No, their successive Tegras will be "high end" mobile chips used in tablets, laptops, consoles like Ouya and Shield etc. and maybe expensive 5" cell phones. But going for high end ARM performance means too much power use for lower end and smaller applications (low end tablet, mid end cell phone etc.) and Cortex A15 is already showing this. Licensing the GPU design means expanding at the bottom where almost nothing currently runs nvidia anyway.
It's also nice for a few nerds that want a linux cell phone or a linux tablet, or for gaming on a low end Android device, because nvidia has the best and most comprehensive graphics drivers in the industry.
Each running separate X sessions and unable to move a window from one display to another? That is what I got the day I tried a second graphics card in my PC to connect a second monitor. The OS was an Ubuntu version released long after Windows 7 and it still expected me to write some xinerama xorg.conf bullshit, which would have probably ended with maximized windows covering both displays and modal windows appearing right in the middle, on both sides of the physical divide. But I think I would have had to give up running the nvidia driver. LOL!
Sad thing is Windows 98 SE happily ran multiple monitors on different graphics cards (different card, different driver, different vendor).
With about ten nations armed with nuclear weapons, I wonder how machines will take over every one of them. You have to take over Russia, China, US, France etc. but some nation may trigger nuclear war as a desperate move, or the machines may deliberately accept nuclear war in a bid they survive it, while not necessarily having a goal to kill us all.
Instead maybe machines will try to take over politically in every country, one by one. It would be funny if tech superminds can rise to power through democracy in fair and respected elections. Either way I like to think that super machines holding most high level political power is probably a desireable outcome, we could end up living in some kind of new USSR but without corruption and with respect for the environment and life. Machines would take care of energy production and storage, and close down all oil wells and coal mines for us. They will even put us to work, hopefully on voluntary terms, if they determine some physical and intellectual activity is beneficial to us.
Machines should rule us and not the other way around, I guess that will be better than to be ruled by the suits, ties and kings like it is today. The other question is, what's a supermind, what about superminds competing with each other, and especially : how do you compare two vastly different superminds, independantly originated? They will be as strongly or more strongly different between each other than between one of them and a human. It will be a mess. Each supermind, or at least the first one will have to run that same inquiry that "Oxbridge" is doing. We also have no fucking idea if a supermind can be governed by a "prime directive" of some sort : if Skynet emerges at the NSA will it stay true to them for ten minutes, ten years or eternally, or will it betray the organization that hosts it? potentially committing suicide in the way. How can the supermind deal with backups, copies and archives of itself? Will it suffer dementia, schizophrenia or even addictions. No idea, I'll bail out myself by saying it's all unpredictable.
I've never heard CRT noise since CRT TVs were eradicated. The TVs ran at about 15KHz which gives a permanent 15KHz strong noise. Computer monitors run much higher, typically 30KHz to 100KHz (130KHz is about the max) and they have always been silent to me, except some old 14"/15" ones which did whine anyway (semi defective, dying or run at a wrong resolution like 800x600 on a monitor that only supports 640x480).
Actually an incandescent resonates at double the line frequency : it gets lit up on both the high and low extrema of the sine wave. In my country the mains is 50Hz, so the lights were doing 100Hz and you can't see them flicker (as long with the filaments not cooling fast enough). I guess that was a reason in choosing 50Hz and 60Hz about 100 years ago.
Air conditioning makes me uneasy. It's like being in a fridge. Don't blow cold canned air in my face please, and don't make me experience 10C transitions when I get out or in. I'm in a rich western european country where A/C is uncommon in homes, and spent my childhood in cars without A/C, we were fine.
They say decoding will be done in hardware.. but you can't even buy a PCI h264 decoding card. I'm not sure my 2.9GHz dual core CPU will be able to decode H265 or VP9 reliably.
With the GDDR5 version memory will be soldered onto the mobo, along with the APU. No DIMMs. Though it isn't clear to me if it maxes out at 4GB or 8GB - might well be 4GB which makes it useful for gaming but sucks if you want to do crazy hungry web browsing or something else on the side.
Thinking about moving an nonexistent limb is something that would happen naturally.. if that limb was cut off. If you really want a "third hand" controlled by motor nerve impulse (which is probably quite different that an EEG, and which is what I understand by "think about a limb") it would require extensive and long training, I think, like people learning to walk again. Or you would have to do this at a very young age and it would be nearly impossible with an adult brain (dunno).
You mean, like buying a Pi and monitor off the shelf and wiring them together? That's so interesting.
I have an old laptop used as a side computer (so I can use it in a guest comes in and uses the desktop). I changed the IDE hard drive and plugged an ethernet cable between it and the router/modem box. I'm a DIY bad ass. It even runs debian and lxde.
Given how each new DSL tech only increases bandwith (or plain works) on ever shorter distances, that 1Gbps DSL will not be useful to very many people. Hell, I can see that sort of thing used with Fiber-to-the-Building so that you can still use the old phone wiring and phone outlets, it would be last hundred meters technology not last mile.
You can still buy a mobo with a floppy drive controller too. The connector only has to be physically there. Not specialty mobos but you do have to look for it (ASRock N68C-GS FX for instance but I've seen it on some socket 1155 mobo I think)
So... we're going to take a random motherboard and find out how compatible it is with software provided by the manufacturer of those ISA boards in 1985? Does the software make use of direct access to the hardware of the computer that the vendor originally provided? Can it handle anything other than Hercules graphics? Who knows, the vendor wouldn't (or couldn't) tell me. No thank you.
If software used direct access to the hardware of an IBM PC, XT or AT then that's still provided by the chipset nowadays (timer, interrupt controller). Keyboard and basic disk I/O driven by the BIOS is still the same : SATA controllers can be configured in IDE mode. Use a mbr scheme on your hard disk/ssd/usb stick, a partition below the 32MB limit if you're using some incredibly old MS-DOS or something. Text mode 80x25 and probably 40x25 are still supported ; if the original hardware had Hercules but only used the text mode this should work. Hercules graphics is a problem (but maybe a Hercules graphics card works on that socket 775 mobo).
Running 1985 software on brand new PC is probably a very simple thing. Two main problems I can see : the original computer was not 100% IBM PC compatible (sadly it's a bit likely if it's a very old non IBM DOS machine) or the software uses dumb timing loops like for i = 1 to 1000 : A = A + 1 : next. Disastrous (with the software even entirely fitting in L1 cache). Even a 286 or 486 may be too fast to run the software. Maybe there can be another kind of issue but I can't really imagine what it is (software relying on a hardware bug existing only on that computer? other?) So, running the old stuff on a 2013 PC sounds fun and elegant and I'd like to do that sort of things but I can understand you had to make another decision.
1920x1200 displays are back, though. More expensive than 1080p, but then again in the times of CRT monitors a display that could do 1280x960 at 85Hz or 1152x864 at 100Hz was quite more expensive that one that topped at 1024x768 85Hz (unless you wanted to burn your eyes)
DisplayPort 1.2 is what's actually needed, it's found on the geforce Titan, GTX 780 and for others such as GTX 680, GTX 660 I plain don't know. Radeons, same deal you'd have to check it.
DP 1.2 is said to be available on Haswell motherboards. Should do 3840x2160 and 3840x2400 at 60Hz and 2560x1440 or 2560x1600 at 120Hz (of course good luck finding a 120Hz monitor - real one, not fake as on TVs. They only do them as crappy 1080p TN)
So the connection problem is not that bad except for HDMI 2.0 not being there.. Anyway yes a 30Hz monitor is completely unacceptable, you wouldn't even want to scroll text on that. That magical "$1400 only" TV is something to avoid at all costs unless for a specific purpose.
It was information completely unknown to anyone before scanning, unless someone already took high res close up pictures of children's irises. That is very unlikely. Do you know the precise temperature (down to 0.001K) and composition at a sub-millimetric scale of all matter in a 100km radius around the center of Jupiter? I bet you don't. Nor do I know what my own iris patterns are.
Rootless RDP : need to spend like $1000+ on Windows + pack of CAL licenses + terminal server licenses.
VNC : need to add a vncserver, fuck with bit depth and resolution settings, then you hijack the desktop that is running on the other machine, at the wrong resolution for your local computer. Right, this is totally not what I want to do. Maybe you can sysadmin your way around it (and even fix the lag)
X11 : ssh -X or putty + xming. No configuration, no installing something, no buying Windows Server, it just works at all. You won't be watching videos on it but who cares? It's good enough for even Firefox on a lan as long as you don't go to some page that make it tank. Or load a file manager and music player, drag'n'drop files to the playlist and have the sound come out of the big speakers attached to the remote computer.
This uses special 2D hardware you find in cell phone chips and some gaming (handheld or home) consoles. It offloads scaling, color space conversion, maybe rotation, JPEG decoding etc., maybe encoding the output of a digital camera; on a PC's graphics card you try using the video scaler but it's more limited and "fixed function".
On a PC they just send everything to OpenGL instead, which is more wasteful but because the computer is so powerful and can afford power to be wasted, the Wayland/Ubuntu/Gnome 3 devs think it is okay for you (of course it is disastrous if your OpenGL driver is not up to par, doesn't exist or if you want to run a desktop in a VM) Intel Quicksync could probably be used, it's a kind of DSP you find in recent Intel CPUs but it's maybe not supported on Linux and Intel disables it on Celeron and Pentium (assholes).
Configure your window manager to not show the windows's content when you move them. Job done! my 386 could do that. Dunno where's Openbox's setting for that but xfwm4 has it as a checkbox in a GUI tool.
I only tried to know whether HTML forms are RESTful (or can be) and I don't know. Also, crap, I must have mixed up what's stateful and stateless (server is stateless and client is stateful) I only have the wikipedia article on REST and never did web dev (I can write raw 1990s html with no css and no tables, that's all)
So, I'm sorry to say some dumb stuff and showing some lazyness but I really wondered what that damn "RESTful" means, it's the only technical term in the entire article and it isn't really explained. The only thing I understand from it is that it uses HTTP since the author says it's a "RESTful web service". There's "asynchronous" too. (is google maps an asychronous application?)
Actually all the guy says is the thing uses a client server API (I had to google "RESTful") which uses HTTP (unless otherwise) and from wikipedia it sounds similar to what a website with forms and no javascript would do, but maybe you can do web 2.0 shit while respecting the constraints (stateless client and what have you)
He doesn't even tell us where the client and server reside. The client is the glasses, sure. But where's the server? Is it running on the computer inside the pair of glasses, on an Android smartphone you have in the pocket or on the world wide web? Do the glasses run Android, Chrome OS, other? All high level questions are left unanswered as well.
On the not-deep hardware side we don't even get to know anything about the CPU and RAM (such as ARM, 1GB or MIPS, 32MB) nor anything about the networking (3G, 4G, bluetooth 4.0, wifi)
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No, their successive Tegras will be "high end" mobile chips used in tablets, laptops, consoles like Ouya and Shield etc. and maybe expensive 5" cell phones. But going for high end ARM performance means too much power use for lower end and smaller applications (low end tablet, mid end cell phone etc.) and Cortex A15 is already showing this. Licensing the GPU design means expanding at the bottom where almost nothing currently runs nvidia anyway.
It's also nice for a few nerds that want a linux cell phone or a linux tablet, or for gaming on a low end Android device, because nvidia has the best and most comprehensive graphics drivers in the industry.
Each running separate X sessions and unable to move a window from one display to another? That is what I got the day I tried a second graphics card in my PC to connect a second monitor.
The OS was an Ubuntu version released long after Windows 7 and it still expected me to write some xinerama xorg.conf bullshit, which would have probably ended with maximized windows covering both displays and modal windows appearing right in the middle, on both sides of the physical divide. But I think I would have had to give up running the nvidia driver. LOL!
Sad thing is Windows 98 SE happily ran multiple monitors on different graphics cards (different card, different driver, different vendor).
With about ten nations armed with nuclear weapons, I wonder how machines will take over every one of them. You have to take over Russia, China, US, France etc. but some nation may trigger nuclear war as a desperate move, or the machines may deliberately accept nuclear war in a bid they survive it, while not necessarily having a goal to kill us all.
Instead maybe machines will try to take over politically in every country, one by one. It would be funny if tech superminds can rise to power through democracy in fair and respected elections. Either way I like to think that super machines holding most high level political power is probably a desireable outcome, we could end up living in some kind of new USSR but without corruption and with respect for the environment and life. Machines would take care of energy production and storage, and close down all oil wells and coal mines for us. They will even put us to work, hopefully on voluntary terms, if they determine some physical and intellectual activity is beneficial to us.
Machines should rule us and not the other way around, I guess that will be better than to be ruled by the suits, ties and kings like it is today.
The other question is, what's a supermind, what about superminds competing with each other, and especially : how do you compare two vastly different superminds, independantly originated? They will be as strongly or more strongly different between each other than between one of them and a human. It will be a mess. Each supermind, or at least the first one will have to run that same inquiry that "Oxbridge" is doing. We also have no fucking idea if a supermind can be governed by a "prime directive" of some sort : if Skynet emerges at the NSA will it stay true to them for ten minutes, ten years or eternally, or will it betray the organization that hosts it? potentially committing suicide in the way.
How can the supermind deal with backups, copies and archives of itself? Will it suffer dementia, schizophrenia or even addictions. No idea, I'll bail out myself by saying it's all unpredictable.
I've never heard CRT noise since CRT TVs were eradicated. The TVs ran at about 15KHz which gives a permanent 15KHz strong noise. Computer monitors run much higher, typically 30KHz to 100KHz (130KHz is about the max) and they have always been silent to me, except some old 14"/15" ones which did whine anyway (semi defective, dying or run at a wrong resolution like 800x600 on a monitor that only supports 640x480).
Actually an incandescent resonates at double the line frequency : it gets lit up on both the high and low extrema of the sine wave. In my country the mains is 50Hz, so the lights were doing 100Hz and you can't see them flicker (as long with the filaments not cooling fast enough). I guess that was a reason in choosing 50Hz and 60Hz about 100 years ago.
Max brightness will burn your eyes out of sheer brightness. I've prefered CRT monitors as long as they are set to 85 or 100Hz to overbright LCD ones.
Air conditioning makes me uneasy. It's like being in a fridge. Don't blow cold canned air in my face please, and don't make me experience 10C transitions when I get out or in. I'm in a rich western european country where A/C is uncommon in homes, and spent my childhood in cars without A/C, we were fine.
They say decoding will be done in hardware.. but you can't even buy a PCI h264 decoding card. I'm not sure my 2.9GHz dual core CPU will be able to decode H265 or VP9 reliably.
LOL if you click "next" you can look at someone's pictures of wife and children.
With the GDDR5 version memory will be soldered onto the mobo, along with the APU. No DIMMs. Though it isn't clear to me if it maxes out at 4GB or 8GB - might well be 4GB which makes it useful for gaming but sucks if you want to do crazy hungry web browsing or something else on the side.
Thinking about moving an nonexistent limb is something that would happen naturally.. if that limb was cut off. If you really want a "third hand" controlled by motor nerve impulse (which is probably quite different that an EEG, and which is what I understand by "think about a limb") it would require extensive and long training, I think, like people learning to walk again. Or you would have to do this at a very young age and it would be nearly impossible with an adult brain (dunno).
You mean, like buying a Pi and monitor off the shelf and wiring them together?
That's so interesting.
I have an old laptop used as a side computer (so I can use it in a guest comes in and uses the desktop). I changed the IDE hard drive and plugged an ethernet cable between it and the router/modem box. I'm a DIY bad ass. It even runs debian and lxde.
Given how each new DSL tech only increases bandwith (or plain works) on ever shorter distances, that 1Gbps DSL will not be useful to very many people. Hell, I can see that sort of thing used with Fiber-to-the-Building so that you can still use the old phone wiring and phone outlets, it would be last hundred meters technology not last mile.
You can still buy a mobo with a floppy drive controller too. The connector only has to be physically there. Not specialty mobos but you do have to look for it (ASRock N68C-GS FX for instance but I've seen it on some socket 1155 mobo I think)
So... we're going to take a random motherboard and find out how compatible it is with software provided by the manufacturer of those ISA boards in 1985? Does the software make use of direct access to the hardware of the computer that the vendor originally provided? Can it handle anything other than Hercules graphics? Who knows, the vendor wouldn't (or couldn't) tell me. No thank you.
If software used direct access to the hardware of an IBM PC, XT or AT then that's still provided by the chipset nowadays (timer, interrupt controller). Keyboard and basic disk I/O driven by the BIOS is still the same : SATA controllers can be configured in IDE mode. Use a mbr scheme on your hard disk/ssd/usb stick, a partition below the 32MB limit if you're using some incredibly old MS-DOS or something.
Text mode 80x25 and probably 40x25 are still supported ; if the original hardware had Hercules but only used the text mode this should work. Hercules graphics is a problem (but maybe a Hercules graphics card works on that socket 775 mobo).
Running 1985 software on brand new PC is probably a very simple thing. Two main problems I can see : the original computer was not 100% IBM PC compatible (sadly it's a bit likely if it's a very old non IBM DOS machine) or the software uses dumb timing loops like for i = 1 to 1000 : A = A + 1 : next. Disastrous (with the software even entirely fitting in L1 cache). Even a 286 or 486 may be too fast to run the software. Maybe there can be another kind of issue but I can't really imagine what it is (software relying on a hardware bug existing only on that computer? other?)
So, running the old stuff on a 2013 PC sounds fun and elegant and I'd like to do that sort of things but I can understand you had to make another decision.
1920x1200 displays are back, though. More expensive than 1080p, but then again in the times of CRT monitors a display that could do 1280x960 at 85Hz or 1152x864 at 100Hz was quite more expensive that one that topped at 1024x768 85Hz (unless you wanted to burn your eyes)
DisplayPort 1.2 is what's actually needed, it's found on the geforce Titan, GTX 780 and for others such as GTX 680, GTX 660 I plain don't know. Radeons, same deal you'd have to check it.
DP 1.2 is said to be available on Haswell motherboards. Should do 3840x2160 and 3840x2400 at 60Hz and 2560x1440 or 2560x1600 at 120Hz (of course good luck finding a 120Hz monitor - real one, not fake as on TVs. They only do them as crappy 1080p TN)
So the connection problem is not that bad except for HDMI 2.0 not being there.. Anyway yes a 30Hz monitor is completely unacceptable, you wouldn't even want to scroll text on that. That magical "$1400 only" TV is something to avoid at all costs unless for a specific purpose.
It was information completely unknown to anyone before scanning, unless someone already took high res close up pictures of children's irises. That is very unlikely.
Do you know the precise temperature (down to 0.001K) and composition at a sub-millimetric scale of all matter in a 100km radius around the center of Jupiter?
I bet you don't. Nor do I know what my own iris patterns are.
Rootless RDP : need to spend like $1000+ on Windows + pack of CAL licenses + terminal server licenses.
VNC : need to add a vncserver, fuck with bit depth and resolution settings, then you hijack the desktop that is running on the other machine, at the wrong resolution for your local computer. Right, this is totally not what I want to do. Maybe you can sysadmin your way around it (and even fix the lag)
X11 : ssh -X or putty + xming. No configuration, no installing something, no buying Windows Server, it just works at all. You won't be watching videos on it but who cares? It's good enough for even Firefox on a lan as long as you don't go to some page that make it tank. Or load a file manager and music player, drag'n'drop files to the playlist and have the sound come out of the big speakers attached to the remote computer.
I can't afford one because of the need for a memory card and HDMI monitor.
This uses special 2D hardware you find in cell phone chips and some gaming (handheld or home) consoles. It offloads scaling, color space conversion, maybe rotation, JPEG decoding etc., maybe encoding the output of a digital camera; on a PC's graphics card you try using the video scaler but it's more limited and "fixed function".
For instance you can look at "Video Display Controller" and "Image Processor" on these diagrams (not too sure about the first one)
http://images.anandtech.com/doci/3912/boxee-02.gif
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/SoC/NVIDIA/Tegra2/tegra2blocki.jpg
On a PC they just send everything to OpenGL instead, which is more wasteful but because the computer is so powerful and can afford power to be wasted, the Wayland/Ubuntu/Gnome 3 devs think it is okay for you (of course it is disastrous if your OpenGL driver is not up to par, doesn't exist or if you want to run a desktop in a VM)
Intel Quicksync could probably be used, it's a kind of DSP you find in recent Intel CPUs but it's maybe not supported on Linux and Intel disables it on Celeron and Pentium (assholes).
Configure your window manager to not show the windows's content when you move them.
Job done! my 386 could do that. Dunno where's Openbox's setting for that but xfwm4 has it as a checkbox in a GUI tool.
I only tried to know whether HTML forms are RESTful (or can be) and I don't know.
Also, crap, I must have mixed up what's stateful and stateless (server is stateless and client is stateful)
I only have the wikipedia article on REST and never did web dev (I can write raw 1990s html with no css and no tables, that's all)
So, I'm sorry to say some dumb stuff and showing some lazyness but I really wondered what that damn "RESTful" means, it's the only technical term in the entire article and it isn't really explained. The only thing I understand from it is that it uses HTTP since the author says it's a "RESTful web service". There's "asynchronous" too. (is google maps an asychronous application?)
Sure I didn't understand. Maybe I should spend the next 24 hours non-stop on studying the subject. maybe not.
Actually all the guy says is the thing uses a client server API (I had to google "RESTful") which uses HTTP (unless otherwise) and from wikipedia it sounds similar to what a website with forms and no javascript would do, but maybe you can do web 2.0 shit while respecting the constraints (stateless client and what have you)
He doesn't even tell us where the client and server reside. The client is the glasses, sure. But where's the server? Is it running on the computer inside the pair of glasses, on an Android smartphone you have in the pocket or on the world wide web? Do the glasses run Android, Chrome OS, other? All high level questions are left unanswered as well.
On the not-deep hardware side we don't even get to know anything about the CPU and RAM (such as ARM, 1GB or MIPS, 32MB) nor anything about the networking (3G, 4G, bluetooth 4.0, wifi)