The feds won't even let you get on a commercial airplane with nail clippers. Do you really think they're going to let the general public have unrestricted access to personal flying bombs...er...cars?
I'm sure servers could benefit, but I don't see a major improvement in end user experience for these gaming systems.
Exactly. This is why AMD is releasing dual core Opterons now, and dual core desktop processors later. But since Intel couldn't get a usable dual core server processor together in time, they're (paper) releasing a (fake) dual core desktop processor so they can claim "first proc!" for dual cores. Of course, the thing can't even beat the top end single core procs in benchmarks, so it really is a pointless release.
What purpose does this serve? If I have a tracking number for my package, presumably I know what shipper it's from. How is it at all beneficial to me to go to Google's website to look it up instead of the shipper's site?
when they decided to take 6 days to send out the next movie in my queue
Is the rumor true that Netflix sends movies out faster to new customers and gradually slows down the longer you've been with them?
I'm a Netflix n00b - been with them about 2 months - and I couldn't be more pleased with their turnaround time. I drop a disc in the mail Monday, the next one is at my house Tuesday. I live in DC and they've got a distro center in the DC burbs, so that may be part of the reason, but I'm wondering if this is mainly just a temporary phenomenon because I'm a new customer
No, AMD is actually releasing their dual core processors early, while Intel is only pretending to.
AMD ambushed Intel by moving up their dual core release date. In response, Intel hasn't moved up their actual release, because they can't, but is instead touting a phony paper release a day or two before the AMD date so as to appear to be first.
have shipped over 2,000 samples to vendors for evaluation.
You have to ship them for production for it to count as a release. Shipping evaluation units to OEMs is just a stage of development. Until someone can actually buy a computer that contains this processor it hasn't been released yet.
Dual core Opterons have been shipped for production. The actual servers and workstations containing them will be available for immediate delivery on April 21. Computers containing dual core PEEs (snicker) will not be.
This is Intel faxing something to market. This is another one of their paper launches.
I thought that AMD is slated to ship their dual core chip first?
They are. This "news item" is so full of pro-Intel baloney it has to be a paid placement. AMD started shipping their dual core Opterons to OEMs a couple months ago. HP will have a dual-core Opteron server available for immediate delivery on AMD's release date of April 21. Intel wanted really badly to be first with dual core processor release, mainly because their x64 processors are such turdburgers, but they didn't do it. Rushing out a few pilot-run processors to Dell is too little, too late - there will be not be any actual computers using Intel dual core processors available on April 21. There will be dual core Opteron servers and workstations available that day. AMD is first again.
I think that's the point... wading into AVSforum (which is an excellent resource full of great info, posts, knowledge people) is a little overwhelming
True enough.
especially the color scheme =)
I just visited your site...pot, kettle, nuf ced.:)
I wanted a more "blue collar"/lowbrow/brass tacts discussion
AVS isn't all millionaire videophiles. Heck, they've got a DIY screen forum for folks who don't want to spend $200 on a pull-down Da-Lite! And they split the projector forums up by cost - expensive, ludicrous price, and plaid (maybe they use different names tho...)
ps, from you handle can I surmise that you do GIS work?
Yup, mostly ArcObjects development these days, but I was a lowly mapmaker back when I joined/. From your userid can I surmise you joined/. a few months after I did? Around summer 1999 or so?
Yeah, I was being a bit grumpy when I wrote that. And yeah, it's not a bad resource. Maybe I even deserve a little Flamebait modding. But really, the site mentioned is nothing special. Go to avsforum.com, for instance, and you could spend the next month filling your head with HTPC knowledge that isn't included in this guide, not to mention equal amounts of info on all your other home theater components.
I just think there should be a higher standard than "Look at this neato website I found!" for Slashdot submissions. I know, "Slashdot? Standards? You must be new here!"
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I dunno, but it's not from the $600K. The submitter failed to mention that the $600K figure is the setup cost and has nothing to do with the monthly cost of providing the service.
I agree that the Supreme Court will likely keep things as is and move on, but once this issue gets to Congress, watch out...
But you misunderstand the Supreme Court's power. If they say that the Constitution grants citizens the right to use P2P apps, then Congress cannot pass a law abridging that right.
Well, actually they can, but any such law will then be struck down as unconstititional by the Supreme Court when the legal challenges come in.
Yeah, you gotta wonder. Especially since the article goes on to say:
Usually paleontologists put preservatives on fossils right away, but Schweitzer has been trying to find soft tissue in dinosaur fossils, so this one was left alone.
Mary Schweitzer is the scientist in both of these stories. Seems she's got a knack for finding fossilized soft tissue.
This T-Rex tissue is apparently a bigger deal than the fossilized egg contents she found previously though. From TFA:
"Preservation of this extent, where you still have this flexibility and transparency, has never been seen in a dinosaur before." Feathers, hair and fossilized egg contents yes, but not truly soft tissue.
Sorry about the snide - didn't intend that to convey such a tone. Reading my comment again though I see it was pretty snippy.
But.
"World's First Fuel Cell Motorcycle Unveiled" and "The ENV motorcycle"
I never said, and I never said the story said, that is wasn't a motorcycle. I said it wasn't a street motorcycle. It's an off-road motorcycle, commonly referred to as a dirt bike.
"people will be able to use a bike like ENV..."
That "like" in there could be interpreted several ways. I interpret it to mean "another motorcycle that uses this electric-drive technology". Whether or not such a motorcycle would weigh a similar amout as the ENV, this motorcycle's weight doesn't really matter re: cars and highways, because this motorcycle is designed for off-road use. It has off-road tires, an off-road suspension, and no street-legal requirements like turn signals, head lights or tail lights.
IF you RTFA and take a look at the picture of the thing, you will see that this is an off-road recreational bike. Concerns about highway speeds and collisions with cars are irrelevant.
But you guys can't have it both ways-- if you block the ads through your browser or your host list, you can't expect free content forever.
You're right, sort of. It's important that the masses not start using ad blockers or free content will dry up. But I think we members of the tech elite can and should keep using our AdBlocks and our WebWashers.
So when Aunt Edna asks you why the NY Times site looks so clean and white on your computer just remember - ix-ney on the ocker-bley.
It's true that the hope of getting licensing fees from other infringers is the one possible bright spot in this for us shareholders.
But nobody else is going to pay as much as Microsoft did. The lawsuit that was just settled was for patent infringement, but it was also for violating the NDA, and for antitrust violations, and for deliberately destroying evidence. No other company will be facing all these other charges so it's unlikely that they'll be paying anything near $60 million.
The company gets $34million. That's not too shabby
It's quite shabby, considering the strong position Burst held in the trial. They really and truly had the goods on Microsoft and let them off the hook for a sum that's pocket change to Microsoft.
will go to help Burst create new products/technology to sell.
He said instead of hiring more workers to develop more technology, the company will move to enforce its patents, which it believes several other large software companies are using.
Microsoft claimed that they deleted the emails intentionally because Burst's tech was worthless, so there was no point in saving the emails.
This story almost worked, but then Burst's lawyers remembered that during the SUN/MSFT trial, Microsoft testified that ALL company email was backed up off site. So the judge ordered Microsoft to search the backups for the missing emails.
Skip ahead half a year, and Microsoft claims in sworn testimony that they can't search the backups, because each company employee can choose which backup server they wish to archive on, and the company doesn't keep a master list of who's emails are on which server.
Burst's lawyers then start subpoening the backup site employees, and get testimony from the woman in charge of email backups. Her name is Candy Stark. Candy's testimony was "Oh yeah, of course we've got a master spreadsheet that matches employees to servers. How else could we search the backups? Here it is right here."
This past Thursday was when the hearing was to take place that would seal the fate of the Microsoft executives who'd given false testimony about said backup list. It was also probably going to result in the judge ordering Microsoft's backup servers seized by the court and searched by a third party. Not surprisingly, Microsoft settled 1/2 hour before that hearing was to start. Surprisingly, and unfortunately for BRST shareholders like me, the amount they paid to settle was a pittance.
If you'd like to really dig into all the dirty detail of this lawsuit, go dig into the posts at Yahoo's BRST message board, or check out burstinvestors.com which is a site set up by one of the longtime BRST shareholders.
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The feds won't even let you get on a commercial airplane with nail clippers. Do you really think they're going to let the general public have unrestricted access to personal flying bombs...er...cars?
Not a flying chance.
Exactly. This is why AMD is releasing dual core Opterons now, and dual core desktop processors later. But since Intel couldn't get a usable dual core server processor together in time, they're (paper) releasing a (fake) dual core desktop processor so they can claim "first proc!" for dual cores. Of course, the thing can't even beat the top end single core procs in benchmarks, so it really is a pointless release.
The data comes from Craigslist. C-ville doesn't have a Craigslist, ergo no listings on the map.
What purpose does this serve? If I have a tracking number for my package, presumably I know what shipper it's from. How is it at all beneficial to me to go to Google's website to look it up instead of the shipper's site?
Is the rumor true that Netflix sends movies out faster to new customers and gradually slows down the longer you've been with them?
I'm a Netflix n00b - been with them about 2 months - and I couldn't be more pleased with their turnaround time. I drop a disc in the mail Monday, the next one is at my house Tuesday. I live in DC and they've got a distro center in the DC burbs, so that may be part of the reason, but I'm wondering if this is mainly just a temporary phenomenon because I'm a new customer
So are they going to change their name to PayUp.com?
No, AMD is actually releasing their dual core processors early, while Intel is only pretending to.
AMD ambushed Intel by moving up their dual core release date. In response, Intel hasn't moved up their actual release, because they can't, but is instead touting a phony paper release a day or two before the AMD date so as to appear to be first.
You have to ship them for production for it to count as a release. Shipping evaluation units to OEMs is just a stage of development. Until someone can actually buy a computer that contains this processor it hasn't been released yet.
Dual core Opterons have been shipped for production. The actual servers and workstations containing them will be available for immediate delivery on April 21. Computers containing dual core PEEs (snicker) will not be.
But don't forget that this is the "extreme edition". Its name is the Pentium Object Oriented Processor Extreme Edition - or POOPEE
This is Intel faxing something to market. This is another one of their paper launches.
I thought that AMD is slated to ship their dual core chip first?
They are. This "news item" is so full of pro-Intel baloney it has to be a paid placement. AMD started shipping their dual core Opterons to OEMs a couple months ago. HP will have a dual-core Opteron server available for immediate delivery on AMD's release date of April 21. Intel wanted really badly to be first with dual core processor release, mainly because their x64 processors are such turdburgers, but they didn't do it. Rushing out a few pilot-run processors to Dell is too little, too late - there will be not be any actual computers using Intel dual core processors available on April 21. There will be dual core Opteron servers and workstations available that day. AMD is first again.
True enough.
especially the color scheme =)
I just visited your site...pot, kettle, nuf ced. :)
I wanted a more "blue collar"/lowbrow/brass tacts discussion
AVS isn't all millionaire videophiles. Heck, they've got a DIY screen forum for folks who don't want to spend $200 on a pull-down Da-Lite! And they split the projector forums up by cost - expensive, ludicrous price, and plaid (maybe they use different names tho...)
ps, from you handle can I surmise that you do GIS work?
Yup, mostly ArcObjects development these days, but I was a lowly mapmaker back when I joined /. From your userid can I surmise you joined /. a few months after I did? Around summer 1999 or so?
I just think there should be a higher standard than "Look at this neato website I found!" for Slashdot submissions. I know, "Slashdot? Standards? You must be new here!"
For those of you who are interested in possibly putting together a Home Theatre or Media PC but don't know how to use a search engine, I stumbled upon an excellent guide.
I dunno, but it's not from the $600K. The submitter failed to mention that the $600K figure is the setup cost and has nothing to do with the monthly cost of providing the service.
But you misunderstand the Supreme Court's power. If they say that the Constitution grants citizens the right to use P2P apps, then Congress cannot pass a law abridging that right.
Well, actually they can, but any such law will then be struck down as unconstititional by the Supreme Court when the legal challenges come in.
I think I see why your school has a teen pregnancy problem...
Usually paleontologists put preservatives on fossils right away, but Schweitzer has been trying to find soft tissue in dinosaur fossils, so this one was left alone.
This T-Rex tissue is apparently a bigger deal than the fossilized egg contents she found previously though. From TFA:
"Preservation of this extent, where you still have this flexibility and transparency, has never been seen in a dinosaur before." Feathers, hair and fossilized egg contents yes, but not truly soft tissue.
But.
"World's First Fuel Cell Motorcycle Unveiled" and "The ENV motorcycle"
I never said, and I never said the story said, that is wasn't a motorcycle. I said it wasn't a street motorcycle. It's an off-road motorcycle, commonly referred to as a dirt bike.
"people will be able to use a bike like ENV..."
That "like" in there could be interpreted several ways. I interpret it to mean "another motorcycle that uses this electric-drive technology". Whether or not such a motorcycle would weigh a similar amout as the ENV, this motorcycle's weight doesn't really matter re: cars and highways, because this motorcycle is designed for off-road use. It has off-road tires, an off-road suspension, and no street-legal requirements like turn signals, head lights or tail lights.
IF you RTFA and take a look at the picture of the thing, you will see that this is an off-road recreational bike. Concerns about highway speeds and collisions with cars are irrelevant.
Google
Google News
Google Maps
Gmail
Froogle
Google's services now comprise something like 40% of my online activity. How much longer till they take over the world?
You're right, sort of. It's important that the masses not start using ad blockers or free content will dry up. But I think we members of the tech elite can and should keep using our AdBlocks and our WebWashers.
So when Aunt Edna asks you why the NY Times site looks so clean and white on your computer just remember - ix-ney on the ocker-bley.
But nobody else is going to pay as much as Microsoft did. The lawsuit that was just settled was for patent infringement, but it was also for violating the NDA, and for antitrust violations, and for deliberately destroying evidence. No other company will be facing all these other charges so it's unlikely that they'll be paying anything near $60 million.
It's quite shabby, considering the strong position Burst held in the trial. They really and truly had the goods on Microsoft and let them off the hook for a sum that's pocket change to Microsoft.
will go to help Burst create new products/technology to sell.
No, there will be no new product development.
from an interview with Lang (Burst CEO):
He said instead of hiring more workers to develop more technology, the company will move to enforce its patents, which it believes several other large software companies are using.
This story almost worked, but then Burst's lawyers remembered that during the SUN/MSFT trial, Microsoft testified that ALL company email was backed up off site. So the judge ordered Microsoft to search the backups for the missing emails.
Skip ahead half a year, and Microsoft claims in sworn testimony that they can't search the backups, because each company employee can choose which backup server they wish to archive on, and the company doesn't keep a master list of who's emails are on which server.
Burst's lawyers then start subpoening the backup site employees, and get testimony from the woman in charge of email backups. Her name is Candy Stark. Candy's testimony was "Oh yeah, of course we've got a master spreadsheet that matches employees to servers. How else could we search the backups? Here it is right here."
This past Thursday was when the hearing was to take place that would seal the fate of the Microsoft executives who'd given false testimony about said backup list. It was also probably going to result in the judge ordering Microsoft's backup servers seized by the court and searched by a third party. Not surprisingly, Microsoft settled 1/2 hour before that hearing was to start. Surprisingly, and unfortunately for BRST shareholders like me, the amount they paid to settle was a pittance.
If you'd like to really dig into all the dirty detail of this lawsuit, go dig into the posts at Yahoo's BRST message board, or check out burstinvestors.com which is a site set up by one of the longtime BRST shareholders.