POWER4 is a POWER implementation of the 64-bit PowerPC architecture. This includes QoS/Multi-Core/Hardware-level Virtualization (e.g. ISA extension), etc. All the things that make it an Enterprise-level processor.
PowerPC 970 is a PowerPC implementation of the 64-bit PowerPC architecture. This includes single core/no virtualizations/much faster core timings and most importantly, the ability to run 32-bit PowerPC binaries concurrently with 64-bit PowerPC binaries. All the things that make it a desktop/workstation processor.
That IBM has re-named the POWER architecture PowerPC, does NOT mean that PowerPC==POWER. What it means is that both PowerPC and POWER are PowerPC [Architecture].
A tree is a plant.
A blade of grass is a plant.
Both are implementations of the plant architecture. Now, rename plant, blade of grass.
I'm not sure exactly what distinction you are making...
Distinction:
POWER4 is a POWER chip, with the full POWER ISA, running on an IBM bus. As are POWER, POWER2, POWER3 and POWER5.
ALL PowerPCs (601, 603/e, 604/e, 750/g3, 7400/750FX/7450/g4, 970/g5) include only (diffrent) subsets/supersets of the POWER ISA. Also, they use a Motorola bus.
Public companies (or their lawfirms) are required to keep this stuff readily accessable. Novell has a buttload of paperwork, to be sure. But they know exactly what they have and exactly where it is. They brought this out now for a very good reason (see the "'nough rope" cousin post).
We spend $800M on robots to find crack on mars? Man, I'm sure I gould find a whole lot more than one lousy rock for that much, and I don't even smoke! Stupid NASA.
Pioneer 10 was sent out in the same spirit as the pioneers of early America
Riiiiight... I just hope that P10 hasn't been treating the folks out on Pluto the same way that our forebearers wiped out the people who were already living in that seemingly boundless space.
I'm sorry, I've never said this before on Slashdot (and I've been around a while) but your post is just plain insensitive.
But "by default" for what server? The HTTP protocol may or may not recommend DIR listings by default, but that's beside the point. Some servers allow it "by default," some don't. Check your server.
Reverse engineering is completely legal in the US.
True. There is nothing illegal about reverse engineering a file format (or anything else for that matter) for the purposes of interoperability (witness Kerberos). But...
Unfortunately, reverse engineering's not all that's involved in this case. As our original poster said, the algorithm's patented. So while it'd be fine to reverse engineer the file format and algorithm in the US, distributing a viewer which contains the patented algorithm (and it must in order to work), sure as hell isn't.
At least in the good ol' US of A. (The rest of the world isn't so stupid as to allow software patents. But you know US!)
You do remember a little algotithm called RSA, don't you? Hint: Theo de Raadt lives in Canada for a reason.
We are all so caught up in hating RAMBUS, that we fail to realize
they rightfully own the patent under U.S. law no matter how many other people violated it...
That's not the point. The point is, that when the JEDEC (of which RAMBUS Inc. was and is a member) was working up the SDRAM spec, RAMBUS somehow "forgot" to mention that they already had a patent on something that was going into the spec.
In other words, it's not a matter of
RAMBUS rightfully owning the patent under U.S. law and it never was. It's a matter of RAMBUS implicitly giving JEDEC (and any user of the free and open JEDEC SDRAM spec) a free license to use that patent when they "forgot" to tell the group about this little patent they had.
So yes, RAMBUS owns the patent. However, they gave up their right to enforce it when they misled the JEDEC into incorporating it into the SDRAM standard.
Both XonX and XDarwin are complete X11 implementations; both include client and server. You can run your app on the Mac, display it on the Mac or display it elsewhere. Furthermore, you can run your app elswere and display it on the Mac. Using either of those systems. I'm too lazy to get a link for you right now, but I'm right.
Bill Gates...was responsible for the ubiquity of the mouse wheel
Um, shouldn't Logitech get a mention here? Just one more thing Microsoft undeservedly gets credit for.
Notice the word ubiquity. MS didn't invent it, wasn't the first to use it, etc. By including it on virtually every mouse they put out, however, and they do own the lions share of the mouse market, they are soley responsible for the popularity of the wheel, and hence, my abilities with manual sex.
That reminds me... My Girlfriend blessed Bill Gates last night. I asked her why, and she said that He was responsible for the ubiquity of the mouse wheel and therefore for the extreme dexterity of the middle finger of my right hand.
It's not the original iMac, it's the rev. B imac that is selling for $799.
Well, if we're going to be picky... No. It's the iMac (Summer 2001). I highly doubt it was a "rev. B" whatever that is, seeing as the Rev. C came out in Jan99.
I believe that what the original poster was trying to say when he used the word "original" was that it was the CRT iMac, not the Flat Panel (LCD) iMac. And he had a point, because that's true (see specs).
By the way, what the heck is a rev. B iMac? If you have a link I'd love to see it.
Since Thomson/RCA (NOT Microsoft - they just provide the $$ and advertising) is actually the one that designed and manufactures the XBox, this is perfectly fine IMHO.
Acutally, no. Microsoft did concept and specs for the box and a nice little firm called Flextronics acutally designed and builds the hardware. Sorry.
Don't buy ATI Radeons for duel-head! I have an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro and the second monitor has a shadow on it, not unusable, but annoying.
Of course there's a shadow on it! With Duel-Head, your monitors are too busy slapping each other with white gloves, demanding satisfaction and poping caps at each other at high noon!! With all the tumbleweeds blowing by, how can you expect those poor GPUs to actually refresh their frame buffers!!
still under warranty, but old enough to have the reciept lost
ASUS is actually pretty good about honoring their warranty. I bought my A7V266-E from some no-name and it failed after 5 months. It was such a no-name that I forgot what their name was, so I just called ASUS (502-995-0883) and simply RMAd it back to them. Took 2 weeks. Hope that helps.
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Typo.
A tree is not a blade of grass.
Fundamental misunderstanding re: subsets.
POWER4 is a POWER implementation of the 64-bit PowerPC architecture. This includes QoS/Multi-Core/Hardware-level Virtualization (e.g. ISA extension), etc. All the things that make it an Enterprise-level processor.
PowerPC 970 is a PowerPC implementation of the 64-bit PowerPC architecture. This includes single core/no virtualizations/much faster core timings and most importantly, the ability to run 32-bit PowerPC binaries concurrently with 64-bit PowerPC binaries. All the things that make it a desktop/workstation processor.
That IBM has re-named the POWER architecture PowerPC, does NOT mean that PowerPC==POWER. What it means is that both PowerPC and POWER are PowerPC [Architecture].
A tree is a plant.
A blade of grass is a plant.
Both are implementations of the plant architecture. Now, rename plant, blade of grass.
A tree is not a plant.
- Just so we are clear, Power4 is a PowerPC chip
Eh, wrong.- I'm not sure exactly what distinction you are making...
Distinction:POWER4 is a POWER chip, with the full POWER ISA, running on an IBM bus. As are POWER, POWER2, POWER3 and POWER5.
ALL PowerPCs (601, 603/e, 604/e, 750/g3, 7400/750FX/7450/g4, 970/g5) include only (diffrent) subsets/supersets of the POWER ISA. Also, they use a Motorola bus.
In conclusion, wrong.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER
Public companies (or their lawfirms) are required to keep this stuff readily accessable. Novell has a buttload of paperwork, to be sure. But they know exactly what they have and exactly where it is. They brought this out now for a very good reason (see the "'nough rope" cousin post).
We spend $800M on robots to find crack on mars? Man, I'm sure I gould find a whole lot more than one lousy rock for that much, and I don't even smoke! Stupid NASA.
oh my god you fucking fuckers
- Pioneer 10 was sent out in the same spirit as the pioneers of early America
Riiiiight... I just hope that P10 hasn't been treating the folks out on Pluto the same way that our forebearers wiped out the people who were already living in that seemingly boundless spaceI'm sorry, I've never said this before on Slashdot (and I've been around a while) but your post is just plain insensitive.
But "by default" for what server? The HTTP protocol may or may not recommend DIR listings by default, but that's beside the point. Some servers allow it "by default," some don't. Check your server.
- Reverse engineering is completely legal in the US.
True. There is nothing illegal about reverse engineering a file format (or anything else for that matter) for the purposes of interoperability (witness Kerberos). But...Unfortunately, reverse engineering's not all that's involved in this case. As our original poster said, the algorithm's patented. So while it'd be fine to reverse engineer the file format and algorithm in the US, distributing a viewer which contains the patented algorithm (and it must in order to work), sure as hell isn't.
At least in the good ol' US of A. (The rest of the world isn't so stupid as to allow software patents. But you know US !)
You do remember a little algotithm called RSA, don't you? Hint: Theo de Raadt lives in Canada for a reason.
- We are all so caught up in hating RAMBUS, that we fail to realize
- they rightfully own the patent under U.S. law no matter how many other people violated it...
That's not the point. The point is, that when the JEDEC (of which RAMBUS Inc. was and is a member) was working up the SDRAM spec, RAMBUS somehow "forgot" to mention that they already had a patent on something that was going into the spec.In other words, it's not a matter of RAMBUS rightfully owning the patent under U.S. law and it never was. It's a matter of RAMBUS implicitly giving JEDEC (and any user of the free and open JEDEC SDRAM spec) a free license to use that patent when they "forgot" to tell the group about this little patent they had.
So yes, RAMBUS owns the patent. However, they gave up their right to enforce it when they misled the JEDEC into incorporating it into the SDRAM standard.
God, these jokes are repellent.
AFAIK, when you throw something away, it becomes property of the trash service/city/dump. Daddy dearest just stole from his employer.
Both XonX and XDarwin are complete X11 implementations; both include client and server. You can run your app on the Mac, display it on the Mac or display it elsewhere. Furthermore, you can run your app elswere and display it on the Mac. Using either of those systems. I'm too lazy to get a link for you right now, but I'm right.
- Bill Gates...was responsible for the ubiquity of the mouse wheel
Notice the word ubiquity. MS didn't invent it, wasn't the first to use it, etc. By including it on virtually every mouse they put out, however, and they do own the lions share of the mouse market, they are soley responsible for the popularity of the wheel, and hence, my abilities with manual sex.Um, shouldn't Logitech get a mention here? Just one more thing Microsoft undeservedly gets credit for.
- An orgy of clicking and death!
That reminds me... My Girlfriend blessed Bill Gates last night. I asked her why, and she said that He was responsible for the ubiquity of the mouse wheel and therefore for the extreme dexterity of the middle finger of my right hand.Sorry, but it's a true story.
Heh, scroll on my scrigidies. Goddamn Right.
Hahahahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha.
Ha.
Got it, thanks
- It's not the original iMac, it's the rev. B imac that is selling for $799.
Well, if we're going to be picky...No. It's the iMac (Summer 2001). I highly doubt it was a "rev. B" whatever that is, seeing as the Rev. C came out in Jan99.
I believe that what the original poster was trying to say when he used the word "original" was that it was the CRT iMac, not the Flat Panel (LCD) iMac. And he had a point, because that's true (see specs).
By the way, what the heck is a rev. B iMac? If you have a link I'd love to see it.
- Since Thomson/RCA (NOT Microsoft - they just provide the $$ and advertising) is actually the one that designed and manufactures the XBox, this is perfectly fine IMHO.
Acutally, no. Microsoft did concept and specs for the box and a nice little firm called Flextronics acutally designed and builds the hardware. Sorry.- Don't buy ATI Radeons for duel-head! I have an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro and the second monitor has a shadow on it, not unusable, but annoying.
Of course there's a shadow on it! With Duel-Head, your monitors are too busy slapping each other with white gloves, demanding satisfaction and poping caps at each other at high noon!! With all the tumbleweeds blowing by, how can you expect those poor GPUs to actually refresh their frame buffers!!Oh, I get it!!! You meant Dual-Head!
Nevermind. My bad.
Translation: Please put 8x11 sized paper into the paper cassette.
I've seen this error twice. The second time I caused intentionally to show a friend.
- still under warranty, but old enough to have the reciept lost
ASUS is actually pretty good about honoring their warranty. I bought my A7V266-E from some no-name and it failed after 5 months. It was such a no-name that I forgot what their name was, so I just called ASUS (502-995-0883) and simply RMAd it back to them. Took 2 weeks. Hope that helps.- I've got it - there is not public transport, no taxi, no sidewalks in Boston.
No, that's LA!!My bad. Oops
- They gave a visa to Mohammed Atta well after the September 11 attacks...
Funny. I thought Atta died on September 11.