Why do you say Flash chips are in powers of 10? They have address lines just like RAM (and ROM), so at their core, it is based on powers of 2.
E1 being 2048 kbps is a fluke and isn't really "based" on a power of 2: it's 32 channels of * 64000 bit/sec. The telecom and datacom worlds use powers of 10 for SI prefixes... sometimes they round up, sometimes they round down.
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ASIC's aren't that much faster than FPGAs any more - and certainly not 100x. A good designer can run lots of logic in an FPGAs at 300-400 MHz... ASICs running any faster than that are going to be HUGELY expensive. Most likely prohibitively expensive.
The only real benefit ASICs have is lower cost at mass production. Otherwise FPGAs are the way to go.
Not only us vs. them, but the GP makes the sweeping statement "It is none of our business. None. We can't save everyone, so we should just stay out of it."
Should we have said the same thing when Germany overran France in 1940? Is there any doubt that if we'd stayed out of it, Hilter would have massacred millions more, not to mention likely would have ended up with a repressive Burma-like govt ruling all of Europe?
I'm not saying that we need to involve ourselves in every crisis - heaven knows we've made LOTS of BIG mistakes over the past 40 years. But there are situations where "giving peace a chance" has long since proven to not work. How many people have to die while we wait for peace to work? 10 years worth of people? 25 years?
By routinely changing the system (this is at least the third time in six years) they can throw a wrench into any prep work that has been carried out to circumvent the system. Because heaven knows that someone can't probe the system and then take advantage of it the following week, or month... or six months... or year?
In order for what you're proposing to even have a hint of a chance of working, it would need to change randomly on a near daily basis, not a bi-yearly basis. If we're relying on this for security, we're in trouble. Thankfully it's all for show anyway.
As for FPGAs... You can get a few ARM7 cores onto a single FPGA that costs less than $10 and those prices are dropping. I have no idea how complex an OpenSPARC is, but I assume it is something equivalent to an ARM9 or so and will fit in a $10-or-so FPGA.
The hurdles are not technology, but political. Sure people want free-as-in-beer cores, but they don't want GPL cores that force them to release their design. Just go look at the technical specs of the thing:
With specs like that, the OpenSparc T1 processor will not fit in any FPGA in existance right now, or in the next few years. So the hurdle is indeed technical.
Most people could not hear the high-pitched frequency. I am not sure if new TVs still make the annoying high-pitched noise or not, since I can't here it anymore. Television manufacturers must not have cared about an annoying high-pitched noise that only a small percentage of their customers could here. My Philips 27" flat-screen CRT that I bought 4.5 years ago has a horrible high-pitch until it gets warmed up (or maybe it's that your brain finally tunes it out after several minutes - although I don't think so, because I've heard it shift to a higher frequency a time or two). Over the years, the length and intensity of the high-pitch screeching is slowly going away.
To keep me from being completely mod'ed off-topic: While HDTV prices are rapidly dropping, I'm not sure the adoption rate has been increasing at the same pace. I think it will take certain key sizes to cross magical thresholds before the adoption rate starts "changing rapidly" (words of the GP post).
Slightly related: weren't we reading just last week that 60-something percent of the households in the US didn't know that analog t.v. is going away in two years?
You still have 2 and Z in your list. Depending on the font, it can be difficult to see the difference between those and, sometimes, these: U and V, 7 and T. Especially when they use fancy fonts at weird angles in the captcha.
An innovative startup made of ex-google staffers will kill google? Um, no. The title is a eye-grabber, not the conclusion. He isn't talking about the complete death of Google - he is talking about "the next big thing", whatever that is. Of course, it could just as easily come from someone outside Google. Maybe they use investor money that ultimately came from one of the early employees Google that retired at age 33. Or not.
But Google wasn't the end of MS, MS wasn't the end of IBM, the markets big. A new player doesn't mean the 'end' of old players. Noone said it does.
Well, it's not like patents are secret, and there can't be that many. I think we have just identified a volunteer...
Don't people have some idea of what these patents are? Yes, it involves GUI's and stuff. You know, it's quite simple really, so let us know when you get done. We expect to hear back from you in... oh, 17 years or so.
I'm not into [...random stuff...] so I could care less about movies from other regions. I'm glad you are the only one at the center of your universe. I do care about other regions, so thankfully you aren't in charge of these kinds of things. We buy DVD's from Sweden for my daughter and my wife's Swedish club. Thankfully I found the secret button sequence for my cheap DVD player to disable region checking, but what do I do about my daughters laptop that we take on road trips? After switching between region codes a certain number of times, it locks the thing down. Some laptops haven't been hacked yet, and some of the ones that have require some relatively extreme measures to disable (and you better hope you don't screw up, or you're buying a new drive).
This is the sole reason I'm against Blu-ray. By even mentioning the possiblity of using region codes in Blu-ray, the movie powers-that-be are demonstrating a total lack of concern for the actual, legal users of this technology. Let me watch the damn movie I bought, where-ever I bought it.
[...] Besides, you need serious cash in order to get your chip fabricated! You have to have some big company pick up your design and fab them in volume. IIRC, some company is now selling chips (SoC) based on the OR1K design... but that is the only instance I know of a chip actually getting fabbed out of all the projects listed on OpenCores. Many of the opencores designs would work fine in the smallest ($10-$40) FPGA's... no ASIC required.
You know that part about not being as hard as you make it out to be? You should have paid attention to that. Get knoppmyth burn to CD, boot from it and you are off and running. That pretty much works out of the box for ~80% of the people who try it. Ok, I'll bite.
I've wanted a HTPC for quite a while now, and have A LITTLE time coming this spring to do it. How does knoppmyth compare to mythdora? What other acceptable solutions are out there besides those two (ignoring Media center)? I'm willing to pay some dollars for it (so it doesn't HAVE to be free, although that's certainly nice), but I want control over the media... i.e. without Tivo or Microsoft dictating what I can and can't record.
It's not shared at the DSLAM it's shared at the gateway... the fiber lines to the exchanges are so high capacity that DSL couldn't max them anyway - so you in theory have 5000 users on a gateway that can max out 100. Fiber capacity has nothing to do with it. The question is if there is traffic policing being performed, and if so, where and how. The right way to do it would be on a per-subscriber basis, which should be easy enough to do with the correct equipment, and could be done at one of many points in the network if the equipment was so equipped.
In practice though they never go that high - experience has shown that if you go higher than about 15:1 then contention issues start to bite. At 20:1 it gets hard to get full bandwidth. Only a real cheap-ass ISP would go higher than that. The real difference between the 50:1 and 20:1 contention price points is just that - price. You don't think AT&T is cheap enough to do 20:1?
Your idea of foreplay involves combat, "hide and seek" and chases? That sounds.. troubling. I realize that explaining the mating rituals of the human being to a/. geek is probably a waste of time, but I'm an eternal optimist.
Many woman like to be pursued (synonym of chase), and it is not uncommon to equate the behavior of some women (especially teen and college age) to that of a game of hide and seek.
As for combat... well, um, hmmm.... crap, you got me. I was blowing smoke. Is two out of three not good enough? Do I really have to reveal myself as a 13 year-old googly-eyed 60-pound weakling? Can I at least get partial credit? Oh wait, never mind. I have the answer! http://google.com/search?q=combat+foreplay produces 100k hits. That, and I do aikido and judo.
SecondLife is what you make it. [...] there isn't a whole lot to do other than shop for stuff and have virtual sex.
But I have also spent lots of time "playing". Engaging in combat, playing hide and seek, chases, role playing, and just plain goofing around. Hmmm. Sounds suspiciously like the things that lead up to sex.
Im quite astonished as to WHY in gods name you would have a sink/basin/tap in a server room in the first place!? I mean, i learnt pretty early on that LOTS of electricity and a source of water are generally a BAD combination! In reality, it doesn't matter if the tap is in the server room - if it's within the same building, it can spell disaster.
I've been to a central office in a major city that was flooded solely due to the water drains in the bathroom and utility room. The CO was otherwise well sealed against the flood. Despite the building being set several feet above normal street level, any equipment within 2 feet of the floor was destroyed and needed to be replaced. Not just active stuff like transport gear and routers, but DS1 and DS3 patch panels and cables as well. To make matters even worse, ALL the racks started rusting and are to be replaced... so even the equipment that survived the flood has to be moved (or suspended) while they take out the rusted racks and install new ones.
Well, talking to some InfiniBand engineers, the next big push will be in wide-area networks running over InfiniBand, not ethernet.
Talking to <b><i>InfiniBand engineers</b></i> and finding out that they think that <b><i>InfiniBand</b></i> will be the next big thing isn't all that surprising, is it? When I was doing hardware design on ATM transport boxes, I thought it was the next big thing too.
<quote>They think they've cracked the issues involved in wide-area communications and I would not be surprised if they have. If so, I would expect LAN parties in the later half of the year to be InfiniBand based, or using some other high-speed fabric. </quote>
Hmmm - what "issues" have they supposedly cracked, and when did they crack them? InfiniBand has been standardized for quite a long time.
Also, why would cracking <i><b>WAN</i></b> issues change what <i><b>LAN</i></b> technology you and I are going to be using only 12 months from now? Surely you don't think that a technology that is mentioned on ebay only 50 times is going to take over LAN parties in a year? While technology does move forward spurts, they are slow and steady spurts - it takes considerable periods of time for wide adoption.
> Wait, so are you a Google acountant or a security professional. Don't tell me you changed jobs yesterday.
He didn't say he was a security professional - he said he worked "...for an Internet Security firm". I guess it isn't possible that such a firm might need an accountant or anything?
In general, lower voltage (presumably due to smaller geometry gates) does result in lower dynamic power in CMOS technologies:
Pd = f*C*(V)^2 [Power= Frequency x Capacitance x Voltage squared]
The problem with smaller geometry is that, starting in the 65nm to 90nm area, static power dissipation (heat independent of operation frequency, such as leakage current across a transistor) can start to rise noticeably. The question is if that leakage starts becoming a significant fraction of the overall power dissipation. In processors running at GHz, I'm guessing not. In FPGA's, it can be.
Note that I carefully avoided talk.origin's to keep you from claiming that that everyone refers you to the same source. The vast majority of the scientific community is in agreement about the vast majority of the conclusions drawn from the vast evidence that has been discovered thus far: evolution is a fact.
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Why do you say Flash chips are in powers of 10? They have address lines just like RAM (and ROM), so at their core, it is based on powers of 2.
E1 being 2048 kbps is a fluke and isn't really "based" on a power of 2: it's 32 channels of * 64000 bit/sec. The telecom and datacom worlds use powers of 10 for SI prefixes... sometimes they round up, sometimes they round down.
Marc
ASIC's aren't that much faster than FPGAs any more - and certainly not 100x. A good designer can run lots of logic in an FPGAs at 300-400 MHz... ASICs running any faster than that are going to be HUGELY expensive. Most likely prohibitively expensive.
The only real benefit ASICs have is lower cost at mass production. Otherwise FPGAs are the way to go.
Not only us vs. them, but the GP makes the sweeping statement "It is none of our business. None. We can't save everyone, so we should just stay out of it."
Should we have said the same thing when Germany overran France in 1940? Is there any doubt that if we'd stayed out of it, Hilter would have massacred millions more, not to mention likely would have ended up with a repressive Burma-like govt ruling all of Europe?
I'm not saying that we need to involve ourselves in every crisis - heaven knows we've made LOTS of BIG mistakes over the past 40 years. But there are situations where "giving peace a chance" has long since proven to not work. How many people have to die while we wait for peace to work? 10 years worth of people? 25 years?
Marc
In order for what you're proposing to even have a hint of a chance of working, it would need to change randomly on a near daily basis, not a bi-yearly basis. If we're relying on this for security, we're in trouble. Thankfully it's all for show anyway.
Marc
The hurdles are not technology, but political. Sure people want free-as-in-beer cores, but they don't want GPL cores that force them to release their design. Just go look at the technical specs of the thing:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-08/sunflash.2
With specs like that, the OpenSparc T1 processor will not fit in any FPGA in existance right now, or in the next few years.
So the hurdle is indeed technical.
Marc
To keep me from being completely mod'ed off-topic: While HDTV prices are rapidly dropping, I'm not sure the adoption rate has been increasing at the same pace. I think it will take certain key sizes to cross magical thresholds before the adoption rate starts "changing rapidly" (words of the GP post).
Slightly related: weren't we reading just last week that 60-something percent of the households in the US didn't know that analog t.v. is going away in two years?
Marc
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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsi
(yes, this is off topic for the overall article... but I felt it was important enough to post this rather than use my moderation points)
I now await my many awards for searching the Internets - and then another award for each 1% improvement in time that I demonstrate...
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http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/paq8hp11a
You still have 2 and Z in your list. Depending on the font, it can be difficult to see the difference between those and, sometimes, these: U and V, 7 and T. Especially when they use fancy fonts at weird angles in the captcha.
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This is the sole reason I'm against Blu-ray. By even mentioning the possiblity of using region codes in Blu-ray, the movie powers-that-be are demonstrating a total lack of concern for the actual, legal users of this technology. Let me watch the damn movie I bought, where-ever I bought it.
Marc
No wonder you posted as an AC.
Marc
He's spot on... the reason for the pricing is because they are tariffed.
Marc
I've wanted a HTPC for quite a while now, and have A LITTLE time coming this spring to do it. How does knoppmyth compare to mythdora? What other acceptable solutions are out there besides those two (ignoring Media center)? I'm willing to pay some dollars for it (so it doesn't HAVE to be free, although that's certainly nice), but I want control over the media
Marc
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Many woman like to be pursued (synonym of chase), and it is not uncommon to equate the behavior of some women (especially teen and college age) to that of a game of hide and seek. As for combat... well, um, hmmm.... crap, you got me. I was blowing smoke. Is two out of three not good enough? Do I really have to reveal myself as a 13 year-old googly-eyed 60-pound weakling? Can I at least get partial credit? Oh wait, never mind. I have the answer! http://google.com/search?q=combat+foreplay produces 100k hits. That, and I do aikido and judo.
Phew, that was close.
But I have also spent lots of time "playing". Engaging in combat, playing hide and seek, chases, role playing, and just plain goofing around. Hmmm. Sounds suspiciously like the things that lead up to sex.
I've been to a central office in a major city that was flooded solely due to the water drains in the bathroom and utility room. The CO was otherwise well sealed against the flood. Despite the building being set several feet above normal street level, any equipment within 2 feet of the floor was destroyed and needed to be replaced. Not just active stuff like transport gear and routers, but DS1 and DS3 patch panels and cables as well. To make matters even worse, ALL the racks started rusting and are to be replaced... so even the equipment that survived the flood has to be moved (or suspended) while they take out the rusted racks and install new ones.
Marc
Well, talking to some InfiniBand engineers, the next big push will be in wide-area networks running over InfiniBand, not ethernet.
Talking to <b><i>InfiniBand engineers</b></i> and finding out that they think that <b><i>InfiniBand</b></i> will be the next big thing isn't all that surprising, is it? When I was doing hardware design on ATM transport boxes, I thought it was the next big thing too.
<quote>They think they've cracked the issues involved in wide-area communications and I would not be surprised if they have. If so, I would expect LAN parties in the later half of the year to be InfiniBand based, or using some other high-speed fabric. </quote>
Hmmm - what "issues" have they supposedly cracked, and when did they crack them? InfiniBand has been standardized for quite a long time.
Also, why would cracking <i><b>WAN</i></b> issues change what <i><b>LAN</i></b> technology you and I are going to be using only 12 months from now? Surely you don't think that a technology that is mentioned on ebay only 50 times is going to take over LAN parties in a year? While technology does move forward spurts, they are slow and steady spurts - it takes considerable periods of time for wide adoption.
Marc
> Wait, so are you a Google acountant or a security professional. Don't tell me you changed jobs yesterday.
He didn't say he was a security professional - he said he worked "...for an Internet Security firm". I guess it isn't possible that such a firm might need an accountant or anything?
In general, lower voltage (presumably due to smaller geometry gates) does result in lower dynamic power in CMOS technologies:
Pd = f*C*(V)^2 [Power= Frequency x Capacitance x Voltage squared]
The problem with smaller geometry is that, starting in the 65nm to 90nm area, static power dissipation (heat independent of operation frequency, such as leakage current across a transistor) can start to rise noticeably. The question is if that leakage starts becoming a significant fraction of the overall power dissipation. In processors running at GHz, I'm guessing not. In FPGA's, it can be.
Marc
Indeed. Trailing forward slash screwed those up, as well as this one:
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http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/newton/askasci/1993
Thanks.
Marc
Of course there are - you just choose to put your head in the sand to ignore them. In fact, they are being discovered all the time... here's one just last week:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Sc
Read on, if you dare to actually learn something:
http://www.skepticwiki.org/wiki/index.php/Interme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional
Actually, it doesn't even prove there were dinosaurs. All we know is that we find bones in the ground. The evidence indicates that there were dinosaurs. "Proof" in science is a misnomer.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/newton/askasci/1993
It's really about evidence:
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_devore_th
Note that I carefully avoided talk.origin's to keep you from claiming that that everyone refers you to the same source. The vast majority of the scientific community is in agreement about the vast majority of the conclusions drawn from the vast evidence that has been discovered thus far: evolution is a fact.