Why not something faster than scsi, but for 2 devices per channel? Already, the only thing faster than ATA 100 is Ultra160, but there's the one disk at a time thing. Once this is fixed, SCSI will really need to be trashed!
Remember these two satellites, which had the record "Sounds of the Earth." I forget what the record was made of (I think gold-plated metal encased in a shield engraved with the same type of drawings on the Pioneer 10 and 11 plaque (relative position of our solar system, hydrogen atom, etc), plus symbolic instructions on how to play the record.
Now if we could do that in 1976, why couldn't we make a rugged CD-player? Especially with the Jeep CD player and everything else. Let's face it: the worst thing that a reasonably-sized satellite could survive would be a micrometeor the size of a fist (maybe smaller, I didn't do any calculations, just an educated guess). Anything larger would obliterate the satellite
...I think its really about the region code being bypassed. The MPAA and the designers of DVD resemble big brother in this issue. They want to control where disks bought in a specific area can be viewed. As far as I remember, it goes like this:
Region 1: US, Canada, maybe Mexice
2: Japan
3: Europe
the rest, I don't know, probably like the Middle East, Africa, and so on.
This is thought control on the source level. Essentially, DeCSS is a war cry against this.
This one from FiringSquad's RAM guide (no, I don't know the URL, search if you're so desperate):
"...remember how SDRAM transmitted data in 64 bit increments? Well DRDRAM does it with only 16 bits. So it's fast, but has a smaller bus size. This overall increases memory bandwidth, but also latency. Just think of smaller chunks (1/4 size) moving at much higher speed. Is this much better or faster?"
As soon as I read this, I thought of the MWRA (Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, those kooks in control of our sewers) making a similar change to the sewer system (not that they have, thank god.)
Imagine that they change the sewer pipe diameter from the standard size (1 to 2 meters, I think, I've never been in a sewer pipe, thankfully) to something 1/4 the diameter. Their primary purpose is to watch the turds shoot out with high velocity at the end. Of course, this introduces much sewage backlogging and latency, and would result in 5 toilet explosions daily. The pipes are lined with stainless steel and cost $90,000 per 5-meter length; about 3 million of these would be installed throughout the MWRA's jurisdiction of the Commonwealth. The MWRA, of course, would claim that the speed of the flying turds should highly outweigh the backlogging and explosion problems. Nevertheless, disgruntled MWRA customers would plan for a "Boston Turd Party."
...cause I can find a better use for gold than I can for that proprietary load.
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DirectX, Direct3D, and the best damned libraries of OpenGL. That's why the majorite of games are for Windows. Mac OS can only claim Qd3d, which only seems to accelerate those kids games on the G4 demos. Linux support is even worse, with OSS and OpenGL libraries that haven't escaped the alpha stage yet. Until Linux can get rid of the problem of device lag, there's no hope for it.
Imagine how much FUD a bomb squad member experiences. Does this wire cut the power to the timer? Or will it cut a monitor line that will release a switch that will trigger the bomb?
Rambus is only the most vivid example of a vile corporate tactic: the development of proprietary standards. By engaging in contracts with Intel, Toshiba, and Hyundai, Rambus has attempted to create a worldwide standard in DRAM and receive all of the royalties (Morgan Stanley Dean Witter estimates that these royalties would go in excess of $1 billion if all is settled).
However, resistance to the tactics by Rambus, and testing that proves Rambus is inferior to DDR SDRAM, the entire Rambus concept has soured. Intel is stuck with either a dead elephant on its back, or a legal situation resulting in breach of contract (I'd root for the latter, since Rambus may die soon anyway). If you have something to say to Rambus, send it here. If you have something negative to say, don't flame; instead, explain why Rambus is inferior, and better yet, cite examples.
Great. Now the remaining parts of the Star Wars saga will look as horrible as Episode 1. If Mike Nelson and the bots were still doing MST3K, this movie would probably get sent for them to watch. For now, we'll have to improvise.
My least favorite characters in Episode 1 were all computer-generated. Jar-Jar was annoying as hell, the robots seemed to defy the laws of physics, it all looked like a horribly done Q2 engine game.
Now, we'll have to watch R2D2 stumble along as unnaturally as the Gungans and robots in Episode 1.
A little pro-microsoft, but good reading nonetheless."
Ever notice that anything pro-microsoft is frowned upon in Slashdot? Pro-Microsoft stories are rejected, and Pro-Microsoft replies get troll ratings (as this one will probably get, thanks to the rampant Linux gnomes out there.
I remember when I had the Windows 2000 beta 3 Release Candidate 1 installed in December, I couldn't use Adaptec ECDC (I hate spelling it out; it makes the speaker sound like he's speaking Spanish!). Ok for me, since I was still dual-booting to 95. I even had the beta running at 11:59 December 31, 1999. It kept running until I shut it down. When I got the released version from the RoadShow (it says on the disk, "NOT FOR RETAIL OR OEM DISTRIBUTION", hehe), I installed it with glee. Then I installed ECDC again, and it worked! Even better, sometimes I see the progress meter freeze, (sorta like a Win98 GDI freeze), but the drive is still recording, the hard drive is still seeking. Now that's setting the resource priorities straight! Then again, it is NT, so it's designed on a proactive mindframe.
Personally, I think that Windows Millennium Edition's proper designation should be: "Windows PE" (Proletariat's edition). You get what you pay for, and Linux is free! hehe.
Very few. 3DSMAX would never make it into X; it'd have to do the same exact thing that Q2 and Q3 do: make a separate viewport in MesaGL. Meanwhile, in Windows 2000, you can have multiple programs using MMSYSTEM without conflict (so long as you do it in moderation; the same program usually recycles the window for the next WAV or MP3. DirectSound is still first come, first served, but then again, it's designed that way for responsive sound output, as in Q3, Unreal Tournament, basically every live-sound application.
...until someone codes something much better and MUCH more responsive than OSS and MesaGL. Right now, those two cause so much device latency, it makes a Celeron 466 seem like a Pentium 200.
Right now, my hot-rod system (the Pentium III 500 with 320 MB of SDRAM and a GeForce2) runs Windows 2000. I like it cause all the Id Software titles Q2 and after (and all the total conversions from the engine] were designed to at least run on NT. Since they used DirectX to run full screen, and DirectSound for sound, under Windows 2000, it runs with the swiftness of 98, but it's stable as NT. Until Linux can compete with something like that, Q3 will be more popular on Windows 2000.
I tried to get Q3 running on my Linux box, but I read the readme and it says that I need kernel 2.9 and glibc 2.0 or greater. I'm fine on the C libraries, but my kernel is 2.2.14, which is from RedHat 6.2. Q3 works just fine on Windows 95, so why this compatibility juxtaposition?
I have no idea of what link it is (I just found the magazine at a software company's office), but PC Magazine did a test of high-performance computers. Compaq's 1GHz Athlon, and other PIII 933MHz and 866MHz computers by Dell and Quantex, to name a few, were benchmarked with 128MB of RAM and Win98SE. The Athlon never led in any category.
I recently got hired by AAXION Software (www.aaxion.com), and I saw an UltraSPARC machine for the first time. The ironic thing is that the company makes a daemon that monitors potential instabilities. We'd better add this to the list, hehe.
Reply Topic/Flame Fodder: I saw two Sun-built stations there, an Ultra5 and an Ultra2. Which one's better, and what are the specs? I'm just getting into this Solaris field, and so far, it's my favorite UNIX clone (the CPU and Disk meters at the bottom are cool, wish they'd do that in Win2k on the taskbar [it's already done in Task Manager]).
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Why not something faster than scsi, but for 2 devices per channel? Already, the only thing faster than ATA 100 is Ultra160, but there's the one disk at a time thing. Once this is fixed, SCSI will really need to be trashed!
Now if we could do that in 1976, why couldn't we make a rugged CD-player? Especially with the Jeep CD player and everything else. Let's face it: the worst thing that a reasonably-sized satellite could survive would be a micrometeor the size of a fist (maybe smaller, I didn't do any calculations, just an educated guess). Anything larger would obliterate the satellite
fun to find someone who has the exact same thought at the exact same minute. But damnit, he stole my Karma! And I was about to get a Karma of 0!
This is thought control on the source level. Essentially, DeCSS is a war cry against this.
Companies have a certain time window to challenge a patent. It seems that 3dfx was sleeping on the job when these five were applied for.
How incredibly appropriate.
I should start a spoof site with that. I got a pretty good logo idea: merge two circles to form a full moon and have "arse" in it.
Different speeds of RDRAM; makes upgrading a thousand-dollar nightmare.
High-latency hardware (in the ideal computer, NO hardware should have any noticeable latency!)
Proprietary standards; obviously, Rambus is attempting to cash in by forcing it on us.
THAT'S why I hate Rambus.
As soon as I read this, I thought of the MWRA (Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, those kooks in control of our sewers) making a similar change to the sewer system (not that they have, thank god.)
Imagine that they change the sewer pipe diameter from the standard size (1 to 2 meters, I think, I've never been in a sewer pipe, thankfully) to something 1/4 the diameter. Their primary purpose is to watch the turds shoot out with high velocity at the end. Of course, this introduces much sewage backlogging and latency, and would result in 5 toilet explosions daily. The pipes are lined with stainless steel and cost $90,000 per 5-meter length; about 3 million of these would be installed throughout the MWRA's jurisdiction of the Commonwealth. The MWRA, of course, would claim that the speed of the flying turds should highly outweigh the backlogging and explosion problems. Nevertheless, disgruntled MWRA customers would plan for a "Boston Turd Party."
Just a vivid (and hilarious) analogy.
...cause I can find a better use for gold than I can for that proprietary load.
DirectX, Direct3D, and the best damned libraries of OpenGL. That's why the majorite of games are for Windows. Mac OS can only claim Qd3d, which only seems to accelerate those kids games on the G4 demos. Linux support is even worse, with OSS and OpenGL libraries that haven't escaped the alpha stage yet. Until Linux can get rid of the problem of device lag, there's no hope for it.
Love it or not, FUD is a necessary evil.
There, that's better. Figures, only previewed for the HTML.
However, resistance to the tactics by Rambus, and testing that proves Rambus is inferior to DDR SDRAM, the entire Rambus concept has soured. Intel is stuck with either a dead elephant on its back, or a legal situation resulting in breach of contract (I'd root for the latter, since Rambus may die soon anyway). If you have something to say to Rambus, send it here. If you have something negative to say, don't flame; instead, explain why Rambus is inferior, and better yet, cite examples.
My least favorite characters in Episode 1 were all computer-generated. Jar-Jar was annoying as hell, the robots seemed to defy the laws of physics, it all looked like a horribly done Q2 engine game.
Now, we'll have to watch R2D2 stumble along as unnaturally as the Gungans and robots in Episode 1.
Ever notice that anything pro-microsoft is frowned upon in Slashdot? Pro-Microsoft stories are rejected, and Pro-Microsoft replies get troll ratings (as this one will probably get, thanks to the rampant Linux gnomes out there.
Personally, I think that Windows Millennium Edition's proper designation should be: "Windows PE" (Proletariat's edition). You get what you pay for, and Linux is free! hehe.
Very few. 3DSMAX would never make it into X; it'd have to do the same exact thing that Q2 and Q3 do: make a separate viewport in MesaGL. Meanwhile, in Windows 2000, you can have multiple programs using MMSYSTEM without conflict (so long as you do it in moderation; the same program usually recycles the window for the next WAV or MP3. DirectSound is still first come, first served, but then again, it's designed that way for responsive sound output, as in Q3, Unreal Tournament, basically every live-sound application.
Right now, my hot-rod system (the Pentium III 500 with 320 MB of SDRAM and a GeForce2) runs Windows 2000. I like it cause all the Id Software titles Q2 and after (and all the total conversions from the engine] were designed to at least run on NT. Since they used DirectX to run full screen, and DirectSound for sound, under Windows 2000, it runs with the swiftness of 98, but it's stable as NT. Until Linux can compete with something like that, Q3 will be more popular on Windows 2000.
I tried to get Q3 running on my Linux box, but I read the readme and it says that I need kernel 2.9 and glibc 2.0 or greater. I'm fine on the C libraries, but my kernel is 2.2.14, which is from RedHat 6.2. Q3 works just fine on Windows 95, so why this compatibility juxtaposition?
Are they sure that 3dfx really did infringe? From the list, it sounds like ATI and Matrox could be charged as well.
What do you mean by nihilism? Are you referring to the smashing of produce? That's my favorite part of the show, especially when he does the Jell-O.
uhh, see the subject line, that's my opinion.
I said that in this reply here. Hopefully I'll win that P3 866 with an 820 board and 128MB of RDRAM. Beautiful contest.
I have no idea of what link it is (I just found the magazine at a software company's office), but PC Magazine did a test of high-performance computers. Compaq's 1GHz Athlon, and other PIII 933MHz and 866MHz computers by Dell and Quantex, to name a few, were benchmarked with 128MB of RAM and Win98SE. The Athlon never led in any category.
Reply Topic/Flame Fodder: I saw two Sun-built stations there, an Ultra5 and an Ultra2. Which one's better, and what are the specs? I'm just getting into this Solaris field, and so far, it's my favorite UNIX clone (the CPU and Disk meters at the bottom are cool, wish they'd do that in Win2k on the taskbar [it's already done in Task Manager]).