The wavefront, at any given time, is approximated by the surface of a sphere. Think of it as a series of bubbles, each expanding at the speed of light.
I was imagining a baloon or children's kickball, but same thing.
(pause to Google for math formula)
Surface Area of a Sphere = 4*pi*r^2
My mistake was thinking that both the surface and volume of a sphere are cube functions. Been out of school way too long, and DBAs don't need much geometry.
Wonder why Spyglass or its successor doesn't take that deal plus Microsoft's "IE is intergrated too tightly to the OS to be removed" argument and ask for an adjusted percentage of the price of Windows?
It passes objects through pipes instead of text and is strictly object oriented.The authors claim, that it's modelled after the VMS shells.
DCL (Digital Command Language) is pretty cool, and darned useful, though certain design limitations are showing, since DEC/Compaq/HP have refused to enhance it in about 10 years.
To say, though, that Monad is OO and based on DCL is pretty hilarious, since DCL is a lot like Fortran IV.
Linux, begotten of Unix, does not subscribe to the notion of transient filesystems. Behavior is undefined when filesystems vanish suddenly.
I'm stunned.
Unix was born on tape drives, not disk drives, and tapes are just as transient as USB thumb drives.
(pause, remembering back to my days as a mainframe programmer)
Ok, I take that back. The old IBM 9-track drives wouldn't drop the "window" until you dismounted the tape. That was to prevent you from accidentally removing a mounted tape. Hopefully the DEC drives were the same.
So if x86, with all it's hacks and kludges, is still faster and more efficient than these so called "clean" designs, what the heck is the point of having a clean design?
Remember that the PPC970 is a heck of a lot smaller than the Intel and AMD x86 chips, and is very flexible as to what is can be morphed into.
So, even though it hasn't won the MIPS race, it does have benefits that x86 doesn't.
Examples: Apple is shipping ~2M G5 systems per year, and that's only 1/50th of IBM's chip business. Thus, even considering the AMD64 chips they make, that's a whole lot of PowerPCs that they make for other purposes.
Long term biological warfare: drop the pesticides on your strategic enemy.
In the case of China, though, they are doing it to themselves. They, culturally, hate baby girls so much that they abort (and/or kill) them, so there is a huge male/female ratio. Less females -> lower population.
IBM doesn't sell any ARM, MIPS or SH-based systems. So, they don't test them.
The Debian buildd system is an automatic building and semi-testing system for, of course, all the archs that Debian supports, and that includes ARM, MIPS, and SH.
Maybe the poor CS students are all holding out for a $80,000 a year job. Maybe they should move somewhere with a low cost of living and get the $45-50,000 a year job?
I hate anyone who bitches about not find a job. Suck it up.. find something you enjoy doing, but be willing to compromise. You'll find work.
And if you are so philosophically pure that you'll only work on OSS platforms, so be it. That's just more work for those of us who deign to sully ourselves working on and with proprietary systems.
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so clearly it's not that clock, it's some other clock.
The sad problem is that you are expecting Ziff-Davis writers to have a clue.
The wavefront, at any given time, is approximated by the surface of a sphere. Think of it as a series of bubbles, each expanding at the speed of light.
I was imagining a baloon or children's kickball, but same thing.
(pause to Google for math formula)
Surface Area of a Sphere = 4*pi*r^2
My mistake was thinking that both the surface and volume of a sphere are cube functions. Been out of school way too long, and DBAs don't need much geometry.
'Radiation flux' is the phrase you're looking for
Thanks.
it goes like 1/r^2 (It's power spread over an expanding surface).
OK. But since the Universe is 3D, and EM travels omni-directionally, why "surface" instead of "volume"?
even if it means screwing science.
Oh, puleeze.
SETI is the most inane waste of scientific talent and resources since alchemy.
Why? Earth is such an insignificant little speck in a galaxy so huge that we can't truly grasp it's magnitude.
Combine that with the fact that "energy desity" decreases in a cube function, and the likelyhood of us detecting ET is zero.
Wonder why Spyglass or its successor doesn't take that deal plus Microsoft's "IE is intergrated too tightly to the OS to be removed" argument and ask for an adjusted percentage of the price of Windows?
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They did.
http://www.aaxnet.com/topics/msinc.html#spy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass#The_Browser
It passes objects through pipes instead of text and is strictly object oriented.The authors claim, that it's modelled after the VMS shells.
DCL (Digital Command Language) is pretty cool, and darned useful, though certain design limitations are showing, since DEC/Compaq/HP have refused to enhance it in about 10 years.
To say, though, that Monad is OO and based on DCL is pretty hilarious, since DCL is a lot like Fortran IV.
VMS seems to regain its fame in Microsoft
This kind of fame, VMS can do without.
Linux, begotten of Unix, does not subscribe to the notion of transient filesystems. Behavior is undefined when filesystems vanish suddenly.
I'm stunned.
Unix was born on tape drives, not disk drives, and tapes are just as transient as USB thumb drives.
(pause, remembering back to my days as a mainframe programmer)
Ok, I take that back. The old IBM 9-track drives wouldn't drop the "window" until you dismounted the tape. That was to prevent you from accidentally removing a mounted tape. Hopefully the DEC drives were the same.
i didn't say that the difference between a generic x86 PC and a Mac is only the processor, that's what you implied.
If all it's going to take is a little boot loader fiddling, that all I can interpret it to mean.
Don't you guys ever get tired of this particular bit of silliness?
No, they don't.
Yes, it is. You said:
And that's just bull.
but getting it to boot on commodity hardware probably only requires work on the boot loader and kernel.
You think the only difference between a Mac and a white box PC is the CPU?
Hah. That mobo is totally proprietary, and will be just as proprietary when there's a P4 in it.
The converse, putting x86-64 Linux on the Mac/x86-64 will be relatively easy, I bet.
So if x86, with all it's hacks and kludges, is still faster and more efficient than these so called "clean" designs, what the heck is the point of having a clean design?
Remember that the PPC970 is a heck of a lot smaller than the Intel and AMD x86 chips, and is very flexible as to what is can be morphed into.
So, even though it hasn't won the MIPS race, it does have benefits that x86 doesn't.
Examples: Apple is shipping ~2M G5 systems per year, and that's only 1/50th of IBM's chip business. Thus, even considering the AMD64 chips they make, that's a whole lot of PowerPCs that they make for other purposes.
Vegetables are more expensive than meat? What planet do you live on.
What comment are you reading?
The OP was referring to organic food, not "factory" vegetables (i.e., raised with petro-based fertilizer and doused in petro-based pesticides).
Don't worry, China has spares.
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Long term biological warfare: drop the pesticides on your strategic enemy.
In the case of China, though, they are doing it to themselves. They, culturally, hate baby girls so much that they abort (and/or kill) them, so there is a huge male/female ratio. Less females -> lower population.
http://www.euthanasia.com/china-ra.html
But then, it may also be the Hepatitis B virus.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_0
http://www.inquit.com/article/431/is-hepatitis-b-
How the hell do you go on such a diet? Is there enough organic stuff available?
I have been considering switching to a mostly vegetarian diet but I have to say that it is a hell of a lot of work. It's hard to find stuff to eat.
Not only that, but it's really expensive.
If you're a parent, you've got to have a solid 6 figure income in order afford feeding that stuff to 4+ hungry mouths.
That settles it! Kind-of-happy birthday OpenSSH!? ...maybe
15-June is "Happy Release The Code Day".
Where's the ARM, MIPS, and SH?
IBM doesn't sell any ARM, MIPS or SH-based systems. So, they don't test them.
The Debian buildd system is an automatic building and semi-testing system for, of course, all the archs that Debian supports, and that includes ARM, MIPS, and SH.
Instead of just reading a bunch of complaints, let me be 1 Slashdotter to thank you for your efforts.
It's too bad the Stanford Checker can't be integrated into your system.
Maybe the poor CS students are all holding out for a $80,000 a year job. Maybe they should move somewhere with a low cost of living and get the $45-50,000 a year job?
I hate anyone who bitches about not find a job. Suck it up.. find something you enjoy doing, but be willing to compromise. You'll find work.
And if you are so philosophically pure that you'll only work on OSS platforms, so be it. That's just more work for those of us who deign to sully ourselves working on and with proprietary systems.
x87? A floating point daughter CPU?
Sure. This announcement is a time warp back to the 1980s, before Intel integrated the '87 into the CPU.
That's why it's call the x87: because the 8087, 80187, 80287 & 80387 were floating point chips.
All x86 mobos had sockets for (expensive) '87 FP accelerators.
You don't think anybody outside of apple is capable of porting a BSD OS to a new chipset? Ha-ha-ha.
Not if the chipset & mobo are proprietary to Apple.
No, we're talking ITANIC, baybe!
That's the stupidest thing I've heard this year.
Do you know how big, hot & expensive that Itanium2 chips are?
Really big, really hot & really expensive.
AMD did
And it was the 32-bit Athlon that first pierced 1Ghz, and shook Intel out of it's monopoly-induced lethargy.
it started at 500M or so
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USD150M
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