Isn't anyone afraid of this becoming the new Glide. Games that support nothing but this chip/physics engine. Hopefully an open standard emerges quickly or hardware accelerated physics will go through a lot of growing pains.
Good to see I'm not the only ZOO wasting his time on Slashdot. I was also pretty pissed at the study room being annexed but it was really the only choice.
What kind of environmental impact does this have. Think of the number of endangered birds killed by flying into one of these windmills. I also read something about windmills affecting the local climate, sounds like more trouble then its worth.
My brother having discovered online porn has all but ruined an old 233 with spyware. Spybot Search and Destroy could get rid of a lot of it so I'm thinking he found some of this new stuff. He claimed Firefox doesn't work anymore but this is probably due to the spyware. Anyway I'm going to reinstall Windows and show him the wonders of Usenet.
P.S. What is the best current linux distribution for slow computers, with plenty of RAM.
No need to use IE. With the 200MBs of space alloted to electrical engineering students I have both Win32 and Linux Firefox binaries running the same user profile mapped to the network drive. There is also a version that can run off of a USB key here
The canadian coastline is 202,080km*. If we installed this on a good percentage of it the US would have to bow down to their hydroelectric overloards to the north for their energy needs. Not that the northeast doesn't already.
What's needed are breakthrough in material science. Carbon nanotube heatsinks, on die peltiers, diamond based semiconductors. If engineers make these technologies work, in the future we might not be worrying about heat anymore but other barriers to performance. Such as software design and storage I/O.
Increasing the size of the die would limit the speed the processor could run at even if the same size of transistors(90nm,130nm...) were used. Not to mention an exponential increase in price.
chips, if there's any way to get back the general publics in NASA it's putting an Average Joe in space.
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
-Kent Brockman
The Simpsons
They're already dual core, you could even say they're quad core or octal core etc. Nvidia and ATI both use multiple "core" GPUs to cut down the cost on developement and increase yeilds of highend cards.
The 6800 Ultra has 16 pixel pipelines and 6 vertex shaders, the 6800 non-Ultra has 12 pixel pipelines and 5 vertex shaders. The only difference between their chip is that the non-Ultra has 4 pixel pipelines and one vertex shader disabled through hardware. These disabled "cores" can even be reenabled through software but they are often broken, hence the reason they were disabled and in the lowerend card in the first place.
Just what the democrats need, a whole party of flip-flopers.
I do think it would make for the funniest TV for us non-americans, can you imagine the amount of momentum the GOP will have with no one to play their spin games with. The whole system will go unstable. I think I'll stop watching CNN before I'm sick.
Slashdot Mirror
...now where's something poisonous when you need it.
Isn't anyone afraid of this becoming the new Glide. Games that support nothing but this chip/physics engine. Hopefully an open standard emerges quickly or hardware accelerated physics will go through a lot of growing pains.
the rubber-glue matrix. What use is an invisibility shield without a robust name calling defense system.
Good to see I'm not the only ZOO wasting his time on Slashdot. I was also pretty pissed at the study room being annexed but it was really the only choice.
What kind of environmental impact does this have. Think of the number of endangered birds killed by flying into one of these windmills. I also read something about windmills affecting the local climate, sounds like more trouble then its worth.
I Was going to say the same thing.
My brother having discovered online porn has all but ruined an old 233 with spyware. Spybot Search and Destroy could get rid of a lot of it so I'm thinking he found some of this new stuff. He claimed Firefox doesn't work anymore but this is probably due to the spyware. Anyway I'm going to reinstall Windows and show him the wonders of Usenet.
P.S. What is the best current linux distribution for slow computers, with plenty of RAM.
If you look farther there is an ebook prototype with a respectibly sized screen.
No need to use IE. With the 200MBs of space alloted to electrical engineering students I have both Win32 and Linux Firefox binaries running the same user profile mapped to the network drive. There is also a version that can run off of a USB key here
The canadian coastline is 202,080km*. If we installed this on a good percentage of it the US would have to bow down to their hydroelectric overloards to the north for their energy needs. Not that the northeast doesn't already.
*may be 50% covered with ice
Anyone see this new flash ad that has audio. Fucking anoying, get rid of it Slashdot.
What's needed are breakthrough in material science. Carbon nanotube heatsinks, on die peltiers, diamond based semiconductors. If engineers make these technologies work, in the future we might not be worrying about heat anymore but other barriers to performance. Such as software design and storage I/O.
Increasing the size of the die would limit the speed the processor could run at even if the same size of transistors(90nm,130nm...) were used. Not to mention an exponential increase in price.
That's the old OVA(straight to video). There's a new series that is currently being aired on TV.
Spelling mistake and no html, 2 more exams...
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http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/plush_cthulhu.htm
Ask and you shall recieve http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/plush_cthulhu.html .
To bad you need earplugs to ride it.
But where will you get actors batshit crazy enough to be pundits?
chips, if there's any way to get back the general publics in NASA it's putting an Average Joe in space.
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
-Kent Brockman
The Simpsons
Truer words were never said Kent.
They're already dual core, you could even say they're quad core or octal core etc. Nvidia and ATI both use multiple "core" GPUs to cut down the cost on developement and increase yeilds of highend cards.
The 6800 Ultra has 16 pixel pipelines and 6 vertex shaders, the 6800 non-Ultra has 12 pixel pipelines and 5 vertex shaders. The only difference between their chip is that the non-Ultra has 4 pixel pipelines and one vertex shader disabled through hardware. These disabled "cores" can even be reenabled through software but they are often broken, hence the reason they were disabled and in the lowerend card in the first place.
Are there any current gaming trends that you wish would lose momentum and disappear.
Are there any trends you hope take hold in the future.
Supercomputers become relatively slower as faster computers are built. PowerPC based supercomputers the exception to the rule, are no exception.
Just what the democrats need, a whole party of flip-flopers.
I do think it would make for the funniest TV for us non-americans, can you imagine the amount of momentum the GOP will have with no one to play their spin games with. The whole system will go unstable. I think I'll stop watching CNN before I'm sick.
Tell that to Zaphod Beeblebrox. GWB probably got tips from him when he preformed his own brain surgery.
Don't you mean.
Man... that's a good pot of cofee.