That's the best thing about paranoia... once you get started, it just builds and builds upon itself until it encompasses everything.
Whether this is true or not does not matter. China figured that they overpaid for the work on the plane. The Chinese government paid $30 million to the Chinese Air Force, who paid the American firms $10,000,000 to do the job. What's a great way to get out of paying your bills? If you're a big nuclear superpower, just make an international incident out of it!
Getting started with embedded systems has never been easier. Go buy a Sega Dreamcast for $50 (Try to get one with a manufacture date of November 2000 or earlier). Then, go read
this article.
You'll have linux up and running on the thing in no time, and you'll be able to play around with writing device drivers and fixing kernel scheduler bugs and stuff. All on the SH4 processor, which is much simpler than the x86 you're probably using.
2.4.17 wasn't the problem. 2.4.17 finally fixed the problems that were inherent in all of the 2.4.* kernels before 2.4.17. If you read the article, you'd see that he had problems with 2.4.6 and 2.4.9 and even 2.4.16.
Also, the problem wasn't that the system was slow, but that when you had many active processes, the system would respond very poorly or lock up.
The article is a little short on the details, but we had a similar problem here at work with a new Redhat 7.2 server (kernel 2.4.9) we were setting up. The machine was to be a CVS/file server, running a cvs pserver and Samba. It had 1GB of main memory, and a 180 GB RAID5 array (external via a Mylex RAID card w/ LVD SCSI U160). The machine would seem to run fine, but then in testing, the machine would block on processes for seemingly no reason. It was something in the [kswapd] kernel process that was blocking things. If you logged in at a terminal or over a network, you'd get extreme "stuttering" on your responsiveness. Basically, it was unresponsive under loads with several running processes. This wasn't even excessive.
Oh yeah, and the machine would crash randomly and lose data. We were using ext3, so the file system was (supposedly) still consistant, but whatever was being worked on would be lost.
Ultimately, we upgraded the kernel to 2.4.17, and the problems have been fixed. But the "even number == stable reliable" rule failed us that time.
Since then, I've read that "the entire VM system in 2.4 was replaced around 2.4.10". This really scares me. I hope that Linus and Alan Cox have learned to manage things better now. If not, someone else will have to pick up the slack (maybe RedHat) and manage a stable kernel.
Gee, if they have a telescope that can see stuff on the moon in that kind of detail, does that mean that they can now confirm that the moon landing wasn't faked?
I hope this "Special Edition" includes the French audio track that the regular edition from a couple years back included. This movie makes far more sense in French. It's too weird in English. Bit saying "oui" and "non" makes more sense, I think.
Your assumptions are wrong. With the USB framing and formatting overhead, the best you can get out of USB->IDE "mass storage" adapters (which is what the device probably is) is about 600-700kB/s. 20GB (on a hard drive) is 20,000,000,000 bytes. Assume we actually get 700kB/s, which is unlikely, but let's assume that anyway. I get 27901 seconds, or 465 minutes or about 7 hours and 45 minutes.
I guess the moral of the story is, if you're going to release something as "public domain", do it anonymously, so that no one can find you and blame you for it.
Intel couldn't design a decent architecture to save the company. All of their expertise lies in process technology. They can shrink the die down so that they have higher yields and the thing will run faster and get less hot.
In that way, they beat out the competition.
The StrongARM is just an ARM core, only built by Intel so that it runs at 200+ MHz. There might be some modifications or extensions to it, but I don't think so.
People forget delays, but they will always remember failures. It's human nature. Do you remember how long it took for Apple to get OS X out? Chances are, you don't. Do you remember Apple's pre-1997 "next generation OS", Copland? Utter failure.
Heh heh. The "rule" that I learned from my first year engineering professor was that you take the estimate, x, and the actual time (and/or cost) will be kx, where k is some number between e and pi (e ~= 2.7183, and pi ~= 3.1416).
It's not a bad rule. Engineers (and programmers) tend to think that things cost a lot less and take a lot less time than they actually do.
It is very possible that there is only one RAMDAC, hard-wired both to the internal display and out to the external VGA port. However, I think for LCD panels in laptops, they are more likely to do something where the data is digitally sent to the panel, rather than send it analog and then convert it back to digital pixels.
1024x768 is fine except for thosse times when you're at your desk with a big external monitor and a real keyboard and mouse.
You're the irritating lamer. I did not assume you could "slap a cd-rw drive" into their random big iron mainframe. However, I still contend that they should be able to extract the data from the machine somehow, either via a network connection or capturing the data from a serial console.
If you could compile rzsz for this mainframe, you could use a serial console to send the files over to a PEECEE, as you call them.
And they couldn't burn the data onto CD-R's? What retards. Oh yeah, it's the government we're talking about here. Some 60 year old senator who knows nothing about computer technology probably passed a law that said they had to use 9-track tapes.
Cooler hardware? Maybe if you're into water cooling or having 7 68dB fans in the average system (2xCase, 1xCPU, 1xMotherboardChipset, 1xVideoCard, 2xPowerSupply.
Apple systems are all about providing the best user interface available. If the processor power isn't sufficient, I expect someone to provide an auxilliary processing power solution soon (via a networked x86 machine in another room running Linux and a special Apple processing daemon).
It makes economic sense though to stagger product launches. The people who just WANT this machine are going to buy it right away at whatever price. If they can only buy the highest-end version, then that's more money for Apple. If the lower-end models were available now, those people who just "gotta have one" might buy the cheaper ones instead.
Ahh, but the iPod requires the purchase of a Macintosh computer, which costs at least $799. That brings the total cost to $1198, not including tax or shipping.
This is sad, but true. Disney most likely has no intention of releasing the rest of the Ghibli library, including such amazing classic films as "Nausicaa", "Laputa", "Porco Rosso". Miyazaki's latest film, "Spirited Away", will also most likely never see release in the United States.
Thank god it's not illegal to modify your DVD player to play Region 2 DVD's. Oh, wait...
By the way, all of the releases of Studio Ghibli films on DVD in Japan (Region 2) have also included English subtitles and sometimes also English dubbing.
I'm sure Miyazaki wants his works to be enjoyed by as many people throughout the world as possible. If doing a commercial release in the United States doesn't make sense financially, that's fine. All the really hardcore fans will buy the Japanese DVD anyway.
wtf? The U.S. is falling even more behind in getting new technology. Japan and Europe being ahead of us, I can understand. They've been ahead of us in cell phones for years. But South America? When did they jump ahead of us technologically?
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Whether this is true or not does not matter. China figured that they overpaid for the work on the plane. The Chinese government paid $30 million to the Chinese Air Force, who paid the American firms $10,000,000 to do the job. What's a great way to get out of paying your bills? If you're a big nuclear superpower, just make an international incident out of it!
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You'll have linux up and running on the thing in no time, and you'll be able to play around with writing device drivers and fixing kernel scheduler bugs and stuff. All on the SH4 processor, which is much simpler than the x86 you're probably using.
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2.4.17 wasn't the problem. 2.4.17 finally fixed the problems that were inherent in all of the 2.4.* kernels before 2.4.17. If you read the article, you'd see that he had problems with 2.4.6 and 2.4.9 and even 2.4.16.
Also, the problem wasn't that the system was slow, but that when you had many active processes, the system would respond very poorly or lock up.
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Oh yeah, and the machine would crash randomly and lose data. We were using ext3, so the file system was (supposedly) still consistant, but whatever was being worked on would be lost.
Ultimately, we upgraded the kernel to 2.4.17, and the problems have been fixed. But the "even number == stable reliable" rule failed us that time.
Since then, I've read that "the entire VM system in 2.4 was replaced around 2.4.10". This really scares me. I hope that Linus and Alan Cox have learned to manage things better now. If not, someone else will have to pick up the slack (maybe RedHat) and manage a stable kernel.
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Gee, if they have a telescope that can see stuff on the moon in that kind of detail, does that mean that they can now confirm that the moon landing wasn't faked?
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I hope this "Special Edition" includes the French audio track that the regular edition from a couple years back included. This movie makes far more sense in French. It's too weird in English. Bit saying "oui" and "non" makes more sense, I think.
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Obviously, you didn't get the joke.
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I guess the moral of the story is, if you're going to release something as "public domain", do it anonymously, so that no one can find you and blame you for it.
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Intel couldn't design a decent architecture to save the company. All of their expertise lies in process technology. They can shrink the die down so that they have higher yields and the thing will run faster and get less hot.
In that way, they beat out the competition.
The StrongARM is just an ARM core, only built by Intel so that it runs at 200+ MHz. There might be some modifications or extensions to it, but I don't think so.
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Oops. I was wrong here. "Than" is not a preposition in this case, but a conjunction. I got too excited, I guess.
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It absolutely should not. "I" is the nominative form, and cannot be used as the object of a preposition, which is "than" in this case.
Grammar is necessary in human language to avoid misinterpretation, just as strict syntax is necessary in programming to ensure unambiguity.
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People forget delays, but they will always remember failures. It's human nature. Do you remember how long it took for Apple to get OS X out? Chances are, you don't. Do you remember Apple's pre-1997 "next generation OS", Copland? Utter failure.
There are tons of other examples.
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Heh heh. The "rule" that I learned from my first year engineering professor was that you take the estimate, x, and the actual time (and/or cost) will be kx, where k is some number between e and pi (e ~= 2.7183, and pi ~= 3.1416).
It's not a bad rule. Engineers (and programmers) tend to think that things cost a lot less and take a lot less time than they actually do.
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It is very possible that there is only one RAMDAC, hard-wired both to the internal display and out to the external VGA port. However, I think for LCD panels in laptops, they are more likely to do something where the data is digitally sent to the panel, rather than send it analog and then convert it back to digital pixels.
1024x768 is fine except for thosse times when you're at your desk with a big external monitor and a real keyboard and mouse.
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You're the irritating lamer. I did not assume you could "slap a cd-rw drive" into their random big iron mainframe. However, I still contend that they should be able to extract the data from the machine somehow, either via a network connection or capturing the data from a serial console.
If you could compile rzsz for this mainframe, you could use a serial console to send the files over to a PEECEE, as you call them.
It's easier than you think, ignorant one.
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And they couldn't burn the data onto CD-R's? What retards. Oh yeah, it's the government we're talking about here. Some 60 year old senator who knows nothing about computer technology probably passed a law that said they had to use 9-track tapes.
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Cooler hardware? Maybe if you're into water cooling or having 7 68dB fans in the average system (2xCase, 1xCPU, 1xMotherboardChipset, 1xVideoCard, 2xPowerSupply.
Apple systems are all about providing the best user interface available. If the processor power isn't sufficient, I expect someone to provide an auxilliary processing power solution soon (via a networked x86 machine in another room running Linux and a special Apple processing daemon).
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We really need support for OGG on products like the Phatbox.
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This is sad, but true. Disney most likely has no intention of releasing the rest of the Ghibli library, including such amazing classic films as "Nausicaa", "Laputa", "Porco Rosso". Miyazaki's latest film, "Spirited Away", will also most likely never see release in the United States.
Thank god it's not illegal to modify your DVD player to play Region 2 DVD's. Oh, wait...
By the way, all of the releases of Studio Ghibli films on DVD in Japan (Region 2) have also included English subtitles and sometimes also English dubbing.
I'm sure Miyazaki wants his works to be enjoyed by as many people throughout the world as possible. If doing a commercial release in the United States doesn't make sense financially, that's fine. All the really hardcore fans will buy the Japanese DVD anyway.
By the way, you can order Japanese DVD's from sites like CDJapan or Amo-Tokyo or even Amazon Japan.
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wtf? The U.S. is falling even more behind in getting new technology. Japan and Europe being ahead of us, I can understand. They've been ahead of us in cell phones for years. But South America? When did they jump ahead of us technologically?
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