I got myself a Vaio gr314mp nearly a year ago. It comes with a 1200MhZ p3 and the 16meg version of the mobility radeon 7500 and runs a lot of games fine. Multiplayer Quake 3 and Medal of Honour in 1024x768 run at a perfectly playable 30-odd fps (with some smoke effects and alpha-blending off... the card OpenGL drivers need careful tweaking to get good performance.)
My main reason for going laptop was I am on the road a lot, so a desktop isn't feasible for me. I have to say, I'm very chuffed with the results.
I love being able to lie in bed and play computer games. I spent about 2 months playing neverwinter nights on the train into work, and that made the time fly. I've even once or twice played mohaa over wireless while cooking dinner. This shit is great.
But... I don't ever expect to be playing doom 3 on this baby. The big thing is always the graphics card (lower processor speed and ram tend to be acceptable a lot longer), and I don't think I'll be wanting another laptop for games once this one loses its edge, unless I know I can plug in an external graphics card. A year of gaming for about $800 of depreciation isn't quite good enough.
Can anyone tell me why external pci-cards haven't caught on yet? Bus bandwidth wouldn't seem to be an issue if the architecture was right... As soon as this becomes the norm, or I can swap in a new card when I want to, I will be happy to play on a laptop and pay slightly over the odds for improving game performance. But as it is, the computer I have now will soon be utterly useless in the face of new games.
The mobile gaming idea is superb, and the reality of it is great. Throw longevity in the mix and I'll never go back.
That uses all CPU resources of a cluster, and leap 10 years into the future?
Minimum Hardware Requirements: 8 speed CD-ROM Direct3D 8 or later graphics accelerator card 50 2.4GHz PCs (100 2.4Ghz PCs recommended)
Actually though, it's a good idea for the server to d othis rather than the client. You don't want to be sending pre-rendered graphics over the network, but you ought to be able to take advantage of the large CPU power available for good AI and physics modelling.
Sharp runs computer on piece of glass http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/22/1 0345614 95445.html
Japan's leading liquid crystal display maker Sharp Corp said yesterday it had made an "epoch-making" step toward making ultra-flat "sheet computers" after it succeeded in running a computer on a tiny piece of glass.
The prototype it unveiled was a functioning tiny circuit board - from a Sharp central processing unit (CPU) originally made in 1977 - imprinted on a piece of glass some 15 millimetres square and one millimetre thick.
Running a PC on a piece of glass http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/178311 .htm
Japan's leading liquid crystal display maker Sharp Corp. said on Tuesday it had made an "epoch-making" step toward making ultra-flat "sheet computers" after it succeeded in running a computer on a tiny piece of glass.
The prototype it unveiled was a functioning tiny circuit board - from a Sharp central processing unit (CPU) originally made in 1977 - imprinted on a piece of glass some 15 millimeters (0.6 inches) square and one millimeter thick.
But if the 2nd circuit takes somewhere between 2 and 5 picoseconds, depending on the operation being executed, then half the time you're more efficient, the other half the same. Full-chip synchronized clock-ticks bring the average operation execution time down to the speed of the slowest, every time.
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Yes, thank you Mr Turing. The fact that it can be done doesn't mean it'll make sense to anyone but the computer, and it definitely doesn't mean it should be done:)
There's a lot more to it than that. Recursive type definition and lazy evaluation are the two big-ticket items that spring to mind. I guess to people who know, my description sounds more like prolog than fp, but i still think it's a better way of describing to someone who's never seen a functional langauge before.
- one situation in which the language was specifically written for the task at hand. I give you the fact that you get a productivity enhancement if your language is tailored to your problem (probably regardless of whether it's functional or not).
- one situation which doesn't mention the speed to code at all (the microcode one)
- 2 different 'prototype' experiments.
In case you missed it first time around, The trouble is, that functional languages, while they may be more powerful, are much harder to write well in, generally taking you far longer to get to the finished state you want. Prototype != working code. Case made.
Oh yeah. I wonder what the hell a c program converted into SQL looks like...
As for converting into Lisp, I guess it must be possible to convert either way at the end of the day because they all come down to machine code... but i would imagine that the code produced by converting c to lisp is pretty far from the way normal lisp looks, or the way the designers intended it to be used:)
Which is why I'm not surprised to see LISP is actually missing from the source or target set of the page wetcat linked to. And SQL is missing too... If you think about it for microsecond the idea of converting a normal language to or from SQL doesn't even begin to make sense...
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Testimony of a Sony Vaio user.
I got myself a Vaio gr314mp nearly a year ago. It comes with a 1200MhZ p3 and the 16meg version of the mobility radeon 7500 and runs a lot of games fine. Multiplayer Quake 3 and Medal of Honour in 1024x768 run at a perfectly playable 30-odd fps (with some smoke effects and alpha-blending off... the card OpenGL drivers need careful tweaking to get good performance.)
My main reason for going laptop was I am on the road a lot, so a desktop isn't feasible for me. I have to say, I'm very chuffed with the results.
I love being able to lie in bed and play computer games. I spent about 2 months playing neverwinter nights on the train into work, and that made the time fly. I've even once or twice played mohaa over wireless while cooking dinner. This shit is great.
But... I don't ever expect to be playing doom 3 on this baby. The big thing is always the graphics card (lower processor speed and ram tend to be acceptable a lot longer), and I don't think I'll be wanting another laptop for games once this one loses its edge, unless I know I can plug in an external graphics card. A year of gaming for about $800 of depreciation isn't quite good enough.
Can anyone tell me why external pci-cards haven't caught on yet? Bus bandwidth wouldn't seem to be an issue if the architecture was right...
As soon as this becomes the norm, or I can swap in a new card when I want to, I will be happy to play on a laptop and pay slightly over the odds for improving game performance. But as it is, the computer I have now will soon be utterly useless in the face of new games.
The mobile gaming idea is superb, and the reality of it is great. Throw longevity in the mix and I'll never go back.
damn. good point.
Japan checks open source
Japan calls microsoft in
Microsoft gets raped.
The fraction is 12 5ths.
'-1 Wanker. Too much Simpsons. It was funny now it aint.'
On an offtopic note, how about people get to enter their own + or - reason?
+1 just.
-1 wrong.
-1 quiet, the adults are talking
+1 damn, you're famous, people need to hear you
Yes, I have had better luck. I'm still much more intelligent than a monkey, thanks.
I'm not really less hairy though..
If you insist on sending her cherry blossoms, tender young buds and 'deflowers' ('de flowers, mon, for me modda, ye get me mon?'), then yes.
That uses all CPU resources of a cluster, and leap 10 years into the future?
Minimum Hardware Requirements:
8 speed CD-ROM
Direct3D 8 or later graphics accelerator card
50 2.4GHz PCs (100 2.4Ghz PCs recommended)
Actually though, it's a good idea for the server to d othis rather than the client. You don't want to be sending pre-rendered graphics over the network, but you ought to be able to take advantage of the large CPU power available for good AI and physics modelling.
This is an excellent idea. The amount of information that disappears down a black hole due to copmanies keeping quiet must be gigantic.
A good idea from the FBI..? Next thing you know, the CIA will start acting intelligently and the government will start governing...
Sounds like the easier proof to the 2-dimensional manifold (in 3d space) rather than the 3d manifold in 4d sapce to me.
Sharp runs computer on piece of glass1 0345614 95445.html
1 .htm
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/22/
Japan's leading liquid crystal display maker Sharp Corp said yesterday it had made an "epoch-making" step toward making ultra-flat "sheet computers" after it succeeded in running a computer on a tiny piece of glass.
The prototype it unveiled was a functioning tiny circuit board - from a Sharp central processing unit (CPU) originally made in 1977 - imprinted on a piece of glass some 15 millimetres square and one millimetre thick.
Running a PC on a piece of glass
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/17831
Japan's leading liquid crystal display maker Sharp Corp. said on Tuesday it had made an "epoch-making" step toward making ultra-flat "sheet computers" after it succeeded in running a computer on a tiny piece of glass.
The prototype it unveiled was a functioning tiny circuit board - from a Sharp central processing unit (CPU) originally made in 1977 - imprinted on a piece of glass some 15 millimeters (0.6 inches) square and one millimeter thick.
And we complain about slashdot repeats...
The attack came in and removed some entries from bind database (we use oracle to store our bind data)..
Unbreakable.
But if the 2nd circuit takes somewhere between 2 and 5 picoseconds, depending on the operation being executed, then half the time you're more efficient, the other half the same.
Full-chip synchronized clock-ticks bring the average operation execution time down to the speed of the slowest, every time.
I always liked:
%man arse
no manual entry for arse
Oh the irony. I wonder if it has a reverse setting so it blows too.
Some of the more avant guard sting theorists
I know Sting has gone a bit far off the norm recently, but is there really a discipline and a body of scientists dedicated to studying him?
240,000pp != 2.4 million pp.
300,000pp != 3 million pp.
300,0000 == 3 million pp.
240,000 = 8% of 3 million pp. not 80%. maths oibviously isn't anyone round here's strong point...
That's 60,000 pp a week, and then its 3 million PP a month!
Aha. Sure. Can you say 'flawed foundations'?
The scary thing is you're probably right.
From webacronyms.com:
...huh?
Your search for scnr did not return any results
Yes, thank you Mr Turing. The fact that it can be done doesn't mean it'll make sense to anyone but the computer, and it definitely doesn't mean it should be done :)
There's a lot more to it than that. Recursive type definition and lazy evaluation are the two big-ticket items that spring to mind.
I guess to people who know, my description sounds more like prolog than fp, but i still think it's a better way of describing to someone who's never seen a functional langauge before.
Well, you point to :
- one situation in which the language was specifically written for the task at hand. I give you the fact that you get a productivity enhancement if your language is tailored to your problem (probably regardless of whether it's functional or not).
- one situation which doesn't mention the speed to code at all (the microcode one)
- 2 different 'prototype' experiments.
In case you missed it first time around,
The trouble is, that functional languages, while they may be more powerful, are much harder to write well in, generally taking you far longer to get to the finished state you want.
Prototype != working code. Case made.
Oh yeah. I wonder what the hell a c program converted into SQL looks like...
:)
As for converting into Lisp, I guess it must be possible to convert either way at the end of the day because they all come down to machine code... but i would imagine that the code produced by converting c to lisp is pretty far from the way normal lisp looks, or the way the designers intended it to be used
Which is why I'm not surprised to see LISP is actually missing from the source or target set of the page wetcat linked to.
And SQL is missing too... If you think about it for microsecond the idea of converting a normal language to or from SQL doesn't even begin to make sense...