The specs on the IGN site (scroll the page about 1/3 down) promise even bigger numbers:
System Clock: 300 MHz
Co-Processor: FPU (Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 1, Floating Point Divider x 1)
Vector Units: VU0 and VU1 (Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 9, Floating Point Divider x 1)
Floating Point Performance: 6.2 GFLOPS
I mean, the pure DSP power is pretty impressive. For example, the new state-of-the-art Analog Devices ADSP-21160 SHARC does 5 floating point multiply-and-accumulates in one cycle and runs at 100MHz.
The PS2's vector units are running at three times that speed and are almost two times longer. Plus, there are two of them in there.
>There's this amazing thing, we don't have to >recompile the kernel to remove a feature!
Neither do we, because of kernel modules. If I want to remove my network card driver, I just say 'rmmod eepro100'. The same goes for file systems, binary executable formats etc.
As far as I can tell the functional difference between NT and Linux kernels in this respect is small, even though NT is a "modified microkernel" architechture and Linux is "monolithic".
Unlike NT, Linux does not even need to be rebooted when you do this.
I missed the webcast, so reading this article was something of a revelation to me. I'm amazed by all the things they do differently than any processor it is compared to, and although I know nothing about StrongARM or other mobile processors I have no trouble believing that it's completely different from them too. Just how long did the developing of the Crusoe take?
The Slashdot crowd (and me too) usually feels reluctant towards doing things in software that could be done in hardware, ie. WinModems. However the Crusoe does this for a good reason, to save power, not production cost. I'm already waiting the Transmeta ads showing not MHz, but MHz/W numbers..
Sunlight is not a requirement for life, the rich life surrounding underwater volcanoes proves that. If Europa has seas (of liquid water) and volcanic activity, I would bet my money that it has at least bacteria. But is it warm enough?
"Scientists say Europa's surface may be as warm as 0 degrees F.,"
"Located 5 times farther from the Sun than Earth, Europa is too cold, measured at -230 degrees Fahrenheit (-145 degrees Celsius), to support life as we know it."
PLUS the phone bill. A ~1Mbps (unlimited) cable modem for $40 a month becomes cheaper in heavy use. I'm a finn too. It's not that great up here. The weather sucks.:)
Oh no, not again. Ignore the logical errors in previous post. What I meant was 48kHz * 2 * 2 = 192 kilobytes/s. But it's still slow in mp3 coding, since the input stream cannot be faster that real time.
But we can always program our own reverb algorithms. Already, the Turtle Beach Fiji/Pinnacle cards have a Motorola 56001, fully programmable under Linux. See Sound & MIDI Software For Linux for details.
I'm sceptical though towards seeing sound card DSPs used in general data processing. Isn't the data path too slow? It's only 48000 kHz * 2 channels * 2 bytes/channel = 192kbps. For example, mp3 encoders such as LAME are already a lot faster than this on fast PII/III's. And on the Athlon, doubly so.
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Maybe it's just my imagination, but doesn't the Trolltech's QT logo look a bit too much like the sign of a former communist superpower? :-)
- System Clock: 300 MHz
- Co-Processor: FPU (Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 1, Floating Point Divider x 1)
- Vector Units: VU0 and VU1 (Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 9, Floating Point Divider x 1)
- Floating Point Performance: 6.2 GFLOPS
I mean, the pure DSP power is pretty impressive. For example, the new state-of-the-art Analog Devices ADSP-21160 SHARC does 5 floating point multiply-and-accumulates in one cycle and runs at 100MHz.The PS2's vector units are running at three times that speed and are almost two times longer. Plus, there are two of them in there.
Two words: Holy shit.
>There's this amazing thing, we don't have to
>recompile the kernel to remove a feature!
Neither do we, because of kernel modules.
If I want to remove my network card driver, I just say 'rmmod eepro100'. The same goes for file systems, binary executable formats etc.
As far as I can tell the functional difference between NT and Linux kernels in this respect is small, even though NT is a "modified microkernel" architechture and Linux is "monolithic".
Unlike NT, Linux does not even need to be rebooted when you do this.
I missed the webcast, so reading this article was something of a revelation to me. I'm amazed by all the things they do differently than any processor it is compared to, and although I know nothing about StrongARM or other mobile processors I have no trouble believing that it's completely different from them too. Just how long did the developing of the Crusoe take?
The Slashdot crowd (and me too) usually feels reluctant towards doing things in software that could be done in hardware, ie. WinModems. However the Crusoe does this for a good reason, to save power, not production cost.
I'm already waiting the Transmeta ads showing not MHz, but MHz/W numbers..
Someday we will have booze-powered robots.
:-)
The press release was new, but Slashdot had something similar on New Year's Eve.
Ignore typing errors, I'm still drunk myself.:)
Thanks. Now that bit even makes sense to me. At least more than the rest of the article.
Sometimes while reading Slashdot I seem to forget that I live on the opposite side of Earth, ten thousand miles from Silicon Valley..
It's buggy too.
#ifdef (BABE_QUOTIENT < PAM_ALEXANDER)
Did the author mean PAM_ANDERSON?
>Can anybody translate these chipsets into actual product names?
If I'm not mistaken, just about any low-end PCI TV tuner card on the market except ATI ones.
I'm cut & pasteing from the bttv driver page:
miroVIDEO PCTV,
Matrix Vision MV-Delta,
Terratec TERRA TV+,
Lifeview Flyvideo II.
Hauppauge Win/TV pci
STB TV PCI,
Diamond DTV2000,
Videologic Captivator PCI,
AVerMedia TV-Phone,
Matrix Vision MV-Delta,
Osprey-100,
IDS Imaging FALCON
The serious video editing cards like the ones from FAST won't work (until the author gets one, I suppose).
Wait! There's more!
A new version (0.15.6) of bttvgrab is available, also today. This is a simple but nice frame grabbing program for BT848 cards.
I've been looking into using bttvgrab as a cheap replacement for a VCR, but haven't found the time yet. Has anyone done this?
Sunlight is not a requirement for life, the rich life surrounding underwater volcanoes proves that.
:)
If Europa has seas (of liquid water) and volcanic activity, I would bet my money that it has at least bacteria. But is it warm enough?
"Scientists say Europa's surface may be as warm as 0 degrees F.,"
"Located 5 times farther from the Sun than Earth, Europa is too cold, measured at -230 degrees Fahrenheit (-145 degrees Celsius), to support life as we know it."
So, in short, we don't have a clue.
>Now it's $5 a month for 128kb/s ISDN..
:)
PLUS the phone bill. A ~1Mbps (unlimited) cable modem for $40 a month becomes cheaper in heavy use.
I'm a finn too. It's not that great up here. The weather sucks.
That Cheryl chapter was there _twice_. I guess proofreading is out these days.
I didn't even bother to read it all.
>48000 kHz * 2 channels * 2 bytes/channel = 192kbps
Oh no, not again. Ignore the logical errors in previous post.
What I meant was 48kHz * 2 * 2 = 192 kilobytes/s.
But it's still slow in mp3 coding, since the input stream cannot be faster that real time.
But we can always program our own reverb algorithms. Already, the Turtle Beach Fiji/Pinnacle cards have a Motorola 56001, fully programmable under Linux. See Sound & MIDI Software For Linux for details.
I'm sceptical though towards seeing sound card DSPs used in general data processing. Isn't the data path too slow? It's only 48000 kHz * 2 channels * 2 bytes/channel = 192kbps. For example, mp3 encoders such as LAME are already a lot faster than this on fast PII/III's. And on the Athlon, doubly so.
In ncftp, mget * and then rpm -Fvh * was easy enough for me. The -F option upgrades all previously installed packages.
Knowing these and other magic spells is the hard part (for the general public, anyway).
It's not that he's religious per se, he just likes reading about himself.
I think this was in rec.humor.funny (or somewhere else):
Richard M. Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Donald E. Knuth engage in a discussion on whose impact on the computerized world was the greatest.
Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the world!"
Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the best operating system in the world!"
Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."
:-)