Sad? How is it sad? As far as I'm concerned, the porno industry is the "perfect" industry from a geek perspective. They are technological innovators that are always willing to try something new and are always on the bleeding edge of technology, they believe in free speech instead of trying to squish it, and they, unlike their **AA counterparts, aren't trying to sue the pants off of the online world, or run to Congress whining.
It's not a sad thing, it's a great thing. The fact that the content is what it is, is unimportant; what counts is that there's an industry out there that's willing to "do things right" the first time, rather than be dragged kicking and screaming.
But what would you use assembly for in the IFPC contest? Our Uni participated in it, and we used Java both for our compiler and interpreter, and there was no speed problem; we could compile nearly instantaneously(although I'll admit we never tried this on a brain > 1K states), and a 100K step run of an Ant brain was only a second or so. I can't see how assembly would be helpful in case, when it would seem to be more detrimental in writing the compiler, and probably just as detrimental in writing the interpreter.
You have to keep in mind however, that all of Apple's cards are custom built, and don't enjoy the usual massive production scales of video cards. Each Mac card is going to require an AGP Pro connector, a Mac video BIOS, the circuitry for the ADC port, etc; this all adds up in to a Mac card costing more than the PC equivalent. Apple could probably get away with using all 9600XT's(in terms of price), but it's still costly.
Not surprisingly, it was also used for Transformers' PSAs. They basically removed the Joe, put in an Autobot, and had a PSA they could slap on the end of an episode of Transformers. For anyone curious, I don't think these are on the Transformers box sets, but there are a few included with the Transformers PS2 game.
And more importantly, how will consumers of such a system be treated? Is it going to be like the console system you describe, or is it going to be something akin to the cell phone market, where you're locked in to multi-year contracts, and locked to specific vendors through the life of the product?
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On that note, I'd like to add more of the blame to the rise of integrated networking on just about every motherboard these days. Whereas before, when I would always go with an Intel or 3Com NIC, these days the integrated NICs on most motherboards(specifically Nvidia nForce and Intel based boards) work almost just as well as a 3Com solution, complete with the low CPU overhead(the only loss is a couple of truely Pro features), but it's already there, and it's free.
I can hook up my integrated NIC to my well-priced Linksys router, and do today what 5 years ago would have been many times today's cost. 3Com caters in part to a market that really no longer exists.
As long as users can eat up more memory than they have available, and as long as hard drive space is cheaper than RAM space, swap will always be necessary.
I'm sure he could, but where's the fun in that? The whole reason that this DDR workout and similar programs are taking off is because they're fun and hard work, as opposed to a "low impact exercise regime", which is as boring as it sounds. Sure, a regime like that would be better, but for most people, they'd rather have fun doing a sligtly less effective workout, than to be bored to tears being effecient.
While there is no doubt that Microsoft has been up to shady practices in the Opera ordeal, I can't get over the fact that they were going to be sued over their own site. I mean, it's probably a good thing Opera got a cool 12mil out of this, but why should Microsoft be responsible to Opera in any way? It's Microsoft's site, shouldn't they be able to do whatever they want with it, including blocking whatever browsers they want? Any what are the implications of this; could I be sued for making an IE-incompatible website? Frankly, I don't like where this is going.
That's just what I was thinking. As it stands right now, Chef is a faceless character that's always mentioned, but never seen(this is in part because he's a plot device to talk about food, but still), so someone could easily be cast as Chef. I doubt this is how it will be done, but it's always possible.
With no offense to the PearPC dev team, I think you're being a little optimistic there in the speed department. There's a fundamental register bottleneck when running PPC code on the x86(the PPC has 32, 32bit x86 has 8), so you're always going to take a sizable speed hit due to a lack of registers. There is a fair amount of speed to be gained by doing some assembly optimizations, and trying to work around the register problem, but as far as I can tell, PearPC is always going to be slow, there's just no way around it without finding a way to make 32 functional GPRs on an x86 chip.
While those are some interesting problems, I have to admit, they're really minor. Most of these are more social engineering attacks than technology attacks in the first place(i.e. man in the middle), and only 1, key generation, is a true technological threat to the encryption. As far as I'm concerned, even with their "flawed" implementation, this is strong enough for my needs. Anything past this calls for PGP in the first place.
There's also an in depth interview up at HomeLAN, which talks more about the specs of the X2 systems, along with how Alienware's going to handle powering and cooling the beast.
The site is actually just our gaming news site for the larger HomeLAN organization. The Comp. Museum wanted someone to host it that would be better able to stand up to a Slashdotting, so we offered. [shameless plug]The entire HomeLAN organization doesn't do just news, but server rentals/hosting, beta testing, and several other services for gaming companies, so we're not just a game fan site.[/shameless plug]
The thing about the 6800U's power consumption though, is that Tom's Hardware has shown that it only seems to differ from the X800XT by 20 watts or so. While Nvidia likely went with the 2 connector, 480wt rule for stability reasons(no chance of ever running low), the 6800 isn't power hungry enough to need a 480wt power supply, it simply needs a good power supply.
I don't mean to undermine what the author did, but what's the point of being able to do so? I mean, you have to pull the Firmware from a Mac/Wintel machine in the first place, and even when you get it updated, you still can't actually use the iTunes Music Store on Linux to take advantage of any of the new features in the Firmware. It's a cool hack, but a useless one at that.
I really wouldn't call this a work-around; at the very least, there's a physical limit you have to deal with when it comes to pixel response of LCD panels, and you can only minimize the time needed to digitially process an image, you can't remove it. The fact of the matter is that audio has to be delayed in order to compensate for the greater complexity of video, there's nothing else you can do.
For most sites, I might be a bit concerned about such a pairing, but AnandTech is a different case, since they're so open about their operations. All of AnandTech's advertising is through a third party; AnandTech can revoke an ad if it's too flashy or something like that, but the third party is the one who sells ads. As a result, there is a level of disconnection between the ads and the reviews, so that in this case, if Jetway sent the product in to be reviewed(which is my guess), there's not a direct conflict of interest since AnandTech didn't sell Jetway the ad in the first place.
This doesn't mean that there absolutely isn't any favor buying going on, but I'm going to trust AnandTech on this one.
The key thing about a Telesync as opposed to a Cam however, is that it's shot from a secure location(i.e. the projectionist's booth), and it has a direct feed to the sound source. This alone makes the resulting copy many times better than the hollow sounding, people walking in front of Cam job.
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Sad? How is it sad? As far as I'm concerned, the porno industry is the "perfect" industry from a geek perspective. They are technological innovators that are always willing to try something new and are always on the bleeding edge of technology, they believe in free speech instead of trying to squish it, and they, unlike their **AA counterparts, aren't trying to sue the pants off of the online world, or run to Congress whining.
It's not a sad thing, it's a great thing. The fact that the content is what it is, is unimportant; what counts is that there's an industry out there that's willing to "do things right" the first time, rather than be dragged kicking and screaming.
But what would you use assembly for in the IFPC contest? Our Uni participated in it, and we used Java both for our compiler and interpreter, and there was no speed problem; we could compile nearly instantaneously(although I'll admit we never tried this on a brain > 1K states), and a 100K step run of an Ant brain was only a second or so. I can't see how assembly would be helpful in case, when it would seem to be more detrimental in writing the compiler, and probably just as detrimental in writing the interpreter.
Roofs don't tend to work that well in Oregon. It's not particularly windy, but since the rain isn't heavy, it will blow right past any roof.
"Come and enjoy the beauty of Oregon--but please, don't stay!"
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Oregon natives should recognize this famous Tom McCall quote. As for the rest of you, follow its advice.
You have to keep in mind however, that all of Apple's cards are custom built, and don't enjoy the usual massive production scales of video cards. Each Mac card is going to require an AGP Pro connector, a Mac video BIOS, the circuitry for the ADC port, etc; this all adds up in to a Mac card costing more than the PC equivalent. Apple could probably get away with using all 9600XT's(in terms of price), but it's still costly.
Not surprisingly, it was also used for Transformers' PSAs. They basically removed the Joe, put in an Autobot, and had a PSA they could slap on the end of an episode of Transformers. For anyone curious, I don't think these are on the Transformers box sets, but there are a few included with the Transformers PS2 game.
And more importantly, how will consumers of such a system be treated? Is it going to be like the console system you describe, or is it going to be something akin to the cell phone market, where you're locked in to multi-year contracts, and locked to specific vendors through the life of the product?
On that note, I'd like to add more of the blame to the rise of integrated networking on just about every motherboard these days. Whereas before, when I would always go with an Intel or 3Com NIC, these days the integrated NICs on most motherboards(specifically Nvidia nForce and Intel based boards) work almost just as well as a 3Com solution, complete with the low CPU overhead(the only loss is a couple of truely Pro features), but it's already there, and it's free.
I can hook up my integrated NIC to my well-priced Linksys router, and do today what 5 years ago would have been many times today's cost. 3Com caters in part to a market that really no longer exists.
As long as users can eat up more memory than they have available, and as long as hard drive space is cheaper than RAM space, swap will always be necessary.
I'm sure he could, but where's the fun in that? The whole reason that this DDR workout and similar programs are taking off is because they're fun and hard work, as opposed to a "low impact exercise regime", which is as boring as it sounds. Sure, a regime like that would be better, but for most people, they'd rather have fun doing a sligtly less effective workout, than to be bored to tears being effecient.
While there is no doubt that Microsoft has been up to shady practices in the Opera ordeal, I can't get over the fact that they were going to be sued over their own site. I mean, it's probably a good thing Opera got a cool 12mil out of this, but why should Microsoft be responsible to Opera in any way? It's Microsoft's site, shouldn't they be able to do whatever they want with it, including blocking whatever browsers they want? Any what are the implications of this; could I be sued for making an IE-incompatible website? Frankly, I don't like where this is going.
That's just what I was thinking. As it stands right now, Chef is a faceless character that's always mentioned, but never seen(this is in part because he's a plot device to talk about food, but still), so someone could easily be cast as Chef. I doubt this is how it will be done, but it's always possible.
With no offense to the PearPC dev team, I think you're being a little optimistic there in the speed department. There's a fundamental register bottleneck when running PPC code on the x86(the PPC has 32, 32bit x86 has 8), so you're always going to take a sizable speed hit due to a lack of registers. There is a fair amount of speed to be gained by doing some assembly optimizations, and trying to work around the register problem, but as far as I can tell, PearPC is always going to be slow, there's just no way around it without finding a way to make 32 functional GPRs on an x86 chip.
Since it's just PlayFair, does this mean we can count this as a duplicate against the editors?
They'll just simply do what they did before they had cellphones. Emergency personnel existed long before modern technology, after all.
While those are some interesting problems, I have to admit, they're really minor. Most of these are more social engineering attacks than technology attacks in the first place(i.e. man in the middle), and only 1, key generation, is a true technological threat to the encryption. As far as I'm concerned, even with their "flawed" implementation, this is strong enough for my needs. Anything past this calls for PGP in the first place.
There's also an in depth interview up at HomeLAN, which talks more about the specs of the X2 systems, along with how Alienware's going to handle powering and cooling the beast.
The current rankings aren't being listed. You'll have to wait until the Museum announces the winners.
The site is actually just our gaming news site for the larger HomeLAN organization. The Comp. Museum wanted someone to host it that would be better able to stand up to a Slashdotting, so we offered. [shameless plug]The entire HomeLAN organization doesn't do just news, but server rentals/hosting, beta testing, and several other services for gaming companies, so we're not just a game fan site.[/shameless plug]
The thing about the 6800U's power consumption though, is that Tom's Hardware has shown that it only seems to differ from the X800XT by 20 watts or so. While Nvidia likely went with the 2 connector, 480wt rule for stability reasons(no chance of ever running low), the 6800 isn't power hungry enough to need a 480wt power supply, it simply needs a good power supply.
XBox...come on. The dang thing isn't really doing that well here either is it?
Actually, the Xbox may overtake the PS2 in quarterly sales within the next couple of months.
I don't mean to undermine what the author did, but what's the point of being able to do so? I mean, you have to pull the Firmware from a Mac/Wintel machine in the first place, and even when you get it updated, you still can't actually use the iTunes Music Store on Linux to take advantage of any of the new features in the Firmware. It's a cool hack, but a useless one at that.
I really wouldn't call this a work-around; at the very least, there's a physical limit you have to deal with when it comes to pixel response of LCD panels, and you can only minimize the time needed to digitially process an image, you can't remove it. The fact of the matter is that audio has to be delayed in order to compensate for the greater complexity of video, there's nothing else you can do.
For most sites, I might be a bit concerned about such a pairing, but AnandTech is a different case, since they're so open about their operations. All of AnandTech's advertising is through a third party; AnandTech can revoke an ad if it's too flashy or something like that, but the third party is the one who sells ads. As a result, there is a level of disconnection between the ads and the reviews, so that in this case, if Jetway sent the product in to be reviewed(which is my guess), there's not a direct conflict of interest since AnandTech didn't sell Jetway the ad in the first place.
This doesn't mean that there absolutely isn't any favor buying going on, but I'm going to trust AnandTech on this one.
The key thing about a Telesync as opposed to a Cam however, is that it's shot from a secure location(i.e. the projectionist's booth), and it has a direct feed to the sound source. This alone makes the resulting copy many times better than the hollow sounding, people walking in front of Cam job.