Instead of positioning a dozen computers somewhere at random, allow for people to take a tablet pc at the begin of the library with a modernized version of the library program, connected to a wireless network. Include RFID tags with most books and allow the tablet pc to indicate where to move to find the actual book. Allow the tablet pc to offer you "Find similar books..." for the book you're holding etc.
All those things reveal not much, except that my interests are as broad as the universe (and occasionally larger, when I try to find stuff about something people call god).
They could send me more spam (gets me off their mail service), spim (gets me off their IM service) or more ads (gets me on more effective adblock measures). Until they're going to ask money, I'm going to keep using the services. When they do, I'm gonna be the first to leave.
There's no point in worrying for privacy in public places. When I change clothes in the middle of times square NY I'm not getting much privacy. Didn't I choose for that? Nonencrypted emails, websearches etc. do the same.
Try to match the prices up within a factor of 5, and you'll not see an itanium win.
That'd change the situation to probably an 8-way opteron versus a single Itanium 2... granted it could win, in the case of a single-threaded program...
Somebody inform all translators that it's a "GIGA"-watt. You're not the first (somebody actually subtitled the film like that. It took me weeks to figure out what a jigawatt was)
That could actually prove a bit of a problem. Windows either didn't support USB yet (win95 and older) or can't boot from it (win98) or is too big to fit in 1gb with any kind of normal install (win2k+).
There's this internet on one hand, which is commonly viewed with Firefox but can be well visited with others, using IPv6, usable all around the world and unfortunately using MSN for communication.
The other internet which is viewed only with MSIE, since the rest can't bake decent pages out of it, using IPv4 and pretty much only usable in the USA using AIM for communication.
There's not much intercommunication, and they're going further apart (USA still not going ahead, rest of the world embracing IPv6 on a slow pace).
Are you very damn sure they care about patent stuff? I mean, there aren't many people outside the US that care about the USPTO, and there are even loads IN the US that don't care. I don't figure why they would make new implementations of old stuff.
Also, I recall MIPS being something of an open design, similar to SPARC in many ways, except that it wasn't headed by a single group. If it's an open design, how much do you have to do except convert it into physical layers and toast it? Perhaps reengineer it for a die shrink?
>>The Godson-2 is pretty much a copy of the MIPS R10000 which makes it on par with 1995 technology.'
>So WTF are the latest Opteron processors? On par with 1978 technology?
Not exactly. The 1978 technology was 16-bit (with a stretch), the Opteron is 64-bit. It's an 8086 at much higher speeds (which don't matter for the technology), but with a lot more instructions, capabilities and functions (which DO matter).
The Godson-2 apparently is a clone of the R10000, customized for Chinese manufacturing plants. They probably shrunk the die and put it in a different box, but it doesn't change the processor.
How are you possibly going to archive anything specific on a specific kind of nonspecific hardware? Doesn't it kind of imply, that at the moment you archive it, you archive it with the device only to unarchive it later with a similar or compatible device?
You cannot untie any storage method from it's associated storage equipment. You can however move it to a more current kind of device, say, a RAID.
I don't feel in any way responsible for adblocking them away. I don't click on them, don't use them, didn't ask for them to eat up my display space. I still load them (so if somebody gets money for that, yep, I'm not screwing you), but I wasn't going to click them in any case (so if you get money for that, you weren't going to from me anyway).
The net result is that I see more sites and become less annoyed in general. Those that do click those banners, good for them, but not for me.
Yes, I know slashdot also features banners. Not seeing them, not clicking them (not even if I did see them).
Plus, it helps me get rid of people expressing their dislike for their visitors (moving the window, closing it, attempting to wreck havoc, showing dozens of popups) in javascript, since I cut off the javascript as well (yes, it can do that...).
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Instead of positioning a dozen computers somewhere at random, allow for people to take a tablet pc at the begin of the library with a modernized version of the library program, connected to a wireless network. Include RFID tags with most books and allow the tablet pc to indicate where to move to find the actual book. Allow the tablet pc to offer you "Find similar books..." for the book you're holding etc.
:)
Oh, and make sure you have enough tablet pc's
They hire one person for new applications and around a hundred for people wanting to get off.
HELL-ADS?
I suppose Adblock will get an update sometime soon...
If they'd just sell the stuff here... we might consider upgrading...
No.
What are they going to do with it?
All those things reveal not much, except that my interests are as broad as the universe (and occasionally larger, when I try to find stuff about something people call god).
They could send me more spam (gets me off their mail service), spim (gets me off their IM service) or more ads (gets me on more effective adblock measures). Until they're going to ask money, I'm going to keep using the services. When they do, I'm gonna be the first to leave.
There's no point in worrying for privacy in public places. When I change clothes in the middle of times square NY I'm not getting much privacy. Didn't I choose for that? Nonencrypted emails, websearches etc. do the same.
Try to match the prices up within a factor of 5, and you'll not see an itanium win.
That'd change the situation to probably an 8-way opteron versus a single Itanium 2... granted it could win, in the case of a single-threaded program...
But, not using a P4 would also produce less heat. Sticking an endoscope where it belongs is one thing, but an ice cold one is yet another.
good old-fashioned XHTML? I must be getting old...
Somebody inform all translators that it's a "GIGA"-watt. You're not the first (somebody actually subtitled the film like that. It took me weeks to figure out what a jigawatt was)
That might just be in the US.
Try europe? We only have to drive the toyota for 2 years to get the price difference back out ! We're so blessed here...
No, sorry, that was the previous one. The next one will use Bacardi Breezer 4nd 1337sp33k.
That could actually prove a bit of a problem. Windows either didn't support USB yet (win95 and older) or can't boot from it (win98) or is too big to fit in 1gb with any kind of normal install (win2k+).
You wouldn't believe how right he is becoming.
There's this internet on one hand, which is commonly viewed with Firefox but can be well visited with others, using IPv6, usable all around the world and unfortunately using MSN for communication.
The other internet which is viewed only with MSIE, since the rest can't bake decent pages out of it, using IPv4 and pretty much only usable in the USA using AIM for communication.
There's not much intercommunication, and they're going further apart (USA still not going ahead, rest of the world embracing IPv6 on a slow pace).
Do they have one for C++? I'm still looking for some good wallpaper for my entire house.
I just bought a 6-pack of meat knives... Somebody stop me! >:)
*turns up the volume*
...
Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Mushroom Mushroom Badger
So when I watch Monsters Inc. on this new LCD TV, the monsters will all be smooth?
Are you very damn sure they care about patent stuff? I mean, there aren't many people outside the US that care about the USPTO, and there are even loads IN the US that don't care. I don't figure why they would make new implementations of old stuff.
Also, I recall MIPS being something of an open design, similar to SPARC in many ways, except that it wasn't headed by a single group. If it's an open design, how much do you have to do except convert it into physical layers and toast it? Perhaps reengineer it for a die shrink?
>>The Godson-2 is pretty much a copy of the MIPS R10000 which makes it on par with 1995 technology.'
>So WTF are the latest Opteron processors? On par with 1978 technology?
Not exactly. The 1978 technology was 16-bit (with a stretch), the Opteron is 64-bit. It's an 8086 at much higher speeds (which don't matter for the technology), but with a lot more instructions, capabilities and functions (which DO matter).
The Godson-2 apparently is a clone of the R10000, customized for Chinese manufacturing plants. They probably shrunk the die and put it in a different box, but it doesn't change the processor.
How are you possibly going to archive anything specific on a specific kind of nonspecific hardware? Doesn't it kind of imply, that at the moment you archive it, you archive it with the device only to unarchive it later with a similar or compatible device?
You cannot untie any storage method from it's associated storage equipment. You can however move it to a more current kind of device, say, a RAID.
I don't feel in any way responsible for adblocking them away. I don't click on them, don't use them, didn't ask for them to eat up my display space. I still load them (so if somebody gets money for that, yep, I'm not screwing you), but I wasn't going to click them in any case (so if you get money for that, you weren't going to from me anyway).
The net result is that I see more sites and become less annoyed in general. Those that do click those banners, good for them, but not for me.
Yes, I know slashdot also features banners. Not seeing them, not clicking them (not even if I did see them).
Plus, it helps me get rid of people expressing their dislike for their visitors (moving the window, closing it, attempting to wreck havoc, showing dozens of popups) in javascript, since I cut off the javascript as well (yes, it can do that...).
Dude, could you grow up?
Ads? You mean there still are ads on webpages? I thought they gave up now that the intelligent half of the world has adblock...
oh wait... their target audience didn't change, did it?
Mod parent down. There is no relation between education and visual basic.
That at least allows my Bayesian filter to do its work properly, at least, until I get a Tivo.
Or until they call it the 7ivo, T1vo or Tiv0.