Well, a Pentax would be ideal then, since (with a few exceptions) all Pentax-compatible lenses and cameras made since the mid-seventies are interoperable, with each combination allowing the use of all features common to both cameras.
...or just don't run rsync as a server. There's no need to for most uses anyway - just install the client at both ends and connect with the "-e ssh" flag and you're laughing.
The big question is security. Magnetic induction technology is in widespread use already - post-office counters, public address systems and ticket booths are often fitted with inductive loops for the benefit of hearing-aid users, who can pick up the sound from them directly by switching their aids to a special setting.
The article doesn't say, but one hopes that the manufacturers have built some reasonably sophisticated security into their system - if not, then eavesdropping devices for them are already in widespread use.:-)
Snow is generally softer than the front of an oncoming bus, and the probability of being sideswiped by two tons of barely-controlled 4x4 is considerably lower on the piste than it is on busy roads during rush-hour.
I remember the first time I installed Windows 2000; I got infected with Code Red while I was still downloading the patches that would block it. So there are advantages to using the disk-imaging method of installation too. (Not enabling IIS and installing patches from a CD before plugging the network in were two other good lessons learned from that escapade...)
As well as the BBC, the UK has no shortage of advertising-funded TV stations that seem to have survived the last 10-30 years quite nicely, despite strongly-enforced advertising standards...
Um, that's because there's an international agreement not to. Not that the US seems particularly inclined to abide by international agreements these days, but this one seems to be holding.
You can take beautiful photos with pinhole cameras, disposable cameras, toy cameras, digital SLRs or ten-thousand-dollar Hasselblads. The thing that an expensive camera gives you is greater control, not better pictures. The most important aspect of taking good photos is composition, and that can be learned with any camera.
I'm also more than a little doubtful that this wonder-processor is going to hit anything like 25Gflops when separated from its memory by the PCI bus, let alone when sharing that bus with five of its kind (as suggested in the article).
Let's see - a 64-bit 66Mhz PCI bus (the maximum the PCI standard allows and, well, not exactly common on PC motherboards, shall we say?) will supply a maximum of 133megawords per second. So a 25Gflop processor will receive one word of data from the system memory every four *hundred* clock cycles. And that's assuming the data is suitable for transferring in burst mode. Once the processor starts requesting words from non-contiguous parts of the memory that figure plummets still further, thanks to the latency caused by passing all your memory access requests through the motherboard chipset.
Other PCI devices will also reduce the performance; notably other coprocessor boards will divide it equally between them, cancelling out any advantage of having more than one. Maybe you can pull something back with cacheing, but only in rare circumstances are you going to see anything approaching *one tenth* of a gigaflop, let alone 25.
Maybe in a very very few specialised applications there might be some point to this plan. (You could probably write a prime factoring algorithm and run it from a small amount of on-card cache memory, for example.)
Read the article. Many of the finite universe theories can be eliminated by studying the cosmic microwave background. If you can't understand why, get a PhD in cosmology before posting!;-)
In other news, Elbonian hacker group "l33tgr0up" announced the imminent release of their previously unnanounced "ground-breaking" new FPS game, "h4lfl1f3 II".
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Well, a Pentax would be ideal then, since (with a few exceptions) all Pentax-compatible lenses and cameras made since the mid-seventies are interoperable, with each combination allowing the use of all features common to both cameras.
...or just don't run rsync as a server. There's no need to for most uses anyway - just install the client at both ends and connect with the "-e ssh" flag and you're laughing.
The big question is security. Magnetic induction technology is in widespread use already - post-office counters, public address systems and ticket booths are often fitted with inductive loops for the benefit of hearing-aid users, who can pick up the sound from them directly by switching their aids to a special setting.
:-)
The article doesn't say, but one hopes that the manufacturers have built some reasonably sophisticated security into their system - if not, then eavesdropping devices for them are already in widespread use.
Presumably if I pointed out that many Europeans would find your post offensively racist you'd tell me to get a sense of humour?
Old England too, where we also join you in making the useful differentiation between arses and asses. :-)
Snow is generally softer than the front of an oncoming bus, and the probability of being sideswiped by two tons of barely-controlled 4x4 is considerably lower on the piste than it is on busy roads during rush-hour.
In what country was this?
I remember the first time I installed Windows 2000; I got infected with Code Red while I was still downloading the patches that would block it. So there are advantages to using the disk-imaging method of installation too. (Not enabling IIS and installing patches from a CD before plugging the network in were two other good lessons learned from that escapade...)
As well as the BBC, the UK has no shortage of advertising-funded TV stations that seem to have survived the last 10-30 years quite nicely, despite strongly-enforced advertising standards...
Um, that's because there's an international agreement not to. Not that the US seems particularly inclined to abide by international agreements these days, but this one seems to be holding.
Oddly enough, you weren't invited to come and live in Europe at a point in history of your choosing.
You can take beautiful photos with pinhole cameras, disposable cameras, toy cameras, digital SLRs or ten-thousand-dollar Hasselblads. The thing that an expensive camera gives you is greater control, not better pictures. The most important aspect of taking good photos is composition, and that can be learned with any camera.
Here's an example: a friend of mine cleaning windows, reflected in a shaving mirror. It's a photo I like a lot, despite having been taken with my L'Espion Xtra - one of those keyring-size 0.3 megapixel digital cameras you can get now.
Yes... I can see those famous "red arches" now... ;-)
No.
Have you looked for Beatles tracks on iTunes lately? :-)
I've had excellent GSM coverage in O'Hare - I didn't even realise I had a tri-band phone until I turned it on and it worked :-)
I'm also more than a little doubtful that this wonder-processor is going to hit anything like 25Gflops when separated from its memory by the PCI bus, let alone when sharing that bus with five of its kind (as suggested in the article).
Let's see - a 64-bit 66Mhz PCI bus (the maximum the PCI standard allows and, well, not exactly common on PC motherboards, shall we say?) will supply a maximum of 133megawords per second. So a 25Gflop processor will receive one word of data from the system memory every four *hundred* clock cycles. And that's assuming the data is suitable for transferring in burst mode. Once the processor starts requesting words from non-contiguous parts of the memory that figure plummets still further, thanks to the latency caused by passing all your memory access requests through the motherboard chipset.
Other PCI devices will also reduce the performance; notably other coprocessor boards will divide it equally between them, cancelling out any advantage of having more than one. Maybe you can pull something back with cacheing, but only in rare circumstances are you going to see anything approaching *one tenth* of a gigaflop, let alone 25.
Maybe in a very very few specialised applications there might be some point to this plan. (You could probably write a prime factoring algorithm and run it from a small amount of on-card cache memory, for example.)
That would be hotplug cpu support for motherboards that feature hotplug cpu support. Consumer boards generally don't.
Darn - just when I'd finished metamorphosing into a speaker bracelet, too.
Read the article. Many of the finite universe theories can be eliminated by studying the cosmic microwave background. If you can't understand why, get a PhD in cosmology before posting! ;-)
In other news, Elbonian hacker group "l33tgr0up" announced the imminent release of their previously unnanounced "ground-breaking" new FPS game, "h4lfl1f3 II".
Fingers would be useful too...
http://www.heulwen.freeserve.co.uk/pstation.htm
Nuclear power stations are built from concrete too, y'know.
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