Given you are so confident in your understanding of 9/11, what is your explanation for the collapse of building 7, and the manner in which it happened?
Reminds me of the Espresso PC. A very niche design at the time, but let's see if 2015 will be the year of the slabputer (or whatever you want to call this thing).
> The original Windows NT (3.51?) was a pretty good OS.
I don't disagree, but there were at least a couple of versions of NT before that. Namely (that I remember of) 3.5 and 3.1 before, which I was using around 94-95.
... they even put up a video of a Ballerina dancing around a giant penis... I think at the time it was voted one of the "worse jobs in science" or something...
and right around that time you did see systems like ReGIS showing up that would go graphics over slow connections, although I think ReGIS in particular was maybe 4-5 years later than that
ReGIS! I tried that once to display IDL/PV-Wave graphics on an old VT420... slow as F* but I guess in another era, this was the best one could hope for.
Still, I miss having a VT320 on my desk. Not the VT101 though, I got kicked out of an IRC forum once because one of the keys got stuck:-) Not that ircii was displaying all that well on it anyway (VT100 compatible my arse)... Ahhhh, those where the days!
Just another one you might want to consider. Zilog makes a few microcontrollers based on the Z80. Two families come to mind the z8encore and ez80acclaim.
The Z8F640x z8encore devel kit only costs $50 (check the future active page) and comes with an IDE which lets you play with both C and ASM. The CPU is of the most basic variety so don't expect running linux on the board but you will feel at home having done Z80 coursework.
There are 2 kits for the ez80acclaim (eZ80F91 and eZ80F92) which both come with ethernet sockets. They cost 199 and 399 each. Again, these are microcontroller boards so they might not be suited for your needs.
All things considered, a $50 investment is not bad for a devel board + software, especially if you want to experiment with embedded applications. You might also want to add one of these for added fun (talk to your microcontroller board over USB 1.1).
On the other hand, if you want to use linux/uclinux on a devel board, embedded cpus like arm, xscale (intel) and coldfire (motorola) come to mind, but an off the shelf devel board will cost you a lot more. In any case, check here.
huhu, add to your list the more esoteric 3" floppy drive, which you can get for instance of some old amstrad computers (664,6128,pcw) or the 8" floppy you can get of a trs80 and a nice proggie called 22dsk and you're even more in business...
eventhough chances to recover data from floppy get slimmer by the year (sigh).
oh! some inventive cabling required;-)
The project's home is here but hasn't been updated in a lonnnng time.
Basically, take 2 computers with a scsi card in each, and use a scsi cable to connect the two machines. I don't know how this solution compares to myrinet or gigabit ethernet in terms of performance, but the idea is a nice one.
No, and that's why they got in trouble with intel (whoever it was, can't remember if it was tom's hardware or x86.org).
Intel just pushed the hype of the mmx and faster speed, but if you underclocked the PII from 233 to 200MHz, it was suddenly slower than the ppro. Unfortunatly, ppro's huge cache probably wasn't scaling that well with speed, so it probably was a smart move to go for P2s.
Still, years later, my uni bought a netfinity from IBM, and guess what was inside? yup, 2 PPros. I guess IBM got hold of a huge stock for its servers.
A PII clocked at the same speed as a PPro was slower (remember how www.x86.org got in trouble for publishing those benchmarks? ) was hotter than a PPro, etc... then people realised that PIIs were becoming eventually faster and cheaper than PPros, and PPros got phased-out (I think retired early by Intel to force people to buy PIIs is closer to reality).
Conclusion? Don't buy the latest and greatest processors in their early incarnation because besides the hype, they don't run that much faster than the previous generation... but eventually will.
CCCP times are over. Maybe now we can concentrate on Russian achievements rather than hanging on to our - somewhat not so glorious - past. I think our country still has an enormous potential on the space arena... who do you call when you can't afford losing a sat? nope, not ghostbusters! The Russians!
We still have a space station... that is if Junior B. has the mental ability to understand some basic rules of cooperation: For what I know, the in-ter-na-tio-nal space station doesn't belong to the yanks. It belongs to everybody who worked on the project. That being said, eventhough it is sad to see mir going down, I think we needed that to, who knows? maybe build another one?
Yeah, we bought a couple of these, expecting to have shit loads of space inside... NOT!
The inside is split in two, one side to store the drives and front bays and the other half (there's just about enough space between the two to fit the cables through) is about as big as what you'd get in a minitower... want to put two smokin procs in there? good luck. As soon as we put the side doors on, the temperature went skyroof and we had to add a couple of fans in there (how are you supposed to get some flow when there's a barrier between flow in and flow out???).
Can't tell you which one I'm using now (one that's 1.5 as large as a midi tower) but the 'leet factor aside, YY cubes are worth shit all. (you seen how ugly some of the other YY cases are? or how fragile? sofar, the best cases I've used are vasco cases.
PS: About sharp edges inside the case? well, these combined with having to pull on the old power connectors can leave quite a few battle scars on your hands... (not the sames as the ones you get from playing quake, though;)
Sure if you have enough of a frame rate, your eye don't register the flickering... like about 12 images per second (did you do these stroboscopic experiments in school?)
The problem is, how do you go about having a limited number of cameras to do the same effect as in the matrix.
You can't flick through your images, or if you do, I'd think you'd get a pretty bad result.
Don't worry, if the transition between images isn't done using some morphing technique, it will be eventually, as it's bound to reduce the number of camera views needed.
I was thinking that morphs are needed to make a transition from camera to camera... just switching from one camera to the next seems to me it's going to look a rather jerky motion.
When you have a 100 cameras, things probably get much better... it wouldn't be used otherwise;-)
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Given you are so confident in your understanding of 9/11, what is your explanation for the collapse of building 7, and the manner in which it happened?
Dumb luck?
Reminds me of the Espresso PC. A very niche design at the time, but let's see if 2015 will be the year of the slabputer (or whatever you want to call this thing).
No? Fuck of my lawn...
The top comments on alterslash are all about the beta, so I had to check it out too...
To be honest, I'm glad I jumped the ship 10-11 years ago.
Quick alterslash fix in the morning while drinking my coffee and I'm done.
> I'm not aware that carrots are fond of 5cm of standing water throughout the growing season.
You probably could engineer carrots to do just that!
> The original Windows NT (3.51?) was a pretty good OS.
I don't disagree, but there were at least a couple of versions of NT before that. Namely (that I remember of) 3.5 and 3.1 before, which I was using around 94-95.
Good to hear you have things figured-out, even if it's just taking it easy for a while and watch your kids grow.
Best of luck, and thanks again for the good times.
... they even put up a video of a Ballerina dancing around a giant penis... I think at the time it was voted one of the "worse jobs in science" or something...
The lucky few who survived the bubble might still remember a webserver in a fly... back in 2001.
Still, I miss having a VT320 on my desk. Not the VT101 though, I got kicked out of an IRC forum once because one of the keys got stuck :-) Not that ircii was displaying all that well on it anyway (VT100 compatible my arse)... Ahhhh, those where the days!
The Z8F640x z8encore devel kit only costs $50 (check the future active page) and comes with an IDE which lets you play with both C and ASM. The CPU is of the most basic variety so don't expect running linux on the board but you will feel at home having done Z80 coursework.
There are 2 kits for the ez80acclaim (eZ80F91 and eZ80F92) which both come with ethernet sockets. They cost 199 and 399 each. Again, these are microcontroller boards so they might not be suited for your needs.
All things considered, a $50 investment is not bad for a devel board + software, especially if you want to experiment with embedded applications. You might also want to add one of these for added fun (talk to your microcontroller board over USB 1.1).
On the other hand, if you want to use linux/uclinux on a devel board, embedded cpus like arm, xscale (intel) and coldfire (motorola) come to mind, but an off the shelf devel board will cost you a lot more. In any case, check here.
Nope, only the black box ;-)
nah... D30 is way to old, what you really want is a D60 or maybe a 1D... or am I missing something? :-)
eventhough chances to recover data from floppy get slimmer by the year (sigh). oh! some inventive cabling required ;-)
Have a look at this, though: Intel Open CV library. The guy has a "no glove approach" to gesture recognition.
Especially, have a look at Gestscal.avi (AVI of detecting static hand position gestures using gradient histograms 5.1M) and of course the manual.
Hope you find some ideas in there (the lib is opensource).
Basically, take 2 computers with a scsi card in each, and use a scsi cable to connect the two machines. I don't know how this solution compares to myrinet or gigabit ethernet in terms of performance, but the idea is a nice one.
No, and that's why they got in trouble with intel (whoever it was, can't remember if it was tom's hardware or x86.org).
Intel just pushed the hype of the mmx and faster speed, but if you underclocked the PII from 233 to 200MHz, it was suddenly slower than the ppro. Unfortunatly, ppro's huge cache probably wasn't scaling that well with speed, so it probably was a smart move to go for P2s.
Still, years later, my uni bought a netfinity from IBM, and guess what was inside? yup, 2 PPros. I guess IBM got hold of a huge stock for its servers.
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A PII clocked at the same speed as a PPro was slower (remember how www.x86.org got in trouble for publishing those benchmarks? ) was hotter than a PPro, etc... then people realised that PIIs were becoming eventually faster and cheaper than PPros, and PPros got phased-out (I think retired early by Intel to force people to buy PIIs is closer to reality).
Conclusion? Don't buy the latest and greatest processors in their early incarnation because besides the hype, they don't run that much faster than the previous generation... but eventually will.
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Oh... wait a sec! :-)
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We still have a space station... that is if Junior B. has the mental ability to understand some basic rules of cooperation: For what I know, the in-ter-na-tio-nal space station doesn't belong to the yanks. It belongs to everybody who worked on the project. That being said, eventhough it is sad to see mir going down, I think we needed that to, who knows? maybe build another one?
VOT TAK! :-)
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The inside is split in two, one side to store the drives and front bays and the other half (there's just about enough space between the two to fit the cables through) is about as big as what you'd get in a minitower... want to put two smokin procs in there? good luck. As soon as we put the side doors on, the temperature went skyroof and we had to add a couple of fans in there (how are you supposed to get some flow when there's a barrier between flow in and flow out???).
Can't tell you which one I'm using now (one that's 1.5 as large as a midi tower) but the 'leet factor aside, YY cubes are worth shit all. (you seen how ugly some of the other YY cases are? or how fragile? sofar, the best cases I've used are vasco cases.
PS: About sharp edges inside the case? well, these combined with having to pull on the old power connectors can leave quite a few battle scars on your hands... (not the sames as the ones you get from playing quake, though ;)
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The problem is, how do you go about having a limited number of cameras to do the same effect as in the matrix.
You can't flick through your images, or if you do, I'd think you'd get a pretty bad result.
Don't worry, if the transition between images isn't done using some morphing technique, it will be eventually, as it's bound to reduce the number of camera views needed.
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When you have a 100 cameras, things probably get much better... it wouldn't be used otherwise ;-)
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Pretty cool stuff! I always wanted to play with something along these lines, but never got round to actually try it (blame slashdot for it ;)
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