I know its slightly OT but it says in the article that each of these babies will consume 250 Watts. Thats obscene. People run 8 processor boxes of these as well, so 2KW just for the processors. You could heat a swimming pool with that.
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Make something idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
First, although the mic's may not be able to pic up sound above 22Khz, (which I think they can, but anyway) you need a sampling rate at least double the highest frequency to represent the wave accuratly (in practice, you need 4 or 8 times to get a _true_ representation of the sound.) (Consult any textbook about digital representation of sound for reason why)
The higher bit depth will not make much difference.
Think about it, CD uses 16 bit depth. 2^16=65536,
so if the sound has a maximum amplitude range of half that, (32768), then it will be constantly varying by that much in every wave. Now if we say that we take a sample at every one of those values, at 44Khz, this would take (32768/44000)=0.7447
so 1/ that gives the frequency = 1.34Hz. As the human ear can't usually hear below 20Hz, that kind of accuracy is not necassary(sp?).
You can speed it up a lot by tweaking your ~/.tuxracer/options
i went from 8-15fps to 20-40fps by turning down the lod, and making tux simpler, (and i think turning off particle generation although im not sure)
its all the better at 30fps.... (and the environment mapping looks amazing)
Peter Allen
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It was pity stayed his hand.
"Pity I don't have any more bullets," thought Frito.
-_Bored_of_the_Rings
How do you decode mp3's with a pic? Which pic? I thought pics only went up to about 20Mips, which is (afaik) rather slow for decoding. Or have you got a dsp to do the maths?
I used to think the same, and I still do about Western plants, (I also have toured a few) but I have also heard horror stories about the Russian ones. One of the worst things is that the ?boron/graphite? rods that are used to stop the reaction go in from the top up in western reactors, so the holes they put them in are quite big. In the Chernobyl reactors, the rods go in from the bottom up, so the holes are small. This means that when the reactor overheats, they won't go in... Also, western reactors have boron ball-bearings that can be squirted in as a last resort. The Chernobyl reactors don't have anything.
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where did "Stupid Persons AdvertisMent come from then? Was this made up after the original use of the term or summat?
It has the river Wey running through it, so it just needs the monarchy bit now....
btw I'm not quite a sad as it seems knowing this, I do live there
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I know its slightly OT but it says in the article that each of these babies will consume 250 Watts. Thats obscene. People run 8 processor boxes of these as well, so 2KW just for the processors. You could heat a swimming pool with that.
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Make something idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
I thought they meant someone had taken the palm of someones hand, cut it open (as they do in all modern art) then put it on display.
Couldn't think what all the fuss was about....
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It was pity stayed his hand.
"Pity I don't have any more bullets," thought Frito.
-- _Bored_of_the_Rings_, a Harvard Lampoon parody of Tolkein
First, although the mic's may not be able to pic up sound above 22Khz, (which I think they can, but anyway) you need a sampling rate at least double the highest frequency to represent the wave accuratly (in practice, you need 4 or 8 times to get a _true_ representation of the sound.) (Consult any textbook about digital representation of sound for reason why)
The higher bit depth will not make much difference.
Think about it, CD uses 16 bit depth. 2^16=65536,
so if the sound has a maximum amplitude range of half that, (32768), then it will be constantly varying by that much in every wave. Now if we say that we take a sample at every one of those values, at 44Khz, this would take (32768/44000)=0.7447
so 1/ that gives the frequency = 1.34Hz. As the human ear can't usually hear below 20Hz, that kind of accuracy is not necassary(sp?).
Your .sig doesn't work in gcc. Whats it meant to do?
You can speed it up a lot by tweaking your ~/.tuxracer/options
i went from 8-15fps to 20-40fps by turning down the lod, and making tux simpler, (and i think turning off particle generation although im not sure)
its all the better at 30fps.... (and the environment mapping looks amazing)
Peter Allen
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It was pity stayed his hand.
"Pity I don't have any more bullets," thought Frito.
-_Bored_of_the_Rings
How do you decode mp3's with a pic? Which pic? I thought pics only went up to about 20Mips, which is (afaik) rather slow for decoding. Or have you got a dsp to do the maths?
Peter Allen
I used to think the same, and I still do about Western plants, (I also have toured a few) but I have also heard horror stories about the Russian ones. One of the worst things is that the ?boron/graphite? rods that are used to stop the reaction go in from the top up in western reactors, so the holes they put them in are quite big. In the Chernobyl reactors, the rods go in from the bottom up, so the holes are small. This means that when the reactor overheats, they won't go in...
Also, western reactors have boron ball-bearings that can be squirted in as a last resort. The Chernobyl reactors don't have anything.