I'm going to make a totally baseless claim here and guess that those GPUs aren't anywhere near the production stage yet and those console makers are full of shit and showing us graphics either pre-rendered, or running off a very experimental prototype card.
Firstly, heat dissipation - a single GPU spews out enough heat as it is. Given that for some stupid reason GPUs point DOWN and thus the heat rises through the PCB itself, you're looking at a toasty machine.
Unless you want the card to be absolutely enormous like the dual nVidia GPU cards shown previously, the GPUs are going to have to share memory, which brings up all sorts of problems and bottlenecks also found in SMP solutions.
PCIe bandwidth is going to need to increase (ie more lanes) - you need to have all those things talking to the CPU!
I think the small one is the real one, and the large one is for marketing purposes. Hexus could well have been trying to troll the whole slashdot community for troll tuesday, but instead got a melted server.
Yeah, it nearly got Blair kicked out. The minority of people voted him (around 36% IIRC). Something which will directly affect people's lives will cause a lot more outrage. We can also actively obstruct it rather than just protesting.
The LSE study also raised the issue of people who are against ID cards, called "refuseniks". It said: "The costs of handling this group will be substantial".
Looks like it's possible for the general public to do something about this one. Enough noise about it and it'll be too expensive and political suicide. The use of the word 'handling' is quite disturbing though.
Given our government's total incompetence at handling things like this, I'd imagine it will end up costing even more if implemented.
Don't know what trouble you're having there. I've installed the nvidia drivers on several different machines with different distributions. All you have to do is download the.run file, and run it as root. As long as you have the kernel source or headers in/usr/src/linux it usually works fine. You shouldn't need any patches as long as you aren't running 2.6.9 with that nasty kswapd bug.
I'm no marketer, and I can think of a good spin for it - it stops viruses and spyware and makes your computer 'hacker-proof' (hah!). The sad thing is, it probably will help stop malicious software as well, and if it does, people will probably love it. No need for anti-virus/anti-spyware. All they have to do is use it for good purposes to begin with until there's a large enough user base.
This form of DRM looks like it'll be an absolute bastard to break. Mainly because it's implemented in the CPU itself. The problem is that modchipping something like a north bridge will not be an easy task, and AMD CPUs (which will have this too eventually) have the north bridge integrated into the CPU.
Maybe a specialised motherboard could get around it though. There'll be a market for it.
The thing that's most concerning about that is that the problem of doing that sort of thing on a corporate network can be solved with network booting. A home user would have no use for that whatsoever. Why have they put in in? (puts on tin-foil hat)
On Linux/UNIX, you simply construct a custom ICMP packet (similar to a ping packet) using a language like C. I imagine a driver had to be used in Windows due to some issues with doing this with WinSock.
+++ATH0 is the command you send to the modem to make it hang up.
From the article, the guy claims it was quite a bit of trouble to implement tabs for a few different reasons. I imagine that they couldn't get it ready for SP2, and they just made an excuse.
Not trolling here, but haven't they already lost all the people who would actually care about tabs? Anyone who wanted tabs on their web browser would be using Firefox/Opera by now.
It won't be the processor that'll be the problem, it'll be the motherboard. The motherboard will be a really cheap budget thing with everything onboard. Are they going to include a screen too? They must be making quite a nasty loss if they are.
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While dual-GPU is relatively new (not including the Voodoo SLI), the only way sharing the same data between GPUs could be achieved would be by giving them access to the same set of RAM. Unfortunately, while it saves money, I would imagine that given the amount of data that has to be read from the RAM, the performance loss would be a problem.
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Last time I checked, each card had two GPUs, with RAM for each. I don't think they're dual-core - nVidia would have had to have made them specially.
You should be able to push the clip on the pins into the block, pull them out, and simply re-arrange them or attach them to another block. No need to cut the wires.
The GPUs that both consoles use are made by both nVidia and ATI, and you can bet your ass that before or shortly after the consoles have been released, you'll be able to get them in the form of (bloody expensive) PCIe cards. Considering that ATI are now also working on multi-GPU technology, the results from both should be interesting.
I have an MX700 which works perfectly fine with a KVM. Some KVMs are a bit dodgy in general. Try one which claims to support 'hot-swap'. That might fix the problem.
XMMS has a nice plugin to deal with that. Although it's designed for Logitech iTouch keyboards, it's configurable, so it should work with the hotkeys on any keyboard.
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I'm going to make a totally baseless claim here and guess that those GPUs aren't anywhere near the production stage yet and those console makers are full of shit and showing us graphics either pre-rendered, or running off a very experimental prototype card.
There's going to be a few problems with that:
Firstly, heat dissipation - a single GPU spews out enough heat as it is. Given that for some stupid reason GPUs point DOWN and thus the heat rises through the PCB itself, you're looking at a toasty machine.
Unless you want the card to be absolutely enormous like the dual nVidia GPU cards shown previously, the GPUs are going to have to share memory, which brings up all sorts of problems and bottlenecks also found in SMP solutions.
PCIe bandwidth is going to need to increase (ie more lanes) - you need to have all those things talking to the CPU!
Just my 2 cents anyway.
I think the small one is the real one, and the large one is for marketing purposes. Hexus could well have been trying to troll the whole slashdot community for troll tuesday, but instead got a melted server.
This could also be it.
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http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=
If that's a 120mm fan, it's pretty damned large.
Yeah, it nearly got Blair kicked out. The minority of people voted him (around 36% IIRC). Something which will directly affect people's lives will cause a lot more outrage. We can also actively obstruct it rather than just protesting.
Thanks for the link.
The LSE study also raised the issue of people who are against ID cards, called "refuseniks". It said: "The costs of handling this group will be substantial".
Looks like it's possible for the general public to do something about this one. Enough noise about it and it'll be too expensive and political suicide. The use of the word 'handling' is quite disturbing though.
Given our government's total incompetence at handling things like this, I'd imagine it will end up costing even more if implemented.
Don't know what trouble you're having there. I've installed the nvidia drivers on several different machines with different distributions. All you have to do is download the .run file, and run it as root. As long as you have the kernel source or headers in /usr/src/linux it usually works fine. You shouldn't need any patches as long as you aren't running 2.6.9 with that nasty kswapd bug.
Weatherscape application using Nvidia Graphics and drivers.
This could encourage ATI to get off their ass and release some decent drivers for Linux.
I'm no marketer, and I can think of a good spin for it - it stops viruses and spyware and makes your computer 'hacker-proof' (hah!). The sad thing is, it probably will help stop malicious software as well, and if it does, people will probably love it. No need for anti-virus/anti-spyware. All they have to do is use it for good purposes to begin with until there's a large enough user base.
This form of DRM looks like it'll be an absolute bastard to break. Mainly because it's implemented in the CPU itself. The problem is that modchipping something like a north bridge will not be an easy task, and AMD CPUs (which will have this too eventually) have the north bridge integrated into the CPU.
Maybe a specialised motherboard could get around it though. There'll be a market for it.
The thing that's most concerning about that is that the problem of doing that sort of thing on a corporate network can be solved with network booting. A home user would have no use for that whatsoever. Why have they put in in? (puts on tin-foil hat)
Unfortunately, most of the computer industry appears to be behind DRM:
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On Linux/UNIX, you simply construct a custom ICMP packet (similar to a ping packet) using a language like C. I imagine a driver had to be used in Windows due to some issues with doing this with WinSock.
+++ATH0 is the command you send to the modem to make it hang up.
From the article, the guy claims it was quite a bit of trouble to implement tabs for a few different reasons. I imagine that they couldn't get it ready for SP2, and they just made an excuse.
Not trolling here, but haven't they already lost all the people who would actually care about tabs? Anyone who wanted tabs on their web browser would be using Firefox/Opera by now.
I would imagine it's just another cock-up confusing the processor model with its clock speed.
Should have RTFA. Appears like they are doing.
It won't be the processor that'll be the problem, it'll be the motherboard. The motherboard will be a really cheap budget thing with everything onboard. Are they going to include a screen too? They must be making quite a nasty loss if they are.
While dual-GPU is relatively new (not including the Voodoo SLI), the only way sharing the same data between GPUs could be achieved would be by giving them access to the same set of RAM. Unfortunately, while it saves money, I would imagine that given the amount of data that has to be read from the RAM, the performance loss would be a problem.
Last time I checked, each card had two GPUs, with RAM for each. I don't think they're dual-core - nVidia would have had to have made them specially.
You should be able to push the clip on the pins into the block, pull them out, and simply re-arrange them or attach them to another block. No need to cut the wires.
The GPUs that both consoles use are made by both nVidia and ATI, and you can bet your ass that before or shortly after the consoles have been released, you'll be able to get them in the form of (bloody expensive) PCIe cards. Considering that ATI are now also working on multi-GPU technology, the results from both should be interesting.
I have an MX700 which works perfectly fine with a KVM. Some KVMs are a bit dodgy in general. Try one which claims to support 'hot-swap'. That might fix the problem.
XMMS has a nice plugin to deal with that. Although it's designed for Logitech iTouch keyboards, it's configurable, so it should work with the hotkeys on any keyboard.
I assume he means that leaving it in the sun would warm the cord and thus slightly soften it, making it more flexible and less annoying.