This reminds me of some 6-way systems that I'm told Data General used to sell. They took two 4-way systems, and used one of the processor slots on each as a bridge between the two boards.
I've heard conflicting information on whether the 3% is part of the already announced 10% or not. As an EMC shareholder, I would prefer to keep more of it for EMC.
Of course, my impression is that what Intel really gets out of this is a seat on the board. Of course, getting to invest in a highly-anticipated IPO at the low end of the expected IPO price is a sweet deal. I don't see what's in it for EMC (though it does add to the hype for the IPO, which isn't bad).
The IPO is only for about 10% of the company, and Intel has pre-purchased about a quarter of that stock, so that would be about 2.5% of the new VMWare that Intel will own. Or at least that's what all the other reports are suggesting.
[Disclaimer: I work for EMC, but have no connection to VMWare; I have no inside knowledge of the IPO or related transactions.]
I hope the rumors of it being discontinued are false. All it needs is a switch to Core 2 and a video upgrade. I want to buy one now, but I'm not going to buy a 32-bit CPU.
Why should people pay extra for this? It seems like it should save T-Mobile money by reducing the load on their cell towers (allowing them to reduce their infrastructure costs).
And what about the consumer who isn't short on minutes? Why not offer an option to use it without an extra charge, but still charge minutes?
If I understand this correctly, it means that, for example, a magazine publisher can put out an electronic archive of past issues without having to negotiate the rights with everyone who contributed material to the relevant issues. I've had a couple of magazine articles published, so this could impact me, but I still think it's a reasonable ruling. Similarly, they shouldn't have to renegotiate rights to music and such when putting out old TV shows on DVD. This is especially true with the new media didn't exist when the original work was produced (so they didn't think to include it in the contract to begin with).
I expect most of the kernel infringements are in optional kernel modules. I've heard rumblings about vfat having patents in the past, and I expect there are some in the SMB client code. Unfortunately, it may be impossible to re-implement those to avoid the patent issues, because the patents may cover core aspects that are required for interoperability.
If we ever get a full detailed list of patent issues, I can foresee the day that one of the first questions in the kernel configuration is whether to include portions that may violate patent rights, and the help text on various options would cite specific patent numbers that have been claimed. Or, perhaps more generally, it could ask what legal jurisdiction you're in, so that it can block the modules that are protected in that country.
One tool that the company can use is a reverse stock split. Of course, doing so usually is a bad sign, as it says to investors that the company doesn't expect the stock to reach the minimum listing requirement without the reverse split. Hence, companies usually avoid them.
I'm not familiar with that bug, but if you include games, there is a whole wide range of bugs that make the games easier. You can probably find examples in almost any large game.
No, the quality of onboard graphics do not suffer from being directly on the motherboard. The quality suffers because they typically use the cheapest solution for the onboard graphics, because they're targeting the business market--the onboard graphics are good enough for Office, so there's no need to buy a separate card.
It probably doesn't make sense to put high-end graphics on the chip, because people in that market want to upgrade graphics more often than CPUs (not to mention that they probably want nVidia). What does make sense is something more in the mid-range; something good enough for all the fancy Vista eye candy, and something good enough for HDTV playback.
I'm under the impression that this is solved by two factors.
First, flash parts have internal controlers that remap the flash to level out the writes. (I remember hearing about some researcher who developed a great flash file system, only to find that it didn't make any difference because of the remapping.)
Second, flash parts can handle orders of magnitude more writes now than they could a few years ago.
Based on 4GB compact flash prices at Pricewatch, I can get 32G for $107.60 or 64G for $215.20. All that's new here is packaging all that in one package, and putting a regular IDE interface on it. So at today's prices, that's about $200 per 64GB drive. Of course, by the time this hits the market, it should be lower. On the other hand, there will be a significant premium charged at first until there's enough competition to bring it down.
Many of them, like Emperor Linux, simply resell laptops from the big-name companies, but they provide pre-installed Linux with all the necessary drivers and things like sleep and suspend working. While a nice and valuable service, it's still giving business to the Linux-unfriendly company that you want to avoid.
Personally, if I were in charge at one of those big companies, I would buy one of the Linux laptop companies, and turn them into the Linux support group, and provide Linux as an option directly.
Depending on how this is funded, it may backfire. If the state is paying the salary difference directly, that may work, but otherwise school districts will avoid hiring teachers who qualify for the extra pay to keep within budget. The system already makes it quite difficult for experienced teachers to get jobs; my wife was once told by a principal that he would love to hire her, but the superintendent said he would only approve up to three years of experience.
I found SPF to be nearly useless. I would think that spammers would automatically avoid domains with SPF records to increase their hit rate, but apparently not.
Can they use a similar approach for the common cold next?
Of course, the only reason they developed this vaccine is because of the panic spending on flu vaccine research because of the bird flu. Without similar funding, the pharmaceutical companies will happily keep developing cold remedies instead of preventions.
Of course, many of the people around you have gotten the vaccine, so you're getting the benefit indirectly. They don't get the flu, so they don't expose you to it.
If they can get it to detect the network bug in the lower-right corner, how hard would it be to remove it? Most of the bugs are tranlucent, so you can use some sort of filter to remove it and reconstruct the missing bits based on extrapolations. While more complicated, using motion between frames, you could often get a nearly perfect bug removal.
Another technique that can be used (and was discussed at one point on the Myth mailing lists) is to create a database of the closed captioning text of commercials. The simple approach is to use the existing commercial detection to determine what is a commercial, then create a database from that to auto-detect repeated commericials (even if they lack the blank frames). A more clever approach is to use spam-filtering techniques like baysian filters to determine if a given scene is an ad.
Spammers don't seem to care; they still forge from my domains.
Mail servers don't care. They still send back bounce messages to me.
Now if my mail server could do the SPF lookup on the received lines in the bounced message and drop it, that would work. Without that, SPF doesn't help me without cooperation from everyone else.
I was having this problem, so I added SPF records for my domains. Then spammers started using another one of my domains and the spam started going up, not down.
From my experience, repeated drive failures are the result of a bad power supply or some other external factor. This doesn't include DOA drives, of course, but otherwise when your drives keep failing, you need to check the operating temperature and power supply.
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This reminds me of some 6-way systems that I'm told Data General used to sell. They took two 4-way systems, and used one of the processor slots on each as a bridge between the two boards.
Since we have dual link DVI, and this only doubles the DVI data rate, how does this help?
Shouldn't they be putting forth a standard that will last a bit longer? Go for 10x speed, not just 2x.
This sounds like a rush to put out a new product, not for the sake of market need, but for the sake of patent royalties.
I've heard conflicting information on whether the 3% is part of the already announced 10% or not. As an EMC shareholder, I would prefer to keep more of it for EMC.
Of course, my impression is that what Intel really gets out of this is a seat on the board. Of course, getting to invest in a highly-anticipated IPO at the low end of the expected IPO price is a sweet deal. I don't see what's in it for EMC (though it does add to the hype for the IPO, which isn't bad).
The IPO is only for about 10% of the company, and Intel has pre-purchased about a quarter of that stock, so that would be about 2.5% of the new VMWare that Intel will own. Or at least that's what all the other reports are suggesting.
[Disclaimer: I work for EMC, but have no connection to VMWare; I have no inside knowledge of the IPO or related transactions.]
I hope the rumors of it being discontinued are false. All it needs is a switch to Core 2 and a video upgrade. I want to buy one now, but I'm not going to buy a 32-bit CPU.
Why should people pay extra for this? It seems like it should save T-Mobile money by reducing the load on their cell towers (allowing them to reduce their infrastructure costs).
And what about the consumer who isn't short on minutes? Why not offer an option to use it without an extra charge, but still charge minutes?
If I understand this correctly, it means that, for example, a magazine publisher can put out an electronic archive of past issues without having to negotiate the rights with everyone who contributed material to the relevant issues. I've had a couple of magazine articles published, so this could impact me, but I still think it's a reasonable ruling. Similarly, they shouldn't have to renegotiate rights to music and such when putting out old TV shows on DVD. This is especially true with the new media didn't exist when the original work was produced (so they didn't think to include it in the contract to begin with).
I expect most of the kernel infringements are in optional kernel modules. I've heard rumblings about vfat having patents in the past, and I expect there are some in the SMB client code. Unfortunately, it may be impossible to re-implement those to avoid the patent issues, because the patents may cover core aspects that are required for interoperability.
If we ever get a full detailed list of patent issues, I can foresee the day that one of the first questions in the kernel configuration is whether to include portions that may violate patent rights, and the help text on various options would cite specific patent numbers that have been claimed. Or, perhaps more generally, it could ask what legal jurisdiction you're in, so that it can block the modules that are protected in that country.
One tool that the company can use is a reverse stock split. Of course, doing so usually is a bad sign, as it says to investors that the company doesn't expect the stock to reach the minimum listing requirement without the reverse split. Hence, companies usually avoid them.
I'm not familiar with that bug, but if you include games, there is a whole wide range of bugs that make the games easier. You can probably find examples in almost any large game.
No, the quality of onboard graphics do not suffer from being directly on the motherboard. The quality suffers because they typically use the cheapest solution for the onboard graphics, because they're targeting the business market--the onboard graphics are good enough for Office, so there's no need to buy a separate card.
It probably doesn't make sense to put high-end graphics on the chip, because people in that market want to upgrade graphics more often than CPUs (not to mention that they probably want nVidia). What does make sense is something more in the mid-range; something good enough for all the fancy Vista eye candy, and something good enough for HDTV playback.
I'm under the impression that this is solved by two factors.
First, flash parts have internal controlers that remap the flash to level out the writes. (I remember hearing about some researcher who developed a great flash file system, only to find that it didn't make any difference because of the remapping.)
Second, flash parts can handle orders of magnitude more writes now than they could a few years ago.
Based on 4GB compact flash prices at Pricewatch, I can get 32G for $107.60 or 64G for $215.20. All that's new here is packaging all that in one package, and putting a regular IDE interface on it. So at today's prices, that's about $200 per 64GB drive. Of course, by the time this hits the market, it should be lower. On the other hand, there will be a significant premium charged at first until there's enough competition to bring it down.
Many of them, like Emperor Linux, simply resell laptops from the big-name companies, but they provide pre-installed Linux with all the necessary drivers and things like sleep and suspend working. While a nice and valuable service, it's still giving business to the Linux-unfriendly company that you want to avoid.
Personally, if I were in charge at one of those big companies, I would buy one of the Linux laptop companies, and turn them into the Linux support group, and provide Linux as an option directly.
The union contract required them to pay her based on all of her experience; there was no option of coming in at a lower step on the pay scale.
Depending on how this is funded, it may backfire. If the state is paying the salary difference directly, that may work, but otherwise school districts will avoid hiring teachers who qualify for the extra pay to keep within budget. The system already makes it quite difficult for experienced teachers to get jobs; my wife was once told by a principal that he would love to hire her, but the superintendent said he would only approve up to three years of experience.
I found SPF to be nearly useless. I would think that spammers would automatically avoid domains with SPF records to increase their hit rate, but apparently not.
Can they use a similar approach for the common cold next?
Of course, the only reason they developed this vaccine is because of the panic spending on flu vaccine research because of the bird flu. Without similar funding, the pharmaceutical companies will happily keep developing cold remedies instead of preventions.
Of course, many of the people around you have gotten the vaccine, so you're getting the benefit indirectly. They don't get the flu, so they don't expose you to it.
The US would never impose an export tax, as doing so is expressly forbidden in the Constitution.
Article I, Section 9: "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."
If they can get it to detect the network bug in the lower-right corner, how hard would it be to remove it? Most of the bugs are tranlucent, so you can use some sort of filter to remove it and reconstruct the missing bits based on extrapolations. While more complicated, using motion between frames, you could often get a nearly perfect bug removal.
Another technique that can be used (and was discussed at one point on the Myth mailing lists) is to create a database of the closed captioning text of commercials. The simple approach is to use the existing commercial detection to determine what is a commercial, then create a database from that to auto-detect repeated commericials (even if they lack the blank frames). A more clever approach is to use spam-filtering techniques like baysian filters to determine if a given scene is an ad.
Done.
Spammers don't seem to care; they still forge from my domains.
Mail servers don't care. They still send back bounce messages to me.
Now if my mail server could do the SPF lookup on the received lines in the bounced message and drop it, that would work. Without that, SPF doesn't help me without cooperation from everyone else.
How do you do that?
I was having this problem, so I added SPF records for my domains. Then spammers started using another one of my domains and the spam started going up, not down.
From my experience, repeated drive failures are the result of a bad power supply or some other external factor. This doesn't include DOA drives, of course, but otherwise when your drives keep failing, you need to check the operating temperature and power supply.