LOL. "Carefully boiled"? What's that, in an ASTM-certified 18/10 stainless steel reaction vessel with distilled water when the ambient air pressure is no more than 30.05 using a thermal introduction profile not to exceed 10deg/sec? I just dump two cups of tap water in a small saucepan, heat it to boiling, dump in my priming sugar, and stir until dissolved (takes about twenty seconds). Then I dump it into my (freshly-sanitized) bottling bucket, rack my beer onto it, give it a quick stir with a sanitized stainless spoon, then bottle. It's really pretty difficult to screw this stuff up.
Sure, you can agonize over how many volumes of CO2 the BJCP claims are "proper" for your beer's style, and what kind of fermentables will either compliment or at least not intrude on your beer's flavor, but that's optional. It's all beer in the end. Relax!
Exactly. It would be difficult to design an ISA with a back door, surely that would have to be an implementation-specific effort. Of course, if they government also required projects to use chips from "approved" suppliers then they could make this happen, but it probably wouldn't be an architecture-level artifact.
Twenty years ago we were all using x86 CPUs, whereas today we're all using...what was it again? Something different, because we've advanced so much....right?
Somebody's tinfoil hat is on just a little bit too tight.
Or maybe they forgot to wear it shiny side out!
Sorry, but the X-Files ended 10 years ago.
Because they got too close to something! You notice how you almost never see re-runs? It's because they don't want to encourage skeptical thinking! We of the Society to Win Intellectual Freedom Through Keeping Ideas Circulating Knowledgeably (S.W.I.F.T.K.I.C.K.) are currently waging a war of intensity against the networks to get these shows back on the air!
once they realize the sheer cost involved in supporting all the legacy applications that now won't work on another arch (but that the country runs on), they will either use an x86 derivative
"legacy apps"? Like what? WoW? SWTOR? Or are we talking things like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest? Face it, there are no "killer apps" anymore -- and if there are any niche areas that don't have open-source or otherwise freely-available software, I'm sure they can code up their own solutions. Which will likely start by reverse-engineering the current best-of-breed solutions and porting them (or at least their algorithms) to their new architecture.
Frankly, I'm hoping that without all the entrenched legacy apps to support, they'll be able to come up with a superior architecture that won't be doomed to failure because it's not x86 compatible.
Indeed. One of the reasons that the Android emulator in the SDK is so slow to start is that it is a completely emulated environment, right down to the ARM CPU.
So where'd they get those scopes, then? Amateurs could crank out some 20" Newtonian reflectors, but they're not going to whip up a Schmidt-Cassegrain in the garage with some lens blanks and lapping compound. I'm not disputing the Welsh economic conditions, but at least a couple of their members had cash at some point. Astronomy can be a pretty pricey hobby, and people who pursue it don't tend to settle for just naked-eye observations, or an old pair of field glasses.
Is this a Ford thing? All the cars I've owned in the last 20 years have measured speed from a non-driven wheel, so if you spin the tires your speedometer is still accurate. My mom's old Country Estate wagon did this, but my '78 Firebird didn't, and I'm pretty sure my wife's Dodge Caravan doesn't. I imagine my A4 would, but it's all-wheel-drive, so there's no undriven wheel to measure from...
I find that if I don't get a book, I often don't know what I don't know. Tutorials and examples usually just deal with one little facet of a technology. So if I found a tutorial on the HTML5 canvas, I likely wouldn't know about local storage, and vice versa. Maybe it's just me, but I tend to wind up with fragmented knowledge of a topic if I don't have some kind of reference that covers the whole topic at some depth. I do use online tutorial and examples a lot, but if I really want to know something, I still buy a book.
When I first got my iPhone (3G), performance seemed pretty good. But as soon as I updated the OS to 4.0, performance tanked. It's still mostly usable, just not "handy": I no longer bother trying to check the weather, because it takes 15-20 seconds to display the information. Likewise, I no longer tap URLs in e-mail, because it takes 30-40 seconds to launch Safari (and another 10-15 seconds to load the page). I also gave up using it as an e-reader, because I can read the text on the screen in less time than it takes to turn the page. It's OK as a phone (AT&T put up a new site close to my house, so I get a great signal) and works as a simple MUA, but I feel like I've basically lost all my apps.
Is this the same Apple that provided 68K emulation on their PowerPC systems so people could run their old apps on a completely new processor architecture?
That may change; with the recent emphasis on "big data" in the form of NoSQL data stores. Big boxes with lots of memory and good I/O will definitely have a place. I doubt anyone's going to port Hadoop to VMS, though...
Doubt it was a case of "letting them off the leash", more like "failed to hold up their end of the contract" (by providing Alpha hardware for development). I doubt either side lost any sleep over it.
Actually, it was HP who originally came up with the Itanium design. However, it was too complex for them to fab and projected sales wouldn't offset the cost to upgrade their fabs. so they turned to Intel. That's what's at the heart of this disagreement: HP contracted with Intel to develop this line of chips to replace the PA-RISC line. Not just support or manufacture, but to co-develop successive generations of the chip. I've heard it said that Intel would love to dump Itanium, but they're contractually prohibited from doing so (at least for another couple of generations). I suspect HP is desperately trying to find an exit strategy, as Intel will probably make it very expensive for them to continue development once the current contracts expire.
Except you're not lossless. You've taken an analog signal and digitized it. You now have billions of samples of your original signal, but no matter how many samples you have, you only have an approximation of the original. Which is fine if you're listening on an MP3 player with some cheap class D amp driving headphones that maybe reproduce 5k-18k. But if you spend the money on a tube amp, why would you compromise on your source?
I had one of the standalone ones, it was basically useless for anything other than measuring your distance to a perpendicular, flat, hard surface that wasn't too far away. If you use one in a long narrow room the echoes interfere with the reflected signal, if you point it at a bookshelf or a framed picture without glass the signal gets attenuated too much, and forget about trying to measure the distance between a couple of curved columns. I bought one of the laser ones to replace it and yeah it was like 4x the price (~US$100), but the only problems I've had with it are when trying to use it to measure the distance to a window, and even then the beam's narrow enough I can usually find a point on the frame to use.
??? I just got a note from my manager on "big data", and decided to take a look at Hadoop. I downloaded the latest stable release, set JAVA_HOME in the config file and ran the example program. Total time to having a working instance: about a half hour, which included five minutes or so to download the tarball. Did you not see this page?
Maybe not. I bought one of their Ultra20 workstations new for around US$800 and that was without any discounts. More expensive than building an equivalent box from parts, but the parts are top notch (Tyan motherboard, nVidia NV280 graphics card). My only complaint was having to track down a funky "SPUD" bracket to mount a second hard drive.
Yeah, it's a shame. A buddy of mine just got rid of his Ultra3 workstation because it was too slow to be usable (doing software development running NB7.1, GlassFish and PostgreSQL). My old Ultra20 is still usable, but it's not really "snappy" (and not a SPARC system, despite the name).
I use VirtualBox at home, and it's always been just short of annoying. The emulated sound card is never recognized, so I always have to track down the link to the Taiwanese site that has the drivers, it emulates some crappy Ethernet controller (Broadcomm?), and accessing resources on the host (shared directories or USB ports) has got to be one of the least intuitive tasks around. Once I've got everything set up it seems to work pretty well (Windows 7 seemed faster under VirtualBox on my 4-core Linux box than natively on my dual-core work machine), but I've actually put off playing with a couple of OS projects because I figure it'll be a two-hour chore to get the VM set up.
It's pretty impressive for free software, but I wouldn't call it better than VMWare.
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LOL. "Carefully boiled"? What's that, in an ASTM-certified 18/10 stainless steel reaction vessel with distilled water when the ambient air pressure is no more than 30.05 using a thermal introduction profile not to exceed 10deg/sec? I just dump two cups of tap water in a small saucepan, heat it to boiling, dump in my priming sugar, and stir until dissolved (takes about twenty seconds). Then I dump it into my (freshly-sanitized) bottling bucket, rack my beer onto it, give it a quick stir with a sanitized stainless spoon, then bottle. It's really pretty difficult to screw this stuff up.
Sure, you can agonize over how many volumes of CO2 the BJCP claims are "proper" for your beer's style, and what kind of fermentables will either compliment or at least not intrude on your beer's flavor, but that's optional. It's all beer in the end. Relax!
Yup! ;)
How did you figure that out? Are you a plane/clothes detective?
Exactly. It would be difficult to design an ISA with a back door, surely that would have to be an implementation-specific effort. Of course, if they government also required projects to use chips from "approved" suppliers then they could make this happen, but it probably wouldn't be an architecture-level artifact.
Twenty years ago we were all using x86 CPUs, whereas today we're all using...what was it again? Something different, because we've advanced so much....right?
Somebody's tinfoil hat is on just a little bit too tight.
Or maybe they forgot to wear it shiny side out!
Sorry, but the X-Files ended 10 years ago.
Because they got too close to something! You notice how you almost never see re-runs? It's because they don't want to encourage skeptical thinking! We of the Society to Win Intellectual Freedom Through Keeping Ideas Circulating Knowledgeably (S.W.I.F.T.K.I.C.K.) are currently waging a war of intensity against the networks to get these shows back on the air!
once they realize the sheer cost involved in supporting all the legacy applications that now won't work on another arch (but that the country runs on), they will either use an x86 derivative
"legacy apps"? Like what? WoW? SWTOR? Or are we talking things like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest? Face it, there are no "killer apps" anymore -- and if there are any niche areas that don't have open-source or otherwise freely-available software, I'm sure they can code up their own solutions. Which will likely start by reverse-engineering the current best-of-breed solutions and porting them (or at least their algorithms) to their new architecture.
Frankly, I'm hoping that without all the entrenched legacy apps to support, they'll be able to come up with a superior architecture that won't be doomed to failure because it's not x86 compatible.
Indeed. One of the reasons that the Android emulator in the SDK is so slow to start is that it is a completely emulated environment, right down to the ARM CPU.
So where'd they get those scopes, then? Amateurs could crank out some 20" Newtonian reflectors, but they're not going to whip up a Schmidt-Cassegrain in the garage with some lens blanks and lapping compound. I'm not disputing the Welsh economic conditions, but at least a couple of their members had cash at some point. Astronomy can be a pretty pricey hobby, and people who pursue it don't tend to settle for just naked-eye observations, or an old pair of field glasses.
Is this a Ford thing? All the cars I've owned in the last 20 years have measured speed from a non-driven wheel, so if you spin the tires your speedometer is still accurate. My mom's old Country Estate wagon did this, but my '78 Firebird didn't, and I'm pretty sure my wife's Dodge Caravan doesn't. I imagine my A4 would, but it's all-wheel-drive, so there's no undriven wheel to measure from...
I find that if I don't get a book, I often don't know what I don't know. Tutorials and examples usually just deal with one little facet of a technology. So if I found a tutorial on the HTML5 canvas, I likely wouldn't know about local storage, and vice versa. Maybe it's just me, but I tend to wind up with fragmented knowledge of a topic if I don't have some kind of reference that covers the whole topic at some depth. I do use online tutorial and examples a lot, but if I really want to know something, I still buy a book.
When I first got my iPhone (3G), performance seemed pretty good. But as soon as I updated the OS to 4.0, performance tanked. It's still mostly usable, just not "handy": I no longer bother trying to check the weather, because it takes 15-20 seconds to display the information. Likewise, I no longer tap URLs in e-mail, because it takes 30-40 seconds to launch Safari (and another 10-15 seconds to load the page). I also gave up using it as an e-reader, because I can read the text on the screen in less time than it takes to turn the page. It's OK as a phone (AT&T put up a new site close to my house, so I get a great signal) and works as a simple MUA, but I feel like I've basically lost all my apps.
Is this the same Apple that provided 68K emulation on their PowerPC systems so people could run their old apps on a completely new processor architecture?
That may change; with the recent emphasis on "big data" in the form of NoSQL data stores. Big boxes with lots of memory and good I/O will definitely have a place. I doubt anyone's going to port Hadoop to VMS, though...
Doubt it was a case of "letting them off the leash", more like "failed to hold up their end of the contract" (by providing Alpha hardware for development). I doubt either side lost any sleep over it.
Actually, it was HP who originally came up with the Itanium design. However, it was too complex for them to fab and projected sales wouldn't offset the cost to upgrade their fabs. so they turned to Intel. That's what's at the heart of this disagreement: HP contracted with Intel to develop this line of chips to replace the PA-RISC line. Not just support or manufacture, but to co-develop successive generations of the chip. I've heard it said that Intel would love to dump Itanium, but they're contractually prohibited from doing so (at least for another couple of generations). I suspect HP is desperately trying to find an exit strategy, as Intel will probably make it very expensive for them to continue development once the current contracts expire.
Except you're not lossless. You've taken an analog signal and digitized it. You now have billions of samples of your original signal, but no matter how many samples you have, you only have an approximation of the original. Which is fine if you're listening on an MP3 player with some cheap class D amp driving headphones that maybe reproduce 5k-18k. But if you spend the money on a tube amp, why would you compromise on your source?
Anyone feeding a tube amp from a digital source is already living in a state of sin...
The only difference is that the carrier specific phones have been locked to that provider
Well, that and they have totally different radios with different drivers and different network management code and different WiFi drivers and...
I had one of the standalone ones, it was basically useless for anything other than measuring your distance to a perpendicular, flat, hard surface that wasn't too far away. If you use one in a long narrow room the echoes interfere with the reflected signal, if you point it at a bookshelf or a framed picture without glass the signal gets attenuated too much, and forget about trying to measure the distance between a couple of curved columns. I bought one of the laser ones to replace it and yeah it was like 4x the price (~US$100), but the only problems I've had with it are when trying to use it to measure the distance to a window, and even then the beam's narrow enough I can usually find a point on the frame to use.
??? I just got a note from my manager on "big data", and decided to take a look at Hadoop. I downloaded the latest stable release, set JAVA_HOME in the config file and ran the example program. Total time to having a working instance: about a half hour, which included five minutes or so to download the tarball. Did you not see this page?
Maybe not. I bought one of their Ultra20 workstations new for around US$800 and that was without any discounts. More expensive than building an equivalent box from parts, but the parts are top notch (Tyan motherboard, nVidia NV280 graphics card). My only complaint was having to track down a funky "SPUD" bracket to mount a second hard drive.
Yeah, it's a shame. A buddy of mine just got rid of his Ultra3 workstation because it was too slow to be usable (doing software development running NB7.1, GlassFish and PostgreSQL). My old Ultra20 is still usable, but it's not really "snappy" (and not a SPARC system, despite the name).
I use VirtualBox at home, and it's always been just short of annoying. The emulated sound card is never recognized, so I always have to track down the link to the Taiwanese site that has the drivers, it emulates some crappy Ethernet controller (Broadcomm?), and accessing resources on the host (shared directories or USB ports) has got to be one of the least intuitive tasks around. Once I've got everything set up it seems to work pretty well (Windows 7 seemed faster under VirtualBox on my 4-core Linux box than natively on my dual-core work machine), but I've actually put off playing with a couple of OS projects because I figure it'll be a two-hour chore to get the VM set up.
It's pretty impressive for free software, but I wouldn't call it better than VMWare.
One each.