Most of computers that currently run ms windows 98 don't have enough hardware to run 2000/xp, so companies would need to upgrade them. But companies don't like unplanned upgrades or they just don't have money for it, so linux would be an option, and once that option was adopted no more money for ms.
I think those benchmarks would have prices in, the boards would look much less atractive:)
When will VGA board makers will compete by price, like AMD started to do few years ago and not for hundreds of FPS that no one uses (because they're over humam eyes limits)?
That's a point, it mighty be as easy to crack the onstar as cracking a cellphone.
Tracking you and recording phone conversations it's a problem in both.
But you can't turn onstar off, and with it (or others) crackers may record everything you say on the car and you wouldn't even notice any noise/display/battery drops, and worse, some cracker can drive you outside the road and make it look as an accident.
TiVo PVR's with 400 GB hard drives could arrive within 24 months
If you're not mentioning two 200 GB hard drives, i think that's difficult to happen because data density in hard disks are near it's limits.
If the magnetic crystals that hold the data get very small they can loose their magnetic charge easily, don't being able to hold data reliably.
And also is difficult to reduce the size of the drive heads, that also need to be very small.
I bet using better compression on PVR is a better solution to increase their storage capacity. I don't mean using that (better/slower) compression real-time but to compress the data already recorded (with a worse/faster algorithm)
Don't know why they didn't mentioned that but the water you drink (except bottle water) contains chlorine. Chlorine is a chemmical that was even used as poison on WW I.
To avoid chlorine on your drinking (and cooking) water, use a chlorine filter like this
To reduce pesticides in fruits that you eat the rind (like apples), wash them with water and *soap*. Just water won't work because pesticides are oily (not soluble in water), to avoid being washed by the rain.
After that, wash well just with water (and leave them for a while in water before that if you wan't) to remove all the soap. Soap can also harm your health.
For those wanting to know this is their website. And these are the channels they carry.
He asked for help and will we ./ him? :-)
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He asked for help and will we./ him?:-) Here follows the letter (PS: the link on the letter is already down):
"As you have all seen the past few days, we have been having technical difficulties. The essential problem is that we do not currently have enough hardware to cope with routine failures of any kind. When any one of our machines goes down, we experience cascading problems due in part to the excess load on the entire system.
The solution to this problem is to purchase now sufficient hardware to give us enough excess capacity so that we can be reliable. I estimate that $20,000 in hardware would get us to a point where we have reserves to handle the failure of any one machine. Additionally, we would be well-poised to continue our track record of astounding growth.
We currently have total funds of about $4,200. Additionally, I am donating (via Bomis) 1 new webserver. I am putting together, in consultation with our technical team, an order for new hardware totalling $20,000. For details of what we are purchasing, or if you have expertise and would like to help guide us, join the wikitech-l mailing list. [Note that when Wikipedia is down, the mailing list subscription is affected, too.]
I will post daily or twice-daily updates on this web page as well as keeping the mailing lists informed at the same time.
To (an average person) send a copy of a document to someone is much easier and fast using a fax.
If you scan and mail it takes sometime: - turn the computer (if it's off) - wait the scanner to heat (if you didn't use it less than 5 minutes ago) - pre-scan (to mark the region will be scanned, it's usually automatic can't jump that phase) - choose the right configuration (color and depth) or the result can be a mess and full the mailbox - scan (time depends of the choosen configuration) - final edition (ajust size, compression) - pdf (if it's more than few pages) - attach and mail
Someone may say you can configure that before, but some scanners demand you check the values on every step (and page) and also someone that used the scanner before can have changed the configuration.
There's also another point that is difficult to share a scanner in a work enviroment while with fax it's easier
And any time the number of bits is not either 1 or a multiple of 8, it's much, much slower than it would be otherwise
Not that much, if i use padding to keep variables inside of less bytes possible (example: keep a five bits vaiable inside one byte, not two) i can recover data using OR and shifts, that are quite fast. And if i can dig in assembly i can make the operations without shifts.
I don't think they're trying to create a language for "high-performance computing" but a language for a "high-performance multi-processor computer", since they're focusing on threads and sun isn't a very good example (jvm) of high-performance.
In my opinion I would like a C language variation that let me specify how many bits i would like to use for a variable, because it would save a lot time because of memory bandwidth (cache space included) and is very boring to make a good implementation of that in assembly.
Such reviews (tom's hardware include) are made for anything that can run windows on because such is the public (windows) of those "magazines", a test like you propose would be realized by a linux specialized site.
But the best benchmarks i think should be done are for specific applications like 3d rendering, games, video editing... and i would love to see how G5 performs playing games on winex;)
Hopefully the upcoming year will be as promising in the processor sector as 2003 was
Talking about the becoming year, what technologies that are still in study (or on test phase) you're expecting to become concrete on 2004 (not 2005, 2010 or "Stardate 45494";)
In the beginning of 2003 i heard about SiGe (ibm) and (150GHz transistors) but didn't see the impact of that technology already (besides some 20% improve on intel processors because of SiGe, that seens low for me).
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Why is it tagged science? It should be tagged funny ..
Most of computers that currently run ms windows 98 don't have enough hardware to run 2000/xp, so companies would need to upgrade them. But companies don't like unplanned upgrades or they just don't have money for it, so linux would be an option, and once that option was adopted no more money for ms.
At least we are over windows me :-)
I think those benchmarks would have prices in, the boards would look much less atractive :)
When will VGA board makers will compete by price, like AMD started to do few years ago and not for hundreds of FPS that no one uses (because they're over humam eyes limits)?
That's a point, it mighty be as easy to crack the onstar as cracking a cellphone.
Tracking you and recording phone conversations it's a problem in both.
But you can't turn onstar off, and with it (or others) crackers may record everything you say on the car and you wouldn't even notice any noise/display/battery drops, and worse, some cracker can drive you outside the road and make it look as an accident.
Google link here
TiVo PVR's with 400 GB hard drives could arrive within 24 months
If you're not mentioning two 200 GB hard drives, i think that's difficult to happen because data density in hard disks are near it's limits.
If the magnetic crystals that hold the data get very small they can loose their magnetic charge easily, don't being able to hold data reliably.
And also is difficult to reduce the size of the drive heads, that also need to be very small.
I bet using better compression on PVR is a better solution to increase their storage capacity. I don't mean using that (better/slower) compression real-time but to compress the data already recorded (with a worse/faster algorithm)
Don't know why they didn't mentioned that but the water you drink (except bottle water) contains chlorine. Chlorine is a chemmical that was even used as poison on WW I.
To avoid chlorine on your drinking (and cooking) water, use a chlorine filter like this
If you wan't real antioxidants (that won't harm you otherway giving you cancer ;) you should try Vitamins C, E, and green tea.
To reduce pesticides in fruits that you eat the rind (like apples), wash them with water and *soap*. Just water won't work because pesticides are oily (not soluble in water), to avoid being washed by the rain.
After that, wash well just with water (and leave them for a while in water before that if you wan't) to remove all the soap. Soap can also harm your health.
And take more showers :)
More detailed listing here(include samples)
If you don't have portability in mind there's also DMX Music
For those wanting to know this is their website. And these are the channels they carry.
He asked for help and will we ./ him? :-)
Here follows the letter (PS: the link on the letter is already down):
"As you have all seen the past few days, we have been having technical difficulties. The essential problem is that we do not currently have enough hardware to cope with routine failures of any kind. When any one of our machines goes down, we experience cascading problems due in part to the excess load on the entire system.
The solution to this problem is to purchase now sufficient hardware to give us enough excess capacity so that we can be reliable. I estimate that $20,000 in hardware would get us to a point where we have reserves to handle the failure of any one machine. Additionally, we would be well-poised to continue our track record of astounding growth.
We currently have total funds of about $4,200. Additionally, I am donating (via Bomis) 1 new webserver. I am putting together, in consultation with our technical team, an order for new hardware totalling $20,000. For details of what we are purchasing, or if you have expertise and would like to help guide us, join the wikitech-l mailing list. [Note that when Wikipedia is down, the mailing list subscription is affected, too.]
I will post daily or twice-daily updates on this web page as well as keeping the mailing lists informed at the same time.
Your help is much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Jimbo Wales"
To (an average person) send a copy of a document to someone is much easier and fast using a fax.
If you scan and mail it takes sometime:
- turn the computer (if it's off)
- wait the scanner to heat (if you didn't use it less than 5 minutes ago)
- pre-scan (to mark the region will be scanned, it's usually automatic can't jump that phase)
- choose the right configuration (color and depth) or the result can be a mess and full the mailbox
- scan (time depends of the choosen configuration)
- final edition (ajust size, compression)
- pdf (if it's more than few pages)
- attach and mail
Someone may say you can configure that before, but some scanners demand you check the values on every step (and page) and also someone that used the scanner before can have changed the configuration.
There's also another point that is difficult to share a scanner in a work enviroment while with fax it's easier
And it has a linux version :-)
I may be trolling but for me that's an important information
Try this link . :-)
Don't know about opera (paid) but it works even with lynx
And any time the number of bits is not either 1 or a multiple of 8, it's much, much slower than it would be otherwise
Not that much, if i use padding to keep variables inside of less bytes possible (example: keep a five bits vaiable inside one byte, not two) i can recover data using OR and shifts, that are quite fast.
And if i can dig in assembly i can make the operations without shifts.
that's why i asked and putted a ;) in the end ;)
I don't think they're trying to create a language for "high-performance computing" but a language for a "high-performance multi-processor computer", since they're focusing on threads and sun isn't a very good example (jvm) of high-performance.
In my opinion I would like a C language variation that let me specify how many bits i would like to use for a variable, because it would save a lot time because of memory bandwidth (cache space included) and is very boring to make a good implementation of that in assembly.
Such reviews (tom's hardware include) are made for anything that can run windows on because such is the public (windows) of those "magazines", a test like you propose would be realized by a linux specialized site.
... and i would love to see how G5 performs playing games on winex ;)
But the best benchmarks i think should be done are for specific applications like 3d rendering, games, video editing
Hopefully the upcoming year will be as promising in the processor sector as 2003 was
;)
Talking about the becoming year, what technologies that are still in study (or on test phase) you're expecting to become concrete on 2004 (not 2005, 2010 or "Stardate 45494"
In the beginning of 2003 i heard about SiGe (ibm) and (150GHz transistors) but didn't see the impact of that technology already (besides some 20% improve on intel processors because of SiGe, that seens low for me).
There's a bugzilla for it too, here.
Where's the torrent? I bet it will be ./ soon :-)