I noticed some (or maybe all) FIC motherboards include a utility on a CD with drivers, to help OEM's change the BIOS boot logo. I'm sure other motherboard manufacturers do this too. Also Sun SPARCs let you change the oemlogo shown at boot, which is stored in the nvram. I think there are even some Linux and SunOS utilities to help you if you don't feel like modifying it in the boot monitor.
Companies, for the most part, will take these comments two ways:
1) Ha ha. We know it's late, but we're glad it is a highly anticipated product. Thanks for the exposure.
2) Ouch. Yes, we need to get our act together, something is wrong. In future products we'll try our best to avoid problems that cause delays, so we can ship a working product on time.
Did many people every actually believe it was the debris that killed many species?
Although the size of the impact was very large, it would have to be many times larger for
pieces of debris to hit enough life forms to inhibit their survival. Even fires caused by the
impact would not directly kill them. Real scientists never really suspected this was the
cause of this massive extinction, as it is really quite ridiculous. Instead most believed that it
resulted from a sudden climate change, possibly caused by the resulting fires and dust
blocking the sun combined with cyclical changes do to the earth's changing orbit and
precession (angles).
Is that 16bps before or after error correction/detection codes? I just remember reading about some of the error correction codes the later Pioneer probes used, and wondered how advanced the codes used on Pioneer 6 were.
From one of the home owners: "I have no spare time. But friends who've come over tell me it was great." Proof that money can't buy happieness.
I also couldn't help but notice that some of these huge houses were in the S.F. Bay area, where people pay $500,000 for a house the size of the Excite founder's basement.
OS X Workstation will be nice. But it really is a "Mac" approach to BSD. OS X Server on the otherhand, is what most of us think of when we compare NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc. to OS X.
We have an OS X Server (Rhapsody) here, supporting the networked filesystems. At first glance it seems pretty cool. But the SCSI drivcers (for a very popular PCI SCSI card, probably the most popular) are really alpha quality. They don't even support disconnect, which causes a kernel panic when you remove a tape from the tape drive, in use or not. And the only tape backup solution for OS X Server was pulled off of the shelves for legal problems. Even with that removed, under loads the computer randomly crashes, even without third party software (of which there exists little). To get a compiler for Rhapsody, you have to shell out tons for a developer's kit and membership. Linux is soon replacing that OS X Server here.
For Apple to propel OS X (and thus BSD) beyond Linux, they need to devote more attention to OS X Server than they have before. I understand Apple plans to do this when OS X Workstation is released, to make OS X Server more compatable with the workstation product, and therefor more useable. But I don't hold my breath- last I heard they were delaying it. Hopefully Apple will see the potential and avoid ignoring the Server product.
It looks pretty legit... but the seller has a feedback rating of 0. I don't know about paying seven digits to a complete stranger, especially one who has never sold anything on eBay before.
I recall being able to download schedule databases for MS Schedule 95, so you could get one that covered holidays in the U.S., Japan, various European countries, Saudi Arabia, etc. So perhaps making an object for a holidy, and then allowing an imported file to contain holiday objects is a good solution.
I think a great embedded linux machine would be a a small, inexpensive voting machine. You could make it less than $200, and would never have to recount again!
RAMBUS will go down in history as a textbook example of the old idea- do things right, and do them right the first time, or else your actions will catch up with you.
They made a technology company, and decided to focus on litigation and patent royalties rather than they innovations. And now they have been caught trying to work around hard judges in an effort to suck more money from other companies by litigation. Intel caught them, Judge Harris caught them, and it is all going to bring them down. Play fair or don't play at all.
It doesn't matter how advanced the technology is, how cool it sounds, nor who helped design it. If there isn't a market need for the product, it's going to be hard to find people to integrate it. Crusoe offers somewhat higher battery performance at the cost of performance. Does the market want lower performance? I think you'll find that pricing is based on processor performance and features like built in ethernet, firewire, etc. right now, and battery life is something laptop users have come to accept as being less than 4 hours. If people are going to buy a laptop with lower performance, they expect lower cost. If Transmeta wants to fit in to the market, they need to adjust their pricing and help integrators market battery life better. And saying a 600MHz processor has performance like a PIII at 500MHZ when it is really more comparable to a 350MHz PIII doesn't help your marketting campaign one bit. It isn't like the users aren't going to verify that.
At the University I just graduated from, we used a centralized network storage. Several SAMBA servers were set up- one daemon for each letter of the alphabet (by last name - USPACE-X where X was the first letter of the user's last name), so daemons could be shifted and balanced as needed by load requirments. The actual storage was on large RAID arrays, that were routinely backed up by DLT. The storage was easily accessed by any computer on the network, and with a simple utility (really just updated the C:\WINDOWS\LMHOSTS file) you could access it off campus. You could even make a wwwfiles directory and enable personal web pages. it was 10MB quota per user, and there were about 20,000 students and faculty who had access to it. To make things easier, we even made a program to mount your user space automatically in Windows 9x/NT and MacOS. There is no longer a need for floppies there.
Don't you love the idea of taking away any incentive to work harder by having your income given to some highschool dropout working as a career fry guy?
Most floppy adapters in PC's are not capable of anything faster than 0.5Mbps, although some (usually only ones advertised as tape accelerators) are capable of 1.0Mbps. Either way, that is SLOW.
AMD is sitting around waiting to see what floats to the top DDR or RDRAM, or maybe ADT. Why should AMD try to pioneer something when all they have to do is wait for Intel to demonstrate the best path???
Let's not make things up now. AMD said from the start they had not current plans to use RDRAM, and has indicated that they may use DDR in their higher-end (server) chipsets. AMD has planned on only worrying about RAM technologies for consumer products in their 751 Irongate chipset. They have made it clear the rest is up to VIA and other thirdy party chipset manufacturers to decided what goes on the other side of the bus. VIA has been anti-RDRAM in their chipsets afaik.
Some of the terms of the contract, especially the numbers, are not something you want your competitors to know. That holds true especially if the competitor may deal with the same company. RAMBUS wouldn't want AMD to come to them saying "but Intel gets theirs for $1, so $1.10 is the highest we'll go." Not that AMD would go with RAMBUS. There may be other trade secrets contained in the contract that niether party feels competitors AND stockholders should know about.
Tom's Hardware disects these terms a good bit, and compares the various processors that use these platforms. Be warned that Tom is a little biased as an anti-Intel kind of guy.
Only embedded applications (like a Nintendo 64) use a direct interface with the RAM. It is not a good idea to create the memory interface directly on the CPU if you want third parties to be able to make motherboards (and chipsets too). You would have to have a chip for RDRAM and a chip for SDRAM, and possibly a chip for DDR-SDRAM, and they would not be interchangeable. Intel used the right implementation, but for the wrong technology.
I would be a little more linient if they were willing to address the privacy issues. I recently noticed I was receiving email from them that I had not signed up for. So I changed my email address to on that will end up being bounced back to them.
Reporting them to MAPS and giving them proof that you have attempted to unsubscribe yet still receive spam will help to. They will most likely contact Sandbox, and also register as a user to see what comes their way, and what happens when they try to unsubscribe.
If you really want to make their heads turn, contact their advertisers. I don't mean send them an email. I mean find out who within the advertised company purchased the ad run on Sandbox. The point them towards this Slashdot story. Clearly explain to them that they are unreasonable with their email policy, and that it makes those who support them look bad. There are plenty of other web sites for them to advertise with. And when they start having ads pulled, heads will turn.
I genuinely believe Sandbox does not wish to spam people. But because several people within their organization are not doing their jobs (between writing an acceptable email policy and adhering to it, and addressing customer concerns), their users are suffering. Since they don't see the immediate cost of this breakdown, it needs to be waved in front of them in a more noticable way.
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I noticed some (or maybe all) FIC motherboards include a utility on a CD with drivers, to help OEM's change the BIOS boot logo. I'm sure other motherboard manufacturers do this too. Also Sun SPARCs let you change the oemlogo shown at boot, which is stored in the nvram. I think there are even some Linux and SunOS utilities to help you if you don't feel like modifying it in the boot monitor.
Revenue streams like this just don't work, even if it were sometimes enforceable.
Look at RAMBUS for example.
Companies, for the most part, will take these comments two ways:
1) Ha ha. We know it's late, but we're glad it is a highly anticipated product. Thanks for the exposure.
2) Ouch. Yes, we need to get our act together, something is wrong. In future products we'll try our best to avoid problems that cause delays, so we can ship a working product on time.
Did many people every actually believe it was the debris that killed many species?
Although the size of the impact was very large, it would have to be many times larger for
pieces of debris to hit enough life forms to inhibit their survival. Even fires caused by the
impact would not directly kill them. Real scientists never really suspected this was the
cause of this massive extinction, as it is really quite ridiculous. Instead most believed that it
resulted from a sudden climate change, possibly caused by the resulting fires and dust
blocking the sun combined with cyclical changes do to the earth's changing orbit and
precession (angles).
Is that 16bps before or after error correction/detection codes? I just remember reading about some of the error correction codes the later Pioneer probes used, and wondered how advanced the codes used on Pioneer 6 were.
From one of the home owners: "I have no spare time. But friends who've come over tell me it was great." Proof that money can't buy happieness.
I also couldn't help but notice that some of these huge houses were in the S.F. Bay area, where people pay $500,000 for a house the size of the Excite founder's basement.
Maybe now that someone made a Sega Dreamcast kernel level framebuffer driver they will be able to make a framebuffer driver for my Savage 4.
Well, you get the point...
OS X Workstation will be nice. But it really is a "Mac" approach to BSD. OS X Server on the otherhand, is what most of us think of when we compare NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc. to OS X.
We have an OS X Server (Rhapsody) here, supporting the networked filesystems. At first glance it seems pretty cool. But the SCSI drivcers (for a very popular PCI SCSI card, probably the most popular) are really alpha quality. They don't even support disconnect, which causes a kernel panic when you remove a tape from the tape drive, in use or not. And the only tape backup solution for OS X Server was pulled off of the shelves for legal problems. Even with that removed, under loads the computer randomly crashes, even without third party software (of which there exists little). To get a compiler for Rhapsody, you have to shell out tons for a developer's kit and membership. Linux is soon replacing that OS X Server here.
For Apple to propel OS X (and thus BSD) beyond Linux, they need to devote more attention to OS X Server than they have before. I understand Apple plans to do this when OS X Workstation is released, to make OS X Server more compatable with the workstation product, and therefor more useable. But I don't hold my breath- last I heard they were delaying it. Hopefully Apple will see the potential and avoid ignoring the Server product.
It looks pretty legit... but the seller has a feedback rating of 0. I don't know about paying seven digits to a complete stranger, especially one who has never sold anything on eBay before.
I recall being able to download schedule databases for MS Schedule 95, so you could get one that covered holidays in the U.S., Japan, various European countries, Saudi Arabia, etc. So perhaps making an object for a holidy, and then allowing an imported file to contain holiday objects is a good solution.
I think a great embedded linux machine would be a a small, inexpensive voting machine. You could make it less than $200, and would never have to recount again!
RAMBUS will go down in history as a textbook example of the old idea- do things right, and do them right the first time, or else your actions will catch up with you.
They made a technology company, and decided to focus on litigation and patent royalties rather than they innovations. And now they have been caught trying to work around hard judges in an effort to suck more money from other companies by litigation. Intel caught them, Judge Harris caught them, and it is all going to bring them down. Play fair or don't play at all.
It doesn't matter how advanced the technology is, how cool it sounds, nor who helped design it. If there isn't a market need for the product, it's going to be hard to find people to integrate it. Crusoe offers somewhat higher battery performance at the cost of performance. Does the market want lower performance? I think you'll find that pricing is based on processor performance and features like built in ethernet, firewire, etc. right now, and battery life is something laptop users have come to accept as being less than 4 hours. If people are going to buy a laptop with lower performance, they expect lower cost. If Transmeta wants to fit in to the market, they need to adjust their pricing and help integrators market battery life better. And saying a 600MHz processor has performance like a PIII at 500MHZ when it is really more comparable to a 350MHz PIII doesn't help your marketting campaign one bit. It isn't like the users aren't going to verify that.
At the University I just graduated from, we used a centralized network storage. Several SAMBA servers were set up- one daemon for each letter of the alphabet (by last name - USPACE-X where X was the first letter of the user's last name), so daemons could be shifted and balanced as needed by load requirments. The actual storage was on large RAID arrays, that were routinely backed up by DLT. The storage was easily accessed by any computer on the network, and with a simple utility (really just updated the C:\WINDOWS\LMHOSTS file) you could access it off campus. You could even make a wwwfiles directory and enable personal web pages. it was 10MB quota per user, and there were about 20,000 students and faculty who had access to it. To make things easier, we even made a program to mount your user space automatically in Windows 9x/NT and MacOS. There is no longer a need for floppies there.
Don't you love the idea of taking away any incentive to work harder by having your income given to some highschool dropout working as a career fry guy?
Most floppy adapters in PC's are not capable of anything faster than 0.5Mbps, although some (usually only ones advertised as tape accelerators) are capable of 1.0Mbps. Either way, that is SLOW.
AMD is sitting around waiting to see what floats to the top DDR or RDRAM, or maybe ADT. Why should AMD try to pioneer something when all they have to do is wait for Intel to demonstrate the best path???
Let's not make things up now. AMD said from the start they had not current plans to use RDRAM, and has indicated that they may use DDR in their higher-end (server) chipsets. AMD has planned on only worrying about RAM technologies for consumer products in their 751 Irongate chipset. They have made it clear the rest is up to VIA and other thirdy party chipset manufacturers to decided what goes on the other side of the bus. VIA has been anti-RDRAM in their chipsets afaik.
Obviously he didn't know about it or he would not have asked.
Some of the terms of the contract, especially the numbers, are not something you want your competitors to know. That holds true especially if the competitor may deal with the same company. RAMBUS wouldn't want AMD to come to them saying "but Intel gets theirs for $1, so $1.10 is the highest we'll go." Not that AMD would go with RAMBUS. There may be other trade secrets contained in the contract that niether party feels competitors AND stockholders should know about.
'It's not the first time we've shipped devices with negative margin.'
If you do things right the first time... this kind of thing will never happen. Same with the 1.13GHz PIII's. I hope they are learning.
Tom's Hardware disects these terms a good bit, and compares the various processors that use these platforms. Be warned that Tom is a little biased as an anti-Intel kind of guy.
However not much of anything will be left after re-entry, so it will not even be a drop in the bucket of the Pacific's ecosystems.
Only embedded applications (like a Nintendo 64) use a direct interface with the RAM. It is not a good idea to create the memory interface directly on the CPU if you want third parties to be able to make motherboards (and chipsets too). You would have to have a chip for RDRAM and a chip for SDRAM, and possibly a chip for DDR-SDRAM, and they would not be interchangeable. Intel used the right implementation, but for the wrong technology.
I would be a little more linient if they were willing to address the privacy issues. I recently noticed I was receiving email from them that I had not signed up for. So I changed my email address to on that will end up being bounced back to them.
Reporting them to MAPS and giving them proof that you have attempted to unsubscribe yet still receive spam will help to. They will most likely contact Sandbox, and also register as a user to see what comes their way, and what happens when they try to unsubscribe.
If you really want to make their heads turn, contact their advertisers. I don't mean send them an email. I mean find out who within the advertised company purchased the ad run on Sandbox. The point them towards this Slashdot story. Clearly explain to them that they are unreasonable with their email policy, and that it makes those who support them look bad. There are plenty of other web sites for them to advertise with. And when they start having ads pulled, heads will turn.
I genuinely believe Sandbox does not wish to spam people. But because several people within their organization are not doing their jobs (between writing an acceptable email policy and adhering to it, and addressing customer concerns), their users are suffering. Since they don't see the immediate cost of this breakdown, it needs to be waved in front of them in a more noticable way.
Is that a clip-on tie he's wearing? I think so!