The PPro was more like 2 dies in one chip. The CPU and cache were mounted in one ceramic package which had to be tested together. If either one was bad the whole package was rejected. This process wasn't very efficient with chip yield, but it was probably still better than trying to get a CPU core and 512K cache on one die at.35 microns. The P2 had the CPU + SRAM cache chips on a PCB.
"the ONLY reason the Pentium Pro didn't catch on was because Microsoft released a 16bit OS and told everyone it"
I wouldn't say ONLY. There was also the slight problem of the double chip package (separate cache and cpu dies mounted on one substrate) being horrendously expensive to produce. Looks like Itanium will have thesame problem.
"Also, for a country supposedly lacking in education and intelligence, I think foreigners should stop and ponder the fact that the US has the best universities, is the current leader in technology, and has produced more than it's share of 20th century inventions"
As an American myself, I'd say most of us really are dumbasses. The reason we contributed more than our share of 20th century inventions is because there's 285 million people in this country and we don't need more than a few million smart people to pick up the slack and invent all this cool shit. Look here for the stats, about 1.5 million engineers, less than a million scientists.
I don't think he's denying that it's a bug in his code. The point is, they forgive sloppy coding in one version so that there does not appear to be a bug, and then it crashes in the next version given the same sloppy code.
"Despite claims to the contrary, Windows is pretty well documented."
You may find this article interesting. It shows how a change in the undefined behavior of one Win32 function crashed his application between Windows versions.
They would have to disable it or attach it to the packaging and not the item itself. There's no way it can be permanent. Otherwise, those convenient self-checkout scanners at every store will be charging you for your watch, your clothes, and even the batteries in whatever electronic gadgets you're carrying. There's still a privacy risk, but only the things you picked up on this particular shopping trip.
That 7000 number is comments dismissed as opinion that offered no comment on the substance of the settlement, both "Microsoft RULZ" and "Microsoft sUxxorZ". Still, it would be interesting to know the breakdown of the opinion comments too.
Yeah, it's only the first step in the article. Turn on the shower really hot in the bathroom so the humidity and fog clears the dust out of the air. Still a gamble, but better than nothing. You have to wait for the fog the settle after turning off the shower or else a water droplet with some dust particles could get in the drive and dry up later leaving the dust.
"98% of fat people have no medical cause for their obesity, just lousy selfcontrol."
Don't be so sure of that. Why don't you examine the eating habits of thin and average people sometime? There are lots of people like me who eat everything they want and their bodies maintain the same equlibrium weight. People like that would be disadvantaged in starvation conditions, but they're the lucky ones with our abundance of food. So if you think it's normal for bodies to store every excess calorie, and people like me are just lucky, then yes, obesity is the person's own fault.
That is not even the same thing. Computers and phones are physical objects. Even when they are obsolete, they are still your property to do with as you please. ISP and phone service is a continuing service which requires the time and effort of a service provider to keep on functioning.
With MPEG, it's an industry standard agreed upon by a group of companies to ensure interoperability. Sure, someone had to do the compression research, but more likely than not, some of the research was done with graduate student slave labor under a government grant.
Try pricing a replacement motherboard out of warranty. Also, the parent post to you was not about adding components to a standard system. It was about getting a stripped down system from Apple for cluster use. Don't need a CDROM or 3D video for that. I gotta admit though, it does look easy to set up. The big question mark is how good is their SDK for recompiling code for parallel processing.
Yeah, Laurie on That 70's Show was hot! Too bad they got rid of her. Feathered hair rules!
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Yeah, whatever they did to lock out Trillian didn't do anything to Everybuddy and Gaim. They both still work. Probably because Linux and BSD desktop users are off their radar.
If Blockbuster censors mainstream R-rated movies that would suck (among other reasons). But if nothing else that guarantees that your friendly neighborhood video store will never be completely replaced by Blockbuster/Hollywood. Where else will you get your porn and your *gasp* uncut R-rated movies?
And the other reasons they suck? Expensive, long slow lines, and always runs out of movies on the weekends.
reason why crackpot theories remain crackpot theories, and do not become part of the "established knowledge".
Unless you're talking about the news, where their idea of balanced reporting is putting the scientist backed by 99.99% of the scientific community next to the crackpot theorist and giving them equal time.
This may be a good time to post this Unix history timeline. Linux was inspired by Minix and written from scratch using no original AT&T Unix or BSD source code. Just about every "Unix" out there has something left in the source code from AT&T or BSD (sometimes with copyright notices too). Also, Unix is a trademark of The Open Group who acquired it from AT&T. You have to pay them to call your OS "Unix". Notice how the BSDs don't formally call themselves Unix?
Or more likely to be reduced to a bargaining chip against Microsoft. The threat of switching all those millions of AOLers to a non-IE browser is more useful to AOL than the browser itself. They've come out with 3 or 4 new AOL software versions in the time Mozilla's been under development. I *think* they could have released *some* kind of finished browser if they really tried, and I don't mean the half-assed Netscape 6.0 based on Mozilla 0.7.
"If it's been cleverly made into some form that does not survive a transfer ("rights-controlled media") then that's simply too bad for the buyer."
That just about sums up the industry's attitude to fair-use and first sale. According to them it's not a consumer right, it's a defense against infringement.
From the RIAA itself. If you use audio CD-Rs, you pay a royalty and it's legal for you to make private, noncommercial copies.
The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (AHRA)
This 1992 legislation exempts consumers from lawsuits for copyright violations when they record music for private, noncommercial use; eases access to advanced digital audio recording technologies; provides for the payment of modest royalties to songwriters and recording artists and companies; and mandates the inclusion of serial copying management technology in all consumer digital audio recorders to limit multi-generation audio copying (i.e., making copies of copies).
I really doubt it would result in censoring source code. Source code is not executable and it's not sold to end users as a useful product. Even binary-only software needs to be beta tested, and there must be an exemption for pre-release software that is released for testing purposes only.
And this raises another question with Linux distros. Ever notice how much version 0.x software is in a typical distro? Some of it is actually pretty useful and production quality (gaim, windowmaker). What happens to all of that?
How about baiting the BSA? Like if a company runs 100% Free Software, get a "disgruntled employee" to rat them out, and if they call piss them off enough to guarantee an audit. Then when audit day comes, you'll be ready with video cameras, your own lawyers (if you can afford them), and an office full of 100% Free Software. You might try to get a local news station interested in your video or you could make it a documentary film like Michael Moore's.
Another problem with Amazon is let's say you buy one CD of rap or Michael Bolton or whatever as a Christmas gift. Now all their musical suggestions will be full of annoying music.
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The PPro was more like 2 dies in one chip. The CPU and cache were mounted in one ceramic package which had to be tested together. If either one was bad the whole package was rejected. This process wasn't very efficient with chip yield, but it was probably still better than trying to get a CPU core and 512K cache on one die at .35 microns. The P2 had the CPU + SRAM cache chips on a PCB.
"the ONLY reason the Pentium Pro didn't catch on was because Microsoft released a 16bit OS and told everyone it"
I wouldn't say ONLY. There was also the slight problem of the double chip package (separate cache and cpu dies mounted on one substrate) being horrendously expensive to produce. Looks like Itanium will have thesame problem.
"Also, for a country supposedly lacking in education and intelligence, I think foreigners should stop and ponder the fact that the US has the best universities, is the current leader in technology, and has produced more than it's share of 20th century inventions"
As an American myself, I'd say most of us really are dumbasses. The reason we contributed more than our share of 20th century inventions is because there's 285 million people in this country and we don't need more than a few million smart people to pick up the slack and invent all this cool shit. Look here for the stats, about 1.5 million engineers, less than a million scientists.
I don't think he's denying that it's a bug in his code. The point is, they forgive sloppy coding in one version so that there does not appear to be a bug, and then it crashes in the next version given the same sloppy code.
"Despite claims to the contrary, Windows is pretty well documented."
You may find this article interesting. It shows how a change in the undefined behavior of one Win32 function crashed his application between Windows versions.
They would have to disable it or attach it to the packaging and not the item itself. There's no way it can be permanent. Otherwise, those convenient self-checkout scanners at every store will be charging you for your watch, your clothes, and even the batteries in whatever electronic gadgets you're carrying. There's still a privacy risk, but only the things you picked up on this particular shopping trip.
That 7000 number is comments dismissed as opinion that offered no comment on the substance of the settlement, both "Microsoft RULZ" and "Microsoft sUxxorZ". Still, it would be interesting to know the breakdown of the opinion comments too.
Yeah, it's only the first step in the article. Turn on the shower really hot in the bathroom so the humidity and fog clears the dust out of the air. Still a gamble, but better than nothing. You have to wait for the fog the settle after turning off the shower or else a water droplet with some dust particles could get in the drive and dry up later leaving the dust.
"98% of fat people have no medical cause for their obesity, just lousy selfcontrol."
Don't be so sure of that. Why don't you examine the eating habits of thin and average people sometime? There are lots of people like me who eat everything they want and their bodies maintain the same equlibrium weight. People like that would be disadvantaged in starvation conditions, but they're the lucky ones with our abundance of food. So if you think it's normal for bodies to store every excess calorie, and people like me are just lucky, then yes, obesity is the person's own fault.
That is not even the same thing. Computers and phones are physical objects. Even when they are obsolete, they are still your property to do with as you please. ISP and phone service is a continuing service which requires the time and effort of a service provider to keep on functioning.
With MPEG, it's an industry standard agreed upon by a group of companies to ensure interoperability. Sure, someone had to do the compression research, but more likely than not, some of the research was done with graduate student slave labor under a government grant.
Try pricing a replacement motherboard out of warranty. Also, the parent post to you was not about adding components to a standard system. It was about getting a stripped down system from Apple for cluster use. Don't need a CDROM or 3D video for that. I gotta admit though, it does look easy to set up. The big question mark is how good is their SDK for recompiling code for parallel processing.
Yeah, Laurie on That 70's Show was hot! Too bad they got rid of her. Feathered hair rules!
Yeah, whatever they did to lock out Trillian didn't do anything to Everybuddy and Gaim. They both still work. Probably because Linux and BSD desktop users are off their radar.
If Blockbuster censors mainstream R-rated movies that would suck (among other reasons). But if nothing else that guarantees that your friendly neighborhood video store will never be completely replaced by Blockbuster/Hollywood. Where else will you get your porn and your *gasp* uncut R-rated movies?
And the other reasons they suck? Expensive, long slow lines, and always runs out of movies on the weekends.
And what's the price of a new hard drive compared to the black market price of fencing a stolen computer (try 10% of retail as a ballpark figure)?
Unless you're talking about the news, where their idea of balanced reporting is putting the scientist backed by 99.99% of the scientific community next to the crackpot theorist and giving them equal time.
Belgium has to be beer drinker's heaven. Hundreds of good beers at the neighborhood bar. Try Duvel.
This may be a good time to post this Unix history timeline. Linux was inspired by Minix and written from scratch using no original AT&T Unix or BSD source code. Just about every "Unix" out there has something left in the source code from AT&T or BSD (sometimes with copyright notices too). Also, Unix is a trademark of The Open Group who acquired it from AT&T. You have to pay them to call your OS "Unix". Notice how the BSDs don't formally call themselves Unix?
Or more likely to be reduced to a bargaining chip against Microsoft. The threat of switching all those millions of AOLers to a non-IE browser is more useful to AOL than the browser itself. They've come out with 3 or 4 new AOL software versions in the time Mozilla's been under development. I *think* they could have released *some* kind of finished browser if they really tried, and I don't mean the half-assed Netscape 6.0 based on Mozilla 0.7.
"If it's been cleverly made into some form that does not survive a transfer ("rights-controlled media") then that's simply too bad for the buyer."
That just about sums up the industry's attitude to fair-use and first sale. According to them it's not a consumer right, it's a defense against infringement.
From the RIAA itself. If you use audio CD-Rs, you pay a royalty and it's legal for you to make private, noncommercial copies.
The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (AHRA)
This 1992 legislation exempts consumers from lawsuits for copyright violations when they record music for private, noncommercial use; eases access to advanced digital audio recording technologies; provides for the payment of modest royalties to songwriters and recording artists and companies; and mandates the inclusion of serial copying management technology in all consumer digital audio recorders to limit multi-generation audio copying (i.e., making copies of copies).
No, but they own patents to many features of the OpenGL standard. Just like how Frauenhofer owns many patents on MPEG audio.
I really doubt it would result in censoring source code. Source code is not executable and it's not sold to end users as a useful product. Even binary-only software needs to be beta tested, and there must be an exemption for pre-release software that is released for testing purposes only.
And this raises another question with Linux distros. Ever notice how much version 0.x software is in a typical distro? Some of it is actually pretty useful and production quality (gaim, windowmaker). What happens to all of that?
How about baiting the BSA? Like if a company runs 100% Free Software, get a "disgruntled employee" to rat them out, and if they call piss them off enough to guarantee an audit. Then when audit day comes, you'll be ready with video cameras, your own lawyers (if you can afford them), and an office full of 100% Free Software. You might try to get a local news station interested in your video or you could make it a documentary film like Michael Moore's.
Another problem with Amazon is let's say you buy one CD of rap or Michael Bolton or whatever as a Christmas gift. Now all their musical suggestions will be full of annoying music.