X86 chip running on 1 AA battery. They demonstrated it by playing a VCD movie. They also say that mp3s can be decoded/played on it."
This gadget is portable, plays MP3s, VCDs, audio CDs and comes with a lithium rechargeable. You can buy it already in the UK from Jungle. I have one on my desk, my only complaint is that it doesn't play some CD-RWs reliably.
I want to build a Linux OpenGL (err...MESA) development system and plan to use XF86 4.0 and DRI to take advantage of windowed hardware acceleration. Can anyone recommend a solution here?
YMMV, but here goes. We recently installed SuSE 7.0 on a handful of machines in order to get a "one-stop-shop" for X 4.0 and OpenGL.
The Matrox G400 and Creative Labs Annihilator Pro GeForce cards we had lying around worked but weren't too stable (Matrox is rock solid on 2D tho'); but (cross fingers) the Creative Labs TNT2 Ultra seems stable (and fast) over the last week or so.
I would like some feedback from other people who have done more than run fullscreen gaming benchmarks.
We use them for writing OpenGL and OpenInventor programs, and also Quake III.
VRML is a dumbed down OpenInventor with committee add-ons.
Open Inventor is Open Source (buzz, ding) which breaths new life into it. No more big SGI boxes for me. It's installed on a Linux box I have access to, seems fairly fast with a TNT2 class accelerator, I know people who are having fun with it, I'm about to once more. You can hack the ASCII file format like VRML and/or you can code it in C++, unlike VRML, mix and match ASCII/binary/C/C++, lots of funky User Interface widgets off-the-shelf (unlike VRML)...
If by "it" you'll be happy with any real world example of the technology rather than just the ShowStopper, TiVo is currently being advertised in the magazine delivered to Sky Digital customers in the UK (or at least to our house).
I'm told, but this could be utterly wrong, and I'm not quoting the Sky adverts, that TiVo costs £199 for the box, £10/month for the sevice or £199 for lifetime.
Oh dear. I am -very- familiar with the PowerVR and am both impressed by what it promises and by what it delivers in practice. I've got access to Japanese and European DCs and a Japanese PS2 at work; many people have compared them and most are pleasantly surprised by the DC and underwhelmed by the PS2.
I don't wish to be rude, but you are presumably still reading the marketing figures.
Why mention Voodoo3? IIRC Sega got into a nice legal tangle with 3Dfx sometime in 1997, because they rejected 3Dfx in favour of the PowerVR.
I plugged the USB mouse freebie into the USB-PS2 adapter, plugged that into a handy PS2-Serial adapter, removed my trusty Mouse Systems compatible no-name mouse (no more holding the button down) and plugged the serial adapter into my Linux homebox vintage 1996. It didn't work because the power drain was too high.
The red light of the optical mouse now lights up the office when we turn off lights and non-essential power at night (very green) leaving only the computers running. A reminder to me of how so I nearly crossed to the dark side.
Type "enigma stolen" into the Daily Telegraph search engine, dunno why but copy-pasting the link didn't work. The story makes me wonder how anyone could even think about such vandalism.
how does that China-Linux announcement from a while back play into it?
I'm reading said book. It sort of answers the above question. Don't want to spoil it, but I can't see why China won't do what they do in the book given half a chance.
Does anyone one know Sterling's position on using quotes from his books for sigs?
Your views are fascinating. Apologies in advance if I come across as patronising, combative or just boring, but hey, it sounds like you're missing out and that would be a shame.
Languages. Learn please, thank-you, and smile a lot. If you're marooned in the US, buy some groceries in a Korean/Spanish/Japanese/whoever store, look at what happens when you try to speak "their" language. It's gratifying (usually:-). Take it from there.
Millions of people speak English outside the obvious places you mentioned. For example, the Netherlands is eerie, most -everyone- speaks English. (I ought to learn Dutch, I've bought the beginner's book). An employer would help you get started. You could get by abroad.
My parents didn't have desk jobs. Truck drivers go all over Europe... so do builders...
The people I work with (and I) earn much less than US programmers if we convert dollars to sterling, fuel is about $1.30 a litre (not gallon!). I don't work for a bank or a start-up.
I was married and had kids before I ever went to the US, courtesy my employer, for one whole week. My last trip to Japan was 2 days. I'd love the chance to work in either country, not to make money but just for the experience.
After all, it's your life, but please, take a look around.
Bizarre cultural refrence #1234:I looked up Robby Leech on Google, who is he?
It's sad you've ruled that option out of your life. Sure bad things happen, but I work with many expatriates and they've mostly benefited from working abroad when you ask them what they think.
Do you plan on never taking any business trips abroad?
Also, what about your fellow Americans who want to work abroad? If you stopped immigration, it would make them look hypocritical.
What's your position on working abroad for multinationals?
If you ban any more immigrant workers are you going to insist that no more of your nationals work abroad? Fair's fair, and you want a fair chance, right?
If you're really Louis Wu, why don't you use the puppeteer hyperdrive to have a look at the galactic core like Beowulf Schaeffer did, instead of reading Slashdot?
The Dreamcast uses Vector Quantisation to compress its textures. On a VGA adapter it doesn't look too bad at all on Shenmue. VQ has some thought behind it, while from what I understand of S3/MS DXT it's pretty crude conceptually. Consoles can innovate, whereas PCs are hindered by standards and existing APIs.
With 8:1 compression as claimed for DC (VQ can do much better, I've looked into that, so the 8x ration is conservative), that's equivalent to the bandwidth ratio betwee PCI (132Mbytes/s) and AGP 4x (1Gbytes/s). FWIW I wish there were a few more PCI graphics cards out there too.
I have a Sony DSCF55E 2.1M pixel camera and it's fab for taking... snaps... in industrial quantities. Sure, I could in principle imagine a digital camera that takes 35mm camera accessories, but then i'd have to lug all the lenses around.
With 16M pixels you get zoom for free. Just point and shoot, there should be say 1M interesting pixels in there. Again, the dynamic range could be ebtter, but it's a step forward
I suggest obtaining trademarks, copyrights and patents (whatever) on the one remaining Platonic solid those guys have missed (the teapot) and granting free licenses.
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X86 chip running on 1 AA battery. They demonstrated it by playing a VCD movie. They also say that mp3s can be decoded/played on it."
This gadget is portable, plays MP3s, VCDs, audio CDs and comes with a lithium rechargeable. You can buy it already in the UK from Jungle. I have one on my desk, my only complaint is that it doesn't play some CD-RWs reliably.
It's always wise to check for prior art, you might usefully look in the Gallery of Obscure Patents before submitting ideas to Slashdot. My favo(u)rite is: Method of Exercising a Cat
I want to build a Linux OpenGL (err...MESA) development system and plan to use XF86 4.0 and DRI to take advantage of windowed hardware acceleration. Can anyone recommend a solution here?
YMMV, but here goes. We recently installed SuSE 7.0 on a handful of machines in order to get a "one-stop-shop" for X 4.0 and OpenGL.
The Matrox G400 and Creative Labs Annihilator Pro GeForce cards we had lying around worked but weren't too stable (Matrox is rock solid on 2D tho'); but (cross fingers) the Creative Labs TNT2 Ultra seems stable (and fast) over the last week or so.
I would like some feedback from other people who have done more than run fullscreen gaming benchmarks.
We use them for writing OpenGL and OpenInventor programs, and also Quake III.
I am a cat. I like Aibo (see URL above).
VRML is a dumbed down OpenInventor with committee add-ons.
Open Inventor is Open Source (buzz, ding) which breaths new life into it. No more big SGI boxes for me. It's installed on a Linux box I have access to, seems fairly fast with a TNT2 class accelerator, I know people who are having fun with it, I'm about to once more. You can hack the ASCII file format like VRML and/or you can code it in C++, unlike VRML, mix and match ASCII/binary/C/C++, lots of funky User Interface widgets off-the-shelf (unlike VRML)...
D'oh! Redundant. Took my time writing it.
but when is it going to be available in the UK?
If by "it" you'll be happy with any real world example of the technology rather than just the ShowStopper, TiVo is currently being advertised in the magazine delivered to Sky Digital customers in the UK (or at least to our house).
I'm told, but this could be utterly wrong, and I'm not quoting the Sky adverts, that TiVo costs £199 for the box, £10/month for the sevice or £199 for lifetime.
Just by comparing the PSX vs DC vs PS2
Oh dear. I am -very- familiar with the PowerVR and am both impressed by what it promises and by what it delivers in practice. I've got access to Japanese and European DCs and a Japanese PS2 at work; many people have compared them and most are pleasantly surprised by the DC and underwhelmed by the PS2.
I don't wish to be rude, but you are presumably still reading the marketing figures.
Why mention Voodoo3? IIRC Sega got into a nice legal tangle with 3Dfx sometime in 1997, because they rejected 3Dfx in favour of the PowerVR.
DX8 will have 101 features bolted onto it to take advantage of the XBox hardware
Grasshopper, DX8 will have 101 features bolted onto it to take advantage of the PC hardware.
The Dreamcast is a neat little system, IMHO, however its downfall is that it simply isn't "the next level"
Oh great. Everyone wrote it off, and now they patronise the Dreamcast. Sigh. It simply isn't the next level because it came out 18 months before.
XBox, PS2 and GameCube are all targetting photorealistic games
Targetting is right. They won't hit the photorealistic bullseye though. Which isn't the objective anyway.
I plugged the USB mouse freebie into the USB-PS2 adapter, plugged that into a handy PS2-Serial adapter, removed my trusty Mouse Systems compatible no-name mouse (no more holding the button down) and plugged the serial adapter into my Linux homebox vintage 1996. It didn't work because the power drain was too high.
The red light of the optical mouse now lights up the office when we turn off lights and non-essential power at night (very green) leaving only the computers running. A reminder to me of how so I nearly crossed to the dark side.
Type "enigma stolen" into the Daily Telegraph search engine, dunno why but copy-pasting the link didn't work. The story makes me wonder how anyone could even think about such vandalism.
Yeah, you know those people from the Netherlands. They always have perfect English skills
Indeed they do, so much that the fish doesn't have an option for Dutch. Which would come in very handy for some of us :)
how does that China-Linux announcement from a while back play into it?
I'm reading said book. It sort of answers the above question. Don't want to spoil it, but I can't see why China won't do what they do in the book given half a chance.
Does anyone one know Sterling's position on using quotes from his books for sigs?
Cell phone use in Hong Kong is much greater compared to the United States
It helps to live on a small densely populated island, e.g. HK, UK, Japan, Singapore(?), I guess, since you can cover the place with many small cells.
Your views are fascinating. Apologies in advance if I come across as patronising, combative or just boring, but hey, it sounds like you're missing out and that would be a shame.
After all, it's your life, but please, take a look around.
Bizarre cultural refrence #1234:I looked up Robby Leech on Google, who is he?
I never plan to leave my country of origin
I meant to say JAPSRGETTSTWFB
If you ban any more immigrant workers are you going to insist that no more of your nationals work abroad? Fair's fair, and you want a fair chance, right?
JAPSETTSTWFB
TM CPUs
s/Transmeta/TriMedia/g
Go on, I'll bite. I'm skimming this thread. What's DAEHTHIS?
If you're really Louis Wu, why don't you use the puppeteer hyperdrive to have a look at the galactic core like Beowulf Schaeffer did, instead of reading Slashdot?
The Dreamcast uses Vector Quantisation to compress its textures. On a VGA adapter it doesn't look too bad at all on Shenmue. VQ has some thought behind it, while from what I understand of S3/MS DXT it's pretty crude conceptually. Consoles can innovate, whereas PCs are hindered by standards and existing APIs.
With 8:1 compression as claimed for DC (VQ can do much better, I've looked into that, so the 8x ration is conservative), that's equivalent to the bandwidth ratio betwee PCI (132Mbytes/s) and AGP 4x (1Gbytes/s). FWIW I wish there were a few more PCI graphics cards out there too.
Gordelpus!
- First and Last Men Olaf Stapledon 1930
I have a Sony DSCF55E 2.1M pixel camera and it's fab for taking ... snaps ... in industrial quantities. Sure, I could in principle imagine a digital camera that takes 35mm camera accessories, but then i'd have to lug all the lenses around.
With 16M pixels you get zoom for free. Just point and shoot, there should be say 1M interesting pixels in there. Again, the dynamic range could be ebtter, but it's a step forward
patenting various solids
I suggest obtaining trademarks, copyrights and patents (whatever) on the one remaining Platonic solid those guys have missed (the teapot) and granting free licenses.