Compare to the 2377 EE, 40-watt quad-core @ 2.3 GHz: approximately 1/3 more performance from the new six-core chip.
Depends on what kind of server. If you're talking about a Web server, IIS 5.1 and later or Apache 2.x and better with multithreading on, yes. If you're talking about Apache 1.x or 2.x without multithreading, or some older versions of IIS, no.
No, I think he really thinks this would be good to toast his bagels with. With AMD's reputation for producing hot-running processors... it's entirely possible he could be on to something!:)
The best way to pull something like this off is to create CDs that look like they are part of a patch subscription. Before the spread of ubiquitous online access, many Unix and enterprise application vendors would send patches via some package carrier (Fed Ex, UPS, USPS, etc.). Many still do. Some admins automatically install anything they get in the mail without first verifying its contents.
Not only that, but if he were a classified operator/analyst, the CIA would do what they did to "prove" he didn't work for the CIA! They would disavow all knowledge of him. So the guy is stupid for claiming to be a CIA spook, and the cops are stupid for thinking that the CIA would acknowledge a spook worked for them.
The CIA's basic rule of thumb when it comes to violating laws is this: don't get caught, because if you do, we're likely to disavow all knowledge.
Of course, he claimed to be a "deputy chief" (which the CIA has only the title of Deputy Director, there is no term "chief" or "deputy chief.") . So even if he were a "Deputy Director," those guys are just bureaucrats anyway. They don't go out in the field.
Okay, here goes my karma: Finder is a piece of garbage that should have been replaced long ago. But then again, I've never been a large fan of spatial file managers.
Of course it doesn't slow down by itself. If you install a default OS install and do nothing else, of course it's not going to slow down.
And, yes, if you're careful in what you install, don't add a too many fonts, and generally keep your registry clean by removing unwanted settings and startup programs and so forth, yes, your system will run much more smoothly.
But it's still basically true that the more your registry grows, the slower your system is going to get. Windows stores a copy of your entire registry in memory, and by installing software, hardware, application add-ons, software upgrades, etc., your registry is going to grow.
People who don't notice much slowdown also tend to have gobs and gobs of RAM. A box with 4 GB isn't likely to experience as much in terms of slowdowns, while a box with 512MB or 1 GB, with enough processes running, is.
I'm not arguing that Windows does it by itself. I'm arguing that in the course of normal system usage, the registry becomes cluttered with junk that slows it down.
However, the parent is right in that increasingly, over time, Windows systems typically slow down. even if you don't add much in the way of applications or other software. Without a doubt, part of this phenomenon is related to increasing data bloat, especially in the registry. (After all, this is where things like the a MRU lists and settings are stored.)
But the difference between Mac OS X, Linux, etc. over Windows is that the former lack the registry altogether, instead preferring to store this data in individual files rather than one huge database.
Like it or not, this slowdown is a limitation of the system as designed.
In this case, they've been trying to do everything but. So far, their defense strategy has been to attempt to paint i4i as a patent troll who never had a product, and therefore should not have been granted a patent. That's kind of silly considering that i4i actually does have a product, and if you look at the screenshot on this page describing one of their products, it's apparent that they have had an implementation of their patent for quite a while (Word 2000 is pictured).
So far, they haven't actually attacked the patent because doing so might invalidate one or more of their own patents. They haven't attacked the patent system or any patent laws not only because they have considerable resources invested in that patent system, but because any change in the patent system really needs to happen at the legislative level and it really isn't likely that a court is going to invalidate the entire patent system.
As much as I'd like to see Microsoft directly attack the patent system itself and fight for patent reform, I just don't think it's going to happen in a court room, and I don't see Microsoft fighting a system in earnest that they have profited so much from.
And I don't blame them. It isn't up to them to bring about patent reform. It's ultimately up to We, The People.
It's not. You guys are missing something key here: It's not illegal to have a monopoly. Natural monopolies exist all the time. If I invent a new WhizBang Gizmo Ultimate, and there's nothing else on the market that does what it does, and I've patented by WhizBang Gizmo Ultimate, then I have a monopoly on WhizBang Gizmo Ultimates. Even if this WhizBang Gizmo Ultimate becomes something very, very important to society.
When Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston released VisiCalc in 1979, they had a monopoly on spreadsheet programs, at least until SuperCalc and Microsoft's MultiPlan (both VisiCalc clones) hit the scene 1 and 3 years later, respectively, and really since MultiPlan and SuperCalc were never very popular, it wasn't until Lotus 1-2-3 hit the scene almost 4 years later. (1-2-3 beat the pants off of everyone else by doing graphing and an awesome macro language) (Bricklin and Frankston never got a patent on VisiCalc because no software had ever been granted a patent at that time.)
What you talking about? Why, I've got my refrigerator, stove, microwave, radio, TV, kitchen computer, toasater, coffee maker, espresso machine, coffee grinder, a few lights and more plugged all into one . I did have to replace that breaker switch that kept blowing, but for now, I just hard-wired it in.... I can run them all at the same time. Watch!
Well, this is potentially for a moon colony, right? At least some portion of the reactor may need to be placed inside the habitat to make convenient monitoring and servicing possible.
Nuclear power is actually one of the safest, cleanest, and most reliable forms of power ever invented. So long as no meteroites hit it, we should be fine. Huh. Wonder what caused all those craters on the moon.....
Courts are experts in law. And if evidence is brought forth that suggests that a given patent was granted in violation of the law, then it is a matter of law, and findings of fact will need to be issued by the court to determine if the law was being followed when the patent was granted.
This happens all the time. It's called challenging the validity of a patent in court. I'm guessing Microsoft doesn't want to do this because they have patents on OOXML that would be equally invalid if this one were found to be invalid
I happen to agree with Microsoft's argument with regard to patent trolls.
Which part? Equating the patent troll i4i with a banker looking for TARP bailout money sounds a lot like a Wookie Defense to me. It seem that Microsoft's attorneys should have simply stuck with the facts at hand. Does i4i have an implementation of their patent? Have they ever? And, most importantly, was their patent sufficiently obvious to someone skilled in the art? Remember, the USPTO doesn't have the final say in whether or not a patent is enforceable. The courts, however, do.
MIcrosoft's attorneys need to stop playing silly games and start litigating their case.
You're right. They mostly avoid saying 'iie', but they do not necessarily avoid using other forms of negation. It does depend much on the social setting, though. If you are viewed as having a higher station in life than the Japanese you are talking to (almost never happens for gaijin, especially when actually in Japan, but does happen, interestingly enough, for non-Americanized Japanese living in the States) they will avoid saying "no" to you or even using negation in certain situations.
Furthermore, the Japanese are confused by negative questions. If you ask "Don't you want to go to lunch?" unless they are more Americanized, they might answer "No" when they do, in fact, want to go to lunch. That even occasionally happens by Americanized Japanese.
This is about differences in how cultures track expressions, not in the expressions themselves. There's long been solid evidence that basic facial expressions are universal across human cultures, in their natural form.
Yes, but it's not just tracking, it's usage of expressions as you allude to. Do not think that because a Japanese man is smiling at you that he is expressing happiness. He could just as easily be expressing anger or sadness. It's similar to the way the Japanese avoid saying "no." "Yes" in Japanese is "hai" (pronounced somewhat like "Hi" in english.) A short "hai" might not indicate agreement, but simply acknowledgement much like we use 'Okay." A medium "hai" will indicate agreement, but a long drawn-out "hai" in a low-tone almost certainly means "no." This is somewhat (but not totally) similar to the American usage of "yeeesssssss, but..." Alternatively, the Japanese may audibly suck air through their teeth. Anyway, smiling is a lot like that.
(Note that I once spent several months working at a predominately Japanese company)
Also, note that that the postal service's automation and subsequent reliability improvement occurred after Ronald Reagan removed all federal funding from the postal service, which, today, relies entirely on the money it gets for stamps and other delivery services.
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My guess would be 2-partition (as in, two virtual partitions on a single physical server).
Now I wonder why he would think that ...
My thoughts about IBM pSeries hardware, AIX, and Linux.
Oh, I get it now....
Compare to the 2377 EE, 40-watt quad-core @ 2.3 GHz: approximately 1/3 more performance from the new six-core chip.
Depends on what kind of server. If you're talking about a Web server, IIS 5.1 and later or Apache 2.x and better with multithreading on, yes. If you're talking about Apache 1.x or 2.x without multithreading, or some older versions of IIS, no.
No, I think he really thinks this would be good to toast his bagels with. With AMD's reputation for producing hot-running processors ... it's entirely possible he could be on to something! :)
The best way to pull something like this off is to create CDs that look like they are part of a patch subscription. Before the spread of ubiquitous online access, many Unix and enterprise application vendors would send patches via some package carrier (Fed Ex, UPS, USPS, etc.). Many still do. Some admins automatically install anything they get in the mail without first verifying its contents.
Wrong.
Check Strunk & White. It isn't in there. Anyway, the rule against ending a sentence with a preposition is just hand-waving by compulsive Latinists.
Not only that, but if he were a classified operator/analyst, the CIA would do what they did to "prove" he didn't work for the CIA! They would disavow all knowledge of him. So the guy is stupid for claiming to be a CIA spook, and the cops are stupid for thinking that the CIA would acknowledge a spook worked for them.
The CIA's basic rule of thumb when it comes to violating laws is this: don't get caught, because if you do, we're likely to disavow all knowledge.
Of course, he claimed to be a "deputy chief" (which the CIA has only the title of Deputy Director, there is no term "chief" or "deputy chief.") . So even if he were a "Deputy Director," those guys are just bureaucrats anyway. They don't go out in the field.
Just as spoken language differs greatly depending on whom you are talking to
See?. The Internet isn't affecting literacy at all! What utter nonsense!
Okay, here goes my karma: Finder is a piece of garbage that should have been replaced long ago. But then again, I've never been a large fan of spatial file managers.
Of course it doesn't slow down by itself. If you install a default OS install and do nothing else, of course it's not going to slow down.
And, yes, if you're careful in what you install, don't add a too many fonts, and generally keep your registry clean by removing unwanted settings and startup programs and so forth, yes, your system will run much more smoothly.
But it's still basically true that the more your registry grows, the slower your system is going to get. Windows stores a copy of your entire registry in memory, and by installing software, hardware, application add-ons, software upgrades, etc., your registry is going to grow.
People who don't notice much slowdown also tend to have gobs and gobs of RAM. A box with 4 GB isn't likely to experience as much in terms of slowdowns, while a box with 512MB or 1 GB, with enough processes running, is.
I'm not arguing that Windows does it by itself. I'm arguing that in the course of normal system usage, the registry becomes cluttered with junk that slows it down.
Without a doubt what you say is true.
However, the parent is right in that increasingly, over time, Windows systems typically slow down. even if you don't add much in the way of applications or other software. Without a doubt, part of this phenomenon is related to increasing data bloat, especially in the registry. (After all, this is where things like the a MRU lists and settings are stored.)
But the difference between Mac OS X, Linux, etc. over Windows is that the former lack the registry altogether, instead preferring to store this data in individual files rather than one huge database.
Like it or not, this slowdown is a limitation of the system as designed.
As do I, but I prefer a...less bloody solution. OTOH, sometimes I doubt we'll get one.
Don't like it? Sorry, it's a two party system, and both parties play the same game. You want real change? Sorry, you won't get it by voting.
Ever heard of the 1960s? We got real change then, and what it required was grass roots efforts.
In this case, they've been trying to do everything but. So far, their defense strategy has been to attempt to paint i4i as a patent troll who never had a product, and therefore should not have been granted a patent. That's kind of silly considering that i4i actually does have a product, and if you look at the screenshot on this page describing one of their products, it's apparent that they have had an implementation of their patent for quite a while (Word 2000 is pictured).
So far, they haven't actually attacked the patent because doing so might invalidate one or more of their own patents. They haven't attacked the patent system or any patent laws not only because they have considerable resources invested in that patent system, but because any change in the patent system really needs to happen at the legislative level and it really isn't likely that a court is going to invalidate the entire patent system.
As much as I'd like to see Microsoft directly attack the patent system itself and fight for patent reform, I just don't think it's going to happen in a court room, and I don't see Microsoft fighting a system in earnest that they have profited so much from.
And I don't blame them. It isn't up to them to bring about patent reform. It's ultimately up to We, The People.
Have they tried turning it off & back on again?
And now you know why LIGO doesn't hire engineers away from Microsoft...
We don't reply to n00bs, we pwn them!
Remind me why monopoly is bad, again?
It's not. You guys are missing something key here: It's not illegal to have a monopoly. Natural monopolies exist all the time. If I invent a new WhizBang Gizmo Ultimate, and there's nothing else on the market that does what it does, and I've patented by WhizBang Gizmo Ultimate, then I have a monopoly on WhizBang Gizmo Ultimates. Even if this WhizBang Gizmo Ultimate becomes something very, very important to society.
When Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston released VisiCalc in 1979, they had a monopoly on spreadsheet programs, at least until SuperCalc and Microsoft's MultiPlan (both VisiCalc clones) hit the scene 1 and 3 years later, respectively, and really since MultiPlan and SuperCalc were never very popular, it wasn't until Lotus 1-2-3 hit the scene almost 4 years later. (1-2-3 beat the pants off of everyone else by doing graphing and an awesome macro language) (Bricklin and Frankston never got a patent on VisiCalc because no software had ever been granted a patent at that time.)
What you talking about? Why, I've got my refrigerator, stove, microwave, radio, TV, kitchen computer, toasater, coffee maker, espresso machine, coffee grinder, a few lights and more plugged all into one . I did have to replace that breaker switch that kept blowing, but for now, I just hard-wired it in.... I can run them all at the same time. Watch!
*sniff* *sniff*
Hmmm....smells like something burning...gotta go!
Well, this is potentially for a moon colony, right? At least some portion of the reactor may need to be placed inside the habitat to make convenient monitoring and servicing possible.
Nuclear power is actually one of the safest, cleanest, and most reliable forms of power ever invented. So long as no meteroites hit it, we should be fine. Huh. Wonder what caused all those craters on the moon.....
Courts are experts in law. And if evidence is brought forth that suggests that a given patent was granted in violation of the law, then it is a matter of law, and findings of fact will need to be issued by the court to determine if the law was being followed when the patent was granted.
This happens all the time. It's called challenging the validity of a patent in court. I'm guessing Microsoft doesn't want to do this because they have patents on OOXML that would be equally invalid if this one were found to be invalid
Directly violating a court's instructions is generally contempt.
Correct. Pissing off the judge is very bad form and is likely to, at the very least, get you thrown out of the court room.
I happen to agree with Microsoft's argument with regard to patent trolls.
Which part? Equating the patent troll i4i with a banker looking for TARP bailout money sounds a lot like a Wookie Defense to me. It seem that Microsoft's attorneys should have simply stuck with the facts at hand. Does i4i have an implementation of their patent? Have they ever? And, most importantly, was their patent sufficiently obvious to someone skilled in the art? Remember, the USPTO doesn't have the final say in whether or not a patent is enforceable. The courts, however, do.
MIcrosoft's attorneys need to stop playing silly games and start litigating their case.
You're right. They mostly avoid saying 'iie', but they do not necessarily avoid using other forms of negation. It does depend much on the social setting, though. If you are viewed as having a higher station in life than the Japanese you are talking to (almost never happens for gaijin, especially when actually in Japan, but does happen, interestingly enough, for non-Americanized Japanese living in the States) they will avoid saying "no" to you or even using negation in certain situations.
Furthermore, the Japanese are confused by negative questions. If you ask "Don't you want to go to lunch?" unless they are more Americanized, they might answer "No" when they do, in fact, want to go to lunch. That even occasionally happens by Americanized Japanese.
This is about differences in how cultures track expressions, not in the expressions themselves. There's long been solid evidence that basic facial expressions are universal across human cultures, in their natural form.
Yes, but it's not just tracking, it's usage of expressions as you allude to. Do not think that because a Japanese man is smiling at you that he is expressing happiness. He could just as easily be expressing anger or sadness. It's similar to the way the Japanese avoid saying "no." "Yes" in Japanese is "hai" (pronounced somewhat like "Hi" in english.) A short "hai" might not indicate agreement, but simply acknowledgement much like we use 'Okay." A medium "hai" will indicate agreement, but a long drawn-out "hai" in a low-tone almost certainly means "no." This is somewhat (but not totally) similar to the American usage of "yeeesssssss, but..." Alternatively, the Japanese may audibly suck air through their teeth. Anyway, smiling is a lot like that.
(Note that I once spent several months working at a predominately Japanese company)
Also, note that that the postal service's automation and subsequent reliability improvement occurred after Ronald Reagan removed all federal funding from the postal service, which, today, relies entirely on the money it gets for stamps and other delivery services.