Even a true 100% hardware RAID controller has to have some way to get requests from the OS to the controller, thus a driver. In theory the RAID controller could emulate something like AHCI that you already have a driver for, but for whatever reason they just don't.
You could put IP routing in hardware or a mesh MAC protocol in software; people have done both. It's an orthogonal issue. In fact, 802.11 products seem to be moving towards having as much of the work done on the host as possible to reduce cost (think Winmodems).
Intel has not introduced the 802.11s standard; Intel has made a proposal to the IEEE, which they will take into consideration while designing the 802.11s standard.
The article makes 802.11s sound like a general mesh standard, which would be really nice. However, what I read on the IEEE Web site recently made it sound like merely a self-configuring version of WDS (so that only access points participate in the mesh). Can anyone provide details on the features of Intel's proposal?
An M4A file can contain either AAC or ALAC. But they are still totally different codecs; software that plays AAC/M4A will not necessarily play ALAC/M4A.
I think one of the reasons why large companies should avoid standard codecs like MPEG is that they are afraid of getting sued. In today's everything-is-patented world, all standard codecs out there violate at least one patent somewhere, perhaps without even realizing it. Right or wrong, a company could, in the current climate, be sued for using one of those codecs. Individual users and developers of the codec are in the same boat, but they aren't as juicy a target as a large corporation, so the danger of them getting sued is a lot less. Even small companies might escape the crosshairs if they don't go around annoying the big sharks. But a patent holder who held off suing a bunch of individuals and small companies might change their mind and bring out the big guns once a large company with deep pockets made themselves a target.
Because the iPod was designed to have just enough CPU power to do what it was designed to do: play MP3s. (In retrospect this was not a smart decision, but most embedded devices don't plan for future upgrades either.) The other codecs were added years later.
Desknotes use the same processors as desktops, so of course they come out at the same time. And now that all the desktop chips have power management, the difference between "desktop" and "mobile" chips is very little.
Perhaps China (or at least as personified by these officials) has forgotten where a lot of electronic equipment is manufactured.
Many of the chips in question are manufactured in Taiwan by TSMC. I guess some of them could be made in China at UMC.
Why not just take the new standard and profit on our willingness to buy their stuff, as usual?
Because chip manufacturers have no influence over the designers of Wi-Fi chips, which are mostly American companies (Atheros, Broadcom, Marvell, Intel, etc.). So it's not really their stuff.
Yeah, I never understood what happened with CAP. It looks like the spec was 90% finished and then some irreconcilable philosophical flamewar broke out and killed the whole thing. How does that happen?
I know most people will consider this a nit, but the broadcast flag only covers OTA DTV. By definition, cable and satellite cannot contain the broadcast flag (they contain other flags).
Yes, cable and satellite are totally DRM-encrusted, and you have no chance to record make your time, but it's off-topic.
You make a good point. I looked at the XForms spec, and it was written by IBM, Xerox, Adobe, SAP, Novell, Sun, et al. What do these companies have in common? None of them develop major Web browsers.
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MPEG-4 Visual is a video codec. MP4 is the container for MPEG-4 Visual data.
I think hardware MPEG-4 decoding is a waste of time, but a VIA chipset supports it.
In the US, satellite and cable boxes have component or DVI or HDMI outputs. HDTV tuner PCI cards have ATSC or QAM inputs. See the problem?
Even a true 100% hardware RAID controller has to have some way to get requests from the OS to the controller, thus a driver. In theory the RAID controller could emulate something like AHCI that you already have a driver for, but for whatever reason they just don't.
You could put IP routing in hardware or a mesh MAC protocol in software; people have done both. It's an orthogonal issue. In fact, 802.11 products seem to be moving towards having as much of the work done on the host as possible to reduce cost (think Winmodems).
Intel has not introduced the 802.11s standard; Intel has made a proposal to the IEEE, which they will take into consideration while designing the 802.11s standard.
The article makes 802.11s sound like a general mesh standard, which would be really nice. However, what I read on the IEEE Web site recently made it sound like merely a self-configuring version of WDS (so that only access points participate in the mesh). Can anyone provide details on the features of Intel's proposal?
An M4A file can contain either AAC or ALAC. But they are still totally different codecs; software that plays AAC/M4A will not necessarily play ALAC/M4A.
I think one of the reasons why large companies should avoid standard codecs like MPEG is that they are afraid of getting sued. In today's everything-is-patented world, all standard codecs out there violate at least one patent somewhere, perhaps without even realizing it. Right or wrong, a company could, in the current climate, be sued for using one of those codecs. Individual users and developers of the codec are in the same boat, but they aren't as juicy a target as a large corporation, so the danger of them getting sued is a lot less. Even small companies might escape the crosshairs if they don't go around annoying the big sharks. But a patent holder who held off suing a bunch of individuals and small companies might change their mind and bring out the big guns once a large company with deep pockets made themselves a target.
Because the iPod was designed to have just enough CPU power to do what it was designed to do: play MP3s. (In retrospect this was not a smart decision, but most embedded devices don't plan for future upgrades either.) The other codecs were added years later.
You better keep your pants on; otherwise you could end up with a nasty burn.
Desknotes use the same processors as desktops, so of course they come out at the same time. And now that all the desktop chips have power management, the difference between "desktop" and "mobile" chips is very little.
Perhaps China (or at least as personified by these officials) has forgotten where a lot of electronic equipment is manufactured.
Many of the chips in question are manufactured in Taiwan by TSMC. I guess some of them could be made in China at UMC.
Why not just take the new standard and profit on our willingness to buy their stuff, as usual?
Because chip manufacturers have no influence over the designers of Wi-Fi chips, which are mostly American companies (Atheros, Broadcom, Marvell, Intel, etc.). So it's not really their stuff.
Wow, you used Mbits/second, MB/s, and Mb/s all in the same post to mean the same thing.
Yeah, I never understood what happened with CAP. It looks like the spec was 90% finished and then some irreconcilable philosophical flamewar broke out and killed the whole thing. How does that happen?
I'm sure Oracle will declare that you can't pretend to have fewer cores just to escape licensing fees.
That's why Smithfield has HT disabled.
Instead.. Protect the transaction directly, with something like a secure credit card transaction protocol.
That was called SET. It failed because it was expensive and credit card fraud is already pretty low.
I know most people will consider this a nit, but the broadcast flag only covers OTA DTV. By definition, cable and satellite cannot contain the broadcast flag (they contain other flags).
Yes, cable and satellite are totally DRM-encrusted, and you have no chance to record make your time, but it's off-topic.
Hey, if they stop serial cables, why not HDTV tuners?
Yes, it will work. In fact, it will work much better than newer, crippled tuners.
And customs will seize them at the border. Nice try, though.
If population density makes it so easy to provide fast & cheap broadband, why doesn't it exist in New York or San Francisco?
I have non-Apple RAM that works fine. Although I do remember that Mac firmware sometimes locks out RAM that is below spec.
Name one peripheral that Apple has locked out.
You make a good point. I looked at the XForms spec, and it was written by IBM, Xerox, Adobe, SAP, Novell, Sun, et al. What do these companies have in common? None of them develop major Web browsers.
Sure. This sounds like exactly the kind of thing that Echelon is designed for.