What they're really scared of is that with devices like this in the hands of the consumer, the networks' plans for pay-per-view replays go out the window.
I don't agree. As I've said before, I think 99% of people would prefer pay-per-view video-on-demand over a PVR, because there's no several-hundred-dollar upfront hardware cost.
The GCC project has gone through this exact problem with several of their libraries (libgcc, libgcj), and the solution they settled on is the GPL with an exception that using the library doesn't make the main program subject to the requirements of the GPL. Thus the libraries can be statically linked into proprietary embedded systems, but all modifications still have to be released.
FWIW, Atheros claims that 802.11a works up to 225 feet and provides more bandwidth than 802.11b at any range. Take it with a grain of salt since Atheros makes 802.11a chips, but it's still worth a read.
Am I losing (or loosing, either works) my grip on reality or was the whole point to have all your cards belong to us and on the same damn freq/speed/clock perhaps at the FSB rather than a seperate timing?
You lost it. Having the bus clock run at an integer divisor of the FSB clock is good, but it has nothing to do with the number of slots per bus.
Too bad that feature consumes 1.4 GB of disk space and takes 20 minutes to burn a CD (with a 16X drive). Maybe my PowerBook's hard drive is just slow, though.
I think the TV networks can learn from the music industry's strategy. If you don't want people to copy your content willy-nilly, provide a legit way for them to get it how they want, when they want. The music industry's version of this is MusicNet and PressPlay; they same principle applied to TV would be video-on-demand for everything. Obviously people are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to time-shift TV and skip commercials, but none of that money is going to the networks. Commercial-free VOD could potentially give viewers and networks what they want.
Bitstream Font Rendering Engine - can be replaced with FreeType
MP3 Codec - several open source implementations exist
Intel Indeo Codec - not essential
Netpositive Web browser - can be replaced with Mozilla
Opera Web browser - ditto
OpenGL is a possiblitity too - I could live without OpenGL
None of these are perfect replacements, but they ought to work. If nobody's willing to do the work to strip out the licensed code, nothing can be done about that. But the code itself is hardly irreplaceable.
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VP3 is an open source QuickTime video codec that some people claim rivals Sorenson in quality (I haven't tried it myself).
What they're really scared of is that with devices like this in the hands of the consumer, the networks' plans for pay-per-view replays go out the window.
I don't agree. As I've said before, I think 99% of people would prefer pay-per-view video-on-demand over a PVR, because there's no several-hundred-dollar upfront hardware cost.
The GCC project has gone through this exact problem with several of their libraries (libgcc, libgcj), and the solution they settled on is the GPL with an exception that using the library doesn't make the main program subject to the requirements of the GPL. Thus the libraries can be statically linked into proprietary embedded systems, but all modifications still have to be released.
They can't charge you for that data.
Why not? I pay for every byte that goes in or out of one of my machines.
QNX has a package filesystem like what you describe; it looks like it solves Mosfet's problem and keeps PATH simple.
Do you authenticate to your ISP? Doesn't that fly in the face of absolute anonymity?
I downloaded all 27.9MB of the large trailer, but Quicktime Player just launched Internet Explorer and sent me back to the trailers site.
FWIW, Atheros claims that 802.11a works up to 225 feet and provides more bandwidth than 802.11b at any range. Take it with a grain of salt since Atheros makes 802.11a chips, but it's still worth a read.
It's probably going to be the same speed, since the drive will be the bottleneck.
At that price, you might as well buy Zeus, which is based on an even faster event-driven architecture.
They use 2.5" notebook drives, not Microdrives.
Am I losing (or loosing, either works) my grip on reality or was the whole point to have all your cards belong to us and on the same damn freq/speed/clock perhaps at the FSB rather than a seperate timing?
You lost it. Having the bus clock run at an integer divisor of the FSB clock is good, but it has nothing to do with the number of slots per bus.
Some of the transport solutions, such as HyperTransport, can be used between CPU and memory.
Well, between a CPU and northbridge.
This is how nVidia's new 'nForce' chipset works; it hooks up an Athlon to DDR RAM via HyperTransport links.
Nope. The protocol between the CPU and northbridge is the EV6 bus and the protocol between the northbridge and RAM is DDR SDRAM.
Apple was one of the early members of the HyperTransport consortium... what does this say about the G5's motherboard architecture?
It probably means Apple is hedging their bets.
OTOH, Apple likes nVidia, Apple likes HT, nVidia likes HT... nForce for PowerPC anyone?
Too bad that feature consumes 1.4 GB of disk space and takes 20 minutes to burn a CD (with a 16X drive). Maybe my PowerBook's hard drive is just slow, though.
Back when the previous article was posted, the DEC wasn't for sale yet, and the price hadn't been announced. So there is some news in this article.
I think the TV networks can learn from the music industry's strategy. If you don't want people to copy your content willy-nilly, provide a legit way for them to get it how they want, when they want. The music industry's version of this is MusicNet and PressPlay; they same principle applied to TV would be video-on-demand for everything. Obviously people are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to time-shift TV and skip commercials, but none of that money is going to the networks. Commercial-free VOD could potentially give viewers and networks what they want.
It sure works in a PCMCIA slot, so I'm not sure in what sense it's not a PCMCIA drive. And I'm pretty sure it's type II.
It's true that .NET My Services will cost money to run, but why not charge the users whose data is being stored/manipulated? Why charge app developers?
Bitstream Font Rendering Engine - can be replaced with FreeType
MP3 Codec - several open source implementations exist
Intel Indeo Codec - not essential
Netpositive Web browser - can be replaced with Mozilla
Opera Web browser - ditto
OpenGL is a possiblitity too - I could live without OpenGL
None of these are perfect replacements, but they ought to work. If nobody's willing to do the work to strip out the licensed code, nothing can be done about that. But the code itself is hardly irreplaceable.
So what 802.11 radios run on amateur frequencies?
MIT has been doing some really interesting work on a wireless routing protocol called Grid.
802.11 is 2/1 Mbps
802.11b is 11/5.5/2/1 Mbps
802.11a is 54/48/36/24/18/12/9/6 Mbps
Proxim's site says the 8 channels don't overlap, meaning you should be able to get ~400 Mbps of total capacity.
That's because the motherboard has two NICs built in.