Because those SPUs are SOOOO good at integer, especially the brach-heavy stuff like emulators need... Not to mention having no cache at all will be SO great in such a non-streaming application (and no, those 256K ram dont count)
This isnt about ethanol. This is about biodiesel. Minimally modified vegetable oil.
PLEASE STICK your old propaganda shit (which you already had prepared, because it would have taken you longer to write that article than the story is online) and shove it up your ass.
Actually, this is quite some bullshit you are telling:)
If there were enough dust to shape the moon round, the apollo lander would have just sunk in...
The layer of dust has NOTHING to do with the creation process of the moon but rather with the fact that the lack of athmosphere combined with billions of years of pulverisation of the surface through impacts has created it, plus the lack of the magnetic field has implaneted ions from the solar wind.
There have also been "podcasts" LONG before there were potcasts. I at least remember downloading mp3 files from websites via my old 56k in the 90s... To bad back then we didnt have a l33t word for it.
Its getting more and more annoying... So this drive is great... says WD. So obviously is MUST be great.
And i really like reading that it has a 16" monster cock... ^h^h^h^h^h^..^h 16Mbyte monster cache. You can really feel the journalistic integrity OOZING out between the letters. I mean, thats SOO great considering that currently my windows uses 360Mbyte as file cache, connected with 6.4Gbyte/s.
And a 250Gbyte drive is SOOOO revolutionary. I mean, thats the smell of the future. Almost as if we were already in the 3rd millenium.... oh wait, we ARE there, and drives of this size have been around for 2.5years+ already.
And Sata-2 transfer limits are SOOOO useful as a dazzling number when your drive barely reaches 70Mbyte on the outermost tracks for the first Gbyte.
You would be surprised how many "really basic" stuff any college student could do become cutting edge stuff if you JUST make them a bit smaller/ better/ect.
I did some lithography to create 3d-structures using multilayered resists as a basic lab course. Using REALLY old stuff like 400nm HG-vapour lamp lithography and contact masks. Things you could have done 25 years ago.
But just do the same with an ebeamer and make 15 nm free-gaps to contact spintronic devices without annoying insulating layers, and its suddenly paper-worthy.
Same here. 100million pixel/in^2 seem to indicate 2.5um structure size, which COULD be a breakthrough in reproducability/ miniaturisation of that kind of process... (i cant say it IS as im not very familiar with that biology stuff)
For some strange reason, i though so, too (hyperion being the best). But looking back, i ended up rereading the endymion books 3 or 4 times while i dont feel like rereading hyperion, so somehow they appeal to me more. But all 4 are awesome in the way each is unique.
Also, deepness has AWESOME use of large scale steganography, plus the whole concept of "focused" people for intelligence amplification. One of my favorite books all time (which should make it a geek book:D)
H264 was only integrated as mpeg4 AVC very recently. When looking at the specs and encoding techniques, it becomes VERY obvious that it shares little with basic ASP/Main mpeg4 profiles but the name.
I wondered, too. Especially considering that hd-dvd wont use mpeg4, but straight go to h264... Under that light, the "larger disc space" argument for blue-ray becomes a moot point, quickly. I would rather have a 10GB h264 file than a 20GB mpeg2...
Following your argument: Oh, vector cpus are SO boring. You just put some more execution units on the cpu, add some more memory channels. Just takes die-space and board layers, thus money, not invention or innovation.
It is more or less arbitrary. For example, Seti at home _could_ qualify as a supercomputer... But it would HORRIBLY suck at 99.999% of all problems because of limited node to node bandwith and latency.
You are also missing that those cores are single inssue in order, IIRC. So 4 opteron cores have the same numbers of clocks than a Niagara, but can do a LOT more per clock. But otoh, the targets are vastly different, so both solution could have their place...
is also the pure definition of crap software. Ressource hog, takes longer to start than an office suit even though a nagging tray process is always running, no fullscreen, shitty performance. Not to mention stupid "register if you dont want to be nagged everytime you play a video" popups.
Er... Normally im not really busy in this "comparing evil" buisness... But how exactly would you gauge Mao "an order of magnitude more dispicable" than Stalin? I mean, they were both cruel bastards, and if maos actions had the death of more people as direct result (which is debatable), then it wasnt out of stalins lack of trying... (but more about population numbers)
If you are so aware of things (and got mpeg4 codecs to play videos), you are obviously not the target group of those videos.
But they DO work nicely by just clicking on the link even in firefox (without the crap that embedded quicktime and wmv videos often pull), and thats the main point. You can just send the link to somebody and it WILL work...
So you are arguing that Linus shoudlt claim slashdot is all about making unqualified comments and circle jerking them up to +5 insightful, by making a unqualified comment about linux kernel management and getting modded up for it...
While this sounds bad, i can read between the lines that you matched the description of a criminal (as you say yourself that there was an alibi involved... no such thing without a special crime you were suspected), so this is _far_ from the "random arrest because we dont like the way you look" kind of arrest you want to make it seem.
Sucks to have it happen to you, but how should arrests based on descriptions work otherwise? "Hey, you look like the description of the burgler/mugger/ect. We will send you a letter in a few days to arrest you!"?
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Because those SPUs are SOOOO good at integer, especially the brach-heavy stuff like emulators need...
Not to mention having no cache at all will be SO great in such a non-streaming application (and no, those 256K ram dont count)
This isnt about ethanol. This is about biodiesel.
Minimally modified vegetable oil.
PLEASE STICK your old propaganda shit (which you already had prepared, because it would have taken you longer to write that article than the story is online) and shove it up your ass.
Actually, this is quite some bullshit you are telling :)
...
If there were enough dust to shape the moon round, the apollo lander would have just sunk in
The layer of dust has NOTHING to do with the creation process of the moon but rather with the fact that the lack of athmosphere combined with billions of years of pulverisation of the surface through impacts has created it, plus the lack of the magnetic field has implaneted ions from the solar wind.
There have also been "podcasts" LONG before there were potcasts.
I at least remember downloading mp3 files from websites via my old 56k in the 90s... To bad back then we didnt have a l33t word for it.
Its getting more and more annoying...
So this drive is great... says WD.
So obviously is MUST be great.
And i really like reading that it has a 16" monster cock... ^h^h^h^h^h^..^h 16Mbyte monster cache. You can really feel the journalistic integrity OOZING out between the letters. I mean, thats SOO great considering that currently my windows uses 360Mbyte as file cache, connected with 6.4Gbyte/s.
And a 250Gbyte drive is SOOOO revolutionary. I mean, thats the smell of the future. Almost as if we were already in the 3rd millenium.... oh wait, we ARE there, and drives of this size have been around for 2.5years+ already.
And Sata-2 transfer limits are SOOOO useful as a dazzling number when your drive barely reaches 70Mbyte on the outermost tracks for the first Gbyte.
You would be surprised how many "really basic" stuff any college student could do become cutting edge stuff if you JUST make them a bit smaller/ better /ect.
I did some lithography to create 3d-structures using multilayered resists as a basic lab course. Using REALLY old stuff like 400nm HG-vapour lamp lithography and contact masks. Things you could have done 25 years ago.
But just do the same with an ebeamer and make 15 nm free-gaps to contact spintronic devices without annoying insulating layers, and its suddenly paper-worthy.
Same here. 100million pixel/in^2 seem to indicate 2.5um structure size, which COULD be a breakthrough in reproducability/ miniaturisation of that kind of process... (i cant say it IS as im not very familiar with that biology stuff)
Well, "5th place" does hide abit that its 2-3 times slower than the fastest drives while writing....
Its there, under the "choice of language" section.
For some strange reason, i though so, too (hyperion being the best).
But looking back, i ended up rereading the endymion books 3 or 4 times while i dont feel like rereading hyperion, so somehow they appeal to me more.
But all 4 are awesome in the way each is unique.
Also, deepness has AWESOME use of large scale steganography, plus the whole concept of "focused" people for intelligence amplification. :D)
One of my favorite books all time (which should make it a geek book
H264 was only integrated as mpeg4 AVC very recently.
When looking at the specs and encoding techniques, it becomes VERY obvious that it shares little with basic ASP/Main mpeg4 profiles but the name.
I wondered, too.
Especially considering that hd-dvd wont use mpeg4, but straight go to h264...
Under that light, the "larger disc space" argument for blue-ray becomes a moot point, quickly.
I would rather have a 10GB h264 file than a 20GB mpeg2...
Well, you can get digital sattelite ANYWHERE between iceland and turkey, so i dont think thats that much of an issue...
Following your argument:
Oh, vector cpus are SO boring. You just put some more execution units on the cpu, add some more memory channels. Just takes die-space and board layers, thus money, not invention or innovation.
If the endresult is FAST, yes.
You dont need more than a few 100k Of computer equipment to get into the top500 list.
It is more or less arbitrary.
For example, Seti at home _could_ qualify as a supercomputer... But it would HORRIBLY suck at 99.999% of all problems because of limited node to node bandwith and latency.
You are also missing that those cores are single inssue in order, IIRC.
So 4 opteron cores have the same numbers of clocks than a Niagara, but can do a LOT more per clock.
But otoh, the targets are vastly different, so both solution could have their place...
is also the pure definition of crap software.
Ressource hog, takes longer to start than an office suit even though a nagging tray process is always running, no fullscreen, shitty performance.
Not to mention stupid "register if you dont want to be nagged everytime you play a video" popups.
Even realone player is less shitty.
Er...
Normally im not really busy in this "comparing evil" buisness...
But how exactly would you gauge Mao "an order of magnitude more dispicable" than Stalin?
I mean, they were both cruel bastards, and if maos actions had the death of more people as direct result (which is debatable), then it wasnt out of stalins lack of trying... (but more about population numbers)
I guess that means it has been in active use for YEARS already.
If you are so aware of things (and got mpeg4 codecs to play videos), you are obviously not the target group of those videos.
But they DO work nicely by just clicking on the link even in firefox (without the crap that embedded quicktime and wmv videos often pull), and thats the main point.
You can just send the link to somebody and it WILL work...
your xbox isnt magically going to vanish, you know?
I want you to show me how exactly you would power a rack full of cpus that need 50A+ at 1.5V each without an internal DC-DC conversation.
Running Kiloamps might be nice to show how big your copper-bars are, but it offers rather nasty contact&resistance problems.
So you are arguing that Linus shoudlt claim slashdot is all about making unqualified comments and circle jerking them up to +5 insightful,
by making a unqualified comment about linux kernel management and getting modded up for it...
While this sounds bad, i can read between the lines that you matched the description of a criminal (as you say yourself that there was an alibi involved... no such thing without a special crime you were suspected), so this is _far_ from the "random arrest because we dont like the way you look" kind of arrest you want to make it seem.
Sucks to have it happen to you, but how should arrests based on descriptions work otherwise? "Hey, you look like the description of the burgler/mugger/ect. We will send you a letter in a few days to arrest you!"?