And if you were wondering about a Beowolf cluster of these, the top ten ranking excludes "cluster results".
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Yeah, I can't believe I'm going to buy an X-Box for a few games. I've always been a huge Sega fan, ever since I got the Master System (do a search for my/. nic sometime). Some how Microsoft got Sega to make Shenmue II/III X-Box exclusives in the US. I already got the import of part II, so I'll probally pass on that, but I need III. There is also the new Sega GT, and Panzer Orta. Hopefully Microsoft had to pay Sega for those exclusives, so they can take the loss on me buying the system, and then what they had to fork over to Sega for those games.
I don't know about XFree86, it has always been fast enough for me. But I don't play games.
As for the GNU project. I know you were making a joke. But I think it is engineered for user-friendlyness. I've used SysV versions of some of the GNU tools. Those were unfriendly. Missing some of the options I use daily. I think the GNU tools are engineered to work well with user, with features added that really are needed. But it just depends on the user. They probally aren't even usable to someone who only knows how to click through menus and dialog boxes. But they are very friendly to me.
I've seen reviews of these. They sound great on fresh vinyl. But you ever notice no matter how clean you try to keep your vinyl, after playing an LP there is a little lint behind the needle? That is actually a feature. The needle cleans the record as it is played. Lasers don't do that.
Actually the biggest problem I have is poorly manufactured parts. My mom will buy the cheapest desk/chair/whatever she can find. Then she calls me to assemble it. The instructions are usually poor, but the worst part is the pieces just don't fit together well.
I guess if they are going to the extra cost of putting chips in each piece this technology won't be used in the $5 desks.
That's false. It is trademarks you must defend. Patents one can sit on until someone else builds a market on your patent and then sue them. Not nice, but valid.
It uses the standard BIH Bluetooth. Which is a standard for aquiring images, and controling imaging devices. So Linux would just need a BIH driver. Sort of like HID for USB.
Says in the article 10m. I thought the same thing, so I read the article thinking I'd see something about internal storage. But there is no mention of it.
Talks a lot about using the camera with a laptop. There are mentions of a cradle and USB. So it has to be able to store images, right?
Oh, Bluetooth is also slow. 47 seconds to transfer a full 4 megapixel image.
Exactly. I know if I fall in a hole in the ground, all I have to do is stretch my neck and I'll float right out. Just have to be careful when you get to the top. Got to work to the side slowly or I'll fall right back in.
Of course I haven't falling into a hole yet, cause even time I see one, I stretch my neck while standing next to it, but I don't see a flashing light come from the hole, so I just stay out.
No, but I just registered a domain with godaddy.com last week, and got a post card from Versign today saying I can transfer domains to them for $15, and get a 1 year extension.
Funny I've been considering transfering my 3 domains from Verisign to Go Daddy for half that. That postcard sold me, I will now.
To correct both of you. If it is only a "player", it wouldn't be an audio enCOder/DECoder. So what you would want to ask for, is a multi-format audio player. Probally want to specify that wish support for lossy audio compression formats, just so they don't get confused.
Wish I had known that. The person I talked to was saying exactly what I repeated. Seemed right as I knew the Tivo encoded MPEG2 from the cable tuner.
How about this, do you have to pay for the Tivo service on top of the satalite service?
That is one thing the DishPVR stores the normal program guide that comes from the sat service. But it isn't limited to being stored in RAM like most sat tuners (I know the Tivo stores it's guide on disk), so there is always 7 days of data available.
The DishPVR 721 has two tuners, so can do the same thing, record two shows, while watching another from the disk. I think the drive is 120MB, it is about 90 hours of total recording time.
As someone else said, the DishPVR doesn't have an encoder at all, so no recording of off-the-air, or cable. But there are no off-the-air stations around me, and I got the dish so I wouldn't have to deal with the horrid cable company (who's service goes down each month, as the price goes up). So I didn't even consider that feature.
Also the DishPVR has a feature to control a VCR to automaticly dump recorded programs to tape. I also don't have a VCR so I didn't care about that feature.
They seem to be about the same. All in all, I'm happy so I guess it doesn't matter.
The Dish Network PVR is exactly what I was looking for. The DirectTiVo does a D/A conversion of the signal coming from the receiver, then a A/D conversion to store the picture on the hard disk. Sure that lets you select different quality levels, but with the size of drives these days...
On the other hand the Dish Network PVRs (which also run Linux) store the raw encrypted satalite stream to disk, then pass it to the decoder when you go to watch it just like it was coming off the air. The two units I've seen offered by Dish also have a 30 second skip button right on the remote. Sure they don't have all the features of the ReplayTV, but there are USB ports on the Dish box, and people have gotten USB-to-Ethernet adaptors to work on them with a hacked box.
Combine hydrogen and oxygen in the right proportions and they will explode.
Those right proportions are 2 hydrogens for every oxygen. The explosion is from the energy being released. Which is almost as much energy as it took to crack the hydrogen from the oxygen in the first place.
Oh yeah, when the energy is released you have water again, I hope there is some sodium around at that time.
...and Might and Magic 6? I can understand why they didn't try the latest release, what is it 9 now? It is just so bad. I guess 6 was the first one to be an Windows application. Still IV and V were my favorite (installed at the same time of course).
Excellent. I hadn't tried to use Wine for a while now because of my past experiences, and really not needing to run Windows applications.
I wasn't trying to insult Wine, I was just stating a problem I had in the past. Just when I was switching from Windows to Linux it would have been useful to me, to still be able to use some of the applications I was used to. But I may have been better off for just going cold turkey and finding ways to do what I was doing before with just what was available to me.
Wine is not a virtual machine. It is a reimplimentaion of the Windows APIs. It doesn't emulate PC hardware. It uses the local x86 processor to run the Windows binary, looking for calls to the Windows API and then translates that call into something approate for the local machine.
Maybe now you understand why performance and compatibility is so poor? Really in some cases the Windows applications run faster under Wine than Windows, but that isn't always true.
Virtual PC on the other hand actually emulates a all the PC hardware. Then a copy of Windows runs on that emulated hardware. Totally different from what Wine is doing. The reason it is slow is the emulated video card may not have 3D support so all DirectX stuff gets software rendered.
Wine actually does it's best to impliment the Direct3D calls as OpenGL calls.
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Usually these number crunching exercises have large datasets. Too big to fit in the CPU registers, or cache, so you need quick access to RAM too.
That was my first though. So it beats a C90, but what is faster?
Found the answer here.
And if you were wondering about a Beowolf cluster of these, the top ten ranking excludes "cluster results".
Yeah, I can't believe I'm going to buy an X-Box for a few games. I've always been a huge Sega fan, ever since I got the Master System (do a search for my /. nic sometime). Some how Microsoft got Sega to make Shenmue II/III X-Box exclusives in the US. I already got the import of part II, so I'll probally pass on that, but I need III. There is also the new Sega GT, and Panzer Orta. Hopefully Microsoft had to pay Sega for those exclusives, so they can take the loss on me buying the system, and then what they had to fork over to Sega for those games.
I don't know about XFree86, it has always been fast enough for me. But I don't play games.
As for the GNU project. I know you were making a joke. But I think it is engineered for user-friendlyness. I've used SysV versions of some of the GNU tools. Those were unfriendly. Missing some of the options I use daily. I think the GNU tools are engineered to work well with user, with features added that really are needed. But it just depends on the user. They probally aren't even usable to someone who only knows how to click through menus and dialog boxes. But they are very friendly to me.
I've seen reviews of these. They sound great on fresh vinyl. But you ever notice no matter how clean you try to keep your vinyl, after playing an LP there is a little lint behind the needle? That is actually a feature. The needle cleans the record as it is played. Lasers don't do that.
Actually the biggest problem I have is poorly manufactured parts. My mom will buy the cheapest desk/chair/whatever she can find. Then she calls me to assemble it. The instructions are usually poor, but the worst part is the pieces just don't fit together well.
I guess if they are going to the extra cost of putting chips in each piece this technology won't be used in the $5 desks.
PHP, JSP, and ASP are not DHTML languages. DHTML is HTML + a scripting language to manipulate the DOM, like JavaScipt (EcmaScript) or VBScript.
I think there is prior art.
That's false. It is trademarks you must defend. Patents one can sit on until someone else builds a market on your patent and then sue them. Not nice, but valid.
It uses the standard BIH Bluetooth. Which is a standard for aquiring images, and controling imaging devices. So Linux would just need a BIH driver. Sort of like HID for USB.
Says in the article 10m. I thought the same thing, so I read the article thinking I'd see something about internal storage. But there is no mention of it.
Talks a lot about using the camera with a laptop. There are mentions of a cradle and USB. So it has to be able to store images, right?
Oh, Bluetooth is also slow. 47 seconds to transfer a full 4 megapixel image.
Exactly. I know if I fall in a hole in the ground, all I have to do is stretch my neck and I'll float right out. Just have to be careful when you get to the top. Got to work to the side slowly or I'll fall right back in.
Of course I haven't falling into a hole yet, cause even time I see one, I stretch my neck while standing next to it, but I don't see a flashing light come from the hole, so I just stay out.
You don't want the date that the database was updated, you want the date the domain information was updated:
Updated Date: 15-jan-2002
No, but I just registered a domain with godaddy.com last week, and got a post card from Versign today saying I can transfer domains to them for $15, and get a 1 year extension.
Funny I've been considering transfering my 3 domains from Verisign to Go Daddy for half that. That postcard sold me, I will now.
To correct both of you. If it is only a "player", it wouldn't be an audio enCOder/DECoder. So what you would want to ask for, is a multi-format audio player. Probally want to specify that wish support for lossy audio compression formats, just so they don't get confused.
Wish I had known that. The person I talked to was saying exactly what I repeated. Seemed right as I knew the Tivo encoded MPEG2 from the cable tuner.
How about this, do you have to pay for the Tivo service on top of the satalite service?
That is one thing the DishPVR stores the normal program guide that comes from the sat service. But it isn't limited to being stored in RAM like most sat tuners (I know the Tivo stores it's guide on disk), so there is always 7 days of data available.
The DishPVR 721 has two tuners, so can do the same thing, record two shows, while watching another from the disk. I think the drive is 120MB, it is about 90 hours of total recording time.
As someone else said, the DishPVR doesn't have an encoder at all, so no recording of off-the-air, or cable. But there are no off-the-air stations around me, and I got the dish so I wouldn't have to deal with the horrid cable company (who's service goes down each month, as the price goes up). So I didn't even consider that feature.
Also the DishPVR has a feature to control a VCR to automaticly dump recorded programs to tape. I also don't have a VCR so I didn't care about that feature.
They seem to be about the same. All in all, I'm happy so I guess it doesn't matter.
I have this case with two dual Xeons in it. With the SCA backplane it was like $650, but I think the case without that feature is much less.
The Dish Network PVR is exactly what I was looking for. The DirectTiVo does a D/A conversion of the signal coming from the receiver, then a A/D conversion to store the picture on the hard disk. Sure that lets you select different quality levels, but with the size of drives these days...
On the other hand the Dish Network PVRs (which also run Linux) store the raw encrypted satalite stream to disk, then pass it to the decoder when you go to watch it just like it was coming off the air. The two units I've seen offered by Dish also have a 30 second skip button right on the remote. Sure they don't have all the features of the ReplayTV, but there are USB ports on the Dish box, and people have gotten USB-to-Ethernet adaptors to work on them with a hacked box.
Probally only allows local connetions, thus the "localhost" part. But who knows what else they have they have configured like that.
You just forgot to dip the electrodes in your mouth while you were gargling.
Combine hydrogen and oxygen in the right proportions and they will explode.
Those right proportions are 2 hydrogens for every oxygen. The explosion is from the energy being released. Which is almost as much energy as it took to crack the hydrogen from the oxygen in the first place.
Oh yeah, when the energy is released you have water again, I hope there is some sodium around at that time.
...and Might and Magic 6? I can understand why they didn't try the latest release, what is it 9 now? It is just so bad. I guess 6 was the first one to be an Windows application. Still IV and V were my favorite (installed at the same time of course).
Corel put a lot of work into Wine for a bit to get Word Perfect Suite ported this way.
Then their interest in Linux faded.
I still have an unopened box of Corel Linux.
Excellent. I hadn't tried to use Wine for a while now because of my past experiences, and really not needing to run Windows applications.
I wasn't trying to insult Wine, I was just stating a problem I had in the past. Just when I was switching from Windows to Linux it would have been useful to me, to still be able to use some of the applications I was used to. But I may have been better off for just going cold turkey and finding ways to do what I was doing before with just what was available to me.
Wine is not a virtual machine. It is a reimplimentaion of the Windows APIs. It doesn't emulate PC hardware. It uses the local x86 processor to run the Windows binary, looking for calls to the Windows API and then translates that call into something approate for the local machine.
Maybe now you understand why performance and compatibility is so poor? Really in some cases the Windows applications run faster under Wine than Windows, but that isn't always true.
Virtual PC on the other hand actually emulates a all the PC hardware. Then a copy of Windows runs on that emulated hardware. Totally different from what Wine is doing. The reason it is slow is the emulated video card may not have 3D support so all DirectX stuff gets software rendered.
Wine actually does it's best to impliment the Direct3D calls as OpenGL calls.