Re:A dream chip for overclockers !
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I don't know of any asyncronos logic in the P4. The thermal protection of the P4 brings some of the advantages of asyncronos logic to syncronos logic by modulatating the clock with duty cycle but that isn't asyncronos logic.
A dream chip for overclockers !
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An asyncronos chip will hit the highest speed automatically. An better cooler will acelerate your PC without adjusting any settings. Or if you just want a silent pc it wouldn't need a fan, it will just work slower.
But I don't really think that chips that are completly asyncronos could be successfull, but there is a good possiblity that we will see hybrid chips with asyncronos and syncronos parts. Imagine a CPU with a fixed FSB but a asyncronos ALU.
I find it very interresting that a Chinese Universesity is allowed to use a board produced in Taiwan. Maybe it is just too hard to find a board, that isn't produced in Taiwan.
PIV's heatspreader is a step in this direction. I don't think heatsinks will be completly connect with the cpus because there are too many different markets for heatsinks.
There are the "consumer" PCs where a heat sink should be as cheap as possible, "business" PCs that should be silent and reliable but cost doesn't matter that much and finally heatsinks for overclockers that should be very powerfull.
AMD could have done this with a customized bios. The palmino core contains the PowerNow power safeing technology that could alter the multiplier and core voltage while running.
AMD could have used that technology to emulate pentium 4 like cpu protection.
Or maybe the video is just a fake;)
If the thermal diode couldn't meassure temperature deltas over 1 K/s, why don't the logic shutdown the cpu if the temperature rises at this speed ?
There shouldn't be any time in normal operation when this will happen.
I belive there isn't a single copyright holder, but everyone who has done something on the linux kernel holds a part of the copyright and should be a able to sue them.
Disney has already done a full dubbed version of Castle in the Sky, even with a new score by Hisaishi, so why don't they release this movie ? Castle in the Sky is a movie that isn't dark like Princess Mononoke and doesn't contain much violence. Disney mustn't do any cuts to make it family friendly. An DVD/Video release should easily make much more money than letting the dub get old in some desk. A Castle in the Sky release could be sold to all the anime fans out there and to the normal small children disney market too.
Or another maybe better solution:
Disney IMHO only owns the VHS and cinema rights to Miyazaki's movies. Couldn't ADV or some other other Anime Video firm buy the DVD release rights for Castle in the Sky ?
Well, if you want a really long shelf life than you should buy only books about math. Computer Science is essential very specialised math. Over the years many of the assumings of CS will change a bit and old books will be obsolete. Books about CS will have a much longer shelf life than books about computers in general or programming languages etc but even CS book will get outdated.
Take "The Art of Computer Programming" as an example. The core content is still very usefull and not outdated, but all that pages about MIX and implenetation of the algorithms in this fake assembler language are not very usefull now.
Math books are better choice because learning about math will help the reader to adept smarter to new situations and will help the reader to find effective solutions for his particular problem.
Machines like this one are already in use
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In Hamburg,Germany a publisher runs a machine that works in the same way.
If you want your book printed by them, you can pay a small fee (around $300,I think), then your Book gets saved in their database and gets an ISBN and is included in the book catalogs. You can freely choose the price for your book and the publisher gets the printing cost + %20.
It works for books, like cafepress does for t-shirts.
Well, the article stats that FF XI will released first for PS2 and PC. The PC windows version will maybe run under wine without problems. Older FF parts that were ported to the pc platform are also running nice under Wine.
FF8 has worked really good for me under Wine.
Running X-BOX games on a PC could be a difficult thing. Normal PCs will have much more cpu horsepower and memory when the xbox is released, and the videocard will have a bigger fillrate, but the XBOX with its UMA design and no such bottlenecks like an AGP bus has a much tighter coupling between cpu and videocard. I think when the xbox is released there will be a long time where the xbox could do graphical tricks and eyecandys almost no pc could do but there will be also many graphical tricks that nearly every pc could do but the xbox couldn't. 64 MB for Video and general purpose ram is really not enough. The xbox could maybe pump out tons of polygons but hasn't any space to save where they should be.
Yes, movies converted to PAL are 4 percent shorter and the audio has a slightly higher pitch. Commercial tv stations sometimes use other convertions techniques that make the film a bit longer,for obvious reasons,but normally pal movies are 4 percent shorter than the cinema version. NTSC movies have the right length but are always are little bit jerky because of the pulldown process.
2-3 Pulldown or 3-2 Pulldown doesn't care. 2 movie frames = 3 video frames isn't the way the pulldown works. Just do the math, this will get you 36 fps not 30 fps or 60 hfps.
It is called 2-3 or 3-2 pulldown because you make 3 half video frames out of every even movie frame and 2 half video frames out of every odd movie frame. As you see it doesn't really matter if you do a 2-3 pulldown or a 3-2 pulldown.
PAL uses another way of converting a movie to PAL. As PAL has only 50 fields per second, it simply speeds up the movie by 4% and makes two half fields out of every movie frame.
>, since algorithms cannot be patented (at least not in Germany), only implementations.
Isn't this exactly the the other way ? I think that algorithms could be patented and implementation couldn't because implementations are already protected by the copyright.
I think that many software companies in Europe use tricky workarounds to patent their software, but normally software isn't patentable in the european union.
Look it this previos slashdot story for an information about commercial watercooling. Even the powersupply is watercooled. Watercooling is silent and effective.
Here were have another example how copyright, patents and similar things do lead into bizare situations because there are so unnatural laws.
But as long as you could earn money with it, nothing will change. Hopefully someone will come up with another more natural concept to protect authors and there works without introducing artifical laws.
Here in germany almost every foreign movie gets dubbed, because dubbed movie do simply have much more success here at the boxoffice than subtitled versions. Because of this the film distributors spend much money on the dub. The dialog is translated in a way that it gets a good lipsync. If a language is a bit similar in the structur it is possible to do a dub that feels almost as lipsync as the orginal. Maybe the german dub is even better than the orginal english dub, because the english dub is very likely done by big hollywood actors that haven't much experience with dubbing. German dubbing is very likely done by some specialized actors that do almost only dubbing.
And even if the dubbed version is bad, you have always the choice to simply go into the orginal english version. I think that a dub will be a problem in Japan because japanese has an very different structure than english, it should be a big problem to get this nearly lipsynced without completly changing the meaning of what they say.
We have had many similar slashdot story in the past about privat persons and firms that want to do comercial spaceflights, hotels etc.
But lets face it, this all is just hot air, there isn't anything behind it. Even very rich people like daydreaming, then something like this appears in the news.
Well is DDOS just a weakness of TCP/IP or isn't it just a weakness that every networking protocol must have ?
If you have enough hacked clients to a network, you could ddos every client in the net. Even things like a telephone could be ddosed.
I wonder why this couldn't be done in software in every mobile phone ? Every new mobile has a nice and speedy cpu in it, that should be able to encrypt the 2400 bytes of traffic a GSM mobilephone sends and receives on the fly. There are nice encryption algorithms like TEA that should be able to do this even with the limted processing power of a mobilephone. A $2700 mobile with encryption will not be a big problem for the secret services because almost noone will buy one, but a little firmware update that makes your old mobile to an mobile with powerfull and save encryption could be a problem.
Firmware hackers where are you ?
Re:3D from a 2D surface? Don't work for me
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Well, I have seen a very smart 3d projection device, that could work for you. Its main part is a very fast rotating semitransparent 3D helix and then some 3 lasers paint a color 3D image on it.
Very nice, you could see the thing from all sides, the bad thing is that it is transparent.
Yes, I read the article, but even if culture seems to be an nice addition, do you really think that this will change the game ?
I think it will only change very little. Many Civ I and II players will simply use their old strategies and it will work, because Sid Maier doesn't want to disappoint his old time civ I/II fans. I think that is the problem with every Civilization sequel: Because it has the same name, many people demand that it will play in the same way. Even if Civilization III seems to be a bit better on this point then Civilization II, I think Sid Maier isn't brave enough to really change it, and this leads to another point: The rules of Civilization are getting more and more complex, with every new version there are some additions but nearly always nothing is left out that was in an old version. To me much of the fascination is coming from the simplicity of rules. The rules were very simple in Civ I nevertheless you got into very complex situations. If you got a too complex ruleset with too many switches and things you must care about, the game gets unplayable. I think if Civilization fans sees this additions, he thinks: "nice I could now do this and this and..." But after a few rounds that he tries to use this extras to their full extend he will use his old strategies because the game will get much more fluent with them.
Now to the point of the online community and the customizability: I think this comes only from the point were Civ 1 was released, Internet wasn't as dense population as it now and not so many people are playing pc games as today.
Civilization III will sure be a game that could be a lot of fun, but do you really think, playing a few hours of Civilization III will be more fun than playing a few hours of Civilization I or II or Colonization ?
The basic principles of Civilization are always the same. Playing Civilization III will be the same thing as playing Civilization II or I. The only thing that does really differ is the graphic. Civilization is like chess: The game is always the same, no matter what type of chessboard you are using.
Ok, there are always some little changes and new technologies, but in the end, this is only a marketing gadget.
For me, freeciv is completly ok and a don't know why I should speed money on Civilization III. The graphic of freeciv also gets improved all the time, and if want some finetunning of the basic rules you could also do it yourself.
Well, this one is a typcial sony computer product:
One the one hand it is very nice, but on the other hand it is rather expensive. Reminds me of Vaios.
Well, I think it is easy to contruct one.
Make a light barrier through the indicator and connect it to little schmidt trigger, you should then be able to attach it to a fan header on your board that is able to meassure the fan speed. Then tell your pc bios to shut down your pc if this fan fails. Most modern boards and bioses support this, if not a little microcontroller you also do the job. Just let the MCU meassure the rotate speed of the indicator via the lightbarrier and connect it also to the soft power on/off connector of your board. You could also attach an little lcd display showing your flow.
Nice,sounds like a nice project, but I doesn't use water cooling. Damm.
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I don't know of any asyncronos logic in the P4. The thermal protection of the P4 brings some of the advantages of asyncronos logic to syncronos logic by modulatating the clock with duty cycle but that isn't asyncronos logic.
An asyncronos chip will hit the highest speed automatically. An better cooler will acelerate your PC without adjusting any settings. Or if you just want a silent pc it wouldn't need a fan, it will just work slower.
But I don't really think that chips that are completly asyncronos could be successfull, but there is a good possiblity that we will see hybrid chips with asyncronos and syncronos parts. Imagine a CPU with a fixed FSB but a asyncronos ALU.
I find it very interresting that a Chinese Universesity is allowed to use a board produced in Taiwan. Maybe it is just too hard to find a board, that isn't produced in Taiwan.
PIV's heatspreader is a step in this direction. I don't think heatsinks will be completly connect with the cpus because there are too many different markets for heatsinks.
There are the "consumer" PCs where a heat sink should be as cheap as possible, "business" PCs that should be silent and reliable but cost doesn't matter that much and finally heatsinks for overclockers that should be very powerfull.
AMD could have done this with a customized bios. The palmino core contains the PowerNow power safeing technology that could alter the multiplier and core voltage while running. ;)
AMD could have used that technology to emulate pentium 4 like cpu protection.
Or maybe the video is just a fake
If the thermal diode couldn't meassure temperature deltas over 1 K /s, why don't the logic shutdown the cpu if the temperature rises at this speed ?
There shouldn't be any time in normal operation when this will happen.
I belive there isn't a single copyright holder, but everyone who has done something on the linux kernel holds a part of the copyright and should be a able to sue them.
Disney has already done a full dubbed version of Castle in the Sky, even with a new score by Hisaishi, so why don't they release this movie ? Castle in the Sky is a movie that isn't dark like Princess Mononoke and doesn't contain much violence. Disney mustn't do any cuts to make it family friendly. An DVD/Video release should easily make much more money than letting the dub get old in some desk. A Castle in the Sky release could be sold to all the anime fans out there and to the normal small children disney market too.
Or another maybe better solution:
Disney IMHO only owns the VHS and cinema rights to Miyazaki's movies. Couldn't ADV or some other other Anime Video firm buy the DVD release rights for Castle in the Sky ?
Well, if you want a really long shelf life than you should buy only books about math. Computer Science is essential very specialised math. Over the years many of the assumings of CS will change a bit and old books will be obsolete. Books about CS will have a much longer shelf life than books about computers in general or programming languages etc but even CS book will get outdated.
Take "The Art of Computer Programming" as an example. The core content is still very usefull and not outdated, but all that pages about MIX and implenetation of the algorithms in this fake assembler language are not very usefull now.
Math books are better choice because learning about math will help the reader to adept smarter to new situations and will help the reader to find effective solutions for his particular problem.
In Hamburg,Germany a publisher runs a machine that works in the same way.
If you want your book printed by them, you can pay a small fee (around $300,I think), then your Book gets saved in their database and gets an ISBN and is included in the book catalogs. You can freely choose the price for your book and the publisher gets the printing cost + %20.
It works for books, like cafepress does for t-shirts.
Well, the article stats that FF XI will released first for PS2 and PC. The PC windows version will maybe run under wine without problems. Older FF parts that were ported to the pc platform are also running nice under Wine.
FF8 has worked really good for me under Wine.
Running X-BOX games on a PC could be a difficult thing. Normal PCs will have much more cpu horsepower and memory when the xbox is released, and the videocard will have a bigger fillrate, but the XBOX with its UMA design and no such bottlenecks like an AGP bus has a much tighter coupling between cpu and videocard. I think when the xbox is released there will be a long time where the xbox could do graphical tricks and eyecandys almost no pc could do but there will be also many graphical tricks that nearly every pc could do but the xbox couldn't. 64 MB for Video and general purpose ram is really not enough. The xbox could maybe pump out tons of polygons but hasn't any space to save where they should be.
Yes, movies converted to PAL are 4 percent shorter and the audio has a slightly higher pitch. Commercial tv stations sometimes use other convertions techniques that make the film a bit longer,for obvious reasons ,but normally pal movies are 4 percent shorter than the cinema version. NTSC movies have the right length but are always are little bit jerky because of the pulldown process.
2-3 Pulldown or 3-2 Pulldown doesn't care. 2 movie frames = 3 video frames isn't the way the pulldown works. Just do the math, this will get you 36 fps not 30 fps or 60 hfps.
It is called 2-3 or 3-2 pulldown because you make 3 half video frames out of every even movie frame and 2 half video frames out of every odd movie frame. As you see it doesn't really matter if you do a 2-3 pulldown or a 3-2 pulldown. PAL uses another way of converting a movie to PAL. As PAL has only 50 fields per second, it simply speeds up the movie by 4% and makes two half fields out of every movie frame.
>, since algorithms cannot be patented (at least not in Germany), only implementations.
Isn't this exactly the the other way ? I think that algorithms could be patented and implementation couldn't because implementations are already protected by the copyright.
I think that many software companies in Europe use tricky workarounds to patent their software, but normally software isn't patentable in the european union.
Look it this previos slashdot story for an information about commercial watercooling. Even the powersupply is watercooled. Watercooling is silent and effective.
Here were have another example how copyright, patents and similar things do lead into bizare situations because there are so unnatural laws.
But as long as you could earn money with it, nothing will change. Hopefully someone will come up with another more natural concept to protect authors and there works without introducing artifical laws.
Here in germany almost every foreign movie gets dubbed, because dubbed movie do simply have much more success here at the boxoffice than subtitled versions. Because of this the film distributors spend much money on the dub. The dialog is translated in a way that it gets a good lipsync. If a language is a bit similar in the structur it is possible to do a dub that feels almost as lipsync as the orginal.
Maybe the german dub is even better than the orginal english dub, because the english dub is very likely done by big hollywood actors that haven't much experience with dubbing. German dubbing is very likely done by some specialized actors that do almost only dubbing.
And even if the dubbed version is bad, you have always the choice to simply go into the orginal english version. I think that a dub will be a problem in Japan because japanese has an very different structure than english, it should be a big problem to get this nearly lipsynced without completly changing the meaning of what they say.
We have had many similar slashdot story in the past about privat persons and firms that want to do comercial spaceflights, hotels etc.
But lets face it, this all is just hot air, there isn't anything behind it. Even very rich people like daydreaming, then something like this appears in the news.
Well is DDOS just a weakness of TCP/IP or isn't it just a weakness that every networking protocol must have ?
If you have enough hacked clients to a network, you could ddos every client in the net. Even things like a telephone could be ddosed.
I wonder why this couldn't be done in software in every mobile phone ? Every new mobile has a nice and speedy cpu in it, that should be able to encrypt the 2400 bytes of traffic a GSM mobilephone sends and receives on the fly. There are nice encryption algorithms like TEA that should be able to do this even with the limted processing power of a mobilephone. A $2700 mobile with encryption will not be a big problem for the secret services because almost noone will buy one, but a little firmware update that makes your old mobile to an mobile with powerfull and save encryption could be a problem.
Firmware hackers where are you ?
Well, I have seen a very smart 3d projection device, that could work for you. Its main part is a very fast rotating semitransparent 3D helix and then some 3 lasers paint a color 3D image on it.
Very nice, you could see the thing from all sides, the bad thing is that it is transparent.
Yes, I read the article, but even if culture seems to be an nice addition, do you really think that this will change the game ? ..." But after a few rounds that he tries to use this extras to their full extend he will use his old strategies because the game will get much more fluent with them.
I think it will only change very little. Many Civ I and II players will simply use their old strategies and it will work, because Sid Maier doesn't want to disappoint his old time civ I/II fans. I think that is the problem with every Civilization sequel: Because it has the same name, many people demand that it will play in the same way. Even if Civilization III seems to be a bit better on this point then Civilization II, I think Sid Maier isn't brave enough to really change it, and this leads to another point:
The rules of Civilization are getting more and more complex, with every new version there are some additions but nearly always nothing is left out that was in an old version. To me much of the fascination is coming from the simplicity of rules. The rules were very simple in Civ I nevertheless you got into very complex situations. If you got a too complex ruleset with too many switches and things you must care about, the game gets unplayable. I think if Civilization fans sees this additions, he thinks: "nice I could now do this and this and
Now to the point of the online community and the customizability: I think this comes only from the point were Civ 1 was released, Internet wasn't as dense population as it now and not so many people are playing pc games as today.
Civilization III will sure be a game that could be a lot of fun, but do you really think, playing a few hours of Civilization III will be more fun than playing a few hours of Civilization I or II or Colonization ?
The basic principles of Civilization are always the same. Playing Civilization III will be the same thing as playing Civilization II or I. The only thing that does really differ is the graphic. Civilization is like chess: The game is always the same, no matter what type of chessboard you are using.
Ok, there are always some little changes and new technologies, but in the end, this is only a marketing gadget.
For me, freeciv is completly ok and a don't know why I should speed money on Civilization III. The graphic of freeciv also gets improved all the time, and if want some finetunning of the basic rules you could also do it yourself.
Well, this one is a typcial sony computer product:
One the one hand it is very nice, but on the other hand it is rather expensive. Reminds me of Vaios.
Well, I think it is easy to contruct one.
Make a light barrier through the indicator and connect it to little schmidt trigger, you should then be able to attach it to a fan header on your board that is able to meassure the fan speed. Then tell your pc bios to shut down your pc if this fan fails. Most modern boards and bioses support this, if not a little microcontroller you also do the job. Just let the MCU meassure the rotate speed of the indicator via the lightbarrier and connect it also to the soft power on/off connector of your board. You could also attach an little lcd display showing your flow.
Nice,sounds like a nice project, but I doesn't use water cooling. Damm.