Someone needs to check out the frames regardless of how super-accurate everything else in the system is.
This is largely moot, as most boards will require registered DDR in order to use pile of memory, and therefore it'd be foolish to not go ahead and include ECC at the same time.:)
It's essentially a buffer that boosts the clock signal so that the edges of the clock appear more sharply defined to the memory (the clock gets weak when it's directly driving a bunch of memory modules). The buffer tries to isolate the motherboard chipset from the pile of chips on a large DIMM, which is why lots of motherboards require registered DIMMs in order to use lots of memory. That buffer also delays data transfer by one clock cycle.
Yeah, but if you go with non-ECC RAM, then the performance increase could allow you to re-render the frame or two that was damaged due to something wrong with the RAM.:) ECC is a performance penalty, and a memory error is not likely to cause anything noticable in an animation.
However, if data integrety is *the* most important factor, the DIMMs should be ECC *and* should be registered. As long as the memory's buffered, may as well take full advantage of the buffering delay, eh?
While I'm on the subject, don't netboot the things - local storage is faster than remote, unless you manage to get the whole render machine into physical RAM - but then you're potentially "wasting" RAM.
Man, I sure hope that Apple and Microsoft don't quadruple the $0 license fee for a decoder that they don't own rights to anyway. I hope they don't quadruple the licenes fee for lame, either, cause 4 times $0 will be *way* more than people would normally be willing to pay.
Now the Fraunhofer people, I'd worry a little bit about. However, given that the compression scheme has been pretty widley disseminated with no attempt to collect license fees since their initial little fiasco, that's not much of a worry, either.
There are lots of "really free" schemas available, but it's stupid to put them into hardware when no one uses them. That's partially how Microsoft software gets so buggy - lots extra features no one really wants.
They're doing further research into the names of various Terminator models sent back though time to destroy earth first, so as to avoid causing a mass panic. They had to release that model name right away, though, in order to claim it as a trademark.:)
Eh? What are you transmitting to the ass-spread guy at the same time as you look at him? I'm pretty sure that he's just as grotesque when you're just the "receiver".;)
So basically, triangulation is the only accurate method so far, though it's possible to get something to work with fewer antennae under more ideal scenarios.:)
This is why Netmeeting and other H.323 solutions should be thrown on the trash heap.
This is why NAT should be thrown on the trash heap.
No, this is why your ISP who *still* doesn't suport IPv6 should be thrown on the trash heap. There are just not enough IP addresses available for everyone to put all of their network-ready machines on the internet. More addresses would help, or a stopgap like NAT would help. Guess which one has become the standard solution, and must be worked around? That's the same reason that a workd processor app won't get widely used unless it can read MS word files - it's a crap format and a bad solution, but "everyone" uses it, so "everything" has to work with it to be accepted.
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A radiator is somewhat self-documenting. Anyone qualified to work on a car can look at it and tell which bolts need to come out, which hoses should be removed, and how to do those tasks. The mechanic in question can do that because the basic organization is roughly standardized, using a few common tools and fasteners to perform several different tasks. Similarly, the use of a standard set of tools in a config file (like XML's structure rules) would allow for simpler discovery of data.
I can walk up to most any car and identify common parts, perform maintenence, etc. Similarly for computers based on a system I'm familiar with. Some of the/etc files aren't in a common format, though, and I do think it'd be helpful if they were forced to self-document at least a little. XML would do that. As a programmer, I know darned well that documentation doesn't usually happen unles it's forced.:)
How would the phase angle alone work to measure distance unless you were known to be N wavelengths away? Similarly, the time differential would only give the relative position - whether the device was getting closer or farther away. Both of those would only be useful if the initial position was known, which makes them pretty useless without some kind of triangulation.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, of course...
For instance I think the kitchen and stove needs an exclusive circuit or something. The bathroom also needs special outlets.
You're thinking about the requirement for GFCI outlets, probably. Most areas require that new instalations of outlets within some distance of a water source (usually about the length of the typical appliance cord) be GFCI-protected. Kitchens have sinks, and bathrooms have sinks 'n tubs, both of which have water in them regularly.
You're probably right, though, that some geeks *don't* have an understanding of home wiring. The person causing sparks to fly when he was messing with a light switch, for example, clearly isn't aware that power should be turned off *before* working on a switch - not *by* working on the switch.;)
especially since Sprint never told me my account's password
It's the last 4 digits of your SS#. Consider calling their support line - *2, which is a free call. Regarding failure to ring if the phone's in your pocket - that's likely a result of poor coverage, or you have a shitty phone. Verizon is the devil, please don't give them extra money. Pick any of the other cell providers - Cingular, AT&T, T-Mobile, Nextel, etc. Cingular's even got the cool thing that makes regular phones ring, maybe then you could completely drop Verizon.:)
My ISP knows that I'm an ISP, why wouldn't his? Not everyone's a teenager on a cable modem - some of us actually check into these things *before* signing a contract...:)
If you change the GPL, then you can't call it the GPL anymore. There's nothing stopping you from changing it around some and making your own license, though, you just can't say that your software's GPL'd anymore. There's lots of free-ish licenses ou there, BTW.
logic plus politics is similar to matter plus antimatter. What you say makes sense, and therefore would therefore be impossible for a politician to actually think. Well, lower-level politicians sometimes have some logic, but the amount of logical thining one is capable of is inversely proportional to the amount of political power one can gain.
Funny, I hate going to crappy little stores in my small town, because going to WalMart gets my shopping done in one trip. Other people agree - that's why those small places went out of business. Those small business owners didn't provide what the public wanted, so they failed. WalMart did, so they succeed. Quit whining and build a better WalMart, and let me know when it's complete - I'll shop there instead. Don't tear down one of the largest employers in my town, though, 'cause their brown-and-serve rolls are better than the rolls at the grocer.:)
It shouldn't be that big fo a deal - as long as you're not transmitting and receiving at *precisely* the same time as the other computer, your data stream should arrive just fine. Remember how wireless is essentially a broadcast, and cards determine if they should receive the data or not based on the MAC? The machine the data's inteded for gets the data it asked for, and the other one gets it, but discards it because there's nothing to do with it. Try putting two machines on a hub as set the MACs to be the same - most of the time, the 2 connects will be fine. A wireless acess point works the same way as a hub.
Or, sit outside the WAP for a while and record which MACs get data (that couldn't be terribly difficult). Wait until one lies dormant for a moment, and switch to that one. Write script to automate changing your card's MAC. Profit.
While a whitelist does cause more maintenence headaches, it'd certainly stop popups.
However, I manage to make it through pretty much every day without seeing any popups orpornographics ads. I use firebird, not IE (trashing Internet Explorer is one great way to stop popups). I search on google for things, and click lots of links. Most of the pornographics popup ads come from pages that are distributing related unsavory material, and are not sites that most small children would legitimitely be at - if they're reasonably supervised.
Complete removal of the internet is just a short-sighted, lazy solution. Were home TVs in the household thrown out completely, or is it hooked up to a VCR with a whiltelist of tapes, or a channel blocker that allows only kids shows? Do the kids parents reject all snail mail, or is it looked at before a child has access? "bad" images come in many places, and a kid who's blocked completely from every possible source of adult/evil ideas will grow up to be a backwards, socially maladjusted freak, who'll probably be involved in most of those bad things if ever exposed.
Parenting is interactive, not passive, and therefore requires work. Do the work, for the kid's sake.
I've found that my cameraapearently writes to an internal buffer and then copies from that buffer to the memory card. Moving to higher-speed cards hasn't affected the delay between shots (or tha maximum recoardable video size) because the buffer, I'm guessing, was designed with the speed of slower flash memory in mind.
Do with that what you may, but the wireless "virtual file system" wouldn't help much in that case.
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Luckily, the electoral system prevented that. :)
Someone needs to check out the frames regardless of how super-accurate everything else in the system is.
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This is largely moot, as most boards will require registered DDR in order to use pile of memory, and therefore it'd be foolish to not go ahead and include ECC at the same time.
It's essentially a buffer that boosts the clock signal so that the edges of the clock appear more sharply defined to the memory (the clock gets weak when it's directly driving a bunch of memory modules). The buffer tries to isolate the motherboard chipset from the pile of chips on a large DIMM, which is why lots of motherboards require registered DIMMs in order to use lots of memory. That buffer also delays data transfer by one clock cycle.
No, it can walk *and run* on 2 legs! Therefore, this robot is *almost human* and is entitled to the same rights as humans.
I can't believe that this topic was even brought up. Sigh.
Yeah, but if you go with non-ECC RAM, then the performance increase could allow you to re-render the frame or two that was damaged due to something wrong with the RAM. :) ECC is a performance penalty, and a memory error is not likely to cause anything noticable in an animation.
However, if data integrety is *the* most important factor, the DIMMs should be ECC *and* should be registered. As long as the memory's buffered, may as well take full advantage of the buffering delay, eh?
While I'm on the subject, don't netboot the things - local storage is faster than remote, unless you manage to get the whole render machine into physical RAM - but then you're potentially "wasting" RAM.
Man, I sure hope that Apple and Microsoft don't quadruple the $0 license fee for a decoder that they don't own rights to anyway. I hope they don't quadruple the licenes fee for lame, either, cause 4 times $0 will be *way* more than people would normally be willing to pay.
Now the Fraunhofer people, I'd worry a little bit about. However, given that the compression scheme has been pretty widley disseminated with no attempt to collect license fees since their initial little fiasco, that's not much of a worry, either.
There are lots of "really free" schemas available, but it's stupid to put them into hardware when no one uses them. That's partially how Microsoft software gets so buggy - lots extra features no one really wants.
They're doing further research into the names of various Terminator models sent back though time to destroy earth first, so as to avoid causing a mass panic. They had to release that model name right away, though, in order to claim it as a trademark. :)
Eh? What are you transmitting to the ass-spread guy at the same time as you look at him? I'm pretty sure that he's just as grotesque when you're just the "receiver". ;)
I figured that several guys reading slashdot looked pretty similar to her, actually. :)
So basically, triangulation is the only accurate method so far, though it's possible to get something to work with fewer antennae under more ideal scenarios. :)
No, this is why your ISP who *still* doesn't suport IPv6 should be thrown on the trash heap. There are just not enough IP addresses available for everyone to put all of their network-ready machines on the internet. More addresses would help, or a stopgap like NAT would help. Guess which one has become the standard solution, and must be worked around? That's the same reason that a workd processor app won't get widely used unless it can read MS word files - it's a crap format and a bad solution, but "everyone" uses it, so "everything" has to work with it to be accepted.
A radiator is somewhat self-documenting. Anyone qualified to work on a car can look at it and tell which bolts need to come out, which hoses should be removed, and how to do those tasks. The mechanic in question can do that because the basic organization is roughly standardized, using a few common tools and fasteners to perform several different tasks. Similarly, the use of a standard set of tools in a config file (like XML's structure rules) would allow for simpler discovery of data.
/etc files aren't in a common format, though, and I do think it'd be helpful if they were forced to self-document at least a little. XML would do that. As a programmer, I know darned well that documentation doesn't usually happen unles it's forced. :)
I can walk up to most any car and identify common parts, perform maintenence, etc. Similarly for computers based on a system I'm familiar with. Some of the
You have an AMD, right?
Forgotten all about Cyrix, haven't you?
How would the phase angle alone work to measure distance unless you were known to be N wavelengths away? Similarly, the time differential would only give the relative position - whether the device was getting closer or farther away. Both of those would only be useful if the initial position was known, which makes them pretty useless without some kind of triangulation.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, of course...
You're thinking about the requirement for GFCI outlets, probably. Most areas require that new instalations of outlets within some distance of a water source (usually about the length of the typical appliance cord) be GFCI-protected. Kitchens have sinks, and bathrooms have sinks 'n tubs, both of which have water in them regularly.
You're probably right, though, that some geeks *don't* have an understanding of home wiring. The person causing sparks to fly when he was messing with a light switch, for example, clearly isn't aware that power should be turned off *before* working on a switch - not *by* working on the switch. ;)
It's the last 4 digits of your SS#. Consider calling their support line - *2, which is a free call. Regarding failure to ring if the phone's in your pocket - that's likely a result of poor coverage, or you have a shitty phone. Verizon is the devil, please don't give them extra money. Pick any of the other cell providers - Cingular, AT&T, T-Mobile, Nextel, etc. Cingular's even got the cool thing that makes regular phones ring, maybe then you could completely drop Verizon. :)
My ISP knows that I'm an ISP, why wouldn't his? Not everyone's a teenager on a cable modem - some of us actually check into these things *before* signing a contract... :)
If you change the GPL, then you can't call it the GPL anymore. There's nothing stopping you from changing it around some and making your own license, though, you just can't say that your software's GPL'd anymore. There's lots of free-ish licenses ou there, BTW.
They're the only ones who are still complaining 150 years later, though.
We can only vope. ;)
logic plus politics is similar to matter plus antimatter. What you say makes sense, and therefore would therefore be impossible for a politician to actually think. Well, lower-level politicians sometimes have some logic, but the amount of logical thining one is capable of is inversely proportional to the amount of political power one can gain.
Funny, I hate going to crappy little stores in my small town, because going to WalMart gets my shopping done in one trip. Other people agree - that's why those small places went out of business. Those small business owners didn't provide what the public wanted, so they failed. WalMart did, so they succeed. Quit whining and build a better WalMart, and let me know when it's complete - I'll shop there instead. Don't tear down one of the largest employers in my town, though, 'cause their brown-and-serve rolls are better than the rolls at the grocer. :)
It shouldn't be that big fo a deal - as long as you're not transmitting and receiving at *precisely* the same time as the other computer, your data stream should arrive just fine. Remember how wireless is essentially a broadcast, and cards determine if they should receive the data or not based on the MAC? The machine the data's inteded for gets the data it asked for, and the other one gets it, but discards it because there's nothing to do with it. Try putting two machines on a hub as set the MACs to be the same - most of the time, the 2 connects will be fine. A wireless acess point works the same way as a hub.
Or, sit outside the WAP for a while and record which MACs get data (that couldn't be terribly difficult). Wait until one lies dormant for a moment, and switch to that one. Write script to automate changing your card's MAC. Profit.
While a whitelist does cause more maintenence headaches, it'd certainly stop popups.
However, I manage to make it through pretty much every day without seeing any popups orpornographics ads. I use firebird, not IE (trashing Internet Explorer is one great way to stop popups). I search on google for things, and click lots of links. Most of the pornographics popup ads come from pages that are distributing related unsavory material, and are not sites that most small children would legitimitely be at - if they're reasonably supervised.
Complete removal of the internet is just a short-sighted, lazy solution. Were home TVs in the household thrown out completely, or is it hooked up to a VCR with a whiltelist of tapes, or a channel blocker that allows only kids shows? Do the kids parents reject all snail mail, or is it looked at before a child has access? "bad" images come in many places, and a kid who's blocked completely from every possible source of adult/evil ideas will grow up to be a backwards, socially maladjusted freak, who'll probably be involved in most of those bad things if ever exposed.
Parenting is interactive, not passive, and therefore requires work. Do the work, for the kid's sake.
I've found that my cameraapearently writes to an internal buffer and then copies from that buffer to the memory card. Moving to higher-speed cards hasn't affected the delay between shots (or tha maximum recoardable video size) because the buffer, I'm guessing, was designed with the speed of slower flash memory in mind.
Do with that what you may, but the wireless "virtual file system" wouldn't help much in that case.