...will shortly be for sale on Thinkgeek.com for those office skirmishes where Nerf just doesn't cut it. (Like when the marketing guys tell you they want to start shipping that unfinished software product NEXT WEEK).;-)
I don't know about you, but I'm a student and I have to wake up at 5:30am... there's no way I can stay up until 2am watching cartoons.
There is something so wrong with that sentance;-)
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The Dragon chips you're referring to are equivalent to a 200-260Mhz Pentium......you're also missing the point that x86 doesn't do multiple processing well....and the Dragon's don't do multi-processing at all. Nor do they have a significant addressable memory space.
So, they'd make lousy compute nodes for a supercomputer!!!! Heck, it'd be doubtful they even had the I/O bandwidth for the required high speed networking connections of a compute node.
Didn't we just have a story that claimed iTunes played Oggs.....that infact turned out to be based on the fact that Quicktime can now play Oggs.....and now we're told there's a Quicktime component to play Oggs?
I dunno about you, but this kinda strikes me a blatant ad.
I love the way this is pitched as being a "development system". It's a flash device....with common uses being to trade pirated games online and download them to your GBA.
How many people are really going ot be using this device to load their own games into a GBA? Probably a very, very small number...
Based on your model, we should be able to remember from about 6 months old. Assuming that you mean the lack of myelin is what prevents out very early and womb memories.
A valid point. Although this chip is really designed for SMP architectures....and most of the applications that tend to run on SGI take good advanatage of that.
You can't build large node MP AMD or Intel machines, period. So it's something of a moot point.
Actually, one "trick" to getting high clock rates is to INCREASE the pipeline. The huge pipeline is what's been used to jack-up the P3/P4 clock speeds. It's actually harder to have a high clock speed and a shorter pipeline (you seem to indicate that a shorter pipeline should make it easier to have a higher clock speed).
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...will shortly be for sale on Thinkgeek.com for those office skirmishes where Nerf just doesn't cut it. (Like when the marketing guys tell you they want to start shipping that unfinished software product NEXT WEEK). ;-)
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Wonder how many kids will snap the clamshell hinge? I remember my first Motorola Startac phone and the problems I had with that...
Does look cute though. And thank God it has a lit screen.
Does it have the same specs as the GBA? (Wasn't clear to me).
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I'm astounded. I truly can't believe a household name such as Microsoft would be involved in underhand business practises.
Seriously, the law makers in the US should probably look into Microsoft being a monopoly....don't they have these things called antitrust laws too?
And Bill Gates looks like such a nice guy. How can he be evil when he wants to save children in third world countries from AIDS?
Enjoyed the early works, for sure....and I think Stephenson borrowed much early on. But was has Gibson really done for us lately? Hmmmmm?
Cryptonomicon is still one of my faves of all time.
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Gives a whole new meaning to "the premiere went off with a real bang!" ;)
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I don't know about you, but I'm a student and I have to wake up at 5:30am... there's no way I can stay up until 2am watching cartoons. ;-)
There is something so wrong with that sentance
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I mean.....does anyone actually *read* eBooks? Where on earth do you buy them in the first place?
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The Dragon chips you're referring to are equivalent to a 200-260Mhz Pentium......you're also missing the point that x86 doesn't do multiple processing well....and the Dragon's don't do multi-processing at all. Nor do they have a significant addressable memory space.
So, they'd make lousy compute nodes for a supercomputer!!!! Heck, it'd be doubtful they even had the I/O bandwidth for the required high speed networking connections of a compute node.
Nice try, though.
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....they made blue boxing work again! Infact, I guarantee payphone use will dramatically rise! ;-)
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You're right, my bad...
But my point still stands: they're a systems integration company, not a manufacturer of super computers....IMHO.
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Except that it's US technology. There's UltraSPARCs in the nodes and they run Solaris.
The Indian technology is the hardware and software infrastructure to get the nodes talking, AFAIK.
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....the joystick plays you! ;-)
(Sorry, couldn't resist).
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Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.
Didn't we just have a story that claimed iTunes played Oggs.....that infact turned out to be based on the fact that Quicktime can now play Oggs.....and now we're told there's a Quicktime component to play Oggs?
;)
This is bOGGling my mind!
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I dunno about you, but this kinda strikes me a blatant ad.
I love the way this is pitched as being a "development system". It's a flash device....with common uses being to trade pirated games online and download them to your GBA.
How many people are really going ot be using this device to load their own games into a GBA? Probably a very, very small number...
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...as the RFC for avian carrier IP! ;)
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....a beowulf cluster of those! ;)
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Please drive carefully. (And don't walk on the grass).
Based on your model, we should be able to remember from about 6 months old. Assuming that you mean the lack of myelin is what prevents out very early and womb memories.
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Imagine how much fear a terrorist group could install in US military personnel with that sort of date. Makes you think.
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A valid point. Although this chip is really designed for SMP architectures....and most of the applications that tend to run on SGI take good advanatage of that.
You can't build large node MP AMD or Intel machines, period. So it's something of a moot point.
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That's 16-bits per colour in the RGB plane, for a total of 48-bit colour. Most PC cards do 24bit (or 32bit with alpha/Z plane).
Not the width of the GPU!!!!
You're confusing apples and oranges.
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Actually, one "trick" to getting high clock rates is to INCREASE the pipeline. The huge pipeline is what's been used to jack-up the P3/P4 clock speeds. It's actually harder to have a high clock speed and a shorter pipeline (you seem to indicate that a shorter pipeline should make it easier to have a higher clock speed).
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Doesn't it seem like Ian Pearson gets to take the piss at BT (and our) expense?
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I have a couple of spools of ninitinol (sp?) somewhere. A memory metal that contracts or expands when you apply current.
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