Compared to the way that pretty much every other synth on the market is, Windows is a -very- open platform. I mean, you can actually write new software for this thing without having to reverse engineer the architecture of the machine & then bust out out the EEPROM burner...
If Gainax were to make more Eva, they'd have to commit to a definate interpretation of what the end actually meant. This would piss a lot of people off, as their pet interprestation would become wrong.
OTOH, the telephone company can't restrict what you say on the phone, and that involves private property.
I don't think the issue is so much what can be done in this particular instance but the precedent it sets. Some time in a future, virtual worlds may become a more common medium for communication & it would be nice to preserve freedom of speech for the day when VR worlds become as the telephone is today...
Not really. The only real difference between SATA and PATA with drives currently on the market is that one has a different cable; you get a little boost on cache reads, but for the most part, you see nothing. The drives are internally identical, they just have different controller boards.
The 8MB version of the drive costs, at most, $10 more than the 2MB drive. Considering the performance boost you'd get from such a small expenditure, why cut corners there?
I looked at the webpage and well... I saw nothing.
"Wouldn't it be cool if we could write an OS that's better than everything else out there. I want it to be radically different. Please join me & be brilliant & provide all the inspiration and drive to make me famous for heading this project".
Most airports are requiring you to take off your shoes these days, so it doesn't really matter what you wear. More important is the ease of removal.
Try some Birkenstocks; they're like heaven once you get them broken in.
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Too bad the Dreamcast was quite successful and hit the market well before the PS2 started shipping. While it could've been more successful if not for the FUD campaign coming out of Sony, it wasn't a complete flop.
The worst thing about the Dreamcast market is that, after the PS2 shipped, it almost completely dried up, virtually overnight.
How do you connect "days of software being unportable due to heavy use of assembly language being a thing of the far past" to Sony being the big winner? The architecture of the PS2 and the planned successor are quite complicated and require a fair bit of low-level twiddling to get any computing power of the device.
One of the problems with the whole 'brand' issue is that it differs from the conventions used in the rest of the video card industry where a saying "Radeon 9200" means you have a rv280 chip. If somebody manufacturing desktop boards did the exact same thing there'd be hell to pay.
OTOH, there isn't any real difference between the two chips in this application (and, in reality, with a GPU like this, there's no difference between AGP 4x and 8x) so there's no damage done.
Perhaps the best thing to do, if they insist on continuing this 'branding' approach to mobile graphics would be to prevent them from having an overlap with the names of the chips inside.
I hope you're not saying that Prolog is just an AI thing. While the language is quite popular in AI, its original development had nothing to do with AI & it's been used for 'real world' non-AI projects.
Great... All of the 'articles' linked in the story are forum posts to a forum that doesn't allow annonymous viewers. While this may be a reaction being/.ed, it doesn't help us any. Would somebody be so kind as to be a karma whore & post them?
You should be -happy- you've got an 8500 instead of a 9000. The 8500, even in the castrated models (which the 9100 is one of), often outperforms the 9000 by huge margins. Here's some benches.
Uhh... In reality there's almost no difference between AGP 4x and 8x with current hardware. It's kinda like how SATA is faster than ATA133; it's capable of higher speeds but under current conditions you'll never see the difference.
Even with high-end hardware (think Radeon 9800s) you'll get less than a 5% performance difference by 'doubling' the AGP bus speed.
What really matters isn't so much the cost of broadband in absolute terms but the cost of broadband relative to the average income. If broadband is only $5/mo in Outer Elbonia that's not very good if the average citizen only makes $9/yr.
Yeah, but WTF did the capital come from? We're talking 25-50 calculators at $60, which is really pushing what a kid that age would have access to, especially for some kind of school scheme..
Yeah... it's great... They convince parents to have their kids printed for their 'safety' so that in 20yr, they have the prints on file in case they try anything as an adult.
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Compared to the way that pretty much every other synth on the market is, Windows is a -very- open platform. I mean, you can actually write new software for this thing without having to reverse engineer the architecture of the machine & then bust out out the EEPROM burner...
If Gainax were to make more Eva, they'd have to commit to a definate interpretation of what the end actually meant. This would piss a lot of people off, as their pet interprestation would become wrong.
Let's face it, "Asuka Langley Sorya" is not the most convincing name for a German girl...
OTOH, the telephone company can't restrict what you say on the phone, and that involves private property.
I don't think the issue is so much what can be done in this particular instance but the precedent it sets. Some time in a future, virtual worlds may become a more common medium for communication & it would be nice to preserve freedom of speech for the day when VR worlds become as the telephone is today...
"Serial ata would have been a great comprimse."
Not really. The only real difference between SATA and PATA with drives currently on the market is that one has a different cable; you get a little boost on cache reads, but for the most part, you see nothing. The drives are internally identical, they just have different controller boards.
Well, from the looks of the machine, I'd be suprised if anyone would actually go out and buy one...
The 8MB version of the drive costs, at most, $10 more than the 2MB drive. Considering the performance boost you'd get from such a small expenditure, why cut corners there?
I'd be suprised if this didn't somehow violate FERPA or come close enough that a good lawyer could 'prove' it.
tac-nukes.
I've got two words for that terminology:
Gay.
I looked at the webpage and well... I saw nothing.
"Wouldn't it be cool if we could write an OS that's better than everything else out there. I want it to be radically different. Please join me & be brilliant & provide all the inspiration and drive to make me famous for heading this project".
Most airports are requiring you to take off your shoes these days, so it doesn't really matter what you wear. More important is the ease of removal.
Try some Birkenstocks; they're like heaven once you get them broken in.
Too bad the Dreamcast was quite successful and hit the market well before the PS2 started shipping. While it could've been more successful if not for the FUD campaign coming out of Sony, it wasn't a complete flop.
The worst thing about the Dreamcast market is that, after the PS2 shipped, it almost completely dried up, virtually overnight.
How do you connect "days of software being unportable due to heavy use of assembly language being a thing of the far past" to Sony being the big winner? The architecture of the PS2 and the planned successor are quite complicated and require a fair bit of low-level twiddling to get
any computing power of the device.
One of the problems with the whole 'brand' issue is that it differs from the conventions used in the rest of the video card industry where a saying "Radeon 9200" means you have a rv280 chip. If somebody manufacturing desktop boards did the exact same thing there'd be hell to pay.
OTOH, there isn't any real difference between the two chips in this application (and, in reality, with a GPU like this, there's no difference between AGP 4x and 8x) so there's no damage done.
Perhaps the best thing to do, if they insist on continuing this 'branding' approach to mobile graphics would be to prevent them from having an overlap with the names of the chips inside.
9100 is like the 8500LE, a lower-clocked 8500. "Castrated" is probably too strong of a word; it has at least one nut left.
But you should only see ~20 fps difference between the two cards, not 90. ATI's Linux drivers just don't perform as well as the Windows drivers.
I hope you're not saying that Prolog is just an AI thing. While the language is quite popular in AI, its original development had nothing to do with AI & it's been used for 'real world' non-AI projects.
Great... All of the 'articles' linked in the story are forum posts to a forum that doesn't allow annonymous viewers. While this may be a reaction being /.ed, it doesn't help us any. Would somebody be so kind as to be a karma whore & post them?
You should be -happy- you've got an 8500 instead of a 9000. The 8500, even in the castrated models (which the 9100 is one of), often outperforms the 9000 by huge margins. Here's some benches.
Uhh... In reality there's almost no difference between AGP 4x and 8x with current hardware. It's kinda like how SATA is faster than ATA133; it's capable of higher speeds but under current conditions you'll never see the difference.
Even with high-end hardware (think Radeon 9800s) you'll get less than a 5% performance difference by 'doubling' the AGP bus speed.
The whole point of the referal bit is that you're sharing your file with other people, maybe P2P, maybe some other way. The point is that
a) they're not paying for bandwidth on redistribution
b) you're pushing their product.
What really matters isn't so much the cost of broadband in absolute terms but the cost of broadband relative to the average income. If broadband is only $5/mo in Outer Elbonia that's not very good if the average citizen only makes $9/yr.
Yeah, but WTF did the capital come from? We're talking 25-50 calculators at $60, which is really pushing what a kid that age would have access to, especially for some kind of school scheme..
Yeah... it's great... They convince parents to have their kids printed for their 'safety' so that in 20yr, they have the prints on file in case they try anything as an adult.