This still allows for more then 16Gb of RAM, however the workstations probably only allow 16Gb of RAM. This is probably not an error. It doesn't necissarily have to be a processor limitation, it can be a motherboard limitation...
Creationism, as it was written in Genesis, is revealed in very simple terms and anthropomorphizes God so the simpletons of many thousand years ago could comprehend it. Could you tell a shepard of 500 B.C. about how amino acid chains are formed? Could you explain to him time on a "geologic scale" and have him comprehend that kind of time span? Can you describe a non-physical being accurately with physical terms? No... The best that could be done was a very simple approach to give people the foundation or sequence of events that would eventually lead to man's creation.
The ideas you describe are millinea newer then genesis. Genesis is a myth in the truest sense of the word. The story was made up as an explanation of things people didn't understand. Even the catholics teach this. (I should know, I went to a catholic high school)
Now, if you want to debate the ability of creationism and other theories to coexist, that is another story entirely. Without disagreeing with you, I'd like to point out a few things though: First, if there is a god that does not interfere with the progression of events and is simply an observer, then how did the idea that he/she/it exists in the first place come to exist in the minds of humans? When the idea was planted, how come it was in such a way that no particularly large percentage of the population believes the same thing? And finally and most importantly, where did the idea that such a being needs to be worshiped come from?
Don't believe the hype. While the PS2 can handle about twice as many polys in practice, it is seriously let down by memory performance and video memory size.
Don't believe the Sega hype. Read this technical description on ArsTechnica about how the PSX2 works compared to a PC like archetecture (read: Dreamcast). Memory performance is incredible, and video memory size is not as important in the PSX2 archetecture. Of course if you code your game with the PC-like archetecture in mind you're going to get crappy looking graphics, but if you don't think of your video RAM as storage for your textures, and repetedly transfer them over the ample bandwidth of the memory bus, the video RAM size becomes less important. This may sound like a dumb idea but there's plenty of bandwith there for it to work and has some interesting possibilities.
BTW, the graphics in DOA2: Hardcore kick ass! Can't wait to get home from work to play!
I use two SyncMaster 900IFTs, and they match very well
I have two Dell P991 monitors(made by Sony) on my desk side by side but attached to different computers. (With
x2x! Schweet!) The video cards in the two machines are both ATI RagePro but of a different chip rev. With the monitors at 1280x1024x32 100hz/80.2khz the color on one monitor is decidedly more blue then the other. It doesn't matter how similar or perfect your monitors are if the signal from the RAMDAC doesn't produce the same colors... All the more reason for digital interconnects I'd say, but untill then I'd kill for some color management!
If you have instability problems with X then you're doing something wrong. Maybe you're using beta drivers, or your config is incorrect or your window manager is broken (This is the likely case). XFree86 v3.3.6 is rock solid; unless you're doing something wrong it doesn't crash. (If you're getting genuine crashes, send a bug report!:) Furthermore, the GUI in Windows isn't a process like X is, so the whole OS can die, and it'll appear that the GUI is fine just because you're hardware cursor still works and your desktop wallpaper is still in the framebuffer. Please don't confuse that with stability.
- unstable : the huge code-bloat is why it crashes so often
I use X for 12 hours a day every day. My X session on this machine has been running for over 60 days, and the last time it went down was due to a prolonged power outage. Unstable compared to what?
Um, my copy of the article said "workmanlike," not "womanlike." Perhaps you should be less preoccupied with conspiricy and take time to realize how cool this all is!
..it doesn't matter either way. Go look at freshmeat and see how many open source projects are there. Most of them never have any code contributed by anyone. This may very well be because of the lack of documented requirements, but the simple fact is that most people don't like other people hacking in their program. I can't even count the number of times I've submitted feature patches to open source projects, yet I have never gotten my code accepted by the author. Now, maybe I write bad code, but judging by the code from some of these programs, mine is much cleaner. Usually you don't ever even get acknowledgement from the author. There are exceptions to this, the Linux Kernel being one of them. Anyway, the point of all this is that most open source developers don't like other people working on their little itch, they want to do it themselves. So having a "requirements phase" wouldn't help any anyway.
A device that, when implanted in the brain, can decrypt an encrypted media stream recieved through one of various wired or wireless digital transmission schemes, such that encrypted copyrighted material will never enter the decrypted state until it is inside the brain.
Hah! Now when the RIAA/MPAA try to invent this, they'll have to license it from ME!
At WPI in the computer science building there are posters and signs everywhere that the US-PTO posted to try and get people to come work there. The trouble is that noone wants to. My senior year as an undergrad I took an IP law class, and they came to recruit. Even in a class where people chose to learn this stuff noone was interested. I think that this is the real problem. Perhaps *you* want to work there?
Thirdly, you say it's a dumb idea, because it's a dumb idea. That kind of circular thinking will never get you your long sought
after membership into Mensa.
If you read my comment, you would see that I said it's a dumb idea because it's insecure, not simply because I said so.
One-Click is a dumb patent, but it's not evil, it's it's definatly is vaild. One-Click Could be implemented by anyone who has a year of programming experience, however no one but amazon though of it. I would also argue that it was not a straghtforward idea to think of. I have a Computer Science Degree, and I've been using the internet since the early '90s, and I can honestly say that the concept would never have crossed my mind. Not because it's to difficult, but because it's such a dumb idea! I wish I could get an honest tally of how many people would use One-Click on their web sites even now that someone else has thought of it. If anyone at all raised their hand on that one, then they probably work in marketing.
Let me sum this idea up in other terms. All of your personal information including your credit card number is stored somewhere that you don't have control over so that with a single click you can spend thousands of dollars. What's to distinguish your click from someone who stole your computer's click, or someone who used the public terminal after someone who doesn't understand the technology logs out. I'm surprised that the companies that use this can get insured. It's like an invitation for fraud.
Anyway, One-Click is a patently original idea, but if I Had though of it I would never have admited it to anyone. I'm done ranting now.
What happens when some annoying little sh*t pushes the mail password button for you? You won't be able to log in with your own password. It'd have to be more complicated then that, like mailing you a new password but the old one is still in effect until you reply to the e-mail.
If you really want to make these guys angry, you could write software that outputs barcodes that the cuecat could read. Unfortunatly, they probably *would* have a valid IP complaint against such software...
Not a typo. The CPU was $60, and I run it at 950 Mhz. (Yeah, no shit.) However the Motherboard did cost me $220..... Go check pricewatch. It's a duron 600.
I have an AMD duron, and it runs cold at 650 Mhz. The core voltage is a puny 1.6V. The processor uses less power then any I've ever owned. The motherboard came with software to SLOW DOWN THE FANS when the cpu temp is low, and my fans have been running at fractionnal spped (Nice and quiet) since i plugged it in. Where do you get these crazy ideas.
BTW. Screw intel, buy a duron. $60 and I can run it at 950Mhz with no problems! (Oh, and it fits in my ATX tower)
When DVD's came out, I went out and bought a DVD drive for my computer and figured that I could use it for movies on my TV AND as a DVD-ROM drive. After having it for three months, I bought a set top DVD player. It was too much of a hassle to set up the machine to output to the TV and then convert back to PC mode when I was done and wanted to check slashdot. Not only that, but the reliability wias iffy at best. The software nightmares invloved with using my computer to watch DVDs were not apealing for me to deal with. Overall the quality of the experience couldn't match that of a set top unit.
This is the same reason why I didn't bother even trying to build my own TiVo like device.
First off, the hardware would have cost more. (Even with a low end pentium. $50 for the case, $150 for the 30 gb HDD and you're already over the $200 I got my TiVo for on ebay)
Second, the interface is excelent, and reliable. There is no maintnence involved on my part. (My only complaint about TiVo is that the interface is kinda slow). Also, TiVo is VERY quiet, has all kinds of connectors to integrate with my home theatre, and controls my cable box.(Which I unfortunatly need because Cablevision encrypts EVERY channel) To satisfy my geeky device building needs, I added a second harddrive to the unit. (Something that's WAY more involved then the average user would attempt; though I hear that they have a program that does it for you now without haveing to hexedit your drive and such)
For this reason, I think that a Do-It-Yourself TiVo style device would be a wast of time if done for anything but fun. It wouldn't be cost effective, and It would be more trouble then it's worth.
Also, the TiVo service is excelent, and well worth the fee. I just wish it could use a LAN instead of just the modem.
Specialized devices have an edge that makes it hard to replace them with general purpose machines. The can concentrate on the parts that are functionally necissary for the task at hand and save costs by removing all the unnecissary parts. If there's a specialized device for the task at hand, and you don't already have all of the necicary general purpose parts lying around, it's generally not worth building it yourself. (except for the novelty)
If you're going to nit pick, almost all mice have been optical for a long time. Most mice have two perforated disks (on for each axis) that spin between an IR emitter and detector, hence making them optical. These new mice from microsoft and apple ARE a technological innovation, just a poorly described one.
A closed driver ties you to a particular kernel version on a particular platform. When a company releases a binary only driver, you'll be lucky if they even bother to build an SMP version of the driver, nevermind one for Alpha or PPC. And if you cant use the kernel version that they release for? Well, too bad... And forget about development kernels.
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This still allows for more then 16Gb of RAM, however the workstations probably only allow 16Gb of RAM. This is probably not an error. It doesn't necissarily have to be a processor limitation, it can be a motherboard limitation...
Not only are they not proprietary, but you can get CD-R media this size. A quick search on google turned up hundreds of places like this.
BTW, the graphics in DOA2: Hardcore kick ass! Can't wait to get home from work to play!
Yep, those are sweet. Unfortunatly, one of them costs more then my whole setup... Oh well. Someday.
If you have instability problems with X then you're doing something wrong. Maybe you're using beta drivers, or your config is incorrect or your window manager is broken (This is the likely case). XFree86 v3.3.6 is rock solid; unless you're doing something wrong it doesn't crash. (If you're getting genuine crashes, send a bug report! :) Furthermore, the GUI in Windows isn't a process like X is, so the whole OS can die, and it'll appear that the GUI is fine just because you're hardware cursor still works and your desktop wallpaper is still in the framebuffer. Please don't confuse that with stability.
I use X for 12 hours a day every day. My X session on this machine has been running for over 60 days, and the last time it went down was due to a prolonged power outage. Unstable compared to what?
The URL in the story is right, but you're not.
Um, my copy of the article said "workmanlike," not "womanlike." Perhaps you should be less preoccupied with conspiricy and take time to realize how cool this all is!
..it doesn't matter either way. Go look at freshmeat and see how many open source projects are there. Most of them never have any code contributed by anyone. This may very well be because of the lack of documented requirements, but the simple fact is that most people don't like other people hacking in their program. I can't even count the number of times I've submitted feature patches to open source projects, yet I have never gotten my code accepted by the author. Now, maybe I write bad code, but judging by the code from some of these programs, mine is much cleaner. Usually you don't ever even get acknowledgement from the author. There are exceptions to this, the Linux Kernel being one of them. Anyway, the point of all this is that most open source developers don't like other people working on their little itch, they want to do it themselves. So having a "requirements phase" wouldn't help any anyway.
A device that, when implanted in the brain, can decrypt an encrypted media stream recieved through one of various wired or wireless digital transmission schemes, such that encrypted copyrighted material will never enter the decrypted state until it is inside the brain.
Hah! Now when the RIAA/MPAA try to invent this, they'll have to license it from ME!
At WPI in the computer science building there are posters and signs everywhere that the US-PTO posted to try and get people to come work there. The trouble is that noone wants to. My senior year as an undergrad I took an IP law class, and they came to recruit. Even in a class where people chose to learn this stuff noone was interested. I think that this is the real problem. Perhaps *you* want to work there?
If you read my comment, you would see that I said it's a dumb idea because it's insecure, not simply because I said so.
Let me sum this idea up in other terms. All of your personal information including your credit card number is stored somewhere that you don't have control over so that with a single click you can spend thousands of dollars. What's to distinguish your click from someone who stole your computer's click, or someone who used the public terminal after someone who doesn't understand the technology logs out. I'm surprised that the companies that use this can get insured. It's like an invitation for fraud.
Anyway, One-Click is a patently original idea, but if I Had though of it I would never have admited it to anyone. I'm done ranting now.
What happens when some annoying little sh*t pushes the mail password button for you? You won't be able to log in with your own password. It'd have to be more complicated then that, like mailing you a new password but the old one is still in effect until you reply to the e-mail.
Now I can start gearing up for that Massive DDoS I've been dreaming about!
If you really want to make these guys angry, you could write software that outputs barcodes that the cuecat could read. Unfortunatly, they probably *would* have a valid IP complaint against such software...
Not a typo. The CPU was $60, and I run it at 950 Mhz. (Yeah, no shit.) However the Motherboard did cost me $220..... Go check pricewatch. It's a duron 600.
I have an AMD duron, and it runs cold at 650 Mhz. The core voltage is a puny 1.6V. The processor uses less power then any I've ever owned. The motherboard came with software to SLOW DOWN THE FANS when the cpu temp is low, and my fans have been running at fractionnal spped (Nice and quiet) since i plugged it in. Where do you get these crazy ideas.
BTW. Screw intel, buy a duron. $60 and I can run it at 950Mhz with no problems! (Oh, and it fits in my ATX tower)
When DVD's came out, I went out and bought a DVD drive for my computer and figured that I could use it for movies on my TV AND as a DVD-ROM drive. After having it for three months, I bought a set top DVD player. It was too much of a hassle to set up the machine to output to the TV and then convert back to PC mode when I was done and wanted to check slashdot. Not only that, but the reliability wias iffy at best. The software nightmares invloved with using my computer to watch DVDs were not apealing for me to deal with. Overall the quality of the experience couldn't match that of a set top unit.
This is the same reason why I didn't bother even trying to build my own TiVo like device.
First off, the hardware would have cost more. (Even with a low end pentium. $50 for the case, $150 for the 30 gb HDD and you're already over the $200 I got my TiVo for on ebay)
Second, the interface is excelent, and reliable. There is no maintnence involved on my part. (My only complaint about TiVo is that the interface is kinda slow). Also, TiVo is VERY quiet, has all kinds of connectors to integrate with my home theatre, and controls my cable box.(Which I unfortunatly need because Cablevision encrypts EVERY channel) To satisfy my geeky device building needs, I added a second harddrive to the unit. (Something that's WAY more involved then the average user would attempt; though I hear that they have a program that does it for you now without haveing to hexedit your drive and such)
For this reason, I think that a Do-It-Yourself TiVo style device would be a wast of time if done for anything but fun. It wouldn't be cost effective, and It would be more trouble then it's worth.
Also, the TiVo service is excelent, and well worth the fee. I just wish it could use a LAN instead of just the modem.
Specialized devices have an edge that makes it hard to replace them with general purpose machines. The can concentrate on the parts that are functionally necissary for the task at hand and save costs by removing all the unnecissary parts. If there's a specialized device for the task at hand, and you don't already have all of the necicary general purpose parts lying around, it's generally not worth building it yourself. (except for the novelty)
Somebody hit the nail on the head when they said that :)
If you're going to nit pick, almost all mice have been optical for a long time. Most mice have two perforated disks (on for each axis) that spin between an IR emitter and detector, hence making them optical. These new mice from microsoft and apple ARE a technological innovation, just a poorly described one.
A closed driver ties you to a particular kernel version on a particular platform. When a company releases a binary only driver, you'll be lucky if they even bother to build an SMP version of the driver, nevermind one for Alpha or PPC. And if you cant use the kernel version that they release for? Well, too bad... And forget about development kernels.