The way I get around this problem is to look at the address. Assuming you know the last name of your friend and his/her address (or just the general area s/he lives in), you can find the correct number fairly quickly.. of course it would be harder if your friend's last name is very common.
And they are. Newer processors *are* doing more per second. What do you think this 'Ghz' number is (indirectly) measuring?
> Hopefully this will awaken Intel and AMD.
Awaken them from what?
Doing more per second while maintaining the same clock speed is harder to achieve than doing the same per cycle and doing more cycles per second. The former requires some sort of shift in paradigm in how a programmer (or at least a compiler) writes a program. And actually, this is being attempted in IA-64's EPIC/VLIW architecture.
> GTA is one of many testaments to the idea that you don't need to go purely 3D for a game to be fun.
I doubt you need any testments at all to show non-3d games are fun, there were plenty of fun 2d games even before 3d games were available. I tend to find 2d games more fun, and I think it is because the programmers tend to concentrate on the game play more in those games rather than the graphics. Nice 3d graphics are nice, but that shouldn't be the focus. For exmaple, some may disagree and this is just my opinion, but I find Starcraft more fun than Warcraft III. I find most 3d games lacking in depth in game play, and am in fact still looking for testaments that 3d games can be fun. FPS's are an exception, but they've been hashed and rehashed so often they no longer have any appeal to me. Hmm, looks like I am ranting.. I'll stop now:)
This is EXACTLY why nerds get picked on in school. Instead of dealing with your social ineptitude and fixing it, you turn the argument into a Linux vs. (I assume) Windows bash.
You may be smart in the computer world or the star trek world, but there is another social world out there where intelligence is also required to succeed.
It is all about being a balanced person. Nerds, are obviously not balanced. (I know I am making a big generalization, there are, of course, always exceptions.)
This reminds me of a corollary to Moore's law. (Probably off topic):
If you have a job that takes 10 years to process with current technology, you can wait 18 months, assuming Moore's law holds, and buy a system twice as fast at the same price and complete the job in 5 years + 18 months total - 6.5 years total. And heck, you can wait 18 more months, then purchase a system that is 4X faster, and complete the job in 2.5 years + 36 months of wait time, a total of 5.5 years to complete your job. In the mean time, invest that money for 3 years (so you'd end up purchasing hardware that is more than 4 times faster).
Whether Moore's law will hold is another topic for someone else to ponder.:)
I'd like to add that the market mentioned is also the most lucrative market and is one of the reasons Intel's financials stays in the black while AMD's are in the red.
If they keep the red up, they'll soon join Alphas in CPU heaven.
> how many of you keep doodlings you made 12 years ago?
Call me weird, but I still have every single piece of homework I have since middle school, and that's about 11 years ago. This includes all the binders w/ the loose leaf papers still in them. So if I had made any doodlings in them, they will still be there.
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In 1994, I bought a 486 system for around $2000 (it was a Packard Hell:( ). Anyway, the CDROM drive that came with it was a 2X. It wasn't until later that a 3X, then a 4X drive came out. (And then the speeds started to exponentially increase.) Although I've never paid any attention to the market back in 1991, I like to take a risk, and say that CDROM drives at that year weren't very popular and not many CDROM aps, games, etc were out there. To see this guy suggest using a CDROM in a console back in 1991 brings me a lot of doubt.
Perhaps this guy had a innovative mind, perhaps not. I hate to do it, but IMO, this story has 'hoax' written all over it.
> At the opposite end of the spectrum, there are > programs that look absolutely nothing like they > are using any kind of standard, but under the > looks they work perfectly fine.
I agree with you that a lot of the FLTK widgets are not very aesthetically pleasing, however IMO the toolkit itself is very nice, very easy to use. The FLUID tool helps alot as well. If somebody with more artistic skills would go in and design better looking widgets, it'd be great!
UI elements can be changed through Javascript. Unfortunately, not all browsers are created equal in that aspect even though there is a standard out there. You end up having to restrict which browsers your user can use, which kills the multiplatform thing.
The Fast Lightning Tool Kit is very nice. I've used it on Sun OS, Linux and Windows. Compiles between platforms without much change to the source at all...mostly its the system calls that needs to be changed, nothing related to the GUI.
Technically, in a lot of cities, bicycles are not allowed on the sidewalks either, but most of the time it is not enforced because those who tend to ride bikes on the sidewalks are kids, and its safer for them to be off the road.
Really? I've lived there 10 years, 1/2 mile from Waikiki, and I've never seen mopeds on the sidewalks *everywhere*. I do ocassionally see groups of tourists with mopeds *on the road*. But I see more mopeds on the University of Hawaii campus than anywhere else. Not on sidewalks either.
OS's and programming languages are both building blocks of a computer system but at different levels of abstraction. PL's are more of a mathematical abstraction while OS's are the implementation of that mathematical model. Obviously they have the same mathematical properties, but they are not the same.
If it takes 4 seconds to spread to 2^16 computers, then it takes another 4 seconds for each of those 2^16 to spread to another 2^16 for the entire 2^32 internet. That's only 8 seconds total. Of course it really depends on where the origin is and the network topology. But it would not take days or even hours to spread to the entire internet, just minutes.
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The answer is 42, my friend =)
It would be nice if the editor fixes that as well... but you know slashdot editors...:(
The way I get around this problem is to look at the address. Assuming you know the last name of your friend and his/her address (or just the general area s/he lives in), you can find the correct number fairly quickly.. of course it would be harder if your friend's last name is very common.
> They should have been focused on throughput.
And they are. Newer processors *are* doing more per second. What do you think this 'Ghz' number is (indirectly) measuring?
> Hopefully this will awaken Intel and AMD.
Awaken them from what?
Doing more per second while maintaining the same clock speed is harder to achieve than doing the same per cycle and doing more cycles per second. The former requires some sort of shift in paradigm in how a programmer (or at least a compiler) writes a program. And actually, this is being attempted in IA-64's EPIC/VLIW architecture.
> GTA is one of many testaments to the idea that you don't need to go purely 3D for a game to be fun.
:)
I doubt you need any testments at all to show non-3d games are fun, there were plenty of fun 2d games even before 3d games were available. I tend to find 2d games more fun, and I think it is because the programmers tend to concentrate on the game play more in those games rather than the graphics. Nice 3d graphics are nice, but that shouldn't be the focus. For exmaple, some may disagree and this is just my opinion, but I find Starcraft more fun than Warcraft III. I find most 3d games lacking in depth in game play, and am in fact still looking for testaments that 3d games can be fun. FPS's are an exception, but they've been hashed and rehashed so often they no longer have any appeal to me. Hmm, looks like I am ranting.. I'll stop now
This is EXACTLY why nerds get picked on in school. Instead of dealing with your social ineptitude and fixing it, you turn the argument into a Linux vs. (I assume) Windows bash.
You may be smart in the computer world or the star trek world, but there is another social world out there where intelligence is also required to succeed.
It is all about being a balanced person. Nerds, are obviously not balanced. (I know I am making a big generalization, there are, of course, always exceptions.)
*shudders* at the thought of implanting bacterias in the brain.
Redundant by this time.. but cdrom tracks spiral outward while hard drive tracks are concentric.
This reminds me of a corollary to Moore's law. (Probably off topic):
:)
If you have a job that takes 10 years to process with current technology, you can wait 18 months, assuming Moore's law holds, and buy a system twice as fast at the same price and complete the job in 5 years + 18 months total - 6.5 years total. And heck, you can wait 18 more months, then purchase a system that is 4X faster, and complete the job in 2.5 years + 36 months of wait time, a total of 5.5 years to complete your job. In the mean time, invest that money for 3 years (so you'd end up purchasing hardware that is more than 4 times faster).
Whether Moore's law will hold is another topic for someone else to ponder.
I'd like to add that the market mentioned is also the most lucrative market and is one of the reasons Intel's financials stays in the black while AMD's are in the red.
If they keep the red up, they'll soon join Alphas in CPU heaven.
Baseball is America's favorite *pasttime*. It totally sucks now!!!!!!!! (I am referring to watching baseball on TV.) Playing baseball is actually fun.
> how many of you keep doodlings you made 12 years ago?
Call me weird, but I still have every single piece of homework I have since middle school, and that's about 11 years ago. This includes all the binders w/ the loose leaf papers still in them. So if I had made any doodlings in them, they will still be there.
In 1994, I bought a 486 system for around $2000 (it was a Packard Hell :( ). Anyway, the CDROM drive that came with it was a 2X. It wasn't until later that a 3X, then a 4X drive came out. (And then the speeds started to exponentially increase.) Although I've never paid any attention to the market back in 1991, I like to take a risk, and say that CDROM drives at that year weren't very popular and not many CDROM aps, games, etc were out there. To see this guy suggest using a CDROM in a console back in 1991 brings me a lot of doubt.
Perhaps this guy had a innovative mind, perhaps not. I hate to do it, but IMO, this story has 'hoax' written all over it.
Ahhhhh... brings back the memories...
check out earth 2025 if you are still into that. This is what B.R.E. has evolved to.
> At the opposite end of the spectrum, there are
> programs that look absolutely nothing like they
> are using any kind of standard, but under the
> looks they work perfectly fine.
A fine example would be Winamp.
I agree with you that a lot of the FLTK widgets are not very aesthetically pleasing, however IMO the toolkit itself is very nice, very easy to use. The FLUID tool helps alot as well. If somebody with more artistic skills would go in and design better looking widgets, it'd be great!
UI elements can be changed through Javascript. Unfortunately, not all browsers are created equal in that aspect even though there is a standard out there. You end up having to restrict which browsers your user can use, which kills the multiplatform thing.
http://www.fltk.org
The Fast Lightning Tool Kit is very nice. I've used it on Sun OS, Linux and Windows. Compiles between platforms without much change to the source at all...mostly its the system calls that needs to be changed, nothing related to the GUI.
Technically, in a lot of cities, bicycles are not allowed on the sidewalks either, but most of the time it is not enforced because those who tend to ride bikes on the sidewalks are kids, and its safer for them to be off the road.
Really? I've lived there 10 years, 1/2 mile from Waikiki, and I've never seen mopeds on the sidewalks *everywhere*. I do ocassionally see groups of tourists with mopeds *on the road*. But I see more mopeds on the University of Hawaii campus than anywhere else. Not on sidewalks either.
OS's and programming languages are both building blocks of a computer system but at different levels of abstraction. PL's are more of a mathematical abstraction while OS's are the implementation of that mathematical model. Obviously they have the same mathematical properties, but they are not the same.
If it takes 4 seconds to spread to 2^16 computers, then it takes another 4 seconds for each of those 2^16 to spread to another 2^16 for the entire 2^32 internet. That's only 8 seconds total. Of course it really depends on where the origin is and the network topology. But it would not take days or even hours to spread to the entire internet, just minutes.
What is there to study about the Xbox case? Its butt ugly ;)
One other interesting note about Sega was that it was started by a westerner... I don't remember, but it was either a British or an American.