60 TIMES faster? As in 1.6% runtime? Wow, that's big enough to make me actually pay attention to ruby... up until now the one thing I keep hearing from everyone about it is that it's a nice language but ridiculously slow.
Point every single domain name on the planet to mediadefender's servers. Not only would it make every router within 8 hops burst into flames, the banks would be out for their blood too.
If it were me in that situation (ignoring the improbability of it all), I'd just delete _all_ of them then re-add the original through the desktop right-click properties thing. Sometimes having a pointlessly different interface for something is useful.
You don't need a super-duper CPU for text editing, that's for sure. Yeah, but if I had a CPU like that it could run the text editor and switch off the other 127 cores.
The only thing cyclical is Nintendo pushing the market/possibilities in new directions and everyone else following. You forgot Sega's 'cycles': "3D chip on the cartridge? Screw that, we'll make an addon with TWO of them!" "Console with a 32-bit CPU? Yeah well we've got ELEVEN processors!!1" "64 bit? We can do 128!" "Why have one expansion slot on the controller, we can have 2! Oh and our memory card doubles as a handheld console! Beat that!" etc.
This is the thing wrong with nVidia. They're so obsessed with having the fastest hardware tomorrow that they fail to notice people leaving them in droves today for better hardware (power consumption/drivers/open specs).
It's a bit strange they'd support CUDA on linux but not vista though.
Why not have the best of both worlds? Buy an XO laptop and sleep soundly at night knowing that your cash is being routed through a corrupt charity to pay for third-world kids to go through Microsoft Office indoctrination!
Or would you prefer to throw cash at Burma's military regime while the death toll rises? Whatever floats your boat I suppose.
As someone who waited six months to get an ADSL line that was dropping the connection every 5 mins fixed after heavy rain damaged the outside equipment, I can say the weather can degrade it.
I've got a P4 with a huge copper heatsink (salvaged from a motherboard someone threw in the trash because it had a celeron underneath it). I can yank the fan on it and the temperature tops out at about 55C under load. Too paranoid to leave the fan off though.
So they've pretty much screwed themselves on it ever being adopted in most business applications. Maybe, just maybe... they don't give a fuck about your business? More power to them for not pandering to idiots with their head up their arse.
I've actually bothered to read their package format specification, and from what I understand it's just Gentoo's ebuild format (i.e. a bash script with some variables and some functions) with the worst parts fixed. Certainly seems a lot more sane to me, you can just give it a file containing the url to a source tarball and its default action is to do the configure/make/install that 99% of gentoo ebuilds have to explicitly state. If you don't like it, just write ebuilds instead - their package manager handles them transparently.
If this ever goes anywhere I'll almost certainly be dumping gentoo. It's become a joke in the last 2 years or so and is becoming increasingly broken. You can't blame it on being a bleeding-edge source distro, because they're lagging months behind other distros in a lot of places. It's just plain stupidity and laziness. Most of the developers are too busy pretending to be politicians to do the right thing (hint: fuck off), which is making the ones who actually do anything useful leave instead.
Who wants a 7, 8, 9" screen to read from that's only ~720x480? Yeah, it'll work, but it'll be far from ideal. It's not ideal, but it works pretty damn well on the eee. This is what F11 is for.
Does anyone know what the big deal is? It's mostly hype. The Cell is the Power-architecture equivalent of a Pentium 4 Extreme. Big numbers on paper, but not much use outside of a pissing contest (or applications like a game console where you can drown out the sound of the required cooling system).
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60 TIMES faster? As in 1.6% runtime? Wow, that's big enough to make me actually pay attention to ruby... up until now the one thing I keep hearing from everyone about it is that it's a nice language but ridiculously slow.
You've got it the wrong way around.
Point every single domain name on the planet to mediadefender's servers. Not only would it make every router within 8 hops burst into flames, the banks would be out for their blood too.
If it were me in that situation (ignoring the improbability of it all), I'd just delete _all_ of them then re-add the original through the desktop right-click properties thing. Sometimes having a pointlessly different interface for something is useful.
Yes, I'm sure the other party's politicians would be far less corrupt. Right?
Hey now there's an idea... someone should liberate the USA just like the USA liberated Iraq! By killing them all!
How about magnetic fields.
"3D chip on the cartridge? Screw that, we'll make an addon with TWO of them!"
"Console with a 32-bit CPU? Yeah well we've got ELEVEN processors!!1"
"64 bit? We can do 128!"
"Why have one expansion slot on the controller, we can have 2! Oh and our memory card doubles as a handheld console! Beat that!"
etc.
This is the thing wrong with nVidia. They're so obsessed with having the fastest hardware tomorrow that they fail to notice people leaving them in droves today for better hardware (power consumption/drivers/open specs).
It's a bit strange they'd support CUDA on linux but not vista though.
Let the warez kiddies have their 1TB disks then, this thing would be a perfect upgrade for my eee701.
EULAs have been proven illegal, so the reselling thing was the only real case Apple had.
Why not have the best of both worlds? Buy an XO laptop and sleep soundly at night knowing that your cash is being routed through a corrupt charity to pay for third-world kids to go through Microsoft Office indoctrination!
Or would you prefer to throw cash at Burma's military regime while the death toll rises? Whatever floats your boat I suppose.
Haven't heard that one before. "You can smell the bacon"? *shrug*
As someone who waited six months to get an ADSL line that was dropping the connection every 5 mins fixed after heavy rain damaged the outside equipment, I can say the weather can degrade it.
I've got a P4 with a huge copper heatsink (salvaged from a motherboard someone threw in the trash because it had a celeron underneath it). I can yank the fan on it and the temperature tops out at about 55C under load. Too paranoid to leave the fan off though.
How is that any different than a normal motorbike?
This sounds way more practical than the OpenGraphics thing. $1500 on top of having to find a PCI-X board? No thanks.
I've actually bothered to read their package format specification, and from what I understand it's just Gentoo's ebuild format (i.e. a bash script with some variables and some functions) with the worst parts fixed. Certainly seems a lot more sane to me, you can just give it a file containing the url to a source tarball and its default action is to do the configure/make/install that 99% of gentoo ebuilds have to explicitly state. If you don't like it, just write ebuilds instead - their package manager handles them transparently.
If this ever goes anywhere I'll almost certainly be dumping gentoo. It's become a joke in the last 2 years or so and is becoming increasingly broken.
You can't blame it on being a bleeding-edge source distro, because they're lagging months behind other distros in a lot of places. It's just plain stupidity and laziness. Most of the developers are too busy pretending to be politicians to do the right thing (hint: fuck off), which is making the ones who actually do anything useful leave instead.
...with the G4 powerbook that melted its casing to fit your hand _while you used it_!
Oh no... I thought I was safe from this lunatic by staying on slashdot. :(
I couldn't care less about how my Qt4 apps looked, I'd just like some that work correctly first.