Reading the article it sounds like this is a very good technology, however what will be the cost if this is adopted. MP3 data over the air would be nice but what kind of equipment would I need to buy to play them. Thinking of how much the consumer would need to buy to play them, and also how much would stations need to pay to broadcast these signals.
A second thing that I was concerned with is how much would interference affect these signals. The article mentions interference should be low since it is such a narrow channel. I was thinking of a weak signal and how would it affect the data. Would the loss of data make the signal unusable. Plus in areas where overlapping stations on the same frequency, how would the data react.
It seems like they are testing this cellular communications and given the authors thoughts on the problems of FM and AM interference, it looks like they plan to use this with cellular service. Maybe radio from your cell phone? It looks this will be a pay service to subscribe, like radio cable. I wonder if it will catch on any faster than that?
A big reason that Intel has the high end market is that at this moment, AMD does not have a dual processor chipset. Without a dual processor chipset people will have to go with intel to get more powerful boxes to run their businesses off of. A second reason is that AMD didn't have a server class chip such as the PIII/II Xeon. It's really a combination of things. AMD has spent its time on building up market share so that they can use their profits to develop chipsets and chips for the server/high end market.
Businesses are also a cautious lot. They really want to make sure that AMD chips are stable and can be counted on in "the long run." Since AMD just recently (in the grand scheme of things) emerged into the market as a true competitor, businesses are waiting to see how they fare in the desktop market and also whether AMD runs out of steam. AMD has had stability problems in the past and businesses are not going to forget so easily. When the multiprocessor chipsets do come out, businesses will eye them with suspicion and wait to mare the stability is there before relying on them to handle their critical applications. Hopefully, AMD can pick up the ball and have the dual chipset rock.
As far as I can see in this, it relates to something I once read about (sorry, no source). Basically the only I can think of that Apple can sue or complain about is the copyrighted pictures being used. However, there are people that legally make money by finding out where car manufacturers try out new car designs, take pictures, and then sell them to magazines. Car manufacturers have no recourse to sue these people or the magazines because of these pictures. One of the only differences I can see here is that the pictures themselves were taken by Apple and their property.
The memory problem does have a fix. The update to the OS that is on the handspring site includes the fix for the memory problem for those that have the bad dram. The link is:
My roommate and I have visors and we both were lucky enough to have good dram in ours. However, some of our friends at work weren't so lucky with their Palm IIIxe's.
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In fact the imaging unit we used at my previous job at a bank was running DOS 6.22 on a 486SL to control the unit. And that was the new machine we had gotten. The model was only a couple of years old. So DOS does have it's uses. The machine was designed just run and run fast. It also couldn't have issues if people just turned off the machine. So DOS works.
Even ATM's have OS/2 running on a lot of them and I don't know that many people running OS/2 anymore, even emulating it. Caught that when I saw a MAC machine reboot itself, quite interesting.
Knowing the i810 chipset somewhat, if it has the intel integrated graphics chipset the reason it probably has more trouble in linux is the way the video chip accesses video memory.
Instead of having a separate memory for the video it uses the system's main memory dynamically for video functions. So when in 2d mode it only uses maybe 4MB of system memory and then jumps to 11MB when using 3D. I'm not sure how this would be handled in Linux. I'm not the dynamic allocation is supported at all and whether it just ends up being a static value.
However, as far as videocards go. I've heard a couple of things, 3dfx seem to have a good following and nvidida cards have some drivers, but the releases from nvidia seem to be in binary only form. As far as other manufacturer's go, I can't say.
"A man whose circumstances went beyond his control" -- STYX
From reading the articles I got the impression that the technique was going to be designed so that you can go into the eye doctor's office and can get specially designed glasses. According to the article it says that the researcher was able to map the interior of the eye in greater detail than was previously possible.
Also, he also was able to discern many more defects in the eye than what are commonly treated today (astigmatism, defocus). So basically a big bonus for most of us is in that you will be able to go to the doctor's office, use the laser mapping system and get a pair of glasses that conforms to your eye's particular problems. It also removes most of the subjective thought required when getting glasses. No more trying to decide which lense you 'think' you can see better with. It all gets mapped out with the laser scan. And since glasses can correct people's vision to 20/20 from 20/40, 20/60, etc. This technique might be used to 'correct' people's vision to an even greater degree, maybe 20/10 with corrective lenses. Although for this it might require the actual adaptive optics to be used to see with however. Though the greatest benefit for this technology would be the greater accuracy in treating vision problems.
This is also a big money maker for most of the stockholders of the company. If microsoft is broken up into three companies, the stockholders will get stock in each of the three and then when the stock rises up to a decent level, the money gain will actually be profitable one. Bill Gates with his stock options and stock that he already owns will give him even more money. I'm surprised that they are fighting this as much as they are. Of course, they probably want to government to do this, but don't want to let on that it would be a good financial move for them so that the government changes their minds.
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A second thing that I was concerned with is how much would interference affect these signals. The article mentions interference should be low since it is such a narrow channel. I was thinking of a weak signal and how would it affect the data. Would the loss of data make the signal unusable. Plus in areas where overlapping stations on the same frequency, how would the data react.
It seems like they are testing this cellular communications and given the authors thoughts on the problems of FM and AM interference, it looks like they plan to use this with cellular service. Maybe radio from your cell phone? It looks this will be a pay service to subscribe, like radio cable. I wonder if it will catch on any faster than that?
Businesses are also a cautious lot. They really want to make sure that AMD chips are stable and can be counted on in "the long run." Since AMD just recently (in the grand scheme of things) emerged into the market as a true competitor, businesses are waiting to see how they fare in the desktop market and also whether AMD runs out of steam. AMD has had stability problems in the past and businesses are not going to forget so easily. When the multiprocessor chipsets do come out, businesses will eye them with suspicion and wait to mare the stability is there before relying on them to handle their critical applications. Hopefully, AMD can pick up the ball and have the dual chipset rock.
As far as I can see in this, it relates to something I once read about (sorry, no source). Basically the only I can think of that Apple can sue or complain about is the copyrighted pictures being used. However, there are people that legally make money by finding out where car manufacturers try out new car designs, take pictures, and then sell them to magazines. Car manufacturers have no recourse to sue these people or the magazines because of these pictures. One of the only differences I can see here is that the pictures themselves were taken by Apple and their property.
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My roommate and I have visors and we both were lucky enough to have good dram in ours. However, some of our friends at work weren't so lucky with their Palm IIIxe's.
In fact the imaging unit we used at my previous job at a bank was running DOS 6.22 on a 486SL to control the unit. And that was the new machine we had gotten. The model was only a couple of years old. So DOS does have it's uses. The machine was designed just run and run fast. It also couldn't have issues if people just turned off the machine. So DOS works.
Even ATM's have OS/2 running on a lot of them and I don't know that many people running OS/2 anymore, even emulating it. Caught that when I saw a MAC machine reboot itself, quite interesting.
-- Wolfpup
Knowing the i810 chipset somewhat, if it has the intel integrated graphics chipset the reason it probably has more trouble in linux is the way the video chip accesses video memory.
Instead of having a separate memory for the video it uses the system's main memory dynamically for video functions. So when in 2d mode it only uses maybe 4MB of system memory and then jumps to 11MB when using 3D. I'm not sure how this would be handled in Linux. I'm not the dynamic allocation is supported at all and whether it just ends up being a static value.
However, as far as videocards go. I've heard a couple of things, 3dfx seem to have a good following and nvidida cards have some drivers, but the releases from nvidia seem to be in binary only form. As far as other manufacturer's go, I can't say.
"A man whose circumstances went beyond his control" -- STYX
From reading the articles I got the impression that the technique was going to be designed so that you can go into the eye doctor's office and can get specially designed glasses. According to the article it says that the researcher was able to map the interior of the eye in greater detail than was previously possible.
Also, he also was able to discern many more defects in the eye than what are commonly treated today (astigmatism, defocus). So basically a big bonus for most of us is in that you will be able to go to the doctor's office, use the laser mapping system and get a pair of glasses that conforms to your eye's particular problems. It also removes most of the subjective thought required when getting glasses. No more trying to decide which lense you 'think' you can see better with. It all gets mapped out with the laser scan. And since glasses can correct people's vision to 20/20 from 20/40, 20/60, etc. This technique might be used to 'correct' people's vision to an even greater degree, maybe 20/10 with corrective lenses. Although for this it might require the actual adaptive optics to be used to see with however. Though the greatest benefit for this technology would be the greater accuracy in treating vision problems.
-- Wolfpup
This is also a big money maker for most of the stockholders of the company. If microsoft is broken up into three companies, the stockholders will get stock in each of the three and then when the stock rises up to a decent level, the money gain will actually be profitable one. Bill Gates with his stock options and stock that he already owns will give him even more money. I'm surprised that they are fighting this as much as they are. Of course, they probably want to government to do this, but don't want to let on that it would be a good financial move for them so that the government changes their minds.