As many others have already pointed out, Intel has had Hyperthreading available in Pentium 4 and Xeon CPUs for a couple of years now, which does exactly what the article is talking about.
As many others know, you know exactly nothing about what you are talking about. HT has basically two sets of registers so that during a cache miss which would cuase a bubble the chip switches to the other set so it doesn't sit idle. Suns chip on the other hand actually have multiple corses physically doing work at the same time. In fact were it not for Intel's hideously flawed NetBurst architecture the hideous hack that is HyperThreading would not provide any preformance increase at all (in fact it doesn't as much provide an increase as much as negate a decrease...). For evidence consider how many Pentium Ms have HT on them... Now I may not be fully correct but I didn't volunteer a comment; I only posted to prevent the misinformation of others. You'll find more on ArsTechnica. I'd link to the article but I can't find anything on their redesigned site.
I would never pay to rad an online newspaper. Why? Well it's not because I'm cheap but because I don't read a single newspaper. I like reading the local paper of wherever an event happens. Over the course of a year I may have read a 100 different newspaper. Most of the time I have only read one or two stories from most of them. I would not pay even $5 for the dozen or so stories I read from the NYTimes. Had micropayments taken off (and OT but this is where capitalism fails miserably.... you don't need competition but the govenernment to come in and set down some standard, any standard; it worked for getting telephone across this country it could have worked for micropayments) then this would be a diffent story. Perhaps it's time for some large third-party to set up an *international* net payment scheme. Swiss banks perhaps?
I said "Frankly, OSS was developed by hackers for hackers, and was not meant for the casual user.". I did not say it was not usable for them, just that they are not the intended target. It's like lubricating a gear with shampoo. It might work, but it's not it's intended purpose. When OSS works for Joe Average more often than not this is because of coincidence rather than design.
Please don't take this as a troll... I love this model. I test and write bug reports for betas of my favourite apps to guarantee I get the best user experience I can. A few patches, a few reports, the occaisional request and I get what I want... but that's bcause I'm not Joe Blow but play along the hacker game. Frankly, unless you know how to write bug-reports or have very basic needs that everyone else has, you will never get everything you need working perfectly.
Remindes me, I got a report to write about Perl syntax highlighting in Kate.
if you don't have the posibility to excercise the freedom then it's not really free. If you don't have the requisite coding skills or money to pay for a developer then the open code is worth butt-kiss. In this case (as with proprietary software, hell even more so!) you are stuck with whatever the developers choose to do. True, they don't owe you anything... but that doesn't help out the poor end user now does it? Frankly, OSS was developed by hackers for hackers, and was not meant for the casual user. The only benefit I really see is the use of open standards but proprietary products do that too. Really, few companies can afford to customize their distro and are reliant on Redhat, Madrake , Suse etc. The Joe Blow Linux desktop is a faery tale. That said I still love OSS and use it daily... but I'm the intended audience (a hacker with w/ m4|) sk1llz).
I don't this taking off because no one would buy it. Not "no one" but really so few people that it won't make a difference. With a graphics card upgrade to a better card you get prettier pictures. People always want prettier sh.t so they keep on buying newer and newer graphics cards. I just don't see people overclocking their PPU and upgrading it. Will a game developer offer a slider for how much physics the game offers like eye candy now? Well, frankly the physics affect the game play more than graphics, for example if I can't jump as high or my grenade bounces differently then it really changes the game. Maybe if they attached it to the GPU so you'd have a GPU+PPU combo card (w/ 2 power connectors) you'd have people getting newer and never ones. Maybe this will be a hit in consoles though...
I always perferred WP over Office or OO.org. The fact that is home-grown makes it even better. Too bad last time I checked they didn't make a Linux product. Wine support seems nil and so is CrossOver Office.
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Co rel3/Products/Display&pid=1047023967401&cid=104702 3967158
I just compiled the 2.6.10 kernel last night. I mean after several attempts over the past few years I finally got Gentoo installed (previous attempts had dependency clashes which I as a Gentoo newb didn't want to deal with). I must say that the documentation has improved though I still don't understand why the don't provide a few more scripts (hopefully cobining the partitioning, mounting, and chrooting phase --- I always seem to miss a step for forget to mount one of the partitions *GRR*).
I guess I could have checked the recent kernel news... I'm sure an RC or two had been released. Well it's not a big deal and I've got other stuff to emerge. I just think it's funny that I'm living the troll.
PS- the only reason I'm trying Gentoo is that I want a distro I could continuously upgrade and I wanted always the newest KDE and I figured Gentoo has the best tested bleeding edge packages. The performance, the control, and the "bloat-free" I could care less about... after all I run KDE!:P...still miss my SuSE though.:(
well since this is windows... rename the icon from "Firefox" to "Internet" or possibly even "Internet Explorer" (likewise "Thunderbird" to "EMail" or "Outlook")*. As long as the LnF is similar it should be good enough. You ought to realise that she probably never noticed the finer details in which they differ
Also have you considered (making the shortcuts use the IE & Outlook icons || making the existing shortcuts point to Thunderbird & IE) ?
I'm not sure what it is you got out of using these systems that represents a legit advantage.
Diversity for diversity's sake. It's interesting to have variety and see different approaches of doing things. It's nice to have sometihng that not just works, but something that a elegant top-down design. Some of us are pragmatists... but some of us are idealists to whom "purity" and "elegance" hold a very important value. True, in buisness none of these matter but there is more to life than buisness. Maybe these are great days of computing for buisness, but for the passionate tech enthusiast this is terrible. For a similar opinion on OSes see this: http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9802 .
Most of these things were pretty esoteric at one time or another.
The grandparent's point is that Einstein's theory is already accepted and it isn't "esoteric" as you. The grandparent's point of view is that this is going to tell us nothing that we don't already know... kind of like yet another proof of Pythagoras' theorem.
Not say that I agree, just that I think you missed the point.
Not to troll, but I'm wondering how does your example beg the question? It seems like "voting intelligently" and "having good judgement are separate things". For example, you could vote intelligently because you are a good and thorough judge of character, but have little understanding of the actual issues. Also it seems like you could be intelligent that you could have good judgement about the issues, and yet vote unintelligently since you aren't critical of the candidate's promises/platform.
Either I have a poor understanding of a circular argument or you have a poor example. Your terms to be quite independent of each other.
AFAIK, the canonical (right word choice?) example of a circular argument is "God exists because the Bible tells us so, and we know we can trust the Bible since God wrote it."
* Yes, this "error" in the title is intentional and meant humourously.
from the headline I got really excited but then I read that it only speeds things up on Linux. Well this is great for people running Windows on Linux it does nothing for those running Linux on Windows. I use a TabletPC that won't even accept regular Windows XP install discs... just the Acer supplied ones. I've tried running DSL Linux under QEMU but the performance isn't there at all (laptop is a 800Mhz, consider what XP uses and then divide the remainder by 5-10 and you get the idea).
Hopefully there is enough deman to have a similar layer developed for Windows.
Then, if only I could figure out how to communicate between the Windows host environment and the emulated Linux one, I'd be all set.
when microsoft divests itself of operating systems then we'll talk, until then it's two seperate cases.
Here is a quick example and counter-argument:
Mr. Mizter: Why can't I marry a blonde? Mr. Foo married one. I should be able to marry one too... Mr. Bar:...but you've already married a brunette whereas Mr.Foo hasn't. If you'd like to seperate from your brunette then you can feel free to have yourself a try at marry a blonde.
As a *nix geek I was excited about Longhorn: Maybe this new OS wouldn't suck? Free software is great, but if I can't get it than software that doesn't suck is the next best thing. It shouldn't like a solid top-down software that head been thought through.. then they kept removing things. With every cut I got more and more disappointed and now am afraid this will turn into a nasty kludge just to make an earlier shipping date... am I the only one who thinks "take your time but don't ship it till it's right?"!!! Perhaps not on/. but in Redmond I'd be afraid so.
As a result of the cutting I shall dub this OS 'Shorthorn: smaller and less impressive than it ought to be.'
Thanks to everyone who replied. GraphViz was exactly what I was looking for. The guide seems solid. Apparently there is a decent Java viewer too, but I haven't played with it yet.
I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that would create images like the one linked to. Often during programming assignmnets I find the need to debug complicated data structures. Sure I can try to piece them together using pen, paper, and System.out.println()... but if I could create some interface or create a text file that could be processed into an actual graph like these that would make debugging more intuitive and a lot faster.
I like the idea behind Dvorak and even tried it out for a while, but it's still not quite as good as it could be. For one, the 'R' should be on the home row, at least for english. I believe I read an article once where a guy ran tests using thousands of pages of literature and code and using certain algorithims determined the best layout... at it was pretty similar. What we need it to redo those tests, put them through scruting, and get behind one new standard. Anybody know what article I'm referring to?
just gzip, and proceed as before. it would require only minimal changes in the work case and none at all in the best case. isn't this how OpenOffice works?
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I mean is there already a full specification for the language? If so what are people waiting for, Parrot?
I for one would be interested by how much you could --as a regular ML user-- optimise the code and see what kind of performance you could get. Really there are no slow languages, only slow implementations.
As many others have already pointed out, Intel has had Hyperthreading available in Pentium 4 and Xeon CPUs for a couple of years now, which does exactly what the article is talking about.
As many others know, you know exactly nothing about what you are talking about. HT has basically two sets of registers so that during a cache miss which would cuase a bubble the chip switches to the other set so it doesn't sit idle. Suns chip on the other hand actually have multiple corses physically doing work at the same time. In fact were it not for Intel's hideously flawed NetBurst architecture the hideous hack that is HyperThreading would not provide any preformance increase at all (in fact it doesn't as much provide an increase as much as negate a decrease...). For evidence consider how many Pentium Ms have HT on them... Now I may not be fully correct but I didn't volunteer a comment; I only posted to prevent the misinformation of others. You'll find more on ArsTechnica. I'd link to the article but I can't find anything on their redesigned site.
I would never pay to rad an online newspaper. Why? Well it's not because I'm cheap but because I don't read a single newspaper. I like reading the local paper of wherever an event happens. Over the course of a year I may have read a 100 different newspaper. Most of the time I have only read one or two stories from most of them. I would not pay even $5 for the dozen or so stories I read from the NYTimes. Had micropayments taken off (and OT but this is where capitalism fails miserably.... you don't need competition but the govenernment to come in and set down some standard, any standard; it worked for getting telephone across this country it could have worked for micropayments) then this would be a diffent story. Perhaps it's time for some large third-party to set up an *international* net payment scheme. Swiss banks perhaps?
I said "Frankly, OSS was developed by hackers for hackers, and was not meant for the casual user.". I did not say it was not usable for them, just that they are not the intended target. It's like lubricating a gear with shampoo. It might work, but it's not it's intended purpose. When OSS works for Joe Average more often than not this is because of coincidence rather than design.
Please don't take this as a troll... I love this model. I test and write bug reports for betas of my favourite apps to guarantee I get the best user experience I can. A few patches, a few reports, the occaisional request and I get what I want... but that's bcause I'm not Joe Blow but play along the hacker game. Frankly, unless you know how to write bug-reports or have very basic needs that everyone else has, you will never get everything you need working perfectly.
Remindes me, I got a report to write about Perl syntax highlighting in Kate.
if you don't have the posibility to excercise the freedom then it's not really free. If you don't have the requisite coding skills or money to pay for a developer then the open code is worth butt-kiss. In this case (as with proprietary software, hell even more so!) you are stuck with whatever the developers choose to do. True, they don't owe you anything... but that doesn't help out the poor end user now does it? Frankly, OSS was developed by hackers for hackers, and was not meant for the casual user. The only benefit I really see is the use of open standards but proprietary products do that too. Really, few companies can afford to customize their distro and are reliant on Redhat, Madrake , Suse etc. The Joe Blow Linux desktop is a faery tale. That said I still love OSS and use it daily... but I'm the intended audience (a hacker with w/ m4|) sk1llz).
IBM for one welcome our new Chinese laptop overlords.
I don't this taking off because no one would buy it. Not "no one" but really so few people that it won't make a difference. With a graphics card upgrade to a better card you get prettier pictures. People always want prettier sh.t so they keep on buying newer and newer graphics cards. I just don't see people overclocking their PPU and upgrading it. Will a game developer offer a slider for how much physics the game offers like eye candy now? Well, frankly the physics affect the game play more than graphics, for example if I can't jump as high or my grenade bounces differently then it really changes the game. Maybe if they attached it to the GPU so you'd have a GPU+PPU combo card (w/ 2 power connectors) you'd have people getting newer and never ones. Maybe this will be a hit in consoles though...
I always perferred WP over Office or OO.org. The fact that is home-grown makes it even better. Too bad last time I checked they didn't make a Linux product. Wine support seems nil and so is CrossOver Office. http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Co rel3/Products/Display&pid=1047023967401&cid=104702 3967158
no ebuild apparently. I'm assuming some will get to that in not too long.
I just compiled the 2.6.10 kernel last night. I mean after several attempts over the past few years I finally got Gentoo installed (previous attempts had dependency clashes which I as a Gentoo newb didn't want to deal with). I must say that the documentation has improved though I still don't understand why the don't provide a few more scripts (hopefully cobining the partitioning, mounting, and chrooting phase --- I always seem to miss a step for forget to mount one of the partitions *GRR*).
I guess I could have checked the recent kernel news... I'm sure an RC or two had been released. Well it's not a big deal and I've got other stuff to emerge. I just think it's funny that I'm living the troll.
PS- the only reason I'm trying Gentoo is that I want a distro I could continuously upgrade and I wanted always the newest KDE and I figured Gentoo has the best tested bleeding edge packages. The performance, the control, and the "bloat-free" I could care less about... after all I run KDE! :P ...still miss my SuSE though. :(
well since this is windows... rename the icon from "Firefox" to "Internet" or possibly even "Internet Explorer" (likewise "Thunderbird" to "EMail" or "Outlook")*. As long as the LnF is similar it should be good enough. You ought to realise that she probably never noticed the finer details in which they differ
Also have you considered (making the shortcuts use the IE & Outlook icons || making the existing shortcuts point to Thunderbird & IE) ?
Oh, and don't forget to install SpyBot.
* actually it'd probably be even more helpful to leave it as Internet and EMail sicne it immediately tells her what they do.
I'm not sure what it is you got out of using these systems that represents a legit advantage.
Diversity for diversity's sake. It's interesting to have variety and see different approaches of doing things. It's nice to have sometihng that not just works, but something that a elegant top-down design. Some of us are pragmatists... but some of us are idealists to whom "purity" and "elegance" hold a very important value. True, in buisness none of these matter but there is more to life than buisness. Maybe these are great days of computing for buisness, but for the passionate tech enthusiast this is terrible. For a similar opinion on OSes see this: http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9802 .
Most of these things were pretty esoteric at one time or another.
The grandparent's point is that Einstein's theory is already accepted and it isn't "esoteric" as you. The grandparent's point of view is that this is going to tell us nothing that we don't already know... kind of like yet another proof of Pythagoras' theorem.
Not say that I agree, just that I think you missed the point.
I can't even seem to ping the Windows from the DamnSmallLinux :(
Either I have a poor understanding of a circular argument or you have a poor example. Your terms to be quite independent of each other.
AFAIK, the canonical (right word choice?) example of a circular argument is "God exists because the Bible tells us so, and we know we can trust the Bible since God wrote it."
* Yes, this "error" in the title is intentional and meant humourously.
Hopefully there is enough deman to have a similar layer developed for Windows.
Then, if only I could figure out how to communicate between the Windows host environment and the emulated Linux one, I'd be all set.
Here is a quick example and counter-argument: Mr. Mizter: Why can't I marry a blonde? Mr. Foo married one. I should be able to marry one too...
Mr. Bar:...but you've already married a brunette whereas Mr.Foo hasn't. If you'd like to seperate from your brunette then you can feel free to have yourself a try at marry a blonde.
Google is not getting away with anything.
As a result of the cutting I shall dub this OS 'Shorthorn: smaller and less impressive than it ought to be.'
Thanks to everyone who replied. GraphViz was exactly what I was looking for. The guide seems solid. Apparently there is a decent Java viewer too, but I haven't played with it yet.
This makes me a happy boy.I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that would create images like the one linked to. Often during programming assignmnets I find the need to debug complicated data structures. Sure I can try to piece them together using pen, paper, and System.out.println()... but if I could create some interface or create a text file that could be processed into an actual graph like these that would make debugging more intuitive and a lot faster.
I like the idea behind Dvorak and even tried it out for a while, but it's still not quite as good as it could be. For one, the 'R' should be on the home row, at least for english. I believe I read an article once where a guy ran tests using thousands of pages of literature and code and using certain algorithims determined the best layout... at it was pretty similar. What we need it to redo those tests, put them through scruting, and get behind one new standard. Anybody know what article I'm referring to?
heh, as soon I finished reading this thread the one on FreeBSD SMP-VFS was posted... make that 8 articles! Long live BSD!
just gzip, and proceed as before. it would require only minimal changes in the work case and none at all in the best case. isn't this how OpenOffice works?
I've got another theory that needs equal time too!