I was reading a little more about Willamette at www.anandtech.com and the following stuff was particularily interesting:
1. It will require a totally new chipset and these chipsets will be RDRAM-only! (at least the ones made by intel)
2. It will have a 400mhz bus. This could mean either a 100 Mhz ddr bus that fetches twice as much data as normal buses or 200mhz ddr bus. Anyways, data transfer rate will be 3.2GB/s. They have announced a Quad Pumped bus recently so 100mhz clocking would make sense.
3. The integer unit will work at twice the clock speed of the processor. So for 1.5Ghz chip expect 3Ghz integer unit. Can you say fast kernel compiling!
It will still use aluminium interconnects. There will be additions to SIMD-instruction set(a total of 144 new instructions).
They did speculate at Anandtech that the only program that could be run stable enough was the frequency ID-utility... =)
Now wasn't this exactly what they did? They had Linus play quake on a machine running Crusoe. They had a webpad that was running Crusoe. They WERE showing prototype boxes that worked extremely well! IBM is manufacturing these processors and there have been announcements from oem's that they will use crusoe. I think that even oracle(or some other database company) has announced that they will be using Crusoe in upcoming products.
Oh yes.. How do you define what k, M and G mean? You could state that Mm = 10^6 m and thus imply that using M as a prefix means multiplying the unit by a million. Or you can just say that k = 1000 (yes, you're probably crying colloquial and nonstandard in front of your monitor) but I specifically did state that these are prefixes we're talking about. (my physics book does use the former way, though)
And sure, make a big thing about the lowercasing k but still the difference between using a k or a K is rather small compared to using powers of two instead of powers of ten. It is not like anyone is going to mistake KHz for Kelvin-Hertz(actually kind of a valid unit that could be used to state the rate change for temperature) if presented in the proper context(K for k is more of a typo whereas 1024 for 1000 is just plain wrong). But you're right, k is written in lowercase (I should know, coming from a country where metric system and km's and kg's are actually in use).
Okay.. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of physics would not suggest using prefixes derived of powers of two in front of SI-units although I suppose this will be a problem in the future among computer oriented people coming from countries using units other than those defined in SI(probably not a common problem but there are going to be people thinking that k as a prefix is 1024). How else would Y2K-48 have started (and yes the K is not written in lowercase and it is also not used as a prefix - gee, all these non-standard uses).
Uuuh... K means 1000, M means 1000K, G means 1000M. These are the standardized iso-prefixes (there are also such as pico, nano, micro, milli, centi, desi for less than 1 multipliers) for units. Guess you skipped all your physics classes in school, huh? A recent idiotic example would be Y2K-48 (1952, not 2000), which is just plain wrong.
If a satellite is on a geostationary orbit it looks stationary from an earth based observers point of view. It is moving quite fast but at such a velocity that it's trip around the earth takes those magical 24 hours. Kind of like having two cars driving the same speed side by side. An observer in the car 1 would think that car 2 is stationary if that is all he could use as a reference for speed.
I'm glad that the slashdot community is now aware of this magnificent product which even with its minor flaws will enhance the quality of our living and make world a better place for all of us.
Have you checked MamboX mp3/cd-player? $199, vbr-encoding supported, up to 320kb/s datarate, more than 100 mp3-files/cd, 45sec buffer, 14hours with two aa batteries, supports cd-r and cd-rw. That's 4.5 hours(more with vbr) of cd-quality (320kb/s) sound on a cd.. Anything else you want from a player?
Just ordered one of these(preorder though). Not the pine one but a MamboX. Supports variable bit rate encoding and data rates up to 320kb/s. Playback for mp3's and audio cd's. Does work with cd-r's AND CD-RW's! Supposed to be shipping sometime February. Head on to their website for more. And it even cost's less than this stick from sony.
Has linux really been officially posix certified as this webpage claims? I thought it just follows the posix guidelines as closely as possibly.. And doesn't this certification affect more than just the kernel? Not that I know much about the details of posix but just started wondering..
Apple has historically mostly aimed its products at people working with digital imaging, publishing etc. These people are generally of the creative sort and don't want to be troubled with the details of using the computer but rather using it for productive work. Btw. moving those 100+meg images around does require considerable computing power which you can harness from the latest cpus used in apples computers. So why not try and put them into a cluster and see what kind of a power you can really unleash from underneath that userfriendly interface when all the beauty is taken away.
A homie sold 15 grams of speed for 120$/gram in the hood and has to give the man his share(three quarters). How much money will he have left after buying the new 2pac album and a boombox to play it in?
Answer: He'll tell the man that he sold only 10 grams and the following evening hell break into the record store and steal the album and the boombox and be left with 900$.
Just out of curiousity. Does section 212(e) apply to you because you receive funding from nasa? I mean two years without a visa after your program ends..
Funny thing though.. The pink slip is not supposed to be validated for travel(by university) for more than one year at a time(it has three places for validating signatures) but they signed mine for two years and the officials inspecting my documents upon entering the country don't really seem to care.
Uh.. 4 weeks.. I have a J-1 visa and the processing times in Finland are 3-4 days. I drop the application, passport, some money, pictures and papers from the university to a mailbox at the consulate and 4 days later go pick it up. A weeks vacation suffices. And you can actually get this visa for 3 years at a time, so not a big problem. First I got it for a year and recently an extension for two years.. Now if they only could get a rid of that pink slip I have to carry around..
Uh.. bought a 7200rpm ultra-ata/66 20.1gb western digital ide drive for 160$ few weeks before christmas with 66mb/s burst transfer rate that thing will give a good run for your scsi-drive probably making it more practical to go eide unless you absolutely need the extra few percents - maybe in servers, definetly not for home machines.
That's btw. 8$/Gb making it 32$ for your dvd-movie. Still a little more expensive than buing the tape, but this is for 7200rpm ata/66. a 5400rpm will be much cheaper and actually a quick check at pricewatch reveals that 40Gb 5400rpm ata/66 sells for 252$. I mean 6.3$/Gb, a far cry from your 30$/Gb. That's 25$ for a movie, now! I'd say within a year or so you can back up a rental movie on your HD for less than the cost of buying it(that's less than 18.99$) and yes I included the rental fee.
All this just brought back memories from the times when a brand new 512mb scsi-drive cost ~500$. That's 1$/Mb.. and it was never going to fill up..
Just don't forget to pay the royalties for all the songs you play on air. Generally public broadcasting of stuff without compensation to the authors is prohibited.
The original reason to ban cellphones from airplanes was that it messed up the networks. It could contact too many ground stations at a time and things just didn't work that well anymore. Doppler effect wouldn't be that great a concern because most of the communication happens vertically.
Yes, the reasons are business related(if you count disruption of service as one) and not as greatly related to airline safety. Although digital phones do have potential to cause some havoc with airplane equipment(just put one next to your monitor when making a call - now try the same with analog).
Uh.. and this is the same airline that sometimes has to cancel flights because the pilots are too drunk to fly(emphasis on the word "too"). Although this mostly happens inside russia but still..
If you are subject to a methanol poisoning and get treated in a hospital they will literally feed you regular alcohol(not pure of course), that is ethanol. This is precisely to prevent the methanol from metabolizing and it's byproducts from causing any further damage.
Methanol as such is not the cause for blindness and insanity but methanal is - however, methanol is a solvent and as such will be rather nasty to your internals(but so is ethanol too).
So if you get to a hospital after consuming one of these battery packs they'll keep you intoxicated at around 0.1 - 0.15 percent level of regular stuff and if you're quick enough to get there you'll most likely keep your vision and sanity. This is also the reason why small(and these are really small compared to ethanol) levels of methanol in a bottle of vodka do little or no additional damage.
Am I the only one to see the similiarities in the ideologies behind both linux in china?
In both cases everyone contributes to the Great Project without much pay and everything is owned by The People. I think the biggest difference is that in Linux's case this actually works..
But really.. Linux is the perfect OS for China. If only to show the chinese people that even the western people revert to their ideologies(to some extend) to create a group effort that challenges the Great Satan(of Redmond).
Yup.. Sony is absolutely dependant on the playstation. Their tv, vcr, minidisc, stereo, camcorder, dvd, professional equipment, etc. production will not weigh in at all. And now that their stock is only half(there could be some wierd ratios besides half too) the value it was before it seems that sony is doomed if playstation won't make it big.
So what if sonys stock is split(maybe in half). It just means that the prices for a piece of sony are more affordable. No this does not free any stock for people to buy it just doubles the amount of sony's stock while maintaining the same total value. What's the difference between selling 10000 shares for half the price or 5000 for normal. Absolutely nothing.
More likely the split will be a boost for sonys share-value. People generally have a tendency of being reluctant to buy stuff at high prices. After the split sony seems cheaper and traders will have an easier time offering higher prices for it(not that they don't base their decisions on the big picture anyway).
And this article actually goes to mention yahoo and amazon as examples of when to split stock. Those are the companies with the most "air" in their stock prices anyway. Most of the value for yahoo or amazon is based on future expectations and nothing concrete such as sonys production facilities etc. Stock price should, after all, mostly be based on the actual value of company.
The site hosting the article will be in my proxys access control list to save bandwith from bullshit.
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1. It will require a totally new chipset and these chipsets will be RDRAM-only! (at least the ones made by intel)
2. It will have a 400mhz bus. This could mean either a 100 Mhz ddr bus that fetches twice as much data as normal buses or 200mhz ddr bus. Anyways, data transfer rate will be 3.2GB/s. They have announced a Quad Pumped bus recently so 100mhz clocking would make sense.
3. The integer unit will work at twice the clock speed of the processor. So for 1.5Ghz chip expect 3Ghz integer unit. Can you say fast kernel compiling!
It will still use aluminium interconnects. There will be additions to SIMD-instruction set(a total of 144 new instructions).
They did speculate at Anandtech that the only program that could be run stable enough was the frequency ID-utility... =)
Now wasn't this exactly what they did? They had Linus play quake on a machine running Crusoe. They had a webpad that was running Crusoe. They WERE showing prototype boxes that worked extremely well! IBM is manufacturing these processors and there have been announcements from oem's that they will use crusoe. I think that even oracle(or some other database company) has announced that they will be using Crusoe in upcoming products.
Even scientologists? These are the people I'd mostly relate MS with..
And sure, make a big thing about the lowercasing k but still the difference between using a k or a K is rather small compared to using powers of two instead of powers of ten. It is not like anyone is going to mistake KHz for Kelvin-Hertz(actually kind of a valid unit that could be used to state the rate change for temperature) if presented in the proper context(K for k is more of a typo whereas 1024 for 1000 is just plain wrong). But you're right, k is written in lowercase (I should know, coming from a country where metric system and km's and kg's are actually in use).
Okay.. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of physics would not suggest using prefixes derived of powers of two in front of SI-units although I suppose this will be a problem in the future among computer oriented people coming from countries using units other than those defined in SI(probably not a common problem but there are going to be people thinking that k as a prefix is 1024). How else would Y2K-48 have started (and yes the K is not written in lowercase and it is also not used as a prefix - gee, all these non-standard uses).
Uuuh... K means 1000, M means 1000K, G means 1000M. These are the standardized iso-prefixes (there are also such as pico, nano, micro, milli, centi, desi for less than 1 multipliers) for units. Guess you skipped all your physics classes in school, huh? A recent idiotic example would be Y2K-48 (1952, not 2000), which is just plain wrong.
If a satellite is on a geostationary orbit it looks stationary from an earth based observers point of view. It is moving quite fast but at such a velocity that it's trip around the earth takes those magical 24 hours. Kind of like having two cars driving the same speed side by side. An observer in the car 1 would think that car 2 is stationary if that is all he could use as a reference for speed.
ok.. maybe i should have followed all the links before posting this..
I'm glad that the slashdot community is now aware of this magnificent product which even with its minor flaws will enhance the quality of our living and make world a better place for all of us.
Have you checked MamboX mp3/cd-player? $199, vbr-encoding supported, up to 320kb/s datarate, more than 100 mp3-files/cd, 45sec buffer, 14hours with two aa batteries, supports cd-r and cd-rw. That's 4.5 hours(more with vbr) of cd-quality (320kb/s) sound on a cd.. Anything else you want from a player?
Just ordered one of these(preorder though). Not the pine one but a MamboX. Supports variable bit rate encoding and data rates up to 320kb/s. Playback for mp3's and audio cd's. Does work with cd-r's AND CD-RW's! Supposed to be shipping sometime February. Head on to their website for more. And it even cost's less than this stick from sony.
Has linux really been officially posix certified as this webpage claims? I thought it just follows the posix guidelines as closely as possibly.. And doesn't this certification affect more than just the kernel? Not that I know much about the details of posix but just started wondering..
Apple has historically mostly aimed its products at people working with digital imaging, publishing etc. These people are generally of the creative sort and don't want to be troubled with the details of using the computer but rather using it for productive work. Btw. moving those 100+meg images around does require considerable computing power which you can harness from the latest cpus used in apples computers. So why not try and put them into a cluster and see what kind of a power you can really unleash from underneath that userfriendly interface when all the beauty is taken away.
Oh yeah.. and maybe i should've explicitly stated that it was a joke..
Answer: He'll tell the man that he sold only 10 grams and the following evening hell break into the record store and steal the album and the boombox and be left with 900$.
Funny thing though.. The pink slip is not supposed to be validated for travel(by university) for more than one year at a time(it has three places for validating signatures) but they signed mine for two years and the officials inspecting my documents upon entering the country don't really seem to care.
Uh.. 4 weeks.. I have a J-1 visa and the processing times in Finland are 3-4 days. I drop the application, passport, some money, pictures and papers from the university to a mailbox at the consulate and 4 days later go pick it up. A weeks vacation suffices. And you can actually get this visa for 3 years at a time, so not a big problem. First I got it for a year and recently an extension for two years.. Now if they only could get a rid of that pink slip I have to carry around..
Maybe you should have, *sigh*, read the answers to these many questions you refer to and perhaps memorized them too.
That's btw. 8$/Gb making it 32$ for your dvd-movie. Still a little more expensive than buing the tape, but this is for 7200rpm ata/66. a 5400rpm will be much cheaper and actually a quick check at pricewatch reveals that 40Gb 5400rpm ata/66 sells for 252$. I mean 6.3$/Gb, a far cry from your 30$/Gb. That's 25$ for a movie, now! I'd say within a year or so you can back up a rental movie on your HD for less than the cost of buying it(that's less than 18.99$) and yes I included the rental fee.
All this just brought back memories from the times when a brand new 512mb scsi-drive cost ~500$. That's 1$/Mb.. and it was never going to fill up..
Just don't forget to pay the royalties for all the songs you play on air. Generally public broadcasting of stuff without compensation to the authors is prohibited.
Yes, the reasons are business related(if you count disruption of service as one) and not as greatly related to airline safety. Although digital phones do have potential to cause some havoc with airplane equipment(just put one next to your monitor when making a call - now try the same with analog).
Uh.. and this is the same airline that sometimes has to cancel flights because the pilots are too drunk to fly(emphasis on the word "too"). Although this mostly happens inside russia but still..
Methanol as such is not the cause for blindness and insanity but methanal is - however, methanol is a solvent and as such will be rather nasty to your internals(but so is ethanol too).
So if you get to a hospital after consuming one of these battery packs they'll keep you intoxicated at around 0.1 - 0.15 percent level of regular stuff and if you're quick enough to get there you'll most likely keep your vision and sanity. This is also the reason why small(and these are really small compared to ethanol) levels of methanol in a bottle of vodka do little or no additional damage.
In both cases everyone contributes to the Great Project without much pay and everything is owned by The People. I think the biggest difference is that in Linux's case this actually works..
But really.. Linux is the perfect OS for China. If only to show the chinese people that even the western people revert to their ideologies(to some extend) to create a group effort that challenges the Great Satan(of Redmond).
What's more interesting is that MS is developing for OS X. How big a step is it from bsd-based operating system to linux? Not that much...
So what if sonys stock is split(maybe in half). It just means that the prices for a piece of sony are more affordable. No this does not free any stock for people to buy it just doubles the amount of sony's stock while maintaining the same total value. What's the difference between selling 10000 shares for half the price or 5000 for normal. Absolutely nothing.
More likely the split will be a boost for sonys share-value. People generally have a tendency of being reluctant to buy stuff at high prices. After the split sony seems cheaper and traders will have an easier time offering higher prices for it(not that they don't base their decisions on the big picture anyway).
And this article actually goes to mention yahoo and amazon as examples of when to split stock. Those are the companies with the most "air" in their stock prices anyway. Most of the value for yahoo or amazon is based on future expectations and nothing concrete such as sonys production facilities etc. Stock price should, after all, mostly be based on the actual value of company.
The site hosting the article will be in my proxys access control list to save bandwith from bullshit.