As an aside does anyone know of a multi-channel TV card? I would like to record two channels at the same time. Tivos and digital receivers don't do this which is a real shame.
When the original one of those was released me and my friend were wondering if we could make a copy which was powered by the cogs moving the tape. We needed one of the Amulet chips which were silly low power and no power consumpton between playing samples. But instead I decided to make one powered by a hamster.
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Doesnt Linux-world bring images of children going on rides with huge fluffy penguins. And wearing penguin ears? hmm maybe not penguin ears.
I think it was AC Clarke who said that it would be about $100 to get someone into space and about $50 for a return journey. This does blow your average $1 million for a five day rocket based space holiday out of the water.
The thing is that its geostationary. For it to crash down it would need to first of all be thrown out of orbit by something really really big. If you cut its connection with earth it will just hover there.
MIPS patents are not invalidated yet. When they were about to loose they gave Lexra a licence so they wouldnt loose their patents. They then decided to threaten me for using MIPS as a noun reather than a perfect adjective.
The Sun ones are fantastic. Do you know any more? My favorite was after 30 years of asynchronous computers a patent for an asynchronous processor was passed. Who are you btw?
All opinions are my own and are not of my employer. I reserve the right of having opinions based on but not limited to my imagination, paranoia and insanity.
Begs the question if it really is too late to get into the 3D graphics biz. I was at a presentations about asynchronous logic by a company who did some research into the area. They took the advantage of fast and fine grain asynchronous pipelines but by then nvidia was in the market and they claim they had no chance copeating with them. If trident can come out of the blue and make a card %80 of the speed of a gforce4 then maybe they and others gave up too early.
The problem is that some one invented the wheel and years later they patented some aspects of the wheel even though it was obveousley intended that way. The roundness of it, the fact that you need a pole in the middle etc. I dont have a large company behind me. They are quite happy to let me do research in the area but when it comes to place a patent or make a product they can claim its theirs. They will probably wait until they can squease the most out of me before killing me off. I try to publish as often as possible but they don't have to defend their patent to keep its validity.
Sure I do publish but still their patents are so broad that they can say what I published was also a patent infrindgement. Infact I am so scared that they will slap a patent on my work before I finish my thesis that I keep publicly available a version of my thesis as I write it.
I am a research student from the UK. I am currently researching a relatively new area in computing. My research is novel and my own work. A company with an "aggressive patent program" (Quote from their website) have placed several broad patents across my research area.
They basicly can stop me from using my research and take all my work from my posession. My University does not stand up to any accusations. They do not have lawyers and any research is not worth a lawsuit even if I have strong evidence that my work was independant from their and only based on prior art.
My question is "Is there any way I can question their patents several years after they were accepted without involving large sums of money or my university?"
Off an old friend of a supervisor. They sold us something like 100 of them for a £1 each because they were upgrading and these were supposed to go in the bin. Problem was they threw away the power convertors. So we have no way of driving the tubes. They did give us three they found after the scrapping but as for the other 97 I need to find a good way of lighting them. We shared them around the office and we only have one or two left. sorry mate.
We got loads of these 640x480 lcd screens for £1 each ($1.50). They work really well when they're placed an OHP. Here are some things we did with them. I am currently thinking of placing four of them in a circle and having a powerful light in the middle. Then a simple GAL or FPGA to control it. then have funky colours shining on your wall. Or the time/wather and so on. Fat boy Matt made a network controled version.
These are just roumors but I heared this from several sources that apple are talking to AMD about a 64bit only OS. Apple might need to get faster chips to compete but making something so close to a PC will allow clones. Alternatively apple could just port their OS to the hammer PCs and keep making their own PPC machines. The OS is sexy enough to make a large wodge of money. Especially if it comes with M$ office which is the only reason a lot of people dont wish to use anything other than windows.
So all we have to do is to see if she weighs as much as a duck.
Anyway it reminds me of a fortian story about some french scientist who was called to a village where people have been reporting that rock were falling out of the sky. He went there. Saw the rocks. Saw how they were driven into the ground like they fell out the sky. Then he concluded they made it up as there are no rocks in the sky how can they fall out the sky? case solved.
Actually the original setup had the board attached to a speaker. It would make horrible high pitched noises because it was running in a software loop. I couldnt be bothered to complete the version which would sing daisy daisy. Manybe ill get an undergrad to do it.
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I say stick with the G550. I have one in the office and its very vice with two screens.
By the way The VGA/DVI version is low profile too.
My computer keeps crashing and this might help it stay "running" for longer.
As an aside does anyone know of a multi-channel TV card?
I would like to record two channels at the same time.
Tivos and digital receivers don't do this which is a real shame.
A VHS video casette which has a slot to place a mini DVD.
It will play DVDs through your video maachine.
And it would have to be powered using dinamos from the turning of the tape.
When the original one of those was released me and my friend were wondering if we could make a copy which was powered by the cogs moving the tape.
We needed one of the Amulet chips which were silly low power and no power consumpton between playing samples.
But instead I decided to make one powered by a hamster.
Doesnt Linux-world bring images of children going on rides with huge fluffy penguins.
And wearing penguin ears? hmm maybe not penguin ears.
These figures were based on scientifical research.
I think it was AC Clarke who said that it would be about $100 to get someone into space and about $50 for a return journey.
This does blow your average $1 million for a five day rocket based space holiday out of the water.
The thing is that its geostationary. For it to crash down it would need to first of all be thrown out of orbit by something really really big.
If you cut its connection with earth it will just hover there.
MIPS patents are not invalidated yet. When they were about to loose they gave Lexra a licence so they wouldnt loose their patents. They then decided to threaten me for using MIPS as a noun reather than a perfect adjective.
I think searching for "aggressive patent program" might be a clue.
The Sun ones are fantastic. Do you know any more?
My favorite was after 30 years of asynchronous computers a patent for an asynchronous processor was passed.
Who are you btw?
All opinions are my own and are not of my employer. I reserve the right of having opinions based on but not limited to my imagination, paranoia and insanity.
Begs the question if it really is too late to get into the 3D graphics biz.
I was at a presentations about asynchronous logic by a company who did some research into the area.
They took the advantage of fast and fine grain asynchronous pipelines but by then nvidia was in the market and they claim they had no chance copeating with them.
If trident can come out of the blue and make a card %80 of the speed of a gforce4 then maybe they and others gave up too early.
The problem is that some one invented the wheel and years later they patented some aspects of the wheel even though it was obveousley intended that way. The roundness of it, the fact that you need a pole in the middle etc.
I dont have a large company behind me. They are quite happy to let me do research in the area but when it comes to place a patent or make a product they can claim its theirs. They will probably wait until they can squease the most out of me before killing me off.
I try to publish as often as possible but they don't have to defend their patent to keep its validity.
Sure I do publish but still their patents are so broad that they can say what I published was also a patent infrindgement.
Infact I am so scared that they will slap a patent on my work before I finish my thesis that I keep publicly available a version of my thesis as I write it.
I am a research student from the UK. I am currently researching a relatively new area in computing. My research is novel and my own work. A company with an "aggressive patent program" (Quote from their website) have placed several broad patents across my research area.
They basicly can stop me from using my research and take all my work from my posession.
My University does not stand up to any accusations. They do not have lawyers and any research is not worth a lawsuit even if I have strong evidence that my work was independant from their and only based on prior art.
My question is "Is there any way I can question their patents several years after they were accepted without involving large sums of money or my university?"
Off an old friend of a supervisor. They sold us something like 100 of them for a £1 each because they were upgrading and these were supposed to go in the bin. Problem was they threw away the power convertors. So we have no way of driving the tubes. They did give us three they found after the scrapping but as for the other 97 I need to find a good way of lighting them. We shared them around the office and we only have one or two left. sorry mate.
We got loads of these 640x480 lcd screens for £1 each ($1.50). They work really well when they're placed an OHP. Here are some things we did with them. I am currently thinking of placing four of them in a circle and having a powerful light in the middle. Then a simple GAL or FPGA to control it. then have funky colours shining on your wall. Or the time/wather and so on.
Fat boy Matt made a network controled version.
nope im saying that like there is one for osx but not for linux/bsd
There are some benchmars out actually. Make of them what you like.
This is the sheet for itanic2 1GHz.
And you can compare it to the others
Its still too early to see what effect the itanics will have but they look quite respectable, if they havent priced them selves out of the parket
These are just roumors but I heared this from several sources that apple are talking to AMD about a 64bit only OS.
Apple might need to get faster chips to compete but making something so close to a PC will allow clones.
Alternatively apple could just port their OS to the hammer PCs and keep making their own PPC machines.
The OS is sexy enough to make a large wodge of money.
Especially if it comes with M$ office which is the only reason a lot of people dont wish to use anything other than windows.
I didnt mean it like that.
Youre probably right
So all we have to do is to see if she weighs as much as a duck.
Anyway it reminds me of a fortian story about some french scientist who was called to a village where people have been reporting that rock were falling out of the sky.
He went there. Saw the rocks. Saw how they were driven into the ground like they fell out the sky.
Then he concluded they made it up as there are no rocks in the sky how can they fall out the sky?
case solved.
Or you can use one mouse to power an asynchronous microprocessor.
We never found the need to use any bigger animals.
Actually the original setup had the board attached to a speaker.
It would make horrible high pitched noises because it was running in a software loop.
I couldnt be bothered to complete the version which would sing daisy daisy. Manybe ill get an undergrad to do it.
This is what happens if you dont!
Or you culd catch them and make them pay for their evil deeds
If I scared rats away then who would power my computer?