This really sounds like a publicity stunt to me. Why? Well, think about it. How cost effective is it to provide WiFi access to a site that is used, at best, a few hours a week? Contrast this to airports, bus stations, Starbucks etc. that are occupied a majority of the hours every day. Yup, sounds like a publicity stunt to me.
Perpendicular recording has been The Next Big Thing coming for disc storage for at least 15 years. I, for one, am more than tired of hearing yet again that it is just a few years away.
Reminds me a lot of cheap, flat-screen televisions to hang on your wall that have been prophesized as being only being five years away for at least the last two decades. Even now the ones we have are certainly not cheap yet.
Please wake me when both arrive, and quit bothering me until then.
What's the C code that broke for no known reason? Let's get the ball rolling
It was a SCADA system running on DEC MIPS-based superminis and Sun workstations some years ago. I no longer have access to that source code. Performance was a problem and some tests I ran showed that full optimization could improve one of them by 2X and the other by 4X, but when the whole system was compiled with optimization it simply didn't run. Like many software projects, there was no time at the moment to track down the failing modules and later it was possible that some selective optimization was performed after I left the project, but compilers that can't compile have always concerned me because some problems are not easy to verify results on. If you knew the results, you wouldn't have to be running the program to get them.
The author of the G5 test, whom I don't know how to contact, hasn't named the compilers, though I wish he would.
I've had no luck in my past attempts to submit an article to/., however someone else with better results might ask the question of faulty compilers. I'd expect it to get a lot of results.
Craig Hunter of NASA gives details about his much-quoted dual-G5 Power Mac benchmarks listed here.
When you read his latest comments he notes that several Fortran compilers gave faulty results, some depending on optimizations selected. THIS IS SCARY, to say the least. Even years ago I knew of C code that broke for no known reason when optimizations were selected.
What does it take to start a/. article about faulty compilers. This ought to be a big deal.
My understanding is that registration isn't required in order for your work to be copyrighted
While strictly speaking you are correct, at least in the field of screenwriting of which I'm familiar, registering your material with the copyright office within 90 days of completion entitles you to extra classes of monetary damages in the event of infringment that are not available otherwise.
~1.4something MHz, because that was the frequency of the crystals used to sync NTSC TV transmissions, so you could buy the crystals by the boatload
Actually, 4.77MHz, which allowed relatively easy division to the 3.58MHz color burst signal of NTSC. In addition, even through 8086 chips were running up to 8MHz at the time, the 8087 math coprocessor topped out at 5MHz and had to be sync-locked with the processor. Also memory was better accomodated at 4.77MHz.
I'm sure I still own an IBM PS/2 Model 30 (1987), that uses an Intel 8086 (16 bit bus).
I concede your point, since I was referring to original PCs, the overwhelming number coming with 8088 chips. I also feel sorry for any PS/2 owners of models 25 or 30, which were essentially orphan machines on the day they were released. Their only advantage was to still use the ISA bus, rather than Microchannel.
I guess the geeks don't hang out on/. as they once did. The original IBM Personal Computer (circa 1981 - 1983) used the Intel 8088 chip, not the 8086. Although related, the 8088 is a distinct chip that uses an 8-bit (as opposed to 16-bit) instruction/data bus and intergrates a few additional features that allow for 5 less glue logic chips, resulting in lower manufacturing costs in addition to the 8-bit expansion slots being cheaper.
Although IBM considered upgrading the design to the 80186 when it appeared that Intel could not deliver the 286 chip on schedule, they wisely skipped that step and the PC-AT first appeared with a 6MHz 80286 processor -- crippled addressing and all.
Now for extra points, what clock-rate did the original IBM PC operate at, and why?
The Fast User Switching I want to see is from Mororola 32-bit G4 to IBM 32/64-bit PPC 970. The faster that switch happens, the faster we'll get more capable 64-bit software.
And the faster that Apple provides the genesis for 64-bit user software, the faster the PC world will be dragged along kicking and screaming, to the benefit of us all.
And yes, I know that just going to 64-bits alone doesn't automatically confer advantages, but there are advantages. I also expect that to be the last such migration in my life time. It might be famous last words, however I do have trouble believing 64-bit processing and addressing will get outgrown by any software we'll be running on the desktop.
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This really sounds like a publicity stunt to me. Why? Well, think about it. How cost effective is it to provide WiFi access to a site that is used, at best, a few hours a week? Contrast this to airports, bus stations, Starbucks etc. that are occupied a majority of the hours every day. Yup, sounds like a publicity stunt to me.
Reminds me a lot of cheap, flat-screen televisions to hang on your wall that have been prophesized as being only being five years away for at least the last two decades. Even now the ones we have are certainly not cheap yet.
Please wake me when both arrive, and quit bothering me until then.
Except that they're not!
1. Overcharge by $40/copy.
2. Agree to refund $5 to $29/copy.
3. Profit!
What biggest offenders? According to news reports, they have gone after with 5 to 8 files shared.
And who's going to believe it? With Vmyths gone, I can't check it out anymore.
That's a movie for heaven's sake. Please don't confuse it with real life.
That explains why they have to keep them for 50 years. We only want to clone the survivors.
There are Pamela Anderson lookalikes!! Where?? Can I get a dozen?! Do they deliver!?
The ends do justify the means, once you recognise that those means have become part of the ends you get.
It was a SCADA system running on DEC MIPS-based superminis and Sun workstations some years ago. I no longer have access to that source code. Performance was a problem and some tests I ran showed that full optimization could improve one of them by 2X and the other by 4X, but when the whole system was compiled with optimization it simply didn't run. Like many software projects, there was no time at the moment to track down the failing modules and later it was possible that some selective optimization was performed after I left the project, but compilers that can't compile have always concerned me because some problems are not easy to verify results on. If you knew the results, you wouldn't have to be running the program to get them.
The author of the G5 test, whom I don't know how to contact, hasn't named the compilers, though I wish he would.
I've had no luck in my past attempts to submit an article to /., however someone else with better results might ask the question of faulty compilers. I'd expect it to get a lot of results.
When you read his latest comments he notes that several Fortran compilers gave faulty results, some depending on optimizations selected. THIS IS SCARY, to say the least. Even years ago I knew of C code that broke for no known reason when optimizations were selected.
What does it take to start a /. article about faulty compilers. This ought to be a big deal.
I refer you to the following article from today's issue.
And didn't Mozilla development take a near death-blow today with the AOL-directed layoffs?
What are the statistics on the number of pop-up ad windows and attempted spyware installs on sites dedicated to Statistics?
While strictly speaking you are correct, at least in the field of screenwriting of which I'm familiar, registering your material with the copyright office within 90 days of completion entitles you to extra classes of monetary damages in the event of infringment that are not available otherwise.
Congratualtions on directing us to one of the most ugly, popup ridden site it has ever been my displeasure to visit.
And everybody is surprised about this because...?
Actually, 4.77MHz, which allowed relatively easy division to the 3.58MHz color burst signal of NTSC. In addition, even through 8086 chips were running up to 8MHz at the time, the 8087 math coprocessor topped out at 5MHz and had to be sync-locked with the processor. Also memory was better accomodated at 4.77MHz.
I concede your point, since I was referring to original PCs, the overwhelming number coming with 8088 chips. I also feel sorry for any PS/2 owners of models 25 or 30, which were essentially orphan machines on the day they were released. Their only advantage was to still use the ISA bus, rather than Microchannel.
I guess the geeks don't hang out on /. as they once did. The original IBM Personal Computer (circa 1981 - 1983) used the Intel 8088 chip, not the 8086. Although related, the 8088 is a distinct chip that uses an 8-bit (as opposed to 16-bit) instruction/data bus and intergrates a few additional features that allow for 5 less glue logic chips, resulting in lower manufacturing costs in addition to the 8-bit expansion slots being cheaper.
Although IBM considered upgrading the design to the 80186 when it appeared that Intel could not deliver the 286 chip on schedule, they wisely skipped that step and the PC-AT first appeared with a 6MHz 80286 processor -- crippled addressing and all.
Now for extra points, what clock-rate did the original IBM PC operate at, and why?
I though they were buying it from Niger.
You mean they would be non-existent (since the PC never used a 8086 chip)?
And the faster that Apple provides the genesis for 64-bit user software, the faster the PC world will be dragged along kicking and screaming, to the benefit of us all.
And yes, I know that just going to 64-bits alone doesn't automatically confer advantages, but there are advantages. I also expect that to be the last such migration in my life time. It might be famous last words, however I do have trouble believing 64-bit processing and addressing will get outgrown by any software we'll be running on the desktop.
Maybe SCO can use GPS to locate *nix code in Linux. So far they sure don't seem to have found much of it otherwise.