Excuse me. Change that to read "I'm sure the extra cache doesn't make too much of a difference on the power consumption."
I never meant to claim that cache is worthless. Hell, I'd rather get a San Diego myself, rather than a Venice, but I think the motherboard I bought needs its BIOS upgraded, and I don't have any Athlon64s on hand. If it can't POST, I can't upgrade the BIOS. Besides, I'm probably going to upgrade again in 2-3 months when the dual core models come out.
While it doesn't really make that much of a difference, the core lines go Clawhammer(754)->Clawhammer(939)->nothing->San Diego (1MB L2) and Newcastle(754)->Newcastle(939)->Winchester->V enice (512kB L2).
But whatever. I'm sure the extra cache doesn't make too much of a difference.
Disclaimer: IAAF (cf. IANAL). I pay attention to and attempt to understand that-which-is just as much as, if not moreso than, my personal that-which-should-be; but nevertheless IAAF.
That being said, I am appalled at the prospect of ANY form of human hervous [sic] system running around in ANY other type of creature.... [I]t is my belief that the brian [sic] is the center of our humanity. It is the seat of who we are as a species, and is unique in the world.
Why? Because it will dilute the purity of our species, any combination of human and other animal which shows even the slightest hint of sentience must be exterminated?
To make myself clear, I will say that anybody who intentionally attempts to hybridize in order to make intelligent creatures at this time is off their rocker. But to suggest that it is outright immoral or impossible belittles intelligent life everywhere.
Once many of the genetic and biological hurdles have been cleared and in the meantime, other systems have been explored, it becomes less an act of science and more an act of expression. And expression through creation certainly isn't an invalid concept; we mask the instinctual drives of our species' propagation in emotion, so how can it be immoral to tie science in with this process (especially when the science is built on other science and not on the emotion)*?
And besides, as has been stated already in other posts, human nervous tissue is just that: human nervous tissue. The presence thereof does not necessitate intelligence.
* The intention of this statement is to exclude "science" such as "intelligent design", thus qualifying what kind of ties science and emotion may have without compromising either's integrity.
Regardless, Microsoft will keep fielding consoles for as long as Billy says they can, while Nintendo seems flimsy, with barely any support, and Sega sits in the corner, having no fucking clue what they're doing.
Yeah, they do things that piss us off to no end, causing us to have bad judgement.
And yet, they are a corporation, whose sole responsibily is to their stockholders.
Double standard? For many purposes, corporations are individuals. Should some of the rights conferred onto them be withdrawn?
Pure democracy treats everyone roughly as equals. A republic divides people into "the government" and "the people." However, what our society has developed into is "the government," "business," and "the consumers."
I had just finished a homework written in C 10 minutes before it was due. Therefore I had used up all of my lucidity for the day. I needed to flush the waste from my system.
AMD made it so that a program running in pure 64-bit mode has access to double the number of general purpose registers and SIMD registers. More registers == fewer memory accesses && fewer memory accesses == faster programs.
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today...The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.
How many Linux sessions have multiple desktops, whether these be the virtual ones that most any window manager provides for, or actual ones hosted on a different monitor?
Now how many Windows sessions fit the same criteria? Do there exist any statistics on multi-monitor vs. single monitor setups?
The point is that a taskbar and minimization only go so far. If I have 20 different windows open, don't you think that a flat organizational hierarchy isn't very optimal? This is why I like browser tabs, and this is why I like having multiple desktops: everything isn't crammed in the same place; the organization is distributed and contextualized, making it easier to handle.
As you are currently wording it, you are agreeing with me. Did you mean to say, "Speaking as someone who has used a wide variety of system, some with multiple desktops and/or monitors [and some without]..."?
What happens to the industry in the USA when that happens? What if it goes further - what if there's a full-scale patent war between the big players?
The problem with this view is that the big players are still interested in producing some kind of product in great volume, so they usually settle for cross-licensing agreements. What it's going to take is a few more companies like Eolas who are actually trying to hit up the big players. Even then, Congress will miss the point (intentionally or otherwise) without some convincing on our part.
"Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography," quoth the project; "If they spent half as much time making OpenBSD user-friendly as they spent writing stupid geek songs no one cares about, they might actually produce something usable by ordinary people," quoth the troll.
Consider whether your usage of those terms matches the usages of the terms in this case.
Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in Redmond largely continues their practices because they get the chipset documentation years before everyone else does. What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free development information for all, but are even going further and telling their development communities to not work with us at pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.
Can someone explicitly corroborate or refute this statement? If that's true, that's pretty low.
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Excuse me. Change that to read "I'm sure the extra cache doesn't make too much of a difference on the power consumption."
I never meant to claim that cache is worthless. Hell, I'd rather get a San Diego myself, rather than a Venice, but I think the motherboard I bought needs its BIOS upgraded, and I don't have any Athlon64s on hand. If it can't POST, I can't upgrade the BIOS. Besides, I'm probably going to upgrade again in 2-3 months when the dual core models come out.
While it doesn't really make that much of a difference, the core lines gon Diego (1MB L2) andV enice (512kB L2).
Clawhammer(754)->Clawhammer(939)->nothing->Sa
Newcastle(754)->Newcastle(939)->Winchester->
But whatever. I'm sure the extra cache doesn't make too much of a difference.
Disclaimer: IAAF (cf. IANAL). I pay attention to and attempt to understand that-which-is just as much as, if not moreso than, my personal that-which-should-be; but nevertheless IAAF.
That being said, I am appalled at the prospect of ANY form of human hervous [sic] system running around in ANY other type of creature.... [I]t is my belief that the brian [sic] is the center of our humanity. It is the seat of who we are as a species, and is unique in the world.
Why? Because it will dilute the purity of our species, any combination of human and other animal which shows even the slightest hint of sentience must be exterminated?
To make myself clear, I will say that anybody who intentionally attempts to hybridize in order to make intelligent creatures at this time is off their rocker. But to suggest that it is outright immoral or impossible belittles intelligent life everywhere.
Once many of the genetic and biological hurdles have been cleared and in the meantime, other systems have been explored, it becomes less an act of science and more an act of expression. And expression through creation certainly isn't an invalid concept; we mask the instinctual drives of our species' propagation in emotion, so how can it be immoral to tie science in with this process (especially when the science is built on other science and not on the emotion)*?
And besides, as has been stated already in other posts, human nervous tissue is just that: human nervous tissue. The presence thereof does not necessitate intelligence.
* The intention of this statement is to exclude "science" such as "intelligent design", thus qualifying what kind of ties science and emotion may have without compromising either's integrity.
Regardless, Microsoft will keep fielding consoles for as long as Billy says they can, while Nintendo seems flimsy, with barely any support, and Sega sits in the corner, having no fucking clue what they're doing.
Thus, I am now reminded of how violated I feel.
Two words: pipe dream.
goddamnit! preview next time!
Honestly, probably too much.
Yeah, they do things that piss us off to no end, causing us to have bad judgement.
And yet, they are a corporation, whose sole responsibily is to their stockholders.
Double standard? For many purposes, corporations are individuals. Should some of the rights conferred onto them be withdrawn?
Pure democracy treats everyone roughly as equals. A republic divides people into "the government" and "the people." However, what our society has developed into is "the government," "business," and "the consumers."
Just a thought.
Is this what you're talking about?
I had just finished a homework written in C 10 minutes before it was due. Therefore I had used up all of my lucidity for the day. I needed to flush the waste from my system.
So now the slashdot editors know what I run, what my IP address is, ...
/. currently only logs the MD5 of your IP. At least, that's what I think I remember CmdrTaco saying...
Your point generally holds, but
AMD calls it AMD64; Intel calls it EM64T (or something like that); Linux calls it x86_64; the BSDs all call it amd64; and Microsoft calls it x64.
And every time I see "x64," I die a little on the inside. That term reeks of marketing.
It's not just about memory.
AMD made it so that a program running in pure 64-bit mode has access to double the number of general purpose registers and SIMD registers. More registers == fewer memory accesses && fewer memory accesses == faster programs.
So shouldn't it be called something like "first to file AND invent"? Something that better describes the requirements?
I think this was gone over in the "It Just Works" story.
Microsoft R&D may be great stuff, but it doesn't make it into the products, because the suits are afraid of not making money.
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today...The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.
That's definitely not new.
How many Linux sessions have multiple desktops, whether these be the virtual ones that most any window manager provides for, or actual ones hosted on a different monitor?
Now how many Windows sessions fit the same criteria? Do there exist any statistics on multi-monitor vs. single monitor setups?
The point is that a taskbar and minimization only go so far. If I have 20 different windows open, don't you think that a flat organizational hierarchy isn't very optimal? This is why I like browser tabs, and this is why I like having multiple desktops: everything isn't crammed in the same place; the organization is distributed and contextualized, making it easier to handle.
As you are currently wording it, you are agreeing with me. Did you mean to say, "Speaking as someone who has used a wide variety of system, some with multiple desktops and/or monitors [and some without]..."?
Well, at the very least, Anand put some Cygwin/gcc tests in there.
Most Windows users don't know what it means to multitask. It's much harder to do when you don't have multiple desktops, virtual or otherwise.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx? i=2397
What happens to the industry in the USA when that happens? What if it goes further - what if there's a full-scale patent war between the big players?
The problem with this view is that the big players are still interested in producing some kind of product in great volume, so they usually settle for cross-licensing agreements. What it's going to take is a few more companies like Eolas who are actually trying to hit up the big players. Even then, Congress will miss the point (intentionally or otherwise) without some convincing on our part.
"Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography," quoth the project; "If they spent half as much time making OpenBSD user-friendly as they spent writing stupid geek songs no one cares about, they might actually produce something usable by ordinary people," quoth the troll.
Consider whether your usage of those terms matches the usages of the terms in this case.
The first part is probably true. What I really care about is the accused suppression.
Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in Redmond largely continues their practices because they get the chipset documentation years before everyone else does. What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free development information for all, but are even going further and telling their development communities to not work with us at pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.
Can someone explicitly corroborate or refute this statement? If that's true, that's pretty low.