Russian official: The Soviet Union will be pleased to offer amnesty to your wayward vessel.
American official: The Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up.
Russian official: Yes, that's what we wanted you to think! [laughs]
Like some posts have been saying, we have dark fiber just laying in the ground ready to be used, and google has been buying dark fiber. Looks like another cash cow for google.
You are right about that, mathworks the maker of matlab pulls alot of vendor lock-in stuff just to keep their customers. Its not that matlab is a bad product, but honestly vendor lock-in is the most underhanded thing to do to a customer IMO.
Like an earlier post said, its called the "Tick-Tock" strategy. One upgrade you improve architecture, and then the next upgrade you make the fab process smaller. Its not a bad idea, but two questions to ask is this: Could Intel hit a dead end because 16nm is the last point in the ITRS roadmap nulling this strategy in around 2013? Because once you go even smaller, you are essentially start having gates the size of atoms. And second, once quad core becomes more common will there really be any reason for consumer level products to go beyond that, given the fact very few programs take advantage of 64bit and processor parallelism?
1.) Has a slate only option for sale (I have a motion M1300 and I love it more than the convertibles because of the writing surface, also it gives out very little if any heat)
2.) Has a wacom with passive stylus behind the screen instead of a touch screen interface or the both with the option to disable the touchscreen by changing a setting. (Another feature that I like from the M1300)
3.) Able to have a windows os installed too and accessible through boot camp.
I would be happy with that. Although it would also be nice if they waited for the AMD fusion or A processor with the graphics processor on the same CPU die, but that can happen when they have a later hardware update.
Well some one beat me to the punch on this.
Good luck trying to find the more restrictive elements however, theres an unfinished tutorial on how to extract pure uranium from bulk ore, now all they need to do is show how to make centrifuges and a nuclear reactor. Although I almost got the chance to help design a lead cooled reactor.
You can also try this set, but I would rather have my own reactor in my backyard selling power, granted Nevada power doesn't pay jack squat after a certain amount when it comes to selling power from alternative sources.
You got that right. I liked Joel but I also liked Mike's stint in MST3K, they should all really consider in teaming up rather than competing. All-in-all both sides have more than enough fans to survive.
I wish the 8600GTS was a better card. Granted the 8800GT is nice, but I still don't feel like paying over $200 for a videocard. However I might not have a choice since the G98 is just a 65nm 8400GS which is a lowend card, and the real G92 is supposed to be a 8800 GX2 as far as rumors go. Kinda wish nvidia would stop their time with lowend cards and focus on that with integrated setups, and make only midgrade and highend discrete cards.
Really, because Linux is open source, there's really no point to selling it at all.
Thats because when you buy a copy of Linux from one of the major distributors, you are usually either buying components that don't have a open source license and need to be paid for and/or you are buying support from the company should you need help when something goes wrong.
"... This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease... Please, just tell people to use KDE." -- Linus Torvalds
Right but if its a GPL project that they buy out, don't they have to give the source of their fork out to the public? All you really can do is sell support in the end.
Nintendo designed the Wii with the focus of having fun with family and/or friends. Really, just playing the Wii by yourself can be fun, but playing with friends is where the system truly shines. Unfortunately, people have real lives too, and don't really have time to play games every waking moment.
President Truman: Get this saucer to Area 51. General: But that's where we're building the set for the fake moon landing. President Truman: Then we'll have to really land on the moon. Invent NASA and tell them to get off their fannies.
Using FPGAs is a pretty good idea
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Since you can make the architecture of the logic in the FPGA highly specialized, you can run at a fraction of the clock rate of a general purpose processor and still have a wider lead in performance. I remember seeing a paper in a journal about a group doing an encryption benchmark between the fastest Pentium 4, two old yet powerful computers(I would assume probably old super computers) and a FPGA system, the two old computers had a lower clock rate than the 3GHz Pentium but had twice as much throughput, the FPGA had a clock rate of 50MHz and had a throughput about 10 times higher than the old computers.
So using a FPGA to do calculations for playing GO would be very fast at a low clock speed, but thats all it could do until it gets reprogrammed.
Wow still using two dual core dies to make a quad. I guess they are just trying to use their raw speed and fab abilities to fight AMD. Crude but it can be effective. Still I don't use Intel chips as often unless I'm buying a mobile device, something about the desktop motherboards for Intel products keeps turning me off to them.
Are you running cut down with no features running or just default? The hardware I'm working on was built a few months ago and has more than enough ram to run vista and its oem not custom.
I worked on a vista laptop today, a band new one, took 5 minutes to actually start up and this is using a really powerful intel processor. Later in the afternoon I worked on a windows 98 box, took like at most 30 seconds to shutdown and like 2 minutes to start up, and thats using a pentium 3. Honestly I wish microsoft would make a faster, more stable, and a little less restrictive(xp's was ok) OS, unlike the mutant baby vista they gave birth to a year ago.
I would like to see a apple tablet in slate form, although convertible would be pretty cool too, but I like slates to write on, like the motion computing m1300 I currently own. I haven't seen a lot use a umpc its like the cross between a pda and a tablet, but good at neither imo.
Smarter thing to do is rework the sticky parts and make driver dev/64-bit support better in the next iteration.
One thing that should be done is support for other file systems. NTFS is getting old and need to solve fragmentation and then less time can be spent on fs dev afterward. windows on zfs sounds like a nice thought.
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Russian official: The Soviet Union will be pleased to offer amnesty to your wayward vessel.
American official: The Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up.
Russian official: Yes, that's what we wanted you to think! [laughs]
Like some posts have been saying, we have dark fiber just laying in the ground ready to be used, and google has been buying dark fiber. Looks like another cash cow for google.
You are right about that, mathworks the maker of matlab pulls alot of vendor lock-in stuff just to keep their customers. Its not that matlab is a bad product, but honestly vendor lock-in is the most underhanded thing to do to a customer IMO.
I wonder how much longer it will be until we can just download our entire mind into a solid state medium.
Like an earlier post said, its called the "Tick-Tock" strategy. One upgrade you improve architecture, and then the next upgrade you make the fab process smaller. Its not a bad idea, but two questions to ask is this: Could Intel hit a dead end because 16nm is the last point in the ITRS roadmap nulling this strategy in around 2013? Because once you go even smaller, you are essentially start having gates the size of atoms. And second, once quad core becomes more common will there really be any reason for consumer level products to go beyond that, given the fact very few programs take advantage of 64bit and processor parallelism?
....but every time I look at a motherboard for a intel processor I think of this quote.
"People can have the Model T in any color...so long as it's black." -- Henry Ford
1.) Has a slate only option for sale (I have a motion M1300 and I love it more than the convertibles because of the writing surface, also it gives out very little if any heat)
2.) Has a wacom with passive stylus behind the screen instead of a touch screen interface or the both with the option to disable the touchscreen by changing a setting. (Another feature that I like from the M1300)
3.) Able to have a windows os installed too and accessible through boot camp.
I would be happy with that. Although it would also be nice if they waited for the AMD fusion or A processor with the graphics processor on the same CPU die, but that can happen when they have a later hardware update.
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Well some one beat me to the punch on this. Good luck trying to find the more restrictive elements however, theres an unfinished tutorial on how to extract pure uranium from bulk ore, now all they need to do is show how to make centrifuges and a nuclear reactor. Although I almost got the chance to help design a lead cooled reactor.
You can also try this set, but I would rather have my own reactor in my backyard selling power, granted Nevada power doesn't pay jack squat after a certain amount when it comes to selling power from alternative sources.
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You got that right. I liked Joel but I also liked Mike's stint in MST3K, they should all really consider in teaming up rather than competing. All-in-all both sides have more than enough fans to survive.
I wish the 8600GTS was a better card. Granted the 8800GT is nice, but I still don't feel like paying over $200 for a videocard. However I might not have a choice since the G98 is just a 65nm 8400GS which is a lowend card, and the real G92 is supposed to be a 8800 GX2 as far as rumors go. Kinda wish nvidia would stop their time with lowend cards and focus on that with integrated setups, and make only midgrade and highend discrete cards.
Thats because when you buy a copy of Linux from one of the major distributors, you are usually either buying components that don't have a open source license and need to be paid for and/or you are buying support from the company should you need help when something goes wrong.
" ... This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease ... Please, just tell people to use KDE." -- Linus Torvalds
I, for one, welcome our new R2D2 knockoff overlords.
Right but if its a GPL project that they buy out, don't they have to give the source of their fork out to the public? All you really can do is sell support in the end.
If thats true where is bizarro Stormy?
Seems to use a pc104 setup. All-in-all however, I would rather build my own with solid state storage
Nintendo designed the Wii with the focus of having fun with family and/or friends. Really, just playing the Wii by yourself can be fun, but playing with friends is where the system truly shines. Unfortunately, people have real lives too, and don't really have time to play games every waking moment.
Quite the opposite Mr. Ballmer, trends are pointing to even smaller computers.
But in your case, chairs can always be made bigger although you might want to watch out, you could herniate a disc.
President Truman: Get this saucer to Area 51.
General: But that's where we're building the set for the fake moon landing.
President Truman: Then we'll have to really land on the moon. Invent NASA and tell them to get off their fannies.
Since you can make the architecture of the logic in the FPGA highly specialized, you can run at a fraction of the clock rate of a general purpose processor and still have a wider lead in performance. I remember seeing a paper in a journal about a group doing an encryption benchmark between the fastest Pentium 4, two old yet powerful computers(I would assume probably old super computers) and a FPGA system, the two old computers had a lower clock rate than the 3GHz Pentium but had twice as much throughput, the FPGA had a clock rate of 50MHz and had a throughput about 10 times higher than the old computers.
So using a FPGA to do calculations for playing GO would be very fast at a low clock speed, but thats all it could do until it gets reprogrammed.
Wow still using two dual core dies to make a quad. I guess they are just trying to use their raw speed and fab abilities to fight AMD. Crude but it can be effective. Still I don't use Intel chips as often unless I'm buying a mobile device, something about the desktop motherboards for Intel products keeps turning me off to them.
Are you running cut down with no features running or just default? The hardware I'm working on was built a few months ago and has more than enough ram to run vista and its oem not custom.
I worked on a vista laptop today, a band new one, took 5 minutes to actually start up and this is using a really powerful intel processor. Later in the afternoon I worked on a windows 98 box, took like at most 30 seconds to shutdown and like 2 minutes to start up, and thats using a pentium 3. Honestly I wish microsoft would make a faster, more stable, and a little less restrictive(xp's was ok) OS, unlike the mutant baby vista they gave birth to a year ago.
I would like to see a apple tablet in slate form, although convertible would be pretty cool too, but I like slates to write on, like the motion computing m1300 I currently own. I haven't seen a lot use a umpc its like the cross between a pda and a tablet, but good at neither imo.
Smarter thing to do is rework the sticky parts and make driver dev/64-bit support better in the next iteration.
One thing that should be done is support for other file systems. NTFS is getting old and need to solve fragmentation and then less time can be spent on fs dev afterward. windows on zfs sounds like a nice thought.