You really believe you can beancount everything you had before a war you lost? yeah, they probably tried to take advantage of that reason and sneak out a handful of shells somewhere. But you're seriously deluded if you think Saddam didn't realise the consequences of defying the UN mandate as much as the US claimshim to have[*]. He would not have stayed in power for so long and through conflicts with Iran, the US and internal struggle if he were a complete idiot in politics.
As I said, one shell of unknown origin (Iraqi probably, but when was it produced? how did it happen to be found? there are too many questions here that the military will never answer) is not relevant for WMDs. But I am curious as to why you think Saddam needed to be taken out. Could you elaborate on that? (no, I'm not trolling, I am genuinely curious about how that point can be argued without slogans)
[*] one shell... you can always smuggle in enough chemicals to fill one shell with sarin. Or radioactive material for a dirty nuclear bomb. Mass production was supposed to be the problem.
For the wise mod(s) that marked me flamebait, here's what a flamebait should look like - watch and learn:
If you think that pointing out flaws about the US mithology of freedom is a flamebait, you sir are an idiot. You probably sit on your ass most of the day and wait for others to "guarantee" your "rights" - or maybe they're God-given and all who trample them (muslims or not) will burn in Hell for eternity.
Here's a newsflash for you: freedom is never 'free' - you must pay for it, and the more valuable it is, the steeper the price. There is no free lunch, and the value of some liberty you claim you have is proportional to what you'd sacrifice in order to defend it. You, from your real life and posessions, not some abstract soldier in a corner of the Earth calld Afganistan or Iraq, that you would more often than not have trouble finding on a map.
Nah, why do I even bother - the only freedom most/. mods care about is the one to download p0rn. Anyway, I'm done, mod/flame away, I have karma to burn today.
Nice one... but here's a question. Say Iraq still has hidden Sarin shells. Why weren't/aren't they being used? How likely is it that everyone who hid them died, so they're lost completely and the local guerillas could never find them? You'd think they have nothing to lose now, being already occopied and willing to die fighting, so why not use the WMDs already?
The answer to your logic is that the GP may have it wrong - the shells were Iraqi shells, but old ones at that. Yeah, they probably tried to keep some when told to destroy all. That's not really the issue, as it would have been impossible anyway to account for every single bottle of the reactants that make up sarin - or every single shell (especially those made before the first Gulf war). So the question is, how is one shell relevant? If they find stockpiles, yes, but one?
You do realize that, fundamentally, there's no difference between the censorship in the US and China, right?
The basic pattern is to threaten people where they hurt in the given context. In China, the natural lever is inprisonment. In the US, it's money. The use of the lever can be direct ro indirect, but the principle stays the same.
Also, the effect of purporting a lie as the official truth is the same, whether the government does that directly or private corporations do it for the government. If you have no access to an alternate opinion, "freedom of speech" is a moot point, as you had been trained to accept the "one truth" without blinking. And even if, after you've been indoctrinated with the official truth, you hear someone voicing a different oppinion, you're more likely to consider that person mad - after all, everyone knows what the "truth" is.
This is the line China is taking now - repeat something strong enough and for long enough and it will become truth.
Free speech is worthless by itself. You need at least an open-minded education to be able to begin and understand/use it.
You're right, my bad. I didn't ckeck that there are non-registered ECC modules, it didn't seem to make too much sense. Oh well, servers usually require both error-correction and buffered memory, but I guess there must be a market for non-registered ECC after all.
Why, I'd loooove it if someone give me a free Mac with OSX. Nothing like the warm fuzzy feeling of... huh? what's that, a security patch... hmm... what? incomplete? wtf? I thought macs didn't run Windows. (joking aside, a PowerBook can sure be nice and convenient, especially in the winter... oh, nevermind, OSX is cool for what fits its purpose; it's just that not everything does)
Anyway, Mr. Ruslan, I see you already met an OSX troll. They're a fairly persistent bunch - in an (Apple-style) twisted way, some of them are the new generation of the "*BSD is dying" trolls (I thought they were a dying breed, but apparently not). Funny that there aren't any *BSD trolls... I wonder why:-)
You do know dinosaus and turkeys aren't the same thing, right? ^_^ You'd rather want to have them burned on the outside and tender inside, as the skin was raher tough.
The latin root is irrelevant now. The English borrowed the form for singular and made its own plural form. It's the use that dictates the form, as much as grammar nazis dislike that. Even Britannica uses viruses.
(The trouble with seems to be the lack of quotes for the Latin plural form; the reason could with virus being a collective noun. also, declined forms are mixed - some use it as a 2nd declension neuter, few as a 4th. Dead topic, anyway.)
True enough - but not really everything else. Take Itanium2, for instance: large cache, high fp IPC count, low clock speed, slow bus. Large SpecFP scores (it's about the only thing I2 is really good at).
well, 8 GPRs + 8 SSE2 does not really qualify as "many more", but an increase of 100% in the number of available registers counts for something. Balance that against slighter larger memory usage due to the 64bit prefixes and pointers and you get... about 20-30% speed increase on average.
not just instability. Try filling all the slots in a desktop box (read: non-ECC memory) and you'll see the RAM speed throttle down. You get a trade-off, speed for size. Server-type memory doesn't have that problem with all slots full (different addressing scheme for ECC, if I remember correctly).
the recompile has to do with performance jumps of amd64 in 32bit mode vs. 64bit mode with the same compiler (gcc). Now, if you compiled the 32bit code with icc and had fp math that icc likes, you won't see much of an increase for gcc-compiled 64bit code vs. icc-compiled 32bit one. But you might still see faster code, depending on the particular app. That is due to a bunch of factors:
scalar math w/ 16 SSE2 registers vs. vector math with only 8: you can balance out the timings between loads and math ops; in particular, unaligned loads hurt less (besides, AMD's SSE2 unit behaves about the same in scalar and vector mode anyway from typical benchmarks - if you really want timings for that I can check it)
64-bit registers mean easier data moves between GPRs and SSE2
not least, cache and integrated memory controller issues.
drawback: clock speed is actually important for fp math crunching, so athlon64 is handicapped here.
besides, those benchmarks don't show such a 'clear' difference. An amd64 3200+ slower by 5% than a p4@3GHz in 32bit mode w/ WinXP. Not exactly relevant for 64bit.
why, no, people usually stare at (actresses', mostly) chests on theater screens for completely different reasons ^_^ Noticing that there's no breathing is a geek side-effect probably.
Here's a difference: Monsters had a story (as in an 'adventure') - you know, intrigue, build-up to a climax point, finale. The typical thing for STORIES. So did Shrek1, for that matter, although on a different note. So, from this perspective, I can't see where Monsters is stronger.
Shrek2, on the other hand... has jokes. There's no story throughout the movie - the plot falls out of the sky at some point with the the fairy godmother - and it's so transparent, there's no build-up to anything. The final is nice, sort of; but the whole thing is so drowned into references to other movies it feels like it was barely put together to meet a deadline and just can't stand on its own feet. There's about as much coherence to the overall story as is to a random walk of a fixed 1h:45m length. That is, each scene is at most connected to the previous 1-2 minutes.
maybe a better idea would have been to re-render the first movie with the new special effects?
Sure, here's one assumption I'm basing my argument on: "MS QUALITY certification for drivers should mean something". You know, that was the point of introducing the certification with w2k and making the "uncertified driver" warnings more visible in wXP. To have the users install only certified drivers if they can help it, and thus keep the systems stable.
You're basing an argument on speculation and assumptions, that won't get you anywhere with me. [...]Blanket statements of fact based on speculation and assumption.
Now your answer was very much to the point indeed. Maybe I just fed a troll.
Well, the graphics were almost right. My major complaint would be with the animation of the "happily-ever-after-enhanced" Shrek and Donkey. They actually looked more like animated characters than their original forms. As for the movie itself... unfortunately you might be right about Oscars. Myself, I'll stick to the first movie, thank you very much.
Machines running Windows HPC Edition could seamlessly connect to desktop computers, providing instant power for someone such as a financial analyst performing calculations on an Excel spreadsheet, said David Lifka, chief technology officer for the Cornell Theory Center, Microsoft's premier high-performance computing partner.
There you have it. As you pointed out, Cornell has the biggest (visible) Windows cluster; the also, article calls them "premier hpc partner". They should know what a Windows cluster is and can be used for. more power for excel spreadsheet calculations!
Actually... if the driver lists itself as "WHQL certified", as most video drivers do, then you can say it's MS' fault, too. AT LEAST for misleading the customers into a false sense of security. In Linux by contrast you get the "tainted" warnings for binary lkm's, meaning "you're on your own here, don't whine if it happens to crash".
It's not only that, either. The microkernel model should have meant drivers running with lower privileges (Ring1, if Intel had its way). There are LOTS of uncertified Win32 drivers for funny hardware - and all run with full System rights. Don't tell me the last part isn't MS' fault.
Here's a thing that's wrong - Czechoslovakia stopped existing as a country a while before 2002 ( it split in 1993, to be more precise).
On the other hand, the Man was 82, we can cut him some slack about not being up to date with country names.
Yeah, and quite a lot of movies seem to be filmed outside the US recently (remember LOTR?). Lots of reasons, too - cheaper, better scenery for the purpose and so on. The other movies look like they have the outdoors scenes filmed in NYC anyway ^_^
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You really believe you can beancount everything you had before a war you lost? yeah, they probably tried to take advantage of that reason and sneak out a handful of shells somewhere. But you're seriously deluded if you think Saddam didn't realise the consequences of defying the UN mandate as much as the US claimshim to have[*]. He would not have stayed in power for so long and through conflicts with Iran, the US and internal struggle if he were a complete idiot in politics.
... you can always smuggle in enough chemicals to fill one shell with sarin. Or radioactive material for a dirty nuclear bomb. Mass production was supposed to be the problem.
As I said, one shell of unknown origin (Iraqi probably, but when was it produced? how did it happen to be found? there are too many questions here that the military will never answer) is not relevant for WMDs. But I am curious as to why you think Saddam needed to be taken out. Could you elaborate on that? (no, I'm not trolling, I am genuinely curious about how that point can be argued without slogans)
[*] one shell
For the wise mod(s) that marked me flamebait, here's what a flamebait should look like - watch and learn:
/. mods care about is the one to download p0rn. Anyway, I'm done, mod/flame away, I have karma to burn today.
If you think that pointing out flaws about the US mithology of freedom is a flamebait, you sir are an idiot. You probably sit on your ass most of the day and wait for others to "guarantee" your "rights" - or maybe they're God-given and all who trample them (muslims or not) will burn in Hell for eternity.
Here's a newsflash for you: freedom is never 'free' - you must pay for it, and the more valuable it is, the steeper the price. There is no free lunch, and the value of some liberty you claim you have is proportional to what you'd sacrifice in order to defend it. You, from your real life and posessions, not some abstract soldier in a corner of the Earth calld Afganistan or Iraq, that you would more often than not have trouble finding on a map.
Nah, why do I even bother - the only freedom most
Nice one ... but here's a question. Say Iraq still has hidden Sarin shells. Why weren't/aren't they being used? How likely is it that everyone who hid them died, so they're lost completely and the local guerillas could never find them? You'd think they have nothing to lose now, being already occopied and willing to die fighting, so why not use the WMDs already?
The answer to your logic is that the GP may have it wrong - the shells were Iraqi shells, but old ones at that. Yeah, they probably tried to keep some when told to destroy all. That's not really the issue, as it would have been impossible anyway to account for every single bottle of the reactants that make up sarin - or every single shell (especially those made before the first Gulf war). So the question is, how is one shell relevant? If they find stockpiles, yes, but one?
You do realize that, fundamentally, there's no difference between the censorship in the US and China, right?
The basic pattern is to threaten people where they hurt in the given context. In China, the natural lever is inprisonment. In the US, it's money. The use of the lever can be direct ro indirect, but the principle stays the same.
Also, the effect of purporting a lie as the official truth is the same, whether the government does that directly or private corporations do it for the government. If you have no access to an alternate opinion, "freedom of speech" is a moot point, as you had been trained to accept the "one truth" without blinking. And even if, after you've been indoctrinated with the official truth, you hear someone voicing a different oppinion, you're more likely to consider that person mad - after all, everyone knows what the "truth" is.
This is the line China is taking now - repeat something strong enough and for long enough and it will become truth.
Free speech is worthless by itself. You need at least an open-minded education to be able to begin and understand/use it.
No, no, that's only the facade reason. The real reason is to tell the CEO where his wife has been last night.
You're right, my bad. I didn't ckeck that there are non-registered ECC modules, it didn't seem to make too much sense. Oh well, servers usually require both error-correction and buffered memory, but I guess there must be a market for non-registered ECC after all.
Well, that statement is correct still: as far as the US knows, there are no WMDs in Iraq now, nor were there any right before the war.
No, unusable (read: long past their shelf life) shells don't count. They were WMDs in their time. They stopped being such a long time ago.
Hint: nuclear bombs are WMDs, but a nuclear bomb from the 60s no longer is one now - it's just a museum piece. Why?
Why, I'd loooove it if someone give me a free Mac with OSX. Nothing like the warm fuzzy feeling of ... huh? what's that, a security patch ... hmm ... what? incomplete? wtf? I thought macs didn't run Windows. (joking aside, a PowerBook can sure be nice and convenient, especially in the winter ... oh, nevermind, OSX is cool for what fits its purpose; it's just that not everything does)
... I wonder why :-)
Anyway, Mr. Ruslan, I see you already met an OSX troll. They're a fairly persistent bunch - in an (Apple-style) twisted way, some of them are the new generation of the "*BSD is dying" trolls (I thought they were a dying breed, but apparently not). Funny that there aren't any *BSD trolls
You do know dinosaus and turkeys aren't the same thing, right? ^_^ You'd rather want to have them burned on the outside and tender inside, as the skin was raher tough.
Is it possible to run isolated 32-bit code inside a 64-bit program?
no. It has to be launched as a 32bit binary, so that the kernel puts the process into virtual 32bit mode.
The only option you have is to install in parallel a 32bit version of Mozilla/MPlayer/etc that will be able to load the plugins.
That would be a compliment Gartner doesn't deserve. The Greeks were feared for being subtle. Gartner is only following the money.
For what's worth, here are some numbers on performance increase due to extra registers. Mind you, this is just a dumb double multiplication loop.
The latin root is irrelevant now. The English borrowed the form for singular and made its own plural form. It's the use that dictates the form, as much as grammar nazis dislike that. Even Britannica uses viruses.
(The trouble with seems to be the lack of quotes for the Latin plural form; the reason could with virus being a collective noun. also, declined forms are mixed - some use it as a 2nd declension neuter, few as a 4th. Dead topic, anyway.)
True enough - but not really everything else. Take Itanium2, for instance: large cache, high fp IPC count, low clock speed, slow bus. Large SpecFP scores (it's about the only thing I2 is really good at).
well, 8 GPRs + 8 SSE2 does not really qualify as "many more", but an increase of 100% in the number of available registers counts for something. Balance that against slighter larger memory usage due to the 64bit prefixes and pointers and you get ... about 20-30% speed increase on average.
YMMV, of course.
not just instability. Try filling all the slots in a desktop box (read: non-ECC memory) and you'll see the RAM speed throttle down. You get a trade-off, speed for size. Server-type memory doesn't have that problem with all slots full (different addressing scheme for ECC, if I remember correctly).
besides, those benchmarks don't show such a 'clear' difference. An amd64 3200+ slower by 5% than a p4@3GHz in 32bit mode w/ WinXP. Not exactly relevant for 64bit.
why, no, people usually stare at (actresses', mostly) chests on theater screens for completely different reasons ^_^ Noticing that there's no breathing is a geek side-effect probably.
Here's a difference: Monsters had a story (as in an 'adventure') - you know, intrigue, build-up to a climax point, finale. The typical thing for STORIES. So did Shrek1, for that matter, although on a different note. So, from this perspective, I can't see where Monsters is stronger.
... has jokes. There's no story throughout the movie - the plot falls out of the sky at some point with the the fairy godmother - and it's so transparent, there's no build-up to anything. The final is nice, sort of; but the whole thing is so drowned into references to other movies it feels like it was barely put together to meet a deadline and just can't stand on its own feet. There's about as much coherence to the overall story as is to a random walk of a fixed 1h:45m length. That is, each scene is at most connected to the previous 1-2 minutes.
Shrek2, on the other hand
maybe a better idea would have been to re-render the first movie with the new special effects?
Sure, here's one assumption I'm basing my argument on: "MS QUALITY certification for drivers should mean something". You know, that was the point of introducing the certification with w2k and making the "uncertified driver" warnings more visible in wXP. To have the users install only certified drivers if they can help it, and thus keep the systems stable.
You're basing an argument on speculation and assumptions, that won't get you anywhere with me. [...]Blanket statements of fact based on speculation and assumption.
Now your answer was very much to the point indeed. Maybe I just fed a troll.
Well, the graphics were almost right. My major complaint would be with the animation of the "happily-ever-after-enhanced" Shrek and Donkey. They actually looked more like animated characters than their original forms. As for the movie itself ... unfortunately you might be right about Oscars. Myself, I'll stick to the first movie, thank you very much.
There you have it. As you pointed out, Cornell has the biggest (visible) Windows cluster; the also, article calls them "premier hpc partner". They should know what a Windows cluster is and can be used for. more power for excel spreadsheet calculations!
Actually ... if the driver lists itself as "WHQL certified", as most video drivers do, then you can say it's MS' fault, too. AT LEAST for misleading the customers into a false sense of security. In Linux by contrast you get the "tainted" warnings for binary lkm's, meaning "you're on your own here, don't whine if it happens to crash".
It's not only that, either. The microkernel model should have meant drivers running with lower privileges (Ring1, if Intel had its way). There are LOTS of uncertified Win32 drivers for funny hardware - and all run with full System rights. Don't tell me the last part isn't MS' fault.
Here's a thing that's wrong - Czechoslovakia stopped existing as a country a while before 2002 ( it split in 1993, to be more precise).
On the other hand, the Man was 82, we can cut him some slack about not being up to date with country names.
Yeah, and quite a lot of movies seem to be filmed outside the US recently (remember LOTR?). Lots of reasons, too - cheaper, better scenery for the purpose and so on. The other movies look like they have the outdoors scenes filmed in NYC anyway ^_^
... you can see that he wants msn for webcam use.