Actually, the fork is between Intel and Intel - at least until we see how good the emulation really is. With IA64 Intel has forked with its own X86 past. AMD hasn't forked.
Reminds me of "Screamers" with Peter Weller
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They had radiation attacks, and had to take their medication when the alert sounded.
In order to properly deliver the medication to the lungs, they smoked these special cigarettes. Imagine, smoking cigarettes to prevent lung cancer. (or worse)
Part of the bru-ha-ha back at the intro of the K7 was that it used "Slot-A", where "A" stood for Athlon... or Alpha. AMD licensed the Alpha bus (EV6, or was it EV4?) for use with the Athlon. At the time, there was hope that this move would bring forth Athlon motherboards that could be loaded up with an Alpha by changing CPU and BIOS chips. It was hoped to bring the Alpha much closer to affordability. Had the Alpha marketing not been fumbled so badly, this could have been a nightmare scenario for Intel.
Anyway, I have no idea what the licensing agreement between AMD and DEC (or was it Compaq, by then?) was for the bus. I've no doubt AMD can use it as much as they want, but no idea whether they can then license it to others.
They're going to hand you this little lump of flesh at the hospital, and you get to take it home. If you're anything like us, you'll feel utterly incompetent at the thought of being parents, and overwhelmed.
You get over it. Parenthood is strictly learn-by-doing, and each stage hopefully prepares you for the next.
You're also going to have tons of "helpful advice." Follow your own gut, and sort through that advice, and don't be afraid to throw it out. this is YOUR child, not theirs. At some point, you will realize that you are the expert on this child, not anyone else.
My wife and I lived by this through two kids. When they got old enough to drop the naps, we didn't. They're now both teenagers and we still take a nap.
Your inability to survive re-entry in just a space suit is due to a failure of imagination, too. Sometimes the parameters of the circumstance are just too tough no matter how much we all want Plan B. (or C or D or...)
I suspect you're thinking of having Columbia do a series of leftward corkscrews to favor that wing. I seriously doubt if would have been enough. In addition, it would have left them with no path to the runway, since their energy expendature just gets them to Florida.
The runways where the shuttle is rated to land are triple-length, and it needs a lot of that even under good circumstances. I don't know how many of those there are on the flight path. I did read that the only way ditching in water is survivable is if the cargo bay is empty. For Columbia, the sudden decelleration of a ditch would have brought the Spacelab crashing forward through the crew compartment.
That said, this is one aspect of the shuttle design that is terribly brittle. There are these RCC panels, and behind them, aluminum. IMHO that would have been the spot for a few key structural titanium members. I don't know if titanium and aluminum can be bonded without nasty electrochemical effects, though. Most other aspects of the orbiter have some "damage survivability" built in. The RCC panels and their associated fit pieces obviously have none.
I'm sure the legislators never meant this to have an effect on business, only citizens. No doubt there'll be ammendments to allow business to use NAT and proxy.
I suspect that people are also being overly literal in their interpretation of this. Even if I run NAT or proxy at home, it doesn't disguise the fact that the traffic came from my network. It only hides my internal details, but not my ultimate responsibility.
Still, even by my more relaxed definition, VPN and any anonymizers would be problems.
I seem to remember seeing something about this recently. IIRC, the court was handling a case where they didn't seem to agree with the law, but that's not what they are allowed to rule on. Congress is allowed to make stupid laws, and the Court can only rule on whether they are Constitutional, or not.
To some extent, the pervasiveness of C is the enemy of proper optimization of some of the other languages. There's only so much compiler-writer bandwidth to go around, and the market has had most of that bandwidth dedicated to compiling and optimizing C.
The situation is magnified with a compiler like gcc, where a common back-end services many front-ends. For instance, compilers have to spend effort handling aliasing under C that is either illegal or carefully described in other languages. Other languages, for instance Ada, can use those "cursedly verbose declarations" to give the compiler hints about the code. But since Ada is a fringe language, the back-end writers will most likely ignore those hints and crank along as if the input had been C code, aliases and all.
Good tongue in cheek humor. Doesn't take itself seriously, yet at the same time doesn't wag for the camera like Leslie Neilson. (only a good trick when Leslie Neilson does it.)
Not only that, but the pacing and plot development were perfect. They really led you into the story. Makes Men In Black look like a piece of cotton candy.
Other underrated favorites: Baron Munchausen Fifth Element (50's view of the future, so DOGGONE FRENCH! (nothing to do with current situation)) Hook (saw it as a fairly new father)
From this list, I tend to like big over-budget busts. They can be kind of fun. I'm looking forward to The Core - it sounds like a stupidly good time.
Tremors - I fondly remember watching Saturday Matinees in the 60's with my Dad, and this recaptures it. I've passed it on to my kids. This past Summer we had a B&W film festival of oldies at our house. Tonight we're watching the Tremors premier.
Technically, you probably can't, really. I heard on an interview-type show about it. She was underage at the time, and her mother and a cop were at the filming, to make sure nothing *evil* made it onto film.
If you really want to see her b00bies, watch the film she made six months later, "Dangerous Liasons." Also a very good film.
(I like "Baron Munchausen," and picked it up on tape.)
At this point, a gentle reminder is in order... (besides the fact that IANAL)
Intel and HP do not own the IP for the IPF/Itanium/IA64 architecture and implementation. They instead set up a holding company for the IP, that licenses it back to them.
This way, IP on IPF does not come under any existing cross-licensing agreements.
In plain English, IPF is *the most proprietary* CPU architecture out there. If IPF indeed "wins" the CPU wars and competition withers, Intel and HP will have extraordinary power to write their revenue plans.
I was skimming sci.space.shuttle last night. There had been a general "no flight recorders" statement about the shuttle by the more authoritative contributors to the group ever since this discussion on the launch began. Then this news came up.
It turns out that these flight recorders were done for Columbia and Challenger, and dropped from subsequent shuttles, since telemetry was deemed sufficiently reliable. Then everyone forgot about these OXE recorders, until one was found.
There was some mention about some other recorders that could yield useful information, but how that fits into the "no flight recorders" statement, I don't understand. I can see the point on the OXE recorder. There was some discussion that a data vs bandwidth choice has to be made on telemetry, and that more complete data can be found on recorders. I'd think there'd be a similar data vs tape space decision on a recorder, too.
I'm surprised that nobody brought up the other obvious reason for a no servers policy.
How many people are competent to run a server?
How many people think they are competent to run a server, and really aren't?
How can an ISP differentiate?
Let's face it, running a server can really muck up a network. Simple things, like open relay to mail loops to a misconfigured DHCP server acting as a rogue. Then behind all of the stupid or basic mistakes, you have a cracker giving the appearance of simple mistakes while doing Evil. Then you have the cost crunch.
A no servers policy is simpler, even though I dislike it too.
I would run to DSL if it were an option for me. Prompted by this, I need to check out how much more expensive a business account is. I have a mail forwarding domain, and would rather set up a point-to-point SMTP server than use my ISP's POP box with multidrop, for starters.
Even before these litiginous days, companies reverse engineered each others' chips. Not so much to learn how to do something, but to discover what techniques were being brought to market, and which were still paper tigers.
In today's patent-happy environment, you tear apart the other guys' chips to see if your precious IP is being violated.
I'm actually not worried about the modem, itself. I'm more worried about their infrastructure. Years back, Adelphia dominated our area, but my town had a different cable TV provider. Eventually Adelphia got our town, too. So our infrastructure is a little different from the rest of their system, and every now and then it shows.
So my case is a bit specific, but all-in-all I'd be concerned about the average talent at cable ISPs. Adelphia has some very good people - I've met some, but the average is considerably lower, and that's the first line solving any problems you may have.
Of course if I found some of those rebates for an old subscriber, I might go for one, any way. I haven't had THAT many problems. It's just that all the rebates in our area are for new subscribers.
I haven't had many problems with my cable ISP in 2.5 years, but I have had a few. In each case, they own the problem, soup to nuts. All I have to do is pretend that I'm rebooting the Windows PC that the modem isn't really connect to whenever they ask, and figure out what they're *really* asking for, and make sure I comply.
Own your own modem, and whenever there's a problem, it's finger-pointing time. Is the problem in their system or your modem? No doubt even if it's really in their system, and some of their people know it, the guy on the other end of the phone won't, and will blame it on your modem.
In the face of life's inevitable problems, renting is simpler, though a few bucks more expensive. The rental fee didn't used to be there, and I figure it was their way of jacking the rates up without a rate increase. I have no doubt that sometime in the next year there'll be some sort of 'service fee' for non-rental modems and we'll all be at parity, again.
Unfortunately all the rebates I've seen in my area are for new subscribers, only.
I'd really rather have DSL with its more enlightened/less restrictive Terms Of Service.
If you have control, the money flows on its own. Up until LicenseV6, Microsoft acted consistently this way. But a substantial part of their control consists of having a lot of money, so maybe they did need to activate the money pump.
Does this mean you need a license for Longhorn, and then another license for whatever Windows you run in the Virtual PC? Presumably you got to Longhorn through an upgrade, and you can still use the upgraded version in a Virtual PC, but this extends the license management issue. Now you need to keep tabs on multiple OS licenses for every PC, as well as all of the application licenses.
Gee whiz, instead of all of that hassle, you might as well sign up for Software Assurance.
Or migrate to software with less restrictive licensing.
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Actually, the fork is between Intel and Intel - at least until we see how good the emulation really is. With IA64 Intel has forked with its own X86 past. AMD hasn't forked.
They had radiation attacks, and had to take their medication when the alert sounded.
In order to properly deliver the medication to the lungs, they smoked these special cigarettes. Imagine, smoking cigarettes to prevent lung cancer. (or worse)
I'm not sure this could work, legally.
Part of the bru-ha-ha back at the intro of the K7 was that it used "Slot-A", where "A" stood for Athlon... or Alpha. AMD licensed the Alpha bus (EV6, or was it EV4?) for use with the Athlon. At the time, there was hope that this move would bring forth Athlon motherboards that could be loaded up with an Alpha by changing CPU and BIOS chips. It was hoped to bring the Alpha much closer to affordability. Had the Alpha marketing not been fumbled so badly, this could have been a nightmare scenario for Intel.
Anyway, I have no idea what the licensing agreement between AMD and DEC (or was it Compaq, by then?) was for the bus. I've no doubt AMD can use it as much as they want, but no idea whether they can then license it to others.
They're going to hand you this little lump of flesh at the hospital, and you get to take it home. If you're anything like us, you'll feel utterly incompetent at the thought of being parents, and overwhelmed.
You get over it. Parenthood is strictly learn-by-doing, and each stage hopefully prepares you for the next.
You're also going to have tons of "helpful advice." Follow your own gut, and sort through that advice, and don't be afraid to throw it out. this is YOUR child, not theirs. At some point, you will realize that you are the expert on this child, not anyone else.
My wife and I lived by this through two kids. When they got old enough to drop the naps, we didn't. They're now both teenagers and we still take a nap.
Your inability to survive re-entry in just a space suit is due to a failure of imagination, too. Sometimes the parameters of the circumstance are just too tough no matter how much we all want Plan B. (or C or D or...)
I suspect you're thinking of having Columbia do a series of leftward corkscrews to favor that wing. I seriously doubt if would have been enough. In addition, it would have left them with no path to the runway, since their energy expendature just gets them to Florida.
The runways where the shuttle is rated to land are triple-length, and it needs a lot of that even under good circumstances. I don't know how many of those there are on the flight path. I did read that the only way ditching in water is survivable is if the cargo bay is empty. For Columbia, the sudden decelleration of a ditch would have brought the Spacelab crashing forward through the crew compartment.
That said, this is one aspect of the shuttle design that is terribly brittle. There are these RCC panels, and behind them, aluminum. IMHO that would have been the spot for a few key structural titanium members. I don't know if titanium and aluminum can be bonded without nasty electrochemical effects, though. Most other aspects of the orbiter have some "damage survivability" built in. The RCC panels and their associated fit pieces obviously have none.
I'm sure the legislators never meant this to have an effect on business, only citizens. No doubt there'll be ammendments to allow business to use NAT and proxy.
I suspect that people are also being overly literal in their interpretation of this. Even if I run NAT or proxy at home, it doesn't disguise the fact that the traffic came from my network. It only hides my internal details, but not my ultimate responsibility.
Still, even by my more relaxed definition, VPN and any anonymizers would be problems.
I seem to remember seeing something about this recently. IIRC, the court was handling a case where they didn't seem to agree with the law, but that's not what they are allowed to rule on. Congress is allowed to make stupid laws, and the Court can only rule on whether they are Constitutional, or not.
To some extent, the pervasiveness of C is the enemy of proper optimization of some of the other languages. There's only so much compiler-writer bandwidth to go around, and the market has had most of that bandwidth dedicated to compiling and optimizing C.
The situation is magnified with a compiler like gcc, where a common back-end services many front-ends. For instance, compilers have to spend effort handling aliasing under C that is either illegal or carefully described in other languages. Other languages, for instance Ada, can use those "cursedly verbose declarations" to give the compiler hints about the code. But since Ada is a fringe language, the back-end writers will most likely ignore those hints and crank along as if the input had been C code, aliases and all.
One of the best, I forgot it on my other list responding to "Big Trouble in Little China."
Clearly a phenomological movie.
Let's hope it's Gilliam who gets the chance to do "Good Omens". I don't know of anyone else I think could pull it off.
This one gets my vote, too.
Good tongue in cheek humor. Doesn't take itself seriously, yet at the same time doesn't wag for the camera like Leslie Neilson. (only a good trick when Leslie Neilson does it.)
Not only that, but the pacing and plot development were perfect. They really led you into the story. Makes Men In Black look like a piece of cotton candy.
Other underrated favorites:
Baron Munchausen
Fifth Element (50's view of the future, so DOGGONE FRENCH! (nothing to do with current situation))
Hook (saw it as a fairly new father)
From this list, I tend to like big over-budget busts. They can be kind of fun. I'm looking forward to The Core - it sounds like a stupidly good time.
Tremors - I fondly remember watching Saturday Matinees in the 60's with my Dad, and this recaptures it. I've passed it on to my kids. This past Summer we had a B&W film festival of oldies at our house. Tonight we're watching the Tremors premier.
Technically, you probably can't, really. I heard on an interview-type show about it. She was underage at the time, and her mother and a cop were at the filming, to make sure nothing *evil* made it onto film.
If you really want to see her b00bies, watch the film she made six months later, "Dangerous Liasons." Also a very good film.
(I like "Baron Munchausen," and picked it up on tape.)
At this point, a gentle reminder is in order...
(besides the fact that IANAL)
Intel and HP do not own the IP for the IPF/Itanium/IA64 architecture and implementation. They instead set up a holding company for the IP, that licenses it back to them.
This way, IP on IPF does not come under any existing cross-licensing agreements.
In plain English, IPF is *the most proprietary* CPU architecture out there. If IPF indeed "wins" the CPU wars and competition withers, Intel and HP will have extraordinary power to write their revenue plans.
What will they think of next, non-caloric, non-nutritive foods you eat to lose weight? Oops, Gaiman and Pratchett already did that one.
I was skimming sci.space.shuttle last night. There had been a general "no flight recorders" statement about the shuttle by the more authoritative contributors to the group ever since this discussion on the launch began. Then this news came up.
It turns out that these flight recorders were done for Columbia and Challenger, and dropped from subsequent shuttles, since telemetry was deemed sufficiently reliable. Then everyone forgot about these OXE recorders, until one was found.
There was some mention about some other recorders that could yield useful information, but how that fits into the "no flight recorders" statement, I don't understand. I can see the point on the OXE recorder. There was some discussion that a data vs bandwidth choice has to be made on telemetry, and that more complete data can be found on recorders. I'd think there'd be a similar data vs tape space decision on a recorder, too.
Naah, you just have to be skimming and not reading carefully.
This qualifies you as a *terrorist* for attempting to instigate a network DDOS attack.
You should hear the gorillas at your door any minute now, enjoy your stay at Guantanamo Bay.
I'm surprised that nobody brought up the other obvious reason for a no servers policy.
How many people are competent to run a server?
How many people think they are competent to run a server, and really aren't?
How can an ISP differentiate?
Let's face it, running a server can really muck up a network. Simple things, like open relay to mail loops to a misconfigured DHCP server acting as a rogue. Then behind all of the stupid or basic mistakes, you have a cracker giving the appearance of simple mistakes while doing Evil. Then you have the cost crunch.
A no servers policy is simpler, even though I dislike it too.
I would run to DSL if it were an option for me. Prompted by this, I need to check out how much more expensive a business account is. I have a mail forwarding domain, and would rather set up a point-to-point SMTP server than use my ISP's POP box with multidrop, for starters.
Sure you can, it's done all the time.
Even before these litiginous days, companies reverse engineered each others' chips. Not so much to learn how to do something, but to discover what techniques were being brought to market, and which were still paper tigers.
In today's patent-happy environment, you tear apart the other guys' chips to see if your precious IP is being violated.
I'm actually not worried about the modem, itself. I'm more worried about their infrastructure. Years back, Adelphia dominated our area, but my town had a different cable TV provider. Eventually Adelphia got our town, too. So our infrastructure is a little different from the rest of their system, and every now and then it shows.
So my case is a bit specific, but all-in-all I'd be concerned about the average talent at cable ISPs. Adelphia has some very good people - I've met some, but the average is considerably lower, and that's the first line solving any problems you may have.
Of course if I found some of those rebates for an old subscriber, I might go for one, any way. I haven't had THAT many problems. It's just that all the rebates in our area are for new subscribers.
I haven't had many problems with my cable ISP in 2.5 years, but I have had a few. In each case, they own the problem, soup to nuts. All I have to do is pretend that I'm rebooting the Windows PC that the modem isn't really connect to whenever they ask, and figure out what they're *really* asking for, and make sure I comply.
Own your own modem, and whenever there's a problem, it's finger-pointing time. Is the problem in their system or your modem? No doubt even if it's really in their system, and some of their people know it, the guy on the other end of the phone won't, and will blame it on your modem.
In the face of life's inevitable problems, renting is simpler, though a few bucks more expensive. The rental fee didn't used to be there, and I figure it was their way of jacking the rates up without a rate increase. I have no doubt that sometime in the next year there'll be some sort of 'service fee' for non-rental modems and we'll all be at parity, again.
Unfortunately all the rebates I've seen in my area are for new subscribers, only.
I'd really rather have DSL with its more enlightened/less restrictive Terms Of Service.
Microsoft generally isn't about money.
It's about control.
If you have control, the money flows on its own. Up until LicenseV6, Microsoft acted consistently this way. But a substantial part of their control consists of having a lot of money, so maybe they did need to activate the money pump.
In this case, don't you mean "Slashswatted" instead of "Slashdotted"?
Does this mean you need a license for Longhorn, and then another license for whatever Windows you run in the Virtual PC? Presumably you got to Longhorn through an upgrade, and you can still use the upgraded version in a Virtual PC, but this extends the license management issue. Now you need to keep tabs on multiple OS licenses for every PC, as well as all of the application licenses.
Gee whiz, instead of all of that hassle, you might as well sign up for Software Assurance.
Or migrate to software with less restrictive licensing.