Of course. A graphics chip on a 3d card is still a CPU, only one with its layout designed for throwing dots on the screen; a quantum gfx card would probably mean fully immersive VR (what is the matrix?). A router is the same deal, a lot of specialized silicon for moving packets from point a to b, but at least until recently, a pretty commercial processor on the back end orchestrating the whole thing.
Well, right now, quantum machines only exist on paper, and the scientists are bouncing around ideas that could work, in order to implement the higher level stuff that can actually be utilized to create such 1337 things as fully immersive VR. With quantum computers, we're at still the stage digital computers were at in the 1930's - beyond that's a neat idea, but before even "hello world". Keep watching, QASM and QC will be here, but first they've got to create the bare metal.
I'm going to get rid of this stupid colorblindness DNA patent, I have prior art. Since they are claiming that they in essence own the genes, the existance of my genes prior to their patent should be enough, if their patent is as vague as their press release. Of course, I don't have VC funding/ravenous lawyers, so they'll probably just sue me and make me give them my eyes to remedy my "infringement".
You're complaints may have been valid a few years back when more people had slower modems, text only browsers, etc, but the world has moved on. Bandwidth is much cheaper, the medium has changed. If you're a graphic arts person who is claiming to be the next Da Vinci, I want to see if you can sling pixels as well as you can sling ink. If you're a musician, I want to hear your songs. I'll agree that if you're doing an primarily informational site, like a motherboard manufacturer, then most of those features are not neccesary.
You have to remember, too, that they really don't have to accomodate you at all. You're visiting their server bandwidth and using their CPU time to deliver their pages to you. If you don't want to follow their rules, there is nothing stopping them from telling you that they don't need your patronage. Now it's nicer when they do accomodate, but sometimes accomodation and accessibility get in the way of the message.
Actually, an SMP cluster acting as a uniprocessor machine would probably not provide that much of a performance boost. All you're basically doing is moving the scheduler from the OS to the processor cluster, which would not give that much of an increase, and maybe even provide a performance hit, unless you're willing to create registers, instructions, etc that the OS can use to weigh certain processes, which would eliminate some of the advantages of the unified exterior.
Of course, I don't have as wide of a field of knowledge in this area as some of the other people in this forum, but this is my guess
"via a rider on the session ending omnibus appropiations bill."
Translation: The people in the appropriations committee bowed to the pressure NAB and attatched the unrelated restriction of micropower stations to the budget. Now, this happens to be the last thing that was done before congress gets out for the year. The only reason they did it is because they NAB knew that there would be a lot of justifiable pissing and moaning, so they decided to slip it in the back door
Exactly the case. It's got the CPU from the original PSX (MIPS R3000 IIRC) handling all of the menial chores like I/O etc, which is why it can have a PSX compatibility mode.
I knew that the PS2 was ahead of it's time as far as technology goes, but it's pretty obvious why Sadam wants this tech. He is a very old school hacker, reminiscant about his glory days of the seventies and eighties. It just so happens that he wants to play one of his favorite games -- Global Thermonuclear Warfare.
From my reading of the article, and understanding of statistics, what they're saying is that if they played out the de-orbiting 250 times with slightly different variables (different weather, time of day, etc.), chances are that on one of those times, someone would end up with a writeup in every paper in the world (being squished by a satelite doesn't happen every day, fortunately).
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How much memory you got in your box? Mozilla crawled on a P200 with 32 MB RAM, and it hums along quite nicely on the same system with 64. The latest nightlys/newest milestone have simply made performance on the system all that much better, but you're still gonna crawl unless you've got 64
Windows fonts are already anti-aliased; anti-aliasing is one of the features of TTF that should have been ported to X IMNSHO at least 3-4 years ago.
The current XFree server doesn't anti-alias any of the fonts, hence they look blocky. Hopefully, this means that the non Truetype fonts, some of which I love, are anti-aliased too.
I think that the cold war stuff does have some factor in the lower ratings, but there are other parts too that just bugged the fsck out of me, and a lot of the other people I knew. First off, all the commercials they had so that they could recoup the billions spent buying the rights to the games bugged me to no extent, the idiotic tape delay they had so that they could fail miserably trying to cram fifty events into three hours. Secondly, the blather of the announcers in some of the sports was just too much. We've got great announcers out there in these fields, why not hire them instead of the yahoos they used. Finally, the fact that they didn't allow any net coverage factored ever so slightly into the lowered numbers.
It's obviously been written by microsoft in order to make people nervous so that when they see Linux they immediately think of evil Haxors that will try to steal their Quicken files.
To whoever wrote this: thanks a lot. I've received an attachment virus on a Windows machine in the past; I did not click, I sent it over to my Linux box for examination. The things not only are stupid to write as their only intent is to cause trouble, they have no challenge; any two bit hacker could write one in no time at all. You want to further the linux cause, like most of us on slashdot do, go out and write some beautiful code that fills a niche that Microsoft doesn't cover, or donate to one of the many projects out there. Destruction is easy, building is much more rewarding in the end when it's time to look at what you've done.
First off what's the difference in a huge multinational and a huge govt. entity owning everything? Second off, in the great nationalized society that used to be the USSR, how much great art was created in comparison to the US? Finally, what happens when the all-compassionate mother state decides that your art subverts the People and you are sent to the gulag?
That's just an amazing waste of ~$30/year. If I wanted a numerical way to see a website, I'd do like others have said and use the IP address. Besides, what kind of mess would we have if we ran out of these addresses? I live in Southern California, and we seem to split area codes every few seconds. They just want money, I can forsee them profiled here in the near future.
RTFA. This is not for people who have vision problems that can be fixed by standard means, this is for people whose sight is worse than that can be by hundreds of year old technology. Think about your grandmother who can't see well enough anymore to be able to get around independantly. With this tech, people like that will be able to have freedom again.
Just looking through the documentation
available for this software, it seems like it's some very cool tech indeed. a truly OS version of code morphing is definately very cool, as is getting away from the X86's semi-dedicated register set, which is as others have said, a bitch.
ST: Anyone else immediately think of 2001 when
they saw the project was named Daisy?
Just when I've gotten reasonably acceptant of the fact that color schemes that look all right to me offend over half the population, someone discovers people with super-human color vision, who more than likely would spontaneously combust when they come across my lack of color choice.
Although I'd love to have color vision in the infrared spectrum. Mmmm...heat signatures.
Dave Barry's a humorist, hence why it's under this article is under the humor category. His stuff is usually funny, and his year in review column (check you local paper in a couple weeks) rocks. If you remember the old series "Dave's World" that was on CBS ~5 yrs back, he's who they based the series on.
The bits and pieces of Linus' life that I've heard sound like they'd make an interesting read, just like most of the people out there changing the world, in however minor ways. Yeah, to some the life history of a hacker will be boring, but to others, who don't know about late night hacking runs, etc, it may prove to be enlightening (Any drunk - fixmes in Linux's history?).
aside to Taco: Don't feel too bad. The editors don't like stories from talking felines either. Can you honestly think of a better premise for a love story than the extinction of humanity? I didn't think so.
Perhaps I didn't read the article right (you may fire when ready if so), but they seemed to have paid no attention to a proven tech that does get a lot better performance, interleaving. I've seen little, if not nothing on this technology that's proven, through many of years of use, that it can significantly increase memory performance. Anyone know if any of the makor chipset players are planning interleaved solutions for the PIII, or my current tech processor of choice, the Athlon?
It's not the job of the scientists to interpret the moral meanings of the data, that's the job of the priests, the rabbis, the shamans, etc. We may be in declining times, we may not be. The whole collapse of everything we know arguement is very old, almost as old as humanity itself.
If society fails, maybe it was just time to fail; failure gives a chance to see what's truly important, and to dust yourself off and try again.
So if there was other intelligent life discovered in the universe, but it happened to be in the Andromeda Galaxy (using your example), it is therefore classified as irrelevant? I didn't think so. I agree that humanity is very important, and that we need to make sure that we have a culture that expresses that life is important. However, we also need to keep in mind that there are sagans of other planets and stars out there, and some of them may have some form of life, and that is important.
Science is showing us to be small and mostly insignificant, because that's the truth. Our society, no matter how it ends up, is not anywhere close to the most important thing in the universe, and will never be.
In my opinion, science's position in society, at least partly, is to keep us honest in how we see the world. Showing how one errant rock can knock all records of us off the map, or how animals can understand human logic, should show that the universe won't end when we're gone, so we better make sure that we have a culture that can make our visit here a bit more comfortable for everyone.
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Of course. A graphics chip on a 3d card is still a CPU, only one with its layout designed for throwing dots on the screen; a quantum gfx card would probably mean fully immersive VR (what is the matrix?). A router is the same deal, a lot of specialized silicon for moving packets from point a to b, but at least until recently, a pretty commercial processor on the back end orchestrating the whole thing.
Well, right now, quantum machines only exist on paper, and the scientists are bouncing around ideas that could work, in order to implement the higher level stuff that can actually be utilized to create such 1337 things as fully immersive VR. With quantum computers, we're at still the stage digital computers were at in the 1930's - beyond that's a neat idea, but before even "hello world". Keep watching, QASM and QC will be here, but first they've got to create the bare metal.
I am beginning to hate patents with a vengance.
You have to remember, too, that they really don't have to accomodate you at all. You're visiting their server bandwidth and using their CPU time to deliver their pages to you. If you don't want to follow their rules, there is nothing stopping them from telling you that they don't need your patronage. Now it's nicer when they do accomodate, but sometimes accomodation and accessibility get in the way of the message.
Of course, I don't have as wide of a field of knowledge in this area as some of the other people in this forum, but this is my guess
Translation: The people in the appropriations committee bowed to the pressure NAB and attatched the unrelated restriction of micropower stations to the budget. Now, this happens to be the last thing that was done before congress gets out for the year. The only reason they did it is because they NAB knew that there would be a lot of justifiable pissing and moaning, so they decided to slip it in the back door
#include <ob_beowulf.h>
Please excuse me while I write 'I will Preview before Submitting 100x on the Chalkboard.' as my pennance.
Exactly the case. It's got the CPU from the original PSX (MIPS R3000 IIRC) handling all of the menial chores like I/O etc, which is why it can have a PSX compatibility mode.
I knew that the PS2 was ahead of it's time as far as technology goes, but it's pretty obvious why Sadam wants this tech. He is a very old school hacker, reminiscant about his glory days of the seventies and eighties. It just so happens that he wants to play one of his favorite games -- Global Thermonuclear Warfare.
From my reading of the article, and understanding of statistics, what they're saying is that if they played out the de-orbiting 250 times with slightly different variables (different weather, time of day, etc.), chances are that on one of those times, someone would end up with a writeup in every paper in the world (being squished by a satelite doesn't happen every day, fortunately).
How much memory you got in your box? Mozilla crawled on a P200 with 32 MB RAM, and it hums along quite nicely on the same system with 64. The latest nightlys/newest milestone have simply made performance on the system all that much better, but you're still gonna crawl unless you've got 64
Windows fonts are already anti-aliased; anti-aliasing is one of the features of TTF that should have been ported to X IMNSHO at least 3-4 years ago. The current XFree server doesn't anti-alias any of the fonts, hence they look blocky. Hopefully, this means that the non Truetype fonts, some of which I love, are anti-aliased too.
I think that the cold war stuff does have some factor in the lower ratings, but there are other parts too that just bugged the fsck out of me, and a lot of the other people I knew. First off, all the commercials they had so that they could recoup the billions spent buying the rights to the games bugged me to no extent, the idiotic tape delay they had so that they could fail miserably trying to cram fifty events into three hours. Secondly, the blather of the announcers in some of the sports was just too much. We've got great announcers out there in these fields, why not hire them instead of the yahoos they used. Finally, the fact that they didn't allow any net coverage factored ever so slightly into the lowered numbers.
To whoever wrote this: thanks a lot. I've received an attachment virus on a Windows machine in the past; I did not click, I sent it over to my Linux box for examination. The things not only are stupid to write as their only intent is to cause trouble, they have no challenge; any two bit hacker could write one in no time at all. You want to further the linux cause, like most of us on slashdot do, go out and write some beautiful code that fills a niche that Microsoft doesn't cover, or donate to one of the many projects out there. Destruction is easy, building is much more rewarding in the end when it's time to look at what you've done.
First off what's the difference in a huge multinational and a huge govt. entity owning everything? Second off, in the great nationalized society that used to be the USSR, how much great art was created in comparison to the US? Finally, what happens when the all-compassionate mother state decides that your art subverts the People and you are sent to the gulag?
That's just an amazing waste of ~$30/year. If I wanted a numerical way to see a website, I'd do like others have said and use the IP address. Besides, what kind of mess would we have if we ran out of these addresses? I live in Southern California, and we seem to split area codes every few seconds. They just want money, I can forsee them profiled here in the near future.
RTFA. This is not for people who have vision problems that can be fixed by standard means, this is for people whose sight is worse than that can be by hundreds of year old technology. Think about your grandmother who can't see well enough anymore to be able to get around independantly. With this tech, people like that will be able to have freedom again.
ST: Anyone else immediately think of 2001 when they saw the project was named Daisy?
Just when I've gotten reasonably acceptant of the fact that color schemes that look all right to me offend over half the population, someone discovers people with super-human color vision, who more than likely would spontaneously combust when they come across my lack of color choice.
Although I'd love to have color vision in the infrared spectrum. Mmmm...heat signatures.
Dave Barry's a humorist, hence why it's under this article is under the humor category. His stuff is usually funny, and his year in review column (check you local paper in a couple weeks) rocks. If you remember the old series "Dave's World" that was on CBS ~5 yrs back, he's who they based the series on.
aside to Taco: Don't feel too bad. The editors don't like stories from talking felines either. Can you honestly think of a better premise for a love story than the extinction of humanity? I didn't think so.
Perhaps I didn't read the article right (you may fire when ready if so), but they seemed to have paid no attention to a proven tech that does get a lot better performance, interleaving. I've seen little, if not nothing on this technology that's proven, through many of years of use, that it can significantly increase memory performance. Anyone know if any of the makor chipset players are planning interleaved solutions for the PIII, or my current tech processor of choice, the Athlon?
If society fails, maybe it was just time to fail; failure gives a chance to see what's truly important, and to dust yourself off and try again.
So if there was other intelligent life discovered in the universe, but it happened to be in the Andromeda Galaxy (using your example), it is therefore classified as irrelevant? I didn't think so. I agree that humanity is very important, and that we need to make sure that we have a culture that expresses that life is important. However, we also need to keep in mind that there are sagans of other planets and stars out there, and some of them may have some form of life, and that is important.
In my opinion, science's position in society, at least partly, is to keep us honest in how we see the world. Showing how one errant rock can knock all records of us off the map, or how animals can understand human logic, should show that the universe won't end when we're gone, so we better make sure that we have a culture that can make our visit here a bit more comfortable for everyone.