This is what was done with a multimillion dollar grant from the US Dept. of Defense. I think it's pretty cool, even though the technology itself is pretty old (the article mentioned it was 14 *years* old).
Basically all they do is put a solution onto plastic sheets that turns electrical energy into light. This is cool because in a few years we might see these special inkjet cartdiges appear on the consumer market. They would probably be in a kit including the cartridges with the special solution in them, and plastic paper to print on, some coating for the "paper", and a power supply to rig the whole thing up. You could make some pretty cool signs with this, yes indeed.
I think it would be cool to make halloween signs, amateur beer signs for your bachelor pad, or coat your car's inside roof with them, and instead of having a dome-light, the whole inside roof of your car lights up!
I think it's cool that AMD has made it so easy to make this chip overlockable. According to the article, all you have to do is connect the L1 contacts, and that's it.
although, keep in minde this is not for the faint hearted. you will also need a conductive lacquer to connect the contacts, tape, super glue, a scalpel, and multimeter. I don't know about you guys, but I think when all this is required to overclock your CPU, it's a bit much for the rewards you get.
Also, for most users, the faster processors like this new AMD are so fast anyways, that overclocking them will probably give a faster experience only in benchmarks, and not in real user experience. It's a cool article, none the less - but if you just bought one of these babies, would You want to pull out all these tools to overclock it?
I would play it safe and be happy with my already fast computer.
It doesn't bother me too much, I just read the article, and was asking myself "well, is there anything you DO know?" - I know, that's how science goes. But, it's Friday, damnit, and I want answers!
At the risk of being slightly off topic, does anyone else get a little flustered with all the non-abolutes that seem to nearly accompany scientific papers? Examples from this very article:
"...prompting physicists yesterday to announce that they might be on the verge of finding a new form of matter or energy."
"While this discrepancy could be a fluke, then scientists who conducted the experiment said the odds were it represented something meaningfull..."
"If some hidden matter or energy did cause the discrepancy..."
"It could be a very big deal..."
"It would be very exciting if we find another force"
"...there is a high probablility that something is wrong with the theory"
Just something to think about, not really a big deal, but it would be nice for people to just tell it how it is.
Even though we (myself included) always complain about all the "standards" there are, it really is a good thing in the long run. Even thought I hate having to deal with stuff like which keyboard to i need for this system (USB, PS2, Big DIN connector), it is good. I know the best usually wins. It's just like ISA vs. PCI vs. AGP, USB 2 vs. Firewire, SCSI vs. IDE, (yes, I know those are not apples vs. apples, but you get my point). Eventually, we just have to wait it out, and then buy whoemever the winner is. The unfortunate part is that the early adopters (a lot of slashdot readers) are the ones that pay the high price for new technology, but that's the way it goes.
However, if we look at trends in 5 to 10 year periods, we can clearly see what technology won the battle for existence and standards. The best technologo doesn't ALWAYS win (think Windows Media...), but more often than not, and that gives time to sort out the better from the good. Right now, though, we do live with a lot of different, competing standards that are quite frustrating.
"Many people still don't fully understand and cannot effectively differentiate InfiniBand from PCI-X from RapidIO, or 3GIO from HyperTransport, for example."
geez, what are you guys, a bunch of idiots? I can't *believe* that some people STILL don't fully understant inifiBand form PCI-X from RapidIO, or 3GIO! What is the world coming to?
Sun, being the DOT in Dot Com, invented everything that made the internet possible. Of course, this was back in the 80's when they hired Al Gore to head the whole project. Quite a successful venture, that.
...Which is precisely what they do with their printers. They give them away, sometimes even losing money initially, but wait... people need... toner! Yeah that's it, we'll charge an arm and a leg for finely ground plastic!
To be semi on-topic, I can't believe that HP's new mp3 device is so limiting. It seems that the old HP would have gone with what people really want, and not bow to the RIAA and all this digital protection crap. Look what happened with Napster: You used to have one mp3-sharing company to kill, now you have 50 small, flexible, and no-one-person-owns-me mp3 sharing networks/programs. They really shot themselves in the foot on this one!
Perhaps I'm retarded, but I didn't see a reference to Vivid Video. Or it could be because it's after 5:00 and my brain is worn out for the day. I don't know either.
Well, actually HP doesn't MAKE their printers, per se... they make part of them (usually the formatter board comes from HP), but the engine is usually made by Canon, etc.
I agree with you. I think it will be sometime before virtual reality is cheap and good enough to be practical for all but the biggest of VR geeks. I remember in the early 90's when VR was supposed to be the biggest damn thing in the world. You were supposed to be able to tour a house, a landscape, or box with your friend all with VR. It hasn't really panned out yet, and I don't see it happening for some time. It seems that most people are content with pictures and non-VR games for the time being. Of course, this is probably because as of right now, VR is not "it". It's an idea that is destined to be in our future. And it will be very cool.
That's funny, because even if you meant archaeology, it still made sense to me, and I thought, "yeah, an archaeologist could make a REALLY cool level". They would certainly have a good sense of cool maps... Maybe a level in a dig site or a really cool pyramid game or something.
That's funny... I was using an IA-64 machine this morning with RedHat 7.1 and Gnome... Can I have some of the crack you are smoking, or are you just trolling?
That the important thing - for the next few versions of Solaris - Gnome may be the default, but you will have a CHOICE. A CHOICE to install CDE instead - and that's good. I personally do not prefer CDE, but if you like it, that's cool.
If you prefer CDE, please raise your hand. There's bound to be one person. CDE would not be that bad IF it came with a whole bunch of apps like gnome. CDE looks kind of cool, but it is not that usable compared to more modern GUIs. This is a good choice, and it seems to be what others are doing as well (HP to go with gnome in the upcoming 11.2x release).
Good for gnome, good for the users.
and there will be a host of applications that use the gtk libraries that will be available...
So basically HP is coming out with a computer, at twice the price and no monitor?
It's always too little too late.
Don't get me wrong - I would love to have one of these, it JUST ISN"T SOMETHING I WOULD BUY. And that's bad for HP - they need people to BUY stuff to make money. The way our economy is right now, people are stopping spending money on luxury items, such as this (i.e. shit you don't need). I doubt anyone here will buy this, but I sure wish my friend would so I could borrow it some time.
Mine's not really a story, just something I remember back in the day. I'm sure the rest of you have had a similar experience:
I was up late, playing Wolfenstein, and it was amazing. I had never before played it with a soundcard (just the pc-speaker), but today I had gone to the store and bought a sound blaster! I installed the card, and was playing wolfenstein, almost being sppoked by the level of realism the sound introduced.
I was pretty far into the game, and had killed nearly all the nazi's in the level. It is the level that is like a maze. Anyway, I was wondering throught this maze for maybe 15 minutes without seeing any nazi's or anything, then all of a sudden, i hear that german speach come blasting out of the speakers and it scared the shit out of me. I think I had forgotton that my computer had sound, and I spilled my pop all over my keyboard and knocked a nuch of shit off the desk when I flinched. This was the beginning of late night gaming... when it's dark, you're the only one up, it's not too hard to scare yourself with computers...
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That looks like an HP K-class server to me (hp9000).
This is what was done with a multimillion dollar grant from the US Dept. of Defense. I think it's pretty cool, even though the technology itself is pretty old (the article mentioned it was 14 *years* old).
Basically all they do is put a solution onto plastic sheets that turns electrical energy into light. This is cool because in a few years we might see these special inkjet cartdiges appear on the consumer market. They would probably be in a kit including the cartridges with the special solution in them, and plastic paper to print on, some coating for the "paper", and a power supply to rig the whole thing up. You could make some pretty cool signs with this, yes indeed.
I think it would be cool to make halloween signs, amateur beer signs for your bachelor pad, or coat your car's inside roof with them, and instead of having a dome-light, the whole inside roof of your car lights up!
Cool stuff.
I think it's cool that AMD has made it so easy to make this chip overlockable. According to the article, all you have to do is connect the L1 contacts, and that's it.
although, keep in minde this is not for the faint hearted. you will also need a conductive lacquer to connect the contacts, tape, super glue, a scalpel, and multimeter. I don't know about you guys, but I think when all this is required to overclock your CPU, it's a bit much for the rewards you get.
Also, for most users, the faster processors like this new AMD are so fast anyways, that overclocking them will probably give a faster experience only in benchmarks, and not in real user experience. It's a cool article, none the less - but if you just bought one of these babies, would You want to pull out all these tools to overclock it?
I would play it safe and be happy with my already fast computer.
It doesn't bother me too much, I just read the article, and was asking myself "well, is there anything you DO know?" - I know, that's how science goes. But, it's Friday, damnit, and I want answers!
At the risk of being slightly off topic, does anyone else get a little flustered with all the non-abolutes that seem to nearly accompany scientific papers? Examples from this very article:
"...prompting physicists yesterday to announce that they might be on the verge of finding a new form of matter or energy."
"While this discrepancy could be a fluke, then scientists who conducted the experiment said the odds were it represented something meaningfull..."
"If some hidden matter or energy did cause the discrepancy..."
"It could be a very big deal..."
"It would be very exciting if we find another force"
"...there is a high probablility that something is wrong with the theory"
Just something to think about, not really a big deal, but it would be nice for people to just tell it how it is.
Very true. Although only in a utopia are the playing fields really level. We try and come as close as we can get, though, being mere earthlings.
Even though we (myself included) always complain about all the "standards" there are, it really is a good thing in the long run. Even thought I hate having to deal with stuff like which keyboard to i need for this system (USB, PS2, Big DIN connector), it is good. I know the best usually wins. It's just like ISA vs. PCI vs. AGP, USB 2 vs. Firewire, SCSI vs. IDE, (yes, I know those are not apples vs. apples, but you get my point). Eventually, we just have to wait it out, and then buy whoemever the winner is. The unfortunate part is that the early adopters (a lot of slashdot readers) are the ones that pay the high price for new technology, but that's the way it goes.
However, if we look at trends in 5 to 10 year periods, we can clearly see what technology won the battle for existence and standards. The best technologo doesn't ALWAYS win (think Windows Media...), but more often than not, and that gives time to sort out the better from the good. Right now, though, we do live with a lot of different, competing standards that are quite frustrating.
"Many people still don't fully understand and cannot effectively differentiate InfiniBand from PCI-X from RapidIO, or 3GIO from HyperTransport, for example."
geez, what are you guys, a bunch of idiots? I can't *believe* that some people STILL don't fully understant inifiBand form PCI-X from RapidIO, or 3GIO! What is the world coming to?
Sun, being the DOT in Dot Com, invented everything that made the internet possible. Of course, this was back in the 80's when they hired Al Gore to head the whole project. Quite a successful venture, that.
...Which is precisely what they do with their printers. They give them away, sometimes even losing money initially, but wait... people need... toner! Yeah that's it, we'll charge an arm and a leg for finely ground plastic!
To be semi on-topic, I can't believe that HP's new mp3 device is so limiting. It seems that the old HP would have gone with what people really want, and not bow to the RIAA and all this digital protection crap. Look what happened with Napster: You used to have one mp3-sharing company to kill, now you have 50 small, flexible, and no-one-person-owns-me mp3 sharing networks/programs. They really shot themselves in the foot on this one!
Viva la resistance.
Perhaps I'm retarded, but I didn't see a reference to Vivid Video. Or it could be because it's after 5:00 and my brain is worn out for the day. I don't know either.
His POINT, right now, is moot.
haha.
Well, actually HP doesn't MAKE their printers, per se... they make part of them (usually the formatter board comes from HP), but the engine is usually made by Canon, etc.
I mean game maps, for what it's worth. Not "where am I?" maps. I should have been more descriptive.
[Note: I didn't read the article or anything, karma be damned]
I just read the word "Mathematics". . Oh it hurts..
ahhh!
I agree with you. I think it will be sometime before virtual reality is cheap and good enough to be practical for all but the biggest of VR geeks. I remember in the early 90's when VR was supposed to be the biggest damn thing in the world. You were supposed to be able to tour a house, a landscape, or box with your friend all with VR. It hasn't really panned out yet, and I don't see it happening for some time. It seems that most people are content with pictures and non-VR games for the time being. Of course, this is probably because as of right now, VR is not "it". It's an idea that is destined to be in our future. And it will be very cool.
That's funny, because even if you meant archaeology, it still made sense to me, and I thought, "yeah, an archaeologist could make a REALLY cool level". They would certainly have a good sense of cool maps... Maybe a level in a dig site or a really cool pyramid game or something.
That's funny... I was using an IA-64 machine this morning with RedHat 7.1 and Gnome... Can I have some of the crack you are smoking, or are you just trolling?
aigh.
Yeah, I definately wouldn't put gnome (especially 2.0!) on an older sparc... bad news... i can hear the disk grinding in agony now.
Before I get flamed - I am speaking in terms of modern workstations, not servers. you shouldn't be running x on your servers anyways.
That the important thing - for the next few versions of Solaris - Gnome may be the default, but you will have a CHOICE. A CHOICE to install CDE instead - and that's good. I personally do not prefer CDE, but if you like it, that's cool.
:) )
(for a while, until they stop supporting CDE
If you prefer CDE, please raise your hand. There's bound to be one person. CDE would not be that bad IF it came with a whole bunch of apps like gnome. CDE looks kind of cool, but it is not that usable compared to more modern GUIs. This is a good choice, and it seems to be what others are doing as well (HP to go with gnome in the upcoming 11.2x release).
Good for gnome, good for the users.
and there will be a host of applications that use the gtk libraries that will be available...
So basically HP is coming out with a computer, at twice the price and no monitor?
It's always too little too late.
Don't get me wrong - I would love to have one of these, it JUST ISN"T SOMETHING I WOULD BUY. And that's bad for HP - they need people to BUY stuff to make money. The way our economy is right now, people are stopping spending money on luxury items, such as this (i.e. shit you don't need). I doubt anyone here will buy this, but I sure wish my friend would so I could borrow it some time.
Mine's not really a story, just something I remember back in the day. I'm sure the rest of you have had a similar experience:
I was up late, playing Wolfenstein, and it was amazing. I had never before played it with a soundcard (just the pc-speaker), but today I had gone to the store and bought a sound blaster! I installed the card, and was playing wolfenstein, almost being sppoked by the level of realism the sound introduced.
I was pretty far into the game, and had killed nearly all the nazi's in the level. It is the level that is like a maze. Anyway, I was wondering throught this maze for maybe 15 minutes without seeing any nazi's or anything, then all of a sudden, i hear that german speach come blasting out of the speakers and it scared the shit out of me. I think I had forgotton that my computer had sound, and I spilled my pop all over my keyboard and knocked a nuch of shit off the desk when I flinched. This was the beginning of late night gaming... when it's dark, you're the only one up, it's not too hard to scare yourself with computers...
I do agree with you, but as most of us know, you could very well be straddled with debt by the time you get out...
A catch 22.