The initial dual-core products by Intel won't perform much better, if any better, than dual-processor setups, since each core will likely use a separate tap on the bus. Since Intel uses a shared bus, the more taps you have on the bus, the lower the speed you can reliably clock the bus at. Which is why multi-processor Intel systems have a slower system bus.
Once they manage to get two cores to share the same tap (through some sort of arbitration circuitry), the bus speed will go back up.
...to set up two X displays on a dual-headed machine, with each display being served by a different keyboard and mouse?
Give the X server access to the raw HID devices...Use udev to make sure the same keyboard and the same mouse show up as the same device node every time. (Even if you disconnect and reconnect the USB device.)
Never done it, but I think that's how it would be done.
byte for byte sharing won't work, unless compression is used.
A better option is to receive access 1 unit for every four units you share. When you store data, it gets copied to four hosts.
In order to make retrievals work, each client should behave essentially like a normal Internet router, with persistant routing tables. Gee...you could mirror the Internet protocol infrastructure on top of the existing Internet.
That also sounds like a great way to test-drive new network software.
You shouldn't be surprised to learn that many, many websites focus on compliance with IE only. Especially small-scale businesses and websites that get low maintenance attention.
IIRC, the OpenGL engine was developed after Unreal was already out. The core was optimized for DirectX, so slapping on an OpenGL layer would have had to have been inefficient, at best.
Since Linux is becoming increasingly relevant, I suspect the next Unreal engine will be designed from the get-go to support OpenGL. Or at least be designed with enough flexibility that either API will work well.
AFAIK, Debian supports the Linux Standard Base. So the standards are there.
Personally, I'd be more worried about a lack of commitment on the Debian maintainers' end to avoid library breakage, etc. Maybe the support is there...I'm not in a position to check.
The "Global Issues" described has left out the most significant of events, at least in your summary. Was there no discussion of the Arab/Jew concessions by the British for opposition to the Ottoman Empire, land promised exclusively to each that happened to be the same physical land? Was there no mention of the genocide conducted by Mao-Tse-tung? What of Stalin? Any mention of the US butchery of their veterans of the Great War when they attempted to collect their wages at the onset of the Great Depression? Only that of Hitler was described, if that is all that was discussed it was only bias in a way you did not realize.
Yeah, nearly all of that was discussed, too. How the Jews first arrived in what is now Israel, Mao-Tse-Tung, Stalin, and WWI veterans. It was also a separate course from History, BTW.
Uh, what school system are you thinking of? In my high school, we had a class called "Global Issues" that exposed students to many different perspectives on many different issues. Here's a list:
Terrorism (Both domestic and abroad.)
Religion (covered Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam). We had to study about an inch stack of worksheets and information packets about half an inch thick on each one. Then give a presentation.)
Abortion. (I got fired up on this one...then I got in an email flamewar with a prominent person on the issue, got scared, and have stayed out the debate ever since.)
Foreign wars and genocides
Female circumcision (I got sick thinking about that one.)
WWII and the Holocaust. (We were shown much more disturbing photos than the ones you see on the History channel.)
I think it really opened my eyes to what was going on around me, stuff that most people don't hear about and don't want to hear about. I took the class because I'd heard a lot of mixed messages from other students. Some thought it was horrible, others though it was boring, and others thought it was great.
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The initial dual-core products by Intel won't perform much better, if any better, than dual-processor setups, since each core will likely use a separate tap on the bus. Since Intel uses a shared bus, the more taps you have on the bus, the lower the speed you can reliably clock the bus at. Which is why multi-processor Intel systems have a slower system bus.
Once they manage to get two cores to share the same tap (through some sort of arbitration circuitry), the bus speed will go back up.
What specification is Microsoft (or one of their buddies) going to push at the last minute?
I'm not aware of any wide arrangement of competing formats for this niche. (But then, I have been hiding in a hole for the past few weeks.)
I don't have an Internet connection at home...I have a system-local Debian archive built from packages copied from jigdo-built CDs.
Is there a Gentoo option for me?
I'm just picturing the process the poster had to go through to determine that spelling.
(I went through it myself just to double-check.)
Their assets were bought, very shortly before their satellites were supposed to have been deorbited. I don't recall who bought them.
You find me a 9600 baud acoustic coupler and I'll give you a gmail invite. :)
Heck yeah...I still participate on a Worldgroup BBS.
And my favorite joke on computer campers?
"ga has just given you 2000 credits. Type =x to accept."
("ga" is the Teleconference equivalent of IRC's "/me")
Linux compatibility? I guess we better expect Debian GNU/Solaris soon.
The article doesn't specify a license.
I suspect they're just going to let you see the code, but not necessarily copy IP from it.
"Insightful"?
Come on, people. It was a joke!
...to set up two X displays on a dual-headed machine, with each display being served by a different keyboard and mouse?
Give the X server access to the raw HID devices...Use udev to make sure the same keyboard and the same mouse show up as the same device node every time. (Even if you disconnect and reconnect the USB device.)
Never done it, but I think that's how it would be done.
"It is time to empty the litter box."
If I forget, Mrs. Underfoot lets me know by leaving a present in the middle of the floor. Believe me, I rarely forget.
"Please do your laundry."
Done on an as-needed basis. I'll run out, and live off the least-wrinkled shirts until the weekend.
"Are you really sure you want to eat that leftover pizza?"
Of-fricken-course! Pizza is the only food I've ever had that's even better microwaved than fresh.
"For the love of god, please try deodorant. Any deodorant."
Why? It's not like anyone comes near me...
byte for byte sharing won't work, unless compression is used.
A better option is to receive access 1 unit for every four units you share. When you store data, it gets copied to four hosts.
In order to make retrievals work, each client should behave essentially like a normal Internet router, with persistant routing tables. Gee...you could mirror the Internet protocol infrastructure on top of the existing Internet.
That also sounds like a great way to test-drive new network software.
Ensure? Remove the battery. Other than that, you can't. Unless you short the capacitors, etc.
:)
Want more? Desolder the caps. But that's probably too extreme, unless the equipment is really valuable.
On the bright side, even if there is a short, everything will be nice and grounded.
You shouldn't be surprised to learn that many, many websites focus on compliance with IE only. Especially small-scale businesses and websites that get low maintenance attention.
IIRC, the OpenGL engine was developed after Unreal was already out. The core was optimized for DirectX, so slapping on an OpenGL layer would have had to have been inefficient, at best.
Since Linux is becoming increasingly relevant, I suspect the next Unreal engine will be designed from the get-go to support OpenGL. Or at least be designed with enough flexibility that either API will work well.
I believe I've got over three thousand individual files. (All legal, BTW.) IIRC, XMMS's diskwriter plugin doesn't support batch jobs. (E.g. automatic file naming.)
I was wondering where that went. What are you doing sifting through my bedroom, anyway?!
Actually, I've got a K6 200 that first ran Windows 95 OSR2, then ran Linux. Still not sure what to do with it now.
I'd like it to play my 2GB collection of MOD, STM, S3M and IT files.
If I could convert them to MP3, I might actually get an iPod. But I've been having trouble retaining meta info in all the scripts I've tried to write.
...I'd be in favor of a hiatus. Spend five years planning the hell out of the next series.
AFAIK, Debian supports the Linux Standard Base. So the standards are there.
Personally, I'd be more worried about a lack of commitment on the Debian maintainers' end to avoid library breakage, etc. Maybe the support is there...I'm not in a position to check.
So they've claimed its creation. Now they have the next couple of years to patent it.
The "Global Issues" described has left out the most significant of events, at least in your summary. Was there no discussion of the Arab/Jew concessions by the British for opposition to the Ottoman Empire, land promised exclusively to each that happened to be the same physical land? Was there no mention of the genocide conducted by Mao-Tse-tung? What of Stalin? Any mention of the US butchery of their veterans of the Great War when they attempted to collect their wages at the onset of the Great Depression? Only that of Hitler was described, if that is all that was discussed it was only bias in a way you did not realize.
Yeah, nearly all of that was discussed, too. How the Jews first arrived in what is now Israel, Mao-Tse-Tung, Stalin, and WWI veterans. It was also a separate course from History, BTW.
eh? Are you talking about elementary/secondary school teachers, or postsecondary?
At my high school, most of the students had brand new cars, while most of the teachers were driving cars that even my car was better than.
- Terrorism (Both domestic and abroad.)
- Religion (covered Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam). We had to study about an inch stack of worksheets and information packets about half an inch thick on each one. Then give a presentation.)
- Abortion. (I got fired up on this one...then I got in an email flamewar with a prominent person on the issue, got scared, and have stayed out the debate ever since.)
- Foreign wars and genocides
- Female circumcision (I got sick thinking about that one.)
- WWII and the Holocaust. (We were shown much more disturbing photos than the ones you see on the History channel.)
I think it really opened my eyes to what was going on around me, stuff that most people don't hear about and don't want to hear about. I took the class because I'd heard a lot of mixed messages from other students. Some thought it was horrible, others though it was boring, and others thought it was great.