Oh no.
They have a feature called "unlimited screen resolution support" that will be enabled for all editions except the Starter one.
That's one impressive feature: it permits you to have a screen resolution of more than 1024x768.
I know about the practice of intentionally crippling a product and selling it for less, but in this case I find it disgusting!
Anyway, all the editions will probably come with everything on the install CD and will solely differ for one or two bytes in the registry...
God is omni present. ... God exists in all dimensions of space and time on all points simultaneously. ... God is all the information
I call this the universe. Why is there a need to name it 'God', 'Allah', 'Yahve', 'Om' or anything else? That's why I don't understand with the humanity: the universe is so overwhelmingly hard to understand, yet we need to over-complicate it by creating the notion of a "God" whose attributes (omni-potent, omni-scient, omni-whatever) are those of the universe.
It's like having duplicates pointers to the same object in memory. It calls for problems. (Not that I advocate de-allocation of God or the universe).
(Help me! I pictured the Four Horsemen as a Garbage Collector.)
Actually, the best beer in the world comes from Belgium: it's the Westvleteren 12. Unfortunately, the monks who brew it have run out of stock since it has been rated the best...
I was going to mod you redundant, but I can't since a posted a reply to your post that I would have modded redundant unless I didn't have replied to it.
Let's divide the world in two halves:
- United Patent States of Amerika:
formerly know as the land of the free
- Rest of the World (tm):
where every free-seeking developper, webmaster, etc will eventually go.
Although I'll probably be modded flamebait for this post, let's check in 5 years if the USA can still cope with the current system that eats liberties, innovation and more...
when i evaluate your slashdot name
exp(pi*sqrt(163))
i get 2.62537E+17
exp(pi*sqrt(163))
evaluates to an integer. Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) had this intuition and calculated it without a computer, using only brain power (and a lot of paper, I guess).
Ramanujan
Why use a 13-16 Watt PowerPC chip when you can use a 27-watt [tomshardware.com] Pentium M?
Your batteries will last longer. It'd be nice if your laptop could last the length of long plane flights.
Speaking of flying, the noise you heard was a joke flying 30000 feet over your head:-) Don't worry: as your post is at +4, insightful, you are obviously not the only one!
Some years ago, while installing hardware for a lan-party, my belt broke... Hand-holding my pants for three days wasn't an option, so I took a spare CAT-5 cable and used it as a belt. To make it a little more fashionable, I made some eight-shaped knots as a belt buckle. This added the benefit of having a way to actually close the belt.
With two RJ-45 connectors hanging from both of my sides, I really wanted to plug myself on the router...
It was the fastest belt I ever had: 100 Mbit (and full-duplex)!
After probing yourself, be sure to turn on your firewall.
And don't forget to discard the surgical gloves.
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I do not want to go all flamebait here, but if it does not cost more to you, why not buy trough this link? After all, that's just a free contribution to Slashdot, a web that 1) does not require subscription, 2) where the ads are not intrusive and 3) you enjoy reading / posting.
Maybe they have costs to cover:-)
If the second controller is read-only, as I mentioned, there's only one cache instance.
I was talking about the cache within the drive (you're right: there is only one).
- controller1 asks for sector xxxx
- drive reads(-ahead) sectors xxxx to xxxx+N
- drive spits out data from sector xxxx
- drive spits out data from sector xxxx+1
- controller2 asks for sector yyyy
- drive queues this event (SATA only?)
- drive goes on and spits out data from sector xxxx+2
Now which controller is to read the data? controller1 or controller2? All the information you have is only one bit saying that data is ready to be read.
Furthermore, an IDE drive is not stateless. 1. There are registers in the drive. If controller 1 does not read the value before controller 2 issues a command, the registers will likely get overwritten. One solution is to read the registers before they are overwritten. Then you can send their value to the right controller when they ask for it...
2. There are conditions where the drive will stay in a state 'S0' and will wait for a read event to occur to go to the state 'S1'. The underlying finite state machine was designed to be controlled by only one controller. If this read event is not issued by the same controller as the one that triggered the said condition, chances are that one or both of the controllers will get lost.
So... I'm not saying that it is impossible, I'm just saying that is not easy (well that's the interesting part of it, no?). Sounds like fun to me. Maybe we can hack a device? Any other/.'er want to join?
There is no point in trying to connect 2 controllers to 1 device at the same time. Even if you design some logic to "switch" from one controller to the other, you'll probably encounter some cache coherency problem within the drive... Then, you can send a command to disable this cache but performance will drop.
So the best you can do is probably: 1. don't use the drive directly 2. implement a device emulating an ide drive, make it network-enabled for ease of use 3. ??? 4. profit (maybe).
You can do this with a FPGA kit, basic soldering skills, a lot of time and money. Pick your poison: evaluation boards.
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Crossbreed a rhino with a donkey.
...and end up with a dead donkey with a really large ass****. (pun intended)
I can do better: I have the technology to totally stop the speed of light!
I call it a wall.
Oh no.
They have a feature called "unlimited screen resolution support" that will be enabled for all editions except the Starter one.
That's one impressive feature: it permits you to have a screen resolution of more than 1024x768.
I know about the practice of intentionally crippling a product and selling it for less, but in this case I find it disgusting!
Anyway, all the editions will probably come with everything on the install CD and will solely differ for one or two bytes in the registry...
God is omni present.
... God exists in all dimensions of space and time on all points simultaneously.
... God is all the information
I call this the universe. Why is there a need to name it 'God', 'Allah', 'Yahve', 'Om' or anything else?
That's why I don't understand with the humanity: the universe is so overwhelmingly hard to understand, yet we need to over-complicate it by creating the notion of a "God" whose attributes (omni-potent, omni-scient, omni-whatever) are those of the universe.
It's like having duplicates pointers to the same object in memory. It calls for problems. (Not that I advocate de-allocation of God or the universe).
(Help me! I pictured the Four Horsemen as a Garbage Collector.)
Actually, the best beer in the world comes from Belgium: it's the Westvleteren 12.
Unfortunately, the monks who brew it have run out of stock since it has been rated the best...
Him, again?
Did anyone else picture a 300 pounds orang utan?
Oook?
10% would get fatal cancer sometime in their lives.
Well, we can safely assume that it will be at the end of their lives.
I was going to mod you redundant, but I can't since a posted a reply to your post that I would have modded redundant unless I didn't have replied to it.
hans island is mine
:)
300000 results
But it can be yours for 1000000 !!!
Contact me for details
Let's divide the world in two halves:
...
- United Patent States of Amerika: formerly know as the land of the free
- Rest of the World (tm): where every free-seeking developper, webmaster, etc will eventually go.
Although I'll probably be modded flamebait for this post, let's check in 5 years if the USA can still cope with the current system that eats liberties, innovation and more
Ah, yes, one more thing: I wish you good luck.
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If you want to impress friends,learn to recite
Ramanujan's number:
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http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/sci/
when i evaluate your slashdot name
exp(pi*sqrt(163))
i get 2.62537E+17
exp(pi*sqrt(163)) evaluates to an integer.
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) had this intuition and calculated it without a computer, using only brain power (and a lot of paper, I guess).
Ramanujan
Why use a 13-16 Watt PowerPC chip when you can use a 27-watt [tomshardware.com] Pentium M?
:-)
Your batteries will last longer. It'd be nice if your laptop could last the length of long plane flights.
Speaking of flying, the noise you heard was a joke flying 30000 feet over your head
Don't worry: as your post is at +4, insightful, you are obviously not the only one!
Some years ago, while installing hardware for a lan-party, my belt broke... Hand-holding my pants for three days wasn't an option, so I took a spare CAT-5 cable and used it as a belt. To make it a little more fashionable, I made some eight-shaped knots as a belt buckle. This added the benefit of having a way to actually close the belt.
With two RJ-45 connectors hanging from both of my sides, I really wanted to plug myself on the router...
It was the fastest belt I ever had: 100 Mbit (and full-duplex)!
How can you possibly trust such a product when the programmers are intentionally not removing certain spyware?
I think you misspelt "managers". The code has not been changed and the decision to change the priority of an item belongs to management/marketing.
After probing yourself, be sure to turn on your firewall.
And don't forget to discard the surgical gloves.
I do not want to go all flamebait here, but if it does not cost more to you, why not buy trough this link? :-)
After all, that's just a free contribution to Slashdot, a web that 1) does not require subscription, 2) where the ads are not intrusive and 3) you enjoy reading / posting.
Maybe they have costs to cover
If the second controller is read-only, as I mentioned, there's only one cache instance.
/.'er want to join?
I was talking about the cache within the drive (you're right: there is only one).
- controller1 asks for sector xxxx
- drive reads(-ahead) sectors xxxx to xxxx+N
- drive spits out data from sector xxxx
- drive spits out data from sector xxxx+1
- controller2 asks for sector yyyy
- drive queues this event (SATA only?)
- drive goes on and spits out data from sector xxxx+2
Now which controller is to read the data? controller1 or controller2? All the information you have is only one bit saying that data is ready to be read.
Furthermore, an IDE drive is not stateless.
1. There are registers in the drive. If controller 1 does not read the value before controller 2 issues a command, the registers will likely get overwritten. One solution is to read the registers before they are overwritten. Then you can send their value to the right controller when they ask for it...
2. There are conditions where the drive will stay in a state 'S0' and will wait for a read event to occur to go to the state 'S1'. The underlying finite state machine was designed to be controlled by only one controller. If this read event is not issued by the same controller as the one that triggered the said condition, chances are that one or both of the controllers will get lost.
So... I'm not saying that it is impossible, I'm just saying that is not easy (well that's the interesting part of it, no?). Sounds like fun to me. Maybe we can hack a device?
Any other
There is no point in trying to connect 2 controllers to 1 device at the same time. Even if you design some logic to "switch" from one controller to the other, you'll probably encounter some cache coherency problem within the drive...
Then, you can send a command to disable this cache but performance will drop.
So the best you can do is probably:
1. don't use the drive directly
2. implement a device emulating an ide drive, make it network-enabled for ease of use
3. ???
4. profit (maybe).
You can do this with a FPGA kit, basic soldering skills, a lot of time and money.
Pick your poison: evaluation boards.
10 Gigabytes in 10 cm long
I see a new generation of spam coming:
Increase your hard drive by 3 inches!
It's the Force! The EGGs are sensing the disturbances in the Force.
Cool, maybe I can become a Jedi knight, after all.
If you want some good quality, you should check the
.
eLite text-to-speech demo.
It has english and french voices and is available for free for non-military and non-commercial purposes
Try
Does it solve the chicken or egg question?
The eggs were there before, for dinosaurs layed eggs long before the chicken appeared.