Funny that. They had a nice *stable* (ish) 3.51.
Why can't they start a skunkworks dev from that code
base? Whoops? They lost the source *AGAIN*???
If their code isn't as horrid as the code that Andrew
Schulman revealed to the world years back then they
*OUGHT* to be able to do this.
Hey: Gimme 100/.(ers) and sourceforge and *WE WILL DO IT*.
Wrong. What you meant to say is that in "other news, Microsoft bought the vendor of VMWare". Now you can crash your machine without pain".
Result: Microsoft downsizes by 90%
WHOA! Read this and die microsofties...
FUD rules ok?
Stranger things have happened...
Er. But slashdot, just like google isn't an OS or based on "sound established engineering principles".
Don't bitch about slashdot. After all, we *all* slashdot it...
which vi are we talking about - vim or elvis ?
Nah. SP2 will be here soon and will break doom 3
(NVidia goes into chapter 11 because of SP2 shock horror).
It's gotta be a conspiracy man...
Feels garbled somewhere, but the miasma of it is familiar. Yes, I wonder why not only the powers that be, but slashdotters aren't asking about DEC Alpha, or worst case ( god forbid ) we don't have at least MMIX...(or ARM). Oops we do, but nobody is
multi-core(ing) these things...
Trash the old stuff NOW. But understand that old
dark warning in DDJ (now lost) about "Boutique microprocessors". (Sorry - don't have the ref).
We are closer to the limits than we know...
Until the next french revolution you're stuck with
increasing CMOS == ECL (but hotter). Hose the ozone (coughs from the low level ozone here in Athens GR - we have the same crummy geography as LA). I'll go light a cigarette for you (cough)
Am I alone in suspecting that 13nm is a crock of shit?
All of which indicates that Intel has lost any kind of vision ( we have itanic right?) and believes that
the way to go is to hack the pre-existing core to perhaps have more bits. This is kind of dumb. You have to tune all aspects to get optimal performance. (and look at how skewed optimizing
chips for UT2006/Doom IV would get).
Longer term though, we *may* be stuck with itanic style architectures particularly since no one has come up with a convincing language/implementation for
serious parallel processing. But I'm reminded of Zilog somewhere - hey they blew away Intel for a time. With the deep pockets Intel has, I'd guess that some of the delays are due to reshuffling the
wetware elsewhere... But please
someone hose backwards compatibility to the 1980's
so we can have clean (DEC Alpha style) processors
RSN.
Even if it *is* a trojan, remember what happened to
them? The folks here in Greece gave them a nice
wooden horse. Perhaps MS should fear that *THEY*
are the trojans? I don't believe Mono *needs* to have
total compatibility with.NET, just enough compatibility to allow dev to target both. If Gtk#
gets mature enough then I'm considering *ignoring*
windows forms for now (if I wait for longhorn then
I'll need a re-write anyway).
There is a good chance that a whole lot of really cool neat ideas will flow *BACK* from an open source project such as Mono into future.NETS.
(Worst case consider MS a Tr*jan and throw them
out of the car window afterwards:-)).
Er 88 = 64 + 24 - so they are using the top byte of
a long long for hardware tagging;-)
Sounds plausible.
Hey won't be the first time someone misused bits of a register (hello you know who you are don't you)
But what 128 bit processor are they coding for?
How many times will we get these old lame con tricks?
I mean, it was only er 1995 wasn't it?
Sheeze, next thing you know someone will post an
article about recursive data compression somewhere
and get taken seriously.
Oops. They did?
Where. Can I sell it to someone I don't like?
To the newbies out there: it aint wasting memory, it's just pining for the fjords...
DONT PANIC!!! Not so. Just broken server side scripts plus more load or summer brownouts I think....Hey, you should try living here in Athens GR where the brownouts *really* fry parts of machinery no programmer could hose by pulling them out of their sockets...(I wanted a dead memory module. My colleagues machine obliged. One stuck bit. Lovely).
Hey, you don't have another PC to play with? Geeze
guys, if you QA your software under all those layers of gunk why do you think it might have bugs? Even if Connectix gets their emul bug compatibile with windows, is it really worth the bother? (I'd say the same for VMware 'cos at the end of the day you want to get close to the metal not far away.
OK I'm an old timer.
Oh. The beauty of our neuroses. Jeez. Doesn't this stuff just make you want to
AARRGGH! I know it's end of july but pleeze Zeus
(hey I live in Athens GR) can we have some real news
A couple of years back SciAm had some articles about
this by (Gary Stix?), and they made me jump. I don't
jump easily. But at least one nuclear technician
explained that "we don't know how hot X is because
we don't have machines that can measure it".
Gulp. I've no phobia of "radioactivity" (I have a
science background) but wait a minute - if it's so
damn hot you can't measure it?...
Tom Lehrer might be right after all. Perhaps theres a nice green Campusy place around Seattle
which would make a great repository...
One day, this will be our best energy source - oh like in 6 monthes or so given U.S/China fuel consumption...
Aw. Come on children. Why spoil a perfectly good
story by making it map to the real world? It's supposed to be mythological right? Like Zeus raping and raping and (oh I get it: you really want the SCO
guy to get a major part...).
Wonder how long before someone hacks the output to
include a buzzing mosquito...:-)
Also, presumably the underlying stuff was done years
ago at somewhere (say IRCAM in France)??
Amateur Radio Enthusiasts do CW (morse) communications using moonbounce, not voice. Given the path loss (c.a. 240dB) and power constraints on amateur stations voice is er.. difficult?
(Michael: go look at Trexler's antenna spec!)...
Yeah, but a *REAL* space faring craft would never
look like anything you'd design for a gravity well... would it?
Face it. The LEM was the *ONLY* spacecraft that is worthy of the name even if they had to use reused socks to fix things to get 13 back... Someone give
our fav engineer called Burt lots of Green stuff..
I want my father to live long enough to see space,
not my grandchildren.
Hey, I was there the first time. In the UK we only
got a blurred version via that advanced technology
of pointing a camera at a never twice same color set until around about 14 or 15.
I'll never forgive you american imperialist
b6ds for scheduling the 11 landing in your time
zones prime time... I was 10.5 years old and mortally pissed..
But, NASA has serious problems with their ancient
tapes ROTTING because nobody has looked at them.
Perhaps instead of focussing on seti@home we should look at these damn things before all the
data vanishes to/dev/eaten:-
What do you folks think. Should there be a
slashdot open source whatever project to
resurrect the data from old NASA dustbin warehouses or should we just wait for a sexier
probe?
So, we're going to get all of the friggin schisms that plagued old unix are we? Bring back the highlander philosophy someone *PLEEZE*
So, as a developer of a neato linux appliance my
vanilla linux kernel from funet.fi won't cut it, or
be understood by the vast army out there ('cos they
are hacking on the red hat, debian, SuSE (oops Novell) variant or something else...
We really need this shit. I need even more un R&R time...
Sigh. Maybe NT embedded isn't so bad after all...
Hey at least I won't get sued by SCO (grins)
Back in t'old days, real men programmed machines with no such weenie luxuries. No No. The ROM only
knew how to say "Hello I'm not dead" and gimme
a disk with a boot block.
Please no replies with "front panel
switches":-)
Why have a BIOS in ROM at all? The ROM ought to load the "BIOS" off hidden sectors on whatever the boot media is. Even AMESS understands this (thanks to it's CP/M roots).
Foo. Put *machine* diagnostics in the ROM, not old
INT 10, INT13 crap. That way even those of us who ought to know better can hose ourselvess overclocking and doing other things without losing
everything.
Shame that RMS won't come clean and admit he couldn't write an OS... There is no pressing need for a freeware BIOS a la Phoenix's clone of the IBM bios because anyone doing embedded stuff is going to go for a FreeBSD or Linux solution anyway and aside from a very brief interlude with INT 13
(a couple o' seconds)...
Hey people, how can 30 seconds of flakey microgravity compare with *WEEKS* of flakey microgravity on board the ISS?
Science. Humph. Just more propaganda for elitist
crap universities (versus the poor good ones).
(ex Bristol UK grad in chemistry)
It's nice to see the "Queens Honours" go to someone who did something practically useful (or even theoretically useful ), but I have to ask why everyone forgets Ted?? (Hey: I *KNOW* he was boring
but he did invent hypertext (or not?))...
Personally, I have fond memories of a G5 + 2 letter
ham who got a KBE or was it a CBE? who did something
secret (never explained) about Radar...
Gosh. The web really is that important (marketting
oinks nod in agreement...)>. But please explain
to this dumb englishman how solves
your everyday mondane petabyte online storage
problem? Let alone visualizing that data in some
yuk dimensional cube...
Maybe someone should wake up RMS...There must be something we could do in LISP...
Even with the power outage we had yesterday here in Athens GR, and 384K ADSL (and all that bandwidth just for me when the power came up:-)) I wouldn't do it.
No, magazines are the way to distribute it or
binary diffs (why don't microsoft do this ??).
A hardened cynic like me would suggest that the
*diff* would still be 100MB.
No seriously, one sneaked into my Athens
Greece apartment and made a political statement
about my Linux file server:-). Took me three
hours to stop using colourful language about
the locals, and three weeks to pluck up the
courage to clean it (hey I use telnet ok?)
Slashdot Mirror
Must be hallucinating. In related news XP SP2 is delayed and CowboyNeal gets fan club... (in Japan).
Funny that. They had a nice *stable* (ish) 3.51. Why can't they start a skunkworks dev from that code base? Whoops? They lost the source *AGAIN*??? If their code isn't as horrid as the code that Andrew Schulman revealed to the world years back then they *OUGHT* to be able to do this. Hey: Gimme 100 /.(ers) and sourceforge and *WE WILL DO IT*.
Wrong. What you meant to say is that in "other news, Microsoft bought the vendor of VMWare". Now you can crash your machine without pain". Result: Microsoft downsizes by 90% WHOA! Read this and die microsofties... FUD rules ok? Stranger things have happened...
Er. But slashdot, just like google isn't an OS or based on "sound established engineering principles". Don't bitch about slashdot. After all, we *all* slashdot it...
which vi are we talking about - vim or elvis ? Nah. SP2 will be here soon and will break doom 3 (NVidia goes into chapter 11 because of SP2 shock horror). It's gotta be a conspiracy man...
Feels garbled somewhere, but the miasma of it is familiar. Yes, I wonder why not only the powers that be, but slashdotters aren't asking about DEC Alpha, or worst case ( god forbid ) we don't have at least MMIX...(or ARM). Oops we do, but nobody is multi-core(ing) these things... Trash the old stuff NOW. But understand that old dark warning in DDJ (now lost) about "Boutique microprocessors". (Sorry - don't have the ref). We are closer to the limits than we know... Until the next french revolution you're stuck with increasing CMOS == ECL (but hotter). Hose the ozone (coughs from the low level ozone here in Athens GR - we have the same crummy geography as LA). I'll go light a cigarette for you (cough) Am I alone in suspecting that 13nm is a crock of shit?
All of which indicates that Intel has lost any kind of vision ( we have itanic right?) and believes that the way to go is to hack the pre-existing core to perhaps have more bits. This is kind of dumb. You have to tune all aspects to get optimal performance. (and look at how skewed optimizing chips for UT2006/Doom IV would get). Longer term though, we *may* be stuck with itanic style architectures particularly since no one has come up with a convincing language/implementation for serious parallel processing. But I'm reminded of Zilog somewhere - hey they blew away Intel for a time. With the deep pockets Intel has, I'd guess that some of the delays are due to reshuffling the wetware elsewhere... But please someone hose backwards compatibility to the 1980's so we can have clean (DEC Alpha style) processors RSN.
Even if it *is* a trojan, remember what happened to them? The folks here in Greece gave them a nice wooden horse. Perhaps MS should fear that *THEY* are the trojans? I don't believe Mono *needs* to have total compatibility with .NET, just enough compatibility to allow dev to target both. If Gtk#
gets mature enough then I'm considering *ignoring*
windows forms for now (if I wait for longhorn then
I'll need a re-write anyway).
There is a good chance that a whole lot of really cool neat ideas will flow *BACK* from an open source project such as Mono into future .NETS.
(Worst case consider MS a Tr*jan and throw them
out of the car window afterwards :-)).
Er 88 = 64 + 24 - so they are using the top byte of a long long for hardware tagging ;-)
Sounds plausible.
Hey won't be the first time someone misused bits of a register (hello you know who you are don't you)
But what 128 bit processor are they coding for?
How many times will we get these old lame con tricks? I mean, it was only er 1995 wasn't it? Sheeze, next thing you know someone will post an article about recursive data compression somewhere and get taken seriously. Oops. They did? Where. Can I sell it to someone I don't like? To the newbies out there: it aint wasting memory, it's just pining for the fjords...
DONT PANIC!!! Not so. Just broken server side scripts plus more load or summer brownouts I think....Hey, you should try living here in Athens GR where the brownouts *really* fry parts of machinery no programmer could hose by pulling them out of their sockets...(I wanted a dead memory module. My colleagues machine obliged. One stuck bit. Lovely).
Hey, you don't have another PC to play with? Geeze guys, if you QA your software under all those layers of gunk why do you think it might have bugs? Even if Connectix gets their emul bug compatibile with windows, is it really worth the bother? (I'd say the same for VMware 'cos at the end of the day you want to get close to the metal not far away. OK I'm an old timer.
Oh. The beauty of our neuroses. Jeez. Doesn't this stuff just make you want to AARRGGH! I know it's end of july but pleeze Zeus (hey I live in Athens GR) can we have some real news
A couple of years back SciAm had some articles about this by (Gary Stix?), and they made me jump. I don't jump easily. But at least one nuclear technician explained that "we don't know how hot X is because we don't have machines that can measure it". Gulp. I've no phobia of "radioactivity" (I have a science background) but wait a minute - if it's so damn hot you can't measure it? ...
Tom Lehrer might be right after all. Perhaps theres a nice green Campusy place around Seattle
which would make a great repository...
One day, this will be our best energy source - oh like in 6 monthes or so given U.S/China fuel consumption...
Aw. Come on children. Why spoil a perfectly good story by making it map to the real world? It's supposed to be mythological right? Like Zeus raping and raping and (oh I get it: you really want the SCO guy to get a major part...).
Wonder how long before someone hacks the output to include a buzzing mosquito... :-)
Also, presumably the underlying stuff was done years
ago at somewhere (say IRCAM in France)??
Amateur Radio Enthusiasts do CW (morse) communications using moonbounce, not voice. Given the path loss (c.a. 240dB) and power constraints on amateur stations voice is er.. difficult? (Michael: go look at Trexler's antenna spec!)...
Yeah, but a *REAL* space faring craft would never look like anything you'd design for a gravity well... would it? Face it. The LEM was the *ONLY* spacecraft that is worthy of the name even if they had to use reused socks to fix things to get 13 back... Someone give our fav engineer called Burt lots of Green stuff.. I want my father to live long enough to see space, not my grandchildren. Hey, I was there the first time. In the UK we only got a blurred version via that advanced technology of pointing a camera at a never twice same color set until around about 14 or 15. I'll never forgive you american imperialist b6ds for scheduling the 11 landing in your time zones prime time... I was 10.5 years old and mortally pissed.. But, NASA has serious problems with their ancient tapes ROTTING because nobody has looked at them. Perhaps instead of focussing on seti@home we should look at these damn things before all the data vanishes to /dev/eaten :-
What do you folks think. Should there be a
slashdot open source whatever project to
resurrect the data from old NASA dustbin warehouses or should we just wait for a sexier
probe?
So, we're going to get all of the friggin schisms that plagued old unix are we? Bring back the highlander philosophy someone *PLEEZE* So, as a developer of a neato linux appliance my vanilla linux kernel from funet.fi won't cut it, or be understood by the vast army out there ('cos they are hacking on the red hat, debian, SuSE (oops Novell) variant or something else... We really need this shit. I need even more un R&R time... Sigh. Maybe NT embedded isn't so bad after all... Hey at least I won't get sued by SCO (grins)
Back in t'old days, real men programmed machines with no such weenie luxuries. No No. The ROM only knew how to say "Hello I'm not dead" and gimme a disk with a boot block. Please no replies with "front panel switches" :-)
Why have a BIOS in ROM at all? The ROM ought to load the "BIOS" off hidden sectors on whatever the boot media is. Even AMESS understands this (thanks to it's CP/M roots).
Foo. Put *machine* diagnostics in the ROM, not old
INT 10, INT13 crap. That way even those of us who ought to know better can hose ourselvess overclocking and doing other things without losing
everything.
Shame that RMS won't come clean and admit he couldn't write an OS... There is no pressing need for a freeware BIOS a la Phoenix's clone of the IBM bios because anyone doing embedded stuff is going to go for a FreeBSD or Linux solution anyway and aside from a very brief interlude with INT 13
(a couple o' seconds) ...
Hey people, how can 30 seconds of flakey microgravity compare with *WEEKS* of flakey microgravity on board the ISS? Science. Humph. Just more propaganda for elitist crap universities (versus the poor good ones). (ex Bristol UK grad in chemistry)
Because you're trying to work in the word Japan or maybe Belgium???
It's nice to see the "Queens Honours" go to someone who did something practically useful (or even theoretically useful ), but I have to ask why everyone forgets Ted?? (Hey: I *KNOW* he was boring but he did invent hypertext (or not?))... Personally, I have fond memories of a G5 + 2 letter ham who got a KBE or was it a CBE? who did something secret (never explained) about Radar... Gosh. The web really is that important (marketting oinks nod in agreement...)>. But please explain to this dumb englishman how solves your everyday mondane petabyte online storage problem? Let alone visualizing that data in some yuk dimensional cube... Maybe someone should wake up RMS...There must be something we could do in LISP...
Even with the power outage we had yesterday here in Athens GR, and 384K ADSL (and all that bandwidth just for me when the power came up :-)) I wouldn't do it.
No, magazines are the way to distribute it or
binary diffs (why don't microsoft do this ??).
A hardened cynic like me would suggest that the
*diff* would still be 100MB.
No seriously, one sneaked into my Athens Greece apartment and made a political statement about my Linux file server :-). Took me three
hours to stop using colourful language about
the locals, and three weeks to pluck up the
courage to clean it (hey I use telnet ok?)