Yes, the Flipper chip in GameCube was designed by ArtX, a company formed by ex-SGI people. ATI didn't just buy ArtX and the Flipper deal with it, they made ArtX CEO David Orton the new COO of ATI. Rumor says it was primarily his insistence on a "no holds barred" "screw the transistor budget" chip that ultimately produced the phenomenally successful R300 (Radeon 9700 Pro) chip.
Don't forget it's not just the juice for the components, but the actual signal -- the medium for the data -- as well, what the PSU provides. Particularly dirty current can turn 0s into 1s in wrong places, results varying from miscalculations to crashes.
Maybe you have been lucky with cheapo PSUs, or maybe you have had good brand all along:-)
Dunno about DNA tests as such... But in this case DNA led the police after the criminal, who then confessed because the DNA evidence was so overwhelming.
So DNA alone didn't convict him, it took a confession. The DNA was "close enough" to one of his relatives to lead the police to him.
The article doesn't say very clearly whether they took a DNA sample after the arrest, and whether that was indeed a perfect match to the old crime scene sample.
[Explanation of joke: Parent unintentionally looks like Google was some guy who submitted a question before researching and consequently suffered a terrible fate. "Ever hear what happened to Google?!"... Okay, a poorish joke.]
It wasn't quite like that. Apple's Raskin did original academic work on it and inspired the PARC people (before he joined Apple and started the Macintosh which gave the GUI to Lisa).
http://mxmora.best.vwh.net/JefRaskin.html
You're completely right that Apple was the one to bet on it, and how Xerox never leveraged the concepts their PARC guys were fooling with (like the laser printer, for one).
The GUI chain goes xerox->Lisa->Macintosh->(Windows)
Just a minor correction: Jef Raskin, who pioneered (predicted and figured out) the GUI in his academic career, and significantly influenced the Xerox PARC people, started Apple's GUI program with his Macintosh project. Lisa was originally a command line computer, but then got the GUI from the Macintosh project (and got the priority and the better resources, got finished first, but turned out to be too expensive to make much sales).
Google finds interesting stuff about Apple's GUI development and how the jealous Steve Jobs nearly managed to kill the Macintosh project. (After the Lisa people told him to go play with himself somewhere else, and how the helpless Raskin won him over to support GUI, how they together then visited PARC, and how Macintosh thrived after Lisa flunked...)
To sum up, Raskin -> Xerox -> Macintosh -> Lisa -> Windows
Didn't you just read how the animated film Sinbad was made entirely with Linux?
I admit i didn't read that article, but one would assume they didn't quite leverage the desktop multimedia capabilities of some Linux distro, but rather just used a Linux PC farm to render the damn thing...
It's really no question of multimedia support at all, but just a matter computing power. I'll have to go check what software they used, but it probably involved running very long shader ptograms on a very large amount of very small polygons -- IOW, pretty much pure math.
I hope I don't sound like my horse is high, tho. I'm no expert, anyway.
Basically, if Linux becomes important enough to be a serious threat to the Windows operating system, he'd be a fool not to consider porting Microsoft applications to it.
This is an interesting idea. Like everyone knows, the Office apps are extremely good breadwinners for MS. Things may eventually come to a point where providing the OS isn't necessary for their hold of their markets (office software, servers, home multimedia, so on). Sorta like how they sacrificed the potential income from a web browser. (Poor analogy tho, I know.) It'll be interesting to see what the MS Linux Distro is like, when it comes.
Iwill's KK266 was one of the best of mobos for building a TurboPLL. While I appreciate the joke -- which made me laugh, out loud even -- I feel Iwill hasn't deserved
Oh wait. Come to think of it. I don't know what they'we done nowadays. What decade are we on?
[I don't mean this as a joke, I'm rather curious!]
True enough, but I believe all P3 architecture Xeons are called "Pentium III Xeons" whereas the P4 Xeons are just "Xeons". Not that this is terribly important...
Soldam surely was the first to produce aluminum cases, not Lian-Li. Lian-Li cases have terrible wobbly mobo mounts, so it's not all that perfect... CoolerMaster is better.
Now if only Soldam would make the Altium with 120mm fan spaces... I'd cough up for the FAV.
It is all very fine to discuss the sociology of herd formation, exclusion, and prejudice in the abstract, but one should never say that particular persons are making particular decisions on the basis of their herd instincts unless one wants to be truly hated by them and all of their numerous friends, and this was my mistake over and above the choice of what sub- herd to be part of.
And all along I thought it was spelled "the HURD"!
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Is SCO actually being run by a Perl script that periodically checks their stock price to see if it needs to emit some random statement?
They probably just copied Slashcode.
Still, you can always drop your phone to explode it and get on Slashdot news.
3. An individual suffered burns to the thigh and groin as fumes ignited when the phone, which was in his pocket, rang during fuelling.
While a tragic incident, I cannot help imagining his ring tone was "Great Balls Of Fire".
Yes, the Flipper chip in GameCube was designed by ArtX, a company formed by ex-SGI people. ATI didn't just buy ArtX and the Flipper deal with it, they made ArtX CEO David Orton the new COO of ATI. Rumor says it was primarily his insistence on a "no holds barred" "screw the transistor budget" chip that ultimately produced the phenomenally successful R300 (Radeon 9700 Pro) chip.
Don't forget it's not just the juice for the components, but the actual signal -- the medium for the data -- as well, what the PSU provides. Particularly dirty current can turn 0s into 1s in wrong places, results varying from miscalculations to crashes.
:-)
Maybe you have been lucky with cheapo PSUs, or maybe you have had good brand all along
Dunno about DNA tests as such... But in this case DNA led the police after the criminal, who then confessed because the DNA evidence was so overwhelming.
So DNA alone didn't convict him, it took a confession. The DNA was "close enough" to one of his relatives to lead the police to him.
The article doesn't say very clearly whether they took a DNA sample after the arrest, and whether that was indeed a perfect match to the old crime scene sample.
So, who's Google? And what happened to him?
Maybe I should have researched this first...
[Explanation of joke: Parent unintentionally looks like Google was some guy who submitted a question before researching and consequently suffered a terrible fate. "Ever hear what happened to Google?!"... Okay, a poorish joke.]
It wasn't quite like that. Apple's Raskin did original academic work on it and inspired the PARC people (before he joined Apple and started the Macintosh which gave the GUI to Lisa).
http://mxmora.best.vwh.net/JefRaskin.html
You're completely right that Apple was the one to bet on it, and how Xerox never leveraged the concepts their PARC guys were fooling with (like the laser printer, for one).
The GUI chain goes xerox->Lisa->Macintosh->(Windows)
Just a minor correction: Jef Raskin, who pioneered (predicted and figured out) the GUI in his academic career, and significantly influenced the Xerox PARC people, started Apple's GUI program with his Macintosh project. Lisa was originally a command line computer, but then got the GUI from the Macintosh project (and got the priority and the better resources, got finished first, but turned out to be too expensive to make much sales).
Google finds interesting stuff about Apple's GUI development and how the jealous Steve Jobs nearly managed to kill the Macintosh project. (After the Lisa people told him to go play with himself somewhere else, and how the helpless Raskin won him over to support GUI, how they together then visited PARC, and how Macintosh thrived after Lisa flunked...)
To sum up, Raskin -> Xerox -> Macintosh -> Lisa -> Windows
Didn't you just read how the animated film Sinbad was made entirely with Linux?
I admit i didn't read that article, but one would assume they didn't quite leverage the desktop multimedia capabilities of some Linux distro, but rather just used a Linux PC farm to render the damn thing...
It's really no question of multimedia support at all, but just a matter computing power. I'll have to go check what software they used, but it probably involved running very long shader ptograms on a very large amount of very small polygons -- IOW, pretty much pure math.
I hope I don't sound like my horse is high, tho. I'm no expert, anyway.
Basically, if Linux becomes important enough to be a serious threat to the Windows operating system, he'd be a fool not to consider porting Microsoft applications to it.
This is an interesting idea. Like everyone knows, the Office apps are extremely good breadwinners for MS. Things may eventually come to a point where providing the OS isn't necessary for their hold of their markets (office software, servers, home multimedia, so on). Sorta like how they sacrificed the potential income from a web browser. (Poor analogy tho, I know.) It'll be interesting to see what the MS Linux Distro is like, when it comes.
I seem to recall it was QDOS (from "Quick and Dirty Operating System" -- funny how MS added the "Disk" after the fact! Why...? ;-)
Here's the Service Pack:
0
/.'s lameness filter...
1010101001001000101011110100000101011010011111110
0101001100100000000001111110101010010101010101...
I guess the rest was cut away by
Not altogether fair, my man...
Iwill's KK266 was one of the best of mobos for building a TurboPLL. While I appreciate the joke -- which made me laugh, out loud even -- I feel Iwill hasn't deserved
Oh wait. Come to think of it. I don't know what they'we done nowadays. What decade are we on?
[I don't mean this as a joke, I'm rather curious!]
You'd be a fool to buy the RAM from Apple. Cheaper to buy it elsewhere and install yourself.
Romans 8:38-39
Funny, I haven't seen this on the Bible before.
A Xeon is either a P3 or P4
True enough, but I believe all P3 architecture Xeons are called "Pentium III Xeons" whereas the P4 Xeons are just "Xeons". Not that this is terribly important...
Soldam surely was the first to produce aluminum cases, not Lian-Li. Lian-Li cases have terrible wobbly mobo mounts, so it's not all that perfect... CoolerMaster is better.
Now if only Soldam would make the Altium with 120mm fan spaces... I'd cough up for the FAV.
Looks like world's first Ogg Vorbis encoding.
Mod parent UP.
Alas, you'll get the Britney Spears tunes also.
This piece in Hans' answer puzzled me:
It is all very fine to discuss the sociology of herd formation, exclusion, and prejudice in the abstract, but one should never say that particular persons are making particular decisions on the basis of their herd instincts unless one wants to be truly hated by them and all of their numerous friends, and this was my mistake over and above the choice of what sub- herd to be part of.
And all along I thought it was spelled "the HURD"!
Yikes! Big blue lawyers in sight! Beam us up fast, SCOtty!
(Lame, I know.)
And I thought Phoenix was a BIOS! Oh wait.
This post encouraged me to buy a Tippet canoe instead of a Pixar one!
I thought the obvious was:
Do Slashdotters have a life?