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kudos! Nice to see SF alive and kicking (well, at least alive), and quite a few of the familiar names still around. To put things in perspective, it's been over fifteen (15!) years since I encountered some of you guys back in the old SR forum... Some staying power!

While we were busying ourselves with discussions of such an insignificant crap as oil, some people are about to run out of some truly necessary stuff!!! :o

Note to self : the left button is "SpelChek(TM)", the right button is "Submit", the left button is "SpelChek(TM)", the right button is "Submit"...

I'm not quite sure about the "warm" and "fuzzy" part, but heck, everyone is free to interpret my words in whatever way he chooses. As for "without a single fact"... I have no formal education in economics, I have no access to reliable (and factually correct!) data about global economy, I have...

time : Hmmm! I guess I'll have to repeat it : we seem to view the issue from entirely different angles. Let me answer you with a quote from a great old Kubrick's flick "Full Metal Jacket" : "Believe it or not, but under fire, Animal Mother can be a wonderful human being. All he needs is...

Well, that's the good thing about Merc's method : the individual gets his warning to patch the rig pronto, while he can still see the keyboard with the remaining eye... :twistd:

time : Well, actually, I didn't list those in any particular order. That's, kind of, the problem here : priorities list implies you can occasionally skip the "low priority" measures. I, on the other hand, can easily demonstrate enough realistic (up to a point of happening to some people whom I...

Thanks, Doug, I am familiar with those two. I just don't see any urgent need to install any software to playback anything RealAudio - I can recall just three cases in the last several years (one of them being in this very thread) in which I was even mildly intrigued by contents of RealAudio...

Computer "security" today is not really about what antivirus software you use - it's a whole bunch of things, antivirus choice being only a minor part of it. 1. Patch. On a regular basis. Overwhelming majority of worms/viruses/trojans/spyware released in the last couple of years exploited...

time : Hmmm... :-? Actually, time, I read both the paper you linked to and the "notes & slides" mubs linked to (admittedly, I skipped the .RAM itself as I don't have - and likely never will have - RealPlayer installed) pretty much as soon as I read your posts. I may disagree with the...

mubs : Try dropping by this place. They may not be fully up to date, but they have truckloads of info on the subject.

Now, about those "turbines in the Gulfstream"... Before someone familiar with aviation reads my post, let me rephrase that one : "turbines in the Gulf Stream"!

mubs : Actually, I don't think I did. I responded to one very specific statement in your post : Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my statement : "People were talking about it for a hell of a long time". I was referring to an "ill-considered military intervention", not to the fact the "oil is...

If it's still relevant : try Iarsn TaskInfo 2003. AFAIK it's the most powerful task monitoring/managing utility out there for Windoze - it'll tell you everything you ever wanted to know about your active processes and system, and then... And then it'll tell you one hell of a lot more! :) It's...

He-he... I did look it ("...Condor") up, after all... :P It's a 1975 movie. And here's a nice quote from it (where Higgins is the Deputy Director of CIA) :

Come think of it, it's not that amazing at all. People were talking about it for a hell of a long time. In fact, I think I can recall this flick with Robert Redford, "Three Days of the Condor" (dating back to mid-70's, IIRC, even though I've seen it sometime during the '80s), that had pretty...

Pardon me for not joining your neat "logic" brawl, boys, but this time I'll stick to tech stuff only... ;) CityK : I presume you're talking about FlashBlock (which, methinks, indeed used to be called "Flash Click to View", for an obvious reason! :P ). Well, I visited the Tech Report page...

Why, thank you, cas! I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page here. See, I didn't rise this topic to argue about it - just to see how people would feel about the cliché "black helicopters" showing up outside their window. I thank you for your feedback.

Either I misunderstood you cas, or you misunderstood me. The example above is the case when Elbox code is shown to be destructive when properly used! NAV acted by design by auto-cleaning up a piece of code that is employed in some newly discovered virus (which if you ask me is indeed a...

The majority of the comments in this thread are somewhat irrelevant (the whole "regression testing" and "testing in general" lines) - just try to follow some of the links I provided. But that's besides the point, since the discussion veered somewhat off course as a whole - at least off course I...

Just dropped by to verify my forums login (as Doug suggested), and what do I see? A 75GXP thread, right st the top! I just had to have a peek! :wink: Too bad I forgot to check the posts dates until I almost finished reading the thread... Anyho, bumped into those pearls on the way : Apparently...

Why am I not surprised? It is kind of sad, though, that a person had to resort to using an alias in order to troll... err... express his true views, I mean. IMHO that says something about the community, or about that person's perception of community. Or perhaps about the person himself...

Stumbled across this one on The Inq and decided to post it here for those of you who don't like Mike. I don't really have time to check whether this one was linked before from SF or SR, so if it's a dupe - just ignore it. Without further ado... Have a lookie at CSA Research's "Hyperthreading...

While some of the timestamps rised my eyebrows slightly (e.g. what the hell do you suppose was going on in USSR in 1951-1991? Or why do you define that Japanese fascism came about in 1900?), that's not the point. Because my question was about economical systems, not social or government - after...

From what I know from various whitepapers published to day - no, the SOI version will not perform any better than the non-SOI version as long as it runs at the same clock speed. But one of the benefits of SOI is that you should be able to run a given logical design at a faster clock speed...

It is not my intent to start a WWIII here, but I'm just curious : what are (and I presume there are at the very least another two since you used the ploral "are") the viable alternatives to capitalism ? Also, since the original statement wasn't very clear on this part, are those or some of those...

Hmm... I though the WP would handle that... ;) No, you got it slightly wrong. First of all it's you don't "implement SOI in a chip", but rather you implement the chip on a SOI wafer. E.g. Soitec is a French wafer maker that specializes in SOI (hence the name), AMD placed a fairly big contract...

timwhit : Basically, as Tony said. The "25 words or less" answer is that SOI allows to obtain higher clock frequencies and/or lower power dissipation for a given chip design. If you're familiar with some electronics basics (e.g. know what transistor is) you may want to have a look at this IBM...

Actually, that's an old trick, Tony - such calculations were done many times in the past. One tiny thing you left out : how long did it take for such single speed grade upgrade to appear back then and how long does it take now. IIRC Moore's Law is still pretty much in full bloom. The...

Josh Walrath at Penstarsys has a curious writeup up. "An exercise in Forward Thinking" as he calls it, though it has a distinct taste of "The Way I Wish Things Were" to it (at least I surely would like things to be anywhere that optimistic!). Have a lookie. Without commenting on the article as...

Customer : I'll take the Insight! I love the idea of hybrid gasoline-electric engine running under the hood! How much is it? 8) Honda rep : Uhmm... Ermm... That $20k, but it comes with a <cough, cough> 3 liter diesel those days... :roll: Customer : 3 liter diesel?!? :o But hey, that was...

AFAIK Hitachi isn't "buying" the unit, rather IBM and Hitachi are forming a joint venture with 30/70% (respectively) share. Which is rumored to cost Hitachi $1b. Can you call such a joint venture "buyout"? Dunno...

Actually, make that "stated by AMD" or "announced", not discussed : ...and announced not that long ago, BTW, the slide dates back to Nov 8, 2001 (as far as I can decypher ;) ). I'm also somewhat sure there were even newer mentions by AMD of SOI usage on Barton. Yeah, a crystal ball would...

As an afterthought (:oops:): for your convenience : the roadmap...

Thanks to Coug posting the news on the frontpage I dropped by AMD's website to steal a glance at their latest roadmap. Aside from leaving me dumbfounded as usual in regards to CHammer/Athlon positioning (WTF is the plan?!?), there was something else that cought my eye. Did anyone notice that...

Yup. AFAIK it was supposed to be today, dunno if it actually happened. The nubers should have been approx as follows : XP1800+ ~= $130, XP1900+ ~= $160, XP 2000+ ~=220, all prices in US$ and in quantities of 1k and up, I believe - i.e. for retailers, no sure way to extrapolate consumer prices...

Speak of the devil... Ermm, VIA chipsets reliability I mean, and here you go : Mike Magee being his usual pleasant self greets VIA today with his "A year ago today" writeup. To eliminate possible misunderstandings - this is a re-post of a year old article, not a new discovery. P.S. I swear I...

When AMD just introduced the PR system [this time], Athlon XPs were a bit more than on par with P4s, winning in most meaningful benchmarks by a notch. By the time 0.13u 512KB Northwood A was introduced, the PR system began pushing it - Athlon XPs did better in some benches and worse in others...

Hey, Coug! Speaking of Bartons, T-Breds in March and my eyebrows rised high up in general, I just came across this one on x-bit Labs (from Apr 11th). Looks like no Barton after all... XP 2400 only in Q3? WTF are those folks up to? They better know something I don't!

Coug's right (Not! Ok, ok, at least partially right... ;) ). My apologies, time.

Come think of it, I did give the wrong example. "If I were (simple past) ..., ... would + <verb>" is indeed Present Unreal Conditional, including ""If I were a...". "If I were to + <verb>..., ... would + <verb>", on the other hand is Future Unreal Conditional. Yes, despite having similar...

Hi there, time! Nice to know your name's Tony too, time! HellTroll, you say? Then you would be feeding me, no? And doing so in an extremely poor way at that - you're really not up to speed on what you say. Next thing to clueless, in fact. How do I know? Because I've had to deal with those issues...

10x, Doug.

Yup, HellDiver's bitching again. This time it's about in-word tags (i.e. BBCode tags you slap in the middle of the word). E.g., the following text : Some people like to highlight some tipos in their previous posts when the corect them... produces the following result on SF : Some people like...

Can be. In statements using conditional future such as "If I were a..." the subjunctive "were" is even a requirement (if we're talking about proper English). But I happen no use "I were" in completely wrong instances, including the ones Coug was talking about. And so do a lot of those folks...

How quickly we tend to forget... Remember VIA GART, Tony? Remember 4.17->4.20->4.24 story? Remember hybernation and 4.25? Remember 686B and 4.31? And that's just the big issues that received full confirmation from VIA and were widely published! But hey, Tony just sells systems, he doesn't care...

Theoretically speaking, there should be a hack for phpBB that would allow this (requires an addition of a param to user's settings and checking of this param in the script that renders the page for the user). But whether one exists specifically for phpBB2 - I don't know...

Actually, a large portion of those smilies are tied to ';'+')', ':'+'P', etc... So once you type that regular ":D" or ":P" - the "yellow face" shows up in your post (if you have those enabled, of course!). No extra work at all, Mercutio! About the only smilie I'm actually willing to actively...

Handruin, you da man! :twistd: :twistd: :twistd: (by now I only wish it was on the left side of reply editing window, among the first 20 "emoticons", but hey, I'm pushing it, ain't I? :roll: It's just that I got used to using it fairly often on SR... Definitely pushing it! :oops: But to be...

Well, there is that nVidia's chipset... Though there are a lot of interleaving-related issues with it. Not to mention the silly 1+2 limitation! But given the EV6 bus max throughput barrier that didn't do Athlon too much good anyway. Increasing the number of RDRAM channels is in fact easier that...