I agree. I know John Carmack doesn't have to deal with as much of this (for example he didn't work on Quake 2 at all). He mainly works on the next engine. Id as been lacking alot of originality. (I know this is off topic, but does anyone know what happened to the PREY project from 3d realms after half their teem quit to work for Id? E-mail responses so I don't loose too much Karma)
As good a time as he's had working at Id, I'm sure experiences working on Dolphin games will be just as rewarding. It's a really solid system that provides alot of flexibility and should put out some nice games. Does anyone know anything about the company he moved to?
I know there already are a few solar laptop systems out there, but my understanding is that it needs to be a pretty sunny day. With higher powered systems (especially those with cellphone type broadcast equipment) it's a little iffy. If an entire system (RAM included) can be reduced to this level of power usage without the need for a fan, I think it's quite possible almost any portable system could run on solar. The disply technolgy I don't know about.
I think the electric field generated by the stepper motors for head movement would probably cause more chaos than any of the directly magnetic effects.
If it's possible to make magnetic processing units it's also possible to make magnetic RAM. The miniaturized storage capacity of such a development would be incredible. Imagine being able to fit fifty gigs of ram in a 32mb DIMM.
These chips sound like they might have alot of uses in miniaturized systems such as laptops, palmtops, PDAs, and perhaps embeded multiprocessing sytems for verious highly scalable imaging proceedures and such.
The article was interesting, but I'm somewhat skeptical. No mention of computation speed was mentioned. Even if the chips are one tenth the speed, they could still be made run faster through massive on-chip parralellism. Close to a thousand processors could be fit into the same space. However, that kind of parralellism would require radically redesigned bus systems and much more expensive RAM interleaving. Also, many applications can't be sufficiently optimized for multiprocessing. Of course, this is all under the completely arbitrary assumption that these chips will run slower. I can't wait to here more.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are a few things I don't understand about the prospects of using this material for data storage. Why is flexible better? The reason hard drives are hard is because you can get excelent point precision on the surface and hence higher data density. Also, since it's just a magnetic surface, it should be just as good for that sort of stuff as anything else we have on the market unless they are trying to imply that the magnetic properties of the drive are mutable only by the heat method. I think that might have a tendency to destroy neighboring data.:)
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Actually, bubble memory wasn't a dubious flirtation. I think it was used in quite a few US fighter jets because they couldn't risk head crashes in traditional drive systems.
Why do you predict that Intel will be faster? They have fundamentally inferior architecture in the PIIIs. The pipelines are too long (especially in floating point) causing disasterous results in wrong branch predictions. While I have no doubt that Intel could fix this problem in the future why should we assume that AMD will stagnate?
While I am a strong believer in AMD processors (and own one myself) I think there are a few other companies that are being deprived of some noteworthy contributions. How about the DEC Alpha? Those things have been running at 500 mhz for a hell of a long time. As of six months ago they were going to release a 1.6 ghz by 2001 (if my memory serves me correctly quite possibly it's a bit distorted). Also, the new G4s are pretty impressive. Sure, they've had their troubles with the actual manufacturing process, but they are excellent processors.
If you had ever tried to code with MFC, implement Direct X for anything, or simply run a decent system on under 12 terabytes of RAM I think you would take back the "Great software" statement. Most of it works most of the time pretty well. Alot of the time people blame Microsoft product's instability on their complexity. This is not the case. Their instibility is entirely do to poor programming. There are many pieces of software which are FAR more complex which don't have the 24 hour mandatory reboot pricetag attached.
I'm not sure what kind of CPU the palm pilots are running on though I would guess it was some integrated motorola or something. At any rate, I doubt that they are powerful enough to decompress MP3s of any quality. I have an old 75 mhz Pentium that needs to pause every few seconds on MP3s with bitrates of any more than about 64.
Free speech fanatics exist, but their opinions are a little more valid that your "common decency" version of morality. There are some laws against walking around naked (mostly disguised as health laws). But nowhere in the constitution does it say this. It DOES however grant free speech. The constitution is supposed to be at least SOMEWHAT a valid document.
In the past though, most library filtering has been mainly due to a finite budget. Good resources must be chosen to maximize the usefullness of the library. Most libraries even have a book or two of erotic photography (though it's possibly stolen). The point is, since such a necessity does not exist with a virtually limitless quasi-free resource, there is no good reason to impose limits on it.
I really hope your joking. Here are a bunch of other great examples: A reformed murderer is going for a book on gardening when a book on cutlery catches his eye... A reformed satanist... a book on the occult. A reformed fundamentalist... the bible. A reformed alchoholic... the bartender's guide. Really, this is pretty silly.
To give this argument some further legitimacy (not that it needs it) I must say that I have gay friend who went through simmilar trials with parental insanity and found the library to be the only place he could actually use to send e-mail where his parents would read it. Of course there are ways to delete various history files, but hacker snobbery is not the issue here.
Everyone has been bashing fundamentalism, attacking sensorship, and in general having fun feeling oppressed. While this is all good in it's own way, the issue of sites unfairly blocked has been almost completely ignored and the overall innefectiveness of filters has been ignored. Morality aside, if they don't work, don't use them. And now for morality: Regardless of your personal beliefs everyone (at least in theory) should have constitutionally granted freedom of speech and so a public library should not be sensored in this way. I see any other discussion as a matter of pure politics.
So what you are trying to say is that instead of the library consisting of a full set of information it should consist of merely the intersection of the sets of information all social groups on earth find unoffensive? Or, even worse, only the information the select few librarians or administrators (unelected I might add) find unoffensive. I think that's frightening. A few years ago, in my senior year of highschool, we had an insane woman as a principle who insisted on changing the name of the traditional "Haloween Dance" to the "Harvest Dance" because she thought that even using the word Haloween would be condusive to posession by demon spirits. I doubt this sort of thing could be considered healthy by more than a tiny minority.
I thought it was: "well don't be so distressed?" It seems that this country has been on a slow downslide from the objectivity it had at the end of the 19th century. Of course, then there were controversial issues too, but religion and politics has increasingly developed a stranglehold on american minds.
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I agree. I know John Carmack doesn't have to deal with as much of this (for example he didn't work on Quake 2 at all). He mainly works on the next engine. Id as been lacking alot of originality. (I know this is off topic, but does anyone know what happened to the PREY project from 3d realms after half their teem quit to work for Id? E-mail responses so I don't loose too much Karma)
As good a time as he's had working at Id, I'm sure experiences working on Dolphin games will be just as rewarding. It's a really solid system that provides alot of flexibility and should put out some nice games. Does anyone know anything about the company he moved to?
I'm on a T1 LAN connection and slashdot loads nearly instantaneously. I assume you do know what latency is.
I know there already are a few solar laptop systems out there, but my understanding is that it needs to be a pretty sunny day. With higher powered systems (especially those with cellphone type broadcast equipment) it's a little iffy. If an entire system (RAM included) can be reduced to this level of power usage without the need for a fan, I think it's quite possible almost any portable system could run on solar. The disply technolgy I don't know about.
I think the electric field generated by the stepper motors for head movement would probably cause more chaos than any of the directly magnetic effects.
If it's possible to make magnetic processing units it's also possible to make magnetic RAM. The miniaturized storage capacity of such a development would be incredible. Imagine being able to fit fifty gigs of ram in a 32mb DIMM.
These chips sound like they might have alot of uses in miniaturized systems such as laptops, palmtops, PDAs, and perhaps embeded multiprocessing sytems for verious highly scalable imaging proceedures and such.
The article was interesting, but I'm somewhat skeptical. No mention of computation speed was mentioned. Even if the chips are one tenth the speed, they could still be made run faster through massive on-chip parralellism. Close to a thousand processors could be fit into the same space. However, that kind of parralellism would require radically redesigned bus systems and much more expensive RAM interleaving. Also, many applications can't be sufficiently optimized for multiprocessing. Of course, this is all under the completely arbitrary assumption that these chips will run slower. I can't wait to here more.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are a few things I don't understand about the prospects of using this material for data storage. Why is flexible better? The reason hard drives are hard is because you can get excelent point precision on the surface and hence higher data density. Also, since it's just a magnetic surface, it should be just as good for that sort of stuff as anything else we have on the market unless they are trying to imply that the magnetic properties of the drive are mutable only by the heat method. I think that might have a tendency to destroy neighboring data. :)
Actually, bubble memory wasn't a dubious flirtation. I think it was used in quite a few US fighter jets because they couldn't risk head crashes in traditional drive systems.
Tom's Hardware is happily devoid of a terminal z.
Why do you predict that Intel will be faster? They have fundamentally inferior architecture in the PIIIs. The pipelines are too long (especially in floating point) causing disasterous results in wrong branch predictions. While I have no doubt that Intel could fix this problem in the future why should we assume that AMD will stagnate?
While I am a strong believer in AMD processors (and own one myself) I think there are a few other companies that are being deprived of some noteworthy contributions. How about the DEC Alpha? Those things have been running at 500 mhz for a hell of a long time. As of six months ago they were going to release a 1.6 ghz by 2001 (if my memory serves me correctly quite possibly it's a bit distorted). Also, the new G4s are pretty impressive. Sure, they've had their troubles with the actual manufacturing process, but they are excellent processors.
If you had ever tried to code with MFC, implement Direct X for anything, or simply run a decent system on under 12 terabytes of RAM I think you would take back the "Great software" statement. Most of it works most of the time pretty well. Alot of the time people blame Microsoft product's instability on their complexity. This is not the case. Their instibility is entirely do to poor programming. There are many pieces of software which are FAR more complex which don't have the 24 hour mandatory reboot pricetag attached.
I'm not sure what kind of CPU the palm pilots are running on though I would guess it was some integrated motorola or something. At any rate, I doubt that they are powerful enough to decompress MP3s of any quality. I have an old 75 mhz Pentium that needs to pause every few seconds on MP3s with bitrates of any more than about 64.
Free speech fanatics exist, but their opinions are a little more valid that your "common decency" version of morality. There are some laws against walking around naked (mostly disguised as health laws). But nowhere in the constitution does it say this. It DOES however grant free speech. The constitution is supposed to be at least SOMEWHAT a valid document.
In the past though, most library filtering has been mainly due to a finite budget. Good resources must be chosen to maximize the usefullness of the library. Most libraries even have a book or two of erotic photography (though it's possibly stolen). The point is, since such a necessity does not exist with a virtually limitless quasi-free resource, there is no good reason to impose limits on it.
I really hope your joking. Here are a bunch of other great examples: A reformed murderer is going for a book on gardening when a book on cutlery catches his eye... A reformed satanist ... a book on the occult. A reformed fundamentalist ... the bible. A reformed alchoholic ... the bartender's guide. Really, this is pretty silly.
To give this argument some further legitimacy (not that it needs it) I must say that I have gay friend who went through simmilar trials with parental insanity and found the library to be the only place he could actually use to send e-mail where his parents would read it. Of course there are ways to delete various history files, but hacker snobbery is not the issue here.
Other than yourself (obviously) who exactly do you believe should be doing the censoring?
Everyone has been bashing fundamentalism, attacking sensorship, and in general having fun feeling oppressed. While this is all good in it's own way, the issue of sites unfairly blocked has been almost completely ignored and the overall innefectiveness of filters has been ignored. Morality aside, if they don't work, don't use them. And now for morality: Regardless of your personal beliefs everyone (at least in theory) should have constitutionally granted freedom of speech and so a public library should not be sensored in this way. I see any other discussion as a matter of pure politics.
Extremism in any form is unhealthy.
So what you are trying to say is that instead of the library consisting of a full set of information it should consist of merely the intersection of the sets of information all social groups on earth find unoffensive? Or, even worse, only the information the select few librarians or administrators (unelected I might add) find unoffensive. I think that's frightening. A few years ago, in my senior year of highschool, we had an insane woman as a principle who insisted on changing the name of the traditional "Haloween Dance" to the "Harvest Dance" because she thought that even using the word Haloween would be condusive to posession by demon spirits. I doubt this sort of thing could be considered healthy by more than a tiny minority.
I thought it was: "well don't be so distressed?" It seems that this country has been on a slow downslide from the objectivity it had at the end of the 19th century. Of course, then there were controversial issues too, but religion and politics has increasingly developed a stranglehold on american minds.
Thank god for the scoreing system.