Cyrix, Transmeta, IDT Winchip (http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/WinchipC6/ or ) , rise mP6 (http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/MP6/)... all had licenses for x86
As far as I know Cyrix was bought by national semiconductor, Via bought IDT Winchip (Centaur Technology) Via C3 and C7 are based on this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_Technology)...
As far as I know Via started its own socket formats when it couldn't secure license to use the sockets after Socket370, this was the last socket Intel gave them license to use.
Transmeta was also bought by someone but I forget who...
Anyway, the fact is Intel is very very reluctant to give licenses for anything related to x86 like buses, sockets and so on. It acts like a monopoly which in my opinion shouldn't be allowed.
Each person gets a ticket with a barcode in it, and each device (keyboard, mouse, monitor and so on) gets a sticker with the barcode. Sticker can be on the mouse/keyboard cable for example.
Place 1-2 guys at the door with barcode readers checking everything that exists the building.
I have cable 20/2 Internet connection, and I'm in Romania (a small country in Europe with neighbors Hungary and Bulgaria for people with less knowledge of geography).
Inside the country, I can max the connection anytime, full 20mbps. Outside the country, the speeds are on average 13-14mbps.
This is the result of heavy competition between two ISP that bought almost all the small ISP companies in the country.
Also, no bandwidth caps and it costs about 20 dollars. Bundled with cable TV (576p, about 55 channels) the total cost is 40$.
For an additional 10$ a month, the company can give me a set top box that takes digital tv out of the same cable (still 576p but digital up to the set top box so crystal clear. HD is still in testing in the country).
About two years ago, for the same price I would have received 2mbps download, 256kbps upload.
So what I'm trying to say is that it's quite possible to saturate your connection, if I can for example by downloading two linux iso's from two different servers in my country.
It's your provider that doesn't invest enough to have the backbone capable of handling the speeds.
I don't have much experience with ATI chipsets but what I can say about nvidia's chipsets is that they're usually HOT and consume a lot of power.
I have an Asus mainboard with an Nforce2 chipset, it was great, with a great onboard soundcard (Soundstorm). Now, nVidia won't use a good soundcard anymore, to make their chips cheaper.
Now, I have an Asus mainboard with the Nforce4-SLI chipset... you can make eggs on it, that's how hot it is (see the P5ND2-SLI motherboard on google if you want). It's good, it's stable otherwise but nothing special.
Speaking about video cards...
Two or three years ago I had a Gigabyte Radeon 9200. Gave it to my brother and bought an Asus nVidia 6600. Now, I bought a Sapphire Radeon 4850.
What I can say is... maybe you don't realize it, because you have a LCD monitor, but me, with a 21" CRT monitor running at 1280x960, 100Hz... can definitely notice the improved 2D quality of the Radeon cards, compared to nVidia. On nVidia cards the image is very slightly blurry.
ATI video cards are great, so are nVIDIA. On 2D ATI wins for sure, on 3D I don't know what to say.
The only thing I notice on 3D is that when a very new game is just released, some games have issues with ATI cards, which are (even when I had the Radeon 9200 was the same) solved in a week or so with the next video driver. Other than this minor inconvenience, I never really had problems with either ATI or nVidia.
No, this is actually like buying the newspaper and then leaving it on a bench in the park, for (potential) people to read.
You don't get sued if you leave the newspaper now, do you?
Not all people that see the newspaper will read it (download but never play or not download at all).
One person may actually take the newspaper and throw it in the trash (download and delete right away).
Other person may take it from the bench simply because he spilled coffee on his copy and he wants a better newspaper (download for backup or improvement over original copy).
Also, just because the song is available for others to download, it doesn't mean the owner intended to have other steal it (in some cases).
Virtualdub is free, open source and is quite capable of running with several processors.
As for encoding, I'm not yet interested in x264 because of the weak processor (only a D805 dual core ) but I am using the XVID experimental build from Koepi.info (http://www.koepi.info) which has SMP support.
It maxes out my two cores and you can specify in the configuration how many threads it should use.
As for decoding, I'm Media Player Classic Home Cinema which has a DXVA codec built in (hardware decoding). On 1080p videos that the video card can decode hardware (ATI 4850), the CPU usage is about 10-12%. If it's not possible to decode hardware, the decoding is passed to CoreAVC which uses about 45% of CPU (and yes, it's smp enabled).
I think it's over 5 years since my parents and myself use only CFL and none broke. What are you doing, jumping on beds and hitting the lights with your head?
From about 20 lamps I bought, about 4 wouldn't start after being turned off, none broke. From those 4, I was able to resurrect two by doing some soldering inside them (cheap capacitors and coils inside on some 3-4 years old models)
Seriously, the mercury inside a CFL lamp is anyway probably less than the mercury contained in 5-6 cans on tuna fish so stop with the stupidity.
Or simply play another video, pause it, minimize the window and then play the video you want in a second video player (this one can't use overlay because the minimized one uses overlay, so you'll be able to print the image).
In Romania: 7 cents or 5 eurocents for a SMS.... 15 cents to give a one minute call, the other doesn't pay anything to receive calls (and it seems very normal this way).
Or you can get a 8euro (~12$)/ month plan with 100-200 minutes on the same network free and nights/weekends cheap calls.
Note that he uses Vista and he says his computer doesn't need more watts when playing games compared to normal usage. Maybe this is because Vista's 3D interface already taxes the video card and forces it to draw a lot of power?
I wasn't talking about the gains of a for-profit company like Mozilla but about donating to some non profit that helps homeless people or children with problems or something like that.
9 million people can get together and so some useless thing like this but can't get together to do something that may improve the life of thousands of people for the better.
The complexity of the questions seems to vary with each test, one the first one I got 85.2 and on the second I got 105.8 but the second one was really easy. Also, it seems to favor speedy replies which doesn't mean a thing, anyone can switch tabs and do a quick search on google anyway for some questions and cheat, or maybe disable javascript.
SFV is not related to BitTorrent, it was used a extensively with DC++, which had no means to verify file integrity. I believe BitTorrent uses SHA1 hashes of chunks from the files, these hashes are stored in the.torrent file.
The multi RAR thing used by scene releases is done because it (theoretically) reduces the number of duplicate CRC32's and reduces the number of errors causes by transfer. It's much easier to re-download one 50.000.000 bytes file rather than downloading a 4 GB iso again.
You can't always rely on RAR's error recovery to repair something, there are lots of cases when it doesn't work, because the recovery information is usually about 2-4% of the archive, so in lots of cases the error may not be recoverable.
Summing it all up, the torrent hashes combined with the RAR's checksums are better than none.
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Great, they would be in the battlefield in 3 years.
Now if only these bright minds could find a solution to not having wars in the first place.
It just pisses me off when so many are excited they find better ways to kill other people.. i guess it's in human nature to do it.
Cyrix, Transmeta, IDT Winchip (http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/WinchipC6/ or ) , rise mP6 (http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/MP6/) ... all had licenses for x86
As far as I know Cyrix was bought by national semiconductor, Via bought IDT Winchip (Centaur Technology) Via C3 and C7 are based on this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_Technology)...
As far as I know Via started its own socket formats when it couldn't secure license to use the sockets after Socket370, this was the last socket Intel gave them license to use.
Transmeta was also bought by someone but I forget who...
Anyway, the fact is Intel is very very reluctant to give licenses for anything related to x86 like buses, sockets and so on. It acts like a monopoly which in my opinion shouldn't be allowed.
Each person gets a ticket with a barcode in it, and each device (keyboard, mouse, monitor and so on) gets a sticker with the barcode. Sticker can be on the mouse/keyboard cable for example.
Place 1-2 guys at the door with barcode readers checking everything that exists the building.
I have cable 20/2 Internet connection, and I'm in Romania (a small country in Europe with neighbors Hungary and Bulgaria for people with less knowledge of geography).
Inside the country, I can max the connection anytime, full 20mbps. Outside the country, the speeds are on average 13-14mbps.
This is the result of heavy competition between two ISP that bought almost all the small ISP companies in the country.
Also, no bandwidth caps and it costs about 20 dollars. Bundled with cable TV (576p, about 55 channels) the total cost is 40$.
For an additional 10$ a month, the company can give me a set top box that takes digital tv out of the same cable (still 576p but digital up to the set top box so crystal clear. HD is still in testing in the country).
About two years ago, for the same price I would have received 2mbps download, 256kbps upload.
So what I'm trying to say is that it's quite possible to saturate your connection, if I can for example by downloading two linux iso's from two different servers in my country.
It's your provider that doesn't invest enough to have the backbone capable of handling the speeds.
Here's the video in mp4 format, for those who won't enable the Flash plugin for a few minutes:
ftp://definethis.org/video.mp4
It's 57.3 MB (60,102,443 bytes), straight from Google's servers.
For those complaining about dial up, here's only the sound:
ftp://definethis.org/sound.mp3 (22050, mono, 3.82 MB (4,016,064 bytes))
Links are ftp to allow for bandwidth limit in case download goes overboard.
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Here's the actual cartoon on his blog:
http://seantevis.com/kansas/3000/running-for-office-xkcd-style/
I don't have much experience with ATI chipsets but what I can say about nvidia's chipsets is that they're usually HOT and consume a lot of power.
I have an Asus mainboard with an Nforce2 chipset, it was great, with a great onboard soundcard (Soundstorm). Now, nVidia won't use a good soundcard anymore, to make their chips cheaper.
Now, I have an Asus mainboard with the Nforce4-SLI chipset... you can make eggs on it, that's how hot it is (see the P5ND2-SLI motherboard on google if you want). It's good, it's stable otherwise but nothing special.
Speaking about video cards...
Two or three years ago I had a Gigabyte Radeon 9200.
Gave it to my brother and bought an Asus nVidia 6600.
Now, I bought a Sapphire Radeon 4850.
What I can say is... maybe you don't realize it, because you have a LCD monitor, but me, with a 21" CRT monitor running at 1280x960, 100Hz... can definitely notice the improved 2D quality of the Radeon cards, compared to nVidia.
On nVidia cards the image is very slightly blurry.
ATI video cards are great, so are nVIDIA. On 2D ATI wins for sure, on 3D I don't know what to say.
The only thing I notice on 3D is that when a very new game is just released, some games have issues with ATI cards, which are (even when I had the Radeon 9200 was the same) solved in a week or so with the next video driver. Other than this minor inconvenience, I never really had problems with either ATI or nVidia.
No, this is actually like buying the newspaper and then leaving it on a bench in the park, for (potential) people to read.
You don't get sued if you leave the newspaper now, do you?
Not all people that see the newspaper will read it (download but never play or not download at all).
One person may actually take the newspaper and throw it in the trash (download and delete right away).
Other person may take it from the bench simply because he spilled coffee on his copy and he wants a better newspaper (download for backup or improvement over original copy).
Also, just because the song is available for others to download, it doesn't mean the owner intended to have other steal it (in some cases).
Virtualdub is free, open source and is quite capable of running with several processors.
As for encoding, I'm not yet interested in x264 because of the weak processor (only a D805 dual core ) but I am using the XVID experimental build from Koepi.info (http://www.koepi.info) which has SMP support.
It maxes out my two cores and you can specify in the configuration how many threads it should use.
As for decoding, I'm Media Player Classic Home Cinema which has a DXVA codec built in (hardware decoding).
On 1080p videos that the video card can decode hardware (ATI 4850), the CPU usage is about 10-12%. If it's not possible to decode hardware, the decoding is passed to CoreAVC which uses about 45% of CPU (and yes, it's smp enabled).
My father worked at a chemistry research lab and they had a small computer room with 4 486 computer (it was 10 years ago).
I went there with my father wanting to play Mario but one of the people there started Pascal and showed me how to draw lines and circles in it.
So I started drawing houses and trees and I got hooked.
And how freaking often do you break a CFL ?
I think it's over 5 years since my parents and myself use only CFL and none broke. What are you doing, jumping on beds and hitting the lights with your head?
From about 20 lamps I bought, about 4 wouldn't start after being turned off, none broke. From those 4, I was able to resurrect two by doing some soldering inside them (cheap capacitors and coils inside on some 3-4 years old models)
Seriously, the mercury inside a CFL lamp is anyway probably less than the mercury contained in 5-6 cans on tuna fish so stop with the stupidity.
It would have been worthy of saying "No PC required" if it had a Via EPIA mini-ITX board and Linux on a CF card inside, or something like that.
This way, the whole post is just a poor advertisement.
Or simply play another video, pause it, minimize the window and then play the video you want in a second video player (this one can't use overlay because the minimized one uses overlay, so you'll be able to print the image).
When I was a kid I loved reading Jules Verne, read most of his books I had at home twice.
Even better, some are freely available on the Internet (project Gutenberg for example) so you could just print them for free.
Here you go: http://definethis.org/temp/article/laugh.html
In Romania: 7 cents or 5 eurocents for a SMS.... 15 cents to give a one minute call, the other doesn't pay anything to receive calls (and it seems very normal this way).
Or you can get a 8euro (~12$)/ month plan with 100-200 minutes on the same network free and nights/weekends cheap calls.
Note that he uses Vista and he says his computer doesn't need more watts when playing games compared to normal usage.
Maybe this is because Vista's 3D interface already taxes the video card and forces it to draw a lot of power?
I wasn't talking about the gains of a for-profit company like Mozilla but about donating to some non profit that helps homeless people or children with problems or something like that.
9 million people can get together and so some useless thing like this but can't get together to do something that may improve the life of thousands of people for the better.
... a bit off topic but here it goes...
Total Downloads 9,525,757 as I write this...
Imagine if every person donated 10-25$ cents, or a dollar for every US person... how much good could this kind of cash do.
People can get together to do great things but just can't seem to find a worthwhile idea sometimes.
Here's a coral cache link for the 1st site:
Click me
The last one won't work at all
They'll probably count how many times the home page that shows when Firefox starts for the first time is loaded.
$ uptime
08:44:17 up 6 days, 23:21, 5 users, load average: 4.74, 4.86, 6.09
I've recently decided not to continue using Dreamhost for 5 small sites I have, it's just not worth it.
I've recently bought a domain and created a small site using Gallery2 for my sister, to upload some photos she took on her holiday.
When I tried to move ten pictures to an album, the script crashed, it failed to move all ten selected files due to the server load.
I mean come on, when 70% of the time the servers are so overloaded that simple operations are not possible....
Yes, you pay 12$ for a month, but for the same price there are companies that don't overload the servers so much.
I'm not sure if this is really a good IQ test.
The complexity of the questions seems to vary with each test, one the first one I got 85.2 and on the second I got 105.8 but the second one was really easy.
Also, it seems to favor speedy replies which doesn't mean a thing, anyone can switch tabs and do a quick search on google anyway for some questions and cheat, or maybe disable javascript.
SFV is not related to BitTorrent, it was used a extensively with DC++, which had no means to verify file integrity. .torrent file.
I believe BitTorrent uses SHA1 hashes of chunks from the files, these hashes are stored in the
The multi RAR thing used by scene releases is done because it (theoretically) reduces the number of duplicate CRC32's and reduces the number of errors causes by transfer. It's much easier to re-download one 50.000.000 bytes file rather than downloading a 4 GB iso again.
You can't always rely on RAR's error recovery to repair something, there are lots of cases when it doesn't work, because the recovery information is usually about 2-4% of the archive, so in lots of cases the error may not be recoverable.
Summing it all up, the torrent hashes combined with the RAR's checksums are better than none.