Not to kill a very funny joke, but incidentally the review states that the P4 1.7Ghz actually runs cooler than the AMD 1.3, and never has to throttle down its clockspeed from running too hot. ---
As we learned from the Simpsons, flying debris can be deadly in a space shuttle:
Homer: "Hey guys, look what I smuggled aboard!" [Shows a bag of chips]
Buzz Aldrin: "Homer, no!"
Race: "They'll clog the instruments!"
[Homer opens the bag, chips float about]
Buzz: "Careful, they're ruffled!"...
[after Homer's head smashes into the ant colony]
Buzz: "You fool! Now we may never know if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space!"
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Come on now, it would be trivial for the RIAA's track "search engine" to convert everything to lowercase and strip punctuation. Then the only real variations would be whether the artist's name appears before or after the track name. Sure, there are still more variations but this definitely would eliminate tens of thousands of possibilities. ---
Does non-interactive necessarily mean non-stimulating? Sure, GI Joes or their predecessors, lead army men, were static "dolls", but they still inspired children to use their imagination and bring those toys to life. I don't see anything bad about that. ---
I wouldn't buy the Mambox if I were you - its quality and reliability are far lower than acceptable, even for a first-generation product. A visit to mp3.com 's message boards will attest to the countless problems people have had with this product.
I've got a Philip's Expanium, which you can get at Amazon and Circuit City, probably a few other places. Runs for $199, which is a bit expensive, but its one of the only mp3 cd players that can reliably play mp3's of Any bitrate (24 through 320kbps)...lasts about 8-10 hrs on two AA batteries, never skips, and never runs into mp3's it can't play. Only thing missing is ID3 tag or filename display. ---
I'm sorry, but I really am tired of/. posters crying "vaporware" at every news release that mentions groundbreaking technology. Yes, vaporware is abundant, but this article is about a new fabrication technique and the potential it could have for data storage. They're not giving it a catchy name, or a projected selling date, a ridiculous retail price, or any other marketing buzzwords. They aren't even talking about a product. This is a development in technology from academia, and should be treated as such. Please, save the vaporware accusations for the deserving. ---
The article states "The real-time portions of a system run in kernel space in real-time Linux. Therefore, no memory protection can be offered.... (Note: this disadvantage also exists for all other real-time OSes as well...)
Is this really true? I'm no expert on real time operating systems, but I do know that several claim to have some memory protection, including QNX (highly recommended, btw) and Integrity, which I haven't tried. Perhaps I'm missing something, or is this report over-generalizing? ---
From what I've read, these moons are much older than Saturn's other satellites. Instead of forming from the planet's accretion disk they were yanked into orbit after Saturn was pretty well formed. Pretty interesting- they could be leftovers from the solar system's origins. ---
Information Unlimited has some optical receivers intended for picking up voice modulated laser signals, but you might be able to hack one into a system for data.
I'm always glad to see progress in this field- hopefully the long-term results of this surgery will be successful. There's an interesting article I read a few months ago on the successful cross-species transplant of Schwann cells from a pig to a mouse- check it out here. ---
Good to see that Some posters actually bother to read the article before jumping into the Intel vs AMD fray. To point out another quote in the article-
"Just for example, changing our video drivers from DirectX 7.0/Non P4-optimized to DirectX 8.0/P4-optimized gained us roughly 40% in gaming performance in some situations. We imagine that within a few weeks when developers have had a chance to update their software, overall Pentium 4 performance will be leaps and bounds ahead of where it is now. "
So for God's sake, before going crazy over the fact that the P4 was outperformed by Athlons in a few benchmarks, use some sense. Let's see how programs re-compiled to take advantage of P4 optimizations fare in a head-to-head processor comparison. ---
Unless the AP coverage failed to mention it, is there any wireless connectivity in these devices? Perhaps a radio link to your network-connected computer, or an integrated cordless phone with a base that plugs into an rj11 jack? If not, I can't see this thing taking off...being tethered to the wall by a phone cord isn't my idea of portability. Especially with a $600 price tag. ---
Sega has not officially abandoned the hardware market. It is just shifting its focus to software development. That doesn't mean we'll never see another Sega console. And that doesn't mean Sega is going to develop for Nintendo or any other company's console. IGN has an accurate article on what's going on here.
That having been said, enough of these damn Sega rumor and Playstation 2 hype articles on/. ---
As a publicly traded corporation, aren't they also legally obligated to release this news since it may have an impact on the integrity of their intellectual property? ---
To those applauding the usage of Linux in a show- let's put things in perspective here. It's true that most computers appearing in film and television are Macs or Win PCs. And it Is mildly cool to see an alternative OS in a shot instead. But come on, no "mainstream" audience member gives a damn what operating system is running on a screen that's shown for a split second. People who pay attention to those things and care enough to think about them for more than a tenth of a second are the type that likely already know about Linux.
On a related note, it's unreasonable to expect realistic glimpses of computer screens in any movie or show- not because of big business influence, but practicality instead. Take a movie like The Net. *shudder* Think they're about to cut away to a screenfulls of nMap output and expect the audience to know what just happened? They're showing the screen for a few seconds tops, and it's a plot device. A flashing red "Security Code Broken - Access granted" on a familiar OS backdrop is all you're going to get because that's all that's understandable given the experience level of the audience and the short time frame.
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I'm not sure about damaging the metal on the circuits, but the moisture in your breath can cause more dust to stick to the cartridge contacts. Maybe that's what he meant. ---
Anyone remember the various input devices Nintendo tried to market with the NES? I think ROB was the first- that robot that only worked with one game where you had to stack discs...or something like that. My friend had one and we could never get it to work.
I Did get suckered in to buying a U-Force, which had a clamshell design with motion sensors. The idea seemed cool- controlling Mike Tyson's Punchout by moving your hands, or driving Rad Racer by pretending you're holding a steering wheel. The motion detection was crap though...(and trying to play 'normal' games like Zelda was a riotous exercise in futility)...I fortunately managed to get my parents to return it.
Now the Power Glove may not have been very popular, but I have to give props to Nintendo for putting it out. It was clunky, but you could get it to work with some effort...and it did look cool in its own late 80s geekish way. Check out http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigarch/pgsi/ for a nice little hack that lets you hook one up to your PC.
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Not to kill a very funny joke, but incidentally the review states that the P4 1.7Ghz actually runs cooler than the AMD 1.3, and never has to throttle down its clockspeed from running too hot.
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As we learned from the Simpsons, flying debris can be deadly in a space shuttle: Homer: "Hey guys, look what I smuggled aboard!" [Shows a bag of chips] Buzz Aldrin: "Homer, no!" Race: "They'll clog the instruments!" [Homer opens the bag, chips float about] Buzz: "Careful, they're ruffled!" ...
[after Homer's head smashes into the ant colony]
Buzz: "You fool! Now we may never know if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space!"
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Come on now, it would be trivial for the RIAA's track "search engine" to convert everything to lowercase and strip punctuation. Then the only real variations would be whether the artist's name appears before or after the track name. Sure, there are still more variations but this definitely would eliminate tens of thousands of possibilities.
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Does non-interactive necessarily mean non-stimulating? Sure, GI Joes or their predecessors, lead army men, were static "dolls", but they still inspired children to use their imagination and bring those toys to life. I don't see anything bad about that.
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I've got a Philip's Expanium, which you can get at Amazon and Circuit City, probably a few other places. Runs for $199, which is a bit expensive, but its one of the only mp3 cd players that can reliably play mp3's of Any bitrate (24 through 320kbps)...lasts about 8-10 hrs on two AA batteries, never skips, and never runs into mp3's it can't play. Only thing missing is ID3 tag or filename display.
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I'm sorry, but I really am tired of /. posters crying "vaporware" at every news release that mentions groundbreaking technology. Yes, vaporware is abundant, but this article is about a new fabrication technique and the potential it could have for data storage. They're not giving it a catchy name, or a projected selling date, a ridiculous retail price, or any other marketing buzzwords. They aren't even talking about a product. This is a development in technology from academia, and should be treated as such. Please, save the vaporware accusations for the deserving.
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The article states "The real-time portions of a system run in kernel space in real-time Linux. Therefore, no memory protection can be offered. ... (Note: this disadvantage also exists for all other real-time OSes as well...)
Is this really true? I'm no expert on real time operating systems, but I do know that several claim to have some memory protection, including QNX (highly recommended, btw) and Integrity, which I haven't tried. Perhaps I'm missing something, or is this report over-generalizing?
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From what I've read, these moons are much older than Saturn's other satellites. Instead of forming from the planet's accretion disk they were yanked into orbit after Saturn was pretty well formed. Pretty interesting- they could be leftovers from the solar system's origins.
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I'm always glad to see progress in this field- hopefully the long-term results of this surgery will be successful. There's an interesting article I read a few months ago on the successful cross-species transplant of Schwann cells from a pig to a mouse- check it out here.
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"Just for example, changing our video drivers from DirectX 7.0/Non P4-optimized to DirectX 8.0/P4-optimized gained us roughly 40% in gaming performance in some situations. We imagine that within a few weeks when developers have had a chance to update their software, overall Pentium 4 performance will be leaps and bounds ahead of where it is now. "
So for God's sake, before going crazy over the fact that the P4 was outperformed by Athlons in a few benchmarks, use some sense. Let's see how programs re-compiled to take advantage of P4 optimizations fare in a head-to-head processor comparison.
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Unless the AP coverage failed to mention it, is there any wireless connectivity in these devices? Perhaps a radio link to your network-connected computer, or an integrated cordless phone with a base that plugs into an rj11 jack? If not, I can't see this thing taking off...being tethered to the wall by a phone cord isn't my idea of portability. Especially with a $600 price tag.
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That having been said, enough of these damn Sega rumor and Playstation 2 hype articles on /.
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As a publicly traded corporation, aren't they also legally obligated to release this news since it may have an impact on the integrity of their intellectual property?
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9Gb in a day at 9600bps? How'd you calculate that? At that speed you'll get 103,680 kb/day or approximately 101 megabytes per day.
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To those applauding the usage of Linux in a show- let's put things in perspective here. It's true that most computers appearing in film and television are Macs or Win PCs. And it Is mildly cool to see an alternative OS in a shot instead. But come on, no "mainstream" audience member gives a damn what operating system is running on a screen that's shown for a split second. People who pay attention to those things and care enough to think about them for more than a tenth of a second are the type that likely already know about Linux.
On a related note, it's unreasonable to expect realistic glimpses of computer screens in any movie or show- not because of big business influence, but practicality instead. Take a movie like The Net. *shudder* Think they're about to cut away to a screenfulls of nMap output and expect the audience to know what just happened? They're showing the screen for a few seconds tops, and it's a plot device. A flashing red "Security Code Broken - Access granted" on a familiar OS backdrop is all you're going to get because that's all that's understandable given the experience level of the audience and the short time frame.
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I'm not sure about damaging the metal on the circuits, but the moisture in your breath can cause more dust to stick to the cartridge contacts. Maybe that's what he meant.
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...that kids whizzing by on those Razor Rollerboard Scooters were annoying. Just wait till the Sharper Image gets a hold of these. :)
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I Did get suckered in to buying a U-Force, which had a clamshell design with motion sensors. The idea seemed cool- controlling Mike Tyson's Punchout by moving your hands, or driving Rad Racer by pretending you're holding a steering wheel. The motion detection was crap though...(and trying to play 'normal' games like Zelda was a riotous exercise in futility)...I fortunately managed to get my parents to return it.
Now the Power Glove may not have been very popular, but I have to give props to Nintendo for putting it out. It was clunky, but you could get it to work with some effort...and it did look cool in its own late 80s geekish way. Check out http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigarch/pgsi/ for a nice little hack that lets you hook one up to your PC.
Ah...such fond memories...
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