Doing "nice things" with no directly obvious motive is pretty standard for large companies. It's called corporate responsibility. There are lots of hard to quantify reasons for doing it, and I think it's fair to treat it with a bit of cynicism. Most of the reasons mentioned in this thread are on...
There's a lot of FUD in this thread! I largely agree with Exophase here, and I find it quite frustrating that nobody seems to understand what he's saying. I'll break it into three parts:
1. There is a penalty for implementing x86 over ARM at the very low end. This is obvious: at the very low...
Atmel provide some documentation about this that may help you
http://www.atmel.com/Images/doc8128.pdf
http://www.atmel.com/images/atmel-2521-avr-hardware-design-considerations_application-note_avr042.pdf
Indeed, it's important to make the distinction between front-end HDL design and back-end FPGA/silicon implementation, but they are both "hardware engineering" disciplines
As Homles and SOFTengCOMPelec have already said, there's loads of reasons for having more open source software than hardware:
- The barriers to entry are far lower for software: you can code in pretty much any language you want on any consumer hardware. When you're developing even moderately...
They can be different if the scheduler knows they're different, or if the workload is in lots of small chunks.
For example, imagine you had a simulation to run, and you gave half of the work to each of the computers. The C2D would finish much faster, and you would have to wait for the much...
It is base64. That's why it only has alphanumeric, + and / in it. The first one needs two = padding characters at the end so that it's a multiple of 8 when you multiply it by 6:
266 * 6 / 8 = 199.5 (not valid)
268 * 6 / 8 = 201 (valid with ==)
Your second example doesn't need padding because...
There needs to be == on the end of your message so that there's the correct number of characters - what you've pasted is a base64 encoded version of the encrypted message.
Looking at the cyphertext, there's a clear distribution that makes me think this is a cipher/XOR based code, not a more...
You're right - Z77 doesn't have legacy PCI built in, so there's a bridge chip. This shouldn't slow it down terribly much though. I guess all you can try is that opRom setting, and try updating all the drivers in windows?
On your old motherboard was it a PCI or PCI-X slot? That might affect it too
(been lurking for a while so thought I'd finally jump in with a first post! Edit: looks like I made a lame post in 2006, oops)
Trellis modulation is a sort-of misnomer. You still have to use it together with other modulation schemes (eg QAM, PSK etc)
It's a way of encoding the data so that if...
I've tried both the Dell 8600, and the pb 1.5 . I must say that I prefer the looks/weight of the pb, but I like way that my battery lasts for about four and a half hours playing ut2k3 @ 1920x1200 + full settings @40FPS :-P My screen is far nicer than my friends 15.2" PB one.
I belive that the...
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