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Praxis wrote:Wasn't the N64 a 64-bit graphics chip, not CPU?

IIRC it was. Neverthelss, why CPU always falling behind graphic chip in terms of bits?

It took like 10 years to go from 32-bit to 64-bit. I don't think we'll see 128-bit processors until desktop computers are capable of 8 exabytes of RAM. Motherboard/RAM limitation aside, why it took so long for the CPU to move to the higher bits? If we take a look at video card memory interface, it ...

I just thought: is it going to be significant increase in bits? Now we have 64-bit CPU; are we going to have, say, 512-bit or even a megabit CPU? What's the limitation for such thing?

How about hardcore users like PC gamers and hardware modders/overclockers? I hate to answer this way, because I know every single PC gamer within 200 miles is going to show up outside my house with torches, *stands among the crowd outside SPOOFE's house while waving a torch* :P but I think they're ...

Inside a decade, personal computing will shift from a focus on ever-faster, rapidly accelerating trends (ie - people will care a lot less about processor speed increases) and more on immersivity, ease of use, simplicity, and customizability. .................................. In other words, I expe...

His art isn't really popular today. :oops: I meant among certain collectors. Not really that "popular", though. Anyway, probably the reason why collectors are hunting them is because of the person who painted them instead of their art values. The problem with those paintings are that they...

(1) Would he be a successful painter? Did he really 'lack of talent', like the Academy said? Or he was simply unappreciated? I've seen his art. It is really not hard on the eyes at all and quite honestly I'd rather have a Hitler painting in my room than the baby Jesus getting blown by a demon with ...

What if, due some twist of fate, Hitler was actually accepted in Academy of Arts in Vienna? (1) Would he be a successful painter? Did he really 'lack of talent', like the Academy said? Or he was simply unappreciated? (2) Hitler had adopted anti-Semite views since in Vienna, but IIRC his fanatical qu...

My condolences. How old he was, by the way?

I used to, and fairly decently. Now, I'm basically lost when I look at sheet music. I can't even remember what the little numbers mean anymore, though I think it has to do with tempo. You mean numbers like 3/4, 2/4, 4/4, and such? They actually tells you about the ryhtm. 3/4, for instance, says tha...

Yes. Playing them, though, is a different issue. I cannot play it "cold" (playing a song I've never heard before simply by reading the notes). In order to play something, I have to hear the song first.

Ah, just browsed my collection and found something. Stravo, if you don't mind faster-paced, "semi" Chill, you may want to try 'Star Guitar' by Chemical Brothers. It's pretty noisy on the start, but when the ambience starts, the patience really pays! The ambient part begins when the lyrics ...

I just need to say though Kreshna, it's very impressive you knew off the top of your head exactly what Stravo was talking about. (I had to think about it quite a bit) Thanks! :) Actually it was the word "jazz" that rang the bell, because although Chill is already a well-known genre among ...

A lot of extra mushroom. A lot.

"Chill" is a newly-coined is more of a style than a genre, but I'd describe it as as possessing elements of ambient house, latin pop, smooth jazz, trip-hop and mediterranean dance. You were right. Chill is more a "style" than specific genre, and it's not limited to ambient house...

I was downgrading from Marlboro Red to Marlboro Lights to Marlboro Menthol when my (now ex) girlfriend introduced me to clove cigarettes. Before that, I couldn't stand the taste of clove cigarettes, because they're kind of 'bitter' in the mouth, but her brand is Djarum , which tastes rather 'sweet' ...

Ok, so I have a lot of songs I want to put on this thing, so I'm thinking of doing two CDs. One for cheese/fun stuff, and one for new wave/rock/punk/other. Cheese: <snip list> I found the 'cheesy' list actually contains the most iconic songs of the 80s (IMO). Those are: 1. 'You Spin Me Right Round'...

A freind of mine recently had some music playing in her office while she worked and I asked what it was because it sounded sort of like Jazz but not and she said it was a genre of music called Chill. Does it have 4/4 rythm like house music, but in slower pace? With jazzy guitars, jazzy bass, and su...

Those wierd combined skirt/ pant things from the late 90s. Those were the stupidiest fucking clothes a girl could possibly wear. Such trend in also happened in business clothing where female yuppies wore solid-colored stockings that looks like tight pants. I still remember seeing the HR manager wea...

Look, KAN. You don't need to bold anything. Frankly, it makes it more difficult to read your posts and is marginally annoying. We are perfectly capable of reading, thank you. Sorry. It is a design tradeoff. ............................................. AMD decided to try and get the most work out. ...

Maybe he just had local anaesthetics But he was screaming in pain during a scene of the surgery (followed by the scene showing Amidala was screaming as well). Doesn't lack of anesthetics endanger the patient during surgery? (shock from the pain, etc). Granted Anakin is strong in the Force, but why ...

AMD and Intel each follows different paths in developing their processor. AMD aims for more instructions per clock cycle , while Intel goes for faster clock speed . (1) Since AMD processors are capable of executing more instructions per cycle, why not creating them with clockspeed equalling those of...

Star Wars Medical/Cybernetic Technology: Anakin lost both legs and suffered from severe burns. Yet after going through a cybernetic surgery, which only took few hours at most (IIRC about the same amount of time needed by Amidala to give birth), he seemed to be fully recovered, albeit needed some ti...

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