You misunderstand. The way SDRAM works, you don't NEED 800Mhz traces to achieve greater bandwidth.
DDR SDRAM in the 133-150Mhz range supplies more bandwidth than 800Mhz RDRAM. It also does it with lower latency.
Also, right now, the memory really isn't the problem. Intel's GTL+ interface is. Basically it tops out around 800Mb/s.
Maybe some time in the future, when motherboard trace counts get unconscionably high, a soloution like RDRAM will be more attractive. Right now, it's performance is less, and it's cost more than commodity SDRAM.
The reason Beta failed was because SONY tried to push Beta forward alone. They didn't want to share the VCR market with anyone and wanted to control the standards.
Unfortunately, everybody jumped onto the VHS bandwagon (and basically told Sony where to stick their licensing fees) and the inferior VCR format prevailed.
Right now, while RDRAM is a very forward-thinking step, it's usefulness compared to a well tuned SDRAM system is next to negligible.
RAMBUS and Intel keep spouting off about how future generations of RDRAM will be more powerful. Well, that's in the future. Right now, RDRAM is an expensive, proprietary, uncecessary boondoggle.
Some day we WILL have to go to a serial memory device like RAMBUS. But that day hasn't come yet.
That's the thing. France doesn't want Yahoo to censor THEM. They just want them to censor someone ELSE.
Personally, if some moron wants to trade Mein Kampf online or someone's selling old WW2 pistols, I could personally give a damn. My grandfather served in France during WW2. I understand the atrocities that went on.
I'm not saying "forget what has gone before". Quite the opposite. Remember, and learn.
The French government is trying to blot out a spot in history simply because they find it personally repugnant. All they're doing is making it easier for such things to happen again.
Banning sales of things, simply because they evoke emotional response from someone is ridiculous. That leaves EVERTHING open to banning.
Nowadays, with "GPL" being used as a buzzword, it's probably a good idea to discuss the effects of GPL and their rammifications. In english instead of legalese.
The reason 3Com is not supporting the TotalSwitch anymore (and I have one too, it's a SWEET piece of hardware) is that they already had a competing line of products (Their SuperStack switches). Depending on who takes over development of the code patches: The issue is the 100bT, it's not duplex, though it was supposed to be duplex upon market emergence, and was to be patched when they (USR) got sucked into the 3Com conglomerate. Personally, I'd be willing to contribute money (some, I'm not rich), webspace (which I have in abundance), or whatever, to support a project designed to bring the product up to the promised specs, buy/develop the rights to the firmware code, etc.
Metallica differentiated MP3 trading from Bootleg tape trading on the grounds of "better quality". Say what? Currently RIAA has a pretty solid lock on the two highest fidelity methods of music distribution extant. Vinyl and CD. All MP3's, no matter their bitrate, are all inferior (though for most people it's barely noticable) to CD quality music. So if Metallica has a history of approving of bootlegs, how can Metallica..well, the RIAA actually push an arbitrary quality level on us?
No, because the code's author has the right to redistribute his code under another license as he/she sees fit. So basically he gets with nVidia, comes up with a "GetRidOfItASAP License" and there you go. The phone call and the agreement between Mr. Metzler and nVidia becomes a binding and legal contract/license.
Now when somebody asks about butt-stomping 3D, how many people (outside of ATI's marketing drones) instantly think "ATI!"?
Also, their drivers are somewhat less than stellar.
And MAXX'ed? Didn't we already see that MAXX technology does undesireable things to one's latency? Who cares if you get 150fps if you're a half-step behind everyone else?
True, ATI MAY have gotten their act together. I think I'll sit this generation of their cards out though. They've got a bit to prove to me before I go and plunk down the dross for one of their cards.
An old, and incorrect argument rears it's ugly head again.
Also, 30fps is roughly the threshold for fluid in computer graphic. 60fps is the generally accepted threshold for completely smooth movement.
FPS are important. Minimum or average FPS are most important. A card is nothing if it gets 200fps in an empty scene, but drops to 1fps when anything enters the scene. Also, due to limitations on current SOTA 3d technology, people ARE able to differentiate between framerates above 60fps. Mostly from visual artifacting due to large differentiations between frames (lack of smooth transitions).
Now not everyone can necessarily differentiate 60 and 70fps. But some can. Remember, everyone's eyes are different, as are the exact speeds of their neural connections, etc.
Now if you're not overly concerned about VQ, go ahead and get a card that maxes out at 60fps. I prefer a card that runs faster.
Also, current speed in the newest games is a way to roughly guage the lifespan of the card. If the card gets 60fps in current games at your desired resoloution, it stands to reason that upcoming games will hit it's performance down to undesireable levels.
I'm a little skeptical about this. Of course I'm a little skeptical about just about everything. So that's no surprise.
For short term situations, especially when you take into account the normal, high-calorie diet that an active soldier takes in (yes, it's quite high calorie, they burn in all in the course of an active day, though more sedentry MOS'es either tend to eat less, or fatten up).
But as a long-term soloution, I don't think that a nutrient patch and liquid suppliments will cut it. It's not a complete substitute for the raw caloric intake required by the body. After a while, even with a perfectly balanced nutrient suppliment, the body's going to break down available fat and muscle tissue to get the raw materials neede to help keep cellular regeneration going. Otherwise parts of your body are going to die.
Yeah, nutrient patches will slow this, but they won't stop it. Once a person reaches 0% body fat, the raw materials for cellular repair have to come from somewhere.
Bought my first Firebird (used) from an ex-Army Reserve guy. What do I find in the compartment over the back wheel? C-Rations. This stuff was older than I was (I was 20 at the time)! If I'd had the courage to actually open it, I probably could have used the stuff as grout filler in the bathroom in my barracks. People bitch and moan about MRE. I say, give 'em C-rats for a couple days. MRE's look a lot tastier after that.
They wanted to do the fun stuff themselves! Not patch you up afterward!
Well, at least you didn't gross people out with the recipie for the chocolate "field pudding" from the hot chocolate mix, creamer, sugar, and water.....
I wonder when the DVD-CCD is going to realize, and accept, the fact that their attempts at controlling where we can play OUR DVD media is pretty much futile.
Personally, I could care less about some piece of babysitting software. About the only time I find the use of it offensive, is when it's enforced upon a non-minor by another entity (such as the fuster cluck down in Australia).
I put together a fully functional 2-page site, with two small images. The total weight of all 4 files is 2045 bytes, 3 bytes short 2K. Total downloadable weight (how much transfer you use to pull both pages of the site, assuming you load each of the images twice) is 2523 bytes (2.46K)
Technically it's not fully compliant due to it's lack of the DTD statement in the HTML tag. But I've tested the site with every browser I have access to:
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.g amepc.com/reviews/hardware_review.asp?review=ka710 0&page=1
They have a review of the KA7 with the ATA/100 support. It also, apparently has support on the controller for IDE RAID.
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You misunderstand. The way SDRAM works, you don't NEED 800Mhz traces to achieve greater bandwidth.
DDR SDRAM in the 133-150Mhz range supplies more bandwidth than 800Mhz RDRAM. It also does it with lower latency.
Also, right now, the memory really isn't the problem. Intel's GTL+ interface is. Basically it tops out around 800Mb/s.
Maybe some time in the future, when motherboard trace counts get unconscionably high, a soloution like RDRAM will be more attractive. Right now, it's performance is less, and it's cost more than commodity SDRAM.
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Your Beta analogy is more apt than you know.
The reason Beta failed was because SONY tried to push Beta forward alone. They didn't want to share the VCR market with anyone and wanted to control the standards.
Unfortunately, everybody jumped onto the VHS bandwagon (and basically told Sony where to stick their licensing fees) and the inferior VCR format prevailed.
Right now, while RDRAM is a very forward-thinking step, it's usefulness compared to a well tuned SDRAM system is next to negligible.
RAMBUS and Intel keep spouting off about how future generations of RDRAM will be more powerful. Well, that's in the future. Right now, RDRAM is an expensive, proprietary, uncecessary boondoggle.
Some day we WILL have to go to a serial memory device like RAMBUS. But that day hasn't come yet.
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That's the thing. France doesn't want Yahoo to censor THEM. They just want them to censor someone ELSE.
Personally, if some moron wants to trade Mein Kampf online or someone's selling old WW2 pistols, I could personally give a damn. My grandfather served in France during WW2. I understand the atrocities that went on.
I'm not saying "forget what has gone before". Quite the opposite. Remember, and learn.
The French government is trying to blot out a spot in history simply because they find it personally repugnant. All they're doing is making it easier for such things to happen again.
Banning sales of things, simply because they evoke emotional response from someone is ridiculous. That leaves EVERTHING open to banning.
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Nowadays, with "GPL" being used as a buzzword, it's probably a good idea to discuss the effects of GPL and their rammifications. In english instead of legalese.
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The reason 3Com is not supporting the TotalSwitch anymore (and I have one too, it's a SWEET piece of hardware) is that they already had a competing line of products (Their SuperStack switches). Depending on who takes over development of the code patches: The issue is the 100bT, it's not duplex, though it was supposed to be duplex upon market emergence, and was to be patched when they (USR) got sucked into the 3Com conglomerate. Personally, I'd be willing to contribute money (some, I'm not rich), webspace (which I have in abundance), or whatever, to support a project designed to bring the product up to the promised specs, buy/develop the rights to the firmware code, etc.
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Metallica differentiated MP3 trading from Bootleg tape trading on the grounds of "better quality". Say what? Currently RIAA has a pretty solid lock on the two highest fidelity methods of music distribution extant. Vinyl and CD. All MP3's, no matter their bitrate, are all inferior (though for most people it's barely noticable) to CD quality music. So if Metallica has a history of approving of bootlegs, how can Metallica..well, the RIAA actually push an arbitrary quality level on us?
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No honor among thieves.
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Do you think there will be a backlash from you prosecuting Napster users who are part of your fan base?
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No, because the code's author has the right to redistribute his code under another license as he/she sees fit. So basically he gets with nVidia, comes up with a "GetRidOfItASAP License" and there you go. The phone call and the agreement between Mr. Metzler and nVidia becomes a binding and legal contract/license.
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Now when somebody asks about butt-stomping 3D, how many people (outside of ATI's marketing drones) instantly think "ATI!"?
Also, their drivers are somewhat less than stellar.
And MAXX'ed? Didn't we already see that MAXX technology does undesireable things to one's latency? Who cares if you get 150fps if you're a half-step behind everyone else?
True, ATI MAY have gotten their act together. I think I'll sit this generation of their cards out though. They've got a bit to prove to me before I go and plunk down the dross for one of their cards.
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An old, and incorrect argument rears it's ugly head again.
Also, 30fps is roughly the threshold for fluid in computer graphic. 60fps is the generally accepted threshold for completely smooth movement.
FPS are important. Minimum or average FPS are most important. A card is nothing if it gets 200fps in an empty scene, but drops to 1fps when anything enters the scene. Also, due to limitations on current SOTA 3d technology, people ARE able to differentiate between framerates above 60fps. Mostly from visual artifacting due to large differentiations between frames (lack of smooth transitions).
Now not everyone can necessarily differentiate 60 and 70fps. But some can. Remember, everyone's eyes are different, as are the exact speeds of their neural connections, etc.
Now if you're not overly concerned about VQ, go ahead and get a card that maxes out at 60fps. I prefer a card that runs faster.
Also, current speed in the newest games is a way to roughly guage the lifespan of the card. If the card gets 60fps in current games at your desired resoloution, it stands to reason that upcoming games will hit it's performance down to undesireable levels.
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I can see some screwball trying this.
"Well, it runs Q3 at just under quad-digit framerates, but I only get about 1 block a month from my Distributed.net client."
"Unreal Tourney runs great, but Word takes about an hour to open. Maybe we need a 3D word processor."
"DIE LITTLE CURSOR!" DIE! *BLAM!* *BLAM!*
"But WHY doesn't Windows support my ATI CPU?"
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Think of it as 40-60 banner ads that he's getting paid by doubleclick for!
;)
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I'm a little skeptical about this. Of course I'm a little skeptical about just about everything. So that's no surprise.
For short term situations, especially when you take into account the normal, high-calorie diet that an active soldier takes in (yes, it's quite high calorie, they burn in all in the course of an active day, though more sedentry MOS'es either tend to eat less, or fatten up).
But as a long-term soloution, I don't think that a nutrient patch and liquid suppliments will cut it. It's not a complete substitute for the raw caloric intake required by the body. After a while, even with a perfectly balanced nutrient suppliment, the body's going to break down available fat and muscle tissue to get the raw materials neede to help keep cellular regeneration going. Otherwise parts of your body are going to die.
Yeah, nutrient patches will slow this, but they won't stop it. Once a person reaches 0% body fat, the raw materials for cellular repair have to come from somewhere.
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Bought my first Firebird (used) from an ex-Army Reserve guy. What do I find in the compartment over the back wheel? C-Rations. This stuff was older than I was (I was 20 at the time)! If I'd had the courage to actually open it, I probably could have used the stuff as grout filler in the bathroom in my barracks. People bitch and moan about MRE. I say, give 'em C-rats for a couple days. MRE's look a lot tastier after that.
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And you wonder why your 91B's get peeved at you!
They wanted to do the fun stuff themselves! Not patch you up afterward!
Well, at least you didn't gross people out with the recipie for the chocolate "field pudding" from the hot chocolate mix, creamer, sugar, and water.....
Former 91B (Medic)
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I'm getting a story on how Citrix isn't going to meet it's earnings estimates this quarter.
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We've only got a short time!
Everyone get into your apesuits!
Oh. Wait. We did that already...
Never mind.
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I wonder when the DVD-CCD is going to realize, and accept, the fact that their attempts at controlling where we can play OUR DVD media is pretty much futile.
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Personally, I could care less about some piece of babysitting software. About the only time I find the use of it offensive, is when it's enforced upon a non-minor by another entity (such as the fuster cluck down in Australia).
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Contains no opinion? Funny, I thought I expressed my opinion. As for my being such a Karma whore as to actually have the +1, oh well.
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As much as I hate "me too" posts. I have to admit to sharing a bit of the "this sounds bad" presentiment.
Here's hoping I'm wrong.
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I put together a fully functional 2-page site, with two small images. The total weight of all 4 files is 2045 bytes, 3 bytes short 2K. Total downloadable weight (how much transfer you use to pull both pages of the site, assuming you load each of the images twice) is 2523 bytes (2.46K)
Technically it's not fully compliant due to it's lack of the DTD statement in the HTML tag. But I've tested the site with every browser I have access to:
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Now, these have been asked by others (some of them at least, but I'd like to ask about them all together.
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