Create a QPU-card to put in an expansionport. Not only does it enable quantum operations, but it also sounds cool.;) (At least, most hardware-companies seem to think Z X and Q are cool letters.)
Seriously though, that concept seem to work for Mac and Amiga. They've both got PPC processor expansions though they originally used MC680x0.
Also, that should be the way to go, since most people will demand x86 compatability in the beginning to run their Wintel/Lintel platforms until Windows and Linux have been ported.
By the way: Shouldn't quantum processors be exceptionally fast? Or is that only in certain computations? Maybe quantum processing will be implemented as an extension of the FPU inside a normal CPU.
Larger HD's lead to faster speeds too. If you double the density of data on the disc, you automaticaly double the amount of data that travels under the head in a single revolution. That leads to a doubled transferrate without increasing the speed of the disc. You can't simply increase disc-speed, since that leads to higher temperature, shorter life and higher noise.
In a server, the temperature and noise isn't critical, since you usually got effective cooling and a soundproofed serverroom. But in most cases, it is smarter to use a real RAID system for speed. That way you'll also get redundancy when your disks break.
Actually, there are 64 bit 66MHz pci-busses in use already in high-end computers.
In theory that's 4x the speed of a "PC" pci bus, but since the overhead increases with higher speeds you may get 3 - 3,5 x.
Now, why doesn't Intel or some other chipset-company implement *this* in standard "PC" hardware? =)
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I'd like to see you render a scene with, say, 500 000+ polygons on a TNT2. =) You'll sink your puny little pentium since the card does absolutly *nothing* to help you. To get 85 fps with a low poly-count, all you is a high pixel fillrate and a texturemapper. High end card aren't made for gameing, so they put lots and lots of computational power into them instead of giving them a totally pointless high fillrate.
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Don't forget synth applications! Most modern "analog modeling" synths use one or more DSP's as their sound-engines. Clavia Modular series, Yamaha An1x, Virus, etc, etc.
But that only deal with Einstein's theories about time/space vs. speed. The prediction of gravitywaves has, as stated in an earlier post, been proven by measuring the energyloss caused by gravitywave radiation in binary star systems. But noone has yet detected *an actual gravitywave*! Only by second hand observation. And, of course, a new kind of instrument to look into space with is never wrong. Look at what the telescope, then the radio-telescope and later x-ray/gamma ray/infra-wave detectors have meant for astronomy and our understanding of the univers! The introduction of gravitywave observatories will most probably lead to so far unknown discoveries.
They use laser-interferometers. To build one of those you need *two* laserbeams with exactly the same length and at exactly 90 degrees from eachother to form an L shape. Actually, it's one beam that's reflected down two tubes...
What you do is that you messure the difference in lenght that occurs when a gravitywave passes. The wave will make the space "compress" in the direction it is travelling.
Using three probes, one for every point in the L , it would be very hard to position them and keep them in place with enough accuracy.
You could, of course, build two rigs in space which then could be a lot larger than the 4 kilometer ones they use for Ligo. (Longer = higher sensitivity)
You would still need two to filter out satelites and instrumental errors.
What I would want in a mp3-player: 1. User should be able to put any 2,5" HD in it as long as it isn't thicker than the original *without* loosing warranty.
2. High speed port, like ethernet/usb/firewire, for communicating with computers.
3. Possibility to access the HD from windows/linux/dos/whatever to use it as portable storage as well as a mp3 player.
4. Plug-in support for additional formats so that I could play my Amiga mod's and wavs and... and...
Please! No one cares if he should happen to misspell a word. (Except you, apparently.) Understand that not every soul on this planet can write perfect English. (Including a rather large part of the population with English as their native language.) Also, very few people go through every word of every letter they write with a dictionary. I doubt that every letter you've ever written are in perfect English either. Information does not become less valuable because one word is misspelled.
Actually, I do not understand exactly *what* law he is supposed to have broken!? I know reverseenginering is going to be outlawed i USA, but have never hear anything about it being illegal in Norway. And suing him for making a program that can decrypt/copy DVD's is as silly as suing microsoft for xcopy. (xcopy is a perfect tool for making copies of copyrighted software...)
Can someone enlighten me about what it's all about?
Then it would be possible to only pre-load support for the most common parts and load the rest on demand to make a small, fast and slim (small memory footprint) browser. And if the html-decoding parts were in a library, it would be a breeze to add html support for windowmanagers, desktopsystems and other apps without having to write it yourself!
If they use standard PC hardware (x86 cpu, agp gfx, etc) and windows ce, probably with directx, converting regular windows games and apps to it will probably be very easy...
It seems to me, however, that you would make a better deal by buying a standard PC, since that is expandable with more memory, faster cpu's and faster gfx when availible...:/
On the other hand, most gamers I know aren't very technical and generally only understand the very basics of PC-hardware, Windows and networking. For them a cheap "Gamer PC" with working plug 'n play networking and the OS in ROM would be attractive...
Why not make one of these with a browser, a word rocessor and the os preconfigured in ROM and with a few hundred MB flash for storing documents and user settings (like default homepage and printer) That would be perfect for people who have problems with handling technology. Computers today are too difficult for most people out there. I wouldn't buy one, but if you can't change the system, it won't stop working.
And since word processing and browsing requires very little resources, when not running the whole MS office and MS windows in the background, it could use cheap technology. Like a cyrix cpu, a cheap ati gfx chip and 8 - 32 MB ram.
My native language is not English, so please don't whine over linguistic errors. (That's lame anyway...)
And, of course, all your software are licenced, you have never taped a tv/radio transmission, never read a paper in the store, never parked without paying, never driven to fast, etc, etc.
As I see it, there could be great uses for this fly as long as the Evil Big Brother doesn't get to use them. (Fat chance for *that*)
The really dangerous part, though, comes when they construct a RoboBee with poison! (I believe I saw this on "Mission Impossible" or something.)
But since the army seem to want this fly, and other technology like it, there isn't much to do. National and international laws about weapons and spy tech are inneffective since most goverments unofficially ignore them, but it's the only way to restrict the usage once the technology is there.
On the other hand, a country with both massdestruction weapons and that is "immune" to attack may become arrogant and start making demands and threats to make other countries bend to it's will. And if some idiot was to become leader of this country, it would be *extreamly* dangerous. Sooner or later these ABM-weapons may find it's way to the black market and these less than stable countries will get their hands on them. What then? Think religious, triggerhappy, powerhungry, nuclear armed and ABM defended...:/
Well, lets see: Dragon - big, fast and lots of hot air coming out of it... Clockwork - Laptop with a large "Clockwork Orange" sticker on it. Anti - Well, it is a bit anti and sometimes stops without explanation or warning... Flashlight - Is turned on and off frequently. Alchemist - It turns light into pictures. =) (webcam) Demomania - Used mainly to watch demos.
Or everyone could end their letters with the words (terrorism, bomb, drugs, white house, president, usa) so that they get a hit on every single mail... =)
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That's like asking: "If a weapon is used in an illegal activity, who is responsible? The company who made the weapon or the person who broke the law?"
Of course, if you make a program that can be used illegaly and *encourage* people to use it illegaly, it's another thing.
Create a QPU-card to put in an expansionport. ;)
Not only does it enable quantum operations, but it also sounds cool.
(At least, most hardware-companies seem to think Z X and Q are cool letters.)
Seriously though, that concept seem to work for Mac and Amiga.
They've both got PPC processor expansions though they originally used MC680x0.
Also, that should be the way to go, since most people will demand x86 compatability in the beginning to run their Wintel/Lintel platforms until Windows and Linux have been ported.
By the way: Shouldn't quantum processors be exceptionally fast?
Or is that only in certain computations?
Maybe quantum processing will be implemented as an extension of the FPU inside a normal CPU.
Larger HD's lead to faster speeds too.
If you double the density of data on the disc, you automaticaly double the amount of data that travels under the head in a single revolution.
That leads to a doubled transferrate without increasing the speed of the disc.
You can't simply increase disc-speed, since that leads to higher temperature, shorter life and higher noise.
In a server, the temperature and noise isn't critical, since you usually got effective cooling and a soundproofed serverroom.
But in most cases, it is smarter to use a real RAID system for speed.
That way you'll also get redundancy when your disks break.
The only reason that PCI was clocked at /2 FSB was that it used to be 66MHz and most entrylevel hardware are made for the 32bit 33MHz PCI standard.
Since that still is the case the PCI bus is still clocked at 33 MHz if you run 66, 100 or 133 MHz FBS.
If you run at non stadard speeds, like 75, 83, 112, etc, you *overclock* the PCI bus and not all PCI cards can handle that...
Actually, there are 64 bit 66MHz pci-busses in use already in high-end computers.
In theory that's 4x the speed of a "PC" pci bus, but since the overhead increases with higher speeds you may get 3 - 3,5 x.
Now, why doesn't Intel or some other chipset-company implement *this* in standard "PC" hardware? =)
I'd like to see you render a scene with, say, 500 000+ polygons on a TNT2. =)
You'll sink your puny little pentium since the card does absolutly *nothing* to help you. To get 85 fps with a low poly-count, all you is a high pixel fillrate and a texturemapper.
High end card aren't made for gameing, so they put lots and lots of computational power into them instead of giving them a totally pointless high fillrate.
Don't forget synth applications!
Most modern "analog modeling" synths use one or more DSP's as their sound-engines.
Clavia Modular series, Yamaha An1x, Virus, etc, etc.
Funny, I though the only "fullscreen only" chips around in the home-user arena were 3dfx...
How come it won't do 3d in a window?
My Permedia2 can, but only up to 1024x768x16bit.
Have you tried to lower the resolution?
But that only deal with Einstein's theories about time/space vs. speed.
The prediction of gravitywaves has, as stated in an earlier post, been proven by measuring the energyloss caused by gravitywave radiation in binary star systems.
But noone has yet detected *an actual gravitywave*!
Only by second hand observation.
And, of course, a new kind of instrument to look into space with is never wrong.
Look at what the telescope, then the radio-telescope and later x-ray/gamma ray/infra-wave detectors have meant for astronomy and our understanding of the univers!
The introduction of gravitywave observatories will most probably lead to so far unknown discoveries.
It's a nice idea but with one little flaw.
They use laser-interferometers. To build one of those you need *two* laserbeams with exactly the same length and at exactly 90 degrees from eachother to form an L shape.
Actually, it's one beam that's reflected down two tubes...
What you do is that you messure the difference in lenght that occurs when a gravitywave passes.
The wave will make the space "compress" in the direction it is travelling.
Using three probes, one for every point in the L , it would be very hard to position them and keep them in place with enough accuracy.
You could, of course, build two rigs in space which then could be a lot larger than the 4 kilometer ones they use for Ligo.
(Longer = higher sensitivity)
You would still need two to filter out satelites and instrumental errors.
What I would want in a mp3-player: 1. User should be able to put any 2,5" HD in it as long as it isn't thicker than the original *without* loosing warranty.
2. High speed port, like ethernet/usb/firewire, for communicating with computers.
3. Possibility to access the HD from windows/linux/dos/whatever to use it as portable storage as well as a mp3 player.
4. Plug-in support for additional formats so that I could play my Amiga mod's and wavs and... and...
Maybe the chipset needed to run it will be called Friday. ;)
Or they may be implementing "advanced Friday cache architecture". =)
Wolf shouldn't be impossible to run with software OGL.
Please! No one cares if he should happen to misspell a word. (Except you, apparently.)
Understand that not every soul on this planet can write perfect English. (Including a rather large part of the population with English as their native language.)
Also, very few people go through every word of every letter they write with a dictionary.
I doubt that every letter you've ever written are in perfect English either.
Information does not become less valuable because one word is misspelled.
Actually, I do not understand exactly *what* law he is supposed to have broken!?
I know reverseenginering is going to be outlawed i USA, but have never hear anything about it being illegal in Norway.
And suing him for making a program that can decrypt/copy DVD's is as silly as suing microsoft for xcopy.
(xcopy is a perfect tool for making copies of copyrighted software...)
Can someone enlighten me about what it's all about?
Then it would be possible to only pre-load support for the most common parts and load the rest on
demand to make a small, fast and slim (small memory footprint) browser.
And if the html-decoding parts were in a library, it would be a breeze to add html support for
windowmanagers, desktopsystems and other apps without having to write it yourself!
If they use standard PC hardware (x86 cpu, agp gfx, etc) and windows ce, probably with directx,
:/
converting regular windows games and apps to it will probably be very easy...
It seems to me, however, that you would make a better deal by buying a standard PC, since that is
expandable with more memory, faster cpu's and faster gfx when availible...
On the other hand, most gamers I know aren't very technical and generally only understand the very
basics of PC-hardware, Windows and networking.
For them a cheap "Gamer PC" with working plug 'n play networking and the OS in ROM would be
attractive...
Why not make one of these with a browser, a word rocessor and the os preconfigured in ROM and
with a few hundred MB flash for storing documents and user settings (like default homepage and printer)
That would be perfect for people who have problems with handling technology.
Computers today are too difficult for most people out there.
I wouldn't buy one, but if you can't change the system, it won't stop working.
And since word processing and browsing requires very little resources, when not running the whole
MS office and MS windows in the background, it could use cheap technology.
Like a cyrix cpu, a cheap ati gfx chip and 8 - 32 MB ram.
My native language is not English, so please don't whine over linguistic errors. (That's lame anyway...)
I don't understand.
Is it illegal to export encrypted data from the US?
I thought it only touched algorithms and encryption software.
Otherwise everyone in the US who's communicating with someone outside the US with a non-US encryption or the scanned PGP are breaking the law!
Otherwise there's no problem since very few dvd-players are manufactured in USA.
Most of them come from asia...
Well... I'm glad that I'm a "potential terrorist" and not a US citizen. =)
But not all the companies who make DVD players are american.
As a fact, very few.
So this wouldn't have been much of a problem...
And, of course, all your software are licenced, you have never taped a tv/radio transmission,
never read a paper in the store, never parked without paying, never driven to fast, etc, etc.
All illegal and immoral...
As I see it, there could be great uses for this fly as long as the Evil Big Brother doesn't get to use them. (Fat chance for *that*)
The really dangerous part, though, comes when they construct a RoboBee with poison!
(I believe I saw this on "Mission Impossible" or something.)
But since the army seem to want this fly, and other technology like it, there isn't much to do.
National and international laws about weapons and spy tech are inneffective since most goverments unofficially ignore them, but it's the only way to restrict the usage once the technology is there.
On the other hand, a country with both massdestruction weapons and that is "immune" to attack may become arrogant and start making demands and threats to make other countries bend to it's will. And if some idiot was to become leader of this country, it would be *extreamly* dangerous. Sooner or later these ABM-weapons may find it's way to the black market and these less than stable countries will get their hands on them. What then? Think religious, triggerhappy, powerhungry, nuclear armed and ABM defended... :/
Well, lets see:
Dragon - big, fast and lots of hot air coming out of it...
Clockwork - Laptop with a large "Clockwork Orange" sticker on it.
Anti - Well, it is a bit anti and sometimes stops without explanation or warning...
Flashlight - Is turned on and off frequently.
Alchemist - It turns light into pictures. =) (webcam)
Demomania - Used mainly to watch demos.
Well... It works for me...
Or everyone could end their letters with the words (terrorism, bomb, drugs, white house, president, usa) so that they get a hit on every single mail... =)