Come on, you know the fanboys will be lined up at midnight to buy 360s. I suspect quite a few people either don't have HDTVs or don't use their Xbox to watch movies anyway.
Because in 5 years time, when all this stuff is priced at a more reasonable level and the quality/quanity of content could justify upgrading...there WILL be a new/better/cheaper format on the horizon
I doubt it. The market can absorb one new format maybe every 10 years. They probably won't even start on Ultra Definition until 2010, and it won't be released until years after that.
They seem to do little but stir up new controversies; and that's only for DNS. Imgaine if they started trying to "improve" IP address allocation, "fix" spam, or "ensure" universal access.
I haven't seen any evidence that the UN would be any better, though.
IIRC, one of the proposals for.org a few years ago was planning to charge $2/year/domain, with prices going down over time. Of course this proposal was not chosen.
It affects all.net domains. Dotster is "buying" your domains from VeriSign and "reselling" them to you; they'll always add a markup on top of VeriSign's "wholesale" price.
what power-pc core are they using for each of these processor cores?
The 970MP has two 970 cores. A 970 core is quite similar to a POWER4 core.
I ask mainly because both the PS3 and XBox 360 have (essentially) multi-core Power PC processors which, because of an old core design, are (supposedly) not all that impressive.
The PPE core is brand new, but it was designed to be small and thus it's not as fast as a big 970 core.
I have suspected that it was possible that IBM was developing multi-core processors that were based off of a more advanced architecture and could potentially be more powerful that either the PS3's or 360's processors at a lower clock speed and using less cores.
You mean like POWER5, which uses very big, fast (yet low-frequency), high-power cores?
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There will be no HD-DVD games.
I think step 3 should be "lose money on every console" and step 5 should be "lose MORE money on every console".
Come on, you know the fanboys will be lined up at midnight to buy 360s. I suspect quite a few people either don't have HDTVs or don't use their Xbox to watch movies anyway.
Because in 5 years time, when all this stuff is priced at a more reasonable level and the quality/quanity of content could justify upgrading...there WILL be a new/better/cheaper format on the horizon
I doubt it. The market can absorb one new format maybe every 10 years. They probably won't even start on Ultra Definition until 2010, and it won't be released until years after that.
HD-DVD and Blu-ray players can both play DVDs, so there's no difference.
That is correct.
All the new formats require multiple lasers.
Blu-ray is likely to have the same HDMI requirement, so that's not an advantage.
Yeah, I know how MOL works, and doing the same thing on x86 is not easy (witness the failure of plex86).
QEMU is slow. Maybe it can come close to VMware if you add the proprietary accelerator module.
Vanderpool is great but when will Pentium M get it?
Actually, x86 virtualization is a big deal; that's why people are willing to pay for VMware.
Just because cloning has been done poorly once in the past doesn't prove anything. But I think Apple's vertical integration strategy is a good one.
There are several P2P streaming projects in development in universities: ESM, TMesh, YOID, etc.
Real IPTV deployments are based on multicast. It doesn't require IPv6 BTW.
I don't think this can ever really take off unless cable companies change their business model to accomodate a la carte selections.
They can't (much), because the cable networks force MSOs to license bundles of channels.
They seem to do little but stir up new controversies; and that's only for DNS. Imgaine if they started trying to "improve" IP address allocation, "fix" spam, or "ensure" universal access.
I haven't seen any evidence that the UN would be any better, though.
No, there are plenty of unallocated IP address blocks.
How many such machines has SGI actually sold recently? They are growing more obsolete by the day. SGI's real business is Itanium/Linux now.
If SGI goes down, what's going to happen to OpenGL and the OpenGL Architecture Review Board that's responsible for advancing OpenGL?
Presumably the ARB will be run by nVidia, ATI, and 3DLabs, just like it is now.
But SGI doesn't sell IRIX machines any more. Maybe that's why they're dying.
You're missing the EV-DO part. EV-DO cards are CardBus, and I doubt the Gumstix supports CardBus.
Does Burning Man have cell coverage? I'd guess not.
You can build your own EV-DO/Wi-Fi router for much less than the cost of a Junxion box.
IIRC, one of the proposals for .org a few years ago was planning to charge $2/year/domain, with prices going down over time. Of course this proposal was not chosen.
It affects all .net domains. Dotster is "buying" your domains from VeriSign and "reselling" them to you; they'll always add a markup on top of VeriSign's "wholesale" price.
ICANN is getting 75 cents per domain per year.
what power-pc core are they using for each of these processor cores?
The 970MP has two 970 cores. A 970 core is quite similar to a POWER4 core.
I ask mainly because both the PS3 and XBox 360 have (essentially) multi-core Power PC processors which, because of an old core design, are (supposedly) not all that impressive.
The PPE core is brand new, but it was designed to be small and thus it's not as fast as a big 970 core.
I have suspected that it was possible that IBM was developing multi-core processors that were based off of a more advanced architecture and could potentially be more powerful that either the PS3's or 360's processors at a lower clock speed and using less cores.
You mean like POWER5, which uses very big, fast (yet low-frequency), high-power cores?
Pentium D is still a ~100W chip. Look at Yonah instead.