I'm not sure if you noticed, but some of the fight scenes were sped up. At points it looked good, and at other points it made the character movements look weird and unnatural (which is probably what you saw).
I don't think that they sped up any fight scenes in the the first Blade, but there was a cheezy driving shot where blades car appeared to be going 100+ Km/h when it was probably filmed at 10 Km/h.
Sounds similar to those Seiko Kinetic watches. I'm not sure if they are mechanical doodads or actually generate an electrical charge.
This technology would definitly be nice for a PDA if it can scale to provide enough power. Hopefully Seiko didn't grab some generalized patent on this idea =/.
The latest BIOS update for my dual PIV Xeon (Dell Precision 530) says that it added support for SMT/JT... I wonder if they had already tested these CPUs on my system.
I WANT!!!!
Drool...
That is roughly the speed a hammer would be falling after you dropped it 1/2 a meter. If this 'hammer' has a fair amount of mass then it will definitly have enough force to set off the mine. Of course I don't think the purpose of this device is to shatter the mine.
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The company has a webpage here but they don't have an article/photos (at least in the engrish section of their site). Anyone read Japanese?
I've noticed that/. uses the word 'interesting' when an article/review/benchmark doesn't show the community's favoured product (linux/AMD/ATI) as a superior one.
Most slashdotters see nVidia as an evil corporation because they don't open source their drivers for linux. This leaves ATI as the favourite. The benchmarking shows that in almost every test (except aniso) the GF4 smokes the 8500, therefore the results are summarized as 'interesting'.
If the ATI card actually did outperform the nVidia one, then the post would contain something like "ATI crushes the evil nVidia, we are 1337".
I'm not the one to look up previous articles, but I do recal some benchmarks (biased or not) where NT/2000 did something better than linux. The poster stated that the results were "interesting".
I think this is slashdot's attempt to hide the truth that it is possible for the 'evil' corporation to do something good.
On another note, who else thinks that it is pointless to use Q3 as a benchmark. Start using RTCW or another game that actually makes modern cards break a sweat.
Did the thought ever occur to you that maybe the server code for the game is buggy? In that case, from managements perspective it maybe be more cost effective to have 2 fulltime server resetters then spending programmer hours on finding/fixing/testing/deploying the fix.
And if its not the server code then it may be the drivers (ie. network card) that is causing the crashes and not the OS itself.
I think that most Unix systems are more stable because the vendor (ie. sun, sgi) has direct control over the hardware that it ships with and can fully test the default hardware config with their flavor of unix. If MS was able to test every possible PC configuration then maybe they would be able to guarantee 99.9999% uptime, but NT's uptime reputation is at the mercy of driver developers of other companies.
I own one of these systems (Dell Precision 530). The PIV Xeons are not like the PIII Xeons but are simply PIV's with SMP enabled.
The case is very nice (not as nice as a Mac). It weighs a good 50+ pounds and the inside is very well organized an very easy to work with (just like Macs). It's even got a little light inside.
My guess is that a dual 2.2 PIV may have a little more juice (on average) than a dual 1.0 G4.
When I purchased my system, the only options were 10K or 15K RPM SCSI drives. I'm too lazy to check if Apple offers 10K+ SCSI drives or if Dell is starting to offer IDE/lower RPM SCSI drives. If the 80 GB drive is in fact 10/15K then expect a fair chunk of the cost to go into that.
FireGL is a VERY expensive professional card. Sure the GF4 may be similar (or better) in performance but it's not a fair comparison. Pricing of pro video boards is weird, you can get a pro-model of the GeForce 2 which would cost more than a mainstream GeForce 3. Don't compare prices of pro boards to mainstream ones.
Keep in mind that the Dell Precision 530 comes with a 2-year next day onsite service guarantee. Thats gotta cost some...
Anyways, my point is that it is NOT a fair comparison. The Dell is a designed to be a workstation with premium parts, and I doubt they made any effort to make it's price appealing to the general market. The Dell Precision 530 is a very sexy system for a PC.
Math is essential if you wish to be a computer scientist. Its easy to code, it's hard to come up with elegant/correct algorithms with basic knowledge of math.
If you disagree, then you must be someones coding bitch and not a REAL programmer.
I think they are trying to find students who are more than plain academic nerds. A high school student who has enough knowledge to break an encryption scheme (even if its fairly trivial by todays standard) shows potential. High school does not teach the theory to be proficient in encryption and any student who demonstrates this skill must have put in extra time to learn (which is proof of potential IMHO).
I think that this is a great way to separate bookworms from brilliant people.
The fact that they can break the encryption doesn't make them a computer scientist, but then again a non-computer person can enter university and as long as they have the desire to learn they can leave with a lot of knowledge.
All the data doesnt need to come from the same server. I suppose it is like load balancing.
If you have 20kbps to mirror A, and 80kbps to mirror B. Server A and B start spamming you with packets of whatever you are downloading. Then 20% of the total packets you recieve are from A, and 80% of the total are from B. Given all the partial packets you got, you can now reconstruct the porn DivX. This would be faster then getting 100% of the packets from B which would take 25% longer.
I think you are being somewhat extreme about this when you say that it is ridiculous and that its useless. First off, I dont think that 3Com expects this to be deployed at any decent sized company. It's probably a better idea for SOHO, or more likely for public areas (such as schools) where a switch/hub can get stolen, and running multiple cables across campus to the main switches is impractical. Shorter cables are cheaper.
Excuse me but if you have a need for four Cat-5 connections at one desk, I'm assuming four computers. That means that you have a mess to start with. What is a four port hub thrown into the mix?
One possibility could be... 1-port to your broadboard modem, 1-port to your printer, 1-port to your desktop, and 1-port to your laptop. It would be nice if college dorms had things like these installed in the rooms. Having devices like these available makes it a little more practical to do such a thing.
I think its meant to deter (not prevent) people from fucking shit up by opening it. Saves the hassle of curious people with phillips drivers returning them to nintendo saying that its busted.
I'm curious to hear why you think that? AFAIK, it gives the GPU the chance to get 1 frame ahead at the cost of extra VRAM and a 2 frame latency.
I expect it to work like this... - Buffer A being displayed by DAC - Buffer B ready & waiting to be displayed - Frame C being rasterized by GPU. ... Meanwhile the CPU is issuing commands to be executed to frame A when its ready.
This works better than double buffering assuming that you can maintain your target (locked) frame rate, and allows for that odd frame that takes more than 1/60th to make its frame
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I'm not sure if you noticed, but some of the fight scenes were sped up. At points it looked good, and at other points it made the character movements look weird and unnatural (which is probably what you saw).
I don't think that they sped up any fight scenes in the the first Blade, but there was a cheezy driving shot where blades car appeared to be going 100+ Km/h when it was probably filmed at 10 Km/h.
Sounds similar to those Seiko Kinetic watches. I'm not sure if they are mechanical doodads or actually generate an electrical charge.
This technology would definitly be nice for a PDA if it can scale to provide enough power. Hopefully Seiko didn't grab some generalized patent on this idea =/.
I believe they're called Macs.
The latest BIOS update for my dual PIV Xeon (Dell Precision 530) says that it added support for SMT/JT... I wonder if they had already tested these CPUs on my system. I WANT!!!! Drool...
... Google has joined the "Axis of Evil."
That is roughly the speed a hammer would be falling after you dropped it 1/2 a meter. If this 'hammer' has a fair amount of mass then it will definitly have enough force to set off the mine. Of course I don't think the purpose of this device is to shatter the mine.
The company has a webpage here but they don't have an article/photos (at least in the engrish section of their site). Anyone read Japanese?
NNNOOOOOOOO... BestBuy doesn't allow Canadian accounts!!!!!!!
I've noticed that /. uses the word 'interesting' when an article/review/benchmark doesn't show the community's favoured product (linux/AMD/ATI) as a superior one.
Most slashdotters see nVidia as an evil corporation because they don't open source their drivers for linux. This leaves ATI as the favourite. The benchmarking shows that in almost every test (except aniso) the GF4 smokes the 8500, therefore the results are summarized as 'interesting'.
If the ATI card actually did outperform the nVidia one, then the post would contain something like "ATI crushes the evil nVidia, we are 1337".
I'm not the one to look up previous articles, but I do recal some benchmarks (biased or not) where NT/2000 did something better than linux. The poster stated that the results were "interesting".
I think this is slashdot's attempt to hide the truth that it is possible for the 'evil' corporation to do something good.
On another note, who else thinks that it is pointless to use Q3 as a benchmark. Start using RTCW or another game that actually makes modern cards break a sweat.
Did the thought ever occur to you that maybe the server code for the game is buggy? In that case, from managements perspective it maybe be more cost effective to have 2 fulltime server resetters then spending programmer hours on finding/fixing/testing/deploying the fix.
And if its not the server code then it may be the drivers (ie. network card) that is causing the crashes and not the OS itself.
I think that most Unix systems are more stable because the vendor (ie. sun, sgi) has direct control over the hardware that it ships with and can fully test the default hardware config with their flavor of unix. If MS was able to test every possible PC configuration then maybe they would be able to guarantee 99.9999% uptime, but NT's uptime reputation is at the mercy of driver developers of other companies.
I own one of these systems (Dell Precision 530). The PIV Xeons are not like the PIII Xeons but are simply PIV's with SMP enabled.
The case is very nice (not as nice as a Mac). It weighs a good 50+ pounds and the inside is very well organized an very easy to work with (just like Macs). It's even got a little light inside.
My guess is that a dual 2.2 PIV may have a little more juice (on average) than a dual 1.0 G4.
When I purchased my system, the only options were 10K or 15K RPM SCSI drives. I'm too lazy to check if Apple offers 10K+ SCSI drives or if Dell is starting to offer IDE/lower RPM SCSI drives. If the 80 GB drive is in fact 10/15K then expect a fair chunk of the cost to go into that.
FireGL is a VERY expensive professional card. Sure the GF4 may be similar (or better) in performance but it's not a fair comparison. Pricing of pro video boards is weird, you can get a pro-model of the GeForce 2 which would cost more than a mainstream GeForce 3. Don't compare prices of pro boards to mainstream ones.
Keep in mind that the Dell Precision 530 comes with a 2-year next day onsite service guarantee. Thats gotta cost some...
Anyways, my point is that it is NOT a fair comparison. The Dell is a designed to be a workstation with premium parts, and I doubt they made any effort to make it's price appealing to the general market. The Dell Precision 530 is a very sexy system for a PC.
Math is essential if you wish to be a computer scientist. Its easy to code, it's hard to come up with elegant/correct algorithms with basic knowledge of math.
If you disagree, then you must be someones coding bitch and not a REAL programmer.
I borrowed/stole someones sig.. =P
I think they are trying to find students who are more than plain academic nerds. A high school student who has enough knowledge to break an encryption scheme (even if its fairly trivial by todays standard) shows potential. High school does not teach the theory to be proficient in encryption and any student who demonstrates this skill must have put in extra time to learn (which is proof of potential IMHO).
I think that this is a great way to separate bookworms from brilliant people.
The fact that they can break the encryption doesn't make them a computer scientist, but then again a non-computer person can enter university and as long as they have the desire to learn they can leave with a lot of knowledge.
Those x10.com ads are infecting the world.
I know you slashdotters are gonna love this one
You are concerned over security, yet you use hotmail and passport?
All the data doesnt need to come from the same server. I suppose it is like load balancing.
If you have 20kbps to mirror A, and 80kbps to mirror B. Server A and B start spamming you with packets of whatever you are downloading. Then 20% of the total packets you recieve are from A, and 80% of the total are from B. Given all the partial packets you got, you can now reconstruct the porn DivX. This would be faster then getting 100% of the packets from B which would take 25% longer.
A Yeti, of course.
I think you are being somewhat extreme about this when you say that it is ridiculous and that its useless. First off, I dont think that 3Com expects this to be deployed at any decent sized company. It's probably a better idea for SOHO, or more likely for public areas (such as schools) where a switch/hub can get stolen, and running multiple cables across campus to the main switches is impractical. Shorter cables are cheaper.
Excuse me but if you have a need for four Cat-5 connections at one desk, I'm assuming four computers. That means that you have a mess to start with. What is a four port hub thrown into the mix?One possibility could be... 1-port to your broadboard modem, 1-port to your printer, 1-port to your desktop, and 1-port to your laptop. It would be nice if college dorms had things like these installed in the rooms. Having devices like these available makes it a little more practical to do such a thing.
If you dont own (but want) a DVD player then you can probably justify the extra cost for a xbox or ps2.
Threaten to post an article which links to a page on Nintendo's site, bringing it down to a halt. That should send some GCs your way.
I think its meant to deter (not prevent) people from fucking shit up by opening it. Saves the hassle of curious people with phillips drivers returning them to nintendo saying that its busted.
I'm curious to hear why you think that? AFAIK, it gives the GPU the chance to get 1 frame ahead at the cost of extra VRAM and a 2 frame latency.
I expect it to work like this...
- Buffer A being displayed by DAC
- Buffer B ready & waiting to be displayed
- Frame C being rasterized by GPU.
... Meanwhile the CPU is issuing commands to be executed to frame A when its ready.
This works better than double buffering assuming that you can maintain your target (locked) frame rate, and allows for that odd frame that takes more than 1/60th to make its frame
Unless you triple-buffer.