No way,that its an actual photo. At siggraph this year, there was similar technology that simply rotated a computer screen very fast. This way, pixels are swept along a circular path, that enables you to do something that resembles 3D projection. It was OK, but not too convincing.
I have a picturebook with transmeta cpu. The only thing that really uses power is the display. Replace that with oled, and your laptop will keep running all day.
I applaud Intel for the callback. I remember that they replaced my Pentium processor when it had the F00F bug in it.
This was handled very well, even though I am in Europe, a new processor was delivered via courier, and I had to return the old one at the arrival of the replacement, so I had no large downtime.
They did the right thing then, although at first they claimed that only science users should get a replacement, and private owners wouldnt notice the bug. After a storm of complaints they did the right thing, and now they do the right thing again.
I am confused, the Brits lost their Mars lander, both US landers are still operating, I believe. The US really should go metric, but their space faring performs pretty well, doesn't it?
Clusters are for the class of "embarrissingly parallel" algorithms. For instance: ray tracing, where each pixel can be computed independently from all other pixels.
Once the communication between nodes increases, a cluster loses scalability.
As my CS professor used to say: "If you need a child, you need a woman + 9 months. If you have 9 women, you cannot have your child in 1 month." Clearly, child-birth cannot be parallelized.
For a certain class of computational problems, a cluster will not cut it. However, a big shared memory machine does not have to be a CRAY, it can be a linux shared memory machine, as the Altix product range from SGI.
That article describes bogus technology that cannot work. It is very simple: video data that has been recorded with a single camera can *never* suffice as the source for a 3D movie. There is simply no depth info in traditional film.
If you want 3D movies, you need two camera's, (real ones or virtual ones when rendering digital content).
I care. I would like to mod ESA as insightful, because we want to document Martian life before we contaminate. We don't have to abandon Martian settlement for microbes, we just have to postpone until after documentation, else the evidence will be lost forever. --
Look, it is very simple. A Pentium IV Xeon with or without 64 bit extentions has the A20 hack. The Itanium does not have the A20 hack. x86 is not the best architecture, it is the most widely used. If backwards compatibility remains the norm, we will never get rid of x86's inefficiencies, nor get rid of its A20 folly.
If I understand the article correctly, BSD is even more monolithic than linux, and stuff like libc and ls are part of the BSD base itself. This sounds like no modularity at all.
If this is so, I will say: thanks but no thanks, I'll stick to my Debian GNU/Linux, and keep my eye out for a good microkernel OS.
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>I don't know if that's an actual photo.
No way,that its an actual photo.
At siggraph this year, there was similar technology that simply rotated a computer screen very fast. This way, pixels are swept along a circular path, that enables you to do something that resembles 3D projection. It was OK, but not too convincing.
Seized disks contained a lot of european content.
My guess is that this is related to a death
treat to a Dutch politician named Wilders.
The so called international stalinists called
for his death with 6 bullets. The story, in
Dutch, is here.
I think that providers should hand over IP logs
concerning death threats.
I have a picturebook with transmeta cpu.
The only thing that really uses power is the
display. Replace that with oled, and your laptop
will keep running all day.
I called Carl, but he wouldn't pick up the phone...
I take it you called Carl 10 yrs ago?
It has al been done before... in 1995!
It was called
keystone back then.
And the brain-dead morons of the jury
did award those useless monitors... with gold.
How inapropriate.
About those samsung monitors...
Aren't those the models that are compatible
with windows only?
Samsung has some models that require you to
run a windows app to change the monitor settings!
This means: useless on Macs, Unix, etc, etc.
I sure hope that they did NOT reward those
worthless pieces of shit monitors.
Bram
Huh...
This card has no DVI, meaning that you have
to do a totaly useless digital->analog->digital
conversion when hooking up to a flat panel.
I applaud Intel for the callback.
I remember that they replaced my Pentium processor
when it had the F00F bug in it.
This was handled very well, even though I am in
Europe, a new processor was delivered via courier,
and I had to return the old one at the arrival of
the replacement, so I had no large downtime.
They did the right thing then, although at first
they claimed that only science users should get a
replacement, and private owners wouldnt notice
the bug. After a storm of complaints they did the
right thing, and now they do the right thing again.
Bram
I think that it should read:
In a bright room, the black pixels in the image are darker.
I am confused, the Brits lost their Mars
lander, both US landers are still operating,
I believe. The US really should go metric,
but their space faring performs pretty well,
doesn't it?
Can your PC give you blue screens? CHECK
Does your PC need new drivers every week? CHECK?
Can your PC be infected with spyware? CHECK
Can your PC be used as SPAM generator? CHECK
Can an xbox "boot" in less than a minute? CHECK
If the xbox2 indeed turns out to be like this,
I will skip it, and opt for Sony's cell based
console instead.
Combo-devices are often a bad idea. A combo
PC/console would feature a sub-quality PC
and a sub-quality console.
Same goes for VHS/DVD combo's, TV/VCR combo's
etc etc.
Bram
You can use it not only for games, but also
industrial use, as there are:
OpenInventor
OpenGL|Performer
Which let you do a lot more than mere gaming.
Paul Heckbert and John Hartman managed to
do raytracing in a 300 line Postscript
program. Now *that* is impressive.
Stack-based languages like PS can be fun.
Bram
Exactly *what* class of computations can a linux cluster not handle?
Read this.
Clusters are for the class of "embarrissingly parallel" algorithms. For instance: ray tracing, where each pixel can be computed independently from all other pixels.
Once the communication between nodes increases, a cluster loses scalability.
As my CS professor used to say: "If you need a child, you need a woman + 9 months. If you have 9 women, you cannot have your child in 1 month." Clearly, child-birth cannot be parallelized.
Bram
For a certain class of computational problems,
a cluster will not cut it. However, a big
shared memory machine does not have to be
a CRAY, it can be a linux shared memory
machine, as the Altix product range
from SGI.
Now, SVG would make a lot of sense on a
vector display. However, where could you
get a modern vector display nowadays?
They used to sell arcade machines (battlezone)
and game consoles (vectrix) with these
displays.
That article describes bogus technology that cannot work. It is very simple: video data that has been recorded with a single camera can *never* suffice as the source for a 3D movie. There is simply no depth info in traditional film.
If you want 3D movies, you need two camera's, (real ones or virtual ones when rendering digital content).
I care.
I would like to mod ESA as insightful, because we want to document Martian life before we contaminate. We don't have to abandon Martian settlement for microbes, we just have to postpone until after documentation, else the evidence will be lost forever.
--
Look, it is very simple.
A Pentium IV Xeon with or without 64 bit extentions has the A20 hack.
The Itanium does not have the A20 hack.
x86 is not the best architecture, it is the most widely used. If backwards compatibility remains the norm, we will never get rid of x86's inefficiencies, nor get rid of its A20 folly.
Argh!
This is very bad news for a computing purist.
We get to live with the ugliest hack ever, for
yet another 20 years.
Please burn all CPU designs that contain the
A20 gate.
>The most significant contribution the US has made to automobile engineering is the cup holder.
The cupholder, and ofcourse the fabulous Chevy Camaro V8 from the seventies.
If I understand the article correctly, BSD is even more monolithic than linux, and stuff like libc and ls are part of the BSD base itself. This sounds like no modularity at all.
If this is so, I will say: thanks but no thanks, I'll stick to my Debian GNU/Linux, and keep my eye out for a good microkernel OS.
Sorry, look here.