They aren't real dual-cores hence the abysmal performance
No, they are honest-to-goodness real dual cores. Two fully functional cpus in a single socket.
The problem is that the socket only has enough memory bandwidth for one cpu's worth of work. So, even if you double the number of cpus, you still can't shovel the data in and out fast enough to keep up with the work being done. Thus one of the two cores is almost always stalled out waiting on memory.
The AMD chips have got more memory bandwidth, so they can keep both cpus fed with data reasonably well.
If an exploit is discovered in zlib, I update it once with the patch. Done.
And if that update contains an unintended side-effect, also known as a bug, you've now propogated that to all programs on the system too. And if that bug only affects certain programs, no amount of testing it with programs that aren't affected will catch it before you've foobar'd your system either.
I don't have to update every single friggen app across my entire system and replace their hundreds of "disk space is cheap" separate files.
Find is your friend. At least with discrete copies you've got a choice about what gets 'upgraded' when. With a single central copy, it is all or nothing.
That's funny because they look like they are alive to me.
Ironically, I actually did buy a living room set from them a few years back. They screwed up the order royally, but the exact same kind of error could have occurred with a b&m store where you typically place your order and wait a month for manufacture and delivery.
What is it with these really high value estimations?
That's just the dollar value of how much capital investment the company has received. Obviously someone thinks the company has potential, just because you are not privy to their business plans doesn't mean that the plans are not feasible.
It's the same level of cooperation that makes OSS so special.
Bandwidth wants to be free, eh?
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Sure, movies are a part of our culture, but just because something's a part of our culture doesn't mean it's not also copyrighted (and copyrightable) as well as a commercial enterprise.
How does your statement conflict, rebut or otherwise disagree with my point that, "movies are more than simply business"?
Really, what is the point of your entire post? Do you like jousting at windmills and strawmen or something?
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When the hell were movies NON-BLOODY-COMMERCIAL?!
While I have my disagreements with the original post, your rebuttal is lacking.
Movies are shared culture, and despite how the MPAA likes to assert property rights to every dimension of commercial film, movies are more than simply business. The stories they borrow from and the stories they tell are all public knowledge and are not owned by anyone.
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if any of you could name other Internet services that predate the web and still exist today.
also attacks HP's "superdome" Itanium2 servers and some of IBM's Power5 and Power6. The closed architectures and the proprietary Unix(tm) they run are in deep doo-doo
Both the HP superdome and most IBM Power systems run Linux too.
The value of the "big-iron" unix systems is not really in their CPUs, it is in their chipsets, which Horus does compete with, but also redundancy features like ECC and chipkill, redundant power systems, etc. Once you start adding all the equivalent featurues to a horus-based opteron system, you start to end up in the same pricing ballpark.
In fact, it's not a particularly onerous thing to ask.
So, you think that all consignment shops ought to be regulated?
Having recently had to get insured to operate my own business as a consultant (a requirement of the company I work for). Getting bonded and licensed isn't very costly. And in the end, the idea is to protect the consumer which isn't a bad thing.
So, since your client had the option of requiring that you purchase insurance, consignment shop clients should have that option taken away from them?
Are you saying that you'd rather have 100 DLL's between the two programs instead of just 70?
Absolutely. Human time spent dealing with screw-ups is expensive. Disk space is cheap. You could even load individual copies into memory because RAM is cheap, although a clever versioning system could probably avoid that with only a little extra complexity, entirely invisible to the user.
I dump all of them into a standard path (the path is also stated in the registry). That way, when I find a bug in a DLL, I can update the DLL in one place and all of my apps are fixed at once.
That knife cuts two ways. You as a coder can enjoy the convenience of global bug-fixes, but every change brings the risk of new bugs too. So you can just as easily fix a big in all of the programs as you can introduce a bug in all of the programs. That's part of what people are talking about when they refer to "DLL-Hell."
As a user, I don't want a bug-fix for Adobe Photoshop making any changes, good or bad, to any other program, from Adobe or any other supplier.
You want a good example of an OS going strongly in this direction, take a look at OS X.
Ironically, OSX's ancestor NeXTStep was big on the registry concept too, they just broke it up into two parts - NetInfo and a per-user "defaults database."
I've encountered very few allegedly "thinking" folks who don't support this all out censorship.
You haven't hung out on slashdot enough. Plenty of us have a problem with it in various ways. In the real world it is such an emotionally loaded issue that few are willing to make a stand for reason because few will get past the irrationality of emotion to comprehend a stand for reason. Until society gets another boogeyman to focus on, it isn't likely that will change either.
In the big picture though, political speech is a few orders of magnitude more important, and that's the real focus of this discussion.
Intel's strong suit right now is its laptop processors, and who buys those at retail?
Non-corporate buyers. Over the last couple of years, laptop sales for personal use have increased by at least an order of magnitude (yes at least 10x more, probably 20-30x more). The average, non-geek buyer is definitely looking at buying a laptop.
AMD's strong suit are desktop processors, which are what people put into home built computers.
The survey is not about retail processors, it is about retail fully-assembled computers. It really isn't looking at homebuilt systems at all.
I forsee tokens being only a short term solution. This is an arms race, and I predict that should 2-factor authentication with tokens become widespread, that the criminals will respond in the following way:
1) Trojan on user's system will redirect to the browser to the phishing site 2) The trojan will also load a bogus certificate into the browser so no mismatched certificate warnings 3) The back-end of the phishing site will talk to a zombie farm 4) User will enter two-factor authentication to the phishing site 5) In "real-time" a zombie will use the two-factor authentication information to log into the real site and wipe the user's account balance or something equally nefarious.
If I patent that, do you think I could license it to the russian mob?
Pray, o' Lord, that You giveth thine Jon of DVD, the power to release thine TV shows from Satan's demonic, ravenous, malicious lock on ones and zeros, so I may become pure of spirit and download thine shows from ThePirateBay.
They are already unlocked. It is called, "over-the-air broadcasts."
Most shows of any consquence already end up all over the net. And they do so at much better video quality than these itunes shows. For example, all of Lost S1 and S2 have made there way onto the net at resolutions of 1280x720 (full HDTV transport streams at ~5GB per episode), 960x528 (hires-xvid at 700MB per episode) as well as lower resolutions at 350MB files and smaller.
Personally, I've given up using my HDTV capture card in favor of just downloading the hr-xvid versions. It is more convenient.
I would like to point out that a not insignificant number of Americans not only turn a blind eye, but actively support the censorship of their own people; why should we expect them to be more charitable towards others?
Well, for one, the group of those who turn a blind eye to domestic censorship are probably also members of the group that believes the US invaded Iraq in order to free the people there. If they are ok with actively going to war in order to promote freedom, then they ought to be onboard with a passive boycott or two. Right?
In 2002 pretty much the whole world was on your side. I'm still amazed that your leaders managed to piss away that much goodwill.
Why is that a surprise?
You've heard the phrase, "nowhere to go but down?" That's pretty much where we were with respect to world opinion. Combine that with the neo-con philosophy that is, in a nutshell, "Better get while the gettin's good" and it really is no surprise we ended up where we are today.
Why? Because hysteria sells. And it's certainly not just an American thing. Just look at how sensational the British press is. It doesn't necessarily mean they are trying to push an agenda, but they are definitely trying to compete for sales/ratings.
But, at least they get to sell their news with Page 3 Girls.
I'll take topless models over ridiculous hysteria anyday.
If it weren't for all the conservative love that foxnews gets, I'm sure Murdoch would have page 3 video girls on there already.
The liability insurance problem with doctors is a problem of the legal system, not with insurance itself.
Liability insurance should be made illegal, and doctors should be made immune to malpractice lawsuits.
Instead, patients should insure their own operations. That way the costs and payouts will be known up front. The cost will be determined by the doctor's history as well as the type of procedure. The payouts for various types of errors will be limited only by how much the patient wants to insure in the first place.
For patients to poor to afford insurance, chances are they are getting subsidized medical treatement, so some form of social security should be used to purchase them a minimally useful level of insurance.
If a contractor builds a house for a man and does not build it strong enough, and the house which he builds collapses and causes the death of the house owner, than the contractor shall be put to death.
If it causes the death of the son of the owner, then the son of the contractor shall be put to death.
Which explains why everyone just lived in tents back then.
If China would charge you AND the court accepted it (which means its a pretty serious crime such as war crimes and a prosecutor thinks he has a case) you still wouldn't be sent to China as the court is not in China.
Not even that. No country gets to charge anyone, only the ICC. And then only when the judicial system of the local country has absolutly failed to adequetly address the problem to begin with where "absolutely failed" is meticulously defined in the ICC charter.
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They aren't real dual-cores hence the abysmal performance
No, they are honest-to-goodness real dual cores. Two fully functional cpus in a single socket.
The problem is that the socket only has enough memory bandwidth for one cpu's worth of work. So, even if you double the number of cpus, you still can't shovel the data in and out fast enough to keep up with the work being done. Thus one of the two cores is almost always stalled out waiting on memory.
The AMD chips have got more memory bandwidth, so they can keep both cpus fed with data reasonably well.
If an exploit is discovered in zlib, I update it once with the patch. Done.
And if that update contains an unintended side-effect, also known as a bug, you've now propogated that to all programs on the system too. And if that bug only affects certain programs, no amount of testing it with programs that aren't affected will catch it before you've foobar'd your system either.
I don't have to update every single friggen app across my entire system and replace their hundreds of "disk space is cheap" separate files.
Find is your friend. At least with discrete copies you've got a choice about what gets 'upgraded' when. With a single central copy, it is all or nothing.
furniture.com went belly-up
That's funny because they look like they are alive to me.
Ironically, I actually did buy a living room set from them a few years back. They screwed up the order royally, but the exact same kind of error could have occurred with a b&m store where you typically place your order and wait a month for manufacture and delivery.
My country right or wrong is WRONG
You are right,it is a (deliberate?) misquote. The original was uttered by Senator Carl Schurz, and he said:
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
What is it with these really high value estimations?
That's just the dollar value of how much capital investment the company has received. Obviously someone thinks the company has potential, just because you are not privy to their business plans doesn't mean that the plans are not feasible.
It's the same level of cooperation that makes OSS so special.
Bandwidth wants to be free, eh?
Sure, movies are a part of our culture, but just because something's a part of our culture doesn't mean it's not also copyrighted (and copyrightable) as well as a commercial enterprise.
How does your statement conflict, rebut or otherwise disagree with my point that, "movies are more than simply business"?
Really, what is the point of your entire post?
Do you like jousting at windmills and strawmen or something?
When the hell were movies NON-BLOODY-COMMERCIAL?!
While I have my disagreements with the original post, your rebuttal is lacking.
Movies are shared culture, and despite how the MPAA likes to assert property rights to every dimension of commercial film, movies are more than simply business. The stories they borrow from and the stories they tell are all public knowledge and are not owned by anyone.
if any of you could name other Internet services that predate the web and still exist today.
Purity tests.
also attacks HP's "superdome" Itanium2 servers and some of IBM's Power5 and Power6. The closed architectures and the proprietary Unix(tm) they run are in deep doo-doo
Both the HP superdome and most IBM Power systems run Linux too.
The value of the "big-iron" unix systems is not really in their CPUs, it is in their chipsets, which Horus does compete with, but also redundancy features like ECC and chipkill, redundant power systems, etc. Once you start adding all the equivalent featurues to a horus-based opteron system, you start to end up in the same pricing ballpark.
In fact, it's not a particularly onerous thing to ask.
So, you think that all consignment shops ought to be regulated?
Having recently had to get insured to operate my own business as a consultant (a requirement of the company I work for). Getting bonded and licensed isn't very costly. And in the end, the idea is to protect the consumer which isn't a bad thing.
So, since your client had the option of requiring that you purchase insurance, consignment shop clients should have that option taken away from them?
Are you saying that you'd rather have 100 DLL's between the two programs instead of just 70?
Absolutely. Human time spent dealing with screw-ups is expensive. Disk space is cheap. You could even load individual copies into memory because RAM is cheap, although a clever versioning system could probably avoid that with only a little extra complexity, entirely invisible to the user.
I dump all of them into a standard path (the path is also stated in the registry). That way, when I find a bug in a DLL, I can update the DLL in one place and all of my apps are fixed at once.
That knife cuts two ways. You as a coder can enjoy the convenience of global bug-fixes, but every change brings the risk of new bugs too. So you can just as easily fix a big in all of the programs as you can introduce a bug in all of the programs. That's part of what people are talking about when they refer to "DLL-Hell."
As a user, I don't want a bug-fix for Adobe Photoshop making any changes, good or bad, to any other program, from Adobe or any other supplier.
You want a good example of an OS going strongly in this direction, take a look at OS X.
Ironically, OSX's ancestor NeXTStep was big on the registry concept too, they just broke it up into two parts - NetInfo and a per-user "defaults database."
I've encountered very few allegedly "thinking" folks who don't support this all out censorship.
You haven't hung out on slashdot enough. Plenty of us have a problem with it in various ways. In the real world it is such an emotionally loaded issue that few are willing to make a stand for reason because few will get past the irrationality of emotion to comprehend a stand for reason. Until society gets another boogeyman to focus on, it isn't likely that will change either.
In the big picture though, political speech is a few orders of magnitude more important, and that's the real focus of this discussion.
Intel's strong suit right now is its laptop processors, and who buys those at retail?
Non-corporate buyers. Over the last couple of years, laptop sales for personal use have increased by at least an order of magnitude (yes at least 10x more, probably 20-30x more). The average, non-geek buyer is definitely looking at buying a laptop.
AMD's strong suit are desktop processors, which are what people put into home built computers.
The survey is not about retail processors, it is about retail fully-assembled computers. It really isn't looking at homebuilt systems at all.
I forsee tokens being only a short term solution. This is an arms race, and I predict that should 2-factor authentication with tokens become widespread, that the criminals will respond in the following way:
1) Trojan on user's system will redirect to the browser to the phishing site
2) The trojan will also load a bogus certificate into the browser so no mismatched certificate warnings
3) The back-end of the phishing site will talk to a zombie farm
4) User will enter two-factor authentication to the phishing site
5) In "real-time" a zombie will use the two-factor authentication information to log into the real site and wipe the user's account balance or something equally nefarious.
If I patent that, do you think I could license it to the russian mob?
Pray, o' Lord, that You giveth thine Jon of DVD, the power to release thine TV shows from Satan's demonic, ravenous, malicious lock on ones and zeros, so I may become pure of spirit and download thine shows from ThePirateBay.
They are already unlocked. It is called, "over-the-air broadcasts."
Most shows of any consquence already end up all over the net. And they do so at much better video quality than these itunes shows. For example, all of Lost S1 and S2 have made there way onto the net at resolutions of 1280x720 (full HDTV transport streams at ~5GB per episode), 960x528 (hires-xvid at 700MB per episode) as well as lower resolutions at 350MB files and smaller.
Personally, I've given up using my HDTV capture card in favor of just downloading the hr-xvid versions. It is more convenient.
I would like to point out that a not insignificant number of Americans not only turn a blind eye, but actively support the censorship of their own people; why should we expect them to be more charitable towards others?
Well, for one, the group of those who turn a blind eye to domestic censorship are probably also members of the group that believes the US invaded Iraq in order to free the people there. If they are ok with actively going to war in order to promote freedom, then they ought to be onboard with a passive boycott or two. Right?
Bingo!
I'll take cold hard cash over those froo-froo "benefits" any day.
In 2002 pretty much the whole world was on your side. I'm still amazed that your leaders managed to piss away that much goodwill.
Why is that a surprise?
You've heard the phrase, "nowhere to go but down?" That's pretty much where we were with respect to world opinion. Combine that with the neo-con philosophy that is, in a nutshell, "Better get while the gettin's good" and it really is no surprise we ended up where we are today.
Why? Because hysteria sells. And it's certainly not just an American thing.
Just look at how sensational the British press is.
It doesn't necessarily mean they are trying to push an agenda,
but they are definitely trying to compete for sales/ratings.
But, at least they get to sell their news with Page 3 Girls.
I'll take topless models over ridiculous hysteria anyday.
If it weren't for all the conservative love that foxnews gets, I'm sure Murdoch would have page 3 video girls on there already.
When it contradicts law-enforcement and national security, for one.
He said, "tell us why" - not "tell us when." Your position is literally completely without justification.
The liability insurance problem with doctors is a problem of the legal system, not with insurance itself.
Liability insurance should be made illegal, and doctors should be made immune to malpractice lawsuits.
Instead, patients should insure their own operations. That way the costs and payouts will be known up front. The cost will be determined by the doctor's history as well as the type of procedure. The payouts for various types of errors will be limited only by how much the patient wants to insure in the first place.
For patients to poor to afford insurance, chances are they are getting subsidized medical treatement, so some form of social security should be used to purchase them a minimally useful level of insurance.
In the Code of Hammurabi, 18th Century B.C.:
If a contractor builds a house for a man and does not build it strong enough, and the house which he builds collapses and causes the death of the house owner, than the contractor shall be put to death.
If it causes the death of the son of the owner, then the son of the contractor shall be put to death.
Which explains why everyone just lived in tents back then.
If China would charge you AND the court accepted it (which means its a pretty serious crime such as war crimes and a prosecutor thinks he has a case) you still wouldn't be sent to China as the court is not in China.
Not even that. No country gets to charge anyone, only the ICC. And then only when the judicial system of the local country has absolutly failed to adequetly address the problem to begin with where "absolutely failed" is meticulously defined in the ICC charter.
Not that I've read any of the details either.