All I know is that my Athlon system (Athlon Thunderbird 700 on a Asus A7V works perfectly fine, with Windows ME as well as Mandrake. Windows ME doesn't even get a chance to idle the CPU, since I'm running distributed.net all the time.
Somehow, it fails to make sense to me that switching between Small Fonts and Large Fonts should require a reboot (atleast under win9x), since a reboot is NOT required if you change any of the individual font sizes in the Display control panel...
I guess that's because switching between Small Fonts and Large Fonts goes a bit deeper than changing all the font sizes: it doesn't change the font sizes, but instead changes the dots per inch setting of the display. Still no reason to require a complete reboot, if you ask me. But Bill Gates & friends didn't ask me, obviously.
Win2k doesn't require reboots when changing IP-address etc., *but* it still requires a reboot when you change the network identification (host name). Good work, Microsoft...
I would like to know too. From the explanation it seems like it's based on Gnome but looks much better, but the screenshots on http://www.helixgnome.com/deskto p/screenshots.php3 look exactly the same. So - I really wonder: what is all the fuss about? What *is* the difference? Please please someone enlighten me!
When I compile code with Visual C++ it seems to take forever, given a large project. If I use Object Pascal instead, the compilation time drops by 2-3 orders of magnitude
I have noticed this to. Object Pascal (I used the Borland Delphi 5 compiler) is blazingly fast, much much faster than MS VC++, Borland C++Builder or gcc (though Borland C++Builder seems to be somewhat faster than MS VC++). Even plain C compilation with those compilers is way slower than Object Pascal compilation.
Depending on what industry a developer works in, all sorts of horrible things can happen if chips are designed in out of spec. In the Medical Device Manufacturing industry, you'd damn well better be using chips within the specification of the manufacturer. I suppose in more trivial markets, i.e. game consoles, designers can get away with whatever they feel like doing.
No offense, but I think you are missing the point. I totally agree that engineers aren't supposed to design out of spec, but I think the original poster was talking about the end user. If I buy a CPU, I would think I absolutely have the right to do with it whatever I want. I can fry it in the microwave if I want to, I can overclock if I want to. All on my own risk, naturally.
I think it's confusing for lots of people. Once I was on the net searching something for my sister. Two windows open was bad enough, with three or more she was totally confused.
But I use two or three windows all the time. It allows me to read an article and the link in it at the same time, or to go back to the original article in a way that guarantees that it's still in the same state.
There are two alternatives that I know of: freedb, which is cddb compatible, and CD index, that is more feature-rich. Both are open source and promise to be open source forever.
All other things being equal, you're right. But since the poster says his budget is limited (as everyone's, I suppose), he has to make some trade-offs. Very generally speaking, if most of the tasks are CPU bound, you'd better get lots of CPU power (more CPUs and/or faster CPUs). If mos of the tasks are I/O bound, you will get better performance with somewhat less CPU and more I/O troughput (fast HD, fast bus, fast NICs). In this case, I think I/O is more important than CPU, so I would go for a single CPU machine with SCSI HD's.
While I am somebody who prefers content over appeareance, there are lots of graphical-minded people who would like to make fancy flashy sites. And I think they have the right to do so. Doing this is very difficult using HTML, Java, Javascript and DHTML, especially if you want your site to work cross-browser. A nice graphical site can, however, quite easily be obtained using Flash. And since there are Flash players for about any platform one can think of, it works instantly on a complete range of systems. And it's resolution-independent, since it's vector based. I agree that there are a lot of sites out there with annoying length animations, but when Flash is used for a nice looking site and without lots of animations, well, I don't mind. I used to though, but I changed jobs a few months ago and now I'm convinced by one of my colleagues, a graphical kind of guy.
Example: http://www.show2000antwerp.org is a site which, I think, is quite well suited to it's target audience and has nice graphics, without any cross-browser problems.
The city of Antwerp also announced that it will offer free unlimited Internet access to its citizens (more info at http://www.dma.be/gratis/, but it's only in Dutch. The e-mail address will be '.@antwerpen dot be' (which is not such a good choice, if you ask me), up to 5 mailboxes, 20 MB personal webspace (with support for Frontpage and Office 2000 Extensions).
If I understand it correctly, this free access starts 29 February 2000, so I suppose it's up and running now.
But this offer isn't very spectacular. There are a lot of free internet access providers in Belgium; the biggest is, and will be, the telephone cost.
I'm sorry, but you're living in a liberal dreamworld if you think governments are the best providers of education and health care.
Well, maybe they're not the best providers, but it's the only way to ensure that everybody can get decent education and health care. You probably are wealthy enough to pay for all that, but there are lots of people out there who just don't have the money to pay private institutions.
Wasn't that picked because it is the resonant frequency of H2O?
I don't remember exactly, but it's something like that. Maybe the resonant frequency of the H-O bonds, or maybe one or other resonant frequency of the H atom itself (in that case microwaves would not only heat water but also all carbohydrates).
If so, then it would stand to reason that anything off that frequency would be a very inefficient microwave heater.
That's right. But who knows what other atoms or molecules vibrate at other gigafrequencies... Let's hope silicon doesn't have a resonant frequency at 1.5 GHz, for example. Those CPUs wouldn't last very long.
From "Inside Microsoft Windows CE", John Murray, Microsoft Press, p. 2 and 3: "Some people think Windows CE was pored from Microsoft Windows 95 because the first product to use the Windows CE operating system (OS) featured a graphical user interface similar to the interface of Windows 95. But Windows CE is unique. It has its own code base, written from scratch and specifically designed for embedded devices."
And they DO claim it is really real-time; on page 7: "The operating system is characterized as real-time because the delay between the hardware interrupt and the start of the ISR and the delay between the ISR and the start of the IST are all guaranteed to be bounded values. The OEMs and system integrators providing the ISR and IST as part of the port have complete control over the interrupt handling code and can ensure that it will run within the required bounded times."
The last time IBM threw it's sales force behind a new technology, it brought on the PC revolution of the 80s. Now, refocused (and restricted from antitrust practices), IBM is taking on an open source deved OS and will make a strong push for a good position in the networking revolution of the 21st century.
The last time IBM threw it's sales force behind a new technology, they tried to market OS/2 and they failed.
But conversion to SI units took time. I am reminded that some years ago a friend of mine went to buy some hosepipe and asked for a 25 yard reel. "Sorry Sir, we've gone metric". OK, then I'll have a 25 metre roll. "What diameter Sir, 3/4 or 1/2 inch?"
Some things never seem to change. Even here in Belgium, a lot of that kind of things are still in inches.
By the way, do you know that a 3,5" disk isn't 3,5"? It's 90mm, about 3.54". (That's one side of the rectangle, the other one is 9.3mm).
Heat 1 kg of water from 14 degrees Celsius to 15 degrees Celsius. You needed 1 calorie (or kilocalorie).
And now do this with Joules...
No, seriously, I think you're wrong. You are explaining the SI system, not so much the metric system. I mean, when I say metric system, I'm talking about gram, kilogram, meter, liter. When I say SI, I'm talking about kilogram, meter, cubic meter, Newton, Joule, Pascal etc.
Not quite right... Armageddon maybe has better odds than YOU winning the lottery, but certainly has no better odds than SOMEONE winning the lottery somewhere in the world. The event of someone winning the lottery in fact has happened quite a few times in men's history; Armageddon still hasn't.
Break the contraction apart into it's component words, and the phrase becomes "You have got mail."
Back in school we learned that "You have got [whatever]" indeed is the way to express possession. As in "You have got a nice car". Or is it in the context of mail not a case of possesion?
... "You've got mail".... And oh yeah, how AOL can be so high on itself about protecting a phrase that is so grammatically incorrect is beyond me. We all make mistakes, but a company with AOL's millions should at least be able to have the grammar capacity of a ten year old.
Can someone explain to me why it's not correct? I'm from Belgium and my mother tongue is not English but Dutch, but from what we learned in school it seems perfectly OK to me.
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All I know is that my Athlon system (Athlon Thunderbird 700 on a Asus A7V works perfectly fine, with Windows ME as well as Mandrake. Windows ME doesn't even get a chance to idle the CPU, since I'm running distributed.net all the time.
I guess that's because switching between Small Fonts and Large Fonts goes a bit deeper than changing all the font sizes: it doesn't change the font sizes, but instead changes the dots per inch setting of the display. Still no reason to require a complete reboot, if you ask me. But Bill Gates & friends didn't ask me, obviously.
Win2k doesn't require reboots when changing IP-address etc., *but* it still requires a reboot when you change the network identification (host name). Good work, Microsoft...
I would like to know too. From the explanation it seems like it's based on Gnome but looks much better, but the screenshots on http://www.helixgnome.com/deskto p/screenshots.php3 look exactly the same. So - I really wonder: what is all the fuss about? What *is* the difference? Please please someone enlighten me!
I have noticed this to. Object Pascal (I used the Borland Delphi 5 compiler) is blazingly fast, much much faster than MS VC++, Borland C++Builder or gcc (though Borland C++Builder seems to be somewhat faster than MS VC++). Even plain C compilation with those compilers is way slower than Object Pascal compilation.
Someone can give an explanation?
No offense, but I think you are missing the point. I totally agree that engineers aren't supposed to design out of spec, but I think the original poster was talking about the end user. If I buy a CPU, I would think I absolutely have the right to do with it whatever I want. I can fry it in the microwave if I want to, I can overclock if I want to. All on my own risk, naturally.
But I use two or three windows all the time. It allows me to read an article and the link in it at the same time, or to go back to the original article in a way that guarantees that it's still in the same state.
I do the same thing, though I have very low latency. It's just much more comfortable that way.
There are two alternatives that I know of: freedb, which is cddb compatible, and CD index, that is more feature-rich. Both are open source and promise to be open source forever.
All other things being equal, you're right.
But since the poster says his budget is limited (as everyone's, I suppose), he has to make some trade-offs. Very generally speaking, if most of the tasks are CPU bound, you'd better get lots of CPU power (more CPUs and/or faster CPUs). If mos of the tasks are I/O bound, you will get better performance with somewhat less CPU and more I/O troughput (fast HD, fast bus, fast NICs).
In this case, I think I/O is more important than CPU, so I would go for a single CPU machine with SCSI HD's.
A nice graphical site can, however, quite easily be obtained using Flash. And since there are Flash players for about any platform one can think of, it works instantly on a complete range of systems. And it's resolution-independent, since it's vector based.
I agree that there are a lot of sites out there with annoying length animations, but when Flash is used for a nice looking site and without lots of animations, well, I don't mind. I used to though, but I changed jobs a few months ago and now I'm convinced by one of my colleagues, a graphical kind of guy.
Example: http://www.show2000antwerp.org is a site which, I think, is quite well suited to it's target audience and has nice graphics, without any cross-browser problems.
If I understand it correctly, this free access starts 29 February 2000, so I suppose it's up and running now.
But this offer isn't very spectacular. There are a lot of free internet access providers in Belgium; the biggest is, and will be, the telephone cost.
Well, maybe they're not the best providers, but it's the only way to ensure that everybody can get decent education and health care. You probably are wealthy enough to pay for all that, but there are lots of people out there who just don't have the money to pay private institutions.
I don't remember exactly, but it's something like that. Maybe the resonant frequency of the H-O bonds, or maybe one or other resonant frequency of the H atom itself (in that case microwaves would not only heat water but also all carbohydrates).
If so, then it would stand to reason that anything off that frequency would be a very inefficient microwave heater.
That's right. But who knows what other atoms or molecules vibrate at other gigafrequencies... Let's hope silicon doesn't have a resonant frequency at 1.5 GHz, for example. Those CPUs wouldn't last very long.
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And they DO claim it is really real-time; on page 7: "The operating system is characterized as real-time because the delay between the hardware interrupt and the start of the ISR and the delay between the ISR and the start of the IST are all guaranteed to be bounded values. The OEMs and system integrators providing the ISR and IST as part of the port have complete control over the interrupt handling code and can ensure that it will run within the required bounded times."
The last time IBM threw it's sales force behind a new technology, they tried to market OS/2 and they failed.
Some things never seem to change. Even here in Belgium, a lot of that kind of things are still in inches.
By the way, do you know that a 3,5" disk isn't 3,5"? It's 90mm, about 3.54". (That's one side of the rectangle, the other one is 9.3mm).
What about 40 m/s? ;-) That's 144 kph or about 90 mph. Now that will get you somewhere, in a reasonable amount of time.
And now do this with Joules...
No, seriously, I think you're wrong. You are explaining the SI system, not so much the metric system. I mean, when I say metric system, I'm talking about gram, kilogram, meter, liter. When I say SI, I'm talking about kilogram, meter, cubic meter, Newton, Joule, Pascal etc.
Not quite right... Armageddon maybe has better odds than YOU winning the lottery, but certainly has no better odds than SOMEONE winning the lottery somewhere in the world. The event of someone winning the lottery in fact has happened quite a few times in men's history; Armageddon still hasn't.
Back in school we learned that "You have got [whatever]" indeed is the way to express possession. As in "You have got a nice car". Or is it in the context of mail not a case of possesion?
Can someone explain to me why it's not correct? I'm from Belgium and my mother tongue is not English but Dutch, but from what we learned in school it seems perfectly OK to me.
Then why don't you just walk? Witj just a bit of training, you can easily do four miles per hour :-)