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Kweel Nakashyn
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Posted - 2006.09.09 09:41:00 -
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 Originally by: Lazuran
(...) these things run on low-power embedded CPUs (...)
No.
Most of GPS CPU are sized to handle more calculation than EVE client at the moment it were released. THey also can catch very high frequency/energy microwave. Don't even think you decypher something if you pulse slower than these.
Second, GPS don't have to calculate a video game running backward.
Third, actually a friend n my corp use Dijkstra's for the very same problem and the result he had were slower than in game. He's a doctor in informatics so don't even think he can't code :)
Originally by: Lazuran
(...) But hey, with your arrogance and ignorance, you made my day. ;-)
You're welcome in our club :)
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Kweel Nakashyn
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Posted - 2006.10.20 23:01:00 -
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Originally by: Lazuran
Originally by: Kweel Nakashyn
No.
Most of GPS CPU are sized to handle more calculation than EVE client at the moment it were released.
LOL.
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THey also can catch very high frequency/energy microwave.
Yeah right, the CPU. Jeeez... All GPS transmission is handled by special hardware, i.e. GPS chips with their own processor and transmission hardware which do nothing else than output the current coordinates and some other data on a serial or other interface. The route calculation is done by the "general purpose" CPU of the navigation systems, which is usually something like what current PDAs have.
I like the "some serial" part... 
Why do you think GPS are soooooooo exepensive now ? Because hardware suxx and evil america use some zomgee$e licence on it ?
High frequency/energy signals are NOT deciphered by slow chips that, btw, are designed to compute image theory used to en/decypher signals (About image apps, i won't teach you anything but look closer to your gpu temperature in your 400W personal computer, or try to phone my mother (who can hang you more than 3 hour on the phone) with your cell phone that is "just a mic afterall, with a little speaker that put 'some 1-dimentional data' in 'some serial'").
Transmission chips and those that encepher/decypher signal in modern electronic stuff are really underestimate in your informatic point of vue...
Why do you think 80's battery could handle 10 hour of pacman in this electronic game and only 1 hour in modern cell phones ? Because of the battery themself ? Did you try to put game-n watch batteries in your cellphone ?
You try to explain things from an informatic point of view, I speak from an electronic point of view, i think we can't understand as we are speaking different languages :)
An ARM is a gameboy advance cpu by the way. It is not really the definition of a slow chip in my book :). Simulating an arm on a 400mhz pentium is a very bad idea.
These chip I speak about are especially phone chip. They clock @ 10 GHz. Your CPU try to acheive 3.2MHz, think twice about it, that is not low-power :)
Now GPS chips I can't tell really well, but... hmm... Is it in the 15/17GHz ?
"Why my cpu clock @ 3 MHz and my phone clock @ 10 Ghz ? I want cpu clock at 10 GHz !" : if you can afford your electricity bill, alimentation and asking mister Intel/AMD/Motorola to stop using Silicium and start to rebuy all their producting enginery to switch to AsGa, go on... I won't :) ("what ? $20k the new pentium 12 ? wtf ?" :) )
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Kweel Nakashyn
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Posted - 2006.10.20 23:14:00 -
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Originally by: Qutsemnie
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I wish I'd be better at both math, informatics and english to understand at 100% what you said :)
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Kweel Nakashyn
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Posted - 2006.10.20 23:22:00 -
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Edited by: Kweel Nakashyn on 20/10/2006 23:23:24
Originally by: Eilie
Necro FTL! 
Mmm yes, I am doing necro atm, sorry for all :) Just discovered the magic "reread my stuff" button (I still miss the "put my cahracter head on the avatar" button, but i'll find it out) and missed a lot of interesting answers...
I'll stop that, but here bounced a thread that was really cool :)
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Kweel Nakashyn
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Posted - 2006.10.26 17:39:00 -
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Edited by: Kweel Nakashyn on 26/10/2006 17:39:54
Originally by: Jessica May
So a Laptop running a game with Microsoft Auto Route in the background with a USB Sat Nav arial wouldn't be able to compute a route? (Think caurefully, you might be talking to someone who has tried this).
Zomgeeze Necro (sorry again)
Why not ?
My purpose is to say GPS's chips are not game'n watch's, not to say GPS's chip are like modern mainframes's racks.
I underlined that the device that decypher the signal isn't made by a game'n watch, and the fact that you won't catch flies with a butterfly net (catching 15 GHz waves with a silicon chip that pulse @ 3.5 GHz : there's a chip in your usb thingy). Btw, usb is not in my book of low-power devices :)
If you have this device, please monitor the CPU/GPU activity while only computing/uploadinbg gps data, I would be curious if it's all computed on your usb or not.
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