The nForce has a GeForce 2 MX equivalent, and I imagine that comparing the speed of the nForce to a KT266A with GeForce 2 MX would prove insightful, too
Altough the integrated GeForce2 runs at 6x, all you could expect to see is some system performance degradation, not improvement, when you use the integrated graphics. The external graphics card has its own memory and the memory controller, while in the case of the integrated GPU, the CPU has to share the MC and the system ram with the graphics core.. This can make a significant impact on the memory latency and bandwidth, as far as the CPU is concerned.
Actually, with NV25, they are abandoning the 6-month cycle. NV25 will come out a year after GeForce3, while Ti500 was just an overclocked revision of the same chip (that used to be the "Ultra" version that would come out 3 months after a new chip release).
Many, many years, and then a few more. All the current design tools and methodologies would have to be reworked, recoded, and redeveloped. The verification tools for both designs and the actual silicon would have to be thrown out the window.
Not many companies can afford to even try to do this. And, while it's still possible to increase the speed of the current sync designs through better design/better production technology, it's not worth the money to try it.
Once we hit the limit, it'll probably be a different story.
This is just a poster that glows -- it's a static picture that glows using a low amount of electricity. Unless you're running Windows, and all you need to display is the same bsod, you'll need a more "dynamic" display:).
As the subject says, try working on hardware.. It's a much more rewarding field -- ASIC design companies have to come up with new top-of-the-line designs every 6-12 months. You spend a lot more time coming up with new and improved ways of doing things, you do more rigourous testing and verification to make sure the chip works (you can't send a patch later, after all!), and when you finally finish off a design, you can hold it in your hand and say -- "I made this".
I always thought I was going to be a programmer... One day I got sick of it, siwtched to ASIC design, and I'm loving it.
There's nothing elegant about a heavy-lift vehicle. Russians have a cargo-carrying spacecraft that works pretty well, but it's still using tons of fuel to lift itself up, and most of the weigh is indeed fuel.
An elegant solution would be to use some kind of sling to launch things into orbig, for example. I.e. something where the propulsion doesn't have to travel with you into space.
Nope, the original quote says "once you're in low orbit, you're halway to anywhere", and it refers to the fact that most of the energy used up in a trip is used to break out of Earth's gravity and get into the low orbit.
The moon is just as far, from a resource and expenses standpoint, as Mars is.
Sure, the fuel consumption is about the same. The distance, time and kilometer wise, is very different. First, it takes a long time to get there, and you have to worry about the effects on radiation, boredom, etc. on passengers. Communication is much tougher, because of the long delays it takes for a signal to get to Earth and back. You also need a lot more fuel on the return trip because Mars' gravity is much larger and Moon's.
There's nothing on the moon worth the effort. Mars has *lots* to offer. We should go there first...
The Onion has already come up with that idea, in their article "NASA and NASCAR merge". Unforunately, I can't find it in their archives:(.. I can remember a very funny photo of a space shuttle, covered with NASCAR-style ads, racing along with other cars.
If anyone has the link/cached version, I'd love to see it again.
Actually, the worry about the PS2 machines was that their imaging capabilities are strong enough to be used in the missile guidance systems. I think he never actually attempted to get any of them, but US blocked shipments to Iraq just in case.
Should I worry that practically anyone can now build a supercomputer?
Unless "practically anyone" has the funds, the storage room, and the manpower to maintain this monstrosity, there is nothing to worry about.
And even if anyone could build a supercomputer, what's there to worry about? We don't live in the "War Games" world where supercomputers play chess, tic-tac-toe, and start nuclear wars for fun.
Well, this particular document was released by the Department of Justice, and they seem to like writing things in all capitals. Names of companies, individuals, programming languages, FBI special ops teams:) (CART!).. Must be some kind of a lawtype:).
Sure, if the code was licensed under the GPL, he's not guilty of anything.
I'm guessing that when you break into someone's machine and copy software from it -- even if it's GPLed, you'd still be violating the "don't break into computers" law:).
You can find 256MB of PC133 SDRAM for under $20. Sure, DDR is fairly cheap, but it's still a significant % more than SDR RAM.
Reality is that there are no P4 chipsets out there, period (from non-Intel companies). They are all in the works, they will come out next year, and they will all support DDR. It's not a conspiracy, it just takes a while to develop new chipsets for new CPUs.
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It doesn't make it more of a technical success just because it's the best of the free, platform-indepent browsers. If Mozilla can't compete with non-free browsers, it's not a technical success.
Linux can claim/argue to be the best OS, free or not, so that's why it can be called a success.
Intel has given the license to other companies to make DDR chipsets, and they will all be coming out next year, along with Intel's version.
So, yes, you *will* have a choice. And just about at the right time, when DDR memory will cost the same as SDR.
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Apparently, the article was originally written just after the Vietnam war. There was no Airbus, then, and the trip to the moon was still fresh in people's memories.
I guess the lesson is that all future US flights should have police/military personnel on board, so that there's somebody equipped to fight people with knives and cardboard cutters.
I've heard all the Israeli passenger flights have a soldier on board. Can anyone confirm/deny that?
There was a special on TLC a couple of days ago, on human faces, and one of the things they talked about is a similar system they use in England to monitor people on the street.. And the system seemed to be worky very well, or at least the demo they fixed for TV was:).
They'd take a photo of John Cleese, and then make him walk in front of the street cameras with wigs, hats, fake mustache, etc. and the software would always spot him. The only time it didn't work is when he was wearing these really large dark sunglasses, and a hat pulled down to his eyes. We could, though, still easily see that it is John Cleese under the glasses/hat.
So, one conclusion was that humans recognize faces in an entirely different way from the facial recognition programs -- so your friends might think that someone looks like you, while the computer could be able to easily distinguish between the two of you. Say one of you has distance between the eyes 1mm larger than the other -- you'd never notice that, but a computer would spot it easily. On the other hand, you could grow mustache and confuse humans, but a computer wouldn't care.
>>We do not buy cars based entirely on how many RPMs they are capable of.
No, but horsepowers do influence our decision. Much less, though, because the cars are not named 'Integra 180hp' and 'M3 340hp', while the CPUs *are* named 'Athlon 1.4GHz', 'P4 1.6GHz'.
So, it's a good marketing decision, to make up model names/numbers for different CPUs. As for hiding the actual clock frequency -- for the people who care to find out, it can't possibly be a big problem to figure it out.
When they review security camera tapes at the end of every day/week, they will spot a few shoplifters. They have no idea who they are, though, until they come into the store again, and the face recognition software spots them.
Very straightforward, assuming the software works in a very high percentage of cases.
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It's a poor society we live in when correct spelling and grammar is expected only in "scholarly publications".
The nForce has a GeForce 2 MX equivalent, and I imagine that comparing the speed of the nForce to a KT266A with GeForce 2 MX would prove insightful, too
Altough the integrated GeForce2 runs at 6x, all you could expect to see is some system performance degradation, not improvement, when you use the integrated graphics. The external graphics card has its own memory and the memory controller, while in the case of the integrated GPU, the CPU has to share the MC and the system ram with the graphics core.. This can make a significant impact on the memory latency and bandwidth, as far as the CPU is concerned.
Yeah, that's a splendid idea, taking a year off in the industry where processor size/power doubles every year.
That's ok, who needs performance when they'll have a low-power solution, right? Too bad Transmeta already showed that that approach doesn't work.
Actually, with NV25, they are abandoning the 6-month cycle. NV25 will come out a year after GeForce3, while Ti500 was just an overclocked revision of the same chip (that used to be the "Ultra" version that would come out 3 months after a new chip release).
Many, many years, and then a few more. All the current design tools and methodologies would have to be reworked, recoded, and redeveloped. The verification tools for both designs and the actual silicon would have to be thrown out the window.
Not many companies can afford to even try to do this. And, while it's still possible to increase the speed of the current sync designs through better design/better production technology, it's not worth the money to try it.
Once we hit the limit, it'll probably be a different story.
This is just a poster that glows -- it's a static picture that glows using a low amount of electricity. Unless you're running Windows, and all you need to display is the same bsod, you'll need a more "dynamic" display :).
As the subject says, try working on hardware.. It's a much more rewarding field -- ASIC design companies have to come up with new top-of-the-line designs every 6-12 months. You spend a lot more time coming up with new and improved ways of doing things, you do more rigourous testing and verification to make sure the chip works (you can't send a patch later, after all!), and when you finally finish off a design, you can hold it in your hand and say -- "I made this".
I always thought I was going to be a programmer... One day I got sick of it, siwtched to ASIC design, and I'm loving it.
Ok, but that doesn't work with the time-shifting programs -- i.e. programs that are not always at the same time.
As far as I understand TiVo service, you can tell to tape "Family Guy", and it'll tape it whenever it is. Right?
There's nothing elegant about a heavy-lift vehicle. Russians have a cargo-carrying spacecraft that works pretty well, but it's still using tons of fuel to lift itself up, and most of the weigh is indeed fuel.
An elegant solution would be to use some kind of sling to launch things into orbig, for example. I.e. something where the propulsion doesn't have to travel with you into space.
Nope, the original quote says "once you're in low orbit, you're halway to anywhere", and it refers to the fact that most of the energy used up in a trip is used to break out of Earth's gravity and get into the low orbit.
The moon is just as far, from a resource and expenses standpoint, as Mars is.
Sure, the fuel consumption is about the same. The distance, time and kilometer wise, is very different. First, it takes a long time to get there, and you have to worry about the effects on radiation, boredom, etc. on passengers. Communication is much tougher, because of the long delays it takes for a signal to get to Earth and back. You also need a lot more fuel on the return trip because Mars' gravity is much larger and Moon's.
There's nothing on the moon worth the effort. Mars has *lots* to offer. We should go there first...
What does it have to offer?
The Onion has already come up with that idea, in their article "NASA and NASCAR merge". Unforunately, I can't find it in their archives :(.. I can remember a very funny photo of a space shuttle, covered with NASCAR-style ads, racing along with other cars.
If anyone has the link/cached version, I'd love to see it again.
That's really good, have you thought of that yourself?
Actually, the worry about the PS2 machines was that their imaging capabilities are strong enough to be used in the missile guidance systems. I think he never actually attempted to get any of them, but US blocked shipments to Iraq just in case.
Should I worry that practically anyone can now build a supercomputer?
Unless "practically anyone" has the funds, the storage room, and the manpower to maintain this monstrosity, there is nothing to worry about.
And even if anyone could build a supercomputer, what's there to worry about? We don't live in the "War Games" world where supercomputers play chess, tic-tac-toe, and start nuclear wars for fun.
Well, this particular document was released by the Department of Justice, and they seem to like writing things in all capitals. Names of companies, individuals, programming languages, FBI special ops teams :) (CART!).. Must be some kind of a lawtype :).
Sure, if the code was licensed under the GPL, he's not guilty of anything.
:).
I'm guessing that when you break into someone's machine and copy software from it -- even if it's GPLed, you'd still be violating the "don't break into computers" law
You can find 256MB of PC133 SDRAM for under $20. Sure, DDR is fairly cheap, but it's still a significant % more than SDR RAM.
Reality is that there are no P4 chipsets out there, period (from non-Intel companies). They are all in the works, they will come out next year, and they will all support DDR. It's not a conspiracy, it just takes a while to develop new chipsets for new CPUs.
It doesn't make it more of a technical success just because it's the best of the free, platform-indepent browsers. If Mozilla can't compete with non-free browsers, it's not a technical success.
Linux can claim/argue to be the best OS, free or not, so that's why it can be called a success.
Intel has given the license to other companies to make DDR chipsets, and they will all be coming out next year, along with Intel's version.
So, yes, you *will* have a choice. And just about at the right time, when DDR memory will cost the same as SDR.
Apparently, the article was originally written just after the Vietnam war. There was no Airbus, then, and the trip to the moon was still fresh in people's memories.
I guess the lesson is that all future US flights should have police/military personnel on board, so that there's somebody equipped to fight people with knives and cardboard cutters.
I've heard all the Israeli passenger flights have a soldier on board. Can anyone confirm/deny that?
There was a special on TLC a couple of days ago, on human faces, and one of the things they talked about is a similar system they use in England to monitor people on the street.. And the system seemed to be worky very well, or at least the demo they fixed for TV was :).
They'd take a photo of John Cleese, and then make him walk in front of the street cameras with wigs, hats, fake mustache, etc. and the software would always spot him. The only time it didn't work is when he was wearing these really large dark sunglasses, and a hat pulled down to his eyes. We could, though, still easily see that it is John Cleese under the glasses/hat.
So, one conclusion was that humans recognize faces in an entirely different way from the facial recognition programs -- so your friends might think that someone looks like you, while the computer could be able to easily distinguish between the two of you. Say one of you has distance between the eyes 1mm larger than the other -- you'd never notice that, but a computer would spot it easily. On the other hand, you could grow mustache and confuse humans, but a computer wouldn't care.
>>We do not buy cars based entirely on how many RPMs they are capable of.
No, but horsepowers do influence our decision. Much less, though, because the cars are not named 'Integra 180hp' and 'M3 340hp', while the CPUs *are* named 'Athlon 1.4GHz', 'P4 1.6GHz'.
So, it's a good marketing decision, to make up model names/numbers for different CPUs. As for hiding the actual clock frequency -- for the people who care to find out, it can't possibly be a big problem to figure it out.
When they review security camera tapes at the end of every day/week, they will spot a few shoplifters. They have no idea who they are, though, until they come into the store again, and the face recognition software spots them.
Very straightforward, assuming the software works in a very high percentage of cases.