Now that most developed countries have legal protection for gay people from discrimination, society needs new victims. Just the luck of the draw;) The stupider element of society usually needs someone for unreasoning hatred purposes, sadly.
Here's the expert on all such sartorial and cosmetic crisis: http://www.dba-oracle.com/dress_code.htm
Ah, I'm glad to be working somewhere with absolutely no dress code;)
America is a signatory of all KINDS of treaties that they've notably been breaking, lately. Iraq invasion, torture... You can't have double standards, you know.
Oh, for goodness sake, if you're going to worry about THAT, then you might want to take a look at the millions of wobbly creatures in their SUVs processessing far too much food into waste;)
Have a look at a P4 of some sort, sometime, one of the ones with hyperthreading. For many tasks, that will disprove "The BEST a single core multi-thread design can hope for is the performance of a single core single thread design..."
For the moment, this is being aimed at SERVERS. Servers have lots of separate threads or processes. It'll be more of a challenge on a desktop (tho Microsoft and Sony at least seem to be counting on it working out for their consoles).
It is being aimed at a low to mid-end server environment (decidedly low-end, for Sun). How much floating point do YOUR servers do?;)
It's a 64bit processor, by the way. (Sparc v9 compatible)
It isn't REALLY bigotry, tho. It's fanboy-dom. They don't say (well, I HOPE they don't say) oh look, there's a BSD user; burn him/no mixed marriages/whatever shite it pleases racists to babble on about.
It would make far more sense for the USER to do the filtering. If the state is so concerned it could provide appropriate software freely. You don't say to your local TV broadcaster: "Oh, please don't broadcast Sex and the City in my airwaves", now do you? You simply DON'T WATCH IT if you don't want to!
Last I heard, part of our email system was still running on a VAX.;)
But the x86 still isn't the greatest; 8 registers (or 16 if you've got 64_x86). Scrap it and do something new!
The author has managed to prove that FreeBSD is not suitable for beginning desktop users who have no interest in reading the documentation. I wasn't aware that they were a target market.
Of course it will (game software). But at the moment it doesn't. I was just commenting on the constant complaints from people that multi-core systems are useless because they don't run those people's chosen applications.
But it WILL benefit the software. One of these will make a server go four times as fast as it would with a single core chip. It's of little use to gamers (nor are dual-cores) but of lots of use to others.
Oddly, when Virgin offered to do a fully non-profit lottery, they were turned down, and Camelot won the contract.
In Ireland, it's a state thing (the Post Office runs it). Then again, we used to run a lottery to fund our HOSPITALS!)
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Now that most developed countries have legal protection for gay people from discrimination, society needs new victims. Just the luck of the draw ;) The stupider element of society usually needs someone for unreasoning hatred purposes, sadly.
Am I right in thinking the Buran didn't have this issue? (Due to lack of tank). They should have bought it.
Here's the expert on all such sartorial and cosmetic crisis: http://www.dba-oracle.com/dress_code.htm Ah, I'm glad to be working somewhere with absolutely no dress code ;)
America is a signatory of all KINDS of treaties that they've notably been breaking, lately. Iraq invasion, torture... You can't have double standards, you know.
Oh, for goodness sake, if you're going to worry about THAT, then you might want to take a look at the millions of wobbly creatures in their SUVs processessing far too much food into waste ;)
Have a look at a P4 of some sort, sometime, one of the ones with hyperthreading. For many tasks, that will disprove "The BEST a single core multi-thread design can hope for is the performance of a single core single thread design..."
For the moment, this is being aimed at SERVERS. Servers have lots of separate threads or processes. It'll be more of a challenge on a desktop (tho Microsoft and Sony at least seem to be counting on it working out for their consoles).
It is being aimed at a low to mid-end server environment (decidedly low-end, for Sun). How much floating point do YOUR servers do? ;)
It's a 64bit processor, by the way. (Sparc v9 compatible)
Would this really be practical, though, seeing as we have wind on Earth? (I don't know; I'm just asking).
It isn't REALLY bigotry, tho. It's fanboy-dom. They don't say (well, I HOPE they don't say) oh look, there's a BSD user; burn him/no mixed marriages/whatever shite it pleases racists to babble on about.
It would make far more sense for the USER to do the filtering. If the state is so concerned it could provide appropriate software freely. You don't say to your local TV broadcaster: "Oh, please don't broadcast Sex and the City in my airwaves", now do you? You simply DON'T WATCH IT if you don't want to!
"Universal binaries" is a euphamism for "look, we stuck a PPC binary and an x86 binary together!" It is not a Java/.NET style virtual machine thing.
Erm, you realise AMD64 is an x86 extension, right? :S
You forgot to link in the Freemasons and Illuminati.
Probably Itanium, too. I wouldn't be surprised if that's their long-term goal.
Use open proxies, then :)
That's been standard, tho. The failure rate on LCD manufacture, in particular, was, and I think still is, very high. Like 70%.
Erm, who marked this informative? Pull out some cache, reduce fault tolerance a bit, shove in an AltiVec/AMX unit, and you've got yourself a PPC!
Last I heard, part of our email system was still running on a VAX. ;)
But the x86 still isn't the greatest; 8 registers (or 16 if you've got 64_x86). Scrap it and do something new!
This is the second really dreadful review today (the other being the BSD one). Who CHOOSES these things?
The author has managed to prove that FreeBSD is not suitable for beginning desktop users who have no interest in reading the documentation. I wasn't aware that they were a target market.
Of course it will (game software). But at the moment it doesn't. I was just commenting on the constant complaints from people that multi-core systems are useless because they don't run those people's chosen applications.
But it WILL benefit the software. One of these will make a server go four times as fast as it would with a single core chip. It's of little use to gamers (nor are dual-cores) but of lots of use to others.
And use something other than the FRONT SIDE BUS, for goodness sakes, to join their cores...
Oddly, when Virgin offered to do a fully non-profit lottery, they were turned down, and Camelot won the contract. In Ireland, it's a state thing (the Post Office runs it). Then again, we used to run a lottery to fund our HOSPITALS!)