Itanium died because Intel didn't want to play in the commodity game anymore so they pantented the hell out of it and over priced it. If I could buy an Itanium at comparable price to a x86 I'd go with the ia64. It didn't die because it sucked, it died because it was over-priced. No if Intel released a desktop level of the chip they could recusictate the line.
No one has written a decent emulator (decent being one that doesn't run legacy code slower than the machine currently on their desktop while costing more....)
I disagree. I don't think an emulator needs to run as fast. It only needs to run fast enough for the few applications that aren't native. Considering that the majourity of computer cycles (95%) go to waste this means there is a majour difference between your and my position. For example my S.O. needs AutoCAD. So if she switched to Mac all that would matter is that her G5 and the Virtual PC were able to run AutoCAD within the number of cycles remaining after OSX is done. So even if the emulator takes 3 times as long to run it, it doesn't necessarily matter.
Cost is also a vicious circle. The cost of a G5 (or a SPARC or insert architecture here) chip could be less if it was produced in the volume of Pentiums. But obviously people won't switch till price drops (I'm talking about a G5 mobo and chip not necessarily a Mac). What is really needed is a way to somehow shove the whole industry. Perhaps when we reach the end of produciton technologies (e.g. 45 nm?) the only way to get more performance will be from more streamlined cores and thus pure RISC...
Who *REALLY* is a fan of x86? BIOS should have died a long time ago. x86 is a hideous architecture with an ISA that makes all assembler code look like vomit etc. I think the only thing people like about x86 is the cost. I think the more important question is can we ever replace x86 with another architecture (I like SPARC and with Intel's R&D I'm sure we could get over any problems) but keep it as open and mix-and-match as x86 is now? Write a decent emulator and legacy code is taken care of. I'm sure OSS and it's upward trend would minimize the transition costs. But really when can we get rid of this turd?!?
Goodbye SMTP? I remember people havingtrouble keeping those straight in my highschool Net+ prep course. We've really got too many accronyms in this industry.
The end result is that we crank out hundreds of graduates who only have experience working with C++ (and a week or two of lisp plus a quarter with a few assembler labs) and we call them software developers.
That's your fault then. You should call them Computer Scientists not software developers. Computer Science is the theoretical aspect of computers such as classifying languages, developing new paradigms, and developing more theories. Computer Science is not meant for "practical" usage. If you want someone fairly highly skilled get a Software Engineer. If you want a great coder get someone from a community college. They are usually trained on specific tools (e.g..Net) and are expected to know the ins-and-outs of all applicable apps including Microsoft Project Manager.
I am one of the few people in my school who is really interested in Computer Science. My major interest is in the semantics of programming languages and how they attempt to structure the way they look at problems. *THIS* is Computer Science and please do not complain when I write shitty assembler. I'm not knocking anything but there are specific degrees for specific career paths. Computer Science ==> Software Developer is not one of them.
I was trying to refer to whoever posts the for 5.3-RELEASE. To post the BT for that.
My connection is to slow to cvsup but I can grab a few CD-Rs and use my school's connection to d/l and burn the ISOs and then just update using CDs. I'm sure their are other's like me.
Sorry, a biology-illiterate --but interested-- geek here. I was wondering if your statement pertained to both homo and hetero zygote individuals or just the homos? Are they only affected by the T-tropic then? If not then how can they be infected if they have no "port" to which the HIV can attach?
For whomever decides to submit the article for the RELEASE of 5.3 would you please post a torrent? The horde of/. that will want it immediately will get to get it faster since they won't be bogging down the server. People who don't have the a BT client can then have the FTP all to themselves while we share our unsued bandwidth. Plus, that gives those of us on slower connections the ability to turn off the computer and resume the download later WITHOUT the fear of corruption.
Please mod this up so any submitters and story accepters can see this. (I'm not a karma whoe, got quite enough just wanted this to start at +2)
PS: why does it take so long for the FreeBSD people so long to update their schedule?
All your Googling shows is that one is discussed more often than the other. Also, it could also be that the public-at-large missuses a technical term. Sorry but you haven't proven anything.
Considering that you can get an Itanium with 9Mb of cache, I'd say getting an OS in there shouldn't be too difficult. Hell, you could probably get a NetBSD kernel in there a bash session and do a few shell scripts w/o any RAM.
I could put it on my SPARC and be in the exact same environment as I have on my x86 laptop!
As you could with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux I"m pretty sure. IIRC the point of constantly porting the NetBSD kernel is to make sure the code is flexible and robust and doesn't build-up any system dependent kludges. I'd consider the platform independence as a sign of good design rather than as a goal.
How about this articlef from Report on Industry Magazine? Basically, they are trying to setup an infrastructure to allow the main corridor of B.C. to be traveled by hydrogen. This is being funded partially by the Provincal and Federal government. Once the foundation is in place it is expected to be turned loose to the private sector. They are hoping to have it running by the 2010 winter games in Vancouver.
The whole issue has plenty of info and I haven't read it all yet. Got a hardcopy days ago from the old man.
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Have you tried some of the extensions to FireFox such as adblock or everybody's favourite: the Google bar? If you do any webwork then the Web Developer plugin is sure handy. If you haven't given FireFox a try recently I suggest you do and try some of the plug-ins a try too. If only I could figure out how to get that gestures plug-in to work...
Mind you, while I love using FireFox on Windows, on Linux I use Konqueror on KDE for the same reason you use Epiphany on Gnome.
don't we get enough marketing droids that can't ever say what they mean? I agree he was upfront, blunt, and brutal but in the end he didn't seem crazy or wild or unreasonable. He even backed up some of his more inflammatory statements. I think he was a very good interviewee. He did seem to be a little too forgiving to his project own weaknesses but that's is not unexpected and relatively forgiveable.
It says "at a temperature of only 8 degrees above absolute zero". Neither Fahrenheit nor Celsius are based around absolute zero therefore it's easy to understand the implied Kelvin. Low temperatures are exclusively given in the Kelvin AFAIK. Really there shouldn't be any confusion.
I think there is a temperture scale based on absolute zero but like Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, but I don't think I can recall the name and have never seen it used. Really, science is the domain of the metric system.
I've laways been surpised that more people haven't seen this coming. It will take a lot of time before the majours ever do, and even then they'll reap the rewards.
importing static methods in java 1.5 should clean that syntax up a bit since you won't need to have the "Math." everywhere. Or straight from Sun: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/static-import.html
and how does this tie in with Java? you know of any good Fortran ->.class compilers out there? These would have to be fairly top notch since this is a buisness...
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Itanium died because Intel didn't want to play in the commodity game anymore so they pantented the hell out of it and over priced it. If I could buy an Itanium at comparable price to a x86 I'd go with the ia64. It didn't die because it sucked, it died because it was over-priced. No if Intel released a desktop level of the chip they could recusictate the line.
I disagree. I don't think an emulator needs to run as fast. It only needs to run fast enough for the few applications that aren't native. Considering that the majourity of computer cycles (95%) go to waste this means there is a majour difference between your and my position. For example my S.O. needs AutoCAD. So if she switched to Mac all that would matter is that her G5 and the Virtual PC were able to run AutoCAD within the number of cycles remaining after OSX is done. So even if the emulator takes 3 times as long to run it, it doesn't necessarily matter. Cost is also a vicious circle. The cost of a G5 (or a SPARC or insert architecture here) chip could be less if it was produced in the volume of Pentiums. But obviously people won't switch till price drops (I'm talking about a G5 mobo and chip not necessarily a Mac). What is really needed is a way to somehow shove the whole industry. Perhaps when we reach the end of produciton technologies (e.g. 45 nm?) the only way to get more performance will be from more streamlined cores and thus pure RISC...
Who *REALLY* is a fan of x86? BIOS should have died a long time ago. x86 is a hideous architecture with an ISA that makes all assembler code look like vomit etc. I think the only thing people like about x86 is the cost. I think the more important question is can we ever replace x86 with another architecture (I like SPARC and with Intel's R&D I'm sure we could get over any problems) but keep it as open and mix-and-match as x86 is now? Write a decent emulator and legacy code is taken care of. I'm sure OSS and it's upward trend would minimize the transition costs. But really when can we get rid of this turd?!?
Goodbye SMTP? I remember people havingtrouble keeping those straight in my highschool Net+ prep course. We've really got too many accronyms in this industry.
That's your fault then. You should call them Computer Scientists not software developers. Computer Science is the theoretical aspect of computers such as classifying languages, developing new paradigms, and developing more theories. Computer Science is not meant for "practical" usage. If you want someone fairly highly skilled get a Software Engineer. If you want a great coder get someone from a community college. They are usually trained on specific tools (e.g. .Net) and are expected to know the ins-and-outs of all applicable apps including Microsoft Project Manager.
I am one of the few people in my school who is really interested in Computer Science. My major interest is in the semantics of programming languages and how they attempt to structure the way they look at problems. *THIS* is Computer Science and please do not complain when I write shitty assembler. I'm not knocking anything but there are specific degrees for specific career paths. Computer Science ==> Software Developer is not one of them.
My connection is to slow to cvsup but I can grab a few CD-Rs and use my school's connection to d/l and burn the ISOs and then just update using CDs. I'm sure their are other's like me.
I hope this didn't come off trollish.
I believe you are the lowest /. ID I've ever seen really. Ignore me, I'm procrastinating something really big right now. :P
Sorry, a biology-illiterate --but interested-- geek here. I was wondering if your statement pertained to both homo and hetero zygote individuals or just the homos? Are they only affected by the T-tropic then? If not then how can they be infected if they have no "port" to which the HIV can attach?
Please mod this up so any submitters and story accepters can see this. (I'm not a karma whoe, got quite enough just wanted this to start at +2)
PS: why does it take so long for the FreeBSD people so long to update their schedule?
who are a fairly random sample of regular /. readers.
All your Googling shows is that one is discussed more often than the other. Also, it could also be that the public-at-large missuses a technical term. Sorry but you haven't proven anything.
Considering that you can get an Itanium with 9Mb of cache, I'd say getting an OS in there shouldn't be too difficult. Hell, you could probably get a NetBSD kernel in there a bash session and do a few shell scripts w/o any RAM.
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why is it whenever I have mod points I can't find anything worth while and when I don't then I don't have the points anymore?!?
As you could with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux I"m pretty sure. IIRC the point of constantly porting the NetBSD kernel is to make sure the code is flexible and robust and doesn't build-up any system dependent kludges. I'd consider the platform independence as a sign of good design rather than as a goal.
is there anywhere you could post this image? sounds handy to have.
The whole issue has plenty of info and I haven't read it all yet. Got a hardcopy days ago from the old man.
Have you tried some of the extensions to FireFox such as adblock or everybody's favourite: the Google bar? If you do any webwork then the Web Developer plugin is sure handy. If you haven't given FireFox a try recently I suggest you do and try some of the plug-ins a try too. If only I could figure out how to get that gestures plug-in to work...
Mind you, while I love using FireFox on Windows, on Linux I use Konqueror on KDE for the same reason you use Epiphany on Gnome.
don't we get enough marketing droids that can't ever say what they mean? I agree he was upfront, blunt, and brutal but in the end he didn't seem crazy or wild or unreasonable. He even backed up some of his more inflammatory statements. I think he was a very good interviewee. He did seem to be a little too forgiving to his project own weaknesses but that's is not unexpected and relatively forgiveable.
considering how both republicans and democratics are right-wing i don't see how anyone can accuse this of being left-wing
really, I like linux, but the mixing of linux trolls and mod points is a bad thing. please if anyone has mod point read the post and correct this.
I think there is a temperture scale based on absolute zero but like Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, but I don't think I can recall the name and have never seen it used. Really, science is the domain of the metric system.
I've laways been surpised that more people haven't seen this coming. It will take a lot of time before the majours ever do, and even then they'll reap the rewards.
importing static methods in java 1.5 should clean that syntax up a bit since you won't need to have the "Math." everywhere. Or straight from Sun: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language /static-import.html
and how does this tie in with Java? you know of any good Fortran -> .class compilers out there? These would have to be fairly top notch since this is a buisness...