Lets look at this objectively. A 10% speed increase using buggy/prerelease chipset and drivers which can't even manage to turn on AGPx4 isn't too shabby at all. Especially if it doesn't cost any more!
For comparison, how much extra do people pay for a 10% increase in processor clock?
And when these DDR boards come out, AMD will release its 133/266MHz FSB processors, which should give performance another significant nudge upwards.
Ratings aren't everything you know. ITV appeals to the lowest common denominator, but rarely with quality programs (i.e. Who wants to be a millionaire). Although BBC programs generallky get lower ratings, they do tend to be more intelligent and better made.
There are of course many exceptions, mostly on BBC1.
Lensing occurs with any mass of object. The size of the effect depends on the mass of the lens, and on its position. Lensing has been observed around the sun, which is not very massive.
In this case, they were looking for the distinctive brightening of the light from a star which would occur if some object like a dead star or jupiter sized planet passed exactly infront of a background star. From studying the number of such events, you can calculate the amount of mass in our galaxy made up of such `dark' objects.
What they found is that one of their light curves didn't match the theoretical curve. Unfortunately the experiment is essentially not repeatable, as you'd have to wait for something else to pass in front of that star, which could be thousands of years.
Astronomy is a science where you can not repeat your experiment (the universe). Whenever you get a result, in this case the result is that we live on a planet, you have to spend a long time considering any possible biases. The fact that we'd be dead if we weren't on a planet is a pretty big bias towards finding ourselves on one, even if it's the only planet in the universe.
As for it being pretty obvious that there are other planets out there, 1000 years ago it was pretty obvious that the earth was flat.
Yet another example, as some other poster pointed out earlier, of a vital discovery/invention being made in one episode, only never to be mentioned ever again!
Star Trek is not SciFi, it's a soap opera set in space, and not a very good one either. It has none of the juicy scandalous bits which make soap operas good, and rarely does it leave you wanting to see it again at the end of an episode.
Yes and no. The image is of the x-ray portion of the spectrum, but the colours in the image that you see merely represent the luminosity (or number of photons) recieved in each detector pixel. The colours chosen are arbitrary. It is customary to use shades of red for x-ray images, as opposed to shades of grey for optical images. It certainly makes them prettier too!
The 3D stuff for Voodoo 3/Voodoo Banshee works fine in fullscreen mode (great for games). However, the rendering in a window mode has not yet been implemented.
See http://glide.xxedgexx.com/status.html for updates.
As you correctly said, the K7 beats the PIII in integer performance, however, in Floating-Point applications, it completely trounces the PIII. It's almost half as fast again at the same clock speed!
Additionaly, the original poster said he was not interedted in price, just performance. In which case he should be looking at a 600MHz K7. (The fastest PIII is only 550MHz).
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Lets look at this objectively. A 10% speed increase using buggy/prerelease chipset and drivers which can't even manage to turn on AGPx4 isn't too shabby at all. Especially if it doesn't cost any more!
For comparison, how much extra do people pay for a 10% increase in processor clock?
And when these DDR boards come out, AMD will release its 133/266MHz FSB processors, which should give performance another significant nudge upwards.
Ratings aren't everything you know. ITV appeals
to the lowest common denominator, but rarely with
quality programs (i.e. Who wants to be a
millionaire). Although BBC programs generallky get
lower ratings, they do tend to be more intelligent
and better made.
There are of course many exceptions, mostly on
BBC1.
Ale.
Lensing occurs with any mass of object. The size
of the effect depends on the mass of the lens, and
on its position. Lensing has been observed around
the sun, which is not very massive.
In this case, they were looking for the
distinctive brightening of the light from a star
which would occur if some object like a dead star
or jupiter sized planet passed exactly infront
of a background star. From studying the number
of such events, you can calculate the amount of
mass in our galaxy made up of such `dark' objects.
What they found is that one of their light curves
didn't match the theoretical curve. Unfortunately
the experiment is essentially not repeatable, as
you'd have to wait for something else to pass
in front of that star, which could be thousands of years.
Ale.
I think it's even more arrogant to assume any
life out there would want to come here!
Ale.
It's not silly. It's a perfectly valid point.
Astronomy is a science where you can not repeat
your experiment (the universe). Whenever you
get a result, in this case the result is that
we live on a planet, you have to spend a long
time considering any possible biases. The fact
that we'd be dead if we weren't on a planet is
a pretty big bias towards finding ourselves on
one, even if it's the only planet in the universe.
As for it being pretty obvious that there are
other planets out there, 1000 years ago it was
pretty obvious that the earth was flat.
Ale.
How about an alpha box running linux?
Ale.
Yet another example, as some other poster pointed out earlier, of a vital discovery/invention being
made in one episode, only never to be mentioned ever again!
Star Trek is not SciFi, it's a soap opera set in space, and not a very good one either. It has none
of the juicy scandalous bits which make soap operas good, and rarely does it leave you wanting
to see it again at the end of an episode.
Cheers,
Ale.
Yes and no. The image is of the x-ray portion
of the spectrum, but the colours in the image
that you see merely represent the luminosity
(or number of photons) recieved in each detector
pixel. The colours chosen are arbitrary. It is
customary to use shades of red for x-ray images,
as opposed to shades of grey for optical images.
It certainly makes them prettier too!
Ale
>but then what do we do when we really forget the password???
Restore from backups?
Ale
The 3D stuff for Voodoo 3/Voodoo Banshee works
fine in fullscreen mode (great for games). However, the rendering in a window mode has not yet been implemented.
See http://glide.xxedgexx.com/status.html for
updates.
Ale.
Im sorry, but that's a load of rubbish.
As you correctly said, the K7 beats the PIII in integer performance, however, in Floating-Point
applications, it completely trounces the PIII. It's almost half as fast again at the same clock speed!
Additionaly, the original poster said he was not interedted in price, just performance. In which case he should be looking at a 600MHz K7. (The fastest PIII is only 550MHz).
Ale.
There is now.
:)
Go back to http://glide.xxedgexx.com/status.html, the Banshee/V3 glide libs were released on May 16th.
At the moment it is fullscreen only, i.e. no rendering into a window, but that is being worked on.
If you compile Mesa, you get OpenGL support too, and then you can run Xscreensaver with all those GL hacks!
Ale.