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If a single post on Slashdot in the comments section can kill it, then I don't think it'd handle the load that Slashdot handles. I think a better solution would be to kill the current/. editors and install the digg.com editors in their place.
However I do want to look at it, so please can the mass migration stop for a minute so the site will actually load?
Either that, or there simply isn't a route to their server from my ISP, which would suggest they need to get a better hosting provider...
Yeah, it isn't anything new, the 2D scroller with doors into other 'slices' or to suddenly rotate the world 90 degrees. Marsport and $thegamebeforemarsport did it in the early 80s in addition to the game you mentioned. I believe The Addams Family did it at the end of the 80s on the C64, Amiga, ST, CPC and others as well. Hell, thinking about it, it was a damn common feature.
It can make a 2D game much more interesting without requiring massive hardware. Also because you aren't doing too much with the hardware, you can spend more time on making the gameplay better.
Of course, the presence of 3D hardware can make a 2D game even better. Certainly nothing wrong with using modern 3D hardware to make 2D animation smooth and dynamic, to make objects shake/move/wobble/topple realistically, and so on. Stuff that old-school 2D hardware would have struggled with, or would have had to be done by the CPU.
If I had a DS, I would possibly get both these games, they look quite fun. I certainly think that Nintendo tries to make its product unique and introduce new gaming mechanisms to enable games that simply can't work effectively on other systems. The Revolution will be interesting because of this, despite the pro-MS camp dissing it all the time (clearly they see the Revolution as the main competitor, and not the PS3).
Yeah, you're correct. It works on NeoOffice/J as well.
13 dock bounces plus very very slow progress bar to 3 dock bounces and a decent progress bar. (although I should reboot and do a proper test of startup times to be fair, I'm sure the 13 to 3 drop was merely having it in memory already).
If Java is only used for JDBC connectivity for the database component, then I think the default setting should be Java Off. In addition maybe Sun should do some work with optimising the start-up time of the JRE.
however Eclipse doesn't provide a way to set this.
Now will it deal with
blah {..}
and blah {... }
and myriad other alternatives.
However the Eclipse code formatter is generally pretty good, apart from braindead line wrapping (i'd prefer it to wrap on ',' before trying to put as much on the line as possible, also I want the next-line indent to be 'Match previous line')
The current Celerons are indeed a pile of rubbish. I don't know how Intel did it, but somehow the machines I've used that had Celerons in them took twice as long to boot as other systems, were horribly sluggish, and so on. I thought I was using a 500MHz PIII with Windows XP, not a 2.6GHz system.
However, I would hasten to add that the reason the systems were so crap was because crap processors tend to get bundled with... crap motherboards, slow hard drives, integrated graphics. That is why you avoid Celeron systems, not because of the processor, but because of the rest of the system.
Yeah, my girlfriend got a free 733MHz PIII with 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, DVD, CDRW and a GF4MX graphics card (thx robin!), with a free monitor (well, that was one of mine that was lying around actually). Can't beat that price/performance! In fact it performs pretty well except on games (it can barely manage GTAIII, heh).
What you commonly see as an "800MHz" FSB speed for an Intel system is, in fact, a 200MHz bus that can transfer 4 times a second, and you get 800 Mega-Transfers per second (MT/s). The Intel bus is 64-bits wide, so that is 6.4GB/s of data transfer.
The AMD interconnect is 1000MHz HyperTransport. This is the correct clock speed, but HyperTransport is DDR, meaning it transfers twice a second. Therefore the AMD bus transfers at 2000MT/s. However the AMD interconnect is 16-bits in each direction, or 4GB/s in each direction (for 8GB/s in total - about 23% more than the Intel bus).
Of course, AMD has the memory controller on the processor, leading to massive improvements in memory access latency, and less stress on the interconnect for CPU-Memory accesses.
From what I've seen, AMD motherboards of the equivalent feature-set to an Intel motherboard are significantly cheaper. Often by around $50. So you have to take the price of the motherboard into account - and you'd choose a different motherboard for a 3000+ than for a 4800+.
The article is useful for nothing apart from "don't buy a 3700+ because the 3800+ is a much better deal". They should have done, in addition, the entire system cost/performance graphs because that is what really matters.
And then you commit back into the repository, and BAM! 80% of the file is changed according to diff, but all you did was change a single thing besides reformat.
This is why I demand a codebase wide coding standard where I work that includes explicit standards on white space.
Anyway, to get back on topic... these laptops are nice for their intended use - luggable between locations. If someone made a rigid iMac bag it would be as well (well, the base might require some work or a custom VESA stand that compresses in size well).
A high quality copy that includes the watermark* information of the leaker, who will then never get another screener in their life. Which would suck if their job was reviewing movies.
It means that any incentive to leak the screener will disappear because they will be caught by the embedded watermark (presumably added by the special DVD player? Or maybe that is to stop them using the 'my son's friend's dog's niece did it, not me!' excuse).
I'm actually not against this to be honest. Disney want to stop pre-release screeners getting online because they do hurt their bottom line and it is a nasty breach of trust. They'll do this by making it not easy (special player required) and if it is done, they'll find the leakers (via the watermark), sue them, and remove them from their preview mailings. Any other leaker will be put off doing the same.
It won't stop actual end-user DVD releases being copied and put online. However the worry is that the technology will drop in price until all players will embed a watermark of that player's serial number. Meaning we shouldn't ever register these types of products with the manufacturer:)
* i'm assuming here that Disney is actually putting a per-reviewer watermark, or that this special DVD player will add it, onto the DVDs they send out. Otherwise this system is rather pointless, as you point out
I like Macs and Mac OS X rather more than the average Slashdotter, but iPhoto really is a poor application. It is very tied into.Mac and Apple's Photo service. Doing many simple things isn't that easy or obvious. On the other hand, it was free.
My wages are the same as they were in 2001... however my 'rank' has moved from developer to lead developer. Woo. Different companies however, the first one went bust a year after I left whilst I was living on nothing trying to run a business. In that respect, getting back into the market (despite having less up-to-date experience) at my previous rate is good. It isn't as if inflation is 15%...
Would I trade jobs now? No, i'm still absorbing a lot of new technologies. In two years time - maybe, if the wages were significantly higher and it wasn't a really dull job that made me cry tears of boredom.
Oh, I work right next to two pubs too... mmm, beer.
Indeed, it is too late for Apple right now... just as they switch to Intel something comes out that *may* be vastly more performant per Watt and far more integrated (meaning cost savings).
The first PWRficient chip, the PA6T-1682M, which dissipates between just 5-13 watts, depending upon the application, is a dual-core implementation running at 2GHz with two DDR2 memory controllers, 2MB of L2 cache, and a flexible I/O subsystem that supports eight PCI Express controllers, two 10 Gigabit Ethernet XAUI controllers, and four Gigabit Ethernet SGMII controllers sharing 24 serdes lanes. It will sample in the third calendar quarter of 2006, with single-core and quad-core versions due in early and late 2007, respectively, and an eight-core version planned for 2008.
So please can you explain your "These chips aren't due out for two or three YEARS" statement.
yes, it is another shitty slashdot story that links to the worst possible source for a story whilst ignoring all of the more useful possible sources, including the people themselves.
Hmm, what is all this "2 years" crap everyone is writing? The QUAD CORE won't be out for two years, the SINGLE core won't be out for 18 months, but the DUAL CORE will be sampling in Q3 2006, that's what all the articles I've read today have said very clearly. Even if it was sampling for 6 months, it would only be 15 months away. Not 2 years.
In addition, this company is headed by extremely skilled guys. This isn't Transmeta in any way. However it won't ever be seen in consumer computers, but maybe other consumer devices will include it inside.
But yes, we should wait for them to deliver before passing verdict.
This new processor gets >2000 SPECfp per core, >1000 SPECint per core, has 2MB shared L2 cache, dual 10GigE and Quad GigE interfaces, TCP/IP offload, security offload, etc. All in 5-13W typical.
Dual-core Xeon has... two cores, 2MB L2 per core, no TCP/IP offload, no security offload. All in 135W typical.
Sorry, you can't get dual-core Pentium M processors yet, certainly not ones with 64-bit capability or SIMD instructions. By the time this new processor comes out, Merom will be coming out of course, and include these. However Merom is 35W max, this chip is 25W max and includes an entire northbridge and more as well.
But I think you need to come up with a total of 5 female and male names for each letter for it to be a viable option. But that should be easy enough with the name lists that are readily available.
I really like the idea of a house-wide battery-backed-up DC power circuit, one for lighting (replacing the current AC lighting circuit (5A @ 230V in the UK = 1150W)) and one for power outlets (40V @ 15A = 600W on the circuit, enough for all the various chargers and low-power devices, and it would encourage lower-power device creation).
Things like amplifiers and computers can still use the AC outlet for their power needs.
If there was a power cut, my (new compliant) cable modem, my (new compliant) router, and my laptop would still be operational! Thus life's needs are catered for, and safety is improved because house lighting will still works instead of having to light up a bunch of candles. Also all the lights that have an integral AC-DC convertor can be reduced in size and get cheaper to boot. I imagine they'll need a new fitting standard too.
1) is great when you get up at night and are fumbling for the bathroom... I hate being blinded by standard lightbulbs. The slow-warm up ones are far nicer on the eyes.
2) I've never noticed any smell from these lightbulbs and my parents got into them 15 years ago so I've been around them for a long long time.
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/. editors and install the digg.com editors in their place.
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading."
If a single post on Slashdot in the comments section can kill it, then I don't think it'd handle the load that Slashdot handles. I think a better solution would be to kill the current
However I do want to look at it, so please can the mass migration stop for a minute so the site will actually load?
Either that, or there simply isn't a route to their server from my ISP, which would suggest they need to get a better hosting provider...
Yeah, it isn't anything new, the 2D scroller with doors into other 'slices' or to suddenly rotate the world 90 degrees. Marsport and $thegamebeforemarsport did it in the early 80s in addition to the game you mentioned. I believe The Addams Family did it at the end of the 80s on the C64, Amiga, ST, CPC and others as well. Hell, thinking about it, it was a damn common feature.
It can make a 2D game much more interesting without requiring massive hardware. Also because you aren't doing too much with the hardware, you can spend more time on making the gameplay better.
Of course, the presence of 3D hardware can make a 2D game even better. Certainly nothing wrong with using modern 3D hardware to make 2D animation smooth and dynamic, to make objects shake/move/wobble/topple realistically, and so on. Stuff that old-school 2D hardware would have struggled with, or would have had to be done by the CPU.
If I had a DS, I would possibly get both these games, they look quite fun. I certainly think that Nintendo tries to make its product unique and introduce new gaming mechanisms to enable games that simply can't work effectively on other systems. The Revolution will be interesting because of this, despite the pro-MS camp dissing it all the time (clearly they see the Revolution as the main competitor, and not the PS3).
Yeah, you're correct. It works on NeoOffice/J as well.
13 dock bounces plus very very slow progress bar to 3 dock bounces and a decent progress bar.
(although I should reboot and do a proper test of startup times to be fair, I'm sure the 13 to 3 drop was merely having it in memory already).
If Java is only used for JDBC connectivity for the database component, then I think the default setting should be Java Off. In addition maybe Sun should do some work with optimising the start-up time of the JRE.
Yeah, I know that diff has a flag for whitespace.
..}
...
however Eclipse doesn't provide a way to set this.
Now will it deal with
blah {
and blah
{
}
and myriad other alternatives.
However the Eclipse code formatter is generally pretty good, apart from braindead line wrapping (i'd prefer it to wrap on ',' before trying to put as much on the line as possible, also I want the next-line indent to be 'Match previous line')
The current Celerons are indeed a pile of rubbish. I don't know how Intel did it, but somehow the machines I've used that had Celerons in them took twice as long to boot as other systems, were horribly sluggish, and so on. I thought I was using a 500MHz PIII with Windows XP, not a 2.6GHz system.
... crap motherboards, slow hard drives, integrated graphics. That is why you avoid Celeron systems, not because of the processor, but because of the rest of the system.
However, I would hasten to add that the reason the systems were so crap was because crap processors tend to get bundled with
Yeah, my girlfriend got a free 733MHz PIII with 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, DVD, CDRW and a GF4MX graphics card (thx robin!), with a free monitor (well, that was one of mine that was lying around actually). Can't beat that price/performance! In fact it performs pretty well except on games (it can barely manage GTAIII, heh).
You seem confused about bus speeds.
What you commonly see as an "800MHz" FSB speed for an Intel system is, in fact, a 200MHz bus that can transfer 4 times a second, and you get 800 Mega-Transfers per second (MT/s). The Intel bus is 64-bits wide, so that is 6.4GB/s of data transfer.
The AMD interconnect is 1000MHz HyperTransport. This is the correct clock speed, but HyperTransport is DDR, meaning it transfers twice a second. Therefore the AMD bus transfers at 2000MT/s. However the AMD interconnect is 16-bits in each direction, or 4GB/s in each direction (for 8GB/s in total - about 23% more than the Intel bus).
Of course, AMD has the memory controller on the processor, leading to massive improvements in memory access latency, and less stress on the interconnect for CPU-Memory accesses.
From what I've seen, AMD motherboards of the equivalent feature-set to an Intel motherboard are significantly cheaper. Often by around $50. So you have to take the price of the motherboard into account - and you'd choose a different motherboard for a 3000+ than for a 4800+.
The article is useful for nothing apart from "don't buy a 3700+ because the 3800+ is a much better deal". They should have done, in addition, the entire system cost/performance graphs because that is what really matters.
I always wonder why I feel more appreciated at work during winter. :(
And then you commit back into the repository, and BAM! 80% of the file is changed according to diff, but all you did was change a single thing besides reformat.
... these laptops are nice for their intended use - luggable between locations. If someone made a rigid iMac bag it would be as well (well, the base might require some work or a custom VESA stand that compresses in size well).
This is why I demand a codebase wide coding standard where I work that includes explicit standards on white space.
Anyway, to get back on topic
Indeed, I'd be interested in the new Powerbook's 17" 1650x1050 display as a stand-alone desktop display as well.
I'm sick of 1280x1024 19" TFTs. Nice two years ago, but now I want more. Ah well, there's always Dell and their widescreen displays.
A high quality copy that includes the watermark* information of the leaker, who will then never get another screener in their life. Which would suck if their job was reviewing movies.
:)
It means that any incentive to leak the screener will disappear because they will be caught by the embedded watermark (presumably added by the special DVD player? Or maybe that is to stop them using the 'my son's friend's dog's niece did it, not me!' excuse).
I'm actually not against this to be honest. Disney want to stop pre-release screeners getting online because they do hurt their bottom line and it is a nasty breach of trust. They'll do this by making it not easy (special player required) and if it is done, they'll find the leakers (via the watermark), sue them, and remove them from their preview mailings. Any other leaker will be put off doing the same.
It won't stop actual end-user DVD releases being copied and put online. However the worry is that the technology will drop in price until all players will embed a watermark of that player's serial number. Meaning we shouldn't ever register these types of products with the manufacturer
* i'm assuming here that Disney is actually putting a per-reviewer watermark, or that this special DVD player will add it, onto the DVDs they send out. Otherwise this system is rather pointless, as you point out
I like Macs and Mac OS X rather more than the average Slashdotter, but iPhoto really is a poor application. It is very tied into .Mac and Apple's Photo service. Doing many simple things isn't that easy or obvious. On the other hand, it was free.
Probably why they released Aperture.
My wages are the same as they were in 2001 ... however my 'rank' has moved from developer to lead developer. Woo. Different companies however, the first one went bust a year after I left whilst I was living on nothing trying to run a business. In that respect, getting back into the market (despite having less up-to-date experience) at my previous rate is good. It isn't as if inflation is 15% ...
... mmm, beer.
Would I trade jobs now? No, i'm still absorbing a lot of new technologies. In two years time - maybe, if the wages were significantly higher and it wasn't a really dull job that made me cry tears of boredom.
Oh, I work right next to two pubs too
I wasn't aware it used Java, but if it does then Java + OpenGL (via JOGL) performs very nicely.
Indeed, it is too late for Apple right now ... just as they switch to Intel something comes out that *may* be vastly more performant per Watt and far more integrated (meaning cost savings).
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Anyway, for more information on the core of this new processor: http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=R
The last line is very interesting: "per core typical power at 4W and worst case at 7W"
your geek creds are hereby revoked.
:)
Oh well, I'll live.
Thanks for the recommendation. :)
Reread it.
Sampling 3Q 2006. That's under a year away.
2006 != 2007
Sure, it is only sampling, but will they be sampling it for a whole year?
Very unlikely, if it was him he wouldn't have linked to the WORST story about the new processor you are likely to find.
PA Semiconductor Release
THE PWRficient PROCESSOR ROLLOUT
The first PWRficient chip, the PA6T-1682M, which dissipates between just 5-13 watts, depending upon the application, is a dual-core implementation running at 2GHz with two DDR2 memory controllers, 2MB of L2 cache, and a flexible I/O subsystem that supports eight PCI Express controllers, two 10 Gigabit Ethernet XAUI controllers, and four Gigabit Ethernet SGMII controllers sharing 24 serdes lanes. It will sample in the third calendar quarter of 2006, with single-core and quad-core versions due in early and late 2007, respectively, and an eight-core version planned for 2008.
So please can you explain your "These chips aren't due out for two or three YEARS" statement.
yes, it is another shitty slashdot story that links to the worst possible source for a story whilst ignoring all of the more useful possible sources, including the people themselves.
Hmm, what is all this "2 years" crap everyone is writing? The QUAD CORE won't be out for two years, the SINGLE core won't be out for 18 months, but the DUAL CORE will be sampling in Q3 2006, that's what all the articles I've read today have said very clearly. Even if it was sampling for 6 months, it would only be 15 months away. Not 2 years.
In addition, this company is headed by extremely skilled guys. This isn't Transmeta in any way. However it won't ever be seen in consumer computers, but maybe other consumer devices will include it inside.
But yes, we should wait for them to deliver before passing verdict.
Except we should compare like with like.
... two cores, 2MB L2 per core, no TCP/IP offload, no security offload. All in 135W typical.
This new processor gets >2000 SPECfp per core, >1000 SPECint per core, has 2MB shared L2 cache, dual 10GigE and Quad GigE interfaces, TCP/IP offload, security offload, etc. All in 5-13W typical.
Dual-core Xeon has
Sorry, you can't get dual-core Pentium M processors yet, certainly not ones with 64-bit capability or SIMD instructions. By the time this new processor comes out, Merom will be coming out of course, and include these. However Merom is 35W max, this chip is 25W max and includes an entire northbridge and more as well.
Quentin, err ... Yolanda umm :p
Ulrika, Ursula, Ulrich, Una, err
Xanthe
Yvette, err
Zardoz
But I think you need to come up with a total of 5 female and male names for each letter for it to be a viable option. But that should be easy enough with the name lists that are readily available.
I really like the idea of a house-wide battery-backed-up DC power circuit, one for lighting (replacing the current AC lighting circuit (5A @ 230V in the UK = 1150W)) and one for power outlets (40V @ 15A = 600W on the circuit, enough for all the various chargers and low-power devices, and it would encourage lower-power device creation).
Things like amplifiers and computers can still use the AC outlet for their power needs.
If there was a power cut, my (new compliant) cable modem, my (new compliant) router, and my laptop would still be operational! Thus life's needs are catered for, and safety is improved because house lighting will still works instead of having to light up a bunch of candles. Also all the lights that have an integral AC-DC convertor can be reduced in size and get cheaper to boot. I imagine they'll need a new fitting standard too.
1) is great when you get up at night and are fumbling for the bathroom ... I hate being blinded by standard lightbulbs. The slow-warm up ones are far nicer on the eyes.
2) I've never noticed any smell from these lightbulbs and my parents got into them 15 years ago so I've been around them for a long long time.