Are you combining FP and integer? IIRC, A64 has 16 integer registers, and I suppose 16 FP registers available to the programmer. On normal RISC systems, there are often at least 32 total, and they aren't separated into FP and integer banks.
Ditto. Some time ago, someone said that PSX was never intended to be a public designation for the original Playstation and that Sony was doing this to make that point. That is pointless excercise in confusion as it went beyond the fan circles, even Best Buy referred to the Sony PlayStation games as PSX games.
Is there an app that just displays the incomming dv stream?
I've been using a Philips SAA713x chip based tuner card with dScaler to good results. I would avoid the tuner portion for anything other than OTA or the old RF out game systems.
About the best one can get with analog short of pro gear is a Holo3DGraph card, which is pretty darn nice and includes a Faroudja deinterlacer. Sadly, I don't think there is any Linux support for it. Plug a good set-top DVD player into it, the results on video-based DVDs are far better than one can get with DVD software. While film-based DVDs look great with DVD decoder software, using software for video based DVDs sucks because the chumps that make DVD software don't bother with deinterlacing, they just have comb or blur modes.
most open source licences don't require a "give back" as a provision for usint the software. Besides, based on how some people promote the philosophy of open source software, they aren't "taking", just making a copy for their use, it isn't as if there is less open source software as a result of a company using it vs. not using it. The very fact that companies are employing people to maintain installations of open source software is a plus if anything.
I am pretty sure that kernel 2.6 can't be considered "enterprise ready", for one, it hasn't gone through that level of testing.
Don't knock "yesterday's news". Far be it from some geeks to understand this, but there are times that "tried and true" is more important than having the latest and greatest. This testing started well before 2.6.0 was released! They can probably get started wit 2.6 as soon as an enterprise Linux distribution incorporates it.
There are plenty of vehicles besides shuttles that could reach the orbit Columbia was in.
Plenty of vehicles? As in the kind that can re-enter and protect passengers? The US only maintains the Shuttle. Russia can only make or rebuild twoSoyuz capsules per year. Europe doesn't have a manned flight program. I think China's design is a one-person only job. What other spaceworthy vehicles are there available? This isn't a case where an Apollo capsule can ge retrieved from the Smithsonian and launched!
I agree that overclocking isn't the panacaea that some computer geeks seem to believe, and I think the hardware sites are squeezing out their relevance every time they bring it up.
It must be a bragging rights thing because it doesn't take long for faster chip to be released, and you've run the risk of an unstable system and sometimes people spend more for cooling than they might have just getting the next chip up.
As for AMD vs. Intel OC-ability, the two companies may simply have different comfort margins in marking a chip.
I HATE rebates for that reason. I think they count on so many people forgetting to turn them in, etc.
As for the pricing, sometimes allowances are made by law for pricing mistakes. I don't think a $79 computer is a realistic price and easily be an error, too bad they didn't just use that rather than be stupid abot it.
The article seems to be a little uneducated or assumes a lot.
"Using it instead of RGB makes your DVD player cheaper by about $0.02 and that's significant savings! On the other hand the price of your TV goes up with the extra equipment needed to decode this component signal."
This complains too much of the cost of converting component to RGB and no explaination is given to why it costs more to integrate comp->RGB into the TV than it would in the DVD player.
Where the conversion to RGB happens doesn't matter that much that I can tell, and it really doesn't raise the cost of the TV, it is cheaper than being composite or s-video compatible, which is dirt cheap in TVs. While separate transcoders cost $80 or more, to be integrated in a TV, I really doubt it costs any more because most of that circuitry is there anyway.
I do share the disgust over Macrovision.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the digital broadcast video standards are 720x480 for NTSC, when output as progressive scan RGB, a lot of digital display devices assume that RGB at 480 scan lines is 640x480, which is worse than the component / RGB difference can ever be.
This is VERY important! Particularly when memory fades. I've known of one woman that had given to a political party many times and doesn't remember any of it. My grandpa "loaned" $20,000 to an uncle but doesn't remember why, it is too difficult for him to think and concentrate on what happened last week, and said uncle has been stalling on it, he sunk it into an investment and for some contrived reason he claims it can't be recovered quickly.
The elderly can't read and probably don't even see fine print.
You have to have someone watch your parent's tracks, sometimes you even have to take their checkbook and put them into a special community or nursing home meant to take care of the elderly.
I'm curious, is plasma considered a digital display? While it is an array of fixed pixels, are the individual cells driven by analog or digital principles?
One thing to keep in mind is that current home DLP isn't for everyone. Some people get severe headaches because of the rainbowing inherent in single chip DLP. It is allieviated somewhat by 6x equivalent color wheels but many of those affected by 2x still have problems with 6x.
I think that feature is called lockstepping where two CPUs run the same operation side by side where the results are compared. To my knowledge, Itanium has lockstepping too. As a point of reference, AMD does not have lockstepping and doesn't plan to put it into Hammer or the generation after Hammer.
Keep in mind that Itanium is an HP architecture, Itanium2 is an HP designed chip. I don't know what it is about Slashdotters, from what I've seen, I2's performance is generally second only to Alpha EV7.
AMD's Hammer architecture has ECC in cache. I think Intel had ECC cache since around 400MHz PIII, the very first PIIIs might not have it. I really don't know about PPC chips.
The problem here is that by Linus and various other open source figures discussing this, it almost gives credibility to their claims.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If the open source communities simply let it slide, then people would think that the SCO claims are credible because of a lack of response.
On one hand, I think people whould be free to do what they with with hardware they own, on the other, I would expect that they should know what they are doing before voiding their warranties and otherwise ignoring manufacturer warnings and disclaimers.
While I understand that sometimes there really is a marketing reason for makers to down-mark their chips, I pretty much refuse to overclock anything because sometimes the silicon engineering reason to downmark is very real too, I really can't afford to junk perfectly good parts or risk flakiness.
As it is the 9xx pin FX jobs don't really have that much of a reason to exist yet because the performance increase is marginal, maybe 5%. Sometimes dual channel actually slows things down by a percent or two. I hope that this changes before the 7xx pin version goes away. I imagine that at a higher clock the difference becomes more noticable.
The only reason to get a 9xx pin chip is to get multiprocessing in the form of Opteron.
I'd say that the amount of money in agriculture just might be the same, but productivity gains have allowed people to branch out, in short, nearly everything else grew faster than ag.
I'm really not sure if agriculture will be "farmed" out to other countries totally either. I don't think perishable supplies can be cheaply transported either, you'll probably always have milk and egg production near where it is needed simply because the substitutes are unacceptable to too many poeple.
I really don't understand why people are calling this system GPS as AFIAK, it doesn't rely on the satellite system.
Besides, IIRC, GPS is a triangulation based system too. An expensive one, yes, but a lot of the principles can be scaled down. Unless the E911 system gets hacked and barring emergency or subpoena, I don't see how most people would be able to find the location of other people.
I bet the $10 batteries are NiMH or NiCd. Lithium batteries can be considerably more expensive, some cell phones are at $70 for Li batteries. I am very happy with the performance of my phone's batteries, I usually get a week between needing to recharge it, and I forget to turn it off every night.
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Opterons have 32 GPRs instead of 16
Are you combining FP and integer? IIRC, A64 has 16 integer registers, and I suppose 16 FP registers available to the programmer. On normal RISC systems, there are often at least 32 total, and they aren't separated into FP and integer banks.
Ditto. Some time ago, someone said that PSX was never intended to be a public designation for the original Playstation and that Sony was doing this to make that point. That is pointless excercise in confusion as it went beyond the fan circles, even Best Buy referred to the Sony PlayStation games as PSX games.
Is there an app that just displays the incomming dv stream?
I've been using a Philips SAA713x chip based tuner card with dScaler to good results. I would avoid the tuner portion for anything other than OTA or the old RF out game systems.
About the best one can get with analog short of pro gear is a Holo3DGraph card, which is pretty darn nice and includes a Faroudja deinterlacer. Sadly, I don't think there is any Linux support for it. Plug a good set-top DVD player into it, the results on video-based DVDs are far better than one can get with DVD software. While film-based DVDs look great with DVD decoder software, using software for video based DVDs sucks because the chumps that make DVD software don't bother with deinterlacing, they just have comb or blur modes.
Can it do both ways simultaneously? That would be nifty for PVR use, the only downside being a non-integrated tuner.
most open source licences don't require a "give back" as a provision for usint the software. Besides, based on how some people promote the philosophy of open source software, they aren't "taking", just making a copy for their use, it isn't as if there is less open source software as a result of a company using it vs. not using it. The very fact that companies are employing people to maintain installations of open source software is a plus if anything.
I am pretty sure that kernel 2.6 can't be considered "enterprise ready", for one, it hasn't gone through that level of testing.
Don't knock "yesterday's news". Far be it from some geeks to understand this, but there are times that "tried and true" is more important than having the latest and greatest. This testing started well before 2.6.0 was released! They can probably get started wit 2.6 as soon as an enterprise Linux distribution incorporates it.
There are plenty of vehicles besides shuttles that could reach the orbit Columbia was in.
Plenty of vehicles? As in the kind that can re-enter and protect passengers? The US only maintains the Shuttle. Russia can only make or rebuild twoSoyuz capsules per year. Europe doesn't have a manned flight program. I think China's design is a one-person only job. What other spaceworthy vehicles are there available? This isn't a case where an Apollo capsule can ge retrieved from the Smithsonian and launched!
I agree that overclocking isn't the panacaea that some computer geeks seem to believe, and I think the hardware sites are squeezing out their relevance every time they bring it up.
It must be a bragging rights thing because it doesn't take long for faster chip to be released, and you've run the risk of an unstable system and sometimes people spend more for cooling than they might have just getting the next chip up.
As for AMD vs. Intel OC-ability, the two companies may simply have different comfort margins in marking a chip.
I HATE rebates for that reason. I think they count on so many people forgetting to turn them in, etc.
As for the pricing, sometimes allowances are made by law for pricing mistakes. I don't think a $79 computer is a realistic price and easily be an error, too bad they didn't just use that rather than be stupid abot it.
The article seems to be a little uneducated or assumes a lot.
"Using it instead of RGB makes your DVD player cheaper by about $0.02 and that's significant savings! On the other hand the price of your TV goes up with the extra equipment needed to decode this component signal."
This complains too much of the cost of converting component to RGB and no explaination is given to why it costs more to integrate comp->RGB into the TV than it would in the DVD player.
Where the conversion to RGB happens doesn't matter that much that I can tell, and it really doesn't raise the cost of the TV, it is cheaper than being composite or s-video compatible, which is dirt cheap in TVs. While separate transcoders cost $80 or more, to be integrated in a TV, I really doubt it costs any more because most of that circuitry is there anyway.
I do share the disgust over Macrovision.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the digital broadcast video standards are 720x480 for NTSC, when output as progressive scan RGB, a lot of digital display devices assume that RGB at 480 scan lines is 640x480, which is worse than the component / RGB difference can ever be.
This is VERY important! Particularly when memory fades. I've known of one woman that had given to a political party many times and doesn't remember any of it. My grandpa "loaned" $20,000 to an uncle but doesn't remember why, it is too difficult for him to think and concentrate on what happened last week, and said uncle has been stalling on it, he sunk it into an investment and for some contrived reason he claims it can't be recovered quickly.
The elderly can't read and probably don't even see fine print.
You have to have someone watch your parent's tracks, sometimes you even have to take their checkbook and put them into a special community or nursing home meant to take care of the elderly.
I thought Murdoch was thinking of buying at least part of Hughes but I haven't heard of anything yet.
I'm curious, is plasma considered a digital display? While it is an array of fixed pixels, are the individual cells driven by analog or digital principles?
One thing to keep in mind is that current home DLP isn't for everyone. Some people get severe headaches because of the rainbowing inherent in single chip DLP. It is allieviated somewhat by 6x equivalent color wheels but many of those affected by 2x still have problems with 6x.
I've seen an air flow mouse, with three flow options, high, low and off. I've never had the problem but I imagine some do.
Doesn't SCO get licence money from several of the other Unices too?
I think Fujitsu is entering the market, possibly other players too.
I don't think it is too outlandish, because at the time, iPods used hard drives that cost about as much per unit as the entire iPod did.
I think that feature is called lockstepping where two CPUs run the same operation side by side where the results are compared. To my knowledge, Itanium has lockstepping too. As a point of reference, AMD does not have lockstepping and doesn't plan to put it into Hammer or the generation after Hammer.
Keep in mind that Itanium is an HP architecture, Itanium2 is an HP designed chip. I don't know what it is about Slashdotters, from what I've seen, I2's performance is generally second only to Alpha EV7.
AMD's Hammer architecture has ECC in cache. I think Intel had ECC cache since around 400MHz PIII, the very first PIIIs might not have it. I really don't know about PPC chips.
The problem here is that by Linus and various other open source figures discussing this, it almost gives credibility to their claims.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If the open source communities simply let it slide, then people would think that the SCO claims are credible because of a lack of response.
On one hand, I think people whould be free to do what they with with hardware they own, on the other, I would expect that they should know what they are doing before voiding their warranties and otherwise ignoring manufacturer warnings and disclaimers.
While I understand that sometimes there really is a marketing reason for makers to down-mark their chips, I pretty much refuse to overclock anything because sometimes the silicon engineering reason to downmark is very real too, I really can't afford to junk perfectly good parts or risk flakiness.
As it is the 9xx pin FX jobs don't really have that much of a reason to exist yet because the performance increase is marginal, maybe 5%. Sometimes dual channel actually slows things down by a percent or two. I hope that this changes before the 7xx pin version goes away. I imagine that at a higher clock the difference becomes more noticable.
The only reason to get a 9xx pin chip is to get multiprocessing in the form of Opteron.
I'd say that the amount of money in agriculture just might be the same, but productivity gains have allowed people to branch out, in short, nearly everything else grew faster than ag.
I'm really not sure if agriculture will be "farmed" out to other countries totally either. I don't think perishable supplies can be cheaply transported either, you'll probably always have milk and egg production near where it is needed simply because the substitutes are unacceptable to too many poeple.
I really don't understand why people are calling this system GPS as AFIAK, it doesn't rely on the satellite system.
Besides, IIRC, GPS is a triangulation based system too. An expensive one, yes, but a lot of the principles can be scaled down. Unless the E911 system gets hacked and barring emergency or subpoena, I don't see how most people would be able to find the location of other people.
I'm sorry, Moller is the aviation industry's foremost snakeoil salesman. He will never get an FAA cert for any of his designs.
I bet the $10 batteries are NiMH or NiCd. Lithium batteries can be considerably more expensive, some cell phones are at $70 for Li batteries. I am very happy with the performance of my phone's batteries, I usually get a week between needing to recharge it, and I forget to turn it off every night.