Well if you want to get really picky, I believe it is a "disc" that is round, as in "compact disc" rather than "compact disk."
A "disk" on the other hand, seems to be more of a generic storage term. Even HDs are referred to as "disk" because the round platters are just part of the insides, we don't see them.
I'd have to use the machine for Sam and Max, defnitely.
If only to visit "Bosco's Guns, Liquor, Baby Needs" one more time. (I hope I got that somewhat right. There are too many tidbits in that game to remember all at once)
I'd imagine that the most streamlined versions of Linux would always be the custom or application-specific ones anyway. (example: freesco)
After all, the goal of the big distros is to be a good desktop OS with the power of Linux. It might not get as bad as windows, but it's trying to provide the same functionality (or better) and so these things take resources.
About your comment of not being able to notice an increase from 30fps to 60fps, are you serious? Do you play games or anything?
Not trying to get down on you or start one of those "what can the human eye see" deals, but surely you can't think 60fps wouldn't make things look MUCH smoother!
Hell, after being used to my monitor, I can see bright areas on movie screens flickering... ugh.
I live in a small dorm room in PA and have yet to turn on my heat all winter. I have window fans constantly blowing outward as well. My Althon 1.33GHz (with some help from my 19" monitor) is the sole source of heat for my room.
The problem with that whole EULA argument is that the choice not to "sign" is often false. When you have a local broadband monopoly, or a few who have the same basic EULA, it's basically the restricted service or none.
Not that it's a huge issue to individuals though. We'll see if they can everyone.
Yeah, if you look into P=IV, it pretty much says it all.
I mean, if you have a current going through a resistor, it dissipates X power.
If you have two of those resistors in parallel, they each have the same current flow, so the voltage is the same but the current is twice as much. So obviously since they each dissipate X, the total is 2X. (doubling current but not voltage)
Similarly, if you put the two in series, it takes twice the voltage to get the same current running through them. Since half that doubled voltage is dropped over each resistor and the current is the same, then you have each resistor dissipating the same power again, and the total is 2X. (doubling voltage but not current)
But if you take a single resistor, and just double the voltage, the current will also double. That's why it's a power of two, because current increases linearly with voltage, and you're already multiplying by voltage. hence V^2/R
Sorry to be so wordy about it, just trying to explain as best I can.
FYI, you cannot use the "correct ratio of Volts to Amps" to control how much power you use.
The simple equations V=IR and P=IV help show this.
A light bulb is kinda like a resistor, just not perfectly linear. (V=IR refers to a linear resistor)
So, your light bulb has a fixed resistance, let's say. If you put 120 volts over it, then that will cause some current to flow. Similarly, if you force a certain current, like 1 amp through it, then that will require your current source to raise the voltage over the device so much.
You can do some substitution to get P=V^2/R. What makes your light bulb draw 100W is that at 120VAC, the resistance of the bulb happens to allow enough current to dissipate 100W of power.
So, increasing the voltage 4x to 480 volts would make the 100W bulb dissipate something like 1,600W, and you'd have 4x the current.
Either way, I don't think that's how they managed to use 4500 watts. =)
Yeah, that was pretty much how I understood it, as DRAM in a kind of wrapper. (might be a bad word, but hey)
If the structure offers a performance boost then that's good. But the whole point is that since the implementation is in DRAM, you're still limited there.
Too bad it can't be real SRAM though. =)
Like if they made that 4MB embedded super-fast video RAM on the PS2 into 8 or even 16 megs, how sweet that would be.
It's my understanding that nintendo's "1T-SRAM" is a complete lie. It seems like a label intended to become a buzzword among cube fans.
I've talked to professors and such about it, but the bottom line is that DRAM uses one transistor while SRAM uses 5-6 typically. Sram is much more expensive than DRAM because of this.
I promise you that the main system memory in the $199 gamecube is not SRAM. The L1/2 cache on your CPU running at a gigahertz, THAT's real SRAM.
It's probably still much lower latency than, say, the RAMBUS used in the PS2 though.
If you believe that there's not a difference between 30 and 45 (or higher) than you're just wrong. It's not even a matter of opinion.
Things on TV and movies have blurring in the frames that help make up for the low framerate.
I myself rarely go see movies and when I do, bright spots really bother me at first because I can see the flickering and stuttering of the image. But that's what I get for being used to 85 Hz.
While what you said about businesses buying computers certainly is true, you should know that the ability to overclock a chip DOES relate to the quality of the chip. I realize "quality" is a relative term here depending on what you care about...
but, in order for a chip to function at a certain frequency, the signals have to be able to propagate from start to finish and be valid before the next clock cycle. If two CPUs A and B are both 1GHz, then their overclockability relative to one another reflects their manufactured quality. If CPU A will overclock to 1.5GHz and B will only go to 1050MHz, then B is much more likely to crash on a hot day.
That's probably the reason Athlons are overclockable in the first place, since they're so hot under normal conditions. =)
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Something most of the replys here fail to mention is actually being able to do WORK over the network. At school (CMU) I can read my email in pine while using Solaris-based graphical design tools, all on my win2k desktop. That's much better than having ten times as many expensive workstations so everybody can finish their projects.
Situations where companies can dump pollutants and kill people are NOT free markets. In a free market the companies must pay 100% of the costs associated with their production, which includes any medical expenses or imaginary pain, suffering, or death costs.
AFAIK, history has not proven anything regarding 100% free markets, since a truely free market has never existed, save for maybe some very primitive settings. In a true free market, consumers have ALL the information about ALL the products, and the producers pay ALL costs associated with making thos products.
Clearly, big monopolistic entities (RIAA, MPAA, MSFT to throw out some bad 4-letter words) want nothing more than to keep information about the true nature of their products and business practices FROM us.
As for the availability of information, that would probably include open-sourcing software, but anybody who used the code would have to pay a fee to cover a fraction of the R&D costs. Therefore both companies making windows CDs would be putting out the same costs and actually competing. The money would go to the most efficient producer, not the one who got the lucky break or grabbed all the patents first.
Of course it doesn't work that way, which is why big entities corrupt the market, because as soon as they get big enough, they set up safeguards to ensure that they won't fall from power.
There's no mention of operations per second. He's talking about the switching time of each transistor in a pipeline stage. If a module in a 1GHz CPU has 50 transistors in series from one end to the other, then each transistor must be able to switch in a time equivalent to 50GHz. (if it were alone and switching constantly)
Those 50 transistor delays add up and create a bigger delay, so while they can do 50GHz, the CPU only does 1.
That's why there's pipelining in the first place, to shorten your critical path through the circuit.
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I don't see where the problem is here. Maybe the schedule you're thinking of is flipped.
Well if you want to get really picky, I believe it is a "disc" that is round, as in "compact disc" rather than "compact disk."
A "disk" on the other hand, seems to be more of a generic storage term. Even HDs are referred to as "disk" because the round platters are just part of the insides, we don't see them.
So you're saying you would rather have not been born? That's what would have happened in your case. Be proud of your genetic diversity! =)
Thank you, I was just checking to see if I had to chime in on this little pet peeve. =)
Unless Tandy has a "Never Die" policy, "Tandy's Never Die" doesn't make sense.
My point was that it uses more resources for MORE things, because of the widespread desire for neato Linux desktops.
When I compared it to windows, I wasn't making a comparison between it and linux.
But I agree that it would be cool to have a common "old computer" distro.
I think others also commented regarding distros that will let you choose not to install most packages anyway.
I'd have to use the machine for Sam and Max, defnitely.
If only to visit "Bosco's Guns, Liquor, Baby Needs" one more time. (I hope I got that somewhat right. There are too many tidbits in that game to remember all at once)
I'd imagine that the most streamlined versions of Linux would always be the custom or application-specific ones anyway. (example: freesco)
After all, the goal of the big distros is to be a good desktop OS with the power of Linux. It might not get as bad as windows, but it's trying to provide the same functionality (or better) and so these things take resources.
About your comment of not being able to notice an increase from 30fps to 60fps, are you serious? Do you play games or anything?
Not trying to get down on you or start one of those "what can the human eye see" deals, but surely you can't think 60fps wouldn't make things look MUCH smoother!
Hell, after being used to my monitor, I can see bright areas on movie screens flickering... ugh.
I live in a small dorm room in PA and have yet to turn on my heat all winter. I have window fans constantly blowing outward as well. My Althon 1.33GHz (with some help from my 19" monitor) is the sole source of heat for my room.
The problem with that whole EULA argument is that the choice not to "sign" is often false. When you have a local broadband monopoly, or a few who have the same basic EULA, it's basically the restricted service or none.
Not that it's a huge issue to individuals though. We'll see if they can everyone.
Yeah, if you look into P=IV, it pretty much says it all.
I mean, if you have a current going through a resistor, it dissipates X power.
If you have two of those resistors in parallel, they each have the same current flow, so the voltage is the same but the current is twice as much. So obviously since they each dissipate X, the total is 2X. (doubling current but not voltage)
Similarly, if you put the two in series, it takes twice the voltage to get the same current running through them. Since half that doubled voltage is dropped over each resistor and the current is the same, then you have each resistor dissipating the same power again, and the total is 2X. (doubling voltage but not current)
But if you take a single resistor, and just double the voltage, the current will also double. That's why it's a power of two, because current increases linearly with voltage, and you're already multiplying by voltage. hence V^2/R
Sorry to be so wordy about it, just trying to explain as best I can.
Yeah, that's all we need. Giant gyrosopes robbing the earth of its rotational energy!
True, but he also mentioned increasing the voltage.
FYI, you cannot use the "correct ratio of Volts to Amps" to control how much power you use.
The simple equations V=IR and P=IV help show this.
A light bulb is kinda like a resistor, just not perfectly linear. (V=IR refers to a linear resistor)
So, your light bulb has a fixed resistance, let's say. If you put 120 volts over it, then that will cause some current to flow. Similarly, if you force a certain current, like 1 amp through it, then that will require your current source to raise the voltage over the device so much.
You can do some substitution to get P=V^2/R. What makes your light bulb draw 100W is that at 120VAC, the resistance of the bulb happens to allow enough current to dissipate 100W of power.
So, increasing the voltage 4x to 480 volts would make the 100W bulb dissipate something like 1,600W, and you'd have 4x the current.
Either way, I don't think that's how they managed to use 4500 watts. =)
It definitely came out. I think you could play it with 4 people too. Probably kinda rare though.
He has a low UID too. Not surprising. =)
I demand the return of my shack dammit!
Yeah, that was pretty much how I understood it, as DRAM in a kind of wrapper. (might be a bad word, but hey)
If the structure offers a performance boost then that's good. But the whole point is that since the implementation is in DRAM, you're still limited there.
Too bad it can't be real SRAM though. =)
Like if they made that 4MB embedded super-fast video RAM on the PS2 into 8 or even 16 megs, how sweet that would be.
It's my understanding that nintendo's "1T-SRAM" is a complete lie. It seems like a label intended to become a buzzword among cube fans.
I've talked to professors and such about it, but the bottom line is that DRAM uses one transistor while SRAM uses 5-6 typically. Sram is much more expensive than DRAM because of this.
I promise you that the main system memory in the $199 gamecube is not SRAM. The L1/2 cache on your CPU running at a gigahertz, THAT's real SRAM.
It's probably still much lower latency than, say, the RAMBUS used in the PS2 though.
If you believe that there's not a difference between 30 and 45 (or higher) than you're just wrong. It's not even a matter of opinion.
Things on TV and movies have blurring in the frames that help make up for the low framerate.
I myself rarely go see movies and when I do, bright spots really bother me at first because I can see the flickering and stuttering of the image. But that's what I get for being used to 85 Hz.
If you want to get picky, it looks to me like he has a 40 millibit disk. I bet it's really good on power though!
While what you said about businesses buying computers certainly is true, you should know that the ability to overclock a chip DOES relate to the quality of the chip. I realize "quality" is a relative term here depending on what you care about...
but, in order for a chip to function at a certain frequency, the signals have to be able to propagate from start to finish and be valid before the next clock cycle. If two CPUs A and B are both 1GHz, then their overclockability relative to one another reflects their manufactured quality. If CPU A will overclock to 1.5GHz and B will only go to 1050MHz, then B is much more likely to crash on a hot day.
That's probably the reason Athlons are overclockable in the first place, since they're so hot under normal conditions. =)
Something most of the replys here fail to mention is actually being able to do WORK over the network. At school (CMU) I can read my email in pine while using Solaris-based graphical design tools, all on my win2k desktop. That's much better than having ten times as many expensive workstations so everybody can finish their projects.
Situations where companies can dump pollutants and kill people are NOT free markets. In a free market the companies must pay 100% of the costs associated with their production, which includes any medical expenses or imaginary pain, suffering, or death costs.
AFAIK, history has not proven anything regarding 100% free markets, since a truely free market has never existed, save for maybe some very primitive settings. In a true free market, consumers have ALL the information about ALL the products, and the producers pay ALL costs associated with making thos products.
Clearly, big monopolistic entities (RIAA, MPAA, MSFT to throw out some bad 4-letter words) want nothing more than to keep information about the true nature of their products and business practices FROM us.
As for the availability of information, that would probably include open-sourcing software, but anybody who used the code would have to pay a fee to cover a fraction of the R&D costs. Therefore both companies making windows CDs would be putting out the same costs and actually competing. The money would go to the most efficient producer, not the one who got the lucky break or grabbed all the patents first.
Of course it doesn't work that way, which is why big entities corrupt the market, because as soon as they get big enough, they set up safeguards to ensure that they won't fall from power.
There's no mention of operations per second. He's talking about the switching time of each transistor in a pipeline stage. If a module in a 1GHz CPU has 50 transistors in series from one end to the other, then each transistor must be able to switch in a time equivalent to 50GHz. (if it were alone and switching constantly)
Those 50 transistor delays add up and create a bigger delay, so while they can do 50GHz, the CPU only does 1.
That's why there's pipelining in the first place, to shorten your critical path through the circuit.