Well, I suppose that it is disk-bound over a certain CPU speed. Say, over ~800mhz it's basically just waiting for the disk, but under that maybe CPU optimizations could make a difference?
Now it'd be interesting to know what type of CPU the guy who said he had 20% increases in speed is using.
That's right, act like a winner and maybe someday you'll magically turn into one.
I find it pretty ironic that I'm the one accused of being a fanboy, yet I can back up my opinions with facts and you're the one posting a content-free infantile post after the other. Heh.
What has that to do with anything? Backward compatibility is EXTREMELY important in the mainstream computing world, hence why Itanium will stay an EXTREMELY small niche player.
If Intel had come up with a good & actually useable extension of x86 like AMD did, I'd be praising them.
Intel led the mainstream computing world for many years, but right now they don't. Their price/performance ratio is below AMD's, their chips run too hot and lack advanced techs like on-die memory controllers and built-in multi-core capabilities. What has recognizing that to do with being a fanboy? Is Intel an AMD fanboy too because they adopted AMD64 technology? Please...
These super computers are nice for bragging rights, but they are only a very small fraction of what makes a chip successful or not.
It's like claiming that a car make is better than the other because it's top of the line model is good. If they sell 200 of those a year, it's only a PR asset. You have to look at what people are actually using.
The Itanic has been sinking for a long time, even if you won't admit it. Denying it just makes it funnier for the people watching the wreck.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the Itanium is a bad chip; it performs very well at certain things. I'm just saying it's an overall failure.
Generally, I detest automobiles and the kind of culture they have given mankind, so I have a bias against 'a car prize', but I think I could put its CPU to good use, if its got one..
Well, the Prius being an hybrid car with extremely low emission, it's probably the least bad car you can get, so it's at least that. Not to mention that it' probably one of the most technologically advanced cars out there.
Uhm, I'm not talking about what I will use. I'm talking about if this codec is accepted as the standard for blue-ray, everything will come encoded that way.
It might not be surprising, but independently of how they achieved the result, it's still a quite sad state of affair for us, the people that will be stuck with a crappy codec.
Nicholas Petreley is a Linux advocate... there is a basic problem with a partisan person presenting a "fair and balanced" argument. Kinda like doing research with fixed goals.
How do you know that he's not a Linux advocate in the first place because he found out that Linux is better than Windows at some things?
Anyway, as others have said: an article is misleading because it contains misleadings things, not because the person who wrote it prefers something over something else. You'll never find someone who's 50/50 all the time, except if you pay them to pretend they are independent.
It's a sad state of affairs when in a supposedly strong democracy like american (that only has two political parties with only milionnaires running and a pathetic participation rate on election day) you get better news from a comedy show than from the mainstream media.
The top part of the earth varies in temperature, but below a certain depth (to reasonable levels, really deep it gets hotter) it's pretty much at a constant temperature (I think it's around 14 celcius).
That temperature is constant because the earth received the same average of light from the sun globally (clouds and such are not enough to make a different, we're talking large scale).
So what you do is that you put pipes 6 feet deep in your backyard with some liquid going through them. You pump it and in the winter you take the heat from the earth and concentrate it in a superheater and then you use that to heat your house and water. In the summer, you take the heat from the house and send it in the pipes so that it is absorbed by the heard (like a radiator, or watercooling in a PC).
You can do the same thing with a thermopump in the air, but the temperature of the air varies quite a bit more than that of the earth so it's less efficient (my parents' house has one of these).
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Well, I suppose that it is disk-bound over a certain CPU speed. Say, over ~800mhz it's basically just waiting for the disk, but under that maybe CPU optimizations could make a difference?
Now it'd be interesting to know what type of CPU the guy who said he had 20% increases in speed is using.
Isn't startup disk-bound?
I hope everything will turn out allright.
You're reading way too much into what I write, as if you knew anything about me or the state of mind that I have when I write things.
You're the one who seems extremely defensive, even resorting to insults, that makes you sound like an Intel crusader.
Very mature.
That's right, act like a winner and maybe someday you'll magically turn into one.
I find it pretty ironic that I'm the one accused of being a fanboy, yet I can back up my opinions with facts and you're the one posting a content-free infantile post after the other. Heh.
What has that to do with anything? Backward compatibility is EXTREMELY important in the mainstream computing world, hence why Itanium will stay an EXTREMELY small niche player.
If Intel had come up with a good & actually useable extension of x86 like AMD did, I'd be praising them.
Intel led the mainstream computing world for many years, but right now they don't. Their price/performance ratio is below AMD's, their chips run too hot and lack advanced techs like on-die memory controllers and built-in multi-core capabilities. What has recognizing that to do with being a fanboy? Is Intel an AMD fanboy too because they adopted AMD64 technology? Please...
x86-64 doesn't have that much to do with your old 386, y'know. It's a fine place to be moving on to right now.
Except that people won't be using Itaniums tomorrow, hence the part of my post about "only a small fraction of what makes a chip successful".
These super computers are nice for bragging rights, but they are only a very small fraction of what makes a chip successful or not.
It's like claiming that a car make is better than the other because it's top of the line model is good. If they sell 200 of those a year, it's only a PR asset. You have to look at what people are actually using.
You work for Intel, right?
The Itanic has been sinking for a long time, even if you won't admit it. Denying it just makes it funnier for the people watching the wreck.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the Itanium is a bad chip; it performs very well at certain things. I'm just saying it's an overall failure.
Money is not everything.
I'd encourage all of you guys to support BOINC, an open source and multi-platform architecture instead.
Generally, I detest automobiles and the kind of culture they have given mankind, so I have a bias against 'a car prize', but I think I could put its CPU to good use, if its got one..
Well, the Prius being an hybrid car with extremely low emission, it's probably the least bad car you can get, so it's at least that. Not to mention that it' probably one of the most technologically advanced cars out there.
How many other charities raise 250k$ in 10 days?
Not all non-profit orgs have this MOMENTUM.
I feel dirty just having read that.
Uhm, I'm not talking about what I will use. I'm talking about if this codec is accepted as the standard for blue-ray, everything will come encoded that way.
It might not be surprising, but independently of how they achieved the result, it's still a quite sad state of affair for us, the people that will be stuck with a crappy codec.
:(
Nicholas Petreley is a Linux advocate... there is a basic problem with a partisan person presenting a "fair and balanced" argument. Kinda like doing research with fixed goals.
How do you know that he's not a Linux advocate in the first place because he found out that Linux is better than Windows at some things?
Anyway, as others have said: an article is misleading because it contains misleadings things, not because the person who wrote it prefers something over something else. You'll never find someone who's 50/50 all the time, except if you pay them to pretend they are independent.
Henry Kissinger?
Why not Hermann Goering...
I wonder how many votes Linus will get in this US presidential election...
Here's a correct version of my last post:
Stewart is not a journalist, he's a comedian.
His show is not about blasting politicians, it's about laughing at the really poor job that the media does.
He's been nice in interviews with republicans too, and he even was angry at his audience when they didn't pay proper respect to the republican guest.
Stewart is not a journalist, he's a comedian.
His show is not about blasting comedians, it's about laughing at the really poor job that the media does.
He's been nice in interviews with republicans too, and he even was angry at his audience when they didn't pay proper respect to the republican guest.
It's a sad state of affairs when in a supposedly strong democracy like american (that only has two political parties with only milionnaires running and a pathetic participation rate on election day) you get better news from a comedy show than from the mainstream media.
Wealthy nations don't tend to produce terrorists either.
Don't be mistaken, they are the number 1 source of them... in other countries.
I don't think you understand how this work.
The top part of the earth varies in temperature, but below a certain depth (to reasonable levels, really deep it gets hotter) it's pretty much at a constant temperature (I think it's around 14 celcius).
That temperature is constant because the earth received the same average of light from the sun globally (clouds and such are not enough to make a different, we're talking large scale).
So what you do is that you put pipes 6 feet deep in your backyard with some liquid going through them. You pump it and in the winter you take the heat from the earth and concentrate it in a superheater and then you use that to heat your house and water. In the summer, you take the heat from the house and send it in the pipes so that it is absorbed by the heard (like a radiator, or watercooling in a PC).
You can do the same thing with a thermopump in the air, but the temperature of the air varies quite a bit more than that of the earth so it's less efficient (my parents' house has one of these).