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    Mould Creation Time

    I like knowing how its made, the whole process of getting a product designed, produced, and assembled. its not every day ... (year?) ... that you get to see step by step how your computer/console was made. but I'm the kind of person who sees a warranty as the delay before you can take it apart...
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    Current Release Data (Sept. 17)

    in two monthstm
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    Pandora Order As An Investment

    would that be a couple billion years, since the start of the universe ? then that might also answer the OP's question if you count all the dinosaurs that never got a Pandora, maybe they found a fossilized preorder. and btw, what is a "preorder" ? "pre" means before, so that would be before...
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    Pandora Tv / Radio

    iirc FM radio is between VHF channel 6 and channel 7's frequencies (at least in north america), so a TV tuner also work as an FM tuner unless that range is disabled in the software drivers or firmware. bu of course, they will sell you the FM tuner separately.
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    Sgx Opengl Es 2.0 Application Development Recommendations

    I was looking at the functional block diagram for the OMAP3530 it might be faster to scale the emulator's image in software as it is generated. for 2D emulation if the image is generated scanline by scanline it'll easily fit in the CPU cache (possibly along with the previous scanline for...
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    Change In Mhz Ratings..

    obligatory misquote
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    Another Pandora Batch Thread

    You can have it in any color hue and saturation you want, but it'll be a very, very, very, very dark shade of it. to be politically correct, you have to say its luminosity-differently-abled
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    Current Drains By Speed And Device

    its a nice device, cost (289$) almost as much in the US as a 2nd Pandora :P OT: The power gorilla has also been on field tests out in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is the new benchmark for devices. so, someone has to take their Pandora to Afghanistan, clear the airport customs, boot up their...
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    Current Drains By Speed And Device

    ouch! I saw on hackaday.com a while ago some guy made a self-regulating minimal switching PSU with the device's own micro-controller. using a spare ADC input and an output pin hooked on a transistor, an interrupt handler regulated in software the capacitor charge. USB gizmo makers probably...
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    Current Drains By Speed And Device

    :lol: cue the innuendoes
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    The Swine Flu

    I already made an App for that :ph34r: http://pivotalblur.com/asdf/ I could easily do a Pandora "port" if I ever get mine: it was actually developed under Linux then ported to iPhone.
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    Current Drains By Speed And Device

    can (did?) someone with an multimeter check the amperes for running some game at 600Mhz vs 900Mhz vs <600 vs idle (or almost idle == typing in open office), etc ? I'm curious as to what proportion the cpu takes relative to the rest of the system. maybe check the power drain at different gpu...
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    Change In Mhz Ratings..

    lol, right :) my example numbers were off but it still explains the marketing strategy behind not selling your low-percentage highest-speed yield. Intel and Amd can sell rarer "extreme editions" since the cpu on the motherboard is user-replaceable, its a bit harder to do on embedded systems :P
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    Interested In Being A Game Programmer...

    I've sent you a message, or you can contact me trough http://www.pivotalblur.com I'm in Montreal too and looking for self-motivated autonomous artists. you can google my name for a few games I've worked on.
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    Change In Mhz Ratings..

    yes, they probably were waiting to make sure they had sufficient yields at 720Mhz before making a real 720Mhz part, and the old 600Mhz part number is likely in order to keep suppling old orders even tho they might all be 720Mhz parts. if your job is to order "600Mhz TI OMAP3 parts" and all of...
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    Sgx Opengl Es 2.0 Application Development Recommendations

    no, its not guaranteed. it depends on the associativity of the cache and its cache line recycling algorithm. it could be less recently used, sequential, or pseudo-random. I doubt directly updating a texture, then reading an amount of memory X times larger than the cache to somehow force it to...
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    Sgx Opengl Es 2.0 Application Development Recommendations

    this makes a lot of sense, I wouldn't be surprised if it behaved the same way on the Pandora. however, one should only use this when the texture is updated on every frames and/or is used upright on screen (not rotated and not flipped: 3D billboards (sprites) ) as any other orientations will be...
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    Sgx Opengl Es 2.0 Application Development Recommendations

    its recipe for disaster. you would also get a few cpu cache and texture cache incoherencies. its surprising how long a single cache line can stay dirty while all the surrounding ones have been recycled. plus the PowerVR usually does deferred rendering meaning it first grabs all geometry...
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    Sgx Opengl Es 2.0 Application Development Recommendations

    from what I understood, (but I didn't have time to test it), the swizzling is not tile-based like the usual NxN tiles (4x4 tile here for my example, 16x16 texture) xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx +0 +10 +20 +30 y 0123 0123 ... y 4567 4567 y 89AB 89AB y CDEF CDEF +40 +50 +60 +70 y ... +80...
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    Change In Mhz Ratings..

    what will be interesting is will it make a significant difference to clock it at 166 or even 200Mhz. how big and efficient is the texture cache? I worked on a PSP game where down clocking the cpu, gpu, and bus down to 66Mhz cpu / 33Mhz bus from 333/111Mhz would drop the frame rate by only 10 to...
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