Anyway, my server lost a disk the other day, the one that contained most of my system stuff (because in reality my server is junk box) so I'm like hey, I'll try freeBSD on it. Downloaded the boot disk today, not even knowing what version it was and it just happened to be 3.1, from the web site. About 12nn today. Good luck for me I guess, that I didn't start a few hours earlier.
For those of who don't know what an FPGA is, they are chips that can be dynamically reconfigured to do a different purpose many times a second. A nice example that I once saw was a video deocding chip. It was a simple chip that reprogrammed itself several times for each frame. First to get the frame, second to decode the frame, third to display the frame, fourth to decode the sound, fifth to play the sound. And most of the stuff was done entirely in hardware. Becuase the fact that most of the decoding was hardware, it was extremely fast for the clock rate.
This could be something along those lines. However, I must admit that I'm a little bit skeptical.
no other OpenGL/GLX drivers have been tested successfully with BFRIS at this time, if you have something that you think might work, download and try the demo, and let us know what you find out
This is not to say that TNT will never work, merely that because it does not work with MESA it won't work right now. However, I imagine if you use XI's GL XServers with hardware support they might work.
The standard and source is already out there. Sure music companies will release MP4s and their associated bastardizations, but anyone who has a CD can make an mp3. Anyone basically can figure out how to play them and there is even encoder source out there (if you're luck like me and have 8Hz).
Just because someone proposes something doesn't mean it will work. Ala IBM's last great thing, MicroChannel.
www.bestbuy.com has "Pi" on DVD for $12.49 plus $2.49 for shipping ($14.98 total). Which is cheaper than amazon or any other place that I found it. Unfortunately, although I ordered my copy the first day it was available, I have yet to get it...yargh!
Its all Romero...his ego got too big for iD so he moved to someplace where he could let it reign...as history shows, big egos usually come crashing down.
From my experience in college (thus far, I'm not done quite yet) college has been exactly what I've made of it. Granted, I'm not a typical geek, I'm a little more ambitious when it comes to outside stuff than that. Anyway, here are my observations on people who have dropped out of school to enter the work force (from the ones that I know):
Although quite strong technically they lack a well rounded view in other aspects.
They tend to be a little less open to different methodologies.
From my experience the ambitions may be a bit lower.
Usually they are doing simpler stuff.
The last issue is the one that I imagine most people may have a little qualm with. But here is how I see it. In college, a good computer engineering degree will teach you about software and hardware along with math and natural sciences and some lib arts here and there. One of the things that is taught that is fairly hard to learn on your own is hardware design, simply because its not something even the bright 15 year olds can understand that well. Not to mention, it has an initial cost, while most non grads pick up skills with no cost.
Also a lot of people (or from my view at least) drop out with the ambition of become game programmers. Hate to break it to most of them, but to design a good 3d engine you need a good deal of physics and vector calculus, most of the stuff you can't really get in high school.
Anyway, for me, I could have easily decided not to go to college and go right into the real world and start working for $30-$40k a year, but I chose not to. It was the right decision. Most of the people who enter the work force don't see its the college experience that is so great, not nescessarily college itself. I've chosen to make a lot of it and as a consequence I've gotten opportunities for projects that would never be offered to me during work, and the variety is awesome.
Maybe if you are one of those people who is thinking that college isn't for you, you should change what college you are looking at.
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Anyway, my server lost a disk the other day, the one that contained most of my system stuff (because in reality my server is junk box) so I'm like hey, I'll try freeBSD on it. Downloaded the boot disk today, not even knowing what version it was and it just happened to be 3.1, from the web site. About 12nn today. Good luck for me I guess, that I didn't start a few hours earlier.
they also have y2k compliant vacuum cleaners and fridges....
For those of who don't know what an FPGA is, they are chips that can be dynamically reconfigured to do a different purpose many times a second. A nice example that I once saw was a video deocding chip. It was a simple chip that reprogrammed itself several times for each frame. First to get the frame, second to decode the frame, third to display the frame, fourth to decode the sound, fifth to play the sound. And most of the stuff was done entirely in hardware. Becuase the fact that most of the decoding was hardware, it was extremely fast for the clock rate.
This could be something along those lines. However, I must admit that I'm a little bit skeptical.
To Quote The BFRIS Web Site:
no other OpenGL/GLX drivers have been tested successfully with BFRIS at this time, if you have
something that you think might work, download and try the demo, and let us know what you find out
This is not to say that TNT will never work, merely that because it does not work with MESA it won't work right now. However, I imagine if you use XI's GL XServers with hardware support they might work.
I get the same problem pretty much. After it can't resolve the symbol I get a nice seg fault.
Thanks a lot. Saves me a lot of effort of having to hack a fix.
The standard and source is already out there. Sure music companies will release MP4s and their associated bastardizations, but anyone who has a CD can make an mp3. Anyone basically can figure out how to play them and there is even encoder source out there (if you're luck like me and have 8Hz).
Just because someone proposes something doesn't mean it will work. Ala IBM's last great thing, MicroChannel.
Just Wondering if anyone else noticed that Sean Gullette (writer and actor) also did the website for "Pi". Wow...talented feller.
www.bestbuy.com has "Pi" on DVD for $12.49 plus $2.49 for shipping ($14.98 total). Which is cheaper than amazon or any other place that I found it. Unfortunately, although I ordered my copy the first day it was available, I have yet to get it...yargh!
Its all Romero...his ego got too big for iD so he moved to someplace where he could let it reign...as history shows, big egos usually come crashing down.
what about other sites such as www.yahpp.com, www.yahii.com, yahoo.org, yahll.com, yahomo.com etc etc etc...
bastards
From my experience in college (thus far, I'm not done quite yet) college has been exactly what I've made of it. Granted, I'm not a typical geek, I'm a little more ambitious when it comes to outside stuff than that. Anyway, here are my observations on people who have dropped out of school to enter the work force (from the ones that I know):
The last issue is the one that I imagine most people may have a little qualm with. But here is how I see it. In college, a good computer engineering degree will teach you about software and hardware along with math and natural sciences and some lib arts here and there. One of the things that is taught that is fairly hard to learn on your own is hardware design, simply because its not something even the bright 15 year olds can understand that well. Not to mention, it has an initial cost, while most non grads pick up skills with no cost.
Also a lot of people (or from my view at least) drop out with the ambition of become game programmers. Hate to break it to most of them, but to design a good 3d engine you need a good deal of physics and vector calculus, most of the stuff you can't really get in high school.
Anyway, for me, I could have easily decided not to go to college and go right into the real world and start working for $30-$40k a year, but I chose not to. It was the right decision. Most of the people who enter the work force don't see its the college experience that is so great, not nescessarily college itself. I've chosen to make a lot of it and as a consequence I've gotten opportunities for projects that would never be offered to me during work, and the variety is awesome.
Maybe if you are one of those people who is thinking that college isn't for you, you should change what college you are looking at.