So, shortly:
Cell is a processor with two PPC cores, interfaced with a bunch of auxiliary CPU cores optimized for SIMD, each with its local memory.
Right?
Just regular software I normally use, among the most dramatic cases I remember: GCC, Qemu (like ARM emulation, for example), bzip2, my hoggish proprietary Samsung printer driver...etc. That compared against the performance I had with an Athlon 64 X2 (512+512 L2 only).
There's also the fact the machine does not "hiccup" under load like before, but that's subjective and hard to demonstrate.
If you use your computer for heavier stuff like Qemu emulating weird architectures, heavy compilation, HD video and things like that: Go for the X4 models with 6MB L3 cache, it will do wonders with your aging AM2 motherboard (check for compatibility first, of course).
Really, forget the 1 or 2MB L2-only models. Those are quite a disappointment for such tasks (to me? they're rubbish).
I was considering a full upgrade to a Intel i5 (processor, mobo & memory) because my annoying sluggish old AMD Athlon 64. Frankly, my previous bad experiences with AMD processors (K6-1, old Athlons) did not help to form a positive opinion about the brand. But, hey, that Phenon processor was so cheap that I thought "heck, why not" and I was quite surprised.
I remember back in the 70s that oil was going to run out by the 90s. Now in 2010, oil is going to run out by the 2030s. In 2030 I guess oil will be going to run out by the 2050s.
I don't think that oil will run out by 2030s either, but it will be a lot more expensive.
There are oil basins that were considered unprofitable years ago but now, after the low-hanging fruits are gone, are being exploited.
Right now there are known hard-to-exploit reserves just waiting for a higher oil price in order to make economic sense.
Actually I like reading lists about what Asian women like,
From today I'm a simple person and mechanical engineer who enjoys noodles, cricket and basketball.
You're assuming asian women are necessarily after asians.
Where I live there are many people os japanese ancestry (pre WWII immigration), and I've heard from different women of that group that they did not want anything with ethnic japanese men. And I saw many times such women with white men. - It seems that it works the same for ethnic japanese men.
No idea why is that so.
Did I hurt your feelings? I'm only trying to be objective here, I don't have any feelings for or against Brazil. I believe it will become a fully developed country within a few decades.
You're just trolling.
First you try to reduce my arguments to an emotional response, then you try to look reasonable while condescending.
Brazil is a Western country by all means, and its history is an example on how things may go wrong in an Western country.
Too bad it does not help the Western reputation around the world, uh?
You're trying very hard to prove how bad Brazil and how wrong I am.
Except that I did not deny that country's problems, instead I made clearly that many problems exist.
Sorry if I didn't started a bash-fest against Brazil in order to keep you happy.
I find it curious that you find so important to include Israel as, not only a Western country (it does not even make geographical sense), but as a developed one.
Israel is clearly a developed nation in every aspect of the word.
Feel free to believe that if you want.
The palestinian issue is huge enough, but let's talk about the rest.
First of all, Israel is a non-secular country. It follows jewish religious laws even for civil matters. Even wondered why certain jewish couples even bothered to get married abroad?
Sort like Sharia. But since they don't cut your hand for stealing it's fine, right?
The country laws (yeah, I'm saying laws) discriminate people based on their religion. You may start with their Law of Return.
Yup, very western, very civilized and - of course - developed, if you compare to other countries during Middle Ages.
Also, I don't think that fearing a rocket hitting your house is exactly quality of life.
And I don't think that pushing jews of more recent immigration to live in colonies in occupied lands, risking their necks, is a good thing. - But what do I know, perhaps they're masochists and are happy with that. So it's HDI++, right?
Freedom House's American origins not withstanding it still produces solid reports, I doubt you can find factual faults with that report?
Funny, I don't remember accusing the Freedom House of inventing data.
The point is that you can prove anything you want with carefully chosen facts: ommit what you don't want and amplify what does.
Unless you're incredibly good at faking data, you do not: you select and display what suits you best.
The obvious cultural, economic and political differences between Brazil and what is known today as described by the term "the West" (Western Europe, North America, Israel, Australia and New Zealand) are clear. Corruption is endemic, the justice system incapable, crime rates sky high, racial discrimination heavy, wealth distribution skewed.
(etc etc)
We could argue all night about what Brazil and/or "The West" is what is not.
It's funny, though, that you seem to understand that "The West" means the so-called developed countries. Yet you put Israel as part of that same group, what is laughable.
C'mon, your even using information provided by the Freedom House which, basically, is a U.S. propaganda tool.
There are many, many reasons to bash Brazil... But if you do that, please, at least try doing your homework correctly.
Production costs is a typical justification. Don't you think $3-4 million/episode is too expensive?
Personally, I don't even think Firefly was that great.
I'm willing to sacrifice fancy visual effects if that means an interesting story, instead of empty CGI porn.
Re:Ugh, so many bad memories of the Win95 launch
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Ah... I remember the Win95 launch. I was still living at home at the time
I know what you mean... A bridge is not quite the same thing.
Re:I finally could tell my friend to go to hell
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Windows 95 finally gave me the ability to rub his arrogant face right in my ass. And, for that, I say "Thank you, Bill Gates."
No, it didn't.
Windows 95 ran concurrent win 3.1 and DOS apps like shit. But I guess you forgot that.
That was a perverse episode, I don't think it's an example worth being told in this case.
Basically, the writers of the show had a personal issue with the restaurant's owner and used the show as a mean to hurt that man's business.
Slashdot Mirror
So, shortly:
Cell is a processor with two PPC cores, interfaced with a bunch of auxiliary CPU cores optimized for SIMD, each with its local memory.
Right?
SEE STAR WARS RELEASED AS ITS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE IN HOLODECK CINAMEGA! EXPERIENCE THE ACTION!
Wait, that might actually be cool...
Star Wars in a holodeck?
Hmm.. yeah, at least you could punch Jar Jar in his face.
I agree, I don't think the older 3 Star Wars films stand up as modern sci-fi because they feel small (due to the lack of CGI)
I disagree, the effects of those are not dated enough to distract from the story.
But, hey, you can watch Avatar if CGI is your thing.
Just regular software I normally use, among the most dramatic cases I remember: GCC, Qemu (like ARM emulation, for example), bzip2, my hoggish proprietary Samsung printer driver...etc. That compared against the performance I had with an Athlon 64 X2 (512+512 L2 only).
There's also the fact the machine does not "hiccup" under load like before, but that's subjective and hard to demonstrate.
If you use your computer for heavier stuff like Qemu emulating weird architectures, heavy compilation, HD video and things like that:
Go for the X4 models with 6MB L3 cache, it will do wonders with your aging AM2 motherboard (check for compatibility first, of course).
Really, forget the 1 or 2MB L2-only models. Those are quite a disappointment for such tasks (to me? they're rubbish).
I was considering a full upgrade to a Intel i5 (processor, mobo & memory) because my annoying sluggish old AMD Athlon 64. Frankly, my previous bad experiences with AMD processors (K6-1, old Athlons) did not help to form a positive opinion about the brand. But, hey, that Phenon processor was so cheap that I thought "heck, why not" and I was quite surprised.
$1.02 and a paperclip
Their latest scoop is the amazing "magnetic woman". http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3102005/Iron-mam-Brenda-Allison-a-is-human-magnet.html
And if the picture is right, a men repellent aswell.
Uh.. Poland is full of coal, not oil.
Wouldn't make more sense just building a new one around the next star, using material available in the local system?
I remember back in the 70s that oil was going to run out by the 90s. Now in 2010, oil is going to run out by the 2030s. In 2030 I guess oil will be going to run out by the 2050s.
I don't think that oil will run out by 2030s either, but it will be a lot more expensive.
There are oil basins that were considered unprofitable years ago but now, after the low-hanging fruits are gone, are being exploited.
Right now there are known hard-to-exploit reserves just waiting for a higher oil price in order to make economic sense.
... loitering has been classified as a "dangerous activity" in the EU.
Now I'm curious... What does that mean exactly?
Is there some EU law against loitering now?
Actually I like reading lists about what Asian women like,
From today I'm a simple person and mechanical engineer who enjoys noodles, cricket and basketball.
You're assuming asian women are necessarily after asians.
Where I live there are many people os japanese ancestry (pre WWII immigration), and I've heard from different women of that group that they did not want anything with ethnic japanese men. And I saw many times such women with white men. - It seems that it works the same for ethnic japanese men.
No idea why is that so.
Did I hurt your feelings? I'm only trying to be objective here, I don't have any feelings for or against Brazil. I believe it will become a fully developed country within a few decades.
You're just trolling.
First you try to reduce my arguments to an emotional response, then you try to look reasonable while condescending.
Brazil is a Western country by all means, and its history is an example on how things may go wrong in an Western country.
Too bad it does not help the Western reputation around the world, uh?
You're trying very hard to prove how bad Brazil and how wrong I am.
Except that I did not deny that country's problems, instead I made clearly that many problems exist.
Sorry if I didn't started a bash-fest against Brazil in order to keep you happy.
I find it curious that you find so important to include Israel as, not only a Western country (it does not even make geographical sense), but as a developed one.
Israel is clearly a developed nation in every aspect of the word.
Feel free to believe that if you want.
The palestinian issue is huge enough, but let's talk about the rest.
First of all, Israel is a non-secular country. It follows jewish religious laws even for civil matters. Even wondered why certain jewish couples even bothered to get married abroad?
Sort like Sharia. But since they don't cut your hand for stealing it's fine, right?
The country laws (yeah, I'm saying laws) discriminate people based on their religion. You may start with their Law of Return.
Yup, very western, very civilized and - of course - developed, if you compare to other countries during Middle Ages.
Also, I don't think that fearing a rocket hitting your house is exactly quality of life.
And I don't think that pushing jews of more recent immigration to live in colonies in occupied lands, risking their necks, is a good thing. - But what do I know, perhaps they're masochists and are happy with that. So it's HDI++, right?
Freedom House's American origins not withstanding it still produces solid reports, I doubt you can find factual faults with that report?
Funny, I don't remember accusing the Freedom House of inventing data.
The point is that you can prove anything you want with carefully chosen facts: ommit what you don't want and amplify what does.
Unless you're incredibly good at faking data, you do not: you select and display what suits you best.
The obvious cultural, economic and political differences between Brazil and what is known today as described by the term "the West" (Western Europe, North America, Israel, Australia and New Zealand) are clear. Corruption is endemic, the justice system incapable, crime rates sky high, racial discrimination heavy, wealth distribution skewed.
(etc etc)
We could argue all night about what Brazil and/or "The West" is what is not.
It's funny, though, that you seem to understand that "The West" means the so-called developed countries. Yet you put Israel as part of that same group, what is laughable.
C'mon, your even using information provided by the Freedom House which, basically, is a U.S. propaganda tool.
There are many, many reasons to bash Brazil... But if you do that, please, at least try doing your homework correctly.
Production costs is a typical justification. Don't you think $3-4 million/episode is too expensive?
Personally, I don't even think Firefly was that great.
I'm willing to sacrifice fancy visual effects if that means an interesting story, instead of empty CGI porn.
Ah... I remember the Win95 launch. I was still living at home at the time
I know what you mean... A bridge is not quite the same thing.
Windows 95 finally gave me the ability to rub his arrogant face right in my ass. And, for that, I say "Thank you, Bill Gates."
No, it didn't.
Windows 95 ran concurrent win 3.1 and DOS apps like shit. But I guess you forgot that.
Well, I'm not from Argentina and the news are interesting to me.
If you're not interested, just jump to the next news. No need to be an ass.
+1 Informative
just how many good FOSS package management systems do we have?
yum
Sorry but... yum being a good package manager?
Yum is well thought in theory, but horribly slow in practice.
Do not want. Any.
How self-centered and selfish of you.
No soup (tablet) for you!
That was a perverse episode, I don't think it's an example worth being told in this case.
Basically, the writers of the show had a personal issue with the restaurant's owner and used the show as a mean to hurt that man's business.
And after going through hoops, you may get a whopping $52 back.....
http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/59381
You asked, I replied. And the link you provided reinforces that.
Anything else?
"Troll"?
What he wrote is just the unpleasant reality.
How does the O.S. being free help? Do most manufacturers give discounts for not installing Windows?
Buy hardware with Windows preinstalled, give the OS back and ask for a refund.
Agreed. It makes more sense if he updated his knowledge of COBOL/FORTRAN (why waste years of experience?) and exploit that niche.