But those arent your typical linux users... At home they will start to worry why there isnt any microsoft office or the kids warcraft doesnt work, and the next morning some male/geek relative will be instructed to make it "work"....
Yeah. I guess that should be around 60% of the buyers;) These computers are ULTRA-CHEAP. People who care about quality, security, ect dont buy them. This rules out a major part of the typical unix/linux community. Also they arent fast or so. If someone buys it new, its VERY unlikely his old computer was already running windows xp. I dont say EVERYBODY warez, but a non-ignorable part.
Its actually quite true. Here in germany many retailers have "ultra-cheap" PCs, in the 200-300 range, without operating system(well, not without, but with dr-dos or linux,ect). Windows XP is a 50 or 100 addon. How many people are willing to buy that addon instead of visiting suprnova.org?
Its a protein. Like in gene. You know, before they redirected its usage to designing nuclear weapons, blue gene was supposed to do life-science calculation stuff...
Errr, and how is selecting the best bartons for mobile use (by testing if they work with low volatages) a contradiction to mobile bartons being the creme of the crop in terms of bartons?
Well, i doubt it, because im used to watch samples with an electron scanning microscope, which has a resolution of about 3nm. Zoom you 4k vertikcal resolution scan into a 100% crop and try to find film grain. If its visible, than you are fooling yourself, because your painfully scanned "resolution" is infact only recreating the quantisation artefacts of the photoactiv chemicals.
I think the next big thing for HDs will be tivo like devices for HDTV. For normal TV, 250 or 300GB discs are fine, but if users want their current experience with 1080i, there will be a market for 1 or 2 TB discs.
The only game of the 386 or 486 area (1990-1995 or so) that really supported a FPU was falcon 3.0 with its high detail aerodynamic model on the highest realism setting. Too bad i always crashed with high realism, so i never used it:)
I dont think you can really take a 4k scan for face value. Not even good slrs with very good lenses and the best films available can really get 4k usable resolution on a 35mm film. And somehow i dont think a film camera doing 24fps can archive the same quality. Yes, you can scan it with that resolution, but you could scan it with 16k, too. There is just no (or little) more information in your 4k scan than in a 2k scan. I know you are nitpicking, but you could also claim that 3d is mission, what about ir und uv, ectect.
QUake required one, but quake was WAY after the days of 486s, let alone 486sx. When quake was release i had a P133... NO game of the 486sx are needed FPU. Not doom, not Duke nukem 3d, not Rise of the Triad,... They all didnt even SUPPORT fpu ops, because at that time even the 487 was much slower than integer math and look up tables (4cyle add and 15 or so cycle mul if i remember correctly)
Arg. thats too bad. You should have read FOTD first. Yes, DITS takes place 40000 years or so before fire, but the genius of FOTD is only clear if the reader has the knowledge of Fire. In fact, fire creates the universe and Deepness throws those poor bastards in a nearly hopeless spot. One hint, buy fire now, read it and reread the end of deepness after it. You will know what i mean.
Hm. The last missions by the usa or the eu didnt cost more than a big movie... There are plenty of people that could finance a probe to mars instead of, say buying a football stadium or a fleet of privat jets or whatever billionaires do with all their money...
DITS is the most worn out book in my bookshelf... I should buy a new one:) The best part is how subtile the final solution of the "emergence-problem" is revealed in FOTD..
It uses dds encoded pics with 3:1 compression. Size of the blue marble data is about 280MB with that compression. Additionally, it downloads the whole world in higher resolution images. I could even find the 400 people village here in germany i grew up, and could get a 3d image of the hills around,ect. Its just too cool. The guys in the usa have it even better, they can really zoom up into their backyard with areal photographs that are integrated.
Its not just the data thats cool, but the fact that you can smoothly (50fps at 1280x1024 with my 9500pro) pan the globe, zoom in, see your viewpoint being loaded from cache (or internet, if you werent there before), zoom further, further, and than just change from birth view to a ground observation view and look at some mountain seas in the himalaya, or the fujiyama,...
Its not 260 MB, but 2000 GB+ mapdata. It downloads new map parts on the fly while browsing, and in the few hours i used it i have now already more than 500MB in my cache folder...
Its an athmorspheric test version. It did 20 flights on its own, so its quite possible it landed there... or it was just shipped there with a ship, it isnt THAT large.
arg. OK. mistake seen. did mul with (4/3)^2. But that doesnt make the point invalid. Displaying more pixels per line (even if its only 100 more) than it can display, plus the fact that analog vga signals are lowpass filtered in the gfx-card->result=shit. A single black line wouldnt even reach 50% grey. But well, people like fizzling vinyl with its horrible spectrum fidelity, so i guess that there is a place for crts in the future, too.
Forget it. Even the best laptop screens ARE CRAP against a "stationary" tft, and a 1000$ notbook hasnt god a good laptop screen. Modern laptops have tfts compareable to those 3-4 years ago. Power requirements, thinnes and BUDGET (yeah, they have to cut corners to make them for cheap notebooks) really hurt quality.
I guess you have never seen a good tft. I had an eizo 17" and replaced it with an eizo f557. Wanted dual monitor setup. Realized that after watching the tft for an hour, looking back to the crt it was like watching a old tv. The crt is now in the attic, maybe soon at ebay. I will NEVER go back to crt, even if it had only half the resolution.
The main problem ist that 1) a 17" or 19" screen is PHYSCALLY not CAPAPLE of displaying 1600 pixels in one line. do the math 1600*0.25mm dot pitch = 40cm width-> you need >60 cm or 24" diagonal to be able to display that many pixels. All people running higher than 1152 on a 17" or 1280 on a 19" screen just do "hardware antialiasing" by bluring pixels together. Thy just dont realize that they have nowhere near the "real estate" they think they have.
You forget one thing: ROM is easier to do than RAM, BUT you need to know what to store on it during the creation process. you cant just store "black roms" and write them just in time. So EVERY update, every revision, every EVERYTHING would need a change in the produciton cycle, shipping times, ect) Its just not very practica, even more considering that 8Gb is just one GB, which is about 50c worth of hd space. Even the socket for the rom chip is more expensive...
Or much faster: 13 ls around = ca 4 ls diameter =1.2million km. Thats about as big as our sun. A absolutely common star. we have 100.000.000.000 of them alone in out galaxy. But even if you put them all in a row like a perl necklace, you wont even come come 1/5th of the way to the magelanic cloud. The universe IS big.
Most interestingly, wikipedia is almost 100% slashdot resistent. First, they have more traffic than slashdot to begin with. (By now, it should be A LOT MORE). Second, they use a squid array to dynamically cache requests. Its a 3 layer system: Database->Apache->Squid. If a lot of traffic goes to the same article, the requests wont even reach the apaches... (and you would need A TON of people to overload the squids, because even at 80% caching efficiency 1000hits/s dont crash them)
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But those arent your typical linux users...
At home they will start to worry why there isnt any microsoft office or the kids warcraft doesnt work, and the next morning some male/geek relative will be instructed to make it "work"....
Yeah. I guess that should be around 60% of the buyers ;)
These computers are ULTRA-CHEAP. People who care about quality, security, ect dont buy them. This rules out a major part of the typical unix/linux community.
Also they arent fast or so. If someone buys it new, its VERY unlikely his old computer was already running windows xp.
I dont say EVERYBODY warez, but a non-ignorable part.
Its actually quite true. Here in germany many retailers have "ultra-cheap" PCs, in the 200-300 range, without operating system(well, not without, but with dr-dos or linux,ect). Windows XP is a 50 or 100 addon.
How many people are willing to buy that addon instead of visiting suprnova.org?
No, it will be spaceballs 1.
THe current one will be renamed "spaceballs it was always episode 4"
Its a protein. Like in gene.
You know, before they redirected its usage to designing nuclear weapons, blue gene was supposed to do life-science calculation stuff...
Errr, and how is selecting the best bartons for mobile use (by testing if they work with low volatages) a contradiction to mobile bartons being the creme of the crop in terms of bartons?
Well, i doubt it, because im used to watch samples with an electron scanning microscope, which has a resolution of about 3nm.
Zoom you 4k vertikcal resolution scan into a 100% crop and try to find film grain. If its visible, than you are fooling yourself, because your painfully scanned "resolution" is infact only recreating the quantisation artefacts of the photoactiv chemicals.
I think the next big thing for HDs will be tivo like devices for HDTV. For normal TV, 250 or 300GB discs are fine, but if users want their current experience with 1080i, there will be a market for 1 or 2 TB discs.
The only game of the 386 or 486 area (1990-1995 or so) that really supported a FPU was falcon 3.0 with its high detail aerodynamic model on the highest realism setting. :)
Too bad i always crashed with high realism, so i never used it
I dont think you can really take a 4k scan for face value. Not even good slrs with very good lenses and the best films available can really get 4k usable resolution on a 35mm film.
And somehow i dont think a film camera doing 24fps can archive the same quality.
Yes, you can scan it with that resolution, but you could scan it with 16k, too. There is just no (or little) more information in your 4k scan than in a 2k scan.
I know you are nitpicking, but you could also claim that 3d is mission, what about ir und uv, ectect.
QUake required one, but quake was WAY after the days of 486s, let alone 486sx. When quake was release i had a P133...
NO game of the 486sx are needed FPU. Not doom, not Duke nukem 3d, not Rise of the Triad,... They all didnt even SUPPORT fpu ops, because at that time even the 487 was much slower than integer math and look up tables (4cyle add and 15 or so cycle mul if i remember correctly)
Arg. thats too bad.
You should have read FOTD first. Yes, DITS takes place 40000 years or so before fire, but the genius of FOTD is only clear if the reader has the knowledge of Fire. In fact, fire creates the universe and Deepness throws those poor bastards in a nearly hopeless spot.
One hint, buy fire now, read it and reread the end of deepness after it. You will know what i mean.
Hm. The last missions by the usa or the eu didnt cost more than a big movie...
There are plenty of people that could finance a probe to mars instead of, say buying a football stadium or a fleet of privat jets or whatever billionaires do with all their money...
Just post a torrent on suprnova... its much better than emailing :)
DITS is the most worn out book in my bookshelf... :)
I should buy a new one
The best part is how subtile the final solution of the "emergence-problem" is revealed in FOTD..
It uses dds encoded pics with 3:1 compression. Size of the blue marble data is about 280MB with that compression.
Additionally, it downloads the whole world in higher resolution images. I could even find the 400 people village here in germany i grew up, and could get a 3d image of the hills around,ect.
Its just too cool.
The guys in the usa have it even better, they can really zoom up into their backyard with areal photographs that are integrated.
Its not just the data thats cool, but the fact that you can smoothly (50fps at 1280x1024 with my 9500pro) pan the globe, zoom in, see your viewpoint being loaded from cache (or internet, if you werent there before), zoom further, further, and than just change from birth view to a ground observation view and look at some mountain seas in the himalaya, or the fujiyama,...
Its not 260 MB, but 2000 GB+ mapdata. It downloads new map parts on the fly while browsing, and in the few hours i used it i have now already more than 500MB in my cache folder...
Its an athmorspheric test version. It did 20 flights on its own, so its quite possible it landed there...
or it was just shipped there with a ship, it isnt THAT large.
arg. OK. mistake seen. did mul with (4/3)^2.
But that doesnt make the point invalid.
Displaying more pixels per line (even if its only 100 more) than it can display, plus the fact that analog vga signals are lowpass filtered in the gfx-card->result=shit.
A single black line wouldnt even reach 50% grey. But well, people like fizzling vinyl with its horrible spectrum fidelity, so i guess that there is a place for crts in the future, too.
Forget it. Even the best laptop screens ARE CRAP against a "stationary" tft, and a 1000$ notbook hasnt god a good laptop screen.
Modern laptops have tfts compareable to those 3-4 years ago. Power requirements, thinnes and BUDGET (yeah, they have to cut corners to make them for cheap notebooks) really hurt quality.
I guess you have never seen a good tft. I had an eizo 17" and replaced it with an eizo f557. Wanted dual monitor setup. Realized that after watching the tft for an hour, looking back to the crt it was like watching a old tv.
The crt is now in the attic, maybe soon at ebay. I will NEVER go back to crt, even if it had only half the resolution.
The main problem ist that
1) a 17" or 19" screen is PHYSCALLY not CAPAPLE of displaying 1600 pixels in one line. do the math 1600*0.25mm dot pitch = 40cm width-> you need >60 cm or 24" diagonal to be able to display that many pixels.
All people running higher than 1152 on a 17" or 1280 on a 19" screen just do "hardware antialiasing" by bluring pixels together. Thy just dont realize that they have nowhere near the "real estate" they think they have.
You forget one thing: ROM is easier to do than RAM, BUT you need to know what to store on it during the creation process. you cant just store "black roms" and write them just in time.
So EVERY update, every revision, every EVERYTHING would need a change in the produciton cycle, shipping times, ect)
Its just not very practica, even more considering that 8Gb is just one GB, which is about 50c worth of hd space. Even the socket for the rom chip is more expensive...
Or much faster: 13 ls around = ca 4 ls diameter =1.2million km.
Thats about as big as our sun. A absolutely common star. we have 100.000.000.000 of them alone in out galaxy.
But even if you put them all in a row like a perl necklace, you wont even come come 1/5th of the way to the magelanic cloud.
The universe IS big.
Most interestingly, wikipedia is almost 100% slashdot resistent.
First, they have more traffic than slashdot to begin with. (By now, it should be A LOT MORE).
Second, they use a squid array to dynamically cache requests. Its a 3 layer system: Database->Apache->Squid. If a lot of traffic goes to the same article, the requests wont even reach the apaches... (and you would need A TON of people to overload the squids, because even at 80% caching efficiency 1000hits/s dont crash them)