The ISPs wants you to pay to get to Google? They want Google to pay to "use their pipes?"
How about if Google & co. present an ultimatum to each ISP:
"Free access or no access."
___It is easily within Google's power to not respond to HTTP requests originating from within a "hostile ISP."___
Let's watch the hostile ISP's customer base flee, en masse and overnight, to friendly ISPs. Let's kickstart the Muni-WLAN mesh.
Who is _really_ in control?
Think about it: What is Smith harping about all the time?
Answer: PURPOSE. (Think back to his speech leading to the Burly Brawl. "It's what defines us... Drives us... etc. etc. etc.)
Smith's "purpose" after Neo "destroys" him, his entire reason for being, is to destroy Neo.
He, coming from a world in which every program has a defined job, hates humans because they exist without purpose (as he understands it.) He elaborates upon this at great length, several times during the series. He amasses greater and greater power for the sole purpose of killing Neo.
During their final fight, Neo realizes the implications of this fact ("You've been right all along... It IS inevitable.") He excercises his free will, and allows Smith to kill him.
What's a Smith without a Neo? Answer: A Smith without PURPOSE. A Smith with no reason to exist. Ergo, deleted.
"They" are retards.
Intel itself says 3.4GHz by the end of 2003, barely over what they "sell" now. (I say "sell" 'cause even though they "released" it, you can't get one.)
Newsflash: Prescott (i.e..9) delayed to "Q4". (Read: "2004")
Newsflash2: P4 3.06GHz consumes >100W peak. Rediculous. Bumping clockspeed isn't going to be easy there...
BTW: How is P4 going to address the 64-bit issue without a major redesign?
Hammer is a much more efficient chip. Uses SOI. Uses onboard memory controller. Multiple chip-level interconnects for glueless multiprocessing. More GPRs. 64-bit. Inexpensive platform. Did I mention glueless multiprocessing? I.e. 8-way becomes a PCB-design issue, not a chipset issue.
Hammer is much more than mere "fast x86."
fpg
Decodes/breaks down the native ISA, repackages them in bundles, then issues them to the execution units... A point-to-point FSB... Will have higher IPC than Athlon, but has all the same scalability limits.
Hammer has the integrated memory controller and multiple hypertransport interfaces for fast IO and glueless MP.
In short, PPC is similar to 7th generation x86 along with P4 and Athlon. Hammer is much more like Power4, but more highly integrated/cost-reduced.
fpg
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The ISPs wants you to pay to get to Google? They want Google to pay to "use their pipes?" How about if Google & co. present an ultimatum to each ISP: "Free access or no access." ___It is easily within Google's power to not respond to HTTP requests originating from within a "hostile ISP."___ Let's watch the hostile ISP's customer base flee, en masse and overnight, to friendly ISPs. Let's kickstart the Muni-WLAN mesh. Who is _really_ in control?
Since when does an honest bug require close interaction with virus software companies to hide it?
fpg
Think about it: What is Smith harping about all the time?
Answer: PURPOSE. (Think back to his speech leading to the Burly Brawl. "It's what defines us... Drives us... etc. etc. etc.)
Smith's "purpose" after Neo "destroys" him, his entire reason for being, is to destroy Neo.
He, coming from a world in which every program has a defined job, hates humans because they exist without purpose (as he understands it.) He elaborates upon this at great length, several times during the series. He amasses greater and greater power for the sole purpose of killing Neo.
During their final fight, Neo realizes the implications of this fact ("You've been right all along... It IS inevitable.") He excercises his free will, and allows Smith to kill him.
What's a Smith without a Neo? Answer: A Smith without PURPOSE. A Smith with no reason to exist. Ergo, deleted.
fpg
Don't believe me? Look at the decline in Intel's revenues over the last 3 years.
fpg
"They" are retards. Intel itself says 3.4GHz by the end of 2003, barely over what they "sell" now. (I say "sell" 'cause even though they "released" it, you can't get one.) Newsflash: Prescott (i.e. .9) delayed to "Q4". (Read: "2004")
Newsflash2: P4 3.06GHz consumes >100W peak. Rediculous. Bumping clockspeed isn't going to be easy there...
BTW: How is P4 going to address the 64-bit issue without a major redesign?
Hammer is a much more efficient chip. Uses SOI. Uses onboard memory controller. Multiple chip-level interconnects for glueless multiprocessing. More GPRs. 64-bit. Inexpensive platform. Did I mention glueless multiprocessing? I.e. 8-way becomes a PCB-design issue, not a chipset issue.
Hammer is much more than mere "fast x86."
fpg
Opteron has two DDR memory interfaces. Happy now? fpg
Kernel 2.4.20 has x86-64 support built-in.
Look for SuSE's Andi Kleen in the release-notes.
fpg
Decodes/breaks down the native ISA, repackages them in bundles, then issues them to the execution units... A point-to-point FSB... Will have higher IPC than Athlon, but has all the same scalability limits. Hammer has the integrated memory controller and multiple hypertransport interfaces for fast IO and glueless MP. In short, PPC is similar to 7th generation x86 along with P4 and Athlon. Hammer is much more like Power4, but more highly integrated/cost-reduced. fpg