What about hotswapping? AFAIK, you still can't do that with software RAID and SATA drives... (at least with Linux 2.6.x - never tried with Windows or Mac OS X). A hardware (SATA) RAID controller is your only option, unless you spend $$$ on a SCSI disk subsystem
On a side-note, the screenshots for that game look really familiar - is it just me, or does Starflight look like an early version of Star Control 2?? (The star map, system navigation, planet scan, and planet navigation screens all look like rough versions of those in SC2)
There's some more in-depth (and less dramatic:) information on Java's fp handling here: http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/resources/cont ent/sf2002/conf/sessions/pdfs/1079.pdf (written by the co-author of the original "How Java's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere" paper, who is now Sun's "Java Floating-Point Czar") - it looks like the problems aren't as serious as they were initially made out to be.
I noticed that those papers are dated 1998 and 2000 - does anyone know whether the issues raised in them are still current? (in particular the math stuff)
Someone else mentioned that the Intel floating point trigonometry instructions don't meet the JVM spec (so the trig stuff is done in software), which seems like a more likely explanation, given that that was the only area where Java 1.4.2 failed miserably.
On a side note, both articles seemed to be written in a somewhat childish and excessively dramatic style (abrupt sentences, bold higlighting, lots of CAPS, etc.) - while skimming through them, I kept expecting to run into a 'So NYAH!' or two:)
Meh? You can tranfers MP3s to your iPod, and as far as I can tell, there are a more portable players out there that support MP3 than WMA... The AAC stuff is pretty sweet, but you're not forced to use it.
It'd be great if this turns out be be the case, but I'm curious how IBM might be able to sell more PPC970s than Motorola sells G4s?
Motorola sells the G4s to Apple, and to a number of networking equipment vendors, etc.
IBM will be selling to Apple, and, well, that's about it, though they'll be using the processors themselves.
Is IBM likely to use more 970s than Motorola sell to non-Apple customers? Does IBM have any other customers up their sleeve? Or is it simply a case of a more efficient manufacturing process winning out over economies of scale?
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What about hotswapping? AFAIK, you still can't do that with software RAID and SATA drives... (at least with Linux 2.6.x - never tried with Windows or Mac OS X). A hardware (SATA) RAID controller is your only option, unless you spend $$$ on a SCSI disk subsystem
On a side-note, the screenshots for that game look really familiar - is it just me, or does Starflight look like an early version of Star Control 2?? (The star map, system navigation, planet scan, and planet navigation screens all look like rough versions of those in SC2)
There's some more in-depth (and less dramatic :) information on Java's fp handling here: http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/resources/cont ent/sf2002/conf/sessions/pdfs/1079.pdf (written by the co-author of the original "How Java's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere" paper, who is now Sun's "Java Floating-Point Czar") - it looks like the problems aren't as serious as they were initially made out to be.
Is this the one you're talking about? http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milkyway/4645/
:)
Another site with some very cool lego creations is http://www.zemi.net/lego/ - this guy gave the entire alphabet the star wars spaceship treatment
I noticed that those papers are dated 1998 and 2000 - does anyone know whether the issues raised in them are still current? (in particular the math stuff)
:)
Someone else mentioned that the Intel floating point trigonometry instructions don't meet the JVM spec (so the trig stuff is done in software), which seems like a more likely explanation, given that that was the only area where Java 1.4.2 failed miserably.
On a side note, both articles seemed to be written in a somewhat childish and excessively dramatic style (abrupt sentences, bold higlighting, lots of CAPS, etc.) - while skimming through them, I kept expecting to run into a 'So NYAH!' or two
Meh? You can tranfers MP3s to your iPod, and as far as I can tell, there are a more portable players out there that support MP3 than WMA... The AAC stuff is pretty sweet, but you're not forced to use it.
There's a bit more info on that aspect here
It'd be great if this turns out be be the case, but I'm curious how IBM might be able to sell more PPC970s than Motorola sells G4s?
:)
Motorola sells the G4s to Apple, and to a number of networking equipment vendors, etc.
IBM will be selling to Apple, and, well, that's about it, though they'll be using the processors themselves.
Is IBM likely to use more 970s than Motorola sell to non-Apple customers? Does IBM have any other customers up their sleeve? Or is it simply a case of a more efficient manufacturing process winning out over economies of scale?
Either way, I'm stoked!