Dave Winer says "I don't want to start a site hosting business." As far as I can tell, there is no way to "upgrade" to keep a weblogs.com site; the best you could do is move to a different provider.
Manila (the software used on weblogs.com) has an export feature for exactly this purpose. (I just backed up my site right now. Luckily it wasn't on weblogs.com.)
Dave Winer has written in the past about why it's import for Web apps to export data: "So since we're going to have competition, I believe we must take extra steps to guarantee that there's no customer lock-in. It's even more important in the age of the Web when the user might not even have a copy of their own data. One of the cardinal requirements of this market, even before we try to get the UIs compatible, is an export function that leaves un-rendered text and data on the user's hard disk in a format readable by software that's available at a reasonable or no cost."
You're underestimating the combined arrogance and paranoia of the MPAA. I wouldn't be surprised if HD-DVD players down-res their component outputs. You better hope your TV has HDCP.
The existing Opteron pinouts provide for four DIMM sockets.
No, the existing Opterons provide for two memory buses. A bus can have a variable number of sockets, but the wires are shared; only one DIMM on each bus can be accessed at one time.
You have to be careful when reading academic papers; many of them talk about processors that could not be built. Super wide-issue, wide-SMT sounds great, but it's really expensive to implement and area-hungry (compare the size of an Alpha EV8 to an EV6).
Anyway, IBM and Sun have already combined CMP and SMT; the rest of the industry may not be far behind.
What does it matter whether the cores are on one chip or two? A dual-core system has roughly the same performance as a traditional dual-processor system, so the licensing cost should be the same.
Those "typical consumer boards" are only going to have one x16 slot and several x1 slots. A x1 slot isn't even fast enough to support a 3ware card. But those controllers do look cool.
I think you're talking about the POWER5 multi-chip module (MCM); it actually has four processor chips, each with two cores. It also has four cache chips. Check out a picture.
Even if RSS and Atom converged, some people would continue using the old RSS 2.0, so you'd still have two standards (RSS 2.0 and the converged format). You'd be no better off.
Also, given the different value systems of the RSS and Atom advocates, attempts at convergence are just likely to lead to deadlock.
Dell workstations do have ECC. Opteron workstations also have ECC. We can argue forever about whether workstation users "need" ECC, but plenty of them want it, and that's why Apple should support ECC.
Code forks because Microsoft wants to take over or fragment the market by creating an incompatible implementation
This has nothing to do with open source. A vendor could fragment the market by writing their own VM from scratch (e.g. JikesRVM, GCJ).
Can't they just add a term to an open source license that says that compatibility has to be maintained in some form and to some degree, verifiable by third parties?
By definition, open source includes the right to make incompatible modifications. Open source which requires compatibility is impossible; it is a contradiction in terms.
As others said, there are no Opteron 4xxs. Also, all Opterons are the same, so the cost to manufacture them is the same. This is why AMD was able to magically cut prices on the 8xxs by 43% recently.
In GNOME Terminal I just choose Copy from the Edit menu when I want to copy text. My point was that there are terminal emulators which can use the real clipboard in addition to the primary selection.
(This problem doesn't exist at all on the Mac, since ctrl-c is used to send an interrupt and cmd-c is the shortcut for copy.)
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AMD motherboards will have PCI Express later this year. DDR2 is more expensive than DRR for no performance gain, so AMD will probably skip it.
Dave Winer says "I don't want to start a site hosting business." As far as I can tell, there is no way to "upgrade" to keep a weblogs.com site; the best you could do is move to a different provider.
Manila (the software used on weblogs.com) has an export feature for exactly this purpose. (I just backed up my site right now. Luckily it wasn't on weblogs.com.)
Dave Winer has written in the past about why it's import for Web apps to export data: "So since we're going to have competition, I believe we must take extra steps to guarantee that there's no customer lock-in. It's even more important in the age of the Web when the user might not even have a copy of their own data. One of the cardinal requirements of this market, even before we try to get the UIs compatible, is an export function that leaves un-rendered text and data on the user's hard disk in a format readable by software that's available at a reasonable or no cost."
...HD-DVD would use the same 3:2 Telecine that DVDs use today.
Or they could just store a native 24fps 1080p stream on the disc and let the player deal with it.
You're underestimating the combined arrogance and paranoia of the MPAA. I wouldn't be surprised if HD-DVD players down-res their component outputs. You better hope your TV has HDCP.
I fear the 3l33t snax0rz.
The existing Opteron pinouts provide for four DIMM sockets.
No, the existing Opterons provide for two memory buses. A bus can have a variable number of sockets, but the wires are shared; only one DIMM on each bus can be accessed at one time.
You have to be careful when reading academic papers; many of them talk about processors that could not be built. Super wide-issue, wide-SMT sounds great, but it's really expensive to implement and area-hungry (compare the size of an Alpha EV8 to an EV6).
Anyway, IBM and Sun have already combined CMP and SMT; the rest of the industry may not be far behind.
What does it matter whether the cores are on one chip or two? A dual-core system has roughly the same performance as a traditional dual-processor system, so the licensing cost should be the same.
Those "typical consumer boards" are only going to have one x16 slot and several x1 slots. A x1 slot isn't even fast enough to support a 3ware card. But those controllers do look cool.
I think you're talking about the POWER5 multi-chip module (MCM); it actually has four processor chips, each with two cores. It also has four cache chips. Check out a picture.
Even if RSS and Atom converged, some people would continue using the old RSS 2.0, so you'd still have two standards (RSS 2.0 and the converged format). You'd be no better off.
Also, given the different value systems of the RSS and Atom advocates, attempts at convergence are just likely to lead to deadlock.
Dell workstations do have ECC. Opteron workstations also have ECC. We can argue forever about whether workstation users "need" ECC, but plenty of them want it, and that's why Apple should support ECC.
Come on Apple, the Xserves have ECC. Why not put it in the Power Macs as well?
Linux has had G5 fan control for several months; it works OK in our testing.
Sending audio over 802.11 to an AirPort Express box just to get digital audio out of your Mac is total overkill. Try a USB audio dongle instead.
Code forks because Microsoft wants to take over or fragment the market by creating an incompatible implementation
This has nothing to do with open source. A vendor could fragment the market by writing their own VM from scratch (e.g. JikesRVM, GCJ).
Can't they just add a term to an open source license that says that compatibility has to be maintained in some form and to some degree, verifiable by third parties?
By definition, open source includes the right to make incompatible modifications. Open source which requires compatibility is impossible; it is a contradiction in terms.
The IEEE hasn't even started writing the 802.20 spec, so Nextel can't be using 802.20.
In an 802.16 setup, the towers don't speak 802.16 to each other; if you're using wireless backhaul it's probably a proprietary protocol.
Mesh networking is great, but 802.11 is totally unsuited to mesh because it limits throughput to 1/7th of the link rate.
The WiMAX certification testing has not even started, therefore there is not any WiMAX equipment in existence.
The number of enabled Hypertransport links varies, but they all have three on the die.
As others said, there are no Opteron 4xxs. Also, all Opterons are the same, so the cost to manufacture them is the same. This is why AMD was able to magically cut prices on the 8xxs by 43% recently.
Before I can get excited about quantum crypto, I want to know what attacks real networks suffer from and how quantum crypto prevents them.
Let me be the first to say "40GB is enough for anyone".
So maybe the 60GB drive is for the mythical video iPod. (Not.)
In GNOME Terminal I just choose Copy from the Edit menu when I want to copy text. My point was that there are terminal emulators which can use the real clipboard in addition to the primary selection.
(This problem doesn't exist at all on the Mac, since ctrl-c is used to send an interrupt and cmd-c is the shortcut for copy.)