Or at least, they see what a newbie visits, and profile that newbie's tastes - until said newbie either discovers that there _is_ more to the internet than MS-sanctioned sites (and yes, Ginger, much of it is neither porn nor casinos), or gets sick of bouncing off Microsoft every time they pick a "Favourite".
When a client insists on using either IE or NS, the first thing I do is axe all of the bookmarks and make Google their home page.
How many/.ers were "raised" on Linux? *BSD? Any other non-M$ environment?
I was raised on CP/M, then DOS, then Windows. I ain't going back to any of them.
Let's face it, the money in Linux comes from the support.
And face it again, the money in Windows comes from everything. You pay for the product, maybe pay to have it installed, maybe pay to have it reinstalled a few times, maybe pay a reimaging fee on the reinstall because the original was OEM-only, pay per CPU, pay per seat, pay for support, pay for upgrades and in some cases for security/bugfix updates, pay for separate expensive machines for each service (since Exchange is a hog, Proxy a security colander and FrontPage another one, and anything from Microsoft just chugs down resources like they had a hardware franchise), not to mention pay for coffee and aspirin after the silly thing elects to grind to a halt at 2AM occasionally.
How many ISPs that use Linux can do so with off-the-shelf or downloadable software and not a year of developing your own scripts and playing jigsaw-puzzle to put it together?
What for? A Linux client never needs reimaging. (-:
The way I remotely reimage Wndows drives is by having the things reboot into Linux (net boot cards), then I just dd from an NFS drive onto the Win partition, mount it and make the necessary adjustments with a script, reboot into Windows. Fully automagic. What's so hard about that?
remote control capablity
Remote control under Windows sucks. I can run one (or one thousand) command(s) securely and remotely on one or one thousand Linux [or insert favored Unix implementation here] clients, or any reasonable subset, together or separately, by hand or automagically, copy files around (including between remotes without touching my machines) and stuff, and remoteing "by hand" is bearable on a heavily loaded modem line. None of this is so for any version of Windows.
As for Terminal Services, doing the same thing with Linux boxes (any Unix, for that matter) is no software, no licences, almost no config. It's exactly the kind of thing that Unix was born doing. Doing this with Windows is like foot-racing against a cheetah: it can be done, you won't win, you will look silly, you might get eaten. (-:
From what I gather, the networking code in W2K has been rewritten and allows much faster db access.
The last rewrite (for NT) threw ethernet and TCP timing into the bushes and jumped in after it. I wonder what they brutalised for this one? I mean, aside from obvious things like Active De-rectum-y?(*)
I'm going to wait for others to discover it, thank you, W2k is not for this little black duck, certainly not now and maybe not ever.
This is a good example of what holds back Unix in the marketplace. This is simply biased garbage.
You are of course referring to your own post?
NT4 is far more advanced than Unix when it comes to having embeddable components in the operating system.
Are we referring to kernel modules here, or individual services like khttpd? Either way, NT loses out by being late to market with the concept, and by not implementing it as safely or as cleanly.
When these documents are unable to give credit where credit is due, it casts doubt on ALL comparison studies. Those of you who would write these sort of documents should keep that in mind.
Oh, I understand, you have the wrong page open in your browser. You want this one instead.
I sent him several emails when he first put it up, but none of the comments were included in the site.
...is hardly surprising, given the complete lack of reality and often even relevence in your lines of argument. And really, given that this is an AC posting, saying that...
When his site first appeared he had a resume posted as well
...is serious chutzpah. Go back to flattening your forehead on the ground before Bill.
It has much less backward compatibility than any other version of Windows I've used, but the stability has definitely increased.
Sorry, are you talking about W2k or Linux in this sentence? (-:
Using Windows 2000 carries risks of being incompatible with the rest of your network.
Deja vu again, this reads just like Microsoft anti-Linux propaganda but you seem to be applying it to W2k...
The only compelling reason I can think of to go with Windows is speed of application development, both on web and desktop based applications.
This I will give you, but with significant reservations. The first is that tools like wxPython and Boa Constructor erase a lot of the differences for the desktop; the second is that snippets of PHP, Python etc seem to be a lot more reuseable in practice than chunks of ASPness, meaning that reaching for PHP templates for a new website is generally at least as productive as starting a new ASP; the third is that using tools lke Word and Frontpage for web design should be a hanging offense.
Instead of allowing each user to customize various aspects of application behaviour with small text files in their home directory, much system behaviour is controlled instead by a single central repository. Fundamentally flawed design, plain and simple.
Now here's a familiar theme! One massive world-writable database versus many/var/spool/mail/$USER files; one monolithic config versus little ~/.forward and friends; one directory and one name for about twenty different flavours of system library; one indivisible world-writeable repository versus ~/.$APPNAME shadowing/etc/$APPNAME... one globe-spanning company versus millions of users... one death-star versus hundreds of X-wings... one reactor tunnel, one blank MS-SQL default, it seems to match up well for me!
What can I say? "Use the flaws, Luke!" (-:
Microsoft has conclusively demonstrated that the only sane upgrade from NT4 is Unix.
I had one customer plug in a Mandrake install CD, click on the "Server" button and stand back. The only configuring he did was to use LinuxConf to set up the modem and DNS for his machine, then he went online hosting his own website over a modem. Delegated his own domain name and all. He'd never touched anything but Windows 98 before, and was using Linux because he'd read somewhere that it made a great server.
He contected me to make the redial sequence a bit more intelligent and while I was there I added a network card so he could stop dialling out on another line to give his Windows box internet access and told him which services he could do without.
You don't pull a microwave apart and put it back together then complain when you get radiation poisoning do you ?
I don't personally, but people, notably so for North Americans, do seem to enjoy this kind of thing: stick a screwdriver in your eye and then sue the screwdriver manufacturer.
I often wonder what the morons sue the manufacturer for... failing to mount a ring around the business end to stop people excising their own eyeballs? Only to be sued again when another dickwit gets his fingers caught in the protecive ring? How do I undo a recessed screw with this new, safer screwdriver?
You would halve the Court traffic overnight if common sense was made a mandatory possession.
Heck, if it's only a few thousand, finding an individual sponsor shouldn't be hard. Linus lashed out and bought a BMW roadster, perhaps he'll lash out and buy a book? I know I would, if I were swimming in money, but I'm not Linus (or Eric etc).
You left them alone in the room with a penguin!? Mr Gates, your men are already dead.
They claim to have taken into account everything there is to account for, but I think they may have missed one of the most fundamental processes of life on this planet: evolution.
So true. Life will have long become extinct from exponentially increasing genetic load.
50,000 years is roughly 5 times the sum of all recorded (known?) human history thus far.
Actually, about ten times, and that even includes cave paintings if you use a reliable dating method. Here in good old Oz, we have "40,000 year old" cave paintings that need perspex rain shields. Yeah, right...
They became god-like beings of pure energy, with no more need for a planet than we have for an appendix.
Actually, our appendix provides valuable biological partitioning between our stomach and intestines. Removing it greatly increases the likelihood of bowel problems, and for those to become complicated. Similarly with tonsils. If gall bladders, long considered optional, are removed, your chances of colon cancer quadruple.
There is a big difference between what SciFi authors hope will take place, and what actually happens. Clarke was working with already-outdated biology at the time he wrote that, and more observations have been made since then.
For example, it seems that turtles have always needed complete shells - there are no fossilised proto-turtles with half-formed shells; the nice neat horse evolution diagrams have been binned when it was discovered that along with the secquence of "needed" changes came other non-sequences that just plain didn't make sense; archaeopteryx has been deemed a hoatzin and grouped with the other fossils of toothed true birds, and so on.
When this thing falls, it may fall to an world barren of humanity.
It won't fall. The same orbital slip that's driving the moon away from Earth will drive the satellite away. By the way, if you backtrack the moon, it's volume occluded the earth's about a million years or so ago - but I see no big, flat groove on the equator.
The only real chance you have of becoming a disembodied spirit is to step into freeway traffic. Flights of fantasy can be very comforting but sooner or later reality will bite you one the behind.
And then if you want things like perl, or gzip, or Netscape, and all the things that COE didn't provide (usually called Commercial Of The Shelf, or COTS software), the government must pay to have those repackaged to the COE package format. This might include things like Gnome, Kde, StarOffice, BIND, Sendmail, etc.... And of course, each platform must be packaged separately.
How hard would it be to do RPMtoCOE or DEBtoCOE?
Not a complete solution, of course, but probably a necessary step. A COE-packager-based distribution with a suite of XXXtoCOE tools would at least look more attractive (ie be more buzzword-compliant). That and updating UniFix's POSIX cert, then chasing a C2 (or higher) rating, would surely help lots.
Linux version 2.2.15-4mdksecure (chmou@kenobi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #1 SMP Wed May 10 14:16:48 CEST 2000
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POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
So what's the problem? Not enough POSIX testing? Done on the wrong phase of the moon? Completed but nobody would sponsor the actual certificate? If I was a Linux co in a position to sell to the military, and "proper" POSIX certification cost (say) $US20,000, I'd being sending the money today.
Consider laying hand on as much information as you possibly can (without being noticed) about the AD uberserver, any backups/slaves to it, and also nodes close to the AD root in other (-: rival?:-) agencies, and sort of... anonymously publishing it in places.
After the luvverly Microsoft intranet has been raped silly a few times (do any of those agencies have MS-SQL installed?), they might not be so happy about making it universal.
Then might be a good time to point out that your Unix network has not only never been raped, it's never been seriously proposed to, and offer to share your expertise amongst those poor unfortunates with the legacy operating system infection.
If you're sure of your security, be careful to also include some numbers for your own systems in the leaked info, so that the absence is not noted. It would also make the subsequent baptism-of-fire somewhat more even-handed.
Microsoft is now developing their own chips for WebTV
That would be... potato chips.
No, "loss chips".
Is anyone here unlucky enough to be running a WinChip? I excised one from my wife's computer earlier this year. This WinChip-240 had a BogoMIPS rating of 127, the K6-II-300 which replaced it checks in at 300. The difference was... noticeable.
In summary, Microsoft can't make anything that works well, if the category ends with "...ware", so these chips should be at least amusing. Perhaps they could try leatherware, it worked for Tandy for quite a long time, and would suit Microsoft's "dominating" image.
If it's mechanical that means there must be biological life.
Whooooo-oooo... the mournful whistle of the departing cluetrain echoes across the 'net... (-:
It is much more reasonable to suppose that electronic "life" arose spontaneously than biological life. For example, given a universe in which every single atom represented a useful amino acid, and havin them all recombine a billion times a second (never mind the effects of distance/separation, decay, radiation, gravity, temperature...), you still require a universe nearly three powers of magnitude older than anyone has dared postulate just to bring the odds down to even of life having ever happened once, anywhere.
Note that I said "powers", not "orders" of magnitude! Yes, we're talking factors like 10E100 here. We have whistled so far past impossible that neither the VLT nor Hubble could see it. Do you feel special yet? I do! (-:
Laid down beside odds like this, the idea of a sentient quartz formation overlying a natural nuke reactor (see Rum Jungle in Australia's Northern Territory for an example of one of those) seems positively inevitable.
The ability to erase all your RAM to me is like "starting fresh", similar to rebooting Windows to regain some temporary stability.
No Windows, no problem. Same old story...
It wouldn't be hard to park Linux "nicely" within a few milliseconds, running on power from the capacitors in the power supply just long enough to do this. When the machine is re-powered, Linux can simply reinit devices a la Two Kernel Monte and then pick up where it left off. That and journalling filesystems equals reliability heaven.
However, how many of us really need 64-bit memory addressing or even 64-bit arithmetic operations?
Me! I want to do single-cycle scaled-64-bit-integer arithmetic to sort out my 3D graphics, instead of multi-cycle or floating point, thanks. Better still, I want to do two of those on each clock cycle so my CPU is doing more than a 3GHz Athlon would, in the nanoseconds before it melted a hole through the floor.
Speaking of which, I hope this monster won't require a 500W (!!) power supply and a wind tunnel like an iTanium does.
If the CPU uses less than about 20W it will be feasible to integrate one with a 3D card (geForce 2001 anyone?) so most of the game logic lives on the video card. Propagation delays? We don't need no steenking propagation delays! Your other x86-64 CPU could be busy pushing really cool noises (doppler/phase-distorted SFX to match fast screen action, for example) into a sound card when it's not handling the network and control interfaces.
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Or at least, they see what a newbie visits, and profile that newbie's tastes - until said newbie either discovers that there _is_ more to the internet than MS-sanctioned sites (and yes, Ginger, much of it is neither porn nor casinos), or gets sick of bouncing off Microsoft every time they pick a "Favourite".
When a client insists on using either IE or NS, the first thing I do is axe all of the bookmarks and make Google their home page.
How about microsoftrecovery.org?
I'll happily donate of my nonexistent time for editing etc... sometimes you need to plow the ground before you plant.
I guess getting a whole pile of other people's email isn't a disruption, as such, but... I do wonder if I got all of my email...
How many /.ers were "raised" on Linux? *BSD? Any other non-M$ environment?
I was raised on CP/M, then DOS, then Windows. I ain't going back to any of them.
Let's face it, the money in Linux comes from the support.
And face it again, the money in Windows comes from everything. You pay for the product, maybe pay to have it installed, maybe pay to have it reinstalled a few times, maybe pay a reimaging fee on the reinstall because the original was OEM-only, pay per CPU, pay per seat, pay for support, pay for upgrades and in some cases for security/bugfix updates, pay for separate expensive machines for each service (since Exchange is a hog, Proxy a security colander and FrontPage another one, and anything from Microsoft just chugs down resources like they had a hardware franchise), not to mention pay for coffee and aspirin after the silly thing elects to grind to a halt at 2AM occasionally.
How many ISPs that use Linux can do so with off-the-shelf or downloadable software and not a year of developing your own scripts and playing jigsaw-puzzle to put it together?
An awful lot of them, including me.
easy re-imageing
What for? A Linux client never needs reimaging. (-:
The way I remotely reimage Wndows drives is by having the things reboot into Linux (net boot cards), then I just dd from an NFS drive onto the Win partition, mount it and make the necessary adjustments with a script, reboot into Windows. Fully automagic. What's so hard about that?
remote control capablity
Remote control under Windows sucks. I can run one (or one thousand) command(s) securely and remotely on one or one thousand Linux [or insert favored Unix implementation here] clients, or any reasonable subset, together or separately, by hand or automagically, copy files around (including between remotes without touching my machines) and stuff, and remoteing "by hand" is bearable on a heavily loaded modem line. None of this is so for any version of Windows.
As for Terminal Services, doing the same thing with Linux boxes (any Unix, for that matter) is no software, no licences, almost no config. It's exactly the kind of thing that Unix was born doing. Doing this with Windows is like foot-racing against a cheetah: it can be done, you won't win, you will look silly, you might get eaten. (-:
I'm in Western Australia, happy to provide Linux knowledge (not a guru but good).
From what I gather, the networking code in W2K has been rewritten and allows much faster db access.
The last rewrite (for NT) threw ethernet and TCP timing into the bushes and jumped in after it. I wonder what they brutalised for this one? I mean, aside from obvious things like Active De-rectum-y?(*)
I'm going to wait for others to discover it, thank you, W2k is not for this little black duck, certainly not now and maybe not ever.
(*) "Rectum" as in "Rectum?" "Sure did!"
Microsoft Myths Made Manifest
This is a good example of what holds back Unix in the marketplace. This is simply biased garbage.
You are of course referring to your own post?
NT4 is far more advanced than Unix when it comes to having embeddable components in the operating system.
Are we referring to kernel modules here, or individual services like khttpd? Either way, NT loses out by being late to market with the concept, and by not implementing it as safely or as cleanly.
When these documents are unable to give credit where credit is due, it casts doubt on ALL comparison studies. Those of you who would write these sort of documents should keep that in mind.
Oh, I understand, you have the wrong page open in your browser. You want this one instead.
If you are Alex/Drestin, then this...
I sent him several emails when he first put it up, but none of the comments were included in the site.
...is hardly surprising, given the complete lack of reality and often even relevence in your lines of argument. And really, given that this is an AC posting, saying that...
When his site first appeared he had a resume posted as well
...is serious chutzpah. Go back to flattening your forehead on the ground before Bill.
It has much less backward compatibility than any other version of Windows I've used, but the stability has definitely increased.
Sorry, are you talking about W2k or Linux in this sentence? (-:
Using Windows 2000 carries risks of being incompatible with the rest of your network.
Deja vu again, this reads just like Microsoft anti-Linux propaganda but you seem to be applying it to W2k...
The only compelling reason I can think of to go with Windows is speed of application development, both on web and desktop based applications.
This I will give you, but with significant reservations. The first is that tools like wxPython and Boa Constructor erase a lot of the differences for the desktop; the second is that snippets of PHP, Python etc seem to be a lot more reuseable in practice than chunks of ASPness, meaning that reaching for PHP templates for a new website is generally at least as productive as starting a new ASP; the third is that using tools lke Word and Frontpage for web design should be a hanging offense.
I think the facts will probably point towards Linux, but I encourage you to take a look, try both, and then join most of us in hating Microsoft. :-)
Couldn't agree more! I'll bring the rope... no, wait, Microsoft have enough rope already...
Instead of allowing each user to customize various aspects of application behaviour with small text files in their home directory, much system behaviour is controlled instead by a single central repository. Fundamentally flawed design, plain and simple.
/var/spool/mail/$USER files; one monolithic config versus little ~/.forward and friends; one directory and one name for about twenty different flavours of system library; one indivisible world-writeable repository versus ~/.$APPNAME shadowing /etc/$APPNAME... one globe-spanning company versus millions of users... one death-star versus hundreds of X-wings... one reactor tunnel, one blank MS-SQL default, it seems to match up well for me!
Now here's a familiar theme! One massive world-writable database versus many
What can I say? "Use the flaws, Luke!" (-:
Microsoft has conclusively demonstrated that the only sane upgrade from NT4 is Unix.
It has always been this way... (-:
I had one customer plug in a Mandrake install CD, click on the "Server" button and stand back. The only configuring he did was to use LinuxConf to set up the modem and DNS for his machine, then he went online hosting his own website over a modem. Delegated his own domain name and all. He'd never touched anything but Windows 98 before, and was using Linux because he'd read somewhere that it made a great server.
He contected me to make the redial sequence a bit more intelligent and while I was there I added a network card so he could stop dialling out on another line to give his Windows box internet access and told him which services he could do without.
How hard is that?
You don't pull a microwave apart and put it back together then complain when you get radiation poisoning do you ?
I don't personally, but people, notably so for North Americans, do seem to enjoy this kind of thing: stick a screwdriver in your eye and then sue the screwdriver manufacturer.
I often wonder what the morons sue the manufacturer for... failing to mount a ring around the business end to stop people excising their own eyeballs? Only to be sued again when another dickwit gets his fingers caught in the protecive ring? How do I undo a recessed screw with this new, safer screwdriver?
You would halve the Court traffic overnight if common sense was made a mandatory possession.
Heck, if it's only a few thousand, finding an individual sponsor shouldn't be hard. Linus lashed out and bought a BMW roadster, perhaps he'll lash out and buy a book? I know I would, if I were swimming in money, but I'm not Linus (or Eric etc).
:-)
You left them alone in the room with a penguin!? Mr Gates, your men are already dead.
Well, it happened to Vinod Valloppillil... (-: Remember Nat Brown's "No 2-day NT drivers" statement?
They claim to have taken into account everything there is to account for, but I think they may have missed one of the most fundamental processes of life on this planet: evolution.
So true. Life will have long become extinct from exponentially increasing genetic load.
50,000 years is roughly 5 times the sum of all recorded (known?) human history thus far.
Actually, about ten times, and that even includes cave paintings if you use a reliable dating method. Here in good old Oz, we have "40,000 year old" cave paintings that need perspex rain shields. Yeah, right...
They became god-like beings of pure energy, with no more need for a planet than we have for an appendix.
Actually, our appendix provides valuable biological partitioning between our stomach and intestines. Removing it greatly increases the likelihood of bowel problems, and for those to become complicated. Similarly with tonsils. If gall bladders, long considered optional, are removed, your chances of colon cancer quadruple.
There is a big difference between what SciFi authors hope will take place, and what actually happens. Clarke was working with already-outdated biology at the time he wrote that, and more observations have been made since then.
For example, it seems that turtles have always needed complete shells - there are no fossilised proto-turtles with half-formed shells; the nice neat horse evolution diagrams have been binned when it was discovered that along with the secquence of "needed" changes came other non-sequences that just plain didn't make sense; archaeopteryx has been deemed a hoatzin and grouped with the other fossils of toothed true birds, and so on.
When this thing falls, it may fall to an world barren of humanity.
It won't fall. The same orbital slip that's driving the moon away from Earth will drive the satellite away. By the way, if you backtrack the moon, it's volume occluded the earth's about a million years or so ago - but I see no big, flat groove on the equator.
The only real chance you have of becoming a disembodied spirit is to step into freeway traffic. Flights of fantasy can be very comforting but sooner or later reality will bite you one the behind.
And then if you want things like perl, or gzip, or Netscape, and all the things that COE didn't provide (usually called Commercial Of The Shelf, or COTS software), the government must pay to have those repackaged to the COE package format. This might include things like Gnome, Kde, StarOffice, BIND, Sendmail, etc.... And of course, each platform must be packaged separately.
How hard would it be to do RPMtoCOE or DEBtoCOE?
Not a complete solution, of course, but probably a necessary step. A COE-packager-based distribution with a suite of XXXtoCOE tools would at least look more attractive (ie be more buzzword-compliant). That and updating UniFix's POSIX cert, then chasing a C2 (or higher) rating, would surely help lots.
OpenBSD....Already fits the bill
I'm happy with that. Anything But Microsoft... oh, hang on a minute, can I change my mind if I end up being shot at by the US military? (-:
"What? You're not using Windows 98? You're MAD!" (-:
So what's the problem? Not enough POSIX testing? Done on the wrong phase of the moon? Completed but nobody would sponsor the actual certificate? If I was a Linux co in a position to sell to the military, and "proper" POSIX certification cost (say) $US20,000, I'd being sending the money today.
Far be it from me to suggest a set-up, but...
:-) agencies, and sort of... anonymously publishing it in places.
Consider laying hand on as much information as you possibly can (without being noticed) about the AD uberserver, any backups/slaves to it, and also nodes close to the AD root in other (-: rival?
After the luvverly Microsoft intranet has been raped silly a few times (do any of those agencies have MS-SQL installed?), they might not be so happy about making it universal.
Then might be a good time to point out that your Unix network has not only never been raped, it's never been seriously proposed to, and offer to share your expertise amongst those poor unfortunates with the legacy operating system infection.
If you're sure of your security, be careful to also include some numbers for your own systems in the leaked info, so that the absence is not noted. It would also make the subsequent baptism-of-fire somewhat more even-handed.
That would be... potato chips.
No, "loss chips".
Is anyone here unlucky enough to be running a WinChip? I excised one from my wife's computer earlier this year. This WinChip-240 had a BogoMIPS rating of 127, the K6-II-300 which replaced it checks in at 300. The difference was... noticeable.
In summary, Microsoft can't make anything that works well, if the category ends with "...ware", so these chips should be at least amusing. Perhaps they could try leatherware, it worked for Tandy for quite a long time, and would suit Microsoft's "dominating" image.
If it's mechanical that means there must be biological life.
Whooooo-oooo... the mournful whistle of the departing cluetrain echoes across the 'net... (-:
It is much more reasonable to suppose that electronic "life" arose spontaneously than biological life. For example, given a universe in which every single atom represented a useful amino acid, and havin them all recombine a billion times a second (never mind the effects of distance/separation, decay, radiation, gravity, temperature...), you still require a universe nearly three powers of magnitude older than anyone has dared postulate just to bring the odds down to even of life having ever happened once, anywhere.
Note that I said "powers", not "orders" of magnitude! Yes, we're talking factors like 10E100 here. We have whistled so far past impossible that neither the VLT nor Hubble could see it. Do you feel special yet? I do! (-:
Laid down beside odds like this, the idea of a sentient quartz formation overlying a natural nuke reactor (see Rum Jungle in Australia's Northern Territory for an example of one of those) seems positively inevitable.
The ability to erase all your RAM to me is like "starting fresh", similar to rebooting Windows to regain some temporary stability.
No Windows, no problem. Same old story...
It wouldn't be hard to park Linux "nicely" within a few milliseconds, running on power from the capacitors in the power supply just long enough to do this. When the machine is re-powered, Linux can simply reinit devices a la Two Kernel Monte and then pick up where it left off. That and journalling filesystems equals reliability heaven.
However, how many of us really need 64-bit memory addressing or even 64-bit arithmetic operations?
Me! I want to do single-cycle scaled-64-bit-integer arithmetic to sort out my 3D graphics, instead of multi-cycle or floating point, thanks. Better still, I want to do two of those on each clock cycle so my CPU is doing more than a 3GHz Athlon would, in the nanoseconds before it melted a hole through the floor.
Speaking of which, I hope this monster won't require a 500W (!!) power supply and a wind tunnel like an iTanium does.
If the CPU uses less than about 20W it will be feasible to integrate one with a 3D card (geForce 2001 anyone?) so most of the game logic lives on the video card. Propagation delays? We don't need no steenking propagation delays! Your other x86-64 CPU could be busy pushing really cool noises (doppler/phase-distorted SFX to match fast screen action, for example) into a sound card when it's not handling the network and control interfaces.