Hmmm, Zimbabwe. Interesting choice. A country presently unable to have a free and fair election. A country where the government tortures its opponents. While it's a long way from the US, there are certain -- ahem -- commonalities, it seems. Wouldn't you agree?
Thanks for your advice -- but I run parallel (MPI) hydrodynamical simulations of hypersonic wind outflows from stars. This is one example of software that will always need -- and take advantage of -- more cores.
and they support DMA on only memory addressable with a 32 bit pointer.
Indeed. Hence the software bounce buffer in Linux, to make up for the lack of an IOMMU. And while I'm extremely pleased with my recently-purchased E2700 Core 2 Duo box, I wonder how well the Core architecture will fare in quad/oct-core land, with it's memory access issues. The lack of both IOMMU and (more fundamentally) a per-core or per-die memory controller seriously hampers Core's ability to scale.
From the article:I can't understand why Nvidia would drop a unique feature like hardware TCP/IP acceleration.
Might I suggest it's because this acceleration has been found to cause serious data corruption on some NFORCE4-based AMD motherboards? I'm surprised the authors weren't aware of this problem.
Myself, I'm wary of NFORCE4 for other reasons. I've recently found that my quad-core Opteron box, built on a Tyan S2895 (K8WE) mobo with an NFORCE4 chipset, will undergo spontaneous data corruption under Linux when I transfer large (>GB) files. I'm not the only one who's had this problem; looks like there's a bug in the NFORCE4 SATA controller. Caveat Emptor.
A few months ago, I went out and actively solicited calls from telemarketers. How? By signing up to a mortgage website, giving a false name (Jack B. Morocco), a false address, but a valid phone number. Why? Because those running the mortgage website spammed me, and I was interested to follow the money back to the bona fide mortgage companies that were financing the spammers.
A few days after I signed up, the phone calls began. Usually, when the caller asked to speak to Jack, I would tell them that I would fetch him to the phone. I would then set the handset down next to the phone, and get back to work. They would typically stay on the line for around 10 minutes, before they hung up.
However, on some occasions I used the cheese method. Basically, to whatever question I was asked, I replied cheese. A sample conversation:
Him Hi, may I speak to Jack? Me Cheese. Him I beg your pardon? Me Cheese. Him Did you just say cheese? Me Cheese. Him I'm trying to speak to Jack. Me Cheese? Him Look, I don't have any time to waste Me Cheese.
(The last remark was particularly funny, in light of the huge amounts of others' time this company had wasted by funding spammers).
On one special occasion, I was called by someone in an overseas call center. They stuck religiously to the script, despite the fact that I was cheesing them at every turn. Slowly, it became clear to them that something was not quite right -- but it took them a while, because I don't think their grasp of English was perfect. Eventually, they ended the call with "OK, Jack, you really sound good, I'm sorry to bother you, goodbye."
To which I replied cheese.
If you want a slice of the action, why not reply to the next mortgage spammer yourself? Make sure you give a fake address but a real number, so that they can get through to you. Oh, and it would be fun if you signed up as Jack/Jane B. Morocco. And don't forget the cheese!
The zinc mine claim is bogus. Quoting from a correction published in USA Today:
In a column that appeared Aug. 10 on the Forum Page, writer Peter Schweizer inaccurately stated that former vice president Al Gore receives royalties from a zinc mine on his property in Tennessee despite his environmental advocacy. He no longer does, as the mine was closed in 2003.
(I doubt that WingNutDaily published a similar correction). Regarding your other claims, can I recommend you read this page on DailyKos? Certainly, this is not an impartial article, but it does provide citations to back up its claims.
I look forward to hearing your response. I close with a further quote, from the DailyKos page:
Gore does in fact take advantage of the green power options his utility offers, and was in the process of adding photovoltaic solar cells to his house when the article came out.
Here, here. Every time I use cdrtools with a/dev/hd? device name, I'm reminded what a silly little twat Shilling is. Although he may have brought CD writing ability to Linux, he's ensured that this ability has always been user-unfriendly and ideosyncratic.
IIRC, there is a period (lasting ~ 10 million years) of sustained deuterium fusion. But all that really does is retard the brown dwarf's passage to the bottom right of the HR diagram, following a similar cooling curve as WDs. (Disclaimer: not a BD expert, I work on massive stars).
As an astronomer, I know how dishonest Answers in Genesis is about those issue I have expertise on. Having read talkorigins.org, I am aware that they appear to be dishonest about just about everything else. Is lying for Jesus acceptable?
Now, about that flood. Where did the water originally come from? Where did it go? What happened to the energy released when it fell from the skies? Why does the Grand Canyon look nothing like flood erosion? How did the marsupials get to Australia after leaving the ark? What did the animals on the ark eat? What was done with the excrement? If Noah plus family were the only survivors, did they fuck each other to recreate the human race? Why does the fossil record show less developed species in lower strata -- how did the flood selectively kill these species first?
Yes, I know Galton was Darwin's cousin. But that doesn't change the fact that Eugenics has nothing to do with the writings of Darwin, you moron. Sheesh, do you think that just because Hitler was part-Jewish, the holocaust didn't happen?
I am physically fit, have diverse interests, am attractive, able to pick up attractive women and achieve full intercourse with little effort.
That's you. Now let's think about Eric. He is fat, and presumably unfit. His interests are narrow, limited to guns, martial arts, and pretending to be a hacker that speaks for the FOSS community. He is the antiparticle of attractive. I doubt he could pick up a leprous goat. And for him intercourse is a tube of Bengay in front of a cheap Chicks with Guns flick.
Well, my C-5060 does CF and xD, and at $500 I wouldn't call it high end. Had it not done these, of course, I probably wouldn't have bought it. The only kicker is that the USB interface is 1.1 -- so I find it quicker to pull out the CF card and stuff it straight into the laptop, than to bother with USB.
Pretty neat, eh? Just imagine projecting a keyboard and screen on your lover's[*] back. You could read Slashdot while drilling for oil! Just make sure you're not using a Sony battery.
[*] No, I didn't say girlfriend. After all, this is Slashdot.
Yes, but by the time Stalin died, many of the biologists had either fled the country, or been sent off to Gulag. It is Lysenkoism, with its anti-evolution dogma, that was ultimately responsible for this -- the effects were felt long after Lysenko was out of the picture.
Creationists such as myself would not call evolutionism a theory. I would call it a hypothesis; one that must be accepted by faith.
Despite the fossil record? Despite the fact that genetics has showed the close relationship between taxonomically-similar species? Despite direct observations of evolution in action? Despite the Galapagos finches? In fact, despite all of the evidence supportive of the Theory of Evolution?
I'm sorry, but the faith here appears to be yours. In spite of the overwhelming evidence for evolution, compounded by the evidence from other areas of science (e.g., astronomy, geology), you choose to dogmatically believe in a saviour mythology unimaginatively ripped off from Mithraism and other mid-Eastern religions, that appeals to dolts such as yourself because you're fed the lie that an all-powerful god has created the Universe especially for you? Well, sheesh, there's no convincing you. I guess you'll just have to go back to spiritual masturbation in front of an idol of that mythical carpenter nailed to a dead tree 2,000 years ago, whose storybook has subsequently lead to the death, opression and misery of millions of humans. Bully for you!
But the last laugh is on you. While you spend your life abasing yourself before human dogma, merely to secure your place in heaven with Jeebus, I plan to excercise a little curiosity and humility and find out a little about the world I'm priviledged to live on. Good luck in your quest to learn nothing and understand nothing -- I just sorry that that's the price your god asks for him to let you be with him in the afterlife.
Look up the Taiping Rebellion in China. Started by Christians, it led to the deaths of at least 20 million people. At the same time, get half a brain cell and realize that Eugenics has nothing to do with the writings of Darwin. You stupid fuck.
...and he doesn't speak for much of the FOSS community. Claims to be a kernel developer, when he's done bugger all. Claims many other things, that on closer inspection turn out to be hot air blown out of both arseholes.
The fat fuck should stick to playing with his big, compensatory guns.
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Hmmm, Zimbabwe. Interesting choice. A country presently unable to have a free and fair election. A country where the government tortures its opponents. While it's a long way from the US, there are certain -- ahem -- commonalities, it seems. Wouldn't you agree?
Remind me who won the Cold War. Because from here, it doeesn't look like the citizens of either side.
What about Soviet Slashdot readers? I doubt they share your final sentiment.
Thanks for your advice -- but I run parallel (MPI) hydrodynamical simulations of hypersonic wind outflows from stars. This is one example of software that will always need -- and take advantage of -- more cores.
My apologies, I meant E6700 and not E2700. Your second link indicates that this is indeed the 2.66GHz Conroe part.
Was this under Linux? And if so, how did you disable the command queuing?
and they support DMA on only memory addressable with a 32 bit pointer.
Indeed. Hence the software bounce buffer in Linux, to make up for the lack of an IOMMU. And while I'm extremely pleased with my recently-purchased E2700 Core 2 Duo box, I wonder how well the Core architecture will fare in quad/oct-core land, with it's memory access issues. The lack of both IOMMU and (more fundamentally) a per-core or per-die memory controller seriously hampers Core's ability to scale.
From the article:I can't understand why Nvidia would drop a unique feature like hardware TCP/IP acceleration.
Might I suggest it's because this acceleration has been found to cause serious data corruption on some NFORCE4-based AMD motherboards? I'm surprised the authors weren't aware of this problem.
Myself, I'm wary of NFORCE4 for other reasons. I've recently found that my quad-core Opteron box, built on a Tyan S2895 (K8WE) mobo with an NFORCE4 chipset, will undergo spontaneous data corruption under Linux when I transfer large (>GB) files. I'm not the only one who's had this problem; looks like there's a bug in the NFORCE4 SATA controller. Caveat Emptor.
A few months ago, I went out and actively solicited calls from telemarketers. How? By signing up to a mortgage website, giving a false name (Jack B. Morocco), a false address, but a valid phone number. Why? Because those running the mortgage website spammed me, and I was interested to follow the money back to the bona fide mortgage companies that were financing the spammers.
A few days after I signed up, the phone calls began. Usually, when the caller asked to speak to Jack, I would tell them that I would fetch him to the phone. I would then set the handset down next to the phone, and get back to work. They would typically stay on the line for around 10 minutes, before they hung up.
However, on some occasions I used the cheese method. Basically, to whatever question I was asked, I replied cheese. A sample conversation:
Him Hi, may I speak to Jack?
Me Cheese.
Him I beg your pardon?
Me Cheese.
Him Did you just say cheese?
Me Cheese.
Him I'm trying to speak to Jack.
Me Cheese?
Him Look, I don't have any time to waste
Me Cheese.
(The last remark was particularly funny, in light of the huge amounts of others' time this company had wasted by funding spammers).
On one special occasion, I was called by someone in an overseas call center. They stuck religiously to the script, despite the fact that I was cheesing them at every turn. Slowly, it became clear to them that something was not quite right -- but it took them a while, because I don't think their grasp of English was perfect. Eventually, they ended the call with "OK, Jack, you really sound good, I'm sorry to bother you, goodbye."
To which I replied cheese.
If you want a slice of the action, why not reply to the next mortgage spammer yourself? Make sure you give a fake address but a real number, so that they can get through to you. Oh, and it would be fun if you signed up as Jack/Jane B. Morocco. And don't forget the cheese!
The zinc mine claim is bogus. Quoting from a correction published in USA Today:
In a column that appeared Aug. 10 on the Forum Page, writer Peter Schweizer inaccurately stated that former vice president Al Gore receives royalties from a zinc mine on his property in Tennessee despite his environmental advocacy. He no longer does, as the mine was closed in 2003.
(I doubt that WingNutDaily published a similar correction). Regarding your other claims, can I recommend you read this page on DailyKos? Certainly, this is not an impartial article, but it does provide citations to back up its claims.
I look forward to hearing your response. I close with a further quote, from the DailyKos page:
Gore does in fact take advantage of the green power options his utility offers, and was in the process of adding photovoltaic solar cells to his house when the article came out.
OK, dude, let's start having the citations for this information. Otherwise, we'll just have to write you off as a big-oil shill.
Go fuck yourself, Joerg.
Here, here. Every time I use cdrtools with a /dev/hd? device name, I'm reminded what a silly little twat Shilling is. Although he may have brought CD writing ability to Linux, he's ensured that this ability has always been user-unfriendly and ideosyncratic.
IIRC, there is a period (lasting ~ 10 million years) of sustained deuterium fusion. But all that really does is retard the brown dwarf's passage to the bottom right of the HR diagram, following a similar cooling curve as WDs. (Disclaimer: not a BD expert, I work on massive stars).
but we can still divide into star and not star cleanly.
Izzat so? Brown dwarfs undergo nuclear fusion -- so why aren't they stars?
As an astronomer, I know how dishonest Answers in Genesis is about those issue I have expertise on. Having read talkorigins.org, I am aware that they appear to be dishonest about just about everything else. Is lying for Jesus acceptable?
Now, about that flood. Where did the water originally come from? Where did it go? What happened to the energy released when it fell from the skies? Why does the Grand Canyon look nothing like flood erosion? How did the marsupials get to Australia after leaving the ark? What did the animals on the ark eat? What was done with the excrement? If Noah plus family were the only survivors, did they fuck each other to recreate the human race? Why does the fossil record show less developed species in lower strata -- how did the flood selectively kill these species first?
Yes, I know Galton was Darwin's cousin. But that doesn't change the fact that Eugenics has nothing to do with the writings of Darwin, you moron. Sheesh, do you think that just because Hitler was part-Jewish, the holocaust didn't happen?
I am physically fit, have diverse interests, am attractive, able to pick up attractive women and achieve full intercourse with little effort.
That's you. Now let's think about Eric. He is fat, and presumably unfit. His interests are narrow, limited to guns, martial arts, and pretending to be a hacker that speaks for the FOSS community. He is the antiparticle of attractive. I doubt he could pick up a leprous goat. And for him intercourse is a tube of Bengay in front of a cheap Chicks with Guns flick.
It's not even close.
Only their high end units do CF.
Well, my C-5060 does CF and xD, and at $500 I wouldn't call it high end. Had it not done these, of course, I probably wouldn't have bought it. The only kicker is that the USB interface is 1.1 -- so I find it quicker to pull out the CF card and stuff it straight into the laptop, than to bother with USB.
Pretty neat, eh? Just imagine projecting a keyboard and screen on your lover's[*] back. You could read Slashdot while drilling for oil! Just make sure you're not using a Sony battery.
[*] No, I didn't say girlfriend. After all, this is Slashdot.
Yes, but by the time Stalin died, many of the biologists had either fled the country, or been sent off to Gulag. It is Lysenkoism, with its anti-evolution dogma, that was ultimately responsible for this -- the effects were felt long after Lysenko was out of the picture.
Creationists such as myself would not call evolutionism a theory. I would call it a hypothesis; one that must be accepted by faith.
Despite the fossil record? Despite the fact that genetics has showed the close relationship between taxonomically-similar species? Despite direct observations of evolution in action? Despite the Galapagos finches? In fact, despite all of the evidence supportive of the Theory of Evolution?
I'm sorry, but the faith here appears to be yours. In spite of the overwhelming evidence for evolution, compounded by the evidence from other areas of science (e.g., astronomy, geology), you choose to dogmatically believe in a saviour mythology unimaginatively ripped off from Mithraism and other mid-Eastern religions, that appeals to dolts such as yourself because you're fed the lie that an all-powerful god has created the Universe especially for you? Well, sheesh, there's no convincing you. I guess you'll just have to go back to spiritual masturbation in front of an idol of that mythical carpenter nailed to a dead tree 2,000 years ago, whose storybook has subsequently lead to the death, opression and misery of millions of humans. Bully for you!
But the last laugh is on you. While you spend your life abasing yourself before human dogma, merely to secure your place in heaven with Jeebus, I plan to excercise a little curiosity and humility and find out a little about the world I'm priviledged to live on. Good luck in your quest to learn nothing and understand nothing -- I just sorry that that's the price your god asks for him to let you be with him in the afterlife.
Look up the Taiping Rebellion in China. Started by Christians, it led to the deaths of at least 20 million people. At the same time, get half a brain cell and realize that Eugenics has nothing to do with the writings of Darwin. You stupid fuck.
Since ESR decided that OSS exists only to be leveraged to amass as much wealth, for ESR, as possible.
...and he doesn't speak for much of the FOSS community. Claims to be a kernel developer, when he's done bugger all. Claims many other things, that on closer inspection turn out to be hot air blown out of both arseholes.
The fat fuck should stick to playing with his big, compensatory guns.