AMD is working with AMI and Award on having the BIOS be able to recognize the clock that the chip is supposed to be running at as well as the current clock speed. So when you boot up you'd see:
Duron 700 running at 1003
or something along those lines. Would be a big plus, as it would allow them to let us overclockers have our way with our chips, and prevent oems from being able to sell chips at clocks they arent supposed to be running at.
For some more price comparison for you penny pinchers looking to pick up a 1G processor, a quick lookup of http://www.pricewatch.com will tell you that you can get a:
AMD Athlon(T-bird) for $ 475
or a
Intel PIII for $ 778
Hrm...I know what I'd pick if I had the cash lying around!
Yeah, I've had tons of problems with Athlons and the chipsets. I can't afford one!!! Anyyone, feel free to send one on over and I'll be glad to tell you if I find any incompadibilities.
This company, and the other one (unless it was the same company, the one from the previous post on the same story) have pretty much useless data. They have sequenced the DNA of one person, which is useless, because we don't know what is essential, what can take a base change without causing phenotypic changes, etc. The companies we know of that are sequencing are doing multiple people's genomes so we can determine actual usefull info.
Here is the only one that I know of, from Pine. It plays audio cds and mp3s. It looks pretty cool. I'm not sure if it's actually available now, as I haven't see it anywhere, but I know it's been around, at least in vaporware/hype form, for a while. Looks pretty cool. Someone post a followup if they know if/where these are available!
This was also mentioned by him (Greg Zeschuk, the Pres of Bioware) in an article about the X-Box at Thresh's Firing Squad:
"Greg: We would absolutely consider developing for X-Box. And Playstation 2 and Dolphin! We're already doing PC and Dreamcast for MDK2, as well as PC, Mac, Linux and BeOs for Neverwinter Nights.
One of BioWare's goals is to develop for all platforms internally. We want all of our games to appear on every platform imaginable."
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If this is the same company that I'm thinking of from a couple years back, they developed this shotgun approach, and were going to finish the fruit fly genome as a test run (it was supposed to be finished by 2000). If they are still following their initial plan, they will now start up on the human genome. They had originally said that after they finished the fruit fly, they'd start the human genome from scratch and still finish it before everyone else. I think they said they'd have it done by 2003. But this is what they were saying probably 2 years ago, so they may have changed everything by now.
It is a very interesting concept. In theory, it would be very useful, as mentioned, in cystic fibrosis, etc. But I would worry about the effects of having a device within a tissue that is carrying a current. I would imaging that in an actual tissue, the voltage would stimulate nearby nerves...which wouldn't take much...which could result in all sorts of arythmias, ventilation problems, problems in regulation of blood flow to organs, and lots of others. I don't see how they could work around this unless the chip itself could somehow be placed outside the body tissues, as a pacemaker is.
Possibly a good idea would be to put all software/kernel/etc releases/updates/etc under a common topic so that those who don't think they belong here on slashdot don't have to see them (ie can turn them off in their user prefs.
No kidding! The guidelines for what is patentable state that whatever it is must be "new, nonobvious and useful" (source). Ask any of the thousands of businesses/websites that have been offering affiliate programs for years, or tons of people who have been participating in affiliate programs (myself included) and you will find that they are not new. This method having been around for a while, I'd also say that it is no longer nonobvious. Back when affiliate programs first starting poping up they were nonobvious. Now, as common as they are, they are a pretty obvious method of advertisement.
It looks like the patent judges (or whoever does the deciding for these things) are about as clueless as the rest of'em.
Would they be able to? I don't think they have the original performers perform the song. They usually have the host or some else sing the nominated songs, don't they?
Anyone have any idea when AMD's Sledgehammer is going to start being released (prototypes n' such for this type of initial development), and/or if there is any planned linux port?
They would have the same DNA, but I think what these people are not realizing is that the clone would still be very different from you. A portion of human development takes place before the individuals genes even begin to be transcribed, and maternal factors determine a lot of very early development. Additionally, environmental effects play an extremely significant role in development. The clone will have completely different experiences throughout its life that will result in an almost completely different person then you would expect.
In undergrad a few years ago at University of Rochester Ian Wilmot (the Dolly guy) spoke and talked about some of the procedural stuff, which wasn't all that inovative. But he talked a lot about social impact and potential applications. Some of the examples he used: if a family has a child and he is killed in a car accident, cloning him from stored cells is not going to give you back the same child, or anything close to it. However, for a couple who are unable to concieve a child, this may be an applicable in vitro fertilization technique.
Don't forget AMD's Sledgehammer. I have no idea of the timeline on it. I know there's an AMD timeline for the next year or so floating around somewhere.
Entropy in the closed system of the organism may have increased (or going from the precursors of the organism to the whole organism evolutionarily I suppose). But it is the entropy of the whole system that is important. All the mechanisms and events that occur that increase the entropy of a molecule for example, and have occurred evolutionarily, occur at the expense of other molecules. Noncovalent associations disrupt the organization of surrounding water molecules. Biosynthetic processes occur at the expense of ATP, which is in turn produced at the expense of glucose, etc, etc. And the complexity that exists in each of us now is maintained by actively breaking down and resynthesizing structural and functional molecules, again at the expense of energy. So theoretically, I don't see any problem with evolution vs thermodynamics.
The fact this was printed in a book instead of a scientific journal should give you one clue.
When a cell can't divide, it doesn't just sit there for a while and after some time...oh look it's fixed and it starts dividing again. There are very complex and elegent repair mechanisms that come in to play and actively attempt to repair any mutations in the DNA. If it can't be fixed, then the cell dies.
Also, given the few billion years before life arose and the prebiotic conditions on earth it isn't all that unlikely as this astronomer (WTF is an astronomer talking about evolutionary biology for?) says it is. Random events occur between interacting particles and molecules at fairly significant rates, and give a few billion years, the evolution of life isn't all that unlikely.
Yes! I can't wait for Halo to come out. I think it will be about time for me to upgrade from my riva 128zx when it comes out though. Also halflife and system shock 2 would be some great games to see on Linux!
This would only be a concern if they were introducing these promotors and repressors into the genes of germline cells, which, at least in this article, they are not talking about this being an application. They're only using this for altering specific tissues or in the development of artificial tissues. If they were to introduce these into germline cells such that it altered the total gene pool, there would be significant potential for diseases taking advantage of these, depending on the specificity of the sequences they use for whatever they are using as their trigger for the particular "switch".
In addition to what you've said in terms of the CMS code optimization vs optimiztion gained from code written specifically for the hardware, you would lose many of the other features of the Crusoe. For example, you lose the ability to add new instruction sets as they are developed and you lose ability to adjust the cpu frequency according to the demand as the LongRun power management is able to do (unless there's some way to put this ability into hardware that I'm missing which is, of course, quite possible). In otherwards, you'd lose the ability to dynamically change the instruction set and lose the battery life, which were pretty much two of the main reasons the processor was developed.
I was waiting to hear about net connectivity also. The only thing that was relavent to connectivity in any of the presentations that I saw was when the marketing guy showed a slide of a wireless connection to a hub or desktop PC in your home that had a physical net connection. He explained how this would be ideal for carrying a small internet device, such as the webpad or one of those smaller devices, around the house. I don't see how this would translate into longer range wireless net connectivity, nor did I hear them explain any other way they plan to achieve this.
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AMD is working with AMI and Award on having the BIOS be able to recognize the clock that the chip is supposed to be running at as well as the current clock speed. So when you boot up you'd see:
Duron 700 running at 1003
or something along those lines. Would be a big plus, as it would allow them to let us overclockers have our way with our chips, and prevent oems from being able to sell chips at clocks they arent supposed to be running at.
For some more price comparison for you penny pinchers looking to pick up a 1G processor, a quick lookup of http://www.pricewatch.com will tell you that you can get a:
AMD Athlon(T-bird) for $ 475
or a
Intel PIII for $ 778
Hrm...I know what I'd pick if I had the cash lying around!
Yeah, I've had tons of problems with Athlons and the chipsets. I can't afford one!!! Anyyone, feel free to send one on over and I'll be glad to tell you if I find any incompadibilities.
This company, and the other one (unless it was the same company, the one from the previous post on the same story) have pretty much useless data. They have sequenced the DNA of one person, which is useless, because we don't know what is essential, what can take a base change without causing phenotypic changes, etc. The companies we know of that are sequencing are doing multiple people's genomes so we can determine actual usefull info.
Here is the only one that I know of, from Pine. It plays audio cds and mp3s. It looks pretty cool. I'm not sure if it's actually available now, as I haven't see it anywhere, but I know it's been around, at least in vaporware/hype form, for a while. Looks pretty cool. Someone post a followup if they know if/where these are available!
Mike
Mike
Disposable income? HA! That would be nice...
If this is the same company that I'm thinking of from a couple years back, they developed this shotgun approach, and were going to finish the fruit fly genome as a test run (it was supposed to be finished by 2000). If they are still following their initial plan, they will now start up on the human genome. They had originally said that after they finished the fruit fly, they'd start the human genome from scratch and still finish it before everyone else. I think they said they'd have it done by 2003. But this is what they were saying probably 2 years ago, so they may have changed everything by now.
Mike
It is a very interesting concept. In theory, it would be very useful, as mentioned, in cystic fibrosis, etc. But I would worry about the effects of having a device within a tissue that is carrying a current. I would imaging that in an actual tissue, the voltage would stimulate nearby nerves...which wouldn't take much...which could result in all sorts of arythmias, ventilation problems, problems in regulation of blood flow to organs, and lots of others. I don't see how they could work around this unless the chip itself could somehow be placed outside the body tissues, as a pacemaker is.
Mike
Possibly a good idea would be to put all software/kernel/etc releases/updates/etc under a common topic so that those who don't think they belong here on slashdot don't have to see them (ie can turn them off in their user prefs.
Just a thought.
Mike
No kidding! The guidelines for what is patentable state that whatever it is must be "new, nonobvious and useful" (source). Ask any of the thousands of businesses/websites that have been offering affiliate programs for years, or tons of people who have been participating in affiliate programs (myself included) and you will find that they are not new. This method having been around for a while, I'd also say that it is no longer nonobvious. Back when affiliate programs first starting poping up they were nonobvious. Now, as common as they are, they are a pretty obvious method of advertisement.
It looks like the patent judges (or whoever does the deciding for these things) are about as clueless as the rest of'em.
Mike
Would they be able to? I don't think they have the original performers perform the song. They usually have the host or some else sing the nominated songs, don't they?
Mike
Anyone have any idea when AMD's Sledgehammer is going to start being released (prototypes n' such for this type of initial development), and/or if there is any planned linux port?
Mike
Another Slashdotter had this link in their sig on some other discussion a few weeks ago:
http://www.fufme.com/
Mike
They would have the same DNA, but I think what these people are not realizing is that the clone would still be very different from you. A portion of human development takes place before the individuals genes even begin to be transcribed, and maternal factors determine a lot of very early development. Additionally, environmental effects play an extremely significant role in development. The clone will have completely different experiences throughout its life that will result in an almost completely different person then you would expect.
In undergrad a few years ago at University of Rochester Ian Wilmot (the Dolly guy) spoke and talked about some of the procedural stuff, which wasn't all that inovative. But he talked a lot about social impact and potential applications. Some of the examples he used: if a family has a child and he is killed in a car accident, cloning him from stored cells is not going to give you back the same child, or anything close to it. However, for a couple who are unable to concieve a child, this may be an applicable in vitro fertilization technique.
Mike
As well, half the time, it won't work.
I don't think this is part of the internationalization.
Mike
Not really, because as the matter that makes up the sun is utilized to create energy it is continually becoming more chaotic as well.
Mike
Don't forget AMD's Sledgehammer. I have no idea of the timeline on it. I know there's an AMD timeline for the next year or so floating around somewhere.
Mike
Entropy in the closed system of the organism may have increased (or going from the precursors of the organism to the whole organism evolutionarily I suppose). But it is the entropy of the whole system that is important. All the mechanisms and events that occur that increase the entropy of a molecule for example, and have occurred evolutionarily, occur at the expense of other molecules. Noncovalent associations disrupt the organization of surrounding water molecules. Biosynthetic processes occur at the expense of ATP, which is in turn produced at the expense of glucose, etc, etc. And the complexity that exists in each of us now is maintained by actively breaking down and resynthesizing structural and functional molecules, again at the expense of energy. So theoretically, I don't see any problem with evolution vs thermodynamics.
Mike
The fact this was printed in a book instead of a scientific journal should give you one clue.
When a cell can't divide, it doesn't just sit there for a while and after some time...oh look it's fixed and it starts dividing again. There are very complex and elegent repair mechanisms that come in to play and actively attempt to repair any mutations in the DNA. If it can't be fixed, then the cell dies.
Also, given the few billion years before life arose and the prebiotic conditions on earth it isn't all that unlikely as this astronomer (WTF is an astronomer talking about evolutionary biology for?) says it is. Random events occur between interacting particles and molecules at fairly significant rates, and give a few billion years, the evolution of life isn't all that unlikely.
Mike
Yes! I can't wait for Halo to come out. I think it will be about time for me to upgrade from my riva 128zx when it comes out though. Also halflife and system shock 2 would be some great games to see on Linux!
Mike
This would only be a concern if they were introducing these promotors and repressors into the genes of germline cells, which, at least in this article, they are not talking about this being an application. They're only using this for altering specific tissues or in the development of artificial tissues.
If they were to introduce these into germline cells such that it altered the total gene pool, there would be significant potential for diseases taking advantage of these, depending on the specificity of the sequences they use for whatever they are using as their trigger for the particular "switch".
Mike
Later Linus added that "It looks alot better this week than it did last week," and that it "needs some work..."
I may be mistaken, but wasn't Linus talking about the virtual keyboard and not Mobile Linux when he made this statment?
Mike
In addition to what you've said in terms of the CMS code optimization vs optimiztion gained from code written specifically for the hardware, you would lose many of the other features of the Crusoe. For example, you lose the ability to add new instruction sets as they are developed and you lose ability to adjust the cpu frequency according to the demand as the LongRun power management is able to do (unless there's some way to put this ability into hardware that I'm missing which is, of course, quite possible). In otherwards, you'd lose the ability to dynamically change the instruction set and lose the battery life, which were pretty much two of the main reasons the processor was developed.
Mike
I was waiting to hear about net connectivity also. The only thing that was relavent to connectivity in any of the presentations that I saw was when the marketing guy showed a slide of a wireless connection to a hub or desktop PC in your home that had a physical net connection. He explained how this would be ideal for carrying a small internet device, such as the webpad or one of those smaller devices, around the house. I don't see how this would translate into longer range wireless net connectivity, nor did I hear them explain any other way they plan to achieve this.
Mike