IFAICR, nobody has been able to do work on programmable hardware shader support for DRI (because of IP issues on some GL_ARB_Vertex* extensions). Is the new shader language similarily problematic?
I seem to remember John C. Dvorak's editorials explaining how OS/2 Warp was a quality product, and that he preferred it to '95. Of course, he was pretty much alone in this within PC Mag (and probably ZDNET as a whole).
The attitude of the former Government cyberterrorism guy is totally inappropriate. Making this fellow destroy his research would be non-productive at best, and possibly counter-productive. Heres why.
Axiom: What can be done once can be done many times, all things remaining constant. Destroying this research will not prevent someone else from reproducing the work.
Instead, the government should buy this database and hire the guy to work with the FBI CT unit (after he gets his PH.D). He would be an enormous asset for helping to anticipate acts of terror.
Remember that the only weapon potential victims have against terrorism is vigilance, because the only weapons terrorists have are patience and daring. Bureaucrats sometimes forget this in their search for quick solutions.
What you see in this company right now is some resuscitation effort. We are coming back. The heart is beating very nicely. We're out of hospital and back in the marketplace. The company is totally revived around this concept that we were supposed to be the big dog.
--Darl McBride
"This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra....Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there."
I have a Sound Blaster ct2940 (16 Value OEM). It uses a Philips TDA1387 DAC and Philips TDA1517 stereo amplifier. Can anyone suggest compatible replacements for these parts?
I've seen most Windows versions install. I've used most Windows versions. My question is, why does Windows have a tendency to rattle disks, alot.
For example, when W2k installs, there is a point (after it has booted) where the floppy activates, and stays that way for a few seconds. What is it doing except making noise?
When you asked W95, W98 and newer versions to do an auto search for new hardware to install, the primary hard disk made the most awful sound. It sounded like HDTach running or something. What was the OS doing to the hard disk?
I can perhaps understand using Windows for office-type work. If you're doing something like artillery laying or otherwise not sitting at a desk, an embedded solution is probably more appropriate. You can simplify the interaction with the software, because the tasks are so specialized, and the user probably doesn't see the OS much at all.
So, what are these machines for (without giving away any secrets)?
Does AtheOS's previous developer still use it on his home machine?
As the news says, his dev box broke down and hasn't been replaced (yet) 'cuz he bought an airplane. I think the site server is run at his employer's or something.
/*
* linux/kernel/sched.c
*
* Kernel scheduler and related syscalls
*
* Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds
*
* 1996-12-23 Modified by Dave Grothe to fix bugs in semaphores and
* make semaphores SMP safe
* 1998-11-19 Implemented schedule_timeout() and related stuff
* by Andrea Arcangeli
* 1998-12-28 Implemented better SMP scheduling by Ingo Molnar
*/
Rumblings are that the largest piece of SCO's claim is within the scheduler. I'm sure these people can refute most or all claims put forward by SCO.
I believe we can all agree that gif is an inferior format, even compared to tiff. LZW, however, is an extremely good compression algorithm. I would imagine the zlib maintainers could find many uses for it, especially considering the way they can optimize generally inferior algorithms like Huffman, RLE and LZ77. I think, in any case, that zlib was designed for this sort of growth.
a) Is this indicative of a high level strategy by NVidia's management, who's marketing department is pressuring them to have higher 3DMark2003 scores than ATI?
Of course it is. Fudging the drivers for a synthetic benchmark are a time honored way to make crappy hardware look good.
Technology humane? - not really
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It's only been a few short years since I graduated from high school and hung up my shit-soaked boots. I remember our crew of catchers as being a tough bunch of bastards who knew what we were about. So, from this perspective, I know what the article is trying to say.
New technology will be introduced for the express purpose of harvesting a barn of chickens faster while damaging the (poultry) product to a minimal degree. The reality is that consideration of a chicken's feelings is at the bottom of the list of grower's priorities. If humane treatment were a concern, the chickens would probably spend their lives laying eggs in a coup and die of old age rather than ending up on the packing floor, and we wouldn't eat chicken any more than we'd eat other people.
For illustration, in large egg barns, old hens are now being harvested by large vacuum cleaners (called macerators). These machines suck the hens out of their cramped cages through sets of whirling blades, which chop them up into little pieces. The result is packed in transport trucks and shipped to a central plant, where the chicken bits are deboned mechanically and then manufactured into such diverse products as chicken nuggets, chicken patties, chicken noodle soup, and pet food. This technological 'innovation' is clearly more brutal than a properly run, labor intensive operation. However, in this case, the chickens are simply too old for the grower to be troubled with the expense and time of using gentle to harvest them.
I think I should be crystal clear on this issue; killing animals for food is not humane. We choose to relegate animals (and plants, too) to a lesser status when we kill them for food - usually in a horrible fashion. I don't claim it's right or wrong to kill animals for food, just not humane.
-G
Note to PETA: if you guys knew anything, you'd know that chickens calm down in dim light. Conversely, they get aggrevated and crowd when the lights are on. Operating in dim light, chickens remain astonishingly calm when caught.
Another note to PETA: a chicken's life is almost perpetual fear anyway. It's a healthy reaction to being used for food.
A large part of any [large] cluster infrastructure budget goes into cooling. With MIPS chips, or PowerPCs, there is little or no need for extra air conditioning where your plant is installed.
As long as the new space shuttles have some modern computers on board (as opposed to the dated ones on the current shuttles) and the re-entry tiles are properly glued on, then the new shuttles will be just spiffy.
Glue, or a patch kit.
Seriously, I remember reading in an old edition of National Geo. about a kit of goop that shuttle astronauts could fill in any missing tiles with. It was designed to counteract just the scenario that downed Columbia.
How hard would it have been to do a slow roll before leaving the ISS, have those guys take some shots of the belly of Columbia, then have some of the guys at Houston do a visual check of the thermal shiedling. If a patch kit were standard equipment, it could then be utilized if any problem spots are observed.
As motown learned from Inaki Lopez, sometimes when you sqeeze out a penny, you lose a buck.
PCABX IS NOT intended to be a general replacement for properly-designed listening tests involving audio equipment that is already in your listening room. There are many situations where PCABX is beneficial, even when the equipment is directly available to you for listening.
-- From the PCABX website
The moral of the story: be critical of your methodology. Don't say "it's the standard" and leave it at that.
One of the features of the Athlon which has been toted for a long time is that AMD had licensed the very fast EV6 bus from Digital (I guess Alpha Processor, now). The result was that companies like Microway were building Alpha systems utilizing the UP1000 chipset which was really AMD Irongate based.
My question is, how much did this cost, and how much would licensing the socket 370 bus and packaging from Intel cost (assuming they were willing)?
Failing that, how difficult would it be to move to a socket 370+i (where i is enough extra pins and other foobar for the lawyers to leave VIA alone) bus when VIA tools up for their next core?
I am assuming of course that it's not just the S370 packaging that's forbidden, but the whole bus, and hence VIA will need a replacement for EPIA.
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OpenGL Extension Registry:
Look here for the document on GL_ARB_vertex_program and here for the document on GL_ARB_fragment_program. Specifically, look under IP Status.
Hardware shaders definitely have legal entanglements.
IFAICR, nobody has been able to do work on programmable hardware shader support for DRI (because of IP issues on some GL_ARB_Vertex* extensions). Is the new shader language similarily problematic?
I seem to remember John C. Dvorak's editorials explaining how OS/2 Warp was a quality product, and that he preferred it to '95. Of course, he was pretty much alone in this within PC Mag (and probably ZDNET as a whole).
The attitude of the former Government cyberterrorism guy is totally inappropriate. Making this fellow destroy his research would be non-productive at best, and possibly counter-productive. Heres why.
Axiom: What can be done once can be done many times, all things remaining constant. Destroying this research will not prevent someone else from reproducing the work.
Instead, the government should buy this database and hire the guy to work with the FBI CT unit (after he gets his PH.D). He would be an enormous asset for helping to anticipate acts of terror.
Remember that the only weapon potential victims have against terrorism is vigilance, because the only weapons terrorists have are patience and daring. Bureaucrats sometimes forget this in their search for quick solutions.
This is what they needed to do.
--Darl McBride
--Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf (Comical Ali)
I have a Sound Blaster ct2940 (16 Value OEM). It uses a Philips TDA1387 DAC and Philips TDA1517 stereo amplifier. Can anyone suggest compatible replacements for these parts?
I've seen most Windows versions install. I've used most Windows versions. My question is, why does Windows have a tendency to rattle disks, alot.
For example, when W2k installs, there is a point (after it has booted) where the floppy activates, and stays that way for a few seconds. What is it doing except making noise?
When you asked W95, W98 and newer versions to do an auto search for new hardware to install, the primary hard disk made the most awful sound. It sounded like HDTach running or something. What was the OS doing to the hard disk?
Any answers or further anecdotes appreciated.
Hello!! $500M = 100 tanks, or a few Apaches, or lots of UAVs, etc. Which do you think they would rather have?
I can perhaps understand using Windows for office-type work. If you're doing something like artillery laying or otherwise not sitting at a desk, an embedded solution is probably more appropriate. You can simplify the interaction with the software, because the tasks are so specialized, and the user probably doesn't see the OS much at all.
So, what are these machines for (without giving away any secrets)?
As the news says, his dev box broke down and hasn't been replaced (yet) 'cuz he bought an airplane. I think the site server is run at his employer's or something.
As I remember, Bonnie and Clyde were sort of notorious for using Fords.
Rumblings are that the largest piece of SCO's claim is within the scheduler. I'm sure these people can refute most or all claims put forward by SCO.
Great. Now you made me want to go play Rampage.
The payload is superior, but lzw is still better than lz77. What people want is the compression algorithm, not the format spec.
I believe we can all agree that gif is an inferior format, even compared to tiff. LZW, however, is an extremely good compression algorithm. I would imagine the zlib maintainers could find many uses for it, especially considering the way they can optimize generally inferior algorithms like Huffman, RLE and LZ77. I think, in any case, that zlib was designed for this sort of growth.
The Aberdeen group's history of shady dealings have left them with no credibility.
Is SCO trying to make their case look bad?
a) Is this indicative of a high level strategy by NVidia's management, who's marketing department is pressuring them to have higher 3DMark2003 scores than ATI?
Of course it is. Fudging the drivers for a synthetic benchmark are a time honored way to make crappy hardware look good.
It's only been a few short years since I graduated from high school and hung up my shit-soaked boots. I remember our crew of catchers as being a tough bunch of bastards who knew what we were about. So, from this perspective, I know what the article is trying to say.
New technology will be introduced for the express purpose of harvesting a barn of chickens faster while damaging the (poultry) product to a minimal degree. The reality is that consideration of a chicken's feelings is at the bottom of the list of grower's priorities. If humane treatment were a concern, the chickens would probably spend their lives laying eggs in a coup and die of old age rather than ending up on the packing floor, and we wouldn't eat chicken any more than we'd eat other people.
For illustration, in large egg barns, old hens are now being harvested by large vacuum cleaners (called macerators). These machines suck the hens out of their cramped cages through sets of whirling blades, which chop them up into little pieces. The result is packed in transport trucks and shipped to a central plant, where the chicken bits are deboned mechanically and then manufactured into such diverse products as chicken nuggets, chicken patties, chicken noodle soup, and pet food. This technological 'innovation' is clearly more brutal than a properly run, labor intensive operation. However, in this case, the chickens are simply too old for the grower to be troubled with the expense and time of using gentle to harvest them.
I think I should be crystal clear on this issue; killing animals for food is not humane. We choose to relegate animals (and plants, too) to a lesser status when we kill them for food - usually in a horrible fashion. I don't claim it's right or wrong to kill animals for food, just not humane.
-G
Note to PETA: if you guys knew anything, you'd know that chickens calm down in dim light. Conversely, they get aggrevated and crowd when the lights are on. Operating in dim light, chickens remain astonishingly calm when caught.
Another note to PETA: a chicken's life is almost perpetual fear anyway. It's a healthy reaction to being used for food.
War and Peace epic, and therefore long, but uses a cool sardonic writing style. Also has a neat theory about the history.
Some of his short works are even better.
Best part: it's all on Gutenberg.
A large part of any [large] cluster infrastructure budget goes into cooling. With MIPS chips, or PowerPCs, there is little or no need for extra air conditioning where your plant is installed.
Glue, or a patch kit.
Seriously, I remember reading in an old edition of National Geo. about a kit of goop that shuttle astronauts could fill in any missing tiles with. It was designed to counteract just the scenario that downed Columbia.
How hard would it have been to do a slow roll before leaving the ISS, have those guys take some shots of the belly of Columbia, then have some of the guys at Houston do a visual check of the thermal shiedling. If a patch kit were standard equipment, it could then be utilized if any problem spots are observed.
As motown learned from Inaki Lopez, sometimes when you sqeeze out a penny, you lose a buck.
-- From the PCABX website
The moral of the story: be critical of your methodology. Don't say "it's the standard" and leave it at that.
developers?
Still hilarious after all these years.
One of the features of the Athlon which has been toted for a long time is that AMD had licensed the very fast EV6 bus from Digital (I guess Alpha Processor, now). The result was that companies like Microway were building Alpha systems utilizing the UP1000 chipset which was really AMD Irongate based.
My question is, how much did this cost, and how much would licensing the socket 370 bus and packaging from Intel cost (assuming they were willing)?
Failing that, how difficult would it be to move to a socket 370+i (where i is enough extra pins and other foobar for the lawyers to leave VIA alone) bus when VIA tools up for their next core?
I am assuming of course that it's not just the S370 packaging that's forbidden, but the whole bus, and hence VIA will need a replacement for EPIA.