1- Installing TBE is retarded, even TBE author advises you NOT to install it
2- Although it's slow and bloated, TBE install is quite light since the package is "only" 281kb
3- Let's add TBE and Web Developper (fully localized version, the english only one being only 110k), we're reaching 500kb (280+230), ok, now what? As a fairly extensive extensions user (I have ~30 extensions loaded) my extensions folder (with uncompressed extensions y'know, not packaged ones) is a mere 3.5Mb, compressing it yields under a megabyte of data...
What a lot of people dont realize (Including a lot of programmers). That a lot of applications are not multithreaded. Thus wont get the speed advantage of the Duel-Core processor.
And what YOU don't realize (including... duh... yourself?) is that running two or more applications at the same time will make use of dual core system, even if the apps themselves are single threaded (which is mostly true for games, quite a lot of desktop apps are at least a bit multithreaded).
And a singlethreaded badly written application will be less prone to lock your computer, too, since the other apps will still be able to run from the second core.
The main issue is not the multithreading abilities of the applications, but the multithreading abilities of the OS itself. If the OS handles multithreading well, multicore (physical or virtual) will always give a slight to impressive improvement over single core.
Specific design and use of a modified version of the most recent AMD core (Venice). Venice's consumption is much lower than it's parent (Winchester core), check the graphs, Dual Cores' power consumption is a bit higher than the 3800+ Venice processor.
On top of that, A64 platforms are known for their low power consumption compared to Netburst based processors.
IE6.0 is 4 years old (was released in October 2001)
Wonder if the recent Firefox buzz hasn't got them back in the shop feverishly working on IE 7.
It sure has
Wonder if many of the feature in the said browser won't mimic those found in Firefox (opera, safari, etc...)
Perfectly true, many of the features in said browser won't mimic those found in Firefox, Opera or Safari (BTW the way you phrased it is misleading, Opera or Safari are full fledged browsers, completely independant from Firefox itself), check the IEblog for more informations.
Some progress is done though, a few CSS bugs will be fixed and we'll (finally) get a fully implemented (supposedly) PNG transparency, but from the informations we have it's still clearly lacking in implementations (HTML, XHTML, CSS, SVG, HTTP1.1) and features (tabs)
For one, slashdot renders properly in IE. Secondly it does come with my box - not as a 4 Mb download I have to make afterwards.
Maybe you should factor in the l33t 10th of megabytes updates of MSIE you have to run on your browser that "comes with your box not as a 4Mb download"
(oh, and i have no real problem with slashdot rendering in Firefox)
Even a regional flight like Albuquerque, NM to Denver, CO is 450miles.
Rail transit doesn't make sense with those distances.
No, a mere 450miles would be efficient using trains if you take in account checkin and checkout of plane.
Check Paris-Marseille by train (in france), takes about 3h (with no checkin) for roughly this distance.
Now of course travels such as LA-NYC by train would be plain stupid and inefficient, but high speed bullet train such as Shinkansen of TGV is an alternative worth considering for travels up to 1000 to 1500km.
Well, K6 weren't very good chips either, much cheaper that intel's but with much less perfs too.
AMD started to engineer really good chips with the K7 which had perfs comparable with Pentiums at lower price (but got awfully hot), and with their current K8 AMD now beats the crap out of Intel in 9 apps/user profiles out of 10
Precision:
I forgot to add that, even though they're open source, their licenses is BSD-compliant, not GPL-compliant: while the source is avaible, YOU don't have to disclose your own modified source if you don't want to.
AFAIK, french fries and pizza ain't closed source, they're as open as the linux kernel if said kernel had human-readable code.
DrPepper is closed source indeed (jus' like Coke), no idea if Cheetos or Doritos are open source, but who'd want to eat that anyway?
Fact is, french fries and pizza are 100% genuine open source food.
Someone sets up his ICQ account
Someone else manages to get/guess the password to the above set account
The second one (which would be branded as the "hacker") has just hacked in someone else's ICQ account and can now use it without getting any blame.
It's the same when you hear of MSN accounts hacking, basically IM accounts being stolen. Dummy accounts for someone else to take the blame for your actions may come in handy, i guess.
The internet "sharing" of anything that can be "shared" means nobody with anything digital is going to be able to derive any money from it.
How about stopping smoking beavers?
Last time i checked, quite a lot of software companies were making profit, and yet their products are purely digital and shareable...
Heck, last time i checked there were even people using P2P as an artistic discovery mean, paying for the full quality physical medium only if they considered the production worth it (be it a film or music), do you believe it?
I think those people should be sent to Guantanamo, you're not supposed to discover or try after all, as a consumer you're supposed to buy, trash your mediums and buy again ain't you?
You have to convince them first that the costs are lower in the long term. That's the selling pitch for microsoft these days. "Buy from us TCO of OSS is much higher"
Well that's cause it does in fact compute bytes, not digits, there is no algorithm to compute a given digit of PI, you have to try and work out a conversion (or just take n bits and say that it's a digit, which is more than likely false).
This method allows you to compute bytes, therefore hexadecimal numbers, not decimal.
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1- Installing TBE is retarded, even TBE author advises you NOT to install it
2- Although it's slow and bloated, TBE install is quite light since the package is "only" 281kb
3- Let's add TBE and Web Developper (fully localized version, the english only one being only 110k), we're reaching 500kb (280+230), ok, now what? As a fairly extensive extensions user (I have ~30 extensions loaded) my extensions folder (with uncompressed extensions y'know, not packaged ones) is a mere 3.5Mb, compressing it yields under a megabyte of data...
Even 16 slot blade servers running octo dualcore Opterons systems?
Yes, a point that's been valid ever since last year.
Doesn't make his post less offtopic
And a singlethreaded badly written application will be less prone to lock your computer, too, since the other apps will still be able to run from the second core.
The main issue is not the multithreading abilities of the applications, but the multithreading abilities of the OS itself. If the OS handles multithreading well, multicore (physical or virtual) will always give a slight to impressive improvement over single core.
Crappy ad for a crappy distro by a crappy AC in a thread about processors sounds as off topic as one can get, even for /. standards
Specific design and use of a modified version of the most recent AMD core (Venice). Venice's consumption is much lower than it's parent (Winchester core), check the graphs, Dual Cores' power consumption is a bit higher than the 3800+ Venice processor.
On top of that, A64 platforms are known for their low power consumption compared to Netburst based processors.
Some progress is done though, a few CSS bugs will be fixed and we'll (finally) get a fully implemented (supposedly) PNG transparency, but from the informations we have it's still clearly lacking in implementations (HTML, XHTML, CSS, SVG, HTTP1.1) and features (tabs)
(oh, and i have no real problem with slashdot rendering in Firefox)
Check Paris-Marseille by train (in france), takes about 3h (with no checkin) for roughly this distance.
Now of course travels such as LA-NYC by train would be plain stupid and inefficient, but high speed bullet train such as Shinkansen of TGV is an alternative worth considering for travels up to 1000 to 1500km.
Well, i find the readme that IBM sent to SCO with the data to be pretty funny.
You should be careful, they have brain-eating drop-bears.
And Steve Irwin.
Well, K6 weren't very good chips either, much cheaper that intel's but with much less perfs too.
AMD started to engineer really good chips with the K7 which had perfs comparable with Pentiums at lower price (but got awfully hot), and with their current K8 AMD now beats the crap out of Intel in 9 apps/user profiles out of 10
It does, you just have to setup it manually and you don't have the bar.
Does Opera support extensive third party plugins anyway?
Precision:
I forgot to add that, even though they're open source, their licenses is BSD-compliant, not GPL-compliant: while the source is avaible, YOU don't have to disclose your own modified source if you don't want to.
AFAIK, french fries and pizza ain't closed source, they're as open as the linux kernel if said kernel had human-readable code.
DrPepper is closed source indeed (jus' like Coke), no idea if Cheetos or Doritos are open source, but who'd want to eat that anyway?
Fact is, french fries and pizza are 100% genuine open source food.
And that's not to say Australia could give a flying fuck about US' Supreme Court's ruling.
Someone sets up his ICQ account
Someone else manages to get/guess the password to the above set account
The second one (which would be branded as the "hacker") has just hacked in someone else's ICQ account and can now use it without getting any blame.
It's the same when you hear of MSN accounts hacking, basically IM accounts being stolen. Dummy accounts for someone else to take the blame for your actions may come in handy, i guess.
Last time i checked, quite a lot of software companies were making profit, and yet their products are purely digital and shareable...
Heck, last time i checked there were even people using P2P as an artistic discovery mean, paying for the full quality physical medium only if they considered the production worth it (be it a film or music), do you believe it?
I think those people should be sent to Guantanamo, you're not supposed to discover or try after all, as a consumer you're supposed to buy, trash your mediums and buy again ain't you?
No problem here with Reader 7.0.1 under W2K
Damn UserFriedly readers
How about building a full featured computer?
This is merely a demonstration of the computing power and multithreading capacities of the CELL...
Well that's cause it does in fact compute bytes, not digits, there is no algorithm to compute a given digit of PI, you have to try and work out a conversion (or just take n bits and say that it's a digit, which is more than likely false).
This method allows you to compute bytes, therefore hexadecimal numbers, not decimal.