Maybe not recently, but i'm willing to bet that
the huge increase in graphics complexity of
Unreal 2 and the hardware demands it will make,
will push many people to upgrade.
760 MPX was released today, along with the 1900+
on
Athlon MP Reviewed
·
· Score: 2
See the AMD press release,
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011212/110489_1.html
Asus, ABit, Gigabyte and MSI are all promising
760MPX boards.
I cut my teeth write ZX Spectrum games in Z80 assem, and i'm very sorry to see Zilog go.
Z80s and varients are still in use in places, embedded controllers etc, and i hope someone keeps
making them
Actually communists only like strikes when
they're against private companies. If anyone
remembers Poland in 1980's for example, its
clear to see that all goverments hate there
employees going on strike, and modern communists
goverments will put these down by brutal force,
something western goverments haven't done for
hundreds of years.
Addiction is something that is compelling and
you couldn't do without. I know a lot of people
who play games, but never meet anyone, who wouldn't switch off the computer, for anything genuinely exciting or important. Games just fills in tedious space, which other might fill with
sport, or television.
If spooses are having problems with their other
halfs prefering to play games than spend time
with them, then it has to be said that they just
aren't much fun to be around anymore.
and not a damn thing the FCC can do about it,
since the equipment (the Monitor/Computers) has already be licensed by the FCC. You'd probably need a whole lot of boxes, though. And to make
sure they were all in phase would not be easy.
Look at the parent message i was reply to, he
didn't have any data in the Direction class,
with, so they all had the same data. If I was
replying to the parent of the that message, you
would be correct.
Urg. This won't work, because all the Direction
classes have the same data, thus thus the equals and hashcode object methods will
be wrong, which we screw up putting Directions into hashtables.
Direction.NORTH.equals(Direction.EAST) is true
Direction.NORTH == Direction.EAST is false
Direction.NORTH.hashcode() == Direction.EAST.hashcode() is true
In those days you couldn't put enough transitors
on a chip to make a descent CPU core for a
high end system, so what people did was join
a lot of bit-slices together. A bit-slice was
a 1,2 or 4 bit segment of an ALU +with instruction
decoders, which could be chained together with
carry bits outputs and inputs to make a 16 or 32 or whatever bit CPU core.
Sorry the formatting is poor due to the lameness filter.
4004
4040
8008 8080 Z80 (Zilog) Z8000 (16-bit)
8086 8085 Z800 (Z80 extension)
80186
80286
386SX also IA468 (still born new archi)
386DX
486SX
486DX
486DX-2
486DX-4
Pentium, AMD K5, 586 (cyrix)
P-MMX P-PRO K6 686 Win chip
P-2 Celeron K6-2 686MX Win Chip II
P-III Cel(2) K6-3 ?
Coppermine Athlon Cyrix III
T-bird
P4 Tualatin Athlon XP
I've missed out the Xeons, and of course all the
microprocessors that didn't have some lineage
to the orignal 4004. Although the instruction
sets changed a lot particular from the 4004 to
8080 and from the 8080 to 8086, there is enough
similarity in there style and content to claim
that your Pentium 4 or Athlon XP is directly
descended from the 4004. It makes you wonder
if Intel can really expect to shift people from
the x86 arch to a totally new one.
4. Baby universes bud a universe into a new
big bang from the insides of black holes, Lee Smolin.
5. Stephen Hawking No boundary hypothesis.
6. Timeless 4d space, tunnels into spacetime
Of couse we have little chances of proving these
thories at present. However they can make subtle
difference to astrophysics for example to fluctionas in the cosmic background radition. Don't assumption because the isn't a accepted
theory at this point, that there never will be
one.
I use Java builder 4, its nice enough. A lot
of the time, I still do simple bugfixing and
rebuilds using xedit and make script.
Jarkata Ant is nice "make" replacement for building
java apps. And can be integrated into jbuilder,
and other IDEs, if your project gets completed
enough to need one.
This ought to have been a slashdot poll rather
than an Ask slashdot.
Point is, if somebody started manufacturing a hydrogen engine cheaply and building and selling it in someplace third world or maybe even a poor first-world country (Mexico, India) then we'd have a chance.
This is pie in Sky at the minute, there don't
even seem to be many expessive but affordible
to buisiness/risk peoples hydrogen bases engines or Fuel cells, at the present.
There isn't a shortage of companies trying to
bring this technology to market, it just seams
their isn't much of market at present.
People and Business are very conservate about
there power sources it seems. You'd imagine
a few rich people would want to own performance
electric vehicles or fuel cell cars, just for
the cool value of the silent acceleration, of
for PR about how green they are. But it just
doesn't seem to happen.
Interesting timing for this article as i've
just been looking into weather Fuel Cell Stacks,
such as Zetek Powers 2.5Kw Fuel Cell stacks, would make
a useful backup power source for our server shop,
fortunately it looks like Zetek's gone tits up.
I can thing of many places were a compate, safe
energy source would be ideal, but somehow this
Technology just doesn't ever seem to get
commericalized.
They Idea, that the Big Bang was precided by
a Big Crunch in another universe, as been
around for a while, it was known as the
oscillating universe and the comsic bounce
hypothesis. When it was learned that
each time it occurs the new universe has a
slightly higher entropy and thus a slight
higher ratio of radiaton to matter, the
idea went out of vogue, as it showed that be
an oscillating universe could not be enternal.
Great so lets all go to the church of leptogenesis
and worship the almighty CP violation.
Our creator, CP violation
that art in the Kobayashi Maskawa Matrix
Hallowed be its complex phase factor.
Thy matter over antimatter come.
Thy asymmetry come on earth
as it is in heaven.
Give us today our baryon stablity.
Forgive us our entropy as
we forgive the entropy of others.
Leds us not into symmetry but
deliver us from annilahation.
For thine is the matter and the power
and energy for ever.
Amen.
Re:Nondigital computing
on
Ternary Computing
·
· Score: 3, Informative
Actually apart from the colors, all the other
particles are come in (isospin) pairs.
Under SU(2) (weak force pairs)
Electron Neutrino
up down
strange charmed
bottom top
proton neutron (which is up down again)
In Toms test the thermal shutdown did not work,
and the Athlon burned, in the new test the
thermal shutdown operated and the Athlon
survived. Presumbly Tom had a motherboard that
did not support reading the Thermal diode on
Athlon MPs and Athlon XPs, while the MB in the
video, did support it.
Anyway the new video is good news for AMD, and
for the less nibled fingered computer builder.
It also shows that Tom was way too quick to blame
AMD for thermal diode on the palomino Athlon for
not functioning.
Test 11: We unscrewed each box and removed a
vital component, reconnected the PCs and filmed the results.
[Banner Advert for Belkin]
As you can see every for box expect the
Belkin, this resulted in the monitor exploding.
How irresponsible of the other manufacturers not
protect there products against sabotage. This
could have your childs monitor exploding. Think of
the damage the shards of glass would do to his
innocent little eyes.
OK these 2-way system our fine and useful
for home usage. But for a real server operation
you good do with many more connections.
Our rack of 10 linux boxes is connected to
the head, by two 8-way OmniView boxes ganged
together, this system work fine, except that the
time between press the scan button of the box,
before you can press it again is a few seconds,
slightly annoying when you need to get from box-2
to box-10. A hold down repeat or numerical keypad
to select box would be nice.
What do you KVM does anyone else recommend for
heading a rack of boxes.
On September the 10th that was an irrational
brief.
Today, its quite rational to see muslim in the
street and wonder if he is one of the wacked
out ones where at war with, even if only one
in ten thousand muslim is a extremist, the fear
is still legitiment. Its nothing to be proud of,
but that fear is real, legitiment and rational.
That doesn't make it worthing attacking them, or
hating them, though.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe not recently, but i'm willing to bet that
the huge increase in graphics complexity of
Unreal 2 and the hardware demands it will make,
will push many people to upgrade.
See the AMD press release,
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011212/110489_1.html
Asus, ABit, Gigabyte and MSI are all promising
760MPX boards.
There was,
LDIR Load Increat Repeat
LDI Load Increment
LDD Load Decrement
LDDR Load Decrement Repeat
but no LDIF
I cut my teeth write ZX Spectrum games in Z80 assem, and i'm very sorry to see Zilog go.
Z80s and varients are still in use in places, embedded controllers etc, and i hope someone keeps
making them
Actually communists only like strikes when
they're against private companies. If anyone
remembers Poland in 1980's for example, its
clear to see that all goverments hate there
employees going on strike, and modern communists
goverments will put these down by brutal force,
something western goverments haven't done for
hundreds of years.
Addiction is something that is compelling and
you couldn't do without. I know a lot of people
who play games, but never meet anyone, who wouldn't switch off the computer, for anything genuinely exciting or important. Games just fills in tedious space, which other might fill with
sport, or television.
If spooses are having problems with their other
halfs prefering to play games than spend time
with them, then it has to be said that they just
aren't much fun to be around anymore.
and not a damn thing the FCC can do about it,
since the equipment (the Monitor/Computers) has already be licensed by the FCC. You'd probably need a whole lot of boxes, though. And to make
sure they were all in phase would not be easy.
Look at the parent message i was reply to, he
didn't have any data in the Direction class,
with, so they all had the same data. If I was
replying to the parent of the that message, you
would be correct.
Urg. This won't work, because all the Direction
classes have the same data, thus thus the equals and hashcode object methods will
be wrong, which we screw up putting Directions into hashtables.
Direction.NORTH.equals(Direction.EAST) is true
Direction.NORTH == Direction.EAST is false
Direction.NORTH.hashcode() == Direction.EAST.hashcode() is true
In those days you couldn't put enough transitors
on a chip to make a descent CPU core for a
high end system, so what people did was join
a lot of bit-slices together. A bit-slice was
a 1,2 or 4 bit segment of an ALU +with instruction
decoders, which could be chained together with
carry bits outputs and inputs to make a 16 or 32 or whatever bit CPU core.
I'm sure i'll miss a few but here goes,
Sorry the formatting is poor due to the lameness filter.
4004
4040
8008 8080 Z80 (Zilog) Z8000 (16-bit)
8086 8085 Z800 (Z80 extension)
80186
80286
386SX also IA468 (still born new archi)
386DX
486SX
486DX
486DX-2
486DX-4
Pentium, AMD K5, 586 (cyrix)
P-MMX P-PRO K6 686 Win chip
P-2 Celeron K6-2 686MX Win Chip II
P-III Cel(2) K6-3 ?
Coppermine Athlon Cyrix III
T-bird
P4 Tualatin Athlon XP
I've missed out the Xeons, and of course all the
microprocessors that didn't have some lineage
to the orignal 4004. Although the instruction
sets changed a lot particular from the 4004 to
8080 and from the 8080 to 8086, there is enough
similarity in there style and content to claim
that your Pentium 4 or Athlon XP is directly
descended from the 4004. It makes you wonder
if Intel can really expect to shift people from
the x86 arch to a totally new one.
Then we wouldn't be good enough at material
sciences to build all these microchips your
typing on.
cause the big bang.
True, but science has made lots of thories as
to why it happened. Including:
1. Time began at the big bang sigularity.
2. Richard Tollman's repeating big bang and
big crunch oscillating universe. Now invalidated
by Entropy consideration.
3. The Ekpyrotic hypothesis. The big bang was caused by a collision between two empty 3+time dimensional in a 4+time dimension
space.
3. A cyclic universe version of the above, ok with entropy
4. Baby universes bud a universe into a new
big bang from the insides of black holes, Lee Smolin.
5. Stephen Hawking No boundary hypothesis.
6. Timeless 4d space, tunnels into spacetime
Of couse we have little chances of proving these
thories at present. However they can make subtle
difference to astrophysics for example to fluctionas in the cosmic background radition. Don't assumption because the isn't a accepted
theory at this point, that there never will be
one.
I use Java builder 4, its nice enough. A lot
of the time, I still do simple bugfixing and
rebuilds using xedit and make script.
Jarkata Ant is nice "make" replacement for building
java apps. And can be integrated into jbuilder,
and other IDEs, if your project gets completed
enough to need one.
This ought to have been a slashdot poll rather
than an Ask slashdot.
This is pie in Sky at the minute, there don't
even seem to be many expessive but affordible
to buisiness/risk peoples hydrogen bases engines or Fuel cells, at the present.
There isn't a shortage of companies trying to
bring this technology to market, it just seams
their isn't much of market at present.
People and Business are very conservate about
there power sources it seems. You'd imagine
a few rich people would want to own performance
electric vehicles or fuel cell cars, just for
the cool value of the silent acceleration, of
for PR about how green they are. But it just
doesn't seem to happen.
Interesting timing for this article as i've
just been looking into weather Fuel Cell Stacks,
such as Zetek Powers 2.5Kw Fuel Cell stacks, would make
a useful backup power source for our server shop,
fortunately it looks like Zetek's gone tits up.
I can thing of many places were a compate, safe
energy source would be ideal, but somehow this
Technology just doesn't ever seem to get
commericalized.
They Idea, that the Big Bang was precided by
a Big Crunch in another universe, as been
around for a while, it was known as the
oscillating universe and the comsic bounce
hypothesis. When it was learned that
each time it occurs the new universe has a
slightly higher entropy and thus a slight
higher ratio of radiaton to matter, the
idea went out of vogue, as it showed that be
an oscillating universe could not be enternal.
Our creator, CP violation
that art in the Kobayashi Maskawa Matrix
Hallowed be its complex phase factor.
Thy matter over antimatter come.
Thy asymmetry come on earth
as it is in heaven.
Give us today our baryon stablity.
Forgive us our entropy as
we forgive the entropy of others.
Leds us not into symmetry but
deliver us from annilahation.
For thine is the matter and the power and energy for ever.
Amen.
Actually apart from the colors, all the other
particles are come in (isospin) pairs.
Under SU(2) (weak force pairs)
Electron Neutrino
up down
strange charmed
bottom top
proton neutron (which is up down again)
blue red green because color has
SU(3) symmetry
The Thermal diode is built into all Athlon XPs
and Athlon MPs, and i think also Morgan based
durons.
In Toms test the thermal shutdown did not work,
and the Athlon burned, in the new test the
thermal shutdown operated and the Athlon
survived. Presumbly Tom had a motherboard that
did not support reading the Thermal diode on
Athlon MPs and Athlon XPs, while the MB in the
video, did support it.
Anyway the new video is good news for AMD, and
for the less nibled fingered computer builder.
It also shows that Tom was way too quick to blame
AMD for thermal diode on the palomino Athlon for
not functioning.
Well You could have knocked me down with a feather.
Na Cl
Need a light, Salted
Test 11: We unscrewed each box and removed a
vital component, reconnected the PCs and filmed the results.
[Banner Advert for Belkin]
As you can see every for box expect the
Belkin, this resulted in the monitor exploding.
How irresponsible of the other manufacturers not
protect there products against sabotage. This
could have your childs monitor exploding. Think of
the damage the shards of glass would do to his
innocent little eyes.
[Banner Advert for Belkin]
OK these 2-way system our fine and useful
for home usage. But for a real server operation
you good do with many more connections.
Our rack of 10 linux boxes is connected to
the head, by two 8-way OmniView boxes ganged
together, this system work fine, except that the
time between press the scan button of the box,
before you can press it again is a few seconds,
slightly annoying when you need to get from box-2
to box-10. A hold down repeat or numerical keypad
to select box would be nice.
What do you KVM does anyone else recommend for
heading a rack of boxes.
Unicode support will come in very nicely for
database driven, foriegn language websites.
Hope the Java JDBC drivers for MySQL are updated
to handle unicode as well. (Should be easy, as
Java got all the Unicode stuff as it is).
brief.
Today, its quite rational to see muslim in the
street and wonder if he is one of the wacked
out ones where at war with, even if only one
in ten thousand muslim is a extremist, the fear
is still legitiment. Its nothing to be proud of,
but that fear is real, legitiment and rational.
That doesn't make it worthing attacking them, or
hating them, though.