I agree that the current crop of desktop replacement laptops make little sense to me, but laptop sales are soon to EXCEED desktop sales. At my home my wife uses a laptop for nearly all her computing duties. She only uses her desktop to rip and burn DVDs because her laptop does not contain a dvd burner.
been a while since I've made a post on slashdot but I had to chime in on this:
"The conclusion you draw that the CPUs are the same because of their performance on a task that is limited by another, unrelated component is akin to saying that a Ferarri is no more powerful than a Honda Fit because they're both doing 65 on the freeway. The conclusions are rigged from the start because of the test you are using to compare them."
I think the political attitude here is in a constant state of flux, directly proportional to the state of the job market. I personaly thought some communist aspects were interesting until I reached the point where my salary eclipsed that which I'd earn in a communist system. Not that it matters as the world economy will quickly bring it down to that rate again anyways. It is always hard to weigh personal gain against being a good libertarian and capitalist.
OT: You seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth (NASIOC), how you been, send me an email sometime. We haven't chatted politics in quite some time.
One of my company's products is actually a piece os salestax software called ZipSales. They make quite a bit of money selling the various databases for the product.....
Well in reply to this post as well as the parents, the Utec was cheap in comparison to its competitors. Utec at around 800-900 bucks is much cheaper then for example an AEM EMS at about 1500-1700 bucks. Most other standalone engine management systems are near or above that price as well. Utec is hard to compare to standalone ems's though, because it is a piggyback system, but that doesn't show the whole story. It is kind of a hybrid piggyback as it can do full standalone fuel control and piggyback timing control. However once you add the tuna, the gba thing and everything else, you are talking about 2k and mitigating some of the advantages of the turboxs products.
It is all more expense then a 300 dollar safc, but an safc only does fuel. Greddy e-manage is quite a bit cheaper as well but off the top of my head I can't think of a car produced in the past couple years that the emanage can actually control the timing on....
Problem is most stock ECU's can pull too much timing when a knock event happens. This gave rise to many items like the J&S knock sensor products: http://www.jandssafeguard.com/ that do a much better job of it. The main thing about the GBA interface to the tuna is not the guages but its ability to interface to the utec ecu's though. Also, the tuna is a wideband O2 sensor, something that is UNBELIEVABLY valuable when tuning your own car. You are correct though, many of these things are present in the stock computer. But the stock computer isn't always the best tool for running your car when it significantly departs from the scenarios it is used to dealing with.
I'm not the biggest fan of this product as it adds even more cost to what used to be a cheap product (the utec) in order to give functionality closer to that enjoyed by users of true standalones (AEM EMS, Wolf3D, Haltec, Motec, etc). But from a geek factor it will be pretty cool once it comes out and all the features are implemented.
Now im gonna go out on a limb here and explain a portion of the community as it existed back around 1999 and 2000, and perhaps after that..
Fatal1ty was straightedge in a community of partiers and drug users. If they ever instituted drug testing in these competitions, 90% of the participants would fail. Weed, speed, coke, underage drinking were some of the things that were quite prevalent from what I saw.
John visited some friends of mine in Illinois and we all went out to dinner at a local TGI Fridays. He wasn't what you'd call blessed with the social skills. Egotistical and just plain annoying and/or boring to be around. One of the main reasons he was so succesful is not because he was particularly better then anyone else, but he was one of the first to realize there was genuine income potential competing, and that maybe it wasn't all just fun and partying, that maybe practicing daily was necessary to stay on the top rung. Many others in the community didn't realize this at first and were quickly left behind. I'm sure they've caught up by now.....
there is also ramagon. Ramagon used to have base plates that were lego compatible. I used this to create giant skyscrapers (usually 6 feet tall) with lego "outposts" scattered amongst the building. Great stuff. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI tem&item =3168811947&category=19002 in that auction you can see them as the large grey construction in the back.
The problem with that is that they are a soveriegn nation. So effectively, the waters immediatly around/under them are not in fact international waters, but SeaHaven waters. You can't just go around blowing stuff up on the property of other nations. Now, on the other hand, what are they going to do about it. It would merely risk an international outcry, which I'm imagining would be fairly weak anyways.
I don't have anything useful to say other then that I would LOVE to see this movie in a theatre. I remember the first time I saw this movie, I was so blown away. It became a large portion of my life in High school, which was when I first saw it. My VHS copy is getting quite worn out!!. As you can see, this movie was a source of most of my nickname as long as I've been on the internet =) I shall wait with baited breath.
FYI, the link to the doom port, not wolf3d or quake, but close is as follows:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/14 /1 451.html
I remember my TI-85 back in high school, we used to play multiplayer games of pong via the link cable, and all the other various things. What im looken for is Dope Wars for the TI-85, I love that game =) and it looks like that is here:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/10 3/ 10384.html
wow, now all I need to do is find my serial to calculator adaptor.
Once back when I was an angst ridden teen, I worked at a fine retail grocery chain... I was fired with just cause. Well 6 months later someone from there called me and asked me if I could fill in for someone. Needless to say I explained that I was no longer employed there. I hung up the phone and laughed for quite some time on that one.
On another note, my current company actually told someone that quit that their reasons for leaving were invalid and that the person was selfish for leaving. This was repeated several weeks later with another employee that left. Its great to work for a company with turnover approaching 70%.
Hmm, that leads me to an interesting question I've been wondering about for quite some time and have yet to find a decent resource on. What are the differences between vector and scalar supercomputing????? I believe I found something in the past about this, but it has since left my mind, as things often do......
What's interesting about this opinion is that we use a similar strategy towards justifying emulators. With emulators we tend to say "Many more purchases of software(x) would be sold if company(y) allowed said hardware be emulated." Now it is probably not the best idea to use the same argument to support polar opposites. I don't feel that the availability of free(warez) software contributes to purchase of the hardware. The fact that the prices of most consoles are approaching if not surpassing (PS2 supposedly) the costs of manufacturing suggest that the most revenue to be had from a particular video game system(architecture) would be based mostly on the license fees and the direct sale of software for that system. Oh well, thats just MHO.
I thought "All Tomorrow's Parties" was fantastic. It kept me reading from cover to cover. It did have some things that could have been done differently, but that would hold true for almost any book. I've read only one other book by Gibson, a collection of short stories that I forget the name of, so I still have to read the classics by him. I would definetely recommend this book though.
I got a friend that has been running dual celerons on the Tyan Tiger 100 boards with zero problems. I was actually going to build a system utilizing this mobo also. He is hitting 450 no problem, but having some trouble hitting 504mhz. Each processor boots individually at 504, but in SMP they don't do it for long, (i.e. lsting about 5 mins before locking). The liquid cooling system he is building should help though. Anyways, good luck on yer box, that motherboard should make a fine choice.
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I logged in for the first time in years purely to respond to this post. good show!
Navteq was aquired by Nokia.
I am also a 4 digit uid slashdot user and I liked halting state.
His other novels are FANTASTIC as well but I'm a big fan of singularity related novels.
I remember you from i-club/mwsoc!
I'm going to email you later and ask what you've been up too!
Have you ever actually USED vnc?
I agree that the current crop of desktop replacement laptops make little sense to me, but laptop sales are soon to EXCEED desktop sales. At my home my wife uses a laptop for nearly all her computing duties. She only uses her desktop to rip and burn DVDs because her laptop does not contain a dvd burner.
been a while since I've made a post on slashdot but I had to chime in on this:
"The conclusion you draw that the CPUs are the same because of their performance on a task that is limited by another, unrelated component is akin to saying that a Ferarri is no more powerful than a Honda Fit because they're both doing 65 on the freeway. The conclusions are rigged from the start because of the test you are using to compare them."
Best piece of comedy gold on here in years!
I think the political attitude here is in a constant state of flux, directly proportional to the state of the job market. I personaly thought some communist aspects were interesting until I reached the point where my salary eclipsed that which I'd earn in a communist system. Not that it matters as the world economy will quickly bring it down to that rate again anyways. It is always hard to weigh personal gain against being a good libertarian and capitalist.
OT: You seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth (NASIOC), how you been, send me an email sometime. We haven't chatted politics in quite some time.
One of my company's products is actually a piece os salestax software called ZipSales. They make quite a bit of money selling the various databases for the product.....
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/09/ 2148257&tid=207
:banana:
Well in reply to this post as well as the parents, the Utec was cheap in comparison to its competitors. Utec at around 800-900 bucks is much cheaper then for example an AEM EMS at about 1500-1700 bucks. Most other standalone engine management systems are near or above that price as well. Utec is hard to compare to standalone ems's though, because it is a piggyback system, but that doesn't show the whole story. It is kind of a hybrid piggyback as it can do full standalone fuel control and piggyback timing control.
However once you add the tuna, the gba thing and everything else, you are talking about 2k and mitigating some of the advantages of the turboxs products.
It is all more expense then a 300 dollar safc, but an safc only does fuel. Greddy e-manage is quite a bit cheaper as well but off the top of my head I can't think of a car produced in the past couple years that the emanage can actually control the timing on....
Mod parent up would ya, I replied to this already so I cant mod anymore :(
;)
WTG guys getting mentioned on slashdot
Problem is most stock ECU's can pull too much timing when a knock event happens. This gave rise to many items like the J&S knock sensor products:
http://www.jandssafeguard.com/
that do a much better job of it. The main thing about the GBA interface to the tuna is not the guages but its ability to interface to the utec ecu's though. Also, the tuna is a wideband O2 sensor, something that is UNBELIEVABLY valuable when tuning your own car. You are correct though, many of these things are present in the stock computer. But the stock computer isn't always the best tool for running your car when it significantly departs from the scenarios it is used to dealing with.
I'm not the biggest fan of this product as it adds even more cost to what used to be a cheap product (the utec) in order to give functionality closer to that enjoyed by users of true standalones (AEM EMS, Wolf3D, Haltec, Motec, etc). But from a geek factor it will be pretty cool once it comes out and all the features are implemented.
I dont post much anymore myself. But then again, I'm not quite at the "10" level either.
perhaps you should write your controlling app using .NET technology?
Now im gonna go out on a limb here and explain a portion of the community as it existed back around 1999 and 2000, and perhaps after that..
Fatal1ty was straightedge in a community of partiers and drug users. If they ever instituted drug testing in these competitions, 90% of the participants would fail. Weed, speed, coke, underage drinking were some of the things that were quite prevalent from what I saw.
John visited some friends of mine in Illinois and we all went out to dinner at a local TGI Fridays. He wasn't what you'd call blessed with the social skills. Egotistical and just plain annoying and/or boring to be around. One of the main reasons he was so succesful is not because he was particularly better then anyone else, but he was one of the first to realize there was genuine income potential competing, and that maybe it wasn't all just fun and partying, that maybe practicing daily was necessary to stay on the top rung. Many others in the community didn't realize this at first and were quickly left behind. I'm sure they've caught up by now.....
there is also ramagon. Ramagon used to have base plates that were lego compatible. I used this to create giant skyscrapers (usually 6 feet tall) with lego "outposts" scattered amongst the building. Great stuff.I tem&item =3168811947&category=19002
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View
in that auction you can see them as the large grey construction in the back.
The problem with that is that they are a soveriegn nation. So effectively, the waters immediatly around/under them are not in fact international waters, but SeaHaven waters. You can't just go around blowing stuff up on the property of other nations. Now, on the other hand, what are they going to do about it. It would merely risk an international outcry, which I'm imagining would be fairly weak anyways.
I don't have anything useful to say other then that I would LOVE to see this movie in a theatre. I remember the first time I saw this movie, I was so blown away. It became a large portion of my life in High school, which was when I first saw it. My VHS copy is getting quite worn out!!. As you can see, this movie was a source of most of my nickname as long as I've been on the internet =) I shall wait with baited breath.
FYI, the link to the doom port, not wolf3d or quake, but close is as follows:4 /1 451.html
0 3/ 10384.html
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/1
I remember my TI-85 back in high school, we used to play multiplayer games of pong via the link cable, and all the other various things. What im looken for is Dope Wars for the TI-85, I love that game =) and it looks like that is here:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/1
wow, now all I need to do is find my serial to calculator adaptor.
Once back when I was an angst ridden teen, I worked at a fine retail grocery chain... I was fired with just cause. Well 6 months later someone from there called me and asked me if I could fill in for someone. Needless to say I explained that I was no longer employed there. I hung up the phone and laughed for quite some time on that one.
On another note, my current company actually told someone that quit that their reasons for leaving were invalid and that the person was selfish for leaving. This was repeated several weeks later with another employee that left. Its great to work for a company with turnover approaching 70%.
Hmm, that leads me to an interesting question I've been wondering about for quite some time and have yet to find a decent resource on. What are the differences between vector and scalar supercomputing????? I believe I found something in the past about this, but it has since left my mind, as things often do......
What's interesting about this opinion is that we use a similar strategy towards justifying emulators. With emulators we tend to say "Many more purchases of software(x) would be sold if company(y) allowed said hardware be emulated." Now it is probably not the best idea to use the same argument to support polar opposites. I don't feel that the availability of free(warez) software contributes to purchase of the hardware. The fact that the prices of most consoles are approaching if not surpassing (PS2 supposedly) the costs of manufacturing suggest that the most revenue to be had from a particular video game system(architecture) would be based mostly on the license fees and the direct sale of software for that system. Oh well, thats just MHO.
I thought "All Tomorrow's Parties" was fantastic. It kept me reading from cover to cover. It did have some things that could have been done differently, but that would hold true for almost any book. I've read only one other book by Gibson, a collection of short stories that I forget the name of, so I still have to read the classics by him. I would definetely recommend this book though.
I got a friend that has been running dual celerons on the Tyan Tiger 100 boards with zero problems. I was actually going to build a system utilizing this mobo also. He is hitting 450 no problem, but having some trouble hitting 504mhz. Each processor boots individually at 504, but in SMP they don't do it for long, (i.e. lsting about 5 mins before locking).
The liquid cooling system he is building should help though.
Anyways, good luck on yer box, that motherboard should make a fine choice.