Oh well, my bad for assuming that describing focus on Opera as "most important" and starting in a cursory way the part about Linux distros would be enough on/.
"Much smaller market share" isn't really adequate; what's the market share of MS in laptops ("computers" generally), portable music players, music sales, smartphones or "pro" creative software (of the audio, video, image kind)?
Assuming you're referring to me - I don't use Apple products; but Opera is my main browser. Seems I just forgot/. typically doesn't catch tongue-in-cheek posts...
They didn't lost it just to marketing department of AMD. Athlons were simply a better core, capable of higher clocks (and without such obvious tricks as with P4; they had often higher IPC than P3) If anything, Intel was driven too much by marketing back then... (remember P3 Coppermine 1.13 GHz fiasko?)
Still not similar, it seems. And don't we have a sensibly clear image of what happened with their civilisation? (certain stagnation to some degree, also perhaps due to wasting of human resources; and locked into delicate, almost ceremonial balance with other local powers...a state which was rapidly destabilised by arrival of Europeans?)
Looking at history of CPU time to running time ratio for each process, or perhaps also what typically causes spikes of usage and moving process to faster core at that point? Plus central db of what to expect from specific processes. (I'm not saying it's necessarily a good idea; just that it could be not so hard, OS-wise)
PII is also of the PPro lineage. And even if PII, PIII and to some degree P-M and Core1 aren't that different, there are supposed to be some notable changes with Core2 and, especially, Nehalem.
Besides, if the tech is good and it works... (look what happened when they tried "innovating" with PIV)
What do you mean "that's why SpeedStep is used, against normal CPU throttling"? SpeedStep is CPU throttling; but on top of that C-states are also highly effective, or at least Thinkpad Wiki thinks so, and I see no reason to disbelieve them...
Yes, one can force SpeedStep setting - but the game would still be consuming all available power, preventing the CPU from going to pseudo sleep states (which is even more effective)
For that matter, can we have one more thing: a way to limit max core usage to, say, 10% (imagine you're playing an old game on a laptop, for example Diablo2; now, many games have the unfortunate habit of consuming all available CPU power...whether they need to or not; taking battery with them)
...when, most notably, also Opera versions prior to 10.50 are affected!
OK, OK, and apparently many Linux distros prior to recent patch of glibc. From the original source (love the url): "Also I'd like to thank Opera Software for working with me and fixing the problem in their browser, and Fedora, Canonical, Gentoo, Novell, Mandriva, and Debian for applying my patches to glibc in their respective Linux distributions."
Battles in ST are often at the distances and speeds when such targetting system becomes mostly useless due to speed of light limit; you would never hit the spot anyway... (yes, the battles typically seem to be happening at a distance of only few to dozen kilometers; but not only that might be enough, also the Picard maneuver shows us the distances aren't really that small)
I don't think it's that much worse from the "obviously asymmetric" - in case of those you have to usually look at the plug and the socket (and what if the latter is not clearly visible?) anyway. Plus USB connector typically should have convex logo on it meaning "up", and sockets should be in an orientation that makes sense for "up" (on laptops and hubs that's easy, even motherboards seem to comply...as long as you remember that "up" means "the side where all the cpu, memory and PCI slots are")
It has is strenghts too; grounding and mechanical properties being rather nice.
But the thing is you can rarely say with much certainty those things are separate; they are still interweaved to a large degree, were much more in the past.
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Oh well, my bad for assuming that describing focus on Opera as "most important" and starting in a cursory way the part about Linux distros would be enough on /.
In the first place, the effort is very small; it takes little to spawn spam.
"Much smaller market share" isn't really adequate; what's the market share of MS in laptops ("computers" generally), portable music players, music sales, smartphones or "pro" creative software (of the audio, video, image kind)?
Assuming you're referring to me - I don't use Apple products; but Opera is my main browser. Seems I just forgot /. typically doesn't catch tongue-in-cheek posts...
They didn't lost it just to marketing department of AMD. Athlons were simply a better core, capable of higher clocks (and without such obvious tricks as with P4; they had often higher IPC than P3)
If anything, Intel was driven too much by marketing back then... (remember P3 Coppermine 1.13 GHz fiasko?)
Still not similar, it seems. And don't we have a sensibly clear image of what happened with their civilisation? (certain stagnation to some degree, also perhaps due to wasting of human resources; and locked into delicate, almost ceremonial balance with other local powers...a state which was rapidly destabilised by arrival of Europeans?)
Though we do see a mix, in a different way, with GPGPU adoption.
Looking at history of CPU time to running time ratio for each process, or perhaps also what typically causes spikes of usage and moving process to faster core at that point? Plus central db of what to expect from specific processes.
(I'm not saying it's necessarily a good idea; just that it could be not so hard, OS-wise)
PII is also of the PPro lineage. And even if PII, PIII and to some degree P-M and Core1 aren't that different, there are supposed to be some notable changes with Core2 and, especially, Nehalem.
Besides, if the tech is good and it works... (look what happened when they tried "innovating" with PIV)
What do you mean "that's why SpeedStep is used, against normal CPU throttling"? SpeedStep is CPU throttling; but on top of that C-states are also highly effective, or at least Thinkpad Wiki thinks so, and I see no reason to disbelieve them...
But perhaps not without exceeding the amperage value for which power lines are rated...
Yes, one can force SpeedStep setting - but the game would still be consuming all available power, preventing the CPU from going to pseudo sleep states (which is even more effective)
For that matter, can we have one more thing: a way to limit max core usage to, say, 10% (imagine you're playing an old game on a laptop, for example Diablo2; now, many games have the unfortunate habit of consuming all available CPU power...whether they need to or not; taking battery with them)
Plus a straightforward way of figuring out how to best assign processes to particular cores? (which ones are faster and which are slower)
Now, I make my living writing Visual Basic...
And you freely admit it here?... ;)
...when, most notably, also Opera versions prior to 10.50 are affected!
OK, OK, and apparently many Linux distros prior to recent patch of glibc. From the original source (love the url): "Also I'd like to thank Opera Software for working with me and fixing the problem in their browser, and Fedora, Canonical, Gentoo, Novell, Mandriva, and Debian for applying my patches to glibc in their respective Linux distributions."
Ohhh, and imagine the fun with a planet approximately 989 light-years from Earth ;p
Battles in ST are often at the distances and speeds when such targetting system becomes mostly useless due to speed of light limit; you would never hit the spot anyway... (yes, the battles typically seem to be happening at a distance of only few to dozen kilometers; but not only that might be enough, also the Picard maneuver shows us the distances aren't really that small)
Could it be why it was in ""? (and why I mentioned how it ends up in practice for motherboards)
Well...are you certain they didn't use a "big stick with fire burning at one end"?
I don't think it's that much worse from the "obviously asymmetric" - in case of those you have to usually look at the plug and the socket (and what if the latter is not clearly visible?) anyway. Plus USB connector typically should have convex logo on it meaning "up", and sockets should be in an orientation that makes sense for "up" (on laptops and hubs that's easy, even motherboards seem to comply...as long as you remember that "up" means "the side where all the cpu, memory and PCI slots are")
It has is strenghts too; grounding and mechanical properties being rather nice.
I don't think they would demonstrate it using a laptop and sending video to an external screen in case it would be aimed at server market...
But there you have a usage for it - sending video signal; "one connector to rule them all"?
But the thing is you can rarely say with much certainty those things are separate; they are still interweaved to a large degree, were much more in the past.
Hm, I'm a bit surprised; even though I didn't mean the absolute first result, just the first page...on which she is barely, only somewhat, featured.
There's a bright side - now google searches for "maverick" have a large chance of returning Ubuntu instead of her...