Ah, I don't prophesy it being quick. I still do see a mini revolution though. I wonder what M$ has to beat back a server processor with essentially hyper threading, running at 4.6 ghz, attached to 8 vector processors, each with a lot of registers and cache, which are using extremely fast memory, that can connect to other, similar processors nearby.
I don't think they have much.:P
We're talking about a processor(POWER5, a step above the POWER4, which the G5 is based on) here though that is generally low in the clock speed wars, and yet performs as well or even better than higher clocked competitors. Now it's faster! It also has the huge number of vector processors, with 128, 128 bit registers.
Meh, I'm sure Sony would make up the $1000 defecit on every console through video game sales...
And a POWER5! I am seriously impressed. Let me tell you, if the PS3 does not come with four Cells, I will be buying a few extra! I hope it has an expansion slot kind of thing, which, with the distributed architecture, is fairly feasible.
Er, yes, it does have a Power processor. So, it certainly could replace x86, and also usher in a new day of Linux! The year of desktop Linux has arrived!
j/k, but I doubt Apple will be selling Mac OS X Cell Edition anytime soon, so, what would desktops run?
Cell processors could really dominate. With how cheap they arespeculated to be, their distributed processing, and their all around speed, the could take over a significant part of the computer marketshare. If Cell processors also have the Power4 processors in them, this could be a replacement for x86. Could be. As other articles have pointed out, x86 has had superior competition in the past, and has been able to weather it.
We shall wait and see.
Cheers
Yes. There was some speculation about them colliding and annhilating each other in a joke-antijoke way, but unfortunately, they have combined to form the ultimate joke, which requires an ultimate antijoke to destroy. This is possibly something along the lines of an, "1)All your old Korean people are belong to us.2)?????? 3)Profit!", although this has not been verified as of yet.
I'm not too sure I understand what you mean by the last sentence. Did you mean that it would fall back to Earth and be caught, or that a plane could reach as high as a rocket could? The first one sort of happened, the second one is not possible(unless it's designed to only go up 100,000 feet). The highest plane was either the U-2 or the SR-71, although a plane built by Scaled Composites(Burt Rutan) flew at 95,000 feet for several days I believe, off of solar power. Rockets can reach much higher.
Sure, and I assume you think that's easy? Remember, a much higher altitude must be reached than anything that can be done by an airplane. Especially an airplane carrying a rocket underneath it. And it certainly isn't less complicated. You also seem to clump NASA and the Space Shuttle together. Frankly, NASA is much more than the shuttle. NASA is one of the few agencies to pay for it's own budget in the long run too, as far as it's developments in technology.
1) Before the X-prize no private entrepeneur had come up with a privately funded spacecraft capable of suborbital flight.
2)Yes, those o=ring failures were really caused by corruption. And his name is Feynman.
3)Nothing is preventing large corporations like McDonnell-Douglas from participating. If this becomes the new way to award contracts, they definitely will be participating.
The only big problem I can see, is that companies will not develop anything anymore, and this will stifle innovation. This is quite possible, even though in the long run it's bad for the companies and the people of the world. I support this idea for some contracts, but not all.
Cheers,
Ryan
Yes, I'm sure that no NASA astronaut would ever do anything risky, nor would their engineers ever create design flaws, but those private companies ya' know. They have absolutely no regard for human life. I'm sure their engineers would sleep well at night knowing their spacecraft killed 5 people.
Yeah, you completely missed the point. Mainly, the US hasn't done anything in Rwanda or Sudan, but that doesn't fit with our do-good world police image now does it? No, so you quote the link, attacking that instead of the real message. This really was more of an experiment on you, rather than an actual message.
It's just becoming more and more obvious that to support one's views, a person will resort to anything, no matter whether or not they realize that the truth goes against what they say.
Cheers,
Ryan
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Well, it might say that, but all of the others are certainly in beta. Look at the online package database.
all platforms
alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64 ppc-macos ppc-od s390 sh sparc x86 x86-obsd x86-fbsd x86-od
Cheers,
Ryan
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Gentoo supports all of those too, I believe.
Cheers,
Ryan
OK, ok.. I thought that might be the case. Anyway, they're mods, they don't need no stinkin justification. I've seen things like the 10th post in a story be modded redundant, even though it was informative, and original.:)
Cheers,
Ryan
Purchasing your access does not really support the economy more than getting free access from the government. Think of it, you'd have more disposable income to spend buying products off of the internet. Even GWB and JK agreed that getting everyone on broadband would add $500 billion dollars to the economy, and this is just one way to do it.
It's a *joke*. I'm not terribly upset about it not dying immediatly. My post was a joke too. Maybe many of the complaints are jokes?:-)
Heh, maybe not, but it's not a big deal.
Cheers,
Ryan
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Ah, I don't prophesy it being quick. I still do see a mini revolution though. I wonder what M$ has to beat back a server processor with essentially hyper threading, running at 4.6 ghz, attached to 8 vector processors, each with a lot of registers and cache, which are using extremely fast memory, that can connect to other, similar processors nearby. I don't think they have much. :P
We're talking about a processor(POWER5, a step above the POWER4, which the G5 is based on) here though that is generally low in the clock speed wars, and yet performs as well or even better than higher clocked competitors. Now it's faster! It also has the huge number of vector processors, with 128, 128 bit registers.
Meh, I'm sure Sony would make up the $1000 defecit on every console through video game sales... And a POWER5! I am seriously impressed. Let me tell you, if the PS3 does not come with four Cells, I will be buying a few extra! I hope it has an expansion slot kind of thing, which, with the distributed architecture, is fairly feasible.
Er, yes, it does have a Power processor. So, it certainly could replace x86, and also usher in a new day of Linux! The year of desktop Linux has arrived! j/k, but I doubt Apple will be selling Mac OS X Cell Edition anytime soon, so, what would desktops run?
Cell processors could really dominate. With how cheap they arespeculated to be, their distributed processing, and their all around speed, the could take over a significant part of the computer marketshare. If Cell processors also have the Power4 processors in them, this could be a replacement for x86. Could be. As other articles have pointed out, x86 has had superior competition in the past, and has been able to weather it. We shall wait and see. Cheers
You really are dumb, you know that?
Cheers, Ryan
Soon old Korean people will be reading their email by thinking about it. I'm sorry, I had to. Cheers, Ryan
I'm not too sure I understand what you mean by the last sentence. Did you mean that it would fall back to Earth and be caught, or that a plane could reach as high as a rocket could? The first one sort of happened, the second one is not possible(unless it's designed to only go up 100,000 feet). The highest plane was either the U-2 or the SR-71, although a plane built by Scaled Composites(Burt Rutan) flew at 95,000 feet for several days I believe, off of solar power. Rockets can reach much higher.
Sure, and I assume you think that's easy? Remember, a much higher altitude must be reached than anything that can be done by an airplane. Especially an airplane carrying a rocket underneath it. And it certainly isn't less complicated. You also seem to clump NASA and the Space Shuttle together. Frankly, NASA is much more than the shuttle. NASA is one of the few agencies to pay for it's own budget in the long run too, as far as it's developments in technology.
1) Before the X-prize no private entrepeneur had come up with a privately funded spacecraft capable of suborbital flight. 2)Yes, those o=ring failures were really caused by corruption. And his name is Feynman. 3)Nothing is preventing large corporations like McDonnell-Douglas from participating. If this becomes the new way to award contracts, they definitely will be participating. The only big problem I can see, is that companies will not develop anything anymore, and this will stifle innovation. This is quite possible, even though in the long run it's bad for the companies and the people of the world. I support this idea for some contracts, but not all. Cheers, Ryan
Yes, I'm sure that no NASA astronaut would ever do anything risky, nor would their engineers ever create design flaws, but those private companies ya' know. They have absolutely no regard for human life. I'm sure their engineers would sleep well at night knowing their spacecraft killed 5 people.
Cheers, Ryan
What kind of measurement is that? The ambiguous measure. The new way to skimp out on actually *editing* articles.
Unless, of course, they're just different sized ballons, and I'm just being a pedant. Silly me.
Yeah, you completely missed the point. Mainly, the US hasn't done anything in Rwanda or Sudan, but that doesn't fit with our do-good world police image now does it? No, so you quote the link, attacking that instead of the real message. This really was more of an experiment on you, rather than an actual message. It's just becoming more and more obvious that to support one's views, a person will resort to anything, no matter whether or not they realize that the truth goes against what they say. Cheers, Ryan
Well, it might say that, but all of the others are certainly in beta. Look at the online package database. all platforms alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64 ppc-macos ppc-od s390 sh sparc x86 x86-obsd x86-fbsd x86-od Cheers, Ryan
Gentoo supports all of those too, I believe. Cheers, Ryan
Wait, when was the US in Rwanda and Sudan? NATO was in Kosovo, and besides http://www.europaworld.org/issue44/bushendorsesuns 27701.htm
Cheers,
A geek... Outside of his house... You're joking, right?
Uh, they probably won't see much communication here...
Cheers, Ryan
OK, ok.. I thought that might be the case. Anyway, they're mods, they don't need no stinkin justification. I've seen things like the 10th post in a story be modded redundant, even though it was informative, and original. :)
Cheers,
Ryan
Purchasing your access does not really support the economy more than getting free access from the government. Think of it, you'd have more disposable income to spend buying products off of the internet. Even GWB and JK agreed that getting everyone on broadband would add $500 billion dollars to the economy, and this is just one way to do it.
It's a *joke*. I'm not terribly upset about it not dying immediatly. My post was a joke too. Maybe many of the complaints are jokes? :-)
Heh, maybe not, but it's not a big deal.
Cheers,
Ryan
Why won't you DIE! Gaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Maybe assembly, c/c++, and a python/perl? And brainf*** too.