Before everyone starts flaming, everything in the documentary was 'facts'. Now, the way he presented them was his own spin on the 'truth'. You need to take it with a grain of salt.
You could kinda say the same thing about the 'facts' about WMD's and Iraq-9/11 links that ultimately led to the justification of war in IRAQ.
Why does Real player force you to install 100 things you don't need and place icons everywhere, add bloated background tasks / services, insert an item into the task tray, popup daily "real news", take over major formats, etc, when many people only use it to view videos that aren't in any other format? Why don't any of the major software companies offer a lean clean, cruft free version of their software? If REAL offered that, I'd pay for the minimal version before the expanded one!
Then we come to USB disk-on-key. Small, software already mostly built-in, random access, can be used "like a floppy". Not real fast, but probably works pretty good for many floppy-like applications.
Nearly all key drives are significantly faster than floppies.
USB2.0 flash (key) drives are about 20-50X faster than a floppy drive. You can copy around 5MB/s on some of them. The older USB 1.0 flash / key drives were about 400K-500K per second which is still way faster than floppies (which are around 50-80K per second if there's not a lot of seeking).
Don't you realize guys will say anything to get laid?? If a slashdot geek is agreeing with you that Open Source isn't all that and MicroSoft isn't really that evil then he must be trying to get into your pants:-) Just like when macho guys tell girls they'd rather go see a chick-flick with them than watch the game. Most men will sell their souls pretty quickly to get some action.
Muppets are cool but wouldn't it be better if we could get our kids actually excited about REAL SCIENCE rather than things blowing up and cartoon humor.
Then again, more than 50% of the US thinks that creationism should be taught in PUBLIC schools. ("authoratative" source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution)
Wikipedia has a "Neutral Point of View" whereas most enclyclopedias has a "Scientific Point of View".
This means that if you wanted to post an article on the creation of the universe according to the Big Bang theory, you SHOULD also include information saying that it's just a theory and maybe instead the universe was created by God's Word (Ancient Hebrew myth of creation) or perhaps it also sprung from the bodies of Titans (Ancient Greek myth of creation).
I have a 8500 All-inwonder DV which has Dolby 5.1 digital auudio and firewire sitting on the AGP card. Still a POS, but neat idea.
Yes but your AIW card has SEPARATE CHIPS to do these other (non-graphics) functions. This software takes chips designed for graphics processing and repurposes them towards sound processing.
I work in the video games industry. Using graphics processor for audio is not new. The Nintendo 64 had a "Reality-Engine" graphics coprocessor that also processed sound by uploading new microcode.
If you think about it, things like bilinear/trilinear filtering are perfect for resampling, graphic blendops like add/subtract/modulate are great for audio mixing and can be done with even older fixed function hardware and bit of programming effort. The programmability of new hardware with pixel and vertex shaders improves the generic applications of the GPU by orders of magnitude and allows significantly more non-graphic algorithms to be implemented.
I went to one of those laser centers and unfortunately, LASIK is for people with relatively normal near-sighted vision to start off with. Usually Custom LASIK works best for people with less than -3 or -4. People with -4 through -5 usually can get regular LASIK and they can do PRK all the way out to -8.
You may be able to get these procedures from a clinic if you're outside of these ranges but most laser eye clinics will tell you that you will have a high chance of poor vision quality if you're outside of these ranges.
For double digits negative diopters like me you might have to settle for PHACIK IOL where they actually insert a small hard contact lens inside your eye. However, IOL's (intra-ocular lenses) have been tested for some time in cataract patients. With PHACIK IOL they do not modify your cornea or lens so the operation has the benefit of being reversible.
$300 is a bit off... that's the starting price for a decent transistor amp. Try adding two zeros for a high-end tube amp... that's right! The ultra high end tube stuff costs around $20,000-$30,000. That's why it's worth going over to the friend's house who just bought it driving your new car for which you paid the same price.
Anyway, as we know, hypnotists can make people fall asleep in seconds
Usually, this requires conditioning first. A hypnotist can make you fall asleep in seconds if they have had MINUTES first to condition you to fall asleep or have previously given you a suggestion under hypnosis to return to a hypnotic state ("sleep") when given a trigger stimulus.
Slashdotters get excited over the $500 video cards coming out from NVidia (FX6800) and ATI (R420). According to all the rumors, the XBOX Next video hardware is going to blow both of these away.... the question is would you pay $600 for a system that had the equivalent of 3 HyperThreaded P4's and a video card that blew away an FX6800?
I think most people here would answer yes to that!
I tried to make a rule when I was leading my last project to have no cell phones at meetings. The guy who gave me the biggest headache was the reason I made the rule. He kept bringing his cellphone to meetings and talking to his girlfriend in the middle of the meetings.
Once a fab process has had the kinks worked out, they chips undergo much less thorough speed binning. Intel often uses dies near center of the wafer(where focus is more exact) for higher speeds and dies nearer the edge of the wafer for lower speeds. It's a lot simpler than testing every processor at every speed.
The real indicator of new job growth is the number of overtime hours being worked
Wow, we work a lot of overtime in software development. As a matter of fact, you see the overtime going up and up and up as teams at various companies are going down in size. How exactly does overtime indicate job growth rather than squeezing to get a little more out of each employee -- especially us salaried employees in the computer industry who do not receive overtime pay ?
For what it's worth... many processors, like the PowerPC series have had this "buffer overflow protection" feature for years. The idea is to mark program code pages after they are loaded as executeable and read-only. No other pages are marked executeable. It destroys clever little hacks like self-modifying code but at the same time, makes it impossible for buffer overflows to introduce new code into a programs executeable code page set.
Your average $500 PC from Dell with a $250 Canopus ADVC-100 has more capability to edit than the toaster ever did, plus the ability to do real-time previews and output to DVD or DV tape.
I don't think the "preview" with a $500 PC and a $250 ADVC-100 is anywhere close to the realtime effects the Toaster was capable of creating. I have a $1000 PC and an ADVC-100 so I should know.
If you look at the AMD 64-bit extensions, one of the simplest things you will see is a lot more registers for floating point and for integer operations. This makes it much easier for compilers to optimize code (reduce load and stores, perform parallel operations, interleaved loop unrolling) as well as decreases delays waiting on register resources in the CPU during dynamic excution where register renaming occurs.
Believe it or not, even code that does all it's work requiring only 32-bit precision but uses the extra registers available should see speedups.
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Before everyone starts flaming, everything in the documentary was 'facts'. Now, the way he presented them was his own spin on the 'truth'. You need to take it with a grain of salt.
You could kinda say the same thing about the 'facts' about WMD's and Iraq-9/11 links that ultimately led to the justification of war in IRAQ.
Why does Real player force you to install 100 things you don't need and place icons everywhere, add bloated background tasks / services, insert an item into the task tray, popup daily "real news", take over major formats, etc, when many people only use it to view videos that aren't in any other format? Why don't any of the major software companies offer a lean clean, cruft free version of their software? If REAL offered that, I'd pay for the minimal version before the expanded one!
Then we come to USB disk-on-key. Small, software already mostly built-in, random access, can be used "like a floppy". Not real fast, but probably works pretty good for many floppy-like applications.
Nearly all key drives are significantly faster than floppies.
USB2.0 flash (key) drives are about 20-50X faster than a floppy drive. You can copy around 5MB/s on some of them. The older USB 1.0 flash / key drives were about 400K-500K per second which is still way faster than floppies (which are around 50-80K per second if there's not a lot of seeking).
...the floppy disk is going the way of the horse...
Naw, there's more you can do with dead horses than with dead floppies.
Don't you realize guys will say anything to get laid?? If a slashdot geek is agreeing with you that Open Source isn't all that and MicroSoft isn't really that evil then he must be trying to get into your pants :-) Just like when macho guys tell girls they'd rather go see a chick-flick with them than watch the game. Most men will sell their souls pretty quickly to get some action.
Muppets are cool but wouldn't it be better if we could get our kids actually excited about REAL SCIENCE rather than things blowing up and cartoon humor.
Then again, more than 50% of the US thinks that creationism should be taught in PUBLIC schools. ("authoratative" source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution)
Wikipedia has a "Neutral Point of View" whereas most enclyclopedias has a "Scientific Point of View".
This means that if you wanted to post an article on the creation of the universe according to the Big Bang theory, you SHOULD also include information saying that it's just a theory and maybe instead the universe was created by God's Word (Ancient Hebrew myth of creation) or perhaps it also sprung from the bodies of Titans (Ancient Greek myth of creation).
I have a 8500 All-inwonder DV which has Dolby 5.1 digital auudio and firewire sitting on the AGP card. Still a POS, but neat idea.
Yes but your AIW card has SEPARATE CHIPS to do these other (non-graphics) functions. This software takes chips designed for graphics processing and repurposes them towards sound processing.
I work in the video games industry. Using graphics processor for audio is not new. The Nintendo 64 had a "Reality-Engine" graphics coprocessor that also processed sound by uploading new microcode.
If you think about it, things like bilinear/trilinear filtering are perfect for resampling, graphic blendops like add/subtract/modulate are great for audio mixing and can be done with even older fixed function hardware and bit of programming effort. The programmability of new hardware with pixel and vertex shaders improves the generic applications of the GPU by orders of magnitude and allows significantly more non-graphic algorithms to be implemented.
How can they be the next Google if they can't even survive a slashdotting ???!
How many miles per gallon will a flying car get?
I went to one of those laser centers and unfortunately, LASIK is for people with relatively normal near-sighted vision to start off with. Usually Custom LASIK works best for people with less than -3 or -4. People with -4 through -5 usually can get regular LASIK and they can do PRK all the way out to -8.
You may be able to get these procedures from a clinic if you're outside of these ranges but most laser eye clinics will tell you that you will have a high chance of poor vision quality if you're outside of these ranges.
For double digits negative diopters like me you might have to settle for PHACIK IOL where they actually insert a small hard contact lens inside your eye. However, IOL's (intra-ocular lenses) have been tested for some time in cataract patients. With PHACIK IOL they do not modify your cornea or lens so the operation has the benefit of being reversible.
Read The FINE Manual ??? Yeah, right. Fine FUCKING right that is.
$300 is a bit off... that's the starting price for a decent transistor amp. Try adding two zeros for a high-end tube amp... that's right! The ultra high end tube stuff costs around $20,000-$30,000. That's why it's worth going over to the friend's house who just bought it driving your new car for which you paid the same price.
Anyway, as we know, hypnotists can make people fall asleep in seconds
Usually, this requires conditioning first. A hypnotist can make you fall asleep in seconds if they have had MINUTES first to condition you to fall asleep or have previously given you a suggestion under hypnosis to return to a hypnotic state ("sleep") when given a trigger stimulus.
Slashdotters get excited over the $500 video cards coming out from NVidia (FX6800) and ATI (R420). According to all the rumors, the XBOX Next video hardware is going to blow both of these away.... the question is would you pay $600 for a system that had the equivalent of 3 HyperThreaded P4's and a video card that blew away an FX6800?
I think most people here would answer yes to that!
I know programmers who can't write HelloWorld.cpp with such hard limitations.
I tried to make a rule when I was leading my last project to have no cell phones at meetings. The guy who gave me the biggest headache was the reason I made the rule. He kept bringing his cellphone to meetings and talking to his girlfriend in the middle of the meetings.
Once a fab process has had the kinks worked out, they chips undergo much less thorough speed binning. Intel often uses dies near center of the wafer(where focus is more exact) for higher speeds and dies nearer the edge of the wafer for lower speeds. It's a lot simpler than testing every processor at every speed.
The real indicator of new job growth is the number of overtime hours being worked
Wow, we work a lot of overtime in software development. As a matter of fact, you see the overtime going up and up and up as teams at various companies are going down in size. How exactly does overtime indicate job growth rather than squeezing to get a little more out of each employee -- especially us salaried employees in the computer industry who do not receive overtime pay ?
For what it's worth... many processors, like the PowerPC series have had this "buffer overflow protection" feature for years. The idea is to mark program code pages after they are loaded as executeable and read-only. No other pages are marked executeable. It destroys clever little hacks like self-modifying code but at the same time, makes it impossible for buffer overflows to introduce new code into a programs executeable code page set.
Your average $500 PC from Dell with a $250 Canopus ADVC-100 has more capability to edit than the toaster ever did, plus the ability to do real-time previews and output to DVD or DV tape.
I don't think the "preview" with a $500 PC and a $250 ADVC-100 is anywhere close to the realtime effects the Toaster was capable of creating. I have a $1000 PC and an ADVC-100 so I should know.
If you look at the AMD 64-bit extensions, one of the simplest things you will see is a lot more registers for floating point and for integer operations. This makes it much easier for compilers to optimize code (reduce load and stores, perform parallel operations, interleaved loop unrolling) as well as decreases delays waiting on register resources in the CPU during dynamic excution where register renaming occurs. Believe it or not, even code that does all it's work requiring only 32-bit precision but uses the extra registers available should see speedups.