Earth is quickly running out of resources. Fusion reactors seem to become promising but commercial use is still decades away. Nuclear reactors create too big a waste problem. Oil is running out (ofcourse I'm thinking 'decades' here). The number of humans on this planet is going up dramatically. Hopefully before the time comes that we're out of energy sources, we will somehow be able to set out on a trip to a planet that could support us.
I'd rather suggest that nobody leaves this planet for permanent residence in lush and living world until we have managed to get some sense about not making planets polluted. Meanwhile, colonizing things like asteroids, moon etc. is OK.
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Oh please. Just read back a couple of stories... Loki is dead. Why should ATI bother? The Linux market isn't worth shit.
And there are no other uses for 3D than games? Oh please.
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Gee, you must be an nVidia employee or something. My box locks up SOLID after 4-5 days when using the nVidia drivers.:P
I had an uptime of 131 days before I upgraded kernel last week. All this with the nVidia drivers. X would start consuming most of the CPU time maybe once in few weeks and I had to log in from another machine and kill it, but I could live with that. (Don't know if that was caused by driver or X itself
HOMM III is indeed addictive; my girlfriend is a living proof of that. I bougth the game over an year ago, and she's still playing it regulary.;)
Too bad if Loki goes, they tried hard.
AMD chips are great but their mother boards
aren't that great due to the reversed
engineered AGP implementation. I have an
Athlon that's gathering dust because the
motherboard was a choke point in performance
and reliability.
Interesting. This machine is equipped with A7M266 & TB 1200/266. It's been rather stable:
Wow, Intel really loves the MHz wars. Pumping out MHz when only 90% of the brancing is correct. Most of you probably think 90% is good, but think of it this way: 1 out of every 10 times you try and click on something, or double click something, or open a file, whatever, it fails. Every 10th Word file fails. This is good? Industry servers are designed for 5 9s (99.999% uptime), yet we can accept a 10% fail rate for our processors?
Maybe you should get informed what branching means.
In the end I think the best measure of speed, is probably MIPS (millions of instructions/second)...
Except that the amount of instructions to perform a certain task is quite dependent on the instruction set - so the same task may need considerably less or more instructions on different instructions sets.
I think that the best measure of speed is how quickly the desired tasks are completed;)
I just can't get excited about 100,000 year old lakes on Mars. I'm not sure why. Hubble, ISS, Voyager, stuff like that - really cool.
Well, quite a few pictures taken by Hubble show things in state they were millions or even more years ago, so the possible water in Mars is rather recent stuff compared to that...;)
Mmmm....lets see our planet is 5 billion plus years old, millions of species have evolved, only one arose out of all that time to become sentient enough to be curious about the universe to engage in technology endeavors.
5 Billion years? Millions of species? Obviously this intelligence thing is a complete FLUKE, a one in a 5 billion years stab in the dark.
Doesn't anyone find that odd?
The chances of intelligence happening on another planet seems extremely remote too me given this evidence (or lack there of aka SETI.).
Your evidence to one or other direction is rather minimal; we have so far managed to detect just the first few tens of exoplanets that happen to be relatively near us and have very little knowledge about them; in practice, we know only our own solar system in any meaningful detail at all. That is not sufficient to analyze the situation galaxy-wide or even within the closest 100 lightyears IMO.
However, in the next few decades the situation might be changing with the planned projects that could actually be able to give us glimpses of the other worlds.
Once internet broadband increases, which it will eventually, there will be no need for compressed formats just like no one uses compressed disks under windows anymore (DRVSPACE.BIN).
Just like no-one keeps any program sources archived on their hard disks? I'd say that you underestimate the ability to create larger and larger amounts of data, which has no significant problems keeping up with the increasing size of storage media. At one time, everything I needed fitted well on a 44 megabyte hard drive. Now I have 60 gigabytes of storage space, of which almost half is already filled. The time difference between these two situations is just about 10 years.
It's not a big thing, but Compaq got this remote web management included (and enabled by default) on their PCs. Every few seconds, they broadcast to port 2301, hitting thousands of machines on mediaone's cable network.
That manager is pretty annoying; I had to add an extra rule to my firewall to not log those packets which that crappy piece of software broadcasts.
Bzzt. Wrong; there was no fixed certain sample rate; rather, the rate was chosen by dividing a certain delay between subsequent samples with a suitable number. The maximum rate that was possible to play with DMA was about 28KHz while in video modes, more with the modes introduced in ECS and AGA chipsets. You could also push values directly into the register with CPU if that wasn't enough. Although I guess that the other limitations of audio hardware started to show by then. Usually the rate used in games was something like 8 or 16 KHz, mostly because larger rates obviously used more memory for samples, and most games were written with 0.5 or 1 megabytes of memory in mind...
Fortan.. Laugh, does anyone actually admit to knowing that language? I think that's about as relevant as Cobol. I know that when it was needed, everybody on the block seemed to know it. As soon as it was deemed unworthy, well, nobody seems to have any knowledge of it anymore!
It's one of the three languages that are teached at the basics of programming course for example where I'm studying. You might ask why, and the answer really is rather simple; there's a huge amount of routine libraries for various scientific tasks available because of all these years it has been existing.
It may not be an especially pretty language (and I didn't like it much when I had one course with six assignments with it;), but for certain kind of problems it's a good choice.
The difference is even more easily noticeable when compiling; while compiling 2.4.3 took about 5 minutes (modules and kernel itself), my 1.2 GHz TB compiled Mozilla in about 50 minutes. Suddenly those 760MP motherboards started to look attracting...
This machine has Asus A7M266 motherboard (which works very nicely;) The 760MP boards are certainly interesting, but I guess that a single-CPU TB is enough for me right now.
Thanks for clarifications. After adding them to my knowledge, the situation and decisions do sound more reasonable. I'd hope that ATI gives them a positive answer at some point, though.;) At least it certainly wouldn't hurt.
I wonder why they are developing 3D support for Voodoo3 and G450; the former is rather old, and though still reasonably OK performance-wise, it's disappearing. G450 is more recent, has good image quality and dualhead capability, but it's exactly the performance leader either. Wouldn't Nvidia products and Radeon products make more sense?
How log has the Amiga really been dead anyways (and this is NOT a flame) ? At least 15 years ago, for all intents and purposes.
15 years ago it was just about been released, so I'd think that your estimate is a bit over the top.;) About 7 or 10 years would be closer to the mark.
There's actually a bit of new commercial software still released for it btw, although in amounts that are rather far less than for the current platforms.
I would GLADLY pay several hundred dollars each for a good linux web browser and mail client!
What's wrong with Pine or Mutt as a mail client? I've used Pine for five years and it has been easily good enough for my mail needs. Mutt should be supposedly better, but I haven't felt the need to try it.
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Earth is quickly running out of resources. Fusion reactors seem to become promising but commercial use is still decades away. Nuclear reactors create too big a waste problem. Oil is running out (ofcourse I'm thinking 'decades' here). The number of humans on this planet is going up dramatically. Hopefully before the time comes that we're out of energy sources, we will somehow be able to set out on a trip to a planet that could support us.
I'd rather suggest that nobody leaves this planet for permanent residence in lush and living world until we have managed to get some sense about not making planets polluted. Meanwhile, colonizing things like asteroids, moon etc. is OK.
Oh please. Just read back a couple of stories... Loki is dead. Why should ATI bother? The Linux market isn't worth shit.
And there are no other uses for 3D than games? Oh please.
Gee, you must be an nVidia employee or something. My box locks up SOLID after 4-5 days when using the nVidia drivers. :P
I had an uptime of 131 days before I upgraded kernel last week. All this with the nVidia drivers. X would start consuming most of the CPU time maybe once in few weeks and I had to log in from another machine and kill it, but I could live with that. (Don't know if that was caused by driver or X itself
Yes folks admit it .....Linux is dead. It was a original idea but the grave has been dug and the dirt is being filled....
Yes folks admit it ....Trolls are dead. It was an unoriginal idea but the grave has been dug and the dirt is being filled...
HOMM III is indeed addictive; my girlfriend is a living proof of that. I bougth the game over an year ago, and she's still playing it regulary. ;)
Too bad if Loki goes, they tried hard.
AMD chips are great but their mother boards aren't that great due to the reversed engineered AGP implementation. I have an Athlon that's gathering dust because the motherboard was a choke point in performance and reliability.
Interesting. This machine is equipped with A7M266 & TB 1200/266. It's been rather stable:
uptime
8:52pm up 127 days, 2:22, 27 users, load average: 2.06, 2.07, 2.08
A choke point in performance and reliability indeed...
Wow, Intel really loves the MHz wars. Pumping out MHz when only 90% of the brancing is correct. Most of you probably think 90% is good, but think of it this way: 1 out of every 10 times you try and click on something, or double click something, or open a file, whatever, it fails. Every 10th Word file fails. This is good? Industry servers are designed for 5 9s (99.999% uptime), yet we can accept a 10% fail rate for our processors?
Maybe you should get informed what branching means.
In the end I think the best measure of speed, is probably MIPS (millions of instructions/second)...
Except that the amount of instructions to perform a certain task is quite dependent on the instruction set - so the same task may need considerably less or more instructions on different instructions sets.
I think that the best measure of speed is how quickly the desired tasks are completed ;)
I just can't get excited about 100,000 year old lakes on Mars. I'm not sure why. Hubble, ISS, Voyager, stuff like that - really cool.
Well, quite a few pictures taken by Hubble show things in state they were millions or even more years ago, so the possible water in Mars is rather recent stuff compared to that... ;)
Mmmm....lets see our planet is 5 billion plus years old, millions of species have evolved, only one arose out of all that time to become sentient enough to be curious about the universe to engage in technology endeavors. 5 Billion years? Millions of species? Obviously this intelligence thing is a complete FLUKE, a one in a 5 billion years stab in the dark. Doesn't anyone find that odd? The chances of intelligence happening on another planet seems extremely remote too me given this evidence (or lack there of aka SETI.).
Your evidence to one or other direction is rather minimal; we have so far managed to detect just the first few tens of exoplanets that happen to be relatively near us and have very little knowledge about them; in practice, we know only our own solar system in any meaningful detail at all. That is not sufficient to analyze the situation galaxy-wide or even within the closest 100 lightyears IMO.
However, in the next few decades the situation might be changing with the planned projects that could actually be able to give us glimpses of the other worlds.
Once internet broadband increases, which it will eventually, there will be no need for compressed formats just like no one uses compressed disks under windows anymore (DRVSPACE.BIN).
Just like no-one keeps any program sources archived on their hard disks? I'd say that you underestimate the ability to create larger and larger amounts of data, which has no significant problems keeping up with the increasing size of storage media. At one time, everything I needed fitted well on a 44 megabyte hard drive. Now I have 60 gigabytes of storage space, of which almost half is already filled. The time difference between these two situations is just about 10 years.
>Since I actually wash myself minimum once a day
And anyone who doesn't is a fucking pig, as far as I'm concerned.
Just try telling that to the folks living in the middle of Sahara or in other rather exotic places with rather little extra water. ;)
It must be terribly difficult to just skip stories that you are not interested about.
It's not a big thing, but Compaq got this remote web management included (and enabled by default) on their PCs. Every few seconds, they broadcast to port 2301, hitting thousands of machines on mediaone's cable network.
That manager is pretty annoying; I had to add an extra rule to my firewall to not log those packets which that crappy piece of software broadcasts.
With every Amiga, you got 22 Khz stereo sound
Bzzt. Wrong; there was no fixed certain sample rate; rather, the rate was chosen by dividing a certain delay between subsequent samples with a suitable number. The maximum rate that was possible to play with DMA was about 28KHz while in video modes, more with the modes introduced in ECS and AGA chipsets. You could also push values directly into the register with CPU if that wasn't enough. Although I guess that the other limitations of audio hardware started to show by then. Usually the rate used in games was something like 8 or 16 KHz, mostly because larger rates obviously used more memory for samples, and most games were written with 0.5 or 1 megabytes of memory in mind...
Fortan.. Laugh, does anyone actually admit to knowing that language? I think that's about as relevant as Cobol. I know that when it was needed, everybody on the block seemed to know it. As soon as it was deemed unworthy, well, nobody seems to have any knowledge of it anymore!
It's one of the three languages that are teached at the basics of programming course for example where I'm studying. You might ask why, and the answer really is rather simple; there's a huge amount of routine libraries for various scientific tasks available because of all these years it has been existing.
It may not be an especially pretty language (and I didn't like it much when I had one course with six assignments with it ;), but for certain kind of problems it's a good choice.
The difference is even more easily noticeable when compiling; while compiling 2.4.3 took about 5 minutes (modules and kernel itself), my 1.2 GHz TB compiled Mozilla in about 50 minutes. Suddenly those 760MP motherboards started to look attracting...
Actually, AMD 760-based boards have been available in upwards of a month already.
Over two months actually:
uptime
9:59pm up 65 days, 3:32, 24 users, load average: 2.06, 2.06, 2.01
This machine has Asus A7M266 motherboard (which works very nicely ;) The 760MP boards are certainly interesting, but I guess that a single-CPU TB is enough for me right now.
Why "Only Real format at this stage unfortunately" ? Be glad it ain't "Only Windoze Media format at this stage unfortunately.
Or Quicktime. It may be a nice format, but until support for more platforms comes, I don't like Apple much...
One aspect of spider-man is now done. But where are the web-throwing pads at wrists, the superior strength and other features? I want them too! ;)
Thanks for clarifications. After adding them to my knowledge, the situation and decisions do sound more reasonable. I'd hope that ATI gives them a positive answer at some point, though. ;) At least it certainly wouldn't hurt.
I wonder why they are developing 3D support for Voodoo3 and G450; the former is rather old, and though still reasonably OK performance-wise, it's disappearing. G450 is more recent, has good image quality and dualhead capability, but it's exactly the performance leader either. Wouldn't Nvidia products and Radeon products make more sense?
How log has the Amiga really been dead anyways (and this is NOT a flame) ? At least 15 years ago, for all intents and purposes.
15 years ago it was just about been released, so I'd think that your estimate is a bit over the top. ;) About 7 or 10 years would be closer to the mark.
There's actually a bit of new commercial software still released for it btw, although in amounts that are rather far less than for the current platforms.
I don't care what everyone else says, he died young at the age of 49.
He looked suprisingly old at the picture, certainly older than 49. I wonder if he had rough lifestyle or something...
I would GLADLY pay several hundred dollars each for a good linux web browser and mail client!
What's wrong with Pine or Mutt as a mail client? I've used Pine for five years and it has been easily good enough for my mail needs. Mutt should be supposedly better, but I haven't felt the need to try it.