i'd like to know if users will get refunds from sco, when sco gets clobbered by ibm. if not, i expect to see a class action against sco, after ibm defeats them.
Is this legal? On the $20 note in my billfold it states, "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private." Given this, how can a store refuse cash?
yes, of course it is. it's legal tender for all *debts*. you aren't in debt until the sale has been made. so, they can refuse the sale. you don't have to sell something to someone.
now, if you owe, say $5k on your car, you can deliver 5k $1 bills and they have to take them.
the cpu + mobo specs are great (and i'll probably buy one in a year or so), but this thing only has 3 bays! i'm using four in my alpha now, and that's after i took out the drives i was using for netbsd and freebsd. what are "power users" suppost to do?
w/ my current raid setup (twin 15k.3 cheetahs), i'd have to pull the stock drive and buy an external enclosure for it, if i wanted to use it. and i won't ever be able to add a third raid drive. all the onboard io is great, but it's useless when it all stalls while accessing a single drive!
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I used to take acidophilus at one time -- my naturopath initially prescribed it to get over the
lol. "naturopath"? first of all, that's not a word. i think you mean "naturologist", but i've never heard of one before. you really mean vitamin salesman, right? that list of substances is incredible. and you add enzymes onto it?
do you know what happens when you add digestive enzymes to your food? your body stops producing them, until you ween yourself off the pointless enzyme suppliments. how do i know this? my dog had severe pancreitis(sp) after eating half a hamburger (dogs can't tolerate much fat). unless you have some sort of genetic disease or something that limits your enzyme production, there is absolutely no reason ingest more. if you have indigestion, try taking it w/ milk and/or not taking 40 pills at a time. maybe one of the coatings on a tablet doesn't agree w/ your stomach.
hump and get the digestive system back in order.
Other than that, I've been taking a broad-spectrum digestive enzyme that helps with the nasty meals
uh, why don't you just not eat it, or just eat a little (if you're in a situation where that's all there is to eat)?
btw, why does everyone on/. think they're an expert on everything? are any of you doctors, or even nurses? ianad, but i do know that all this advice about suppliments is potenially harmfull.
have a problem? see a doctor, or two (for a second opinion). hell, see three. but don't take/. bs as good advice. hell, don't even listen to me. see someone who knows wtf they're talking about. not some nature-freak who's obsessed w/ getting people on "natural" substances. arsenic is natural. would you eat a handful of it?
Studies have shown that MPH is up to 30% less effective than the brand name drug, Ritalin. It can cause tics in children. Those who take Ritalin do not develop tics.
i was on ritalin and it CAN cause tics. i had many symptoms of torret's(sp) syndrome (including facial and verbal tics), thanks to ritalin. to this day, if i don't take an antidepressant, i still occasionally have invasive thoughts, and urges to do things evenly and balanced. (eg, when walking, making sure i turn the same degrees in each direction, so it cancels out.)
on the other hand, ritalin helped me to concentrate very well. math would just fly through my mind so easily; the answers would almost just pop out. then i was taken off it, and my grades plummeted. i don't think that was entirely due to ADD. there were other things happened, at the time (parents were seperating). i was on it from first grade through fifth.
It's not a matter of not being able to reduce the vibration. It is the vibration of the V-twins that make people want to buy them.
Take away the vibration an no one will want to buy them.
not completely. there are plenty of v-twin sportbikes, 60 degree from aprillia, 90 degrees from ducati, honda, suzuki, etc. though, most sportbikes are i4. many people *love* v-twin sportbikes.
however, it is true that people will pay rediculous amounts of money for low-tech, air cooled, heavy, and underpowered paint mixers.
Adding to your comment, another factor is that Linux can GENERALLY run a bit faster on the same hardware, assuming you run a server at init 3 (who wouldnt?) This gives you a little more horsepower per server.
what are you talking about? init levels have nothing to do w/ performance, unless you have 30 daemons setup for other levels and little swap space.
i tried bochs recently and it was unbelievably slow. unusably slow. i ran it on a (dual) 833mhz ev68 alpha. even if it was twice as fast, it'd still be too slow. it took more than 20min to boot netbsd/i386 from a floppy image.
this is a lot like what's in gibson's new book. a company pays people (reimburses, actually) to go out to bars and say they like a product when it's mentioned.
i should have been more clear. i've seen comparisons of gcc 2.9x to dec's cc and and gcc was blown away. i have also read intel's and sun's compilers generate faster code. i did just read on l-k last night that gcc 3.x is performing as good as intel's. that's great to hear. portability is definetly gcc's strong point (which is why it's on just about every platform there is). i'd just like to see it perform better. otherwise, it's like buying a car (instead of a cpu) and pulling a plug wire or two. you're not getting everything out of it. and believe me i know, i used to drive an '87 reliant running on 3 cylinders! (for the record i have a '94 escort gt now, MUCH faster. 8)
In my mind HP should either go one way or the other, not release a processor most people would claim to be better than Itanium. Why didn't Intel just buy the Alpha architecture and continue it?
they were probably well into working on the itanic when the option to buyout alpha came along.
Its a sad state of affairs when the superior architecture gets cut up and sold to different companies to produce two slightly inferior chips.
yes, it is. and disregarding alpha for a moment, you would think after 20 so years of the pile of crap known as x86, that intel would be intelligent enough to make clean, sane cpu. instead they, of course, design the itanic. i've read about its isa and all i can say is "feature bloat". i also read a little of the hp book about porting linux. the itanic is the most overly complicated, misdesigned cpu i think has ever been made. at least when the 8086 came out, it was a good design (relatively speaking).
it's funny how intel says "epic is simple, no ooo complexity" but doesn't mention the all rediculous crap like rotating register files, etc, etc. afaict, ia64 is MORE complex than any risc chip. NOT simpler. and throwing ooo out the door is stupid. a) compilers can't predict cache misses b) gcc sucks and so, to get anywhere near decent performance, you have to use a different compiler (dec's cc, and i think just about everyone else's, outperforms gcc). i predict that intel will be forced to eventually add ooo back. at best, intel has traded ooo complexity for the complexity of all the features needed for compiler driven scheduling, AND forced compilers to be very good just to get decent performance.
VM does NOT mean just paging/swapping. that is a small part of it. mac os and windows users constantly misuse the term. the vm does demand paging, copy-on-write, file/page cache, buffer cache, shared mem, mmapped files, and more. the most important of which is protection.
All other things being equal, the 32-bit version of a program will run faster than the 64-bit version; you can fit more 32-bit ints into cache at once than 64-bit ints, so the 64-bit version of a program generally suffers more cache misses than its 32-bit counterpart.
on 64bit archs, ints are STILL 32bits. only longs and pointers become 64bits.
instead of having native binary packages for each arch, why not compile to an intermediate bytecode (distribute that), then compile and cache the native binary? would too much optimization info be lost?
amiga was working on something like this. were the resulting native binaries decently optimized?
i'm imagining an isa that would use labels (instead of registers). the compiler would just do all the macro expansion, etc. maybe this wouldn't be much faster than just compiling it from scratch, though.
But I think you're confusing "stack based" with "memory to memory". Not all stacks are implemented in memory; an on-chip stack is very fast, and allows the CPU to operate at almost the full ALU clock, since there's no register access delay.
how is that? does it have multiple stacks? how can it execute more than one instruction at a time, if only the top element on the stack can be addressed?
Well, the prevailing thought is that 64-bit architechture is going to be the standard in all desktop use in the next 5-7 years. But first we need to have a trickling down of the software from high to low-end. Also, 64-bit can handle a march larger load than 32-bit, so it is and ideal for high-end servers that handle hundreds of thousands of requests a day, which is what HP is selling here.
register width and address space have nothing to do with load. also, only poorly written s/w doesn't run on 64bit archs. all but of few debian packages run flawlessly. 64bit cpus have been around for about ten years now.
the main advantage of 64bits is the address space. no more trying to cram physical ram, io space, and kernel mappings into 4gigs. 64bit int ops are obviously a lot faster. the big win with that is, you can have 64bit file and sector offsets w/o slowing things down.
the problem is, compiler don't have any of the run time info that cpus do. making itanium in-order was a stupid idea. it can't reorder around cache misses. it is simply not possible to predict cache misses at compile time.
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i'd like to know if users will get refunds from sco, when sco gets clobbered by ibm. if not, i expect to see a class action against sco, after ibm defeats them.
yes, of course it is. it's legal tender for all *debts*. you aren't in debt until the sale has been made. so, they can refuse the sale. you don't have to sell something to someone.
now, if you owe, say $5k on your car, you can deliver 5k $1 bills and they have to take them.
the cpu + mobo specs are great (and i'll probably buy one in a year or so), but this thing only has 3 bays! i'm using four in my alpha now, and that's after i took out the drives i was using for netbsd and freebsd. what are "power users" suppost to do?
w/ my current raid setup (twin 15k.3 cheetahs), i'd have to pull the stock drive and buy an external enclosure for it, if i wanted to use it. and i won't ever be able to add a third raid drive. all the onboard io is great, but it's useless when it all stalls while accessing a single drive!
lol. "naturopath"? first of all, that's not a word. i think you mean "naturologist", but i've never heard of one before. you really mean vitamin salesman, right? that list of substances is incredible. and you add enzymes onto it?
do you know what happens when you add digestive enzymes to your food? your body stops producing them, until you ween yourself off the pointless enzyme suppliments. how do i know this? my dog had severe pancreitis(sp) after eating half a hamburger (dogs can't tolerate much fat). unless you have some sort of genetic disease or something that limits your enzyme production, there is absolutely no reason ingest more. if you have indigestion, try taking it w/ milk and/or not taking 40 pills at a time. maybe one of the coatings on a tablet doesn't agree w/ your stomach.
hump and get the digestive system back in order. Other than that, I've been taking a broad-spectrum digestive enzyme that helps with the nasty meals
uh, why don't you just not eat it, or just eat a little (if you're in a situation where that's all there is to eat)?
btw, why does everyone on /. think they're an expert on everything? are any of you doctors, or even nurses? ianad, but i do know that all this advice about suppliments is potenially harmfull.
have a problem? see a doctor, or two (for a second opinion). hell, see three. but don't take /. bs as good advice. hell, don't even listen to me. see someone who knows wtf they're talking about. not some nature-freak who's obsessed w/ getting people on "natural" substances. arsenic is natural. would you eat a handful of it?
i was on ritalin and it CAN cause tics. i had many symptoms of torret's(sp) syndrome (including facial and verbal tics), thanks to ritalin. to this day, if i don't take an antidepressant, i still occasionally have invasive thoughts, and urges to do things evenly and balanced. (eg, when walking, making sure i turn the same degrees in each direction, so it cancels out.)
on the other hand, ritalin helped me to concentrate very well. math would just fly through my mind so easily; the answers would almost just pop out. then i was taken off it, and my grades plummeted. i don't think that was entirely due to ADD. there were other things happened, at the time (parents were seperating). i was on it from first grade through fifth.
i tried both 800 numbers and i get sent to an operator. do you have to ask for the sco shareholders conference or something?
and 128/1.5 cable w/ a news cap and no "servers" allowed is kind of unlimited. 8)
not completely. there are plenty of v-twin sportbikes, 60 degree from aprillia, 90 degrees from ducati, honda, suzuki, etc. though, most sportbikes are i4. many people *love* v-twin sportbikes.
however, it is true that people will pay rediculous amounts of money for low-tech, air cooled, heavy, and underpowered paint mixers.
i have an indigo2, and they are not 64bit.
what are you talking about? init levels have nothing to do w/ performance, unless you have 30 daemons setup for other levels and little swap space.
i tried bochs recently and it was unbelievably slow. unusably slow. i ran it on a (dual) 833mhz ev68 alpha. even if it was twice as fast, it'd still be too slow. it took more than 20min to boot netbsd/i386 from a floppy image.
there's nothing "infamous" about zmodem. it was widely used and not just on warez boards.
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this is a lot like what's in gibson's new book. a company pays people (reimburses, actually) to go out to bars and say they like a product when it's mentioned.
I would disagree. GCC actually rules.
i should have been more clear. i've seen comparisons of gcc 2.9x to dec's cc and and gcc was blown away. i have also read intel's and sun's compilers generate faster code. i did just read on l-k last night that gcc 3.x is performing as good as intel's. that's great to hear. portability is definetly gcc's strong point (which is why it's on just about every platform there is). i'd just like to see it perform better. otherwise, it's like buying a car (instead of a cpu) and pulling a plug wire or two. you're not getting everything out of it. and believe me i know, i used to drive an '87 reliant running on 3 cylinders! (for the record i have a '94 escort gt now, MUCH faster. 8)
they were probably well into working on the itanic when the option to buyout alpha came along.
Its a sad state of affairs when the superior architecture gets cut up and sold to different companies to produce two slightly inferior chips.
yes, it is. and disregarding alpha for a moment, you would think after 20 so years of the pile of crap known as x86, that intel would be intelligent enough to make clean, sane cpu. instead they, of course, design the itanic. i've read about its isa and all i can say is "feature bloat". i also read a little of the hp book about porting linux. the itanic is the most overly complicated, misdesigned cpu i think has ever been made. at least when the 8086 came out, it was a good design (relatively speaking).
it's funny how intel says "epic is simple, no ooo complexity" but doesn't mention the all rediculous crap like rotating register files, etc, etc. afaict, ia64 is MORE complex than any risc chip. NOT simpler. and throwing ooo out the door is stupid. a) compilers can't predict cache misses b) gcc sucks and so, to get anywhere near decent performance, you have to use a different compiler (dec's cc, and i think just about everyone else's, outperforms gcc). i predict that intel will be forced to eventually add ooo back. at best, intel has traded ooo complexity for the complexity of all the features needed for compiler driven scheduling, AND forced compilers to be very good just to get decent performance.
VM does NOT mean just paging/swapping. that is a small part of it. mac os and windows users constantly misuse the term. the vm does demand paging, copy-on-write, file/page cache, buffer cache, shared mem, mmapped files, and more. the most important of which is protection.
on 64bit archs, ints are STILL 32bits. only longs and pointers become 64bits.
you've obviously never driven on the beltway in dc. you'll be passed, often, even doing 70. i wouldn't hit the fast lane except to go 85 or faster.
If you do it is correct to call you a consumer.
companies are also consumers - not all consumers are citizens.
and pc's aren't? how about nvidia? do you have the verilog or whatever source for you pc mobo's chipset?
instead of having native binary packages for each arch, why not compile to an intermediate bytecode (distribute that), then compile and cache the native binary? would too much optimization info be lost?
amiga was working on something like this. were the resulting native binaries decently optimized?
i'm imagining an isa that would use labels (instead of registers). the compiler would just do all the macro expansion, etc. maybe this wouldn't be much faster than just compiling it from scratch, though.
how is that? does it have multiple stacks? how can it execute more than one instruction at a time, if only the top element on the stack can be addressed?
register width and address space have nothing to do with load. also, only poorly written s/w doesn't run on 64bit archs. all but of few debian packages run flawlessly. 64bit cpus have been around for about ten years now.
the main advantage of 64bits is the address space. no more trying to cram physical ram, io space, and kernel mappings into 4gigs. 64bit int ops are obviously a lot faster. the big win with that is, you can have 64bit file and sector offsets w/o slowing things down.
just curious, how many other people have licked 9v batteries to test them? ever lick any bigger batteries?
the problem is, compiler don't have any of the run time info that cpus do. making itanium in-order was a stupid idea. it can't reorder around cache misses. it is simply not possible to predict cache misses at compile time.