Perhaps Microsoft may be credited with holding desktops back to single-processor machines with the 9x series. NT has always used the thread as the basic unit of resource allocation, not the process. The scheduler in NT schedules threads to run on processors, so yes, a single multi-threaded app on an SMP NT box gets full SMP benefit, and always has.
On the other hand, up until quite recently (and arguably not even now), why should Joe Sixpack's home PC do SMP? All he is going to do is write e-mail, surf the web, and maybe crunch the occasional spreadsheet. SMP doesn't make much sense for the great unwashed masses. It's expensive, and the software to support it is more complex, and thus more expensive itself (OSS stuff aside). It's the high-power/. crowd who wonders why SMP isn't more common, but we unfortunately represent a minority in the market.
The article mentions that one of the scientists has established, in coordination with SETI, an AOL homepage. AOL?!?!? Now really, would a superior alien intelligence be caught dead using AOL?
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that there is superior life in the universe is that it hasn't tried to contact us."
Funny you should say that they need money desperately since they're funded by a private company rather than the government. In Russia at the moment, being funded by a private company is probably a safer bet than being funded by the government. I lived in and around Yekaterinburg, Russia (in the Ural Mountain region) for two years from '95 to '97. At that time (and it's pretty much the same now), people's wages were late up to six months, and the elderly's pensions were similarly delayed. All ultimately traceable to the government and the central bank, which are virtually broke.
For Russia these days, the only real prayer they have of keeping up any kind of space program is private enterprise.
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If, by this, you mean Microsoft, NT is portable (has run on Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC).
Yeah, NT has run on Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC. No longer. MIPS and PowerPC support hasn't been around since the early days of NT 4.0. Windows 2000 was the last MS OS you'll ever see that runs on Alpha, as the other day AXP64 support was dropped completely in Whistler (i.e. Windows 2001... or whatever they decide to call it eventually). It's Intel as far as the eye can see for Windows NT's progeny now. Now that MS has jettisoned (and been jettisoned by) its other chip architectures, how long do you suppose NT will remain nicely portable?
This situation does require that Coca-Cola not get the domain name. As was pointed out, "Coke" in French refers to cocaine, not Coca-Cola. Any "reasonable" person whose first langauge is English would assume that the site was for Coca-Cola. The web is not an anglophile-only club however. So now the definition of "reasonable person" is one that speaks the regional languages. If Coca-Cola wants to protect their precious name (and not drag it through the mud in yet another ill-concieved domain-name grab) they should try trademarking the French equivalant to "Coke": "du Coca".
I've been reading through the (admittedly dense) text of the law itself (Public Law 102-563. Read it yourself at the Library of Congress). I can't find anywhere where it says that individuals are not allowed to make copies for their own use, despite what the RIAA says. The law seems to deal only with making manufacturers, importers, and distributors pay royalties. The only section that gives me pause is subchapter D, Sec. 1008, mainly because it's a huge run-on sentence. I don't understand what it says. Since IANAL, could someone a little more knowledgeable take a look?
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On the other hand, up until quite recently (and arguably not even now), why should Joe Sixpack's home PC do SMP? All he is going to do is write e-mail, surf the web, and maybe crunch the occasional spreadsheet. SMP doesn't make much sense for the great unwashed masses. It's expensive, and the software to support it is more complex, and thus more expensive itself (OSS stuff aside). It's the high-power /. crowd who wonders why SMP isn't more common, but we unfortunately represent a minority in the market.
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that there is superior life in the universe is that it hasn't tried to contact us."
For Russia these days, the only real prayer they have of keeping up any kind of space program is private enterprise.
Yeah, NT has run on Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC. No longer. MIPS and PowerPC support hasn't been around since the early days of NT 4.0. Windows 2000 was the last MS OS you'll ever see that runs on Alpha, as the other day AXP64 support was dropped completely in Whistler (i.e. Windows 2001... or whatever they decide to call it eventually). It's Intel as far as the eye can see for Windows NT's progeny now. Now that MS has jettisoned (and been jettisoned by) its other chip architectures, how long do you suppose NT will remain nicely portable?
This situation does require that Coca-Cola not get the domain name. As was pointed out, "Coke" in French refers to cocaine, not Coca-Cola. Any "reasonable" person whose first langauge is English would assume that the site was for Coca-Cola. The web is not an anglophile-only club however. So now the definition of "reasonable person" is one that speaks the regional languages. If Coca-Cola wants to protect their precious name (and not drag it through the mud in yet another ill-concieved domain-name grab) they should try trademarking the French equivalant to "Coke": "du Coca".
I've been reading through the (admittedly dense) text of the law itself (Public Law 102-563. Read it yourself at the Library of Congress). I can't find anywhere where it says that individuals are not allowed to make copies for their own use, despite what the RIAA says. The law seems to deal only with making manufacturers, importers, and distributors pay royalties. The only section that gives me pause is subchapter D, Sec. 1008, mainly because it's a huge run-on sentence. I don't understand what it says. Since IANAL, could someone a little more knowledgeable take a look?
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