The Intel 8088 featured in the orriginal IBM PC ran at roughly 4.77 MHrz. A 500 MHrz Celeron is roughly 4,000 times as powerful, yet the actual clock speed has only increased by a factor of 100. Some of this can be attributed to the bus size, faster RAM, 32-bit architecture, or new instructions, but the majority of this new speed stems from the improved architecture of the modern Pentium Pro based CPUs.
The Intel 8088, believe it or not, was not even a pipelined processor! Many instructions took upwards of TWELVE whole cycles to complete, before execution could even begin on the next. Compare this to the modern Pentium Pro based CPUs - where up to two floating point, two integer, and one memory access instruction may be executing simultaniously, and not necessarly in any particular order. On modern CPUs it is not uncommon to be able to execute THREE separate instructions in the SAME clock cycle!
It is the CPU's architecture that gives it it's processing power, not it's posted clock speed.
heh.. woops. pressed "submit" instead of "preview" (I wan't done writing the response). That response was aimed at the moderators who labeled the comment as funny.
The review I linked to noted that no astro-not has written an "I Went To The Moon" book. Although this is true from one point of view, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton helped write "Moon Shot", which was a documentary of the NASA Apollo program from the inside. It, of course, doesn't include any mention of the idea that the entire program was faked, but I thought I should bring it up before someone flamed me.
I think the greatest evidence is the psychological (however the hell you spell that) state that many of the astro-nots were left in after the fact. When Buzz Aldran was asked (at some Dinner party a quite few years later) how it felt "to have walked on the moon", he showed a look of pain on his face, got up, and left the room crying. That alone is proof enough for me.
Not all of this is a joke. There are many people (myself included) who follow the belief that the moon landing was nothing more than a hoax to feed the peaple during the "cold war".
Thost intrigued by the idea that nasa never went to the moon should check out this little review of the film "It's Only a Paper Moon" for some facts. Mr. Rene, however, does a much better job (IMOHO) in his book "NASA Mooned America", which is availible for $25 dollars via mail order.
Of corse, some could argue that this guy's arguments are a little more sound... (or at least funny).
"Quoting raw statistics without further elaboration is misleading"
Of course! 44% of the American population knows that.
- It was the good old days - when men were men, women were women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centari were small furry creatures from Alpha Centari.
Most Agnostics are Atheists that don't have the guts to admit there are no higher powers.
I in no way am saying that there is no god(s) (even if that is what I believe), but the idea that one could be an agnostic in "limbo" forever is simply absurd (basically, an agnostic is the same as someone having a faith crisis. That thing does not last forever).
Many times Atheists don't want to enter into theological debates with others in fear that they may not be accepted as an Atheist, or any other similar reason. When asked about their beliefs, they say "Oh, I don't really know. I guess I'm agnostic", often because they are scared of the reaction they might get if they say "I don't believe there is, or ever was, any god(s)".
Re:But I guess you didn't know Linux is portable
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Not when Linux first started out. Orriginally Linus only wanted it to run on a 386 with a specific hard disk.
But I guess you'd jump at a i386 specific OS
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really think before you say something.
AtheOS is nothing like Amiga(tm)!
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AtheOS is designed and implemented completely as a unique, new, Operating system! In the beginning, it was meant as a clone of amiga, but that decision was later thrown out. Now the only purposeful resemblance to Amiga would be the GUI, as the GUI is left over from those days. However, even this is soon to change.
Re:Its proponents would of course be called...
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Actually, phonetically I think it would be pronounced "athe-os", which like another poster said, is greek for athiest.
Agnostics are those that don't have the guts to admit there are no higher powers.
Yeah, the UI is interchangeable
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The UI is interchangeable, but I wouldn't try porting something like enlightenment or Qt. The interface to the application server is entirely different from X, and someone else is already working on "pretier" UI replacement.
No, not Amiga (or Qt for that matter)
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I've been following this project for quite a while, and I can tell you a bit about the GUI. First of all, it is designed from the ground up for this project. The API is very object oriented, and if anything, resembles the BeOS API. There is absolutly no connection to BeOS or Amiga (except for the look - which will change soon), just as [the API] bears no resemblance to the Mac APIs, Windows, PM, XWindows, Motif, Qt, Gtk+, etc.
Those screenshots are quite confusing because it looks quite a bit like Qt ported to the Amiga, but I can assure you that neither of the previous products/user interfaces are involved (except for inspiration of course).
Umm.. try weeks, possably even months. Outer space starts on the other side of the asteroid belt, and voyager has gone far outside of this solar system. That is one hell of a distance for those radio waves to travel.
Could I use HURD with my current hardware (Intex duel Celeron) and video card (Voodoo 3), without having to write my own drivers? Is it stable? Does the kernel panic constantly? It is a microkernel, so many parts of the core OS can crash, and the system will still be running, but will init be dying on me?
So, in short, to all you 'pure' GNU users out there, how reliable is it? Last time I checked (Which, I admit was a long time ago) there were many unwritten drivers, and massive amounts of work that would be needed in order to bring it to the level that linux is now (with reliability). Has this changed? It would be great to have an Microkernel OS, and that was one of the things that turned me onto GNU in the first place. Could anyone with experiance update us on the present state of the kernel please?
Waiting for a cooler kernel -mafried
Re:The importance (or lack thereof) of uptime
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I believe he was refering to the programming skill of the user. That skill should (under most circumstances) have absoluty no effect on the overall uptime of the system.
If I write crappy code on Linux, and it crashes, I have a core file to look through, and a lot of work to do. If I write good code, then I have an application that works well. Either way, the uptime remains the same.
You can counter this by saying that bad (programming) skill would crash the OS if you were working on a system such as the Mac or Win9x, and thereby destroy the uptime. However, most of the time uptime does not consern the people who use these OSes for work, and the average user probably does not even know what uptime is.
Conclusion: uptime and programming skill are (unless you are doing kernel development) unrealated.
Slashdot has always (and will continue as long as CmndrTaco and gang are still around) been *the* slashdot. Slashdot is basicly (out of Rob's mouth) 'Whatever I'm interested in'. Rob like linux and open source, while Hemos likes Nano tech. What do we see often? Nanotech going open-source. If we (or andover) were to change any of that, it would defeat the entire purpose behind slashdot.org.
My little brother has been playing around with Lego Mindstorms for quite a while, and he just got the Official and the Unofficial (O'reilly) books on the little robots. One of the books came with a CD containing a compiler called NQC, or 'Not Quite C'. As a linux hacker (not cracker), this caught my eye. Apparently it comes with a small compiler that is capable of compiling C code (or at least stuff that looks like C), and then sending it to the RCX (central part of robot) for use.
I would like to know just what the capabilities of this little compiler are. Has anyone used it? Does it come with a fully functional set of libraries? If so, this might be a rather useful (or at least fun).
KDE is the desktop environment. It runs on top of XFree86, which is what controls the overall graphics. When you say that KDE is better than XFree86, you must be confusing XFree86 with Gnome, another desktop environment available under and the X Window system.
You are both forgetting something - AD stands for something in Latin that translates to "in the Year of Our Lord". This is making the presumption that every person on the face of this planet considers Jesus to be everyone's 'lord' or 'savior'. This is most certainly not true, and as I myself am not Christain, I find this particularly offensive. CE (as in 'Common Era') Solves this problem by removing the reference to Jesus.
Now CE still still starts at the same event as AD, but this is considered to just be out of a simple need of consistancy. And you can't say that CE is more presumptious than AD, as the AD system not only coincides with the birth of Jesus as well, but declares it outright! If you ask me, this change is more than needed as the world becomes more unified.
If I remember correctly from my bio class, you are effectively sterile when you are in zero g, due to the lack of the sperm's ability to swim correctly as well as the egg not being able to move through all those tubes and stuff. It's been quite a while sense I took that class, and I'm not sure if that is true, but can anyone confirm it?
(This obviously does not apply if you have centrifugal forces creating an artificial gravity)
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The Intel 8088, believe it or not, was not even a pipelined processor! Many instructions took upwards of TWELVE whole cycles to complete, before execution could even begin on the next. Compare this to the modern Pentium Pro based CPUs - where up to two floating point, two integer, and one memory access instruction may be executing simultaniously, and not necessarly in any particular order. On modern CPUs it is not uncommon to be able to execute THREE separate instructions in the SAME clock cycle!
It is the CPU's architecture that gives it it's processing power, not it's posted clock speed.
The review I linked to noted that no astro-not has written an "I Went To The Moon" book. Although this is true from one point of view, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton helped write "Moon Shot", which was a documentary of the NASA Apollo program from the inside. It, of course, doesn't include any mention of the idea that the entire program was faked, but I thought I should bring it up before someone flamed me.
I think the greatest evidence is the psychological (however the hell you spell that) state that many of the astro-nots were left in after the fact. When Buzz Aldran was asked (at some Dinner party a quite few years later) how it felt "to have walked on the moon", he showed a look of pain on his face, got up, and left the room crying. That alone is proof enough for me.
Thost intrigued by the idea that nasa never went to the moon should check out this little review of the film "It's Only a Paper Moon" for some facts. Mr. Rene, however, does a much better job (IMOHO) in his book "NASA Mooned America", which is availible for $25 dollars via mail order.
Of corse, some could argue that this guy's arguments are a little more sound... (or at least funny).
Of course! 44% of the American population knows that.
- It was the good old days - when men were men, women were women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centari were small furry creatures from Alpha Centari.
Most Agnostics are Atheists that don't have the guts to admit there are no higher powers.
I in no way am saying that there is no god(s) (even if that is what I believe), but the idea that one could be an agnostic in "limbo" forever is simply absurd (basically, an agnostic is the same as someone having a faith crisis. That thing does not last forever).
Many times Atheists don't want to enter into theological debates with others in fear that they may not be accepted as an Atheist, or any other similar reason. When asked about their beliefs, they say "Oh, I don't really know. I guess I'm agnostic", often because they are scared of the reaction they might get if they say "I don't believe there is, or ever was, any god(s)".
Not when Linux first started out. Orriginally Linus only wanted it to run on a 386 with a specific hard disk.
really think before you say something.
AtheOS is designed and implemented completely as a unique, new, Operating system! In the beginning, it was meant as a clone of amiga, but that decision was later thrown out. Now the only purposeful resemblance to Amiga would be the GUI, as the GUI is left over from those days. However, even this is soon to change.
Agnostics are those that don't have the guts to admit there are no higher powers.
The UI is interchangeable, but I wouldn't try porting something like enlightenment or Qt. The interface to the application server is entirely different from X, and someone else is already working on "pretier" UI replacement.
Those screenshots are quite confusing because it looks quite a bit like Qt ported to the Amiga, but I can assure you that neither of the previous products/user interfaces are involved (except for inspiration of course).
Please, don't give the wrong impressions in these slashdot articles.
Well, I think this goes down in history as the first time we've slashdotted a potato. I feel sorry for the little vegetables.
Umm.. try weeks, possably even months. Outer space starts on the other side of the asteroid belt, and voyager has gone far outside of this solar system. That is one hell of a distance for those radio waves to travel.
Could I use HURD with my current hardware (Intex duel Celeron) and video card (Voodoo 3), without having to write my own drivers? Is it stable? Does the kernel panic constantly? It is a microkernel, so many parts of the core OS can crash, and the system will still be running, but will init be dying on me?
So, in short, to all you 'pure' GNU users out there, how reliable is it? Last time I checked (Which, I admit was a long time ago) there were many unwritten drivers, and massive amounts of work that would be needed in order to bring it to the level that linux is now (with reliability). Has this changed? It would be great to have an Microkernel OS, and that was one of the things that turned me onto GNU in the first place. Could anyone with experiance update us on the present state of the kernel please?
Waiting for a cooler kernel
-mafried
If I write crappy code on Linux, and it crashes, I have a core file to look through, and a lot of work to do. If I write good code, then I have an application that works well. Either way, the uptime remains the same.
You can counter this by saying that bad (programming) skill would crash the OS if you were working on a system such as the Mac or Win9x, and thereby destroy the uptime. However, most of the time uptime does not consern the people who use these OSes for work, and the average user probably does not even know what uptime is.
Conclusion: uptime and programming skill are (unless you are doing kernel development) unrealated.
Slashdot has always (and will continue as long as CmndrTaco and gang are still around) been *the* slashdot. Slashdot is basicly (out of Rob's mouth) 'Whatever I'm interested in'. Rob like linux and open source, while Hemos likes Nano tech. What do we see often? Nanotech going open-source. If we (or andover) were to change any of that, it would defeat the entire purpose behind slashdot.org.
I would like to know just what the capabilities of this little compiler are. Has anyone used it? Does it come with a fully functional set of libraries? If so, this might be a rather useful (or at least fun).
KDE is the desktop environment. It runs on top of XFree86, which is what controls the overall graphics. When you say that KDE is better than XFree86, you must be confusing XFree86 with Gnome, another desktop environment available under and the X Window system.
Now CE still still starts at the same event as AD, but this is considered to just be out of a simple need of consistancy. And you can't say that CE is more presumptious than AD, as the AD system not only coincides with the birth of Jesus as well, but declares it outright! If you ask me, this change is more than needed as the world becomes more unified.
-mafried
enjoying my new workstation,
-mafried
(This obviously does not apply if you have centrifugal forces creating an artificial gravity)
-mafried