ah right, when you said AM2 chip i assumed non-am2+, rulling out any phenom I/II based thing. enjoy that 940, it is a killer chip (my gf has one, i get by with my x2 7750)
and yeah, bulldozer wont be a leap like pentium>pentium pro, but it might take multi-core in an interesting direction
next year AMD will be launching its "bulldozer" architecture, which from what i've seen takes a rather novel approach to cores/hyperthreading (two 'cores' which share some execution units. I'm not saying bulldozer will suddenly revolutionize anything, but it is an interesting take on multi-core
as for your am2 cpu, yeah man, if your board takes a am3 cpu, go for it, you can pick up a quad core (which will trounce whatever you have in single threaded performance too), for under $100, if you still have a single core am2 chip, put in a $60-70 X3 and be amazed!
fair enough, repairing the hubble was a good groundbreaking in terms of in-orbit operations, i was just arguing that without the shuttle, a telescope equivalent to the hubble still would have been easily possible, for the same cost.
and yes, cheap orbital capability is what nasa should focus on, hell, it is what all of humanity should focus on in terms of spaceflight
well, given past performance, it is quite reasonable to assume that somehow IE-9 will be borked up in some way, some odd rendering bug or something.. in that light, MS introducing IE 9 means all those poor web-devs will now have to support 'standard rendering' + IE 6-7-8-9 instead of just 'standard rendering' + IE 6-7-8.
i would prefer it if IE6 would be killed off once and for all though.. fucker needs to DIE
(and no, i dont think MS releasing IE9 is negative, i wont be using it, but i dont mind)
i just gave beautyoftheweb.com two hits, one from chrome, in which all worked fine, but the fonts/scaling was borked to give me horrible alliased text, another in IE8 produced correct text, but all nice visual effects where gone, and surprise, all moving effects slowed to a crawl...
i've seen calculations about how many hubbles the americans could have sent up for the cost of the repair missions (and that is just the mission costs, not counting the cost for the shuttles actual ability to do this), hint, it is more then one...
As for the shuttle teaching you what not do, fair point, but does it really take 30 years or keeping an expensive space el-camino in service to figure out it isnt the best idea?
Yup, my first thought was project orion as well, and within half a second i realized that wont ever happen, so it had to be some small part of current projects
Project Orion would have been awesome though, just think of rocketing of the face of the earth in your milion-ton spacecraft powered by nuclear bombs, with heavy metal blasting through the speakers!
just a nitpick, but gemini would be a closer match, the mercury capsules did not have the ability to shift their orbit, they were just launched into orbit and had a small rocket pack lashed around the heatshield for a re-entry burn. Having actual orbital maneuvering capability is pretty significant in these days or satelite repairs and space station rendevous.
Gemini basically was a test-bed for a lot of things needed for apollo, such as in orbit rendevous, orbit shifting and spacewalks. Apollo then tacked on a LEM and the whole lunar transit orbit thing, along with some extra supplies and space for more crew. In terms of orbital spaceflight apollo didnt really add much.
i'm not sure brightly colored camo-suits will work...
anyway, googletroopers, expect them to have home-brew equipment which might seem slightly crude, but is actually miles ahead of modern day military hardware, very intuitive to operate... like a railgun (point-click-kill)
(and i just thought of something, if apple ever amassed an army of iTroopers, the black/white color scheme of stormtroopers certainly fits well doesnt it? kind of gives you a whole new perspective on steve's black turtleneck)
if you are talking about luther, he started a major offshoot of the christian faith, sending wars across europe destroying many catholic churches and killing thousands (even very recently in north ireland)
sounds like a plan to me, burning record stores, MPAA/RIAA executives crusified or burned at the stake.. where do i sign up?
and everyone does it, intel requires you to use a certain combo of intel chips in your laptop before you can slap a 'centrino' (or whatever 'ino is the flavor of the day) on it, AMD does the same, MS undoubtedly has some requirements before you can put a big shiney 'designed for windows XX' sticker on anything..
Since the base of android is supposed to be open source, everyone should be free to take that, build a phone OS on it, use skyhook, but google has every right to stop you from using the android name on that device
sure, it goes against the idea that android is supposedly completely free/open, but google has a right to protect their platform, and the experience on that platform
true, once you want mass-market anything, custom chips will be the better way then FPGAs, but if we are talking a determined pirate group wanting a HDCP-compatible frame-grabber to rip blu-rays, a FPGA will do the trick, rather then a custom chip design, like the intel guy implied
running any OS of your choosing might be difficult, seeing how this thing doesnt have an x86 cpu, like your eee
SSH shouldnt be an issue though, even my $99 android phone can ssh into whatever i can run SSHD on, there are plenty of apps for any platform (i actually used my ipod to shut down the fileserver at home before unplugging in a thunderstorm)
i think GP meant, if enough people buy/make android tablets, will there still be a point to launching chromeOS?
if this thing is succesfull, and other manufacturers pick up on it, ChromeOS might be DOA (hell, google might even kill it off themselves before launch if they think the in-fighting between android and chromeOS isnt worth it)
minor off topic nitpick, but it pisses me off when people use "memory" ambigously meaning either storage or RAM
in this case i can sort of deduce that this thing has 16gb of storage, but how much working RAM does it have? not entirely unimportant for a computing device, especially when you get into tablet territory (the ipad/iphone already suck at multitasking, or hell, even multi-tab browsing because of low memory)
i guess the GP is mocking the fact that some people (especially the people in TFA) think printing news articles from an ipad is usefull in any way.
I agree that printing news articles from an ipad for personal use it pretty ridiculous (pretty much like zeroxing your actual news paper, and reading the copy), but for quick sharing/duplication with people who dont actually have an i/e-gadget, it might serve some purpose.
anyway, personal opinion time, apple is completely ridiculous only adding printing NOW, and all the people screaming about it are ridiculous too, when the hell does anyone still print anything? And then there is the ridiculousness of having a newspaper subscription on a device which by its very nature is internet connected (and that same connection is needed to actually use a subscription)
i wonder about that, is by obversing you change your location, do you observe the old, or the new location? (if you observe the new one, nothing bad happens really, you know where you are), and, if you keep observing, do you also keep changing your location? (in other words, is the location change edge-triggered on the act of observing, or a continous side-effect of the observing?)
bah, if this means i have to get my head around quantum-physics to continue working as a programmer i'd better start learning a new job..
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ah right, when you said AM2 chip i assumed non-am2+, rulling out any phenom I/II based thing. enjoy that 940, it is a killer chip (my gf has one, i get by with my x2 7750)
and yeah, bulldozer wont be a leap like pentium>pentium pro, but it might take multi-core in an interesting direction
next year AMD will be launching its "bulldozer" architecture, which from what i've seen takes a rather novel approach to cores/hyperthreading (two 'cores' which share some execution units. I'm not saying bulldozer will suddenly revolutionize anything, but it is an interesting take on multi-core
as for your am2 cpu, yeah man, if your board takes a am3 cpu, go for it, you can pick up a quad core (which will trounce whatever you have in single threaded performance too), for under $100, if you still have a single core am2 chip, put in a $60-70 X3 and be amazed!
fair enough, repairing the hubble was a good groundbreaking in terms of in-orbit operations, i was just arguing that without the shuttle, a telescope equivalent to the hubble still would have been easily possible, for the same cost.
and yes, cheap orbital capability is what nasa should focus on, hell, it is what all of humanity should focus on in terms of spaceflight
trying the latest IE i have to see how that compares with chrome (on my work machine here, which is XP, so no IE9 here...)
just curious i guess..
which used to be 95% just a few years back...
if losing half the markt in ~5 years isnt getten your lunch eaten, then i dont know what is
well, given past performance, it is quite reasonable to assume that somehow IE-9 will be borked up in some way, some odd rendering bug or something.. in that light, MS introducing IE 9 means all those poor web-devs will now have to support 'standard rendering' + IE 6-7-8-9 instead of just 'standard rendering' + IE 6-7-8.
i would prefer it if IE6 would be killed off once and for all though.. fucker needs to DIE
(and no, i dont think MS releasing IE9 is negative, i wont be using it, but i dont mind)
i just gave beautyoftheweb.com two hits, one from chrome, in which all worked fine, but the fonts/scaling was borked to give me horrible alliased text, another in IE8 produced correct text, but all nice visual effects where gone, and surprise, all moving effects slowed to a crawl...
127.0.0.1 slashdot.org # Linkbait
you need a host file to stop yourself from reading slashdot? grow a backbone...
i've seen calculations about how many hubbles the americans could have sent up for the cost of the repair missions (and that is just the mission costs, not counting the cost for the shuttles actual ability to do this), hint, it is more then one...
As for the shuttle teaching you what not do, fair point, but does it really take 30 years or keeping an expensive space el-camino in service to figure out it isnt the best idea?
bah, tags (or any form of concattenated words) should use some form of CammelCase, i parsed that as "there al orion" at first...
so i propose "theRealOrion"
Yup, my first thought was project orion as well, and within half a second i realized that wont ever happen, so it had to be some small part of current projects
Project Orion would have been awesome though, just think of rocketing of the face of the earth in your milion-ton spacecraft powered by nuclear bombs, with heavy metal blasting through the speakers!
just a nitpick, but gemini would be a closer match, the mercury capsules did not have the ability to shift their orbit, they were just launched into orbit and had a small rocket pack lashed around the heatshield for a re-entry burn. Having actual orbital maneuvering capability is pretty significant in these days or satelite repairs and space station rendevous.
Gemini basically was a test-bed for a lot of things needed for apollo, such as in orbit rendevous, orbit shifting and spacewalks. Apollo then tacked on a LEM and the whole lunar transit orbit thing, along with some extra supplies and space for more crew. In terms of orbital spaceflight apollo didnt really add much.
i'm not sure brightly colored camo-suits will work...
anyway, googletroopers, expect them to have home-brew equipment which might seem slightly crude, but is actually miles ahead of modern day military hardware, very intuitive to operate... like a railgun (point-click-kill)
(and i just thought of something, if apple ever amassed an army of iTroopers, the black/white color scheme of stormtroopers certainly fits well doesnt it? kind of gives you a whole new perspective on steve's black turtleneck)
if you are talking about luther, he started a major offshoot of the christian faith, sending wars across europe destroying many catholic churches and killing thousands (even very recently in north ireland)
sounds like a plan to me, burning record stores, MPAA/RIAA executives crusified or burned at the stake.. where do i sign up?
using e-fuses, they could easily make mechanism which disables the upgrade entirely and irriversibly after say, 5 wrong attempts
no, to continue your metafor, skyhook is upset that they cant take firefox, put in the chrome javascript engine, and still sell that as firefox
and everyone does it, intel requires you to use a certain combo of intel chips in your laptop before you can slap a 'centrino' (or whatever 'ino is the flavor of the day) on it, AMD does the same, MS undoubtedly has some requirements before you can put a big shiney 'designed for windows XX' sticker on anything..
Since the base of android is supposed to be open source, everyone should be free to take that, build a phone OS on it, use skyhook, but google has every right to stop you from using the android name on that device
sure, it goes against the idea that android is supposedly completely free/open, but google has a right to protect their platform, and the experience on that platform
true, once you want mass-market anything, custom chips will be the better way then FPGAs, but if we are talking a determined pirate group wanting a HDCP-compatible frame-grabber to rip blu-rays, a FPGA will do the trick, rather then a custom chip design, like the intel guy implied
running any OS of your choosing might be difficult, seeing how this thing doesnt have an x86 cpu, like your eee
SSH shouldnt be an issue though, even my $99 android phone can ssh into whatever i can run SSHD on, there are plenty of apps for any platform (i actually used my ipod to shut down the fileserver at home before unplugging in a thunderstorm)
i think GP meant, if enough people buy/make android tablets, will there still be a point to launching chromeOS?
if this thing is succesfull, and other manufacturers pick up on it, ChromeOS might be DOA (hell, google might even kill it off themselves before launch if they think the in-fighting between android and chromeOS isnt worth it)
minor off topic nitpick, but it pisses me off when people use "memory" ambigously meaning either storage or RAM
in this case i can sort of deduce that this thing has 16gb of storage, but how much working RAM does it have? not entirely unimportant for a computing device, especially when you get into tablet territory (the ipad/iphone already suck at multitasking, or hell, even multi-tab browsing because of low memory)
i guess the GP is mocking the fact that some people (especially the people in TFA) think printing news articles from an ipad is usefull in any way.
I agree that printing news articles from an ipad for personal use it pretty ridiculous (pretty much like zeroxing your actual news paper, and reading the copy), but for quick sharing/duplication with people who dont actually have an i/e-gadget, it might serve some purpose.
anyway, personal opinion time, apple is completely ridiculous only adding printing NOW, and all the people screaming about it are ridiculous too, when the hell does anyone still print anything? And then there is the ridiculousness of having a newspaper subscription on a device which by its very nature is internet connected (and that same connection is needed to actually use a subscription)
and yes kids, the word of the day is 'ridiculous'
i wonder about that, is by obversing you change your location, do you observe the old, or the new location? (if you observe the new one, nothing bad happens really, you know where you are), and, if you keep observing, do you also keep changing your location? (in other words, is the location change edge-triggered on the act of observing, or a continous side-effect of the observing?)
bah, if this means i have to get my head around quantum-physics to continue working as a programmer i'd better start learning a new job..
'Cheap FPGA' as in 'cheap compared to creating your own silicon' i guess
last time i checked DVB-T != HDTV
nice system though..