I was under the impression that LCDs sucked for fast motion video like an FPS (Quake). Is this not the case anymore?
When it came time for me to get an LCD, I refered to these two excellent Tom's Hardwarearticles with good variety and comparisons. Note many of the displays didn't show noticable ghosting with video, and a few of them they actually RECOMMEND for gaming. Indeed LCDs have come a long way.
I think it would be amusing if the "redupe" cycle on posting this article lasted so long that by the time it finished, Slashdot was running on Opteron based Sun servers.
The way I see it, there are two huge advantages to the Opteron - 2^64 bytes of addressable memory, and the new registers. I know that unless the OS is x86-64 targetted, applications won't be able to address more than 4 gigs of memory. That's a VM mapping issue the OS must deal with. So running a 32-bit OS on the Opteron negates that potential 64 bit advancement
However, could x86-64 applications that have no need for that much memory still run in the lower 4gigs of ram while using the new registers? I'm not familiar with the x86-64 specs at a low level but I do know that as Intel expanded x86 from 16 to 32 bits, flags had to be set in the CPU (and presumably supported by the o/s) for applications to use the 32 bit registers. Does anyone know if this is the case with x86-64?
There may be some strange cosmic significance about April 1st, or just a series of amazing coincidences, but many RFCs published on April 1st are of amazing importance.
I'll bite. I think American companies understand cooperation to make standards... they may be profiteering and monopolistic, but they aren't retarded. In fact, some of the big ones do come together from time to time for that purpose (usually to band together against the monopoly in their industry, but that's a good thing).
In general the difference is they have no interest in making standards. Proprietary is, in their eyes, often much more profitable.
On the other hand, Japanese corporations have taught their American counterparts crippling lessons more than once, forcing them to change their ways...
...they can't keep up for playing DVDs or streaming video. There goes my interest in them. At least, not without some hardware assist... I suppose one could try a video card that can offload the decoding....
Two comments. First off, you're right about adding a video card to offload decoding. I slapped in a random ATI Rage Pro PCI I had lying around into my Epia-800 and it could handle any DVD I threw at it without skipping a beat.
However, the Epia-M 1000 can indeed handle DVDs and Divx without any external assist at all. That's what I use as the based for my DVD/MP3 box in the HiFi room and I couldn't be happier.
Dvorak assumes the switch will be to Itanium, but even if it's to x86 or x86-64, we'll never see binary compatability with Windows-x86 - It's been tried, and it killed OS/2. That would drive the nail into the coffin of Apple's PC business.
Binary compatability with Linux and other Unices would be a different story however...
There's a picture of one here on google, although it appears the linked site is down
The google link to the site is broken - has a space in it. Here's the correct link to the site that describes how the keyboards work (and why you don't find many of them anymore). It's definately made me think about trying to find one on eBay...
I have not RTFA nor have I tested the new version of Mozilla (yet), but in IE versions since the auto-resize feature was added you could turn it off through Tools->Internet Options under the Advanced tab. It seems likely Mozilla would have the option to use it or not, and it may even be easier to deactivate the feature temporarily.
Here in San Luis Obispo, California, which is basically a university town of 45,000 people, the University splits the bill with the city and corporate donors for all Cal Poly students to ride the buses for free.
Now, granted, the price difference between free bus fare and maintaining a bike is very small, the buses are FREE...;)
I would be very surprised if this arrangement were unique to S.L.O. - any other college/university towns have the same type of deal?
This was in the current of M.I.T. Technology Review. Just a quick little blurb you can read at their site. But the online version of the article contains a slick, interactive animation of how typing with this thing would actually work.
It makes me wonder if this device could improved greatly by making it fit on both hands and having some of the typing motions be alot less awkward and quicker?:)
Just imagine if most of the electricity using world was running on solar power. I hope I live to see the day.
Oh you do, do you? What if everything was reliant on solar power and something catastrophic blocked out the sun? Don't you know that humans are the next best power source in line after the sun? I, for one, would rather not be alive to face that future.
Just give me a kernel that turns off my computer
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The only kernel that's ever actually powered down my machine on shutdown or halt is the special 2.4.8 included with my Mandrake distro.
Has anyone else had this problem and actually fixed it??
That's funny. I have a G400 and the reason I love it is because it has proper Win2k driver support to seperate the monitors logically and NOT act as one big desktop, as other duelhead solutions do in Win2k. Like you said, though, personal taste:)
What kernel? Or is everything automatically related to Linux?
While I agree with your point in spirit, I think it's fair to say that since we're talking about a new C++ compiler for LINUX, that the kernel in question was the LINUX kernel.:)
Your post and the other reply to mgblst's joke is further proof that/.er's continue on their downhill slope in the the areas of sense-of-humor and sarcasm. :)
These suckers run cool, and generally can use an extremely quiet fan Indeed, I think the 933mhz model requires a small, quiet fan. However, the 800mhz modelis a throwback to the days of the 486 requiring a passive-only heatsink. That's why it was my choice for my custom home theatre MP3/Ogg/DVD player. Plenty fast for all of that, and plenty fast for most computer users.
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Where's the "+1 Interesting, yet Highly Unfortunate" modifier? :(
I was under the impression that LCDs sucked for fast motion video like an FPS (Quake). Is this not the case anymore?
When it came time for me to get an LCD, I refered to these two excellent Tom's Hardware articles with good variety and comparisons. Note many of the displays didn't show noticable ghosting with video, and a few of them they actually RECOMMEND for gaming. Indeed LCDs have come a long way.
I think it would be amusing if the "redupe" cycle on posting this article lasted so long that by the time it finished, Slashdot was running on Opteron based Sun servers.
The way I see it, there are two huge advantages to the Opteron - 2^64 bytes of addressable memory, and the new registers. I know that unless the OS is x86-64 targetted, applications won't be able to address more than 4 gigs of memory. That's a VM mapping issue the OS must deal with. So running a 32-bit OS on the Opteron negates that potential 64 bit advancement
However, could x86-64 applications that have no need for that much memory still run in the lower 4gigs of ram while using the new registers? I'm not familiar with the x86-64 specs at a low level but I do know that as Intel expanded x86 from 16 to 32 bits, flags had to be set in the CPU (and presumably supported by the o/s) for applications to use the 32 bit registers. Does anyone know if this is the case with x86-64?
I hope this is a joke because I haven't finished reading RotK yet, you insensitive clod!
but I can't see how "The enemy's gate is down" will help us in the war in Iraq...
;)
And the superior one no doubt implemented RFC 3514
This can only be a good thing, for keeping the inferior BSD in compliance with the newest standards...
There may be some strange cosmic significance about April 1st, or just a series of amazing coincidences, but many RFCs published on April 1st are of amazing importance.
Potentially devastating Y10k problem
Lifesaving method to temporarily reroute ip in cause of equipment failure
Protocol to guarantee software engineer productivity and efficiency
Addressing ipv6 with incredible bandwidth savings
Planning ahead to Star Trek technology with current protocols and infrastructure
I don't even know what this one is about...
And many, many more. Any self-respecting network engineer should be especially familiar with all April 1st RFCs, in my opinion...
I'll bite. I think American companies understand cooperation to make standards... they may be profiteering and monopolistic, but they aren't retarded. In fact, some of the big ones do come together from time to time for that purpose (usually to band together against the monopoly in their industry, but that's a good thing).
In general the difference is they have no interest in making standards. Proprietary is, in their eyes, often much more profitable.
On the other hand, Japanese corporations have taught their American counterparts crippling lessons more than once, forcing them to change their ways...
...they can't keep up for playing DVDs or streaming video. There goes my interest in them. At least, not without some hardware assist... I suppose one could try a video card that can offload the decoding....
Two comments. First off, you're right about adding a video card to offload decoding. I slapped in a random ATI Rage Pro PCI I had lying around into my Epia-800 and it could handle any DVD I threw at it without skipping a beat.
However, the Epia-M 1000 can indeed handle DVDs and Divx without any external assist at all. That's what I use as the based for my DVD/MP3 box in the HiFi room and I couldn't be happier.
Dvorak assumes the switch will be to Itanium, but even if it's to x86 or x86-64, we'll never see binary compatability with Windows-x86 - It's been tried, and it killed OS/2. That would drive the nail into the coffin of Apple's PC business.
Binary compatability with Linux and other Unices would be a different story however...
One Quadrillion Earths is impressive and all, but let's stick to standard units people!
There's a picture of one here on google, although it appears the linked site is down
The google link to the site is broken - has a space in it. Here's the correct link to the site that describes how the keyboards work (and why you don't find many of them anymore). It's definately made me think about trying to find one on eBay...
And, to build on top of that...
...The Route is being developed so that GPS alone will not provide adequate navigation information to a Challenge Vehicle.
I have not RTFA nor have I tested the new version of Mozilla (yet), but in IE versions since the auto-resize feature was added you could turn it off through Tools->Internet Options under the Advanced tab. It seems likely Mozilla would have the option to use it or not, and it may even be easier to deactivate the feature temporarily.
1. Imagine a beowulf cluster of THOSE crepes!
...
2. In Soviet Russia, the pancake batter flips YOU!!
3. News for nerds, stuff that MATTERS???
4. Microsoft is evil, needs to stop trying to monopolize our pancakes!
5.
6. Profit!!!
No silly, it's only 330 trillion calculations per second...
Here in San Luis Obispo, California, which is basically a university town of 45,000 people, the University splits the bill with the city and corporate donors for all Cal Poly students to ride the buses for free.
;)
Now, granted, the price difference between free bus fare and maintaining a bike is very small, the buses are FREE...
I would be very surprised if this arrangement were unique to S.L.O. - any other college/university towns have the same type of deal?
This was in the current of M.I.T. Technology Review. Just a quick little blurb you can read at their site. But the online version of the article contains a slick, interactive animation of how typing with this thing would actually work.
:)
It makes me wonder if this device could improved greatly by making it fit on both hands and having some of the typing motions be alot less awkward and quicker?
Just imagine if most of the electricity using world was running on solar power. I hope I live to see the day.
Oh you do, do you? What if everything was reliant on solar power and something catastrophic blocked out the sun? Don't you know that humans are the next best power source in line after the sun? I, for one, would rather not be alive to face that future.
The only kernel that's ever actually powered down my machine on shutdown or halt is the special 2.4.8 included with my Mandrake distro.
Has anyone else had this problem and actually fixed it??
That's funny. I have a G400 and the reason I love it is because it has proper Win2k driver support to seperate the monitors logically and NOT act as one big desktop, as other duelhead solutions do in Win2k. Like you said, though, personal taste :)
What kernel? Or is everything automatically related to Linux?
:)
While I agree with your point in spirit, I think it's fair to say that since we're talking about a new C++ compiler for LINUX, that the kernel in question was the LINUX kernel.
Your post and the other reply to mgblst's joke is further proof that /.er's continue on their downhill slope in the the areas of sense-of-humor and sarcasm.
:)
These suckers run cool, and generally can use an extremely quiet fan
Indeed, I think the 933mhz model requires a small, quiet fan. However, the 800mhz modelis a throwback to the days of the 486 requiring a passive-only heatsink. That's why it was my choice for my custom home theatre MP3/Ogg/DVD player. Plenty fast for all of that, and plenty fast for most computer users.