I dont know a whole lot on this topic but wonder what the performance and usability issues are between PVM and Mosix, other than issues dealing with kernel mods.
I posted this higher up but what they are doing is a violation of the Napster terms of use:
As a condition to your use of the Napster service and browser you agree that you will not: (i) use the Napster service to infringe the intellectual property rights of others in any way; (ii) use the Napster browser or service, or attempt to penetrate, modify or manipulate the Napster browser or service or any of the hardware or software thereof in order to: invade the privacy of, obtain the identity of, or obtain any personal information about (including but not limited to IP addresses of) any Napster account holder or user, or modify, erase or damage any information contained on the computer of any user connected to the Napster service; or (iii) reverse engineer any portion of the Napster service or browser.
This program clearly violates the terms of use of Napster as they require you to use a previously registered user name. From the Napster site, As a condition to your use of the Napster service and browser you agree that you will not: (i) use the Napster service to infringe the intellectual property rights of others in any way; (ii) use the Napster browser or service, or attempt to penetrate, modify or manipulate the Napster browser or service or any of the hardware or software thereof in order to: invade the privacy of, obtain the identity of, or obtain any personal information about (including but not limited to IP addresses of) any Napster account holder or user, or modify, erase or damage any information contained on the computer of any user connected to the Napster service; or (iii) reverse engineer any portion of the Napster service or browser.
The lead in for this speech / q&a session is totally misleading. Woosley clearly states that the CIA's only interest has been in cases of bribery or other 'unfair' tactics by foreign firms to win contracts, and that the information will go to the state dept. He also says that they dont have the resources to go on fishing trips and that in general, the US is the leader in most of todays valuable technologies. Please try not to politicize everything that has 'CIA' or 'NSA' on it.
I've used slakware since..well at least early 1994 (i recently stumbled on an early 1.1.x kernel). The best part of slakware is, for me, its stability (no I'm not talking about the kernel). Everything works, all the time. You pay a price for being on the bleeding edge of every distro of c libraries and the like. I would much rather be a little behind and not be pulling out whats left of my hair trying to figure out why things dont compile or work the way they should.
A close second is that slak follows very closely traditional unix and hence you have access to a lot of books not just written for redhat linux.
I would also add Gateway by Pohl to that list, the first of a series and a winner of Hugo and Nebula Awards. The Left Hand of Darkness was a great book, glad to see you have mentioned it. You should give a quick look here , not so much for purchase but for other suggestions of vintage/classic SF.
Can you please comment on the current status of the NLC project and the major obstacles that remain in its design and those of the detectors? Also, what are the plans for the first few live experiments?
We live in an age of unparalled technological achievments and scientific knowledge, yet we seem to be moving further and further away from individual knowledge. Branches of science and engineering are now divided and redivided into such depths, that I question whether it is possible for a Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Dirac, or Feynman to emerge in our future. Certainly your field, experimental HEP, is the current extreme of loss of individuality when collaborations run into the hundreds.
So I ask you: Have we, as individuals, become so over specialized we are doomed to suffer not being able to see the forest thru the trees?
Check me on this.. but I just looked at some of the systems that they are peddling and the prices seem way rich to me. Like how much premium should be paid for a low end wintel box that already has linux installed (and I suppose configured properly)? Please correct me if I am off base but I really do think you can do better buying from the likes of Dell/GTW/Micron etc and installing Linux yourself.
Of course I'm 60 bid for their shares when they start trading...
Correct me if I am wrong, but once people start moving to DSL solutions they will have a unique (read permanent) IP address? That is when it will get scarey.
1.1Ghz? Intel? So is this a replacement for my stove or central heating? Do I need one of those big restaurant freezers or can I just move to Nome and keep it outside?
PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 452 October 12, 1999 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein
THE 1999 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS goes to Gerardus 't Hooft of the University of Utrecht and Martinus Veltman, formerly of the University of Michigan and now retired, for their work toward deriving a unified framework for all the physical forces. Their efforts, part of a tradition going back to the nineteenth century, centers around the search for underlying similarities or symmetries among disparate phenomena, and the formulation of these relations in a complex but elegant mathematical language. A past example would be James Clerk Maxwell's demonstration that electricity and magnetism are two aspects of a single electro- magnetic force. Naturally this unification enterprise has met with various obstacles along the way. In this century quantum mechanics was combined with special relativity, resulting in quantum field theory. This theory successfully explained many phenomena, such as how particles could be created or annihilated or how unstable particles decay, but it also seemed to predict, nonsensically, that the likelihood for certain interactions could be infinitely large. Richard Feynman, along with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, tamed these infinities by redefining the mass and charge of the electron in a process called renormalization. Their theory, quantum electrodynamics (QED), is the most precise theory known, and it serves as a prototype for other gauge theories (theories which show how forces arise from underlying symmetries), such as the electroweak theory, which assimilates the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces into a single model. But the electroweak model too was vulnerable to infinities and physicists were worried that the theory would be useless. Then 't Hooft and Veltman overcame the difficulty (and the anxiety) through a renormalization comparable to Feynman's. To draw out the distinctiveness of Veltman's and 't Hooft's work further, one can say that they succeeded in renormalizing a non-Abelian gauge theory, whereas Feynman had renormalized an Abelian gauge theory (quantum electrodynamics). What does this mean? A mathematical function (such as the quantum field representing a particle's whereabouts) is invariant under a transformation (such as a shift in the phase of the field) if it remains the same after the transformation. One can consider the effect of two such transformations, A and B. An Abelian theory is one in which the effect of applying A and then B is the same as applying B first and then A. A non-Abelian theory is one in which the order for applying A and B does make a difference. Getting the non-Abelian electroweak model to work was a formidable theoretical problem. An essential ingredient in this scheme was the existence of another particle, the Higgs boson (named for Peter Higgs), whose role (in a behind-the-scenes capacity) is to confer mass upon many of the known particles. For example, interactions between the Higgs boson and the various force-carrying particles result in the W and Z bosons (carriers of the weak force) being massive (with masses of 80 and 91 GeV, respectively) but the photon (carrier of the electromagnetic force) remaining massless. With Veltman's and 't Hooft's theoretical machinery in hand, physicists could more reliably estimate the masses of the W and Z, as well as produce at least a crude guide as to the likely mass of the top quark. (Mass estimates for exotic particles are of billion-dollar importance if Congress, say, is trying to decide whether or not to build an accelerator designed to discover that particle.) Happily, the W, Z, and top quark were subsequently created and detected in high energy collision experiments, and the Higgs boson is now itself an important quarry at places like Fermilab's Tevatron and CERN's Large Hadron Collider, under construction in Geneva. (Recommended reading: 't Hooft, Scientific American, June 1980, excellent article on gauge theories in general; Veltman, Scientific American, November 1986, Higgs bosons. More information is available at the Swedish Academy website: http://www.nobel.se/announcement-99/physics99.ht ml)
THE 1999 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY goes to Ahmed H. Zewail of Caltech, for developing a technique that enables scientists to watch the extremely rapid middle stages of a chemical reaction. Relying on ultra-fast laser pulses, "femtosecond spectroscopy" can provide snapshots far faster than any camera--it can capture the motions of atoms within molecules in the time scale of femtoseconds (10^-15 s). An atom in a molecule typically performs a single vibration in just 10-100 femtoseconds, so this technique is fast enough to discern each and every step of any known chemical reaction. Shining pairs of femtosecond laser pulses on molecules (the first to initiate a reaction and the second to probe it) and studying what type of light they absorb yields information on the atoms' positions within the molecules at every step of a chemical reaction. With this technique, Zewail and his colleagues first studied (in the late 1980s) a 200- femtosecond disintegration of iodocyanide (ICN-->I+CN), observing the precise moment at which a chemical bond between iodine and carbon was about to break. Since then, femtochemistry has revealed a whole new class of intermediate chemical compounds that exist less than a trillionth of a second between the beginning and end of a reaction. It has also provided a way for controlling the courses of chemical reaction and developing desirable new materials for electronics. It has provided insights on the dissolving of liquids, corrosion and catalysis on surfaces (see Physics Today, October 1999, p. 19); and the molecular-level details of how chlorophyll molecules can efficiently convert sunlight into useable energy for plants during the process of photosynthesis. (Official announcement and further info at http://www.nobel.se/announcement-99/chemistry99. html; see also Scientific American, December 1990.)
I preface this with - I know very little about this subject.
Suppose the following:
We are interested in encrypting messages, not whole disk drives. One uses some random source (/dev/urandom?) to make a CDROM OTP of about 600 MB, which should cover most messages and data file sizes. Now make a second CDROM containing a series of random indices. Give by secure (ie hand) the 2 CD's to the counterpart you will be exchanging messages. Now encrypt messages using the OTP, but starting at a different point in the pad as determined from the random indices on the second CD. Does this message allow you to continue to use the same 'OTP' for a very long time without compromising the use once principle? (This assumes that you can store the CD's securely).
[B] CBT president blasts MCI WorldCom in wake of Project A outage
By Bridge News Chicago--Aug 13--On the heels of Thursday's power outage in downtown Chicago, which forced an early shutdown at the Chicago Board of Trade, the exchange was forced to suspend trading again today on its Project A system. CBT President Thomas Donovan sent a letter to MCI WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, blasting the company for its part in a string of other disruptions that have plagued the system. MCI WorldCom is the exchange's network provider and has been unable to cope with the crises to the exchange's satisfaction. * * * Donovan said today's shutdown and others in the past few weeks were a direct result of MCI WorldCom's "catastrophic service disruptions," which have deprived large segments of the CBT's constituents access to Project A through their trading terminals on the system's wide-area network. "All told, our Project A markets have been down over 60% of the time since Project A's scheduled Thursday evening trading session last week, exposing our members and their customers to market risk and depriving them of significant trading and revenue opportunities," he said. "The CBOT has also experienced a sizable loss of transaction fee revenues." MCI WorldCom has "tarnished the CBOT's 151-year reputation as a provider of dependable and reliable market facilities," said Donovan, adding that the problems put the exchange in the hot seat with its federal regulatory body, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He said MCI WorldCom led the CBT to believe it would not need a contingency plan, but the exchange would now be forced to implement one beginning with the Project A session that begins at 1800 CT Sunday. Under the plan, many exchange members will have to move or duplicate their Project A operations and staffing to back up locations within the building, entailing added costs and hardships. Last week, Project A suffered a shutdown after MCI began to upgrade its communications network and an outage occurred at a switching center. The company provided assurances it would try harder to restore customer confidence. "As a result of MCI WorldCom's failure to deliver on their promises to me early last week, the CBOT is pursuing all available remedies," Donovan said. He said the exchange had lost all confidence in MCI WorldCom's ability to provide reliable service and was awaiting the company's immediate response as to how it would remedy the situation. End Bridge News, Tel: (312) 454-3468 Send comments to Internet address:futures@bridge.com [symbols:US;WCOM]
Wouldn't it be nice if the masses started to see alpha for the great chip it is? Wouldn't it be nice if the masses saw Apple machines for what they are (a lot easier to use)? Alpha and Apple seem to be very similar - total failure to market the products properly. As a CPQ shareholder I would be more than happy to see them finally take some initiative and really push for Alpha sales. Maybe this is finally the opportunity? While you may be right that the current users of 64 bit may have the applications they need now, wouldn't it be nice also have the ability to also run all the current 32 bit software (which will likely be redone for native 64 at some point)?
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I dont know a whole lot on this topic but wonder
what the performance and usability issues are
between PVM and Mosix, other than issues dealing
with kernel mods.
I posted this higher up but what they are doing
is a violation of the Napster terms of use:
As a
condition to your use of the Napster service and browser you
agree that you will not: (i) use the Napster service to infringe the
intellectual property rights of others in any way; (ii) use the
Napster browser or service, or attempt to penetrate, modify or
manipulate the Napster browser or service or any of the hardware
or software thereof in order to: invade the privacy of, obtain the
identity of, or obtain any personal information about (including but
not limited to IP addresses of) any Napster account holder or
user, or modify, erase or damage any information contained on the
computer of any user connected to the Napster service; or (iii)
reverse engineer any portion of the Napster service or browser.
This program clearly violates the terms of use of Napster as they require you to use a previously registered user name. From the Napster site,
As a condition to your use of the Napster service and browser you agree that you will not: (i) use the Napster service to infringe the intellectual property rights of others in any way; (ii) use the Napster browser or service, or attempt to penetrate, modify or manipulate the Napster browser or service or any of the hardware or software thereof in order to: invade the privacy of, obtain the identity of, or obtain any personal information about (including but not limited to IP addresses of) any Napster account holder or user, or modify, erase or damage any information contained on the computer of any user connected to the Napster service; or (iii) reverse engineer any portion of the Napster service or browser.
Iridium is a leech on the radio spectrum used
p act.html
for astronomical research. The sooner this
misguided company dies the better.
http://www.skypub.com/sights/satellites/astroim
The lead in for this speech / q&a session is
totally misleading. Woosley clearly states that
the CIA's only interest has been in cases of
bribery or other 'unfair' tactics by foreign
firms to win contracts, and that the information
will go to the state dept. He also says that
they dont have the resources to go on fishing
trips and that in general, the US is the leader
in most of todays valuable technologies. Please
try not to politicize everything that has 'CIA'
or 'NSA' on it.
I've used slakware since..well at least early
1994 (i recently stumbled on an early 1.1.x
kernel). The best part of slakware is, for me,
its stability (no I'm not talking about the
kernel). Everything works, all the time. You
pay a price for being on the bleeding edge of
every distro of c libraries and the like. I
would much rather be a little behind and not
be pulling out whats left of my hair trying to
figure out why things dont compile or work the
way they should.
A close second is that slak follows very closely
traditional unix and hence you have access to a
lot of books not just written for redhat linux.
truely amazing... 5 days later and the mirage
appears again... but perhaps what is scarier is:
slashdot + (anti)slashdot -> geocities +14.3 KeV
2000-02-03 04:36:07 IBM develops 'quantum mirage' technique for nanoci (articles,news) (rejected)
Sorta funny how things that are rejected
(multiple times it would seem) somehow become
important days later.
I would also add Gateway by Pohl to that list, the first of a series and a winner of Hugo and Nebula Awards. The Left Hand of Darkness was a great book, glad to see you have mentioned it. You should give a quick look here , not so much for purchase but for other suggestions of vintage/classic SF.
Dr. Lederman,
Can you please comment on the current status of
the NLC project and the major obstacles that
remain in its design and those of the detectors?
Also, what are the plans for the first few live
experiments?
Dr. Lederman,
We live in an age of unparalled technological achievments and scientific knowledge, yet we seem to be moving further and further away from individual knowledge. Branches of science and engineering are now divided and redivided into such depths, that I question whether it is possible for a Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Dirac, or Feynman to emerge in our future. Certainly your field, experimental HEP, is the current extreme of loss of individuality when collaborations run into the hundreds.
So I ask you: Have we, as individuals, become so over specialized we are doomed to suffer not being able to see the forest thru the trees?
So unless they are running exteremely parallizable
problems what good is it?
Check me on this.. but I just looked at some
of the systems that they are peddling and the
prices seem way rich to me. Like how much
premium should be paid for a low end wintel box
that already has linux installed (and I suppose
configured properly)? Please correct me if I
am off base but I really do think you can do
better buying from the likes of Dell/GTW/Micron
etc and installing Linux yourself.
Of course I'm 60 bid for their shares when they
start trading...
Correct me if I am wrong, but once people start
moving to DSL solutions they will have a unique
(read permanent) IP address? That is when it
will get scarey.
if dn.net is so great, than why is /. so slow?
Is it poor server hardware or poor bandwidth?
(And I'm not talking just about lunch time and
4-7pm est)
Speak with Abovenet if you want reliable hosting
and bandwidth.
1.1Ghz? Intel? So is this a replacement for my
stove or central heating? Do I need one of those
big restaurant freezers or can I just move to
Nome and keep it outside?
PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
t ml)
. html; see also
The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News
Number 452 October 12, 1999 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein
THE 1999 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS goes to Gerardus 't
Hooft of the University of Utrecht and Martinus Veltman, formerly
of the University of Michigan and now retired, for their work
toward deriving a unified framework for all the physical forces.
Their efforts, part of a tradition going back to the nineteenth
century, centers around the search for underlying similarities or
symmetries among disparate phenomena, and the formulation of
these relations in a complex but elegant mathematical language. A
past example would be James Clerk Maxwell's demonstration that
electricity and magnetism are two aspects of a single electro-
magnetic force.
Naturally this unification enterprise has met with various
obstacles along the way. In this century quantum mechanics was
combined with special relativity, resulting in quantum field theory.
This theory successfully explained many phenomena, such as how
particles could be created or annihilated or how unstable particles
decay, but it also seemed to predict, nonsensically, that the
likelihood for certain interactions could be infinitely large.
Richard Feynman, along with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro
Tomonaga, tamed these infinities by redefining the mass and charge
of the electron in a process called renormalization. Their theory,
quantum electrodynamics (QED), is the most precise theory known,
and it serves as a prototype for other gauge theories (theories which
show how forces arise from underlying symmetries), such as the
electroweak theory, which assimilates the electromagnetic and weak
nuclear forces into a single model.
But the electroweak model too was vulnerable to infinities and
physicists were worried that the theory would be useless. Then 't
Hooft and Veltman overcame the difficulty (and the anxiety)
through a renormalization comparable to Feynman's. To draw out
the distinctiveness of Veltman's and 't Hooft's work further, one
can say that they succeeded in renormalizing a non-Abelian gauge
theory, whereas Feynman had renormalized an Abelian gauge theory
(quantum electrodynamics). What does this mean? A mathematical
function (such as the quantum field representing a particle's
whereabouts) is invariant under a transformation (such as a shift in
the phase of the field) if it remains the same after the transformation.
One can consider the effect of two such transformations, A and B.
An Abelian theory is one in which the effect of applying A and then
B is the same as applying B first and then A. A non-Abelian theory
is one in which the order for applying A and B does make a
difference. Getting the non-Abelian electroweak model to work was
a formidable theoretical problem.
An essential ingredient in this scheme was the existence of
another particle, the Higgs boson (named for Peter Higgs), whose
role (in a behind-the-scenes capacity) is to confer mass upon many
of the known particles. For example, interactions between the Higgs
boson and the various force-carrying particles result in the W and Z
bosons (carriers of the weak force) being massive (with masses of
80 and 91 GeV, respectively) but the photon (carrier of the
electromagnetic force) remaining massless.
With Veltman's and 't Hooft's theoretical machinery in hand,
physicists could more reliably estimate the masses of the W and Z,
as well as produce at least a crude guide as to the likely mass of the
top quark. (Mass estimates for exotic particles are of billion-dollar
importance if Congress, say, is trying to decide whether or not to
build an accelerator designed to discover that particle.) Happily,
the W, Z, and top quark were subsequently created and detected in
high energy collision experiments, and the Higgs boson is now itself
an important quarry at places like Fermilab's Tevatron and CERN's
Large Hadron Collider, under construction in Geneva.
(Recommended reading: 't Hooft, Scientific American, June
1980, excellent article on gauge theories in general; Veltman,
Scientific American, November 1986, Higgs bosons. More
information is available at the Swedish Academy website:
http://www.nobel.se/announcement-99/physics99.h
THE 1999 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY goes to Ahmed H.
Zewail of Caltech, for developing a technique that enables scientists
to watch the extremely rapid middle stages of a chemical reaction.
Relying on ultra-fast laser pulses, "femtosecond spectroscopy" can
provide snapshots far faster than any camera--it can capture the
motions of atoms within molecules in the time scale of
femtoseconds (10^-15 s).
An atom in a molecule typically performs a single vibration in
just 10-100 femtoseconds, so this technique is fast enough to discern
each and every step of any known chemical reaction. Shining pairs
of femtosecond laser pulses on molecules (the first to initiate a
reaction and the second to probe it) and studying what type of light
they absorb yields information on the atoms' positions within the
molecules at every step of a chemical reaction. With this technique,
Zewail and his colleagues first studied (in the late 1980s) a 200-
femtosecond disintegration of iodocyanide (ICN-->I+CN),
observing the precise moment at which a chemical bond between
iodine and carbon was about to break.
Since then, femtochemistry has revealed a whole new class of
intermediate chemical compounds that exist less than a trillionth of a
second between the beginning and end of a reaction. It has also
provided a way for controlling the courses of chemical reaction and
developing desirable new materials for electronics. It has provided
insights on the dissolving of liquids, corrosion and catalysis on
surfaces (see Physics Today, October 1999, p. 19); and the
molecular-level details of how chlorophyll molecules can efficiently
convert sunlight into useable energy for plants during the process of
photosynthesis. (Official announcement and further info at
http://www.nobel.se/announcement-99/chemistry99
Scientific American, December 1990.)
for IP, GP, and UPM stock!
I preface this with - I know very little about
this subject.
Suppose the following:
We are interested in encrypting messages, not
whole disk drives. One uses some random source
(/dev/urandom?) to make a CDROM OTP of about 600
MB, which should cover most messages and data
file sizes. Now make a second CDROM containing a
series of random indices. Give by secure (ie
hand) the 2 CD's to the counterpart you will
be exchanging messages. Now encrypt messages
using the OTP, but starting at a different point
in the pad as determined from the random indices
on the second CD. Does this message allow you
to continue to use the same 'OTP' for a very
long time without compromising the use once
principle? (This assumes that you can store
the CD's securely).
Thanks
LB
This story was submitted to /. on Tuesday at
lunchtime. Guess it wasnt deemed worthy until
Wed. nite
[B] CBT president blasts MCI WorldCom in wake of Project A outage
By Bridge News
Chicago--Aug 13--On the heels of Thursday's power outage in downtown
Chicago, which forced an early shutdown at the Chicago Board of Trade, the
exchange was forced to suspend trading again today on its Project A system. CBT
President Thomas Donovan sent a letter to MCI WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers,
blasting the company for its part in a string of other disruptions that have
plagued the system. MCI WorldCom is the exchange's network provider and has been
unable to cope with the crises to the exchange's satisfaction.
* * *
Donovan said today's shutdown and others in the past few weeks were a direct
result of MCI WorldCom's "catastrophic service disruptions," which have deprived
large segments of the CBT's constituents access to Project A through their
trading terminals on the system's wide-area network.
"All told, our Project A markets have been down over 60% of the time since
Project A's scheduled Thursday evening trading session last week, exposing our
members and their customers to market risk and depriving them of significant
trading and revenue opportunities," he said. "The CBOT has also experienced a
sizable loss of transaction fee revenues."
MCI WorldCom has "tarnished the CBOT's 151-year reputation as a provider of
dependable and reliable market facilities," said Donovan, adding that the
problems put the exchange in the hot seat with its federal regulatory body, the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
He said MCI WorldCom led the CBT to believe it would not need a contingency
plan, but the exchange would now be forced to implement one beginning with the
Project A session that begins at 1800 CT Sunday.
Under the plan, many exchange members will have to move or duplicate their
Project A operations and staffing to back up locations within the building,
entailing added costs and hardships.
Last week, Project A suffered a shutdown after MCI began to upgrade its
communications network and an outage occurred at a switching center. The company
provided assurances it would try harder to restore customer confidence.
"As a result of MCI WorldCom's failure to deliver on their promises to me
early last week, the CBOT is pursuing all available remedies," Donovan said.
He said the exchange had lost all confidence in MCI WorldCom's ability to
provide reliable service and was awaiting the company's immediate response as to
how it would remedy the situation. End
Bridge News, Tel: (312) 454-3468
Send comments to Internet address:futures@bridge.com
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Aug-13-1999 17:26 GMT
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Yes of course a typo, I meant 16 bit code :)
Wouldn't it be nice if the masses started to see
alpha for the great chip it is? Wouldn't it be
nice if the masses saw Apple machines for what
they are (a lot easier to use)? Alpha and Apple
seem to be very similar - total failure to market
the products properly. As a CPQ shareholder I
would be more than happy to see them finally take
some initiative and really push for Alpha sales.
Maybe this is finally the opportunity? While you
may be right that the current users of 64 bit
may have the applications they need now, wouldn't
it be nice also have the ability to also run all
the current 32 bit software (which will likely
be redone for native 64 at some point)?
Thats a very good question. Will we see a
repeat of the PPro? Ie it runs 32 bit code but
not much faster than a true 32 bit processor?
Isn't this the weakest link of all for Intel?
I remember having read awhile back that the
compiler development was going very poorly.