@Sammy they don't have enough money to pay someone to go through all their downloads and categorize them :( poor little Microsoft, only making several hundred billion per year...
maybe if they had fewer Senior Chief Executive Do-Nothings whose sole purpose in life is to take home lots of money, they'd be able to afford a web developer
> Itanium processors can also run the mainframe environment GCOS from Groupe Bull and several x86 operating systems via Instruction Set Simulators.
o.O
Apparently hardware emulation was much worse...
> Itanium processors released prior to 2006 had hardware support for the IA-32 architecture to permit support for legacy server applications, but performance for IA-32 code was much worse than for native code and also worse than the performance of contemporaneous x86 processors. In 2005, Intel developed the IA-32 Execution Layer (IA-32 EL), a software emulator that provides better performance. With Montecito, Intel therefore eliminated hardware support for IA-32 code.
@Bob that's odd, maybe a difficult mismatch between the x86 instruction set and the Itanium's? because Intel CPUs are basically an instruction set simulator already, being that modern x86_64 ISAs are just baked-in software that compiles down to RISC instructions lol
This problem was solved 80 years ago. (See here for XKCD-author Randall's explanation).
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I don't remember seeing that answer last time, for some reason.
@Boris_yo the material itself isn't more expensive than other transistors, but cache is designed in such a way that producing large quantities of it would take up lots of space and be expensive
consider the following: a 64 GB USB thumb drive, a mSATA SSD, a RAM stick, and L3 CPU cache are all roughly within the same order of magnitude in terms of volume (size), except that: the thumb drive is the slowest of the bunch but also the least expensive and has the most capacity; the mSATA SSD is faster than the thumb drive, expensive, and has okay capacity (more than RAM but less than thumb drive); the RAM has very good speed but limited capacity (a few GBs); and the cache is
...incredibly fast but only a few megabytes of it are there
so to actually fabricate 2 GB of L3 cache at the same speed/throughput/latency as existing L3 cache, you'd need an enormous CPU die with very high power requirements costing several thousand dollars
whereas a 2GB stick of RAM costs about $30 to make
you can make transistor based, solid-state storage devices that are either fast, capacious, or cheap.... and you can never grab more than two of those in a single device... where "cheap" is a simplification of "expensive to make and/or requiring large size and/or requiring large amounts of power to operate"
thumb drives are capacious and cheap, but not fast... RAM is fast and cheap, but not capacious... CPU cache is fast and (for its size) capacious, but not cheap... SSDs are fast and capacious (for their size), but not cheap... etc
and the plate on "hot" chips (GPU and CPU chips especially; RAM, not so much) also serves as a good conductor of heat, for the heatsink to sit on
I'm still really impressed at how high the performance level is in smartphones without needing active cooling of some form or enormous heatsinks that dwarf the size of the phone itself
Oli's heatsink on his CPU is bigger than my hand even with all my fingers outstretched, and my phone's total compute capacity is actually a very significant fraction of that desktop CPU's, and it has nothing except perhaps a tiny little heatsink, but it'd have to be thin as hell because my phone is thin and it also has a battery and other stuff in it
no doubt they can't run the CPU at a very high clock rate without endangering the battery with the amount of heat output (yeah, putting a hot chip right next to a chemical battery that reacts violently with a certain amount of heat isn't a great idea) but they still get good performance out of it
@Bob it also seems to depend a lot on the architecture of the CPU, which is not something I expected until they show off the Surface RT's ARM needing only passive cooling, while the Intel Ivy bridge in the Surface Pro needs a fan :p
@Bob still, production model "mass consumption" smartphones from Samsung, Motorola, etc. are designed so that they won't make the battery explode at least even if the CPU and GPU are pegged to all hell, otherwise they'd be liable for lawsuits etc, and you can't have a device that's a glass cannon that dies when you actually use it
so, while yes a heavy workload makes the phone get hot, it can only get hot up to a certain point, and they've probably clocked the chips so that it doesn't reach that point, or in case it does (thanks to a hot environment outside or something) it will throttle down
@Bob except that there is a much more effective (in my perception) heat removal capability on even average laptop or desktop-scale Intel CPUs than on smartphones, yet smartphones actually look rather okay in benchmarks against those much larger parts... are they an order of magnitude slower? sure... but they don't have a fan and an enormous heatsink either
what impresses me isn't their raw performance, because my 3770K is the very embodiment of raw performance (pretty much; though there are plenty of CPUs out there now that are faster) but their heat output vs. performance ratio
@allquixotic Most laptops don't have an enormous heatsink either (and ULVs even less -some are so thin I don't think a heatsink would fit), and on a passive cooling policy you end up with the fan disabled too.
of course, the ULVs are also designed to be more powerful
when I set my Surface Pro's ULV to passive cooling, performance is pretty unacceptable, though... if I try to use it for anything other than reading a webpage or PDF, either the software slows down or the fan comes on, or I have to do some kind of external cooling (which I've never tried, but putting it on a cold surface would help)
I have a bit of a problem. I bought an older Lenovo t420s and fiddled with Linux for few days. But the days I had enough of time to play with it are definitely over so I decided to Install Windows back. With this in mind, I said to myself: "so I can try rm -rf at least with no feeling of guilty"....
i've heard of weird things like, in Star Trek Online, back in 2011 when it launched and it was super inefficient and ran your GPU as hard as it could, someone was playing on max. detail with a poorly cooled Alienware laptop, and his EXACT (honest to god) problem report was, "the Klingon ship fired a photon torpedo at me, blew up my ship, and as soon as that happened my computer blue screened, and I haven't been able to get it to POST ever since!"
@allquixotic I thought otherwise. Active is when cooler spins all the time regardless of CPU temp and passive is when cooler spins selectively depending on CPU temp.
@Bob the laws of physics seem to be pushing more and more against the attempts for fabrication advances as time goes on -- in other words, the Moore's Law increases in compute capability that are due to process shrinks are decreasing in velocity
meaning, I think we'll eventually see 10nm ASICs in typical office PCs, but it may not be by 2020 like Intel wants
too many problems with thermal profile, voltage leakage, etc
the event that really made me realize just how incredible our compute miniaturization is for all aspects of society...
in the mid-2000s as an intern at some big company I went on a tour of NASA Goddard Spaceflight Facility
they were showing us a command center that's now relegated to backup use
and as an aside, they showed us this enormous room, about 3/4 the size of a typical Walmart interior, with hundreds of washing machine sized units installed into the floor
the tour guide turned on the lights and let us look at them but not get close
they told us that these are old hard drives from the 60s and their storage capacity, TOTAL, all of them together...
was 400 Megabytes
at the time, 1 GB USB thumb drives were the state of the art; the tour guide had one as a prop and said "now we can store more than 2,000 times that amount of data on one of these"
and today I look at a 1 GB thumb drive the same way that I looked at those "hard" drives in ~2004
@Bob IIRC, the electrical parameters of SDHC and SDXC are the same, so you should be able to do firmware/software updates to get to SDXC compatibility... if the manufacturer provides it
but everything I own and actively use these days is SDXC compatible anyway
"MUI is a feature that is available only on the Professional edition of Windows XP."
"Multilingual User Interface Resource Files are only sold as a bundle with the English version of Windows to make absolutely sure customers have the English version of the OS when installing MUI."
"You can upgrade to MUI from the English versions of the following platforms. Upgrades can only be performed from the English versions of these systems. In order to install MUI on a non-English system, it will be necessary to do a clean install."
My friend bought a laptop in Paris. The current language (in Windows XP) is set to French - I want everything to show up in English.
I am now only able to show or change the regional settings, which just controls changing the keyboard from French to English. I need to change the rest of the inte...
@Boris_yo You asked about the Lumia 520's camera before.
> The Lumia Amber update improves the camera capabilities across the Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 range with better low-light photos, improved auto focus, enhanced noise filter and more. You will get even better shots.
@terdon You think it can be possible to create dynamic meme with renewing output every time there's new warmongering going on? Totally automate it?
Hmmm hate it when somebody tells "Darling" to person they don't know/see first time. How dare they? Tell "Darling" to your family member, to your girl/boy friend but not to someone you don't give a shit about! Hypocrites!
In old times saying so could get your face slapped or into lethal duel.
If you don't use the wizard the first time after a clean install of XP all your network discovery, network shares, i.e. document sharing folder, printer sharing, etc. will be off. Everything is just completely blank.
The wizard adjusts every security policy for you in this regard, so you can easily see find your XP machines on your Windows Vista/7/8 machines without having to dig into regedit, gpedit, firewall settings, and what not.
I looked at ways to enable everything manually and it's a lot more complicated.
For example, the so called "discovery" part of things can be enabled in XP by right-clicking on a folder or file and then the Share tab. There you will see options for enabling file sharing, and for making folders private. There will be some prompts and a link to the Network Setup Wizard.
But that alone is not enough to start sharing files, if you are not using the Network Setup Wizard you will have to dig deeper into the system. Otherwise your newly discovered XP machine will have no shares, not even the standard shares like printer and shared documents folder.
So Network Setup Wizard is the way to go.
I just thought I would share this if anyone is interested. And yes, I know XP is a grandpa amongst Windows teenagers like Windows 8. But you gotta respect the elders you know! ;)
If anything, this can be useful for VM setups with XP.
In case you're interested in accessing the standard administrative shares in XP, then you probably want to know that you need to disable simple file sharing.
In some cases, you would additionally also need to right-click the disk partition you want to access, e.g. the C: system disk, and under the Share tab on Properties dialog box explicitly specify c$.
@Bob I stopped doing IT support / maintenance one year and half ago. You'd be amazed at how much used XP still is. Win 7 was starting to overcome XP in usage, but the number of XP install wasn't small.
When video is uploaded to YouTube, it gives you options to play it in lower definition formats. Does that mean that YouTube takes uploaded video and converts it to appropriate format in every low resolution available?
@Boris_yo I only ever did phone IT support once in my life, for 3 months, in 2007, when I was really desperat for money. More accurately, outsorced phonecall center for ISP. It was hell. Clients were dumb, coworkers were dumb, bosses were dumb, schedule was insane and constantly changing... Would have to type pages just to start describing hell. I could write a bad movie based on it.
Holy cow I did it, i reached 8.0 in the windows 7 experience index, The screen flashed once, and GAME OVER shows up, and the credits started to rollup. when i stopped the credits , It says Windows8 "do you want to play again?"
This problem was solved 80 years ago. (See here for XKCD-author Randall's explanation).
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On Windows-7 you have the ability set the System cooling policy to passive. What does this actually do?
