But clockcyle counting has ceases to be a sensible optimisation strategy a decade ago. From dsps to portable hardware, _everything_ uses caches , OOP or other stuff that suxxors it.
its like whining that nobody in the aviation industrie learns how to paint a zeppelin or something.
If you do that, you should just modify EVERY SINGLE web page. (as wiki several notches higher on the credibility scale than your average "first page in google results" page.
What _you_ seem to know as laser cooling is esentially using a modified penning trap with 6 circular polarized lasers. There is no way to use such an assembly on any _visible object_ (thats why that sentence was used in the blurb). It needs the volume of entrapment to be translucent.
One of the _main reasons_ for the huge viewing distances was to get the TV so far away that you see no visible bluring. Thats even how the typical viewing distance (5 times the picture diagonal or something like that) was derived: how far to i have to put the TV away as to have it look "real", i.e. as sharp as the rest of the world.
So WHY THE FUCK do people insist on buying huge, flicker-free, x-ray free flatscreens and STILL have them as tiny keyholes in the distance? Of course you will be eye-limited in that situation.
How about using your brain instead of making pretty links in your post? This isnt a wikipedia article, your know? XVid is just an implementaion of mpeg4, just like divx. Thats the reason why the same decoder will happily decode bitstream from both sources.
And guess what? The decoder can be a totally different implementation from either of them.
geezz. People today. To dumb to piss, but "its GPL!!!!11"
Actually, you forgot CABAC. Arithmetic instead of preset huffman trees can give you 15% by itself. But otoh, itunes is really as bad as h264 gets. Every random torrent from a tv broadcast will give you better quality than at the same size...
Well, think about how many thousand km^2 are used for coal mining, for example. It adds up. Or just take a look on google maps how much of the earth already has the colour of concret roofs.
A replique isnt. You might notice thats the same reason Obi wans robe from Star Wars fetched 100k$+ in an auction, even though every hobo could give you a near-identical one for $5.
If you realize that 95% of those are bots, or "players" being _paid_ to occupy content providers areas (the 2nd live version of link-networks to boost ranking), it shrinks quite a bit.
Second live has a huge amount of astroturfing going on. Its also intersting to see how much main-stream media attention they get (and which companies those outlets belong to).
I was thinking the same thing when i was california a few weeks ago. With a nice ICE (or TGV) connection, one could travel between SF and LA in less than 3 hours. While having more space to work/relax than on a buisness class flight (2nd class compartment in an ICE has plenty of space to use a laptop, and power sockets at the seats). Plus you only need to show up 5 minutes before departure.
1) The whole "western in space" setting. (just doesnt make sense at all, no matter how you try to justify it) 2) The reavers. Those guys wouldnt be able to keep _cars_ running. "rocket science" as a qualifier anyone? Spacesfleets are a bit maintainance intensitive. 3) River. Would fit perfectly in dragonball Z, though. Or in a fanfic called "mary sues space adventures".
Those three together really tortured my suspension of disbelieve to death. While i acknowledge that the movie had intersting scenes/ideas, its impossible to take it serious in any lenghts. Contrast this with the blind zealotry of serenity fans ("You dont like firefly/serenity? Easy, its just because you are too stupid!!11" (just read the IMDB forums...)). All together it leads to a (a bit knee-jerk, but still justified) "i wont touch this shit again" reaction on my side.
Open your eyes. And no, stating the bandwith in bits/s instead of bytes/s to make the numbers seem larger isnt cool either. You arent going to fool anybody.
If you consider the PS3 a supercomputer, you have to consider all modern GPUs supercomputers, too.
(and your brainless adding up of bandwith of the different connection ports for IO is really creepy. Have you some kind of disorder in that regard? If yes, try it on a 250$ A64+MB. Come back when you are finished with jerking off to the Gbit/s..)
90% of all modern lasers are still rastering with lasers. Thats why they are called "laser" printers. There are a few manufactorers of LED printers (Not "LED-Lasers", thats like saying "a gasoline diesel engine"). Oki comes to mind, as they are solely doing led prints.
And the difference there isnt really compareable, as both techniques dont feature any lateral movement on the paper... its done via rotating mirrors and a refocus lens.
Take a truckload of salt. They may claim power efficiency, but im sure they mean compared to those 10 quad-xeons they use as benchmark (i.e. 5kW). Lets say you give those FPGAs a power envelope of 250W. And glue your benchmarked algorithms optimized into them. I think its doable (the Grape people did some variations of MDGrape on FPGA, and still had near gordon-bell price Gflop/$ ratios for the specific workloads...)
You forget to mention that such a tape (just the tape) is also as expensive as a 250Gbyte HD. Add robots, and it gets seriously expensive for large installations...
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But clockcyle counting has ceases to be a sensible optimisation strategy a decade ago. From dsps to portable hardware, _everything_ uses caches , OOP or other stuff that suxxors it.
its like whining that nobody in the aviation industrie learns how to paint a zeppelin or something.
If you do that, you should just modify EVERY SINGLE web page.
(as wiki several notches higher on the credibility scale than your average "first page in google results" page.
What _you_ seem to know as laser cooling is esentially using a modified penning trap with 6 circular polarized lasers. There is no way to use such an assembly on any _visible object_ (thats why that sentence was used in the blurb). It needs the volume of entrapment to be translucent.
One of the _main reasons_ for the huge viewing distances was to get the TV so far away that you see no visible bluring. Thats even how the typical viewing distance (5 times the picture diagonal or something like that) was derived: how far to i have to put the TV away as to have it look "real", i.e. as sharp as the rest of the world.
So WHY THE FUCK do people insist on buying huge, flicker-free, x-ray free flatscreens and STILL have them as tiny keyholes in the distance? Of course you will be eye-limited in that situation.
Geez. Just put it half as far away.
nah, it will just tranform their present to the same uncreative, brainkilling grind-shit that it is for all the other MMORPG junkies, too.
I never used that extension, and i find nothing wrong with my current browsing experience.
Tell me what i have missed all these years?
How about using your brain instead of making pretty links in your post? This isnt a wikipedia article, your know?
XVid is just an implementaion of mpeg4, just like divx.
Thats the reason why the same decoder will happily decode bitstream from both sources.
And guess what? The decoder can be a totally different implementation from either of them.
geezz. People today. To dumb to piss, but "its GPL!!!!11"
But "Main Profile" is a superset of the (advanced) simple profiles, so it shouldnt be a problem
Actually, you forgot CABAC. Arithmetic instead of preset huffman trees can give you 15% by itself.
But otoh, itunes is really as bad as h264 gets.
Every random torrent from a tv broadcast will give you better quality than at the same size...
Hey, there are editors that (hopefully) get money to do something.
Maybe they should start?
Well, think about how many thousand km^2 are used for coal mining, for example.
It adds up.
Or just take a look on google maps how much of the earth already has the colour of concret roofs.
A replique isnt.
You might notice thats the same reason Obi wans robe from Star Wars fetched 100k$+ in an auction, even though every hobo could give you a near-identical one for $5.
Reading comprehension, shitcock.
Do you have it?
If you realize that 95% of those are bots, or "players" being _paid_ to occupy content providers areas (the 2nd live version of link-networks to boost ranking), it shrinks quite a bit.
Second live has a huge amount of astroturfing going on. Its also intersting to see how much main-stream media attention they get (and which companies those outlets belong to).
I was thinking the same thing when i was california a few weeks ago.
With a nice ICE (or TGV) connection, one could travel between SF and LA in less than 3 hours.
While having more space to work/relax than on a buisness class flight (2nd class compartment in an ICE has plenty of space to use a laptop, and power sockets at the seats).
Plus you only need to show up 5 minutes before departure.
Well, high speed trains USE underfloor engines already. (i.e. all new ICE trains)
Even the next TGV will abandon the locomotive principle.
I owned one myself.
It was not _bad_. It was just really average. Thus it sticks out in a "best of all time" list.
And if you widen your horizon even more, you might notice that there is a whole world outside the us, too.
("west-coast bias". Snicker...)
Also, voodoo3 wasnt special at all. It sucked.
IF a 3d accelerator is mentioned at that point, it should be voodoo1.
1) The whole "western in space" setting. (just doesnt make sense at all, no matter how you try to justify it)
2) The reavers. Those guys wouldnt be able to keep _cars_ running. "rocket science" as a qualifier anyone? Spacesfleets are a bit maintainance intensitive.
3) River. Would fit perfectly in dragonball Z, though. Or in a fanfic called "mary sues space adventures".
Those three together really tortured my suspension of disbelieve to death. While i acknowledge that the movie had intersting scenes/ideas, its impossible to take it serious in any lenghts.
Contrast this with the blind zealotry of serenity fans ("You dont like firefly/serenity? Easy, its just because you are too stupid!!11" (just read the IMDB forums...)).
All together it leads to a (a bit knee-jerk, but still justified) "i wont touch this shit again" reaction on my side.
To 100 MPG?
Ah, i see you are using an american baseline.
Everywhere else in the world, this would be 2-3 fold...
No, its a NON SUPERCOMPUTER TOY.
Open your eyes. And no, stating the bandwith in bits/s instead of bytes/s to make the numbers seem larger isnt cool either. You arent going to fool anybody.
If you consider the PS3 a supercomputer, you have to consider all modern GPUs supercomputers, too.
(and your brainless adding up of bandwith of the different connection ports for IO is really creepy. Have you some kind of disorder in that regard? If yes, try it on a 250$ A64+MB. Come back when you are finished with jerking off to the Gbit/s..)
Sorry, you dont have a clue.
90% of all modern lasers are still rastering with lasers. Thats why they are called "laser" printers.
There are a few manufactorers of LED printers (Not "LED-Lasers", thats like saying "a gasoline diesel engine"). Oki comes to mind, as they are solely doing led prints.
And the difference there isnt really compareable, as both techniques dont feature any lateral movement on the paper... its done via rotating mirrors and a refocus lens.
Take a truckload of salt.
They may claim power efficiency, but im sure they mean compared to those 10 quad-xeons they use as benchmark (i.e. 5kW).
Lets say you give those FPGAs a power envelope of 250W. And glue your benchmarked algorithms optimized into them.
I think its doable (the Grape people did some variations of MDGrape on FPGA, and still had near gordon-bell price Gflop/$ ratios for the specific workloads...)
You forget to mention that such a tape (just the tape) is also as expensive as a 250Gbyte HD.
Add robots, and it gets seriously expensive for large installations...