Neither do I. Mine are plastic and they're mounted inside my eyeballs! I also have a totally artificial metal tooth bolted into my jawbone. All I'm missing is a bolt protruding from my neck to complete my bionic image.;-)
P.S.
I had cataract surgery with lens replacement in both eyes a few years ago probably because of long term cortisone use.
Hosea 13:16: Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
No, the projector operates just like a regular multi-sync monitor does and adapts to whatever resolution signal it's receiving up to a maximum of 1280x1024. Whenever I reboot my computer, it goes through about four different resolution changes and displays the resolution and refresh rate on the screen briefly each time it changes (I had no idea the BIOS runs the screen at 640x350 resolution instead of 640x480 for example).
Actually it's purely for my own personal comfort, and $2,000 isn't a lot of money. Funny you should mention not being able to see it, because I was thinking of taking some pictures of my computer room/study/den/library/whatever at night because I have so many toys that with the main room lights dimmed it's almost like a miniature light show at night. There must be "a thousand points of light" in the room because everything from external hard drives to VOIP interface boxes and even the variacs that control my desk lamp brightness and the temperature of the heating pad for my feet has some sort of indicator light on it. Maybe we could have a SlashDot contest (with pictures, naturally) to see who has the most equipment packed into their home office?. Note: In case you're wondering, I'm using my retirement time to advance the art of luxury and comfort to a new zenith so that I can wallow in sybaritic splendor!;-)
You're right about real life friends however. Ever since I retired and don't have engineer friends around me constantly anymore, I hunger for someone to talk with about the things that interest me (Verilog synthesis, numerical analysis, factorization techniques, new technology, etc). The people I meet in normal day-to-day life don't even know what those terms mean.:-(
P.S. If anyone buys an NEC LT10 projector, be sure to get one of the newer models that have a vertical keystone adjustment as well as a horizontal keystone adjustment (mine only has a horizontal adjustment).
I'm safe then, because I use a 1280x1024 front-screen video projector and a projection screen as my computer monitor! Right now I'm reclining in my Barcalounger easy chair typing on the wireless keyboard on my lap and using the wireless mouse to my right as necessary. The image of SlashDot I'm viewing is about four feet tall by five feet wide and is about eight feet directly in front of my easy chair. It's great. The high resolution HDTV capable projector I'm using (NEC LT10) cost less than $2,000. I'd recommend this type of setup to everyone. Now, if I pass out from exhaustion while using my computer, instead of falling out of my chair onto the floor - I can simply push back on the recliner, lie back, and fall asleep.:-)
Ah, very good - Congratulations! I was wondering how long it would be before someone realized the true purpose of my little puzzle and why I would gladly pay $1,000 for the solution. I should have known it wouldn't take long for someone on SlashDot to figure it out.;-)
I'd be more impressed if they were releasing content instead of simply TV listings (Yes, I'm aware the BBC has released some material into the public domain recently and I applaud them for it).
This is high-level research paper work it's aimed at...
The only results I've gotten from Google Scholar are links to ACM publications that require a $100/year subscription fee to access. Hopefully, Google Scholar has improved since then.
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I wonder if I'm the only person to file a FireFox bug report that the "Read More" link to this article on the front page kills the new version of FireFox? For some reason, this URL aborts FireFox 1.0.6:
Oddly enough, the link works fine if you copy/paste it into FireFox's address box, but not if it's clicked on from the main SlashDot page. Can anyone confirm this?
the photos got downloaded (through a proprietary port/interface)
Could you tell me more about this "proprietary port/interface" please? I'm sure a suitable payment could be arranged for a set of detailed specifications.;-)
From the article: "...augmented with 8 specialized co-processors based on a novel single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) architecture..."
Sounds to me like a single instruction can operate on multiple-data blocks;-), which is somewhat similar to the way most interrupt routines must be written so as to be reentrant and (theoretically at least) are capable of being executed by multiple processors at the same time.
More succinctly: how does it handle its passing of processing requests to other 'cells'?
Wrong question. As I understand it from the pictures..., no I didn't RTFA;-), the SPU's are co-processors (like a GPU or floating point co-processor) with the exception that they're all executing the same copy of the same program. This is the old concept of associative memory, except that in this case the control logic associated with each local block of memory (the Local Store or "LS" blocks in the picture) contains a full up CPU instead of simply an ALU. It's up to the main processor (which I assume in this case is the "PPE shown in the picture) to coordinate the co-processors, etc.
...It's only limitation is the number of chip instruction sets supported by gcc and the imaginations of hardware manufacturers.
I have news for you,... we programmers have been letting the hardware designers have FAR too much fun for far too long! It wasn't until my recent retirement from more than 35 years of computer programming (I've had many different titles) that I've had the time to learn the Verilog hardware design language - and it's GREAT FUN!!!:-) Verilog is very liberating because it removes the boring sequential execution of most CPU's and provides a clean slate with which to design any sort of little tiny electronics machine (that's how I think of VLSI design) that my heart desires. There is a GPLed version of SystemC (a higher level hardware design language than Verilog) on SourceForge that I've been meaning to take a look at, but first I'm creating a 640 bit-wide(!!!) factoring machine in Verilog which I hope to fit into one of the Lattice or Altera FPGA parts.
Really, I highly encourage programmers or anyone interested to learn and use Verilog or some other high level hardware design language. Verilog is similar in many ways to the C language, so if you're familiar with C then you already know most of Verilog's operators, precedence rules, etc. The only thing that takes a little getting used to is Verilog's inherently parallel nature. That is both its strength and the source of most Verilog design errors (at least for me). Also, Verilog is even more bit-picky than C but I sort of actually prefer the extra control that languages like C and Verilog give me over the hardware versus languages that try to insulate me from it.
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Neither do I. Mine are plastic and they're mounted inside my eyeballs! I also have a totally artificial metal tooth bolted into my jawbone. All I'm missing is a bolt protruding from my neck to complete my bionic image. ;-)
P.S. I had cataract surgery with lens replacement in both eyes a few years ago probably because of long term cortisone use.
With ideas as stupid as their's, I wonder how these venture capitalists ever got rich in the first place?
The chart would be a lot more useful if it had a column listing compatibility with the various flavors of Linux/BSD/etc.
Yet another testament that geeks can't spell. It's FUBAR (as in "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition"), not FOOBAR.
Beware the Wrath of God!
No, the projector operates just like a regular multi-sync monitor does and adapts to whatever resolution signal it's receiving up to a maximum of 1280x1024. Whenever I reboot my computer, it goes through about four different resolution changes and displays the resolution and refresh rate on the screen briefly each time it changes (I had no idea the BIOS runs the screen at 640x350 resolution instead of 640x480 for example).
Actually it's purely for my own personal comfort, and $2,000 isn't a lot of money. Funny you should mention not being able to see it, because I was thinking of taking some pictures of my computer room/study/den/library/whatever at night because I have so many toys that with the main room lights dimmed it's almost like a miniature light show at night. There must be "a thousand points of light" in the room because everything from external hard drives to VOIP interface boxes and even the variacs that control my desk lamp brightness and the temperature of the heating pad for my feet has some sort of indicator light on it. Maybe we could have a SlashDot contest (with pictures, naturally) to see who has the most equipment packed into their home office?. Note: In case you're wondering, I'm using my retirement time to advance the art of luxury and comfort to a new zenith so that I can wallow in sybaritic splendor! ;-)
:-(
You're right about real life friends however. Ever since I retired and don't have engineer friends around me constantly anymore, I hunger for someone to talk with about the things that interest me (Verilog synthesis, numerical analysis, factorization techniques, new technology, etc). The people I meet in normal day-to-day life don't even know what those terms mean.
P.S.
If anyone buys an NEC LT10 projector, be sure to get one of the newer models that have a vertical keystone adjustment as well as a horizontal keystone adjustment (mine only has a horizontal adjustment).
Open your eyes. I said "1280x1024"
I'm safe then, because I use a 1280x1024 front-screen video projector and a projection screen as my computer monitor! Right now I'm reclining in my Barcalounger easy chair typing on the wireless keyboard on my lap and using the wireless mouse to my right as necessary. The image of SlashDot I'm viewing is about four feet tall by five feet wide and is about eight feet directly in front of my easy chair. It's great. The high resolution HDTV capable projector I'm using (NEC LT10) cost less than $2,000. I'd recommend this type of setup to everyone. Now, if I pass out from exhaustion while using my computer, instead of falling out of my chair onto the floor - I can simply push back on the recliner, lie back, and fall asleep. :-)
Ah, very good - Congratulations! I was wondering how long it would be before someone realized the true purpose of my little puzzle and why I would gladly pay $1,000 for the solution. I should have known it wouldn't take long for someone on SlashDot to figure it out. ;-)
There is no catch. It's legit. I will happily pay $1,000 to the first person to solve the puzzle - and it *does* have a solution.
Here's a game I recently designed and put up on the web just a couple of days ago - and it's for *real* money, not "virtual" money:
http://webpages.charter.net/rsdotson/
I'd be more impressed if they were releasing content instead of simply TV listings (Yes, I'm aware the BBC has released some material into the public domain recently and I applaud them for it).
The only results I've gotten from Google Scholar are links to ACM publications that require a $100/year subscription fee to access. Hopefully, Google Scholar has improved since then.
In my neighborhood, yes they do! ;-)
I wonder if I'm the only person to file a FireFox bug report that the "Read More" link to this article on the front page kills the new version of FireFox? For some reason, this URL aborts FireFox 1.0.6:
/ 22/2159230&tid=198&tid=1&tid=218
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07
Oddly enough, the link works fine if you copy/paste it into FireFox's address box, but not if it's clicked on from the main SlashDot page. Can anyone confirm this?
I consistently get at least the 3 Mbps down that I'm paying for with my cable company, and sometimes I even get slightly more speed than that(!)
No so..., ants "drink" the sweet secretion from aphids that they literally farm like we do cows.
Duh, who'da thunk it. :->
I wonder how much that study cost?
Not so, the content on my website will always be free. ;-)
You mean kinda like /. ? ;-)
Could you tell me more about this "proprietary port/interface" please? I'm sure a suitable payment could be arranged for a set of detailed specifications. ;-)
From the article: "...augmented with 8 specialized co-processors based on a novel single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) architecture..."
;-), which is somewhat similar to the way most interrupt routines must be written so as to be reentrant and (theoretically at least) are capable of being executed by multiple processors at the same time.
Sounds to me like a single instruction can operate on multiple-data blocks
Wrong question. As I understand it from the pictures..., no I didn't RTFA ;-), the SPU's are co-processors (like a GPU or floating point co-processor) with the exception that they're all executing the same copy of the same program. This is the old concept of associative memory, except that in this case the control logic associated with each local block of memory (the Local Store or "LS" blocks in the picture) contains a full up CPU instead of simply an ALU. It's up to the main processor (which I assume in this case is the "PPE shown in the picture) to coordinate the co-processors, etc.
I have news for you,... we programmers have been letting the hardware designers have FAR too much fun for far too long! It wasn't until my recent retirement from more than 35 years of computer programming (I've had many different titles) that I've had the time to learn the Verilog hardware design language - and it's GREAT FUN!!! :-) Verilog is very liberating because it removes the boring sequential execution of most CPU's and provides a clean slate with which to design any sort of little tiny electronics machine (that's how I think of VLSI design) that my heart desires. There is a GPLed version of SystemC (a higher level hardware design language than Verilog) on SourceForge that I've been meaning to take a look at, but first I'm creating a 640 bit-wide(!!!) factoring machine in Verilog which I hope to fit into one of the Lattice or Altera FPGA parts.
Really, I highly encourage programmers or anyone interested to learn and use Verilog or some other high level hardware design language. Verilog is similar in many ways to the C language, so if you're familiar with C then you already know most of Verilog's operators, precedence rules, etc. The only thing that takes a little getting used to is Verilog's inherently parallel nature. That is both its strength and the source of most Verilog design errors (at least for me). Also, Verilog is even more bit-picky than C but I sort of actually prefer the extra control that languages like C and Verilog give me over the hardware versus languages that try to insulate me from it.