Well I think the P4 has less cylinders because it does less per CPU cycle so it needs a higher clock (it needs to rev higher). It's like a Honda engine, but the AMD is more like a higher cylinder engine where it revs less but puts out plenty of torque.
They use the marketing to show that their chips perform similar to Intel ones even though they're at a lower clock speed. Intel's P4 is designed to clock high and need to be clocked high as it can't do as much per cycle as the AMD.
Imagine the situation where car buyers only looked at the CC of the engine to determine how fast it would go, the AMD car would be a 2 litre but the Intel car would be 2.8 or something. So buyers would choose the Intel. Except the Intel engine has 4 cylinders and the AMD has 6 etc...
Big companies do buy competitors products, strip them down an analyse what they have used and how much it costs etc... I'm sure they also have experts that advice them on what they can get away with doing in regard to copying their ideas.
Not to mention that the ROC system itself will need to be rock solid. It's no good to have a recovery system that needs to recover itself, which would then recover itself and so on:)
Ooo bad people, you shouldn't write software for the XBox to make it do nice things as you're breaking laws:)....and they say a Microsoft monopoly doesn't stifle innovation? at least the PS2 has a Linux kit which will allow some development to take place.
Such as watching DVD movies on operating systems with no DVD playing software. Where as spamming is always a pain in the butt.
Before DeCSS you would not be able to watch a DVD on Linux. Before spamming it was possible to let kids use email with no fears of them seeing obscene things, you can't now. Which is the biggest menace, I'll let you decide.
Most organisations have something in place for power failures, the disk write would occur immediately when this occurs. As for other system failure, you're likely to lose or corrupt data in these instances anyway. Like I said, i'm no expert:)
Actually the Nokia 9210, 7650 and 3650 use very good batteries that last quite a long time. The reason is probably the low clock speed on these devices, on the 9210 it's around 66MHz.
These aren't PocketPC battery sapping PDAs. Symbian is a much more compact OS and has a long heritage with ARM processors. It needs more programmer effort, unlike Windows CE which is designed to be familiar to exisiting Windows programmers.
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I find it amazing that consoles can use new storage technologies yet nobody has set about creating a small high capacity disc for music.
A new audio format could use encryption, then CD could wither and die, no more RIAA whinging.
Produce a language without some rules and you would end up with even messier code.
I wish some higher level languages would force the use of comments in code, make it part of the declaration for a class or function.
Back problems didn't stop Orlando Bloom from doing Lord of the Rings. He actually broke his back too.
Except that cars are marked with their engine CC not their rev limit.
In my original post I was referring more to the markings on cars.
People do look at engine sizes when really they need to be looking at power to weight ratio.
Well I think the P4 has less cylinders because it does less per CPU cycle so it needs a higher clock (it needs to rev higher). It's like a Honda engine, but the AMD is more like a higher cylinder engine where it revs less but puts out plenty of torque.
They use the marketing to show that their chips perform similar to Intel ones even though they're at a lower clock speed. Intel's P4 is designed to clock high and need to be clocked high as it can't do as much per cycle as the AMD.
Imagine the situation where car buyers only looked at the CC of the engine to determine how fast it would go, the AMD car would be a 2 litre but the Intel car would be 2.8 or something. So buyers would choose the Intel. Except the Intel engine has 4 cylinders and the AMD has 6 etc...
Sounds good to me:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxdk/
Stuffing all the latest Microsoft bugfixes would be more than useful.
I'm pretty sure most will agree they're a big cost to the environment.
Perhaps they should put some silver stuff over the serial number. Welcome to the Intel Itanium scratchcard lotto, those with bad chips win a new one :)
Big companies do buy competitors products, strip them down an analyse what they have used and how much it costs etc... I'm sure they also have experts that advice them on what they can get away with doing in regard to copying their ideas.
Not to mention that the ROC system itself will need to be rock solid. It's no good to have a recovery system that needs to recover itself, which would then recover itself and so on :)
Doh totally misread the subject line, that's it I'm off to bed.
Ooo bad people, you shouldn't write software for the XBox to make it do nice things as you're breaking laws :) ....and they say a Microsoft monopoly doesn't stifle innovation? at least the PS2 has a Linux kit which will allow some development to take place.
Yeh, but a dreamcast only has about 16MB of RAM.
Flash memory has a limited number of write cycles, I hope you have done as much as possible to minimise write cycles?
Such as watching DVD movies on operating systems with no DVD playing software. Where as spamming is always a pain in the butt.
Before DeCSS you would not be able to watch a DVD on Linux. Before spamming it was possible to let kids use email with no fears of them seeing obscene things, you can't now. Which is the biggest menace, I'll let you decide.
I don't suppose the RIAA care about Macs :)
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Automount.html
Which is why RedHat is Oracle's choice of a database OS.
Linux covers a wide variety of distributions, you can't tell me that Debian or Slackware aren't stable reliable Linux distros.
What's all this maintainence you are referring to? sounds like biased FUD to me.
Most organisations have something in place for power failures, the disk write would occur immediately when this occurs. As for other system failure, you're likely to lose or corrupt data in these instances anyway. Like I said, i'm no expert :)
It's all hype for those with the money to buy it.
If your hifi is in a room that's acoustically bad then wear headphones or fix the room.
B&O make fantastic TVs though, the picture quality of their avant widescreen is superb and has to be the best I've seen.
Actually the Nokia 9210, 7650 and 3650 use very good batteries that last quite a long time. The reason is probably the low clock speed on these devices, on the 9210 it's around 66MHz.
These aren't PocketPC battery sapping PDAs. Symbian is a much more compact OS and has a long heritage with ARM processors. It needs more programmer effort, unlike Windows CE which is designed to be familiar to exisiting Windows programmers.
RAID? clustering? I'm no expert unfortunately. I guess you would schedule such operations to occur in the early hours.