Refresher: Ordered Grid antialaising renders everything at 4x the resolution and then averages groups of 4 pixels and represents them as 1 pixel just before sending it to the monior
You could save a ton of work by
representing the color of each of the four sub-pixels in 8 bit color. When combining the 4 sub-pixels into the single pixel that is displayed, you will have 8x4=32 bit antialaised color with no performance hit.
Of course, I could be wrong. Moderators always think so.
If you divide 3,400,000mb data by a transfer rate of 100mb/s, you'll find that it would take 9.44 days to read or write all of one, probably about twice as long to defrag.
one thing that amazes me even more is how much effort its going to take to actually design a chip that uses 400 mil transistors!
Not really. Any idiot can make a circuit that adds two 1-bit numbers. Any idiot can also string 128 of 1-bit adders together to make a 128-bit adder. That's how damn near *all* logic circuits are designed. Wash, rinse, and repeat. No big deal.
Yeah, I like to say my email is root@127.0.0.1 Most web forms only check to see if it's in a proper TLD and contains an @ symbol. Local host is usually accepted.
Along the same lines, the ATX specification has been modified to accommodate the Pentium 4 and named 2.03. The purpose of the revision was to add a 12V connector to the power supply capable of delivering a dedicated power output for the processor so motherboard manufacturers will not have to route power across the board to deliver the ~52W required by the Pentium 4
52 watts? That's not so much, I got a hotplate in my dorm room that uses all of 75 watts.
We are consistently accelerating our chip schedule because of these mammoth computing resources," Intel vice president Pat Gelsinger said at an Intel conference last week. "We sped up validation on (our) latest chip by eight weeks."
Hey intel-didn't you recall your latest chip because you didn't do enough validation before you released it?
I just got a job in Cupertino with HP. I moved here from Minnesota two weeks ago. I get paid about $7000 a month for doing device driver integration and validation. Rent is $2000 for an 800 square foot apartment with utilities included, far less than the article's claimed "$75 a square foot" It's also got 3 pools, hot tub, covered parking, tennis courts, etc. The place even has a web page.
I live 3 miles from work, an hour from Santa Cruz, and an hour from San Francisco.
Everyday the weather is beautiful, and the locals are incredibly friendly (even for someone who grew up with "Minnesota Nice").
Sure cheese is $8 a brick, gas is a buck-eighty nine a gallon, but what do you expect the inflation rate to be like when guys like me who have not even graduated college are pulling down starting salaries of $80,000 a year?
There's no solution to the housing troubles in Silicon Valley. None. It's a valley, remember? There's hills all around it and most of them are wildlife preserves. If you've ever been in the Los Gatos hills you'll know that there's NFW the tree huggers around here would let them be developed. Fine with me, I like them too.
Everyone around here knows that eventually we are all going to work ourselves out of a job, but we're all going to become millionaires and retire at 40 and become college professors, so it really doesn't matter.
From my experience with voice controled user inputs, I don't want one. It takes forever to train them to understand your voice. Serious pain in the ass.
If this guy thinks that he can make a car mp3 player at 1/3 the price of current systems, why the hell doesn't he get a model with buttons instead of voice control to market ASAP. At 1/3 the price of current systems, I'm sure his product will get all the acceptance it needs.
Known as the A.Root server, the big black IBM computer holds the authoritve files for matching domain names--such as www.marthastewart.com or www.yahoo.com--...
Actually, this is not true. This server only translates the field directly before the TLD extension. That is, only yahoo.com and marthastewart.com are served. The www part is supplied by yahoo and martha's respective root servers.
I realize that the author of the article probably knows this, but did not include it in his article so my mother would understand, but I feel/. readers that are new to network hierarchy should get the facts.
Sludgie
and what's up with my tags being removed in the editing field when I preview? That's annoying.
Last time I visited their site, there was a bit of java (iirc, it desired full permissions as well) that prevented many things such as printing and saving of the images
Well not directly, but there's an easy way around their script. For you windoze users, all you need to do to save their images is to press the "Print Screen" key next to F12 and then open up MSPaint or that Photoshop 5.5 crack you horked on hotline and click File=>Paste. Viola, problem solved!
If you had read the article, you would have seen that the can did NOT freeze. Not even close. The coldest recorded temp was 42 degrees, a less than amazing 10 degrees above the freezing point of water (and coke freezes at an even lower temp due to the impurities. And that was after it sat all night long. Sludge is unimpressed.
Very funny, of course your plan could not be implemented because the President_Clinton username had priviledges to talk directly to the room. Someone named Monica_Lewinski would need to have their comment apporved by one of the moderators. Then again, with the skill of those involved in the administration process, you probably could have gotten those comments through too!
Slashdot should check up on their shit before they post it. It's not Linus. It's crap. If you can't get a download stream, just read their schedule at http://www.wbai.org/ and notice that linus in not mentioned. If these chumps had him, they would have it all over their page. Roblimo really screwed the pooch on this one.
As a Minnesotan, I know that Nortwest and it's employees are always at each other's throats. FYI, Norwest employees are under contract negotiatons, always have been and always will be. Since they are employees of a company essential to the infrastructure of Minnesota's economy and the well being of the state's citizens in general (airmail, travel, organ transplant delivery, you name it) they can't legally just go on strike whenever they feel like it. Anyway, the mediator in their contract negotiation said NO STRIKES! so instead employees used their generous allocation of paid sick leave to bring airline travel to it's knees in Minnesota during the busiest time of the year.
This is not how you play fairly.
So why are these people getting their computers searched? Because Nortwest knows damn well which employees are the troublemakers and a federal judge agrees with them. I don't like the idea of a corporation checking out my filez anymore than the rest of you, but these employees sabotaged, and essentially stole from their employer. I agree that it's very unethical of Nortwest to read their employees email, but it's damn unethical to organize a sick-out.
What, did your little sister forward that to you or something? FYI, if you say "According to new licensing laws" people automatically know you are full of shit. Atleast put a broken link up and say something like "the law is so new that the site telling about it might not have its url filtered out to your DNS yet." Then maybe if you are lucky someone might belive you. Also, you should have waited until there was a thread going about copyrights. Then you wouldn't have put both of us at risk of being moderated down for being off-topic. Not that it matters, especially to an AC.
IMHO, I don't think there are enough unsued electromagnetic frequencies left to provide wireless broadband access to more than a very small percentage of the population, especially in heavily populated areas. That is, unless we start using the higher and dangerous frequencies like xrays and such. Yeah, this would fix both problems, too many people and not enough bandwidth. -sludge copyright 2000 sludge, all rights reserved all wrongs reversed
It's so easy to post something without considering the consequences. Consider the Beanie nominations here on slashdot. (link not provided due to lack of respect to those who did not read it at the time(and lazyness on my part)) It turned into a stupidass America sucks vs. America rules argument. What a waste of bandwidth. You have your opinions and I have mine. Let's just keep it that way before anymore AC's make asses of the nationalities they claim to represent.
Consider the following... 1) They sure talked about the patent alot. 2) They gave some functions from their language "as advance notice of intended functionality", but did not tell ust anything about how to implement these functions, what kinds of paramaters these functions take, or even more importantly, what language these functions are in. 3) No details are given about how it works other than "Motionware® overrides the body's balance inputs." and the phrase "MotionWare uses galvanic stimulation of the vestibular system" Kinda sounds like mumbo jumbo designed to help them get investors. Seriously, I think this is a bunch of bullshit to draw attention to their company. Don't invest here.
I saw "Tim Sweeney" and spent half an hour trying to think of ZZT. Thanks. I played World of ZZT to no end back in the day when you could get shareware mailed to your house on 5.25 floppies. If you let your shareware postage subscription run out, you can download all those old ZZT games at zzt.org
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Refresher: Ordered Grid antialaising renders everything at 4x the resolution and then averages groups of 4 pixels and represents them as 1 pixel just before sending it to the monior
You could save a ton of work by representing the color of each of the four sub-pixels in 8 bit color. When combining the 4 sub-pixels into the single pixel that is displayed, you will have 8x4=32 bit antialaised color with no performance hit.
Of course, I could be wrong. Moderators always think so.
If you divide 3,400,000mb data by a transfer rate of 100mb/s, you'll find that it would take 9.44 days to read or write all of one, probably about twice as long to defrag.
Butts said his company contacted the FBI immediately on receiving an extortion demand from the hacker, but it did not contact any customers.
"They weren't compromised," Butts said
Um, I'm going to have to go ahead and, uh, disagree with you there, Micheal.
one thing that amazes me even more is how much effort its going to take to actually design a chip that uses 400 mil transistors!
Not really. Any idiot can make a circuit that adds two 1-bit numbers. Any idiot can also string 128 of 1-bit adders together to make a 128-bit adder. That's how damn near *all* logic circuits are designed. Wash, rinse, and repeat. No big deal.
Yeah, I like to say my email is root@127.0.0.1
Most web forms only check to see if it's in a proper TLD and contains an @ symbol. Local host is usually accepted.
Along the same lines, the ATX specification has been modified to accommodate the Pentium 4 and named 2.03. The purpose of the revision was to add a 12V connector to the power supply capable of delivering a dedicated power output for the processor so motherboard manufacturers will not have to route power across the board to deliver the ~52W required by the Pentium 4
52 watts? That's not so much, I got a hotplate in my dorm room that uses all of 75 watts.
Yeah, not to mention telnet. Half a second between the time I type a key and when it appears on my screen just isn't going to cut it.
We are consistently accelerating our chip schedule because of these mammoth computing resources," Intel vice president Pat Gelsinger said at an Intel conference last week. "We sped up validation on (our) latest chip by eight weeks."
Hey intel-didn't you recall your latest chip because you didn't do enough validation before you released it?
-sludg-o-
I just got a job in Cupertino with HP. I moved here from Minnesota two weeks ago. I get paid about $7000 a month for doing device driver integration and validation. Rent is $2000 for an 800 square foot apartment with utilities included, far less than the article's claimed "$75 a square foot" It's also got 3 pools, hot tub, covered parking, tennis courts, etc. The place even has a web page.
I live 3 miles from work, an hour from Santa Cruz, and an hour from San Francisco.
Everyday the weather is beautiful, and the locals are incredibly friendly (even for someone who grew up with "Minnesota Nice").
Sure cheese is $8 a brick, gas is a buck-eighty nine a gallon, but what do you expect the inflation rate to be like when guys like me who have not even graduated college are pulling down starting salaries of $80,000 a year?
There's no solution to the housing troubles in Silicon Valley. None. It's a valley, remember? There's hills all around it and most of them are wildlife preserves. If you've ever been in the Los Gatos hills you'll know that there's NFW the tree huggers around here would let them be developed. Fine with me, I like them too.
Everyone around here knows that eventually we are all going to work ourselves out of a job, but we're all going to become millionaires and retire at 40 and become college professors, so it really doesn't matter.
sludg-o
Can't get the article? It's probably because it's on Napster's server and your university blocked it. Stupid colleges.
From my experience with voice controled user inputs, I don't want one. It takes forever to train them to understand your voice. Serious pain in the ass.
If this guy thinks that he can make a car mp3 player at 1/3 the price of current systems, why the hell doesn't he get a model with buttons instead of voice control to market ASAP. At 1/3 the price of current systems, I'm sure his product will get all the acceptance it needs.
Dick with the voice control feature later.
-sludge
Known as the A.Root server, the big black IBM computer holds the authoritve files for matching domain names--such as www.marthastewart.com or www.yahoo.com--...
/. readers that are new to network hierarchy should get the facts.
Actually, this is not true. This server only translates the field directly before the TLD extension. That is, only yahoo.com and marthastewart.com are served. The www part is supplied by yahoo and martha's respective root servers.
I realize that the author of the article probably knows this, but did not include it in his article so my mother would understand, but I feel
Sludgie
and what's up with my tags being removed in the editing field when I preview? That's annoying.
Last time I visited their site, there was a bit of java (iirc, it desired full permissions as well) that prevented many things such as printing and saving of the images
Well not directly, but there's an easy way around their script. For you windoze users, all you need to do to save their images is to press the "Print Screen" key next to F12 and then open up MSPaint or that Photoshop 5.5 crack you horked on hotline and click File=>Paste. Viola, problem solved!
If you had read the article, you would have seen that the can did NOT freeze. Not even close. The coldest recorded temp was 42 degrees, a less than amazing 10 degrees above the freezing point of water (and coke freezes at an even lower temp due to the impurities. And that was after it sat all night long. Sludge is unimpressed.
Of course, this story happened in Minnesota, not Massassassachusesetts.
Very funny, of course your plan could not be implemented because the President_Clinton username had priviledges to talk directly to the room. Someone named Monica_Lewinski would need to have their comment apporved by one of the moderators. Then again, with the skill of those involved in the administration process, you probably could have gotten those comments through too!
Um, I meant Michael really screwed the pooch on this one.
sludg-o
Slashdot should check up on their shit before they post it. It's not Linus. It's crap. If you can't get a download stream, just read their schedule at http://www.wbai.org/ and notice that linus in not mentioned. If these chumps had him, they would have it all over their page. Roblimo really screwed the pooch on this one.
sludg-o
As a Minnesotan, I know that Nortwest and it's employees are always at each other's throats. FYI, Norwest employees are under contract negotiatons, always have been and always will be. Since they are employees of a company essential to the infrastructure of Minnesota's economy and the well being of the state's citizens in general (airmail, travel, organ transplant delivery, you name it) they can't legally just go on strike whenever they feel like it. Anyway, the mediator in their contract negotiation said NO STRIKES! so instead employees used their generous allocation of paid sick leave to bring airline travel to it's knees in Minnesota during the busiest time of the year.
This is not how you play fairly.
So why are these people getting their computers searched? Because Nortwest knows damn well which employees are the troublemakers and a federal judge agrees with them. I don't like the idea of a corporation checking out my filez anymore than the rest of you, but these employees sabotaged, and essentially stole from their employer. I agree that it's very unethical of Nortwest to read their employees email, but it's damn unethical to organize a sick-out.
What, did your little sister forward that to you or something? FYI, if you say "According to new licensing laws" people automatically know you are full of shit. Atleast put a broken link up and say something like "the law is so new that the site telling about it might not have its url filtered out to your DNS yet." Then maybe if you are lucky someone might belive you. Also, you should have waited until there was a thread going about copyrights. Then you wouldn't have put both of us at risk of being moderated down for being off-topic. Not that it matters, especially to an AC.
sludgebot
all rights reserved, all wrongs reversed
All I need to make ball lightning is a little bit 'o pr0n
sludgie
all rights reserved, all wrongs reversed
IMHO, I don't think there are enough unsued electromagnetic frequencies left to provide wireless broadband access to more than a very small percentage of the population, especially in heavily populated areas. That is, unless we start using the higher and dangerous frequencies like xrays and such. Yeah, this would fix both problems, too many people and not enough bandwidth. -sludge copyright 2000 sludge, all rights reserved all wrongs reversed
It's so easy to post something without considering the consequences. Consider the Beanie nominations here on slashdot. (link not provided due to lack of respect to those who did not read it at the time(and lazyness on my part)) It turned into a stupidass America sucks vs. America rules argument. What a waste of bandwidth. You have your opinions and I have mine. Let's just keep it that way before anymore AC's make asses of the nationalities they claim to represent.
Consider the following... 1) They sure talked about the patent alot. 2) They gave some functions from their language "as advance notice of intended functionality", but did not tell ust anything about how to implement these functions, what kinds of paramaters these functions take, or even more importantly, what language these functions are in. 3) No details are given about how it works other than "Motionware® overrides the body's balance inputs." and the phrase "MotionWare uses galvanic stimulation of the vestibular system" Kinda sounds like mumbo jumbo designed to help them get investors. Seriously, I think this is a bunch of bullshit to draw attention to their company. Don't invest here.
I saw "Tim Sweeney" and spent half an hour trying to think of ZZT. Thanks. I played World of ZZT to no end back in the day when you could get shareware mailed to your house on 5.25 floppies. If you let your shareware postage subscription run out, you can download all those old ZZT games at zzt.org