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The key to achieve this goal is AMD's single-die architecture and its ability to individually adjust the clock speed of each processor core. For example, if the full processing power of all four cores isn't needed, the architecture is able to reduce the clock speed of individual cores. One core running at full speed and three cores at one third of their maximum clock speed would drop power consumption by 40%. AMD can even completely shut down individual cores for even greater reduction of the CPU's power consumption.

The link above is to a blog which links to a blog which links to... It seems the original info came from http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/30/defcon2006_janus _project/ more info is available there than at the site linked at parent.

- http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=482
- http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articl eid=861&cid=1
- http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6538
- http://www.mvktech.net/content/view/3357/48/
- http://pcper.com/article.php?aid=287
- http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=33872
- http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/23/review_ati _radeon_x1950_xtx/
- http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/X1950XTX
- http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=954
- http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/radeon-x1950x tx/index.x?pg=1
- http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2007324 ,00.asp
- http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/23/ati_releases_rad eon_x1950/
- http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/375/
- http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/131
- http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2 020&cid=3&pg=1
- http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_x19 50_xtx_performance/
- http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/X1950XTXreview /

up to date list: http://www.madshrimps.be/forums/showthread.php?s=& threadid=26526

the 3600x2 might get squeezed into a system at that pricepoint.

Since the X2 3800+ sells for ~$148, does anyone have information as to what the X2 3600+ chips are going to sell for? ne article says that they're being released into the channel for $149 but that there would probably be price cuts.

It would have to be down around $100 retail in order to compete with the low-end clearance of the old Intel 805 dual-core Pentium 4s.

What actually comes to me hearing about this is how incredibly much everyone hates Intel Integrated Graphics. I'm told that ATI and NVidia both have low-end cards that don't really cost any more than Integrated Graphics, but get used less often just because they're not what the system comes with. Mark Rein of Epic seems to think Integrated Graphics is slowly killing PC gaming.

I wonder, with AMD and ATI working together will they be able to present an alternative which meets Intel on price while beating them by far on performance. And if they do, will Intel have to improve their offerings to stay competitive...

Hooray capitalism

http://www.hypertransport.org/products/productdeta il.cfm?RecordID=65
PathScale Infiniband card. Lowest latency infiniband neworking card in existance (1.5 microseconds).

http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?si d=11429
Xilinx card

Articles about HTX and 4x4 (Torrenza) tie in:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/200606070 74412.html
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Weblets/0,,7832_8366_5730 ~109409,00.html
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/06/02/qanda_amd_vp_ran dy_allen/

There are many more, but this is a start.

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/04/seagate_leaky_dr ives/

TG Daily a few days ago.

Perfluoropolyether is the lubricant. And it's not 'nanotube-based' at all. It's delivered via the tubes.

From the article: "Vapor PFPE also surrounds the platter. As the drive spins, areas of the platter will get hot, which will wear out the lubricant. The vapor PFPE deposits on the platter to replace the worn out lubricant. The "condensing" vapor lowers vapor pressure which then draws out lubricant from the CNTs until the pressure is equalized."

It does say the reservoir will provide ten years of 'practical' use. For someone who uses their hard drives a LOT (maybe someone without enough RAM? :)) I could see this lasting only 7-8 years. Still quite a while IMHO.

TLF

IBM accelerates silicon to more than 500 GHz

There was an article a couple days ago on TGDaily that stated the Samsung's first blu-ray player to be a grand.

I don't know why an article on Slashdot is reporting Sony's to be $1500 when Best Buy is already taking pre-orders for both the Sony BDP-S1 & Samsung BD-P1000 models each equally priced at a thousand dollars. Even the Froogle search for it seems to come out on the one grand consensus.

It seems a lot of articles have been against Sony while this fear of Sony's set top player being overpriced is relatively unfounded. As we all know, this shall prove interesting if the PS3s offer the same functionality for much less.

If both players debut at $1,000, perhaps this will be a war one in quality instead of price? Ah, who am I kidding--whoever licenses pr0n easiest/fastest will come out on top (no pun intended).

I don't intend to run out and buy one because the only movie I've seen advertised for blu-ray is the second Underworld movie. And I don't even know which kind of blu-ray player it's for (customer confusion indeed)!

Just a side note, the same Reuters article is in The Washington Post and I've linked the print format to avoid having to click through pages and view less ads.

What I've read about Samsung's variation of this technology is that it is accessed somewhat independently, at least by the OS. The OS determines sectors that deserve quicker read access and "pins" them to the flash drive.

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/06/02/microsoft_to_rem ove_pdf_from_office2007/

All this 'MS conspiracy' kills me, here read what others are saying actually happened. Like MS offered to ship Flash with Vista even in their negotiation with Adobe.

They also removed MS's own XPS format from Office so the industry wouldn't think it was MS's decision to not provide PDF and favor their document format...

article

So since people seem to be confused about what managed copy really means, here is a great primer on the state of managed copy as of March 2006.

Summary:

* Both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray use the same AACS standard for copy protection (and thus managed copy protection)

* Players out now cannot do managed copy because the standard is not done - it's hoped the ability can be added later in a firmware update.

* Managed copies will likley require an internet connection so it can "ask" to make a copy, and possibly also involve payment for the right to copy.

Some good technical details there on how the system might end up working.

backwards compatibility? http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/24/hypertransport_3 _announced/

Then again, I might consider an HD-DVD player to watch Serenity. If, of course, I could afford a TV that would play it back.

Universal makes U-turn, will not use ICT in first-gen HD DVD

I wonder which would suck more:

1. Watching the Serenity HD-DVD in letterboxed 1280x720p on a 17" LCD from up close.
2. Watching it in 852x480 on a low-end 42" plasma EDTV.

I thought they were dropping the Pentium name?

The one linked is a little bland for my taste

this one is better:

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/03/20/nvidia_sli_forph ysics/

Or choose you own adventure via Google news:

http://news.google.ca/news?client=firefox-a&rls=or g.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&hl=en&percentage_se rved=100&tab=wn&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=NVIDIA+SLI+Physics &btnG=Search+News

The good news:

The "Image Constraint Token" (downsampling of HD content for analog outputs) is more or less dead.

You won't see it invoked in the initial HD releases from SONY, Disney, Fox or Paramount. Warner may be the only significant hold-out. Not that 960x540 is half-bad:

Sony, Others Won't Degrade HD Content on Analog Outputs

Disney to release movies on HD DVD The worst possible news for the Blu-Ray camp and something that will put enormous pressure on Time-Warner.

AACS will survive in some form. But it is beginning to look like Microsof's iHD and HD-DVD are the real winners here.

The obvious solution is... Windows VISTA!

However, both Vista Enterprise Edition and Ultimate Edition will actually come with a VM. ;-)

Shooting themselves in the foot? Hehe.

To claim the reward, you have to fly to StarForce's headquarters in Moscow and demonstrate the problem (presumably on your own hardware that you have flown in). They get to decide if they are convinced or not.

I was born in the USSR, and I've kept up with what's going on in the region, and and voluntarily flying to Russia is not something I'd like to do. Going to a hostile, Moscow-based "business" strikes me as even less of a good idea.

At nearly $1100 a pop, they're not that great a choice for someone looking for a cheap COTS solution.

Why not go with a Quad SLI Solution? http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/05/26/gigabyte_to_supp ort_four_sli_graphics_cards_on_one_motherboard/ind ex.html

Code-named Conroe... blah blah blah ...feature "security" is expected to be discussed in the framework of a technology that is based on standards set by the Trusted Computing Group and carries the code-name "LaGrande."

Intel's new chips have a Trust Enforcer chip embedded inside the CPU itself. Each chip features a unique serial number, DRM enforcement, Sealed Storage to prohibit you from reading your own files on your hard drive, and Remote Attestation to act as a spy on your computer to log your hardware and what software you run and to securely transmit that spy report to other people over the internet. The chip has your computer's master key locked inside, and you are forbidden to know your master key to control your own computer. Other models of the Trust chip are boobytrapped to self destruct if you attempt to get you key out, and I'd wager these CPUs are boobytrapped to self destruct as well.

Evil as hell.

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To which study are you referring?

Perhaps your view is because you are not aware of the very extensive evidence that has previously been posted in highly respective technical forums in the past about this subject.

Read this from Tom's Hardware's Aaron McKenna:
http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/01/the_war_on_game_ pirates/index.html

Read the follow up letter by Starforce:
http://www.star-force.com/protection/protection.ph tml?c=256&id=658

Read Aaron's response letter to Dennis Zhidkov at:
http://www.glop.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=93

Ubi has received numerous emails from registered users of their games who have experienced this problem and are investigating them. Check their forums for more details on that.

Starforce regularly LOCKS and even deletes threads on their own forums whenever someone posts requesting for help with problems related to those discussed here, so they can keep up the pretense of not having any legitimate reports of problems.

I completely agree with Aaron's letter. When copy protection seeks to do modification to a person's system, regardless of what kind of "permission" they confuse the end user into giving them, then copy protection is going too far.

"You're also ignoring Intel's plans to introduce Merom in 2H of this year."

The Merom, "shows higher power consumption levels than the company anticipated" and if they can fix that, it will be introduced at a paltry 2.33GHz in September... The Merom is already obsolete. http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/11/merom_to_be_laun ched_in_september/

The AMD FX60 dual-core available _today_ is already at 2.4Ghz in 90nm silicon, and will definitely switch Fab36 to 65nm before Merom is out.

And this page http://www.penstarsys.com/editor/company/intel/con roe/optimism_2.htm explains why ZRAM is the answer of AMD to Merom's large cache, but without needing to match the high manufacturing cost and power problems of the Merom...

ZRAM is in line with Merom, we're talking about the end of this year, or later, here (if Intel can't fix the problems with Merom, it's schedule will slip again.

Oh, btw M2 adds DDR2 support, not DDR, and that's hardly a tweak.

Forbes is a bit late on the story. TG Daily ran an article about Stanford's itunes project back in early November. http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/11/04/stanford_itunes/

Almost all of the content is directed towards alumni to help them maintain a "connection" with the school. The lectures are NOT class lectures, but lectures from professors on specific topics. While still interesting, I don't see any actual student classes being offered via iTunes.

http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/08/31/9_million_psp_ga mes/

I saw a recent article at TG Daily that describes the problem as more related to finding a common language to coordinate quests more effectively. It also mentions a history of the English test dating back to Everquest and it's relation to weeding out gold farmers.

Hehe, wait until we have the "600 000 medical records lost (or stolen) from hospital X" news, following similar trends for other important electronic data we see nowadays.

Reminds me of this article. It's backup data, but data is data.

Our lives are being integrated into and eventually controlled by electrons, the very things we sought to control.

It seems that Google is going to be using DivX and its DRM to get video into lounge rooms and onto portable devices .DivX has a popular codec ,50 Million DivX certified devices and a MPAA approved DRM .The addition of Geencines movies to Google Video is a clear intention of DivX and Google's relationship as Greencine uses DivX for it's streaming and Burn to Rent and Burn to Buy server .

http://www.greencine.com/divxRelease?content=4

According to Divx representatives, the talks are in a very early stage and details still have to be discussed and determined. However, Divx' role in Google appears not be in direct connection with the search engine's announcement of a commercial video download service. Instead, Divx will help Google to move video content across various device types and ultimately onto the TV screen. Of course, content will only be able to be moved, if it carries a digital rights management platform and if devices are "secure. Susan Wojcicki, Google's vice president of product management said that "Google video's goal is to make the world's video content more accessible" to people. "We want to reach a point when consumers can easily access the content that is important to them from Google whenever they want and enjoy that content on a variety of devices."

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/07/divx_google/

"Apple has launched legal action in an attempt to have patents for video and audio delivery software held by Burst.com declared invalid. The company sued Burst in the US District Court in San Francisco requesting declaratory relief to determine the patents invalid.Burst warns that it will respond to Apple's action and file a counterclaim for patent infringement "shortly". The suit follows a break-down in protracted negotiations to issue a licence for Burst's patents to cover Apple's iPod and iTunes products. Burst first approached Apple in late 2004 in an attempt to agree licences for the use of the technology. Burst's legal team told Apple that the company believed Apple was infringing its patents, and that it would launch action. Apple denies the claims."

"Burst remains committed to the enforcement of its intellectual property and looks forward to successfully resolving this litigation through a licence covering Apple's Quicktime, iPod and iTunes products, including Apple's iTunes Music Store," the company said. Last year, Burst settled its patent and antitrust suit against Microsoft with Microsoft taking a licence to Burst's patents and paying a lump sum of $60 million."

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/09/apple_suit/

http://news.designtechnica.com/article8394.html

http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/09/27/hd_dvd_support_a _last_minute_switch/index.html

I don't know if WMP 11 allows it, but HD DVD specs allow it.

The hardware will allow new encryption schemes to be carried by the disk.

From here....
http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/08/10/blu/index.html

"BD+ appears to be Blu-ray's version of a concept previously under consideration called SPDC, which enabled the method for encrypting a disc's contents to be included on the disc, rather than on the EPROMs of the disc player. One of the perceived failures of first-generation DVD was that its encryption mechanism of choice, called Content Scramble System (CSS), was spectacularly defeated, with the result being that the industry was forced to permanently and irreversibly support a now-worthless encryption scheme. With SPDC, new encryption algorithms could be adopted as old ones are cracked, enabling successive generations of high-def DVD to be stronger than earlier ones."

I also have to add my two cents about my experience with hard drives. Currently, I am attempting to replace all of the Maxtors that I have bought over the years (due to the rebate offers which made them have the best price per gig) because each one of them is starting to get bad sectors (which has made me lose some valuable data). I have never had any problems with Western Digital drives, but Seagate is simply having the best price offers today.
I have to also add my two cents about the "addiction" of wanting to secure data. I used to be devastated when I'd lose data (well this was when my drives would be filled with pRon, music, and movies). But about half a year ago, I realized that I only have about two gigs worth of data that I would never want to lose: Pictures of my priceless trips to places and family and the writing I have done for school as well as pleasure. So, in conclusion, I think that people should as themselves (as has already been asked): Do you really need all of the data that you attempt to secure?

Why is everyone so worried about leakage?

You can dramatically reduce leakage by tweaking the process to give you a slightly slower process. It's not the end of the world folks. It's just at this point in time, it makes more sense to have the faster process and pay for it with leakage power. In the future that may or may not be true.

http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/09/20/new_intel_65_nm_ lithography_promises_reduced_leakage_for_small_dev ices

With billions of dollars at stake - it is unwise to underestimate the ingenuity of device physicists.

Turner Network Television recently aired a commercial off of the InPhase Tapestry drive. Maxell built that drive for InPhase.

Data backup has become very expensive for some of my customers. The amount of data a company of even minimal size (50 employees) goes through in a day blows my mind. We've been investing every option but none are cost effective (except when a hard drive goes).

My dilemma is that as backup storage (such as the HVD) gets bigger, it seems that hard drives quickly outpace the new form of backup storage. 1.6TB discs sound great, yet I'm weary of having that much data on an easy to break/burn/steal disc. 300GB is more feasible as I can see making a few copies of the backup "just in case."

Nonetheless, the write speeds listed don't seem all that great, and what interfaces will let us copy data at those speeds? Moving 1.6TG of data off of a server without slowing down user access (24 hours per day with offshore employees) sounds like it will still take hours and hours to back up (if not longer). A recovery stage would take even longer.

For now, I'm happiest with redundancy backups. I don't like mirroring or RAIDx/y or clusters (too many nightmares over the 15 years I've worked with all of it), but having a server dupe itself daily has given us the best turnover and safety margins we've seen, as well as being very cost effective compared to use-once media or (shudder) tapes.

It's bullshit. Nobody is shocked that Windows outsells Linux. Windows Server has ALWAYS outsold Linux. Linux outselling Windows would be NEWS.

And Linux doesn't account for 31% of total server revenue.. It accounts for fucking 12% of server revenue.
http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/11/23/server_sales_q3_ 2005/

The only news is that NEW linux sales (as in more sold this quarter then previous) rose 34+ percent, or something like this.

This has been 12 straight quarters which new server sales for Linux growth has risen double digits. There have been quarters were Linux growth has been 54% NEW sales over the previous quarter's sales. Linux is increasing it's precense in the datacenter and in the server room like a fucking rocket. Always has been, but until recently Linux has been a very small fish in a big pond. Now it's the second most common OS that your going to see anywere.

The news this guy is refering to is that Windows outsold UNIX, not Linux. Linux is recorded in a seperate catagory..

This isn't due to anything wonderfull Windows does. The main reason you'd want to run Windows Server is that you run Windows Desktop because Microsoft's products don't integrate with jack shit. But everybody runs Windows desktop and windows desktop only works well with windows server unless you have a mixed enviroment then you use Linux as glue between MS stuff and everything else.

The main reason that Unix servers sales have flagged is because Linux, not Windows. Linux is MUCH cheaper to use then Unix.

Hell in this quarter alone Sun has dropped from 7+ % of sales to under 5% and that's due to Linux. Most of Oracle licenses and such that are sold are sold to be run on Linux.

However that has had the side effect of making Windows the largest market in terms of sales..

Which is still bullshit because if you take Unix and Linux together, which you should since they are mostly compatable and run all the same software, then Windows server is still the minority and always has been.

http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/11/22/suicideclaim-wor ldofwarcraft/

We dug a little deeper into the story and also translated the original Chinese language newspaper article. Turns out he thought he could meet his night elf hero if he committed suicide.

He wrote four letters and one hand-written note to his parents saying goodbye. He also logged onto WoW and told his guild buddies goodbye.

There is no part of the game that makes you commit suicide, but there are two quests where you can jump off a mountain or building. The Alliance one is in Feralas and the Horde one is in Thousand Needles.

Not according to these.

But hey, pulling things out of your ass is good fun, right?

The color range may be good, but why the poor contrast ratio?

The technology sounds similar to Brightside's Extreme-Dynamic Range Display. Both are LCD monitors backlit by an array of LEDs, but Brightside claims a 200,000:1 contrast ratio because backlights can be turned off entirely for black pixels. The SpectraView clocks in with a 448: 1 contrast ratio... it seems like they should be able to do the same thing.

Apparently, Microsoft has already denied this.
I got that on OSNews.com yesterday.

The above links are incorrect—the "&cid=" part should be removed. As a service, here they are as clickable links:

www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/26/canon_fuelcell/

www.itworld.com/Comp/1774/051026canonfuelcell/

One day the news reports MS will support ODF, the next day they won't. See Microsoft denies preparations to support OpenDoc in Office 12 http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/26/microsoft_denies _odf_for_office_12/

"I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it."

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/bliz zard_entert.html

More commentary on Tom'sHardware: http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/24/world_of_warcraf t_warden_is_it_spyware/index.html

Wow, place is loaded with ads and ads and ads..

print version

http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/22/rtf_eula/print.h tml

From the article you linked to A statement of software support, in which Warner will formally announce its intent to release movies and other content on the high-definition disc format, is expected sometime today.
I actually just read an article stating that the WB didnt announce support because of HP throwing a wrench in their plans. WB was demanding greater DRM which the BluRay working group had accepted until HP demanded that they allow managed home copying a la HD DVD http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/20/did_hp_announcem ent_stall_warner_bros/index.html

No, I think you never actually listened to what he has to say.

Here is an article that doesn't show any kind of bias towards the videogame industry. In Defense of Jack Thompson. While it doesn't paint a pretty picture of Mr Thompson, it certainly doesn't slander him as a whack job who is out to hurt a billion dollar industry.

If you have the 80 minutes eats up, feel free to listen to this interview Interview he gave to chatterbox radio [MP3].

For far better info than the anemic (and completely flash based) gc.org site:

http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/discussion.htm l -- DARPA's GC message boards
http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/08/darpagrandchalle nge2005/ -- Was updated throughout the actual event. Best coverage I've seen yet.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/darpachallenge/ -- Popular Science's rather disorganized site

I'm still looking for "highlight" video myself... or pretty much any non-bland video (seeing them cross the finish line is nifty and all, but that was not a challenging part of the race). I particularly want video of Alice trying to take out some reporters!