than the EU. Russia suspended the use of the death penalty to join the CoE a few years back.
You're correct about the EU rules for accession, however Turkey had n't executed anyone since 1984 although it was still possible to be sentanced to death.
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I'd wager that this is FX32! (allowed you to do the same on Alpha) reworked for the Itanium. Considering Intel purchased all Alpha related technology I would n't be surprised. This is not really that bad a thing since FX32 was quite good at what it did (within its limits).
In the UK you have to pay Road Tax so that you can use the puplic highways, however you are also taxed at over 300% on petrol (gas). Of course the amount of money the government spends on roads etc does n't even come upto the amount taken in Road Tax.. As a side note the Duke of Westminster owns a large parts of Central London including the roads.
If your car has been converted to use liquid petrolium gas you dont have to pay. An LPG conversion costs around £1000 so it may or may not be worth it depending on your usage.
There are alot of places that still use NT4 and with MS EOL'ing it people will be forced to upgrade to Windows 2000. If this makes it easy for people to move over to Linux instead of Windows 2000 than all the better.
How is this music piracy if the company that is paying for the performance is the one selling the CD? Is paying money to the RIAA mandatory?
As far as I am aware, the fiscal year is always 365 days long so it begins on different days every year.
And what makes you think these kind of things don't happen in non-OSS projects? If this was a situation within a corporation where a member of a team was causing disruption they'd be sacked regardless how good they where.
But that's the point, you don't get 4 or 5 icons. If you're lucky you'ill get one "Small" and one "Large" icon.
Plus inside applications you tend to only get one size of icon regardless of screen resolution.
Why not? The scalable aspect means you would only have to supply one icon file for different resolutions. You could have applications where the proportions where exactly the same regardless of if the resolution was 800x600 or 1280x1024.
The Amiga and Ataris were always marketed as 16 bit machines at the time. Sure the CPU was 32 bit internally but for the Amiga atleast the CPU was only "half" the machine.
The power switch is also an IR window but I have to admit I was fooled by the indentation on the front.
Thinkpads use lithium ion cells which have an average cycle life of only 500. You can get ones which reach upto 2000 cycles but they tend to be very specialized.
I've got a 560 and used it mainly connected to the mains. My battery died very fast as it seems the TP would keep the battery topped up even if you was using mains power. Upgrading to the latest BIOS fixed the problem but I still had to shell out for a new battery (as mentioned, not cheap).
However if you look at your typical C generated code asm code the load 32bit immediate requirement is statistically insignificant. And that is the purpose of RISC, keep the instruction decoder simple and optimize for the most common cases.
Yes you're right about that. The FTSE is a jointly owned by the FT and the LSE and is not that old (set up around 1995 I think) wherease the LSE is around 250 years old.
Not everyone is a mathmatician, infact (here in the UK atleast) a large number non business people know FT is short for Financial Times.. In fact the main UK stock exchange the FTSE is short for Financial Times Stock Exchange..
Does n't Oracle have a similar clause saying you cant produce benchmark results for their database?
I was under the impression that there was competing "schools of thought" with regards to how extra preformance was to be gained as we start to hit the manufacturing "wall".
On one hand you have the VLIW type guys (or EPIC in intel speak) whereby you increase parallelism at the instruction level.. or the Multicore guys where you increase the number of number instructions executed by having multiple cores running different tasks.
Whilst in principle I've got no problems with merging the two, I get the impression that by going the dual core route Intel are admitting that they wont be-able to get the kind of performance out of EPIC that they where promising.
Just a thought to consider.
I've typed in sourceforget a number of times, until I remembered to not forget the correct spelling, ironic huh?
I can't believe that they link to a review quote by playboy on their main page.
:)
Actually it's not the link as such, its the fact that people actually DO read playboy articles
A flat tax is pretty much an income tax, I suspect the reason they did it was done is that since income tax aversion is so high in Russia it's easier to collect. Once people start paying taxes the Russians will start to milk the population with differential rates.
Actually the number one priority for the IMF is to make sure debts are paid. What normally happens is that there is a recession or some kind of financial crises regarding monetry policy (and in many cases caused by previous IMF policies such as currency pegs) or both.
The problem for these countries is that the IMF most of the time just goes in and raises taxes. Now if you are in a recession raising taxes is not going to encourage growth in fact the opposite, so you get into this downward spiral where you get less in tax revenue as a recession deepens therefore needing you to increase taxes even more.. eventually it all f'ks up and you end up calling in... yeap the IMF, whos cure is to increase the debt burden into order to pay debts.
You see the IMF will not lend you money in order to grow the economy, they lend in order to roll over debt. It is the World Bank that lends in order for growth.
The IMF gets called in since if the country does n't the interest rates they pay for money borrowed on the international markets rocket. It's kind of like a guarentee for lenders. If you don't play by the rules you end up like Argentina, which ironically until recently was an IMF "Success story".
The whole world economic system is based on debt and default means financial ruin. The IMF is there to make sure debts get paid regardless of the social costs. The problem is for every IMF success there are 10 other failures.
Of course it's not this simple, there are other factors such as politcal stability, corruption, external factors such as currency speculation, etc etc.. but the IMF "debt police" are always at hand to swoop in.
It sounds to me like an addiction, there's a supplier who wants to supply on their own terms and more than willing public who will lap it up because they "need" it.
Personally I dont really care about the PIAA/MPAA either way, just making an observation.
By "Europe" I mean the Council Of Europe which includes alot more countries than the EU. Russia suspended the use of the death penalty to join the CoE a few years back. You're correct about the EU rules for accession, however Turkey had n't executed anyone since 1984 although it was still possible to be sentanced to death.
As far as I know, no contries in Europe have the death penalty. However some countries have the "unless in times of war" caveat.