"available today"
meaning it'll ship to customers a month from now
Apple is notorious for announcing products, then having them either backordered for months
There needs to be something that makes hiding ethically unsound little traps in long EULAs as illegal as making people sign documents when they've been drugged or coerced to do so.
well, considering each new generation of Intel processors have tradionally been SLOWER than the previous ones in their initial iteration (P4 Willamette vs. P3 Tulatin), it COULD count as a news flash
Increasing L1 cache on the P4 would render the other caches almost useless, because the P4 uses an inclusive cache architecture. All the data in L1 is stored in L2 also, and everything in L2 is in L3 also. So if L1 was big, L2 would end up being just a copy of L1 with nothing new, unless they made it bigger.
And if they made ANY of it bigger, they'd start incurring some major latency, dropping the P4's IPC even more.
You're thinking of the Itanium. It used to run 32bit X86 under a hardware emulator, but that was about as fast as the Pentium MMX. Intel has since switched to using a software emulator, something like Transmeta does with the Cruesoe, and it's actually faster than the hardware emulator, about the same speed as a Pentium III now.
The Xeon is a Pentium4 in different packaging and with SMP enabled. Actually, SMP is probably enabled with the Pentium4 too, but since there are no such motherboards and you can't plug them into Xeon DP mobos, nobody can test that. Xeons already come in versions that have up to 8MB of L3 cache, the new Pentium 4 is probably just a rebadged Xeon certified to run on an 800Mhz bus.
interesting...someone needs to write a virus with an EULA then, an EFFECTIVE virus one, and then see if the courts finally decide to do something about the things companies like GAIN and Microsoft hide in their EULAs when they start losing money due to the virus.
My understanding was that solar sailing was not in fact using photons to push the craft, but in fact using the solar wind, which consists mainly of hydrogen streaming from the sun. Photons have no mass, therefore cannnot transfer momentum.
no, this has been explained far too many times.
the ISS and Columbia were in totally different orbits, the shuttle would not have had enough propellant to change orbits to match the ISS. So NO they could not have gone to the ISS.
nothing to you personally, but ppl in general need to realize that flying in space is not like driving cars where you can just change lanes/roads etc whenever, nor is it like Star Trek where you just "set a heading" and "engage".
people have been saying stuff like this for ages. It always works out nicely in little controlled environments where the protocol is developed, but once they let it out onto larger networks they fail miserably.
First let me state that I'm thoroughly disgusted with how nVidia and Futuremark have handled this situation. In a vague kind of way, it sort of relates to the government line of "if you don't support this war, you are a traitor". No one is allowed to voice a bad opinion anymore.
Secondly, and this is a new train of thought for me, if nVidia had made the benchmark run faster without sacrificing image quality, I think it should be allowed to detect the benchmark was running and have a code path optimized in the driver for it. This could be used to show exactly how fast the hardware is capable of running optimized to the hilt by the driver developers. It could actually have a benefit of showing game developers how they should code their software, that sequencing instructions in this particular order or using certain architecture specific instructions are THAT much faster. Sort of like how 3DNow enhanced Quake showed off how much faster the K6 could be. Unfortunately this was not what they did, they were caught red-handed, and now they're just throwing their weight around. SHAME ON nVidia.
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yeah, I have 2 rigs running RH 7.3 and RH8, downloaded a new kernel source and patched it with OpenMosix, install the kernel on both rigs, installed Mosix tools, and it was up and running. Couldn't possibly be simpler.
If I like enough songs available on one CD, I'll still go out and buy it. I have low standards already, so long as half the songs on the CD are good, I'll go buy it, no question there. I'll even order them from overseas if I can't get them here.
It's just that nearly all CDs out these days have maybe 1 or 2 good songs and the rest SUCK. I just can't justify spending $20 on 2 songs.
The RIAA realizes their artists suck right now. So they're trying to find a new source of revenue, by sueing their customers. Notice how alot of companies these days are doing the same these days now that the economy is down?
while I agree with you that society in general is used to being led around by the nose and the government hides far more than it should, I think in this case there was no conspiracy. What reason would they have to cover this up?
As for information I've found/not found for myself, I'll admit that all of the information regarding this I've seen through media publications, but it's more than a little difficult to go straight to the source. The closest to the source I've been able to get is watching NASA TV and analyzing the CAIB's timelines. If you know some place I can get more direct information please let me know.
actually, it's somewhat a combination of the two and a third, most important factor: stress; keeping the shuttle upside down is apparently the configuration that induces the least stress on the structure.
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"available today" meaning it'll ship to customers a month from now Apple is notorious for announcing products, then having them either backordered for months
now we can build BSODs into hardware!
I'd love to see the day when a "define Gator" on Google returns "bottom dwelling scum sucking spyware" yeah you heard me, GATOR IS SPYWARE!
There needs to be something that makes hiding ethically unsound little traps in long EULAs as illegal as making people sign documents when they've been drugged or coerced to do so.
(try finding cheap reliable 15K RPM IDE drives)
.... pick two, you can never have all three. Be it SCSI or IDE.
as a rule:
Cheap, Reliable, Fast (15K rpm)
hot air coming out of SCO contributing to global warming
well, considering each new generation of Intel processors have tradionally been SLOWER than the previous ones in their initial iteration (P4 Willamette vs. P3 Tulatin), it COULD count as a news flash
Increasing L1 cache on the P4 would render the other caches almost useless, because the P4 uses an inclusive cache architecture. All the data in L1 is stored in L2 also, and everything in L2 is in L3 also. So if L1 was big, L2 would end up being just a copy of L1 with nothing new, unless they made it bigger. And if they made ANY of it bigger, they'd start incurring some major latency, dropping the P4's IPC even more.
You're thinking of the Itanium. It used to run 32bit X86 under a hardware emulator, but that was about as fast as the Pentium MMX. Intel has since switched to using a software emulator, something like Transmeta does with the Cruesoe, and it's actually faster than the hardware emulator, about the same speed as a Pentium III now.
The Xeon is a Pentium4 in different packaging and with SMP enabled. Actually, SMP is probably enabled with the Pentium4 too, but since there are no such motherboards and you can't plug them into Xeon DP mobos, nobody can test that. Xeons already come in versions that have up to 8MB of L3 cache, the new Pentium 4 is probably just a rebadged Xeon certified to run on an 800Mhz bus.
interesting...someone needs to write a virus with an EULA then, an EFFECTIVE virus one, and then see if the courts finally decide to do something about the things companies like GAIN and Microsoft hide in their EULAs when they start losing money due to the virus.
Might be the one time a virus will do good.
My understanding was that solar sailing was not in fact using photons to push the craft, but in fact using the solar wind, which consists mainly of hydrogen streaming from the sun. Photons have no mass, therefore cannnot transfer momentum.
no, this has been explained far too many times. the ISS and Columbia were in totally different orbits, the shuttle would not have had enough propellant to change orbits to match the ISS. So NO they could not have gone to the ISS. nothing to you personally, but ppl in general need to realize that flying in space is not like driving cars where you can just change lanes/roads etc whenever, nor is it like Star Trek where you just "set a heading" and "engage".
people have been saying stuff like this for ages. It always works out nicely in little controlled environments where the protocol is developed, but once they let it out onto larger networks they fail miserably.
First let me state that I'm thoroughly disgusted with how nVidia and Futuremark have handled this situation. In a vague kind of way, it sort of relates to the government line of "if you don't support this war, you are a traitor". No one is allowed to voice a bad opinion anymore.
Secondly, and this is a new train of thought for me, if nVidia had made the benchmark run faster without sacrificing image quality, I think it should be allowed to detect the benchmark was running and have a code path optimized in the driver for it. This could be used to show exactly how fast the hardware is capable of running optimized to the hilt by the driver developers. It could actually have a benefit of showing game developers how they should code their software, that sequencing instructions in this particular order or using certain architecture specific instructions are THAT much faster. Sort of like how 3DNow enhanced Quake showed off how much faster the K6 could be. Unfortunately this was not what they did, they were caught red-handed, and now they're just throwing their weight around. SHAME ON nVidia.
yeah, I have 2 rigs running RH 7.3 and RH8, downloaded a new kernel source and patched it with OpenMosix, install the kernel on both rigs, installed Mosix tools, and it was up and running. Couldn't possibly be simpler.
this seems to be an altered form of The RAMBUS Business Strategy
If I like enough songs available on one CD, I'll still go out and buy it. I have low standards already, so long as half the songs on the CD are good, I'll go buy it, no question there. I'll even order them from overseas if I can't get them here. It's just that nearly all CDs out these days have maybe 1 or 2 good songs and the rest SUCK. I just can't justify spending $20 on 2 songs. The RIAA realizes their artists suck right now. So they're trying to find a new source of revenue, by sueing their customers. Notice how alot of companies these days are doing the same these days now that the economy is down?
while I agree with you that society in general is used to being led around by the nose and the government hides far more than it should, I think in this case there was no conspiracy. What reason would they have to cover this up? As for information I've found/not found for myself, I'll admit that all of the information regarding this I've seen through media publications, but it's more than a little difficult to go straight to the source. The closest to the source I've been able to get is watching NASA TV and analyzing the CAIB's timelines. If you know some place I can get more direct information please let me know.
you're KIDDING right...? EM weapons/aliens/NWO??? what the hell are you on?
actually, it's somewhat a combination of the two and a third, most important factor: stress; keeping the shuttle upside down is apparently the configuration that induces the least stress on the structure.