you just can't get the fine-grained parrallelism that would yield really good speed improvements.
Actually, not to beat this horse again, nut I seem to recall that BeOS used exactly this premise to get phenominal performance out of the most mundane hardware...I ran it for a while on a dual 133 and was completely astounded at the responsiveness it had. It virtually jumped under my mouse like some supercharged Pimp-mo-bile's accelerator pedal under a lead-booted maniac...oh wait---that maniac was me...
Anyway, even on a single processor, it was a dream to use for that real-time responsiveness it gave.
The drawback, of course, was that every app had to be optimised for threaded running in a fairly fine-grained fashion-the more the better...seems to me that that had to be one helluva pain in the arse, but the results were stunning...
So...Um...oh- Yeah- it is a software problem. Much more than a hardware one...unless there's some magic multithreading wand floating around somewhere...???
I mean, phoenix is basically the 'root' part of Mozilla, right? Heck, maybe even just 'M' or even 'Mmmmmmm'.
Besides, Mozuki sounds like Godzilla's kid lizard from the cartoon..."GodZIlla! GodZIlla! GodZIlla! and Gad ZOOOOOOOO Keeeeeee...." Fun cartoon, but probably lost on most...
Well...this seems an appropriate place to ask about framerate... I Haven't downloaded the alpha, and I really don't intend to unless ID comes out and says "okay, guys- might as well give it a shot...",(I'll wait for the official demo and the release party) but I AM curious as to whether or not SMP is enabled (and effective) in the game...Multithread an app, and it can get so damn smooth.
Q3's smp support really didn't seem to help much, and actually seemed to lock up my computer a bit harder when it would lock--- w/o smp, I could recover gracefully---
So...any dual-cpu warex kiddies out there try it yet?
I suppose it would depend on the speed of your network...
I know at work, the network really crawls during the daytime, and isn't much faster at night...It's just gotta be too much traffic over too few pipes. But here at home on my own private lan, I get blazing fast speeds...Which would only increase with things like gigabit enet, etc...
Anyway, that's the bottleneck as far as I've ever been able to tell...
HA....Yeah...I actually got to see the Ramones at this beat-up old theatre in downtown Columbus back in 89 (I think...DAMN that's getting to be a long time ago...) The Dickies opened up for em...
ANyway, The Dickies were a blast, but as much as I loved the Ramones, they were just too damn strung out and wasted for the concert...It was damn near impossible to tell one song from any of the others.... Fun time to be underage drinking, though...
Actually, I did that in a college science demonstration... The liquid is vaporized before it actually makes contact with your skin...Pretty neat, actually...the heat you radiate is plenty to change the phase of the stuff....
Umm...I guess I should say something about "don't try this at home" as I didn't major in a hard science, and your mileage may vary...Basically, Don't freeze your hand off by plunging it into a vat of nitrogen, dumb-asses (for those who need this warning...)
Hehehehehe....Typing...THAT brings back memories....
I remember using a checksum program to type basic lines into my Atari 800 from Antic magazine...You'd type the line, and the program would generate a 2 character checksum figure that should match the line in the magazine you just typed...If it didn't match, you typed it wrong..
That was revolutionary at the time...that is --before we could just pop online and download the code for something.
I think I have most of my typing skills thanks to those magazines!
Basically, ya gotta use the Cut & Paste tools to cut the parts you want and paste them together into a new file...It's kinda a pain in the arse, but it's the best solution I've come up with so far...Well, actually, not true...in win, I was using ifilmedit (old version) to cut/join mpeg-1 parts I was capturing off the toob...seems to actually be faster...
But then again, look at the Cable modem serices many of us have...If people abuse them- HaXor33n their Modems to try to get more bandwidth- as soon as that gets noticed----
WHAM! YOU ARE CUT OFF!
All they need is a big enough Ugly stick, and that will stop 99.99999 percent of all the crackin... Crap this does not sound good at all....I seriously hope people somehow get a very good idea of how shitty this could get BEFORE it becomes that way...
So I'm truly surprised no one has asked this one yet, as it's the first thing that popped into my head...
The masses of Slashdotters have slashed and dotted many an unlucky website over the years...Pushing webservers to their limit and often breaking them outright...
With Google's Massive resources, Is there any noticeable difference when a/. story gets posted and people go stampeding to google to find out more? Or is that happening right now? (I'd hate to think of myself as part of a huge herd of individually acting DDOS'ers, but unfortunately, that's about what it ends up being...)
I base my system upgrades on the minimum spec for playing the games I like to play....SO--When My Fastest computer falls below the Minimum specs Recommended (not required!) I find myself upgrading...Fortunately, I haven't fallen below yet, and I can hedge a bit with a DUAL 800 pIII...
Damn them! I knew they'd find a use for all those extra cpu cycles....
National
Oceanographic and
Atmospheric
Administration
They do Climate Research for the gov. (I expect their funding will probably be chopped by the current admin like many other useful organizations...)
So for an example of what they do...
They try to simulate the entire planet (and then some---solar flares, orbits, etc) to attempt to predict when it's going to rain, and when it's going to rain Lava.
Definitely one of the cooler websites for the sheer Scientifically curious geek in all of us...
Ah yes- Murder...Good example... I give you "The death penalty". Reconcile that one... "It is wrong to kill, so we are killing you for it!" Get a clue on Societal functions....They are there for the greater safety and security and prosperity of the constituents. They don't and shouldn't legislate morality...those that do tend to get into sticky situations...If you look at specific examples of legislating morality, you'll see that they never turn out well (Completely). There may be some other reason that keeps the law alive that exists for the greater good, (Or to a particular segment's good....*COUGH*-corporations-*COUGH*), but the law doesn't exist solely for morality.
Isn't TIME a part of the equatoin that makes up our universe? So if our universe ceased to exist, would time cease as well?
Ouch- that's giving me a headache...So If time is merely a finite piece of our universe, then what would happen to the theoretical time traveler if he/she tried to travel beyond the reaches of our Universal time....I suppose the same thing that would happen to physical matter....So that's no escape...
So the answer to saving ourselves from impending (though far off- hopefully) doom would be sidestepping out of our universe before it crunches....the questions are: 1) How, and 2) Where? (Or when? Or OTHER?)
Hmmm.....That could be why it sounds so familiar....I suppose it's been about a year since I've read through that book...Time to give it another whirl if I'm missing details like that again...
However....(Sorry, I can't resist...)I'm looking at the collected short story book by Heinlein "The Past through Tomorrow" which contains a very long short story entitled "The man who sold the moon". 4th story, second page, 6th paragraph.(p 123 of the book)
Read it...It's a good story- but unless he's got another book entirely by the same name (This short story is around 100 pages by itself...), then the idea you mentioned ain't there...
As I said, though- Let me know what it is when you find out...It does sound pretty neat.
And Happy Birthday! (Yes, I know I'm a bastard for not giving you the break...;-)
Keen! So You'd be able to run your car's headlights off the waste heat from your engine!
Or even better....An electric car that converts waste heat from it's engines, batteries, and brakes back into electricity to provide greater efficiency for the motors!
Sorry to be a stick in the mud about this one - being a bit offtopic, and all, but Heinlein didn't write that story...though I wish I knew who did...It sounds interesting...
You're probably thinking about how Harriman thought of the Light-switch that turned off the light whenever it sensed nobody in the room...it was a passing idea for him that George Strong picked up on, marketed, sold the bejesus out of, and funneled the profits back into the Moon-rocket venture...
I'm fairly certain He did not write the story you're talking about...Strange, though- it does sound like one of Heinlein's plots...
So Yes. It's quite Disturbing. After All we're seeing what is quite possibly our future.
What would a Neanderthal think of us?
That's right...For all intensive purposes, we have made the Force of Evolution null and void with respect to Human Beings. (Darwin award nominees excepted, of course...) Our real growth is coming in our heads- and that growth is feeding back into our bodies. It's quite self-deterministic if you think about it applied to the species, but then the Traditional 'Evolution' concepts are that way somewhat as well. It's simply that this version seems to be consciously directed by a certain segment of society (the scientists and those funding them- Scary, eh?).
I'm thinking that instead of having a corporation pay someone to change their name to NIKE (has already been done-really!), that people will be paid to have the nike logo melanin'd into their new child's scalp or face or arm or what-not... ...But then again- that's a disturbing thought all it's own...
THe potential good is still there, but potential is all it is. We have to be able to get together as a species and use it for good...
...to which I say "Pfft! Right! Like that'll happen anytime soon..."
At any rate, it's this, or stagnation, people. We can't go backwards (cause that'd just suck...). Unless someone wants to find a side track off the Evolutionary ladder?
Hehehe...It's almost beginning to seem like it's a game!
"HEY! Let's see how today's patsy stands up to the assault!"
Now- GIVEN- it'd be a hoot to time my site to see how long it stayed up (If I had a mere hope of a prayer of an inkling that I stood any chance whatsoever...), but these guys are providing us with webspace to do the silly things we all want to do...
So Maybe we oughta cut a bit o slack...
Then again, Carpe the Net, for tomorrow, someone else may first (and not give it back!)!
Hmmm...I'm in/from Iowa...Iowa City...
I remember when the trucks came through and around the smaller town I came from that were running fiber...Somehow, I thought "being connected" would have happened sooner....Most of that fiber hasn't been lit yet, though, so I moved to a bigger city...
...Now here I am in a college town on a fairly limited cable line, whilst meanwhile, in the small town I grew up in, the local Power company has basically put the cable company out to pasture by opening up their own Cable tv and internet service... My dad picked up the service with a small computer I built for him...And CRIMINEY! He gets Stellar Bandwidth, and doesn't even know what to do with it!
At any rate, yah...in the smaller towns, people have a tendency to DO this stuff that would cost mega-bucks in a bigger city....It's kinda nice...I mean, who would think of building a trebuchet in their backyard in Chicago? (Yes- you can get away with that kind of thing here!)
Slashdot Mirror
you just can't get the fine-grained parrallelism that would yield really good speed improvements.
Actually, not to beat this horse again, nut I seem to recall that BeOS used exactly this premise to get phenominal performance out of the most mundane hardware...I ran it for a while on a dual 133 and was completely astounded at the responsiveness it had. It virtually jumped under my mouse like some supercharged Pimp-mo-bile's accelerator pedal under a lead-booted maniac...oh wait---that maniac was me...
Anyway, even on a single processor, it was a dream to use for that real-time responsiveness it gave.
The drawback, of course, was that every app had to be optimised for threaded running in a fairly fine-grained fashion-the more the better...seems to me that that had to be one helluva pain in the arse, but the results were stunning...
So...Um...oh- Yeah- it is a software problem. Much more than a hardware one...unless there's some magic multithreading wand floating around somewhere...???
Maybe Just MO?
I mean, phoenix is basically the 'root' part of Mozilla, right? Heck, maybe even just 'M' or even 'Mmmmmmm'.
Besides, Mozuki sounds like Godzilla's kid lizard from the cartoon..."GodZIlla! GodZIlla! GodZIlla! and Gad ZOOOOOOOO Keeeeeee...." Fun cartoon, but probably lost on most...
Well...this seems an appropriate place to ask about framerate...
I Haven't downloaded the alpha, and I really don't intend to unless ID comes out and says "okay, guys- might as well give it a shot...",(I'll wait for the official demo and the release party) but I AM curious as to whether or not SMP is enabled (and effective) in the game...Multithread an app, and it can get so damn smooth.
Q3's smp support really didn't seem to help much, and actually seemed to lock up my computer a bit harder when it would lock--- w/o smp, I could recover gracefully---
So...any dual-cpu warex kiddies out there try it yet?
I suppose it would depend on the speed of your network...
I know at work, the network really crawls during the daytime, and isn't much faster at night...It's just gotta be too much traffic over too few pipes.
But here at home on my own private lan, I get blazing fast speeds...Which would only increase with things like gigabit enet, etc...
Anyway, that's the bottleneck as far as I've ever been able to tell...
HA....Yeah...I actually got to see the Ramones at this beat-up old theatre in downtown Columbus back in 89 (I think...DAMN that's getting to be a long time ago...) The Dickies opened up for em...
ANyway, The Dickies were a blast, but as much as I loved the Ramones, they were just too damn strung out and wasted for the concert...It was damn near impossible to tell one song from any of the others....
Fun time to be underage drinking, though...
Actually, I did that in a college science demonstration... The liquid is vaporized before it actually makes contact with your skin...Pretty neat, actually...the heat you radiate is plenty to change the phase of the stuff....
Umm...I guess I should say something about "don't try this at home" as I didn't major in a hard science, and your mileage may vary...Basically, Don't freeze your hand off by plunging it into a vat of nitrogen, dumb-asses (for those who need this warning...)
Hehehehehe....Typing...THAT brings back memories....
I remember using a checksum program to type basic lines into my Atari 800 from Antic magazine...You'd type the line, and the program would generate a 2 character checksum figure that should match the line in the magazine you just typed...If it didn't match, you typed it wrong..
That was revolutionary at the time...that is --before we could just pop online and download the code for something.
I think I have most of my typing skills thanks to those magazines!
It's under the File menu- MPEG Tools...
Basically, ya gotta use the Cut & Paste tools to cut the parts you want and paste them together into a new file...It's kinda a pain in the arse, but it's the best solution I've come up with so far...Well, actually, not true...in win, I was using ifilmedit (old version) to cut/join mpeg-1 parts I was capturing off the toob...seems to actually be faster...
Well- Probably not long.
But then again, look at the Cable modem serices many of us have...If people abuse them- HaXor33n their Modems to try to get more bandwidth- as soon as that gets noticed----
WHAM! YOU ARE CUT OFF!
All they need is a big enough Ugly stick, and that will stop 99.99999 percent of all the crackin... Crap this does not sound good at all....I seriously hope people somehow get a very good idea of how shitty this could get BEFORE it becomes that way...
You know, We've all seen the little things..processor serial numbers and Wank-XP and the like....
...but this scares me....
So I'm truly surprised no one has asked this one yet, as it's the first thing that popped into my head...
/. story gets posted and people go stampeding to google to find out more? Or is that happening right now? (I'd hate to think of myself as part of a huge herd of individually acting DDOS'ers, but unfortunately, that's about what it ends up being...)
The masses of Slashdotters have slashed and dotted many an unlucky website over the years...Pushing webservers to their limit and often breaking them outright...
With Google's Massive resources, Is there any noticeable difference when a
Crikey- I know the feeling...
I base my system upgrades on the minimum spec for playing the games I like to play....SO--When My Fastest computer falls below the Minimum specs Recommended (not required!) I find myself upgrading...Fortunately, I haven't fallen below yet, and I can hedge a bit with a DUAL 800 pIII...
Damn them! I knew they'd find a use for all those extra cpu cycles....
National
Oceanographic and
Atmospheric
Administration
They do Climate Research for the gov. (I expect their funding will probably be chopped by the current admin like many other useful organizations...)
So for an example of what they do...
They try to simulate the entire planet (and then some---solar flares, orbits, etc) to attempt to predict when it's going to rain, and when it's going to rain Lava.
Definitely one of the cooler websites for the sheer Scientifically curious geek in all of us...
http://www.noaa.gov/
Ah yes- Murder...Good example...
I give you "The death penalty". Reconcile that one...
"It is wrong to kill, so we are killing you for it!"
Get a clue on Societal functions....They are there for the greater safety and security and prosperity of the constituents. They don't and shouldn't legislate morality...those that do tend to get into sticky situations...If you look at specific examples of legislating morality, you'll see that they never turn out well (Completely). There may be some other reason that keeps the law alive that exists for the greater good, (Or to a particular segment's good....*COUGH*-corporations-*COUGH*), but the law doesn't exist solely for morality.
Wow...Looks like YOU got some great value out of your college education...
Personally, I had 9 hours most days of just classes- then came the homework and study sessions, etc...
I can hope your case isn't typical, but then again, I saw quite a few "Nintendo Dropouts" that just never made it back to school the next semester...
Thou art god.
Grok that one for a while, eh?
Isn't TIME a part of the equatoin that makes up our universe? So if our universe ceased to exist, would time cease as well?
Ouch- that's giving me a headache...So If time is merely a finite piece of our universe, then what would happen to the theoretical time traveler if he/she tried to travel beyond the reaches of our Universal time....I suppose the same thing that would happen to physical matter....So that's no escape...
So the answer to saving ourselves from impending (though far off- hopefully) doom would be sidestepping out of our universe before it crunches....the questions are: 1) How, and 2) Where? (Or when? Or OTHER?)
Yep...migraine coming on.....
Hmmm.....That could be why it sounds so familiar....I suppose it's been about a year since I've read through that book...Time to give it another whirl if I'm missing details like that again...
-Damn, But I enjoy Heinlein stuff....
For you? Sure, why not- Happy Birthday...
However....(Sorry, I can't resist...)I'm looking at the collected short story book by Heinlein "The Past through Tomorrow" which contains a very long short story entitled "The man who sold the moon".
4th story, second page, 6th paragraph.(p 123 of the book)
Read it...It's a good story- but unless he's got another book entirely by the same name (This short story is around 100 pages by itself...), then the idea you mentioned ain't there...
As I said, though- Let me know what it is when you find out...It does sound pretty neat.
And Happy Birthday! (Yes, I know I'm a bastard for not giving you the break...;-)
Keen!
So You'd be able to run your car's headlights off the waste heat from your engine!
Or even better....An electric car that converts waste heat from it's engines, batteries, and brakes back into electricity to provide greater efficiency for the motors!
ooooooo...I'm liking where this is going....
Sorry to be a stick in the mud about this one - being a bit offtopic, and all, but Heinlein didn't write that story...though I wish I knew who did...It sounds interesting...
You're probably thinking about how Harriman thought of the Light-switch that turned off the light whenever it sensed nobody in the room...it was a passing idea for him that George Strong picked up on, marketed, sold the bejesus out of, and funneled the profits back into the Moon-rocket venture...
I'm fairly certain He did not write the story you're talking about...Strange, though- it does sound like one of Heinlein's plots...
Find a University.
The University will generally have a Mac lab.
The University will also probably have a surplus store.
The one near where I live has Pallets and pallets of them that nobody wants...they're probably destined for the landfill...quite a shame about that...
So Yes. It's quite Disturbing. After All we're seeing what is quite possibly our future.
What would a Neanderthal think of us?
That's right...For all intensive purposes, we have made the Force of Evolution null and void with respect to Human Beings. (Darwin award nominees excepted, of course...) Our real growth is coming in our heads- and that growth is feeding back into our bodies. It's quite self-deterministic if you think about it applied to the species, but then the Traditional 'Evolution' concepts are that way somewhat as well. It's simply that this version seems to be consciously directed by a certain segment of society (the scientists and those funding them- Scary, eh?).
I'm thinking that instead of having a corporation pay someone to change their name to NIKE (has already been done-really!), that people will be paid to have the nike logo melanin'd into their new child's scalp or face or arm or what-not...
...But then again- that's a disturbing thought all it's own...
THe potential good is still there, but potential is all it is. We have to be able to get together as a species and use it for good...
...to which I say "Pfft! Right! Like that'll happen anytime soon..."
At any rate, it's this, or stagnation, people. We can't go backwards (cause that'd just suck...). Unless someone wants to find a side track off the Evolutionary ladder?
Hehehe...It's almost beginning to seem like it's a game!
"HEY! Let's see how today's patsy stands up to the assault!"
Now- GIVEN- it'd be a hoot to time my site to see how long it stayed up (If I had a mere hope of a prayer of an inkling that I stood any chance whatsoever...), but these guys are providing us with webspace to do the silly things we all want to do...
So Maybe we oughta cut a bit o slack...
Then again, Carpe the Net, for tomorrow, someone else may first (and not give it back!)!
Hmmm...I'm in/from Iowa...Iowa City...
I remember when the trucks came through and around the smaller town I came from that were running fiber...Somehow, I thought "being connected" would have happened sooner....Most of that fiber hasn't been lit yet, though, so I moved to a bigger city...
...Now here I am in a college town on a fairly limited cable line, whilst meanwhile, in the small town I grew up in, the local Power company has basically put the cable company out to pasture by opening up their own Cable tv and internet service... My dad picked up the service with a small computer I built for him...And CRIMINEY! He gets Stellar Bandwidth, and doesn't even know what to do with it!
At any rate, yah...in the smaller towns, people have a tendency to DO this stuff that would cost mega-bucks in a bigger city....It's kinda nice...I mean, who would think of building a trebuchet in their backyard in Chicago? (Yes- you can get away with that kind of thing here!)