... The move is being supported by a number of organisations including Apple Computer, Barclays Capital, BP, Intel and Toshiba.
They forgot to mention Google!
This whole office issue is a very chess like, microsoft being the last piece (the queen) on the board while the other team has a whole pile of rooks and bishops trying to take ms out.
not knowing very much about ht in particular i was wondering if you could post a url about this. I know with L2 cache that it stores data segments and code segments, but when your discussing this particular problem i'm wanting to know if you mean the performace lag comes from the time it takes for the system to switch execution states by utilising the cache to do so or actual data cache usage?
Both those lists look liked they were graded on budget size and not really scifi quality, scifi is supposed to be an alternative genre like punk rock. Scifi is a genre for us geeks to relate to i agree with planet of the apes and 2001 space oddysey but not the rest of them and did some actually agree to putting signs in there?
exploding things and voilence are things that should of instantly cancelled out alien, but it didnt and it makes me wonder if the list was actually compiled by space film experts or just generic film critics.
a) the casual humor they put in the film, it was simple effective and played on the simplicty of humor which is something that is not common in sci-fi films, ie startrek always had humor in it but it was always very technical humor. b) it felt like a good old cyberpunk book, not your typical sci fi film, it almost had that total recall feeling to it with the bar scene and i feel that cyberpunk is an old genre that is slowing fading away with the 1980's early 90's short novels and its definatly something that needed to be revived.
Interesting view, i never really looked at it like that but i agree they did badly to the borg afterwards in Voyager, it made them seem a bit more susceptible to attack and it made them seem almost as if the borgs conquering ability to assimilate entire races a bit too hard to belive.
TNG episodes definatly made a borg episode a bit more thrilling and enjoyable to watch.
I find it strange they picked Undiscovered Country to be in the top 10 when you have a large array of awsome Star Trek films to choose from as i never really considered it as one of the greats. The fact Alien (very mainstream) and Contact (two words Jodie Foster) was present in this 10 top list really does worry me.
I agree with Wrath of Kahn, great film and as was 2001: A Space Odyssey. As for Apollo 13 it does make sense as being number one as im guessing this top 10 was thought up from generic film critics and not ones that we scifi or space film experts.
The ones i believe they've left out are Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, ET, and Planet of the Apes and If they actually considered TV series i recon they could of included the Hitch Hikers Guide the Galaxy as the recent film release could never hold a candle to it.
And I suppose the pro-Linux studies are more valid?
Yes, just about anything that isnt money motivated is.
Aside from that i feel as if the artical is designed primarily around windows strongest points whilst discarding its weaknesses, that builds a bias report and makes it misleading.
Shame on them really, they should be learning about what they can do to overcome their many problems by looking at what linux offers, ie the reason why linux is used for most super computers out on the internet. Insted they spend lots and lots of money to badger and put down the competition. This isnt competing by delivering a better product oh no, this is "i cant make a better product so i'll put down the opposition and hope people belive me" and its called being a sore loser.
They are the biggest software vendor in the world but they are still losers, how? simple, they cant cater to the highend of market like they can to the desktop market and it shits them because it shows lack of quality in what they sell if they can get the highend servers on queue it means they cant be slandered by lack of security and performance.
Yeah majorly behind in patches and fixes (as stated in another thread) your uptime for a windows box is that long i wonder if your system is vulnrable to PNP attacks.
Well see in the bledisloe cup where australia has already won it for the past 3 years, and as far as NRL is concered, doesnt NZ have a team? its called erm... auckland, I think, but we rearly hear about them because they dont seem to be any real match for aussie teams.
As for cricket thats an argument you should well and truely stay away from, aussie puts up a good fight in cricket against nations like england and south africa, as for new zealand its just batting practice for the aussie team!
Just as there are plenty of sheep jokes against new zealand going around in australia, new zealanders always have a huge array of come backs for this very issue.
But then the subject changes to football and the fact the All Blacks always loose to australia, then nz just doesnt have any come backs to such comments:)
Yeah, i guess aussie scientists arent all that bright when it comes it all as the only counting they usually get up to is the process of stacking beer cans and measuring womens cup sizes.
And i agree with you about aussie sheeps being scrawny and small compared to the new zealend sheep, i mean heck in nz sheep are considered sexual icons, sort of like brad pitt in the united states, so as a result they are very well looked after, groomed and are usually sitting on the higher income bracket.
The only problem i see with running windows pcs on supercomputers is the fact you need to reboot the damn thing anytime either a) it breaks b) it needs an upgrade software/hardware.
The Darknet is a relatively new concept. The term was coined in a scientific paper four Microsoft researchers released in November 2002 at a computer conference.
Ohhh gawd save our souls, microsoft _DID NOT_ coin this term togeather its an old school IRC term thats as old as the term efnet...
Not being a united states citizen so i dont know usa ammendments off by heart but arnet these supposed 'darknets' also protected by the 2nd ammendment, freedom to associate? I belive ever since the dawn of chatlines such as IRC this prohibited the FBI from overseeing private networks in the 1st place? Im sure there are someone can shed more light in this particular issue.
For the most of it (and i dont care for being trolled because it proves my point) slashdot is a very bias place to discuss topics, even about slashdot itself! if anything people shouldnt be modding such threads down as flamebait, because it shows how bias slashdot is! but moreso they should be taking what linus is saying on board and start modding threads with a little bit more refinement...
There are alot of people out here who talk utter crap just to get good karma points whilst others who speak a strong point of view on a particular issue get flamed down for sharing their thoughts...
Well for these people they can use the avg os, but dont tell me for a second that the easy-to-use generic standard model car can ever stand up to the performance and the pracission of a customised supercharged car.
Just as there is normal everyday people who use their car to drive to work there are also the enthusiasts that love to pull apart their cars and put them back togeather again knowing the two same points i earlier rasied.
a) you'll know more about your car / computer b) you'll have satification of putting something togeather that is yours and nobody elses which can stand out from the generic avg car / computer.
But i believe this particualar topic has been discussesed on slashdot to death so i'm just going to leave it at that.
I think you've bought up a real good point and its a very a common trend in business and in personal computing to only need something "new" when the practical need for the upgrade is known and recognised.
I think essentally this is why MS is trying to peddle the security aspects of Vista primarly as to give the consumer this apparent need otherwise the feesiability of the upgrade is not there.
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Netcrap and safari ofcourse
They forgot to mention Google!
This whole office issue is a very chess like, microsoft being the last piece (the queen) on the board while the other team has a whole pile of rooks and bishops trying to take ms out.
not knowing very much about ht in particular i was wondering if you could post a url about this. I know with L2 cache that it stores data segments and code segments, but when your discussing this particular problem i'm wanting to know if you mean the performace lag comes from the time it takes for the system to switch execution states by utilising the cache to do so or actual data cache usage?
Both those lists look liked they were graded on budget size and not really scifi quality, scifi is supposed to be an alternative genre like punk rock. Scifi is a genre for us geeks to relate to i agree with planet of the apes and 2001 space oddysey but not the rest of them and did some actually agree to putting signs in there?
exploding things and voilence are things that should of instantly cancelled out alien, but it didnt and it makes me wonder if the list was actually compiled by space film experts or just generic film critics.
Two things i loved about this film was:
a) the casual humor they put in the film, it was simple effective and played on the simplicty of humor which is something that is not common in sci-fi films, ie startrek always had humor in it but it was always very technical humor.
b) it felt like a good old cyberpunk book, not your typical sci fi film, it almost had that total recall feeling to it with the bar scene and i feel that cyberpunk is an old genre that is slowing fading away with the 1980's early 90's short novels and its definatly something that needed to be revived.
Interesting view, i never really looked at it like that but i agree they did badly to the borg afterwards in Voyager, it made them seem a bit more susceptible to attack and it made them seem almost as if the borgs conquering ability to assimilate entire races a bit too hard to belive.
TNG episodes definatly made a borg episode a bit more thrilling and enjoyable to watch.
I find it strange they picked Undiscovered Country to be in the top 10 when you have a large array of awsome Star Trek films to choose from as i never really considered it as one of the greats. The fact Alien (very mainstream) and Contact (two words Jodie Foster) was present in this 10 top list really does worry me.
I agree with Wrath of Kahn, great film and as was 2001: A Space Odyssey. As for Apollo 13 it does make sense as being number one as im guessing this top 10 was thought up from generic film critics and not ones that we scifi or space film experts.
The ones i believe they've left out are Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, ET, and Planet of the Apes and If they actually considered TV series i recon they could of included the Hitch Hikers Guide the Galaxy as the recent film release could never hold a candle to it.
And I suppose the pro-Linux studies are more valid?
Yes, just about anything that isnt money motivated is.
Aside from that i feel as if the artical is designed primarily around windows strongest points whilst discarding its weaknesses, that builds a bias report and makes it misleading.
Shame on them really, they should be learning about what they can do to overcome their many problems by looking at what linux offers, ie the reason why linux is used for most super computers out on the internet. Insted they spend lots and lots of money to badger and put down the competition. This isnt competing by delivering a better product oh no, this is "i cant make a better product so i'll put down the opposition and hope people belive me" and its called being a sore loser.
They are the biggest software vendor in the world but they are still losers, how? simple, they cant cater to the highend of market like they can to the desktop market and it shits them because it shows lack of quality in what they sell if they can get the highend servers on queue it means they cant be slandered by lack of security and performance.
Yeah majorly behind in patches and fixes (as stated in another thread) your uptime for a windows box is that long i wonder if your system is vulnrable to PNP attacks.
Well see in the bledisloe cup where australia has already won it for the past 3 years, and as far as NRL is concered, doesnt NZ have a team? its called erm ... auckland, I think, but we rearly hear about them because they dont seem to be any real match for aussie teams.
As for cricket thats an argument you should well and truely stay away from, aussie puts up a good fight in cricket against nations like england and south africa, as for new zealand its just batting practice for the aussie team!
Hi Jo
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Just as there are plenty of sheep jokes against new zealand going around in australia, new zealanders always have a huge array of come backs for this very issue.
But then the subject changes to football and the fact the All Blacks always loose to australia, then nz just doesnt have any come backs to such comments
Yeah, i guess aussie scientists arent all that bright when it comes it all as the only counting they usually get up to is the process of stacking beer cans and measuring womens cup sizes.
And i agree with you about aussie sheeps being scrawny and small compared to the new zealend sheep, i mean heck in nz sheep are considered sexual icons, sort of like brad pitt in the united states, so as a result they are very well looked after, groomed and are usually sitting on the higher income bracket.
Yeah NZ has various environmentally friendly sources of power.
I believe that Australian scientists have theorised that the over abundance of methane generated by NZ's sheep supply could power the entire planet.
The main issue about using windows for supercomputer technology is the flexability to custom build the kernel the chipset.
No matter what ms does it wont compete against the computations of a custom built kernel like linux offers for that specific chipset.
Other then that the macrokernel model with its blaitently lame design will never hold up against a monolithic design, or even a modular linux kernel.
The only problem i see with running windows pcs on supercomputers is the fact you need to reboot the damn thing anytime either a) it breaks b) it needs an upgrade software/hardware.
Yeah, i typed "freedom to assoicate" in to google and i got this as no 1 :)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_associati
The Darknet is a relatively new concept. The term was coined in a scientific paper four Microsoft researchers released in November 2002 at a computer conference.
Ohhh gawd save our souls, microsoft _DID NOT_ coin this term togeather its an old school IRC term thats as old as the term efnet ...
Not being a united states citizen so i dont know usa ammendments off by heart but arnet these supposed 'darknets' also protected by the 2nd ammendment, freedom to associate? I belive ever since the dawn of chatlines such as IRC this prohibited the FBI from overseeing private networks in the 1st place? Im sure there are someone can shed more light in this particular issue.
Sounds like an excellent title for Tom Cruise Movie!
Oh what a sexy a bunch! Esspecially the old guy with the santa clause beard and red propeller hat.
For the most of it (and i dont care for being trolled because it proves my point) slashdot is a very bias place to discuss topics, even about slashdot itself! if anything people shouldnt be modding such threads down as flamebait, because it shows how bias slashdot is! but moreso they should be taking what linus is saying on board and start modding threads with a little bit more refinement ...
...
There are alot of people out here who talk utter crap just to get good karma points whilst others who speak a strong point of view on a particular issue get flamed down for sharing their thoughts
Its okay my comment was upgraded :) thank you for taking interest in my thread though. i enjoy hearing what others have to think ;)
Well for these people they can use the avg os, but dont tell me for a second that the easy-to-use generic standard model car can ever stand up to the performance and the pracission of a customised supercharged car.
Just as there is normal everyday people who use their car to drive to work there are also the enthusiasts that love to pull apart their cars and put them back togeather again knowing the two same points i earlier rasied.
a) you'll know more about your car / computer
b) you'll have satification of putting something togeather that is yours and nobody elses which can stand out from the generic avg car / computer.
But i believe this particualar topic has been discussesed on slashdot to death so i'm just going to leave it at that.
I think you've bought up a real good point and its a very a common trend in business and in personal computing to only need something "new" when the practical need for the upgrade is known and recognised.
I think essentally this is why MS is trying to peddle the security aspects of Vista primarly as to give the consumer this apparent need otherwise the feesiability of the upgrade is not there.