Seeing how there already in the 400MHz range, I think we will see a 1GHz gpu in 2004 or 2005. But NVIDEA is complicating things because they are going to seperate the T&L as a seperate chip and run it a 3/2 times the speed of the GPU.
The sequal to "The Forge of God" , "Anvil of Stars", took this to and extreme. One solar system had a holographic shield around the entire thing that consumed a large percentage of the entire star's output. And a decoy system that was booby-trapped in a very clever way.
p.s. I read that WB(?) have picked up the rights to both books and a third one that has yet to be written, so we might see a movie in the next ten years or so.
"Why is it sad that SGI designed and built graphics hardware in 1996 that is still technically superior to any graphics system on the market today?"
If it is technically superior to any graphics system avialable today, then I am astounded. But I think it is sad that a technology company whose emphasis is on graphics wouldn't develop something even better in SIX YEARS! For cryin' out loud, look at how improved consumer graphics have gotten in six years. It seems an awful lot like stagnation.
That is still a foolish statement. Maybe you should pay more attention to developments in high-end audio, namely the Super Audio CD from Sony. The SA CD is a true revolution in digital audio in that it uses pulse density modulation instead of pulse code modulation. It takes a one bit sample at a rate of 2.8224 MHz. It has been described as Digital analog because of how closely the bit stream resembles the original analog wave form. For more info, this site is very detailed. http://www.daisy-laser.com/tech3f.htm "The specifications of the resulting signal are as good as those of the best analog formats, which have however problems and constraints DSD does not know. DSD signals can indeed present a frequency response from DC to 100kHz, plus a dynamic range greater than 120dB, across the audio band."
I thought that 3000 300MT bombs seemed awfull high. If it were going to hit the Earth, and we had 17 years or warning, it would only have to be deflected a very miniscule amount. Ther Earth is a very small target! Oh, and the largetst TN bomb I ever heard of was a 50 MT one the Soviets detonated in the 60s, but they claimed to have a 100 MT one. Maybe we could develop special "extra-large" nukes for just this purpose if we needed to.
I have very little sympathy for the Palestinians. They have suffered greatly under Isreali occupation, but they have resorted to utterly despicable methods for fighting off their oppressors. I have no problem with attacks on soldiers or even ADULTS in the settelments, but when they actually start to target teenagers, children, and babies, they have become just as bad, if not worse than the people they are fightning. Also, the whole culture that glorifies suicide bombers is absolutley horrifying. I bet most of the bombers don't want to do it, but their entire culture is pushing them into it in one of the best examples of the worst of peer pressure. And finally, when they start dressing babies up as suicide bomers because "its cute", I wash my hands. (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/mi deast020628_bomber.html)
I assume your sig is meant to disparage Ballmer's intelligence, but did you ever consider that he was using "Free" as in "Free Speach". Thus he meant two different things.
Hard Drives used to use stepper moters to actuate the drive heads, but as track density incresed, stepper moteres coudn't keep up, so they now use a simple voice coil and one side of a platter is filled with tracking data that is used in a feed- back loop to position the head assembly.
chosun@dprkorea.com
This is North Korea's main web address (they also have software@dprkorea.com
and it@dprkorea.com)
I sign it up everywere I can, using Kim Jong-Il's name when asked. It feels good.
An argument against strong ai is that if cognition is computation, than you could in theory acheive it with just paper and pencil. It might take thousands of years for just one second of cognition, but you could do anything a computer program does manually.
I must admit to feeling quite guilty over the Afghanistan deaths, but IMHO the US really had no choice but to make a bold statement after something as significant as 9/11. The 90s set a very bad precedent for how we handle attacks. The attitude was that the worst the US would do was sue if we were attacked. Well, that thought has been put to rest. Also, and I am not belittleing the value of life, but many, many civilians have died in the 20 years of war in Afghanistan. Comparativly 800 deaths doesn't seem like a lot for and end to civil war.
But the perspective I was talking about. Imagine if some Chinese muslims would have crashed a plane into the Shanghai bank building. Imagine what the Chinese Government's response whould have been, and compare it to our own.
Oh, and the US would not be invading without provocation. Iraq is constantly shooting at the planes enforcing the no fly zone. And Iraq won't allow UN inspectors in like it agreed to after losing so badly.
I just had a thought! Wouldn't a bone mic or throat mic be helpful in noisy environments? I understand that they only pick up the vibrations through your skull or directly from your larynx and not through the air, so it wuoldn't matter how loud the ambient noise is, the jabra wouldn't actually pick it up. http://www.ntt-at.com/products_e/earphone/
like the fact that China, no matter how much left-wing communist sympathizers say otherwise, is a brutal totalitarian oligarchy that savagly surpresses all oposition to its rule. Talk to people in Tibet, a country China invaded and has occupied for over 50 years, supressing its native religion. Talk to Falan Gong members who are going to spend the next 20 years in prison. etc etc.
The "perspective" I was talking about was this: Equating the behavior of China's totalitarian government to that of America after 9/11 is like equating the behavior of Ted Bundy to that of a man who kills someone in self defense.
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Seeing how there already in the 400MHz range, I think we will see a 1GHz gpu in 2004 or 2005. But NVIDEA is complicating things because they are going to seperate the T&L as a seperate chip and run it a 3/2 times the speed of the GPU.
They sent him away for income tax evasion.
480 MW == 455,357.2 BTUs/sec.
The memory interface will be 256 bit._ SNEAK_ PREVIEW/
http://www.nvmax.com/Articles/Previews/NV30
The sequal to "The Forge of God" , "Anvil of Stars", took this to and extreme. One solar system had a holographic shield around the entire thing that consumed a large percentage of the entire star's output. And a decoy system that was booby-trapped in a very clever way. p.s. I read that WB(?) have picked up the rights to both books and a third one that has yet to be written, so we might see a movie in the next ten years or so.
Let me rephrase that: Just as bad, if not worse than how they view the people they are fighting.
No, I don't think it is. Could you please explain to me why you think it is?
"Why is it sad that SGI designed and built graphics hardware in 1996 that is still technically superior to any graphics system on the market today?"
If it is technically superior to any graphics system avialable today, then I am astounded. But I think it is sad that a technology company whose emphasis is on graphics wouldn't develop something even better in SIX YEARS! For cryin' out loud, look at how improved consumer graphics have gotten in six years. It seems an awful lot like stagnation.
Analog can not be beat. By anything.
"The specifications of the resulting signal are as good as those of the best analog formats, which have however problems and constraints DSD does not know. DSD signals can indeed present a frequency response from DC to 100kHz, plus a dynamic range greater than 120dB, across the audio band."
That is still a foolish statement. Maybe you should pay more attention to developments in high-end audio, namely the Super Audio CD from Sony. The SA CD is a true revolution in digital audio in that it uses pulse density modulation instead of pulse code modulation. It takes a one bit sample at a rate of 2.8224 MHz. It has been described as Digital analog because of how closely the bit stream resembles the original analog wave form. For more info, this site is very detailed.
http://www.daisy-laser.com/tech3f.htm
I thought that 3000 300MT bombs seemed awfull high. If it were going to hit the Earth, and we had 17 years or warning, it would only have to be deflected a very miniscule amount. Ther Earth is a very small target! Oh, and the largetst TN bomb I ever heard of was a 50 MT one the Soviets detonated in the 60s, but they claimed to have a 100 MT one. Maybe we could develop special "extra-large" nukes for just this purpose if we needed to.
Whats expensive about breathing?
Its either pretty amazing, or pretty sad.
Analog can not be beat. By anything. Thats utter audiophool bullshit. Its called the nyquist theorom. Look it up.
Read it again. He's saying that they're addicted to base because they can't hear high pitched sounds.
Why is it flamebait? I have seen his damn sig so many times that I just snapped and responded to it, honestly.
I have very little sympathy for the Palestinians. They have suffered greatly under Isreali occupation, but they have resorted to utterly despicable methods for fighting off their oppressors. I have no problem with attacks on soldiers or even ADULTS in the settelments, but when they actually start to target teenagers, children, and babies, they have become just as bad, if not worse than the people they are fightning.i deast020628_bomber.html)
Also, the whole culture that glorifies suicide bombers is absolutley horrifying. I bet most of the bombers don't want to do it, but their entire culture is pushing them into it in one of the best examples of the worst of peer pressure. And finally, when they start dressing babies up as suicide bomers because "its cute", I wash my hands. (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/m
I assume your sig is meant to disparage Ballmer's intelligence, but did you ever consider that he was using "Free" as in "Free Speach". Thus he meant two different things.
Hard Drives used to use stepper moters to actuate the drive heads, but as track density incresed, stepper moteres coudn't keep up, so they now use a simple voice coil and one side of a platter is filled with tracking data that is used in a feed- back loop to position the head assembly.
chosun@dprkorea.com This is North Korea's main web address (they also have software@dprkorea.com and it@dprkorea.com) I sign it up everywere I can, using Kim Jong-Il's name when asked. It feels good.
An argument against strong ai is that if cognition is computation, than you could in theory acheive it with just paper and pencil. It might take thousands of years for just one second of cognition, but you could do anything a computer program does manually.
Then why did the Alpha lose?
I must admit to feeling quite guilty over the Afghanistan deaths, but IMHO the US really had no choice but to make a bold statement after something as significant as 9/11. The 90s set a very bad precedent for how we handle attacks. The attitude was that the worst the US would do was sue if we were attacked. Well, that thought has been put to rest. Also, and I am not belittleing the value of life, but many, many civilians have died in the 20 years of war in Afghanistan. Comparativly 800 deaths doesn't seem like a lot for and end to civil war.
But the perspective I was talking about. Imagine if some Chinese muslims would have crashed a plane into the Shanghai bank building. Imagine what the Chinese Government's response whould have been, and compare it to our own.
Oh, and the US would not be invading without provocation. Iraq is constantly shooting at the planes enforcing the no fly zone. And Iraq won't allow UN inspectors in like it agreed to after losing so badly.
7 times redundency? Wow. Wonder what the mean time between failure is.
I just had a thought! Wouldn't a bone mic or throat mic be helpful in noisy environments? I understand that they only pick up the vibrations through your skull or directly from your larynx and not through the air, so it wuoldn't matter how loud the ambient noise is, the jabra wouldn't actually pick it up.
http://www.ntt-at.com/products_e/earphone/
like the fact that China, no matter how much left-wing communist sympathizers say otherwise, is a brutal totalitarian oligarchy that savagly surpresses all oposition to its rule. Talk to people in Tibet, a country China invaded and has occupied for over 50 years, supressing its native religion. Talk to Falan Gong members who are going to spend the next 20 years in prison. etc etc. The "perspective" I was talking about was this: Equating the behavior of China's totalitarian government to that of America after 9/11 is like equating the behavior of Ted Bundy to that of a man who kills someone in self defense.