All, however, is not as bleak as it seems. Itanium did show solid gains from 2003 to 2004. Vendors moved 18,730 Itanium servers worth $479m in 2003 compared to 33,623 servers and that $1.4bn in 2004, IDC said.
I've no idea when they bought them, but it's a significant percentage of all the Itaniums sold per year in servers. Which is mind blowing actually. Then again, since it's Nasa, SGI or Intel might have donated them rather than selling. Hell since SGI is in deep shit, and big computers tend to be effectively rented rather than bought with a single upfront fee, maybe Nasa will get them cheap anyhow when SGI folds.
They could advertise it with pictures of the devil. Or a silhouette of a fat geek throwing the horns.
And the answer is No BTW. SATA is just a new transport for ATA/ATAPI commands. So it supports disk drives, CD roms and so on. It doesn't support network like devices. Firewire does though.
It doesn't matter. Chuck away the apple and reinstall the whole new orchard with modern trees that only produce red apples. It seems expensive, but it will cut costs in the long run. If you want to be a top tier fruit vendor, it's the only choice.
No, retrofitting paradigms and thinking outside the box are old fashioned. This isn't the 1980's anymore.
They need a Revolution in Paradigms. My company would be happy to organise training for say $10K per person hour. We have courses on Medieval Counterinsurgency Techniques, and Depopulation By Firepower(tm) too.
Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers' candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body
Note that workers != democrats.
It's just a tactical thing. Once they'd gained power and made revolutionary changes I don't think they were supposed to hold free'n'fair elections because that would have led to 'bourgeois democracy', which Marx despised.
They couldn't buy just Honda. They'd need to buy Honda, plus some oil wells, gas stations and reprocessing plants. Then they'd give away expensively built vehicles that would only run on SonyGas refilled at the service station for $50 bucks a time and sue people that 'hacked' them to run on regular unleaded.
Tests show that "--more-cooler" is 0.01% faster than "--cooler" zbuf_ptr==NULL? will retry Tests show that "--more-cooler" is 0.01% faster than "--cooler"
I always use "--morer-coolerer" myself to get the absolute best performance, but the patch to support it is only in my fork of GCC. I had s&me pr%blems with the TCP/IP stack corrupting corrupting &****H***socket_send:invalid port when I compiled them with that before, but I fixed th^m; Seems to wrk OK^H^Hperfectly now'
Now if I can just get X to start, Gentoo will be even faster.
I'm not sure it applies to law though, surely that doesn't take away free will. You can still choose to be bad if it's illegal, you just have to pay the price the law demands afterwards. Still, I can imagine lots of immoral things that shouldn't be illegal, unless you want to live in a totalitarian society that controls every aspect of your behaviour.
But democracies tend to reach a compromises on which immoral things are illegal, so I think it's more of a theoretical problem than a real one.
The parent post is a perfect into of how to get modded up
Ok, so I know I'm going to get a lot of AMD people agreeing with me and a lot of Intel people outright ripping me to shreds.
Reverse Psychology 101 : Slashdot mods will never mod you down if you say this, because the think that slashdot should be a haven for unpopular opinions persecuted by the corrupt, capitalist main stream media. It also encourages people to back you up if you make a few 'mistakes' in your post and start a huge flamewar.
But I'm going to speak my thoughts come hell or high water and you can choose to be a yes-man (or woman) with nothing to add to the conversation or just beat me with a stick.
Yeah, it took courage to type all this in, as well as speed. If Galileo was alive today, he'd be too cowardly to post like this. Martin Luther king would no doubt be afraid to lay into Wintel on slashdot. Remember, your opinions are not mainstream, but that's because the mainstream is dominated by stupid Neurotypicals
I believe that AMD had this technology before Intel ever started in on it.
You're confusing dual core with Core. AMD had the first dual core chip, and it was widely recognised as being a cleaner design than Intels dual core P4. The P4 wasn't designed with dual core in mind, and it's pipeline was too long, because it was designed to get to higher clock frequencies faster. It turns out that the process shrinks ground to a halt because of leakage current, and ultra long pipelines perform rather poorly on desktop stuff compared to processors like the Athlon which are more conventional. So the P4 designers bet on the wrong things.
Essentially Core is Intel learning from the A64 and Pentium M. And prioritising dual core performance over clock frequency from the start. Now they're betting on much the same things as AMD. They've cloned AMD64 too. It's interesting stuff.
As a disclaimer, I cannot say I've had the ability to try an Intel dual core but I'm just ever so happy with my AMD processor that I don't see why I should.
Translation : Yeah, I know about how the chip really works, so I don't need to bother with tiresome competitive benchmarking. Everyone knows those are rigged by evil capitalist big companies.
There's a nice little chart in the article but I like AMD's explanation along with their pdf a bit better. As you can see, AMD is no longer too concerned with dual core but has moved on to targeting multi core.
Translation : "I know the technology so much, I don't need to understand details like microop fusion. The P4 sucked and so even though they claim to have moved to a more Athlon like pipeline length, and Intel chips aren't more expensive than AMD and they will probably be more competitive in tests and lower power, that's probably just marketing buzz."
Note the benchmarks I quoted are of Yonah, a low power laptop chip that almost matches the performance of a similarly clocked A64. It's at least plausible that Merom, with more of an emphasis on performance than power will leapfrog Athlon 64 in performance terms in much the same way that Athlon 64 leapfrogger the P4.
Do I want to see Intel evaporate? No way. I want to see these two companies go head to head and drive prices down. You may mistake me for an AMD fanboi but I simply was in agony in high school when Pentium 100s costed an arm and a leg.
Genius again : the image of a poor student, oppressed by the evil capitalists. Vengeful feelings to said capitalists.
Then AMD slowly climbed the ranks to be a major competitor with Intel--and thank god for that! Now Intel actually has to price their chips competitively and I never wa
Actually, the free market does place a value on human life.
Consider the US. If you were killed by a box falling off a truck, enterprising lawyers would probably start to call your next of kin after a suitable 'grieving' interval, say a couple of days.
So you could say that the law places a value on human life. As far as I know, the settlement has a 'cost of life' component and a 'loss of earnings one'.
In more social democratic countries like Sweden or Germany, the ambulance chasing lawyer phenomenon doesn't see to have caught on. The UK seems to have it though, but it's quite a recent thing.
But I think in a completely free market, you end up with a Robocop style society, where powerful corporations buy political influence, and use that to change the law to protect themselves.
Which makes me look at Tort Law reform in a different light.
But there isn't any evidence of wrongdoing in this article. And they were trying to stop manufacturers, sorry MANUFACTURERS from installing pirated Windows, and trying to persuade them to enter the exciting world of software services.
And I've built or bought half a dozen machines over the last ten years. Most had an option whether they had Windows installed or not.
If you really don't want a Windows license, buy all the parts of your PC from different MAUFACTURERS with different credit cards. If the Microsoft License Police manage to collate the purchases with help from the NSA/CIA etc and call accusing you of having a PC, just say some of the bits went wrong or you sold them. Don't buy a case, just put the motherboard on a tinfoil sheet. You can use the same stuff you make hats from. Buy a steel reinforced apartment door to give yourself time to throw the parts of the PC out of the window before the Microsoft Gestapo can break it down. Do not sleep either at night either, that's a rookie mistake. Make sure you are alert at 3-5am, since that's the most likely time for them to raid your apartment. Most importantly, make sure you memorise the Linux source code so you can still think about it when they take you to Gitmo after the raid.
Office has always had shortcuts as far as I know, certainly Office 97 has them. Office does it's own UI though, but I think it follows the OS standard at the time it was released. Probably they were hidden until you press Alt in Office 2000. It's hard to tell as the latest copy I have is the 97 one.
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Well, at least he did try using it for a month, but I don't know the outcome as the website is farked.
Maybe the Googlebot decided to index it back into the stoneage.
But what's wrong with that. They're only talking about busting OEMs that install unlicensed Windows.
They want to sell more Windows licenses to be sure, and they're doing Xxx things
1) Visiting OEMs to check if they are buying an OEM license for each preinstalled machine they sell. 2) Trying to convince OEMs to bundle software rather than selling blank machines 3) They had some idea about recruiting people to provide proactive assistance during customer visits which they've now said was a typo.
But this is presumably aimed at big companies who buy a load of blank PC's and install them themselves. Or whatever, since they aren't going to do it, it's hard to know what it means. It could be that they'd send dudes round with powerpoint presentations on laptops, or it could actually have been a typo. The 'send the boys round' interpretation is either paranoid or a troll or bit of both.
Umm, they aren't going to 'send the anti piracy unit around'. The original article talks about Microsoft employees helping to sell Windows on customer visits.
In the zdnet article they said -
"I can confirm that the... personnel are not participating in customer visits. This is an error in the copy and will be amended in future material on the subject," Alexander claimed.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/28/itanium_0
I've no idea when they bought them, but it's a significant percentage of all the Itaniums sold per year in servers. Which is mind blowing actually. Then again, since it's Nasa, SGI or Intel might have donated them rather than selling. Hell since SGI is in deep shit, and big computers tend to be effectively rented rather than bought with a single upfront fee, maybe Nasa will get them cheap anyhow when SGI folds.
SATAn - SATA networking!
They could advertise it with pictures of the devil. Or a silhouette of a fat geek throwing the horns.
And the answer is No BTW. SATA is just a new transport for ATA/ATAPI commands. So it supports disk drives, CD roms and so on. It doesn't support network like devices. Firewire does though.
Humans choose breeding partners based on their 'hotness' as far as I can tell.
Ooh, I know this.
It doesn't matter. Chuck away the apple and reinstall the whole new orchard with modern trees that only produce red apples. It seems expensive, but it will cut costs in the long run. If you want to be a top tier fruit vendor, it's the only choice.
Shush. They're probably still upset about the 9th of November.
Maybe write vs right is like Free vs free, i.e. it's a piece of jargon you don't know.
These days you can't assume that just because someone writes illiterately on the internetwebs that they are stupid.
Maybe they are just using some kind of advanced irony that you don't understand, trolling for pendants.
No, retrofitting paradigms and thinking outside the box are old fashioned. This isn't the 1980's anymore.
They need a Revolution in Paradigms. My company would be happy to organise training for say $10K per person hour. We have courses on Medieval Counterinsurgency Techniques, and Depopulation By Firepower(tm) too.
The Apple II is your SAVIOUR! It died for YOUR SINS!
The full quote is
Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers' candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body
Note that workers != democrats.
It's just a tactical thing. Once they'd gained power and made revolutionary changes I don't think they were supposed to hold free'n'fair elections because that would have led to 'bourgeois democracy', which Marx despised.
And whoever wins will get sued by a Web 2.0 company when he gets on line with a name like that.
www.sharemoo.com - Ajax site with cute pictures of cows / P2P meat retailler.
www.dinari.com - Ajax site with slash fanfics for obscure 80's sci fi
They couldn't buy just Honda. They'd need to buy Honda, plus some oil wells, gas stations and reprocessing plants. Then they'd give away expensively built vehicles that would only run on SonyGas refilled at the service station for $50 bucks a time and sue people that 'hacked' them to run on regular unleaded.
Let that be a lesson to you.
Dvorak, Cringely and Jobs and all the Apple fans should take part in a public mass debate about this.
Tests show that "--more-cooler" is 0.01% faster than "--cooler"
zbuf_ptr==NULL? will retry
Tests show that "--more-cooler" is 0.01% faster than "--cooler"
I always use "--morer-coolerer" myself to get the absolute best performance, but the patch to support it is only in my fork of GCC. I had s&me pr%blems with the TCP/IP stack corrupting corrupting &****H***socket_send:invalid port when I compiled them with that before, but I fixed th^m; Seems to wrk OK^H^Hperfectly now'
Now if I can just get X to start, Gentoo will be even faster.
That reminds me of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange
I'm not sure it applies to law though, surely that doesn't take away free will. You can still choose to be bad if it's illegal, you just have to pay the price the law demands afterwards. Still, I can imagine lots of immoral things that shouldn't be illegal, unless you want to live in a totalitarian society that controls every aspect of your behaviour.
But democracies tend to reach a compromises on which immoral things are illegal, so I think it's more of a theoretical problem than a real one.
Reverse Psychology 101 : Slashdot mods will never mod you down if you say this, because the think that slashdot should be a haven for unpopular opinions persecuted by the corrupt, capitalist main stream media. It also encourages people to back you up if you make a few 'mistakes' in your post and start a huge flamewar.
Yeah, it took courage to type all this in, as well as speed. If Galileo was alive today, he'd be too cowardly to post like this. Martin Luther king would no doubt be afraid to lay into Wintel on slashdot. Remember, your opinions are not mainstream, but that's because the mainstream is dominated by stupid Neurotypicals
You're confusing dual core with Core. AMD had the first dual core chip, and it was widely recognised as being a cleaner design than Intels dual core P4. The P4 wasn't designed with dual core in mind, and it's pipeline was too long, because it was designed to get to higher clock frequencies faster. It turns out that the process shrinks ground to a halt because of leakage current, and ultra long pipelines perform rather poorly on desktop stuff compared to processors like the Athlon which are more conventional. So the P4 designers bet on the wrong things.
Essentially Core is Intel learning from the A64 and Pentium M. And prioritising dual core performance over clock frequency from the start. Now they're betting on much the same things as AMD. They've cloned AMD64 too. It's interesting stuff.
Translation : Yeah, I know about how the chip really works, so I don't need to bother with tiresome competitive benchmarking. Everyone knows those are rigged by evil capitalist big companies.
Translation : "I know the technology so much, I don't need to understand details like microop fusion. The P4 sucked and so even though they claim to have moved to a more Athlon like pipeline length, and Intel chips aren't more expensive than AMD and they will probably be more competitive in tests and lower power, that's probably just marketing buzz."
Note the benchmarks I quoted are of Yonah, a low power laptop chip that almost matches the performance of a similarly clocked A64. It's at least plausible that Merom, with more of an emphasis on performance than power will leapfrog Athlon 64 in performance terms in much the same way that Athlon 64 leapfrogger the P4.
Genius again : the image of a poor student, oppressed by the evil capitalists. Vengeful feelings to said capitalists.
If they handing over bloggers to the Chinese secret police I'd boycott them.
FUD and dumping don't justify a boycott, at least to me.
Actually, the free market does place a value on human life.
Consider the US. If you were killed by a box falling off a truck, enterprising lawyers would probably start to call your next of kin after a suitable 'grieving' interval, say a couple of days.
So you could say that the law places a value on human life. As far as I know, the settlement has a 'cost of life' component and a 'loss of earnings one'.
In more social democratic countries like Sweden or Germany, the ambulance chasing lawyer phenomenon doesn't see to have caught on. The UK seems to have it though, but it's quite a recent thing.
But I think in a completely free market, you end up with a Robocop style society, where powerful corporations buy political influence, and use that to change the law to protect themselves.
Which makes me look at Tort Law reform in a different light.
But there isn't any evidence of wrongdoing in this article. And they were trying to stop manufacturers, sorry MANUFACTURERS from installing pirated Windows, and trying to persuade them to enter the exciting world of software services.
And I've built or bought half a dozen machines over the last ten years. Most had an option whether they had Windows installed or not.
If you really don't want a Windows license, buy all the parts of your PC from different MAUFACTURERS with different credit cards. If the Microsoft License Police manage to collate the purchases with help from the NSA/CIA etc and call accusing you of having a PC, just say some of the bits went wrong or you sold them. Don't buy a case, just put the motherboard on a tinfoil sheet. You can use the same stuff you make hats from. Buy a steel reinforced apartment door to give yourself time to throw the parts of the PC out of the window before the Microsoft Gestapo can break it down. Do not sleep either at night either, that's a rookie mistake. Make sure you are alert at 3-5am, since that's the most likely time for them to raid your apartment. Most importantly, make sure you memorise the Linux source code so you can still think about it when they take you to Gitmo after the raid.
Keyboard accelerators are a standard Windows thing. Before Win2k they were always visible, but after that they are hidden until you press Alt.
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http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/05
Office has always had shortcuts as far as I know, certainly Office 97 has them. Office does it's own UI though, but I think it follows the OS standard at the time it was released. Probably they were hidden until you press Alt in Office 2000. It's hard to tell as the latest copy I have is the 97 one.
Well, at least he did try using it for a month, but I don't know the outcome as the website is farked.
Maybe the Googlebot decided to index it back into the stoneage.
But what's wrong with that. They're only talking about busting OEMs that install unlicensed Windows.
They want to sell more Windows licenses to be sure, and they're doing Xxx things
1) Visiting OEMs to check if they are buying an OEM license for each preinstalled machine they sell.
2) Trying to convince OEMs to bundle software rather than selling blank machines
3) They had some idea about recruiting people to provide proactive assistance during customer visits which they've now said was a typo.
But this is presumably aimed at big companies who buy a load of blank PC's and install them themselves. Or whatever, since they aren't going to do it, it's hard to know what it means. It could be that they'd send dudes round with powerpoint presentations on laptops, or it could actually have been a typo. The 'send the boys round' interpretation is either paranoid or a troll or bit of both.
The 'tragedy of the commons' is about how people neglect things that are not owned by anyone. It's the basis of the argument for property rights.
Which is kind of the opposite of Stallman's idea that code should not have owners.
So if I use cygwin, I'm using GNU/Windows. Or if I'm using some embedded vxWorks system built with GCC, it should be GNU/vxWorks?
Umm, they aren't going to 'send the anti piracy unit around'. The original article talks about Microsoft employees helping to sell Windows on customer visits.
In the zdnet article they said -
"I can confirm that the... personnel are not participating in customer visits. This is an error in the copy and will be amended in future material on the subject," Alexander claimed.