Well,he developed a programming language, wrote programs for it and used it to solve aerodynamical calculations. But of course he could just be a fake and calculated the stuff in his head....
To answer point2: Yes, i used to think so, too. But there are two things to notice: a) By confiscating jewing poperty they could help finance their war preperation. Just seizing random assets/corporations would have aggravated the military industry, but with the jews they didnt care... b) Most people werent killed at once. They had to do slave labour till they were nearly dead, and were gassed then.
Even high-tech stuff like the V1s were assembled by prisoners from concentration camps.
Look at top500.org There is a new list comming the next few weeks.
Your 7-8 pentiums alone could do some useful stuff as a cluster. Not much, but a little. A compile farm COULD be possible (never done it, so i dont know, but if they have enough ram why not, as long as you have a better machine to do the linking/ect)
But adding them to an existing cluster of faster machines would slow the whole stuff down (more communication cost lowering the total efficiency more than outweights the computing power of the new nodes).
The BIG problem is that with such a lauch the vehicle will be fastest where there is the most air resistance. You cant just easily get something to mach 20 on ground level without it burning up.
One suggestion is building a HUGE railgun into a mountain range of decent height. That way you get your highest speed in a height of 4-5km, where air density is already quite a bit lower than on ground, and you can spread your acceleration over a minute or so.
Yeah, but it produces HUGE amounts of output data, and upstream is even lower then downstream for most people, so it would be WORSE than rendering, efficiency-wise. You cant just create photon maps if you use shaders later, so you would have to upload the whole octree of your photon hits. It would take longer to transfer than to calculate.
hard to calculate: 1 Atom of a fussile fuel oxidating with 1 Atom of oxigen: 1-3 eV energy released. 2 Atoms of Hydrogen fusing: a few million eV energy released...
Well, talisman will come back sometime, in one form or another. Because the simple rendering of textured polygones is slowly comming to an end, and you can burn endless power while trying to run ps2 or ps3 shaders.
It was just a sad fact that brute force dominated in the late 90s and talisman and pvr were drowned by 3dfx. This paved the way that brought us here where we are, in the world of 100W Video cards..
An interesting fact: Trespasser (the awfull jurasic park ego-shooter) used a talisman like architecure. But it failed because it was released when voodoo was already there, and the software gfx werent impressive anymore.
But error again, because in DIVX 5 there isnt any code of opendivx 4 either. (opendivx used a modified reference implementation, but then someone come with its own implementation, being much better, so divxnetwork abandoned the already running project and created a newone based on the new code)
New year->new major number. New release->new minor number. Its the second release this year, so 9.1 Last year there were 4 releases, 8.0,.1,.2,.3 Quite easy.
Yeah, people often forget how big big blue really is. A few years ago (during the first WINTEL screaming after win95 was released), i was surprised that IBM made more money per quarter than microsoft per year...
Yeah, i agree. LucasArts is one of those companies that really didnt get the transition to 3d right....
But i think the main reason for them being fucked up is the new star wars trilogy. Someone (or everyone) in their managment seems to concentrate all resources to "movie franchise" somewhere in the end of the 90s, and then only crap came forth...
But on the other hand: Noone says you CANT make a good game with good grafix. I would sell my sister for a Ultima underworld with doom3 engine graphic...
Thats true. But considere the position of the earth: During the early age of the solar system, while planets were still unformed, the inital blazing (with a lot more flux in the solar wind) of the sun pushed most light materials into the outer solar system (very rough explanation, i know). Thats the reason why the inner planets are no gas planets to begin with.
Now step 2: There was still a lot of helium remaining, but as the lightest gas (after h_2), it went up in the athmosphere and off into space. Its a slow process, because the bolzmann distribution isnt likely to give a atom escape velocety, but it happens. And they had 4 billion years of time...
The result is that nearly all helium on earth is the result of alpha decay (thats the reason why natural gas, of all things, is the best source of helium, at least on some oilfields: helium tends to collet in the same spots than the gas while going of from deeper layers of the earth)
But it so small. only 120 lines. How are you supposed to find it between all those kiddi-porn and nazi files?
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Well,he developed a programming language, wrote programs for it and used it to solve aerodynamical calculations.
But of course he could just be a fake and calculated the stuff in his head....
To answer point2:
Yes, i used to think so, too. But there are two things to notice:
a) By confiscating jewing poperty they could help finance their war preperation. Just seizing random assets/corporations would have aggravated the military industry, but with the jews they didnt care...
b) Most people werent killed at once. They had to do slave labour till they were nearly dead, and were gassed then.
Even high-tech stuff like the V1s were assembled by prisoners from concentration camps.
Then i can give you a good hint for the future: ;)
If you ever get sick of slackware, dont try gentoo...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Vietnam, and so on. MUCH more dead....
Look at top500.org
There is a new list comming the next few weeks.
Your 7-8 pentiums alone could do some useful stuff as a cluster. Not much, but a little. A compile farm COULD be possible (never done it, so i dont know, but if they have enough ram why not, as long as you have a better machine to do the linking/ect)
But adding them to an existing cluster of faster machines would slow the whole stuff down (more communication cost lowering the total efficiency more than outweights the computing power of the new nodes).
with this kind of bandwith, you could integrate a mobile HDTV porn broadcasting studio in you car...
The BIG problem is that with such a lauch the vehicle will be fastest where there is the most air resistance. You cant just easily get something to mach 20 on ground level without it burning up.
One suggestion is building a HUGE railgun into a mountain range of decent height. That way you get your highest speed in a height of 4-5km, where air density is already quite a bit lower than on ground, and you can spread your acceleration over a minute or so.
Yeah, but it produces HUGE amounts of output data, and upstream is even lower then downstream for most people, so it would be WORSE than rendering, efficiency-wise.
You cant just create photon maps if you use shaders later, so you would have to upload the whole octree of your photon hits. It would take longer to transfer than to calculate.
hard to calculate:
1 Atom of a fussile fuel oxidating with 1 Atom of oxigen: 1-3 eV energy released.
2 Atoms of Hydrogen fusing: a few million eV energy released...
Not to mention that the lander was only part of the mission, and the orbiting spacecraft seems to work rather well...
Well, talisman will come back sometime, in one form or another.
Because the simple rendering of textured polygones is slowly comming to an end, and you can burn endless power while trying to run ps2 or ps3 shaders.
It was just a sad fact that brute force dominated in the late 90s and talisman and pvr were drowned by 3dfx. This paved the way that brought us here where we are, in the world of 100W Video cards..
An interesting fact: Trespasser (the awfull jurasic park ego-shooter) used a talisman like architecure. But it failed because it was released when voodoo was already there, and the software gfx werent impressive anymore.
But error again, because in DIVX 5 there isnt any code of opendivx 4 either.
(opendivx used a modified reference implementation, but then someone come with its own implementation, being much better, so divxnetwork abandoned the already running project and created a newone based on the new code)
Hey, stay where you are, we are just happy here in europa without you... :)
Have you ever thought about becoming a literature critic?
and you will see as a true geek that process structure sizes use the same shrinking factors (0.35um, 0.25,0.18,0.13,0.09,....)
New year->new major number.
New release->new minor number.
Its the second release this year, so 9.1
Last year there were 4 releases, 8.0,.1,.2,.3
Quite easy.
Considering the alternatives are MACHOS, i sense people who like creating funny acrynoms...
Yeah, people often forget how big big blue really is. ..
A few years ago (during the first WINTEL screaming after win95 was released), i was surprised that IBM made more money per quarter than microsoft per year.
Yeah, i agree. LucasArts is one of those companies that really didnt get the transition to 3d right....
But i think the main reason for them being fucked up is the new star wars trilogy. Someone (or everyone) in their managment seems to concentrate all resources to "movie franchise" somewhere in the end of the 90s, and then only crap came forth...
But on the other hand: Noone says you CANT make a good game with good grafix. I would sell my sister for a Ultima underworld with doom3 engine graphic...
Parent post is either Troll or REALLY sarcastic....
NONE of his facts are true. NONE.
But in response to the greatparents post:
Xvid isnt free. Its opensource, but it violates MANY patents if you actually use it.
Dont forget the lithium, guy. What whould the post-big bang universe have been withouth lithium?
Like C64 without warez....
Thats true. But considere the position of the earth:
During the early age of the solar system, while planets were still unformed, the inital blazing (with a lot more flux in the solar wind) of the sun pushed most light materials into the outer solar system (very rough explanation, i know). Thats the reason why the inner planets are no gas planets to begin with.
Now step 2: There was still a lot of helium remaining, but as the lightest gas (after h_2), it went up in the athmosphere and off into space. Its a slow process, because the bolzmann distribution isnt likely to give a atom escape velocety, but it happens. And they had 4 billion years of time...
The result is that nearly all helium on earth is the result of alpha decay (thats the reason why natural gas, of all things, is the best source of helium, at least on some oilfields: helium tends to collet in the same spots than the gas while going of from deeper layers of the earth)
Your pentium 166MMX is actually faster than a 400Mhz Xscale processor. Ultra low power comes with a price.
But it so small. only 120 lines. How are you supposed to find it between all those kiddi-porn and nazi files?
um. Why should an HDTV-comcorder need 7K$ lenses?
Even 1080i is less than 2Megapixel, which is laughable compared to any good digicam.
And there were HD-comcorders at cebit, targetet well below 5K