True. A real thin client would run RDP or X11 to a Terminal Server or X application server. Just serve the applications you need. Don't bother with maintaining entire OS images for each client. On the other side of the thick/thin client spectrum, you'd have a diskless workstation. It's a full PC with everything but a disk. It boots off the net from a storage server that holds OS images. With the cheap prices of commodity PC hardware, it's a good choice too.
If AMD's claim is true, it would be SOOO easy to prove. Just disassemble the "optimized" binary. There's only so much you can do to obfuscate a CPUID check. If all the Intel compiler does is disable SSE and SSE2 instructions on AMD, they would have plausible deniability of disabling SSE for compatibility reasons, unless they find a smoking gun memo that says "we know AMD's SSE and SSE2 is compatible, but disable it anyway".
Sure, the RFCs are free and the BSD networking code is free. This is a software license fee for the *implementation* of TCP/IP that runs on VAX/VMS. The mainframes and minis were a different world from today. You paid big bucks for everything. $$$$ for the OS, $$$$ for hardware with huge markups. In those days Microsoft was the cheaper alternative. You even had to pay extra for TCP/IP on Windows 3.1. Remember Trumpet Winsock?
1929- Stock market bubble, loss of confidence in bank deposits (everybody running to withdraw), and dust bowl drought. 200?- Real estate bubble (think of it as a continuation of the stock market bubble), loss of confidence in U.S. Treasury Bonds (They're sold to finance deficit spending. What happens when China and Japan stop buying them?), and choose one: another weather disaster, terrorist attack on a shipping port, $100B+ a year on Iraq war?
Not guaranteed to happen, but the pieces are in place for a similar disaster scenario.
Another thing I noticed about pricing is that games hit the $20 discount rack pretty quickly compared to the SNES/N64 days, maybe a year for the less popular titles and two years for the more popular ones.
Not exactly. They're eliminating analog NTSC broadcasts, but not all digital broadcasts will be HDTV. More importantly, not all TV sets will be HDTV. You can still put a digital ATSC tuner in a cheap low-res TV. I think you'll still see lots of those on the low end.
Sure, it's possible if you don't care about landing it in one piece. One of the USMC V-22 crashes was caused by exceeding the mu limit in a steep dive.
HardOCP tested this against a dual core 4800+ and some other A64's. The FX-57 is still fastest in single-threaded tasks like games. The X2 is looking better to me though. As fast as the A64 4000+ in single CPU tasks plus the huge edge in multitasking.
The northeast corridor (DC to Boston) is one of Amtrak's few profitable routes. They did have a high speed Acela train that could go 100mph on good sections of track, but it was pulled from service after they found cracks in the brakes. It might be back in service by this summer.
Damn right. How many stores let you listen to the whole album in the store to try it out? Blockbuster Music used to do that 10 years ago. None of the chains do that now. If the RIAA wants to take away that excuse from downloaders then encourage more stores to do it. Nothing to be afraid of unless the rest of the album sucks.
Well that would be too easy. Store the encryption key on a flash drive or floppy and you just have to destroy the key media. It wouldn't help to beat the password out of you. The trick here is how to manage backup copies of the key. Having only one copy of the key on fragile media like floppies doesn't work.
Navy and Air Force recruiting are still doing ok. Most jobs in the Navy and AF are pretty safe and away from the roadside bombs. Plus the job market for 18 year olds out of high school isn't so hot either.
We have enough people and equipment in the military to do lots of missions like humanitarian and peacekeeping. We can still destroy any other conventional army in the world. We just don't have the people (or the stomach) to do an imperial occupation. Call it what you will, that's the mission now.
OK, not that ancient, but it is getting to be a lost art with fuel injection taking over everything. My motorcycles aren't even that old, but they have carbs. I haven't had to mess with them in a while, but it's interesting to take one apart. They're like little mechanical analog computers.
Agreed. I think campaign contributions are only the tip of the iceberg. It can't possibly cost only $20000 an election to own a senator. You hear all the time about deals like buying real estate at a discount to flip for big gains, or big donations to a foundation that happens to be a politician's pet charity (essentially owned and operated). If it only cost a few hundred thou to the campaign fund to buy a politican, any moderate size group of average working joes could afford to buy a politician.
Switzerland is also a mountainous country with formidable defences, and they maintained those defences through the Cold War. Some history here and here. Still, what you said is true. A pacifist country like post-WWII Japan needs a strong ally for its defence.
Even with digital, there will still be demand for color prints. As long as prints from the photo lab are cheaper and/or better quality than inkjet prints from home, Kodak still has a market there.
It's true, Sony released firmware update 1.5 in Japan to disable homebrew software. Article here. Forget about open console platforms. The last one was the PalmOS Tapwave Zodiac, an uncrippled PDA with a good game controller. All it needed was better 3D. Unfortunately it never caught on.
It's true. Lithium ion *cells* aren't sold to end users ever. They can explode from overcharging, so they're only sold in packs designed for a specific application. Laptop battery packs have some electronics to prevent overcharging, although smaller devices like cellphones and MP3 players don't. Still, I can't imagine it's that hard to swap out some dead cells if you knew what you were doing, or even play mix and match from two dead packs.
"It is quite possible that everyone in the world experiences a similar effect now, although in what direction, I know not - the world wars and the automobile should have an effect."
There's two different pressures here.
Culturally, the increasing complexity of everything is demanding ever more from intellect. So many everyday things are more complex than they used to be: phones, kitchen appliances, video games, electronics.
Genetically, the pressure is opposite. Safety and medical care are so good that it's very difficult for someone to remove themselves from the gene pool before child bearing age, whether through accident or disease. People who choose intellectual professions study longer in school and have fewer children later in life. Access to higher education is also a very recent development. It was only in the 50s and 60s that the G.I. Bill and other financial aid democratized higher education. Before, only the elites could afford college.
If you want to do some more lossy compression on it, an MPEG4 codec like Xvid or Divx is the way to go. A 700MB one CD rip looks about as good as a VHS tape. A 1400MB rip looks pretty damn close to the original DVD. All you need is some free software like Gordian Knot, a powerful CPU, and a lot of time to encode the video.
There's a long way to go with that. India has a billion people, most of them poor and uneducated. An IT professional working for one of those offshoring contractors could live very comfortably on a fraction of the wages of an American or European worker. So the cost savings of moving to India will not abate. What will happen is that even poorer countries than India will compete for outsourcing work. If globalization means spreading the wealth around (minus the cut skimmed off by the oligarchs), working folks here better get used to living more poorly, much more poorly.
It only makes sense that this was always Apple's plan B in case Motorola or IBM couldn't deliver the chips. Darwin runs on x86. NeXT ran on x86. All Steve Jobs has to do is give the command and poof! OS X is recompiled for x86. The only question now is, how do they restrict it to Apple x86 hardware or do they want to fight with Microsoft for the PC OS market (unlikely)?
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True. A real thin client would run RDP or X11 to a Terminal Server or X application server. Just serve the applications you need. Don't bother with maintaining entire OS images for each client. On the other side of the thick/thin client spectrum, you'd have a diskless workstation. It's a full PC with everything but a disk. It boots off the net from a storage server that holds OS images. With the cheap prices of commodity PC hardware, it's a good choice too.
If AMD's claim is true, it would be SOOO easy to prove. Just disassemble the "optimized" binary. There's only so much you can do to obfuscate a CPUID check. If all the Intel compiler does is disable SSE and SSE2 instructions on AMD, they would have plausible deniability of disabling SSE for compatibility reasons, unless they find a smoking gun memo that says "we know AMD's SSE and SSE2 is compatible, but disable it anyway".
Sure, the RFCs are free and the BSD networking code is free. This is a software license fee for the *implementation* of TCP/IP that runs on VAX/VMS. The mainframes and minis were a different world from today. You paid big bucks for everything. $$$$ for the OS, $$$$ for hardware with huge markups. In those days Microsoft was the cheaper alternative. You even had to pay extra for TCP/IP on Windows 3.1. Remember Trumpet Winsock?
1929- Stock market bubble, loss of confidence in bank deposits (everybody running to withdraw), and dust bowl drought.
200?- Real estate bubble (think of it as a continuation of the stock market bubble), loss of confidence in U.S. Treasury Bonds (They're sold to finance deficit spending. What happens when China and Japan stop buying them?), and choose one: another weather disaster, terrorist attack on a shipping port, $100B+ a year on Iraq war?
Not guaranteed to happen, but the pieces are in place for a similar disaster scenario.
Another thing I noticed about pricing is that games hit the $20 discount rack pretty quickly compared to the SNES/N64 days, maybe a year for the less popular titles and two years for the more popular ones.
Not exactly. They're eliminating analog NTSC broadcasts, but not all digital broadcasts will be HDTV. More importantly, not all TV sets will be HDTV. You can still put a digital ATSC tuner in a cheap low-res TV. I think you'll still see lots of those on the low end.
Sure, it's possible if you don't care about landing it in one piece. One of the USMC V-22 crashes was caused by exceeding the mu limit in a steep dive.
I think it happens more with children. Their bodies can go into a hibernation state in the freezing cold water.
HardOCP tested this against a dual core 4800+ and some other A64's. The FX-57 is still fastest in single-threaded tasks like games. The X2 is looking better to me though. As fast as the A64 4000+ in single CPU tasks plus the huge edge in multitasking.
The northeast corridor (DC to Boston) is one of Amtrak's few profitable routes. They did have a high speed Acela train that could go 100mph on good sections of track, but it was pulled from service after they found cracks in the brakes. It might be back in service by this summer.
Damn right. How many stores let you listen to the whole album in the store to try it out? Blockbuster Music used to do that 10 years ago. None of the chains do that now. If the RIAA wants to take away that excuse from downloaders then encourage more stores to do it. Nothing to be afraid of unless the rest of the album sucks.
Well that would be too easy. Store the encryption key on a flash drive or floppy and you just have to destroy the key media. It wouldn't help to beat the password out of you. The trick here is how to manage backup copies of the key. Having only one copy of the key on fragile media like floppies doesn't work.
Navy and Air Force recruiting are still doing ok. Most jobs in the Navy and AF are pretty safe and away from the roadside bombs. Plus the job market for 18 year olds out of high school isn't so hot either.
We have enough people and equipment in the military to do lots of missions like humanitarian and peacekeeping. We can still destroy any other conventional army in the world. We just don't have the people (or the stomach) to do an imperial occupation. Call it what you will, that's the mission now.
OK, not that ancient, but it is getting to be a lost art with fuel injection taking over everything. My motorcycles aren't even that old, but they have carbs. I haven't had to mess with them in a while, but it's interesting to take one apart. They're like little mechanical analog computers.
Agreed. I think campaign contributions are only the tip of the iceberg. It can't possibly cost only $20000 an election to own a senator. You hear all the time about deals like buying real estate at a discount to flip for big gains, or big donations to a foundation that happens to be a politician's pet charity (essentially owned and operated). If it only cost a few hundred thou to the campaign fund to buy a politican, any moderate size group of average working joes could afford to buy a politician.
Switzerland is also a mountainous country with formidable defences, and they maintained those defences through the Cold War. Some history here and here. Still, what you said is true. A pacifist country like post-WWII Japan needs a strong ally for its defence.
Even with digital, there will still be demand for color prints. As long as prints from the photo lab are cheaper and/or better quality than inkjet prints from home, Kodak still has a market there.
I'm a little fuzzy on the timeline, but I think for a while Lotus had copy protection while Microsoft didn't.
It's true, Sony released firmware update 1.5 in Japan to disable homebrew software. Article here. Forget about open console platforms. The last one was the PalmOS Tapwave Zodiac, an uncrippled PDA with a good game controller. All it needed was better 3D. Unfortunately it never caught on.
That's IF your party has a primary. A caucus is most definitely not anonymous.
It's true. Lithium ion *cells* aren't sold to end users ever. They can explode from overcharging, so they're only sold in packs designed for a specific application. Laptop battery packs have some electronics to prevent overcharging, although smaller devices like cellphones and MP3 players don't.
Still, I can't imagine it's that hard to swap out some dead cells if you knew what you were doing, or even play mix and match from two dead packs.
"It is quite possible that everyone in the world experiences a similar effect now, although in what direction, I know not - the world wars and the automobile should have an effect."
There's two different pressures here.
Culturally, the increasing complexity of everything is demanding ever more from intellect. So many everyday things are more complex than they used to be: phones, kitchen appliances, video games, electronics.
Genetically, the pressure is opposite. Safety and medical care are so good that it's very difficult for someone to remove themselves from the gene pool before child bearing age, whether through accident or disease. People who choose intellectual professions study longer in school and have fewer children later in life. Access to higher education is also a very recent development. It was only in the 50s and 60s that the G.I. Bill and other financial aid democratized higher education. Before, only the elites could afford college.
If you want to do some more lossy compression on it, an MPEG4 codec like Xvid or Divx is the way to go. A 700MB one CD rip looks about as good as a VHS tape. A 1400MB rip looks pretty damn close to the original DVD. All you need is some free software like Gordian Knot, a powerful CPU, and a lot of time to encode the video.
There's a long way to go with that. India has a billion people, most of them poor and uneducated. An IT professional working for one of those offshoring contractors could live very comfortably on a fraction of the wages of an American or European worker. So the cost savings of moving to India will not abate. What will happen is that even poorer countries than India will compete for outsourcing work. If globalization means spreading the wealth around (minus the cut skimmed off by the oligarchs), working folks here better get used to living more poorly, much more poorly.
It only makes sense that this was always Apple's plan B in case Motorola or IBM couldn't deliver the chips. Darwin runs on x86. NeXT ran on x86. All Steve Jobs has to do is give the command and poof! OS X is recompiled for x86. The only question now is, how do they restrict it to Apple x86 hardware or do they want to fight with Microsoft for the PC OS market (unlikely)?