There was ? Because I'm pretty sure the article on Slashdot just yesterday was about a company with no patent claims against VP8 actively seeking out others in a desperate attempt to justify its FUD. What patents were listed in that mysterious article that you seem to be the only one to have read ?
Or maybe it's their past format wins that inspired them continue. You know, things like CD, DVD, the 3 1/2" floppy, BetaCam...
It's not like Blu-ray is Sony's first media format win. But then again, everytime Sony gets one in, there's always someone that thinks it's the first time.
- Blu-ray players still play DVD discs. - Blu-ray players are also upconverting DVD players. - Unconverted DVDs have nothing on Blu-ray discs.
At 100$ for a decent Blu-ray player, you'd have to be dumb not to buy one. I chuckle when people think they saved 65$ by buying a rubbish Chinese DVD player.
Uh ? Anandtech did test the MacBook with a 320M. Check out this image from the review : http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4084/34978.png. In fact, if you look closely at that graph, there is no mention of the GT320M on it, only the Apple MBP13 (P8600 + 320M). In a low settings scenario, SB's IGP barely beats out the nVidia 320M, but that is probably more a testament to the Core i7 chip vs the C2D than actual IGP performance. At medium settings, the tables are reversed and the 320M beats the SB IGP, again meaning Intel failed on the graphics side. All this time you argued with me you weren't even talking about the same thing ? Wow.
The 320M used in Macs shares memory with main system memory. That used the be the definition of an integrated graphics part. Dedicated/discrete GPUs have their own memory, hence the dedicated/discrete part of the name. I've been following graphics cards/benchmarks/terminology since the mid-90s and 3Dfx's rise to fame.
The 320M I'm talking about and that Anand used is integrated in the chipset, same as all the Intel graphics before it, so it shares its die with a memory controller, a SATA controller, a PCI interface and a USB controller. It is the very definition of an integrated graphics part. Intel only decided to move the part from the chipset and integrate more on the CPU die itself. That doesn't make their showing any more impressive.
I don't know what benchmarks you're reading, but the 320M in the MacBook Pro 13" he used are not a discrete/dedicated card, they are integrated to the system chipset, they very much are an IGP.
In the case of Macs, the 320M is an integrated part. This Intel IGP is slower than an nVidia IGP from 2009. There is not evolution at all, this is regression.
The 320M is not a discrete graphics option, it's an integrated graphics option, same as this SB GPU. So you disagree out of ignorance more than disagreement. This is again a really poor showing on Intel's part.
What benchmarks is the poster reading exactly ? On the Mac side, the SB IGP barely beat out the current nVidia 320M in shipping MacBooks, at low settings (a CPU bound task) and couldn't match the performance at medium settings meaning the SB IGP is slower than nVidia's offering from 2009!
There's nothing impressive, this is standard Intel IGP fare.
The Open Source Initiative, founded by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond was founded in 1998, 12 years ago as of 2010. This is what the article refers to.
Except again, the app was not asking for donations, the money for donations was not coming from any links in the app itself, nor was the author mentionning it in his litterature. What the author chooses to do with the money he receives is not up to Apple at all. Whether it be buying a Porsche, a house, a night on the Vegas strip or simply donating it to a cause of his choosing. The rules don't apply unless you have a DONATE button somewhere or mention that X$ amount of each purchases goes X cause in your submission text.
So people, stop playing the "donation" card, you're all wrong unless you have proof that he was actually breaking the rule. Giving away his own hard earned money is not breaking the rule.
Apple's TOS doesn't get to dictate what I do with my App Store revenue. If I wish to take all the cash I make selling an app and then donate it to a cause of my choosing, they have no say in the matter, same as they have no say in the color of the Porsche I buy with said money. Respecting their rule is as easy as not mentioning the donation in any literature you submit to them. What the rule is for is for "Donation" buttons in the apps themselves. This is not what this is and thus that rule doesn't apply.
Egress filtering was setup at the ISP I worked for, 10 years ago. What's so surprising about that ? CMEs on 1 router card can have X subnets, allow only IP from those subnets to come from the CMEs on that card through access-lists. IOS has had that capability for as long as I remember. So maybe what others point out isn't quite the reality now is it ?
Actually, I think he was watching "The A-Team". Hence the name of the article. What did you expect going in when the very title draws a parallel to a series about a team who "gets the job done, no questions asked" ?
Exactly... I've currently got a 27TB raid50 running on OpenSolaris. Add more storage? Snap on another cabinet of disk (live) and add the space to the pool (also live)
And what exactly is impressive about that ? We do that all the time with LVM/VxFS on HP-UX (Present storage through FC LUN discovery, pvcreate on the new "disk", vgextend the volume group, lvextend the logical volumes as needed, VxFS supports online resizing, up or down!). Heck, if you want to add in the mirroring capabilities of ZFS, know that LVM also supports that, using the -m switch and setting your VGs on strict allocation so that your extents are always picked from different PVs.
And before that, we did it using VxVM/VxFS on Solaris (Plexes for mirroring, online growth, etc..). You're proving the other short-sighted comment true with your own, there is much in ZFS that we did find solutions for many years ago. In fact, I'm willing to bet ZFS just used the ideas spread forth by these volume managers and just went from there, because ZFS does really look like a volume manager at its core (zpools are basically disk groups (VxVM) or volume groups (LVM)).
Of course it's different. On top of zpools, the ZFS slices themselves look more like Netapp's QTree concept than LVM's LVs or VxVM's volumes. One big volume (the zpool) with different small slices (zfs) that share the underlying storage using a quota based strategy. You can overbook storage so to make sure there is no waste (something VxVM/LVM lacks).
Then there's all that new stuff like snapshots and compression which just aren't there in the older volume managers and of course, RAIDZ, which is not supported at all in LVM unless you use 3rd party tools to create a soft RAID5 or 6 and then pvcreate that device to add to your VG.
I put milk in Earl Grey tea. In fact, I put milk in my English Breakfeast tea too. All the time. No milk, no tea. Please be there around 4 for your septic tank thing, I'll have the Earl ready with some milk and crumpets.
Decibel Milivolts which are used in RF calculations (or just Decibels in general) are a logarithmic scale that doubles for every 3 points. I'll let you do the math on how much weaker your signal is after a 20 db drop (hint, it's not 26% weaker).
Uh ? That's his name and it's easier to write than Mr. Jobs. I wouldn't write Mr. Ellison either, I'd say Larry. Nor would I say Mr. Schmidt, I'd just say Eric or Mr. Schwartz, Jo, Jon, Jonathan... And what in my comment makes you think I'm an Apple fan ? I'm actually saying he was purposefully manipulating statistics to make it seem less bad than it was...
Who cares how many sell in the weekend ? That's not a measure of anything besides marketing Hype. RIM outsells Apple quarter after quarter. That's all that matters. They have more Market share, I doubt they are jealous of Apple iAnything.
Hand in your geek card. You have no grasp of the issue and it shows. Anand performed tests and the iPhone 4 loses 20 db of signal when lightly touched in the proper spot (lower left gap between antennas). 20 dbs might not result in a visible result on the bar display seeing how 5 bars is larger than that.
What has Slashdot become that we now have to deal with ignorant mass-consumers instead of just geeks with actual curiosity for researching and understanding ?
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You lie.
Seriously. I don't know what HP is doing, but NFS hangs/stuck processes that you can't kill -9 your way out of is just wrong.
There was ? Because I'm pretty sure the article on Slashdot just yesterday was about a company with no patent claims against VP8 actively seeking out others in a desperate attempt to justify its FUD. What patents were listed in that mysterious article that you seem to be the only one to have read ?
Or maybe it's their past format wins that inspired them continue. You know, things like CD, DVD, the 3 1/2" floppy, BetaCam...
It's not like Blu-ray is Sony's first media format win. But then again, everytime Sony gets one in, there's always someone that thinks it's the first time.
- Blu-ray players still play DVD discs.
- Blu-ray players are also upconverting DVD players.
- Unconverted DVDs have nothing on Blu-ray discs.
At 100$ for a decent Blu-ray player, you'd have to be dumb not to buy one. I chuckle when people think they saved 65$ by buying a rubbish Chinese DVD player.
Uh ? Anandtech did test the MacBook with a 320M. Check out this image from the review : http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4084/34978.png. In fact, if you look closely at that graph, there is no mention of the GT320M on it, only the Apple MBP13 (P8600 + 320M). In a low settings scenario, SB's IGP barely beats out the nVidia 320M, but that is probably more a testament to the Core i7 chip vs the C2D than actual IGP performance. At medium settings, the tables are reversed and the 320M beats the SB IGP, again meaning Intel failed on the graphics side. All this time you argued with me you weren't even talking about the same thing ? Wow.
The 320M used in Macs shares memory with main system memory. That used the be the definition of an integrated graphics part. Dedicated/discrete GPUs have their own memory, hence the dedicated/discrete part of the name. I've been following graphics cards/benchmarks/terminology since the mid-90s and 3Dfx's rise to fame.
The 320M I'm talking about and that Anand used is integrated in the chipset, same as all the Intel graphics before it, so it shares its die with a memory controller, a SATA controller, a PCI interface and a USB controller. It is the very definition of an integrated graphics part. Intel only decided to move the part from the chipset and integrate more on the CPU die itself. That doesn't make their showing any more impressive.
I don't know what benchmarks you're reading, but the 320M in the MacBook Pro 13" he used are not a discrete/dedicated card, they are integrated to the system chipset, they very much are an IGP.
In the case of Macs, the 320M is an integrated part. This Intel IGP is slower than an nVidia IGP from 2009. There is not evolution at all, this is regression.
The 320M is not a discrete graphics option, it's an integrated graphics option, same as this SB GPU. So you disagree out of ignorance more than disagreement. This is again a really poor showing on Intel's part.
What benchmarks is the poster reading exactly ? On the Mac side, the SB IGP barely beat out the current nVidia 320M in shipping MacBooks, at low settings (a CPU bound task) and couldn't match the performance at medium settings meaning the SB IGP is slower than nVidia's offering from 2009!
There's nothing impressive, this is standard Intel IGP fare.
The Open Source Initiative, founded by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond was founded in 1998, 12 years ago as of 2010. This is what the article refers to.
Except again, the app was not asking for donations, the money for donations was not coming from any links in the app itself, nor was the author mentionning it in his litterature. What the author chooses to do with the money he receives is not up to Apple at all. Whether it be buying a Porsche, a house, a night on the Vegas strip or simply donating it to a cause of his choosing. The rules don't apply unless you have a DONATE button somewhere or mention that X$ amount of each purchases goes X cause in your submission text.
So people, stop playing the "donation" card, you're all wrong unless you have proof that he was actually breaking the rule. Giving away his own hard earned money is not breaking the rule.
Apple's TOS doesn't get to dictate what I do with my App Store revenue. If I wish to take all the cash I make selling an app and then donate it to a cause of my choosing, they have no say in the matter, same as they have no say in the color of the Porsche I buy with said money. Respecting their rule is as easy as not mentioning the donation in any literature you submit to them. What the rule is for is for "Donation" buttons in the apps themselves. This is not what this is and thus that rule doesn't apply.
Egress filtering was setup at the ISP I worked for, 10 years ago. What's so surprising about that ? CMEs on 1 router card can have X subnets, allow only IP from those subnets to come from the CMEs on that card through access-lists. IOS has had that capability for as long as I remember. So maybe what others point out isn't quite the reality now is it ?
The OpenStep specification is... well, Open. What can Apple do ? They don't hold rights that are being infringed here.
Actually, I think he was watching "The A-Team". Hence the name of the article. What did you expect going in when the very title draws a parallel to a series about a team who "gets the job done, no questions asked" ?
Exactly... I've currently got a 27TB raid50 running on OpenSolaris. Add more storage? Snap on another cabinet of disk (live) and add the space to the pool (also live)
And what exactly is impressive about that ? We do that all the time with LVM/VxFS on HP-UX (Present storage through FC LUN discovery, pvcreate on the new "disk", vgextend the volume group, lvextend the logical volumes as needed, VxFS supports online resizing, up or down!). Heck, if you want to add in the mirroring capabilities of ZFS, know that LVM also supports that, using the -m switch and setting your VGs on strict allocation so that your extents are always picked from different PVs.
And before that, we did it using VxVM/VxFS on Solaris (Plexes for mirroring, online growth, etc..). You're proving the other short-sighted comment true with your own, there is much in ZFS that we did find solutions for many years ago. In fact, I'm willing to bet ZFS just used the ideas spread forth by these volume managers and just went from there, because ZFS does really look like a volume manager at its core (zpools are basically disk groups (VxVM) or volume groups (LVM)).
Of course it's different. On top of zpools, the ZFS slices themselves look more like Netapp's QTree concept than LVM's LVs or VxVM's volumes. One big volume (the zpool) with different small slices (zfs) that share the underlying storage using a quota based strategy. You can overbook storage so to make sure there is no waste (something VxVM/LVM lacks).
Then there's all that new stuff like snapshots and compression which just aren't there in the older volume managers and of course, RAIDZ, which is not supported at all in LVM unless you use 3rd party tools to create a soft RAID5 or 6 and then pvcreate that device to add to your VG.
Or Mozilla is not reinventing the wheel and using things like libgif, libjpeg, libpng and probably ffmpeg. You're just making stuff up as you go.
I put milk in Earl Grey tea. In fact, I put milk in my English Breakfeast tea too. All the time. No milk, no tea. Please be there around 4 for your septic tank thing, I'll have the Earl ready with some milk and crumpets.
*TAP*
"Enterprise, beam me up"
"Uh who's this ?"
"Picard, don't you have call display ?"
"I don't stare down at the monitor sir, everything is voice activated around here, I'm not even near the console".
"Ugh, Beam me up".
"Right after my coffee break, Union rules. Enterprise out".
"Wait, who are you ?"
*TAP*
"Hello ? Enterprise ?"
Yeah, origin doesn't matter.
Decibel Milivolts which are used in RF calculations (or just Decibels in general) are a logarithmic scale that doubles for every 3 points. I'll let you do the math on how much weaker your signal is after a 20 db drop (hint, it's not 26% weaker).
Uh ? That's his name and it's easier to write than Mr. Jobs. I wouldn't write Mr. Ellison either, I'd say Larry. Nor would I say Mr. Schmidt, I'd just say Eric or Mr. Schwartz, Jo, Jon, Jonathan... And what in my comment makes you think I'm an Apple fan ? I'm actually saying he was purposefully manipulating statistics to make it seem less bad than it was...
Who cares how many sell in the weekend ? That's not a measure of anything besides marketing Hype. RIM outsells Apple quarter after quarter. That's all that matters. They have more Market share, I doubt they are jealous of Apple iAnything.
Hand in your geek card. You have no grasp of the issue and it shows. Anand performed tests and the iPhone 4 loses 20 db of signal when lightly touched in the proper spot (lower left gap between antennas). 20 dbs might not result in a visible result on the bar display seeing how 5 bars is larger than that.
What has Slashdot become that we now have to deal with ignorant mass-consumers instead of just geeks with actual curiosity for researching and understanding ?
Where do you get that people prefer the iPhone ? RIM have a bigger marketshare in the smartphone sector than Apple does.