what like the orignal Voodoo accelerator boards? (completly amazing bits of hardware btw)... it resutlts in problems with programs that only expects one graphics card and don't allow selecting which one to do the acceleration on.
sounds like it just does automaticly what a micro programed for use with sensors does. Usualy you have a counter in the chip that is driven from a clock pulse derived from the main system clock that generates an interupt (waking the proccesor up) every time it overflows. As each overflow is the same time interval apart this can be used to run a subroutine that checks whether it's time to run the sensing program yet. If it is the sending program is run and the proccesor goes back to sleep only waking on each interupt. Doing this proccesors can be made that consume nano watts of power. Automating this reduces the versitility of the microcontroller, although if it has resulted in good power savings then cool.
I signed up for an EEE degree... I hope I don't end up destititute for laughing evertime somone says IP (what a silly term). Mabey I should learn madarin and move the china. I picked up a free book on analoug chip design and it looked like fun feild with lots of complex problems and scope for orginal solutions. Is this also infected with this IP crap? (ie you have to pay for each bandgap referance or something).
How about the bright line of the DRM crap where you have controll and the free software where I have control. OK? propritry software has no place on an open system. My soultion in this particuar battle is to only use non-free software absolutly needed and replace as soon as freesoftware is usable.
Can I for one say you and who's army on this one. If somone is programing for fun they can right whatever code they want and release it how they see fit. For most people programing for fun the atraction of linux is its openess. DRM, SIMlocks and overly restrictive licenses (EG no source modification) are not openess. They can develop there own DRM if they want to. Just don't expect anyone to help them or even express any interest.
I have had and OCZ drive mechanicly fail after the case failed due to sitting on it (one of the rearly rearly small ones). I have also had 2 free memory sticks (256mb) fail on me. However this 128mb creative muvo mp3 player still works fine.
and I day dream about having an opertunity to have been around in the early days of computing programing on things like the PDP machines. I get a little of the cramming code into very limited machines with embeded programing but... even there things are moving towards high level inefffeciant langauges. I like stuff like line counting and adding NOP's in to sycronise bits of the system...
popular opinion should not always be folowed by govenment as it tends to be rather stupid. For example polls show that the uk populous would like capital punishment brought back in. This is just such a stupid regresive step that we have thankfully managed to avoid debate about it.
Heisenberg also worked for the Nazi's and attempted to build a Nuclear bomb. That one however is debatable. He later claimed he was secretly sabotaging the project. ... such uncertainty
thats due to the servers location... setting up a 100Mb/s fiber link to a persons home is vastly more expensive than setting up several 100mb/s pipes shared between 100's of servers. (on a per user basis).
To me open source on a non opensource OS (apple has a patchey history with opening bits of OS) has always seemed a little contridictory and defeating the purpose of running a free or opensource system.
In hongkong you can get full duplex 100Mb/s fiber for aprox £120 a month.. which seems quite expensive but in something like a student flat the bull can quite easily be split and there will be no bandwidth shortfall. It does have usuage limits but they are in the TB range from memory.
and also that chinese people for the most part like manufactured pop even if you play them the alternative. Althought in an argument over who's music is better there is usualy quite quickly the admision that westen music is more complex and varied. But on the plus side the indoctronation into manufactured pop only apears temporary upon the transfer of my 80GB odd of music.
The NSA will not crack RSA nor will anyone else no matter how bloated there budget due to the fudimental nature of cracking it. It involves the factorisation of prime numbers multiplied together. Factorisation has had no known short cuts found in thousands of years of mathmatics. Some people think it to be something that actualy has no short cuts. The quantum computer can complete every posible test to see if a number is a factor of a number in the same time it takes to do one test and so can factorise pretty much instantly. However a normal computer has to test every posible value which means for a 1024bit key aproximatly 1.797693134862315907729305190789e+308 divisions each which will take more than one proccesor cycle. But assuming we have a 3GHZ proccesor that can do one long division per cycle thats going to take 1.8988485973398018308630411171836e+288 YEARS to test every single value. DO you see now why the NSA cannot crack a 1024bit RSA key no matter how much computing power they throw at it?
those are not optional at Alvl they are all part of the core units. You can do a further maths Alvl if feeling upto it aswell which is quite alot more challenging than the Alvel maths.
I have an offer from imperial of 3 A's at Alvl and got 9.5GCSE's. My grades in AS and GCSE's were not anything extrodinary. I took the "hardest" A levels and educate myself alot (I'm learning VHDL at the moment). I mean whats the point in 4+ A levels if they are not relevent to the university course, they will only distract from the more important things, the things you leanr yourself. Think about it, if everyone on a course gets 3+ A's at Alevel they have all memorised a simlar sylubus to you, efectivly you are all not unique snowflakes. The only way to distinguish yourself is to learn things that your fellow students haven't even tried.
hmm also I find the 50's questions easier because they have less words in them, it's a maths exam not a comprehension exersise.
thats quite expensive in the uk for £40 a month (aprox $80) you can get unlimited (with no BT throttle) upto 24Mb/s (although my freinds who have it can only connect at about 12Mb/s due to line quality, but the upload is about 1Mb/s which is alot better than ADSL1.
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what like the orignal Voodoo accelerator boards? (completly amazing bits of hardware btw)... it resutlts in problems with programs that only expects one graphics card and don't allow selecting which one to do the acceleration on.
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sounds like it just does automaticly what a micro programed for use with sensors does. Usualy you have a counter in the chip that is driven from a clock pulse derived from the main system clock that generates an interupt (waking the proccesor up) every time it overflows. As each overflow is the same time interval apart this can be used to run a subroutine that checks whether it's time to run the sensing program yet. If it is the sending program is run and the proccesor goes back to sleep only waking on each interupt. Doing this proccesors can be made that consume nano watts of power. Automating this reduces the versitility of the microcontroller, although if it has resulted in good power savings then cool.
I signed up for an EEE degree... I hope I don't end up destititute for laughing evertime somone says IP (what a silly term). Mabey I should learn madarin and move the china. I picked up a free book on analoug chip design and it looked like fun feild with lots of complex problems and scope for orginal solutions. Is this also infected with this IP crap? (ie you have to pay for each bandgap referance or something).
How about the bright line of the DRM crap where you have controll and the free software where I have control. OK? propritry software has no place on an open system. My soultion in this particuar battle is to only use non-free software absolutly needed and replace as soon as freesoftware is usable.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html More info
well thats the wonder of the GPL, we can just take the most current version of QT and FORK.
Can I for one say you and who's army on this one. If somone is programing for fun they can right whatever code they want and release it how they see fit. For most people programing for fun the atraction of linux is its openess. DRM, SIMlocks and overly restrictive licenses (EG no source modification) are not openess. They can develop there own DRM if they want to. Just don't expect anyone to help them or even express any interest.
I have had and OCZ drive mechanicly fail after the case failed due to sitting on it (one of the rearly rearly small ones). I have also had 2 free memory sticks (256mb) fail on me. However this 128mb creative muvo mp3 player still works fine.
and I day dream about having an opertunity to have been around in the early days of computing programing on things like the PDP machines. I get a little of the cramming code into very limited machines with embeded programing but... even there things are moving towards high level inefffeciant langauges. I like stuff like line counting and adding NOP's in to sycronise bits of the system...
popular opinion should not always be folowed by govenment as it tends to be rather stupid. For example polls show that the uk populous would like capital punishment brought back in. This is just such a stupid regresive step that we have thankfully managed to avoid debate about it.
Don't forget GNU HURD.. now with 120% more feedom!
thats due to the servers location... setting up a 100Mb/s fiber link to a persons home is vastly more expensive than setting up several 100mb/s pipes shared between 100's of servers. (on a per user basis).
To me open source on a non opensource OS (apple has a patchey history with opening bits of OS) has always seemed a little contridictory and defeating the purpose of running a free or opensource system.
In hongkong you can get full duplex 100Mb/s fiber for aprox £120 a month.. which seems quite expensive but in something like a student flat the bull can quite easily be split and there will be no bandwidth shortfall. It does have usuage limits but they are in the TB range from memory.
and also that chinese people for the most part like manufactured pop even if you play them the alternative. Althought in an argument over who's music is better there is usualy quite quickly the admision that westen music is more complex and varied. But on the plus side the indoctronation into manufactured pop only apears temporary upon the transfer of my 80GB odd of music.
ah looking it up there is abit more to it then just multiplication of the primes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA
The NSA will not crack RSA nor will anyone else no matter how bloated there budget due to the fudimental nature of cracking it. It involves the factorisation of prime numbers multiplied together. Factorisation has had no known short cuts found in thousands of years of mathmatics. Some people think it to be something that actualy has no short cuts. The quantum computer can complete every posible test to see if a number is a factor of a number in the same time it takes to do one test and so can factorise pretty much instantly. However a normal computer has to test every posible value which means for a 1024bit key aproximatly 1.797693134862315907729305190789e+308 divisions each which will take more than one proccesor cycle. But assuming we have a 3GHZ proccesor that can do one long division per cycle thats going to take 1.8988485973398018308630411171836e+288 YEARS to test every single value. DO you see now why the NSA cannot crack a 1024bit RSA key no matter how much computing power they throw at it?
those are not optional at Alvl they are all part of the core units. You can do a further maths Alvl if feeling upto it aswell which is quite alot more challenging than the Alvel maths.
I still think A levels are alot easier though and O levls eaier aswell just the particular questions in the abstract.
hmm also I find the 50's questions easier because they have less words in them, it's a maths exam not a comprehension exersise.
7.152BiB/s isn't that much actualy, thanks for provinding an excelent argument for the undercapacity of canadas current network!
thats quite expensive in the uk for £40 a month (aprox $80) you can get unlimited (with no BT throttle) upto 24Mb/s (although my freinds who have it can only connect at about 12Mb/s due to line quality, but the upload is about 1Mb/s which is alot better than ADSL1.
good job ethernet uses isolation transformers then.