the constant flow of seachwords like f***, l****, t*** etc etc but the best was definitely 2****B*****d****o*****f****w*****c***.mpg
A true documentary! The best thing about Gnutella was that you could see right into the heads of other users by watching their searches and use the searchwords as a crude chat totally overloading poor fileservers looking for matches.
Maybe a bad thing about the opensource movement is that someone will say "it's already done" and not even try to put together a really free solution.
It has already been demonstrated that you could run plugins with wine, what Codeweaver did was adding a good installer. A distribuition could take that to another level by adding antialiased fonts and pointing the user to Microsofts free True Type Fonts within the installer.
It seems like the Nforce chipset from Nvidia is working somewhat like that. The graphics controller is integrated into the chipset and uses the internal memory, but since you have dual memory buses (and current AMD processors don't need more than one 266 MHz bus) the chipset can have the same bandwith to the system memory as the processor.
This only makes the point that the processor should be able to use the bandwith better and that the 8xAGP bus the chipset is getting is 16 times faster than the PCI bus you are referring to.
Lets hope that the next generation point to point databuses is open enought to make adding an extra co-processor as easy as adding more storage.
The results were very interesting indeed. Since this benchmark is too much to be handled in this article, Byte.com will post it here soon for you to read.
Can't wait to read the sequel...
You can always hope that the professional server version will have a telnet backdoor as default.
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The specs haven't changed and was proved simple to implement so the motherboard manufacturers have no excuses.
However, AMD still seems like the one to blame since they only implements the warning signal and have no "clock-throttling" or other mechanism to safely bring down the system. The MB manufacturers would still be able to refuse AMD's "solution" to just cut the power if they have concerns for any customer running a system a bit too hot.
In the american way you can't serve coffe that's too hot, but it still has to be drinkable, so you have to produce a luke-warm somewhat-acceptable solution.
But what does being highly innovative get Apple? Think Newton. It still runs circles around the Palm, but was a commercial failure. It was too innovative.
Earth still runs circles around the sun, but not from a center of gravity point of view.
From this standpoint I guess the iPod is pretty good compared to the other Higly Innovative jukeboxes.
It's time the Linux distributions accepts that they can't do everything themselves and adds a simple "installer" to help out with downloading MS's free truetype fonts, emulated plugins for Konqueror etc.
The Small Form Factor Pentium 4 might be what the industry needs to convince people that they can put a computer in their livingroom.
If nVidia delivers a chipset on the launch it might be a really good computer too. I'm currently contemplating nForce, but the bulky ATX case and all that comes with it is the biggest drawback.
With serial ATA, PCI-X and other next generation buses going from electric to optical interfaces will be totally transparent.
Maybe not cost-efficient today, but once the technology is there the benefits of longer connections and having the same speed for external units as those inside the computer will make it an easy choice.
We'll wonder why people even bothered with disturbance-intorelant electrical interconnections.
Noone seem to have noticed AMD's real incentive behind the new numbering scheme:
While they always kept ahead in speed somehow they had to sell the next fastest processor too cheap while moving from 1.1 GHz to 1.2 GHz and from there to 1.33 GHz. Noone wants to pay as much for the next best.
Enter Quantaspeed: Instead of moving from 1.4 GHz to 1.5 GHz AMD can now move from 1.43 GHz to 1.47 GHz and from there to 1.53 GHz, but instead of one step up from the budget choice there are now two steps and AMD can put the higher price at a higher level.
66 MHz isn't much and considering that 100 MHz at 1.5 GHz is 50% less than the 100 MHz speed step we saw at 1 GHz its plain lousy.
Were you drooling over 210 MHz when you only had 200 MHz in your box?
I'd prefer completed programs every time instead of projects with high ideals that ends in nothingness.
If it weren't for the "open source" thing there is only one alternative to nothingness, and that is that the once free program gets commercial whenever it's full-featured and working.
Though in reality even "open source" projects can take that turn, since only the author himself can take the last step from last beta to working copy.
If the community wants a feature why don't they do it bazaar style instead, that way you won't leave a single poor bastard in the heat while he's having problems paying the rent.
Slashdot Mirror
There's always those competitions for 1'st graders to come up with an experiment to do in space, why not one for the slashdotters.
My submission: bring a handful of dimes to throw out and see what happens.
64 kb using windows and DX8!
Like saying that a piece of paper can take you flying across to the other side of the continent - yeah if its a ticket...
The animated version was hilarious,
the constant flow of seachwords like f***, l****, t*** etc etc but the best was definitely 2****B*****d****o*****f****w*****c***.mpg
A true documentary! The best thing about Gnutella was that you could see right into the heads of other users by watching their searches and use the searchwords as a crude chat totally overloading poor fileservers looking for matches.
Maybe a bad thing about the opensource movement is that someone will say "it's already done" and not even try to put together a really free solution.
It has already been demonstrated that you could run plugins with wine, what Codeweaver did was adding a good installer. A distribuition could take that to another level by adding antialiased fonts and pointing the user to Microsofts free True Type Fonts within the installer.
I don't doubt that the XP1900 is faster than
the P4 2GHz, but at amdmb there's only a test against it's smaller brother the XP1800.
Wheres some real tests comparing it to the P4 : )
It seems like the Nforce chipset from Nvidia is working somewhat like that. The graphics controller is integrated into the chipset and uses the internal memory, but since you have dual memory buses (and current AMD processors don't need more than one 266 MHz bus) the chipset can have the same bandwith to the system memory as the processor.
This only makes the point that the processor should be able to use the bandwith better and that the 8xAGP bus the chipset is getting is 16 times faster than the PCI bus you are referring to.
Lets hope that the next generation point to point databuses is open enought to make adding an extra co-processor as easy as adding more storage.
Depends on who wrote your history book.
The results were very interesting indeed. Since this benchmark is too much to be handled in this article, Byte.com will post it here soon for you to read.
Can't wait to read the sequel...
You can always hope that the professional server version will have a telnet backdoor as default.
The specs haven't changed and was proved simple to implement so the motherboard manufacturers have no excuses.
However, AMD still seems like the one to blame since they only implements the warning signal and have no "clock-throttling" or other mechanism to safely bring down the system. The MB manufacturers would still be able to refuse AMD's "solution" to just cut the power if they have concerns for any customer running a system a bit too hot.
In the american way you can't serve coffe that's too hot, but it still has to be drinkable, so you have to produce a luke-warm somewhat-acceptable solution.
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Earth still runs circles around the sun, but not from a center of gravity point of view.
From this standpoint I guess the iPod is pretty good compared to the other Higly Innovative jukeboxes.
You are right of course.
Everybody knows that it ain't a computer if it hasn't got a 3.5 inch floppy drive, that's why people didn't want those televisions from apple.
Good point,
My clik! drive has 1.5" disks but the only outcome of that is that they are too small to put on top of each other.
What's good is that the case with 2 discs and drive fits all within 4 inches which is what you can handle.
Dataplay is much better but the drive is much bulkier and won't get cliks usefulness until every computer has a player.
My new jukebox has a 2.5" harddrive, but fitted with electronics and player its about 5" anyway.
But noone can convince me that a smaller player and 10 small discs would be any less bulky...
It's time the Linux distributions accepts that they can't do everything themselves and adds a simple "installer" to help out with downloading MS's free truetype fonts, emulated plugins for Konqueror etc.
The Small Form Factor Pentium 4 might be what the industry needs to convince people that they can put a computer in their livingroom.
If nVidia delivers a chipset on the launch it might be a really good computer too. I'm currently contemplating nForce, but the bulky ATX case and all that comes with it is the biggest drawback.
With serial ATA, PCI-X and other next generation buses going from electric to optical interfaces will be totally transparent.
Maybe not cost-efficient today, but once the technology is there the benefits of longer connections and having the same speed for external units as those inside the computer will make it an easy choice.
We'll wonder why people even bothered with disturbance-intorelant electrical interconnections.
Add a decent processor and cool the
chipset to better specs and you could make arcades with games that can't possibly run on a normal X-box.
Noone seem to have noticed AMD's real incentive behind the new numbering scheme:
While they always kept ahead in speed somehow they had to sell the next fastest processor too cheap while moving from 1.1 GHz to 1.2 GHz and from there to 1.33 GHz. Noone wants to pay as much for the next best.
Enter Quantaspeed: Instead of moving from 1.4 GHz to 1.5 GHz AMD can now move from 1.43 GHz to 1.47 GHz and from there to 1.53 GHz, but instead of one step up from the budget choice there are now two steps and AMD can put the higher price at a higher level.
66 MHz isn't much and considering that 100 MHz at 1.5 GHz is 50% less than the 100 MHz speed step we saw at 1 GHz its plain lousy.
Were you drooling over 210 MHz when you only had 200 MHz in your box?
I'd prefer completed programs every time instead of projects with high ideals that ends in nothingness.
If it weren't for the "open source" thing there is only one alternative to nothingness, and that is that the once free program gets commercial whenever it's full-featured and working.
Though in reality even "open source" projects can take that turn, since only the author himself can take the last step from last beta to working copy.
If the community wants a feature why don't they do it bazaar style instead, that way you won't leave a single poor bastard in the heat while he's having problems paying the rent.
The slashdot article just talks about using ballons as resonant chambers - the speaker elements are included.
What about an inflated piezoelectric film ballon emitting a perfect spherical sound wave...
The Interactive Balloon
DIY example - make your own
IRL they only get one chance per day,
but the net editions usually put up anything
as soon as possible and most often gets it wrong.
Though it's not suprising considering that they would do the same in the paper editions if they could print a new version every minute.
Or nobody important that we would want to continue to use linux anyway - like SUSE.
Make sure that the users cannot change their registred e-mail adress, then sell their aliases to spammers.
Xoom pages still held hostage...
Well I'm glad they didn't,
the pedagogic misery of using the best programming language for each academic viewpoint made me learn:
Simula, Smalltalk, Modula-2, Pascal...