Everybody hailed it as uncharacteristically stable and usable.
Er, no. They treated pretty much the same way they did Vista.
IIRC, they lampooned it for its cartoonish look, and the fact that it was slower than Win98 and Win 2K, depending on where you were coming from. Win 2K was probably the "best" of the NT versions, solid and trim compared to all of its predecessors and descendants. And while XP was eventually accepted, Vista never will be, as Win 7 is now out (Vista SP2 really, renamed because "Vista" had such a bad rap)
After reading TFA, it does not appear that this is a cure per se, just that it halts the growth of active tumors. It seems that much more research is needed.
So, where's the Gates Foundation on this one? It seems a perfect avenue for them to do some good for humanity with only a small amount of money spent.
In theory, in practice you'll have to live with that secure software is a dream you'll never achieve.
If I had to choose between the Government using a large well known OS like Windows 7 or something they hacked together themselves, I'd much prefer Windows 7 because you can be reasonably sure it won't randomly implode and if it had glaring backdoors we'd know about them by now. (Though I'd probably feel even better if they'd use something linux based)
Did you say that with a straight face?
I can be reasonably sure that if Win7 is used, it will sooner or later implode via a glaring backdoor we don't know about.
Avatar... simply was too boring; which is quite a feat as I made it through all new episodes of Star Wars and Alien vs. Predator 2.
Wow, I would have been in shock just on you making it through the new episodes of Star Wars. Watching Alien vs Predator 2 also, however, means you're just masochistic.
Of course not, since you've physically damaged the hardware, which is obviously - unless of course you don't know what jailbreaking is - not the case with jailbreaking the iphone.
So I change the CPU or its programming. How about now?
I do that too (played via a CinemaTube and external HDD), but technically that's illegal also. Ok, not illegal to rip it but illegal to have a tool that will rip it which pretty much makes the "right to rip" moot....
Not true. DeCSS wound up being grandfathered. So feel free and happy ripping your own DVDs legally, backing them, or whatever else you do. Just don't distribute. Hopefully BluRay and its "unbreakable" DRM will fail miserably.
Honestly, the analogy should be more along the lines of I have an AMD car that can go 130mph, and an Intel car that can go 155mph. While the AMD car at 130mph is rock solid, imagine my surprise at 155mph when the Intel car's back end tends to lift up and the engine's running in the red.
So where's that 8P Intel PC? Granted, it's less of an issue now that there are 6 core CPUs out there, but let's not forget that Intel still can't effectively put one together.
Let's look at that Top 500 list. The top 2 are AMD systems, and that the 3 Intel systems are in the bottom 5.
If I want to browse the web and not heat my house at the same time, AMD really does offer the better chip, and cheaper by far too.
If I want to play that FPS and have an extra frame or two, then the Intel chip is a winner. If I want to participate in something like Folding@Home, then Intel is a winner if power and heat aren't considered. If I'm rendering video, Intel might be a winner, depends on whether heat matters.
Very few things even most on/. would utilize a computer for will only see an Intel advantage maybe 1% of the time.
After all - does using an AMD or Intel chip make any difference rendering/.?
Clearly not since apple tried to make jailbreaking illegal and won't honour the warranty if you have jailbroken your (or rather not your) hardware.
So if you buy a car and modify the engine with nitrous and you blow it drag racing with only 5K miles on it - you expect the manufacturer to honor the warranty?
Oh, so there's a real Apple somewhere which lets me actually own my own hardware? Or a real Facebook which lets me own my own data?
Actually, yes. You can own your Apple hardware. It's not Apple, but AT&T via contract which locked you out of the iPhone. And you can still do what you want with your phone, even "locked". Use a dev license on it and write your own, or install someone else's code on it.
Facebook - you do own your own data. If you "give" it to FB, well, you did give it too them. Don't want them to have it? Don't give it to them. My twitter account has no info on it at all for instance. My Facebook account has a name, and that's the only thing remotely accurate on it, which doesn't really matter because in the past 2 years I may have visited both a grand total of 3 or 4 times.
I did mention power as one option, and power directly implies heat.
Honestly, Intel does get better benchmarks that are pure performance rated, within certain parameters. But lets say I want a 48 core machine, today. Intel doesn't have one, they only go up to 24 last I checked (4P still) . If I want low power passive cooling capable of watching HD video, that seems to be AMD also. If I want a machine that has performance that AMD meets, then the AMD is almost always less expensive than the Intel solution by as much as 30%.
There's all sorts of benchmarks that aren't pure processing power that AMD and Intel compete quite well. Even the "max" benchmarks are interesting if you delve into the OC world (although I haven't seen the latest i7 OC benches, so again, this is probably all out of date).
For instance, right now I own a Core 2 Q6600 and a Phenom II X4 810, both running 4GB DDR2. I can't tell the difference between them performance wise. (Yes, the Phenom is about 12 months newer.... I know, but it was also $100 less when bought than the Intel chip) I don't run on the bleeding edge. I probably will buy an i7 chip in the next year, or a 6 core AMD chip ($200? If it runs on DDR2, I may buy one now) as what I need them for utilizes lots of threads and cores quite well.
Intel is better. Has been that way for many years now. Yes, it's more expensive.
Depends on your metrics. If the only thing that matters is pure raw speed out of a single die, Intel does eek out on top, but not by as much as you'd think.
If you're going for massive multi-processor, multi-core systems, it's AMD.
If it's power vs performance out of a single die, then it depends - idle or full throttle. Intel for the former, AMD for the latter, depending upon weighting.
and so on. At least as of the last set of performance benchmarks I read just a few months ago on the topic, meaning they're probably completely out of date by now.
Even a "mere" 1 gigabit network connection outstrips the ability of spinning platters to absorb it.
1Gb/s = roughly 120MB/s, which is only a little more than a WD black 1TB+ drive can handle, provided you can actually get a full Gb/s flowing on your network. If you have 2 of these drives striped... well, the network will definitely be your bottleneck.
Then again, not too many people regularly move 1+GB of data across their networks, so 1Gb is fine.
In general I use the lame "load the script in the last line on the page" approach. As I work underneath the HTML layer, building pages out of server side components, I do have control over when that script line gets injected into the outbound response. It's an approach that has worked for all my needs.
It allows people to drop IE6 and possibly IE7 support. IE8 is much better about supporting standards, thus the entire development process becomes much easier. Writing to straight standards will get you what you're looking for much more often with those two version of IE gone.
Guess I'm lucky, my last 2 jobs got to drop IE6 as a supported browser, and my current one doesn't even directly support IE7! It's standards only, and if it works on Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera, we really don't give a rats ass about IE other than that IE8 doesn't make a complete mess of the pages. In truth, IE8 does a much much better job of displaying standards so this has been almost a non-issue. Amazingly enough, almost everything works in IE7 as well.
At least I have enough respect for you...Fuckface.
I'm not seeing it. But go ahead and continue to rant like a raving idiot. And show me where you've made a single factual statement. You might try taking off the rose glasses and start reading your own blather after detox.
To make one point clear since I apparently have to spell everything out: "track changes" is about as supportive of collaboration as people sharing a single master copy of a floppy. (ie, not) Collaboration to me means Sharepoint wrt MS apps such as PowerPoint where there's at least a hint of actual collaboration.
And you apparently can't get over the 6 month bit. I'll just keep you dangling a little longer.
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Everybody hailed it as uncharacteristically stable and usable.
Er, no. They treated pretty much the same way they did Vista.
IIRC, they lampooned it for its cartoonish look, and the fact that it was slower than Win98 and Win 2K, depending on where you were coming from. Win 2K was probably the "best" of the NT versions, solid and trim compared to all of its predecessors and descendants. And while XP was eventually accepted, Vista never will be, as Win 7 is now out (Vista SP2 really, renamed because "Vista" had such a bad rap)
After reading TFA, it does not appear that this is a cure per se, just that it halts the growth of active tumors. It seems that much more research is needed.
So, where's the Gates Foundation on this one? It seems a perfect avenue for them to do some good for humanity with only a small amount of money spent.
In theory, in practice you'll have to live with that secure software is a dream you'll never achieve.
If I had to choose between the Government using a large well known OS like Windows 7 or something they hacked together themselves, I'd much prefer Windows 7 because you can be reasonably sure it won't randomly implode and if it had glaring backdoors we'd know about them by now. (Though I'd probably feel even better if they'd use something linux based)
Did you say that with a straight face?
I can be reasonably sure that if Win7 is used, it will sooner or later implode via a glaring backdoor we don't know about.
Why do you assume that the bubble we know as "the Universe" as we've defined it is the only thing in existence?
Avatar ... simply was too boring; which is quite a feat as I made it through all new episodes of Star Wars and Alien vs. Predator 2.
Wow, I would have been in shock just on you making it through the new episodes of Star Wars. Watching Alien vs Predator 2 also, however, means you're just masochistic.
Of course not, since you've physically damaged the hardware, which is obviously - unless of course you don't know what jailbreaking is - not the case with jailbreaking the iphone.
So I change the CPU or its programming. How about now?
The early stages of his Deathworld series. Native life adapts to fight the aggressor.
I do that too (played via a CinemaTube and external HDD), but technically that's illegal also. Ok, not illegal to rip it but illegal to have a tool that will rip it which pretty much makes the "right to rip" moot. ...
Not true. DeCSS wound up being grandfathered. So feel free and happy ripping your own DVDs legally, backing them, or whatever else you do. Just don't distribute. Hopefully BluRay and its "unbreakable" DRM will fail miserably.
I will never pay $2 per episode.
Sure you will. Just as soon as inflation makes $2 worth $0.50.
Never say never. We live in interesting times, and who knows what's coming around the corner.
Still, if I buy a DVD I am forced to view previews, piracy warnings, etc..
First thing I do is rip it to disk, and then play it from there. It also keeps the grubby kids fingers off the DVDs. I do the same with CDs.
Honestly, the analogy should be more along the lines of I have an AMD car that can go 130mph, and an Intel car that can go 155mph. While the AMD car at 130mph is rock solid, imagine my surprise at 155mph when the Intel car's back end tends to lift up and the engine's running in the red.
If I wanted to go 230mph, I'd buy a Power car.
So where's that 8P Intel PC? Granted, it's less of an issue now that there are 6 core CPUs out there, but let's not forget that Intel still can't effectively put one together.
Let's look at that Top 500 list. The top 2 are AMD systems, and that the 3 Intel systems are in the bottom 5.
If I want to browse the web and not heat my house at the same time, AMD really does offer the better chip, and cheaper by far too.
If I want to play that FPS and have an extra frame or two, then the Intel chip is a winner. If I want to participate in something like Folding@Home, then Intel is a winner if power and heat aren't considered. If I'm rendering video, Intel might be a winner, depends on whether heat matters.
Very few things even most on /. would utilize a computer for will only see an Intel advantage maybe 1% of the time.
After all - does using an AMD or Intel chip make any difference rendering /.?
Actually, yes. You can own your Apple hardware.
Clearly not since apple tried to make jailbreaking illegal and won't honour the warranty if you have jailbroken your (or rather not your) hardware.
So if you buy a car and modify the engine with nitrous and you blow it drag racing with only 5K miles on it - you expect the manufacturer to honor the warranty?
Oh, so there's a real Apple somewhere which lets me actually own my own hardware? Or a real Facebook which lets me own my own data?
Actually, yes. You can own your Apple hardware. It's not Apple, but AT&T via contract which locked you out of the iPhone. And you can still do what you want with your phone, even "locked". Use a dev license on it and write your own, or install someone else's code on it.
Facebook - you do own your own data. If you "give" it to FB, well, you did give it too them. Don't want them to have it? Don't give it to them. My twitter account has no info on it at all for instance. My Facebook account has a name, and that's the only thing remotely accurate on it, which doesn't really matter because in the past 2 years I may have visited both a grand total of 3 or 4 times.
Nonsense. Law is simply morality that's been codified.
What morals does exceeding the speed limit by 1mph , walking down the street or being a passenger in a vehicle with an open container codify?
I did mention power as one option, and power directly implies heat.
Honestly, Intel does get better benchmarks that are pure performance rated, within certain parameters. But lets say I want a 48 core machine, today. Intel doesn't have one, they only go up to 24 last I checked (4P still) . If I want low power passive cooling capable of watching HD video, that seems to be AMD also. If I want a machine that has performance that AMD meets, then the AMD is almost always less expensive than the Intel solution by as much as 30%.
There's all sorts of benchmarks that aren't pure processing power that AMD and Intel compete quite well. Even the "max" benchmarks are interesting if you delve into the OC world (although I haven't seen the latest i7 OC benches, so again, this is probably all out of date).
For instance, right now I own a Core 2 Q6600 and a Phenom II X4 810, both running 4GB DDR2. I can't tell the difference between them performance wise. (Yes, the Phenom is about 12 months newer.... I know, but it was also $100 less when bought than the Intel chip) I don't run on the bleeding edge. I probably will buy an i7 chip in the next year, or a 6 core AMD chip ($200? If it runs on DDR2, I may buy one now) as what I need them for utilizes lots of threads and cores quite well.
Intel is better.
Has been that way for many years now. Yes, it's more expensive.
Depends on your metrics. If the only thing that matters is pure raw speed out of a single die, Intel does eek out on top, but not by as much as you'd think.
If you're going for massive multi-processor, multi-core systems, it's AMD.
If it's power vs performance out of a single die, then it depends - idle or full throttle. Intel for the former, AMD for the latter, depending upon weighting.
and so on. At least as of the last set of performance benchmarks I read just a few months ago on the topic, meaning they're probably completely out of date by now.
Even a "mere" 1 gigabit network connection outstrips the ability of spinning platters to absorb it.
1Gb/s = roughly 120MB/s, which is only a little more than a WD black 1TB+ drive can handle, provided you can actually get a full Gb/s flowing on your network. If you have 2 of these drives striped... well, the network will definitely be your bottleneck.
Then again, not too many people regularly move 1+GB of data across their networks, so 1Gb is fine.
They probably have to get rid of 75% of their documentation though.
Leaving 99% of the remainder as a still largely useless pile of dung.
In general I use the lame "load the script in the last line on the page" approach. As I work underneath the HTML layer, building pages out of server side components, I do have control over when that script line gets injected into the outbound response. It's an approach that has worked for all my needs.
It allows people to drop IE6 and possibly IE7 support. IE8 is much better about supporting standards, thus the entire development process becomes much easier. Writing to straight standards will get you what you're looking for much more often with those two version of IE gone.
Trust me, as a developer who has tried to understand the madness that is IE6, we care and we are not alone. The damage continues to this day.
Guess I'm lucky, my last 2 jobs got to drop IE6 as a supported browser, and my current one doesn't even directly support IE7! It's standards only, and if it works on Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera, we really don't give a rats ass about IE other than that IE8 doesn't make a complete mess of the pages. In truth, IE8 does a much much better job of displaying standards so this has been almost a non-issue. Amazingly enough, almost everything works in IE7 as well.
This is the best news since... the last news that IE market share was dropping...
At least I have enough respect for you...Fuckface.
I'm not seeing it. But go ahead and continue to rant like a raving idiot. And show me where you've made a single factual statement. You might try taking off the rose glasses and start reading your own blather after detox.
To make one point clear since I apparently have to spell everything out: "track changes" is about as supportive of collaboration as people sharing a single master copy of a floppy. (ie, not) Collaboration to me means Sharepoint wrt MS apps such as PowerPoint where there's at least a hint of actual collaboration.
And you apparently can't get over the 6 month bit. I'll just keep you dangling a little longer.