Just search for "400W tube monoblock" in google. Then filter out all the compromisers and equivocators who use a "hybrid" design, and eventually, you'll come across products such as this one.
When exactly did lucas talk about "doing episode 1"? IIRC, the hype started in earnest after the 1997 rerelease. Asimov's prequel was published in 1988.
George Lucas didn't invent the prequel-- he was imitating the epic style of starting the action "in medias res". Virgil, for instance, devotes the second book of his Aeneid to describing events (the fall of Troy) that predated the narrative in the first book (Juno's storm, and the landing of the Trojan fleet in Africa).
Moreover, Asimov's two prequels predate Lucas's prequels.
There are two varieties of "5.1" headphones-- one incorporates multiple drivers, so that each ear is subjected to an anterior speaker, a main speaker, and a posterior speaker. The other variety uses head related transfer functions to approximate surround sound on ordinary headphones.
See this paper for more details, including circuit board layouts and a bit of math.
Educational institutions (not teachers or students) can get a stripped down model-- half the hard drive space, no optical drive, GeForce4MX graphics for $1099.
The Read more here link leads to a few pity sentences framing lengthy excerpts from the IEEE article.
BTW, the machine in question, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft MPI/IPP, is currently ranked 66th. It looks to be a fairly ordinary cluster with none of the exoticism that Cray says we so desperately need
PDF is rather simpler than Postscript. You can program in Postscript-- whereas you can merely draw with PDF.
I really can't understand this hostility towards PDF. Some renderers may be quite slow, but Apple has shown that it's perfectly possible to write a efficient Preview application. Perhaps someday Adobe will step up to the challenge.
Back in those dark days, if you wanted to view DVDs on you computer, you had all sorts of options. You could buy a fast CPU and video card that didn't know how to do much more than convert YUV pixels into RGB. You could buy a hardware MPEG2 decoder, and a slow CPU. Or you could compromise and get a moderately fast CPU and a video card that accelerates "motion compensation" and possibly inverse discrete cosine transforms.
Intel was rather partial to the "fast cpu/dumb video" configuration, and the AGP interface was useful for making that possible. I suppose it was all for the best, really, since MPEG4 video is hard, if not impossible, to accelerate with a dedicated MPEG2 decoder.
As WIAKywbfatw points out, GPUs became more powerful than CPUs (on a FLOP basis) a decade or more ago. This was the whole reason Intel created the AGP port - to prevent the GPU from becoming the center of the the computer (it was a huge threat to their business).
nVidea used the term GPU to refer to its fixed function T&L capable NV10 chip, which was released on August 31, 1999 as the GeForce 256.
The AGP 1.0 standard dates to 1996, and it was intended to provide fast bandwidth for textures and video. The video cards it fed were generally incapable of running shaders, geometry transformations, or lighting calculations.
Programable floating point units are a relatively recent development-- the functionality was introduced to the mass market when the Radeon 9700 and GeForceFX 5700 were released.
There's always the possibility that the GPU designers cut corners and didn't fully implement the IEEE standards on floating point behavior- though paranoid programmers could run error checkers on the CPU. And there's still a limit on program length.
A lot of the stuff on the web can be traced to one or two inaccurate sources. People don't correct the record because it's difficult to find original source material.
Example: The Cray-2 is frequently described as being cooled by artificial blood plasma, and most of those descriptions derive from the computer-history museum.
However, the exact chemical is not named, so it's difficult to figure out whether it was the same chemical that was later used as the oxygen carrier in artificial blood. Blood plasma performs a all-together different physiological function.
I believe IBM sued Compaq (and lost), so there might be some truth in the trial records. It might clear up exactly who was responsible for the BIOS reengineering effort (Some sources imply that Compaq subcontracted the work out to Phoenix) and how the reverse engineers developed their model of the BIOS.
IBM's BIOS source was copyrighted. If Compaq had simply compiled the source code listing, they would have faced a lawsuit (and a unfriendly precedent in the form of Apple v. Franklin).
I'm not so sure that in the original design for iTunes that iTMS (much less iTMS for windows) was much of a factor. Apple just kept on releasing products-- iTunes, then the iPod, and then the iTMS. It didn't say to the market--
All you people buying 128 Meg WMA devices are going to be sorry, because in a couple of years, we're going to be bringing out an incompatible system called iTMS...
The problem with ActiveX is that it's perceived to be a security risk. Yes, you can reconfigure IE to place the relevant domains in a different security zone. But it seems excessively complicated-- and Microsoft could have chosen to write a standalone application instead.
Instead, Microsoft promises that in just two, or three, or um, maybe four years, it will offer better product, and in the meantime, its users should run their ActiveX controls and hope for the best.
Therefore there is no way to tell what to do with them, and no way to form any visual picture as to what these objects actually are. But one of them was necessary to "remove the common sense portion of my brain", and there was no way at all to clue you in as to (1) that such a task was even possible, and (2) that one of the unknown random tools laying around is related to this task in some way.
Odd. I just finish playing it-- and "take common sense" worked fine.
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Just search for "400W tube monoblock" in google. Then filter out all the compromisers and equivocators who use a "hybrid" design, and eventually, you'll come across products such as this one.
When exactly did lucas talk about "doing episode 1"? IIRC, the hype started in earnest after the 1997 rerelease. Asimov's prequel was published in 1988.
Come to think of, Temple of Doom was a prequel.
The Madness of King George III was shortened to The Madness of King George for its american release.
George Lucas didn't invent the prequel-- he was imitating the epic style of starting the action "in medias res". Virgil, for instance, devotes the second book of his Aeneid to describing events (the fall of Troy) that predated the narrative in the first book (Juno's storm, and the landing of the Trojan fleet in Africa).
Moreover, Asimov's two prequels predate Lucas's prequels.
There are two varieties of "5.1" headphones-- one incorporates multiple drivers, so that each ear is subjected to an anterior speaker, a main speaker, and a posterior speaker. The other variety uses head related transfer functions to approximate surround sound on ordinary headphones.
See this paper for more details, including circuit board layouts and a bit of math.
You're probably one of those fools who was taken in by Intel's 386SX.
We'll just have to wait for the benchmarks.
Educational institutions (not teachers or students) can get a stripped down model-- half the hard drive space, no optical drive, GeForce4MX graphics for $1099.
but you can use firewire-800. You can also cram 4 gb into the PMG5. The bus is also faster.
That would make the lid top heavy-- and frankly, apple's hinge design has historically been lacking.
The Read more here link leads to a few pity sentences framing lengthy excerpts from the IEEE article.
BTW, the machine in question, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft MPI/IPP, is currently ranked 66th. It looks to be a fairly ordinary cluster with none of the exoticism that Cray says we so desperately need
PDF is rather simpler than Postscript. You can program in Postscript-- whereas you can merely draw with PDF.
I really can't understand this hostility towards PDF. Some renderers may be quite slow, but Apple has shown that it's perfectly possible to write a efficient Preview application. Perhaps someday Adobe will step up to the challenge.
Back in those dark days, if you wanted to view DVDs on you computer, you had all sorts of options. You could buy a fast CPU and video card that didn't know how to do much more than convert YUV pixels into RGB. You could buy a hardware MPEG2 decoder, and a slow CPU. Or you could compromise and get a moderately fast CPU and a video card that accelerates "motion compensation" and possibly inverse discrete cosine transforms.
Intel was rather partial to the "fast cpu/dumb video" configuration, and the AGP interface was useful for making that possible. I suppose it was all for the best, really, since MPEG4 video is hard, if not impossible, to accelerate with a dedicated MPEG2 decoder.
As WIAKywbfatw points out, GPUs became more powerful than CPUs (on a FLOP basis) a decade or more ago. This was the whole reason Intel created the AGP port - to prevent the GPU from becoming the center of the the computer (it was a huge threat to their business).
nVidea used the term GPU to refer to its fixed function T&L capable NV10 chip, which was released on August 31, 1999 as the GeForce 256.
The AGP 1.0 standard dates to 1996, and it was intended to provide fast bandwidth for textures and video. The video cards it fed were generally incapable of running shaders, geometry transformations, or lighting calculations.
Programable floating point units are a relatively recent development-- the functionality was introduced to the mass market when the Radeon 9700 and GeForceFX 5700 were released.
There's always the possibility that the GPU designers cut corners and didn't fully implement the IEEE standards on floating point behavior- though paranoid programmers could run error checkers on the CPU. And there's still a limit on program length.
A lot of the stuff on the web can be traced to one or two inaccurate sources. People don't correct the record because it's difficult to find original source material.
Example: The Cray-2 is frequently described as being cooled by artificial blood plasma, and most of those descriptions derive from the computer-history museum.
However, the exact chemical is not named, so it's difficult to figure out whether it was the same chemical that was later used as the oxygen carrier in artificial blood. Blood plasma performs a all-together different physiological function.
I believe IBM sued Compaq (and lost), so there might be some truth in the trial records. It might clear up exactly who was responsible for the BIOS reengineering effort (Some sources imply that Compaq subcontracted the work out to Phoenix) and how the reverse engineers developed their model of the BIOS.
IBM's BIOS source was copyrighted. If Compaq had simply compiled the source code listing, they would have faced a lawsuit (and a unfriendly precedent in the form of Apple v. Franklin).
The problem with ActiveX is that it's perceived to be a security risk. Yes, you can reconfigure IE to place the relevant domains in a different security zone. But it seems excessively complicated-- and Microsoft could have chosen to write a standalone application instead.
Instead, Microsoft promises that in just two, or three, or um, maybe four years, it will offer better product, and in the meantime, its users should run their ActiveX controls and hope for the best.
That's the trouble with Microsoft-- every solution is half assed, with the real solution being two or three years down the pike.
AAC is the default-- but you can choose other formats: MP3, AIFF, Wav, and Apple Lossless. The resulting AAC files are not encumbered by DRM.
Therefore there is no way to tell what to do with them, and no way to form any visual picture as to what these objects actually are. But one of them was necessary to "remove the common sense portion of my brain", and there was no way at all to clue you in as to (1) that such a task was even possible, and (2) that one of the unknown random tools laying around is related to this task in some way.
Odd. I just finish playing it-- and "take common sense" worked fine.
It reminded me of the original Divx scheme.
Microsoft has always considered security to be more about protecting their commercial interests, and less about protecting their users.
Don't be naive. Microsoft will likely use its homegrown Digital Rights Management scheme, known as Janus
You forgot the Apple ///. Why, it was even designed to withstand being picked up and dropped onto a hard surface.
Strange. IBM doesn't even offer a 970 based workstation. They do offer a dual processor 970 blade.
It's $2700.
Ah. Here we are. POWER based workstations.
An "economy" workstation, with one 1.0 GHz Power4+ CPU runs $5,941.00. I'm not sure if it even runs Linux. You may have to make do with AIX 5L.