Heh. I read this little write up last night (well, early this morning) while I was looking for info on getting OpenGL/Quake3 in XF86 v4 working with my G400. (Anyone able to help me out? I'm not sure where to start. I have X4 installed, but don't know if it's installed right, etc..)
Even with my limitted knowledge, his article/write up seemed off color and slightly unfactual. (re: MESA not being in X4's implimentation of GL). It surprises me that the slashdot people don't read the articles themselves before posting them to slashdot, in order to check and see how factual they are. Or maybe they do, and just overlooked it. And then again, maybe they leave the crap-testing to moderators and posters.:)
From what I (think that I) have heard, some larger schools have processor dye etching facilities. CalTech, or something like that. Not entirely sure, but I recall hearing this at one point.
Wouldn't it be technically feasable to minimize the circuitry and produce a single chip on a small board, similar to some of the old 486sx chips that had small boards, since they were smaller than normal 486 chips?
All that would need to be done is then put connection sockets on the board, or wires away from the board, and you basically would have a space-free computer. it could (possibly) fit inside the large plastic cases on most cables. heck, with modern.18 microns and such, it's definately possible...
If there are any aging geeks looking for jobs, they should try less-densely populated states. Sure, pay might be a little lower, but there are a lot of companies looking for small groups of people (1-3 or so) to run hardware and software for their company. South Dakota, I know for one, is probably going to have a lot of such jobs soon.
I strongly suggest you take a look at recent/. articles.
Doing something impossible twice is pretty impressive, 'specially if the second time they do it it's even worse than the first.:) So this crypto stuff - quite possible.:)
IMHO, this movie was excessively cheesy and poorly done. Poor plot, and ripped off many good movies: The Matrix, with it's black leather (granted, a Woo thing, but too coincidental with everything else in mind), Terminator 2, with the bike scenes, James Bond flicks, with the chick/cleavage scenes, etc.
This is a basic consumer movie. There were aspects from almost every genere: action, suspense, chick-flick, thriller, etc... maybe even some horror, depending on how you look at it. The plot was terrible in order to make room for all the different aspects.
The whole mask thing was waaay overdone. Too terribly predictable. You could snap your fingers on almost the exact moment when a 'special event' would take place. The characters were poorly developed and they had little interaction with each other, as was the case in MI.
I personally enjoyed MI, and enjoy the James Bond flicks. However, mixing the two just doesn't work. They're not the same type of flick.
I was fairly disappointed too, cuz the theater didn't have teh speakers up very loud. Gay.
However, I did enjoy the movie. I'd not see it again, and it wasn't a good movie, but I enjoyed it. My fiance and I made fun of it the whole way through. There were sooo many rip offs from other films. She said there were even some from Tron. (I've nto seen the whole thing.)
I doubt I would have enjoyed it at all, if I had watched it on my own. It would have been nice if it was a good, solid action flick. OR a good solid suspense, thriller, etc. That's the type of movie this guy likes. This was too terribly kludgish.
You then remeber that George W Bush cancelled the DOJ case the first month he was president and re-assured microsft that they could do whatever they wished because of there $300 million campaign contribution that rivaled Bob Doles whole entire campaign budget for 1996.
That's one of the most ludicrous, poorly informed comments I've heard in a long, long time. Bill Gates is a monkey's arse before he's a Republican supporter. Strongly supporting all kinds of abortion, and other such democratic ideals, Bill Gates closely alligns himself with SatanH^H^H^H^H^the Democrats. Not only is this ill informed, it's merely the poster's bias. Not based on fact in the least.
Humorous how such things are called sympathy viruses in linux. I'd hash in the lot of stupid forwards as a type of sympathy virus - they 'delete', so to speak, bandwidth.
I woke up this morning to my radio. (Which is unusual. It usually takes my alarm going off at full volume for about 10 minutes. The alarm goes off after 10 minutes of full-volume radio.) I heard the announcer state that there was a new strand of the ILOVEYOU virus released, much more deadly. I just rolled over and went to sleep. I pitty the fool who subjects himself to such things.
What type of real-life virus might computer viruses be comparable to? STD's? You 'sleep around' without protection, you'll get em. What might that make Microsoft products, then?:)
The concept of copyrighting HTML 'code' is rediculous - it's akin to copyrighting the contents of an RTF or Word document. Copying the actual code is as easy as downloading the bloody page. Viewing HTML and using it for oneself is as easy as viewing it through the "View Page Source" feature in any browser. It's an open standard.
The HTML itself can't be copyrighted, but I'd guess that the site design could be - which Company X had nothing to do with anyway.
Company X is so hock full of crap their eyes are brown.
It's amazing! First you think that Australia has been completely discovered and explored, now you find out that they're discovering blackholes in the outback!
What? What's that you say? Oh. I see. Maybe I should wake up more thuroughly before posting.
I see that many people are mentioning running a MAME ROM as opposed to the shockwave version. However, the site states "that ten classic Midway arcade games are now available for play exclusively at..". Notice how it only mentions 10 games, and that they're for exclusive use from that locality. I'm guessing that they are probably doing this for financial reasons - banner ads? Or possibly merely for association with Macromedia of some sort. I don't think Midway is too pleased with the ROM market.
Neat? I wouldn't consider it neat that Microsoft, a monopolistic (YES! I can say that now and be legally accurate!) software company that is known for 'stealing' other's ideas and making them legally their own, has gotten a patent for one of the coolest 'install' procedures in the linux world - a major competetor, of late.
(In 1988, George Bush called Mike Dukakis a "card-carrying member of the ACLU", in effect comparing the Bill of Rights with Communism and its defenders with Communists. This insult to the US Constitution inspired me, as it did many others, to join the ACLU. Let's hope the Shrub will not be president; one Bush was too many.)
Umm, what? This had nothing to do with the question at hand and can be considered a blatant political plug. He wasn't asked about his political affiliation or what his views were on Bush; he was asked what he would do once, if ever, software was all open sourced and he had the opportunity to enter into another career path.
Not to be a face in the croud, but slashdot does seem to be getting more and more political. Naturally, it'll happen with a large body of people, but with politics and religion come hostilities. That's not desired.
Yeah, it does, supposedly. Mostly from space dust, metiorites, and the such. I think it's something like 200 metric tons? Really not sure at all of the number, though.
We probably lose a good deal of atmosphere too, though. Who knows.
Finally, I'll be able to acess the GPS for my missile targetting system to function nominally. It's been really hard to pinpoint the neighbor's cows - it's required a good deal of additional, manual aiming at the last moment. Now it'll be just click-n-steak...
The only way you could use one way networking to log a server is if you were to send the logging information out, and have it configured to not recieve a reply signal. Unless it's not truely one-way networking.
It this were to be developed with something like SDL (not sure if this is possible tho) people could play the same game on many different platforms. The main advantage would be that PS users would be able to play against PC users.:) Of course, we PC users would have better input devices, but what the hey.
You're forgetting that lower power consumption isn't quite the main goal of the Transmeta processors.
The main point of such processors is that they're very quick to research. The research behind the hardware takes a fraction of the time that a full-blown processor takes since there is significantly less to be done.
See, most of the actual core instructions that make it x86 compatable are done with low level software programming, which then interface to the transmeta hardware. This is in contrast with the faster hardwired instructions of Intel and AMD processors.
All of this allows for smaller chips that produce less heat, and consume less power. Granted. But the purpose? It costs less money to produce for the company, and is a LOT less expensive for Joe Average and Corporate Mike, thus allowing for more people to be able to afford them. That is cool!
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Even with my limitted knowledge, his article/write up seemed off color and slightly unfactual. (re: MESA not being in X4's implimentation of GL). It surprises me that the slashdot people don't read the articles themselves before posting them to slashdot, in order to check and see how factual they are. Or maybe they do, and just overlooked it. And then again, maybe they leave the crap-testing to moderators and posters. :)
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Wouldn't it be technically feasable to minimize the circuitry and produce a single chip on a small board, similar to some of the old 486sx chips that had small boards, since they were smaller than normal 486 chips?
All that would need to be done is then put connection sockets on the board, or wires away from the board, and you basically would have a space-free computer. it could (possibly) fit inside the large plastic cases on most cables. heck, with modern .18 microns and such, it's definately possible...
Now THAT would be a cool grad student project...
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Doing something impossible twice is pretty impressive, 'specially if the second time they do it it's even worse than the first. :) So this crypto stuff - quite possible. :)
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This is a basic consumer movie. There were aspects from almost every genere: action, suspense, chick-flick, thriller, etc... maybe even some horror, depending on how you look at it. The plot was terrible in order to make room for all the different aspects.
The whole mask thing was waaay overdone. Too terribly predictable. You could snap your fingers on almost the exact moment when a 'special event' would take place. The characters were poorly developed and they had little interaction with each other, as was the case in MI.
I personally enjoyed MI, and enjoy the James Bond flicks. However, mixing the two just doesn't work. They're not the same type of flick.
I was fairly disappointed too, cuz the theater didn't have teh speakers up very loud. Gay.
However, I did enjoy the movie. I'd not see it again, and it wasn't a good movie, but I enjoyed it. My fiance and I made fun of it the whole way through. There were sooo many rip offs from other films. She said there were even some from Tron. (I've nto seen the whole thing.)
I doubt I would have enjoyed it at all, if I had watched it on my own. It would have been nice if it was a good, solid action flick. OR a good solid suspense, thriller, etc. That's the type of movie this guy likes. This was too terribly kludgish.
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That's one of the most ludicrous, poorly informed comments I've heard in a long, long time. Bill Gates is a monkey's arse before he's a Republican supporter. Strongly supporting all kinds of abortion, and other such democratic ideals, Bill Gates closely alligns himself with SatanH^H^H^H^H^the Democrats. Not only is this ill informed, it's merely the poster's bias. Not based on fact in the least.
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I woke up this morning to my radio. (Which is unusual. It usually takes my alarm going off at full volume for about 10 minutes. The alarm goes off after 10 minutes of full-volume radio.) I heard the announcer state that there was a new strand of the ILOVEYOU virus released, much more deadly. I just rolled over and went to sleep. I pitty the fool who subjects himself to such things.
What type of real-life virus might computer viruses be comparable to? STD's? You 'sleep around' without protection, you'll get em. What might that make Microsoft products, then? :)
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The HTML itself can't be copyrighted, but I'd guess that the site design could be - which Company X had nothing to do with anyway.
Company X is so hock full of crap their eyes are brown.
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What? What's that you say? Oh. I see. Maybe I should wake up more thuroughly before posting.
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I think I'll go patent the use of water to clean toliets.
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Umm, what? This had nothing to do with the question at hand and can be considered a blatant political plug. He wasn't asked about his political affiliation or what his views were on Bush; he was asked what he would do once, if ever, software was all open sourced and he had the opportunity to enter into another career path.
Not to be a face in the croud, but slashdot does seem to be getting more and more political. Naturally, it'll happen with a large body of people, but with politics and religion come hostilities. That's not desired.
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We probably lose a good deal of atmosphere too, though. Who knows.
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(How about Pig Latin?)
A nung dung hung O wung A bung O U tung Cung A bung bung yung lung A nung gung U A lung?
(And how about Cabbylangual?)
Heggow abeggout eggegg leggatinegg? (And let's not forget Egg Latin.)
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I wonder if the people at AMD did that intentionally, as a geek-effect. :) Hey, everyone loves LotR, right?
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The main point of such processors is that they're very quick to research. The research behind the hardware takes a fraction of the time that a full-blown processor takes since there is significantly less to be done.
See, most of the actual core instructions that make it x86 compatable are done with low level software programming, which then interface to the transmeta hardware. This is in contrast with the faster hardwired instructions of Intel and AMD processors.
All of this allows for smaller chips that produce less heat, and consume less power. Granted. But the purpose? It costs less money to produce for the company, and is a LOT less expensive for Joe Average and Corporate Mike, thus allowing for more people to be able to afford them. That is cool!
I'm looking forward to 400$ vaios. :)
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