How was this guy supporting himself? It seems that whoever was enabling him to just sit in his room playing games 24/7 is really responsible. If he had been forced to get a job(or live in the group home) he probably would have gotten over it. Maybe this guy just had gobs of money sitting around to live on, but it doesn't seem like it.
I guess he didn't have the option to become an EverCrack whore to pay for his adiction. Someone needs to step up and become an EverCrack pimp so these people have a place to go. Hell, you know they don't have any STDs yet, they're all virgins.
Error, Windows Media doesn't trust your sound card, please purchase a Microsoft sanctioned sound card.
And what about sound cards with SPDIF inputs and outputs. Hook the out to the in and there you go, a straight D-to-D conversion. The only way around that would to totally disallow you to play your music via SPDIF.
My point was that for $15/month until I die, I would want to have access to anything I might want to listen to. I don't own any Beatles albums and I only have a couple MP3s from them. However, I'd want to be able to listen to anything that struck my fancy at any time for the price and that definately includes some Beatles.
Oddly, if you switched to a Mac your WMA songs would still play. Microsoft makes a Window Media Player for Macintosh, but you would be much better off just converting any WMAs to MP3s before switching.
having all the game houses making all the games for your console.
Microsoft seems to realize this, their strategy seems simple; BUY ALL THE GAME HOUSES!
So far this doesn't seem to have worked to well for them with the exception of Bungie, although I personally think Halo stinks. Rareware hasn't released a decent game for the Xbox yet, and Microsoft had to shut down/sell their entire Sports division now that EA and Take-Two have shut them out of Football and Baseball. Most of the games I've enjoyed on the Xbox have been put out by Ubisoft, which is still owned by the Guillemot Family and releases most of their games for all consoles(Prince of Persia, Beyond Good and Evil).
so it might not be as good as an equally clocked Power5 based processor
Man, you do realize the Power5 is F#$%ing FAST. The "PowerPC Processing Element" looks like it won't have much in common with the Power5 at all. I doubt you will get 1/100th the speed of the current Power5s for generic PowerPC programs on the Cell.
I don't have a windows machine, but don't software sound cards that just dump the song as a wave still work(thus taking it a straight D-to-D conversion)? It hurts the quality a little(to re-encode it) but who wants their music in a WMA format anyway?
Hmm, kind funny, legally downloading music so you can steal it later? he he.
I think it would be a pretty darn good deal IF they had pretty much every song I ever wanted. Until they get most of the music that has been popular for the last 50 years this won't appeal to many people.
I did a search on their page for "Beatles" and it said:
Yes, we have multiple results for Beatles on Napster.
They are:
The Beatles, The Beatles On Panpipes, Los Beatles, Los Beatles Cuarteto De Liverpool
So then I did a search for "The Beatles" and it says:
We are still working on getting music by The Beatles.
That's going to be a deal breaker there for a LOT of people, besides the fact that they basically lied to me on my first search.
It looks like the Cell will be remarkaly crappy for general purpose calculations (regular integer math, etc), but does that matter? Anything that can be vectorized and/or parallized will run really well on the Cell.
My school's 2000Mhz machine running XP feel slower to me than my old 200Mhz machine running 98. IF they write/pick the OS/software for the Cell appliances correctly I could see it making some headway as a desktop replacement. If most monitors/TVs are shipping with a good office suite and web browser then how many people are going to spring for a regular computer? I doubt it will happen but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
DLPs just reflect the image, you still need a light source, optics, and a screen to project it on. If you want a color image you also need to cycle the light(RGB).
Getting all that into a laptop will be very hard, and I would think it would probably be easy to mess up. These laptops need to be very resiliant, I think they are probably just going to have to spring for some LCD panels and work that extra cost in somewhere, maybe by getting rid of the battery. LCD panels are supposed to start falling in price soon.
Has anyone seen a laptop with a rear projection screen before?
yep "latency" is the word I was searching for, but you were the only one only evidently talking about frequency.
You said in both your posts that the memory wouldn't be any faster, which to me implies throughtput. Acutally you said "Putting in PC3000 or faster won't make the memory speed be any faster" which to me deffinately implies throughput. Lower latency RAM can throw more bits down the same clocked bus then RAM with higher latency, to me that makes it faster. Ram that is underclocked can be run with a lower latency. On my old iMac(100Mhz bus) going from CAS3 to CAS2 RAM gave it about a 5% speed bump for RAM access.
The original poster was under the impression that the Mac mini used ECC or Buffered RAM, in which cases latency makes a much bigger difference in the actual throughput of the RAM. He also said that using higher rated RAM will give you a more stable system. It's more stable because you are underclocking it. Underclocking RAM allows for cooler operation and ability to set a lower latency(timing).
That's not totally true, you can generally run underclocked RAM at a higher access time(the time the computer waits for the RAM to set down to a state). I had a very similar thing happen to me, although it was the other way. I bought a 333 module for a 266 mobo and then upgraded the mobo later. The 266mobo automatically used more shorter timing for my underclocked modules.
not that timing makes much of a speed different, but it is a speed increase non the less
I did something very similar, but I used mechassault instead of 007. I have been running Linux on it for almost a year now, but a month ago I decided to go further.
I used 2 peices of wire(no solder) to flash my BIOS, It's great! I also swapped out the little 8gig HD for a 120gig. I wrote a little thing about it here
This Mac is probably a perfect OSX/Linux Box since it has an Radeon 9200(rv280), which has 3D support under Linux/PPC, although it's not necessarily easy to configure. So hopefully every piece of hardware on this Mac can be used under Linux! MOOF!
I'm pretty stoked about this, the Radeon 9200 is the newest card with decent 3D open source drivers, cool!
One thing I can't find any info on is whether it is fanless? I would think they would tote fanless design, but from the internal pics it could only have a small fan if it does. I HATE small fans!
With carrier current broadcasting you are basically just using your electrical wiring as a large antenna. For it to be legal you just have to make sure it doesn't radiate ant more than 200 feet from the wire. It's basically the same as what is legal under Part 15 of the FCC rules, but you also have to make sure you comply with some other government stuff since you are using power lines.
I've been on campuses where this was used and the sound quality was pretty good.
If you just want a radio station in your home it would seem to make more sense to use a Carrier Current transmitter. What this guy is doing is pretty damn illegal and if you do what he did you can be looking at tens of thousands of dollars in fines!
From what I can tell anyone can setup a Carrier Current station(check for yourself), you can find some pretty cheap kits.
This guy doesn't seem to be all there, he says he has a HAM licence, but is stupidly violating FCC laws. He also says the thing has a BNC type connector but the picture looks like a type RG6 connector.
I haven' t actually tried Route 66's Route 2004 yet but it looks nice and I've heard very good things about it. If you are looking for GPS road navigation software for OSX I'd give it a shot, it's only $40.
If you are looking for maritime navigation only then there are lots of options out there.
WinCE still runs on PowerPC and is also based off the NT kernel. I'd imagine it will be the basis of the Xbox kernel since WinCE has stuff like DirectX and.Net already available and working.
Well, from the FAQ for "Why are only US contestants elligible?" :
Regretfully, because of time constraints for obtaining legal clearances internationally, we are able to launch this first effort as a U.S.-contestant-only event. In future, we will plan for a worldwide event.
So hopefully next time everyone can get in on this, but for now I'm glad I'm competing against fewer people, bwaa ha ha ha!
Nuclear rockets on cars? probably not, but, as many people here have pointed out, nuclear powered cars are probably not too far off. Tritium is pretty DARN safe(it won't penetrate human skin) and hopefully it(or something like it) will someday be produced in enough quantity so we can have batteries powered by it. Imagine a car or laptop that would run for years on a "relatively" little amount of this crud. I don't doubt that developing a nuclear engine for space travel would have a seriously postive effect on getting radioactive batteries produced.
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How was this guy supporting himself? It seems that whoever was enabling him to just sit in his room playing games 24/7 is really responsible. If he had been forced to get a job(or live in the group home) he probably would have gotten over it. Maybe this guy just had gobs of money sitting around to live on, but it doesn't seem like it.
I guess he didn't have the option to become an EverCrack whore to pay for his adiction. Someone needs to step up and become an EverCrack pimp so these people have a place to go. Hell, you know they don't have any STDs yet, they're all virgins.
Oops yep, I forgot the MLB deal didn't exclude first-party game houses. I'm not a big sports game guy.
My point was that for $15/month until I die, I would want to have access to anything I might want to listen to. I don't own any Beatles albums and I only have a couple MP3s from them. However, I'd want to be able to listen to anything that struck my fancy at any time for the price and that definately includes some Beatles.
Oddly, if you switched to a Mac your WMA songs would still play. Microsoft makes a Window Media Player for Macintosh, but you would be much better off just converting any WMAs to MP3s before switching.
having all the game houses making all the games for your console.
Microsoft seems to realize this, their strategy seems simple; BUY ALL THE GAME HOUSES!
So far this doesn't seem to have worked to well for them with the exception of Bungie, although I personally think Halo stinks. Rareware hasn't released a decent game for the Xbox yet, and Microsoft had to shut down/sell their entire Sports division now that EA and Take-Two have shut them out of Football and Baseball. Most of the games I've enjoyed on the Xbox have been put out by Ubisoft, which is still owned by the Guillemot Family and releases most of their games for all consoles(Prince of Persia, Beyond Good and Evil).
so it might not be as good as an equally clocked Power5 based processor
Man, you do realize the Power5 is F#$%ing FAST. The "PowerPC Processing Element" looks like it won't have much in common with the Power5 at all. I doubt you will get 1/100th the speed of the current Power5s for generic PowerPC programs on the Cell.
I don't have a windows machine, but don't software sound cards that just dump the song as a wave still work(thus taking it a straight D-to-D conversion)? It hurts the quality a little(to re-encode it) but who wants their music in a WMA format anyway?
Hmm, kind funny, legally downloading music so you can steal it later? he he.
I did a search on their page for "Beatles" and it said: So then I did a search for "The Beatles" and it says: That's going to be a deal breaker there for a LOT of people, besides the fact that they basically lied to me on my first search.
It looks like the Cell will be remarkaly crappy for general purpose calculations (regular integer math, etc), but does that matter? Anything that can be vectorized and/or parallized will run really well on the Cell.
My school's 2000Mhz machine running XP feel slower to me than my old 200Mhz machine running 98. IF they write/pick the OS/software for the Cell appliances correctly I could see it making some headway as a desktop replacement. If most monitors/TVs are shipping with a good office suite and web browser then how many people are going to spring for a regular computer? I doubt it will happen but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
DLPs just reflect the image, you still need a light source, optics, and a screen to project it on. If you want a color image you also need to cycle the light(RGB).
Getting all that into a laptop will be very hard, and I would think it would probably be easy to mess up. These laptops need to be very resiliant, I think they are probably just going to have to spring for some LCD panels and work that extra cost in somewhere, maybe by getting rid of the battery. LCD panels are supposed to start falling in price soon.
Has anyone seen a laptop with a rear projection screen before?
I've never heard of a screen like this.
It's bad news for Google, who do you think actually clicks on ads? I sure don't
actually you don't even need a modchip, a game with a glitch in it(007/Mechassault) works well to.
I put Evox and a larger HD in mine without a soldering or a mod-chip. Here is my write up on it.
yep "latency" is the word I was searching for, but you were the only one only evidently talking about frequency.
You said in both your posts that the memory wouldn't be any faster, which to me implies throughtput. Acutally you said "Putting in PC3000 or faster won't make the memory speed be any faster" which to me deffinately implies throughput. Lower latency RAM can throw more bits down the same clocked bus then RAM with higher latency, to me that makes it faster. Ram that is underclocked can be run with a lower latency. On my old iMac(100Mhz bus) going from CAS3 to CAS2 RAM gave it about a 5% speed bump for RAM access.
The original poster was under the impression that the Mac mini used ECC or Buffered RAM, in which cases latency makes a much bigger difference in the actual throughput of the RAM. He also said that using higher rated RAM will give you a more stable system. It's more stable because you are underclocking it. Underclocking RAM allows for cooler operation and ability to set a lower latency(timing).
That's not totally true, you can generally run underclocked RAM at a higher access time(the time the computer waits for the RAM to set down to a state). I had a very similar thing happen to me, although it was the other way. I bought a 333 module for a 266 mobo and then upgraded the mobo later. The 266mobo automatically used more shorter timing for my underclocked modules.
not that timing makes much of a speed different, but it is a speed increase non the less
I did something very similar, but I used mechassault instead of 007. I have been running Linux on it for almost a year now, but a month ago I decided to go further.
I used 2 peices of wire(no solder) to flash my BIOS, It's great! I also swapped out the little 8gig HD for a 120gig. I wrote a little thing about it here
This Mac is probably a perfect OSX/Linux Box since it has an Radeon 9200(rv280), which has 3D support under Linux/PPC, although it's not necessarily easy to configure. So hopefully every piece of hardware on this Mac can be used under Linux! MOOF!
I'm pretty stoked about this, the Radeon 9200 is the newest card with decent 3D open source drivers, cool!
One thing I can't find any info on is whether it is fanless? I would think they would tote fanless design, but from the internal pics it could only have a small fan if it does. I HATE small fans!
The signal will be stopped at the utility transformer; so I imagine it would only be your apartment, but it may be your whole building.
With carrier current broadcasting you are basically just using your electrical wiring as a large antenna. For it to be legal you just have to make sure it doesn't radiate ant more than 200 feet from the wire. It's basically the same as what is legal under Part 15 of the FCC rules, but you also have to make sure you comply with some other government stuff since you are using power lines.
I've been on campuses where this was used and the sound quality was pretty good.
IANAH (I am not a HAM)
If you just want a radio station in your home it would seem to make more sense to use a Carrier Current transmitter. What this guy is doing is pretty damn illegal and if you do what he did you can be looking at tens of thousands of dollars in fines!
From what I can tell anyone can setup a Carrier Current station(check for yourself), you can find some pretty cheap kits.
This guy doesn't seem to be all there, he says he has a HAM licence, but is stupidly violating FCC laws. He also says the thing has a BNC type connector but the picture looks like a type RG6 connector.
I haven' t actually tried Route 66's Route 2004 yet but it looks nice and I've heard very good things about it. If you are looking for GPS road navigation software for OSX I'd give it a shot, it's only $40.
If you are looking for maritime navigation only then there are lots of options out there.
WinCE still runs on PowerPC and is also based off the NT kernel. I'd imagine it will be the basis of the Xbox kernel since WinCE has stuff like DirectX and .Net already available and working.
Does anyone have a link to something saying this? There seem to be a lot of rumors saying this, although they all seem very sketchy.
Nuclear rockets on cars? probably not, but, as many people here have pointed out, nuclear powered cars are probably not too far off. Tritium is pretty DARN safe(it won't penetrate human skin) and hopefully it(or something like it) will someday be produced in enough quantity so we can have batteries powered by it. Imagine a car or laptop that would run for years on a "relatively" little amount of this crud. I don't doubt that developing a nuclear engine for space travel would have a seriously postive effect on getting radioactive batteries produced.
Anyhoo, NASA has produced a lot more than new rockets, how about catalytic converters that work when cold and cost 25% less.
Here is another great blurb on Tritium from the guy that made the Wooden Periodic Table Table.