"One of the contributors described watching small plastic bags circulating in wind pockets, commenting that 'sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I just can't take it' "
I wonder if he knows the reference which this is from and is just joking or what. If not thats damn hilarious.
I submitted this story the day after it came out, but I have got a running list of over 20 rejected submissions, at least 15 of them later became/. stories.
Remember that refresh rates on LCD monitors don't really matter. With the way LCD technology works, the pixel will just 'stay on' untill it needs to change color or go black. Thats why you dont get annoying flicker, even with 60Hz on LCD monitors.
For some of the joke things people are suggesting here, the set up time is a bit too high maybe. I have never owned one of these, but loading 144 elastics into a gun sounds very time consuming..
I'd rather just do a card trick or something. Or sleep..ahhh sleep.
Actually, the CPU needs the bandwidth to supply its optimal thruput. If you dont supply it with enough memory bandwidth, it wont operate and top capability. Whether someone actually needs a 2.6ghz cpu is questionable, but if you are going to spend the kind of money required to own one, you might as well have it operate at peek efficency.
I think he did a good job of explaining that. Well, he definatly could have went into further detail, but he is right. Apple has spend X dollars making their OS. Assuming the port doesnt take up more money than they would receive by x86 customers, its all money in their pocket. There is upkeep and support, but like a previous post mentioned maybe they could sell an unsupported version and a supported version. etc.
I'm confused. I was under the impression that a black hole was a star that had collapsed and the space between the electrons and the nucleus (sp?) was reduced to zero. We're always told if the earth turned into a black hole, (yes i know it cant) it would be the size of a basketball. Can someone please clarify? Im giving up the right to moderate on this story by posting this, so someone better reply:)...
I've always dreamed of having a computer interface with the breain directly, overriding the senses so as to make a virtual world. Imagine playing a photorealistic quake 3 or unreal tournament with you IN the game, shooting people. Or an RPG where you actually talk to people and gather information. I am 20 years old now, and i doubt i will see TRUE virtual worlds in my lifetime, but i can always dream. I wonder if this 'nerve interfacing' is the first step into doing what i wish. Maybe i should be a biology researcher and help out. (riiight.)
When i previewed (before i submitted) my last comment, and added the link in there using html code in my text, it came up in the body text even though i had 'extrans' selected as my submit type. When i changed it to 'plain ole text' the link worked fine. Another bug? Looks like extrans and plain text got switched or something
Talk about 1GHz durons and their benchmarks
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1GHz Durons are not only just a small ramp in clockspeed from the 950MHz Duron, they are also based on the new 'Morgan' core, which is the budget version of the Palomino. Tomshardware already has benchmarks here, and he talks about the new technology involved in the new morgan core. Worth a read.
I go to DeVry calgary, and the devry calgary IEEE team competes in various autonomous and non-autonomous robotics competitions. One such competition is where a flying helicopter has to fly a course, doing certain things, recognizing heat and cold, etc. Devry calgary frequently beats USA schools such as MIT..etc. Shows good things for canadian schools eh? heheh
While I agree with you on most points, just wanted to tell you.. People dont buy cars with 63000 known defects because it may kill them. So, if my car ran Windows in its computer, I'd walk.
When i first joined the internet scene there werent many gopher sites left. But whether it be by Gopher or something else, id like to see more practical pages come around. I really dont like the way the internet is going in some areas. Everyone and their dog seems to have a personal home page full of animated gif's going on about themselves. Espeically a lot of goth webpages on the internet. "Gothic X of the Y" etc. I'm an avid reader of sites like slashdot and tomshardware who provide me with (usually) usefull information than helps or at least affects my daily life.
As was mentioned in previous posts, the mothers nerves werent meant to carry signals but to provide a healthy path for the childs nerves to grow. most people believe nerves dont grow back at all. i know someone who had their finger nearly cut off. the doctors re-attached it, but nerves were of course severed. part of the nerves were missing from the saw cut and the doctors said that the nerves would grow back properly (hopefully) at the rate of about a millimeter a month. his finger had no sensation for a while, but about 4 months later, he could feel his skin again.
gamguy
the rambus technology is superior to sdram just like the new pentium 4 core is superior to the pentium 3 (ppro) core. (read: its not)
rimm's have to be clocked to 800mhz to offer performance on par with sdram clocked to 100 or 133mhz.
imagine sdram clocked to 800mhz (if it were possible) it would slaughter rdram in any test.
mhz per mhz sdram has way more throughput and stability.
rimm's also need heatsinks and field dampers put on them because they are basically just overclocked really really high. ive never had my sdramn get hotter than a nice 'warm'
heheh
These kind of tactics are typical of rambus. They know and intel know that, right now, the technology if the RIMM's ( sux to get rimmed by rambus:) ) is inferior to SDRAM's technology. Now rambus's only way of making money is to sue for more money..
Rambus is an IP only company. its kind of a smart way to do things cuz they could have a small lab for their physicists (sic?) and a small office for theyr ceo's. they have almost no overhead. If they win any suits for licence fee's thats just more money to them and all they have to do is sit there and collect it. all they have to pay for is lawyers.
Now that intel wants to ditch them they are under more pressure to have their income assured with these licencing fees. Too bad for them they ran acrosss Harris, especially now that they seemd to have pissed him off.
the voodoo 3 did NOT look better. in any test. i havent seen the voodoo5 perform as to visual quality, but i owned a voodoo 3 and will never again. the colors were washed out (bad gamma) and ugly.. for the price, the performance wasnt that good either and the bloody thing ran like an easy bake...
One of the main reasons that the Pentium 4 is so damned slow is because
a: it is no longer using the p6 core which has shorter pipelines, etc.
and B: its is entirely RISC based. compilers and programs right now are optomized for CISC (altho cisc is hard to optomize for)
intel has also just finished for on their.13u cpu's (tulatin, etc) and the p4 will be a lot nicer after a core downsizing. (less heat dissipation, more effeciency, etc)
we should see speeds of around 3ghz with the p4 eventually. and it will be faster when programs are more optomized for RISC. im presonally waiting for the mustang, which should scale almost as high itself, and will stil be much faster mhz per mhz. plus the point to point multi-processing will be nicer than smp to put a system together.
lftp is a great ftp client program and it has really good mirror capabilities. just type exactly what you sed and it does the whole site for you, http or ftp. lots of other great things too but for this article, thats whats important.
ok. maybe i dont know what im talking about. is this article the fact that x 4.0.1 has been made into deb packages? from the binaries that ive been using for a long time? or was it that it didnt work on deb? i dont get why this is an article.. i assume there is something im missing. ive been useing x 4.0.1 for quite a while. with nvidia drivers and all. if im missing something, can someone explain it to me?
Slashdot Mirror
"One of the contributors described watching small plastic bags circulating in wind pockets, commenting that 'sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I just can't take it' "
I wonder if he knows the reference which this is from and is just joking or what. If not thats damn hilarious.
I submitted this story the day after it came out, but I have got a running list of over 20 rejected submissions, at least 15 of them later became /. stories.
Remember that refresh rates on LCD monitors don't really matter. With the way LCD technology works, the pixel will just 'stay on' untill it needs to change color or go black. Thats why you dont get annoying flicker, even with 60Hz on LCD monitors.
Haha, then when do they find the intact pottery that the people actually wanted to keep? Did they bury that deeper?
Yes, windows key D works well, windows key+m works also, but with win+D you can press it again and everything comes back up. Very usefull IMO.
For some of the joke things people are suggesting here, the set up time is a bit too high maybe. I have never owned one of these, but loading 144 elastics into a gun sounds very time consuming..
I'd rather just do a card trick or something. Or sleep..ahhh sleep.
Actually, the CPU needs the bandwidth to supply its optimal thruput. If you dont supply it with enough memory bandwidth, it wont operate and top capability. Whether someone actually needs a 2.6ghz cpu is questionable, but if you are going to spend the kind of money required to own one, you might as well have it operate at peek efficency.
Wow, according to this study and considering the hours I sleep, I should be dead already. Every minute I am awake is a minute in my pocket. Woohoo!
I think he did a good job of explaining that. Well, he definatly could have went into further detail, but he is right. Apple has spend X dollars making their OS. Assuming the port doesnt take up more money than they would receive by x86 customers, its all money in their pocket. There is upkeep and support, but like a previous post mentioned maybe they could sell an unsupported version and a supported version. etc.
I'm confused. I was under the impression that a black hole was a star that had collapsed and the space between the electrons and the nucleus (sp?) was reduced to zero. We're always told if the earth turned into a black hole, (yes i know it cant) it would be the size of a basketball. Can someone please clarify? Im giving up the right to moderate on this story by posting this, so someone better reply :) ...
I've always dreamed of having a computer interface with the breain directly, overriding the senses so as to make a virtual world. Imagine playing a photorealistic quake 3 or unreal tournament with you IN the game, shooting people. Or an RPG where you actually talk to people and gather information. I am 20 years old now, and i doubt i will see TRUE virtual worlds in my lifetime, but i can always dream. I wonder if this 'nerve interfacing' is the first step into doing what i wish. Maybe i should be a biology researcher and help out. (riiight.)
When i previewed (before i submitted) my last comment, and added the link in there using html code in my text, it came up in the body text even though i had 'extrans' selected as my submit type. When i changed it to 'plain ole text' the link worked fine. Another bug? Looks like extrans and plain text got switched or something
1GHz Durons are not only just a small ramp in clockspeed from the 950MHz Duron, they are also based on the new 'Morgan' core, which is the budget version of the Palomino. Tomshardware already has benchmarks here, and he talks about the new technology involved in the new morgan core. Worth a read.
The transistor is different say..the transistors in a pentium 3. These are bi-polar transistors and unless these guys are wrong, it DOES use 1mA.
I go to DeVry calgary, and the devry calgary IEEE team competes in various autonomous and non-autonomous robotics competitions. One such competition is where a flying helicopter has to fly a course, doing certain things, recognizing heat and cold, etc. Devry calgary frequently beats USA schools such as MIT..etc. Shows good things for canadian schools eh? heheh
While I agree with you on most points, just wanted to tell you.. People dont buy cars with 63000 known defects because it may kill them. So, if my car ran Windows in its computer, I'd walk.
When i first joined the internet scene there werent many gopher sites left. But whether it be by Gopher or something else, id like to see more practical pages come around. I really dont like the way the internet is going in some areas. Everyone and their dog seems to have a personal home page full of animated gif's going on about themselves. Espeically a lot of goth webpages on the internet. "Gothic X of the Y" etc. I'm an avid reader of sites like slashdot and tomshardware who provide me with (usually) usefull information than helps or at least affects my daily life.
As was mentioned in previous posts, the mothers nerves werent meant to carry signals but to provide a healthy path for the childs nerves to grow. most people believe nerves dont grow back at all. i know someone who had their finger nearly cut off. the doctors re-attached it, but nerves were of course severed. part of the nerves were missing from the saw cut and the doctors said that the nerves would grow back properly (hopefully) at the rate of about a millimeter a month. his finger had no sensation for a while, but about 4 months later, he could feel his skin again.
gamguy
the rambus technology is superior to sdram just like the new pentium 4 core is superior to the pentium 3 (ppro) core. (read: its not)
rimm's have to be clocked to 800mhz to offer performance on par with sdram clocked to 100 or 133mhz.
imagine sdram clocked to 800mhz (if it were possible) it would slaughter rdram in any test.
mhz per mhz sdram has way more throughput and stability.
rimm's also need heatsinks and field dampers put on them because they are basically just overclocked really really high. ive never had my sdramn get hotter than a nice 'warm'
heheh
These kind of tactics are typical of rambus. They know and intel know that, right now, the technology if the RIMM's ( sux to get rimmed by rambus:) ) is inferior to SDRAM's technology. Now rambus's only way of making money is to sue for more money..
Rambus is an IP only company. its kind of a smart way to do things cuz they could have a small lab for their physicists (sic?) and a small office for theyr ceo's. they have almost no overhead. If they win any suits for licence fee's thats just more money to them and all they have to do is sit there and collect it. all they have to pay for is lawyers.
Now that intel wants to ditch them they are under more pressure to have their income assured with these licencing fees. Too bad for them they ran acrosss Harris, especially now that they seemd to have pissed him off.
the voodoo 3 did NOT look better. in any test. i havent seen the voodoo5 perform as to visual quality, but i owned a voodoo 3 and will never again. the colors were washed out (bad gamma) and ugly.. for the price, the performance wasnt that good either and the bloody thing ran like an easy bake...
One of the main reasons that the Pentium 4 is so damned slow is because .13u cpu's (tulatin, etc) and the p4 will be a lot nicer after a core downsizing. (less heat dissipation, more effeciency, etc)
a: it is no longer using the p6 core which has shorter pipelines, etc.
and B: its is entirely RISC based. compilers and programs right now are optomized for CISC (altho cisc is hard to optomize for)
intel has also just finished for on their
we should see speeds of around 3ghz with the p4 eventually. and it will be faster when programs are more optomized for RISC. im presonally waiting for the mustang, which should scale almost as high itself, and will stil be much faster mhz per mhz. plus the point to point multi-processing will be nicer than smp to put a system together.
lftp is a great ftp client program and it has really good mirror capabilities. just type exactly what you sed and it does the whole site for you, http or ftp. lots of other great things too but for this article, thats whats important.
ok. maybe i dont know what im talking about. is this article the fact that x 4.0.1 has been made into deb packages? from the binaries that ive been using for a long time? or was it that it didnt work on deb? i dont get why this is an article.. i assume there is something im missing. ive been useing x 4.0.1 for quite a while. with nvidia drivers and all. if im missing something, can someone explain it to me?
yes, exactly what im talking about. wouldnt it be nice to see arguable (or not) the best cg ever made?