wouldn't it be great if the BSDs and the Linux's could get along just long enough to produce one operating system where EVERYTHING is cross-platform? No more worrying about having to recompile my apps and source code fixes, no worrys about drivers not working, and support for all the devices combined? wouldn't that be nice? SO WHY THE HELL NOT!!!!!
I mean come on you guys, arguing which operating system is better is like the special olympics, even if you win you're still retarded. And its not going to get you anywhere to bicker about it either. Let the grand unification begin!!!!!!!
nah, they have caffiene drinks like bawls.... that's gotta cause problems like alcohol after you've had so many... i drank like 3 of them at the last lan party I attended (lanwar) at once and had to fight off the snakes coming out of my monitor with my chair:)
Hey, have you heard of Million Man Lan? That's this lan party with 4k people in the us, with about 1k in kentucky (my ol home) and 3k out in cali connected over oc3. Pretty fun, but sadly im not going to be able to make the next one :
more information on how to build an automated computer... hopefully microsoft will steer clear of this, a bugged out, Windows CE powered android is not quite my idea of a friendly robot..
One can only wish, but the most annoying was those cheap calculators you see everwhere that are in fruity colors... and then the matching everything... it got really bad when the mac first came out, but its not that bad now. (although i like my purple lava lamp...)
I'll miss the old iMacs, they really sent a shockwave throught the PC community (prompting many users to get one even if they didnt know what the hell they were getting into in the mac world), and a lot of new ideas and concepts.
I especially liked the manuals... the shortest manuals ever, something like 20 words right? But anyways, I've gotta hand it to Apple for those things lasting as long as they did, and bringing a new style and appeal to the computer market. Live long and prosper iMac..
Musicians that hit it well (and therefore what most people listen to) are used to making hundreds of millions of dollars, more than most people see in their lifetimes. I don't think that filesharing is going to bankrupt them any time soon just as long as they keep selling cds and do their thing the best they can
is this like everquest? i never did like that game, it wasnt that you had to pay to use it (which was a huge turnoff to begin with), but it just seemed like my life started to end, and my video game persona took over.. people even started calling me by my handle (ciro), and when it gets to the point in which u'de rather stay in and play video games than go out and date girls, well thats just sad.
hey wait a second.... thats the perfect nerds life.. DUDE I CANT BELIEVE I SOLD MY COPY!!!!
Well, I noticed something right away.. WITHOUT EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION... this throws GPS out the window because it can't communicate with the GPS satilites. This is a MUCH harder challenge than anyone thought. My idea is to have a "car data recorder" where you simply drive along the path, have the car record all the things you did (minus belching and other flatuance) to get it from point A to B, and have it simply replay it (hopefully traffic conditions will be indenical.. or some cars might be in some trouble lol). But that's just something to think about.
Well, this doesn't seem like that hard of a task, but there is a lot to do with launch dynamics. I'm an ameture model rocketist myself, so I'll try my best to explain it.
First, we list our obsticles: that damned atmotsphere we need to live, the gravity that holds us to the ground, weight-to-fuel ratio.
The atmostphere is no problem really, just build a rocket with a conic head, besides if you can get anything up to the right speed, the shape won't matter (unless it's an inverted cone or a flat surface...).
Next, we deal with gravity. It works on all objects on earth at about 9.8m/s^2, which is a royal pain in the A$$ when trying to move heavy objects upwards... therefore, we must keep the weight down. This is done by making our rocket put out a HUGE amount of power per kilogram, because we have to take it up to escape velocity (the speed in which the objects forward force is greater than the force of gravity pulling it down). Let's do the math to figure out escape velocity:
The maximum amount of work done on a falling body that's falling from infinity (no atmosphere), is the GPE of the object: Ma = Mass of rocket, Mb = mass of planet to escape, G = newton's gravitational constant, or 6.67e-11, and r is the radius of the planet. -G(Ma)(Mb)/r
Now, we also know if we want to make an object escape this gravity pit, we have to give it just enough kinetic energy, using.5mv^2 (you should remember this from high school physics). We also know we need a little bit more to escape gravity, since traveling at exactly the same speed as gravity would put you in neutral. so... -G(Ma)(Mb)/r +.5mv^2 > 0 Now, since we need a velocity, let's solve for V.. (take note: the m in.5mv^2 is equal to Ma)
.5(Ma)v^2 = G(Ma)(Mb)/r,
(Ma)v^2 = 2G(Ma)(Mb)/r,
v^2 = 2G(Mb)/r,
v = sqrt (2G(Mb)) Tada, we have our equation.
Now, this gives you about 11182 meters per second. Factor in the air resistance, and we probably need to take it up at least another third of that if we can, so about 15k m/s. This represents a HUGE obsticle.. because the heavier the object we present it, the harder we have to work to get it to that speed. For More information, email me, or visit my website, ill have this posted soon. Laterz
In fact, I plan to buy a centrino book for this soul purpose. I figure the centrino should also have insane overclocking headroom, and if I'm lucky enough to get a board that's not from a company like dell, I can turn off all that power saving junk in bios. Intel has really done a great job on this processor, and hopefully, we will see a 2 meg cache version move to desktop (I've heard chatter along my channels about that move...) Oh well, i've blithered enough.
"Don't swallow ducks, tell the swallow's to duck!"
everyone shares secrets, i mean how do you think we know where osama always is? i think its stupid for companies to nit pick at each other like that, it seems lame. and besides.. ibm is helping linux, so im not even going to start bashing on ibm today....
yes you do. but the question is always in the back of my mind... what movies are we using to measure with? I'de use the matrix and any other pr0n that was high quality enough to actually dent the available bandwidth.... dont you just hate those ones that are so short they have no real content.. or the ones that are spanned across a hundred files... man that just makes me mad....
Look at it, before we know it, Juptier's moons will have moons.. and those will have moons.. and so on and so forth.
One question though? What constitutes a moon? Because they say the earth only has one moon, but it has hundreds of orbiting satilites and MILLIONS of pieces of space dust circling it, so really, I think it's time to quit discovering the moons of jupiter. one last comment: how many moons does SATURN have?!?!
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Hmmm.. sending garbage at the sun... I wonder what would happen if the garbage actually hit the sun. Although I don't know this to be true, it would probably disentegrate before it reached the surface, but if it actually hit the sun, that could cause dire effects for us. Think, if it caused a promenance or a solar flare or any kind of change in solar wind patterns.. our satilites will be ionized for years if they don't come raining down on us. I guess if you really had to dump trash anywhere, put it in the asteroid belt, that way in about 100 million years that material might be encorporated into another planet.. possibly with life. I dunno.. maybe im crazy.. but hey, that would be neat
Instead, the P4 has SSE and its brothers, which alone wouldn't be so bad, but then you have to take in consideration that every pentium 4 is build with HT onboard, so that even if it never sees the light of having two threads run content through the SSE engine, time is wasted on giving each thread a number. Plus, since the P4's pipeline is so long, pipeline stalls would be DEADLY, so they added an extra step to the pipeline (go figure) called "Drive" that allows the exectution units a little more time, and allows current to flow through the entire chip, to keep those threads flowing smoothly. And after all of this, the P4 still has time to branch predict the next kind of data coming in, and know when not to use branch prediction (for example, when word processing).
One thing has to go to the Power5 (which will probably make me a mac user in the future), it's vector engine is awesome, and unlike the Bloatchip (P4), everything on the Power5 seems to have a purpose.. Interesting indeed.
TO DEATH.. I mean come on.. we want something that is even *remotely* possible, and everyone knows the vampires, zombies, werewolves, all that jazz has been done again and again and again. That's why things like x-men (genetic mutations), farscape (interstellar travel and all that), and other comic book heros (see batman, spiderman, incredible hulk, etc) make good movies. However unlikely, some of these things could happen if perfectly ideal situations were set up.
On a personal note.. I can't believe farscape is dying, and a show like buffy lasted as long as it did... GOOD RIDDANCE
that's a good question, but dont say it to loud.. we might be staring down the AMCA.... then the government will cut out our eyes, ears, and all of our creativity.... i better be careful, someones probably listening...
Well, you have to realize that a LOT more goes on than sticking 4 dies on a chip and selling it, one of the main problems would be the timing for the system and the heat!!!!!!! 4 PIII cores running 2x2 would not only generate somewhere around 200 watts of heat, and would require a 300 to 400 Watt psu for a bare minimum configuration (proc, ram, cheap pci videocard and a floppy drive). Then you have to worry about the other issues (timing for memory access for 4 cores would be a pain to set up im sure), and lastly, nobody really needs that power.
My opinion: Itanium does the job, and if people would spend the time it would take to learn a new archecture, it would be a nice, fast chip to start from.
one last note: ive had enough of x86, I'm about to move over to a mac just to escape the constant battle between AMD and Intel over who's better. personally I don't care who's faster vs who's more reliable, I care about what chip can get the job done, be easy enough for the average clutzy male [Tim Allen style] to install without setting his house on fire or having to buy a new chip, and be reasonably afforable. That's why my current chip is an Intel vs an AMD (i like the little heat shield over the core [seeing on how i nearly destroyed a friends athlon trying to install a heat sink on the exposed core] i dont like the little pins, i dont like the little chip, and the heatsink design needs some work)
my 2 cents, somebody give me theirs.. I'm broke again:(
I mean, once Microsoft has its paws in every computer on earth, I think they'de start trying to convert the linux people over by giving them at least a tiny piece of what they are used to, and besides, once they've got the chip in your computer, the OS could be open source by then, you'de just be charged for the os when you bought your processor or motherboard.
All I'm saying is watch out before everyone jumps on this band wagon, it may be too late to jump off...
Unless launched against microsoft. M$ only pretends to give the uninformed people what they want so they can get more of what they want... Your money.
And don't be surprised if they do release a copy of Office for *nix oses... by then they will own them all.
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wouldn't it be great if the BSDs and the Linux's could get along just long enough to produce one operating system where EVERYTHING is cross-platform? No more worrying about having to recompile my apps and source code fixes, no worrys about drivers not working, and support for all the devices combined? wouldn't that be nice? SO WHY THE HELL NOT!!!!!
I mean come on you guys, arguing which operating system is better is like the special olympics, even if you win you're still retarded. And its not going to get you anywhere to bicker about it either. Let the grand unification begin!!!!!!!
nah, they have caffiene drinks like bawls.... that's gotta cause problems like alcohol after you've had so many... i drank like 3 of them at the last lan party I attended (lanwar) at once and had to fight off the snakes coming out of my monitor with my chair :)
Hey, have you heard of Million Man Lan? That's this lan party with 4k people in the us, with about 1k in kentucky (my ol home) and 3k out in cali connected over oc3. Pretty fun, but sadly im not going to be able to make the next one :
more information on how to build an automated computer... hopefully microsoft will steer clear of this, a bugged out, Windows CE powered android is not quite my idea of a friendly robot..
Brings new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death"
What isnt a toaster good for?
(I regretfully ask)
One can only wish, but the most annoying was those cheap calculators you see everwhere that are in fruity colors... and then the matching everything... it got really bad when the mac first came out, but its not that bad now. (although i like my purple lava lamp...)
I'll miss the old iMacs, they really sent a shockwave throught the PC community (prompting many users to get one even if they didnt know what the hell they were getting into in the mac world), and a lot of new ideas and concepts.
I especially liked the manuals... the shortest manuals ever, something like 20 words right? But anyways, I've gotta hand it to Apple for those things lasting as long as they did, and bringing a new style and appeal to the computer market. Live long and prosper iMac..
Musicians that hit it well (and therefore what most people listen to) are used to making hundreds of millions of dollars, more than most people see in their lifetimes. I don't think that filesharing is going to bankrupt them any time soon just as long as they keep selling cds and do their thing the best they can
is this like everquest? i never did like that game, it wasnt that you had to pay to use it (which was a huge turnoff to begin with), but it just seemed like my life started to end, and my video game persona took over.. people even started calling me by my handle (ciro), and when it gets to the point in which u'de rather stay in and play video games than go out and date girls, well thats just sad.
hey wait a second.... thats the perfect nerds life.. DUDE I CANT BELIEVE I SOLD MY COPY!!!!
Well, I noticed something right away.. WITHOUT EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION... this throws GPS out the window because it can't communicate with the GPS satilites. This is a MUCH harder challenge than anyone thought. My idea is to have a "car data recorder" where you simply drive along the path, have the car record all the things you did (minus belching and other flatuance) to get it from point A to B, and have it simply replay it (hopefully traffic conditions will be indenical.. or some cars might be in some trouble lol). But that's just something to think about.
Well, this doesn't seem like that hard of a task, but there is a lot to do with launch dynamics. I'm an ameture model rocketist myself, so I'll try my best to explain it.
.5mv^2 (you should remember this from high school physics). We also know we need a little bit more to escape gravity, since traveling at exactly the same speed as gravity would put you in neutral. so... .5mv^2 > 0 .5mv^2 is equal to Ma)
First, we list our obsticles: that damned atmotsphere we need to live, the gravity that holds us to the ground, weight-to-fuel ratio.
The atmostphere is no problem really, just build a rocket with a conic head, besides if you can get anything up to the right speed, the shape won't matter (unless it's an inverted cone or a flat surface...).
Next, we deal with gravity. It works on all objects on earth at about 9.8m/s^2, which is a royal pain in the A$$ when trying to move heavy objects upwards... therefore, we must keep the weight down. This is done by making our rocket put out a HUGE amount of power per kilogram, because we have to take it up to escape velocity (the speed in which the objects forward force is greater than the force of gravity pulling it down).
Let's do the math to figure out escape velocity:
The maximum amount of work done on a falling body that's falling from infinity (no atmosphere), is the GPE of the object: Ma = Mass of rocket, Mb = mass of planet to escape, G = newton's gravitational constant, or 6.67e-11, and r is the radius of the planet.
-G(Ma)(Mb)/r
Now, we also know if we want to make an object escape this gravity pit, we have to give it just enough kinetic energy, using
-G(Ma)(Mb)/r +
Now, since we need a velocity, let's solve for V.. (take note: the m in
.5(Ma)v^2 = G(Ma)(Mb)/r,
(Ma)v^2 = 2G(Ma)(Mb)/r,
v^2 = 2G(Mb)/r,
v = sqrt (2G(Mb)) Tada, we have our equation.
Now, this gives you about 11182 meters per second. Factor in the air resistance, and we probably need to take it up at least another third of that if we can, so about 15k m/s. This represents a HUGE obsticle.. because the heavier the object we present it, the harder we have to work to get it to that speed. For More information, email me, or visit my website, ill have this posted soon. Laterz
In fact, I plan to buy a centrino book for this soul purpose. I figure the centrino should also have insane overclocking headroom, and if I'm lucky enough to get a board that's not from a company like dell, I can turn off all that power saving junk in bios. Intel has really done a great job on this processor, and hopefully, we will see a 2 meg cache version move to desktop (I've heard chatter along my channels about that move...) Oh well, i've blithered enough. "Don't swallow ducks, tell the swallow's to duck!"
everyone shares secrets, i mean how do you think we know where osama always is? i think its stupid for companies to nit pick at each other like that, it seems lame. and besides.. ibm is helping linux, so im not even going to start bashing on ibm today....
yes you do. but the question is always in the back of my mind... what movies are we using to measure with? I'de use the matrix and any other pr0n that was high quality enough to actually dent the available bandwidth....
dont you just hate those ones that are so short they have no real content.. or the ones that are spanned across a hundred files... man that just makes me mad....
Look at it, before we know it, Juptier's moons will have moons.. and those will have moons.. and so on and so forth.
One question though? What constitutes a moon? Because they say the earth only has one moon, but it has hundreds of orbiting satilites and MILLIONS of pieces of space dust circling it, so really, I think it's time to quit discovering the moons of jupiter. one last comment: how many moons does SATURN have?!?!
Hmmm.. sending garbage at the sun... I wonder what would happen if the garbage actually hit the sun. Although I don't know this to be true, it would probably disentegrate before it reached the surface, but if it actually hit the sun, that could cause dire effects for us. Think, if it caused a promenance or a solar flare or any kind of change in solar wind patterns.. our satilites will be ionized for years if they don't come raining down on us. I guess if you really had to dump trash anywhere, put it in the asteroid belt, that way in about 100 million years that material might be encorporated into another planet.. possibly with life. I dunno.. maybe im crazy.. but hey, that would be neat
Instead, the P4 has SSE and its brothers, which alone wouldn't be so bad, but then you have to take in consideration that every pentium 4 is build with HT onboard, so that even if it never sees the light of having two threads run content through the SSE engine, time is wasted on giving each thread a number. Plus, since the P4's pipeline is so long, pipeline stalls would be DEADLY, so they added an extra step to the pipeline (go figure) called "Drive" that allows the exectution units a little more time, and allows current to flow through the entire chip, to keep those threads flowing smoothly. And after all of this, the P4 still has time to branch predict the next kind of data coming in, and know when not to use branch prediction (for example, when word processing).
One thing has to go to the Power5 (which will probably make me a mac user in the future), it's vector engine is awesome, and unlike the Bloatchip (P4), everything on the Power5 seems to have a purpose.. Interesting indeed.
TO DEATH.. I mean come on.. we want something that is even *remotely* possible, and everyone knows the vampires, zombies, werewolves, all that jazz has been done again and again and again. That's why things like x-men (genetic mutations), farscape (interstellar travel and all that), and other comic book heros (see batman, spiderman, incredible hulk, etc) make good movies. However unlikely, some of these things could happen if perfectly ideal situations were set up.
On a personal note.. I can't believe farscape is dying, and a show like buffy lasted as long as it did... GOOD RIDDANCE
an escalator to space :), just in case the elevator breaks down after those crazy children press all the buttons...
that's a good question, but dont say it to loud.. we might be staring down the AMCA....
then the government will cut out our eyes, ears, and all of our creativity.... i better be careful, someones probably listening...
Of course, who did you think owned it, yourself?
Well, you have to realize that a LOT more goes on than sticking 4 dies on a chip and selling it, one of the main problems would be the timing for the system and the heat!!!!!!! 4 PIII cores running 2x2 would not only generate somewhere around 200 watts of heat, and would require a 300 to 400 Watt psu for a bare minimum configuration (proc, ram, cheap pci videocard and a floppy drive). Then you have to worry about the other issues (timing for memory access for 4 cores would be a pain to set up im sure), and lastly, nobody really needs that power.
:(
My opinion: Itanium does the job, and if people would spend the time it would take to learn a new archecture, it would be a nice, fast chip to start from.
one last note: ive had enough of x86, I'm about to move over to a mac just to escape the constant battle between AMD and Intel over who's better. personally I don't care who's faster vs who's more reliable, I care about what chip can get the job done, be easy enough for the average clutzy male [Tim Allen style] to install without setting his house on fire or having to buy a new chip, and be reasonably afforable. That's why my current chip is an Intel vs an AMD (i like the little heat shield over the core [seeing on how i nearly destroyed a friends athlon trying to install a heat sink on the exposed core] i dont like the little pins, i dont like the little chip, and the heatsink design needs some work)
my 2 cents, somebody give me theirs.. I'm broke again
I mean, once Microsoft has its paws in every computer on earth, I think they'de start trying to convert the linux people over by giving them at least a tiny piece of what they are used to, and besides, once they've got the chip in your computer, the OS could be open source by then, you'de just be charged for the os when you bought your processor or motherboard. All I'm saying is watch out before everyone jumps on this band wagon, it may be too late to jump off...
Unless launched against microsoft. M$ only pretends to give the uninformed people what they want so they can get more of what they want... Your money. And don't be surprised if they do release a copy of Office for *nix oses... by then they will own them all.