While we may see some improvements in color space or frame rate, the current HDTV standard doesn't include them. And, considering how long it has taken to get HDTV going, I don't suppose that we will see a huge level of penetration of "HDTV2" until we can watch it snow during a "Hell Devils" football game. (home game, naturally)
Well, in the mathematical sense, it generally means that there are two things which exist on different axes, which makes sense. The general-use sense basically means the same thing.
It didn't say Titan is the only remaining puzzle. The fact that we haven't solved any of the puzzles in the solar system doesn't make the statement incorrect, just a bit confused.:)
Google seems to be no help with, "68 - 27 - 90 - 19" I'm stumped on that. Something superlative. I assume it is a very good score in cricket, or something like that...
The term you were looking for is "orthogonal" rather than "mutually exclusive." which is why people got confused. Mutually exclusive implies that it is impossible to have double buffered OpenGL. Orthogonal implies that they don't go hand-in-hand, but can coexist.
That said, a compliant OpenGL implimentation *must* support double buffering, so your point is a bit skewed. But, so was your parent post.:)
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Whenever a person has a child, a representative of Santa's elite rangers comes to them, and forces them to join. So, while Santa himself does not visit you, his elite global paramilitary organisation does. This is why getting high on Santa's naughty list is so bad.
What was the configuration of your antennae? According to Fred's law, the theoretical improvment involved with moving from a unilobal hat to a bilobal hat is just over 40% (natural log of lamba-b, lb=1.5, of course) Was the interlobal gap equal to the wavelength of the brainwave frequency for the individual? Were they excited, or exibiting off-baseline brainwaves? Were the lobes parallel? What was the distance to the reciever? (And what angle did the full reciever subtent from the viewpoint of the hat?) Was the hat aligned to the receiver? If you didn't properly impliment a bilobal design, then I'm surprised you got that much improvement!
The metal wires in the cover are probably just an antenna, because they couldn't get good signal from the satellites, and don't want to bother having somebody follow you.
Rational thoughts only come from those with cranio-deflective alu-protection. Obviously, somebody in the government got a well crafted, correctly tuned headpiece from a board certified farraday cage haberdasherer (such as myself). If it was properly adjusted to provide shielding on his brainwave frequency, the idea would have occurred to him instantly.
If you program it in raw machine code with a hex editor, you would get annoyed at it. Have you ever tried to read straight hex when an instruction can be anywhere from one to like 13 bytes long?! Well, neither have I, of course. IMHO, the biggest difference is not in the actual instruction set, but in things like the PC BIOS. I much prefer Open Firmware to a PC BIOS. Also, Macs tend to support strange things like booting from firewire much better than PC's of similar vintage. Power consumption isn't directly related to the instruction set, but I can't find anybody locally with cheap VIA C3 boxes, so all my x86 hardware is noisy hot, and power consuming, which annoys me. IRQ conflicts don't seem to exist on the Mac. They have mostly gone away in modern times on the PC, but they haven't gone away completely. Again, that isn't the instruction set specifically, but I'm only aware of one company that ever built a modern X86 box that wasn't a PC. AGI made some Slot one systems which didn't use a PC BIOS, and so needed a special HAL in Windows NT4. Well, also the X-box. So, two companies. But still, the vast majority of X86 hardware has a PC-BIOS, and an Intel or AMD Processor...
Huzzah! I remember when "manuals" had enough information to write drivers, as a matter of course. Dot Matrix printer manuals used to come with documentation of the printer control codes, and instructions on how to make a BASIC program to do graphics, and such. Modem manuals used to come with full explanation of the AT command set and all redgisters. (And no, I'm not speaking in hyperbole, I'm citing specific examples!)
Nowadays, you are lucking if the modem manual says "User are to make under installing the device apon application to Window 97 device mangler by demanding d:\setup with perseverance." And then repeating the same thing in French, German, Korean, and Afrikaans, so the book looks thick and informative.
Old school manuals, I used to read cover to cover, excited to learn new things. New school manuals, I just don't bother, unless I don't have teh opportunity to use the device, and I am bored, I might flip trhough it while waiting at a red light on the way home, or something...
I haven't been able to figure out how to set the clock in my car, or set any presets. I don't have a VCR, so I can't compare precisely the difficulty involved, but I'm sure it's similar. That said, I agree with the GP that's an excellent book. I might also suggest Shirley's Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, and Savachenko's 3D Graphics Programming, which I picked out of a bargain bin and was quite pleased with for the discount price.
That said, anybody have a good link to instructions on how to program the radio in my '02 Saturn?
Fermat apparently had proved a theorem for an N-line PERL script P2P app (n!=2), but in his famous "Treatise on the PERL language," he scrawled in the margin:
I have found a single line of PERL to do this, but it is too long to fit in this margin.
Ummm... No. First off, those "x86-only" PCI cards depend on PC-BIOS. Apple and Sun use Open Firmware. It doesn't have anything to do with the instruction set of the CPU.
Second, if there was a hybrid G5-P4 or whatever, if it wasn't running Windows, it wouldn't run Windows apps, except through something like WINE. WINE is great, but not so great that I would bet the farm on it, especially in an exotic hybrid box, where most of your users will want to run fairly intense apps like SoftImage and such, or 3D games.
As for "packed binaries" - the current Mac OS X.app bundles are quite able to support multiple architectures. Not sure exactly what you want done. If your hypothetical hybrid system was built, and all apps were built and tuned for both X86 and PPC, then I suppose the OS could randomly run your program on whichever CPU was more idle at the moment, but that seems like such a silly complication that I can't imagine anybody doing it in the real world...
And, by hyperconnect, I can only assume you mean HyperTransport?
If anybody needs a quick refresher on magnitudes (as I did!) you may want to look here: http://www.e-z.net/~haworth/constel/magnitude.html
The summary is that each "magnitude" is 2.51 times the brightness, with brighter stars getting lower numbers. So, a magnitude 4 is 2.51 times brighter than a magnitude 5. Negative numbers mean very bright. The sun is -26.75 from Earth.
Very interesting. IMHO, something like this, with no hard drive, for $149 US would be a *very* interesting kit for enthusiasts. Some of us want a big HDD for our personal media server. Others want no moving parts and a flash drive. Most everybody would would really want such a thing would have no problem installing their own OS. Be it BEOS, Linux, BSD, one of the Redmond toys, it could be extremely versatile as an MP3 player, Car accessory, home server, HTPC, or any number of other things where you want something small, quiet, low power, and unobtrusive.
Any chance that eliminating the HDD and the OS would bring cost down enough to make it a viable product under $149?
A well-hyped $50K 1.0 launch party would be a better way to generate press and motivate people to switch to the browser.
This is why you are posting to slashdot instead of handling marketing for any products.
Now, I do think the idea of a crazy hyped-up party could have some legitimate logic to it. If you can get somebody important to show up, you just might be able to get yourself mentioned in dozens of little news programs all over the place. Would that make any difference? I dunno.
That IBM has re-named the POWER architecture PowerPC, does NOT mean that PowerPC==POWER. What it means is that both PowerPC and POWER are PowerPC [Architecture].
I suppose we should probably blame IBM for causing some confusion. I won't admit that I'm incorrect, but I'm not sure I have a leg to stand on trying to call you incorrect either. IBM marketing calls the high end stuff "POWER" so there is indeed a distinction, it just isn't officially spedified in a manual.
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While we may see some improvements in color space or frame rate, the current HDTV standard doesn't include them. And, considering how long it has taken to get HDTV going, I don't suppose that we will see a huge level of penetration of "HDTV2" until we can watch it snow during a "Hell Devils" football game. (home game, naturally)
Well, in the mathematical sense, it generally means that there are two things which exist on different axes, which makes sense. The general-use sense basically means the same thing.
Right... I'm *still* stumped! :) Obviously, the question can't be reasonably answered!
It didn't say Titan is the only remaining puzzle. The fact that we haven't solved any of the puzzles in the solar system doesn't make the statement incorrect, just a bit confused. :)
Google seems to be no help with, "68 - 27 - 90 - 19" I'm stumped on that. Something superlative. I assume it is a very good score in cricket, or something like that...
The term you were looking for is "orthogonal" rather than "mutually exclusive." which is why people got confused. Mutually exclusive implies that it is impossible to have double buffered OpenGL. Orthogonal implies that they don't go hand-in-hand, but can coexist.
:)
That said, a compliant OpenGL implimentation *must* support double buffering, so your point is a bit skewed. But, so was your parent post.
Whenever a person has a child, a representative of Santa's elite rangers comes to them, and forces them to join. So, while Santa himself does not visit you, his elite global paramilitary organisation does. This is why getting high on Santa's naughty list is so bad.
What was the configuration of your antennae? According to Fred's law, the theoretical improvment involved with moving from a unilobal hat to a bilobal hat is just over 40% (natural log of lamba-b, lb=1.5, of course) Was the interlobal gap equal to the wavelength of the brainwave frequency for the individual? Were they excited, or exibiting off-baseline brainwaves? Were the lobes parallel? What was the distance to the reciever? (And what angle did the full reciever subtent from the viewpoint of the hat?) Was the hat aligned to the receiver? If you didn't properly impliment a bilobal design, then I'm surprised you got that much improvement!
The metal wires in the cover are probably just an antenna, because they couldn't get good signal from the satellites, and don't want to bother having somebody follow you.
Rational thoughts only come from those with cranio-deflective alu-protection. Obviously, somebody in the government got a well crafted, correctly tuned headpiece from a board certified farraday cage haberdasherer (such as myself). If it was properly adjusted to provide shielding on his brainwave frequency, the idea would have occurred to him instantly.
If you program it in raw machine code with a hex editor, you would get annoyed at it. Have you ever tried to read straight hex when an instruction can be anywhere from one to like 13 bytes long?! Well, neither have I, of course. IMHO, the biggest difference is not in the actual instruction set, but in things like the PC BIOS. I much prefer Open Firmware to a PC BIOS. Also, Macs tend to support strange things like booting from firewire much better than PC's of similar vintage. Power consumption isn't directly related to the instruction set, but I can't find anybody locally with cheap VIA C3 boxes, so all my x86 hardware is noisy hot, and power consuming, which annoys me. IRQ conflicts don't seem to exist on the Mac. They have mostly gone away in modern times on the PC, but they haven't gone away completely. Again, that isn't the instruction set specifically, but I'm only aware of one company that ever built a modern X86 box that wasn't a PC. AGI made some Slot one systems which didn't use a PC BIOS, and so needed a special HAL in Windows NT4. Well, also the X-box. So, two companies. But still, the vast majority of X86 hardware has a PC-BIOS, and an Intel or AMD Processor...
That's right - MD5 hashes cost so much that not just anybody can use them.... :)
$499.99 is where it ends. Where else?
Huzzah! I remember when "manuals" had enough information to write drivers, as a matter of course. Dot Matrix printer manuals used to come with documentation of the printer control codes, and instructions on how to make a BASIC program to do graphics, and such. Modem manuals used to come with full explanation of the AT command set and all redgisters. (And no, I'm not speaking in hyperbole, I'm citing specific examples!)
Nowadays, you are lucking if the modem manual says "User are to make under installing the device apon application to Window 97 device mangler by demanding d:\setup with perseverance." And then repeating the same thing in French, German, Korean, and Afrikaans, so the book looks thick and informative.
Old school manuals, I used to read cover to cover, excited to learn new things. New school manuals, I just don't bother, unless I don't have teh opportunity to use the device, and I am bored, I might flip trhough it while waiting at a red light on the way home, or something...
None did. I got the car used, and it didn't have the original manuals. :)
I haven't been able to figure out how to set the clock in my car, or set any presets. I don't have a VCR, so I can't compare precisely the difficulty involved, but I'm sure it's similar. That said, I agree with the GP that's an excellent book. I might also suggest Shirley's Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, and Savachenko's 3D Graphics Programming, which I picked out of a bargain bin and was quite pleased with for the discount price.
That said, anybody have a good link to instructions on how to program the radio in my '02 Saturn?
Fermat apparently had proved a theorem for an N-line PERL script P2P app (n!=2), but in his famous "Treatise on the PERL language," he scrawled in the margin:
I have found a single line of PERL to do this, but it is too long to fit in this margin.
And, there aren't many ancient greeks around who would argue with us, right? :)
Ummm... No. First off, those "x86-only" PCI cards depend on PC-BIOS. Apple and Sun use Open Firmware. It doesn't have anything to do with the instruction set of the CPU.
.app bundles are quite able to support multiple architectures. Not sure exactly what you want done. If your hypothetical hybrid system was built, and all apps were built and tuned for both X86 and PPC, then I suppose the OS could randomly run your program on whichever CPU was more idle at the moment, but that seems like such a silly complication that I can't imagine anybody doing it in the real world...
Second, if there was a hybrid G5-P4 or whatever, if it wasn't running Windows, it wouldn't run Windows apps, except through something like WINE. WINE is great, but not so great that I would bet the farm on it, especially in an exotic hybrid box, where most of your users will want to run fairly intense apps like SoftImage and such, or 3D games.
As for "packed binaries" - the current Mac OS X
And, by hyperconnect, I can only assume you mean HyperTransport?
If anybody needs a quick refresher on magnitudes (as I did!) you may want to look here: http://www.e-z.net/~haworth/constel/magnitude.html
The summary is that each "magnitude" is 2.51 times the brightness, with brighter stars getting lower numbers. So, a magnitude 4 is 2.51 times brighter than a magnitude 5. Negative numbers mean very bright.
The sun is -26.75 from Earth.
2400 dots per square inch? Umm, I think you may need to clarify the math real quick...
4x5 inches, at 2400 dots per inch is 9600*12,000 pixels
That's about 115 million pixels. 8 bits per channel, three channel RGB gets us about 345 MB.
The OP's math is oddly phrazed, and it made me do a double take, but it checks out.
I was assuming you would just use the 50 grand to pay a celebrity to show up in some guy's basement for pizza and off-brand cola...
Very interesting. IMHO, something like this, with no hard drive, for $149 US would be a *very* interesting kit for enthusiasts. Some of us want a big HDD for our personal media server. Others want no moving parts and a flash drive. Most everybody would would really want such a thing would have no problem installing their own OS. Be it BEOS, Linux, BSD, one of the Redmond toys, it could be extremely versatile as an MP3 player, Car accessory, home server, HTPC, or any number of other things where you want something small, quiet, low power, and unobtrusive.
Any chance that eliminating the HDD and the OS would bring cost down enough to make it a viable product under $149?
Now, I do think the idea of a crazy hyped-up party could have some legitimate logic to it. If you can get somebody important to show up, you just might be able to get yourself mentioned in dozens of little news programs all over the place. Would that make any difference? I dunno.
I suppose we should probably blame IBM for causing some confusion. I won't admit that I'm incorrect, but I'm not sure I have a leg to stand on trying to call you incorrect either. IBM marketing calls the high end stuff "POWER" so there is indeed a distinction, it just isn't officially spedified in a manual.