Posts by Andy 70 190 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009
heh, when the more cash rich sections of the business heard there was a corporate ipad feasability study going on, they all rushed out to buy one.
the study concluded that they were too insecure, so the idea of using ipads for corporate use was tinned.
i saw a resulting purchased pad in its cover, with a pair of headphones attached, on someones desk, and motioned to it's owner, "new toy?", i asked. "yeah, i just use it as an mp3 player though" came the disinterested reply. must be nice to have that much disposable income.
as much as i inwardly chuckled to myself, i did wish i had bought shares when i figured the ipod was going to be the next big thing back in wayback then.
hmmm, been waiting for this release for ages, and seems like EA is trying to jump on the steam bandwagon. i trust steam to be around longer than origin. unfortunatly, EA has a winner on it's hands and it knows it with ME3. same for the last star wars release, and not so much, but the NFS series too.
plus, another installer/drm client? really? ffs.
not buying this till it's on steam. probably next year. may get the 360 version if it's on download.
EA = dicks. no change there then.
heh, i know a bank that has converted their risk reports into GPU code.
i think some financial rag touted it as the next big thing. PNL calcs in 5 seconds instead of 20 minutes!
from the sounds of the devs muttering, you'd think the project was financed purely for that headline!
oi did larf.
hey Matrox, as you're only alive cos you're gouging us $1500 per 8 port card, think you can slap in some cuda cores in your next G400 respin?
sent from my T3500
hmmm, so would pron be stored as pron in optical memory? would it even need a display device?
are we going to see a researgence in Boots faux red/green/blue leather photo albums as "optical storage media" for fambily fauxtografy?
has grannie with her years old dusty shelves and shelves of the afformentioned picture storage devices, got the drop on us all?
the mind boggles with the imaginary possibilities.
we ran a test project to see if iTablets were a possible future direction.
turns out they are insecure. game over for this round. but hey'll be back in some other incarnation i'm sure.
as for the death of windows? hmmm. maybe not. but without the office+windows combo in effect i suspect we'll see a weakening of the old guard.
anyway. Interesting times, as always.
in response to the annonymous troll at 13:32.
the ps3 gfx chip is based on the nvidia 7950gtx. and you're saying that the cell does the gpu stuff? if so, why did sony bother with the rsx at all and not just slap some cheap dacs on the memory bus?
honesty. go and tell your dad he's left his register account open and wipe the crayon of your chin.
where are we now, DDR3 1600 quad channel? about a combined 48GB/s? can flash match that? really?
whilst i would love an "instant on" machine, with it's memory state held in non-volatile, i don't see current flash able to maintain reliability as main memory after a run time of more than a few days. kinda like overclocking holly while asking if anyone wants any toast.
however, if we do see a merger of memory and hard disk into one all pervasive storage medium, providing instant on/off/resume and almost instant install, should this not be something to strive for?
i didn't think i'd bump against the limit after installing 6GB ram in my machine, but after installing the skyrim high res texture pack, and only running skyrim, i see my memory usage blip over 5Gb occasionally. i bet it'd preload even more if i had more ram.
"GO" for technical advancement! Go science!
however, i have the advantage of not having paid for them.
the missus's i5 based one has more than enough poke, and docker carries dual DVI and display ports, plus the usual usb, ps/2, gig lan, so screw blunderbolt lameness.
anyway, the otherhalf loves it. small, discreet, and massive battery life with the extended battery.
my place dishes out the 14" screen i5 varient of these.
quite impressed with how snappy these little things are. started to become desktop replacements with the dockers for some departments.
great. so now interoperability is becoming a thing of the past, and you have to buy into the full company range of products.
the apple device tree is nearly complete
the sony device tree is nearly complete
the microsoft device tree is nearly complete.
ahh sheet. if that's the way things are going, i'm going to fire up the ol' A1200 and become a technology hermit, and my kids'll go outside and ride bikes and build tree houses.
grrrrr etc.
what about a business environment based on a standard platform?
what about the hundereds of machines support people look after, that are still cranking along with winXP and IE6 due to some retarded legacy app?
hell we've only just rolled out IE8, and have to keep IE6 published on citrix "just in case". in two places we've had to go the other way. leave IE6 on there and push IE8 over citrix...
things like this remind me why i don't read the comments most of the time. unimpressed - i had hoped for some light on resolving the issue, but no. obviously too much to ask.
All your suggestions of 'firefox memory leak' version nine million "we fixed it properly this time!", or boogle chrome "all your info are belong to us", or that snooty holier than thou feeling you get from running that effing public sesspool of openly raped sourcecode 'linux' can be treated with the contempt they deserve.
yeah right. who honestly thinks this play list hasn't been created, edited, and vetted by his public relations team.
this is not a snapshot into the mind of a man landed with trying to right the western world, so let's not kid ourselves.
even so, i'd rather you lot get Obama again than the other choices. it might give him the time needed to nail the planks over the leaks in the good ship U S of A. Instead of the next administration going "it was all his fault, i'll save you!"
as much as i hold a general loathing and contempt of any one who owns an apple product and the products themselves, if i had some money to invest in tech stock, it would all be going into apple. my only regret is not buying shares when the market realised the ipod was "the next big thing" (tm).
such is life. hindsight is 20/20 vision and all that.
AMD did it to intel in the 90's...
well if history repeats itself in that regard, with AMD being AMD, and Nvidia being Intel, AMD will hold the lead for a while, massively publisize it, and then Nvidia will take the lead and romp off into the distance, and, if we continue Nvidia following Intel's current trend, actually scale back their release schedule to let the competition catch back up.
but i don't think so. AMD have the lead. then Nvidia will over take, then AMD will retake the lead.
ad-infinitum. not that this is a bad thing, i just think that the usual marketing guff of "a new era in graphics processing" a little bit of a stretch.
so it does what we do now a bit faster. woopy-doo. how about showing us the way to do stuff in the future? that's the difference between evolutionary, and revolutionary.
i'm sorry but AMD has been on the back foot since getting to 1Ghz first, and showing us how to do 64bit nicely.
wasn't the ATI/AMD "greengrass" - or whatever it was called, graphics arch supposed to stomp all over the competition? but didn't?
whatever. a short lived hollow victory. well done.
software that will automagicly "buy tickets for your favourite band (tm)"
can marketeers really not come up with anything better? i'm in the wrong job surely.
what i would go for, is something that reads my text messages, not that there probably isn't something already doing this. and picks up usefull things like "pub. now." and fires a message to the establishment in question to get (number of text recipients positive responses)=(number of pints poured). maybe with gps to guesstimate eta so they are still cold when we get there. now that's software i can work with.
then maybe if the pub is beyond staggering distance home, asks at somepoint later if i need a cab to get home, or to figure out what train and buzz me 5 minutes before i need to leave to get that train home. maybe the software could even ask the pub to generate a paypal payment request for the pints consumed and forward the relevant funds. although that could be dangerous as in it negates the (wallet)=empty, execute (go home).
this is not beyond the wit of what we have available, and avoids having to go to the bar to clear the tab, or even those damn "paywave" pieces of crap.
i'll have to disable the <activate plan B> stonking taxi fare avoidance scheme of "get your coat love, you've pulled" these days...
we have the technology, but at the moment, all the reporting and tracking software is just reporting back to the advert mothership, rather than actually being usefull to the people its data slurping.
no need for mind control for relativley decent software to figure out what people want or need.
but no. keep cranking out thoses fart apps people. well done. i can feel the enrichment of humanity happening as we speak.
oh wait.
paper gets broken down, huh.... so... these cards are going to be crying a chorus of "i'm melting! help me, i'm melting! oh what a world, what a world....." *HSSSSSsssssssssssss.......*
and cue the single use birthday cards...?
and people like me opening every card in the shop.
instead of "this website best viewed at 1024x768" due to non proportional fonts or non dynamic frames buttons and the what not, now we get:-
best viewed on DX11 hardware...
what about netbooks? oh wait. an actual use for on-live GPU streaming? (pay subscription, datacentre renders page and feeds it down via streaming video to netbook)
this'll work when advertising creative types show off their wares to clients.
Client: "wow awesome! hey wait, this only works on 5% of our already reduced demographioc? you're fired!"
here, let me summerize that for you.
I.T. Survey = bollox.
also, see
Bears deficate = woods
pope = catholic
not being funny, but since when is a completely free and open internet connection, and admin rights given to Jo Public at work?
of course you can't install <what the fuck i like>. we have enough trouble with the authorised applications like salesfarce, or crackberry desktop mangler, without people having access to fuckwitbook or the like.
not to mention crybaby management types who throw their toys out the pram so that they must have ichoons installed for their brand new dickpads.
i suspect that developing nations might have a slightly more relaxed idea of installing flash games to pass the time in the call centres. maybe even a bit of titborrent action to bang out knocked off copies of unlicensed software.
just sayin' is all.
but, those of us who have invested heavily into steam, playstation network, xbox live.... what do we do, buy all the games... again? and have the possibility of being left hanging if the company goes under, or hostile takeover?
found a little alternative. looked decidedly dodgy initially, but seems to hold water. streammygame.com.
use your home machine as your "rendering cloud", and stream out to where-ever you can install the client (linux/windows/ps3) and open the ports. still testing it myself, but looks promising.
seeing if i can sneak a bit of skyrim into my christmas working schedule. and hoping they can put together an iphone/winphone port.
and excuse my sciencey nievety, but, depleted uranium. the stuff we fire out of tanks for a laugh right?
so a big cylinder of that stuff, with some active reaction mass on top. that burns through the depleted stuff and we scoop off the heat with liquid sodium to run turbines etc. etc.
so.... what is the .... waste product from the reaction? makes it sound like this stuff just disappears?
feeling a bit paris hilton about this atm.
another for the trekkie confusion here.
top marks to Rob for explaining the reality of Kardasian existance here on earth is a darn sight more ugly than the initial Trekkie idea.
top marks to DC for publicly calling a spade aspade. rated him as just another actor previously, got a little more respect from me now. not that it means anything if you're not me.
ahh the falcon. yes. under used DSP logic, ahh well.
and the amiga had the doublethink project to bang a DSP on the 68k bus. main idea being to handle fast (for the time) serial I/O like modem and Ethernet, but could be expanded to handle audio and other stuff too. never saw the light of day though.
both commodore and atari failing to have a consistent hardware stratagy. or management stratagy. or management in general.
waaaaait a sec, don't/didn't PC's use cut down DSPs to deal with modems and the like thesedays? wots that AC'97 standard all about then?
i remember them dual port pcmcia cards. use a dsp at your ethernet hardware layer, and you get a modem thrown in for free. or at least that wot i fort anyways.
but lets be honest, what will it really be used for in the real world? advertising.
your morning commute, sponsered by <morning hygene product>
your evening commute, sponsered by <takeaway food vendor>
and if these are kept uptodate remotley, the obligitory hack where each car is covered in pr0n.
nice idea, execution needs work for real world.
B+
time was when "art" was a craft that took 100's of hours/days/months, maybe even a lifetime to produce, perfect, hone etc.
now any poncey wuckfit with box frame glasses and an 'ironic' flat cap can put a mass produced bit of plastic on a pedastool, tag it with a metaphysical idea, and the self adulating masses come crawling.
dat make hulk angry! hulk smash!
f'instance. that massive stack of mecharno outside the olympic stadium with the viewing platform. why didn't they build some massive statues of olypians running, jumping, climbing trees (to quote Mr Izzard). i dunno. something inspiring, something that relates to what that area is?
instead we get something that could on a lesser scale be stolen from the entrance of any commercial estate across the country. nice one.
But we dare not critisize, for it is art, and we dare not be seen as uncultured. twunts.
medvedevedev, punish scientists pushing the outer edges of space exploration? guys who manage to knock something together using nothing more than some runner bean canes and bailing twine?
i've seen more complex bits of pipe in a plumbers offcuts box than go into the russian space program. Roscosomos, sponsered by Wicks builders merchants.
way to inspire! well done. if that is the case, then i predict all future sciencey projects will be measured against the following criteria.
explore space? no.
cure cancer? no.
anything for the betterment of mankind? no.
write fart app? yes!
hmm, that clock speed looks familier....
if it's taken a line out of the amiga book, the CPU and custom chippery operate at a clock that is directly synced to the scanlines of incoming or outgoing video.
hence something like 7.14Mhz for PAL, and 7.29Mhz for NTSC. someone'll correct me i'm sure.
but take your 66Mhz cpu and clock it down to 54, and you can use that signal to drive everything else (gfx,ram,vdacs) in full syncro just using clock dividers where needed.
also reminds me of playing Idie500 in NTSC to get more fps back in the day.
geet orf moi lawn etc.
it's not mentioned because of ... i dunno... maybe product placement? maybe like the rest of us, they aren't even aware of <insert specific product line here>.
"oh hey! i see you're trying to bash out some bandwidth! here's a leaflet of our current product line! Let me top that off for you with some almost related random sales blurb"
bloody hell. read wot you wrote geeza.
agreed. starting to get a little irritated with the embedded link through content.
please can i have something i can read that looks like text which can be misconstrude as working rather than the nsfw activity of uchoobing.
many thanks, your corporate readership.
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