Sure it's friday, but come on, thats easy 3.0>1.2, so the choice must be Qt!
Same reasoning shows that Windows 2000 are MUCH better than Windows 98 which in turn is slightly (by 3 point) better than Windows 95, which again are MUCH better than windows 3.11.
Sigh. Does you youngsters not learn anything today?
Device is the keyword here, and the device (winmodem) has already been certified. The software driving the device doesn't need certification.
I don't think that this is correct. A winmodem is mearly a sound device/sound card with a telco interface. The telephone companies have to make sure that you won't wreck havoc on their networks. Thats also a driver issue:/
Regardless of the coolness factor of this bounty, the fact still remain: A GPLed softmodem driver still requires certification by the telephone companies before any device is legally connected to the telephone network using the driver.
My guesstimate are that it's much more difficult to obtain certifactions for the driver around the globe than it is to write the driver. The telephone companies are rather picky about what the allow onto their networks
In other news ...
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Gamecube Guts
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· Score: 3, Funny
... the world shortage of aluminum has finally been explained!
Seriously speaking, it's one big heatsink for a processor known for its low power usage! Gotta be for the flipper chip i guess.
Toms Hardware - Sentionalistic journalism!
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AMD And THG update
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Toms stated:
"In conclusion: as a result of our findings in the Hot Spot video AMD decided to consider finding a solution to protect its CPUs from overheating and the company wants to bring it to the market"
, but the fact is that the Athlon XP have had a thermal diode from the beginning (http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/whit e_papers_and_tech_docs/24309.pdf). The fact that most MB manufactures doesn't use the diode might tell something about the likelihood of the cpufan falling off!!
Since space radiation presents an extreme hazard to crews of interplanetary missions, the experiment will attempt to predict anticipated radiation doses that would be experienced by future astronauts and help determine possible effects of Martian radiation on human
You have to give NASA credit for thinking far ahead. I'm not that optimistic about space exploration. We need some major breaktroughs in order to get further away from the moon.
First theres the problem with the propulsion system: we're simply not fast enough in our spaceships. In order to get anywhere we need to approach the speed of light or even exceed it (or better yet, make the whole thing about space/time irrelevant, but that is sci-fi for the time being)
Second humans are really not meant to be put in space. We need to adapt, and we need to adapt in a serious way. Most of our body is made up of this little molecule H2O, and we need lots of it to survive. Water is not easy to get in space! Food is another problem. Another is that the human bonestructure degenerates in space (it wouldn't be smart spending billions on spaceexploration just to make astronauts land on mars realizing that they have become crippled in the meantime. We can minimize the effect of zero gravity but the problem remains.
I dream of space too (wonder if all people does in a way). Just can't see how we're going to get there. What bothers me the most are that I don't find much evidence either, of breakthrough technologies that will make humans able to explore space by them self in my lifetime. Pitty really, it's just not the same wathing a robot land somewhere doing the exploration for us! (well maybe for the guy controlling the robot:)
...is that you actually can go out and buy a new mainframe using Power4. Nothing wrong with looking ahead, but if you remember, AMD said that the Athlon should have been made in an "Athlon Ultra" version spotting 8MB L2 cache..... I still stick to the motto: "I'll belive it when I can buy it"
Do you realize just how MANY lines constitute a typical linux kernel?? When that's said, a couple of points:
The bug was found at last.
YOU can join the BUG hunting team today no questions asked.
Atleast you know that the bug was found and fixed. I wonder how many bugs exists in closed source OSes that aren't fixed because of money and/or time.
I find it to be proof of concept that the open source moment works as intended. Some day, somebody will look trough the code. Either as part of his/her job, or for pure pleasure/fun. Thats when bugs and/or performance enhancements are fixed/made.
You actually HAVE the oportunity to go bug hunting in the code before you install it on you production system --- obviously not many does review the code (because there aren't that many bugs?).
For me personally, I sleep well at night knowing that I run Opensource OS'es at home and at work. What about you? I for one do not trust that the money a commercial OS costs give me peace at mind with respect to security.
We have this giant planet (lets call it "earth"). We have this giant star providing "earth" with energy (lets call it "sun"). The "sun" is kind enough to deliver the energy it provides on the surface of "earth".
What am I missing here. I know that the atmosphere spreads out the energy from the sun, but is it really cost effective to put large solarpanels up into space (including cost to bring them there, maintaining them, avoid that they get hit by space debris, and so forth)??
Wouldn't it be cheaper to allocate some vast amount of surface on earth an doing collecting the energy there??
... have everybody besides me been born without 10 thumbs? Every time I take something apart, I end up with just that: Parts. This guy not only took a PSOne apart, he turned it into lego and built something new with it! What a wonderfull way of saying: "I've got the skills, money and time to something totally cool, but utterly cool". Me too, gime powers:)
Designed for the Earth's weather, the computer should be able to predict climate for the entire planet for thousands of years
Don't know about your country, but using one of the fastest computers here in denmark, the danish weather institute can't predict the weather 100% correctly even a week ahead. This new computer can't be THAT fast!
I mean, all the hard work is done by IBM in
this document.
A free Open PowerPC Platform implementation using
parts that companies like Asus, Abit, etc. are able to obtain in large quantities. What is holding them back?
RSA wanted to prove that neither 56 bit and 64 bit encryption isn't enough and that it is possible for a small crack senstive information protected by 56 or 64 bit encryption.
It will take som time to finish the 64-bit RC5 challenge, but it can be done.
Question is should it be finished? Not in my oppinion! Sure they will win $10.000, but that's about the only positive I can see in this. Used wast amount of power and computing time in doing so, only to give RSA reason to sell 128-bit RC5 and argue that it really is secure.
Wote with your CPU power and switch to something we all can benefit from. Larger primes and OGRs are candidates, but I'm sure there are others.
As you can see it runs via a framebuffer. Sure the Xserver plays all sorts of nice tricks to accelerate the process, but when it comes down to actually drawing anything it's the xserver drawing inside a dump framebuffer.
How uncool is that? Here you have a gaming machine with a pretty fast gfx chip and then it is used in framebuffer mode.
Theres only one company to blame: The one who made the gfx chip.
No specs = no hardware acceleration = no performance. Gotta love cirrus logic or SiS in that respect. They figured out that they would have less problems just releasing the specs on everything they have made, which actually makes sense if you think about it:)
Yes SIZE does matter, and when you take a look at how big mozilla is then ofcouse it matters.:)
On a serios note, yes it really does matter. Mozilla is aiming at being the most standards compliant browser out there. There's a reason for mozilla being large: It needs to implement a lot of standards.
One part of me wishes the best for the mozilla project bacause it will show us the web as originally envisioned: Same look of pages across any OS. Another part of me is filled with sceptism about the price (in terms of performance and/or memory usage) being paid for the standard compliance being too large.
In any case it'll be interesting to see what comes of it when the project is over. In any case it is worth the effort. Either we'll go: "it could be done but what a slow browser, lets go make something else", or we'll really appriciate what the mozilla team did.
"Unlike a typical PC microprocessor, the chip features eight execution units fed by a 6.4 gigabyte-per-second memory subsystem, allowing the POWER3 to outperform competitors' processors running at two to three times the clock speed"
Eight execution units! I recall that the x86 line have half of that. And 6.4Gb/s memory is not to be laughed at either!
After having downloaded the source and unpacked it, I noticed some things:
Only support for the highend 3780 Mwave chip, not for the older 2780 chip. As the 2780 was found in a lot of aptivas I suspect that there is a lot of 2780 but not that many 3780. Could be wrong though.
No documentation on the MWave chip itself. I know: The code provides!!... but actually no it doesn't. I can't enhance the driver to support my 2780 board. Can't tweak anything without going through the painfull compile-run-crash procedure:/
With no documentation on the Mwave chip we can't make our own litle.dsp files which does what we want it to do.
With no documentation... we can't easily fix the sound problems that people are having using the sound resources of the mwave boards.
Some problems can be overcome simply by the experimenting programmer (compile-run-crash type), but it will be a real pain. Why not open up for the documentation so that the MWave board can show it's potential: A bunch of resources (dsp, soundcard, telco interface, midi interface) tightly knit together with the dsp chip in control.
Call me fanatic:) I think it's great what IBM has done, but they could have done more on the matter:/
Slashdot Mirror
Think, man.
:)
Are you crazy? Tried that once (to think that is). Made me feel sick, so I never got the habbit
Seriously, thanks for the answer, made sense. Merry christmas.
Anybody know what/if the markting people had any ideas with the name?
Qt is 3.0
Gtk is 1.2.x
Sure it's friday, but come on, thats easy 3.0>1.2, so the choice must be Qt!
Same reasoning shows that Windows 2000 are MUCH better than Windows 98 which in turn is slightly (by 3 point) better than Windows 95, which again are MUCH better than windows 3.11.
Sigh. Does you youngsters not learn anything today?
Device is the keyword here, and the device (winmodem) has already been certified. The software driving the device doesn't need certification.
:/
I don't think that this is correct. A winmodem is mearly a sound device/sound card with a telco interface. The telephone companies have to make sure that you won't wreck havoc on their networks. Thats also a driver issue
I mean, sure you got a modem for $10, but that modem turned your $1000 computer into an old 386 for any tasks beside running the modem driver.
Its explictly required that the driver in question doesn't rely on DSP code which then translates the project into:
Bounty $20000 for developing an application that will bring your computer to a crawl.
Regardless of the coolness factor of this bounty, the fact still remain: A GPLed softmodem driver still requires certification by the telephone companies before any device is legally connected to the telephone network using the driver.
My guesstimate are that it's much more difficult to obtain certifactions for the driver around the globe than it is to write the driver. The telephone companies are rather picky about what the allow onto their networks
... the world shortage of aluminum has finally been explained!
Seriously speaking, it's one big heatsink for a processor known for its low power usage! Gotta be for the flipper chip i guess.
Toms stated:
t e_papers_and_tech_docs/24309.pdf). The fact that most MB manufactures doesn't use the diode might tell something about the likelihood of the cpufan falling off!!
"In conclusion: as a result of our findings in the Hot Spot video AMD decided to consider finding a solution to protect its CPUs from overheating and the company wants to bring it to the market"
, but the fact is that the Athlon XP have had a thermal diode from the beginning (http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/whi
I want to be a slashdot editor too (looks easy):
if(new_kernel_arrived) {
version=X.Y.ZZ
if(slow_week) {
version=X.Y.ZZ-preWW
}
print "Looks like Linux X.Y.ZZ is out. You can get it at the usual place (kernel.org) and the mirrors. Check out the Changelog."
if(CmdrTaco just upgraded to ZZ-1 ||
weekday=tuesday) {
print "This is lame."
} else {
print "Grab. Test. Enjoy"
}
}
Since space radiation presents an extreme hazard to crews of interplanetary missions, the experiment will attempt to predict anticipated radiation doses that would be experienced by future astronauts and help determine possible effects of Martian radiation on human
You have to give NASA credit for thinking far ahead. I'm not that optimistic about space exploration. We need some major breaktroughs in order to get further away from the moon.
First theres the problem with the propulsion system: we're simply not fast enough in our spaceships. In order to get anywhere we need to approach the speed of light or even exceed it (or better yet, make the whole thing about space/time irrelevant, but that is sci-fi for the time being)
Second humans are really not meant to be put in space. We need to adapt, and we need to adapt in a serious way. Most of our body is made up of this little molecule H2O, and we need lots of it to survive. Water is not easy to get in space! Food is another problem. Another is that the human bonestructure degenerates in space (it wouldn't be smart spending billions on spaceexploration just to make astronauts land on mars realizing that they have become crippled in the meantime. We can minimize the effect of zero gravity but the problem remains.
I dream of space too (wonder if all people does in a way). Just can't see how we're going to get there. What bothers me the most are that I don't find much evidence either, of breakthrough technologies that will make humans able to explore space by them self in my lifetime. Pitty really, it's just not the same wathing a robot land somewhere doing the exploration for us! (well maybe for the guy controlling the robot
...is that you actually can go out and buy a new mainframe using Power4. Nothing wrong with looking ahead, but if you remember, AMD said that the Athlon should have been made in an "Athlon Ultra" version spotting 8MB L2 cache. .... I still stick to the motto: "I'll belive it when I can buy it"
For me personally, I sleep well at night knowing that I run Opensource OS'es at home and at work. What about you? I for one do not trust that the money a commercial OS costs give me peace at mind with respect to security.
We have this giant planet (lets call it "earth"). We have this giant star providing "earth" with energy (lets call it "sun"). The "sun" is kind enough to deliver the energy it provides on the surface of "earth".
:)
What am I missing here. I know that the atmosphere spreads out the energy from the sun, but is it really cost effective to put large solarpanels up into space (including cost to bring them there, maintaining them, avoid that they get hit by space debris, and so forth)??
Wouldn't it be cheaper to allocate some vast amount of surface on earth an doing collecting the energy there??
Please enlighten me
It doesn't matter what you and I think. It's linus' toy, and he sets the rules for others to be able to play with his toy. Sounds fair to me!
Should ofcourse have read "utterly useless" :/
Well, now I know why there's a preview button.
... have everybody besides me been born without 10 thumbs? Every time I take something apart, I end up with just that: Parts. This guy not only took a PSOne apart, he turned it into lego and built something new with it! What a wonderfull way of saying: "I've got the skills, money and time to something totally cool, but utterly cool". Me too, gime powers :)
... or doesn't it count when you kill yourself in the process?
Don't know about your country, but using one of the fastest computers here in denmark, the danish weather institute can't predict the weather 100% correctly even a week ahead. This new computer can't be THAT fast!
I mean, all the hard work is done by IBM in
this document.
A free Open PowerPC Platform implementation using
parts that companies like Asus, Abit, etc. are able to obtain in large quantities. What is holding them back?
... could we please get back to work and use all
that power on something meaningfull, such as finding mersenne primes or Optimal Golomb Rulers.
RSA wanted to prove that neither 56 bit and 64 bit encryption isn't enough and that it is possible for a small crack senstive information protected by 56 or 64 bit encryption.
It will take som time to finish the 64-bit RC5 challenge, but it can be done.
Question is should it be finished? Not in my oppinion! Sure they will win $10.000, but that's about the only positive I can see in this. Used wast amount of power and computing time in doing so, only to give RSA reason to sell 128-bit RC5 and argue that it really is secure.
Wote with your CPU power and switch to something we all can benefit from. Larger primes and OGRs are candidates, but I'm sure there are others.
Any pointers to any docs?
As you can see it runs via a framebuffer. Sure the Xserver plays all sorts of nice tricks to accelerate the process, but when it comes down to actually drawing anything it's the xserver drawing inside a dump framebuffer.
:)
How uncool is that? Here you have a gaming machine with a pretty fast gfx chip and then it is used in framebuffer mode.
Theres only one company to blame: The one who made the gfx chip.
No specs = no hardware acceleration = no performance. Gotta love cirrus logic or SiS in that respect. They figured out that they would have less problems just releasing the specs on everything they have made, which actually makes sense if you think about it
Does it matter?
:)
Yes SIZE does matter, and when you take a look at how big mozilla is then ofcouse it matters.
On a serios note, yes it really does matter. Mozilla is aiming at being the most standards compliant browser out there. There's a reason for mozilla being large: It needs to implement a lot of standards.
One part of me wishes the best for the mozilla project bacause it will show us the web as originally envisioned: Same look of pages across any OS. Another part of me is filled with sceptism about the price (in terms of performance and/or memory usage) being paid for the standard compliance being too large.
In any case it'll be interesting to see what comes of it when the project is over. In any case it is worth the effort. Either we'll go: "it could be done but what a slow browser, lets go make something else", or we'll really appriciate what the mozilla team did.
As in almost any area where theres money to be earned Big Blue is in there with some really cool hardware.
1 998/Oct/power3.html:
Taken from:
http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/resource/pressreleases/
"Unlike a typical PC microprocessor, the chip features eight execution units fed by a 6.4 gigabyte-per-second memory subsystem, allowing the POWER3 to outperform competitors' processors running at two to three times the clock speed"
Eight execution units! I recall that the x86 line have half of that. And 6.4Gb/s memory is not to be laughed at either!
Some problems can be overcome simply by the experimenting programmer (compile-run-crash type), but it will be a real pain. Why not open up for the documentation so that the MWave board can show it's potential: A bunch of resources (dsp, soundcard, telco interface, midi interface) tightly knit together with the dsp chip in control.
Call me fanatic