I think the updates will find their way to your computer automatically if you select either of two certain radio buttons in a control panel somewhere... you don't need IE to get them. Also, in case you're a rebel and/or a maverick, you can read the MS security bulletin in a non-MS browser, follow the links and download the updates manually to be installed at your convenience.
But the main thing is that not all programs are multi-threaded, and a program with a single thread can only run on one processor. So yeah, GHz are still useful. Maybe for large single-thread batch processing - which is the kind of thing a mainframe would do.
I'm betting the code used on these z196 systems is multi-threaded. Shit, if you're paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per CPU you can afford some top notch programmers. With two co-processors used for cryptographic operations per chip I'd say they were after a bigger prize than, say, hardcore gamers;-)
BTW, TFA mentions L1 cache per core but doesn't mention how many cores this chip scales up to. Could it be just one?
How about the USPTO starts requiring the patent's expiration date in addition to the patent number on the products and packaging? This way the company still gets their "patent protection" but also clearly indicates when the patent expires which would eliminate these "we've found a new way to be greedy bastards" lawsuits?
Not so... the whole point of having a head is to have a place to wear your hat. Every time I wear my hat on the front of my zipper I seem to get in trouble. I'm just sayin'...
B) Stop electing to view stories labeled with "Entertainment:" or a foot icon.
There are a lot of smart people here at/., and there's the rest of us... surely the smart people should have figured out that voting on stories doesn't always work to the advantage of the this site. Democracy is the best form of government but it's not necessarily the best way to decide which stories get posted here.
He has the needed software for the FPGA, but he has (so far) been unable to find some software to run on the machine. At least that is what I got from the TFA. It seems like no-one (including various 3 letter agencies) have copies of stuff so "old".
Bugs Bunny pops up between George Gamow and Robert Oppenheimer. He looks left, looks right then throws down his carrot.
Bugs: I knew it! I should've turned left at Albuquerque!
I tried using my iPhone's Map app's "use current location" feature, but instead of placing me somewhere on that map of critical thinking and science it took me back here to/.
How long before we see Google applying for a patent for "E-mail delivery and presentation based on priorities other than '!High!', 'Normal' and 'Low'"??
Cuccinelli is trying to use professor Mann as a political piñata to further his career. I'd shit in my hat if I thought for one second Cuccinelli gave a rat's ass about science (except for how science affects the teaching of evolution in schools).
If a climatologist is the biggest fish on Cuccinelli's radar then he needs to take a closer look at local problems that directly affect his constituents. I'm not saying global warming wouldn't directly affect his constituents... just that trying to silence a scientist just because he doesn't agree with his findings shouldn't be a top priority for politicians (such as those in Cuccinelli's position).
Is Congress the new superhero, defending the rights of comic book readers everywhere? Um, no...
Dr. Wertham is just an early predecessor to Jack Thompson. These idiots think that anything they don't understand or enjoy should be banned because "clearly it has no moral value". It's a myopic view of art and entertainment that would lead to everyone buying and enjoying the exact same things. Sure, the RIAA, MPAA and big radio would love that but it would kill creativity as we know it.
Comic books and video games aren't my cup of tea but that doesn't make me think they should be banned because those who enjoy them are delinquents and dangerous. If everyone who didn't share my POV was labeled dangerous...
"Old enough to be my parent" is a secondhand appeal to authority - a) you're not my parent; b) if that's the only reason I should be listening to you, you probably aren't as good at your job as you've judged yourself.
No one asked for your respect or even for you to listen. I believe I said "don't discount our skills just because we're old enough to be your parents." It has nothing to do with appealing to authority... had I said "you should listen to us because we're old enough to be your parents" I could see you point. But in this case you're simply off the mark.
At 35 you're not young, especially in IT. Your touchy response leads me to believe you may end up in the second group of people who are 15 - 25 years older than you are.
Apparently a sense of humor is the first thing that goes...
The Logan's Run reference wasn't lost on me... I saw it in the theaters when it was 'new'. The red crystal in the palm of his hand shouldn't be going off until he's 30. I guess one of those 'young coders' didn't check his code very well and now eldavojohn will be going off to the cornfield a little early... unless this is a plot by the youngsters to slowly reel in the age limits. Beware the Sandman gentlemen for they care not what you say, but only what your crystal tells them.
Phhhbbt, sounds like something your average old timer would say...
I'm one of those old timers. I still stay up all night programming about once a week, but only because I work for myself. Ageism affects those in the corporate culture... and those of us trying to deal with people just starting out who think they know everything. It's rare to find someone who is young who values the experience we dinosaurs bring to the table. We've been around long enough to have broken it and fixed it again several times over so don't discount our skills just because we're old enough to be your parents.
No, I just turned 28! You bastards, I was supposed to have more time! It's not my time yet!
Wow, I've been programming longer than you've been alive... surely my experience is worth something, isn't it?
imagine you are a company that could benefit by making a high profile apple product look slow and buggy and prone to crashing... you release an innocent enough looking "prototyping" tool... it doesn't make applications as optimized as one's with "expensive development", or using the free native development environment, but it's dumbed down and simpler, and hey, it's just a prototype and it works... the translation isn't optimized at all, but all the buttons will do what you tell them to do... now these prototypes are going to be seen by people and the hardware will be judged by the responsiveness of the software.
The apps developed using this tool would still need to make it to the general public to tarnish the teflon reputation of an iDevice. If they are as craptastic as can be then they won't make it past the steely eyes of the apostle manning the pearly gates to the App Store.
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Oh? What about windows update?
I think the updates will find their way to your computer automatically if you select either of two certain radio buttons in a control panel somewhere ... you don't need IE to get them. Also, in case you're a rebel and/or a maverick, you can read the MS security bulletin in a non-MS browser, follow the links and download the updates manually to be installed at your convenience.
William Shatner always seem to speak his mind. I'd pay good money to see a Shatner interview where he suffered from Tourette Syndrome.
But the main thing is that not all programs are multi-threaded, and a program with a single thread can only run on one processor. So yeah, GHz are still useful. Maybe for large single-thread batch processing - which is the kind of thing a mainframe would do.
I'm betting the code used on these z196 systems is multi-threaded. Shit, if you're paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per CPU you can afford some top notch programmers. With two co-processors used for cryptographic operations per chip I'd say they were after a bigger prize than, say, hardcore gamers ;-)
BTW, TFA mentions L1 cache per core but doesn't mention how many cores this chip scales up to. Could it be just one?
How about the USPTO starts requiring the patent's expiration date in addition to the patent number on the products and packaging? This way the company still gets their "patent protection" but also clearly indicates when the patent expires which would eliminate these "we've found a new way to be greedy bastards" lawsuits?
The whole point of having a head is cooling.
Not so ... the whole point of having a head is to have a place to wear your hat. Every time I wear my hat on the front of my zipper I seem to get in trouble. I'm just sayin' ...
I didn't see the rights to Unix listed in their assets for sale. Must be an oversight or something ...
If I didn't know better I'd think you'd posted Paris Hilton's 'ToDo' list for today.
If two trains left the station at the same time traveling in opposite directions, and 73% of them were more than three quarters 76% of the time ...
"News" has nothing to do with it.
That's right, because this story isn't news ...
B) Stop electing to view stories labeled with "Entertainment:" or a foot icon.
There are a lot of smart people here at /., and there's the rest of us ... surely the smart people should have figured out that voting on stories doesn't always work to the advantage of the this site. Democracy is the best form of government but it's not necessarily the best way to decide which stories get posted here.
He has the needed software for the FPGA, but he has (so far) been unable to find some software to run on the machine. At least that is what I got from the TFA. It seems like no-one (including various 3 letter agencies) have copies of stuff so "old".
Maybe he'd have better luck finding old software if ageism wasn't rampant in the IT industry ;-)
Doesn't everything run Windows?
Everything runs Linux, but Windows seems to run everything.
Bugs Bunny pops up between George Gamow and Robert Oppenheimer. He looks left, looks right then throws down his carrot.
Bugs: I knew it! I should've turned left at Albuquerque!
I tried using my iPhone's Map app's "use current location" feature, but instead of placing me somewhere on that map of critical thinking and science it took me back here to /.
How long before we see Google applying for a patent for "E-mail delivery and presentation based on priorities other than '!High!', 'Normal' and 'Low'"??
I nominate the post above for the "Yogi Berra is Right" award because he is.
My mistake. It was "D'oh!" that made it into OED. Cromulent appears in the Webster’s New Millennium Dictionary of English.
Cuccinelli is trying to use professor Mann as a political piñata to further his career. I'd shit in my hat if I thought for one second Cuccinelli gave a rat's ass about science (except for how science affects the teaching of evolution in schools).
... just that trying to silence a scientist just because he doesn't agree with his findings shouldn't be a top priority for politicians (such as those in Cuccinelli's position).
If a climatologist is the biggest fish on Cuccinelli's radar then he needs to take a closer look at local problems that directly affect his constituents. I'm not saying global warming wouldn't directly affect his constituents
That is one of the big reasons for owning the OED. They track all known meanings of a word, and the time periods when the meanings appeared in print.
Indeed it does. That's what makes OED a perfectly cromulent dictionary.
Emily Letella: The what?
Blackeagle_Falcon: Not Congress, the library of Congress.
Emily Letella: Oh, well, never mind then.
Is Congress the new superhero, defending the rights of comic book readers everywhere? Um, no ...
...
Dr. Wertham is just an early predecessor to Jack Thompson. These idiots think that anything they don't understand or enjoy should be banned because "clearly it has no moral value". It's a myopic view of art and entertainment that would lead to everyone buying and enjoying the exact same things. Sure, the RIAA, MPAA and big radio would love that but it would kill creativity as we know it.
Comic books and video games aren't my cup of tea but that doesn't make me think they should be banned because those who enjoy them are delinquents and dangerous. If everyone who didn't share my POV was labeled dangerous
"Old enough to be my parent" is a secondhand appeal to authority - a) you're not my parent; b) if that's the only reason I should be listening to you, you probably aren't as good at your job as you've judged yourself.
No one asked for your respect or even for you to listen. I believe I said "don't discount our skills just because we're old enough to be your parents." It has nothing to do with appealing to authority ... had I said "you should listen to us because we're old enough to be your parents" I could see you point. But in this case you're simply off the mark.
At 35 you're not young, especially in IT. Your touchy response leads me to believe you may end up in the second group of people who are 15 - 25 years older than you are.
Apparently a sense of humor is the first thing that goes...
The Logan's Run reference wasn't lost on me ... I saw it in the theaters when it was 'new'. The red crystal in the palm of his hand shouldn't be going off until he's 30. I guess one of those 'young coders' didn't check his code very well and now eldavojohn will be going off to the cornfield a little early ... unless this is a plot by the youngsters to slowly reel in the age limits. Beware the Sandman gentlemen for they care not what you say, but only what your crystal tells them.
Phhhbbt, sounds like something your average old timer would say ...
I'm one of those old timers. I still stay up all night programming about once a week, but only because I work for myself. Ageism affects those in the corporate culture ... and those of us trying to deal with people just starting out who think they know everything. It's rare to find someone who is young who values the experience we dinosaurs bring to the table. We've been around long enough to have broken it and fixed it again several times over so don't discount our skills just because we're old enough to be your parents.
No, I just turned 28! You bastards, I was supposed to have more time! It's not my time yet!
Wow, I've been programming longer than you've been alive ... surely my experience is worth something, isn't it?
imagine you are a company that could benefit by making a high profile apple product look slow and buggy and prone to crashing... you release an innocent enough looking "prototyping" tool... it doesn't make applications as optimized as one's with "expensive development", or using the free native development environment, but it's dumbed down and simpler, and hey, it's just a prototype and it works... the translation isn't optimized at all, but all the buttons will do what you tell them to do... now these prototypes are going to be seen by people and the hardware will be judged by the responsiveness of the software.
The apps developed using this tool would still need to make it to the general public to tarnish the teflon reputation of an iDevice. If they are as craptastic as can be then they won't make it past the steely eyes of the apostle manning the pearly gates to the App Store.