When it was announced, there was some commentary that, without putting in more memory controllers, they had to daisy-chain the second 256MB from the first, in a system that is analogous to the slave drive on a Parallel ATA connection. It's not great for performance. The "no increase in memory bandwidth" supports this line and there isn't a guarantee of more speed with this configuration.
This support for high-DPI displays is done by creating "virtual pixels" that have a resolution of 96dpi. These virtual pixels are mapped onto the actual display resolution, so that objects will look the same size and render correctly, even on displays with dense pixel resolutions.
rather dumb?
I can understand the need to be backwards-compatible with older software that assume the Windows Desktop to live at 96 DPI, but to emulate virtual pixels and not actually use vector graphic objects fails to take an important step forwards, whatever other progress the graphics systems make.
I think, however, that [this idiocy] is a good thing. Someone else is then in the position to create an open API for a vector-rendered desktop space which may earn hardware acceleration from graphics hardware vendors, if these features are needed and the F/OSS world tries to continue to support older hardware.
Best to cleanse society of these obsessed Trekkies and to send the recordings into outer space. And do it with booze. And hookers. Ah, forget the Star Trek thing.
[/futurama reference, politically correct moderator friends]
I don't want to weigh in and start a flame war about any othe potentially applicable areas: distributions, hardware setups, graphics drivers, X implementations and all that...
To make a meaningful comment about where things go wrong, I would have to know about the hardware you're using and what you expect from it. What are you using, and what do you expect to get it to do?
If Ubuntu and Gentoo have been underperforming with you hardware, it may be possible that your system is too fresh for the support, which happened to me in 2001 when I put together my present system: DDR Ram and an Athlon Thunderbird. Patience let the distributions catch up, although I could have supplied bug reports and worked to get fixes.
My experience has been different from yours, in that it's been positive, with an ATi Xpert 2000 Pro (which uses a Rage Pro Ultra and Rage Theatre chip combination) under Fedora Cores 2 & 3. Using the Mplayer and Xine from the 'yum' profile supplied by http://www.fedorafaq.org/, I have no problems with audio sync for DVD's and MPEG4 video. I'm not kidding myself, though. The card isn't up to hard 3D gaming.
I think that 4 hours of an evening are the most that it has taken to get a working Fedora Core onto my machine. This is just my experience. I wish you luck in having a better experience.
How much of DSMT will be compiler-bound and how much can be pushed onto hardware without redesigning and remodelling, say, GCC?
(I say compiler-bound because making an automated process to optimise bits of a software program to run together is a logical analysis that can either be done at compile time or on the processor chip. I admit to being a layman, though.)
Surely getting the GCC to include optimisations for parallelism is an essential part of its future in software production? Isn't there a high likelihood of DSMT providing significant performance enhancements that it would be a patented invention and consequently (reasonably) unique to a particular processor manufacturer's implementation of the architecture to which it is applied?
You must have seen Shred mentioned in the previous discussion. It's GNU coreutils so comes as standard with most Linux (ahem: GNU/Linux) distributions, and deals with file references in your filesystem.
Shred is not complicated enough to waste files that has been stored on a journaled filesystem, which includes NTFS, ext3, ReiserFS and friends. This doesn't stand in the way of you plugging in a device, for example by USB/Firewire enoclosure), having it automount, according to your distribution's setup, before running "shred -z/dev/blah" to the device. The man pages say that this will write random data 25 times across the device before zeroing it, making a mess of the filesystem and the files too, whether or not they're stored with journaling data.
You've not been following the game... The trick these days (compare ilovebees for Halo 2) is to have a viral marketing scheme that forces people to invest themselves (with their time, etc.) in the product before it's available, and the final explanation will have them unable to not purchase the item.
The viral marketing for this one focuses on "ourcolony.net".
Don't worry, I'm in the process of patenting it. The methods detailed include the specification of a "(1),(2),'(3) ???','(4) Profit!'" system, the registry of computer-directed users, the use of computer-directed users to post contextually appropriate messages and the inclusion of advertising taglines in the signatures.
I'm at the ??? stage with respect to guaranteeing succesful sales from this method: I can't find a way to ensure that the materials advocated by my system will be attractive and high-enough quality to get sales. Perhaps that's Someone Else's Problem.
What does a PowerPC get you? Apparently it's less of a less of a frankensteinian hacked-on-extensions monster than x86-32.
Think of the poor programmers: the ISA is more elegant and this elegance is an asset. The stuck-on extra registers and addressing modes of IA32 indicate that the system should be retired; I doubt if this will happen. Does anyone know if AMD64 in pure 64-bit mode is tidier than x86-32?
Signor, eet does not sound so baad een Portugese (of Brazil) or ze français (naturalement de La France!). Eet ees ze Eengleesh which makes ze name sound poncaux. In zis way we fart in your general direction!
[Cough] Seriously, Latin America will call it Manned-Reever. And France will call it Mon-Dreever (both with appropriate/respective rolled or throaty 'ar' sounds).
[this message removed so as to not prejudice my next holidaying in the usa. i have been fingerprinted and photographed as a uk citizen holidaying in the usa in the last few months.]
I may have misread TFA, but the author appears to have missed the strategic value that is to be gained from investing staff and company hours into F/OSS projects for internal use.
The article seems to view the present hobbyist-driven projects as solutions procured in the same way that a company buys in commercial programming. The differences in modus operandi are so great that this cannot be the case. The trick is to find where the middle ground lies in order to profit.
I don't knwo how to say this, but I wasn't aware that the foundations of what is a black hole were all that well defined. The part to do with matter collapsing so densely that light can't escape is a good simple explanation, but only a general one.
The Einstein Field Equations don't clearly define what goes on past the event horizons; certain conditions may be imposed which allow inspection, but these are not guaranteed to be observed in real conditions. As a mathematician, I think that there isn't a great deal to be said for what lies behind the event horizon of a singularity; the paired phenonmena are called a black hole, but that's as much as is known (except for Hawking radiation and rotational evaporation...).
The Astropyshicists will have observed these phenomona and put together some speculation about what goes on inside; this is this guy weighing into the arguement with something that looks like a mix of rhetoric, a convenient fix to the current cosmology at hand, and meaningful progress for the field.
I have bought DRM'd DVD's, but do not plan to download anything DRM'd to my computer. I refuse to compromise and accept DRM while there isn't a clear statement of our Fair Use rights. I want to show myself trustworthy and to be trusted for the art I make use of. I suspect that the nonviolent revolution of not using Industry-Association works of art is needed.
Let's sit the content providers and the consumers down to discuss the licenses under which this stuff comes; the present system is too vague, and while DRM is helpful a way to protect content providers from users overextending the boundaries of fair use, it is not a satisfying compromise for the end-users.
However, as a consumer, I would happily accept DRM free stuff if it came with a clear statement of what I am licensed to do with this (which would push the content distributors to explain what's allowed and not, and then to trust me -- they can choose not to sell me their wares).
For the pirates, why don't the content distributors undercut their cheap copies by licensing the present-pirates to produce and market the copies themselves? DRM doesn't stop people bit-for-bit copying disks.
Then we face another question: would you buy stuff that isn't restricted to what you do with it, but is identifiable to you -- so you can be caught for sharing around what you aren't licensed to share? (Yes, what's the point? The system will be broken and people will ignore it, but we continue to need to find a way for artists to have their work recognised and be reimbursed for their efforts.)
That's actually sign language for the deaf, in a language you can choose from a menu before the interview starts. It's quite a neat feature, put together in a few lines of C# and required no recompiling between magazines or soapboxes.
(Can I start the campaign for a Surreal moderation point? Whether it's a plus or a minus is a subject for a flamewar...)
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When it was announced, there was some commentary that, without putting in more memory controllers, they had to daisy-chain the second 256MB from the first, in a system that is analogous to the slave drive on a Parallel ATA connection. It's not great for performance. The "no increase in memory bandwidth" supports this line and there isn't a guarantee of more speed with this configuration.
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The article I had read where this card is introduced is here: http://www.tomshardware.com/game/20050305/ati_512
There are only so many bootlegs, b-sides and other recordings to go with the three albums by the band with Shirley Manson, Steve Marker, Duke Erikson, Butch Vig and Daniel Shulman in it.
rather dumb?
I can understand the need to be backwards-compatible with older software that assume the Windows Desktop to live at 96 DPI, but to emulate virtual pixels and not actually use vector graphic objects fails to take an important step forwards, whatever other progress the graphics systems make.
I think, however, that [this idiocy] is a good thing. Someone else is then in the position to create an open API for a vector-rendered desktop space which may earn hardware acceleration from graphics hardware vendors, if these features are needed and the F/OSS world tries to continue to support older hardware.
[meta: my response to this has been halted while I wait in silence to know how to respond][/quaker]
Best to cleanse society of these obsessed Trekkies and to send the recordings into outer space. And do it with booze. And hookers. Ah, forget the Star Trek thing.
[/futurama reference, politically correct moderator friends]
I'm not holding my breath waiting for the people behind these reposts to announce that they're taking a break.
I don't want to weigh in and start a flame war about any othe potentially applicable areas: distributions, hardware setups, graphics drivers, X implementations and all that...
To make a meaningful comment about where things go wrong, I would have to know about the hardware you're using and what you expect from it. What are you using, and what do you expect to get it to do?
If Ubuntu and Gentoo have been underperforming with you hardware, it may be possible that your system is too fresh for the support, which happened to me in 2001 when I put together my present system: DDR Ram and an Athlon Thunderbird. Patience let the distributions catch up, although I could have supplied bug reports and worked to get fixes.
My experience has been different from yours, in that it's been positive, with an ATi Xpert 2000 Pro (which uses a Rage Pro Ultra and Rage Theatre chip combination) under Fedora Cores 2 & 3. Using the Mplayer and Xine from the 'yum' profile supplied by http://www.fedorafaq.org/, I have no problems with audio sync for DVD's and MPEG4 video. I'm not kidding myself, though. The card isn't up to hard 3D gaming.
I think that 4 hours of an evening are the most that it has taken to get a working Fedora Core onto my machine. This is just my experience. I wish you luck in having a better experience.
How much of DSMT will be compiler-bound and how much can be pushed onto hardware without redesigning and remodelling, say, GCC?
(I say compiler-bound because making an automated process to optimise bits of a software program to run together is a logical analysis that can either be done at compile time or on the processor chip. I admit to being a layman, though.)
Surely getting the GCC to include optimisations for parallelism is an essential part of its future in software production? Isn't there a high likelihood of DSMT providing significant performance enhancements that it would be a patented invention and consequently (reasonably) unique to a particular processor manufacturer's implementation of the architecture to which it is applied?
(Do I have the wrong end of the stick?)
You must have seen Shred mentioned in the previous discussion. It's GNU coreutils so comes as standard with most Linux (ahem: GNU/Linux) distributions, and deals with file references in your filesystem.
/dev/blah" to the device. The man pages say that this will write random data 25 times across the device before zeroing it, making a mess of the filesystem and the files too, whether or not they're stored with journaling data.
Shred is not complicated enough to waste files that has been stored on a journaled filesystem, which includes NTFS, ext3, ReiserFS and friends. This doesn't stand in the way of you plugging in a device, for example by USB/Firewire enoclosure), having it automount, according to your distribution's setup, before running "shred -z
Why switch the perfect marketing model?
You've not been following the game... The trick these days (compare ilovebees for Halo 2) is to have a viral marketing scheme that forces people to invest themselves (with their time, etc.) in the product before it's available, and the final explanation will have them unable to not purchase the item.
The viral marketing for this one focuses on "ourcolony.net".
Don't worry, I'm in the process of patenting it. The methods detailed include the specification of a "(1),(2),'(3) ???','(4) Profit!'" system, the registry of computer-directed users, the use of computer-directed users to post contextually appropriate messages and the inclusion of advertising taglines in the signatures.
I'm at the ??? stage with respect to guaranteeing succesful sales from this method: I can't find a way to ensure that the materials advocated by my system will be attractive and high-enough quality to get sales. Perhaps that's Someone Else's Problem.
I call it: the slashbot. Comes with Free iPod.
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom.
Flash animations, they really replace low-quality television with something better...
What does a PowerPC get you?
Apparently it's less of a less of a frankensteinian hacked-on-extensions monster than x86-32.
Think of the poor programmers: the ISA is more elegant and this elegance is an asset. The stuck-on extra registers and addressing modes of IA32 indicate that the system should be retired; I doubt if this will happen. Does anyone know if AMD64 in pure 64-bit mode is tidier than x86-32?
What are these O & V? I can't find them mentioned on the freedesktop.org B-DUS or HAL pages.
Signor, eet does not sound so baad een Portugese (of Brazil) or ze français (naturalement de La France!). Eet ees ze Eengleesh which makes ze name sound poncaux. In zis way we fart in your general direction!
[Cough] Seriously, Latin America will call it Manned-Reever. And France will call it Mon-Dreever (both with appropriate/respective rolled or throaty 'ar' sounds).
[this message removed so as to not prejudice my next holidaying in the usa. i have been fingerprinted and photographed as a uk citizen holidaying in the usa in the last few months.]
I may have misread TFA, but the author appears to have missed the strategic value that is to be gained from investing staff and company hours into F/OSS projects for internal use.
The article seems to view the present hobbyist-driven projects as solutions procured in the same way that a company buys in commercial programming. The differences in modus operandi are so great that this cannot be the case. The trick is to find where the middle ground lies in order to profit.
I don't knwo how to say this, but I wasn't aware that the foundations of what is a black hole were all that well defined. The part to do with matter collapsing so densely that light can't escape is a good simple explanation, but only a general one.
The Einstein Field Equations don't clearly define what goes on past the event horizons; certain conditions may be imposed which allow inspection, but these are not guaranteed to be observed in real conditions. As a mathematician, I think that there isn't a great deal to be said for what lies behind the event horizon of a singularity; the paired phenonmena are called a black hole, but that's as much as is known (except for Hawking radiation and rotational evaporation...).
The Astropyshicists will have observed these phenomona and put together some speculation about what goes on inside; this is this guy weighing into the arguement with something that looks like a mix of rhetoric, a convenient fix to the current cosmology at hand, and meaningful progress for the field.
Are you sure it hasn't changed its name since then?
Er. Fluxbox is the standard window manager in DSL, and Firefox is a standard package. At least in 1.0rc1 and later.
I have bought DRM'd DVD's, but do not plan to download anything DRM'd to my computer. I refuse to compromise and accept DRM while there isn't a clear statement of our Fair Use rights. I want to show myself trustworthy and to be trusted for the art I make use of. I suspect that the nonviolent revolution of not using Industry-Association works of art is needed.
Let's sit the content providers and the consumers down to discuss the licenses under which this stuff comes; the present system is too vague, and while DRM is helpful a way to protect content providers from users overextending the boundaries of fair use, it is not a satisfying compromise for the end-users.
However, as a consumer, I would happily accept DRM free stuff if it came with a clear statement of what I am licensed to do with this (which would push the content distributors to explain what's allowed and not, and then to trust me -- they can choose not to sell me their wares).
For the pirates, why don't the content distributors undercut their cheap copies by licensing the present-pirates to produce and market the copies themselves? DRM doesn't stop people bit-for-bit copying disks.
Then we face another question: would you buy stuff that isn't restricted to what you do with it, but is identifiable to you -- so you can be caught for sharing around what you aren't licensed to share? (Yes, what's the point? The system will be broken and people will ignore it, but we continue to need to find a way for artists to have their work recognised and be reimbursed for their efforts.)
That's actually sign language for the deaf, in a language you can choose from a menu before the interview starts. It's quite a neat feature, put together in a few lines of C# and required no recompiling between magazines or soapboxes.
(Can I start the campaign for a Surreal moderation point? Whether it's a plus or a minus is a subject for a flamewar...)
Regards Adium, it uses libgaim, which also powers the Windows port of, er, Gaim. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Are your VirtualPC sessions HURD/L4 and WinMe? You're a kerrazy fellow!
"Ah, the wonders of Channel Five. Or Channel Fünf as we've taken to calling it."