It's a 4MB postscript , but it's worth reading. GA and Simulated Annealing are quite different. the main difference is that GA use a population of trial solutions, and crosses them, with SA use only one trial solution at a time. If i recall well, there is also a difference in the convergence: it is proven that for a infinite time, SA will converge toward THE global optimum, while there is no proof that GA will converge, even toward a local optimum.
I've read that a 1kilometer asteroid falls on earth every 1e6 years, and that an asteroid of that size would kill 1e9 humans. So, we can say that the mean is 1000 people/years. This is more than plane crashes (which is about 500 people/year).
I think you were using the -ffast-math flag (or a buggy gcc), which breaks the ANSI/IEEE compliance (it is not turned on with any -O option). Anyway, i'm quite surprised. I've done some FPU intensive computations with a K6-2/300 and a PII/350 (time domain finite differences), and the PII was 3 times faster than the K6-2.
i would say 6 all-purpose registers (ax,bx,cx,dx,si,di).
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yes, because we still need to be able to play those great CGA games, like PARATROOPER (7ko). I loved this one. Great graphics, nearly true color graphics (white, cyan, magenta, black), incredible sounds on your pc speaker.
Recommended configuration: PC-XT with 8086 or 8088 4.77Mhz or better, CGA, MSDOS 1.x or better, 64Ko RAM, 5"1/4 floppy drive.
yep. on my box, netscape's crashes approximatly after 1-3 hours of use, at least for every 4.xx releases. And what i really *hate* is when it 'captures' the mouse pointer (when the arrow is horizontally mirrored). In that case, if it doesn't what to release it after 2-3 minutes, the only solution i know is CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. I'm not always happy to do that.
Ok, it's cheap, but AMD K6-2 are really *bad* for floating point (except when using 3DNow!, but gcc/pgcc does not generate these instructions). My K6-2 300 MHz is equivalent to a Pentium MMX 166 when doing floating point computations without 3dnow.
the C standard defines time as a long and a long as 32 bits Wrong, there is no assumption about the size of long in ANSI C. And time is not defined as long, but as time_t type. One should not assume that sizeof(time_t)==4.
I've read that the voodoo 5 does not oversample images, but computes 4 times the same image, with 0.25 pixel shifts, and combines these 4 four image to obtain the antialiased one. People say that it produces a better antialias than oversampling. The GeForce use oversampling.
Oh please, stop the amalgam. The 2 anti-racist association who are complaining about yahoo did *not* sink any boat. I don't know any country that can claim that its secret service have never done something illegal. Anyway, nazis are Evil, at least in Europe, and racist speech *IS* illegal in france. Europeans don't want to be tolerant with nazis, just see how Austria is banned from europe, since jorg haider is the prime minister. The freedom of speech have to stop somewhere, and the 2 associations do have the right to complain against yahoo.
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just look at that GA tutorial.
It's a 4MB postscript , but it's worth reading. GA and Simulated Annealing are quite different. the main difference is that GA use a population of trial solutions, and crosses them, with SA use only one trial solution at a time.
If i recall well, there is also a difference in the convergence: it is proven that for a infinite time, SA will converge toward THE global optimum, while there is no proof that GA will converge, even toward a local optimum.
I've read that a 1kilometer asteroid falls on earth every 1e6 years, and that an asteroid of that size would kill 1e9 humans.
So, we can say that the mean is 1000 people/years. This is more than plane crashes (which is about 500 people/year).
just look at the powerfull xsymbol package for xemacs. Really great.
well, I've also tried slashdot/slashdot and it works.
I think you were using the -ffast-math flag (or a buggy gcc), which breaks the ANSI/IEEE compliance (it is not turned on with any -O option).
Anyway, i'm quite surprised. I've done some FPU intensive computations with a K6-2/300 and a PII/350 (time domain finite differences), and the PII was 3 times faster than the K6-2.
i would say 6 all-purpose registers (ax,bx,cx,dx,si,di).
yes, because we still need to be able to play those great CGA games, like PARATROOPER (7ko). I loved this one. Great graphics, nearly true color graphics (white, cyan, magenta, black), incredible sounds on your pc speaker.
Recommended configuration: PC-XT with 8086 or 8088 4.77Mhz or better, CGA, MSDOS 1.x or better, 64Ko RAM, 5"1/4 floppy drive.
but *why* is this HAL.DLL calling me Dave when i try to extract my DIMMs modules ?
oh yes, i'm having a lot of trouble when i try to kill that HAL.DLL and GDI32.DLL. don't know why.
oups.. i have the wrong qt
/lib/libm.so.6 (0x4001b000) /usr/lib/qt-2.0.1/lib/libqt.so.2 (0x40038000) /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40371000) /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4043f000) /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4044e000) /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4049c000) /lib/libc.so.6 (0x404a0000) /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40595000) /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x405ad000) /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x405b7000) /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x405c7000) /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 (0x405e4000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
>ldd opera
libm.so.6 =>
libqt.so.2 =>
libX11.so.6 =>
libXext.so.6 =>
libXt.so.6 =>
libdl.so.2 =>
libc.so.6 =>
libICE.so.6 =>
libSM.so.6 =>
libz.so.1 =>
libpng.so.2 =>
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 =>
>wget -c http://www.hardware.no/download/opera.tar.bz2
>bzcat mv/opera.tar.bz2 | tar xv
>opera
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
yep. on my box, netscape's crashes approximatly after 1-3 hours of use, at least for every 4.xx releases. And what i really *hate* is when it 'captures' the mouse pointer (when the arrow is horizontally mirrored). In that case, if it doesn't what to release it after 2-3 minutes, the only solution i know is CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. I'm not always happy to do that.
ok, but i'm just feeling that we will miss MS... Anybody needs to have a Devil. We need to find another devil quick ! (i suggest AOL)
Ok, it's cheap, but AMD K6-2 are really *bad* for floating point (except when using 3DNow!, but gcc/pgcc does not generate these instructions). My K6-2 300 MHz is equivalent to a Pentium MMX 166 when doing floating point computations without 3dnow.
the C standard defines time as a long and a long as 32 bits
Wrong, there is no assumption about the size of long in ANSI C. And time is not defined as long, but as time_t type. One should not assume that sizeof(time_t)==4.
I've read that the voodoo 5 does not oversample images, but computes 4 times the same image, with 0.25 pixel shifts, and combines these 4 four image to obtain the antialiased one. People say that it produces a better antialias than oversampling.
The GeForce use oversampling.
SGI has a linux kernel patch for NUMA since v2.3.30. look here: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/numa/
Oh please, stop the amalgam. The 2 anti-racist association who are complaining about yahoo did *not* sink any boat. I don't know any country that can claim that its secret service have never done something illegal.
Anyway, nazis are Evil, at least in Europe, and racist speech *IS* illegal in france. Europeans don't want to be tolerant with nazis, just see how Austria is banned from europe, since jorg haider is the prime minister. The freedom of speech have to stop somewhere, and the 2 associations do have the right to complain against yahoo.
8 bits ought to be enough for everybody.