Given that Lycos seems to have the ability to reduce traffic when the site is getting too slow, I suspect that they also have the ability to stop it altogether. As a side-effect, the spammer has made his own money-making inavailable, which helps anyway.
The reason that Intel cores right now have Hyperthreading is that they can't keep all their execution engines filled as is. Itanium has pretty bad efficiency because compilers can't optimize code enough to suite the EPIC architecture and fill up its execution units. I doubt that adding even more of them would help much, no matter how out-of-order they're made. Instruction dependencies will always exist.
I think the point is that it was funded by the Cyprus Tourism Board, not the Cyprus Archeology Board. The tourism board has a vested interested in making outlandish claims to get people to go there.
They better tell programmers and compiler-writers about this soon. Any chip like this is would be very hard to program for - I suspect that any attempted move to this architecture would end up like the Itanic.
Hashcashing does not use public-key cryptography - it involves finding the hash of a certain, variable, required string plus a random string that has each 0's in the first n bits. Besides using a hardware system, it is quite hard to speed this hashing up very much. It does (as far as I am aware) use factors.
A better analogy, I believe, is the difference between walking in air and walking under water. Air (below the speed of sound) is compressible, whereas air above the speed of sound and water are incompressible.
How exactly would that work? How would you find a hash that worked for your data? You would still need to hash the string to find valid output hashes, so that wouldn't help at all.
Do they actually spin on the tray? I was under the impression that the cd was lifted by the spindle. Otherwise, they would be quite a bit louder, wouldn't they?
Isn't the point of a caddy to protect the disk from scratches? When, then, would you put the disk in a caddy only when you put it into a safe place (cd drive) and take it out of the caddy when it went into a dangerous environment (the rest of the world)? The whole point of a caddy is lost if you take it off outside the machine.
That is because Mac IE and Windows IE are very different, using AFAIK different rendering engines and things like that. From what I've heard, the Mac version was more standards-compliant. I don't know why they bothered to do two versions, though.
Maybe, but then they have to distinguish, to around 100%, what is a virus and what isn't. Currently, they just have to know, i.e. if the mailbox doesn't exist anymore; to selectively bounce they would need to examine the message carefully for known virus signatures.
Not AFAIK. Companies sign contracts with the BSA specifically allowing the BSA to 'raid' and check for license compliance. Music listeners sign no such deals.
The problem with Arguing by Authority is that there are so many authorities. It becomes a clash of "My scientist is better than your scientist." You do not need to believe me instead of the scientists (which, of course, are one homogeneous group who believe exactly the same thing, viz. harmful and unprecendented global warming is going on right now). You may believe me *and* the scientists.
Oooh, appeal to authority. Two can play that game: Using statistical information from internationally recognized research institutes, Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental issues and documents that the global environment has actually improved - http://www.lomborg.com/books.htm.
A problem I've heard is that the processes for creating RAM and CPUs are different enough that making one with another process/making them at the same time is inefficient and results in things like slower memory or CPUs.
One reason for the additional memory is caching. When you turn around for a second or move a bit in any direction, you don't want to have to wait for the new textures to come from main RAM.
Many of these seem to be hardware issues. You can't access the disk and RAM the same way because 32 bits aren't enough; just ask the HURD people with their 2 GB (maximum) partitions. That's also a bad idea because hard disks are fundamentally thousands of times slower than RAM - you don't want programmers treating it the same way. If you really want to treat disk as RAM, you can use mmap. Word tries to use this system (a memory dump) to store files, and people are always complaining about backwards compatability. In many smaller computers, all CPUs can access all the RAM/secondary storage anyway. In those you can't, there's a reason - it'd be way too slow.
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Given that Lycos seems to have the ability to reduce traffic when the site is getting too slow, I suspect that they also have the ability to stop it altogether. As a side-effect, the spammer has made his own money-making inavailable, which helps anyway.
then later(the more financially interesting of the two) was like Suse or similar
It was VA Linux, the parent of Slashdot, of course.
The reason that Intel cores right now have Hyperthreading is that they can't keep all their execution engines filled as is. Itanium has pretty bad efficiency because compilers can't optimize code enough to suite the EPIC architecture and fill up its execution units. I doubt that adding even more of them would help much, no matter how out-of-order they're made. Instruction dependencies will always exist.
I think the point is that it was funded by the Cyprus Tourism Board, not the Cyprus Archeology Board. The tourism board has a vested interested in making outlandish claims to get people to go there.
They better tell programmers and compiler-writers about this soon. Any chip like this is would be very hard to program for - I suspect that any attempted move to this architecture would end up like the Itanic.
Hashcashing does not use public-key cryptography - it involves finding the hash of a certain, variable, required string plus a random string that has each 0's in the first n bits. Besides using a hardware system, it is quite hard to speed this hashing up very much. It does (as far as I am aware) use factors.
A better analogy, I believe, is the difference between walking in air and walking under water. Air (below the speed of sound) is compressible, whereas air above the speed of sound and water are incompressible.
A large world, actually. 4 billion is less than one per person.
How exactly would that work? How would you find a hash that worked for your data? You would still need to hash the string to find valid output hashes, so that wouldn't help at all.
That is, I'm guessing, sourceforge.net's SPF record. It makes it hard/impossible to fake mail as if it were coming from there.
Do they actually spin on the tray? I was under the impression that the cd was lifted by the spindle. Otherwise, they would be quite a bit louder, wouldn't they?
Isn't the point of a caddy to protect the disk from scratches? When, then, would you put the disk in a caddy only when you put it into a safe place (cd drive) and take it out of the caddy when it went into a dangerous environment (the rest of the world)? The whole point of a caddy is lost if you take it off outside the machine.
Ctrl-+ (Ctrl and plus at the same time) and then Ctrl-- (Ctrl and minus at the same time) always slashdot (and so probably that) for me.
That is because Mac IE and Windows IE are very different, using AFAIK different rendering engines and things like that. From what I've heard, the Mac version was more standards-compliant. I don't know why they bothered to do two versions, though.
The constitution only restricts what the government may do. Private institutions (such as banks) have many more options.
I just middle-clicked on the "Reply To This" button to reply to you in a new tab. On Windows XP. It works.
That appears to apply only to verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it,, so if you change anything, you don't have to do that.
What, don't they know about digital photography yet?
Maybe, but then they have to distinguish, to around 100%, what is a virus and what isn't. Currently, they just have to know, i.e. if the mailbox doesn't exist anymore; to selectively bounce they would need to examine the message carefully for known virus signatures.
Not AFAIK. Companies sign contracts with the BSA specifically allowing the BSA to 'raid' and check for license compliance. Music listeners sign no such deals.
For some other info, google "climatologist global warming" and see what you get.
I get "The IPCC claims that human activities are responsible for nearly all the earth's recorded warming during the past two centuries," said NCPA Adjunct Scholar David Legates, the report's author and director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware. "Yet the primary assessment they use as support appears to be more junk science than solid evidence."
And Christy is a respected climatologist, but he's also a maverick who argues that global warming isn't a problem worth worrying about.
Of course there's Climatologist Patrick J. Michaels says fears of catastrophic global warming are scientifically unfounded and "alarmist." Any climate change that does occur would not affect Earth or its inhabitants in any significant way, he said.
The problem with Arguing by Authority is that there are so many authorities. It becomes a clash of "My scientist is better than your scientist." You do not need to believe me instead of the scientists (which, of course, are one homogeneous group who believe exactly the same thing, viz. harmful and unprecendented global warming is going on right now). You may believe me *and* the scientists.
Oooh, appeal to authority. Two can play that game: Using statistical information from internationally recognized research institutes, Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental issues and documents that the global environment has actually improved - http://www.lomborg.com/books.htm.
I win.
A problem I've heard is that the processes for creating RAM and CPUs are different enough that making one with another process/making them at the same time is inefficient and results in things like slower memory or CPUs.
One reason for the additional memory is caching. When you turn around for a second or move a bit in any direction, you don't want to have to wait for the new textures to come from main RAM.
Many of these seem to be hardware issues.
You can't access the disk and RAM the same way because 32 bits aren't enough; just ask the HURD people with their 2 GB (maximum) partitions. That's also a bad idea because hard disks are fundamentally thousands of times slower than RAM - you don't want programmers treating it the same way. If you really want to treat disk as RAM, you can use mmap. Word tries to use this system (a memory dump) to store files, and people are always complaining about backwards compatability.
In many smaller computers, all CPUs can access all the RAM/secondary storage anyway. In those you can't, there's a reason - it'd be way too slow.