Quamtum mechanics are just fine, but why presume that it is the final truth? The earth was flat, no questions asked, not too long ago. You have a point, but why the science is the absolute truth attitude?
Let's not get over-excited... This is of course interresting information, but it's information of a premature chip on a premature platform.
I doubt that any proper conclusions can be drawn from this, apart from what is already known: The Athlon 64 isn't ready yet. If was the release date wouldn't be set for September.
Much like with Doom III, there is always a cool-factor, but the actual facts at hand are very scarse. One thing is probably for sure though... The Hammer core can't compete with the Barton core on the desktop at this point. Otherwise we'd have the Athlon 64 waiting to be released much sooner.
No, seriously... I really think it looks much cooler than the stuff Nintendo has done so far. Anyone else think it's all or partially Apples "fault"? And I mean that as a good thing.
shouldn't memory bandwidth and latency be good enough to ensure that CPU is the dominant factor
Memory bandwidth and latency are determined by the CPU in a vast majority of the platforms tested. For example: take an Atlhon with a 200MHz bus... Fit it with DDR400. No matter what is it going to be able to access all that extra bandwidth, since the CPU bus is saturated. Thereby, the CPU becomes the dominant factor even when taking those factors into account.
I'm sure there are exceptions, so feel free to point them out;)
Connexion executives said data transmission speeds for the demo should be about five megabits per second coming into the plane and 128 thousand bits per second when sending data off the plane. The speed, they said, was similar to digital subscriber line service people have at home, but some users complained it seemed slower.
My guess is that it's not slower, but has more lag (through a satelite link... bound to be laggy). If that is the case it's fine for browsing, but no good for games...
Not that it matters, but how cool would it be to play Quake 10 Km up in the air?;)
One would presume that testing this theory would be feasible by creating a human being with a non-mutated version of this gene. For obvious reasons that would not be possible... For the same reasons creating, say, a chimp with our version of the gene wouldn't be sensible either.
...why do you need to stream something to another PC? If you have a LAN, you can play any file from wherever you want, no?
Files, yes. Content, including metadata about authors, styles and such: no. Just streaming files never ends up being user frienly enough. For you and me it's sufficient to locate a file. For someone else the ability to just "play movie" or "find rock music" is worth much more than a geek could possibly imagine;)
First of all I'll admit I didn't read the article...
What I did do was start wondering if there are any open standards to do things like this... I've been thinking about making a box at home to serve mp3s and movies, which would then be played at various devices (my desktop PC, my tv-attached laptop etc...)
This might not be quite on topic, but are there open standards for linking devices for serving and playing back media in a user friendly fashion? Sure you can do things like this, but the whole user friendlyness is critical for me, or rather my girlfriend, who won't have any of it unless she can use it too;)
They said 'We knew all about it, but only told our paying customers. You should become one of our paying customers.'
You're probably right, that would be their "hidden" agenda. Then again... many people are bound to get angry about it... and probably some feel even more annoyed by Symantec trying to use this as a marketing tool.
OK, I don't get it... How does Symantec going "We knew all about it but we didn't tell you" make Symantec look good in any way? I know I get annoyed when people behave like that... So anyone have a thought on exactly how this benefits Symantec?
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IPv6 will allow for more IP address, but is that it? I'm not questioning its usefullness, but am simply curious if there are any other benefits that come along with IPv6.
For one thing I've understood that IPv6 will make routing possible without keeping track crazy amounts of addresses in huge routing tables. IPv& addresses are hierachical, and in a simplified sense work something like this:
country.state.city.area.house.etc.etc...
NOTE: this is not the actual layout... I don't remember the details. But the point is a backbone router only needs to look at the start of the address, and then send the packet "in the right direction" so to speak. The same thing applies longer down the chain.
Would someone who is more enlightened care to explain this in an official manner?;)
We've now got Palomino, Thoroughbread A, Thoroughbread B and Barton under the Athlon XP name. To make things worse, some of the chips are using a 133 MHz FSB (Front Side Bus), and some 166.
Due to this and AMD's PR ratings you have to be real careful of what you buy, if you're aming for a specific core. Expecially since AMD doesn't plan to replace all Athlon XPs with the new core.
Just remember to do your research, and you'll be fine:)
With a total output of over 500 watts and a frequency response of 35-22000 Hz you could power a mid sized dance floor... Fact is these figures aren't really true.
The problem is that measuring these figures aren't done according to any standard weighting... the frequency response of my subwoofer at home is 39-200 Hz, the lower end at -3 DeciBels. The problem is these manufacturers don't report weighted figures. For all we know 35 Hz could be at -10 DeciBels, which is much lower than nominal volume.
This is why you never ever read the specs... listen to the speakers.
I'm not saying these speakers are bad. I'm just saying that the figures stated in the specs aren't comparable to professional or HIFI equipment.
From the article: With no moving internal parts, and no propeller, the engine should be cheap to manufacture.
I especially like the part about no moving parts... Moving parts are good to avoid in all cases, when possible... They wear and need replacement. Nice one!
What tools can i use to do pc-pc calls over linux?
GnomeMeeting itself... it supports the H.323 standard, which for example NetMeeting supports aswell.
This means that you can do PC-PC as in GnomeMeeting-GnomeMeeting, GnomeMeeting-NetMeeting, GnomeMeeting-AnyH.323CompliantSoftware. In theory at least...
MS makes money on the Xbox one way, and one way only: Games. The Xbox itself is sold at a loss, but the profit gained from selling games evens this out.
Now, a marginal group hacking Linux on the Xbox doesn't really matter, but what if someone wanted to buy 10000 Xboxes to build a super-cheap rendering cluster?
If doing this becomes easy enough MS isn't going to sell the Xbox for a loss forever...
As I see it, both KDE and Gnome are good, and no matter which is better neither is revolutionary.
But the most important thing is that the competitive enviroment is maintained. If one get's to dominate too much, there's no real need to really invent stuff. Just look at what happened to Windows I haven't really noticed much of a difference since NT 4...
If I remember things correctly this is to make it possible to run many different voltages (something like 3) to the drives, suitable for different sized drives.
The spec can be downloaded here (about 1 meg), if someone cares to verify my claims. It's all there.
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I'm sure I forgot something, feel free to add stuff
as a little basic quantum mechanics tells us
:)
Quamtum mechanics are just fine, but why presume that it is the final truth? The earth was flat, no questions asked, not too long ago. You have a point, but why the science is the absolute truth attitude?
Oh, and I'm sure I'm wrong on this too
Let's not get over-excited... This is of course interresting information, but it's information of a premature chip on a premature platform.
I doubt that any proper conclusions can be drawn from this, apart from what is already known: The Athlon 64 isn't ready yet. If was the release date wouldn't be set for September.
Much like with Doom III, there is always a cool-factor, but the actual facts at hand are very scarse. One thing is probably for sure though... The Hammer core can't compete with the Barton core on the desktop at this point. Otherwise we'd have the Athlon 64 waiting to be released much sooner.
Nintendo has been doing little flip-open portable game systems long before Apple did anything cute with their computers.
I was actually referring to the silver look and generally stylish design, as opposed to the orange 80's Donkey Kong flip-open thingies.
No, seriously... I really think it looks much cooler than the stuff Nintendo has done so far. Anyone else think it's all or partially Apples "fault"? And I mean that as a good thing.
consider some of the things we just *couldn't* do with slower hardware, and wonder what we're going to be taking for granted ten years from
:)
Actually I'm still waiting to be able to do the stuff I want... I want to build virtual sythesisers, and my 700MHz Athlon still isn't fast enough...
Yes. I am spoiled, and I like it
shouldn't memory bandwidth and latency be good enough to ensure that CPU is the dominant factor
;)
Memory bandwidth and latency are determined by the CPU in a vast majority of the platforms tested. For example: take an Atlhon with a 200MHz bus... Fit it with DDR400. No matter what is it going to be able to access all that extra bandwidth, since the CPU bus is saturated. Thereby, the CPU becomes the dominant factor even when taking those factors into account.
I'm sure there are exceptions, so feel free to point them out
From Reuters:
;)
Connexion executives said data transmission speeds for the demo should be about five megabits per second coming into the plane and 128 thousand bits per second when sending data off the plane. The speed, they said, was similar to digital subscriber line service people have at home, but some users complained it seemed slower.
My guess is that it's not slower, but has more lag (through a satelite link... bound to be laggy). If that is the case it's fine for browsing, but no good for games...
Not that it matters, but how cool would it be to play Quake 10 Km up in the air?
One would presume that testing this theory would be feasible by creating a human being with a non-mutated version of this gene. For obvious reasons that would not be possible... For the same reasons creating, say, a chimp with our version of the gene wouldn't be sensible either.
So, how does one test this theory?
...why do you need to stream something to another PC? If you have a LAN, you can play any file from wherever you want, no?
;)
Files, yes. Content, including metadata about authors, styles and such: no. Just streaming files never ends up being user frienly enough. For you and me it's sufficient to locate a file. For someone else the ability to just "play movie" or "find rock music" is worth much more than a geek could possibly imagine
First of all I'll admit I didn't read the article...
;)
What I did do was start wondering if there are any open standards to do things like this... I've been thinking about making a box at home to serve mp3s and movies, which would then be played at various devices (my desktop PC, my tv-attached laptop etc...)
This might not be quite on topic, but are there open standards for linking devices for serving and playing back media in a user friendly fashion? Sure you can do things like this, but the whole user friendlyness is critical for me, or rather my girlfriend, who won't have any of it unless she can use it too
Note to Slashdot Editors: please stop refering to Film Gimp as a tool used by movie studios. It isn't.
;)
Last time I checked Slashdot editors rarely posted stories written by themselves... also this particular story was quoting another source.
I'm sure you're right, but aren't we splitting hairs here?
They said 'We knew all about it, but only told our paying customers. You should become one of our paying customers.'
You're probably right, that would be their "hidden" agenda. Then again... many people are bound to get angry about it... and probably some feel even more annoyed by Symantec trying to use this as a marketing tool.
I do see the point in making profit though.
OK, I don't get it... How does Symantec going "We knew all about it but we didn't tell you" make Symantec look good in any way? I know I get annoyed when people behave like that... So anyone have a thought on exactly how this benefits Symantec?
IPv6 will allow for more IP address, but is that it? I'm not questioning its usefullness, but am simply curious if there are any other benefits that come along with IPv6.
;)
For one thing I've understood that IPv6 will make routing possible without keeping track crazy amounts of addresses in huge routing tables. IPv& addresses are hierachical, and in a simplified sense work something like this:
country.state.city.area.house.etc.etc...
NOTE: this is not the actual layout... I don't remember the details. But the point is a backbone router only needs to look at the start of the address, and then send the packet "in the right direction" so to speak. The same thing applies longer down the chain.
Would someone who is more enlightened care to explain this in an official manner?
"Thoroughbread"?
:)
Yup... mispelled there... such is life
We've now got Palomino, Thoroughbread A, Thoroughbread B and Barton under the Athlon XP name. To make things worse, some of the chips are using a 133 MHz FSB (Front Side Bus), and some 166.
:)
Due to this and AMD's PR ratings you have to be real careful of what you buy, if you're aming for a specific core. Expecially since AMD doesn't plan to replace all Athlon XPs with the new core.
Just remember to do your research, and you'll be fine
With a total output of over 500 watts and a frequency response of 35-22000 Hz you could power a mid sized dance floor... Fact is these figures aren't really true.
The problem is that measuring these figures aren't done according to any standard weighting... the frequency response of my subwoofer at home is 39-200 Hz, the lower end at -3 DeciBels. The problem is these manufacturers don't report weighted figures. For all we know 35 Hz could be at -10 DeciBels, which is much lower than nominal volume.
This is why you never ever read the specs... listen to the speakers.
I'm not saying these speakers are bad. I'm just saying that the figures stated in the specs aren't comparable to professional or HIFI equipment.
This PDF indicates data reates between 6-54 Mbps. Apparently 27 might be the goal to start with, if I'm reading the figures right (Halfway on page 2).
From the article: With no moving internal parts, and no propeller, the engine should be cheap to manufacture.
I especially like the part about no moving parts... Moving parts are good to avoid in all cases, when possible... They wear and need replacement. Nice one!
What tools can i use to do pc-pc calls over linux?
GnomeMeeting itself... it supports the H.323 standard, which for example NetMeeting supports aswell.
This means that you can do PC-PC as in GnomeMeeting-GnomeMeeting, GnomeMeeting-NetMeeting, GnomeMeeting-AnyH.323CompliantSoftware. In theory at least...
The PC-Phone thing is an additional service.
So, how long before someone warchalks a destroyer?
MS makes money on the Xbox one way, and one way only: Games. The Xbox itself is sold at a loss, but the profit gained from selling games evens this out.
Now, a marginal group hacking Linux on the Xbox doesn't really matter, but what if someone wanted to buy 10000 Xboxes to build a super-cheap rendering cluster?
If doing this becomes easy enough MS isn't going to sell the Xbox for a loss forever...
As I see it, both KDE and Gnome are good, and no matter which is better neither is revolutionary.
But the most important thing is that the competitive enviroment is maintained. If one get's to dominate too much, there's no real need to really invent stuff. Just look at what happened to Windows I haven't really noticed much of a difference since NT 4...
If I remember things correctly this is to make it possible to run many different voltages (something like 3) to the drives, suitable for different sized drives.
The spec can be downloaded here (about 1 meg), if someone cares to verify my claims. It's all there.