Unlike in the US where the government controls the media (e.g. currently its: terrorists are evil and the government should be allowed to do what it wants in the pretences of stopping it. Basically forcing the media to suck up to the government).
In China it seems that the media is free and the government only controls its distribution (stopping anti government stories).
I remember in the seventies they got two atomic clocks and stuck one on a plane and after two years of the plane flying around aimlessly they found a minute difference in time.
The joke of it all is that after a year some journalist asked why they didn't just stick it on a regular commercial jet but they didn't think of it at the time.
One thing that mobile laptops will not be able to do is to match the power consumption required for good 3D cards. Asynchronous might be the key with low power, super pipelining, high throughput or low delay.
My old physics teacher used to be in the army and I'm not sure how true this is but he claims that during the sixties UK was holding most of its plutonium reserve in an unmarked warehouse in New York. When they did tell the New York mayor he wasnt pleased at all.
I've had 100Mhz designs running. If you pipeline them well then they they can go very fast. I'm currently running Delay Insesitive (DI) Asynchronous designs and they go really fast.
The software can be free from Xilinx but I would prefair an open source project to have a linux version.
The boards we make in the university cost £100 each with a spartan or £300 with a Virtex 300 (damn big I got 14 MIPS R3000 CPUs on one ). As for the spartan you can still make some cool stuff with it. These are some of the things I made with it.
All you need is for some one to design a card you can place in your AGP/PCI slot which has an FPGA.
These cards do exist and once open hardware becomes more popular you will be able to download your new graphics card compile it and stick it on your computer.
Or even recompile your card to work better with a perticlular game or video standard.
I used one when I made my MIPS clone and it was huge. I could fit an array of 14 full 32 bit processors on one Vertex chip all working at 100MHz. The cool thing is that they also have a VGA port and a DAC.
I used one when I made my MIPS clone and it was huge. I culd fit an array of 14 full 32 bit processors on one Vertex chip all working at 100MHz. The cool thing is that they also have a VGA port and a DAC.
Unfortunately its a billion transistors. If someone decided to invent the first computer tommorow and charged a million $ for it then Im sure I would take an FPGA and make my own for a tenner and open source it.
The hardware is worth about $100 max and the closed unexpandable software isnt worth the rest.
Lets face it what is it? Its a camera and a few motors. Ive made exactly thesame thing out of lego a year back. It had a webcam a mic and two motors.
All it could do is follow a remote control car with a green target on it.
The only problem was the lack of software. I culdnt be bothered to write something too complex. but everything you need is out there. Video in, speech recognition etc. Just put them together.
Eash system shuld have its own design style
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As usual these methods try to replicate silicon and most are abandoned because they dont have performance as good as silicon on a few properties.
VLSI designers cant conseve a world where you dont have a global clock or a transition can take a varying ammount of time.
Each silicon replacement shuld have its own design style reather than try and use the things that worked for silicon.
Neah showing them that it works isnt enough. We have been giving the stuff away but these people want miracles.
A company which we have known (THESEUS LOGIC!) which shall remain nameless were perticulaly stupid. Another company went to them showing them a bar of copper. Firstly they didnt want to say how they made it. Then they showed it was magnetic. Then they showed it was soft. Then when they put it under a spectral analyser it was nothing like copper. (at this point alar bells shuld have been going off stating IS IT COPPER?) anyway they continued with other bars of copper which were 'treated' to have different properties like low conductence and transparency. Anyway they all bought it. Invested silly ammounts of money into it. We culd easely make a chip that 'looks' dead. Infact we have a couple around the pace from manufacturing faults.
Try explaining that to someone who has allready invested a 1mil into organic transistors. Another mil into a company that claims it can make see through copper as soft as soap (I have seen some people who are convinced of this).
Investors aren't scientists so there easy to con. But i feel dirty even thinking about it.
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Unlike in the US where the government controls the media (e.g. currently its: terrorists are evil and the government should be allowed to do what it wants in the
pretences of stopping it. Basically forcing the media to suck up to the government).
In China it seems that the media is free and the government only controls its distribution (stopping anti government stories).
I remember in the seventies they got two atomic clocks and stuck one on a plane and after two years of the plane flying around aimlessly they found a minute difference
in time.
The joke of it all is that after a year some journalist asked why they didn't just stick it on a regular commercial jet but they didn't think of it at the time.
One thing that mobile laptops will not be able to do is to match the power consumption required for good 3D cards.
Asynchronous might be the key with low power, super pipelining, high throughput or low delay.
My old physics teacher used to be in the army and I'm not sure how true this is but he claims that during the sixties UK was holding most of its plutonium reserve in an unmarked warehouse in New York.
When they did tell the New York mayor he wasnt pleased at all.
I've had 100Mhz designs running. If you pipeline them well then they they can go very fast. I'm currently running Delay Insesitive (DI) Asynchronous designs and they go really fast.
The software can be free from Xilinx but I would prefair an open source project to have a linux version.
The boards we make in the university cost £100 each with a spartan or £300 with a Virtex 300 (damn big I got 14 MIPS R3000 CPUs on one ).
As for the spartan you can still make some cool stuff with it. These are some of the things I made with it.
All you need is for some one to design a card you can place in your AGP/PCI slot which has an FPGA.
These cards do exist and once open hardware becomes more popular you will be able to download your new graphics card compile it and stick it on your computer.
Or even recompile your card to work better with a perticlular game or video standard.
Bugger! Lets try again.
What they need is an XESS board
I used one when I made my MIPS clone and it was huge. I could fit an array of 14 full 32 bit processors on one Vertex chip all working at 100MHz. The cool thing is that they also have a VGA port and a DAC.
What they need is an
I used one when I made my MIPS clone and it was huge. I culd fit an array of 14 full 32 bit processors on one Vertex chip all working at 100MHz. The cool thing is that they also have a VGA port and a DAC.
Why dont they put it on Open Cores?
Thats where all open hardware projects are.
Can anyone suggest what should I do with my lego that can be controlled over the net?
I already made a controllable webcam and hamster powered an asynchronous processor during my pathetic efforts to avoid writing my thesis.
I was thinking of motorizing the limbs of a stuffed toy we have in the group.
Actualy its a IE5 fault. It cant recieve push connections. It also doesnt work with konqueror as that also lacks the feature. Im not victimising IE5.
Just wanted to show off my creations.
My webcam
You can see it working or play with ithere
And my hamster powered 32bit microprocessor
Sorry but I had to turn off the movement because it was annoying the poeple working here. You can still see the picture and how it was made.
Its M$ IE fault as it doesnt allow push connections (or something)
I built a cool webcam out of lego and you can control it over the web.
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/camera.html
This is how i built it
Unfortunately its a billion transistors. If someone decided to invent the first computer tommorow and charged a million $ for it then Im sure I would take an FPGA and make my own for a tenner and open source it.
The hardware is worth about $100 max and the closed unexpandable software isnt worth the rest.
Lets face it what is it? Its a camera and a few motors.
Ive made exactly thesame thing out of lego a year back. It had a webcam a mic and two motors.
All it could do is follow a remote control car with a green target on it.
The only problem was the lack of software. I culdnt be bothered to write something too complex. but everything you need is out there. Video in, speech recognition etc. Just put them together.
As usual these methods try to replicate silicon and most are abandoned because they dont have performance as good as silicon on a few properties.
VLSI designers cant conseve a world where you dont have a global clock or a transition can take a varying ammount of time.
Each silicon replacement shuld have its own design style reather than try and use the things that worked for silicon.
Sun will be using multiple AMD's 64bit K8 (Opterons) in a new range of Cobalt servers instead of their sparcs.
Also they have decided to preinstall these computers with Linux reather than Solaris.
Is Sun going to become a reseller and drop its last products?
Sun will be using multiple AMD's 64bit K8 (Opterons) in a new range of Cobalt servers instead of their sparcs.
Also they have decided to preinstall these computers with Linux reather than Solaris.
Is Sun going to become a reseller and drop its last products?
Who employs you?
How much do you get?
What do you think of asynchronous logic?
Neah showing them that it works isnt enough.
We have been giving the stuff away but these people want miracles.
A company which we have known (THESEUS LOGIC!) which shall remain nameless were perticulaly stupid. Another company went to them showing them a bar of copper. Firstly they didnt want to say how they made it. Then they showed it was magnetic. Then they showed it was soft. Then when they put it under a spectral analyser it was nothing like copper. (at this point alar bells shuld have been going off stating IS IT COPPER?) anyway they continued with other bars of copper which were 'treated' to have different properties like low conductence and transparency. Anyway they all bought it. Invested silly ammounts of money into it.
We culd easely make a chip that 'looks' dead. Infact we have a couple around the pace from manufacturing faults.
Try explaining that to someone who has allready invested a 1mil into organic transistors.
Another mil into a company that claims it can make see through copper as soft as soap (I have seen some people who are convinced of this).
Investors aren't scientists so there easy to con. But i feel dirty even thinking about it.
It makes me sad when I see companys trying to hype up their research to pump up their share price.
Now when my group does any research which has positive results we are scared to release anything because everyone assumes its simply another con.
Currently we have an asynchronous processor which releases so little EMI it looks dead in the graphs.
We tried showing this to other people but everyone nowdays refuses to beleve anything unconvesional can be good.
Were the articles sepperated 18 months apart?