unless you are doing a lot of floating point math, I don't think the speed difference would be noticable (I tend to use gcc unless i'm compiling something that is computationally intensive, and is going to do lots and lots of math operations - basically tie both CPUs to 100% for minutes or hours while it runs). So I don't think you would notice a difference between the XNU kernel compiled with gcc and the XNU kernel compiled with xlc.
I know a guy that is a private pilot - basically he gets a call that says he has to fly (commercially) to some airport where a plane & rich passengers will be, and then he flies these people to their destination. He was taking of from some island in the carribian, and the cockpit began to fill with smoke shortly after takeoff. They decided they didn't want to wait to dump/burn fuel, so they landed full. I can't remember how much it cost the company, but it was shit load since they had to bring someone in (I think from the aircraft manufacturer ) to inspect the structure of the entire aircraft. Anyway, it turned out it was just a circulation fan that had fried, which filled the climate control ducts with smoke.
significantly larger, but probably slower for some applications (those that are latency bound). not benchmarked for the top500 list (thats just a dick measuring contest).
well I have a 256 node G5 cluster (plus 3 interactive/administrative nodes) all running OS X Server...
Also, here in Maine every 7th & 8th grader has an iBook (lots of schools provide them to other grades as well...). OS X server + XServe RAID is a common solution for storage.
"I've personally never seen a new DVD sell for anything less than $10 on sale,"
I've seen B Horror movies selling new for $1 - $2 (in a cheap slimline case) - the movies are old enough so they are in the public domain so there isn't any cut that has to go to a studio
IF there even where bacteria up there, we could take cultures in case the bacteria has some kind of research value. If it doesn't have research value why would we care if it get's wiped out?
It USED to be a tough neighborhood - that's how it got it's name (the cops walking the beat through the neighborhood got paid more so they could afford the 'tenderloin', a better cut of meat - or something like that)
Apple doesn't use Mach as a microkernel. (They globbed the BSD compatibility layer into the kernel, in a real microkernel it would run as a 'mach server', same with lots of ofther stuff)
It probably wouldn't make any sense for them to look into L4
In the US, after the three mile island incident in 1979, all unapproved reactor orders were cancelled, and no new orders were made. Some reactors that had already been approved prior to the incident didn't come online until the mid 90's. If these orders had not been cancelled and new orders were being put in, we would probably have 2-3 times this number of reactors (Nixon wanted 1000 by the year 2000, BUT before the accident new orders had already began to slow because with all the regulations and the oil crisis ending nuclear power became very expensive compared to oil). Unfortunately, nuclear was never cheap enough to challenge coal, which the US has plenty of.
My home state of Maine became the site of the first complete decomissioning of a large commercial reactor. The plant became operational in '72 ( and it had to survive a referendum to close it in '80, '82, and '87). In '95 it was shutdown many months for repairs and they discovered cracks in the steam generator tubes. The plant opened back up for less than a year I believe, they evaluated the cost to refit the plant and they decided they would have a hard time making back the investment in refitting the plant, so they shut it down permanently. They had originally intended to operate the plant at least until 2020 or 2030. Part of the huge cost was the fact that they need to store the waste onsite. Now all that is left of the plant is a semi-permanent high-level waste storage facility on a few acre footprint. Several hundred acres of the plants land are already being developed on. Several hundred more are a peninsula where the waste storage is located and the gated access make it less attractive for commercial development.
Bush wants to have a new reactor running in the US in the next 10 years. This will be the first approved since '79 and the first to come online since the mid 90's.
I know they used to use Unix boxes for.mac, their website, etc. They began replacing those with he XServe G. I'm not sure what is still there for legacy systems, but the do 'drink their own champagne' or 'eat their own dog food' or whatever the hell that stupid saying is.
A single 1.8 G5 in a cube shaped computer (call it the iCube). It would cut at the sales of the single processor powermac though (which was off the market for a long time)
I'm no fan of the Iraq war (or Shrub) but you are full of bullshit. Millions of newly born and unborn Iraqi babies are not dying. In fact, the DU munitions are probably more dangerous to the soldiers using firng them (from airborne particles).
Got my credit card statement and although the apple online store added tax into my purchase when it displayed my transaction recipt, my credit card statement did not include any tax for the purchase. (so my apple recipt said $26.50 for the $25 card, but my credit card statement said $25 exactly).
I haven't checked yet, but why would they choose to collect tax on the giftcard purchase (something that usually is not node) instead of collect sales tax on the purchase of the iTune (which is what they do with credit card payment)?
I doubt they are screwing up and double taxing, but why not do it the way everyone else does, and only tax the purchase made with the giftcard, not the purchase of the giftcard (I mean they already tax the purchase of the song for credit card orders)
You usually don't pay tax on a gift card. You would be double taxed because you'd pay sales tax on the gift card, and then you'd pay sales tax on purchases with the gift card.
But now that I think about it, Apple collected sales tax when I ordered a $25 gift card online. And then they will probably collect tax on the iTunes as well.
It's only supposed to be one or the other.
Now I'm mad!!!
If you have to pay a monthly subscription, then the game should be free, unless they have a mechanism to allow the creation of user hosted worlds. You shouldn't have to lay down $50, and then not be able to use the game.
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unless you are doing a lot of floating point math, I don't think the speed difference would be noticable (I tend to use gcc unless i'm compiling something that is computationally intensive, and is going to do lots and lots of math operations - basically tie both CPUs to 100% for minutes or hours while it runs). So I don't think you would notice a difference between the XNU kernel compiled with gcc and the XNU kernel compiled with xlc.
what is she, a prostitute?
some of us remember when netzero was 'free' (you had to give up some screen realestate to some banner adds while you were dialed in)
Apple has given back to gcc
I know a guy that is a private pilot - basically he gets a call that says he has to fly (commercially) to some airport where a plane & rich passengers will be, and then he flies these people to their destination. He was taking of from some island in the carribian, and the cockpit began to fill with smoke shortly after takeoff. They decided they didn't want to wait to dump/burn fuel, so they landed full. I can't remember how much it cost the company, but it was shit load since they had to bring someone in (I think from the aircraft manufacturer ) to inspect the structure of the entire aircraft. Anyway, it turned out it was just a circulation fan that had fried, which filled the climate control ducts with smoke.
significantly larger, but probably slower for some applications (those that are latency bound). not benchmarked for the top500 list (thats just a dick measuring contest).
And I've worked directly with a G5 cluster larger than yours...
well I have a 256 node G5 cluster (plus 3 interactive/administrative nodes) all running OS X Server... Also, here in Maine every 7th & 8th grader has an iBook (lots of schools provide them to other grades as well...). OS X server + XServe RAID is a common solution for storage.
"I've personally never seen a new DVD sell for anything less than $10 on sale," I've seen B Horror movies selling new for $1 - $2 (in a cheap slimline case) - the movies are old enough so they are in the public domain so there isn't any cut that has to go to a studio
Natural Gas plants are currently significantly cheaper per megawatt than nuclear.
IF there even where bacteria up there, we could take cultures in case the bacteria has some kind of research value. If it doesn't have research value why would we care if it get's wiped out?
It USED to be a tough neighborhood - that's how it got it's name (the cops walking the beat through the neighborhood got paid more so they could afford the 'tenderloin', a better cut of meat - or something like that)
It probably wouldn't make any sense for them to look into L4
My home state of Maine became the site of the first complete decomissioning of a large commercial reactor. The plant became operational in '72 ( and it had to survive a referendum to close it in '80, '82, and '87). In '95 it was shutdown many months for repairs and they discovered cracks in the steam generator tubes. The plant opened back up for less than a year I believe, they evaluated the cost to refit the plant and they decided they would have a hard time making back the investment in refitting the plant, so they shut it down permanently. They had originally intended to operate the plant at least until 2020 or 2030. Part of the huge cost was the fact that they need to store the waste onsite. Now all that is left of the plant is a semi-permanent high-level waste storage facility on a few acre footprint. Several hundred acres of the plants land are already being developed on. Several hundred more are a peninsula where the waste storage is located and the gated access make it less attractive for commercial development.
Bush wants to have a new reactor running in the US in the next 10 years. This will be the first approved since '79 and the first to come online since the mid 90's.
I know they used to use Unix boxes for .mac, their website, etc. They began replacing those with he XServe G. I'm not sure what is still there for legacy systems, but the do 'drink their own champagne' or 'eat their own dog food' or whatever the hell that stupid saying is.
Apple gives good prices to educational & government researchers.
I've had a 18 inch LCD for over a year and I haven't noticed a single dead pixel
panther will run on it.
Actually it isn't so bad, but there are quirks
A single 1.8 G5 in a cube shaped computer (call it the iCube). It would cut at the sales of the single processor powermac though (which was off the market for a long time)
I'm no fan of the Iraq war (or Shrub) but you are full of bullshit. Millions of newly born and unborn Iraqi babies are not dying. In fact, the DU munitions are probably more dangerous to the soldiers using firng them (from airborne particles).
Got my credit card statement and although the apple online store added tax into my purchase when it displayed my transaction recipt, my credit card statement did not include any tax for the purchase. (so my apple recipt said $26.50 for the $25 card, but my credit card statement said $25 exactly).
I doubt they are screwing up and double taxing, but why not do it the way everyone else does, and only tax the purchase made with the giftcard, not the purchase of the giftcard (I mean they already tax the purchase of the song for credit card orders)
You usually don't pay tax on a gift card. You would be double taxed because you'd pay sales tax on the gift card, and then you'd pay sales tax on purchases with the gift card. But now that I think about it, Apple collected sales tax when I ordered a $25 gift card online. And then they will probably collect tax on the iTunes as well. It's only supposed to be one or the other. Now I'm mad!!!
If you have to pay a monthly subscription, then the game should be free, unless they have a mechanism to allow the creation of user hosted worlds. You shouldn't have to lay down $50, and then not be able to use the game.