That's a good point. Another issue is what will happen to the Earth with more space shutle trips. What gets dumped into the atmosphere everytime the shuttle goes up? What would it be for the bigger rockets so people can actually get to the moon?
Like everything in life, you just have to know who to talk to. After 2 years of trying to get DSL for my home, I got the number (in a round about kinda way) of the local field engineer. Then suddenly 2 months ago lines started going in al over town. When you get to a customer service rep. ask to talk to someone who can "speed up" the process. You usually get the national rep, who will then get you the number for your city person.
then piss and moan like the best of them and you will get results eventually.
IF M$ is made into several separate companies, there will be 3 monopolies instead of one. Only they will be untouchable because they've already been separated. It would be better to put restrictions on M$ instead of splitting it up.
The prgram is called Pulse. The BeBox had two mac processors (I dont know which ones) in it, and two rows of lights on the outside of the case. Each row of lights corresponded to the same info the Pulse program displayed. Kool!
I know OF a link to an open standard for Be that shows how to do the same with newer computers but I cannot remeber the actuall address. Sorry.
You have to restart the specific service ONLY. (networking, sound media, etc) Not the entire OS. Even if you did it takes 15 seconds, but you don't, so stop complaining. Everyone keeps saying Linux needs to be easier to use and install...Be is just a matter of putting it on your harddrive from the Cd or whatever media you've got the installation on. My grandma could use it, it's simple to use, it just needs some more programms. It's stable, haver you ever seen it demoed? They actually do everything they can to crash it (it won't crash by the way) If you would jsut try it, you might like it. At least it's not windows
Your argument about the FSB has its merits but you are forgeting something. Celeron's run at 66MHz anyway. That's slower than my K6-2. Now on some apps the celron will beat a K6-2 becuase it has better floating point registers, but that doesn't make up for Intels lack of effort. K6-2's aren't the greatest either, but Celeron's still suck for SMP systems. And another thing...
First off, the spitfire chipsets will have true 200MHz bus speeds. That speed cannot be atained with PC100 RAM, however becuase of the TYPE of motherboard setup they have (DEC's alpha systems [something like that]) it will be very easy for them to switch the RAM type to DDR. (Unlike Inel's RAMBUS crap)
Second, when they do switch to DDRRAM, it will be close to the same price as SDRAM, becuase DDR is an open standard. DDR is better in so many ways: it can be made in higher volumes, becuase it fabs better; because of it's open standards, it will be chaeaper. (not much more than regular SDRAM) adn best of all, it's faster. Look at the analysis you can find on tom's hardware. Lower latencys, and higher bandwidth!
AMD is already making DDRRAM modules (not AMD specifically, they have companies actually doing the MFG)
People need to keep supporting AMD, I know that Intel has made donations to Linux companies, but I for one don't want to pay that much for something that doesn't even work the way it's supposed to. Competition is good, especially when the competion to the norm is better.
RAMBUS has proprietary, over-priced, harder to make, memory so thier sales can't hold up for much longer. When AMD gets it's sledgehammer mobo's out everyone will be using DDR(hopefully) Suing some big customers just gives them a bad image (worse than now anyway)and cuts into profits. Umm...they're dumb.
What video card are you using? I run Windows2000 and BeOS (a 64 bit OS since 95) ; even Be has more video drivers than Win2K. How can you run games? I personaly think it's more stable than 98, but that's not saying much.
I have a few things to say about the previous post...
Public schools do suck. The problem is, schools can't stop sports programms because they contribute a big part of thier budget. So they don't have any options except to keep them going. In the area I live, I read that almost 30% of the district's income comes from ticket sales of the football games!
I don't understand how the US government can spend $60 Billion on a mission to mars and not make absolutly sure it will work. Then turn around and don't help out the future generation of this country by providing our public schools with adequate resources. How can we possibly expect to be a world leader if our children are being baby-sat instead of taught? The teacher have to put up with all kinds of problems, discipleine, time constraints, rescources, LOW PAY, etc.
I think there is some value in physical education but in today's technology based society it's not as needed as it once was. Also people are so health concious, that PhyEd. isn't as important because the knowledge and information is out there anyway.
You can't give special treatment to someone just because they scored higher on thier SATs or ACTs. A child doesn't know what he want' to do the rest of his life. I know I didn't and as a college student, I still don't. (Yes I've narrowed it down)
How can you decide what programs are more important than others? The different classes should be offered to everyone, not those in a specific age or "intelligence" group. How would you decide who gets what when it comes to the advanced courses? If someone is found to be good at math and science do you drop art? There are some things that everyone has to know in order to function in society. These have probobly been taught in lower grades (and they should be) but some things, like math and science, need the building blocks of the previous year's teachings in order to be tought.
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On the ticalc page, the program they show is based on a monte carlo method. A key problem with finding any number with the Monte Carlo method is that it is innacurate. It relies on random numbers. Can a normal home computer generate truly random numbers? I thought that the CPU got a psudo-random number by multiplying a certain memory register by an aproximation of Pi, emebeded in the CPU architecture. That means that all these people that have been "finding" Pi out to anything more than a few decimal places (8, 64, 128...?) are getting wrong answers!!!
This Mante Carlo method needs real random numbers not psudo-random numbers. Is there another way to find Pi using some other method?
R5 will have a 'free demo' version. The BeOS Website says the free downloadable version wont have all the features enabled. Or something like that. Probobly just enough to get people to check it out. (and like it)
You were impressed by pitchblack? WTF! That movie sucked. Exactly how many times did they all have to go back for something? The acting was horrid.
The whole point of the story was based on the fact that the other planet blocked out the sun, so those evolved bats could come out and kill stuff. Only theres nothing left anyway, so why do they bother? I guess they know that on the entire planet theres a couple people (food) so they all go there. And the planet, does anyone know exactly how far away our mood is? Jupiter is 300 times bigger than earth, but it looks like just another star unless you've got some big binoculars or a telescope right. In pitch black, the other planet is so close, gravitation would have ripped the one their on during the creation process.
Then they get to the ship without the kid and the old man, do they fly the ship back to them? The ship that can take them off the planet. It's not like they don't have enough energy or something. No, No, they decide to walk back to them, through all the killer evolved bat things. The criminal dude knows how to fight in total darkness, he escaped from a futistic maximum security prision, but he's not smart enough to fly the F'n ship over to the other people. Come on!
What is conciousness? How do you know our conciousness isn't 'embeded' in our genetic make-up. The human mind is so complex science still can't understand it. Maybe conciousness is just a combination of neves and synapses interwoven into our memoties. Trippy...
Ummm, you seem to be mis-informed. AMD's Dresden MFG facility is more than capable of producing all the CPUs they need now and for next few years. VIA should have no trouble making their chipsets for them. I don't know about AMDs past production, but I know right now they aren't having any problems. Intel is, plain and simple. Check Tom's Hardware for some more info on the problems Intel is having, not only with CPU production but with thier i820 chipsets too.
Now let me get this strait. Intel has actual working silicon for sale in high-enough volume that you don't have to motgage your house to get one. (YEAH RIGHT) And another thing, after you've spent oodles of money on that bad boy, YOU HAVE TO SPEND EVEN MORE MONEY ON RDRAM You'd be throwing your money away if you put SDRAM in it and Intel's i820 chipsets are known to be unstable. Give me a break...
The Athlon can outperform any PIII at similar clock speeds, in a few weeks we should start seeing DDR enabled Athlon motherbaords, basically doubleing the memory bandwidth to twice what's available to the PIII. The Athlon is faster than a PIII and it's not even getting all the momory it can handle. With full speed cache (now enabled) and the DDR sytems, the Athlon will make its lead even bigger over the PIII. It will still be cheaper. And with the release of the DDR chipsets will come support for SMP too. (for all those servers) There's no good reason to go with a Cu P3. Intel's days as the number one x86 CPU maker are numbered.
Schools are already funded by property taxes. That's why you hear all those stories about how hard up 'inner city' schools are. Theres still plenty of products that people buy in stores. I know grocieries and clothing aren't taxed, here in Minnesota anyway, but there will always be a local service that you can't just go online for.
I live in Minnesota, there's no place around here that has prices anywhere near as good as I can get online. Even by the UofM prices are still 10% over what I can find online. Shipping and Handling does raise the cost of the product you're buying, but if there were taxes you'd pay the higher cost and S&H too.
Don't give them an inch. If this crap passes, in a year there WILL be a tax on internet connectivity! (probobly per hour too) Then after that they'll find a way to tax something else (bandwidth?) This is the way things are. Even if they don't tax individuals, the cost will still come back to us.
Oh please, give me a break. What doesn't the government tax us on? Nothing. All those civil services you mentioned are necessary to keep protect and serve America's citizens, but surely there's enough money comming in that ther's no need for another tax. Under the Clinton administration the US has actually managed to balance the budget. It should try to cut spending, not find new ways of getting income.
As a business market, the Internet is still growing. Taxation would only hurt that. You already have to pay shipping and handling when you order products on-line. Taxation would make it that much harder to find the 'good deals' that make on-line shopping a viable alternative to going to your neiborhood store.
Personally I hate having to go downtown to talk to those morons who don't even know what they carry. That's what got me started on shopping over the internet. But I still have to look for the best prices I can get.
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That's a good point. Another issue is what will happen to the Earth with more space shutle trips. What gets dumped into the atmosphere everytime the shuttle goes up? What would it be for the bigger rockets so people can actually get to the moon?
then piss and moan like the best of them and you will get results eventually.
IF M$ is made into several separate companies, there will be 3 monopolies instead of one. Only they will be untouchable because they've already been separated. It would be better to put restrictions on M$ instead of splitting it up.
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A normal integer...
(256)+(128)+(64)+(32)+(16)+(8)+(4)+(2) = is what the multipliers are internally.
0+0+0+1+0+1+0+1 = 42 in binary (base 2)
(256*0)+(128*0)+(64*0)+(32*1)+(16*0)+(8*1)+(4*0)+( 2*1) = 42!
42 (deciamal) = 00010101 (binary)
Does everyone understand now? If you want a long-integer, just add eight zeros to the front of 00010101.
Thankyou, Justin
That was funny, IMO.
If I had moderator access, that would be +2, funny!
I know OF a link to an open standard for Be that shows how to do the same with newer computers but I cannot remeber the actuall address. Sorry.
You have to restart the specific service ONLY. (networking, sound media, etc) Not the entire OS. Even if you did it takes 15 seconds, but you don't, so stop complaining. Everyone keeps saying Linux needs to be easier to use and install...Be is just a matter of putting it on your harddrive from the Cd or whatever media you've got the installation on. My grandma could use it, it's simple to use, it just needs some more programms. It's stable, haver you ever seen it demoed? They actually do everything they can to crash it (it won't crash by the way) If you would jsut try it, you might like it. At least it's not windows
Your argument about the FSB has its merits but you are forgeting something. Celeron's run at 66MHz anyway. That's slower than my K6-2. Now on some apps the celron will beat a K6-2 becuase it has better floating point registers, but that doesn't make up for Intels lack of effort. K6-2's aren't the greatest either, but Celeron's still suck for SMP systems. And another thing...
First off, the spitfire chipsets will have true 200MHz bus speeds. That speed cannot be atained with PC100 RAM, however becuase of the TYPE of motherboard setup they have (DEC's alpha systems [something like that]) it will be very easy for them to switch the RAM type to DDR. (Unlike Inel's RAMBUS crap)
Second, when they do switch to DDRRAM, it will be close to the same price as SDRAM, becuase DDR is an open standard. DDR is better in so many ways: it can be made in higher volumes, becuase it fabs better; because of it's open standards, it will be chaeaper. (not much more than regular SDRAM) adn best of all, it's faster. Look at the analysis you can find on tom's hardware. Lower latencys, and higher bandwidth!
AMD is already making DDRRAM modules (not AMD specifically, they have companies actually doing the MFG)
People need to keep supporting AMD, I know that Intel has made donations to Linux companies, but I for one don't want to pay that much for something that doesn't even work the way it's supposed to. Competition is good, especially when the competion to the norm is better.
RAMBUS has proprietary, over-priced, harder to make, memory so thier sales can't hold up for much longer. When AMD gets it's sledgehammer mobo's out everyone will be using DDR(hopefully) Suing some big customers just gives them a bad image (worse than now anyway)and cuts into profits. Umm...they're dumb.
Does anyone have any info on this DA movie? The books rock (you already know that) but thats gonna be one heck of a feat to put all that on film.
What video card are you using? I run Windows2000 and BeOS (a 64 bit OS since 95) ; even Be has more video drivers than Win2K. How can you run games? I personaly think it's more stable than 98, but that's not saying much.
Public schools do suck. The problem is, schools can't stop sports programms because they contribute a big part of thier budget. So they don't have any options except to keep them going. In the area I live, I read that almost 30% of the district's income comes from ticket sales of the football games!
I don't understand how the US government can spend $60 Billion on a mission to mars and not make absolutly sure it will work. Then turn around and don't help out the future generation of this country by providing our public schools with adequate resources. How can we possibly expect to be a world leader if our children are being baby-sat instead of taught? The teacher have to put up with all kinds of problems, discipleine, time constraints, rescources, LOW PAY, etc.
I think there is some value in physical education but in today's technology based society it's not as needed as it once was. Also people are so health concious, that PhyEd. isn't as important because the knowledge and information is out there anyway.
You can't give special treatment to someone just because they scored higher on thier SATs or ACTs. A child doesn't know what he want' to do the rest of his life. I know I didn't and as a college student, I still don't. (Yes I've narrowed it down)
How can you decide what programs are more important than others? The different classes should be offered to everyone, not those in a specific age or "intelligence" group. How would you decide who gets what when it comes to the advanced courses? If someone is found to be good at math and science do you drop art? There are some things that everyone has to know in order to function in society. These have probobly been taught in lower grades (and they should be) but some things, like math and science, need the building blocks of the previous year's teachings in order to be tought.
This Mante Carlo method needs real random numbers not psudo-random numbers. Is there another way to find Pi using some other method?
R5 will have a 'free demo' version. The BeOS Website says the free downloadable version wont have all the features enabled. Or something like that. Probobly just enough to get people to check it out. (and like it)
The whole point of the story was based on the fact that the other planet blocked out the sun, so those evolved bats could come out and kill stuff. Only theres nothing left anyway, so why do they bother? I guess they know that on the entire planet theres a couple people (food) so they all go there. And the planet, does anyone know exactly how far away our mood is? Jupiter is 300 times bigger than earth, but it looks like just another star unless you've got some big binoculars or a telescope right. In pitch black, the other planet is so close, gravitation would have ripped the one their on during the creation process.
Then they get to the ship without the kid and the old man, do they fly the ship back to them? The ship that can take them off the planet. It's not like they don't have enough energy or something. No, No, they decide to walk back to them, through all the killer evolved bat things. The criminal dude knows how to fight in total darkness, he escaped from a futistic maximum security prision, but he's not smart enough to fly the F'n ship over to the other people. Come on!
What is conciousness? How do you know our conciousness isn't 'embeded' in our genetic make-up. The human mind is so complex science still can't understand it. Maybe conciousness is just a combination of neves and synapses interwoven into our memoties. Trippy...
Ummm, you seem to be mis-informed. AMD's Dresden MFG facility is more than capable of producing all the CPUs they need now and for next few years. VIA should have no trouble making their chipsets for them. I don't know about AMDs past production, but I know right now they aren't having any problems. Intel is, plain and simple. Check Tom's Hardware for some more info on the problems Intel is having, not only with CPU production but with thier i820 chipsets too.
The Athlon can outperform any PIII at similar clock speeds, in a few weeks we should start seeing DDR enabled Athlon motherbaords, basically doubleing the memory bandwidth to twice what's available to the PIII. The Athlon is faster than a PIII and it's not even getting all the momory it can handle. With full speed cache (now enabled) and the DDR sytems, the Athlon will make its lead even bigger over the PIII. It will still be cheaper. And with the release of the DDR chipsets will come support for SMP too. (for all those servers) There's no good reason to go with a Cu P3.
Intel's days as the number one x86 CPU maker are numbered.
Schools are already funded by property taxes. That's why you hear all those stories about how hard up 'inner city' schools are. Theres still plenty of products that people buy in stores. I know grocieries and clothing aren't taxed, here in Minnesota anyway, but there will always be a local service that you can't just go online for.
I live in Minnesota, there's no place around here that has prices anywhere near as good as I can get online. Even by the UofM prices are still 10% over what I can find online. Shipping and Handling does raise the cost of the product you're buying, but if there were taxes you'd pay the higher cost and S&H too.
As a business market, the Internet is still growing. Taxation would only hurt that. You already have to pay shipping and handling when you order products on-line. Taxation would make it that much harder to find the 'good deals' that make on-line shopping a viable alternative to going to your neiborhood store.
Personally I hate having to go downtown to talk to those morons who don't even know what they carry. That's what got me started on shopping over the internet. But I still have to look for the best prices I can get.
YES! YES! YES!