Bungie was originally a Mac developer. Pathways into Darkness and Marathon were kick ass back in the day. Marathon II: Durandal was their first PC projct. Then they did Myth and Oni cross-platform, and got bought by Microsoft. (This is considerably more traumatic for me than, say, the occupation of Mecca by Western armies would be for a devout Muslim.)
So. The Mac game scene lost a lot when Bungie started focusing on the PC. The art of video game development lost a lot when Bungie got bought by Microsoft. So it goes.
You might be thinking about the Quadra AV systems, with a DSP that ran the video and audio codecs. I don't really think that counts as a "dual processor" machine. After all...my modem has a processor on it.
You might also be thinking about the DOS compatibility card, which was basically a teeny 486 computer on a PDS card. That, however, was almost totally separate from the Mac architecture (although it shared the network card, and you could share the clipboard between the Mac and PC, which was extremely nifty).
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OK. You write a program that gives you remote control of my Mac, and I'll give you a lollipop.
It's not possible. You can't do it. It's never been done in the wild. If you can do it, you should have entered the contests they ran a couple years ago, and invested the money in Apple stock. You'd have near enough cash to buy the VA Tech cluster. (OK, exaggerating a bit.)
Real life is fun. Real life has real physics. Therefore, realistic physics can be fun. QED. Sports fans seem to be willing to spend ridiculous sums of money on games that are constrained by your "boring" constraints, so I think your argument is wrong on its face.
Now, there may well be an "uncanny valley" of physics, where unrealistic physics are more "fun" than pretty-close but not-quite realistic physics. But that just says to me that the game designers need to think really hard about this stuff.
Huh. I saw bus-powered FireWire drives at Fry's yesterday. Guess I'm crazy. And I've never seen a media card reader that requires more than a USB connection. Floppy? Get over it. Dead medium. But those are USB powered too.
USB doesn't deliver a lot of juice, but FireWire works just fine. That's one of the many reasons it's superior. Good thing Apple supports both very nicely.
Now, re: rat's nest, that annoys me too. But one more firewire cable isn't going to wreck my evening.
You've got a superdrive and space for more hard drives in the case. How much internal expansion do you need?
Disclaimer: I know about zero about the actual aerodynamic details inside a hard drive. I know how big wings work when they go fast in large air volumes. : )
But, my understanding is thus: The read/write heads use aerodynamic forces to keep them close to, but not touching, the drive platters. The "radial" motion comes from a pivot outside the cylinder occupied by the disk platters, not unlike a phonograph arm. So, the drive spins at a more or less constant rate, and the heads fly nice and close to the platter, and then the head arm pivot moves the head in a more or less radial direction (yeah, it's really an arc, but I bet there's trigonometry to fix all that mess) at a speed that's very low wrt the speed of the platters relative to the heads. So you've got the drives spinning fast in the circumferential direction (7200 rpm=120 revs/sec=43200 degrees/sec, drive platter perimeter is about 3.5*pi=10 in or so, so 1 200 inches per second = 68.1818182 miles per hour according to Google), and the heads moving in the "radial" direction at some fairly high number of degrees/sec, but I'd say it's still a lot lower than 43200 deg/sec. So, the radial motion of the drive heads will not change the airspeed of the heads too much.
I'm not sure I answered your question, but I sure talked around it a lot. : )
If you put an expansion stage (bigger pipe) in a liquid (water) cooled heat sink, the water will not expand to fill it. It'll flow along the bottom of the pipe.
To an excellent approximation, water is awful damn close to incompressible. Its volume changes with pressure are teeny. Like, thousandths of a ml per atmosphere.
Expansion cooling works with gases, not with liquids.
A business owner can ask you to leave for any reason, I believe.
I don't think they can prevent you from doing what you want with those images, but if you stay on the premises after being asked to leave, you're trespassing.
The notion that you're looking for is "boundary layer", not laminar flow. Laminar flow is the opposite of turbulent flow, and you won't find it inside a hard drive.
Consider a coordinate system fixed to an airplane wing. Immediately at the surface of the wing, the airflow is stationary with respect to the wing skin. As you move farther away from the skin, the air moves faster and faster wrt the wing skin. If you consider the coordinate system fixed to the ground, the air far from the wing is more or less stationary (ignoring wind and the like) and the air close to the wing is moving at the speed of the aircraft.
So, the heads are not stationary relative to the airflow. The air is moving more or less at the speed of the platters (in a spiral like pattern as you described). The heads fly through this (pretty high speed) airflow.
I don't own a TiVo. I don't like TiVo. I won't pay TiVo for the privilege of looking at their guide data.
See, I DO want a better hardware implementation than TiVo. So I'm going to do it myself. The difference is, I don't whine about TiVo not doing it for me.
Pro/E is a kick ass modeling and CAD program for engineer types, but it may well not be appropriate for architects. I sure don't know how to do a landscape plan in it (although I don't pretend to be anything like a Pro/E Jedi).
What does the GPL software have to do with the totally proprietary hardware system they have developed?
Want a better hardware implementation of TiVo? Take the software and port it to your toaster. Quit whining that they're not doing what YOU want them to do. DIY.
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Uh, no.
Bungie was originally a Mac developer. Pathways into Darkness and Marathon were kick ass back in the day. Marathon II: Durandal was their first PC projct. Then they did Myth and Oni cross-platform, and got bought by Microsoft. (This is considerably more traumatic for me than, say, the occupation of Mecca by Western armies would be for a devout Muslim.)
So. The Mac game scene lost a lot when Bungie started focusing on the PC. The art of video game development lost a lot when Bungie got bought by Microsoft. So it goes.
You might be thinking about the Quadra AV systems, with a DSP that ran the video and audio codecs. I don't really think that counts as a "dual processor" machine. After all...my modem has a processor on it.
You might also be thinking about the DOS compatibility card, which was basically a teeny 486 computer on a PDS card. That, however, was almost totally separate from the Mac architecture (although it shared the network card, and you could share the clipboard between the Mac and PC, which was extremely nifty).
Anyhow, there you have it.
Him? Not the one.
OK. You write a program that gives you remote control of my Mac, and I'll give you a lollipop.
It's not possible. You can't do it. It's never been done in the wild. If you can do it, you should have entered the contests they ran a couple years ago, and invested the money in Apple stock. You'd have near enough cash to buy the VA Tech cluster. (OK, exaggerating a bit.)
Read about the results here.
Get the ruler.
Whoops! I'm wrong! After getting rid of the stray copy in my \documents and settings directory, it's working great with iTunes 4.5. Mystery solved.
Looks just like the option menus I used to get from MultiPlugin. It doesn't seem to work with iTunes 4.5 though.
Movement.
Yeah, I disagree with all those game developers.
Real life is fun. Real life has real physics. Therefore, realistic physics can be fun. QED. Sports fans seem to be willing to spend ridiculous sums of money on games that are constrained by your "boring" constraints, so I think your argument is wrong on its face.
Now, there may well be an "uncanny valley" of physics, where unrealistic physics are more "fun" than pretty-close but not-quite realistic physics. But that just says to me that the game designers need to think really hard about this stuff.
Huh. I saw bus-powered FireWire drives at Fry's yesterday. Guess I'm crazy. And I've never seen a media card reader that requires more than a USB connection. Floppy? Get over it. Dead medium. But those are USB powered too.
USB doesn't deliver a lot of juice, but FireWire works just fine. That's one of the many reasons it's superior. Good thing Apple supports both very nicely.
Now, re: rat's nest, that annoys me too. But one more firewire cable isn't going to wreck my evening.
You've got a superdrive and space for more hard drives in the case. How much internal expansion do you need?
Anybody worried about clarity of language needs to not misuse the phrase "begs the question".
Disclaimer: I know about zero about the actual aerodynamic details inside a hard drive. I know how big wings work when they go fast in large air volumes. : )
But, my understanding is thus: The read/write heads use aerodynamic forces to keep them close to, but not touching, the drive platters. The "radial" motion comes from a pivot outside the cylinder occupied by the disk platters, not unlike a phonograph arm. So, the drive spins at a more or less constant rate, and the heads fly nice and close to the platter, and then the head arm pivot moves the head in a more or less radial direction (yeah, it's really an arc, but I bet there's trigonometry to fix all that mess) at a speed that's very low wrt the speed of the platters relative to the heads. So you've got the drives spinning fast in the circumferential direction (7200 rpm=120 revs/sec=43200 degrees/sec, drive platter perimeter is about 3.5*pi=10 in or so, so 1 200 inches per second = 68.1818182 miles per hour according to Google), and the heads moving in the "radial" direction at some fairly high number of degrees/sec, but I'd say it's still a lot lower than 43200 deg/sec. So, the radial motion of the drive heads will not change the airspeed of the heads too much.
I'm not sure I answered your question, but I sure talked around it a lot. : )
You're a dookiehead, and your mom dresses you funny.
Feel better? : )
If you put an expansion stage (bigger pipe) in a liquid (water) cooled heat sink, the water will not expand to fill it. It'll flow along the bottom of the pipe.
To an excellent approximation, water is awful damn close to incompressible. Its volume changes with pressure are teeny. Like, thousandths of a ml per atmosphere.
Expansion cooling works with gases, not with liquids.
You have to pay for quality. Get used to this idea, you'll see it again.
A business owner can ask you to leave for any reason, I believe.
I don't think they can prevent you from doing what you want with those images, but if you stay on the premises after being asked to leave, you're trespassing.
The notion that you're looking for is "boundary layer", not laminar flow. Laminar flow is the opposite of turbulent flow, and you won't find it inside a hard drive.
Consider a coordinate system fixed to an airplane wing. Immediately at the surface of the wing, the airflow is stationary with respect to the wing skin. As you move farther away from the skin, the air moves faster and faster wrt the wing skin. If you consider the coordinate system fixed to the ground, the air far from the wing is more or less stationary (ignoring wind and the like) and the air close to the wing is moving at the speed of the aircraft.
So, the heads are not stationary relative to the airflow. The air is moving more or less at the speed of the platters (in a spiral like pattern as you described). The heads fly through this (pretty high speed) airflow.
The rest of your post is pretty well spot on.
It's called USB and FireWire. Both can power devices. Look into it.
Because he doesn't think the quality is the same?
You mean, thanks for doing all the things the release notes said it was going to do? Uh, yeah. You're welcome, I guess.
I don't own a TiVo. I don't like TiVo. I won't pay TiVo for the privilege of looking at their guide data.
See, I DO want a better hardware implementation than TiVo. So I'm going to do it myself. The difference is, I don't whine about TiVo not doing it for me.
Anybody else had the Googlebar melt after installing Firefox .9? I can't get it to install.
Call it revenge for the silly notion of assigning genders to inanimate objects. : )
Ease down there, Ripley.
Pro/E is a kick ass modeling and CAD program for engineer types, but it may well not be appropriate for architects. I sure don't know how to do a landscape plan in it (although I don't pretend to be anything like a Pro/E Jedi).
Anyhow, there's no reason to be a dick about it.
What does the GPL software have to do with the totally proprietary hardware system they have developed?
Want a better hardware implementation of TiVo? Take the software and port it to your toaster. Quit whining that they're not doing what YOU want them to do. DIY.