I wonder if this will be used in future optical routers and switches or even processors - if the opaque-transparent (and back) switch happens fast enough, you could easily do a very large number of parallel on-off switches to optical pathways. No need for lots of MEMS/MOMS mirrors any more.
Imagine a nanoscale thinking machines cm-5, except the light panels would then actually be part of the computation, controlling which nodes are on or off.
Neither the sound card memory nor the memory on the graphics processor - appart for the small amounts that are in the pci area for configuration and control - are directly addressable by the processor and most certainly don't count against any 32bit limit. If one wanted to, one could easily create a "swap" device that made use of unused graphics memory (not sure why you would want this, but you could none the less). Anybody having any kind of sound output still has a "sound card" and its memory requirements (and presence in the address map) are by and large not determined about it being a discrete card or part of the chipset.
Bizzare that the parent would be rated "Insightful"
Except of course, SETI@HOME is not looking for patterns. There is no effort made to detect communications - the effort is to find strong narrow-band emissions on the hydrogen line. Which you would know if you had bothered to at least look into what SETI@HOME does, instead of making an ass of yourself and assuming.
What does it matter whetever the act of copying is (effectively) non-work? It is not work you are paying for when you buy something. The amount of work that goes into making something, or making a copy of something, is not the metric accordinding to which the price of things are measured - or really, have ever been measured.
If your techies can't figuire it out then with 99.99% of probability either they really have no clue and you are better off with firing them or you are just a troll.
Sorry, but - why the heck should the majority of OOo developers care even one bit what the mac users want? Sooner or later they will most probably die out anyways - the more they want everything to be delivered on a silver plate to them, the faster it will happen.
What you seem to have forgotten to do is compare the functionality offered by OOo and iWorks. iWorks is not even really an office suite, never mind powerful - its a pretty basic word processor with inline drawing capability.
So what you are basicly saying is that Mac users are happy to get 10% of the functionality everybody else has as long as that functionality comes packaged in Jobs-blessed UI?
This is total bullshit. The OS/2 part of the sources were released together with the others and even more were *NOT* thrown out even after nobody had shown any interest in them for more than 3 years. It doesn't mean the sources would build out of the box - they won't as there has been no maintenance on those platform specific parts - it just means that they are / were there to be picked up by interested parties. Except that there is no evidence therea re any.
yeah right.. next thing you are going to tell me donosaurs migrated out of Middle East after having survived the flood in Noah's Ark. Or you could at least have tried to read up what that amount of water in tha atmosphere would do to climate being a rather agressive greenhouse gas.
Can you please demonstrate your utter lack of knowledge of the topic a bit less eloquently? Because if you go on like this, everybody will just laugh and pay you no attention, hence no argument. So basicly -
* 1) sunspot activity or numbers don't equate to increased solar output
* 2) has not been true for several years now
* 3) has not been true since.. oh abou 50s and does not have a trend towards becoming so
so in summary, you are just a crackpot winding yourself on slashdot
The problem is that when earth was 40F warmer, life everywhere except in Arctic was dead. You are confusing that period with a far colder one if you claim "no deserts".
well, its pretty clear that you belog ins some sort of bizarro religion (even if it is a religion of one) and worthermore are superparanoid... if you want to talk about economic damage resulting from Kyoto you shoudl also be prepared to quantify how much it would be, where it woudl come from and why - and not just repeat slogans.
the problem being that it take more energy to lower the temprate (even more so with the "we" you represent being so hyper on air conditioning) - so instead of "less" you will be "more" in Arabs clutches
Having or not having RAID is not terribly relevant in a non-lowend server - what is important is what kind of storage can be attached and how. Its not as if the out of the box, no added boards SUn 25K or HP 'Domes have all that much storage susbsytem capability. The point being - nobody will really be expecting to use just the minimal and will intgerate the server into the storage infrastructure
As an IT professional, what I'm really looking for in Big Iron reviews are reviewers who actually have not just a small glimmering of what they are talking about but that they have at least moderate amount of clue. Like say knowing the difference between LPARsand domains. Having actually used large systems would of course be nice but I suspect thats far too high expectations...
Huh? getting any sequence of length 5 is equally likely. 5 head / 5 tails / 4 heads + 1 tail... are all equally likely. What makes you think otherwise?
you appear to be saying you have lost your mind. With the code being open everybody will be able o run code comparison tools and immediately verify the truth of falsity of such claims.
The problem is that Ariane is too powerful in most cases to just launch a single satellite, having been designed to lift the Hermes space plane. Sure there are exceptions but in most cases two heavy satellites is really the suitable launch size for Ariane.
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I wonder if this will be used in future optical routers and switches or even processors - if the opaque-transparent (and back) switch happens fast enough, you could easily do a very large number of parallel on-off switches to optical pathways. No need for lots of MEMS/MOMS mirrors any more.
Imagine a nanoscale thinking machines cm-5, except the light panels would then actually be part of the computation, controlling which nodes are on or off.
Neither the sound card memory nor the memory on the graphics processor - appart for the small amounts that are in the pci area for configuration and control - are directly addressable by the processor and most certainly don't count against any 32bit limit. If one wanted to, one could easily create a "swap" device that made use of unused graphics memory (not sure why you would want this, but you could none the less). Anybody having any kind of sound output still has a "sound card" and its memory requirements (and presence in the address map) are by and large not determined about it being a discrete card or part of the chipset.
Bizzare that the parent would be rated "Insightful"
Except of course, SETI@HOME is not looking for patterns. There is no effort made to detect communications - the effort is to find strong narrow-band emissions on the hydrogen line. Which you would know if you had bothered to at least look into what SETI@HOME does, instead of making an ass of yourself and assuming.
What does it matter whetever the act of copying is (effectively) non-work? It is not work you are paying for when you buy something. The amount of work that goes into making something, or making a copy of something, is not the metric accordinding to which the price of things are measured - or really, have ever been measured.
The parent is not just not insightful at all, it is simply plain wrong.
If your techies can't figuire it out then with 99.99% of probability either they really have no clue and you are better off with firing them or you are just a troll.
Sorry, but - why the heck should the majority of OOo developers care even one bit what the mac users want? Sooner or later they will most probably die out anyways - the more they want everything to be delivered on a silver plate to them, the faster it will happen.
What you seem to have forgotten to do is compare the functionality offered by OOo and iWorks. iWorks is not even really an office suite, never mind powerful - its a pretty basic word processor with inline drawing capability.
So what you are basicly saying is that Mac users are happy to get 10% of the functionality everybody else has as long as that functionality comes packaged in Jobs-blessed UI?
This is total bullshit. The OS/2 part of the sources were released together with the others and even more were *NOT* thrown out even after nobody had shown any interest in them for more than 3 years. It doesn't mean the sources would build out of the box - they won't as there has been no maintenance on those platform specific parts - it just means that they are / were there to be picked up by interested parties. Except that there is no evidence therea re any.
yeah right .. next thing you are going to tell me donosaurs migrated out of Middle East after having survived the flood in Noah's Ark. Or you could at least have tried to read up what that amount of water in tha atmosphere would do to climate being a rather agressive greenhouse gas.
So what you are trying to say is that you neither understood the measurement nor what the error bars show?
Can you please demonstrate your utter lack of knowledge of the topic a bit less eloquently? Because if you go on like this, everybody will just laugh and pay you no attention, hence no argument. So basicly -
* 1) sunspot activity or numbers don't equate to increased solar output
* 2) has not been true for several years now
* 3) has not been true since.. oh abou 50s and does not have a trend towards becoming so
so in summary, you are just a crackpot winding yourself on slashdot
The problem is that when earth was 40F warmer, life everywhere except in Arctic was dead. You are confusing that period with a far colder one if you claim "no deserts".
well, its pretty clear that you belog ins some sort of bizarro religion (even if it is a religion of one) and worthermore are superparanoid... if you want to talk about economic damage resulting from Kyoto you shoudl also be prepared to quantify how much it would be, where it woudl come from and why - and not just repeat slogans.
the problem being that it take more energy to lower the temprate (even more so with the "we" you represent being so hyper on air conditioning) - so instead of "less" you will be "more" in Arabs clutches
huh? not only is $40K in servers not big iron but small change, the non-DELL choices abound.
Having or not having RAID is not terribly relevant in a non-lowend server - what is important is what kind of storage can be attached and how. Its not as if the out of the box, no added boards SUn 25K or HP 'Domes have all that much storage susbsytem capability. The point being - nobody will really be expecting to use just the minimal and will intgerate the server into the storage infrastructure
As an IT professional, what I'm really looking for in Big Iron reviews are reviewers who actually have not just a small glimmering of what they are talking about but that they have at least moderate amount of clue. Like say knowing the difference between LPARsand domains. Having actually used large systems would of course be nice but I suspect thats far too high expectations...
Well, you know, he means a different thing when he says "really strong". Think of say blue cheese :)
Huh? getting any sequence of length 5 is equally likely. 5 head / 5 tails / 4 heads + 1 tail ... are all equally likely. What makes you think otherwise?
replace 2 with 'get everybody to sign a support contract'
yes, yes, just like koffice and gnumeric and abiword are reusing lots of code from OpenOffice.org
you appear to be saying you have lost your mind. With the code being open everybody will be able o run code comparison tools and immediately verify the truth of falsity of such claims.
The problem is that Ariane is too powerful in most cases to just launch a single satellite, having been designed to lift the Hermes space plane. Sure there are exceptions but in most cases two heavy satellites is really the suitable launch size for Ariane.