It may be ill designed, but it's up yours to redesign it
It's not speculative but observative (gather facts, trace graphs)
And it's damn not unrepeatable, the whole polling process is explained and the scripts will supposedly be made avaible (even though any half decent coder should be able to pull out that kind of scripts easily in the language of his choice)
AFAIK nF4 doesn't handle dual processors or 32 PCIe lines.
If poster drops both (and he has to unless he wants to drop nF4 and move on to an Opteron based system), i'd recommand the DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR
Up to 4Gb memory with dual channel (i'm running mine with 2Gb dual channel as 2*1Gb)
SLI (obviously)
Overclocking bitch (able to feed your RAM with 4V, or raise FSB into the high 300s)
Extremely complete packaging
2*PATA + 4*SATA2 raid 0/1 + 4*SATA1 raid 0/1/5
It's more than likely THE best board for A64 in performances and "tunability" (overclokability if you prefer), it's got every setting you may want in the bios (including the ones from A64Tweaker for your memory), embedded Memtest86 runnable from the bios, onboard reset and on/off switch (near the SATA plugs) when you're playing the chain crash game and it's able to save up to 4 BIOS configurations (to save stable settings, or whatever you want to save).
Oh, and even though it uses a Realtek chip the DFI guys designed a module called Karajan that allows the chip to use like a third of the CPU resources it usually uses.
Sure, though it'd be nice if it were possible to get protection for your rights without having to pay protection money. Over here we call that a "racket". Then again, over here we don't have our rights protected and we pay the tax.
Of course, but we got the tax before getting the protection, so getting the tax to actually protect our rights instead of just putting more money in our local RIAA thingie (the SACEM)(cause it was of course the initial goal of the tax, from SACEM's point of view) was a nice move...
(*) PS: this tax was initially a Music Industry oriented tax to compensate (sp?) for the supposed loss from P2P, judges then considered that since this tax was in place the industry just couldn't get a win-win (tax on digital storing medium PLUS sue&fine people using said mediums for private copies) for that'd be much unfair, and used that tax as a "protection" of private copy rights: since the customer paid for them, there's no reason he couldn't use them (or could be sued for using them) as long as they remain private.
Quite enlightened rulings if you ask me, and I don't mind paying my blank DVDs or my HDs a bit more if i can be sure i won't get sued for using them.
I'm pretty sure using DeCSS-like softwares has never been a problem in france, you're allowed personal copy rights, and the means you use to achieve that are up yours. DCMA thingie is only in the US you know (well for now).
On the other hand, we could let corportations tell citizens what to think, turning them into mindless herds, to be milked for all the money they can be...
Lucky us, our governments are protecting the population from that kind of things...
just a few days ago, another court said a CD-audio can be copy-protected, under the only condition that the customer is warned before he boughts.
Why yes, and these two judgements don't contradict each other at all:
The tribunal also faulted the DVD producers for lack of consumer information.
This was not entirely absent but was judged to be insufficient. The label "CP" for "Copy Protected" was indeed present on the jacket, but in "small characters" and not sufficiently explicit.
Basically, there is no problem with copy-protecting your medias, but the consumer must be clearly and explicitely warned that he/she won't be able to (easily) copy the data from the media.
why would it?
While the Gnome 2.x are clearly reserved for the currect gnome development, a major version change may mean several deep changes, and the creation of a "double tree" as the development of Gnome 2.x keeps on living during the birth and maturation of Gnome 3.
Ever heard of Winamp3? (well, ok, it failed, but then we could get Gnome 5 couldn't we?)
ok, you're a moron, strange you weren't modded as such.
Here are some hindsights:
AMD Opteron are server-oriented CPUs, they require the extremely expensive registered ECC RAM to work and special Motherboard, they use the Socket940 which has (surprise !) 940 pins. It's been designed to work in server environments and multiprocessor boxes
AMD Athlon64 is the desktop version of the Opteron, the older generation ran on Socket754 and the current one, along with the AthlonFX CPUs (which are basically the high end A64) runs on Socket939. These chips are not compatible with S940, and run just fine with regular DDR Ram
As strange as that may seem when you know these facts, when going to AMD's website you'll be able to notice that Opteron are in the 'Server Processors' category while A64 and A64FX are in the 'Desktop Processors' one
Need more?
Opteron prices start at around 300 with the 1.6GHz Opteron 242 while A64 around 90 for S754 (2800+, 1.8GHz) and 110 for S939 (3000+, 1.8GHz)
Opteron start with 1MB L2 cache and go up to 2MB while lowest priced A64 have 512k and highest ones (including AthlonFX) are at 1MB
A64 have a single Hypertransport link (8Gb/s) while Opterons feature up to 3 coherent HT links (24Gb/s)
Opterons also features ECC correction for both L1 and L2 cache (on top of the RAM ECC), a lower core voltage (1.2V Vs 1.4 to 1.5 standard for A64)
Finally, it should be noted that Opteron boxes can get up to 16GB RAM per processor (8 DIMMs each), and while I don't know of the A64 capacity in this field I'm not sure it gets past 4 DIMMs.
Sorry mate, but the Opteron IS a server CPU, labelled and priced as such by AMD, and A64/AFX is the desktop one and will be (much) cheaper than the current dual core opterons when it'll be released as dual core in a few month.
Dude, Opterons are server-oriented processors, they're absolutely not geared towards regular boxes (much like Xeons).
The people using this won't be playing and won't be typing text in their word processors either.
The soon-to-be-released dual core A64 will more than likely be much much cheaper, but they won't come out right now. Please wait a few months
I wouldn't be so annoyed if French spelling was in the least rational. Almost all the hardest words to spell in English came from French. My mental pronunciation of 'Hors d'oeuveres' after seeing it in print was "horse dee oover rays", and it took me awhile to link up the pronunciation with the word.
it is rational...
for us...
most of the time, that is...
Besides, French refuses to pick up any English words.
We don't refuse, some blockhead officials do, there's quite a différence here...
(well some refuse much for the same reasons some americans hate french people: none and irrational retardedness)
They have a whole committee of people to determine what is 'official French' and one of the goals of that committee seems to be to avoid important stuff from English.
Maybe they haven't been imported because they looked "cultured" but because they carried a meaning existing english terms didn't carry?
This kind of things has happened many times before, both as french to english and english to french transferts, and I myself find it (as a french) a much much smarter move than trying to find a "translated bastardized" equivalent such as what some of what our ol'suckers try to feed us (why use spam when you could create the useless "pourriel"? why talk about e-mail when you could craft a meaningless "mèl"? you can find thousands of examples of that, but I fear I won't be able to list them since I much prefer using the original words)
Languages have been borrowing words from each other for centuries, merging them into their own language base and forking from the "original" version later on, as years and centuries pass by.
It's a perfectly normal path.
For pretty much every language on earth.
The way you discribe it, the problem seems to be that the little guy has to be a little more innovative then before, because making minor changes to existing ideas just doesn't cut it.
No, the problem is that even if you have an awesomely original idea, every attempt at actually using it (like... create a software implementing the aforementioned idea) will infridge on a few hundred US software patents unless you have cross-license agreements (which you don't have unless you're a multi-millions company).
And what *could* stop the "Microsofts" from stealing Rajiv's brilliant idea would be copyright.
If software patents aren't legal in India, would a company over there be able to fearlessly provide web services/applications that infringe on US patents?
You know, the thing about US patents is that they only apply in the US, if you're not in the US and don't sell your products there, you're not supposed to give a flying fuck about US patents, wether your country has any kind of software patents or not.
On the other hand, Copyright Laws are international and know no bounds (but the chinese borders maybe), and they apply fully to software creation (copyright is what backs the GPL-like licenses).
The very point is that software patents aren't needed and are unnecessary, because not only they'd be redundant if they were always used well, but they're dangerous (for innovation, what they're supposed to protect mind you) when misused.
That's exactly the problem. Imagine if msdn did not include documentation for stdio because it is standard, or stdc++, or opengl, or anything standard...
Oh my god, you'd have to...
look for documentation !!!
and the real one, that is, like real documentation... or man pages... or something !!!
Come on, do you think that the MSDN is the only fucking C/C++ documentation out there?
(oh, and OpenGL documentation in the MSDN, please, if you want to troll do it well, hell would freeze over before you found OpenGL documentation in a Microsoft turf)
Well he precised "everyone I know", and he's mostly right, quite a lot of devs use Opera (the ones who have yet to switch to Apple, that is).
Opera IS a good browser. I prefer Firefox, but although it has a quite small userbase Opera is both very nice on standards compliancy (especially with 7.x and the just released 8.0) and on features, and awfully lightweight.
Opera 7.x were good browsers, having tested Opera 8 beta it's a really good one, close to or better than Firefox in terms of standard compliancy, still a bit weak on the JS side and no XML parser, but... oh well...
I consider it being a really good browser, and usually tell people to try either Firefox or Opera instead of MSIE.
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It may be ill designed, but it's up yours to redesign it
It's not speculative but observative (gather facts, trace graphs)
And it's damn not unrepeatable, the whole polling process is explained and the scripts will supposedly be made avaible (even though any half decent coder should be able to pull out that kind of scripts easily in the language of his choice)
Does sound scientific to me boy
AFAIK nF4 doesn't handle dual processors or 32 PCIe lines.
If poster drops both (and he has to unless he wants to drop nF4 and move on to an Opteron based system), i'd recommand the DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR
- Up to 4Gb memory with dual channel (i'm running mine with 2Gb dual channel as 2*1Gb)
- SLI (obviously)
- Overclocking bitch (able to feed your RAM with 4V, or raise FSB into the high 300s)
- Extremely complete packaging
- 2*PATA + 4*SATA2 raid 0/1 + 4*SATA1 raid 0/1/5
It's more than likely THE best board for A64 in performances and "tunability" (overclokability if you prefer), it's got every setting you may want in the bios (including the ones from A64Tweaker for your memory), embedded Memtest86 runnable from the bios, onboard reset and on/off switch (near the SATA plugs) when you're playing the chain crash game and it's able to save up to 4 BIOS configurations (to save stable settings, or whatever you want to save).Oh, and even though it uses a Realtek chip the DFI guys designed a module called Karajan that allows the chip to use like a third of the CPU resources it usually uses.
A previous (french) ruling even stated that it was legal to rent a movie at your local DVD rental booth, rip&burn it at home and give back the rented DVD, while keeping your copy.
As long as you're not distributing/reselling the copy (aka as long as you've copied it for personal use only) jurisprudence currently states that you're golden (if you're found reselling/distributing copy, welcome to Asspounding Prison © though).
Anything else?
(*) PS: this tax was initially a Music Industry oriented tax to compensate (sp?) for the supposed loss from P2P, judges then considered that since this tax was in place the industry just couldn't get a win-win (tax on digital storing medium PLUS sue&fine people using said mediums for private copies) for that'd be much unfair, and used that tax as a "protection" of private copy rights: since the customer paid for them, there's no reason he couldn't use them (or could be sued for using them) as long as they remain private.
Quite enlightened rulings if you ask me, and I don't mind paying my blank DVDs or my HDs a bit more if i can be sure i won't get sued for using them.
I'm pretty sure using DeCSS-like softwares has never been a problem in france, you're allowed personal copy rights, and the means you use to achieve that are up yours. DCMA thingie is only in the US you know (well for now).
They are, aren't they?
I think you actually need a source to open it
why would it? While the Gnome 2.x are clearly reserved for the currect gnome development, a major version change may mean several deep changes, and the creation of a "double tree" as the development of Gnome 2.x keeps on living during the birth and maturation of Gnome 3. Ever heard of Winamp3? (well, ok, it failed, but then we could get Gnome 5 couldn't we?)
Here are some hindsights:
- AMD Opteron are server-oriented CPUs, they require the extremely expensive registered ECC RAM to work and special Motherboard, they use the Socket940 which has (surprise !) 940 pins. It's been designed to work in server environments and multiprocessor boxes
- AMD Athlon64 is the desktop version of the Opteron, the older generation ran on Socket754 and the current one, along with the AthlonFX CPUs (which are basically the high end A64) runs on Socket939. These chips are not compatible with S940, and run just fine with regular DDR Ram
As strange as that may seem when you know these facts, when going to AMD's website you'll be able to notice that Opteron are in the 'Server Processors' category while A64 and A64FX are in the 'Desktop Processors' oneNeed more?
Opteron prices start at around 300 with the 1.6GHz Opteron 242 while A64 around 90 for S754 (2800+, 1.8GHz) and 110 for S939 (3000+, 1.8GHz)
Opteron start with 1MB L2 cache and go up to 2MB while lowest priced A64 have 512k and highest ones (including AthlonFX) are at 1MB
A64 have a single Hypertransport link (8Gb/s) while Opterons feature up to 3 coherent HT links (24Gb/s)
Opterons also features ECC correction for both L1 and L2 cache (on top of the RAM ECC), a lower core voltage (1.2V Vs 1.4 to 1.5 standard for A64)
Finally, it should be noted that Opteron boxes can get up to 16GB RAM per processor (8 DIMMs each), and while I don't know of the A64 capacity in this field I'm not sure it gets past 4 DIMMs.
Sorry mate, but the Opteron IS a server CPU, labelled and priced as such by AMD, and A64/AFX is the desktop one and will be (much) cheaper than the current dual core opterons when it'll be released as dual core in a few month.
Doubling the calculation power without changing the encumbering? (aka layout and space optimization)
Dude, Opterons are server-oriented processors, they're absolutely not geared towards regular boxes (much like Xeons). The people using this won't be playing and won't be typing text in their word processors either. The soon-to-be-released dual core A64 will more than likely be much much cheaper, but they won't come out right now. Please wait a few months
for us...
most of the time, that is...
We don't refuse, some blockhead officials do, there's quite a différence here...
(well some refuse much for the same reasons some americans hate french people: none and irrational retardedness) And it's sad&bad...
Maybe they haven't been imported because they looked "cultured" but because they carried a meaning existing english terms didn't carry?
This kind of things has happened many times before, both as french to english and english to french transferts, and I myself find it (as a french) a much much smarter move than trying to find a "translated bastardized" equivalent such as what some of what our ol'suckers try to feed us (why use spam when you could create the useless "pourriel"? why talk about e-mail when you could craft a meaningless "mèl"? you can find thousands of examples of that, but I fear I won't be able to list them since I much prefer using the original words)
Languages have been borrowing words from each other for centuries, merging them into their own language base and forking from the "original" version later on, as years and centuries pass by.
It's a perfectly normal path.
For pretty much every language on earth.
And what *could* stop the "Microsofts" from stealing Rajiv's brilliant idea would be copyright.
Oh nos, indian companies won't be able to sell their softwares in the US, oh my gawds
On the other hand, Copyright Laws are international and know no bounds (but the chinese borders maybe), and they apply fully to software creation (copyright is what backs the GPL-like licenses).
The very point is that software patents aren't needed and are unnecessary, because not only they'd be redundant if they were always used well, but they're dangerous (for innovation, what they're supposed to protect mind you) when misused.
And what's your point if grandparent doesn't live in the US?
look for documentation !!!
and the real one, that is, like real documentation... or man pages... or something !!!
Come on, do you think that the MSDN is the only fucking C/C++ documentation out there?
(oh, and OpenGL documentation in the MSDN, please, if you want to troll do it well, hell would freeze over before you found OpenGL documentation in a Microsoft turf)
Well he precised "everyone I know", and he's mostly right, quite a lot of devs use Opera (the ones who have yet to switch to Apple, that is).
Opera IS a good browser. I prefer Firefox, but although it has a quite small userbase Opera is both very nice on standards compliancy (especially with 7.x and the just released 8.0) and on features, and awfully lightweight.
Opera 7.x were good browsers, having tested Opera 8 beta it's a really good one, close to or better than Firefox in terms of standard compliancy, still a bit weak on the JS side and no XML parser, but... oh well...
I consider it being a really good browser, and usually tell people to try either Firefox or Opera instead of MSIE.