Also mentioned is a proposal being considered by the FCC that would allow cable companies to 'turn off' the firewire port, which DVR's will use to connect to digital televisions, so that some broadcasts can't be recorded.
"As it nears Earth, however, the space rock will brighten, soaring to 9th magnitude on August 18th. That's about 16 times dimmer than the dimmest star you can see without a telescope."
Wow. Now I just have to blow $300 on a telescope powerful enough to let me see a dim light. What a story, thanks Slashdot!
I'm not talking about the 7xx series for Athlon, I'm talking about the 6xx series for the P4. The 735 was a single-chip setup, whereas the 645/645DX/648 is a tradition north/south bridge deal. And according to Tech-report
(http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2002q3/sis-648/index.x?pg=1),
"In between the 648 north bridge and the new 963 south bridge chip is SiS's proprietary MuTIOL chipset interconnect. This 16-bit interconnect runs at an effective rate of 533MHz, delivering a total of 1GB/s of bandwidth. That's twice the speed of VIA's "Enhanced V-Link" and four times as fast as Intel's Accelerated Hub interconnect."
The 735 was able to deliver 1.2 GB/s of bandwidth because it was a single chip solution, but now SiS has been able to almost match that with a more traditional (and presumably more cost-effective) two chip solution. that 1 GB/s figure is doubled from the 645/645DX chipsets, which supported up to 533 MB/s of bandwidth. That 533 MB/s is double of the Intel Accelerated Hub interconnect, which is 266 MB/s.
PCXL was more than just the best gaming mag EVAR, It was also a better prognosticator than Nostradamus. Case in point: It was a recurring joke that PCXL would shut down before Daikatana was released. This came true, as the final issue of PCXL was published in April 2000, while Daikatana was released on May 23, 2000, just a month later. Coincidence? Maybe, but wait until I provide the rest of my evidence of PCXL's psychic abilities...
In the April 1999 issue of PCXL, they had a large April Fools section in which there was a story about John Romero (PCXL's favorite punching bag) leaving Ion Storm, cutting his hair short, and focusing on old school games. Well guess what, that is exactly what happened!
www.johnromero.com/images/News/Haircut-After.jpg
He quit Ion Storm, cut his hair and started MonkeyStone Games, which makes simple games for PDA's and the like.
And there exists other, more circumstantial evidence regarding PCXL's talent for divination. In an editorial in the December 1999 issue of PCXL (shipped early November), editor Mike Morrisey states that he's sick of buying a new video card every six months, and that he's skipping the current generation (voodoo3/TNT2) because he's sure the Voodoo 6000 will be released in a few months. Lo andd behold, on November 16, 1999 the VSA-100 chip and the Voodoo5 6000 are revealed by 3dfx!
I'm sure by now your jaws have dropped, as you have probably come to the same conclusion as I: namely, that PCXL was the best, most hardcore gaming rag ever, and that its existence was a threat to crappy game publishers and developers everywhere *cough* Eidos, Ion Storm *cough*. It had to be destroyed so that the game oligopoly could continue to pump out crappy games with short development cycles in order to maximize profits without the public being aware of their evil machinations. PCXL was the bastion of truth in the gaming world, and with it gone gamers would again buy crappy games which consistently scored high in the cookie cutter mags. It's a conspiracy I tells ya!;-)
Basically, SiS has come out of nowhere with motherboards that absolutely trash the competition in regards to performance and features. It started last year with the SiS 735, the best performing Athlon mobo of the year. Sadly, it was a poor overclocker, so it was shunned by AMD fans. But this year SiS has had a string of hits. It's the only 3rd party with a P4 license, which makes it the only choice for mobo manufactures in terms of 3rd party P4 mobos (obviosuly they're ansty about Intel frowning upon their Via-based P4 boards, seeing as Via doesn't have a valid P4 license). The SiS 645, 645DX, and now the 648 have consistently been of high quality with features no one else has. The 645 introduced MuTIOL which doubled the bandwidth between north and south bridges, to 533MB/s. The 645DX introduced unnofficial, rock solid DDR400 support. Now the 648 again doubles bandwidth between north and south bridges to 1 GB/s, it introduces AGP 8x, and it probably will officially support DDR400. SiS 648 boards also have Serial ATA support. This is a far cry from a decade ago, when everyone knew SiS=shit.
Isn't this sort of thing covered by ebay and other auction sites? Unless its real estate or something location based, it seems that online classifieds are fighting a losing battle.
Yes, rounding a parallel ATA cable has the potential of introducing crosstalk, but since modern ATA drives have basic CRC checking built in, any data that is lost is retransmitted. This degrades transfer rates somewhat, but is basically negligible unless you're benchmarking. Also, rounded cables braided in twisted-pair fashion reduces the potential of crosstalk.
...Or was it just a wild meetup for CmdrTaco? Anyway, do the "Special Edition" WD drives use liquid bearings too, or is the 8 MB cache the only advantage to them?
And when will we start seeing Serial ATA compatible drives? That's what I'm waiting for...hot swapping, builtin CRC checking, 150MB/sec transfers, no "master/slave" settings, and no more wasting $$$ on rounded cables!
Former AT&T employee blames Worldcom for causing network capacity to grow geometrically; Broadband users blame AT&T for causing it to shrink geometrically (see AT&T's failure to acquire @home, leaving millions without internet access for weeks).
Consoles are made to be simple, and I dont know any non-technical people who could set up a 16 Xbox wired LAN. This could be a big step forward for cross-platform multiplayer gaming, where a lot of games are twitch based (Soul Calibur 2 wireless realtime tournaments, anyone?)
Microsoft IS trying to police our use of their products!
"Those reports say that once the infected attachment is opened, the WebTV shuts down, reboots, then calls 911. Several people have reported this happening and then having a police officer show up at their door. "
I feel like a guru over here because I built an HTPC in August of 2000, which makes me feel like I'm two years ahead of the curve;-)
I'm using a Realmagic Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card from (www.sigmadesigns.com) in my PC. It has outputs for S-video and coax digital out, which I send to my Sony Wega and the ADS-2000 decoder which comes with my Midiland S4 8200 5.1 surround speakers (www.midiland.com). This is a dedicated DVD setup.
For PC audio, I have a SB Live Platinum, of which I use the headphone jack 90% of the time, and the coax S/PDIF out for when I want to play a game with Dolby Digital sound. If I want to play a EAX or non DD game, I use the analog ouputs on the back of the SB Live connected to the ADS-2000 decoder (it allows for simultaneous digital and analog connections which can be switched with the included remote control).
I'm thinking of upgrading to the SB Audigy Platinum and the new Realmagic Xcard, which has component video ouputs and hardware Divx decoding.
Slashdot Mirror
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/0 7/1328207&mode=nested&tid=129
Also mentioned is a proposal being considered by the FCC that would allow cable companies to 'turn off' the firewire port, which DVR's will use to connect to digital televisions, so that some broadcasts can't be recorded.
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25869.html
On the other hand, this could help create a new kind of white hats: Buddhist hackers!
And please, if its alright with everyone I think we should abstain from using any puns involving "crashing" and airline websites...oops, too late.
It's like War of the Worlds in reverse, or something...
DO YOU HAVE AN INSIDE MAN?!
I think I blew this case wide open! And I'm talking all the way"As it nears Earth, however, the space rock will brighten, soaring to 9th magnitude on August 18th. That's about 16 times dimmer than the dimmest star you can see without a telescope." Wow. Now I just have to blow $300 on a telescope powerful enough to let me see a dim light. What a story, thanks Slashdot!
How about a little AC action on the sly?
Who is Scott? And yes, it probably is technical difficultes.
I'm not talking about the 7xx series for Athlon, I'm talking about the 6xx series for the P4. The 735 was a single-chip setup, whereas the 645/645DX/648 is a tradition north/south bridge deal. And according to Tech-report (http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2002q3/sis-648 /index.x?pg=1),
"In between the 648 north bridge and the new 963 south bridge chip is SiS's proprietary MuTIOL chipset interconnect. This 16-bit interconnect runs at an effective rate of 533MHz, delivering a total of 1GB/s of bandwidth. That's twice the speed of VIA's "Enhanced V-Link" and four times as fast as Intel's Accelerated Hub interconnect."
The 735 was able to deliver 1.2 GB/s of bandwidth because it was a single chip solution, but now SiS has been able to almost match that with a more traditional (and presumably more cost-effective) two chip solution. that 1 GB/s figure is doubled from the 645/645DX chipsets, which supported up to 533 MB/s of bandwidth. That 533 MB/s is double of the Intel Accelerated Hub interconnect, which is 266 MB/s.
Hell no. But I see that YOU work for the Unreal boys. How's that whole "UT2k3" deal going? Any inside info or easter eggs you wanna divulge?
PCXL was more than just the best gaming mag EVAR, It was also a better prognosticator than Nostradamus. Case in point: It was a recurring joke that PCXL would shut down before Daikatana was released. This came true, as the final issue of PCXL was published in April 2000, while Daikatana was released on May 23, 2000, just a month later. Coincidence? Maybe, but wait until I provide the rest of my evidence of PCXL's psychic abilities...
g
;-)
In the April 1999 issue of PCXL, they had a large April Fools section in which there was a story about John Romero (PCXL's favorite punching bag) leaving Ion Storm, cutting his hair short, and focusing on old school games. Well guess what, that is exactly what happened!
www.johnromero.com/images/News/Haircut-After.jp
He quit Ion Storm, cut his hair and started MonkeyStone Games, which makes simple games for PDA's and the like.
And there exists other, more circumstantial evidence regarding PCXL's talent for divination. In an editorial in the December 1999 issue of PCXL (shipped early November), editor Mike Morrisey states that he's sick of buying a new video card every six months, and that he's skipping the current generation (voodoo3/TNT2) because he's sure the Voodoo 6000 will be released in a few months. Lo andd behold, on November 16, 1999 the VSA-100 chip and the Voodoo5 6000 are revealed by 3dfx!
I'm sure by now your jaws have dropped, as you have probably come to the same conclusion as I: namely, that PCXL was the best, most hardcore gaming rag ever, and that its existence was a threat to crappy game publishers and developers everywhere *cough* Eidos, Ion Storm *cough*. It had to be destroyed so that the game oligopoly could continue to pump out crappy games with short development cycles in order to maximize profits without the public being aware of their evil machinations. PCXL was the bastion of truth in the gaming world, and with it gone gamers would again buy crappy games which consistently scored high in the cookie cutter mags. It's a conspiracy I tells ya!
Basically, SiS has come out of nowhere with motherboards that absolutely trash the competition in regards to performance and features. It started last year with the SiS 735, the best performing Athlon mobo of the year. Sadly, it was a poor overclocker, so it was shunned by AMD fans. But this year SiS has had a string of hits. It's the only 3rd party with a P4 license, which makes it the only choice for mobo manufactures in terms of 3rd party P4 mobos (obviosuly they're ansty about Intel frowning upon their Via-based P4 boards, seeing as Via doesn't have a valid P4 license). The SiS 645, 645DX, and now the 648 have consistently been of high quality with features no one else has. The 645 introduced MuTIOL which doubled the bandwidth between north and south bridges, to 533MB/s. The 645DX introduced unnofficial, rock solid DDR400 support. Now the 648 again doubles bandwidth between north and south bridges to 1 GB/s, it introduces AGP 8x, and it probably will officially support DDR400. SiS 648 boards also have Serial ATA support. This is a far cry from a decade ago, when everyone knew SiS=shit.
Isn't this sort of thing covered by ebay and other auction sites? Unless its real estate or something location based, it seems that online classifieds are fighting a losing battle.
Yes, rounding a parallel ATA cable has the potential of introducing crosstalk, but since modern ATA drives have basic CRC checking built in, any data that is lost is retransmitted. This degrades transfer rates somewhat, but is basically negligible unless you're benchmarking. Also, rounded cables braided in twisted-pair fashion reduces the potential of crosstalk.
...Or was it just a wild meetup for CmdrTaco? Anyway, do the "Special Edition" WD drives use liquid bearings too, or is the 8 MB cache the only advantage to them? And when will we start seeing Serial ATA compatible drives? That's what I'm waiting for...hot swapping, builtin CRC checking, 150MB/sec transfers, no "master/slave" settings, and no more wasting $$$ on rounded cables!
Former AT&T employee blames Worldcom for causing network capacity to grow geometrically; Broadband users blame AT&T for causing it to shrink geometrically (see AT&T's failure to acquire @home, leaving millions without internet access for weeks).
Consoles are made to be simple, and I dont know any non-technical people who could set up a 16 Xbox wired LAN. This could be a big step forward for cross-platform multiplayer gaming, where a lot of games are twitch based (Soul Calibur 2 wireless realtime tournaments, anyone?)
Microsoft IS trying to police our use of their products! "Those reports say that once the infected attachment is opened, the WebTV shuts down, reboots, then calls 911. Several people have reported this happening and then having a police officer show up at their door. "
...Blue Skies of Death
And yet they still can't make Frodo look like a guy.
I feel like a guru over here because I built an HTPC in August of 2000, which makes me feel like I'm two years ahead of the curve ;-)
I'm using a Realmagic Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card from (www.sigmadesigns.com) in my PC. It has outputs for S-video and coax digital out, which I send to my Sony Wega and the ADS-2000 decoder which comes with my Midiland S4 8200 5.1 surround speakers (www.midiland.com). This is a dedicated DVD setup.
For PC audio, I have a SB Live Platinum, of which I use the headphone jack 90% of the time, and the coax S/PDIF out for when I want to play a game with Dolby Digital sound. If I want to play a EAX or non DD game, I use the analog ouputs on the back of the SB Live connected to the ADS-2000 decoder (it allows for simultaneous digital and analog connections which can be switched with the included remote control).
I'm thinking of upgrading to the SB Audigy Platinum and the new Realmagic Xcard, which has component video ouputs and hardware Divx decoding.