According to my roommate who interned at AMD over the summer, the Athlon has always been SMP capable, but a motherboard that took advantage of this has not yet come out.
There was a Tyan board that was supposed to come out a long time back but never materialized. The KX133\KT133 chipsets are not capable of SMP, but supposedly VIA will be coming out with a board that can do it.
What you really want to watch out for, however, is the new AMD 760MP motherboard chipset. It's the high performance multiprocessor version of the upcoming 760 chipset.
There was a court case to decide this quite a few years ago, after the ENIAC was contested as the first computer. From 1939-1942, John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry created the ABC, the first digital computer at Iowa State University. 1942 predates Colossus by a bit.
Berry went on to work with the scientists who worked on computers\codebreaking in WWII.
It was shown in the court case that John Mauchley (sp), one of the creators of the ENIAC, actually visited Atanasoff at ISU before building the ENIAC.
Earlier in the week @home's (cable modem provider) main server went down(irc.home.com). A majority of the @home users use that server, so when it suddenly disappeared, it caused a mass immigration to other efnet servers.
Many servers couldn't handle the added above their normal traffic and started dying under the load. As a result, a bunch of efnet servers have banned @home clients for the time being.
I remember those early days of 3D gaming as I was able to bask in the glory of VQuake. It's too bad that Rendition has sort of faded out. The Verite chipset was actually fairly decent for the time but it got squashed by the juggernaut that was Voodoo.
If anyone wants to read more about VQuake, the first 3D accelerated version of Quake, I'd suggest checking out the articles Michael Abrash wrote for Dr. Dobbs magazine, some of which were reprinted in his Graphics Programming Black Book. I believe that book is out of print now as well, though.
I was lucky enough to see Abrash give a speech last year and was able to talk to him about some things, including VQuake. In retrospect, it's amazing what was done with such a low fill rate.:)
While Frank Miller did originally write the Robocop 2/3 story, he wrote it as one movie. There were *many* writers that touched the story after him, hence the fact that it ended up not as one movie but two.
Most movies have a lot more than the original writer. It's rumored that they might have given Miller creative control on the movie after that previous debacle.
With all due respect to his "position" my ass. slashdot is, and always has been, CmdrTaco's baby. It took me a long time to realize this. slashdot isn't journalism, it's just impressions of some individuals. If the way things are categorized disturbs you, then go to an objective news source. slashdot is not objective, nor does it try to be.
I personally no longer consider this a bad thing, but slashdot *is* CmdrTaco's "personal agenda" as you put it. It's only by his choice to have other editors that it has become something more.
You're not necessarily being a troll. Just realize that bitching isn't necessarily the best way to change things, perhaps taking the site a little less seriously would be.
No way, Park Ave. near South Union is a lot more hilly than that.:)
I remember hearing in elementary school that the glaciers pretty much flattened the northern part of Iowa, but the Des Moines river was where they stopped moving (hence the river). That would explain why the south side is a bit more hilly.
The crowd who buys a Palm device usually wants a personal organizer that's a little tweakable and compact. The fact that it's expandable is just a plus. I've used both PalmOS and WinCE devices, and I personally don't see that much overlap.
Windows CE users often bash Palm devices, claiming their device is superior because they can use Pocket Excel and Word to create or view documents and, in some models, listen to mp3s. That's cool, and WinCE makes a nice palmtop for those functions. I myself would rather have a compact laptop like a Sony VAIO for those functions, but the price range and size is obviously different.
Basically, Palm devices are fairly cheap tweakable personal organizers, and WinCE devices are more expensive palmtop computers.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the government! When the hell are you people going to notice the difference between parental groups and congress? This isn't even about video games causing kids to be violent, it has to do with allowing parents to moderate what their kids see. As a kid, my parents would notice what I was doing, what game I was playing, etc. But a lot of parents are more negligent these days and may not notice it if their kid buys a game they'd disapprove of or goes to a rated-R movie.
If the parental groups want to actually enforce a useful ratings system, good for them.
The end result? Parents who watch out for what their children buy will decide to return to K-Mart (ugh), because it upholds a system that is useful for parents. That's the other way capitalism works, that people seldom take advantage of anymore. If some store or company acts in a way you agree with, buy stuff there. Even if it's slightly more costly. However, Joe Consumer isn't quite that intelligent so we get Wal-Marts and to a lesser extent, other stores taking over small towns and running smaller stores out of business. Less service, but lower price.
This helps cover the back of a store as well. If another retailer sells little Jimmy a "Mature audiences (M)" game and his parents didn't want him to have it, they're going to complain loudly.
Have you ever even looked at what is a law and what isn't? While material deemed pornography, the driving age, the voting age, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms are all government regulated, movies, music, and games ARE NOT.
Movies have had a rating system for years, and it's up to the movie theater how strictly it is enforced. The music industry created a "Parental Advisory" sticker in response to a lot of complaints about a decade ago. And video game ratings have been standardized within the past five years. It is completely up to the stores whether they choose to use these ratings as a guideline of what young customers can buy. If a store doesn't want to sell you something, they don't have to. However, the ratings system becomes somewhat useless if not applied.
Stop referring to things as laws when they aren't.
This makes them take responsibility, that's the entire point. This makes the parent have to know that the kid is buying the game, as they're going to have to give consent or buy it for the kid.
It *is* your decision. If you believe your kid should be able to get the game, go with little Timmy to the checkout lane and say so. They're not trying to make it so kids can't play the games, they're restricting who can buy them.
It makes the parents aware that their kid is getting the game, and makes sure that parents know.
This is the purpose of ratings, so the industry can police itself. Otherwise the government might decide to, and there's no way in hell I'll let that happen.
If you only copy games and don't buy any, Sega is making as much money as they would with the Dreamcasts sitting in a warehouse. Companies that release consoles sell at a loss, instead making their profits off of game licenses. Every game you buy, reguardless of company, gets some money to Sega. By buying the actual hardware, you're just decreasing their debt, not making them money.
How the hell does crap like this make it through the story queue and not useful stuff? Holy shit. And it's CmdrTaco, the originator of the site who posts it. You'd think *he* would have developed the ability to filter through articles by now.
Not only was this news A WEEK AGO, but it's a colossal joke. kallisto, a group that releases dreamcast isos, claimed Sega gave them stock options to stop pirating games. Think about that one for more than two seconds and tell me it's more than a work of pure, hilarious fiction.
Good god, I pity the slashzealots who take everything on slashdot as pure truth.
And if I remember correctly, the Federal Reserve is actually private as well. That's right, the organization that prints money. All those crazy collectors coins, tours of the mints, and stuff of that sort make money.
I love programs run by the government the signing up for which "would be strictly voluntary."
The United States Postal Service, while originally spawned by the government, is not part of the government at this point in any way. It's an independant agency. So to say that it's a government agency that's carrying your correspondence is incorrect. They only have a little bit more to do with the government than UPS or FedEx.
As for the posts mentioning missing or damaged mail, you're doing business with a company when you send a letter. If you dissatisfied with the service, find an alternative means to do so.
... Who in their right mind is going to use the built in IRC client? You have to look at it like this: there exists an entire group of people who thinks the internet *is* their web browser. If the functionality of a program doesn't exist within the web browser, as a plugin to their web browser, or as a program that works with their web browser, they probably won't notice it. Some of these people have been heard saying things like "I don't use AOL anymore, Internet Explorer is better." So for the crowd who can't disinguish between an online service and a web browser, this is a really big deal.
Painkeep Arena is coming soon, based on the Painkeep mod for Quake. CTF was included with the game itself, and some other excellent modifications are making their way to Q3A. I haven't heard anything about Requiem, but you could always make your own version.:)
Journalistic integrity from someone who has worked at the Daily? What the hell is the world coming to? I thought the entire purpose was to create fairly mainstream articles that the overly conservative student body would be shocked by!
But seriously, we need some sort of slashdot review board for this sort of thing. Or the editors need to at least search slashdot for past articles in the same vein, read the actual article linked to, and *then* post an article. A review group would be able to do follow-up research, later clarifying or adding to the article.
The greatest thing about the X-Files anymore is that you can tell that they're making it so that it's not going to be missed quite as much when it's gone.
That's not to say I dislike the current episodes of the X-Files; it's just a completely different show. It's turned into one of the most self-parodying, cliche-ridden shows on TV. And it's great. I can't wait to see what kinds of crazy crap can go on next. Most of the real ongoing plot sort of things were resolved or at least partially explained in the past season (to music by Moby, no less).
Just think of it as a roller coaster. Sure, there are the climatic points and falling action for the big hills, but you have to have those quick little up and down hills at the end. Some people hate em, some love em, but they have character.
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According to my roommate who interned at AMD over the summer, the Athlon has always been SMP capable, but a motherboard that took advantage of this has not yet come out.
There was a Tyan board that was supposed to come out a long time back but never materialized. The KX133\KT133 chipsets are not capable of SMP, but supposedly VIA will be coming out with a board that can do it.
What you really want to watch out for, however, is the new AMD 760MP motherboard chipset. It's the high performance multiprocessor version of the upcoming 760 chipset.
There was a court case to decide this quite a few years ago, after the ENIAC was contested as the first computer. From 1939-1942, John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry created the ABC, the first digital computer at Iowa State University. 1942 predates Colossus by a bit.
Berry went on to work with the scientists who worked on computers\codebreaking in WWII.
It was shown in the court case that John Mauchley (sp), one of the creators of the ENIAC, actually visited Atanasoff at ISU before building the ENIAC.
Null set. Go do some set mathematics and logical operations, you'll recognize it. :)
Earlier in the week @home's (cable modem provider) main server went down(irc.home.com). A majority of the @home users use that server, so when it suddenly disappeared, it caused a mass immigration to other efnet servers.
Many servers couldn't handle the added above their normal traffic and started dying under the load. As a result, a bunch of efnet servers have banned @home clients for the time being.
I remember those early days of 3D gaming as I was able to bask in the glory of VQuake. It's too bad that Rendition has sort of faded out. The Verite chipset was actually fairly decent for the time but it got squashed by the juggernaut that was Voodoo.
:)
If anyone wants to read more about VQuake, the first 3D accelerated version of Quake, I'd suggest checking out the articles Michael Abrash wrote for Dr. Dobbs magazine, some of which were reprinted in his Graphics Programming Black Book. I believe that book is out of print now as well, though.
I was lucky enough to see Abrash give a speech last year and was able to talk to him about some things, including VQuake. In retrospect, it's amazing what was done with such a low fill rate.
While Frank Miller did originally write the Robocop 2/3 story, he wrote it as one movie. There were *many* writers that touched the story after him, hence the fact that it ended up not as one movie but two.
Most movies have a lot more than the original writer. It's rumored that they might have given Miller creative control on the movie after that previous debacle.
With all due respect to his "position" my ass. slashdot is, and always has been, CmdrTaco's baby. It took me a long time to realize this. slashdot isn't journalism, it's just impressions of some individuals. If the way things are categorized disturbs you, then go to an objective news source. slashdot is not objective, nor does it try to be.
I personally no longer consider this a bad thing, but slashdot *is* CmdrTaco's "personal agenda" as you put it. It's only by his choice to have other editors that it has become something more.
You're not necessarily being a troll. Just realize that bitching isn't necessarily the best way to change things, perhaps taking the site a little less seriously would be.
Hi, Iowa State University is the birthplace of the digital computer. Go to hell.
No way, Park Ave. near South Union is a lot more hilly than that. :)
I remember hearing in elementary school that the glaciers pretty much flattened the northern part of Iowa, but the Des Moines river was where they stopped moving (hence the river). That would explain why the south side is a bit more hilly.
The crowd who buys a Palm device usually wants a personal organizer that's a little tweakable and compact. The fact that it's expandable is just a plus. I've used both PalmOS and WinCE devices, and I personally don't see that much overlap.
Windows CE users often bash Palm devices, claiming their device is superior because they can use Pocket Excel and Word to create or view documents and, in some models, listen to mp3s. That's cool, and WinCE makes a nice palmtop for those functions. I myself would rather have a compact laptop like a Sony VAIO for those functions, but the price range and size is obviously different.
Basically, Palm devices are fairly cheap tweakable personal organizers, and WinCE devices are more expensive palmtop computers.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the government! When the hell are you people going to notice the difference between parental groups and congress? This isn't even about video games causing kids to be violent, it has to do with allowing parents to moderate what their kids see. As a kid, my parents would notice what I was doing, what game I was playing, etc. But a lot of parents are more negligent these days and may not notice it if their kid buys a game they'd disapprove of or goes to a rated-R movie.
If the parental groups want to actually enforce a useful ratings system, good for them.
The end result? Parents who watch out for what their children buy will decide to return to K-Mart (ugh), because it upholds a system that is useful for parents. That's the other way capitalism works, that people seldom take advantage of anymore. If some store or company acts in a way you agree with, buy stuff there. Even if it's slightly more costly. However, Joe Consumer isn't quite that intelligent so we get Wal-Marts and to a lesser extent, other stores taking over small towns and running smaller stores out of business. Less service, but lower price.
This helps cover the back of a store as well. If another retailer sells little Jimmy a "Mature audiences (M)" game and his parents didn't want him to have it, they're going to complain loudly.
Have you ever even looked at what is a law and what isn't? While material deemed pornography, the driving age, the voting age, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms are all government regulated, movies, music, and games ARE NOT.
Movies have had a rating system for years, and it's up to the movie theater how strictly it is enforced. The music industry created a "Parental Advisory" sticker in response to a lot of complaints about a decade ago. And video game ratings have been standardized within the past five years. It is completely up to the stores whether they choose to use these ratings as a guideline of what young customers can buy. If a store doesn't want to sell you something, they don't have to. However, the ratings system becomes somewhat useless if not applied.
Stop referring to things as laws when they aren't.
This makes them take responsibility, that's the entire point. This makes the parent have to know that the kid is buying the game, as they're going to have to give consent or buy it for the kid.
It *is* your decision. If you believe your kid should be able to get the game, go with little Timmy to the checkout lane and say so. They're not trying to make it so kids can't play the games, they're restricting who can buy them.
It makes the parents aware that their kid is getting the game, and makes sure that parents know.
This is the purpose of ratings, so the industry can police itself. Otherwise the government might decide to, and there's no way in hell I'll let that happen.
If you only copy games and don't buy any, Sega is making as much money as they would with the Dreamcasts sitting in a warehouse. Companies that release consoles sell at a loss, instead making their profits off of game licenses. Every game you buy, reguardless of company, gets some money to Sega. By buying the actual hardware, you're just decreasing their debt, not making them money.
ECHELON == kallisto. Same group, different name.
:)
Get a bullshit detector people. I hear they sell them at Wal-Mart now.
How the hell does crap like this make it through the story queue and not useful stuff? Holy shit. And it's CmdrTaco, the originator of the site who posts it. You'd think *he* would have developed the ability to filter through articles by now.
Not only was this news A WEEK AGO, but it's a colossal joke. kallisto, a group that releases dreamcast isos, claimed Sega gave them stock options to stop pirating games. Think about that one for more than two seconds and tell me it's more than a work of pure, hilarious fiction.
Good god, I pity the slashzealots who take everything on slashdot as pure truth.
Isn't it privatized?
And if I remember correctly, the Federal Reserve is actually private as well. That's right, the organization that prints money. All those crazy collectors coins, tours of the mints, and stuff of that sort make money.
I love programs run by the government the signing up for which "would be strictly voluntary."
The United States Postal Service, while originally spawned by the government, is not part of the government at this point in any way. It's an independant agency. So to say that it's a government agency that's carrying your correspondence is incorrect. They only have a little bit more to do with the government than UPS or FedEx.
As for the posts mentioning missing or damaged mail, you're doing business with a company when you send a letter. If you dissatisfied with the service, find an alternative means to do so.
... Who in their right mind is going to use the built in IRC client?
You have to look at it like this: there exists an entire group of people who thinks the internet *is* their web browser. If the functionality of a program doesn't exist within the web browser, as a plugin to their web browser, or as a program that works with their web browser, they probably won't notice it. Some of these people have been heard saying things like "I don't use AOL anymore, Internet Explorer is better."
So for the crowd who can't disinguish between an online service and a web browser, this is a really big deal.
How about Novell GroupWise as well? While not the most popular mail/task/schedule client, it has quite a few users as well.
Painkeep Arena is coming soon, based on the Painkeep mod for Quake. CTF was included with the game itself, and some other excellent modifications are making their way to Q3A. I haven't heard anything about Requiem, but you could always make your own version. :)
Journalistic integrity from someone who has worked at the Daily? What the hell is the world coming to? I thought the entire purpose was to create fairly mainstream articles that the overly conservative student body would be shocked by!
But seriously, we need some sort of slashdot review board for this sort of thing. Or the editors need to at least search slashdot for past articles in the same vein, read the actual article linked to, and *then* post an article. A review group would be able to do follow-up research, later clarifying or adding to the article.
The greatest thing about the X-Files anymore is that you can tell that they're making it so that it's not going to be missed quite as much when it's gone.
That's not to say I dislike the current episodes of the X-Files; it's just a completely different show. It's turned into one of the most self-parodying, cliche-ridden shows on TV. And it's great. I can't wait to see what kinds of crazy crap can go on next. Most of the real ongoing plot sort of things were resolved or at least partially explained in the past season (to music by Moby, no less).
Just think of it as a roller coaster. Sure, there are the climatic points and falling action for the big hills, but you have to have those quick little up and down hills at the end. Some people hate em, some love em, but they have character.