I'm sure you can still up the bus speed if you're hell-bent on overclocking a 550 MHz CPU, but, at that speed, who the hell needs to overclock?
You know, this reminds me of those quotes... like the one that says "640k ought to be enough for anybody" and "there might be a world market for... about 5 computers".....
Ted Turner gave $1 billion when he was worth about $3 billion. Gates gave away $5 billion when he was worth around $85 billion. I'd know which guy I'd prefer seeing on the news magazines...
then again, once Gates gives away the rest of his fortune, it's another story
Software provides an even better example of predatory pricing. After all, how much does it cost to duplicate software?
OTOH, setting up a new fab plant isn't cheap, so if Intel did manage to drive AMD out of business... the predicted rise of various new chip companies to challenge Intel on the x86 compatible market might not happen very fast...
think about the home users. who might not have their computer networked.
a couple of times I've had to reach for the big power switch while running Linux because the machine wasn't networked. I was pretty sure I could telnet to the machine and kill the process *if only the darn thing was networked* (it had a modem but that's hardly useful for killing processes now)
to sell Linux's stability to the home crowd, there needs to be something done about keyboard/mouse lockups that programs can still do... and which might convince the average Windows convert that the machine has Microsofted
you know, this reminds me of the Voyager spacecraft. I vaguely remember that the amount of memory on those things was something like 4k or 16k or something like that. And yet they controlled the whole planetary explorer from orientating its dish to Earth and taking high-res pictures.
Ahhh..... 'course, if Voyager IV was sent out today with W2k... the thing would have 256GB of RAM and still manage to require rebooting every day.
IIRC, there's now a process to make artificial rubies to such a degree of quality that to tell the difference between them and 'real' rubies, you look at the stuff under a microscope to look for *imperfections* (and... oh yeah, if you UV light them they glow yellow -- purposely added impurity to the man-made stuff).
the artificial stuff costs 1/10 as much as the stuff mined out of the ground, even though the average person wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
but still the market for rubies hasn't died.
how much longer until a process for building good diamonds that cost 1/100 as much comes about?
So if I'm running a 2.2.x kernel and a 64Mb swap partition, and say I wanted to make it 128Mb on the second drive, what would I need to do to change it?
make a new partition on the new drive (use fdisk or whatever), make that drive type 82 (correct me if I'm wrong but the correct type for linux swap anyway), format that drive (mkswap?) and swapon it (or put the appropriate entry in/etc/fstab).
I wouldn't wish that myself (who knows where his mouth has been) but... I reckon... there should be a special torture invented for the slimy politicians who voted for this bill.
I dunno where the original poster got the idea that we Australians didn't know about this censorship business. It was, and has been, most prominent in the press for the last few months.
dunno where you're coming from, but I've not heard anything on the TV News or read anything in the newspaper (maybe it's buried somewhere in small print) about the passing of this law...
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8. If in the other three episodes, Jedi's could detect the presence of other Jedi's, why couldn't the Jedi's in TPM feel anything around the senator who becomes the emperor?
the way I figure it, the yet-to-be Emperor Senator Palpatine, Sith Lord, would be smart enough to keep his control over the Force masked rather than face several Jedi Masters together at that funeral at the end of the show...
(though that kind of confrontation would be fun.... hehe)
but what about when computing power and electronic devices are so good that... 3D goggles are at a resolution higher than normal vision (and at a refresh high enough), artificial sound can simulate any normal sound and CPUs can run QuakeXX at so many frames per second that it's not funny? it's Malthus' problem, in another sense. one progression is geometric, the other arithmetic (or stagnant).
Or, to put it another way, if you ask me 20 times a day "Are you SURE you want to do that?", the 21st time, I'll click YES before I've even read the message. Even if this was the one case in which I was making a mistake. ahh... but... the same might be said of "rm -i" or just "rm"... does all good learning have to be by burning oneself?
anyone remember that great fun game for the IBM XT/AT age? all in CGA glory too -- i'd love an online multiplayer, full 24 bit colour version of it today... hehe...
hmm... cost of 300000 computers... 300,000x$1000 (min entry price for PC?) = $ 300,000,000 price of deep crack $200,000 no of deep cracks buyable with $300,000,000 = $300,000,000/$200,000 = 1500 hmmm......granted that's pure key cracking (as opposed to general computing) power, but hey. how many million does the NSA spend anyway? Deep Crack cracked rc5-56 in how many days?
the way technology has gone, while guns were pretty much similar things 200 years ago when the US fought for independence (i.e. not a really big demonstrable difference between what the army soldier used and what the farmer owned)... the situation today is that the disparity is getting worse. weapon technology is moving ahead. how many individuals can afford stealth planes, precision guided bombs... all of which might well be regarded as "arms"... hmm... the "right to bear arms"... wonder if the constitution had this in mind though... hmm...
Does the UltraHLE (or any other emulator) actually include any Nintendo code? If not, it can't violate the copyright. if indeedy it was done in a 'clean room' fashion (hmm...), then this surely is a form of flattery to Nintendo that people liked their game system so much that they were willing to write an emulator to play Nintendo games on their PC. granted, passing around those games would be a copyright violation, but hey...
the thing about food is that it is a necessary substance to keep the population fed. governments, imho, allow more farmers (i.e. more food production) to survive than what the market would. excess is better than shortfall whenever there is the possibility of hungry people. market forces may force farmers out of jobs and make agriculture more efficient but the government wants insurance against the possibility of agricultural market crashes... ergo the excess agriculture capacity. sociopolitics. complex issue. hmmmmmmmm.......
have the same procmail rule call a script that will do checksums and/or pgp signatures.... and rejecting all patches that failed that test then the security problem will only defer to trusting the people who put out the official patches... and their machines... and their pgp keys... hmmm....... i'd like to see a windows user make service packs auto-install -- no, wait. downloading service packs takes all day anyway...
the thing about cutting edge teaching is that what they teach you is basically half wrong. the problem is that your lecturers/tutors don't know which half...
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I'm sure you can still up the bus speed if you're hell-bent on overclocking a 550 MHz CPU, but, at that speed, who the hell needs to overclock?
You know, this reminds me of those quotes ... like the one that says "640k ought to be enough for anybody" and "there might be a world market for ... about 5 computers" .....
then again, once Gates gives away the rest of his fortune, it's another story
distributed.net don't have a separate intel/amd/cyrix client too... they have OS clients
(granted, the OS clients do choose different cores for different CPUs.... hmmm.....)
Microsoft and IE vs. Netscape Navigator.
Software provides an even better example of predatory pricing. After all, how much does it cost to duplicate software?
OTOH, setting up a new fab plant isn't cheap, so if Intel did manage to drive AMD out of business... the predicted rise of various new chip companies to challenge Intel on the x86 compatible market might not happen very fast...
actually since the last 64 bits are reserved for hardware specific numbers, doesn't that limit the number of IP addys to 64 bits?
(I'm assuming that each MAC should have it's own unique ID number...)
think about the home users. who might not have their computer networked.
... and which might convince the average Windows convert that the machine has Microsofted
a couple of times I've had to reach for the big power switch while running Linux because the machine wasn't networked. I was pretty sure I could telnet to the machine and kill the process *if only the darn thing was networked* (it had a modem but that's hardly useful for killing processes now)
to sell Linux's stability to the home crowd, there needs to be something done about keyboard/mouse lockups that programs can still do
you know, this reminds me of the Voyager spacecraft. I vaguely remember that the amount of memory on those things was something like 4k or 16k or something like that. And yet they controlled the whole planetary explorer from orientating its dish to Earth and taking high-res pictures.
... the thing would have 256GB of RAM and still manage to require rebooting every day.
Ahhh..... 'course, if Voyager IV was sent out today with W2k
hehehe....
IIRC, there's now a process to make artificial rubies to such a degree of quality that to tell the difference between them and 'real' rubies, you look at the stuff under a microscope to look for *imperfections* (and ... oh yeah, if you UV light them they glow yellow -- purposely added impurity to the man-made stuff).
the artificial stuff costs 1/10 as much as the stuff mined out of the ground, even though the average person wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
but still the market for rubies hasn't died.
how much longer until a process for building good diamonds that cost 1/100 as much comes about?
So if I'm running a 2.2.x kernel and a 64Mb swap partition, and say I wanted to make it 128Mb on the second drive, what would I need to do to change it?
make a new partition on the new drive (use fdisk or whatever), make that drive type 82 (correct me if I'm wrong but the correct type for linux swap anyway), format that drive (mkswap?) and swapon it (or put the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab).
there you go. easy peasy
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muahahahahahaha.......
I wouldn't wish that myself (who knows where his mouth has been) but ... I reckon ... there should be a special torture invented for the slimy politicians who voted for this bill.
hmmm... Dust Puppy Party? Can I join?
I dunno where the original poster got the idea that we Australians didn't know about this censorship business. It was, and has been, most prominent in the press for the last few months.
dunno where you're coming from, but I've not heard anything on the TV News or read anything in the newspaper (maybe it's buried somewhere in small print) about the passing of this law ...
8. If in the other three episodes, Jedi's could detect the presence of other Jedi's, why couldn't the Jedi's in TPM feel anything around the senator who becomes the emperor?
the way I figure it, the yet-to-be Emperor Senator Palpatine, Sith Lord, would be smart enough to keep his control over the Force masked rather than face several Jedi Masters together at that funeral at the end of the show...
(though that kind of confrontation would be fun .... hehe)
go read the stuff on this website
AFAIK, each neuron in the brain makes connections with up to 10,000 other neurons. you go figure the maths out.
IIRC, redhat has shipped distros with non-GPL things on them. I remember at least one Metro-something accelerated X server ...
heck 7kg is carryable. hiroshima was 11 kilotons. that was 100,000 casualties. ok, ok. this is getting way offtopic. hehe.
but what about when computing power and electronic devices are so good that ... 3D goggles are at a resolution higher than normal vision (and at a refresh high enough), artificial sound can simulate any normal sound and CPUs can run QuakeXX at so many frames per second that it's not funny? it's Malthus' problem, in another sense. one progression is geometric, the other arithmetic (or stagnant).
Or, to put it another way, if you ask me 20 times a day "Are you SURE you want to do that?", the 21st time, I'll click YES before I've even read the message. Even if this was the one case in which I was making a mistake. ahh... but ... the same might be said of "rm -i" or just "rm" ... does all good learning have to be by burning oneself?
anyone remember that great fun game for the IBM XT/AT age? all in CGA glory too -- i'd love an online multiplayer, full 24 bit colour version of it today ... hehe ...
hmm... cost of 300000 computers ... 300,000x$1000 (min entry price for PC?) = $ 300,000,000 price of deep crack $200,000 no of deep cracks buyable with $300,000,000 = $300,000,000/$200,000 = 1500 hmmm......granted that's pure key cracking (as opposed to general computing) power, but hey. how many million does the NSA spend anyway? Deep Crack cracked rc5-56 in how many days?
the way technology has gone, while guns were pretty much similar things 200 years ago when the US fought for independence (i.e. not a really big demonstrable difference between what the army soldier used and what the farmer owned) ... the situation today is that the disparity is getting worse. weapon technology is moving ahead. how many individuals can afford stealth planes, precision guided bombs ... all of which might well be regarded as "arms" ... hmm ... the "right to bear arms" ... wonder if the constitution had this in mind though ... hmm ...
Does the UltraHLE (or any other emulator) actually include any Nintendo code? If not, it can't violate the copyright. if indeedy it was done in a 'clean room' fashion (hmm...), then this surely is a form of flattery to Nintendo that people liked their game system so much that they were willing to write an emulator to play Nintendo games on their PC. granted, passing around those games would be a copyright violation, but hey...
the thing about food is that it is a necessary substance to keep the population fed. governments, imho, allow more farmers (i.e. more food production) to survive than what the market would. excess is better than shortfall whenever there is the possibility of hungry people. market forces may force farmers out of jobs and make agriculture more efficient but the government wants insurance against the possibility of agricultural market crashes ... ergo the excess agriculture capacity. sociopolitics. complex issue. hmmmmmmmm.......
have the same procmail rule call a script that will do checksums and/or pgp signatures .... and rejecting all patches that failed that test then the security problem will only defer to trusting the people who put out the official patches ... and their machines ... and their pgp keys ... hmmm ....... i'd like to see a windows user make service packs auto-install -- no, wait. downloading service packs takes all day anyway ...
the thing about cutting edge teaching is that what they teach you is basically half wrong. the problem is that your lecturers/tutors don't know which half ...