" then why not split it in half like a 2 button mouse and have the left half be the button that people click and the other half not be a button?"
Because most people who use Macs haven't really used computers with 2 or 3 button mice. To them it is the natural state to have one big button, and they probably use both fingers to push it.
Also, I don't want to upgrade my CPU anymore, I want to add CPU power to what I already have. Give me a scaleable hardware architecture (with a lot of empty CPU slots), with the OS supporting it. Add a 'cheap' factor. THIS would be my ideal computer... for now!;-)
I agree with you. One of the computers we designed at work had 4 cpus, along with some shared memory, but most of it was unshared. The cool thing was that the cpu's didn't need to run at the same speed, they were effectively independent computers all on the same backplane. they also had some interesting methods of inter-processor communication.
Anyway, I'd like a computer that I could throw a cpu into, and have it be treated like a separate computer. I shouldn't say it, but it could be like a single box beowulf cluster with a high-speed interconnect.
I guess that is sort of what the super computers do.
I still have an apple//e sitting on a desk at my parents house. I powered it up the last time I was home. I'll say this: That thing has the greatest feeling keyboard I've ever used. It just feels excellent. Like you're getting a massage (you decide) while you are typing.
I still have a few copies of "Copy ][ plus" DMCA be Damned!
reading your post made me think of intel as hard-line communists, with all the processing power being central, claiming "our cpu cycles are everyones equally" or something.
And what some of us are suggesting is akin to a very conservative governing style--a very limited central government with most of the power laying in regional sub-governments.
I don't mean to flame here or anything, but I don't want to read a book that tells me why I can't do a bunch of things. I mean, I saw a great deal of improvement at work when I upgraded to a dual cpu environment. to me that is the same thing I was talking about, just at a higher level that I intend.
I do think you are right about saying we need a new protocal between the cpu and the network card, but I also think we need the same between between the cpu and all the major components. A packetized network, serial network.
" What I want is a cheap, affordable, fast 4-8 GB flash ram disk"
I know what you mean, but maybe you should say non-volitile memory instead of flash...flash wears out after something like 10,000 write ops.
Hell, I'll stick a battery on a dimm, if you write a driver that knows that can treat it like a permanent memory storage device. It'd probably be easiest to do it with registered memory, and I don't recall offhand but I don't think many mainboards support registered memory.
"They may come up with something new that has so many clock cycles to burn that it can run circles around a GF4"
I think it's called the radeon 9700. Just kidding..hehe
I know what you are saying, but it doesn't really look like much of that is going on. I'd probably be second to last to know about it, but it doesn't seem like anybody is too anxious to actually try anything new or different. Too much risk involved.
It seems that intel and amd have recently made pretty large jumps in their processor speeds. And while windows XP is processor greedy, the benchmark for good performance in XP was surpassed a while back.
So I think we are just seeing the results of a software lag, where the current batch of software doesn't need or even work better with the highest end processors.
On the other hand, video cards are taking more and more load off of the CPU. And they cost about the same. I know I've upgraded my video more often than my CPU. I've got four videocards sitting on my desk right now, victims of perceived obsolesence.
Maybe the future trend is for other peripherals to start adding computational functionality, and further reduce the CPU load. Perhaps CPUs of the future will be used for nothing but scheduling and coordination.
ignore the writer? Have you read the books? I felt like the directors/producers had a checklist of every event that happens in the book, and didn't stop filming until everything on the list was there.
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"Well, at least they're doing a good job of the Dune"
Wow, it doesn't look like you are kidding. I really thought they did an absolutely terrible job on that. It was alright on its own I guess, if you pretended the books didn't exist and it was some new creation. But it wasn't even close to the book(s). Except in the names of characters. The behaviors didn't really match anywhere, and the fremen looked like janitors.
He forgot to mention that the magic TEV charger is a gasoline engine, remarkably similar to the gasoline engine of a delorean.
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You know, the sony tivos had locked drives too. Somebody wrote a utility to unlock the drive. I wonder if that same utility would work for the xbox hack.
And what is the difference between an explosion, and say something burning "really really fast"?
this is not a troll, I'm really asking. Is there a certain burn rate where something can then be deemed as an explosion? Does there have to be a high pressure shockwave created?
You have to submit a pretty impressive budget outlining how all the cash is going to be spent, down the penny. Then you have to suffer government audits on a near monthly basis to be sure that is how you are spending the money. so chunking out cash from that pot to the author wouldn't work out.
That was a good idea about the contract for future are work.
You're very presumptuous. I merely stated that according to the numbers, one could accelerate to 100km/h 300 times. Nothing in there about friction, the levelness of the road, the material of the road, the spin of the earth, windspeed and direction, the position of the moon, or any number of other factors which might have influence.
Those numbers look pretty good to me. Maybe I missed something? According to your numbers, you could accelerate 0-100km/h 300 times from a two hour charge.
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" then why not split it in half like a 2 button mouse and have the left half be the button that people click and the other half not be a button?"
Because most people who use Macs haven't really used computers with 2 or 3 button mice. To them it is the natural state to have one big button, and they probably use both fingers to push it.
Plus there is the symmetry--it's ambidextrous
My question to this is, I didn't think that the P4 could do SMP?
The p4 xeons can.
if they trust the polaroid enough to not be tampered, they should just take a picture of the letter itself.
I wonder if this technique could be modified to spot trolls. Not too likely I guess, it'd have to be able to tell relevance to a topic.
Also, I don't want to upgrade my CPU anymore, I want to add CPU power to what I already have. Give me a scaleable hardware architecture (with a lot of empty CPU slots), with the OS supporting it. Add a 'cheap' factor. THIS would be my ideal computer... for now! ;-)
I agree with you. One of the computers we designed at work had 4 cpus, along with some shared memory, but most of it was unshared. The cool thing was that the cpu's didn't need to run at the same speed, they were effectively independent computers all on the same backplane. they also had some interesting methods of inter-processor communication.
Anyway, I'd like a computer that I could throw a cpu into, and have it be treated like a separate computer. I shouldn't say it, but it could be like a single box beowulf cluster with a high-speed interconnect.
I guess that is sort of what the super computers do.
"The CPU of the future will be a 1-MHz 6502!"
//e sitting on a desk at my parents house. I powered it up the last time I was home. I'll say this: That thing has the greatest feeling keyboard I've ever used. It just feels excellent. Like you're getting a massage (you decide) while you are typing.
I still have an apple
I still have a few copies of "Copy ][ plus" DMCA be Damned!
reading your post made me think of intel as hard-line communists, with all the processing power being central, claiming "our cpu cycles are everyones equally" or something.
And what some of us are suggesting is akin to a very conservative governing style--a very limited central government with most of the power laying in regional sub-governments.
I don't mean to flame here or anything, but I don't want to read a book that tells me why I can't do a bunch of things. I mean, I saw a great deal of improvement at work when I upgraded to a dual cpu environment. to me that is the same thing I was talking about, just at a higher level that I intend.
I do think you are right about saying we need a new protocal between the cpu and the network card, but I also think we need the same between between the cpu and all the major components. A packetized network, serial network.
" What I want is a cheap, affordable, fast 4-8 GB flash ram disk"
I know what you mean, but maybe you should say non-volitile memory instead of flash...flash wears out after something like 10,000 write ops.
Hell, I'll stick a battery on a dimm, if you write a driver that knows that can treat it like a permanent memory storage device. It'd probably be easiest to do it with registered memory, and I don't recall offhand but I don't think many mainboards support registered memory.
"They may come up with something new that has so many clock cycles to burn that it can run circles around a GF4"
I think it's called the radeon 9700. Just kidding..hehe
I know what you are saying, but it doesn't really look like much of that is going on. I'd probably be second to last to know about it, but it doesn't seem like anybody is too anxious to actually try anything new or different. Too much risk involved.
It seems that intel and amd have recently made pretty large jumps in their processor speeds. And while windows XP is processor greedy, the benchmark for good performance in XP was surpassed a while back.
So I think we are just seeing the results of a software lag, where the current batch of software doesn't need or even work better with the highest end processors.
On the other hand, video cards are taking more and more load off of the CPU. And they cost about the same. I know I've upgraded my video more often than my CPU. I've got four videocards sitting on my desk right now, victims of perceived obsolesence.
Maybe the future trend is for other peripherals to start adding computational functionality, and further reduce the CPU load. Perhaps CPUs of the future will be used for nothing but scheduling and coordination.
You may be right. The trailer, to me, looked just like the first one. I recognized many scenes, but it has been a while since I read the book.
ignore the writer? Have you read the books? I felt like the directors/producers had a checklist of every event that happens in the book, and didn't stop filming until everything on the list was there.
actually smileys are needed by poor readers
"Well, at least they're doing a good job of the Dune"
Wow, it doesn't look like you are kidding. I really thought they did an absolutely terrible job on that. It was alright on its own I guess, if you pretended the books didn't exist and it was some new creation. But it wasn't even close to the book(s). Except in the names of characters. The behaviors didn't really match anywhere, and the fremen looked like janitors.
so would it be ironic if the topic id was 404, and the page worked?
He forgot to mention that the magic TEV charger is a gasoline engine, remarkably similar to the gasoline engine of a delorean.
You know, the sony tivos had locked drives too. Somebody wrote a utility to unlock the drive. I wonder if that same utility would work for the xbox hack.
check out www.tivocommunity.com
"That's why our iSCSI stuff is just sitting around doing nothing right now."
Can I have it?
"...if you win or lose you know whose fault it is."
No you don't.
I wonder if they are established enough in the net community to fork DNS and start up their own DNS architecture.
And what is the difference between an explosion, and say something burning "really really fast"?
this is not a troll, I'm really asking. Is there a certain burn rate where something can then be deemed as an explosion? Does there have to be a high pressure shockwave created?
You have to submit a pretty impressive budget outlining how all the cash is going to be spent, down the penny. Then you have to suffer government audits on a near monthly basis to be sure that is how you are spending the money. so chunking out cash from that pot to the author wouldn't work out.
That was a good idea about the contract for future are work.
You're very presumptuous. I merely stated that according to the numbers, one could accelerate to 100km/h 300 times. Nothing in there about friction, the levelness of the road, the material of the road, the spin of the earth, windspeed and direction, the position of the moon, or any number of other factors which might have influence.
Those numbers look pretty good to me. Maybe I missed something? According to your numbers, you could accelerate 0-100km/h 300 times from a two hour charge.
kinda funny that a bunch of "incredibly smart" guys accepted the job, and you didn't.