YOUR statements are baseless. I beleive I have a basis for my statements. I believe I've repeated it enough times here: The vast majority of all uses of the registers will be for =32 numbers... the wasted silicon and engineering could have been spent elsewhere... GET IT?
Brandon
One of my responsibilities at my current job is taking care of these things on a web site. We use a commercial cvs/rcs-like repository, with a commercial configuration management system built on top of it.
This system handles the Versioning/CM for our inhouse C++ code.... then we began stuffing documentation into it..... then we started storing web pages there, and manually publishing them.... then it evolved further when we made use of the CM system to take repository areas as "web exports" to certain directories under the root of the web server
That change allowed a coder to check out his web node on some remote (any platform) machine, change it, check it in, and then type another command to have published to the server. Then we scrapped that and wrote a nice perl cgi script which allows the web server to serve documents directly out of the repository (in some ways similar to cvsweb, but simpler.
Now if you hit http://mysite.com/cmsys/a/dir/somefile.html, you're getting the latest version from the repository automatically. You can tack on "?r1.5" to get version 1.5, or tack on "?r1.4r1.5" to get a diff of two versions..... naming a directory above the file (http://mysite.com/cmsys/a/dir/) will behave as expected and have menu options for doing the versions shown above and whatnot on the files there....
It's hard to describe but very spiffy (thanks for the word, Gina). I've been considering doing some real documentation of the stuff behind all of this lately on the web, but haven't gotten around to it. If anyone wants to see this stuff or wants to know if/when I make the info public, please send an email to brandon.black@wcom.com. The current implementation is on a private company server.
Assuming everything is peachy with his "magnetic jolt", you still need a massive source of power to do two things: Power the electrical jolts into the magnet, and keep the liquid helium cooled to -269. So.... aren't they still gonna have a bunch of waste fuel mass to make electricity...
We don't need more precision in desktop computing. 32 bits is arguably plenty for any floating point number in use on a desktop. I also covered the data path argument in the first post of this thread. Data paths are independant of the 32/64-bitness of a CPU.
It doesn't take an eletrical engineer to see the problems I just stated. The problems I stated also don't invlaidate the efforts of these engineers. 64-bitness is neccesary in high end tasks these days, and therefore the processors must be built.
Someday, when everyone's standard gui interface is a a full VR gear type of thing, 64-bitness will be neccesary at the desktop, but not today. What I'm fighting against is the marketing of 64-bit CPU's as a great new feautre for desktops
Let me preface this by saying: I'm all for the continued development of 64-bit processors. They are important.
That being said... In many circumstances today 64-bit processors are a waste... especially in a desktop. 64-bit (and wider) data paths are certainly a big help even on a consumer desktop. 64-bit registers and instructions to natively and atomically handle 64-bit values are not a gain, they are a loss. My reasoning here is that on a desktop-type machine, most (90%+??) of the numbers traversing the registers are will within the 32-bit range... and you've wasted a buttload of {silicon|power|heat|engineering_talent} on that 64-bit support that could've been spent elsewhere.
Given two machines with wide data paths, 4GB of memory (which fits in both architectures) a 32-bit processor would blow the socks off of a 64-bit processor assuming both have equivalent number of transistors, power input, and engineering input. And remember, I'm talking about desktop apps and games here.... Obviously everything I've said above is invalid when you do _real_ scientific computing, which regularly involves >32 bit numbers, or really needs direct access >4GB of memory.
In my opinion the software is the primary problem with the pre-built PC market. The OS loads are _Really_ bad. A quick reload of the latest Win9X coupled with the latest drivers for the hardware (but minus all of the absolute crap utilities the mfg had running in the background) makes a world of difference. Unfortunately the consumer often doesn't know enough to do this.
I'd say on a typical HP or Compaq, you get as much performance boost from the re-install as you would doubling your RAM... which may explain why they're loaded that way
There are well over 100 (248 according to other replyers). That doesn't change anything. Moving an order of magnitude higher will cause problems. If it happens, you'll see.
DNS is a heirarchical namespace. It only scales as well as it does (which is iffy, but still works) because of the way the heirarchy scales. If you upped the number of TLD's to even a number like 2000, I would imagine that the DNS scaling problems would cause DNS to be the net's main bottleneck, instead of bandwidth as it is today.
Read the context. I'm talking about non-intel motherboards supporting intel processor microcode updates. For instance, when I get a BIOS update for my ASUS P3B-F, it has newer microcode updates from Intel for my PIII, and knows to update the processor at boot time with it.
Stop being pigheaded folks. For argument's sake, say all the PS2 games either suck or don't exist. You're paying $299.99 for a late-model Sony DVD player with optical audio output. THat doesn't sound too bad to me, maybe not great, but not far off either.
Add into it that this $299.99 DVD Player also has an expansion bay for HDD/Ethernet... has builtint Firewire/USB... can load software... has memory cards, controllers, plays a huge market of PS1 games.....
The system is well worth it as an alternative to a DVD player, even if no PS2 specific game titles ever existed. No doubt there will be a ROM update, a memory card image, or a CDROM for it soon enough that will have webtv-like software...
Get over it people. I was a hardcore enough Nintendo fan to stick to my N64 (and older ones) through all other systems. I _never_ bought a PS1. But even _I_ have to admit that this system is the thing to buy.
I agree with you in principle, but I also argue that reproducing sounds beyond human hearing is a valid pursuit for the following reasons (some more serious than others, but all "valid"):
Harmonics above human hearing (let's just say above 44khz for argument's sake) still contribute to the human-hearable sound. A multitude of out-of-range harmonics still interefere with the in-range sounds, altering them (cancellation, multiplication) in ways that humans can hear. One might argue that this can occur virtually before encoding at human-hearable levels. This is true if you're encoding with all 3D environmental effect included, designed to be listened to on headphones. If you're playing stereo sound out of speakers, bouncing off of walls, it still matters to reproduce what you can and let it bounce around and interfere.
Not all listeners are human. Some people have fun getting their dogs to sing along to music, for example. The reasons certain dogs seem to repetitively pick certain songs might just be because of certain frequencies that humans can't hear on the recording.
Historical Preservation. Someone in the year 2200 might be interested in Musical History, and may use these recordings not only for listening pleasure, but also for scientific study into our recording methods. He might even be trying to construct a then-extinct physical music instrument (say a saxophone) from listening to it's harmonic characteristics in a recording. The beyond-hearing harmoics wuold be excessively valuable to him.
We may soon (some would say 10 years, some would say 100... who knows) have biologically or electronically altered hearing available to the masses as an "upgrade", allowing us to perceive previously out-of-range frequencies
Don't forget that most artists today record at CD rates (16/44.1) on DAT because they know they're shooting for a CD. Therefore even the master has no better fidelity. If we raise the bar for the CD, we raise the bar for the original as well.
The phrase "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" is deemed by many Americans to be the founding principal of the American Way, the overriding theme which drives the constitution, which in turn drives lawmaking at increasingly more detailed levels. It is fairly logical to assume that the only meaning this can have for an entire society is that every person should have the right to "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" so long as they do not infringe on the same right of other Americans.
Do you think that there are too many "preventative" laws in this country which restrict these rights unneccesarily, and that the restrictions should be lesser, with perhaps greater punishments for those who use these freedoms to violate the rights to "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" of others? Or do you feel that we can only guarantee a certain level of freedom by imposing a large set of restrictions on everybody, so as to quell the criminals before they act?
I realize that some dorks out there might have a legitimate bitch to make about gcc 2.96. In their micro-cosm of having to compile sendmail and apache, and the occasional kernel module, gcc 2.96 brings nothing but added pain.
My answer to them, Use KGCC, it's EGCS 1.1.2!
For all of you who don't believe gcc 2.96 is useful, you're dead wrong. Lots of heavy commercial shops building inhouse C++ software NEED gcc 2.96. I work at one. Our company will now make much better and faster leaps towards using linux for real corporate computing (as opposed to just sendmail/apache servers) because of gcc 2.96. And the more corps jump on the bandwagon, the more support Linux as a whole gets...
Which of course will lead people like IBM and SGI to keep turning over key technologies to the open source community, and feed the whole process.
If the average lifespan is 75 years, then the age range of 21 and under IS 28% of the average person's lifespan. And actually, since lifespan increases with each generation, then assuming that we replace as many people as die, the number of people alive in the first 28% of the average lifespan should exceed 28% to reflect the growing lifespan. If should exceed it by even more if we're actually have a population boom in the current 0-21-ers.
So.. uhh... what was your point about people under 21 making up 28% of the population?
Back in the day of the Nintendo (I think the SuperNintendo/SuperFamicom was out at this time, but I'm talking about the 8-bit Nintendo I and others still owned/used), I was living in Singapore, and I remember hearing stories that some freinds-of-freinds-of-freinds(....) in Japan actually had sewing machines hooked up to that huge ugly connector on the botoom of 8-bit Nintendos.
That rumor was never confirmed, but it seemed plausible that the expansion port was meant for _something_. If so, maybe it was a Singer sewing machine, and maybe it was the start of the relationship which brings us this Izex thing.
I would like to patent my new concept that I have named "NGNC: Next Generation Network Computing". I am patenting the use of computer communications protocols to extend the power of a computer user's computer by sending cpu jobs to other computing devices who will compute the solution for them. This patent is limited to the specific case of computing jobs which are binary encoded, and comprised of bytes of data and/or code.
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[The day that it is granted]
Business Wire (DC) - Axiomatic Technologies, Inc., is issuing cease and desist orders to all companies which produce or use any of the following unlicensed technologies which violate their patents: RPC Calls, "Distributed Internet Computing Clients", "N-Tier Client-Server Architectures", Ethernet Cards, SCSI Cards, and Accelerated Video Cards.
We will be giving a 30 day grace period for companies and individuals using these technologies to contact us about license negotiations before we begin court proceedings. Failure to being court proceedings with any individual or company shortly after the 30 day grace period in no way limits our rights of future litigation for these and other violations of our patent.
I checked the Redhat Bugzilla server the day the 2500 bugs story was released. Unresolved bugs against Redhat 7.0 came to a total of something around 120, not 2500.
It's good that we can scare off bad people from doing bad things just by taking notice and sending letters and wirting articles. But it's bad when it works the other way around. Like when some company (let's call them AnalogDivergence) sends C&D letters to honest hackers and scares them into taking down their material, when they really have no legal leg to stand on.
There should be protections against these scare tactics. There should be specific laws about what MUST be stated in such a letter (specific cited laws, whether they have successfully won this same case yet against others, exactly what you're doing wrong legally and practically, etc..).
I'm surprised NASA was inventive enough to think like this... they seem to me to always go for the "more bucks, bigger faster rockets" approach.... they tend to try to overengineer old technology...
This is a step in the science instead of engineering direction... a whole new way of doing things. Score one for NASA.
90 million voxels isn't very far advanced yet. 90 million voxel means a 3d resolution of roughly 450x450x450. Think of this display as the 320x200 @ 256 color displays of 3d era. This is very low resolution.
But, I think it is a good first step, just like early vga (and ega, cga before them) was.
Also, you may want some onboard navigational hardware for the short-distance stuff. Something like a microcontroller on the serial port of your linux box talking to a set of acceleromters. This allows your nav machine to know instantaeously your real ground speed, and the exact time and direction of any turns or curves you make. Correlating this with GPS and map inputs can make it much more magical than gps/mapping alone.
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YOUR statements are baseless. I beleive I have a basis for my statements. I believe I've repeated it enough times here: The vast majority of all uses of the registers will be for =32 numbers... the wasted silicon and engineering could have been spent elsewhere... GET IT? Brandon
This system handles the Versioning/CM for our inhouse C++ code.... then we began stuffing documentation into it..... then we started storing web pages there, and manually publishing them.... then it evolved further when we made use of the CM system to take repository areas as "web exports" to certain directories under the root of the web server
That change allowed a coder to check out his web node on some remote (any platform) machine, change it, check it in, and then type another command to have published to the server. Then we scrapped that and wrote a nice perl cgi script which allows the web server to serve documents directly out of the repository (in some ways similar to cvsweb, but simpler.
Now if you hit http://mysite.com/cmsys/a/dir/somefile.html, you're getting the latest version from the repository automatically. You can tack on "?r1.5" to get version 1.5, or tack on "?r1.4r1.5" to get a diff of two versions..... naming a directory above the file (http://mysite.com/cmsys/a/dir/) will behave as expected and have menu options for doing the versions shown above and whatnot on the files there....
It's hard to describe but very spiffy (thanks for the word, Gina). I've been considering doing some real documentation of the stuff behind all of this lately on the web, but haven't gotten around to it. If anyone wants to see this stuff or wants to know if/when I make the info public, please send an email to brandon.black@wcom.com. The current implementation is on a private company server.
Someday, when everyone's standard gui interface is a a full VR gear type of thing, 64-bitness will be neccesary at the desktop, but not today. What I'm fighting against is the marketing of 64-bit CPU's as a great new feautre for desktops
That being said... In many circumstances today 64-bit processors are a waste... especially in a desktop. 64-bit (and wider) data paths are certainly a big help even on a consumer desktop. 64-bit registers and instructions to natively and atomically handle 64-bit values are not a gain, they are a loss. My reasoning here is that on a desktop-type machine, most (90%+??) of the numbers traversing the registers are will within the 32-bit range... and you've wasted a buttload of {silicon|power|heat|engineering_talent} on that 64-bit support that could've been spent elsewhere.
Given two machines with wide data paths, 4GB of memory (which fits in both architectures) a 32-bit processor would blow the socks off of a 64-bit processor assuming both have equivalent number of transistors, power input, and engineering input. And remember, I'm talking about desktop apps and games here.... Obviously everything I've said above is invalid when you do _real_ scientific computing, which regularly involves >32 bit numbers, or really needs direct access >4GB of memory.
I'd say on a typical HP or Compaq, you get as much performance boost from the re-install as you would doubling your RAM... which may explain why they're loaded that way
Add into it that this $299.99 DVD Player also has an expansion bay for HDD/Ethernet... has builtint Firewire/USB... can load software... has memory cards, controllers, plays a huge market of PS1 games.....
The system is well worth it as an alternative to a DVD player, even if no PS2 specific game titles ever existed. No doubt there will be a ROM update, a memory card image, or a CDROM for it soon enough that will have webtv-like software...
Get over it people. I was a hardcore enough Nintendo fan to stick to my N64 (and older ones) through all other systems. I _never_ bought a PS1. But even _I_ have to admit that this system is the thing to buy.
- Harmonics above human hearing (let's just say above 44khz for argument's sake) still contribute to the human-hearable sound. A multitude of out-of-range harmonics still interefere with the in-range sounds, altering them (cancellation, multiplication) in ways that humans can hear. One might argue that this can occur virtually before encoding at human-hearable levels. This is true if you're encoding with all 3D environmental effect included, designed to be listened to on headphones. If you're playing stereo sound out of speakers, bouncing off of walls, it still matters to reproduce what you can and let it bounce around and interfere.
- Not all listeners are human. Some people have fun getting their dogs to sing along to music, for example. The reasons certain dogs seem to repetitively pick certain songs might just be because of certain frequencies that humans can't hear on the recording.
- Historical Preservation. Someone in the year 2200 might be interested in Musical History, and may use these recordings not only for listening pleasure, but also for scientific study into our recording methods. He might even be trying to construct a then-extinct physical music instrument (say a saxophone) from listening to it's harmonic characteristics in a recording. The beyond-hearing harmoics wuold be excessively valuable to him.
- We may soon (some would say 10 years, some would say 100... who knows) have biologically or electronically altered hearing available to the masses as an "upgrade", allowing us to perceive previously out-of-range frequencies
Don't forget that most artists today record at CD rates (16/44.1) on DAT because they know they're shooting for a CD. Therefore even the master has no better fidelity. If we raise the bar for the CD, we raise the bar for the original as well.Do you think that there are too many "preventative" laws in this country which restrict these rights unneccesarily, and that the restrictions should be lesser, with perhaps greater punishments for those who use these freedoms to violate the rights to "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" of others? Or do you feel that we can only guarantee a certain level of freedom by imposing a large set of restrictions on everybody, so as to quell the criminals before they act?
My answer to them, Use KGCC, it's EGCS 1.1.2!
For all of you who don't believe gcc 2.96 is useful, you're dead wrong. Lots of heavy commercial shops building inhouse C++ software NEED gcc 2.96. I work at one. Our company will now make much better and faster leaps towards using linux for real corporate computing (as opposed to just sendmail/apache servers) because of gcc 2.96. And the more corps jump on the bandwagon, the more support Linux as a whole gets...
Which of course will lead people like IBM and SGI to keep turning over key technologies to the open source community, and feed the whole process.
If the average lifespan is 75 years, then the age range of 21 and under IS 28% of the average person's lifespan. And actually, since lifespan increases with each generation, then assuming that we replace as many people as die, the number of people alive in the first 28% of the average lifespan should exceed 28% to reflect the growing lifespan. If should exceed it by even more if we're actually have a population boom in the current 0-21-ers.
So.. uhh... what was your point about people under 21 making up 28% of the population?
That rumor was never confirmed, but it seemed plausible that the expansion port was meant for _something_. If so, maybe it was a Singer sewing machine, and maybe it was the start of the relationship which brings us this Izex thing.
------
[The day that it is granted]
Business Wire (DC) - Axiomatic Technologies, Inc., is issuing cease and desist orders to all companies which produce or use any of the following unlicensed technologies which violate their patents: RPC Calls, "Distributed Internet Computing Clients", "N-Tier Client-Server Architectures", Ethernet Cards, SCSI Cards, and Accelerated Video Cards.
We will be giving a 30 day grace period for companies and individuals using these technologies to contact us about license negotiations before we begin court proceedings. Failure to being court proceedings with any individual or company shortly after the 30 day grace period in no way limits our rights of future litigation for these and other violations of our patent.
Slashdot was on crack that day.
There should be protections against these scare tactics. There should be specific laws about what MUST be stated in such a letter (specific cited laws, whether they have successfully won this same case yet against others, exactly what you're doing wrong legally and practically, etc..).
I'm surprised NASA was inventive enough to think like this... they seem to me to always go for the "more bucks, bigger faster rockets" approach.... they tend to try to overengineer old technology...
This is a step in the science instead of engineering direction... a whole new way of doing things. Score one for NASA.
But, I think it is a good first step, just like early vga (and ega, cga before them) was.
Also, you may want some onboard navigational hardware for the short-distance stuff. Something like a microcontroller on the serial port of your linux box talking to a set of acceleromters. This allows your nav machine to know instantaeously your real ground speed, and the exact time and direction of any turns or curves you make. Correlating this with GPS and map inputs can make it much more magical than gps/mapping alone.