"The few functions that made their way onto the main chip -- 3D graphics, mainly -- were put there by National's rivals: AMD with 3DNow! and Intel with Katmai."
What a load! The MediaGX has CPU AND Memory controller AND VGA AND PCI built into one single chip. That's hardly to be called trivial and I still think that's pretty neat. A chip that comes close is the STPC from Thompson, but they don't mention that. Good journalism. NOT.
This chip is still a great device for wearables and other embedded applications. If only the support would have been better (try to find a real datasheet, or try to speak to someone) I would have probably used this chip in new designs.
(Off topic) Open Source Software is one thing, but wouldn't it be great if chip manufacturers would _finally_ be a bit more open about their designs, 'Open Datasheets'? Pffw...
Surprises me that it is Linus who is going to help. Did they only agree if it was Linus himself? If that's the case, do they also require BGate$ to be there?
Huh, got a much better idea, less do a benchmark and let Linus and BGate$ setup their own machine (same hardware of course). THEN run some tests.:o)
What a load of crap, this is all about freedom of choice. Which is limited in the US because of non-tolerant supremacists like you.
Compare to Netherlands: US: Guns legal NL: Marihuana legal
Make your choice. Who is likely to do you more harm, the guy with the gun or the guy with the pot?
Anyways, I don't want _anybody_ to tell me that I can't do xyz if I don't harm anyone else with it. Even if it harms myself, that's MY CHOICE. And I don't need to listen to other monkey-supremacists on this planet that seem to think they know things better then me.
The sad thing is, in the US the monkeys may throw you in jail if you behave like that....
Btw. Are you that idiot neighbor that's playing that 'Viva La Woman' crap way too loud all the time? I guess I have to delete you know huh?
Breace. And NO, I don't use any drugs but alcohol.
I figured he killed himself on a race track. I don't know this car, but F1 used to mean Formula 1. These can never be street legal. But I guess this is maybe an other type-o-car.
Does this have ANYTHING to do with my msg? I can't see it. The only thing that I see is that this is the second time that/. posts an article about enclosures (cases) that do not exist yet. So I can't order one and get one tomorrow. That's what's called vaporware. I thought.
Actually, it looks like there's French involved so it could also be SECAM.:o) Hopefully they will use a multi-standard encoder, thus NTSC/PAL and maybe SECAM. Anyways, I would like to know which one, to see if their clame's are rite.
Huh, I had some friends over from Holland, and I was proudly showing 'how easy it is to get round California', using Mapquest.
So we where driving round fer a couple a days, til one of my friends asks, why everytime we use Mapquest we get routed via the Fry's parking lot.
For example: [from suicide-alley take a right into Fry's parking lot] [go strait and look around to see that there's really ample parking space!] [when you are back in the car, continue to the north exit] [the best buys are always, at Frys!] [take left onto El Camino] etc.
Go figure!
Breace. from the that's-not-really-true-right? dept.
Anybody an idea what NTSC encoder gives a 640 x 480 resolution (without deformation)? They have been trying for years but I've never seen anything decent.
and there are _several_ free MPEG codecs available.
MPEG-1 (ISO-11172) and MPEG-2 (ISO-13818) which cover audio, video and system streams are open standards, and for most parts of it you don't have to pay royalties if you distribute an implementation. (The exception as I understand being MP-3 which really is MPEG-1 Layer III)
Xing got 'big' by building MPEG codecs. Their codecs used to be only partially complaint with the specs, they lacked some major parts in the decode engine which made it (in my opinion) a useless product. Dunno what the current status is, because I think Xing was sorta blown away by far better products,- I lost interest...
(And YES, the ActiveMovie MPEG software decode is pretty decent,- to bad they don't release source.:o))
Why would anyone want M$ source then? Source for an inferior product? See how NOT to do things? I don't get it.
I would like to see them release the source for the AARD code, but surely that's not going to be on the list. Judge ain't gonna like that one.
An then this quote from the article: "As to commercial developers, Microsoft said it already makes limited parts of its OS source code, such as the code enabling it to build device drivers for the OS."
Haha, what a joke! We should thank the big evil on our bare knees that it has released code so that we can write drivers, huh? Well, thankx, but no thankx.
Anybody that has written a device driver for a Win32 platform will know how all of I don't know how many of their driver models really suck. When you consider that this is 'cleaned up' source code you get a picture of what the code looks like inside M$.
Anyways, it's the architecture that's important, and we all know that it's architecture that sucks (performance comparison will, and have, easily proof this).
I still hope they release it though. I will print it all. Really! All of it! And then I will use it for rest of my life.... as TOILET PAPER!
Breace. 2003: "In 1999 I created Open Source" - Al Gore
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"The few functions that made their way onto the main chip -- 3D graphics, mainly -- were put there by National's rivals: AMD with 3DNow! and Intel with Katmai."
What a load!
The MediaGX has CPU AND Memory controller AND VGA AND PCI built into one single chip. That's hardly to be called trivial and I still think that's pretty neat. A chip that comes close is the STPC from Thompson, but they don't mention that. Good journalism. NOT.
This chip is still a great device for wearables and other embedded applications. If only the support would have been better (try to find a real datasheet, or try to speak to someone) I would have probably used this chip in new designs.
(Off topic) Open Source Software is one thing, but wouldn't it be great if chip manufacturers would _finally_ be a bit more open about their designs, 'Open Datasheets'? Pffw...
Breace.
But this bugs me more than "can you borrow me five bucks?"
;-)
should be:
But this design flaws me more than "can you borrow me five bucks?"
So I will stop calling it a Y2K bug if you can borrow me five bucks.
Anyways, you are actually right about this I think, although bugs are introduced trying to fix the Y2K 'problem'.
Breace.
Re: "How could this [Y2K Bug] be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?" -- Al Gore
Haven't seen that before. Please tell me this is fake. Please tell me this is not a real quote.
LOL - Breace.
Seems they are /.'ed allready.
.. HTTP technology'
I got HTTP 50x errors (Internal server error) for a while.
Hmm. 'high-capacity, high-availability
If those quotes came from their site that's really sad.
Breace.
Surprises me that it is Linus who is going to help. Did they only agree if it was Linus himself? If that's the case, do they also require BGate$ to be there?
:o)
Huh, got a much better idea, less do a benchmark and let Linus and BGate$ setup their own machine (same hardware of course).
THEN run some tests.
Breace.
What a load of crap, this is all about freedom of choice. Which is limited in the US because of non-tolerant supremacists like you.
Compare to Netherlands:
US: Guns legal
NL: Marihuana legal
Make your choice. Who is likely to do you more harm, the guy with the gun or the guy with the pot?
Anyways, I don't want _anybody_ to tell me that I can't do xyz if I don't harm anyone else with it. Even if it harms myself, that's MY CHOICE. And I don't need to listen to other monkey-supremacists on this planet that seem to think they know things better then me.
The sad thing is, in the US the monkeys may throw you in jail if you behave like that....
Btw. Are you that idiot neighbor that's playing that 'Viva La Woman' crap way too loud all the time? I guess I have to delete you know huh?
Breace. And NO, I don't use any drugs but alcohol.
I figured he killed himself on a race track.
I don't know this car, but F1 used to mean Formula 1. These can never be street legal. But I guess this is maybe an other type-o-car.
And, yeah, what the hell is an "IT programmer"??
Breace.
Does this have ANYTHING to do with my msg? /. posts an article about enclosures (cases) that do not exist yet. So I can't order one and get one tomorrow.
I can't see it. The only thing that I see is that this is the second time that
That's what's called vaporware. I thought.
Breace.
What's the business with all these Vaporware enclosures on /. lately?
Breace.
Actually, it looks like there's French involved so it could also be SECAM. :o)
Hopefully they will use a multi-standard encoder, thus NTSC/PAL and maybe SECAM.
Anyways, I would like to know which one, to see if their clame's are rite.
Breace.
Ugh... And I'm from Europe... I should know...
Breace.
Huh, I had some friends over from Holland, and I was proudly showing 'how easy it is to get round California', using Mapquest.
So we where driving round fer a couple a days, til one of my friends asks, why everytime we use Mapquest we get routed via the Fry's parking lot.
For example:
[from suicide-alley take a right into Fry's parking lot]
[go strait and look around to see that there's really ample parking space!]
[when you are back in the car, continue to the north exit]
[the best buys are always, at Frys!]
[take left onto El Camino]
etc.
Go figure!
Breace.
from the that's-not-really-true-right? dept.
Anybody an idea what NTSC encoder gives a 640 x 480 resolution (without deformation)?
They have been trying for years but I've never seen anything decent.
Breace.
and there are _several_ free MPEG codecs available.
:o))
MPEG-1 (ISO-11172) and MPEG-2 (ISO-13818) which cover audio, video and system streams are open standards, and for most parts of it you don't have to pay royalties if you distribute an implementation. (The exception as I understand being MP-3 which really is MPEG-1 Layer III)
Xing got 'big' by building MPEG codecs.
Their codecs used to be only partially complaint with the specs, they lacked some major parts in the decode engine which made it (in my opinion) a useless product. Dunno what the current status is, because I think Xing was sorta blown away by far better products,- I lost interest...
(And YES, the ActiveMovie MPEG software decode is pretty decent,- to bad they don't release source.
Breace
Duh... I don't think so.
I don't know bout the 36 bit thing, but surely adding 4 bits should give 16x the addr. range, not 2x...
Breace
It's still misleading. The newer Jazz drives store 2GB (no compression involved) so that should be 7.5 Jazz disks, NOT 15.
btw. I'm surprised Rop, like many others mentioned, it's a bloody TAPE drive. Isn't it bout time you modify the msg a tadd?
Breace.
Why would anyone want M$ source then?
.... as TOILET PAPER!
Source for an inferior product?
See how NOT to do things?
I don't get it.
I would like to see them release the source for the AARD code, but surely that's not going to be on the list. Judge ain't gonna like that one.
An then this quote from the article:
"As to commercial developers, Microsoft said it already makes limited parts of its OS source code, such as the code enabling it to build device drivers for the OS."
Haha, what a joke! We should thank the big evil on our bare knees that it has released code so that we can write drivers, huh? Well, thankx, but no thankx.
Anybody that has written a device driver for a Win32 platform will know how all of I don't know how many of their driver models really suck. When you consider that this is 'cleaned up' source code you get a picture of what the code looks like inside M$.
Anyways, it's the architecture that's important, and we all know that it's architecture that sucks (performance comparison will, and have, easily proof this).
I still hope they release it though.
I will print it all. Really! All of it!
And then I will use it for rest of my life
Breace.
2003: "In 1999 I created Open Source" - Al Gore