I always thought it would be cool if some of the transistors in general purpose cpus could be used as an FPGA to serve as an "algorithm cache". When a program is run the most frequently used algorithms are automatically implemented in hardware on the FPGA, resulting in speedups anywhere between 10 and a 1000 times. Seeing as how CPUs will have a billion or more transistors in the near future, this would seem like an excellent use for them.
I thought of this too, but it was in regard to an article about some researchers who found that images of attractive women activated the same pleausure center that food or drugs do. So men do get physical pleasure from looking at beutiful women. I think it would be very interesting to test to see if gay men have this response for men instead of women. If they do it would be a powerful argument in the favor.
I think if I ever build a house that I would like to use all steel construction. The frame would be steel I-beams and the wall studs would be steel also. Hell I might use steel roofing panels.
Uh, no! The seiko kinetic has a internal weight mounted on a bearing that rotates as the watch is moved, turning a miniature electric generator that recharges some storage device. If you put the watch up to your ear you can hear the weight moving.
Um, assuming that inter-pod communications occur at at least at light-speed through fiber, then I would think that any latency would be far below what humans could detect. I mean, a good latency today for a server a few hundred miles away is less than a tenth of a second. No human could notice that.
Why the hell aren't they running it on xserves???
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I mean, I think they could get a sweet discount on the hardware and software, right! What the heck are they running it on, Intel Xeons? That would be pretty stupid.
Most sci-fi fans really despise the fact that the two catagories are lumped together when they are so CLEARLY different, and giving a sci-fi award to a fantasy book is like giving a pulitzer to Geraldo. Totally inapropiate!
This may or may not be offtopic, but when the hell is Apple going to switch to DDR?! I cannot understand why they haven't. Or are they just skipping DDR and waiting for DDR-II?
Have you actually seen South Park? It is easily one of the funniest shows ever made, and most episodes contain a very insightful critiquie of popular culture or politics. Just watch the episode where Cartman finds the aborted embryos. Absolute genius.
Heck, TV Guide even named Cartman as the tenth greatest cartoon charecter in history.
I think the fact that G4s STILL don't have DDR even after it has become more or less standard on PC's is indicative of what is wrong with Apple. Apple will probably be just beginning to use DDR when PC's will be using DDR-II
True, but I was thinking of HUGE distances, like 3 feet, or 10, or a 100, etc. Or you could try really freaky things like place each "eye" so that the lines of sight are perpindicular, or even point them at each other to see both sides of an object at once.
I always wondered what the effect is if the two views are rendered using a distance greater than that between people's eyes? I'm thinking it would give you one hell of a headache, and be pretty weird.
The prevalence of the numanoid form was explained in an TNG episode where they were chasing after a message encoded in DNA or some such thing. The message turned out to be from a race of progenitors who seeded the galaxy with life and specifically intelligent things that looked like them. Of course they happend to look like humans.
Actually, people from Wisconsin speak the most pure form of English, because everbody on TV sounds like US! ( As a rural wisconsinite, I have always wondered why that is.)
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This is a case of one person claiming to speak for every last person "inside Iraq". But isn't that exactly what Saddam Hussein does?
I always thought it would be cool if some of the transistors in general purpose cpus could be used as an FPGA to serve as an "algorithm cache". When a program is run the most frequently used algorithms are automatically implemented in hardware on the FPGA, resulting in speedups anywhere between 10 and a 1000 times. Seeing as how CPUs will have a billion or more transistors in the near future, this would seem like an excellent use for them.
I thought of this too, but it was in regard to an article about some researchers who found that images of attractive women activated the same pleausure center that food or drugs do. So men do get physical pleasure from looking at beutiful women. I think it would be very interesting to test to see if gay men have this response for men instead of women. If they do it would be a powerful argument in the favor.
I think if I ever build a house that I would like to use all steel construction. The frame would be steel I-beams and the wall studs would be steel also. Hell I might use steel roofing panels.
Uh, no! The seiko kinetic has a internal weight mounted on a bearing that rotates as the watch is moved, turning a miniature electric generator that recharges some storage device. If you put the watch up to your ear you can hear the weight moving.
Um, assuming that inter-pod communications occur at at least at light-speed through fiber, then I would think that any latency would be far below what humans could detect. I mean, a good latency today for a server a few hundred miles away is less than a tenth of a second. No human could notice that.
I mean, I think they could get a sweet discount on the hardware and software, right! What the heck are they running it on, Intel Xeons? That would be pretty stupid.
....and she should be from Africa!
(I wonder how many people are going to get this?)
You must be Canadian.
I have seen a six cpu 1U server on the net.
Fuck yes, I at least would like a crack at em first, if know what I mean. They are hot, man!Sweet Sixteen indeed!
Most sci-fi fans really despise the fact that the two catagories are lumped together when they are so CLEARLY different, and giving a sci-fi award to a fantasy book is like giving a pulitzer to Geraldo. Totally inapropiate!
Actually, I think its more of an analogy than a metaphor.
Sounds like another good reason for Apple to want to switch to another CPU vendor.
This may or may not be offtopic, but when the hell is Apple going to switch to DDR?! I cannot understand why they haven't. Or are they just skipping DDR and waiting for DDR-II?
Have you actually seen South Park? It is easily one of the funniest shows ever made, and most episodes contain a very insightful critiquie of popular culture or politics. Just watch the episode where Cartman finds the aborted embryos. Absolute genius. Heck, TV Guide even named Cartman as the tenth greatest cartoon charecter in history.
I think the fact that G4s STILL don't have DDR even after it has become more or less standard on PC's is indicative of what is wrong with Apple. Apple will probably be just beginning to use DDR when PC's will be using DDR-II
True, but I was thinking of HUGE distances, like 3 feet, or 10, or a 100, etc. Or you could try really freaky things like place each "eye" so that the lines of sight are perpindicular, or even point them at each other to see both sides of an object at once.
I always wondered what the effect is if the two views are rendered using a distance greater than that between people's eyes? I'm thinking it would give you one hell of a headache, and be pretty weird.
Even worse is that the NV30 is going to use DDR-II and is estimated to reach 36 GB/S. This is too little too late.
God damn it. I actually used google to check "progenitors" and "specifically", and then I miss "numanoid" ! Obviously, its supposed to be humanoid.
The prevalence of the numanoid form was explained in an TNG episode where they were chasing after a message encoded in DNA or some such thing. The message turned out to be from a race of progenitors who seeded the galaxy with life and specifically intelligent things that looked like them. Of course they happend to look like humans.
Actually, people from Wisconsin speak the most pure form of English, because everbody on TV sounds like US! ( As a rural wisconsinite, I have always wondered why that is.)
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