But you dont understand what i am saying: How well can your laptop run 3dgames on cpu? Without hd acceleration? I guess A LOT WORSE than its DVD-playback without the little boost the idct of the ati-cards gives it. And software-3d hasnt even bilinear filtering, ect. Face it: A dvd-player has a asic that uses 500mw. A 3d Card has a asic called gpu that uses up to 115W. 3D is more demanding.
Yes, but whats so pleasing about the interior? I agree that the cube looks cool (i like shiny heavy things), but i cant really agree to the enthusiasm about the interior design. Its just normal tec. nothing noteworthy. And especially not ct-scan worthy...
I too dont understant whats so great about the design of the trophy. Its a metal cube with a glowing apple logo. And the "cool design" is that they use aa batteries, a circuit board, 2 LEDs and some light-guide. WOW.
I guess this guys could witness even greater design greatness if they would put a toaster or a discman in a ct-scanner...
>With Intel "stuck" at around 4Ghz, IBM/Apple could figure out how to ramp up the G5 (or it's successor) to 4+Ghz, and beat Intel at it's own marketing game. Yeah. Or they could start selling quantum computers.... Face it: P4 is at 3.6Ghz with 0.9um, G5 is at 2.5Ghz, watercooled. Do you really think that if they could get another Ghz or 2 out of the design that they wouldnt do it?
At least yesterday they were still in. Amds dual core chips dont use a local HT link to for core-core communication. They have both cores linked to a crossbar, which also has ports for the HT-links and the memory controller. So a dual core chip still has 3 outgoing ht links, allowing to use 8 dual core chips in one system without "glue"
I dont agree. A k6-2 300 could decode a dvd in 640x480 res. Modern hardware players have asics that need only 1 or 2W to decode a mpeg2 stream with up to 10 Mbit. The PSP has much less resolution and max bandwith (i think half the pixels of a dvd, and 2mbit or so max bandwith(or how would you else fit a 2h movie on a 2GB disc)). It shouldnt take a lot of horsepower. But OTOH, 3d acceleration is the single most power demanding thing at all. The Gfx Synthesizer of the PS2 needs still >10W power even if it was die-shrunk twice and doesnt have any kind of real pixel and vertex shaders. There is no way 3d will be computationally less demanding than playing mpeg.
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I never understood why they claimed thinking in another language to be such a enormous feat in that movie... If you can speak russian fluid enough to go undercover, you can think in it, too.
But are you really one of those guys who wants 2Billion people to loose 2 irqs just becuase 100.000 dont have to spend 5$ for a interface card? If you want Rs232, you can get it without problems. Hell, you can get ever 32 port pci cards.
You forgot the 400x400 pixel or so animated dlash add right below the 15 lines of text add. I SO like reading text in a 150pixel wide area between to blinking and flashing ads...
No, they dont. In fact, before ps2.0, the pixel shaders werent even able to do the math needed (no fp-ops, and integer had too low instruction and variable limits to do it). The IDCT is done by an extra unit on the chip. Just like nvideas never-working video encoding/decoding accelerator in the nv40 chips uses a dedicated unit, too.
Yeah, those thing sucked. Er. i mean the blowed literally and sucked methaphorically. You spend so much more time to finally get the grass away that their purpose (easier grass-cutting) is totally failed.
Er. Playing videos isnt using the 3D-acceleration at all. I guess no cd spinning and 3d games will get the same playtime, games using 3d AND disc streaming will be even worse.
a) its 180 without the monitor b) its cpu uses 1W. This thing could probably run on battery c) its REALLY tine. about 1/5-1/10 (hard to guess correctly) the volume of a mini-itx case.
Can you do this with off-the-shelf parts, too?
(btw: before looking at the pics, i thought it sucked, too. But after looking, my first thought was "have to get one to use as router/firewall".)
i think they underestimated the R&D costs involved in producing the panels (its nothing like cpus..) AND they realized that they can make more money per fab producing flash or processors than the relatively large LCOS-dies (a 200mm^2 p4/opteron can be sold for a few 100$, but a chip for a tv cant...)
One other thing i remember from usind delphi 4: On a pentium 133, after a click on "compile", it took 1-2 seconds to compile 100.000 lines of code. Sure it wasnt optimizing a lot, but it was like using a interpreted language. Just change something and run...
And linpack is REALLY scalable. I really want to see how good they can run real world problems on 160000 (160 thousand!) cpus without major communication bottlenecks...
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But you dont understand what i am saying:
How well can your laptop run 3dgames on cpu? Without hd acceleration?
I guess A LOT WORSE than its DVD-playback without the little boost the idct of the ati-cards gives it.
And software-3d hasnt even bilinear filtering, ect.
Face it: A dvd-player has a asic that uses 500mw.
A 3d Card has a asic called gpu that uses up to 115W.
3D is more demanding.
OH!
It has no camera included?
Oh well. With a 2xx*1xx screen, i dont think that watching photos on it will be that much of a selling point.
You are wrong. Believe me.
Yes, but whats so pleasing about the interior?
I agree that the cube looks cool (i like shiny heavy things), but i cant really agree to the enthusiasm about the interior design. Its just normal tec. nothing noteworthy. And especially not ct-scan worthy...
I too dont understant whats so great about the design of the trophy.
Its a metal cube with a glowing apple logo.
And the "cool design" is that they use aa batteries, a circuit board, 2 LEDs and some light-guide. WOW.
I guess this guys could witness even greater design greatness if they would put a toaster or a discman in a ct-scanner...
>With Intel "stuck" at around 4Ghz, IBM/Apple could figure out how to ramp up the G5 (or it's successor) to 4+Ghz, and beat Intel at it's own marketing game.
Yeah. Or they could start selling quantum computers....
Face it: P4 is at 3.6Ghz with 0.9um, G5 is at 2.5Ghz, watercooled.
Do you really think that if they could get another Ghz or 2 out of the design that they wouldnt do it?
At least yesterday they were still in.
Amds dual core chips dont use a local HT link to for core-core communication. They have both cores linked to a crossbar, which also has ports for the HT-links and the memory controller.
So a dual core chip still has 3 outgoing ht links, allowing to use 8 dual core chips in one system without "glue"
I dont agree. A k6-2 300 could decode a dvd in 640x480 res. Modern hardware players have asics that need only 1 or 2W to decode a mpeg2 stream with up to 10 Mbit. The PSP has much less resolution and max bandwith (i think half the pixels of a dvd, and 2mbit or so max bandwith(or how would you else fit a 2h movie on a 2GB disc)). It shouldnt take a lot of horsepower.
But OTOH, 3d acceleration is the single most power demanding thing at all. The Gfx Synthesizer of the PS2 needs still >10W power even if it was die-shrunk twice and doesnt have any kind of real pixel and vertex shaders. There is no way 3d will be computationally less demanding than playing mpeg.
I never understood why they claimed thinking in another language to be such a enormous feat in that movie... If you can speak russian fluid enough to go undercover, you can think in it, too.
But are you really one of those guys who wants 2Billion people to loose 2 irqs just becuase 100.000 dont have to spend 5$ for a interface card?
If you want Rs232, you can get it without problems. Hell, you can get ever 32 port pci cards.
Er. Its a mpeg audio group codec, and rather a frauenhofer product than a doulby one.
You forgot the 400x400 pixel or so animated dlash add right below the 15 lines of text add.
I SO like reading text in a 150pixel wide area between to blinking and flashing ads...
Come on. Fetal Position? That fat too decent.
How about a goatse Darl? Like "look for sourcecode HERE"?
Ok. The democrats are the bad guys because they say that they need more soldiers to clean up the mess the republicans created?
No, they dont. In fact, before ps2.0, the pixel shaders werent even able to do the math needed (no fp-ops, and integer had too low instruction and variable limits to do it).
The IDCT is done by an extra unit on the chip. Just like nvideas never-working video encoding/decoding accelerator in the nv40 chips uses a dedicated unit, too.
Yeah, those thing sucked. Er. i mean the blowed literally and sucked methaphorically. You spend so much more time to finally get the grass away that their purpose (easier grass-cutting) is totally failed.
Er. Playing videos isnt using the 3D-acceleration at all. I guess no cd spinning and 3d games will get the same playtime, games using 3d AND disc streaming will be even worse.
The whole thing is smaller than a pci-card, so no slots available.
But its really good that you can get nearly everything for usb, nowadays...
a) its 180 without the monitor
b) its cpu uses 1W. This thing could probably run on battery
c) its REALLY tine. about 1/5-1/10 (hard to guess correctly) the volume of a mini-itx case.
Can you do this with off-the-shelf parts, too?
(btw: before looking at the pics, i thought it sucked, too. But after looking, my first thought was "have to get one to use as router/firewall".)
i think they underestimated the R&D costs involved in producing the panels (its nothing like cpus..) AND they realized that they can make more money per fab producing flash or processors than the relatively large LCOS-dies (a 200mm^2 p4/opteron can be sold for a few 100$, but a chip for a tv cant...)
One other thing i remember from usind delphi 4:
On a pentium 133, after a click on "compile", it took 1-2 seconds to compile 100.000 lines of code. Sure it wasnt optimizing a lot, but it was like using a interpreted language. Just change something and run...
Or how PITA linux can be. I guess you cant play dvds either, can you?
So you say if telcos sell more bandwith than their infrastructure can handle there will be problems...
Uh. Wouldnt have thought THAT could happen....
2500 people are on the suprnova tracker alone...
And linpack is REALLY scalable. I really want to see how good they can run real world problems on 160000 (160 thousand!) cpus without major communication bottlenecks...