"I see only factors which makes this *harder* to cool."
Well... this is a stab in the dark but with the shorter interconnects that come with this chip design, you'd likely get less heat generation. Or maybe they'll come up with a way to stick tiny heat sinks between the layers that draws the heat out of the chip. If they can come up with this kind of design, I'm sure they can come up with some sort of heat solution.:D
Man, if I had known one could get in worldwide news for releasing free tracks I'd have made a press release ages ago. All my band's material is free to download, and we encourage people to share it with people who would like it.
It's a shame that it's surprising to some, but what can you expect in an age where everyone and their brother are being sued for one P2P thing or another...
"achieve Doom 3 or UT2004 level graphics and leave it at that"
People seem to say that with every generation of graphics engines.
Not picking on you... but as long as NVidia/ATI are making the Latest and Greatest, programmers will take advantage of that. Why stop with realitime lighting, specularity, bump/displacement mapping and such when you can add subsurface scattering, radiosity, finer mesh tessellation, etc...
If Sony has their way, though, the Cell will find its way into other products. While the Cell's primary intent may have been for the PS3, I'm sure they'll look to more than make up lost dollars with other licensing and such.
Beta or not, there are security concerns. Should such significant issues simply be ignored just because it's not production-level? It's something people should be aware of...
Unfortunately, that's another something that Internet Explorer screws up. While the browser is supposed to fall back to the first one it can actually render and then stop rendering subsequent objects, IE renders them all if it's capable.
They're not really in a position to be better than a JPG, in the cases where a JPG would be used to display an images with thousdands or millions of colours.
On the other hand, SVG offers an easier (or what seems should be easier) method of dynamically-generating images like charts and graphs. Combined with some javascript (think XMLHttpRequest), you can change and interact with these graphs in realtime. Along with vector graphic's "infinite" resolution you've got a lot of powerful options for graphing alone.
"With such a useful web developer feature available only in Firefox, could we soon start seeing websites asking their users to download Firefox to get the best browsing experience?"
No.
First of all, it's also available in Opera 8.
Second of all, at the risk of sounding like a troll, people will simply find ways around using SVG until IE supports it... just like they have for PNG and (proper) CSS2.
RAM, CD-R, sound card, speakers. They're pretty essential these days. But at that point, you're approaching what it would cost to get a cheap-o Dell...
What sort of implications does this have for the medical world, who may be able to use this (should it ever actually be implemented) to help those who are blind and/or deaf? Will they have to go through Sony?
Slashdot Mirror
PriceWatch.com lists Athlon FX's ranging from $799 (FX55) to $1099 (FX57).
The zooming animation is just a cover while it loads new map data.
"Does anyone think Microsoft would be making this big a deal if it wasn't Google that hired him?"
Possibly. You just wouldn't hear about it if it weren't Google.
Do the nightlies update themselves as new nightlies come out? That'd be a neat way of keeping up to date with the latest ones...
"I see only factors which makes this *harder* to cool."
... this is a stab in the dark but with the shorter interconnects that come with this chip design, you'd likely get less heat generation. Or maybe they'll come up with a way to stick tiny heat sinks between the layers that draws the heat out of the chip. If they can come up with this kind of design, I'm sure they can come up with some sort of heat solution. :D
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Man, if I had known one could get in worldwide news for releasing free tracks I'd have made a press release ages ago. All my band's material is free to download, and we encourage people to share it with people who would like it.
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It's a shame that it's surprising to some, but what can you expect in an age where everyone and their brother are being sued for one P2P thing or another
Could you elaborate? I've been looking for non-UA methods of browser detection ...
"achieve Doom 3 or UT2004 level graphics and leave it at that"
... but as long as NVidia/ATI are making the Latest and Greatest, programmers will take advantage of that. Why stop with realitime lighting, specularity, bump/displacement mapping and such when you can add subsurface scattering, radiosity, finer mesh tessellation, etc...
People seem to say that with every generation of graphics engines.
Not picking on you
Actually, we might both be wrong ... Apparently it was Philip Steir.
"don't remember who, don't remember the name of the song"
The Crystal Method - Magic Carpet Ride (Remix)
Don't know what album it's off of, though.
If Sony has their way, though, the Cell will find its way into other products. While the Cell's primary intent may have been for the PS3, I'm sure they'll look to more than make up lost dollars with other licensing and such.
I'm sure they're aware of what sites are actually using their "services"...
So sit your kid down and show him 1) BT has legit uses and 2) there are alternatives to MSWin.
;)
Two birds with one stone, no less.
Why can't they make their EULA's as simple and as clear as the terms of the contest?
Fine, but which one will have the games that any moderately serious gamer will want to play?
Beta or not, there are security concerns. Should such significant issues simply be ignored just because it's not production-level? It's something people should be aware of...
Unfortunately, that's another something that Internet Explorer screws up. While the browser is supposed to fall back to the first one it can actually render and then stop rendering subsequent objects, IE renders them all if it's capable.
They're not really in a position to be better than a JPG, in the cases where a JPG would be used to display an images with thousdands or millions of colours.
On the other hand, SVG offers an easier (or what seems should be easier) method of dynamically-generating images like charts and graphs. Combined with some javascript (think XMLHttpRequest), you can change and interact with these graphs in realtime. Along with vector graphic's "infinite" resolution you've got a lot of powerful options for graphing alone.
"With such a useful web developer feature available only in Firefox, could we soon start seeing websites asking their users to download Firefox to get the best browsing experience?"
... just like they have for PNG and (proper) CSS2.
No.
First of all, it's also available in Opera 8.
Second of all, at the risk of sounding like a troll, people will simply find ways around using SVG until IE supports it
Have you looked at Google's source lately? They still don't know HTML. ;)
My first reaction was "old hardware, old kernel" ... but what you say makes sense. Thanks for the reply.
So use an older kernel... Aren't older versions still maintained?
SAMBA
RAM, CD-R, sound card, speakers. They're pretty essential these days. But at that point, you're approaching what it would cost to get a cheap-o Dell...
What sort of implications does this have for the medical world, who may be able to use this (should it ever actually be implemented) to help those who are blind and/or deaf? Will they have to go through Sony?