There are tons of ARM CPU variants out there, and most of them aren't made by ARM Ltd. The XScale family, manufactured by Intel and now owned by Marvell, is ARM and is currently offered in speeds up to 624MHz.
Unfortunately the article really doesn't say how they pushed the PS2 architecture. Before clicking I was looking forward to an article like this amazing presentation by the SOTC dev team that really goes in depth to how they implemented the amazing effects on the PS2. Instead, we get this about the development, in its entirety: "The graphics were created using the power of the PlayStation 2 fully," Akihiko Yoshida, character designer for Final Fantasy XII, told us. "We believe that this is probably the limit of how beautiful the graphics can get on the PlayStation 2 console.". Is there anything more in depth than this miniscule blurb?
Speaking of which, does this game look better than Shadow of the Colossus? Or does it look about as good but actually has a decent frame rate?
So, what's the point? The current shuttle seems to have a rather serviceable, *simple* cable-based basket escape system. This new one seems way too complicated. For example, the new system: A passive magnetic and friction braking system will decelerate the cars at the tracks end as well as prevent the cars from hitting each other. The old system? The baskets hit a net at the bottom. Keep it simple, stupid.
And like someone mentioned before, the crew would actually have to exit the capsule to use this escape system. Since the Ares system actually has an escape rocket to pull the capsule away from the stack like Mercury, Gemini, Apollo had and the Soyuz has currently, I'd rather take my chances with that.
Of course, any useful background information behind this decision is behind nasaspaceflight.com's L2 pay service, so unfortunately facts on the new system are scant.
It doesn't anymore. ffmpeg, which MPlayer uses, has native decoders for the Sorenson codec, commonly used in Quicktime, and the WMV3 codec used in.WMV files.
Spaceshuttle is able to land fully automatically too, however it is said that the pilots usually prefer to land that damn thing manually (if saftey allows it) just because they might never ge a chance to do that again.
While the final approach is typically flown by hand, the Shuttle has only been flown in from orbit to landing completely manually once. This was done on STS-2 in 1981 by Joe Engle, who started out as an X-15 pilot. Pretty amazing.
Another thing to keep in mind is that when an interstate with a wide median needs to cross something with a bridge, two bridges, one for each direction of travel, are usually needed. While major river crossings are usually accomplished with a single large bridge, smaller bridges would certainly inflate the bridge count by quite a bit.
My point was that developing a new system on MIPS with such features would be redundant in this day and age when Opterons like that are practically ubiquitous in HPC.
How about.... HyperTransport-links between CPU's, integrated mem-controllers, on-die L2-caches, HTX-expansion, multicore, multi-CPU-setups. All this, and running Linux.
I'm neither an Intel or an AMD fan. I generally dislike Intel due to the retarded Netburst architecture and many of their business practices, but on a purely technical standpoint I seriously think they're onto something with their next generation Core. I do think you're talking out of your ass, or just pasted an old comment from a different article. You may feel free to tell me I'm talking out of my own ass as well.
I believe that AMD had this technology before Intel ever started in on it.
What technology are you talking about exactly? That's just a link to a Wikipedia article.
As a disclaimer, I cannot say I've had the ability to try an Intel dual core but I'm just ever so happy with my AMD processor that I don't see why I should.
This is a discussion of Intel's new architecture, not the Pentium 4-Ds or current Core Duos. On an aside, I think Intel's branding of both the enhanced Pentium-M in laptops now, and the much different next generation architecture as "Core" has the potential to be very confusing.
There's a nice little chart in the article but I like AMD's explanation along with their pdf a bit better. As you can see, AMD is no longer too concerned with dual core but has moved on to targeting multi core.
See the "Core 1" and "Core 2" in the AMD chart? The "nice little chart" in the article was detailing how the next gen architecture's CPU core alone operates, not how multiple cores interface with each other, memory, and the system bus. As the article said, Intel is relying on multiple, not just dual, cores to let the architecture scale in the future. Check out the road map.
It's entirely possible that OOOE could beat out the execution scheme that AMD has going but I wouldn't know enough to comment on it.
K8 is an out of order execution architecture as well. So was K7. So was K6. So was P6, as the article said. This is nothing new, and in fact the article says Intel is being conservative by refining their OOOE unit instead of throwing it out like on new competing architectures like the UltraSPARC T1.
Before everybody says "good riddance," note that the upcoming IE update will simply mean you have to click first to enable interaction with the embedded object. This means that things like Flash ads and streaming video will still run automatically -- a user would need to click on them to be able to interact with them, i.e. find the tiny little "mute" or "close" button to make them go away. This page previews the update and shows exactly how it will change things.
Also do you think there were never gay cowboys? I don't know even Westerns could be a little gay at times, checking out each other's pistols and what not.
From a review of Jon Stewart's oscar hosting:
Stewart dealt with the "elephant in the room," gay content in Oscar nominees "Brokeback Mountain," "Capote" and "Transamerica," by joking that he has no problem with gay-themed movies but was offended with how "Brokeback" 's gay love story "tarnishes the noble Western tradition."
"I'm sorry, I just feel like there's nothing remotely gay about the classic Hollywood westerns," Stewart said as he unfurled a montage of clips from famous cowboy movies in which men were seen stroking their guns, admiring each others' rifles, winking at fellow cowpokes, unbuckling their belts and staring longingly at each other.
This was a part of AT&T's "futuristic" "You Will" campaign. Anyone else remember the commercials 12 years ago? A lot of the things they promised, like attending meetings in your bare feet, checking out at the super market a shopping cart at a time, are now possible -- just not with AT&T's technology. Sorry, guys.
Use PuTTY's 'dynamic' tunneling mode
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I'm assuming you're on a Windows box. PuTTY's dynamic tunneling mode is the absolute easiest way to tunnel your traffic: it doesn't require setting up a proxy server on the remote system! All you need is an sshd on a server somewhere that allows tunnels. When using dynamic tunneling, PuTTY acts as a local SOCKS proxy. So, just set your browser and other net apps to use a SOCKS proxy on localhost on the port you specify in PuTTY, and you're good to go.
Here's how to do it, using the latest PuTTY and Firefox versions: 1. Configure PuTTY. Start PuTTY and put in the address of your host server to connect to on the first screen. In the menu on the left, pick 'Tunnels' from the tree. Under 'Add new forwarded port:' put in 1080 (this is pretty arbitrary, but 1080 is the "official" SOCKS port). Leave 'Destination' blank and choose the 'Dynamic' radio button. Feel free to go back to the 'Session' entry on the menu tree on the left if you wish to save a session so you don't have to do this every time.
2. Configure Firefox. Under Preferences, click the 'Connection Settings' button from the main 'General' options. Click 'Manual Proxy configuration:' and under 'SOCKS Host' put in localhost with port 1080. Click OK and try to surf. You should now be being routed through your Linux host. You can go to whatismyip.com to verify you're being routed through your host's IP address.
(I'm pasting this howto from one I wrote on another site)
Okay. According to this page, at full-tilt the Pentium D 820 consumes 130.6W, while this page says the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ consumes 89W. So, how long would the Opteron have to run at full blast to make up the difference in cost of $87? Last month I paid $0.078 per kilowatt-hour. This seems to be reasonably average for the United States. 130.6W - 89W = 41.6W difference between the two. Some back of the Google-calculator math reveals: (US$ 87) / (41.6 W * ((US$ 0.078) / (kW * Hr))) = 3.05871582 years. A not-insignifigant amount of time. If you're in an area where electricity is more expensive like New York or California, the amount of time is even less!
The reviewer must have fairly low standards if he thinks it looks good plugged into an SDTV. The iPod hooks up via a composite cable and the videos you buy on iTMS are 320x240. That'll look like crap on any SDTV made in the last 10 years. The 480x480 maximum resolution might cut it, but then the limiting factor is probably that composite cable! Argh.
American Express just rolled this out a few months ago with their Express Pay service. You can even see the RFID loop antenna and chip through the cards if you have one of the clear Amex Blue cards. As you can see from the site, the participating merchants list is rather short right now, but as it's interoperable with other ISO 14443 systems, like MasterCard's will be, support will probably rise.
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In the 80s and 90s, Commodore made a number of 8088/8086, 286, and 386 desktops and laptops!
There's also the bizarre "Commodore 64" Internet Computer.
So this use of the Commodore brand isn't completely ridiculous, just a little bit ridiculous.
There are tons of ARM CPU variants out there, and most of them aren't made by ARM Ltd. The XScale family, manufactured by Intel and now owned by Marvell, is ARM and is currently offered in speeds up to 624MHz.
Unfortunately the article really doesn't say how they pushed the PS2 architecture. Before clicking I was looking forward to an article like this amazing presentation by the SOTC dev team that really goes in depth to how they implemented the amazing effects on the PS2. Instead, we get this about the development, in its entirety: "The graphics were created using the power of the PlayStation 2 fully," Akihiko Yoshida, character designer for Final Fantasy XII, told us. "We believe that this is probably the limit of how beautiful the graphics can get on the PlayStation 2 console.". Is there anything more in depth than this miniscule blurb?
Speaking of which, does this game look better than Shadow of the Colossus? Or does it look about as good but actually has a decent frame rate?
So, what's the point? The current shuttle seems to have a rather serviceable, *simple* cable-based basket escape system. This new one seems way too complicated. For example, the new system: A passive magnetic and friction braking system will decelerate the cars at the tracks end as well as prevent the cars from hitting each other. The old system? The baskets hit a net at the bottom. Keep it simple, stupid.
And like someone mentioned before, the crew would actually have to exit the capsule to use this escape system. Since the Ares system actually has an escape rocket to pull the capsule away from the stack like Mercury, Gemini, Apollo had and the Soyuz has currently, I'd rather take my chances with that.
Of course, any useful background information behind this decision is behind nasaspaceflight.com's L2 pay service, so unfortunately facts on the new system are scant.
It doesn't anymore. ffmpeg, which MPlayer uses, has native decoders for the Sorenson codec, commonly used in Quicktime, and the WMV3 codec used in .WMV files.
whoops, mod my original comment down. pstoedit can only take PostScript or PDF as input.
Give pstoedit a try. It's a great tool for converting between most vector formats. SVG is in an external plugin, though.
Origin of "labtop.". People call them labtops because it's "funny"!
Spaceshuttle is able to land fully automatically too, however it is said that the pilots usually prefer to land that damn thing manually (if saftey allows it) just because they might never ge a chance to do that again.
While the final approach is typically flown by hand, the Shuttle has only been flown in from orbit to landing completely manually once. This was done on STS-2 in 1981 by Joe Engle, who started out as an X-15 pilot. Pretty amazing.
Another thing to keep in mind is that when an interstate with a wide median needs to cross something with a bridge, two bridges, one for each direction of travel, are usually needed. While major river crossings are usually accomplished with a single large bridge, smaller bridges would certainly inflate the bridge count by quite a bit.
My point was that developing a new system on MIPS with such features would be redundant in this day and age when Opterons like that are practically ubiquitous in HPC.
How about.... HyperTransport-links between CPU's, integrated mem-controllers, on-die L2-caches, HTX-expansion, multicore, multi-CPU-setups. All this, and running Linux.
Sounds like you're talking about Opteron.
I'm neither an Intel or an AMD fan. I generally dislike Intel due to the retarded Netburst architecture and many of their business practices, but on a purely technical standpoint I seriously think they're onto something with their next generation Core. I do think you're talking out of your ass, or just pasted an old comment from a different article. You may feel free to tell me I'm talking out of my own ass as well.
I believe that AMD had this technology before Intel ever started in on it.
What technology are you talking about exactly? That's just a link to a Wikipedia article.
As a disclaimer, I cannot say I've had the ability to try an Intel dual core but I'm just ever so happy with my AMD processor that I don't see why I should.
This is a discussion of Intel's new architecture, not the Pentium 4-Ds or current Core Duos. On an aside, I think Intel's branding of both the enhanced Pentium-M in laptops now, and the much different next generation architecture as "Core" has the potential to be very confusing.
There's a nice little chart in the article but I like AMD's explanation along with their pdf a bit better. As you can see, AMD is no longer too concerned with dual core but has moved on to targeting multi core.
See the "Core 1" and "Core 2" in the AMD chart? The "nice little chart" in the article was detailing how the next gen architecture's CPU core alone operates, not how multiple cores interface with each other, memory, and the system bus. As the article said, Intel is relying on multiple, not just dual, cores to let the architecture scale in the future. Check out the road map.
It's entirely possible that OOOE could beat out the execution scheme that AMD has going but I wouldn't know enough to comment on it.
K8 is an out of order execution architecture as well. So was K7. So was K6. So was P6, as the article said. This is nothing new, and in fact the article says Intel is being conservative by refining their OOOE unit instead of throwing it out like on new competing architectures like the UltraSPARC T1.
Before everybody says "good riddance," note that the upcoming IE update will simply mean you have to click first to enable interaction with the embedded object. This means that things like Flash ads and streaming video will still run automatically -- a user would need to click on them to be able to interact with them, i.e. find the tiny little "mute" or "close" button to make them go away. This page previews the update and shows exactly how it will change things.
Also do you think there were never gay cowboys? I don't know even Westerns could be a little gay at times, checking out each other's pistols and what not.
From a review of Jon Stewart's oscar hosting:
Stewart dealt with the "elephant in the room," gay content in Oscar nominees "Brokeback Mountain," "Capote" and "Transamerica," by joking that he has no problem with gay-themed movies but was offended with how "Brokeback" 's gay love story "tarnishes the noble Western tradition."
"I'm sorry, I just feel like there's nothing remotely gay about the classic Hollywood westerns," Stewart said as he unfurled a montage of clips from famous cowboy movies in which men were seen stroking their guns, admiring each others' rifles, winking at fellow cowpokes, unbuckling their belts and staring longingly at each other.
This was a part of AT&T's "futuristic" "You Will" campaign. Anyone else remember the commercials 12 years ago? A lot of the things they promised, like attending meetings in your bare feet, checking out at the super market a shopping cart at a time, are now possible -- just not with AT&T's technology. Sorry, guys.
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ad-rag.com has the old TV commercials -- but you have to pay €2 for the privilege.
I'm assuming you're on a Windows box. PuTTY's dynamic tunneling mode is the absolute easiest way to tunnel your traffic: it doesn't require setting up a proxy server on the remote system! All you need is an sshd on a server somewhere that allows tunnels. When using dynamic tunneling, PuTTY acts as a local SOCKS proxy. So, just set your browser and other net apps to use a SOCKS proxy on localhost on the port you specify in PuTTY, and you're good to go.
Here's how to do it, using the latest PuTTY and Firefox versions:
1. Configure PuTTY. Start PuTTY and put in the address of your host server to connect to on the first screen. In the menu on the left, pick 'Tunnels' from the tree. Under 'Add new forwarded port:' put in 1080 (this is pretty arbitrary, but 1080 is the "official" SOCKS port). Leave 'Destination' blank and choose the 'Dynamic' radio button. Feel free to go back to the 'Session' entry on the menu tree on the left if you wish to save a session so you don't have to do this every time.
2. Configure Firefox. Under Preferences, click the 'Connection Settings' button from the main 'General' options. Click 'Manual Proxy configuration:' and under 'SOCKS Host' put in localhost with port 1080. Click OK and try to surf. You should now be being routed through your Linux host. You can go to whatismyip.com to verify you're being routed through your host's IP address.
(I'm pasting this howto from one I wrote on another site)
Thanks for the correction. Mod parent up!
Meanwhile, as reported here four days ago, console game sales set an all-time record in 2005.
low-resolution
Oh, does that mean that they're finally going to raise the resolution on the iBooks from the pathetic 1024x768 that it's been since 2001?
Okay. According to this page, at full-tilt the Pentium D 820 consumes 130.6W, while this page says the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ consumes 89W. So, how long would the Opteron have to run at full blast to make up the difference in cost of $87? Last month I paid $0.078 per kilowatt-hour. This seems to be reasonably average for the United States. 130.6W - 89W = 41.6W difference between the two. Some back of the Google-calculator math reveals: (US$ 87) / (41.6 W * ((US$ 0.078) / (kW * Hr))) = 3.05871582 years. A not-insignifigant amount of time. If you're in an area where electricity is more expensive like New York or California, the amount of time is even less!
Feel free to correct my math!
Here's the full version of the article.
It doesn't actually have much more as the bulk of the article talks about the possibility of multiple SKUs for the PS3.
The reviewer must have fairly low standards if he thinks it looks good plugged into an SDTV. The iPod hooks up via a composite cable and the videos you buy on iTMS are 320x240. That'll look like crap on any SDTV made in the last 10 years. The 480x480 maximum resolution might cut it, but then the limiting factor is probably that composite cable! Argh.
Can you turn off CSS in your browser? That effectively makes the site "light".
American Express just rolled this out a few months ago with their Express Pay service. You can even see the RFID loop antenna and chip through the cards if you have one of the clear Amex Blue cards. As you can see from the site, the participating merchants list is rather short right now, but as it's interoperable with other ISO 14443 systems, like MasterCard's will be, support will probably rise.