Current FPGAs seem to be running about 20-25% of a standard CPU's performance for clock rate (so figure possibly half that for "real" performance).
I don't know about you, but as long as it's not blocking the CPU (and with 8+ cores, even if it blocks one core) it should be plenty fast for most applications. What's a problem is the turnaround time between different usages.
Yeah, sorry for being unclear. I was wondering if there's any readily available green laser diodes that are of approximately the same power as a DVD or Blu-Ray player's.
Oh well, there go my dreams for making a true-color OMG MY EYES ARE BURNING display, I guess.
DVD players use a red laser; presumably Blu-Ray players use a blue laser (though why you're cannibalizing the operative piece of a $1k+ piece of... oh, wait, maybe you already converted your PS3 into a grill)... but there isn't anything that uses a green laser that's readily obtainable, is there?
...how big is the school in question? I've been wondering recently whether the RIAA has ever gone after schools with big legal programs. Have they been avoiding a fight with students who might have a large number of friends training to be lawyers? I have visions of some professor who gets sufficiently aggravated that he assigns his entire class to bury the RIAA in legal briefs. You missed the one a week or two ago where they were about to start going after Harvard - and Harvard's response was, in effect, "get bent"?
There's an invisible barrier around our solar system that blocks their transmissions... and if they try to visit us, their ship gets turned into comets.
(Short story named "Crystal Spheres". Definitely an interesting read, too.)
Aside from the fact that what Dateline does can only be called "news" in a very loose sense, isn't this the kind of BS we should be expecting from Fox News?
Or would they already be trumpeting how they got kicked out by the HACKERS ON STEROIDS?
...a time machine, preferably in a Faraday cage (to shield your data center from unwanted interference), so you can implement the necessary changes a couple of months ago.
I wonder how much of the 'energy saved' will be consumed by all those machines they use in the hospital for people who get eye problems from staring at white/grey on black text. I don't know. How many people were hospitalized for eye problems over the course of using DOS and pre-X *nix?
I'm sure that most people who know Microsoft will tell you that losing money on Xbox in generations 1 and 2 probably doesn't faze them at all. Screwing it up the first time, making a semi-decent product the second time and then getting it right on the third attempt is practically a tradition at Microsoft.
In that case, the future timeline of the XBox series:
The XBox 720 is released; (Win3.0)
A short time later, the XBox 756 is released, which adds a few things and is considered the greatest thing ever, despite the fact that one game can lock it up for hours on end; (Win3.1)
Two years later, the XBox NT is released... five years later than it should have been; (WinNT 3.5)
Then, over the next six years, we will get the XBox 15, the XBox 18, and the XBox 18SE; (Win95/98/98SE)
...followed, two years later, by the XBox 2020 and the XBox ME (which will be permanently crashed to make things easier for its users). (Win2K/WinME)
About seven years after that, we'll have the XBox Vista, which will refuse to operate with 90% of the games for the previous models, be underpowered despite using the latest processor and copious amounts of memory, and which will come in numerous confusing variations, some of which allow you to host an older version of the XBox (namely, the more expensive versions).
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Current FPGAs seem to be running about 20-25% of a standard CPU's performance for clock rate (so figure possibly half that for "real" performance).
I don't know about you, but as long as it's not blocking the CPU (and with 8+ cores, even if it blocks one core) it should be plenty fast for most applications. What's a problem is the turnaround time between different usages.
The monks also stated that this alleged ninja must be produced for execution by means of the five-point palm exploding heart technique.
Okay, let me rephrase that - for the purposes of this, 0/0 = 100%. Any week where nothing has gone wrong should count in your favor as a sysadmin.
Percentage of tickets completed. Remember, 0/0 = 100% - just reverse the math to check that one.
You're confusing the OLPC project with Intel's project.
Uwe Boll: INTERNET BADASS
I mean, it's about an Uwe Boll movie. Of course the movie sucks!
Thank you, I perform quite well with Vista.
I especially enjoy it for playing chess against, despite the lack of any way to propose a draw to the computer.
Vista harms system performance.
...it's not real science, it's just research into existing areas.
Yeah, sorry for being unclear. I was wondering if there's any readily available green laser diodes that are of approximately the same power as a DVD or Blu-Ray player's.
Oh well, there go my dreams for making a true-color OMG MY EYES ARE BURNING display, I guess.
DVD players use a red laser; presumably Blu-Ray players use a blue laser (though why you're cannibalizing the operative piece of a $1k+ piece of... oh, wait, maybe you already converted your PS3 into a grill)... but there isn't anything that uses a green laser that's readily obtainable, is there?
...how big is the school in question? I've been wondering recently whether the RIAA has ever gone after schools with big legal programs. Have they been avoiding a fight with students who might have a large number of friends training to be lawyers? I have visions of some professor who gets sufficiently aggravated that he assigns his entire class to bury the RIAA in legal briefs. You missed the one a week or two ago where they were about to start going after Harvard - and Harvard's response was, in effect, "get bent"?...if you put a beer into a soundproof booth, are the bubbles still going to behave how the researchers expect them to?
There's an invisible barrier around our solar system that blocks their transmissions... and if they try to visit us, their ship gets turned into comets.
(Short story named "Crystal Spheres". Definitely an interesting read, too.)
Thermonuclear War
Shows no promise for gameplay
Give me Tic-Tac-Toe
...that it's possible to get a man to start speaking by implanting electrodes.
Now can we develop a cell phone that will implant the electrodes on its own, to get people to stop talking?
If you really believe that 4chan is where the scum of the Internet is, you obviously haven't visited any of the other *chans.
I suggest you visit Gurochan. It might raise your opinion of 4chan.
Aside from the fact that what Dateline does can only be called "news" in a very loose sense, isn't this the kind of BS we should be expecting from Fox News?
Or would they already be trumpeting how they got kicked out by the HACKERS ON STEROIDS?
...a time machine, preferably in a Faraday cage (to shield your data center from unwanted interference), so you can implement the necessary changes a couple of months ago.
...towards equipping myself with a couple of alphaware cyberarms and a datajack.
In that case, the future timeline of the XBox series:
About seven years after that, we'll have the XBox Vista, which will refuse to operate with 90% of the games for the previous models, be underpowered despite using the latest processor and copious amounts of memory, and which will come in numerous confusing variations, some of which allow you to host an older version of the XBox (namely, the more expensive versions).