erm have you ever actually worked in TV industry ?
head end cost 1/2 million while STB (set top box) under $150
but yes I know ship 2-3 million STB's and that exeeds the cost if the head end but companies (broadcasters) still look at the cost of head end (servers) as the real cost
Linux as a STB is already there look at the ATI chip
strangely its MIPS based much like the PS2 (-;
broadcast will be done on RTSP and linux can do this really easy AND has alll the add ons such as web browseing, email and such that a digital world demands
look who cares about linux on x86 but where it willll go on MIPS & ARM and maybe Power THAT will be the turning point
did you go to a U.K. post office and pay for this ?
alot of the people here did not why should we the british have to put up with the U.S. using the bandwidth that 'I' payed for !
oh and if a record company see's the bbc broadcasting their music for free so that people dont buy their music from the shops they just wont let the BBC play it
oh and for fscks sake its not the codec that matters
all and I mean all codecs cant do video at 9600baud.
(go on talk about asci if you must)
really you need high speed connections
then why dont you use a standard like MPEG ?
hard to compress boll*cks ARM 7 systems can do it (all future systems will be ARM11 or StrongARM2 aka Xscale based) and the hardware exists so that you pipe raw in one end of DSP and get MPEG out the other its done to death TI who are THE phone chipset people have it down to a T
this is nothing but marketing you HAVE to have a standard !
MPEG is it (select your version) handset people are not going to switch to useing a certain type unless its a standard and everyone has fair access
intel went and designed the ISA when people where haveing problems with this and it shows now the problems is well understood
for the real dirt on intel's IA-64 read IBM's Power4 designers comment's on Mcroprocessor Report
so right that Intel wanted an appologie (-;
really its amazing that it has had so LITTLE critics as we all know you have to make trade offs and since this promises the world it would be intresting to actually see the silicon
personally I am a fan of serpant Ross Anderson work because I understand it and after some conversations with people who know both I think its better than AES
the sooner AES is used widely the better though
regards
john 'keys ? no sir I forget things' jones
ok walk into a design shop what do they have some SGI's some NT boxen and a smattering of Mac's for photoshop
what do the SGI's and the NT boxen do ?
they run the CAD tools
where do you think 3DLabs gets it's money from ?
yes that CAD market, now CAD tool vendors actually HAVE to provide versions for evil versions of Unix (HP-UX) so they say
"we need to write a complex graphics product that works on **ix, ***UX and win**** where's that OpenGL docs"
but now they say fsck that they all run with OpenGL extension bob so we shall use bobs features
3DLabs problem is they and many others dont have bob and NVidia until now has kept them propriatry (once ATI offered their extensions free and open to the ARB NVidia changed their minds)
intresting but I wonder how long till silicon ?
regards
john jones
apple should do windows version + add quicktime
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it makes sense that apple do a cut down version for windows so it would prevent things like this going on
plus when you install it the quicktime plugin would be installed and set itself up to default for everything just like the way windows media player installs on mac and makes itself the default for every format !
plus you could proberly charge for an iTunes for windows while give the mac version away for free
sony pressed legal people on them and then smozed them and gave lots of money to help them on the agreement that they would not sell to silly consumers but help out developers
what would you do sell a product or take sony's money ?
and so you have to to write to hardware mmaped locations to control devices
how do you think low level manimpulation of devices is done in java/scheme
the point is they use very little and it provides a generic functionality its easy to audit and keep clean of bugs
so kludgeing stuff to make things typesafe seems to me at least silly
but remember Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others
regards
john jones
clocks and superscaler specluative micro's
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alot has been done on clockless
what it requires is a great understanding and stringent design
these are the reason why intel did IA64 non specultive
have a look at IBM's report in IA64 in the microprocessor report (they give good reasons why its doomed however clever people think it is)
amulet spun out of manchester and a stanford spin out company also started up
not exactly new new thing
only can be done in small teams with very trained people
but hey they got a clockless ARM running a long time ago
it seems a bit of a pipe dream because the prices of LCD's seem quite high for you
(although for a full monitor they ARE LOW buy now is my advice)
I know that 1024x768 is about £300 (~$765 acording to pricewatch)
BUT what about differant form factor how much do these cost and how about getting it from friendly electronics store (just bare screen no enclosure ) I dont know
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Intel got exclusive rights to StrongARM
since GBA is just a ARM7 + custom sound off the APB then it would not be hard to do the same sort of thing
differant enough that nitendo cant sue and developers have to recompile
but easy enought that you could have a compiler switch do all the work (except the sound and that could be redone easy enough)
really its just a way for intel to push StrongARM and StronARM2 aka Xscale
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john jones
why not ?
what are they all putting money into ?
the wrong things
engineering drugs chemicaly is becomeing hard they are hitting the equivelent of 50million tranistors but without SPICE it does not work
invest in companies doing basic research into underwater opertunitys otherwise forget about it
oh and CAT's is dead
regards
john jones
erm have you ever actually worked in TV industry ?
head end cost 1/2 million while STB (set top box) under $150
but yes I know ship 2-3 million STB's and that exeeds the cost if the head end but companies (broadcasters) still look at the cost of head end (servers) as the real cost
Linux as a STB is already there look at the ATI chip
strangely its MIPS based much like the PS2 (-;
broadcast will be done on RTSP and linux can do this really easy AND has alll the add ons such as web browseing, email and such that a digital world demands
look who cares about linux on x86 but where it willll go on MIPS & ARM and maybe Power THAT will be the turning point
regards
john jones
has anyone actually looked at a chart of volume shipments of microprocessors ?
32bit: you see ARM with about 60%-70% MIPS with about 25%-35% and then rest are split into 5% depending on who did the research
64bit you see MIPS 90%-95% sparc with about 3%-7% and rest split into 2%-3%
ask yourself whats in my Set Top Box ?
an MIPS/ARM of some kind whats in my printer MIPS, whats in my phone ARM, whats in my router or adsl box a MIPS
wake up people no one cares the war is over
intel know it what do you think IA64 is about ?
oh and notice 1 Billion intel bucks bought a ARM licence they dont care about ia32 StrongARM and StrongARM2 aka Xscale are taped out and earning cash
64 bit MIPS has gone past the 1GHz a while back with dual cores on one die and has speculative execution from NEC
really these are the things to worry about
regards
john jones
did you go to a U.K. post office and pay for this ?
alot of the people here did not why should we the british have to put up with the U.S. using the bandwidth that 'I' payed for !
oh and if a record company see's the bbc broadcasting their music for free so that people dont buy their music from the shops they just wont let the BBC play it
regards
john jones
oh and for fscks sake its not the codec that matters
all and I mean all codecs cant do video at 9600baud.
(go on talk about asci if you must)
really you need high speed connections
then why dont you use a standard like MPEG ?
hard to compress boll*cks ARM 7 systems can do it (all future systems will be ARM11 or StrongARM2 aka Xscale based) and the hardware exists so that you pipe raw in one end of DSP and get MPEG out the other its done to death TI who are THE phone chipset people have it down to a T
this is nothing but marketing you HAVE to have a standard !
MPEG is it (select your version) handset people are not going to switch to useing a certain type unless its a standard and everyone has fair access
sorry but this is not the way its going
regards
john jones
intel went and designed the ISA when people where haveing problems with this and it shows now the problems is well understood
for the real dirt on intel's IA-64 read IBM's Power4 designers comment's on Mcroprocessor Report
so right that Intel wanted an appologie (-;
really its amazing that it has had so LITTLE critics as we all know you have to make trade offs and since this promises the world it would be intresting to actually see the silicon
regards
john jones
personally I am a fan of serpant Ross Anderson work because I understand it and after some conversations with people who know both I think its better than AES
the sooner AES is used widely the better though
regards
john 'keys ? no sir I forget things' jones
I got it but as I run linux it means nothing
you actually have to execute it as aposed to useing built in scripts that outlook runs
so its the users that are spreading this !
people should not be able to recive attachments IMHO
what do they lose by outlawing attachments from outside the organisation ?
nothing
you want to send something to someone convert it to PDF/HTML and stick it on the web server
there are lots of publishing frameworks even OpenSource ones
deny all attachmenst comeing through your gateway
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john jones
its nice but why 7 ?
they have been telling developers (M$) that xbox was 8 for a long time now so why go with DX7 ?
really they should aim for DX8
xbox libs are not getting updated anytime soon like a PC can so you have an unmoveing target
I know you would need a Gefource 3 but hey most people would have these anyway if they attempted it
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john jones
it will only work if the power per Kg is better than current
;- )
devices only need power when pluged in so its easy to add an extra pin for power
it will only work if it has enough for Bluetooth
(which is made for low power devices unlike 802.11b)
otherwise its an outside technology
I am waiting for fuelcells
(no dear I have not been drinking my phone smells of ethanol
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john jones
hey
YDL worked pretty well the others(SUSE Mandrake ) didnt even boot on my brand spanking new iMac
the problem ?
they did not know what to do with a blank disk
(dumb but shows how much REAL testing they did)
my only complaint with YDL was the fact that libm was not actually where it should be
I was running specCPU2000 and it would not compile !
so I recomend that YDL at least put the link in (-;
cheers
john jones
I hope that all the kbuild stuff gets in soon !!!
regards
john jones
oh my
science is about trying things out understanding things
Very little to with enginering
(yes they work on many of the same concepts and engineers would not exist without scientists)
engineering is boring repeatable stuff churning out things at the same standard how many software releases are of EXACTLY the same quality
arrgh
john jones
ok walk into a design shop what do they have some SGI's some NT boxen and a smattering of Mac's for photoshop
what do the SGI's and the NT boxen do ?
they run the CAD tools
where do you think 3DLabs gets it's money from ?
yes that CAD market, now CAD tool vendors actually HAVE to provide versions for evil versions of Unix (HP-UX) so they say
"we need to write a complex graphics product that works on **ix, ***UX and win**** where's that OpenGL docs"
but now they say fsck that they all run with OpenGL extension bob so we shall use bobs features
3DLabs problem is they and many others dont have bob and NVidia until now has kept them propriatry (once ATI offered their extensions free and open to the ARB NVidia changed their minds)
intresting but I wonder how long till silicon ?
regards
john jones
it makes sense that apple do a cut down version for windows so it would prevent things like this going on
plus when you install it the quicktime plugin would be installed and set itself up to default for everything just like the way windows media player installs on mac and makes itself the default for every format !
plus you could proberly charge for an iTunes for windows while give the mac version away for free
makes sense to me
regards
john jones
didnt they just sell their sole to sony ?
sony pressed legal people on them and then smozed them and gave lots of money to help them on the agreement that they would not sell to silly consumers but help out developers
what would you do sell a product or take sony's money ?
regards
john jones
yep
in C you can access memory
and so you have to to write to hardware mmaped locations to control devices
how do you think low level manimpulation of devices is done in java/scheme
the point is they use very little and it provides a generic functionality its easy to audit and keep clean of bugs
so kludgeing stuff to make things typesafe seems to me at least silly
but remember Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others
regards
john jones
alot has been done on clockless
what it requires is a great understanding and stringent design
these are the reason why intel did IA64 non specultive
have a look at IBM's report in IA64 in the microprocessor report (they give good reasons why its doomed however clever people think it is)
amulet spun out of manchester and a stanford spin out company also started up
not exactly new new thing
only can be done in small teams with very trained people
but hey they got a clockless ARM running a long time ago
regards
john jones
last time I checked every decent geek/nerd knew what SMP was
the old RTFM
sorry but its true and I never had google...ed was the only editor.....
but I digress
RTFM
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john jones
it came about via sillyness
then became the rule
any chance of getting MIPS synced up with the main line kernel ?
... clones)
Alan Cox has made huge progress syncing the ARM specific stuff into the main kernel
( Ipaq's use ARM and so do alot of PDA's/Phones)
David Miller has taken up the sparc torch and gets into the mainline pretty much instantly
(sparcs are used in SUN kit and
MIPS does not have a champion that gets stuff into the main line kernel would you do this ?
regards john jones
I never saw the point myself
great you can mangle triangles and blit them to the screen fast
OR
have 2 hours more working time
now on a trip on a train which would you rather have
intel have finally woken up to power with transmeta breathing down their backs and you guys want to waste it useing these cards.
hell Xscale / MIPS with a LCD controller on chip is way for me
regards
john jones
it seems a bit of a pipe dream because the prices of LCD's seem quite high for you
(although for a full monitor they ARE LOW buy now is my advice)
I know that 1024x768 is about £300 (~$765 acording to pricewatch)
BUT what about differant form factor how much do these cost and how about getting it from friendly electronics store (just bare screen no enclosure ) I dont know
anyone have any clue ?
regards
john jones
sorry thought that they clocked at the stnadard arm7tdmi rate
must be power thing