I'm not loyal to either of 'em. I just buy the best processor in each generation in the budget I can afford.
I.e. mostly non Intel upto the Celeron 300, then Athlon XP, and probably a Merom next. But if Merom ends up sucking badly benchmark wise, I'll get a Athlon 64.
I honestly don't understand the whole fan boy thing. Processor companies aren't sports teams, and it doesn't matter to you who wins the battle. Hell, most of the people I know don't even get that way about sports teams.
As far as the article goes, this is significant because the AMD brand has strengthened to the point where they don't need to underprice. Which they deserve actually, the design choices they made with the Athlon and '64 were much better than on the P4. With a bit of luck, Intel will make the right choices with Next Generation Microarchitecture, and get back on track with their manufacturing processes, and produce something that leapfrogs the AMD 64. If they manage that, I'll buy it and if they don't I won't.
Oh screw it
<fanboy> Woohoo, Intel are gonna put the Megahurts on AMD with Merom. Squeel piggy, Squeal. Yeeehaw!!!! </fanboy>
That web page describes how DNA based life works, which is fair enough since it's the only kind we've found.
But you can imagine non-DNA based life. Either there would be some analogous molecule that contained information in a long chain, or the information would be stored in a completely different way, like in crystals.
My hunch is that the DNA/RNA protein based architecture which has the monopoly now is too sophisticated to be the original one. I'd guess there was some simpler predecessor which was able to make RNA and peptides as tools. Once they environoment was full of these, you could have a new version of life developing, perhaps gradually ditching the simpler version for performance reasons. Maybe there were several architectures, each more complex than the last. It's a bit like how we make machines for our own purposes, but they may one day far supersede us in terms of abilities.
The problem is that no one has come up with a plausible 'simpler architecture' than the current one. But with a bit of luck, either someone will discover it deep in the Earth's crust, or figure it out from scratch. Or maybe life started with RNA or PNA in solution.
But I don't think mitosis/meiosis is necessary for life - even for DNA based life you can copy DNA is a much simpler way, something like PCR. Viruses can self assemble in solution too. So presumably the earliest DNA based life reproduced something like this.
I think they want to save money on Tech Support by having fewer Red State customers. Clinton (either) would have been better, but they probably charge too much for product endorsements.
Peter Gibbons: Doesn't it bother you that you have to get up in the morning and you have to put on a bunch of pieces of flair? Joanna: Yeah, but I'm not about to go in and start taking money from the register. Peter Gibbons: Well, maybe you should. You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear. Joanna: What??? Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
"In following this movement towards its end we shall inevitably reach a point beyond which the scene is darkened by the shadow of Hitler. Unfortunately, it does not go without saying that in our examination we must avoid the fallacy that in the last decades has frequently been used as a substitute for the reductio ad absurdum: the reductio ad Hitlerum. A view is not refuted by the fact that it happens to have been shared by Hitler."
Not only did he invent the concept 40 years before Godwin, he invented the wonderful cod Latin phrase Reduction ad Hitlerum, or "Reduction to Hitler", a jokey reference to Reductio ad absurdum
I kind of thought Yonah was a preview of the NGMA. But the pipeline is different, so it could be closer to a Pentium M.
It's interesting that it has VT though, it makes you wonder whether they want to run OS-X together with Windows. You could imagine this being something Microsoft might even collaborate with. They could drop their Mac version of office for a start. Maybe you could run XP and Mac OS in different VT virtual machines and find some way to make it seamless, so that both could create windows on the same desktop and the clipboard and so on could be shared. Mac OS could share files over SMB for instance.
Still, I'm not sure that VT is the way to do this.
Odd that, I thought the next gen core was EMT64 capable. I found some reference to it not being enabled to reduce power consumption in Yonah, not sure how true that is.
I still don't understand why they didn't bite the 64 bit bullet when they moved to Intel. It would have been easy to move the UI stuff to 64 bit mode. As far as I can tell, the kernel already is. Then you'd give people the option to run in long mode for applications. 32 bit applications could run in long mode too, actually - they would still have 32 bit pointers in memory and sign extend them into 64 bits when they load them into registers[1]. That way, all user applications could use the improved ABI, more registers, modern instructions and so on.
I don't see the reason to use 32 bit x86 code at all really, since they don't have any third party legacy Intel stuff to support. You could even run the 32 bit UI stuff in long mode, if you use the sign extended pointer trick.
[1] GCC for x86-64 already supports a small model where the code and data of an application must fit in 2GB. You'd need to have a "32 bit process" flag somewhere to tell malloc and so on to only return buffers in the first 4GB of virtual address space. That way, the application could safely store pointers in 32 bit memory locations. It could use MOVZX to load them into registers, and pass them to system calls. The idea is that you can still run ILP32 code on x86-64 code, in long mode.
Actually, I got the impression that the deal with IBM wasn't for n processors, $X per chip, it was more like a one off payment to license the core.
Not sure how it compares to the cost of the Intel CPU in the original X Box, but since they switched from that, it must have been cheaper. But I think the more important reason for the switch is that they can make a custom chip with the CPU + other stuff and reduce the build cost to below the sales price :
Another huge change, says Mr Bach, is that the original Xbox was built from off-the-shelf parts. This reduced time-to-marketthe Xbox took 18 months to design and launchbut prevented Microsoft from reducing the cost of the console during its lifetime. With no loss of performance Sony, for example, has gradually reduced the number of chips inside the PlayStation 2, cutting costs and enabling it to sell the consoles at a profit. Microsoft's use of multiple chips from different suppliers (such as Intel and Nvidia) made such integration impossible. But the Xbox 360 is based on a new, custom design that should give Microsoft the flexibility to integrate components in future. As a result, says Mr Bach, the company will break even on the hardware over the console cycle. Since software sales will be profitable, the Xbox 360 should actually make Microsoft money.
I'm not sure if they have the rights to build the ATI graphics chip too, I can't find any reference to it.
My impression is the the lower-cost countries can be a great way to save money on manufacturing relatively simple items with well-established production techniques, but for newer technologies and R&D, a more highly skilled workforce is necessary.
Yes quite, like us for instance. I often remind my clients of this, a good lecture often makes them forget what they came to ask me to do too.
As the Director of First4Internet, I find that offensive and Socialist. They purpose of the machines of poor people is to serve me in my botnet, much as they serve me in my company.
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I'm not loyal to either of 'em. I just buy the best processor in each generation in the budget I can afford.
I.e. mostly non Intel upto the Celeron 300, then Athlon XP, and probably a Merom next. But if Merom ends up sucking badly benchmark wise, I'll get a Athlon 64.
I honestly don't understand the whole fan boy thing. Processor companies aren't sports teams, and it doesn't matter to you who wins the battle. Hell, most of the people I know don't even get that way about sports teams.
As far as the article goes, this is significant because the AMD brand has strengthened to the point where they don't need to underprice. Which they deserve actually, the design choices they made with the Athlon and '64 were much better than on the P4. With a bit of luck, Intel will make the right choices with Next Generation Microarchitecture, and get back on track with their manufacturing processes, and produce something that leapfrogs the AMD 64. If they manage that, I'll buy it and if they don't I won't.
Oh screw it
<fanboy>
Woohoo, Intel are gonna put the Megahurts on AMD with Merom. Squeel piggy, Squeal. Yeeehaw!!!!
</fanboy>
Could be worse though, the lecturers at my Uni would have turned on the airflow if it would have saved them twenty bucks.
That web page describes how DNA based life works, which is fair enough since it's the only kind we've found.
But you can imagine non-DNA based life. Either there would be some analogous molecule that contained information in a long chain, or the information would be stored in a completely different way, like in crystals.
My hunch is that the DNA/RNA protein based architecture which has the monopoly now is too sophisticated to be the original one. I'd guess there was some simpler predecessor which was able to make RNA and peptides as tools. Once they environoment was full of these, you could have a new version of life developing, perhaps gradually ditching the simpler version for performance reasons. Maybe there were several architectures, each more complex than the last. It's a bit like how we make machines for our own purposes, but they may one day far supersede us in terms of abilities.
The problem is that no one has come up with a plausible 'simpler architecture' than the current one. But with a bit of luck, either someone will discover it deep in the Earth's crust, or figure it out from scratch. Or maybe life started with RNA or PNA in solution.
But I don't think mitosis/meiosis is necessary for life - even for DNA based life you can copy DNA is a much simpler way, something like PCR. Viruses can self assemble in solution too. So presumably the earliest DNA based life reproduced something like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Cairns-Smith
You wouldn't have these problems if you didn't try to follow up to your own posts Mr Coward.
If that in fact is your real name.
The latest Microsoft compilers do implement canaries to check for buffer overflows, and DEP too.
s tack-protection.pdf
There are still exploits for them though
http://www.ngssoftware.com/papers/defeating-w2k3-
The per process cookie isn't write protected, and exception handlers can be located on the heap.
I think they want to save money on Tech Support by having fewer Red State customers. Clinton (either) would have been better, but they probably charge too much for product endorsements.
Peter Gibbons: Doesn't it bother you that you have to get up in the morning and you have to put on a bunch of pieces of flair?
Joanna: Yeah, but I'm not about to go in and start taking money from the register.
Peter Gibbons: Well, maybe you should. You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.
Joanna: What???
Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
Strange but true, Godwin's Law was first stated in 1990, but in 1950, Leo Strauss said
Not only did he invent the concept 40 years before Godwin, he invented the wonderful cod Latin phrase Reduction ad Hitlerum, or "Reduction to Hitler", a jokey reference to Reductio ad absurdum
Both are wrong now.
The new unified Anglo/American Nato standard spelling is aluminiuium
I'd buy one for my ex if it was a neck collar, regardless of capacity.
The Terminator would probably disagree.
You can specify a boot sector in boot.ini. It needs this so it can boot Win98, Dos and so on. You can use it to load pretty much any OS though.
http://www.highlandsun.com/hyc/linuxboot.html
Or you could turn off boot sector checks in the virus protection.
Here's a quick summary
1) Geeks quarrel.
2) Project forks.
3) ????
4) Goto 1.
NiMH leak too fast. I've got a digicam, and it's always flat whenever I want to take any pictures.
N ICDBATTERY_024
The self discharge current is way high - 3 to 10 times NiCd.
http://www.repairfaq.org/ELE/F_NiCd_Battery.html#
Mind you, you can always keep a spare set in the fridge, the discharge is slower at low temp.
I kind of thought Yonah was a preview of the NGMA. But the pipeline is different, so it could be closer to a Pentium M.
It's interesting that it has VT though, it makes you wonder whether they want to run OS-X together with Windows. You could imagine this being something Microsoft might even collaborate with. They could drop their Mac version of office for a start. Maybe you could run XP and Mac OS in different VT virtual machines and find some way to make it seamless, so that both could create windows on the same desktop and the clipboard and so on could be shared. Mac OS could share files over SMB for instance.
Still, I'm not sure that VT is the way to do this.
Hmm, I see what you mean.
t he+next+notebook+chip/2100-1006_3-5729925.html
Odd that, I thought the next gen core was EMT64 capable. I found some reference to it not being enabled to reduce power consumption in Yonah, not sure how true that is.
http://news.com.com/Intel+spills+beans+on+Yonah,+
But I'd bet that if Apple wanted a 64 bit chip, they could have had it.
What do you mean by "buying inferior laptop chips"? The Apple laptops will use the Yonah and it's successors, right? All of which support x86-64.
I still don't understand why they didn't bite the 64 bit bullet when they moved to Intel. It would have been easy to move the UI stuff to 64 bit mode. As far as I can tell, the kernel already is. Then you'd give people the option to run in long mode for applications. 32 bit applications could run in long mode too, actually - they would still have 32 bit pointers in memory and sign extend them into 64 bits when they load them into registers[1]. That way, all user applications could use the improved ABI, more registers, modern instructions and so on.
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I don't see the reason to use 32 bit x86 code at all really, since they don't have any third party legacy Intel stuff to support. You could even run the 32 bit UI stuff in long mode, if you use the sign extended pointer trick.
[1] GCC for x86-64 already supports a small model where the code and data of an application must fit in 2GB. You'd need to have a "32 bit process" flag somewhere to tell malloc and so on to only return buffers in the first 4GB of virtual address space. That way, the application could safely store pointers in 32 bit memory locations. It could use MOVZX to load them into registers, and pass them to system calls. The idea is that you can still run ILP32 code on x86-64 code, in long mode.
http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/gcc
Not sure how it compares to the cost of the Intel CPU in the original X Box, but since they switched from that, it must have been cheaper. But I think the more important reason for the switch is that they can make a custom chip with the CPU + other stuff and reduce the build cost to below the sales price :
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cf
I'm not sure if they have the rights to build the ATI graphics chip too, I can't find any reference to it.
D'oh.
I was just thinking "Now THAT's a reality distortion field".
Wow, that really debunks the stereotype in the previous post.
My impression is the the lower-cost countries can be a great way to save money on manufacturing relatively simple items with well-established production techniques, but for newer technologies and R&D, a more highly skilled workforce is necessary.
Yes quite, like us for instance. I often remind my clients of this, a good lecture often makes them forget what they came to ask me to do too.
In North Korea, workers are a tenth of the price of a Chinese worker, and that's to *buy*. None of this capitalist renting nonsense.
No, there was a worldwide program in the late 20th Century called Y2K that moved most of the COBOL code to your company.
Do you really think it took so long to convert to four digit dates?
Notation Polish proper in write!
Kids Damn!
As the Director of First4Internet, I find that offensive and Socialist. They purpose of the machines of poor people is to serve me in my botnet, much as they serve me in my company.
Muhahahaha!