Ever see Seven. That movie was great, and it gave me an idea: StrapedToBegGuy. A guy is straped to a bed for a year and not allowed to move at all. He is fed exactley the minimum he needs to stay alive and given antibiotics to keep bed sores from killing him. If the man is still alive after a year, he gets free care form the HMO sponsor
I was reading the John Deere lawn care catalogue (a whole new way to be geeky!) and they had reel mowers for professional use. These were enormous, consisting of 5 and 7 of the individual reels configured in two rows of two:three or three:four , with the first row in front of the gaps between the units in the second row.
These are obviously meant to be pulled by a tractor. They are kinda neat, though!
No, because it will still be at lest half as fast as a register. That is exactley what Intel has done with the P4. Have you noticed the size of the L1 cache. It's 8k!!!. The Athlon has 128k! At first I thought Intel was employing a buch of doped up high school jocks, but it turns out that Intel has designed the P4 L1 cache to compensate for the IA-32's horrific lack of registers. But it still ain't gonna be as fast.
IIRC, SEGA rereleased the Master System with Alex Kidd on a chip that was in the system. Hows that for reducing costs. By the way, was Alex Kidd one of the strangest video games you have ever played?
It sure as hell was weird.
Unfortuanlty, the cost of analog equipment of high enough quality to match the quality of a $100 portable CD player probbably is more than a new friggen car.
By the way, are the metal grains in your speaker wires oriented properly, because we all know that that makes a huge difference in the sound quality, right!
I did read the article. The performance increase for the Athlon and P3 is just standard compiler optimization, but I wanted to explain what SSE2 was, and Intel did change the code so that it took advantage of SSE2.
A recompile can improve performance because it allows the code to make use of the SSE2 instructions. SSE2 is a kind of half-assed vector proccessing scheme. A conventional proccessor is a scaler processor. It performs one instruction on one datum. A vector processor can apply one instruction to 2, 4, etc. datums. Vector proccessing used to be relegated to the lofty-realm of supercomputing, but Intel intoduced it to the mainstream with MMX, then SSE, and now SSE2. It can really accelerate certain types of code.
I say half-assed because of AltiVec, which is how vector processing should be added to a mainstream proccessor. 128 bit precision, baby.
Actually, a flechette is a nail with fins. They are so light that they must achieve velocities of 10000ft/s. If you want a nasty waepon, the military has a artillery shell that contains 70,000 of these little nasty bastards. One can take out several thousands of troops with one of these.
my favorite fictional gun has always been the Needler, from the MechWarrior universe. I mean, the name itself is intimidating. It was supposed to work by shredding a block of material and fireing the pieces. OUCH. But the flechete gun from Hyperion was really cool, too.
interesting how dated that seems today, isn't it?
A 60 dollar Duron would seem to be a lot cheaper than a person (Cost of education, and of upbringing), and would be a lot faster, too!
Actually, I was reading in some mag about how the next frontier in chip making is to stack chips so they can communicate faster. One company invented a way to solder two processors and 3 memory chips together at the edges for the military's computerized soldier program. It was neat, about the size of a sugar cube. But they said that only the military could probably afford it. I have also heard of the military being able to afford really exotic and rediculously expensive tech like synthetic diamond substrates, because diamond is the best known conductor of heat, or exotic semiconductor materials like rubidium.
NOT in Texas prisons! I read a long article trying to prove that the incredible level of rape in Texas prisons force inmates to band together for protection, and that is how the two morons who dragged that black man were intoduced to that kind of violent racism. They were forced to join the Aryan Brotherhood or something, and get disgusting racist tatoos to prove there allegiance. That kind of coersion can break a weak mind.
That is not small. I went to grade school at Waucousta Lutheran Grade School. Waucousta has a population of 72 last time anybody bothered to check. It also has two bars.
Yeah, and the only reason I watched it was it was part of AP English class. Most people think two hours is on the longish side. I wonder how much money Ken's baby made? $4.414m. It cost 18m.
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Wow, you must be loads of fun at parties!
I had put several hours into reading the book, gotten involved with the really twisted relationship the 3 central charecters had, and then he just stops. That is mean, and poor writing, to.
Lightning is basically the sun turning our atmosphere into one Giant Van de Graff generator, with the winds somehow creating electrical potential deferrentials between the ground and cloud. However, it is not really that well understood, and harnessing power from lightning would be like trying to harness power from nuclear bombs. It just comes way to fast to store it in any tech we have today.
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"Against a Dark Background" had one of the worst endings I have ever read, next to "Double Full Moon Night". Everyone dies pointlessly and then the story just stops. No resolution to the great and twisted background story, no satifaction. It just stops.
The POWER4 is a NEAT chip. I wish PC chips were more like it, in performance at least, not price.
Seriously, IBM has a core the can do 7.5 billion instructions/second at the initial clock rate (which I can't remember at the moment). They are putting 2 cores and 512K of shared L2 cach on a die, then putting four of these chips on a ceramic substrate with a clique topology with huge bandwith (144 GB/s L2 cache, 8 GB/s main memory) and put it all in a metal box capable of doing 60,000 mips. Excuse me while I wipe away my drool.
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Ever see Seven. That movie was great, and it gave me an idea: StrapedToBegGuy. A guy is straped to a bed for a year and not allowed to move at all. He is fed exactley the minimum he needs to stay alive and given antibiotics to keep bed sores from killing him. If the man is still alive after a year, he gets free care form the HMO sponsor
I was reading the John Deere lawn care catalogue (a whole new way to be geeky!) and they had reel mowers for professional use. These were enormous, consisting of 5 and 7 of the individual reels configured in two rows of two:three or three:four , with the first row in front of the gaps between the units in the second row.
These are obviously meant to be pulled by a tractor. They are kinda neat, though!
No, because it will still be at lest half as fast as a register. That is exactley what Intel has done with the P4. Have you noticed the size of the L1 cache. It's 8k!!!. The Athlon has 128k! At first I thought Intel was employing a buch of doped up high school jocks, but it turns out that Intel has designed the P4 L1 cache to compensate for the IA-32's horrific lack of registers. But it still ain't gonna be as fast.
JESUS H. CHRIST! You could have bought a house for what that damn coffee table cost. But, what do you expect form ACs.
Damn damn damn damn... About your SIG: Your talking about France, right!
About your post: You were in France, right!
IIRC, SEGA rereleased the Master System with Alex Kidd on a chip that was in the system. Hows that for reducing costs. By the way, was Alex Kidd one of the strangest video games you have ever played? It sure as hell was weird.
Unfortuanlty, the cost of analog equipment of high enough quality to match the quality of a $100 portable CD player probbably is more than a new friggen car.
By the way, are the metal grains in your speaker wires oriented properly, because we all know that that makes a huge difference in the sound quality, right!
I did read the article. The performance increase for the Athlon and P3 is just standard compiler optimization, but I wanted to explain what SSE2 was, and Intel did change the code so that it took advantage of SSE2.
A recompile can improve performance because it allows the code to make use of the SSE2 instructions. SSE2 is a kind of half-assed vector proccessing scheme. A conventional proccessor is a scaler processor. It performs one instruction on one datum. A vector processor can apply one instruction to 2, 4, etc. datums. Vector proccessing used to be relegated to the lofty-realm of supercomputing, but Intel intoduced it to the mainstream with MMX, then SSE, and now SSE2. It can really accelerate certain types of code. I say half-assed because of AltiVec, which is how vector processing should be added to a mainstream proccessor. 128 bit precision, baby.
Actually, a flechette is a nail with fins. They are so light that they must achieve velocities of 10000ft/s. If you want a nasty waepon, the military has a artillery shell that contains 70,000 of these little nasty bastards. One can take out several thousands of troops with one of these.
my favorite fictional gun has always been the Needler, from the MechWarrior universe. I mean, the name itself is intimidating. It was supposed to work by shredding a block of material and fireing the pieces. OUCH. But the flechete gun from Hyperion was really cool, too.
interesting how dated that seems today, isn't it? A 60 dollar Duron would seem to be a lot cheaper than a person (Cost of education, and of upbringing), and would be a lot faster, too!
Now, I don't mean to offend, but what exactly, other than teaching, is an English degree gould for?
Actually, I was reading in some mag about how the next frontier in chip making is to stack chips so they can communicate faster. One company invented a way to solder two processors and 3 memory chips together at the edges for the military's computerized soldier program. It was neat, about the size of a sugar cube. But they said that only the military could probably afford it. I have also heard of the military being able to afford really exotic and rediculously expensive tech like synthetic diamond substrates, because diamond is the best known conductor of heat, or exotic semiconductor materials like rubidium.
NOT in Texas prisons! I read a long article trying to prove that the incredible level of rape in Texas prisons force inmates to band together for protection, and that is how the two morons who dragged that black man were intoduced to that kind of violent racism. They were forced to join the Aryan Brotherhood or something, and get disgusting racist tatoos to prove there allegiance. That kind of coersion can break a weak mind.
That is not small. I went to grade school at Waucousta Lutheran Grade School. Waucousta has a population of 72 last time anybody bothered to check. It also has two bars.
For a long time everybody KNEW that a tire couldn't have a coefficient of friction higher than one, until some company made one that did!
You just posted two comments to get twice the karma, didn't you?! DIDN'T YOU!
Hell. I actually wnet to a Lutheran HS that TAUGHT that. I am just glad that I broke free intelectually my freshman year
Yeah, and the only reason I watched it was it was part of AP English class. Most people think two hours is on the longish side. I wonder how much money Ken's baby made? $4.414m. It cost 18m.
Wow, you must be loads of fun at parties! I had put several hours into reading the book, gotten involved with the really twisted relationship the 3 central charecters had, and then he just stops. That is mean, and poor writing, to.
Lightning is basically the sun turning our atmosphere into one Giant Van de Graff generator, with the winds somehow creating electrical potential deferrentials between the ground and cloud. However, it is not really that well understood, and harnessing power from lightning would be like trying to harness power from nuclear bombs. It just comes way to fast to store it in any tech we have today.
"Against a Dark Background" had one of the worst endings I have ever read, next to "Double Full Moon Night". Everyone dies pointlessly and then the story just stops. No resolution to the great and twisted background story, no satifaction. It just stops.
The POWER4 is a NEAT chip. I wish PC chips were more like it, in performance at least, not price. Seriously, IBM has a core the can do 7.5 billion instructions/second at the initial clock rate (which I can't remember at the moment). They are putting 2 cores and 512K of shared L2 cach on a die, then putting four of these chips on a ceramic substrate with a clique topology with huge bandwith (144 GB/s L2 cache, 8 GB/s main memory) and put it all in a metal box capable of doing 60,000 mips. Excuse me while I wipe away my drool.