about the speed: Sorry, forget it. The via-cluster dies a horrible dead in most FPU intensive compuations. Even a normal core2 quad will crush that cluster.
An single core of a core2 at 2Ghz is about 8 times faster in fpu stuff like rendering than a 1.4Ghz C7. The integer part is more competetive, thought.
The border between x-rays and gamma isnt defined by energy.
There are gamma decays with only a few 10s of keV (just take any mösbauer experiment), and there are x-rays in the many 100keV range (Uranium K-line, High energy undulators at the higher electron energy synchrotrons like SPring8, ESRF or APS).
For that reason in the range between 10keV and 1MeV, to avoid confusion, stuff is usually named by how it is made. Although to be fair, starting at multi-MeV, the distinction kinda loses its point. End lets not get started with the more or less arbitrary distinction between cosmic rays (the photon kind) and gamma rays (i have seen values between 100MeV and 10s of GeV for the threshold...)
Intel cannot switch their production completely to those parts in a few month. they have huge amounts of 65nm cpus in production, plus they dont have to fab capacity to replace that production at 45nm.
Also, seeing that they already are > 3/4 of the (x86) cpu market, and AMD will only ramp up slowly, Intel would most of all hurt the sales of their own established product lines.
>> Reverse engineering someone's product to market your own substitute would describe a something besides capitalism in my opinion
Can you explain why? Isnt the ability to make a similar product cheaper the sheer essence of capitalism? Arent all those les afaire capitalists complaining about arbitrary limitation of the market forces?
Seeing his slashdot ID, and his kind of communication, this could actually work. Moms basement is a secure shelter, and in the 40 years of living there he has enough time to really secure it.
Also, in opposition to mose other people who are half of the time out of their house (thus leaving it undefended), he doesnt really have that problem...
Reading their forum thread about this yesterday, the very first reaction was a developer ranting foam-in-mouth about the evils of corporation and that steam sucks your soul ect.
Come on. Last time i used dosbox (or tried to), it was sch a piece of shit that i didnt find a single game of my old early 90 collection that i could run on my Athlon without crashing/going down to 4fps or something. I wold have never touched this crap again.
The fact that steam uses it now to emulate those titles seems to indicate that its now reliable and fast enough to actually do that. This could boost dosbox popularity by orders of magnitude and really bring the project into the limelight, if developers would actually care. Now the message is: stay away from this stuff, all you get is a nasty slashdot article.
>The hardcore gamers STILL don't understand that the Wii, with all of its perceived warts (to them, anyway), is outselling EVERYONE. By the end of the summer there will be more Wiis out there than 360s (the next largest market). And Nintendo still can't keep these things in stock. All with "no good games" to buy.
And YOU dont understand that the total amount of sale doesnt mean shit if i dont fit into the target demographic.
Also, in the same line, linux guys dont understand that windows outsales everbdoy, and firefox guys dont understand that IE still outsells everybody, and MAC/PC, Fastfood/real food, ect ect.
And another argument: The WII shouldnt be compared to 360/PS3 at all. Price, hardware capabilites (SD, the same old GC hardware), storage medium, they all make it fit much mroe into the PS2/Xbox group. And in that group, it still will have quite some work to do until it can get the majority of share,
Yeah, good help us that linux actually has support for modern GPUs. I guess the world would be a better way if great mufti RMS would outlaw IP other than GPL and you could use your geforce only on windows and OSX.
Actually, i bought some of that water a year ago. Highest purity available from Sigma Aldrich. Dont remember that EXACT price, but it was around $1-2k/kg. Still a lot less that gold.
Otoh, if you also want stuff to be isotopically pure (especially with strange isotopes), it gets really expensive. I remember a quote for water (the D2O(18) version of heavy water) that was something like $1k per gram, and only 95% isotopically pure.
You think at a much to high level. Sure, there is human intelligence in being able to comprehend, for example, the text in my sig by expanding. But that has limits, as ambiguity rises. "The * is blue". Sky? Or maybe "shirt pocket bottom". "Normal" compression algorithms that simply act upon the entropy are already way past the level of compression thats possible with "intuition".
If you want your weekly dump to need approx. 3 year, then yes. This program compresses (on a state of the art computer) at about the reading speed of a floppy drive.
Slashdot Mirror
My cellphone has more MFlops than the first Gray...
about the speed: Sorry, forget it. The via-cluster dies a horrible dead in most FPU intensive compuations. Even a normal core2 quad will crush that cluster.
An single core of a core2 at 2Ghz is about 8 times faster in fpu stuff like rendering than a 1.4Ghz C7. The integer part is more competetive, thought.
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=280255 &cid=20370225
Well, you learn something new everyday.
The border between x-rays and gamma isnt defined by energy.
There are gamma decays with only a few 10s of keV (just take any mösbauer experiment), and there are
x-rays in the many 100keV range (Uranium K-line, High energy undulators at the higher electron energy synchrotrons like SPring8, ESRF or APS).
For that reason in the range between 10keV and 1MeV, to avoid confusion, stuff is usually named by how it is made.
Although to be fair, starting at multi-MeV, the distinction kinda loses its point.
End lets not get started with the more or less arbitrary distinction between cosmic rays (the photon kind) and gamma rays (i have seen values between 100MeV and 10s of GeV for the threshold...)
Of course it is, no questions asked.
My argument was entirely concerning the immidiate response to AMDs release in a few weeks.
And that the ASP drop of the current lines because of the 45nm release could cause more hurt than any barcelona pressure could.
Intel cannot switch their production completely to those parts in a few month. they have huge amounts of 65nm cpus in production, plus they dont have to fab capacity to replace that production at 45nm.
Also, seeing that they already are > 3/4 of the (x86) cpu market, and AMD will only ramp up slowly, Intel would most of all hurt the sales of their own established product lines.
Actually, many patches should make is _less_ severe, as the reboots are spread across a larger timeframe.
If you REALLY want to piss him off, try writing the generator in LOLCODE (http://lolcode.com/)
You are living in 2002. Nowdays, storage is at 20c /Gbyte...
>> Reverse engineering someone's product to market your own substitute would describe a something besides capitalism in my opinion
Can you explain why?
Isnt the ability to make a similar product cheaper the sheer essence of capitalism?
Arent all those les afaire capitalists complaining about arbitrary limitation of the market forces?
Er, $20 per month is the _lifeline_ offering?
Over here, 15 (less that 20$) is considered expensive for cable...
utorrent has _never_ phoned home.
Otoh, some builds of azareus DID phone home, GPL be dammed.
You forget one thing:
Expelling "all" air from you lung doesnt.
But vacuum DOES.
Seeing his slashdot ID, and his kind of communication, this could actually work.
Moms basement is a secure shelter, and in the 40 years of living there he has enough time to really secure it.
Also, in opposition to mose other people who are half of the time out of their house (thus leaving it undefended), he doesnt really have that problem...
Reading their forum thread about this yesterday, the very first reaction was a developer ranting foam-in-mouth about the evils of corporation and that steam sucks your soul ect.
Come on. Last time i used dosbox (or tried to), it was sch a piece of shit that i didnt find a single game of my old early 90 collection that i could run on my Athlon without crashing/going down to 4fps or something. I wold have never touched this crap again.
The fact that steam uses it now to emulate those titles seems to indicate that its now reliable and fast enough to actually do that. This could boost dosbox popularity by orders of magnitude and really bring the project into the limelight, if developers would actually care. Now the message is: stay away from this stuff, all you get is a nasty slashdot article.
Well, digg has been beating slashdot for a year now, and is nearly a magnitude higher in rank.
No, i guess the most recent event is 4chan passing slashdot...
>The hardcore gamers STILL don't understand that the Wii, with all of its perceived warts (to them, anyway), is outselling EVERYONE. By the end of the summer there will be more Wiis out there than 360s (the next largest market). And Nintendo still can't keep these things in stock. All with "no good games" to buy.
And YOU dont understand that the total amount of sale doesnt mean shit if i dont fit into the target demographic.
Also, in the same line, linux guys dont understand that windows outsales everbdoy, and firefox guys dont understand that IE still outsells everybody, and MAC/PC, Fastfood/real food, ect ect.
And another argument: The WII shouldnt be compared to 360/PS3 at all. Price, hardware capabilites (SD, the same old GC hardware), storage medium, they all make it fit much mroe into the PS2/Xbox group. And in that group, it still will have quite some work to do until it can get the majority of share,
Well 18 years on 50 computers equals about 2 years on 100 modern computers.
I have read about many computations (especially astronomy) than ran for several months on many 1000 nodes of modern supercomputers.
or did you mean longest just in the sense of "time since people first started?"
I totally share your opinion of richard stallman.
Yeah, good help us that linux actually has support for modern GPUs.
I guess the world would be a better way if great mufti RMS would outlaw IP other than GPL and you could use your geforce only on windows and OSX.
Seeing that its cheaper to have a small server with a LAN port in the display than using such a device, i am not that sure.
Actually, i bought some of that water a year ago. Highest purity available from Sigma Aldrich. Dont remember that EXACT price, but it was around $1-2k/kg. Still a lot less that gold.
Otoh, if you also want stuff to be isotopically pure (especially with strange isotopes), it gets really expensive.
I remember a quote for water (the D2O(18) version of heavy water) that was something like $1k per gram, and only 95% isotopically pure.
You think at a much to high level.
Sure, there is human intelligence in being able to comprehend, for example, the text in my sig by expanding.
But that has limits, as ambiguity rises. "The * is blue". Sky? Or maybe "shirt pocket bottom".
"Normal" compression algorithms that simply act upon the entropy are already way past the level of compression thats possible with "intuition".
Sorry, pretty NO compression algorithms are asymetric. The only one i would know of on a hat that is signifficantly asymetric would be LZ77 and 7zip
h tml . Some version of paq decompressed with 1mbyte/HOUR.
BWT,RAR,PPM, PAQ and others are more or less symetrical.
PAQ is an especially bad offender. Look here: http://www.cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/text.
If you want your weekly dump to need approx. 3 year, then yes. This program compresses (on a state of the art computer) at about the reading speed of a floppy drive.