Though in theory the Niagra design is another CMT implementation, its the implementation that is the crux here. CMT theory, has been worked around in academia since 6-8 years I think.
Here is a very informative article on the Niagara design.
For the lazy some main points from the article.
- The Pentium 4 is a single core dual threaded CMT implementation. The Niagara has 8 cores and each core is capable of executing 4 threads.
- Depending on the model of the application that is executing, a programmer can choose to either utilize it as a single process with multiple threads each mapped on to a hardware thread or as multiple processes mapped to hardware threads. Apart from this, individual cores can also be assigned to an individual process, adding one more level of flexibility.
- Sharing data between threads on the same core is an L1 read and is extremely fast. Sharing data among threads on separate cores is an L2 read (since L2 is shared among cores)
- The new chip provides a lot of flexibility in terms of how the programmer wants to allocates hardware threads across software processes or threads. But it looks like programming on it will be difficult unless the operating system provides very good support for it.
Heck it is supposed to treat blacks and whites equally. India to its credit has had a muslim president and a female prime minister.
Not to mention that as recently as last year, it was to have a lady prime minister who is of Italian birth. And a current prime minister who is from a minority group - Manmohan Singh.
Actually, from what I understand, opening up its design is what has caused this problem in the first case. M$ decided that it wanted to get into the media streaming business in a big way. They want everyone to use WMV. So they go after customers. Many of the customers wanted it to be at least an industry standard before they go for it. So MS tries to standardize it. They enter standardization forums and bully their way through the forums trying to force everyone to accept WMV as a standard. The current players in the standards field have been playing since the days of MPEG-1 (Sony, Thomson, Philips etc..), so they are really pissed off by Microsofts bullish attitude. Microsoft finally submits its WMV/VC-1 designs for preusal. Since all MS stuff was a proprietary closed standard before, nobody knew what was in it. Now that it has been opened up, all the major companies are saying "Wait-a-minute. Isnt that the motion-estimation algorithm? Looks like you owe us a lot of money Mister." And so what started out to be a simple issue of opening up WMV for standardisation ends up being a pain for Microsoft. Of course this is probably a gross simplification of the issue, but thats what it roughly looks like.
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To date I have not been able to get any software updates for my firefox browser since I downloaded it. Does anyone know if the software update works properly at all?
Check map24.com. Its got a lot of the features that you need (though not all..) Among other features you can plan a route where you can stop at the pharmacy while on your way to work from home and it will give you options to select the type of route that you want. You can even give the speeds that you think you can travel over various types of roads (say some highway is crowded and you cant go over 20 miles/hr on that highway..) and recalculate the fastest route possible..
Microsoft's in an interesting position. They can't really take advantage of their OS they way they did to wipe out Netscape.
Not sure if you have been reading the news off late. But everyone is trying to get their search technology on the desktop - rather than a web browser. Google did it with their desktop search tool. Yahoo is trying to do it. Now who do you think is in a better position to do that other than the people who OWN the desktop. Be sure that Microsoft is going to link its file search ( think - search on the web simultaneously..) in Longhorn with Microsoft Search. If it becomes as transparent as that, people wont care two hoots if it is google providing the search or if it is Microsoft as long as the search results are half ass relevant.
I heard from a friend that all those ads that you see on mistyped URL web pages are actually big business. A lot of people actually click on those links and use the fake search button. None of the geeks maybe, but people do. ( I heard this from a friend who works at google.) ( Even if you dont believe me, why do you think there are such a large number of mistyped URL sites with weird searches and links. Obviously because there must be some money in it, right? ) The immediate use of being a domain name registrar would then be: Have a large number of domains for sale, and at the same time use the idle sites to get ad hits. Win-win situation for google methinks for a small amount of money.
Since we usually access the bracket(round, square and angle) keys and the + - = ! / * symbols often, would'nt it make sense to come up with a keyboard layout that has those keys at more accessible locations... I think the most irritating thing while typing code is having to use the shift keys to type any kind of a bracket, even though brackets are so common in code. Also all brackets are located on the same side, so it becomes all the more tiring to type both the brackets with the same hand while typing...
Not sure if the alternative keyboards address these issues. If they do, maybe it is worth a try..
PEOPLE! For gods sake its a sub 500 headless box and nothing more. If they wanted it to be a media center they would have said so. Its not like Apple will market a product below its actual capabilities..
No. This is only proof that Google Pagerank algorithm tends to favour the anti-chinese sites since they are more linked to on the web. Accoona may not have a page rank algorithm at all to decide which sites to show first. For instance if I put http://www.accoona.com/search?col=mc&qt=Tibetan+go vernment+in+exile as the search query then the exiled government website does appear as the 3rd result listed. Theres no controversy here.. Just different technologies.
I tried spybot and adaware and they were not able to remove some really nasty ones like "webrebates0.exe". So then I went to www.iamnotageek.com which seems to list removal instructions for a large number of spyware and adware stuff. I had to remove a lot of them manually. I think that seems the only way to really clean them out. Oh yeah.. I did try hijackthis as well but that reports a lot of false positives. You still have to go to some site like iamnotageek to check if the program/registry entries reported are malicious or not.
Interesting thing about some of the programs running was that they had 2 copies of the executables running - eg. webrebates0.exe and webrebates1.exe. If you kill one and not the other, then the other seems to spawn the killed application again. Killing both of them in a short span of time seemed to take care of the problem.. (Oh yeah some of them may have more than 2 executables running.. Be sure to kill all of them. iamnotageek lists all programs and program names that are associated with a particular spyware. So use that as a guide when killing processes.)
Points to remember for manual cleanup: be sure to clean the registry entries from the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\cur rentversion\run\" section so they dont get spawned during startup, be sure to unregister the dlls and finally remove the install directories/files completely. Of course after everything is done, install SP2 and preferrably switch to firefox/mozilla.
One big thing that people dont realize is that google is NOT a news reporting company. It does not want to be associated with the responsibilities of a good press reporting source. So why blame Google for being spineless? (To people in China.. and everywhere else really...) If you want good responsible uncensored news go to some other site. Dont go to Google.
I think everyone wants Google to adorn the role of the clean sheet conscientious company that does no evil. So for all you cinderella afficionados.. Google is still your corporation on a white horse since they arent doing anything wrong here. Just that they may not necessarily look good if they sit on a camel.. For the others.. its life as usual.. Nothing to see here.
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Try editing a file using vim remotely. You will instantly realize why Sun has vi as a default editor. You may suffer the wait difference between vim and vi once or twice. But try an exercise where you are editing 10-15 files on a remote server possibly over a dialup connection. vi is just right for what it was meant to be - a fast and efficient text editor. If you depend on vim so much - you are screwed if you are working on a machine that doesnt have your.vimrc or even worse, if you depend on vim plugins. I love and use vim, but I know that I always still want access to vi when I am doing quick admin changes to many files.
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In order to enforce content viewing limits, we must keep track of page views by users. We do not associate any of your searches, or the specific pages you view, with personally identifiable information about you, such as your name or address. We're only concerned with the number of pages you've viewed in the particular book you're looking at. As always, we strongly encourage you to read our Privacy Policy (and everyone else's) to be fully informed about how your confidentiality is protected.
Did anyone else think that the baby seemed to communicate a little too reasonably for a baby that small? (laughing when a leaf fell on its head, or when the lady blows his hair) There also seemed to be something wrong in the proportion of the head to the rest of the body.
(As for the argument that among 6 billion people there is a baby that has those proportions and reactions.. Sure there maybe. But that baby would either be extraordinary or abnormal.. I doubt if the artist is trying to capture that in this film..)
Its also likely is that it was leaked by the network to ensure that there is enough hype before the show airs. I am betting the advertisers are lining up outside the networks offices for slots on the show in which Ken Jennings supposedly loses.
The Token card system seems pretty safe. You cant get the card to generate a number unless you know the password for the card, so that even if someone steals the token card theres not much he/she can do without the password. And of course the card generates one time use passwords. Apart from the obvious advantage that no one can technically "steal" your password by listening in on the wire, it also takes away the onus of you having to remember your passwords/password generation algorithms. On the down side, if someone tampers/steals your token card, you will have to wait till a new one arrives before you do anything. Thats slightly inconvenient but I can live with it..
Out of habbit I'll go and highlight the current URL and control+v what I assume I'm pasteing... and end up with the same URL that I started with.
In Mozilla, an easy way to delete the current URL without selecting it is to do a Alt-D followed by a Ctrl+Backspace. Then you can do a middle click to paste the new URL in the cleared space.
I believe that the Unix versions of Mozilla purposely do not select the content of the address bar when you do a Alt+D (as compared to windows where an Alt+D selects the content in the Address bar) so that you do not end up accidentally erasing out out the content of your copy buffer.
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Though in theory the Niagra design is another CMT implementation, its the implementation that is the crux here. CMT theory, has been worked around in academia since 6-8 years I think.
Here is a very informative article on the Niagara design.
For the lazy some main points from the article.
- The Pentium 4 is a single core dual threaded CMT implementation. The Niagara has 8 cores and each core is capable of executing 4 threads.
- Depending on the model of the application that is executing, a programmer can choose to either utilize it as a single process with multiple threads each mapped on to a hardware thread or as multiple processes mapped to hardware threads. Apart from this, individual cores can also be assigned to an individual process, adding one more level of flexibility.
- Sharing data between threads on the same core is an L1 read and is extremely fast. Sharing data among threads on separate cores is an L2 read (since L2 is shared among cores)
- The new chip provides a lot of flexibility in terms of how the programmer wants to allocates hardware threads across software processes or threads. But it looks like programming on it will be difficult unless the operating system provides very good support for it.
Heck it is supposed to treat blacks and whites equally. India to its credit has had a muslim president and a female prime minister.
Not to mention that as recently as last year, it was to have a lady prime minister who is of Italian birth. And a current prime minister who is from a minority group - Manmohan Singh.
Actually, from what I understand, opening up its design is what has caused this problem in the first case. M$ decided that it wanted to get into the media streaming business in a big way. They want everyone to use WMV. So they go after customers. Many of the customers wanted it to be at least an industry standard before they go for it. So MS tries to standardize it. They enter standardization forums and bully their way through the forums trying to force everyone to accept WMV as a standard. The current players in the standards field have been playing since the days of MPEG-1 (Sony, Thomson, Philips etc..), so they are really pissed off by Microsofts bullish attitude. Microsoft finally submits its WMV/VC-1 designs for preusal. Since all MS stuff was a proprietary closed standard before, nobody knew what was in it. Now that it has been opened up, all the major companies are saying "Wait-a-minute. Isnt that the motion-estimation algorithm? Looks like you owe us a lot of money Mister." And so what started out to be a simple issue of opening up WMV for standardisation ends up being a pain for Microsoft. Of course this is probably a gross simplification of the issue, but thats what it roughly looks like.
Heres a link to a very informative article on the whole issue. M'soft coup starts media codec fight
To date I have not been able to get any software updates for my firefox browser since I downloaded it. Does anyone know if the software update works properly at all?
Check map24.com. Its got a lot of the features that you need (though not all..) Among other features you can plan a route where you can stop at the pharmacy while on your way to work from home and it will give you options to select the type of route that you want. You can even give the speeds that you think you can travel over various types of roads (say some highway is crowded and you cant go over 20 miles/hr on that highway..) and recalculate the fastest route possible..
Microsoft's in an interesting position. They can't really take advantage of their OS they way they did to wipe out Netscape.
Not sure if you have been reading the news off late. But everyone is trying to get their search technology on the desktop - rather than a web browser. Google did it with their desktop search tool. Yahoo is trying to do it. Now who do you think is in a better position to do that other than the people who OWN the desktop. Be sure that Microsoft is going to link its file search ( think - search on the web simultaneously..) in Longhorn with Microsoft Search. If it becomes as transparent as that, people wont care two hoots if it is google providing the search or if it is Microsoft as long as the search results are half ass relevant.
I heard from a friend that all those ads that you see on mistyped URL web pages are actually big business. A lot of people actually click on those links and use the fake search button. None of the geeks maybe, but people do. ( I heard this from a friend who works at google.) ( Even if you dont believe me, why do you think there are such a large number of mistyped URL sites with weird searches and links. Obviously because there must be some money in it, right? ) The immediate use of being a domain name registrar would then be: Have a large number of domains for sale, and at the same time use the idle sites to get ad hits. Win-win situation for google methinks for a small amount of money.
Since we usually access the bracket(round, square and angle) keys and the + - = ! / * symbols often, would'nt it make sense to come up with a keyboard layout that has those keys at more accessible locations... I think the most irritating thing while typing code is having to use the shift keys to type any kind of a bracket, even though brackets are so common in code. Also all brackets are located on the same side, so it becomes all the more tiring to type both the brackets with the same hand while typing...
Not sure if the alternative keyboards address these issues. If they do, maybe it is worth a try..
I was confused by that exclusion as well.
PEOPLE! For gods sake its a sub 500 headless box and nothing more. If they wanted it to be a media center they would have said so. Its not like Apple will market a product below its actual capabilities..
Was this really supposed to be informative? Or was it the case that the mods did not get the self implicating joke?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket for more information.
Okay Mods! That was meant to be funny.
No. This is only proof that Google Pagerank algorithm tends to favour the anti-chinese sites since they are more linked to on the web. Accoona may not have a page rank algorithm at all to decide which sites to show first. For instance if I put http://www.accoona.com/search?col=mc&qt=Tibetan+go vernment+in+exile as the search query then the exiled government website does appear as the 3rd result listed. Theres no controversy here.. Just different technologies.
I tried spybot and adaware and they were not able to remove some really nasty ones like "webrebates0.exe". So then I went to www.iamnotageek.com which seems to list removal instructions for a large number of spyware and adware stuff. I had to remove a lot of them manually. I think that seems the only way to really clean them out. Oh yeah.. I did try hijackthis as well but that reports a lot of false positives. You still have to go to some site like iamnotageek to check if the program/registry entries reported are malicious or not.
r rentversion\run\" section so they dont get spawned during startup, be sure to unregister the dlls and finally remove the install directories/files completely. Of course after everything is done, install SP2 and preferrably switch to firefox/mozilla.
Interesting thing about some of the programs running was that they had 2 copies of the executables running - eg. webrebates0.exe and webrebates1.exe. If you kill one and not the other, then the other seems to spawn the killed application again. Killing both of them in a short span of time seemed to take care of the problem.. (Oh yeah some of them may have more than 2 executables running.. Be sure to kill all of them. iamnotageek lists all programs and program names that are associated with a particular spyware. So use that as a guide when killing processes.)
Points to remember for manual cleanup: be sure to clean the registry entries from the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\cu
One big thing that people dont realize is that google is NOT a news reporting company. It does not want to be associated with the responsibilities of a good press reporting source. So why blame Google for being spineless? (To people in China.. and everywhere else really...) If you want good responsible uncensored news go to some other site. Dont go to Google.
I think everyone wants Google to adorn the role of the clean sheet conscientious company that does no evil. So for all you cinderella afficionados.. Google is still your corporation on a white horse since they arent doing anything wrong here. Just that they may not necessarily look good if they sit on a camel.. For the others.. its life as usual.. Nothing to see here.
Try editing a file using vim remotely. You will instantly realize why Sun has vi as a default editor. You may suffer the wait difference between vim and vi once or twice. But try an exercise where you are editing 10-15 files on a remote server possibly over a dialup connection. vi is just right for what it was meant to be - a fast and efficient text editor. If you depend on vim so much - you are screwed if you are working on a machine that doesnt have your .vimrc or even worse, if you depend on vim plugins. I love and use vim, but I know that I always still want access to vi when I am doing quick admin changes to many files.
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# Does Google keep track of the pages I'm viewing?
In order to enforce content viewing limits, we must keep track of page views by users. We do not associate any of your searches, or the specific pages you view, with personally identifiable information about you, such as your name or address. We're only concerned with the number of pages you've viewed in the particular book you're looking at. As always, we strongly encourage you to read our Privacy Policy (and everyone else's) to be fully informed about how your confidentiality is protected.
A Human DOS attack! :)
Did anyone else think that the baby seemed to communicate a little too reasonably for a baby that small? (laughing when a leaf fell on its head, or when the lady blows his hair) There also seemed to be something wrong in the proportion of the head to the rest of the body.
(As for the argument that among 6 billion people there is a baby that has those proportions and reactions.. Sure there maybe. But that baby would either be extraordinary or abnormal.. I doubt if the artist is trying to capture that in this film..)
Doesn't matter. Jesus uses Akamai. :-p
Its also likely is that it was leaked by the network to ensure that there is enough hype before the show airs. I am betting the advertisers are lining up outside the networks offices for slots on the show in which Ken Jennings supposedly loses.
Maybe it would make sense if you read it as "quarter off 12", which may be interpreted as a quarter to 12 perhaps?..
Disclaimer: Not an American or Canadian.
The Token card system seems pretty safe. You cant get the card to generate a number unless you know the password for the card, so that even if someone steals the token card theres not much he/she can do without the password. And of course the card generates one time use passwords. Apart from the obvious advantage that no one can technically "steal" your password by listening in on the wire, it also takes away the onus of you having to remember your passwords/password generation algorithms. On the down side, if someone tampers/steals your token card, you will have to wait till a new one arrives before you do anything. Thats slightly inconvenient but I can live with it..
I think mod-C and mod-V is the easiest way to cut & paste (one hand on keyboard, one on mouse).
Unless your mouse is on your left...
Out of habbit I'll go and highlight the current URL and control+v what I assume I'm pasteing... and end up with the same URL that I started with.
In Mozilla, an easy way to delete the current URL without selecting it is to do a Alt-D followed by a Ctrl+Backspace. Then you can do a middle click to paste the new URL in the cleared space.
I believe that the Unix versions of Mozilla purposely do not select the content of the address bar when you do a Alt+D (as compared to windows where an Alt+D selects the content in the Address bar) so that you do not end up accidentally erasing out out the content of your copy buffer.