Its a shame. The IA-64 isn't all that bad of an architecture. The predication register makes sense and the speculative loading is important as memories lag behind CPU's.
The reason IA-64 is destined for the scrap heap is the price. Given that I do some memory-intensive things I wanted a 64-bit machine for my new server. I bought an amd64 box simply for one reason: cost!
amd64 is a clever extension of x86 and probably the biggest win are the new registers - that results in quite a performance boost. But IA-64 was just pretty damn cool.
I wish M$ didn't strongarm Intel. If the current headaches of the myDoom worm have taught us anything: architectural diversity is a good thing. I would rather there be 3 64-bit architectures out there (IA-64, amd64, and PPC64); heck bring back Alpha! It means that its one more stumbling block to writing virii.
FWIW, my amd64 box is fast and handles huge jobs easily. With a couple of gigs of swap thrown on it even my Lisp code runs fast (amazing).
Actually, there have been some similar things done for blind people where they are "writing" data to the brain.
About 10 years ago I remember seeing an article on a computer letting blind people see a green dot. I understand things have progressed a little since then but not that much.
It may very well be possible to combine these two technologies.
I dunno dude. Sometimes I feel like I'd rahter be a fry cook. I would get far more satisfaction pissing in the fry oil to mess with people than I do behind a desk in Orcad.
But I'm just not a nice person. Or so everybody tells me.;-)
As somebody who has lived there; that is not the piece of land they are fighting over.
Here is the deal, everybody wants Jerusalem. Its a very old city with religious connections to three very major religions. Do you think Bin Laden was talking about oil? No.
What do the terrorists want? Its hard to say. They don't exactly make demands. But it tends to be over a very tiny country called Israel. Some other terrorists seem to just want anybody who isn't Muslim out of the picture.
Now please understand me here. The OP referred to the current security situation. So I am specifically talking about Muslim terrorists. There are other terrorists in the world; but the current security consideration (from an American POV) is the terrorism that involves Israel.
I personally don't think that economics, oil, or any of that has anything to do with the current situation (of course, my post was modded as flamebait).
The outsourcing issue (which is related to a global economy) will not help anybody. It will drive people with small, but sustainable agricultural societies into poor industrial slaves. It will also drive the workers of industrialized nations down. So its a loose-loose situation.
I've read several. The security problems are not economic. The 9/11 hijackers were wealthy Saudi men. This is about a fight for a tiny piece of land in the middle east.
You know, painful as it is to those who pay the price, one can make the argument that this trend will, in the long run, help to minimize the economic disparities between the "developed" countries and the "third world." And that can't be bad for international security.
Excuse me, but you are a retard. The security problems of late have nothing to do with economics and everything to do with religious zealotry.
All this means is that we are moving to a global economy that models Communist Russia. That didn't work so good, did it?
What is my incentive to become an Engineer and build things if I can earn the same amount of money being a fry cook.
In fact, the only thing this will increase is crime. Why should I work an honest living for $5.25/hr when I can steal, kill, etc. and have a wonderful life. The cops won't bother to stop me, not for $5.25/hr.
This reasoning is pure and utter mindless drivel with no thought to the actual consequences. Why should the CEO's then not work for $5.25/hr?
Thats communism. We are all equal. We all are exactly the same. Its a very boring world, isn't it?
Sheesh people, at least try to rub two neurons together before posting.
If I can get an ICE (In-Circuit Emulator) for my CPU, there isn't much they can do. I work in the hardware design biz so those kinds of tools are readily available to me. I can also just grab the data from the codec chip (usually such devices are separate).
I don't think I would ever run trusted linux. Its my computer, I paid for it and if I want I'll run my own damn OS.
The most important thing is for people to vote against this crap with their money. Don't buy TCPA-enabled hardware.
And the minute a company offers a Linux player I'll happily write my own kernel drivers that capture the content as it is played.
Short of every CD I buy coming with a security officer (who would no likely be outsourced from India) to watch my behavior there is little a DRM system can do. Its a pointless marketing blip.
There is always my trusty logic analyzer and ICE unit to get at the content too.
Ciscos IOS is not a modified BSD at all. Its hard to explain. Originally it was some protocol stacks, device drivers, and a little scheduler. About the only thing BSD and IOS have in common is they are both compiled with GCC (yes, Cisco uses GCC internally).
Eventually, CISCO reworked things to give it a modular architecture. The modular architecture means that it searches for a key in memory locations for a certain inverval for a marker and then links that module.
What CISCO would probably do is make this yet another configurable option in the modular architecture to authenticate IP addresses, maybe as a form of ACL.
What I am worried about is dumb-ass ISP's that turn this feature on assuming all their customers use Wintel.
This could be a real nightmare for those of us who explain that we can't ever get a virus.
Probably one of the most interesting Open Source projects is ReactOS. As much as the Slashdot crowd dislikes Microsoft, the Win32 API has a tremendous amount of applications behind it.
The chance for us to demonstrate such a direct competition to Microsoft at COMDEX would be well worth leaving leaving another project behind.
I live in south Florida and have yet to ever use a heater during winter. Typically I have to run the A/C until about December and then can leave it off until April.
Sadly, I run Folding@Home on a mostly idle server. But since booting up the server is a pain when I need it, I just let it run.
99% of my e-mail is spam. I have simply given up on e-mail as a form of communication.
I mainly use AOL Instant messanger or ytalk and avoid e-mail. I do have a private e-mail address that gets almost no spam but of course only my friends know that.
For anybody who tries to contact me, be it an old lost classmate, a person inquiring about my open source or commercial software, or just a curious person is usually lost in the noise collected by my public e-mail accounts.
I really don't see e-mail being in existance for much longer. Things may very well regress to the way they were prior to SMTP. You had disseparate mail systems and after contacting a person you would set up connectivity. This leads to little islands of connectivity but I'm not sure what the alternative is.
I don't even think the problem is Internet specific. Telemarketing has been on the rise, as has fax spam. My phone at works gets 3-4 fax calls a day lately (and our company doesn't even have a fax number!). I'm sure its some fax spammer.
Heck, I get junk paper mail I don't want. Companies run under the perception that if they nag consumers enough they will get sales. And sadly, that is probably the case (or else they would stop doing it).
For those of us who like to make our own decisions about what to buy and what not to are just going to have to live with the isolation; sad as that is.
What about the Fortran portion of the
OpenWatcom compiler suite?
It came from commercial roots so it is likely to be a better compiler in many ways compared to g77. They are actively porting it to Linux and Watcom was always known as generating terrific code. For x86 scientific computing it may be just the thing!
I put off buying my new G4 15" PB because of MacRumors. And I bought a new one yesterday. I'm happy I waited, but I probably wouldn't have been any less happy had I bought an old one.
What about WebDAV and DeltaV? They worked on those standards yet we have wonderful tools like Subversion based on those standards?
Microsoft is a huge company, lots of employees don't share the intent to harm the competitor. They often do things that are cool or seem like good ideas technically. Some get squashed by manglement and others eventually make it out.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Microsoft nor do I even like them all that much. The only reason they earn any of my respect is because of Cutler.
I had bought a PC laptop (HP ze5375us) because it was cheaper than the powerbook I really wanted.
As long as I can have a development environment I don't really care much about the OS. But the laptop broke after 2 months.
HP are being turds about fixing it. So I'm writing that off as a total waste of money and buying a new powerbook.
My main gripe with PC hardware is that it doesn't seem to be of the same quality as Apple hardware.
This is news for nerds. I've been waiting for these new laptops to be announced for weeks now...
I came in to work, popped up Slashdot (my first work activity) and saw the announcement. It put me in a good mood which work can now beat the hell out of me.
You insensitive clod.
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The reason IA-64 is destined for the scrap heap is the price. Given that I do some memory-intensive things I wanted a 64-bit machine for my new server. I bought an amd64 box simply for one reason: cost!
amd64 is a clever extension of x86 and probably the biggest win are the new registers - that results in quite a performance boost. But IA-64 was just pretty damn cool.
I wish M$ didn't strongarm Intel. If the current headaches of the myDoom worm have taught us anything: architectural diversity is a good thing. I would rather there be 3 64-bit architectures out there (IA-64, amd64, and PPC64); heck bring back Alpha! It means that its one more stumbling block to writing virii.
FWIW, my amd64 box is fast and handles huge jobs easily. With a couple of gigs of swap thrown on it even my Lisp code runs fast (amazing).
About 10 years ago I remember seeing an article on a computer letting blind people see a green dot. I understand things have progressed a little since then but not that much.
It may very well be possible to combine these two technologies.
But I'm just not a nice person. Or so everybody tells me. ;-)
Here is the deal, everybody wants Jerusalem. Its a very old city with religious connections to three very major religions. Do you think Bin Laden was talking about oil? No.
What do the terrorists want? Its hard to say. They don't exactly make demands. But it tends to be over a very tiny country called Israel. Some other terrorists seem to just want anybody who isn't Muslim out of the picture.
Now please understand me here. The OP referred to the current security situation. So I am specifically talking about Muslim terrorists. There are other terrorists in the world; but the current security consideration (from an American POV) is the terrorism that involves Israel.
I personally don't think that economics, oil, or any of that has anything to do with the current situation (of course, my post was modded as flamebait).
The outsourcing issue (which is related to a global economy) will not help anybody. It will drive people with small, but sustainable agricultural societies into poor industrial slaves. It will also drive the workers of industrialized nations down. So its a loose-loose situation.
Go live there.
Excuse me, but you are a retard. The security problems of late have nothing to do with economics and everything to do with religious zealotry.
All this means is that we are moving to a global economy that models Communist Russia. That didn't work so good, did it?
What is my incentive to become an Engineer and build things if I can earn the same amount of money being a fry cook.
In fact, the only thing this will increase is crime. Why should I work an honest living for $5.25/hr when I can steal, kill, etc. and have a wonderful life. The cops won't bother to stop me, not for $5.25/hr.
This reasoning is pure and utter mindless drivel with no thought to the actual consequences. Why should the CEO's then not work for $5.25/hr?
Thats communism. We are all equal. We all are exactly the same. Its a very boring world, isn't it?
Sheesh people, at least try to rub two neurons together before posting.
That format could be extended into a vendor-neutral format for both interpretation, just-in-time compilation, and batch compilation.
I loved that movie! I haven't thought about it in years.
The real issue would probably be porting over all the drivers (and the stuff in LES/HES).
I don't know much of anything about PIX OS though. Didn't they acquire that from somewhere or is it home grown?
I don't think I would ever run trusted linux. Its my computer, I paid for it and if I want I'll run my own damn OS.
The most important thing is for people to vote against this crap with their money. Don't buy TCPA-enabled hardware.
And the minute a company offers a Linux player I'll happily write my own kernel drivers that capture the content as it is played.
Short of every CD I buy coming with a security officer (who would no likely be outsourced from India) to watch my behavior there is little a DRM system can do. Its a pointless marketing blip.
There is always my trusty logic analyzer and ICE unit to get at the content too.
I don't think I could date a women that had me make a happysunshine script.
Eventually, CISCO reworked things to give it a modular architecture. The modular architecture means that it searches for a key in memory locations for a certain inverval for a marker and then links that module.
What CISCO would probably do is make this yet another configurable option in the modular architecture to authenticate IP addresses, maybe as a form of ACL.
What I am worried about is dumb-ass ISP's that turn this feature on assuming all their customers use Wintel.
This could be a real nightmare for those of us who explain that we can't ever get a virus.
The chance for us to demonstrate such a direct competition to Microsoft at COMDEX would be well worth leaving leaving another project behind.
Depends where you live.
I live in south Florida and have yet to ever use a heater during winter. Typically I have to run the A/C until about December and then can leave it off until April.
Sadly, I run Folding@Home on a mostly idle server. But since booting up the server is a pain when I need it, I just let it run.
I mainly use AOL Instant messanger or ytalk and avoid e-mail. I do have a private e-mail address that gets almost no spam but of course only my friends know that.
For anybody who tries to contact me, be it an old lost classmate, a person inquiring about my open source or commercial software, or just a curious person is usually lost in the noise collected by my public e-mail accounts.
I really don't see e-mail being in existance for much longer. Things may very well regress to the way they were prior to SMTP. You had disseparate mail systems and after contacting a person you would set up connectivity. This leads to little islands of connectivity but I'm not sure what the alternative is.
I don't even think the problem is Internet specific. Telemarketing has been on the rise, as has fax spam. My phone at works gets 3-4 fax calls a day lately (and our company doesn't even have a fax number!). I'm sure its some fax spammer.
Heck, I get junk paper mail I don't want. Companies run under the perception that if they nag consumers enough they will get sales. And sadly, that is probably the case (or else they would stop doing it).
For those of us who like to make our own decisions about what to buy and what not to are just going to have to live with the isolation; sad as that is.
It came from commercial roots so it is likely to be a better compiler in many ways compared to g77. They are actively porting it to Linux and Watcom was always known as generating terrific code. For x86 scientific computing it may be just the thing!
I'm just happy I can be x86-free on the road!
Microsoft is a huge company, lots of employees don't share the intent to harm the competitor. They often do things that are cool or seem like good ideas technically. Some get squashed by manglement and others eventually make it out.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Microsoft nor do I even like them all that much. The only reason they earn any of my respect is because of Cutler.
I had bought a PC laptop (HP ze5375us) because it was cheaper than the powerbook I really wanted. As long as I can have a development environment I don't really care much about the OS. But the laptop broke after 2 months. HP are being turds about fixing it. So I'm writing that off as a total waste of money and buying a new powerbook. My main gripe with PC hardware is that it doesn't seem to be of the same quality as Apple hardware.
This is news for nerds. I've been waiting for these new laptops to be announced for weeks now... I came in to work, popped up Slashdot (my first work activity) and saw the announcement. It put me in a good mood which work can now beat the hell out of me. You insensitive clod.