Not that I really doubt Transmeta, but a closed system running benchmarks? Who is to say that they weren't running a P4 and not an Astro?
And what do they mean by faster than a 1.8 GHZ mobile Intel chip?
Faster than what? Some weird benchmark devised by some marketing department that no one has access to?
Whithout specs, this whole thing is a wash.
SCSI drives are built to a much higher standard than IDE drives, especially the 10K RPM drives.
Cost is a huge issue, especially when much faster spindle rates are concerned. Increase the rotational inertia and speed and you have to have a pretty fancy bearing system to cope with these loads. This sounds simple, and it is, but it is not cheap.
The greater the rotational inertia a drive has, many aspects like passive cooling, fancy materials have to be considered vs the intended consumer of such a drive.
Typically, SCSI drives are used by corporations that usually have a nice service contract attached to the hardware.
In terms of IDE, which is the end-user and home market of such a device, coupled with the limitations of the IDE interface combined with Microsoft's problematic IO/IDE software, and we realize that going faster does nothing for anyone.
Except for maybe driving up costs for everyone involved and curtailing the MTBF figures.
If anyone will do it, WD will, what with its fluid bearings.
But, we shall see =).
I read several reviews, most notable among them are
here and here.
Although the technology seems compelling when looking forward a few years, its
infancy just doesn't sell me the product, especially when I consider that a dual
Athlon MP 2000 (1.6Ghz) is respectably close to the $700 PIV 3.06GHz with HT,
and costs a LOT less.
3.06GHz PIV + motherboard + 512MB DDR RAM = $1025
2 Athlon MP 2000 + motherboard + 512MB DDR RAM = $695....for 80-90% of the
performance of the HT PIV?
Sorry, but I can get the basics for an SMP system for $5 less than Intel
wants for its new flagship CPU.
Now, if I could get 2 PIV 2.4 GHz CPUS with HT, that might be a different
story...
I'm not into case modifications, but I can appreciate some of the more
inventive work people have done in this area.
I'm not certain that this belongs on Slashdot, per se, but it doesn't really do
any harm to post something that might lead to discussion, and might lead me to
finding out something neat, whether in the story or in the postings.
Just so long as I don't start seeing [S]lashdot, I'll be happy.
The MS Xdoc page Here
Why does XML need to be application specific? Why do I need Office 11 to get this kind of quick and easy work done using XML?
I don't:)
XML is popping up all over the place from Everquest to Mozilla.
Sure, Apple uses PDF in its new GUI, which is a slow, bloated pig of an unusable interface, and PDF files themselves are bloated pigs in terms of file size.
I haven't read the article yet, because I CAN'T.
Apple can switch to XML to sort out it's GUI and not have to rely on odd voodoo PDF to get it on screen.
Do this and I may buy an iMac. And an iPod. and that MAC stuff so my girlfriend can sit a few feet away from me and I get to smell her gentle, sweet perfume while she types away.
Wait, damn! Gonna get on tomorrow.:)
If you are a company representative, then a suit and tie for males and a long skirt (no slit), short heels and pantyhose are mandatory for the women. Hair above the collar for men and nothing wider than your shoulders for women.
Free-wheeling, individualistic types that think freely and look like an animated pile of dirty laundry does nothing for anyone. Anyone that thinks differently either A) owns their own company or, B)wanders around in a daze.
Simple dress and presentation codes exist for reasons that are easily understood by most 5 year-olds.
If you can't understand this, perhaps you are best left in a room where no one can see, smell or talk to you.
I ams Top Level Directorate of.su domains here in the ligoroursly disposed U.S.S.R as yous in West part like to say, it is C.C.R.
Asks us and thinks us we are bad yet unrepentant Political Party in Russia that gathers steams in large bushels.
We are Voice of The Peoples.
To say that we have no longer a voices in top leveled domains is propaganda. We are the largest party of politics in Russia. Powerful and forceful. With clouts. We have!
We be shall returning to the International Arena with forces and large clout given to us by the Land of The Mother.
Cheating in the East is an accepted method of scholastic advancement. Hell, it's an accepted method of superficial scholastic advancement within most circles, provided your parents have the financial wherewithal to fund such personal extravagances.
To think that GRE exams are being salted by massive P2P software is a bit misleading. The abusers of the system have been abusing systems for thousands of years; to think that this is a new phenomenon is foolish. That they would use P2P programs is to be expected, and that they would hide behind lies and grand mistruths is to be anticipated.
Ban them from the universities and kick them out of the country. If they are not in the country, ban then from ever entering.
.....it's was originally called the 'kamikazi dyno', where you trick out the software and the only place you can test it is out on the street.....
You need to hack the control unit in order to get an accurate dyno reading from an M3, since the front tires need to be spinning at the same rate as the rear wheels. If this isn't the case, the spark timing is retarded quite a bit, reducing horsepower (by quite a lot). The hack supplied by BMW also negates this. Remember to do this prior to putting your new M3 on a dyno.
Also, make sure the dyno shop has a cooling tower. Running a stationary M3 at redline without the proper cooling also invokes the dreaded spark timing retarder. It also might invoke the dreaded Abuse clause in your warranty.
I meant to say the transmissions in the cars are electro-hydraulic, not the cars themselves.
The rules:
Only two wheels may be driven and automatic gearboxes are banned. Each individual gearchange must be initiated by the driver. The minimum number of forward gear ratios is 4 and the maximum is 7. All cars must have a reverse gear operable any time during the race when the car's engine is running.
Hints the transmission how, exactly? F1 cars are electro-hydraulic, but that doesn't make them automatic in any way. Right paddle near the steering wheels shifts up, left shifts down.
The transmissions are still very much manually actuated, as FIA rules currently ban the use of auto trannies.
[quote]People who sign up are expected to obey the law, as they have in the past," said National Revenue Minister Elinor Caplan, after unveiling one of the kiosks at Pearson's Terminal 3[/quote]
What about people that have no intention whatsoever of obeying the law? What about the crafty people with the $5 biometric lens that lets them get around such fancy systems?
I'm not a platform evangelist my any means; I use what works best for me.
I want IE style shortcuts in Mozilla. I want my 5 button mouse to do the same things in Mozilla as they do in IE.
Why do I want platform similarity between Mozilla and IE? Why do I want the mouse buttons to work in the same way? For starters, IE has been so much better than any other browser for so long that I've forgotten all the clicks, and I'm not sure that Ctrl+Shift+L is fantastically better than Ctrl+O for the open location menu.
But, something has come along that is mostly better than IE for what I want to do, so I use it most of the time. I just want my key shortcuts to work the same, I want my 4th and 5th mouse buttons to work while browsing, and I want it not to crash hard and take out my OS in the process.
The demo they showed was indeed an FPGA. It has around 20k-30k gates, and was running at around 25MHz or so. The demonstration animated filled polygons and bezier curves, with various effects such as transparency at around 30-50 fps.
Yeah, but the demo unit they showed was the relative size of a tank to a Yugo...they
want to put THIS into a MOBILE device? Mobile devices come with an ISA slot? Ya,
ya, I see how it's all for test and NOT production and all that, but you think
that BitBoys would have shown something smaller for the mobile market than
something you could barely fit into a standard ATX case!.
As you can tell, the card as displayed in the photos has no heatsink...can we surmise then that this GPU is clocked at a very slow rate for compatibilty purposes?
Or perhaps that Transmeta will couple it to its ulta low power, ultra low performance line of CPU's?...or that they may at sometime in history lay challenge to Intel's dominance of the integrated chipset market circa 1997?
That little LCD display being driven by the Bitboys GPU is nice...only if we want to run in 120 x 70 display mode.
Cut the donkey-puck, BitBoys. Put out the hardware on production level silicon. Until then, we can't take your promises like going to tape out in 1999 for real.
Maybe in another 3 years the tape-out silicon will reach production, until then, what then? Synthetic benches run on an imaginary system looping an imaginary benchmark under synthetic conditions?...we will see this when DirectX 10.0 parts hit the market.:)
Slashdot Mirror
It must be running the website, too. It hasn't been /.ed yet.
Not that I really doubt Transmeta, but a closed system running benchmarks? Who is to say that they weren't running a P4 and not an Astro? And what do they mean by faster than a 1.8 GHZ mobile Intel chip? Faster than what? Some weird benchmark devised by some marketing department that no one has access to? Whithout specs, this whole thing is a wash.
SCSI drives are built to a much higher standard than IDE drives, especially the 10K RPM drives. Cost is a huge issue, especially when much faster spindle rates are concerned. Increase the rotational inertia and speed and you have to have a pretty fancy bearing system to cope with these loads. This sounds simple, and it is, but it is not cheap. The greater the rotational inertia a drive has, many aspects like passive cooling, fancy materials have to be considered vs the intended consumer of such a drive. Typically, SCSI drives are used by corporations that usually have a nice service contract attached to the hardware. In terms of IDE, which is the end-user and home market of such a device, coupled with the limitations of the IDE interface combined with Microsoft's problematic IO/IDE software, and we realize that going faster does nothing for anyone. Except for maybe driving up costs for everyone involved and curtailing the MTBF figures. If anyone will do it, WD will, what with its fluid bearings. But, we shall see =).
3.06GHz PIV + motherboard + 512MB DDR RAM = $1025
2 Athlon MP 2000 + motherboard + 512MB DDR RAM = $695....for 80-90% of the performance of the HT PIV?
Sorry, but I can get the basics for an SMP system for $5 less than Intel wants for its new flagship CPU.
Now, if I could get 2 PIV 2.4 GHz CPUS with HT, that might be a different story...
...like this?
Just so long as I don't start seeing [S]lashdot, I'll be happy.
No offense meant to Kyle and [H]ard_OCP. =D
The MS Xdoc page Here Why does XML need to be application specific? Why do I need Office 11 to get this kind of quick and easy work done using XML? I don't :)
XML is popping up all over the place from Everquest to Mozilla.
Sure, Apple uses PDF in its new GUI, which is a slow, bloated pig of an unusable interface, and PDF files themselves are bloated pigs in terms of file size.
I haven't read the article yet, because I CAN'T.
Apple can switch to XML to sort out it's GUI and not have to rely on odd voodoo PDF to get it on screen.
Do this and I may buy an iMac. And an iPod. and that MAC stuff so my girlfriend can sit a few feet away from me and I get to smell her gentle, sweet perfume while she types away.
Wait, damn! Gonna get on tomorrow. :)
Abit currently outsources their motherboard work to ECS.
ECS = PcChips = Complete Garbage.
If you are a company representative, then a suit and tie for males and a long skirt (no slit), short heels and pantyhose are mandatory for the women. Hair above the collar for men and nothing wider than your shoulders for women.
Free-wheeling, individualistic types that think freely and look like an animated pile of dirty laundry does nothing for anyone. Anyone that thinks differently either A) owns their own company or, B)wanders around in a daze.
Simple dress and presentation codes exist for reasons that are easily understood by most 5 year-olds.
If you can't understand this, perhaps you are best left in a room where no one can see, smell or talk to you.
"That push has intensified with the popularity of digital entertainment formats such as MP3 music files and file-sharing sites such as Napster."
Napster has been dead for what, well over a year and a half?
Do I really need a device that is borne from the efforts of a company that lives, breathes and lives the DMCA? And is the main member of the RIAA?
Fuck MP3.
Go Ogg.
Fooin AYE like sbout ime YAH.
Ere goon have all this BW and like ya!
Save for the fact that alles gud is illegal here, save for Dan and his 90 millionth heats sink review.
And them LED lights.
Nut pikin on Aussies, jusere crap weirdo innernet rooles.
My name is Yuri.
.su domains here in the ligoroursly disposed U.S.S.R as yous in West part like to say, it is C.C.R.
.su!
I ams Top Level Directorate of
Asks us and thinks us we are bad yet unrepentant Political Party in Russia that gathers steams in large bushels.
We are Voice of The Peoples.
To say that we have no longer a voices in top leveled domains is propaganda. We are the largest party of politics in Russia. Powerful and forceful. With clouts. We have!
We be shall returning to the International Arena with forces and large clout given to us by the Land of The Mother.
By Stalin! We shall retake Leningrad and
All U R Ship R Belong to Us.
Imagine if we could get one of these to power a Beowulf Cluster!
You got busted for making (or altering) illegal (or otherwise legal) hardware for a closed system.
Next time anyone does this, make the *source* available so we can do it ourselves, and not force us to pay a red cent to make it work.
*sniff sinff* Microsoft busted us for being a monopoly!
Boo Hoo. Post the source, post the how to's before thinking about selling the unit.
Cheating in the East is an accepted method of scholastic advancement. Hell, it's an accepted method of superficial scholastic advancement within most circles, provided your parents have the financial wherewithal to fund such personal extravagances.
To think that GRE exams are being salted by massive P2P software is a bit misleading. The abusers of the system have been abusing systems for thousands of years; to think that this is a new phenomenon is foolish. That they would use P2P programs is to be expected, and that they would hide behind lies and grand mistruths is to be anticipated.
Ban them from the universities and kick them out of the country. If they are not in the country, ban then from ever entering.
.....it's was originally called the 'kamikazi dyno', where you trick out the software and the only place you can test it is out on the street.....
You need to hack the control unit in order to get an accurate dyno reading from an M3, since the front tires need to be spinning at the same rate as the rear wheels. If this isn't the case, the spark timing is retarded quite a bit, reducing horsepower (by quite a lot). The hack supplied by BMW also negates this. Remember to do this prior to putting your new M3 on a dyno.
Also, make sure the dyno shop has a cooling tower. Running a stationary M3 at redline without the proper cooling also invokes the dreaded spark timing retarder. It also might invoke the dreaded Abuse clause in your warranty.
I meant to say the transmissions in the cars are electro-hydraulic, not the cars themselves.
The rules:
Only two wheels may be driven and automatic gearboxes are banned.
Each individual gearchange must be initiated by the driver.
The minimum number of forward gear ratios is 4 and the maximum is 7.
All cars must have a reverse gear operable any time during the race when the car's engine is running.
Hints the transmission how, exactly? F1 cars are electro-hydraulic, but that doesn't make them automatic in any way. Right paddle near the steering wheels shifts up, left shifts down.
The transmissions are still very much manually actuated, as FIA rules currently ban the use of auto trannies.
[quote]People who sign up are expected to obey the law, as they have in the past," said National Revenue Minister Elinor Caplan, after unveiling one of the kiosks at Pearson's Terminal 3[/quote] What about people that have no intention whatsoever of obeying the law? What about the crafty people with the $5 biometric lens that lets them get around such fancy systems?
I'm not a platform evangelist my any means; I use what works best for me.
:)
I want IE style shortcuts in Mozilla. I want my 5 button mouse to do the same things in Mozilla as they do in IE.
Why do I want platform similarity between Mozilla and IE? Why do I want the mouse buttons to work in the same way? For starters, IE has been so much better than any other browser for so long that I've forgotten all the clicks, and I'm not sure that Ctrl+Shift+L is fantastically better than Ctrl+O for the open location menu.
But, something has come along that is mostly better than IE for what I want to do, so I use it most of the time. I just want my key shortcuts to work the same, I want my 4th and 5th mouse buttons to work while browsing, and I want it not to crash hard and take out my OS in the process.
Get the talkback version and use it, please
6K shower curtains, 5 million beachfront properties....19 million in "forgiven" loans...
A bit of that, and your company is short 135 million.
The demo they showed was indeed an FPGA. It has around 20k-30k gates, and was running at around 25MHz or so. The demonstration animated filled polygons and bezier curves, with various effects such as transparency at around 30-50 fps.
Yeah, but the demo unit they showed was the relative size of a tank to a Yugo...they want to put THIS into a MOBILE device? Mobile devices come with an ISA slot? Ya, ya, I see how it's all for test and NOT production and all that, but you think that BitBoys would have shown something smaller for the mobile market than something you could barely fit into a standard ATX case!.
As you can tell, the card as displayed in the photos has no heatsink...can we surmise then that this GPU is clocked at a very slow rate for compatibilty purposes?
...or that they may at sometime in history lay challenge to Intel's dominance of the integrated chipset market circa 1997?
...we will see this when DirectX 10.0 parts hit the market. :)
Or perhaps that Transmeta will couple it to its ulta low power, ultra low performance line of CPU's?
That little LCD display being driven by the Bitboys GPU is nice...only if we want to run in 120 x 70 display mode.
Cut the donkey-puck, BitBoys. Put out the hardware on production level silicon. Until then, we can't take your promises like going to tape out in 1999 for real.
Maybe in another 3 years the tape-out silicon will reach production, until then, what then? Synthetic benches run on an imaginary system looping an imaginary benchmark under synthetic conditions?
They could reach profitability in an instant if they hired Arthur Andersen...
Of course, the potential to expolit this financially is great. Consider the frou frou surrounding the Millennium Bug!
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