That link is a really interesting read. In particular, this quote struck me:
Intel's CPUs use techniques such as having 5 Floating Point Units designed by separate teams, having them all on-board the CPU, and asking every unit to perform the same calculation. As the units are all by different teams, with different designs, they have different advantages, given different ranges of inputs. The fastest to complete the calculation is chosen, each time, and all other partial answers abandoned. The resources wasted, all in the name of "speed"...
I've never heard this before. A casual search turned up nothing, how do you know this?
Or the one-liner to watch AJE from the command-line: rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://livestfslivefs.fplive.net/livestfslive-live/ -y "aljazeera_en_veryhigh?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" -W "http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us1.24.04.08.2011-01-14072625/federatedVideoUI/BrightcovePlayer.swf -p "http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ -a "aljazeeraflashlive-live?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" | mplayer - Other 24/7 live RTMP streams here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/564760/
The same techniques that silent PC nerds use to isolate their hard drive to keep it quiet would of course help reduce vibrations (I mean, that's the point). There is the thread detailing the techniques used to suspend/isolate HDD's at http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8240/.
So why does every torrent's that I download from isoHunt filename start with [isoHunt] ? If they were a neutral strictly search site they wouldn't be drawing so much attention.
Rumors have it that they're porting Source to all major platforms including Linux. Comes from the wikipedia article on Postal 3 showing a 2010 release date under Steam with OSX and Linux support. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_III
I know this is all vaporware design shit but part of that first video for the future-watch says it has gesture control. This is totally cool. If you had a smart watch that covered the lower wrist couldn't you use sensors to read tendons? I might actually wear a watch if I could type on it like an old school chord-board.
I'm not a snob. I usually buy the $9.99 keyboards for machines I use.
You don't have to drop a mint to get a good keyboard. Check out your local free geek (or equivalent) and you'll likely find an IBM model m in a giant pile of keyboard for under $10. They won't break but you will care about it dearly.
You've got some years on me. I appreciated their pc rips for those years when iso's had taken over and I was still 56k-ing it. Who cares if the video was missing and it took 3 hours to unpack the sound, their cracktros always made up for it. I don't know if I'd even run a cracktro if I somehow got one these days (there's no trust anymore). Here's their deathtro: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=11416
So in other words its 10 years behind the performance of the current 500th best super computer.
If the top500 list is really a good indicator, this system would have definitely made the 2004/06 list and maybe the 2004/11. You can basically build a 5 year old top 500 supercomputer today for $15k. It would have been top 10 in 1999/06. So it's 10 years from top 10 supercomputer to a personal, desktop "super"-computer but it'll probably take even less time for today's fastest machines to become affordable.
Also remember this is your personal supercomputer. It's working on your jobs 24/7. And really, 1/40th of current "super"-computer speeds for HPC testing, development and even actual relevant work really isn't that bad. You could get some serious work done of one of these boxes (or any generic box like it).
I've got one of these too. I love it for what it does: perform all my 24/7 computing desires (except gaming) while drawing very little power and producing no noise (well, except when it's playing 1080p or stuttering on SD web flash video). It's really over-kill if he just wants a server. If I were to buy a server it would be a rack.
I bet it'd be easy to spot a tracker like thepiratebay on the onion network if you had enough node information. Though I think it'd work for smaller trackers or if tor had much wider use. Or it'd work well if trackers played a much smaller role in peering (e.g. DHT) and were only polled once per client. I think you've got the right idea and I'd even wager onion-router trackers already exists.
Because when I want to scrape tracker.thepiratebay.org where do I send my packets? Bittorent trackers are inherently public (ok, there are private trackers but I can still ping them) and centralized. If you hide the tracker, then you can't use it.
Hey, I got a blue screen of death on my windows 7 box. Granted, my RAM was fucked and I would've gotten a KERNEL PANIC on Linux but the code is still there. But yea, it's a real pain in the ass to install Linux without a keyboard.
Say you want to search for the imdb article about the Italian Job, firefox gives you the imdb page for the 2003 version (using "imdb.com italian job" as the address) whereas chrome gives you the imdb search results page listing both versions of the italian job (with "imdb.com\t italian job"). You obviously haven't used chrome or you would notice that it's address bar is significantly more intelligent than firefox's not-so-awesome bar.
It's been there since the beginning. Once you use a search box on a site, it remembers it. Then, type the domain name into the address bar and then press tab. For example, google.com changes the address bar to "Search google: ". Yes, it's actually better than firefox.
I hate to say it but there really is little wrong with the Windows 7 taskbar. Drag it to the left side of the screen and it become the best vertical taskbar I've ever used. Look, even the time rotates so that you can read it! (I'm looking at you, gnome-panel). Sure it's fat but on a widescreen (or even a 4:3) it just fits right in. It auto-hides well. Pinning items gives you an easy shortcut and the aero window thumbnail preview actually works, even on minimized windows which compiz to my knowledge is still trying to fix (try alt-tabbing w/ compiz and seeing if a minimized window has a live preview).
Say what you will about windows 7, but the taskbar is something to learn from.
I was in a similar situation getting junk calls and texts that I couldn't block to my prepaid phone, basically sapping minutes from my phone with each text I received. I recently changed my phone number and started giving people my google voice number instead so that if this ever happens again I should be able to block the spam at googles end before it gets to my actual mobile phone. It also means that if I change my phone number again I won't have to try and tell everyone who matters.
Without knowing exactly where it goes I can only speculate, but could this fine by so high to help fix European budgets stretched too thin by a weak economy?
I strongly believe that it should go to the AMD shareholder. Disclaimer: I currently hold shares in AMD.
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That link is a really interesting read. In particular, this quote struck me:
Intel's CPUs use techniques such as having 5 Floating Point
Units designed by separate teams, having them all on-board the CPU, and
asking every unit to perform the same calculation. As the units
are all by different teams, with different designs, they have different
advantages, given different ranges of inputs. The fastest to complete the
calculation is chosen, each time, and all other partial answers abandoned.
The resources wasted, all in the name of "speed"...
I've never heard this before. A casual search turned up nothing, how do you know this?
Or the one-liner to watch AJE from the command-line:
rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://livestfslivefs.fplive.net/livestfslive-live/ -y "aljazeera_en_veryhigh?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" -W "http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us1.24.04.08.2011-01-14072625/federatedVideoUI/BrightcovePlayer.swf -p "http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ -a "aljazeeraflashlive-live?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" | mplayer -
Other 24/7 live RTMP streams here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/564760/
The same techniques that silent PC nerds use to isolate their hard drive to keep it quiet would of course help reduce vibrations (I mean, that's the point). There is the thread detailing the techniques used to suspend/isolate HDD's at http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8240/.
They don't even host the actual torrent files.
So why does every torrent's that I download from isoHunt filename start with [isoHunt] ?
If they were a neutral strictly search site they wouldn't be drawing so much attention.
Interesting, but she does sort of sidestep the whole 'Hello World!' part of a hello world program.
Rumors have it that they're porting Source to all major platforms including Linux.
Comes from the wikipedia article on Postal 3 showing a 2010 release date under Steam with OSX and Linux support.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_III
I know this is all vaporware design shit but part of that first video for the future-watch says it has gesture control. This is totally cool. If you had a smart watch that covered the lower wrist couldn't you use sensors to read tendons? I might actually wear a watch if I could type on it like an old school chord-board.
here's conway's life in a fullscreen 20x20 table: http://etcet.net/projects/conway.html
it gets about 2-3 fps on my atom box. 100x100 is about 10spf
I'm not a snob. I usually buy the $9.99 keyboards for machines I use.
You don't have to drop a mint to get a good keyboard. Check out your local free geek (or equivalent) and you'll likely find an IBM model m in a giant pile of keyboard for under $10. They won't break but you will care about it dearly.
What kind of network do you need to do this kind of thing streaming 1080p?
You've got some years on me. I appreciated their pc rips for those years when iso's had taken over and I was still 56k-ing it. Who cares if the video was missing and it took 3 hours to unpack the sound, their cracktros always made up for it. I don't know if I'd even run a cracktro if I somehow got one these days (there's no trust anymore). Here's their deathtro: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=11416
So in other words its 10 years behind the performance of the current 500th best super computer.
If the top500 list is really a good indicator, this system would have definitely made the 2004/06 list and maybe the 2004/11. You can basically build a 5 year old top 500 supercomputer today for $15k. It would have been top 10 in 1999/06. So it's 10 years from top 10 supercomputer to a personal, desktop "super"-computer but it'll probably take even less time for today's fastest machines to become affordable.
Also remember this is your personal supercomputer. It's working on your jobs 24/7. And really, 1/40th of current "super"-computer speeds for HPC testing, development and even actual relevant work really isn't that bad. You could get some serious work done of one of these boxes (or any generic box like it).
I've got one of these too. I love it for what it does: perform all my 24/7 computing desires (except gaming) while drawing very little power and producing no noise (well, except when it's playing 1080p or stuttering on SD web flash video).
It's really over-kill if he just wants a server.
If I were to buy a server it would be a rack.
I bet it'd be easy to spot a tracker like thepiratebay on the onion network if you had enough node information. Though I think it'd work for smaller trackers or if tor had much wider use. Or it'd work well if trackers played a much smaller role in peering (e.g. DHT) and were only polled once per client.
I think you've got the right idea and I'd even wager onion-router trackers already exists.
Because when I want to scrape tracker.thepiratebay.org where do I send my packets? Bittorent trackers are inherently public (ok, there are private trackers but I can still ping them) and centralized. If you hide the tracker, then you can't use it.
Hey, I got a blue screen of death on my windows 7 box. Granted, my RAM was fucked and I would've gotten a KERNEL PANIC on Linux but the code is still there.
But yea, it's a real pain in the ass to install Linux without a keyboard.
Say you want to search for the imdb article about the Italian Job, firefox gives you the imdb page for the 2003 version (using "imdb.com italian job" as the address) whereas chrome gives you the imdb search results page listing both versions of the italian job (with "imdb.com\t italian job").
You obviously haven't used chrome or you would notice that it's address bar is significantly more intelligent than firefox's not-so-awesome bar.
It's been there since the beginning. Once you use a search box on a site, it remembers it. Then, type the domain name into the address bar and then press tab. For example, google.com changes the address bar to "Search google: ".
Yes, it's actually better than firefox.
I hate to say it but there really is little wrong with the Windows 7 taskbar. Drag it to the left side of the screen and it become the best vertical taskbar I've ever used. Look, even the time rotates so that you can read it! (I'm looking at you, gnome-panel). Sure it's fat but on a widescreen (or even a 4:3) it just fits right in. It auto-hides well. Pinning items gives you an easy shortcut and the aero window thumbnail preview actually works, even on minimized windows which compiz to my knowledge is still trying to fix (try alt-tabbing w/ compiz and seeing if a minimized window has a live preview).
Say what you will about windows 7, but the taskbar is something to learn from.
Ouch, only 4 times the energy in 25 years. I'd hate to be in that game.
And, as they say, physical access is root access.
Though they rarely say that physical access is root access that persists through reformats as long as you 're using the same keyboard
I was in a similar situation getting junk calls and texts that I couldn't block to my prepaid phone, basically sapping minutes from my phone with each text I received. I recently changed my phone number and started giving people my google voice number instead so that if this ever happens again I should be able to block the spam at googles end before it gets to my actual mobile phone. It also means that if I change my phone number again I won't have to try and tell everyone who matters.
The reason has nothing to do with what their attributes are, it has entirely to do with language and convention.
So, your think the reason we call a Ford Pinto a car is because it just is. Isn't more because it has 4 wheels and an engine?
Without knowing exactly where it goes I can only speculate, but could this fine by so high to help fix European budgets stretched too thin by a weak economy?
I strongly believe that it should go to the AMD shareholder.
Disclaimer: I currently hold shares in AMD.
Wouldn't flashing the BIOS recover the original SMM memory?