"I have a couple of inventions" -- What kind of introduction is that? Explain them in detail and if they as good as you think they are, people will spread the ideas further.
So what's your point exactly? I currently have a 2.1Ghz duo, + 2Gb's ram, with 4 instances of VC++, a copy of Maya and a copy of Max running. I'm not out of memory on Vista either. So what's your point exactly?
Well that's impressive to the point that I find it hard to believe. Good, then.
Btw, if OS is using free memory in such a way that it does not really need and can vacate it any time, (such as for caching exe files) it should not report this memory as taken.
It uses more memory than XP, but it doesn't require it.
WTF is that supposed to mean? Vista absolutely requires more memory.
2 core 2 Gb is more than decent by my standards. I use this configuration for work, running constantly 10+ applications on XP. 3 different IDEs, PCB CAD s/w, logic analyzer s/w, couple of test apps, a dozen of PDFs, email, Office, Firefox (btw, Firefox alone can eat as much as 400M). And I still do not run out of RAM. How is that decent? I say it's *awesome* configuration.
So, 2 core 2 Gigs is many times more that average user would ever need if they use XP. If you say it's only 'decent' for Vista, then it is in fact pathetic.
I did a circuit design for "probably patentable" device couple of years ago. And customer could not provide any details, too.
After doing some initial work they asked me to sign NDA (which I did) so that they could provide me some details.
It turned out they were working on perpetual mobile. Yes, that's right. And I was designing a power supply for it. (Do you get it, a power supply for a power generator!) They were very eager to pay money but just listening to their crazy talk was giving me such a bad headache, I quickly dumped them.
Excellent way to look really stupid when they ask some silly question on the technology or language they've just asked about and you said you are familiar with.
I installed Ubuntu last year and tried to make it my main workstation. Did not work out, it is not stable enough. I brink my laptop to/from home every day and so I suspend/resume my laptop twice a day. Ubuntu takes much longer to suspend/resume (at least in a default configuration) and would give me kernel panic once a week. XP on the other hand works without reboot for months at a time.
Additionally, Wine is now more or less ok for applications, but total lack of support for USB peripherals under Wine makes Unix unusable at the moment. And yes, I did try VMWare -- unfortunately they only support a couple of classes of USB peripherals so that did not help much either.
So my level of satisfaction with Ubuntu was rather modest, unfortunately.
Just a couple of day ago I wanted to figure out how "crustacean" are related to other animals. (don't ask...) I'd have to think for five minutes to formulate the question instead of just typing 'crustecean' which I don't even know how to spell.
In rare occasions that I only need a factual answer like how much the elephant weigh the answer is more complex than simple number.
Anyway, after talking to a number of 'ai' voice recognition systems I don't believe in machine intelligence in any form:)
It is useless thing even if it works as advertised. I can find an answer to "how many bones" much faster by typing "bones human body" and then quickly glancing through google search results to select a page that will have an answer.
Typing the complete question takes longer, and there is also a question of the information source. With search results you can always select a page that you trust to be accurate. With this thing -- I am not so sure.
Two times I purchased CDs of musicians I did not know before at the live concerts. Both were rather disappointing... Only after a while (when the excitement of hearing the original performance wore off) I could enjoy those CDs. Music on them was so dull...
So in other words, they did not 'clone' the processor, but merely reimplemented MIPS instructions set. If the instruction set is patented, the patent should be in the bin where all other s/w patents belong, that is of course a garbage bin.
GSM and other similar licenses are a total rip-off.
That is possible, but unlikely. Only a handful facilities exist that manufacture high performance chips, like TSMC and few others perhaps. And I'm sure they value their reputation.
It would be very easy to figure out that counterfeit CPU are originating from that facility, exposing them to devastating loss of future business from all of their foreign customers.
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I two do not understand the obsession with two wheels.
How about publishing it here, for starters?
"I have a couple of inventions" -- What kind of introduction is that? Explain them in detail and if they as good as you think they are, people will spread the ideas further.
Lol, this is a funny thread. I wanted to suggest skull sticker, but then thought that plastering the whole thing with duct tape would beat it.
So what's your point exactly? I currently have a 2.1Ghz duo, + 2Gb's ram, with 4 instances of VC++, a copy of Maya and a copy of Max running. I'm not out of memory on Vista either. So what's your point exactly?
Well that's impressive to the point that I find it hard to believe. Good, then.
Btw, if OS is using free memory in such a way that it does not really need and can vacate it any time, (such as for caching exe files) it should not report this memory as taken.
It uses more memory than XP, but it doesn't require it.
WTF is that supposed to mean? Vista absolutely requires more memory.
2 core 2 Gb is more than decent by my standards. I use this configuration for work, running constantly 10+ applications on XP. 3 different IDEs, PCB CAD s/w, logic analyzer s/w, couple of test apps, a dozen of PDFs, email, Office, Firefox (btw, Firefox alone can eat as much as 400M). And I still do not run out of RAM. How is that decent? I say it's *awesome* configuration.
So, 2 core 2 Gigs is many times more that average user would ever need if they use XP. If you say it's only 'decent' for Vista, then it is in fact pathetic.
Uhm, let's see...
www.openhardwarefoundation.org:
Future home of The Open Hardware Foundation.
underwhelming...
Correct, any recent graduate won't be able to handle a complex design with a camera.
It very easy to protect yourself from this if your design has an MCU in it. Your remote control most certainly does.
I just send them MCUs already programmed. So they can build more circuits if they want to, but without an MCU code it will be dead.
I did a circuit design for "probably patentable" device couple of years ago. And customer could not provide any details, too.
After doing some initial work they asked me to sign NDA (which I did) so that they could provide me some details.
It turned out they were working on perpetual mobile. Yes, that's right. And I was designing a power supply for it. (Do you get it, a power supply for a power generator!) They were very eager to pay money but just listening to their crazy talk was giving me such a bad headache, I quickly dumped them.
Oh, f*ck, I think I just violated that NDA...
what's a point? I never type in the email address, I always seem to do REPLY-TO
"Imagine playing bleeding-edge games"
Yes, I imagined and it sucks.
Waporware it is.
Nobody has internet access fast enough to stream hidef video required for games.
Definitely most retarded non-story in the last couple of weeks.
Smartphone as a remote is a niche application for mega-geeks who will become bored with it very shortly.
Excellent way to look really stupid when they ask some silly question on the technology or language they've just asked about and you said you are familiar with.
But who really needs a speed of i7? PC's performance exceed needs of an average user by at least an order of magnitude....
The migration to 64 bit still isn't done, and for the vast majority of applications still isn't necessary.
It probably will never be necessary for most applications. 64 bit is unacceptable on laptops market to due to much higher power requirements.
Crusoe AFAIK did not support native RISC (it was not even a RISC processor, it was VLIW inside), only IA32. And a crappy one, for that matter.
Yep, most definitely correct.
I installed Ubuntu last year and tried to make it my main workstation. Did not work out, it is not stable enough. I brink my laptop to/from home every day and so I suspend/resume my laptop twice a day. Ubuntu takes much longer to suspend/resume (at least in a default configuration) and would give me kernel panic once a week.
XP on the other hand works without reboot for months at a time.
Additionally, Wine is now more or less ok for applications, but total lack of support for USB peripherals under Wine makes Unix unusable at the moment. And yes, I did try VMWare -- unfortunately they only support a couple of classes of USB peripherals so that did not help much either.
So my level of satisfaction with Ubuntu was rather modest, unfortunately.
Just a couple of day ago I wanted to figure out how "crustacean" are related to other animals. (don't ask...)
I'd have to think for five minutes to formulate the question instead of just typing 'crustecean' which I don't even know how to spell.
In rare occasions that I only need a factual answer like how much the elephant weigh the answer is more complex than simple number.
Anyway, after talking to a number of 'ai' voice recognition systems I don't believe in machine intelligence in any form :)
It is useless thing even if it works as advertised. I can find an answer to "how many bones" much faster by typing "bones human body" and then quickly glancing through google search results to select a page that will have an answer.
Typing the complete question takes longer, and there is also a question of the information source. With search results you can always select a page that you trust to be accurate. With this thing -- I am not so sure.
Mod parent up.
Oh, and buy his book if you want to contribute to MG's "story of success".
I've read "Tipping point". There is only a single thought in this book, and unoriginal one for that matter.
When was the last time you'd been at the border?
Just so you know, Canada takes 200000+ immigrants every year. Like green card kind of immigrants, not H1B.
So year, consider this a sign "come and take if you can"
Two times I purchased CDs of musicians I did not know before at the live concerts. Both were rather disappointing... Only after a while (when the excitement of hearing the original performance wore off) I could enjoy those CDs. Music on them was so dull...
So in other words, they did not 'clone' the processor, but merely reimplemented MIPS instructions set. If the instruction set is patented, the patent should be in the bin where all other s/w patents belong, that is of course a garbage bin.
GSM and other similar licenses are a total rip-off.
That is possible, but unlikely. Only a handful facilities exist that manufacture high performance chips, like TSMC and few others perhaps. And I'm sure they value their reputation.
It would be very easy to figure out that counterfeit CPU are originating from that facility, exposing them to devastating loss of future business from all of their foreign customers.