The Dell thing is just a rumour, and it is true that people asociate computers with Pentiums. Intel has massively more marketing out there.
Yes AMD has started to let their increadible price/performance slip but they are at a cusp of getting Dell onboard and getting fab 36 up and running by 2007 we'll know if they are evil.
As far as this Duel goes it is interesting they challenged Intel, but it shows what a small peice of the pie they are fighting over.
By all accounts enterprise doesn't nescessarily need the x86 feature set since it largely runs software based on unix... Which makes IBM the natural opponent of AMD in the server space as their new PPC chips are pretty powerful (Think consoles where price/performance is critical and x86 is not) with the Intel move by apple it would be really interesting to see IBM transition the PPC chips to supporting AMD64 or microsoft enabling windows on PPC (Not outside the range of possibility with storage media being large enough to contain binaries for both).
Intel has acknowledged AMD's dominance and stated it will continue through 2006 but AMD still rarely outsells Intel. AMD needs to push it's revenue, marketing, and marketshare now while it holds the advantage something it didn't do through the AMD XP line which was also markedly superior, that decision cost them.
This may be the final generation of AMD chips built with the assistance of their consortium which includes IBM, if that 800lb gorrila steps away from AMD R & D things may even out quickly.
Seperate cores aren't important in graphics because all the difficult stuff is done in parallel.
Most of the die is already full of memory and other stuff not pixel pipelines but if they wanted to they could scale the pixel pipelines to an increadible degree.
The r520 is I believe a 24 pixel pipeline card so that's the amount of simultaneous operations it can process at once.
We'll get to enjoy the product of evolution in a few years with the rise of Avian Flu (Woohoo!) Other recent and noticeable products of evolution... Ebola!
If they were to include Ringworld (Which was a lacking series and really wasn't that amazing [Though it totally captivated me when I read it] it would push somehting off.
Books I wish were on the list mainly Enders Game and Macroscope which is a totally amazing book.
Hmmm well the Guerrilla tactics eventually did bring us something excellent.
Now we carpet bomb cities, kill women and children and destroy the landscape instead of simply changing the government.
The American's ignorance of the consequences may have won them the war but they cost society.
Computer Games are an interesting conundrum, there is a set way they are meant to be played and people who try to exploit will never be successful in real competition... Ah if only life had rules as simple as if(wallhack)kickplayer();
Only ideas, put a copy of the codec you're using on the disks.
Preferably with source code if you can find it, that way you'll be able to compile it in years to come.
Create a hash with a common hashing algorithm, when computers become exponentially faster (Think Quantum Computing)you might be able to extrapolate the data back (Should not be impossible with some additional data such as filename, size, and a brief excerpt).
You could store ALL the hashes on a single disk.
There hasn't been a storage generation yet where anyone has data that can't be stored on several thousand of it's media.
If hashing can be extrapolated you could store any generation on a single instance of it's media.
I think the issue Stalman is stating about the RFID cards is the same as that of never disclosing your vote.
You know someone is political on one side, they ask you your vote do you tell them? You shouldn't, whether or not you voted for the same position as them votes should be hidden so people can dissent when they need to without a refusal to reveal their vote being considered a sign of guilt.
The same can be said for wearing a badge displaying your location, or recording your conversations.
Even if it is just in public people need to dissent from it solely so that those who need fear oppresion won't be singled out.
Internet 2 Supports metacasting... What does that mean for P2P? Does it mean all data is transfered at the speed of the fastest connection and then initial data sent again?
So if I was getting a 500Mb file from a 5Mb/s connection(That was dedicated) it would take me and EVERY OTHER user exactly 100s to get?
Agreed, blogging software needs to have import and export from comma seperated text values. I switched over from Moveable type to Geeklog a while ago and the transition was pretty painful, we're doing allright again but they should seriously consider making this easier.
We went with a minimalist presentation, and I'm starting to appreciate it.
You shouldn't have to update your personal site every 2 months it doesn't make any sense it's way easier just to take the fact you're using build to order code in stride and concentrate on content.
www.level4.org is my site...
Also I've found that SpamX from Geeklog has increadible success in weeding spam, I'd perfer those random images but that's another story, we have 4 editors so from my perspective all the spam gets filtered but I'm not totally sure.
This game is amazing but it doesn't have any of the elements that you'd expect from an FPS.
Basically you build and build and fly and fly and just kind of wander around occasionaly shooting marines or aliens.
In recent betas the Aliens have become nerfed, it's sad but true.
I advise people to download it and try it out against bots on one of the excellent Marine Trainer servers low pressure good people to learn with and it's a ton of fun.
I keep waiting for it to come out for source but so far I've been disapointed.
There is a second mode called co_ which is essentially an RPG like team deathmatch game... get experience level up choose new stats and guns etc. But I don't like it much.
Linux is being used in similar situations I'm sure.
Cell phone providers are used for information gathering for terrorists.
There is a certain amount of leeway you need to give technology providers.
Concerns that improving human ability will lead to unpleasantness goes back as far as recorded history.
This is the major theme of science fiction, certain applications such as total monitoring and mechanical fighting machines are somewhat taboo for the simple reason that they are so likely to result in "bad things"tm.
However spread sheet processing? Give them a break on this one dude, there are bigger baddies to target.
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This price could also be in CND dollars.
The Dell thing is just a rumour, and it is true that people asociate computers with Pentiums. Intel has massively more marketing out there.
Yes AMD has started to let their increadible price/performance slip but they are at a cusp of getting Dell onboard and getting fab 36 up and running by 2007 we'll know if they are evil.
As far as this Duel goes it is interesting they challenged Intel, but it shows what a small peice of the pie they are fighting over.
By all accounts enterprise doesn't nescessarily need the x86 feature set since it largely runs software based on unix... Which makes IBM the natural opponent of AMD in the server space as their new PPC chips are pretty powerful (Think consoles where price/performance is critical and x86 is not) with the Intel move by apple it would be really interesting to see IBM transition the PPC chips to supporting AMD64 or microsoft enabling windows on PPC (Not outside the range of possibility with storage media being large enough to contain binaries for both).
Intel has acknowledged AMD's dominance and stated it will continue through 2006 but AMD still rarely outsells Intel. AMD needs to push it's revenue, marketing, and marketshare now while it holds the advantage something it didn't do through the AMD XP line which was also markedly superior, that decision cost them.
This may be the final generation of AMD chips built with the assistance of their consortium which includes IBM, if that 800lb gorrila steps away from AMD R & D things may even out quickly.
Seperate cores aren't important in graphics because all the difficult stuff is done in parallel.
Most of the die is already full of memory and other stuff not pixel pipelines but if they wanted to they could scale the pixel pipelines to an increadible degree.
The r520 is I believe a 24 pixel pipeline card so that's the amount of simultaneous operations it can process at once.
We'll get to enjoy the product of evolution in a few years with the rise of Avian Flu (Woohoo!) Other recent and noticeable products of evolution... Ebola!
The Black Death!
Aids! Go evolution!
This may not unseat the pyramids.
Can you do something like that?
I've been wondering for years if the GPL could be made to exclude say, the RIAA and microsoft employees, people who don't know how to share.
Can I just exclude anyone I want?
It's like a Million Microsoft Trolls had been shouting all over the comments for like 5-6 years and were suddenly silenced.
If this is really happening it's like open source Christmas.
Wow, this is like... wow.
Well I guess we're going to have a ton of ubiquotous formats may the best format win!
(Preferably not the ones that store 45k in a blank document!)
Aw Microsoft after this news I can't stay mad at you!
I've played a lot of driving games mostly on the dreamcast and I thought the one genre of game that would really suffer on the DS was driving games.
I guess turning a corner is tap tap tap but could anyone enlighten me about the control scheme?
"Spread YOUR cheeks!
If they were to include Ringworld (Which was a lacking series and really wasn't that amazing [Though it totally captivated me when I read it] it would push somehting off.
Books I wish were on the list mainly Enders Game and Macroscope which is a totally amazing book.
Hmmm well the Guerrilla tactics eventually did bring us something excellent.
Now we carpet bomb cities, kill women and children and destroy the landscape instead of simply changing the government.
The American's ignorance of the consequences may have won them the war but they cost society.
Computer Games are an interesting conundrum, there is a set way they are meant to be played and people who try to exploit will never be successful in real competition...
Ah if only life had rules as simple as if(wallhack)kickplayer();
Where are the Fobin Projects, the Brainstorms, The Fly?
Lightsabers and ethics do not sci-fi make.
Where's the confrontation with humanity, where't the questioning of whether we SHOULD do something?
Where's Dr. Strangelove.
This isn't the BEST top 10 by importance, merit or anything like that, it's the feel good top 10 + 2001.
I'm not impressed.
Only ideas, put a copy of the codec you're using on the disks.
Preferably with source code if you can find it, that way you'll be able to compile it in years to come.
Create a hash with a common hashing algorithm, when computers become exponentially faster (Think Quantum Computing)you might be able to extrapolate the data back (Should not be impossible with some additional data such as filename, size, and a brief excerpt).
You could store ALL the hashes on a single disk.
There hasn't been a storage generation yet where anyone has data that can't be stored on several thousand of it's media.
If hashing can be extrapolated you could store any generation on a single instance of it's media.
I think the issue Stalman is stating about the RFID cards is the same as that of never disclosing your vote.
You know someone is political on one side, they ask you your vote do you tell them? You shouldn't, whether or not you voted for the same position as them votes should be hidden so people can dissent when they need to without a refusal to reveal their vote being considered a sign of guilt.
The same can be said for wearing a badge displaying your location, or recording your conversations.
Even if it is just in public people need to dissent from it solely so that those who need fear oppresion won't be singled out.
The civies are going to want this stuff recorded and we won't have slaughter houses anymore.
Good for the U.N. bad for U.S. morale.
Well ridge racer comes from a pretty solid pedigree going back to RR4 and RR1 and the screens are increadible.
That's the game that has me beating myself for my decision to wait for and probably buy the PS3
Internet 2 Supports metacasting... What does that mean for P2P? Does it mean all data is transfered at the speed of the fastest connection and then initial data sent again?
So if I was getting a 500Mb file from a 5Mb/s connection(That was dedicated) it would take me and EVERY OTHER user exactly 100s to get?
Agreed, blogging software needs to have import and export from comma seperated text values. I switched over from Moveable type to Geeklog a while ago and the transition was pretty painful, we're doing allright again but they should seriously consider making this easier.
We went with a minimalist presentation, and I'm starting to appreciate it.
You shouldn't have to update your personal site every 2 months it doesn't make any sense it's way easier just to take the fact you're using build to order code in stride and concentrate on content.
www.level4.org is my site...
Also I've found that SpamX from Geeklog has increadible success in weeding spam, I'd perfer those random images but that's another story, we have 4 editors so from my perspective all the spam gets filtered but I'm not totally sure.
I've been keeping it a dirty little secret.
This game is amazing but it doesn't have any of the elements that you'd expect from an FPS.
Basically you build and build and fly and fly and just kind of wander around occasionaly shooting marines or aliens.
In recent betas the Aliens have become nerfed, it's sad but true.
I advise people to download it and try it out against bots on one of the excellent Marine Trainer servers low pressure good people to learn with and it's a ton of fun.
I keep waiting for it to come out for source but so far I've been disapointed.
There is a second mode called co_ which is essentially an RPG like team deathmatch game... get experience level up choose new stats and guns etc. But I don't like it much.
Of never letting Slashdot post any articles not based in the U.S. say Aye.
Or Eh!
Digital cameras already timestamp your photos dude.
Maybe the wealthy will buy all the land? How will they maint in it? How will they build on it? How will they clean it, paint it, power it?
Slaves.
Don't make a mistake in the southern U.S. at some points slaves outnumbered others 15-1 yet they were unable to revolt.
Equality is HARD and equal rights is harder, but that's why we pursue them, not because they are easy but because they are hard.
Really? Even when they were granted to a company which is from another country?
Don't you think that's a little tiny bit dangerous?
Linux is being used in similar situations I'm sure.
Cell phone providers are used for information gathering for terrorists.
There is a certain amount of leeway you need to give technology providers.
Concerns that improving human ability will lead to unpleasantness goes back as far as recorded history.
This is the major theme of science fiction, certain applications such as total monitoring and mechanical fighting machines are somewhat taboo for the simple reason that they are so likely to result in "bad things"tm.
However spread sheet processing?
Give them a break on this one dude, there are bigger baddies to target.
LPB...