If you could develop an interface to the GPU and video memory, you could use the graphics chip in some rendering farms or for other, more generic vector calculations. Who says you have to use a video chip for playing games or even displaying graphics?
Run the calculations more suited for the video chip's processing capabilities on the GPU and control the whole mess with the Pentium.
Probably not worth it in the end, but it would be "fun".
It seems that anti-noise headphones are quite common (especially targetted at airline flights). There are many other widespread uses of anti-noise generators for noise control on highways and airports.
Why doesn't someone put a simple anti-noise circuit, a microphone and a speaker on the output of the PSU? It would not restrict airflow if cleverly placed and the sound is consistent enough to easily generate the anti-noise.
Actually, I've seen this happen. I have a system with 96MB RAM/128MB swap. It grinded to a near halt with some web browsing in Konqueror. Under 2.4.6 it eventually killed kdeinit and recovered somewhat from the near-halt. I basically just had to kill X (It was using ~80% of mem). KDE is quite the hog! It is far worse than Windows Explorer.
The issue you refer to is the common practice of assigning IRQs. The AGP port usually shares the same interrupt line as the first PCI slot. In a correct implementation, this is not an issue because PCI/AGP interrupt lines are level triggered and allow sharing among multiple devices. If there are conflicts, it is probably due to poor implementation in the card or somewhere else. AGP is a port. It does not connect to the PCI bus.
From a Microsoft presentation on the XBox:
DirectX 8 is designed with the XBox in mind. Since the XBox is using a Geforce chip, DX8 is designed to work best with the features offered by that chip.
Also remember that NVidia has possibly the best OpenGL implementation already. They are separate entities.
Dude, I want to run at 150Hz all the time! If this is the measure of the harmonic nature of brain activity, it must be something like a clock rate. If I wear a special cooling hat can I run at 200Hz? Maybe if I run liquid oxygen through my ears...
For all of you insisting on a 4D maze with time as the 4th dimension, check out the movie Cube. I won't go into too much detail to spare those who haven't seen it yet. Great movie!
I thought of something similar to this the other day while on an airplane. If you had a computer that was composed largely of organic material, you could possibly keep it on for the entire duration of the flight. The regulations are to turn off all electrical devices during takeoff and landing, but they can't very well ask us to turn off our brains.
The cost of delivery is what makes power plants less efficient. Sure, they can produce power very efficiently, but there is so much loss in the power grid that I'd doubt it's as good as an engine in the end.
Of course, with articles like this, everyone will go out and buy RAM. There may be high demand right now, but these rumors will make demand skyrocket and make the prices even higher. Somebody at C|Net must want their memory stock to improve in value.
"FC-PGA processors are going to be all the rage in multiprocessor environments, there's no doubt about it. After all, they're small (room for more processors in crowded spaces), create less heat (smaller heatsinks, also good for crowded systems), and cheaper than Slot-1 chips, they also perform exactly the same as their larger Slot-1 counterparts."
Wasn't one of the advertised Slot-1 advantages the ability to put more in for multiprocessing because now the chip was vertical? Now they're saying back to the traditional chip socket form is better for more processors. What gives?
adbroadcast.com has a similar service for almost any wireless phone or pager that displays text. They pay people to get ads and offer the service worldwide.
I know ads pay for lots of stuff, but this just further discourages me from wanting such devices.
This will not happen for marketing reasons, but manufacturers could offer an inexpensive blue laser upgrade to players. I don't imagine a blue laser would play a red laser disc, so that would complicate things a bit (a need for dual or triple laser players), but most models are dual laser now, so I'd guess a blue laser upgrade could be offered quite profitably for $100-$150. I'd be willing to pay that for the immense increase in capacity/quality that would offer.
One of my favorite definitions, especially the storage aspect:
2. Base one. A number base with only one digit, namely zero, and which can therefore only be used to express the number zero. Attempting to add one to zero results in an infinite sequence of carries. Numbers in unary notation can be represented particularly efficiently however since each digit requires no storage.
An OS is only as secure as the software run on it. These security tests don't really test the OS because the OS needs software to provide services.
In this test, Linux lost. It may have been a poor choice of software, but it lost. NT tends to implement more functionality under the main OS while Linux relies more on other programs.
The Linux OS may be very secure, but it can't do much by itself. NT tends to be more consistent as MS dictates more over functionality that Linux would rely others to provide.
Relating these tests to the OS is silly. I could run a good or bad web server on either platform.
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I was just in it for the cash prize....
She is energetic...and would naturally serve them quickly.
If you could develop an interface to the GPU and video memory, you could use the graphics chip in some rendering farms or for other, more generic vector calculations. Who says you have to use a video chip for playing games or even displaying graphics?
Run the calculations more suited for the video chip's processing capabilities on the GPU and control the whole mess with the Pentium.
Probably not worth it in the end, but it would be "fun".
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"Moron"
"Loser"
Why doesn't someone put a simple anti-noise circuit, a microphone and a speaker on the output of the PSU? It would not restrict airflow if cleverly placed and the sound is consistent enough to easily generate the anti-noise.
A sample link: http://www.headwize.com/tech/anr_tech.htm
I work at a large, international corporation. Our office has no windows at all. It's really quite depressing at times. I miss seeing the light of day.
Fitting that such a comment comes from an Anonymous Coward....
Actually, I've seen this happen. I have a system with 96MB RAM/128MB swap. It grinded to a near halt with some web browsing in Konqueror. Under 2.4.6 it eventually killed kdeinit and recovered somewhat from the near-halt. I basically just had to kill X (It was using ~80% of mem). KDE is quite the hog! It is far worse than Windows Explorer.
The issue you refer to is the common practice of assigning IRQs. The AGP port usually shares the same interrupt line as the first PCI slot. In a correct implementation, this is not an issue because PCI/AGP interrupt lines are level triggered and allow sharing among multiple devices. If there are conflicts, it is probably due to poor implementation in the card or somewhere else. AGP is a port. It does not connect to the PCI bus.
From a Microsoft presentation on the XBox:
DirectX 8 is designed with the XBox in mind. Since the XBox is using a Geforce chip, DX8 is designed to work best with the features offered by that chip.
Also remember that NVidia has possibly the best OpenGL implementation already. They are separate entities.
Dude, I want to run at 150Hz all the time! If this is the measure of the harmonic nature of brain activity, it must be something like a clock rate. If I wear a special cooling hat can I run at 200Hz? Maybe if I run liquid oxygen through my ears...
For all of you insisting on a 4D maze with time as the 4th dimension, check out the movie Cube. I won't go into too much detail to spare those who haven't seen it yet. Great movie!
Just a thought.
The cost of delivery is what makes power plants less efficient. Sure, they can produce power very efficiently, but there is so much loss in the power grid that I'd doubt it's as good as an engine in the end.
Of course, with articles like this, everyone will go out and buy RAM. There may be high demand right now, but these rumors will make demand skyrocket and make the prices even higher.
Somebody at C|Net must want their memory stock to improve in value.
Wasn't one of the advertised Slot-1 advantages the ability to put more in for multiprocessing because now the chip was vertical? Now they're saying back to the traditional chip socket form is better for more processors. What gives?
Those Intel commercials advertising making the Internet faster with their new processors is finally starting to make sense...
I know ads pay for lots of stuff, but this just further discourages me from wanting such devices.
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So why not have glucose or other IV feeds directly into our brains?
The NCSA at UIUC here in Urbana-Champaign has had one of these for a while. I'm not sure how similar it is, but you can find out more here.
This will not happen for marketing reasons, but manufacturers could offer an inexpensive blue laser upgrade to players. I don't imagine a blue laser would play a red laser disc, so that would complicate things a bit (a need for dual or triple laser players), but most models are dual laser now, so I'd guess a blue laser upgrade could be offered quite profitably for $100-$150. I'd be willing to pay that for the immense increase in capacity/quality that would offer.
One of my favorite definitions, especially the storage aspect:
2. Base one. A number base with only one digit, namely zero, and which can therefore only be used to express the number zero. Attempting to add one to zero results in an infinite sequence of carries. Numbers in unary notation can be represented particularly efficiently however since each digit requires no storage.
(1998-07-29)
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-1999 Denis Howe
Do a search for Transmeta on Slashdot. They will use IBM plants... Here.
An OS is only as secure as the software run on it. These security tests don't really test the OS because the OS needs software to provide services.
In this test, Linux lost. It may have been a poor choice of software, but it lost. NT tends to implement more functionality under the main OS while Linux relies more on other programs.
The Linux OS may be very secure, but it can't do much by itself. NT tends to be more consistent as MS dictates more over functionality that Linux would rely others to provide.
Relating these tests to the OS is silly. I could run a good or bad web server on either platform.