Does terraforming need to be planned? Why not just simply tie its development to the colonisation of mars itself? Send some people over, and let them do whatever's necessary to keep living. Provide them with some initial form of habitation, and as the colony expands, it'll find its own ways of expanding. As long as technology keeps developing back here on earth, and they have their own people constantly working on the development of the colony, they'll find ways to continuously allow the colony to expand. After all, the whole point of terraforming is to make Mars habitable to humans, what better way of achieving it than by tying it to the colonisation itself?
Why do we need to fix earth? Just so long as it lasts out until we manage to get some other planets started up, there's no problem. Unfortunately, at our current rate of development, that's probably not overly likely. Our aim should be to not let the planet's environment degrade so much that it's unlivable. Apart from that, there's really no problem - earth's just a planet, there's plenty more out there.
What does Microsoft have to gain by putting antivirus and firewall companies out of business?. Their motivation is more likely to be trying to stop or at least slow down the constant waves of windows security exploits and viruses. They know they can't guaruntee that their software will be exploit free, so they're implementing preventative measures to their virus problems. There's nothing wrong with that.
Win98Lite is an app that removes all the extra system components (IE, etc) that Win98 insists on installing, but generally leaves you with a fully working system. Supposedly its faster, I personally never bothered with it.
What a load of crap! WinXP runs fine on my parents' P3-550, as well as my sister's Celeron-300. The Celeron isn't really any good for gaming, but the 550 runs any game predating 2003 fine (as well as some newer games). So long as the system has plenty of RAM (which is dirt cheap, even here in Australia), most systems handle XP fine.
Maybe the price falls in the US, here (in Australia) you're lucky for it to drop by $10au six months after the game's released. And despite our dollar having risen from.50usd to.78usd in the last year, the games still all cost around $90au (that used to be equivalent to just under $50usd, now it's about $70usd). Bloody publishers, no wonder piracy's so huge here.
IA32 may be obsolete, but the majority of software is still designed for it, and for many tasks it is still quite sufficient - The needs of the average desktop word Processing and web browsing system were reached years ago. That's not to say x86-64 isn't far better - it is, and the sooner it's implemented by intel, the better (I don't want an AMD monopoly, the same as I don't want an intel one). But as long as the majority of software is written for x86-32, it will still be a perfectly suitable architecture for most people's needs.
No, it didn't. OS/2 and NT are completely different products with a completely different code-base. As the parent said, Windows NT 3.1 was version-synced to fit with Windows 3.1. OS/2 was never called "OS/2 NT", and still had releases after OS/2 3.0.
It depends on what you mean by improve. If you always wear the glasses (or in the future, wear them as contacts or implant them into your eyes), then you've essentially integrated them into your memory system, thus improving it. It's not necessarily improving it in the sense that the slushy matter in your head gets better, but that isn't necessarily a prerequisite for "improvement". The improvement in this case is that overall, you will be able to better "remember" things. It's exactly the same as replacing any other defective or missing body part - a hip replacement may not "improve" your bones, but when needed it sure improves their ability to walk without pain.
If he can treat little kids the wa he does because he believes it is the right thing to do and he can't show any weakness, imagine how he's going to treat a "terrorist suspect". I'm sure we're going to end up safer from terrorists. But the collateral damage is likely to be huge.
The thing is, Australia has never had a terrorist problem. The only Australians killed by acts of terrorism were as targets outside our borders, or as 'collateral damage' in attacks directed against Americans, also outside of our borders. I felt perfectly safe from terrorists after the attacks on 11/09/2001, and continue to do so. A far more effective strategy against terrorism would probably have been to distance ourselves from American & British imperialism and align ourselves with the more neutral policies of mainland Europe and the United Nations.
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Either way, it makes the chip far more inflexible than a CPU with a separate external memory controller. Anyway, as the preliminary P4 EE benchmarks seem to show, a large cache can effectively make up for an external memory controller.
With DDR-II just around the corner, an on-chip memory controller's probably wasn't the smartest move for AMD. Either way, its going to be interesting to see how quickly/easily AMD are able to make use of new memory standards. My guess is that it's not going to be pretty.
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Actually, it's 512kb level 2, like a standard Northwood Pentium 4, with an additional 2MB of level 3 cache.
The effect of the extra cache should really help it against the A64's on-chip memory controller. Plus, it still allows the P4 to keep all the other advantages of a separate memory controller, such as being able to easily change the memory bus without CPU core changes. Where would the P4 be now if they originally designed it with an on-chip RAMBUS controller?
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Does terraforming need to be planned? Why not just simply tie its development to the colonisation of mars itself? Send some people over, and let them do whatever's necessary to keep living. Provide them with some initial form of habitation, and as the colony expands, it'll find its own ways of expanding. As long as technology keeps developing back here on earth, and they have their own people constantly working on the development of the colony, they'll find ways to continuously allow the colony to expand. After all, the whole point of terraforming is to make Mars habitable to humans, what better way of achieving it than by tying it to the colonisation itself?
Why do we need to fix earth? Just so long as it lasts out until we manage to get some other planets started up, there's no problem. Unfortunately, at our current rate of development, that's probably not overly likely. Our aim should be to not let the planet's environment degrade so much that it's unlivable. Apart from that, there's really no problem - earth's just a planet, there's plenty more out there.
What does Microsoft have to gain by putting antivirus and firewall companies out of business?. Their motivation is more likely to be trying to stop or at least slow down the constant waves of windows security exploits and viruses. They know they can't guaruntee that their software will be exploit free, so they're implementing preventative measures to their virus problems. There's nothing wrong with that.
Win98Lite is an app that removes all the extra system components (IE, etc) that Win98 insists on installing, but generally leaves you with a fully working system. Supposedly its faster, I personally never bothered with it.
What a load of crap! WinXP runs fine on my parents' P3-550, as well as my sister's Celeron-300. The Celeron isn't really any good for gaming, but the 550 runs any game predating 2003 fine (as well as some newer games). So long as the system has plenty of RAM (which is dirt cheap, even here in Australia), most systems handle XP fine.
Maybe the price falls in the US, here (in Australia) you're lucky for it to drop by $10au six months after the game's released. And despite our dollar having risen from .50usd to .78usd in the last year, the games still all cost around $90au (that used to be equivalent to just under $50usd, now it's about $70usd). Bloody publishers, no wonder piracy's so huge here.
IA32 may be obsolete, but the majority of software is still designed for it, and for many tasks it is still quite sufficient - The needs of the average desktop word Processing and web browsing system were reached years ago. That's not to say x86-64 isn't far better - it is, and the sooner it's implemented by intel, the better (I don't want an AMD monopoly, the same as I don't want an intel one). But as long as the majority of software is written for x86-32, it will still be a perfectly suitable architecture for most people's needs.
No, it didn't. OS/2 and NT are completely different products with a completely different code-base. As the parent said, Windows NT 3.1 was version-synced to fit with Windows 3.1. OS/2 was never called "OS/2 NT", and still had releases after OS/2 3.0.
Uncopyable? Nothing's uncopyable. Then how do you explain the LAN copy of my original sitting in my drawer?
It depends on what you mean by improve. If you always wear the glasses (or in the future, wear them as contacts or implant them into your eyes), then you've essentially integrated them into your memory system, thus improving it. It's not necessarily improving it in the sense that the slushy matter in your head gets better, but that isn't necessarily a prerequisite for "improvement". The improvement in this case is that overall, you will be able to better "remember" things. It's exactly the same as replacing any other defective or missing body part - a hip replacement may not "improve" your bones, but when needed it sure improves their ability to walk without pain.
If he can treat little kids the wa he does because he believes it is the right thing to do and he can't show any weakness, imagine how he's going to treat a "terrorist suspect". I'm sure we're going to end up safer from terrorists. But the collateral damage is likely to be huge.
The thing is, Australia has never had a terrorist problem. The only Australians killed by acts of terrorism were as targets outside our borders, or as 'collateral damage' in attacks directed against Americans, also outside of our borders. I felt perfectly safe from terrorists after the attacks on 11/09/2001, and continue to do so. A far more effective strategy against terrorism would probably have been to distance ourselves from American & British imperialism and align ourselves with the more neutral policies of mainland Europe and the United Nations.
Either way, it makes the chip far more inflexible than a CPU with a separate external memory controller. Anyway, as the preliminary P4 EE benchmarks seem to show, a large cache can effectively make up for an external memory controller.
With DDR-II just around the corner, an on-chip memory controller's probably wasn't the smartest move for AMD. Either way, its going to be interesting to see how quickly/easily AMD are able to make use of new memory standards. My guess is that it's not going to be pretty.
Actually, it's 512kb level 2, like a standard Northwood Pentium 4, with an additional 2MB of level 3 cache.
The effect of the extra cache should really help it against the A64's on-chip memory controller. Plus, it still allows the P4 to keep all the other advantages of a separate memory controller, such as being able to easily change the memory bus without CPU core changes. Where would the P4 be now if they originally designed it with an on-chip RAMBUS controller?