Excuse me? VHs releases are alive and well. You can either go down to your local movie shop and pick them up, or go through Columbia House's RePlay and get them once a month.
There's an easy solution to this. Send people but don't bring them home. Shielding them during the trip wouldn't be as important, because cancer 20 years later wouldn't be an issue. Damage due to long-term 0 G space travel would be minimized, since you don't have a trip back to Earth.
I'm sure we could find more than enough volunteers to goto Mars on a one-way trip. I would almost consider it myself.
Everyone interested can invest in a private space development company, SpaceDev. SPDV is its stock symbol. It's not quite big enough to be on the NASDAQ, and there's almost no liquidity (like, 0 shares traded most days). But, they're only $2 a pop last I checked. Actually, they may be massively overvalued, since the $2 price gives them a market cap in the ~5 billion range. (Around AMD, as a comparison for all us nerds)
Besides, on top of that Ramen can be eaten dry. Take a bag of Ramen, unopened, and break the noodles inside the bag into four parts. Open from one end and remove flavor packet. Put magic flavor dust back into bag and close end tightly with hands. Shake, rattle and roll. Open and enjoy.
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I dunno. My wife likes stuff like Gabriel Knight, but she's also a regular Quake III (Angie[Meep]) and UT (Angielator) player. Of course, I usually kick her butt...(MoronWMachinegun)
*Interstate '82 a good racing game?* What the hell you been taking? Interstate '76 was light years better than '82. Go read the review in CGW this month on I82. It was almost coaster material.
Activision took out the localized damage and added a "damage bar"! Take about Nintendo'ing a game.
Loki doing ports to Linux is a good thing, but I wish they could have chosen, say, I '76 Nitro instead of I82. Or maybe Homeworld. *That* would have been cool. Then again, they have to get what they can take. Maybe they asked for I'76 and got offered I82 instead?
Back when my wife and I (Computer Engineering) interviewed 3 years ago, the CIA offered us 34k a year each. The only lower offer was Wal-Mart at 30k a year. Everyone else was much higher (except for a two-bit company in KCK using PL/I!)
Anyone out there working on a SCSI floppy disk? IE, something that doesn't totally hork windows when you try to read from it? For that matter, does the same thing happen with SCSI CD-ROMs? I know windows gets the interrupt that a new CD-ROM has been inserted, and it completely paralyzed until it figures out (based on autoinsertion) whether or not to run anything.
I've always thought floppy drives and CD-ROM drives could be done much much better in terms of how they interact with the PC.
All that "junk" DNA is there for a reason, more than likely. Maybe it's there to help filter out mutations? With a giant target, only 1% of which is important, you're less likely to get a critical DNA failure. With just the "important" sequences, I would wager that their "organism" would not last long before a terminal mutation occurs.
It's not "crashing", it's "landing with attitude."
Whatever happened to CD singles?
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Remember those CD singles that required a special slot on your CD-ROM tray? What ever happened to them? Normal size CD's just so cheap to make anyways that CD-Singles not worth it? Does anyone make CD-R that size? If they had, say, 250 MB of space, and cost only $.25, I think they would possibly be worth it.
Bob, How much more capability would be needed to detect an atmostphere of the planet passing in front of the sun? Has this been done before for, say, Venus?
Don't bet on it. The MPC823, while certainly faster than your old calculator, is by no means any powerhouse. It contains a stripped ("embedded") PowerPC core with no floating point unit, only 1KB data cache and 2KB instruction cache (that's a whopping 512 instructions!) and also has some limitations in the out-of-order execution and branch folding department.
Hey, I resent that! The MPC823, even in the non-extended version with bigger (16k I/ 8k D) cache is plenty fast for most portable work. Runs Windows CE pretty well, and it can even run the Doom demo WAD file acceptably. The bigger cache version can be up to 3x faster, depending on the application & environment.
Motorola likes to say that this thing runs 99MIPS @75MHz, but I'm tempted to call that "benchmarketing". The core can't fetch more than one instruction per clock (due to the data bus being only 32 bits wide), so you're hard pressed to squeeze your actual MIPS up anywhere beyond your MHz.
This is DHRYSTONE MIPS, not MIPS MIPS. Of course it's bench-marketing. Everything is. Dhrystone MIPS compares the core to a VAX(?). It's a crappy benchmark, but it's the only really popular one in the embedded space. Most instructions take longer than a clock to execute, so the instruction queue has time to fill from the cache. It does have multiple execution units, so it could do a load/store while adding, etc.
One side-effect this misses is the cache size though. The caches are still big enough that the dhrystone mips benchmark fits inside them. The bigger cache version is noticeably faster in real-world apps, but it benchs the same.
The MPC823 is, however, ideal for this kind of application, because it contains pretty much everything you need in a single chip, except for some RAM and an oscillator. It's got the CPU, the memory controller, the LCD controller, the USB controller, the IrDA controller, the timers, the realtime clocks, the DSP, the DMA and the PCMCIA controller (plus a bunch of other stuff that the camera doesn't appear to use). All in one teeny 256-pin package, costing not much at all.
I wish I could send a sample of the device to everyone just to show how small it is. But, just to give you an idea, take a quarter and draw a square INSIDE it. That's how big the chip is, in the package. And on top of that, it draws less than a watt.
Conclusion: Don't compare the "MHz" of the camera to that of your Mac, or whatever. It's not the same chip.
Absolutely true. But still, one damn capable processor. BTW, this is the same group of people that did the original DragonBall processor. Not the same designers, but the same management team.
I work at Motorola supporting the MPC821 and MPC823, which is what this camera is based on. Motorola recently announced a new MPC823e which has much larger caches than the original MPC823. The original MPC823 had 2k I cache and 1k D cache. The new MPC823e will have 16k I cache and 8 k D cache. Also, the maximum frequency for the MPC823/MPC823e is currently 81 MHz. If you want more info on the processors, try http://www.mot.com/mpc823, or hang out on comp.sys.powerpc.tech
BTW, that screenphone on our webpage? I've actually played with it, runs pretty damn well. Not Linux, but probably could be if they wanted to.
Eric, Mars Climate Observer, was it knocked down due to little green men in need of some fun, or was it because of their closed-source software development? Seriously, could NASA and other public government agencies benefit from a free/open source project?
That is only because Microsoft noticed the political infighting and lack of customers and wanted the money as a commitment from the parties involved. They declined, so no more PPC NT development. Had they been unified, and brought enough customers to the bench, Microsoft would have bent over backwards to help. As you said, "...what did they want NT for, they had AIX, and Apple".
Motorola DID decide to do Windows CE on embedded PowerPC, and has committed itself to supporting it. How long will that last? All I got to say is do a search on Slashdot for Psion or Motorola and figure it out yourself.
Not true. It had less to do with Microsoft than you think. From what I've gathered, the NT port to PPC was killed because of several reasons, none of which were related to "billy bob wanted it"
Basically, it boiled down to Motorola and IBM not wanting it bad enough.
Makes perfect sense to me. Why continue to support an OS that has a pretty big competitor and that you've never gained much market share on? Why would a customer choose an Alpha NT box, with possible application support, instead of an Intel/AMD NT box with more applications?
Maybe they're getting out of NT to give AMD a chance at it? Nah, couldn't be.
The Unix and Linux camps are less taken in by Intel's marketing, and are more likely to try alternative solutions. Anyways, it's a possibility!
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Excuse me? VHs releases are alive and well. You can either go down to your local movie shop and pick them up, or go through Columbia House's RePlay and get them once a month.
There's an easy solution to this. Send people but don't bring them home. Shielding them during the trip wouldn't be as important, because cancer 20 years later wouldn't be an issue. Damage due to long-term 0 G space travel would be minimized, since you don't have a trip back to Earth.
I'm sure we could find more than enough volunteers to goto Mars on a one-way trip. I would almost consider it myself.
Duh...women are from Venus. Why would they want to go to Mars?
To get laid, of course.
Everyone interested can invest in a private space development company, SpaceDev. SPDV is its stock symbol. It's not quite big enough to be on the NASDAQ, and there's almost no liquidity (like, 0 shares traded most days). But, they're only $2 a pop last I checked. Actually, they may be massively overvalued, since the $2 price gives them a market cap in the ~5 billion range. (Around AMD, as a comparison for all us nerds)
Which features of C++ do you wish you hadn't added?
Besides, on top of that Ramen can be eaten dry. Take a bag of Ramen, unopened, and break the noodles inside the bag into four parts. Open from one end and remove flavor packet. Put magic flavor dust back into bag and close end tightly with hands. Shake, rattle and roll. Open and enjoy.
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Go Buy Homeworld. Now. Right Now.
Er, ALL statements on /., are, I believe, copyright the original owner. Sorta how GPL code, while free, is still copyright by whoever originally wrote it. So, IF the DVD CCA decided to use, say, my post in defense of their position, I could then sue them for copyright infringement.
This message can be freely posted, except for lawyers or employees of the DVD CCA.
I dunno. My wife likes stuff like Gabriel Knight, but she's also a regular Quake III (Angie[Meep]) and UT (Angielator) player. Of course, I usually kick her butt...(MoronWMachinegun)
*Interstate '82 a good racing game?* What the hell you been taking? Interstate '76 was light years better than '82. Go read the review in CGW this month on I82. It was almost coaster material.
Activision took out the localized damage and added a "damage bar"! Take about Nintendo'ing a game.
Loki doing ports to Linux is a good thing, but I wish they could have chosen, say, I '76 Nitro instead of I82. Or maybe Homeworld. *That* would have been cool. Then again, they have to get what they can take. Maybe they asked for I'76 and got offered I82 instead?
Nate,
The reason his post was funny is that DRDRAM is so darn expensive. Get it? You'd have to give an arm and a leg in order to get any?
Ha ha?
He he?
Anything?
Is this thing on?
Back when my wife and I (Computer Engineering) interviewed 3 years ago, the CIA offered us 34k a year each. The only lower offer was Wal-Mart at 30k a year. Everyone else was much higher (except for a two-bit company in KCK using PL/I!)
Re: SCSI subsystem...
Anyone out there working on a SCSI floppy disk? IE, something that doesn't totally hork windows when you try to read from it? For that matter, does the same thing happen with SCSI CD-ROMs? I know windows gets the interrupt that a new CD-ROM has been inserted, and it completely paralyzed until it figures out (based on autoinsertion) whether or not to run anything.
I've always thought floppy drives and CD-ROM drives could be done much much better in terms of how they interact with the PC.
All that "junk" DNA is there for a reason, more than likely. Maybe it's there to help filter out mutations? With a giant target, only 1% of which is important, you're less likely to get a critical DNA failure. With just the "important" sequences, I would wager that their "organism" would not last long before a terminal mutation occurs.
It's not "crashing", it's "landing with attitude."
Remember those CD singles that required a special slot on your CD-ROM tray? What ever happened to them? Normal size CD's just so cheap to make anyways that CD-Singles not worth it? Does anyone make CD-R that size? If they had, say, 250 MB of space, and cost only $.25, I think they would possibly be worth it.
Bob,
How much more capability would be needed to detect an atmostphere of the planet passing in front of the sun? Has this been done before for, say, Venus?
I only got one game that comes to mind...
Battlecruiser 2000AD.
It almost didn't make it.
Don't bet on it. The MPC823, while certainly faster than your old calculator, is by no means any powerhouse. It contains a stripped ("embedded") PowerPC core with no floating point unit, only 1KB data cache and 2KB instruction cache (that's a whopping 512 instructions!) and also has some limitations in the out-of-order execution and branch folding department.
Hey, I resent that! The MPC823, even in the non-extended version with bigger (16k I/ 8k D) cache is plenty fast for most portable work. Runs Windows CE pretty well, and it can even run the Doom demo WAD file acceptably. The bigger cache version can be up to 3x faster, depending on the application & environment.
Motorola likes to say that this thing runs 99MIPS @75MHz, but I'm tempted to call that "benchmarketing". The core can't fetch more than one instruction per clock (due to the data bus being only 32 bits wide), so you're hard pressed to squeeze your actual MIPS up anywhere
beyond your MHz.
This is DHRYSTONE MIPS, not MIPS MIPS. Of course it's bench-marketing. Everything is. Dhrystone MIPS compares the core to a VAX(?). It's a crappy benchmark, but it's the only really popular one in the embedded space. Most instructions take longer than a clock to execute, so the instruction queue has time to fill from the cache. It does have multiple execution units, so it could do a load/store while adding, etc.
One side-effect this misses is the cache size though. The caches are still big enough that the dhrystone mips benchmark fits inside them. The bigger cache version is noticeably faster in real-world apps, but it benchs the same.
The MPC823 is, however, ideal for this kind of application, because it contains pretty much everything you need in a single chip, except for some RAM and an oscillator. It's got the CPU, the memory controller, the LCD controller, the USB controller, the IrDA controller, the timers, the realtime clocks, the DSP, the DMA and the PCMCIA controller (plus a bunch of other stuff that the camera doesn't appear to use). All in one teeny 256-pin package, costing not much at all.
I wish I could send a sample of the device to everyone just to show how small it is. But, just to give you an idea, take a quarter and draw a square INSIDE it. That's how big the chip is, in the package. And on top of that, it draws less than a watt.
Conclusion: Don't compare the "MHz" of the camera to that of your Mac, or whatever. It's not the same chip.
Absolutely true. But still, one damn capable processor. BTW, this is the same group of people that did the original DragonBall processor. Not the same designers, but the same management team.
I work at Motorola supporting the MPC821 and MPC823, which is what this camera is based on. Motorola recently announced a new MPC823e which has much larger caches than the original MPC823. The original MPC823 had 2k I cache and 1k D cache. The new MPC823e will have 16k I cache and 8 k D cache. Also, the maximum frequency for the MPC823/MPC823e is currently 81 MHz. If you want more info on the processors, try http://www.mot.com/mpc823, or hang out on comp.sys.powerpc.tech
BTW, that screenphone on our webpage? I've actually played with it, runs pretty damn well. Not Linux, but probably could be if they wanted to.
Eric,
Mars Climate Observer, was it knocked down due to little green men in need of some fun, or was it because of their closed-source software development? Seriously, could NASA and other public government agencies benefit from a free/open source project?
A hardware guy I worked with made the comment:
"Any computer with a reset button is a failure in design."
Sparc: No reset button
Palm Pilot: Hidden reset button
Mac: Kinda-hidden reset button
PC: Big blinking neon button
I wouldn't blame just Microsoft for it though. Maybe 95%. The other 5% comes from how retarded the whole architecture is.
That is only because Microsoft noticed the political infighting and lack of customers and wanted the money as a commitment from the parties involved. They declined, so no more PPC NT development. Had they been unified, and brought enough customers to the bench, Microsoft would have bent over backwards to help. As you said, "...what did they want NT for, they had AIX, and Apple".
Motorola DID decide to do Windows CE on embedded PowerPC, and has committed itself to supporting it. How long will that last? All I got to say is do a search on Slashdot for Psion or Motorola and figure it out yourself.
Not true. It had less to do with Microsoft than you think. From what I've gathered, the NT port to PPC was killed because of several reasons, none of which were related to "billy bob wanted it"
Basically, it boiled down to Motorola and IBM not wanting it bad enough.
Makes perfect sense to me. Why continue to support an OS that has a pretty big competitor and that you've never gained much market share on? Why would a customer choose an Alpha NT box, with possible application support, instead of an Intel/AMD NT box with more applications?
Maybe they're getting out of NT to give AMD a chance at it? Nah, couldn't be.
The Unix and Linux camps are less taken in by Intel's marketing, and are more likely to try alternative solutions. Anyways, it's a possibility!