My grandmother now uses Linux and the only comment she had was: "It has more pleasing colors. I like it better than the old thing."
She like most people out there uses a browser to read the internet and plays card games.
Even though I don't care for linux flawors linux producers should tell you where you can get the extra goodies like with packman on suse and automatix on ubuntu.
Only with these addon packages linux is ready for the desktop for the average user.
Intel and AMD might already be considering (or may already have) used asynchronous logic in parts of their processors or support chipsets.
Intel has allready done this with old 386 processor. They managed to get it to run I recall correctly 5x faster in many common tasks. But the big diffrence in responsive of the processor it did not give a good feel for the user. They the user complained that many tasks felt sluggish since the large diffrence in performance.
Using this in control unit is migh be better to begin with. Realtime (does not mean fast) systems just need know that this will finish within a certain time. So if the diffrense in responsive ness can still mean that it's realtime not just the sametime.
Most comments on this thread will be from people who have no sense what so ever on how MPP SMP or any other processing methood works in real life. So don't listen to them. And for the same the IA64 uses out of order execution wich is good and bad. We don't know wich but it's diffrent. Both are a fairly young technologies and have not been utilized to it's fullest extend. But in this I think change is good. But some old farts will always have some silly DOS pograms running software that no one has been able to replace and such will always be the case. Why should I change a program which performs perfectly for that speciffic task and write a new buggier version wich has a gui interface and with alot of cost.
Regards Kerling ps. PL1 COBOL FORTRAN and all that shit ain't dead
When the USA spaceteam met up with the russian team they found that the russians didn't spend much time on designing things they adopted things they knew would work and testet others that might.
The speed of trial and error development was more than design everything and then maybe test it. So the russion where quicker and more agile in many aspects of space travels.
So this might be a good mixture of how to do things. If you can use both methods at the same time you might be more likely to end up in space with less amount spent on the project.
But let us not forget that nasa did this with it's mars missions. Wich resulted in a new landmark creating force on Mars: NASA
Erhm.. You are forgetting one thing. If you write zero's to the disk it's much easer to retreave the data.
Also by writing noise to the harddrive you can still get the info back. Just by selecting a faint signal and ignoring all the stronger ones that make up the noise.
When your credit card doesnt work. Place it in a plasting bag and try again. You will be suprised. The strip on your card is electromagnetic like your hard drive. So the same method will work on the harddrive.
After reading articles on how to read data after it has been overwritten and also reading about how to draw pictures(magnetic pictures) on tape, writing over them qiute often and retreving them. I think I will use the aluminium factory near by to dispose of my old harddrives.
Here in Iceland there are laws that state that isp must keep logs for 2 years at least. And if you are financial institute you must keep everything for 7 years, all emails everything.
But we (the isp's) do not give logs away unless there is a rouling in court that says we must give the police or state the logs.
But most isp dont keep the logs for more than 6-7 months, and this has not been enforced in many occasion.
Until there is a definitive ruling by the suprime court that says we must do this, we don't.
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My grandmother now uses Linux and the only comment she had was: "It has more pleasing colors. I like it better than the old thing."
She like most people out there uses a browser to read the internet and plays card games.
Even though I don't care for linux flawors linux producers should tell you where you can get the extra goodies like with packman on suse and automatix on ubuntu.
Only with these addon packages linux is ready for the desktop for the average user.
Intel and AMD might already be considering (or may already have) used asynchronous logic in parts of their processors or support chipsets.
Intel has allready done this with old 386 processor. They managed to get it to run I recall correctly 5x faster in many common tasks. But the big diffrence in responsive of the processor it did not give a good feel for the user. They the user complained that many tasks felt sluggish since the large diffrence in performance.
Using this in control unit is migh be better to begin with. Realtime (does not mean fast) systems just need know that this will finish within a certain time. So if the diffrense in responsive ness can still mean that it's realtime not just the sametime.
Most comments on this thread will be from people who have no sense what so ever on how MPP SMP or any other processing methood works in real life. So don't listen to them.
And for the same the IA64 uses out of order execution wich is good and bad. We don't know wich but it's diffrent.
Both are a fairly young technologies and have not been utilized to it's fullest extend. But in this I think change is good.
But some old farts will always have some silly DOS pograms running software that no one has been able to replace and such will always be the case.
Why should I change a program which performs perfectly for that speciffic task and write a new buggier version wich has a gui interface and with alot of cost.
Regards Kerling
ps. PL1 COBOL FORTRAN and all that shit ain't dead
When the USA spaceteam met up with the russian team they found that the russians didn't spend much time on designing things they adopted things they knew would work and testet others that might. The speed of trial and error development was more than design everything and then maybe test it. So the russion where quicker and more agile in many aspects of space travels. So this might be a good mixture of how to do things. If you can use both methods at the same time you might be more likely to end up in space with less amount spent on the project. But let us not forget that nasa did this with it's mars missions. Wich resulted in a new landmark creating force on Mars: NASA
Erhm ..
You are forgetting one thing. If you write zero's to the disk it's much easer to retreave the data.
Also by writing noise to the harddrive you can still get the info back. Just by selecting a faint signal and ignoring all the stronger ones that make up the noise.
When your credit card doesnt work. Place it in a plasting bag and try again. You will be suprised. The strip on your card is electromagnetic like your hard drive. So the same method will work on the harddrive.
After reading articles on how to read data after it has been overwritten and also reading about how to draw pictures(magnetic pictures) on tape, writing over them qiute often and retreving them. I think I will use the aluminium factory near by to dispose of my old harddrives.
I think melting them will delete the data.
What do you think?
Here in Iceland there are laws that state that isp must keep logs for 2 years at least. And if you are financial institute you must keep everything for 7 years, all emails everything. But we (the isp's) do not give logs away unless there is a rouling in court that says we must give the police or state the logs. But most isp dont keep the logs for more than 6-7 months, and this has not been enforced in many occasion. Until there is a definitive ruling by the suprime court that says we must do this, we don't.