A system executes computer processing tasks on a remote computer that communicates with a central computer. The remote computer receives a start message from the central computer. Based on the start message, the remote computer processes raw data to generate processed data, and stores the processed data. Finally, the remote computer sends a complete message to the central computer.
What the hell is this? I can actually understand what the abstact is talking about..;-) I thought all patents were ununderstandble jibberish that a normal person could not comprehend. Just read any Transmeta patent and you know exactly what I mean.
I've been wondering that same thing. The city of Chernobyl is still still so polluted that living there is not possible, allthough short-term exposure is quite harmless. I guess they just cleande the plant so well that operation is possible. Chernobyl has been online for a long time, as the article states it was shut only fife months ago for some repairs. Now that the winter is comming, more electricity is needed to keep up with the demand.
Old USSR reactors mostly rely on good old-fashioned analog techonoly, so Y2K should not be a big issue. Besides, while Soviet reactors may not be as safe as their western counterpars, they are by no means unsafe. After all, what happened in 1986, happened because some engineers thought it might be a good idea to turn off safety systems an do some experiments. There have been nuclear acidents in the US too..
Integrating everything possible on one chip usually decreases performance. AGP may be slow, but at least video cards have their own RAM, which usually gives a couple GB/s. One chip solution on the other hand is confined to the 64bit * 100MHz = 730MB/s main bus. And remember, that bus is not dedicated to graphics, so the actual bandwith is even less. Plus, Intel probably won't be putting a 15 million transistor 3D-core on this one, so you can forget playing Q3 with one of these.
Make no mistake people, this is a very low-end solution.
The wintel alliance has been dead for quite some time. Microsoft doesn't much care of Intel, Intel doesn't like Microsoft. In a way, Intel and Microsoft are actually competitors.
If Intel gets a monopoly, the price of CPUs goes up, and PC-sales go down a bit. Allmost every PC comes bundeled with Windows, so Windows sales will also be hurt. That is why Microsoft insisted that Intel licence the MMX-instructions to competing CPU manufacturers. Microsoft wants and needs competion - in every area but their own.
And it also works the other way. If Microsoft gets a monopoly (hmm..), it will hike up prices, PC sales go down a bit and Intel sells less CPUs. That is why Intel is investing in competing operating systems.
I am going to spend more time on some Free Software projects. I have been stealing a few hours here and there to work on the matrox glx project for a while now, and it has been pretty rewarding. People with an interest in the guts of a 3D driver might want to look at the project archives at http://glx.on.openprojects.net/. The web pages aren't very up to date, but the mailing list covers some good techie information.
I know this is offtopic, but I would like to know how you define the size of a corporation. Companies can be rated in hundreds of ways, but how would one measure "size"?
ATI Rage Fury Pro 128 Max Turbo Fast Thing, or whatever the hell it is called.
Bitboys Glaze3D (if/when it comes out).
Everyone implements it bit differenty, but the idea of SMP Video is not new. CAD-people, who use cards that cost more than a decent car, have had this stuff forever.
If you can't get commercial software for free, you might as well get non-commercial software for free;-)
Seriously though, I think this is a good thing. There are lots of very active channels out there, one channel I used to use had over 200 Gigabytes of traffic on peak days, sometimes up to 400GB. I think that is worth going after.
In summary, it's takes on average 1/256 the time to break a 56-bit key as a 64-bit key.
Only if the message/whatever is encrypted using the same algorithm. Different algorithms have different speeds, meaning that although it is the most important factor, keyspace isn't everything. The question remains: How fast is the CSC decrypt algo compared to RC5?
I know - it's impossible to say for sure, but can someone give an esimate as to how long this is going to take? RC5-64 has been going on for two years and has consumed about 15% of the keyspace, please tell me this is going to be faster. The keyspace is smaller, but how fast is the decrypt algorithm?
It's impossible to say for sure, but can someone give me an esimate as to how long this is going to take? RC5-64 has been going on for two years and has consumed about 15% of the keyspace, please tell me this is going to be faster. The keyspace is smaller, but how fast is the decrypt algorithm?
I mean seriously, so what? To my knowlege, there are a few other sites that ar powered by Linux, I think there really isn't any reason for getting all exited. It's not like this is the first time some well know company/organisation/whatever is deploying Linux as a server.
Sorry about the trollish tone, but I just don't get it.
The main page is full of unnecessary tables and links and so forth. Searches are really poor, even if you use boolean searches, 50% of the results are irrelevant. And their database is so out of date (dead links). Adding more bloat isn't the right way to turn things right, IMHO.
Altavista used to be pretty good, now it's pretty useless. This has happened to every single search engine I've used. They were good when they first came out, but as time passes their quality starts to deteriorate. I'm not sure why this happens, I guess they just aren't maintained properly. The only decent engine now is Google, but I'm really afraid it too will start to suck in a year or two.
Segfault is only reliable source of news these days. Again, they have published the truth while others give you government fabricated lies. In reality, Jam Echelon Day was a huge success, see this Quote: "We couldn't even telnet in to kill the process," wrote an anonymous NSA sysadmin. "We unplugged it from the network but it's got a lot of mail buffered, and it's going through it all."
Even The Register who first reported the 1.1GHz Willamette noted it is a rumour, and likely to be untrue. Besides, The Register had the 1GHz Athlon story before the Willamette, so there is no way it would have been sparked by the Willamette "announcement".
Even if the Willamette thing was true, I'm not sure it would be good idea. Shipping a CPU nine months early probably means that it has not been tested very througly, and will therefore contain a lot bugs. No CPU is 100% bug free, but insufficient testing could mean that even some really bad bugs(by bad i mean something like the F00F bug) might slip trough.
Let's hope that Nokia will start contributing to Mozilla development in a big way. It might actually happen, set-tob-boxes are embedded things, and stability *really* matters at that market. Due to their size and complexity, building a browser that never crashes is pretty much impossible, unless of cource you have a huge army of nerds working on stabilty.
Ok, a lot of the stuff is hilarious, but that is not point at all. This is excellent advice for programmers, anyone doing GUI apps should definetly check the site out. HUGE amount of common and not-so-common errors is listed on the site. This goes straight to my programming bookmarks.
Besides, application specific processors are allready (and have allways been) widely used, expaning their use should be no big deal. Want to run Q9 but have a slow CPU? - Buy a graphics card with 4 geometry CPUs.
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Absolutely, I just have it when people whine about it. "give me a browser now or I'll tell my mother." blah. Even so, I still would like know when I can expect a new release. Nothing more frustrating than having to wait and hope that today is finaly the day (and then it's not).
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According to the milestone roadmap, M11 should have been out week and a half ago. What's up? I'm waiting for this one anxiously because I'm guessing it will be the first really usable version.
This are ment to be very low-cost solutions, so they probably won't have too much RAM. X + Netscape is real memory hog, and users will definetly be runnig more than just that. So what do you do when you run out of memory? Since these things don't have a hard drive, swapping is not an option. "Error - not enough memory to run application."? yuck.
It's just a landscape engine, nothing more. 3D-games contain a lot more stuff than just hills and lakes. It's still digital (doh). Low CPU requiremnts? Please, the demo (400x240 I believe) drains 90% of my CPU-resources - and it still looks like *hit. My CPU is not Z80 (which the article claims to be sufficient), but a K6-2 running at 400MHz. I rememer seeing cooler landscapes in demos, and with lot lover CPU requirements.
I'm not saying that this technology isn't worth anything (how could I, I first heard of it 15 mins ago). It still looks like it needs a lot of develoment, though.
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A system executes computer processing tasks on a remote computer that communicates with a central computer. The remote computer receives a start message from the central computer. Based on the start message, the remote computer processes raw data to generate processed data, and stores the processed data. Finally, the remote computer sends a complete message to the central computer.
What the hell is this? I can actually understand what the abstact is talking about.. ;-) I thought all patents were ununderstandble jibberish that a normal person could not comprehend. Just read any Transmeta patent and you know exactly what I mean.
I've been wondering that same thing. The city of Chernobyl is still still so polluted that living there is not possible, allthough short-term exposure is quite harmless. I guess they just cleande the plant so well that operation is possible. Chernobyl has been online for a long time, as the article states it was shut only fife months ago for some repairs. Now that the winter is comming, more electricity is needed to keep up with the demand.
Old USSR reactors mostly rely on good old-fashioned analog techonoly, so Y2K should not be a big issue. Besides, while Soviet reactors may not be as safe as their western counterpars, they are by no means unsafe. After all, what happened in 1986, happened because some engineers thought it might be a good idea to turn off safety systems an do some experiments. There have been nuclear acidents in the US too..
Integrating everything possible on one chip usually decreases performance. AGP may be slow, but at least video cards have their own RAM, which usually gives a couple GB/s. One chip solution on the other hand is confined to the 64bit * 100MHz = 730MB/s main bus. And remember, that bus is not dedicated to graphics, so the actual bandwith is even less. Plus, Intel probably won't be putting a 15 million transistor 3D-core on this one, so you can forget playing Q3 with one of these.
Make no mistake people, this is a very low-end solution.
The wintel alliance has been dead for quite some time. Microsoft doesn't much care of Intel, Intel doesn't like Microsoft. In a way, Intel and Microsoft are actually competitors.
If Intel gets a monopoly, the price of CPUs goes up, and PC-sales go down a bit. Allmost every PC comes bundeled with Windows, so Windows sales will also be hurt. That is why Microsoft insisted that Intel licence the MMX-instructions to competing CPU manufacturers. Microsoft wants and needs competion - in every area but their own.
And it also works the other way. If Microsoft gets a monopoly (hmm..), it will hike up prices, PC sales go down a bit and Intel sells less CPUs. That is why Intel is investing in competing operating systems.
Check out Carmacks .plan, here is an exerpt:
I am going to spend more time on some Free Software projects. I have been stealing a few hours here and there to work on the matrox glx project for a while now, and it has been pretty rewarding. People with an interest in the guts of a 3D driver might want to look at the project archives at http://glx.on.openprojects.net/. The web pages aren't very up to date, but the mailing list covers some good techie information.
I know this is offtopic, but I would like to know how you define the size of a corporation. Companies can be rated in hundreds of ways, but how would one measure "size"?
- Quantum's dual Voodoo1.
- 3dfx Voodoo2 (SLI)
- ATI Rage Fury Pro 128 Max Turbo Fast Thing, or whatever the hell it is called.
- Bitboys Glaze3D (if/when it comes out).
Everyone implements it bit differenty, but the idea of SMP Video is not new. CAD-people, who use cards that cost more than a decent car, have had this stuff forever.If you can't get commercial software for free, you might as well get non-commercial software for free ;-)
Seriously though, I think this is a good thing. There are lots of very active channels out there, one channel I used to use had over 200 Gigabytes of traffic on peak days, sometimes up to 400GB. I think that is worth going after.
In summary, it's takes on average 1/256 the time to break a 56-bit key as a 64-bit key.
Only if the message/whatever is encrypted using the same algorithm. Different algorithms have different speeds, meaning that although it is the most important factor, keyspace isn't everything. The question remains: How fast is the CSC decrypt algo compared to RC5?
I know - it's impossible to say for sure, but can someone give an esimate as to how long this is going to take? RC5-64 has been going on for two years and has consumed about 15% of the keyspace, please tell me this is going to be faster. The keyspace is smaller, but how fast is the decrypt algorithm?
It's impossible to say for sure, but can someone give me an esimate as to how long this is going to take? RC5-64 has been going on for two years and has consumed about 15% of the keyspace, please tell me this is going to be faster. The keyspace is smaller, but how fast is the decrypt algorithm?
I mean seriously, so what? To my knowlege, there are a few other sites that ar powered by Linux, I think there really isn't any reason for getting all exited. It's not like this is the first time some well know company/organisation/whatever is deploying Linux as a server.
Sorry about the trollish tone, but I just don't get it.
The main page is full of unnecessary tables and links and so forth. Searches are really poor, even if you use boolean searches, 50% of the results are irrelevant. And their database is so out of date (dead links). Adding more bloat isn't the right way to turn things right, IMHO.
Altavista used to be pretty good, now it's pretty useless. This has happened to every single search engine I've used. They were good when they first came out, but as time passes their quality starts to deteriorate. I'm not sure why this happens, I guess they just aren't maintained properly. The only decent engine now is Google, but I'm really afraid it too will start to suck in a year or two.
Segfault is only reliable source of news these days. Again, they have published the truth while others give you government fabricated lies. In reality, Jam Echelon Day was a huge success, see this Quote: "We couldn't even telnet in to kill the process," wrote an anonymous NSA sysadmin. "We unplugged it from the network but it's got a lot of mail buffered, and it's going through it all."
Even The Register who first reported the 1.1GHz Willamette noted it is a rumour, and likely to be untrue. Besides, The Register had the 1GHz Athlon story before the Willamette, so there is no way it would have been sparked by the Willamette "announcement".
Even if the Willamette thing was true, I'm not sure it would be good idea. Shipping a CPU nine months early probably means that it has not been tested very througly, and will therefore contain a lot bugs. No CPU is 100% bug free, but insufficient testing could mean that even some really bad bugs(by bad i mean something like the F00F bug) might slip trough.
I mean, who would wan't to play an FPS with a mouse that has only one button.
Let's hope that Nokia will start contributing to Mozilla development in a big way. It might actually happen, set-tob-boxes are embedded things, and stability *really* matters at that market. Due to their size and complexity, building a browser that never crashes is pretty much impossible, unless of cource you have a huge army of nerds working on stabilty.
Read more at The Register, CNet.
Do you expect it to generate serious additional income, or did you do just for the heck of it? Out of hate towards Microsoft?-)
Ok, a lot of the stuff is hilarious, but that is not point at all. This is excellent advice for programmers, anyone doing GUI apps should definetly check the site out. HUGE amount of common and not-so-common errors is listed on the site. This goes straight to my programming bookmarks.
Besides, application specific processors are allready (and have allways been) widely used, expaning their use should be no big deal. Want to run Q9 but have a slow CPU? - Buy a graphics card with 4 geometry CPUs.
Absolutely, I just have it when people whine about it. "give me a browser now or I'll tell my mother." blah. Even so, I still would like know when I can expect a new release. Nothing more frustrating than having to wait and hope that today is finaly the day (and then it's not).
According to the milestone roadmap, M11 should have been out week and a half ago. What's up? I'm waiting for this one anxiously because I'm guessing it will be the first really usable version.
This are ment to be very low-cost solutions, so they probably won't have too much RAM. X + Netscape is real memory hog, and users will definetly be runnig more than just that. So what do you do when you run out of memory? Since these things don't have a hard drive, swapping is not an option. "Error - not enough memory to run application."? yuck.
It's just a landscape engine, nothing more. 3D-games contain a lot more stuff than just hills and lakes. It's still digital (doh). Low CPU requiremnts? Please, the demo (400x240 I believe) drains 90% of my CPU-resources - and it still looks like *hit. My CPU is not Z80 (which the article claims to be sufficient), but a K6-2 running at 400MHz. I rememer seeing cooler landscapes in demos, and with lot lover CPU requirements.
I'm not saying that this technology isn't worth anything (how could I, I first heard of it 15 mins ago). It still looks like it needs a lot of develoment, though.