When Compaq acquired the Alpha with DEC in 1998, that's when the Alpha line started to have trouble, design flaw kept clock speed low. It was Compaq who canceled the EV8 prior to HP acquisition, and there's plenty of talk and conspiracy theories about that. But screwups in the architecture three years prior made the Alpha's case not so compelling. Just as screwups in the Itanium/Itanium2 architecture make it not as compelling today.
The HP 9000 (PA-RISC) and Alpha been slated for obsolescence ever since the Itanium started, before Carly got there. Maybe the strategy to consolidate high end server lines (NonStop, OpenVMS, HP/UX) was a good one, but Intel mucked up the Itanium?
you do realize the chickens of the U.S. are hugely obese. In southeast asia I've seen very lean chickens, had the same profile and build as a large robin or sparrow, I didn't even recognize what they until I saw their heads up close (and of course they crowed just like chicken). They could fly quite far, a couple hundred feet or more.
we could start with the 25 Million heretics Benedict XVI says the Church put to death, and that's out of records where two-thirds are missing. Then we could talk about European history of crusades and such, but hey, after 100 million bodies I kinda lost count.............
I just get really, really tweaked off about religions that are about power over other people and taking wealth, had too much of it in my personal life and see too much of it in history and in the present world. State religions have no right to exist, and need to be exterminated.
causation assumes the reason and result of things lie along a time-axis. what if it turns out that for macroscopic phenomenon there's other dimensions where this is true? As an example, the universe seems to have a definite beginning, but the reasons for it would be outside of time, so what we cal "casualty" can't apply
you don't recognize when your freedom of thought and religion is being violated. If you are forced into a religious group by the state by birth, and taxed to enrich that religion by default, you have neither freedom of thought nor freedom of religion. You are enslaved. This is not a question of allowing "opt-out", this is fundamental question of liberty.
Quantum events can have huge unpredictable macroscopic consequences, it's an error to think they all "average out" in the macroscopic universe. Suppose we had a geiger counter displaying an average count rate of 120 per minute. Then we make a detonator that explodes a bomb if 121 counts are made in the next minute. There's no way to know if the bomb will go off or not in the next minute, regardless of the amount of information you have about the universe beforehand.
Aside from quantum effects, the universe also is indeterministic because of chaotic systems.
the Inquisition wasn't just done by secular authority, the Roman Catholic Church played a part in the Inquisition, and Pope John Paul apologized for it twice. Quite a bloody-handed organization, that Roman Catholic Church, killed and tortured more people than Hitler and the Nazis.
Actually, in the realm of some object oriented languages, the term deconstruct does have the meaining of dismantling. For slashdot this use is thus alright. We could even call the web site mentioned in the article a deconstrutor of the church.
because the person is put into the church without their consent, and then all memebers of the church are required to pay or face punishment. It's like having the option of opting out of a mafia protection racket when by default the whole neighborhood is in, doesn't make the crime any less.
my goodness, and here I thought Europe was all modern and enlightened. That's as disgusting as state Islam; a violent revolution against "the church" would be justified.
Dismantle is indeed part of common english, please get a good dictionary (Meriam-Webster online, for example). Deconstruct however is a literary term, a type of criticism.
Could someone from over there please explain how this Church Income Tax works? sounds scary. Of course, over here in the U.S. the old traditional Baptist churchs do their best to get everyone to tithe (10% of income), but it's not a line item on our form 1040
fraud and misrepresentation to manipulate stock prices also carries a penalty, when the civil suits are over there could be another wave of shareholder litigation
the best models we have of our universe have indeterminism; probabilities not certainties. Your views are those of the 17th, 18th and 19th century physicists.
Is this the only this we can say about dry ice that the layman understands? The industrial applications of dry ice are quite numerous, it has far more utility than making magic smoke
blades are an interesting question. The current HP Itanium2 blade isn't very useful, just 8GB of memory and two processors. No one buys an itanium for business use with that low of RAM, and for scientific/engineering use its too few processors, big compute farms like high density.
The next generation hp blade will have 48GB RAM or more max and maybe dual-core processors if Intel can finally deliver, they're talking about fall 2006 now (going toward 3 years late).
Now, for software like Oracle that can scale well with multiple machines, blades with dual core itanium might make sense (if promised performance pans out), but remember the x86-64 world isn't sitting still, the bang for the buck from that is fearsome.
As for number cruncher, the MFLOPS speak for themselves, and huge supercomputer clusters have been built with Itanium, see top500.org. But with no new cheaps, and very high cost and power requirements of Itanium, the x86-64 world is killing that
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When Compaq acquired the Alpha with DEC in 1998, that's when the Alpha line started to have trouble, design flaw kept clock speed low. It was Compaq who canceled the EV8 prior to HP acquisition, and there's plenty of talk and conspiracy theories about that. But screwups in the architecture three years prior made the Alpha's case not so compelling. Just as screwups in the Itanium/Itanium2 architecture make it not as compelling today.
The HP 9000 (PA-RISC) and Alpha been slated for obsolescence ever since the Itanium started, before Carly got there. Maybe the strategy to consolidate high end server lines (NonStop, OpenVMS, HP/UX) was a good one, but Intel mucked up the Itanium?
News flash, lighting plastic explosives with a lighter or match will not result in an explosion. What you will get is a hissing fire.
there's a galaxy (or ten or a hundred) for every human being who ever has been born or will be, there is more universe than could ever be used.
no, if he provided a link to some jpegs then he would be our god
tastes kind of like chicken....
you do realize the chickens of the U.S. are hugely obese. In southeast asia I've seen very lean chickens, had the same profile and build as a large robin or sparrow, I didn't even recognize what they until I saw their heads up close (and of course they crowed just like chicken). They could fly quite far, a couple hundred feet or more.
more than lying, theft and fraud. And employees with stocks and stock options or the pension plan didn't get a choice to diversify their investments.
we could start with the 25 Million heretics Benedict XVI says the Church put to death, and that's out of records where two-thirds are missing. Then we could talk about European history of crusades and such, but hey, after 100 million bodies I kinda lost count.............
I just get really, really tweaked off about religions that are about power over other people and taking wealth, had too much of it in my personal life and see too much of it in history and in the present world. State religions have no right to exist, and need to be exterminated.
causation assumes the reason and result of things lie along a time-axis. what if it turns out that for macroscopic phenomenon there's other dimensions where this is true? As an example, the universe seems to have a definite beginning, but the reasons for it would be outside of time, so what we cal "casualty" can't apply
you don't recognize when your freedom of thought and religion is being violated. If you are forced into a religious group by the state by birth, and taxed to enrich that religion by default, you have neither freedom of thought nor freedom of religion. You are enslaved. This is not a question of allowing "opt-out", this is fundamental question of liberty.
Quantum events can have huge unpredictable macroscopic consequences, it's an error to think they all "average out" in the macroscopic universe. Suppose we had a geiger counter displaying an average count rate of 120 per minute. Then we make a detonator that explodes a bomb if 121 counts are made in the next minute. There's no way to know if the bomb will go off or not in the next minute, regardless of the amount of information you have about the universe beforehand. Aside from quantum effects, the universe also is indeterministic because of chaotic systems.
Leela ON Amy! 8D
the Inquisition wasn't just done by secular authority, the Roman Catholic Church played a part in the Inquisition, and Pope John Paul apologized for it twice. Quite a bloody-handed organization, that Roman Catholic Church, killed and tortured more people than Hitler and the Nazis.
Actually, in the realm of some object oriented languages, the term deconstruct does have the meaining of dismantling. For slashdot this use is thus alright. We could even call the web site mentioned in the article a deconstrutor of the church.
because the person is put into the church without their consent, and then all memebers of the church are required to pay or face punishment. It's like having the option of opting out of a mafia protection racket when by default the whole neighborhood is in, doesn't make the crime any less.
actually, the word is also used by OO programmers and therefore is OK for slashdot. Your geek quotient is low.
my goodness, and here I thought Europe was all modern and enlightened. That's as disgusting as state Islam; a violent revolution against "the church" would be justified.
Dismantle is indeed part of common english, please get a good dictionary (Meriam-Webster online, for example). Deconstruct however is a literary term, a type of criticism.
Could someone from over there please explain how this Church Income Tax works? sounds scary. Of course, over here in the U.S. the old traditional Baptist churchs do their best to get everyone to tithe (10% of income), but it's not a line item on our form 1040
fraud and misrepresentation to manipulate stock prices also carries a penalty, when the civil suits are over there could be another wave of shareholder litigation
the best models we have of our universe have indeterminism; probabilities not certainties. Your views are those of the 17th, 18th and 19th century physicists.
Is this the only this we can say about dry ice that the layman understands? The industrial applications of dry ice are quite numerous, it has far more utility than making magic smoke
blades are an interesting question. The current HP Itanium2 blade isn't very useful, just 8GB of memory and two processors. No one buys an itanium for business use with that low of RAM, and for scientific/engineering use its too few processors, big compute farms like high density. The next generation hp blade will have 48GB RAM or more max and maybe dual-core processors if Intel can finally deliver, they're talking about fall 2006 now (going toward 3 years late). Now, for software like Oracle that can scale well with multiple machines, blades with dual core itanium might make sense (if promised performance pans out), but remember the x86-64 world isn't sitting still, the bang for the buck from that is fearsome. As for number cruncher, the MFLOPS speak for themselves, and huge supercomputer clusters have been built with Itanium, see top500.org. But with no new cheaps, and very high cost and power requirements of Itanium, the x86-64 world is killing that