On May 12, 8:23 am, John Larkin
jjlar... at (no spam) highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Sat, 10 May 2008 06:42:01 -0700 (PDT), MooseFET

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Intel and Microsoft still haven't come up with a way to keep from
executing data and stacks!

Intel came up with the 8051.

the "FU2" nature of sw license agreements has then promulgated the "ship
without consequence" mentality (or, more correcly, the lack thereof)


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On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:05:08 +1200, Terry Given <my_name at (no spam) ieee.org
wrote:

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the "FU2" nature of sw license agreements has then promulgated the "ship
without consequence" mentality (or, more correcly, the lack thereof)


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Isn't that how liberals (aka leftist weenies) were hatched?

...Jim Thompson

MassiveProng at (no spam) thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
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Funny, my Vista installation is still working flawlessly, and any error
it ever did have was repaired either in session or on the next boot.

I have a Vista-based laptop that has blue-screened twice now, and on both
occasions it corrupted something in the initial boot bits of Windows such that
it refused to boot anymore. Running the automated repair routine from the
install CD did fix it, but what a pain in the arse!

I had one blue screen on boot, and it worked immediately after, and
found the issue to be an Nvidia driver, which nvidia replaced with a
newer, proper driver.

A lot of machines from, e.g., Dell, Asus, etc. use "tweaked" drivers and often
can't be replaced with newer ones from nvidia.com... yet the ones from the OEM
lack the nVidia ones by many months. (I realize you can just head on over to
laptopvideo2go.com and download a modified .inf, but that's something the
average user isn't aware of.)

---Joel

The benefit of using Nvidia's drivers is that they carry the entire API

On May 8, 6:41 pm, FatBytestard
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On Thu, 08 May 2008 18:26:05 -0700, John Larkin





jjlar... at (no spam) highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Thu, 08 May 2008 20:42:42 GMT, n... at (no spam) puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel)
wrote:

John Larkin <jjlar... at (no spam) highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=CESEX...

I bet we'll see 256 one of these days.

I doubt it. A mailman won't deliver mail faster when he is using a
Ferrari instead of bicycle. I think we are going to see slower,
cheaper, more energy efficient computers with back-to-basic software
for every day / office use.

Maybe. But there's certainly no trend in that direction yet. Vista is
even more bloated than XP. My conjecture is that multiple cpu's on one
chip will make computers simpler and more efficient, and certainly
more reliable.

For example an embedded ARM or MIPS system running at 300MHz has
enough power to run most common applications. It consumes at least 10
times less energy compared to a standard PC.

Oh, things are coming along nicely:

http://www.sun.com/emrkt/innercircle/newsletter/0407feature.html

"Sun foresees the need for extending thread count beyond 64 separate
instances of a computer, which is why the chip that will follow
UltraSPARC T2 (currently code-named Victoria Falls) is being designed
to have 128 threads. These threads, however, will be fully extendible.
This will make it possible to link two instances of Victoria Falls —
both sharing common memory through a hub chip — for a grand total of
256 threads."

Just threads, not full cpu's [1], but it looks good.

Here's one PPC and eight smaller processors on one chip:

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/multi...

John

  The Cell will be in our future.  The power 6 looks pretty good too.

  A power 6 Cell would be neat.



[1] I kept the apostrophe so that people whose expertise stops at 20
KHz can have something clever to say. But to me, cpus looks awkward;
you'd pronounce it "seepuss."

 CPUs  It's an acronym, so it should be capitalized. The rules on
pluralizing an acronym are what need to be defined.- Hide quoted text -

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The rule: for acronyms of five letters or more, capitalize only the
first letter
(e.g., Unicef).