www.musicnotes.com is not free, but the site is pretty slick and to my knowledge is the largest online sheet music retailer. They do have some free sheet music, and they have a browser plugin that lets you preview (and play) the music.
The IE 7 "Quick Tabs" feature is very cool. It shows a tiled view of all tabs open with all pages rendered so you can quickly find your way and click a tab. I don't think any previous web browser has this feature.
Branch prediction was invented by Jim Smith while at Control Data Corporation. Intel, AMD, and most other microprocessor manufacturers ended up settling by the law firm which bought CDC's intellectual property assets. How do I know this? From Jim Smith himself who I spoke with.
For someone who has been following the DEC-Intel battle for years, you just had to Google a link that contained absolutely no technical information about what ideas were stolen.
For years I followed the battle between DEC and Intel, over Intel stealing a dozen or so technologies from DEC, which they implemented in the Pentium and Itanic (Merced at the time) DEC waited until Intel was commited to their theft before lowering the boom. Ultimately Intel settled with DEC, gaining access to the patents and having to fork over a very considerable amount of money for DEC's processor fab, which IIRC Intel shut down anyway. Oddly enough, after all this cash poured into DEC they still went bust. I think, too, a lot of the smarter fish left DEC when they saw that ship foundering near the rocks of poor market direction.
This is a load of crap. The ideas of superscalar out-of-order processors came from IBM, CDC, Cray, and the academic literature years before either DEC or Intel ever implemented one. Yet when Intel came out with the out-of-order Pentium Pro, all the DEC guys were screaming and hollering.
I gave up on Firefox after using it for 2 years. Memory leaks, spuratic behavior, crashes, 99% utilization, etc. The original Mozilla 1.7.x series was better but unfortunately that line of development is dead.
I hate to break it to you, but population growth through immigration is fricking obvious. It will sustain our social programs of the future. The population of Europe is aging. Your social programs will be unsustainable without more babies or more immigrants.
What is the % in population growth? Will population growth in France cover your aging workforce? Europe is very concerned about an aging workforce and economic disaster because of it.
It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.
The U.S. is the only 1st-world country with a growing population. It may not be the best 1st-world country to live in, but it is still the land of opportunity for those not living in 1st-world countries. Population growth could very well bail us out of the economic disaster caused by retiring baby-boomers.
Apple should refer to Amdahl's Law to see that a 50% speedup of something that only accounts for 1% of your overall time really ain't that big of a deal!
I know that many game studios have already shipped their final codebase that is untested on final hardware and software. Trust me, they are crossing their fingers that everything works.
This morning I loaded Firefox 1.5.something on my Windows XP laptop, entered cnn.com for news. 10 minutes later Firefox was chewing up 65MB of memory and causing my laptop to drag.
I'm thrilled to get tabs on a browser that doesn't have a memory leak.
Or they could just make it easy and cheap. Then I would have no reason at all to pirate it.
Try leaving a bowl of candy in a public place, like a library or school, and put a sign saying that each piece costs 1-cent (with a collection box secured).
If its easy to steal, you have no personal connection to the seller, and there is no chance of getting caught, people will steal.
Don't worry Mr. Lucas, the guys here at BitTorrent got you covered!
And you wonder why content creators like Lucas call on-line distribution of movies a "rat hole". This is exactly why they want and need DRM technologies.
Visual Studio is an IDE, while Qt is a set of libraries. MFC/Win32/.NET are the libraries you would use with MSVS and they are free (with every copy of Windows, or LGPL'd with WINE/WineLib/Mono). Eclipse is an IDE you can use with Qt and it is free.
Which is exactly what the Linux platform needs. A set of standardized GUI libraries that are free for both commercial and open-source applications. That is why the whole KDE/QT thing is bad for establishing a Linux platform.
I mean, frankly... isn't 12MB L2 overkill? We're barely putting today's 2-4MB to good use.
Are you kidding me? With a 4-way superscalar processor running at 3GHz, any cache miss can result in the processor being completely idle for 50-100ns. At an aggressive 50ns memory latency, this is up to 600 wasted opportunities to retire instructions.
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False. The new lingo for this means that a processor is equivalent to one die in a package. Thus for Kentsfield, one processor == 4 cores.
www.musicnotes.com is not free, but the site is pretty slick and to my knowledge is the largest online sheet music retailer. They do have some free sheet music, and they have a browser plugin that lets you preview (and play) the music.
Not even close. The Intel Core 2 Duo chips destroy anything made by AMD. This includes price/performance also.
Here is a question asked of my officemate, a PhD student, while interviewing on the phone with Google: "What is 2^12 ?".
They then proceeded to ask him various questions on how to write algorithms for bit swizzling, sorting, etc.
Where are the idiots proclaiming that the U.S. faked the Mars Viking landings?
The IE 7 "Quick Tabs" feature is very cool. It shows a tiled view of all tabs open with all pages rendered so you can quickly find your way and click a tab. I don't think any previous web browser has this feature.
Branch prediction was invented by Jim Smith while at Control Data Corporation. Intel, AMD, and most other microprocessor manufacturers ended up settling by the law firm which bought CDC's intellectual property assets. How do I know this? From Jim Smith himself who I spoke with.
Time to move on to something else.
For someone who has been following the DEC-Intel battle for years, you just had to Google a link that contained absolutely no technical information about what ideas were stolen.
For years I followed the battle between DEC and Intel, over Intel stealing a dozen or so technologies from DEC, which they implemented in the Pentium and Itanic (Merced at the time) DEC waited until Intel was commited to their theft before lowering the boom. Ultimately Intel settled with DEC, gaining access to the patents and having to fork over a very considerable amount of money for DEC's processor fab, which IIRC Intel shut down anyway. Oddly enough, after all this cash poured into DEC they still went bust. I think, too, a lot of the smarter fish left DEC when they saw that ship foundering near the rocks of poor market direction.
This is a load of crap. The ideas of superscalar out-of-order processors came from IBM, CDC, Cray, and the academic literature years before either DEC or Intel ever implemented one. Yet when Intel came out with the out-of-order Pentium Pro, all the DEC guys were screaming and hollering.
Thanks for the pointer! I didn't know that the old Mozilla lives on.
I gave up on Firefox after using it for 2 years. Memory leaks, spuratic behavior, crashes, 99% utilization, etc. The original Mozilla 1.7.x series was better but unfortunately that line of development is dead.
I hate to break it to you, but population growth through immigration is fricking obvious. It will sustain our social programs of the future. The population of Europe is aging. Your social programs will be unsustainable without more babies or more immigrants.
What is the % in population growth? Will population growth in France cover your aging workforce? Europe is very concerned about an aging workforce and economic disaster because of it.
It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.
The U.S. is the only 1st-world country with a growing population. It may not be the best 1st-world country to live in, but it is still the land of opportunity for those not living in 1st-world countries. Population growth could very well bail us out of the economic disaster caused by retiring baby-boomers.
Apple should refer to Amdahl's Law to see that a 50% speedup of something that only accounts for 1% of your overall time really ain't that big of a deal!
Yes, Core Duo is done in Israel. However its still based on the P6 design (Pentium III, Pentium-M, etc). Of course they did improve the design.
I know that many game studios have already shipped their final codebase that is untested on final hardware and software. Trust me, they are crossing their fingers that everything works.
Just google "Firefox memory leak". Or keep the same instance of Firefox open for a long time.
This morning I loaded Firefox 1.5.something on my Windows XP laptop, entered cnn.com for news. 10 minutes later Firefox was chewing up 65MB of memory and causing my laptop to drag.
I'm thrilled to get tabs on a browser that doesn't have a memory leak.
Or they could just make it easy and cheap. Then I would have no reason at all to pirate it.
Try leaving a bowl of candy in a public place, like a library or school, and put a sign saying that each piece costs 1-cent (with a collection box secured).
If its easy to steal, you have no personal connection to the seller, and there is no chance of getting caught, people will steal.
Don't worry Mr. Lucas, the guys here at BitTorrent got you covered!
And you wonder why content creators like Lucas call on-line distribution of movies a "rat hole". This is exactly why they want and need DRM technologies.
Visual Studio is an IDE, while Qt is a set of libraries. MFC/Win32/.NET are the libraries you would use with MSVS and they are free (with every copy of Windows, or LGPL'd with WINE/WineLib/Mono). Eclipse is an IDE you can use with Qt and it is free.
Which is exactly what the Linux platform needs. A set of standardized GUI libraries that are free for both commercial and open-source applications. That is why the whole KDE/QT thing is bad for establishing a Linux platform.
Qt does not cost $3300 per seat. You can download it and use it for Free. Oh wait, you meant "proprietary licensing". Right.
Microsoft Visual Studio costs $700. Doesn't matter if you open-source your code or if your license is "proprietary".
I mean, frankly... isn't 12MB L2 overkill? We're barely putting today's 2-4MB to good use.
Are you kidding me? With a 4-way superscalar processor running at 3GHz, any cache miss can result in the processor being completely idle for 50-100ns. At an aggressive 50ns memory latency, this is up to 600 wasted opportunities to retire instructions.