RDRAM is actually faster for a very small subset of applications that demand memory bandwidth above all else. RDRAM is a little faster than PC133 in professional OpenGL apps. Tomshardware has been RAMBUS' most outspoken critic but even this benchmark at his site shows it. A professional user (ie not a hobbyist) would disregard the results for PC133 on 440BX because it overclocks the chipset and AGP bus. This test didn't include the i815 chipset, but in other tests it has been shown to be slower than the 440BX at 133Mhz bus.
Of course this means nothing to 99% of users because RDRAM is slower for just about every other application.
Could it be that NEC and others are just settling now because it's cheap and letting Micron spend the money to fight it out in court? If Micron wins NEC still reaps the benefits without paying for the lawyers.
The RIAA needs to be disband, and get rid of all the barriers to true competition! Force the member companies to compete with each other for cd prices. CD prices would then drop because each company would want to get customers to buy their CDs. Currently, they don't compete. The CDs all sell for about the same price.
That's a start, but music isn't a commodity, and each label will still have a monopoly on their artists' music. An additional measure should be for artists to retain copyrights on all their work, and they should be free to license distribution to any label willing to publish their work. This may or may not be a panacea for low prices. Book authors and publishers have this relationship now, and books are still expensive.
And of course, don't hold your breathe waiting for this to happen. The only way this will ever happen is if the major labels are faced with their imminent extinction.
Yes, such corporate generosity is absolutely unprecedented. They release their patent to the public domain a whopping 2 weeks before it expires. Don't fall for this cheap publicity stunt. They're just trying to grab the headlines away from the RSA patent expiration parties.
Remember this and this? This is what Steve Heckler meant about firewalling MP3s at your home. When they make all the hardware and it all uses memory sticks for storage, it would not be difficult to make memory sticks that refuse to store MP3 files. If you want a future where flash memory cards will work in your open mp3 player support Compactflash and Smartmedia. Sony already has the Music Clip and Memory Stick walkman which only play their "secure" ATRAC3 format. As nice as it would be to have a Palm with 128MB of flash, I'd avoid supporting any Memory Stick device.
Obviously Freeveracity doesn't know what they are talking about. Even their website says "network intrusion detection tool" in bold type, which does not instill much confidence in their hax0r skillz. This is a host-based intrusion detection system, much like Tripwire.
If you want some real free Network Intrusion detection systems try opensec.net and whitehats.com.
The source audit is what makes the difference. There are various projects for secure Linux distros like Bastille, Nexus and Khaos. For the most part they only fix configuration errors, things like not enabling every service by default, correct file permissions, etc.
However, this will not catch coding errors. If there's a bug in the kernel or in a service that you happen to be running, you're still vulnerable. Only Kha0s has a goal of doing a source audit which seems to be going very slowly.
This might be a stupid question but.... if the coffee was hot enough to melt the styrofoam cup, how was she able to pay for her coffee and carry it to her car? Is this a magical cup of coffee that gets hotter as it sits?
"In this house we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics." -Homer Simpson
Apache was ported to OS X a while ago, but they won't be selling many servers if they have more bugs like this one. 32 simultaneous CGI requests would crash the server. This story was from 6/99. Did anybody hear when they came out with a fix for this bug?
They also used some tricks to speed up Apache by running it in kernel space memory. Similar to what NT does with IIS.
Better change that name, Old Navy might sue you for trademark infringement. Does anyone else think they have the most annoying commercials for those Technochino pants?
What will happen in your opinion if a box with 10 pounds of cocaine were intercepted by the US customs. Do you think that the buyer would be the only one to get in trouble ?
Maybe the return address says:
Manuel Noriega a.k.a. Miguel Sanchez
666 Rua Die Yanqui Imperialists
Bogota Columbia
Even if they identify the sender, it's still a case for the local authorities, not the US DEA. What are they gonna do? Send the army in to invade a foreign country and arrest the suspect? Oops, I guess they would do that.
If nothing else, you'd have a bunch of dissatisfied customers because your DNS is broken. How would someone find the real www.microsoft.com site? How would they know if it was the real one or not? Alternatively you could set up a completely new TLD on your DNS servers like microsoft.fsc and make all the domains you want in there.
It does matter where the server is. This is like doing a mail order or telephone order out of a catalog for items that might be banned in your country. If it's shipped and then confiscated by customs, they could arrest the buyer or just destroy the package, but they can't go after the seller.
What France wants to do is ban not just the Nazi items, but also the catalog that lists them for sale. Imagine if mail order companies had to keep track of their printed catalogs, so that it didn't fall into foreign hands.
Your Minnesota gambler is breaking the law because he resides in Minnesota and he is the BUYER of the services not the SELLER. There have been cases where the owners of offshore casinos were prosecuted in the US, but those people were US residents who set up offshore servers with a shell corporation while still managing the operation here.
There's also a more practical reason that teenage characters are portrayed by older actors. The labor laws are stricter for minors. They're allowed to work fewer hours and they're required to have a tutor on the set since they're not in school.
It's not exactly junk RAM, it's just optimized for a very small subset of applications that need lots of memory bandwidth, mostly 3D rendering and scientific calculations. And that just happens to be the apps that high end professional workstations run.
Unfortunately for Intel, the vast majority of high speed CPU buyers are gamers looking for faster framerates (and generally people not doing 3D rendering). PC133 shits all over RDRAM in games and just about everything else.
Well considering the benchmarks of the VIA/Cyrix/IDT Samuel 1 at 533Mhz, it'll need a 1Gig just to keep up with the 500 Celeron. So it's really a case of just enough rather than too much power.
Ian Clarke, one Not Particularly Thoughtful Kid, decides copyright is bad. Or at least that he's bored. He decides to create and unleash a technology that subverts it. And it spreads. Suddenly the whole world begins to resemble what one person, or one small group of people, decided it should resemble.
Oh, you mean evil people like Samuel Morse who decided that the Pony Express is bad, and invented the telegraph to subvert it and suddenly the whole world begins to resemble what one person decided it should resemble?
...seem to run against the grain of your argument. Many of our most prestigious and hallowed institutions have been run as businesses since their inception. The act of taking
What you're forgetting is that universities are considered non-profit organizations, and enjoy many tax exemptions because of that. If they're behaving like a business, maybe they should be taxed like a business.
I wonder how much Columbia Univ. paid in taxes on that $140mil in patent royalties. Anybody thought of pointing this out to the IRS?
OK so it's a crime to intentionally create a booby trap. However my Dell PII-300 laptop runs so hot normally I can't even hold it in my lap. It's not a stretch of the imagination to "accidentally" have a short to burn up the box and maybe start a toxic battery spill.
Why do you talk about the cost of a blank cd as being part of the issue? For instance,
The price of the media is relevant because the same content is also sold on cassette tapes for ~30% less. The costs of promotion and distribution are the same. The costs of production are even higher for cassette tape. The sound quality and durability are better, but those are technical aspects, and consumers EXPECT technology to get better without getting more expensive.
Would you complain if software was sold on 4mm DAT tape for 30% less?
Don't be stupid. The software is free. The $40 for the Official version pays for the printed manuals and a very valuable service, telephone tech support. Running a call center with skilled techs is very expensive (running a call center with bad unskilled techs is only slightly less expensive:). If you spend an hour on the phone with tech support, they've lost money on your sale.
Mozilla already tried it in an earlier version, but they abandoned it because it breaks so many sites. Many sites serve out images from akamaitech for load balancing purposes, and Yahoo loads images, both ads and content, from their yimg.com domain.
Oh well, back to playing whack-a-mole with my junkbuster blockfile.
Intel's comparable technology is pathetic. The only thing it lets you do is run the clock slower while mobile, and at full-speed while docked. Neat, but not really a power technology, no?
Nope not very advanced. On AC power it's a PIII 600, on battery power it's a PIII 500. I can do the same thing with SoftFSB, except my screen gets all sparkly when I underclock the AGP bus to 44Mhz.
>BTW, features I want to see in an OS (I don't have enough experience to implement these myself): > 1) CVS type filesystem for large drives. No worries about changing a file ever again.
Although not a shining example of a friendly UI, VMS would save old versions of changed files. It appended a semicolon and version number after the filename. I always considered it an annoyance because it just meant I'd use up my disk quota faster. I just got used to typing "del *.*;*" a lot to erase all the versions.
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Of course this means nothing to 99% of users because RDRAM is slower for just about every other application.
Could it be that NEC and others are just settling now because it's cheap and letting Micron spend the money to fight it out in court? If Micron wins NEC still reaps the benefits without paying for the lawyers.
That's a start, but music isn't a commodity, and each label will still have a monopoly on their artists' music. An additional measure should be for artists to retain copyrights on all their work, and they should be free to license distribution to any label willing to publish their work. This may or may not be a panacea for low prices. Book authors and publishers have this relationship now, and books are still expensive.
And of course, don't hold your breathe waiting for this to happen. The only way this will ever happen is if the major labels are faced with their imminent extinction.
Yes, such corporate generosity is absolutely unprecedented. They release their patent to the public domain a whopping 2 weeks before it expires. Don't fall for this cheap publicity stunt. They're just trying to grab the headlines away from the RSA patent expiration parties.
Remember this and this? This is what Steve Heckler meant about firewalling MP3s at your home. When they make all the hardware and it all uses memory sticks for storage, it would not be difficult to make memory sticks that refuse to store MP3 files. If you want a future where flash memory cards will work in your open mp3 player support Compactflash and Smartmedia. Sony already has the Music Clip and Memory Stick walkman which only play their "secure" ATRAC3 format. As nice as it would be to have a Palm with 128MB of flash, I'd avoid supporting any Memory Stick device.
See one user's rant here.
If you want some real free Network Intrusion detection systems try opensec.net and whitehats.com.
However, this will not catch coding errors. If there's a bug in the kernel or in a service that you happen to be running, you're still vulnerable. Only Kha0s has a goal of doing a source audit which seems to be going very slowly.
This might be a stupid question but.... if the coffee was hot enough to melt the styrofoam cup, how was she able to pay for her coffee and carry it to her car? Is this a magical cup of coffee that gets hotter as it sits?
"In this house we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics." -Homer Simpson
They also used some tricks to speed up Apache by running it in kernel space memory. Similar to what NT does with IIS.
Better change that name, Old Navy might sue you for trademark infringement. Does anyone else think they have the most annoying commercials for those Technochino pants?
Manuel Noriega a.k.a. Miguel Sanchez
666 Rua Die Yanqui Imperialists
Bogota Columbia
Even if they identify the sender, it's still a case for the local authorities, not the US DEA. What are they gonna do? Send the army in to invade a foreign country and arrest the suspect? Oops, I guess they would do that.
If nothing else, you'd have a bunch of dissatisfied customers because your DNS is broken. How would someone find the real www.microsoft.com site? How would they know if it was the real one or not? Alternatively you could set up a completely new TLD on your DNS servers like microsoft.fsc and make all the domains you want in there.
It does matter where the server is. This is like doing a mail order or telephone order out of a catalog for items that might be banned in your country. If it's shipped and then confiscated by customs, they could arrest the buyer or just destroy the package, but they can't go after the seller.
What France wants to do is ban not just the Nazi items, but also the catalog that lists them for sale. Imagine if mail order companies had to keep track of their printed catalogs, so that it didn't fall into foreign hands.
Your Minnesota gambler is breaking the law because he resides in Minnesota and he is the BUYER of the services not the SELLER. There have been cases where the owners of offshore casinos were prosecuted in the US, but those people were US residents who set up offshore servers with a shell corporation while still managing the operation here.
There's also a more practical reason that teenage characters are portrayed by older actors. The labor laws are stricter for minors. They're allowed to work fewer hours and they're required to have a tutor on the set since they're not in school.
It's not exactly junk RAM, it's just optimized for a very small subset of applications that need lots of memory bandwidth, mostly 3D rendering and scientific calculations. And that just happens to be the apps that high end professional workstations run.
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Unfortunately for Intel, the vast majority of high speed CPU buyers are gamers looking for faster framerates (and generally people not doing 3D rendering). PC133 shits all over RDRAM in games and just about everything else.
Here's a few reviews:
http://www.ixbt-labs.com/mainboards/p3chipset-r
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/chipset/
Don't forget a plentiful supply of cheap commodity hardware. Or even free hardware if you catch someone throwing out a 486.
Well considering the benchmarks of the VIA/Cyrix/IDT Samuel 1 at 533Mhz, it'll need a 1Gig just to keep up with the 500 Celeron. So it's really a case of just enough rather than too much power.
Oh, you mean evil people like Samuel Morse who decided that the Pony Express is bad, and invented the telegraph to subvert it and suddenly the whole world begins to resemble what one person decided it should resemble?
What you're forgetting is that universities are considered non-profit organizations, and enjoy many tax exemptions because of that. If they're behaving like a business, maybe they should be taxed like a business.
I wonder how much Columbia Univ. paid in taxes on that $140mil in patent royalties. Anybody thought of pointing this out to the IRS?
OK so it's a crime to intentionally create a booby trap. However my Dell PII-300 laptop runs so hot normally I can't even hold it in my lap. It's not a stretch of the imagination to "accidentally" have a short to burn up the box and maybe start a toxic battery spill.
Why do you talk about the cost of a blank cd as being part of the issue? For instance,
The price of the media is relevant because the same content is also sold on cassette tapes for ~30% less. The costs of promotion and distribution are the same. The costs of production are even higher for cassette tape. The sound quality and durability are better, but those are technical aspects, and consumers EXPECT technology to get better without getting more expensive.
Would you complain if software was sold on 4mm DAT tape for 30% less?
Don't be stupid. The software is free. The $40 for the Official version pays for the printed manuals and a very valuable service, telephone tech support. Running a call center with skilled techs is very expensive (running a call center with bad unskilled techs is only slightly less expensive :). If you spend an hour on the phone with tech support, they've lost money on your sale.
Mozilla already tried it in an earlier version, but they abandoned it because it breaks so many sites. Many sites serve out images from akamaitech for load balancing purposes, and Yahoo loads images, both ads and content, from their yimg.com domain.
Oh well, back to playing whack-a-mole with my junkbuster blockfile.
Nope not very advanced. On AC power it's a PIII 600, on battery power it's a PIII 500. I can do the same thing with SoftFSB, except my screen gets all sparkly when I underclock the AGP bus to 44Mhz.
>BTW, features I want to see in an OS (I don't have enough experience to implement these myself):
> 1) CVS type filesystem for large drives. No worries about changing a file ever again.
Although not a shining example of a friendly UI, VMS would save old versions of changed files. It appended a semicolon and version number after the filename. I always considered it an annoyance because it just meant I'd use up my disk quota faster. I just got used to typing "del *.*;*" a lot to erase all the versions.