No way to do that for modern processors, but I've been interested in doing a retro-type computer myself. You could look into a Z80, a simple RISC, or an early Apple. Though you could probably find a 8088 if you look hard enough.
A bittorrent release of RARs strikes me as redundant, as BT does its own hashing. Don't tell me it's for compression, as there'd be little compression benefit for something like video. I'm imagining people downloading a release off usenet and making a torrent out of it right away.
This was on Talk of the Nation today (link goes right to the story; RM or WM, sorry). They had a TSA guy on, who alleged that the results are fuzzier than the stories make them out to be, and that they've developed algorithms to only show the concealed weaponry and such.
My friend had Coke spilled into his laptop keyboard. We took it apart (the keys are a pain) and washed it. Some Coke had seeped between the membranes, shorting some keys to others and disabling a few more. My friend's angst was amusing, as he'd hit a letter and send his computer into standby.
We soaked it in warm water and dried it, and somehow it works fine now. I wonder what the tracks and contacts on keyboard membranes are made out of.
You most definitely call p-n junctions in transistors diodes, if only (in the case of SCRs and triacs) to describe their structure. To calculate depletion effects in a MOSFET, it's essential to think of the junctions as diodes.
The Schottky diode is a metal-semiconductor junction, so it's somewhat similar (we treat polysilicon as a metal at times), though it works in a different way.
I think the parent took offense at how the grandparent seems to have never heard of the p-n junction, the foundation of modern electronics, even calling it a "special pair of layers." To be frank, it sounds juvenile. I mean, this is Slashdot. But then again, it's Slashdot.
They make their demo publicly available on the test notes page, but the link seems to be down right now. I'd recommend you try it out yourself when it works again.
You could get two dual-cores and stick them in a 2-socket motherboard instead. That's definitely less than 4K since you can get a blade for 3K. Even if it's "not a gaming machine," all-around performance would be impressive if paired with a proper video card. Though, as games tend to be single-threaded, multi-core wouldn't help much in that case.
I have no idea how a thread on MP3s spawned this, but...
You're taking things out of context. Luke 19:27 is the Parable of the Pounds, similar to the Parable of the Talents. The statement you've bolded is what the King in the parable says. Jesus is just telling the story. If I say "and Bob said 'kill him'" is it me who is giving that command?
Matthew 10:24 is "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." Needless to say, this has different interpretations, and is frequently used as a criticism of Jesus. Note that Jesus says "a sword" and not "the sword." The context of the passage is Jesus telling his disciples that their preaching might turn others against them. The argument is that the sword represents division between believers and nonbelievers; I don't know if I buy it.
Luke 22:36 is a infamous badly translated passage. "Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." Jesus is trying to make a metaphor for the preparation necessary when going out to preach. When in 22:38 his literal-minded disciples say "Lord, behold, here are two swords," he rebukes them by saying "Enough!"
I must stress the importance of considering the whole passage when looking at Bible verses. I'm no Bible-thumper. I'm quite anti-establishment, really. But since/. is so anti-religion, I know my karma will be going down in flames.
You can always hack one in yourself. Open it up and look for audio paths to solder onto.
Granted, this is probably easier to do on an older car stereo. New ones are likely to be integrated up the wazoo.
You're right though, it would be easier and more economical for stereo manufacturers to add line in jacks, rather than iPod docks like some luxury cars already have.
Perhaps I should make it clear that I have access to i2hub. Whenever I popped in (before this happened), there were a hundred UCLA people compared to maybe 20 UCB people. And from inspection, UCB people shared no more and no less than the average. They are certainly able to target schools, as usernames must contain a tag with the school name (e.g. [ucb]).
"Targeting" Berkeley was probably too sensational of a term for me to use. I should have said the RIAA named Berkeley in its press release so people would recognize it and think, "those gosh darned tech-savvy copyright-infringing students."
It's curious as to why Berkeley and San Diego were targeted. Berkeley has a transfer limit of 5GB weekly, so people don't hang around on i2hub that much. There's far more people from UCLA on i2hub, since they have no limitations on bandwidth. Lots of UCSD too.
Berkeley was definitely targeted for name recognition.
The problem with the Ethernet is that it's an advertised feature that doesn't work. Sure, it's relatively minor, but you want the product you buy to work as advertised.
Yeah, I was thinking along the same lines. But it's not likely to affect any digital paths, only analog. The amplifiers in most audio equipment are based around op-amps or transistors. If the rail voltages are increased, clipping and non-linearity are less likely to be present. So it does make sense theoretically, but yeah, the difference created by 0.4V (2 AAs) would be noticed by only the most sensitive ears.
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No way to do that for modern processors, but I've been interested in doing a retro-type computer myself. You could look into a Z80, a simple RISC, or an early Apple. Though you could probably find a 8088 if you look hard enough.
A bittorrent release of RARs strikes me as redundant, as BT does its own hashing. Don't tell me it's for compression, as there'd be little compression benefit for something like video. I'm imagining people downloading a release off usenet and making a torrent out of it right away.
This was on Talk of the Nation today (link goes right to the story; RM or WM, sorry). They had a TSA guy on, who alleged that the results are fuzzier than the stories make them out to be, and that they've developed algorithms to only show the concealed weaponry and such.
Don't you mean:
Technology Paradise REGAINED
?
Argh, insert a "had" between "we" and "nothing". This lack of sleep thing will be my downfall.
More like $20 =). We did it because we nothing else to do.
My friend had Coke spilled into his laptop keyboard. We took it apart (the keys are a pain) and washed it. Some Coke had seeped between the membranes, shorting some keys to others and disabling a few more. My friend's angst was amusing, as he'd hit a letter and send his computer into standby.
We soaked it in warm water and dried it, and somehow it works fine now. I wonder what the tracks and contacts on keyboard membranes are made out of.
You most definitely call p-n junctions in transistors diodes, if only (in the case of SCRs and triacs) to describe their structure. To calculate depletion effects in a MOSFET, it's essential to think of the junctions as diodes.
The Schottky diode is a metal-semiconductor junction, so it's somewhat similar (we treat polysilicon as a metal at times), though it works in a different way.
I think the parent took offense at how the grandparent seems to have never heard of the p-n junction, the foundation of modern electronics, even calling it a "special pair of layers." To be frank, it sounds juvenile. I mean, this is Slashdot. But then again, it's Slashdot.
They make their demo publicly available on the test notes page, but the link seems to be down right now. I'd recommend you try it out yourself when it works again.
I believe it's also been shown that there are real differences in applications between platforms, especially the standard, Photoshop.
But I agree it would be interesting.
What you're saying about it being "prestige" is right on target. Even our (I live in the SF Bay Area) local paper isn't too enthusiastic.
Here's the definitive far-too-into-fictional-physics webpage. It's long, but an interesting read.
here
I've found that puns are quite common in newspaper article titles, actually. A recent headline was "BART fares poorly in cost comparison."
do audio processing too
Perhaps an open audio card project would be greeted with less scepticism.
The only thing I've heard is that they bought a VIP account. Simple enough.
The changes in these maximum sizes are a consequence of the move from 32 to 64. The more bits you have, the more bits of memory you can address.
It's just marketing for now.
You could get two dual-cores and stick them in a 2-socket motherboard instead. That's definitely less than 4K since you can get a blade for 3K. Even if it's "not a gaming machine," all-around performance would be impressive if paired with a proper video card. Though, as games tend to be single-threaded, multi-core wouldn't help much in that case.
I have no idea how a thread on MP3s spawned this, but...
/. is so anti-religion, I know my karma will be going down in flames.
You're taking things out of context. Luke 19:27 is the Parable of the Pounds, similar to the Parable of the Talents. The statement you've bolded is what the King in the parable says. Jesus is just telling the story. If I say "and Bob said 'kill him'" is it me who is giving that command?
Matthew 10:24 is "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." Needless to say, this has different interpretations, and is frequently used as a criticism of Jesus. Note that Jesus says "a sword" and not "the sword." The context of the passage is Jesus telling his disciples that their preaching might turn others against them. The argument is that the sword represents division between believers and nonbelievers; I don't know if I buy it.
Luke 22:36 is a infamous badly translated passage. "Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." Jesus is trying to make a metaphor for the preparation necessary when going out to preach. When in 22:38 his literal-minded disciples say "Lord, behold, here are two swords," he rebukes them by saying "Enough!"
I must stress the importance of considering the whole passage when looking at Bible verses. I'm no Bible-thumper. I'm quite anti-establishment, really. But since
You can always hack one in yourself. Open it up and look for audio paths to solder onto.
Granted, this is probably easier to do on an older car stereo. New ones are likely to be integrated up the wazoo.
You're right though, it would be easier and more economical for stereo manufacturers to add line in jacks, rather than iPod docks like some luxury cars already have.
Perhaps I should make it clear that I have access to i2hub. Whenever I popped in (before this happened), there were a hundred UCLA people compared to maybe 20 UCB people. And from inspection, UCB people shared no more and no less than the average. They are certainly able to target schools, as usernames must contain a tag with the school name (e.g. [ucb]).
"Targeting" Berkeley was probably too sensational of a term for me to use. I should have said the RIAA named Berkeley in its press release so people would recognize it and think, "those gosh darned tech-savvy copyright-infringing students."
It's curious as to why Berkeley and San Diego were targeted. Berkeley has a transfer limit of 5GB weekly, so people don't hang around on i2hub that much. There's far more people from UCLA on i2hub, since they have no limitations on bandwidth. Lots of UCSD too.
Berkeley was definitely targeted for name recognition.
Ironically, people usually accuse the Tech Report of having a pro-AMD bias.
The problem with the Ethernet is that it's an advertised feature that doesn't work. Sure, it's relatively minor, but you want the product you buy to work as advertised.
Ironically, the Tech Report is usually characterized as pro-AMD.
Yeah, I was thinking along the same lines. But it's not likely to affect any digital paths, only analog. The amplifiers in most audio equipment are based around op-amps or transistors. If the rail voltages are increased, clipping and non-linearity are less likely to be present. So it does make sense theoretically, but yeah, the difference created by 0.4V (2 AAs) would be noticed by only the most sensitive ears.