There was an editorial in our paper a week or two ago about a mother who took her 8 year old daughter to see South Park "Thinking it would be a nice family oriented cartoon"... I wonder what dark hole she has been living in for the past two years, or why she failed to notice that she was taking an 8 year old to an R rated cartoon...
Actually, it sounds like their archetecture (4 CPU PCI cards) is more like having 32 4 CPU boxes, using the PCI bus as a high speed, low latency, switched network connection. Plus, I'd bet that the extra CPUs run some really light weight task manager, rather than a complete OS.
Back during DESCHALL, I remember someone noticing that a 2 CPU 604e was more than twice as fast a 1 CPU, because it turns out that the overhead of the MacOS interupt handlers is pretty high. Since all interupts were handled on cpu #0, you could watch the cracking rates of the two instances and get really depressed about your OS... (though the same guy said the "super efficient" BeOS was even worse)
Well, their current cards seem to have memory on board, then use MPI over the PCI bus--ie, not SMP, but a bunch of processors used for batch rendering, etc.
>128 processers under MacOS!?!?! I'm skeptical about all this.
It sounds like most of their products are like a "rendering farm in a box"... MacOS runs on a standard Mac (with 1 or 2 CPUs), and then batch jobs written using their MPI libraries use the rest of the CPUs.
Nope. You is both singular and plural, and is gramatically identical to the Germanic "Sie" (polite form of you). Thou and Thee are singular and plural, respectively, and are derived from the familaiar forms "du" and "ihr" in German. They are considered archaic, however, or in hacker-speek, depricated.
... That it seems every 3 weeks SGI has been "reinventing itself." Giving one (me) the impression that they don't know what their vision is, or they are thrashing to find a vision that works.
Also, their press releases seemed to indicate that they were not planning on continuing their line of MIPS systems very long, which *does* translate to dropping IRIX. Of course the truth in the remains to be seen, and is a function of what Merced does...
Check your power supply. I have found that when a power supply is dying, hard drives are the first to notice, and that is a typical error for that sort of thing.
It sounded to me like the ads would only be on the whois query page, not on the actual account managment pages. You are free to run your whois lookup that links directly into the domain registration process at NSI or any other registrar, no?
Besides, while I agree that being forced to send you customers to pages that show competing banner ads is somewhat tacky (especially considerint NSI is banning competing registrars from advertising), "thems the breaks." If you are sufficiently uncompetitive to retain customers when they see ads for other ISPs, that is pretty lame, too.
My theory is that non-tech people feel threatend by computer geeks, and thus come up with non-sensical "studies" like this to help the feel superior to us. Basically, our culture no longer values intelligence. Combine that with people feeling left behind by technology and afraid they are becoming obsolete, and you get such forms of hostility towards hackers and the like.
Hell, since I got DSL, I don't even know what "online" means. I use my computer 8+ hours a day at work, and more at home. My computer is connected to the internet at all times. I use it as necessary. This is the beginning of the next evolutionary step for humans--we are moving from a collection of individuals to a network of individuals. Evidentally, psychologists are going to be left behind, worried about becoming addicted.
The FAA has not approved GPS units as a primary navigation instrument. Almost all planes use LORAN (Same idea, only the transmitters are ground based -- cheaper, more accurate, but not very useful if you aren't airborne). I don't know if that has any sort of rollover problems, though.
Rather, merced never will. However, Intel is planning a line of IA-64 chips for desktops, to be available in 2002 or something. Apply the standard rate of deadline slip, and get 2005...
Acording to the dictionaries I looked it up in after my Anthro professor made an ass of himself on that topic, decimate can also be legitimately used to indicate the detruction of a "large but unspecified portion of a population" (my own wording). It is however, incorrect to say X decimated all of Y, or X decimated 40% of Y.
Almost certainly the case. I did see the movie, and ie, the mail client was very obviously AOL. I believe they showed the AOL logo several times, and used the AOL "You've got mail" sound clip.
What I don't care for is having money go through the fedral government and all the way back to local communities. Primarily because 1) a lot of it gets lost along the way, 2) Apportioning of fedral grants is based on the political power (read wealth) of local representatives, so most of the money goes to well off school districts, not the ones that need the money the most, and 3) the federal gov't uses the money to blackmail state and local governments into ie, requiring content filters on internet connections and other annoying restrictions.
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There was an editorial in our paper a week or two ago about a mother who took her 8 year old daughter to see South Park "Thinking it would be a nice family oriented cartoon"... I wonder what dark hole she has been living in for the past two years, or why she failed to notice that she was taking an 8 year old to an R rated cartoon...
Actually, it sounds like their archetecture (4 CPU PCI cards) is more like having 32 4 CPU boxes, using the PCI bus as a high speed, low latency, switched network connection. Plus, I'd bet that the extra CPUs run some really light weight task manager, rather than a complete OS.
Back during DESCHALL, I remember someone noticing that a 2 CPU 604e was more than twice as fast a 1 CPU, because it turns out that the overhead of the MacOS interupt handlers is pretty high. Since all interupts were handled on cpu #0, you could watch the cracking rates of the two instances and get really depressed about your OS... (though the same guy said the "super efficient" BeOS was even worse)
Well, their current cards seem to have memory on board, then use MPI over the PCI bus--ie, not SMP, but a bunch of processors used for batch rendering, etc.
It sounds like most of their products are like a "rendering farm in a box"... MacOS runs on a standard Mac (with 1 or 2 CPUs), and then batch jobs written using their MPI libraries use the rest of the CPUs.
Nope. You is both singular and plural, and is gramatically identical to the Germanic "Sie" (polite form of you). Thou and Thee are singular and plural, respectively, and are derived from the familaiar forms "du" and "ihr" in German. They are considered archaic, however, or in hacker-speek, depricated.
Also, their press releases seemed to indicate that they were not planning on continuing their line of MIPS systems very long, which *does* translate to dropping IRIX. Of course the truth in the remains to be seen, and is a function of what Merced does...
Do you have the PCI or AGP G200? I have the AGP and it works fine at 1600x1200x32bit.
Check your power supply. I have found that when a power supply is dying, hard drives are the first to notice, and that is a typical error for that sort of thing.
This seems like fair and equitable way to do a dirty job. What I object to is periodic complete or random scans.
Besides, while I agree that being forced to send you customers to pages that show competing banner ads is somewhat tacky (especially considerint NSI is banning competing registrars from advertising), "thems the breaks." If you are sufficiently uncompetitive to retain customers when they see ads for other ISPs, that is pretty lame, too.
Hell, since I got DSL, I don't even know what "online" means. I use my computer 8+ hours a day at work, and more at home. My computer is connected to the internet at all times. I use it as necessary. This is the beginning of the next evolutionary step for humans--we are moving from a collection of individuals to a network of individuals. Evidentally, psychologists are going to be left behind, worried about becoming addicted.
The FAA has not approved GPS units as a primary navigation instrument. Almost all planes use LORAN (Same idea, only the transmitters are ground based -- cheaper, more accurate, but not very useful if you aren't airborne). I don't know if that has any sort of rollover problems, though.
Rather, merced never will. However, Intel is planning a line of IA-64 chips for desktops, to be available in 2002 or something. Apply the standard rate of deadline slip, and get 2005...
SGI canned Ferenheit a couple of weeks ago.
Acording to the dictionaries I looked it up in after my Anthro professor made an ass of himself on that topic, decimate can also be legitimately used to indicate the detruction of a "large but unspecified portion of a population" (my own wording). It is however, incorrect to say X decimated all of Y, or X decimated 40% of Y.
Almost certainly the case. I did see the movie, and ie, the mail client was very obviously AOL. I believe they showed the AOL logo several times, and used the AOL "You've got mail" sound clip.
Because you aren't some greedy selfish freak, and you realize that educating children is important for our country as a whole?
What I don't care for is having money go through the fedral government and all the way back to local communities. Primarily because 1) a lot of it gets lost along the way, 2) Apportioning of fedral grants is based on the political power (read wealth) of local representatives, so most of the money goes to well off school districts, not the ones that need the money the most, and 3) the federal gov't uses the money to blackmail state and local governments into ie, requiring content filters on internet connections and other annoying restrictions.