While PCI-X stands for PCI-eXtended, which is just 64 bit (and 133mhz?) pci, this is NOT the technology they are talking about in the article. PCI-X is a very expensive implementation as it requires one controller chip per slot, so you will probably never see this in the desktop market.
They ARE talking about PCI-Express (formerly 3GIO or 3rd Generation I/O), which is a whole new standard, but will remain backwards compatible with any newer PCI (2.2) card. PCI-Express is a serial, point-to-point bus, needing only 4 traces per connection, instead of PCI's 32. It has a theoretical transfer rate of 2.5Gb/s in each direction, tho who knows about real transfer rates. Also, you can stack 'lanes', for slots that need more bandwidth(like the video card slot, which uses 16 lanes afaik), giving you your full-duplex 2.5Gb/s per lane.
It is a packet-based protocol like AMD's hypertransport,and ethernet, and the controller will have a type of 'switch' similar to an ethernet switch for interfacing with all your devices. The advantage of this is your peripherals will, if designed to do so, be able to communicate to eachother directly, wihtout burdening the cpu or memory bus.
Also, PCI-Express is -supposed- to be hot-pluggable or designed with hot-pluggability in mind, but we'll see how well that works in practice...didn't seem to be too hot with serial-ata hard drives.
I have no idea the actual latency, my numbers are jsut from best guesses for tests ive done on local lans. After writing this I had a friend download it and try it on his lan with a server and two clients. Same results. These arent slow computers, and the lan is 100mbit.
Lag seems to be around a second..or a touch less.
What kind of settings do you use?
I have tryed all codecs, lag doesnt change.
Also, the server for Forgotten battles on the DS3 is frequently used by a good few clans, and the people i played with seemed to think this amount of talking-lag was normal. I dunno, skype works. Almost imperceptable lag. Encrypted stream (tho its not only closed source, there is very little info out there, so i dont really trust it)
I'm telling you the recieve signal power of a billion watt transmitter at our nearest star..pointed right at us..is 1.38x10^23 watts here at earth. No antenna/reciever in the world can get a usefull signal to noise ratio out of that.
These arent odds, these are things saying this is impossible unless our technology improves wildly.
While teamspeak is nice for some stuff(channels, lower bandwidth, selectable codec), I have never been able to eliminate lag with any combination of options.
I set it up on my home lan (just 3 computers) and it still had about 3/4 of a second to a second's lag. I also tryed it on a DS3 teamspeak/IL2-FB server, and it still had around a second of lag.
This makes it utterly worthless in my book, no matter its other benifets. End up telling someone which server to join...dont hear a answer and ask if they hear you while you get their response, then they get yours and get mad, while you're getitng mad. God it's annoying. Makes it totally unusable for very fast action fps, where you need your team mate to do something NOW! Not 1 second+reaction time from now.
Also, skype is p2p and encrypted, nice interface, and best of all, VERY low latency. I tryed on my cable connection to my friends cable connection, while also beeing on the phone..lag is maybe 1/10th of a second. That and the nice interface...plus whatever other boons, make it definatly my top choice for voip software.
If anyone has some special settings to make teamspeak nearly lag free, let me know. I'm pretty sure I tryed it all, I screwed around with it for hours. I couldnt even get good latency on a LAN and thats not at all acceptable. Any help is appreciated:)
It's true. A strong base will 'burn' just as much as a strong acid. Drink some Drain-O and tell me it doesnt hurt. Lye is another good example of a medium-strong base. Wet your skin down and throw some lye on it. Your opinion will change VERY fast:)
I'm not sure what the SETI people know that I dont...BUT the free space loss of RF is too great to even recieve from our nearest star. Nevermind the rest of the galaxy. Don't believe me? Here, ill walk you through it.
Let's say the aliens are on the nearest star (around 4.3 light years)...have big 30dB dishes pointed directly at OUR 30dB dishes... It was earlier mentioned that the frequency beeing listened on was 1.4 ghz.
20log(4.07 × 10^13 km) + 20log(1400mhz) +32.44 -(60db for gains)
272.19dB + 62.92dB + 32.44dB - 60dB = 307.55dB
307dB = approx 7271016923390732552789153793519 linear units.
Soooo, assume they are transmitting with a million watts. This is very VERY high, but we're beeing wildly optimistic remember?:)
This leaves a signal level of 1.38 x10^ -25 watts on the recieve end. This is not accounting for noise, which will surely completely down a signal level of this magnitude out.
Remember, this is the NEAREST star, with parabolic dishes pointed right at each other.
So, to recap:) I'm not sure what SETI knows that I dont. I know they arent stupid. So if any good EE/astrophysicist could reply and let me know what the big secret is, I'd be much obliged.
I've seen people previously mention here, that, if we dont find anything in this 'watering hole' of low noise, we can safely assume there is no life in the galaxy! I would say that is totally untrue. Since the chances of us recieving anything even from the nearest star are essentiall nil.
What do you mean no one talks about it? That's one of the main advantages of OLED over LCD that everyone mentions when the OLED topic comes up is its ability to change state from on to off MUCH faster.
Yes it will be useful for gaming. OLED delays are measured in microseconds, not milliseconds.
Also, the contrast ratio of OLED displays are MUCH better than LCD, which are still piss-poor at best.
LCD almost has the display angle problems licked, usually on the more expensive monitors. What's good about OLED is this isn't even an issue. Like CRT, you can turn it however you want.
While LCD power consumption IS low...OLED is even lower than backlit LCD.
And then there is cost. OLED screens are just printed on. With inkjet tech usually, although it's laser in this case. There is no high voltage circuitry necessary for fluorescent backlighting, no tubes, no expensive-to-produce LCD panel. Sure the initial costs of OLED might be high to justify the r&d, but the cost to produce an OLED screen is a fraction of that of LCD.
There are a lot of reasons to leave the USA right now.
A lot of Canadas laws are a lot less harsh than those in the USA. We have copyright obviously, but stuff like sharing music is legal. My friends can borrow my cd's and burn them, I can download from P2P networks, etc. All legally.
We certainly dont have anything like the patriot act or the DMCA.
I'm sure we will eventually be in the same boat, but currently, you can have a bit more peace of mind living in canada than the usa. (All IMHO:)
It stopped the scanner from working != gave a false postive on the scanee.
This thing isnt going to let anyone by who has watery eyes, its just going to give an error and ask them to scan again. Just like a bank card with a weak magnetic strip. They dont just automatically aprove your purchase, it gives an error and asks you to swipe again.
Of course, I'm very skeptical on how biometrics helps ANYTHING..but this is outlined well in a +5 post here..read that.
If a dual-core CPU is released from Intel (and AMD?) are released, and it is reported as two processors to the operating system, I imagine we could expect a heavy shift in programming tactics by major and minor software companies to be parallelized to take advantage of both CPU cores. I know some problems cant be parallelized, but many can. This will be a HUGE advantage of those of us running dual processor machines, as we will see huge gains from these new techniques.
that say this is a great idea. I'm personally not so sure. They havent got the core beyond 1.7 ghz. Why? This is a P6 core cpu! Thats right, pentium pro, pentium 2, pentium 3, etc. They added some features, new stepping and thats it.
This has also been mentioned, but what I'm saying is, I have NO idea how they will get any kind of clockspeed out of this thing. It's been tooth and nail to try to get it to run where it is even. They can drop the process size to get more speed out of it, but that only takes you so far. You will have to lenghten the pipeline eventually which carries with it all the problems of the P4.
I just honestly cant see them taking the P6 core any further. I'm suprised they can even do what they do with it.
I also doubt they will drop the Pentium 4 core while they still have a lead on the athlons performance wise. P4 is a core they spent a LOT of time and money developing. I doubt they will just drop it.
Also, in the article, they say that intel will be tearing up their roadmaps and they SPECULATE Pentium-M will be the replacement. Might be a modified Pentium 4, or maybe a Pentium4-PentiumM mix.
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You shouldnt have skipped to the end, since those are the picoBTX boards...
There are tons of BTX pictures starting around the 4th page here:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=2064&p =4
Enjoy. (er, f'in slash code..no spaces in that link)
While PCI-X stands for PCI-eXtended, which is just 64 bit (and 133mhz?) pci, this is NOT the technology they are talking about in the article. PCI-X is a very expensive implementation as it requires one controller chip per slot, so you will probably never see this in the desktop market.
They ARE talking about PCI-Express (formerly 3GIO or 3rd Generation I/O), which is a whole new standard, but will remain backwards compatible with any newer PCI (2.2) card. PCI-Express is a serial, point-to-point bus, needing only 4 traces per connection, instead of PCI's 32. It has a theoretical transfer rate of 2.5Gb/s in each direction, tho who knows about real transfer rates. Also, you can stack 'lanes', for slots that need more bandwidth(like the video card slot, which uses 16 lanes afaik), giving you your full-duplex 2.5Gb/s per lane.
It is a packet-based protocol like AMD's hypertransport,and ethernet, and the controller will have a type of 'switch' similar to an ethernet switch for interfacing with all your devices. The advantage of this is your peripherals will, if designed to do so, be able to communicate to eachother directly, wihtout burdening the cpu or memory bus.
Also, PCI-Express is -supposed- to be hot-pluggable or designed with hot-pluggability in mind, but we'll see how well that works in practice...didn't seem to be too hot with serial-ata hard drives.
Hope that helps..
Actually, the range on a passive tag(the small ones) is like 10 inches, not 10 feet.
I have NO idea what all the privacy concerns are about. The govt. isnt going to be looking in your house, tracking what products you're using, etc.
What is the exact privacy concern here?
While Froogle is your friend indeed, a search for VIA wont turn up very good results.
What you want to search for is EPIA, since all the mini-itx boards carry the epia name.
It's actually a windows box, windows server.
And i dont think any sound wrapper or API would introduce a second of lag.
Ah, these are all windows servers and clients for teamspeak. Maybe the workings on windows xp arent very good.
Also, while i havent done any packet sniffing at all, skype still has a
"NO spyware/adware" graphic on their website.
Ah well, ill skip with skype for now. I just tryed again with that codec and its still laggy. Ah well, thanks for your help.
Weird.
I have no idea the actual latency, my numbers are jsut from best guesses for tests ive done on local lans. After writing this I had a friend download it and try it on his lan with a server and two clients. Same results. These arent slow computers, and the lan is 100mbit.
Lag seems to be around a second..or a touch less.
What kind of settings do you use?
I have tryed all codecs, lag doesnt change.
Also, the server for Forgotten battles on the DS3 is frequently used by a good few clans, and the people i played with seemed to think this amount of talking-lag was normal. I dunno, skype works. Almost imperceptable lag. Encrypted stream (tho its not only closed source, there is very little info out there, so i dont really trust it)
I wasnt working out odds.
I'm telling you the recieve signal power of a billion watt transmitter at our nearest star..pointed right at us..is 1.38x10^23 watts here at earth. No antenna/reciever in the world can get a usefull signal to noise ratio out of that.
These arent odds, these are things saying this is impossible unless our technology improves wildly.
I STRONGLY disagree.
...plus whatever other boons, make it definatly my top choice for voip software.
:)
While teamspeak is nice for some stuff(channels, lower bandwidth, selectable codec), I have never been able to eliminate lag with any combination of options.
I set it up on my home lan (just 3 computers) and it still had about 3/4 of a second to a second's lag. I also tryed it on a DS3 teamspeak/IL2-FB server, and it still had around a second of lag.
This makes it utterly worthless in my book, no matter its other benifets. End up telling someone which server to join...dont hear a answer and ask if they hear you while you get their response, then they get yours and get mad, while you're getitng mad. God it's annoying. Makes it totally unusable for very fast action fps, where you need your team mate to do something NOW! Not 1 second+reaction time from now.
Also, skype is p2p and encrypted, nice interface, and best of all, VERY low latency. I tryed on my cable connection to my friends cable connection, while also beeing on the phone..lag is maybe 1/10th of a second. That and the nice interface
If anyone has some special settings to make teamspeak nearly lag free, let me know. I'm pretty sure I tryed it all, I screwed around with it for hours. I couldnt even get good latency on a LAN and thats not at all acceptable. Any help is appreciated
It's true. A strong base will 'burn' just as much as a strong acid. Drink some Drain-O and tell me it doesnt hurt. Lye is another good example of a medium-strong base. Wet your skin down and throw some lye on it. Your opinion will change VERY fast :)
Even if it was a billion watts. Thats still x10^23. Horribly low. Far too low to detect.
And remember, this is the NEAREST star. I'm telling you its impossible with what we humans can do, thats forsure.
NOT FLAIMBAIT please read on..
:)
:) I'm not sure what SETI knows that I dont. I know they arent stupid. So if any good EE/astrophysicist could reply and let me know what the big secret is, I'd be much obliged.
I'm not sure what the SETI people know that I dont...BUT the free space loss of RF is too great to even recieve from our nearest star. Nevermind the rest of the galaxy. Don't believe me? Here, ill walk you through it.
The loss of free space equation is thus:
LFS= -GainRX -GainTX +32.44 + 20logDistance + 20logFreq
Distance in KM, Freq in Mhz
Let's be WILDly optimistic here...
Let's say the aliens are on the nearest star (around 4.3 light years)...have big 30dB dishes pointed directly at OUR 30dB dishes... It was earlier mentioned that the frequency beeing listened on was 1.4 ghz.
20log(4.07 × 10^13 km) + 20log(1400mhz) +32.44 -(60db for gains)
272.19dB + 62.92dB + 32.44dB - 60dB = 307.55dB
307dB = approx 7271016923390732552789153793519 linear units.
Soooo, assume they are transmitting with a million watts. This is very VERY high, but we're beeing wildly optimistic remember?
This leaves a signal level of 1.38 x10^ -25 watts on the recieve end. This is not accounting for noise, which will surely completely down a signal level of this magnitude out.
Remember, this is the NEAREST star, with parabolic dishes pointed right at each other.
So, to recap
I've seen people previously mention here, that, if we dont find anything in this 'watering hole' of low noise, we can safely assume there is no life in the galaxy! I would say that is totally untrue. Since the chances of us recieving anything even from the nearest star are essentiall nil.
While I agree with all your good points, he mentioned where the problems are.
He said the problems arise when you try to cut back, or quit taking in caffeine...not when drinking it.
MANY people on here even I have seen post about caffeine withdrawl, some even asking how they can overcome it as its become a big problem.
So I think, once you start heavy intakes of caffeine, cutting back can be the problem, even to regular doses of normal coffee.
But yeah, I agree that any arbitrary amount is 'unhealthy' while some slightly less number is 'healthy' is BS.
Dont forget Windows Grep
Actually you can just click the search preferences...
Turn off the animated character, and go to 'change file/folder search behavior' and change that to advanced instead of standard
Easier than editing the registry imho.
The world is round!
-Dr. Obvious
What do you mean no one talks about it? That's one of the main advantages of OLED over LCD that everyone mentions when the OLED topic comes up is its ability to change state from on to off MUCH faster.
Yes it will be useful for gaming. OLED delays are measured in microseconds, not milliseconds.
Also, the contrast ratio of OLED displays are MUCH better than LCD, which are still piss-poor at best.
LCD almost has the display angle problems licked, usually on the more expensive monitors. What's good about OLED is this isn't even an issue. Like CRT, you can turn it however you want.
While LCD power consumption IS low...OLED is even lower than backlit LCD.
And then there is cost. OLED screens are just printed on. With inkjet tech usually, although it's laser in this case. There is no high voltage circuitry necessary for fluorescent backlighting, no tubes, no expensive-to-produce LCD panel. Sure the initial costs of OLED might be high to justify the r&d, but the cost to produce an OLED screen is a fraction of that of LCD.
Maybe mod parent up a couple points, hes right. It is the blue that degrades the fastest.
There are a lot of reasons to leave the USA right now.
:)
A lot of Canadas laws are a lot less harsh than those in the USA. We have copyright obviously, but stuff like sharing music is legal. My friends can borrow my cd's and burn them, I can download from P2P networks, etc. All legally.
We certainly dont have anything like the patriot act or the DMCA.
I'm sure we will eventually be in the same boat, but currently, you can have a bit more peace of mind living in canada than the usa. (All IMHO
Shipping container friendly ?
(20' x 8' x 8')
Thats fucking huge. Thats the size of a medium bedroom. Maybe a small bedroom, stilll very big.
Where do they get shipping containers this size?
It stopped the scanner from working != gave a false postive on the scanee.
This thing isnt going to let anyone by who has watery eyes, its just going to give an error and ask them to scan again. Just like a bank card with a weak magnetic strip. They dont just automatically aprove your purchase, it gives an error and asks you to swipe again.
Of course, I'm very skeptical on how biometrics helps ANYTHING..but this is outlined well in a +5 post here..read that.
If a dual-core CPU is released from Intel (and AMD?) are released, and it is reported as two processors to the operating system, I imagine we could expect a heavy shift in programming tactics by major and minor software companies to be parallelized to take advantage of both CPU cores. I know some problems cant be parallelized, but many can. This will be a HUGE advantage of those of us running dual processor machines, as we will see huge gains from these new techniques.
that say this is a great idea. I'm personally not so sure. They havent got the core beyond 1.7 ghz. Why? This is a P6 core cpu! Thats right, pentium pro, pentium 2, pentium 3, etc. They added some features, new stepping and thats it.
This has also been mentioned, but what I'm saying is, I have NO idea how they will get any kind of clockspeed out of this thing. It's been tooth and nail to try to get it to run where it is even. They can drop the process size to get more speed out of it, but that only takes you so far. You will have to lenghten the pipeline eventually which carries with it all the problems of the P4.
I just honestly cant see them taking the P6 core any further. I'm suprised they can even do what they do with it.
I also doubt they will drop the Pentium 4 core while they still have a lead on the athlons performance wise. P4 is a core they spent a LOT of time and money developing. I doubt they will just drop it.
Also, in the article, they say that intel will be tearing up their roadmaps and they SPECULATE Pentium-M will be the replacement. Might be a modified Pentium 4, or maybe a Pentium4-PentiumM mix.
Just my 2c.
I cant wait for MRAM solid state disks. Non-volatile fast, dense...etc
Has all the makings of a great future hard drive replacement.
Small sizes of it are already available, at least on paper.
Datasheets here.
"only every beeing allowed 60 frames a second, I dont care if its"
Sorry meant to say i dont care if its 'smooth enuf', i dont wanna have to settle.