HP's offering them for under $3,300 here. This is their Small/Medium business direct site too. Its very likely that if you dealt with someone directly and purchased an order it would be even less. So while $2000 isn't neccesarily correct, its far closer to the real price than 12k is.
Finanical Services and Telecom are 2 big users of 100% uptime. Those stockmarkets and banks the world over have transactions going on 24/7 literally and downtime can cost millions. Telephones, etc also need to basically just work, all the time. Yes there are outages, but you don't want it to be from your switching or billing systems. To a lesser extent things like credit card companies and online stores. Though online vendors can often deal with 5 9's.
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Justice O'Connor Retiring
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Well in all honesty, its not quite as bad as you make it sound. Yes in all likelyhood he will replace 2 justices. BUT, one will be Rhenquist, who is as conservative as they come. If Bush replaces him with a diehard conservative, it will just be status quo. O'Connor being a moderate conservative is slightly different, but she is still a conservative on most issues. His best bet at getting someone approved will mean someone in a similar mold. Only if one of the liberal members decided to step down would you see a massive swing in policy.
Also one thing people forget to SOME extent, is that history tends to show that supreme court justices, no matter who pics them, generally have done their job as described, and thats to interpret the constitution and laws as set forth by Congress and the President. Things like Free Speech, etc, are fairly clearly laid out in the Bill of Rights, no amount of RIAA politicing will CHANGE the bill of rights. Its just a matter of getting the right cases to the Supreme Court so that they can smack down laws that are in violation of those rights. The reason many things like the DMCA survive is because nobody will challenge them to the degree neccessary to get them to the Supreme Court. This I think speaks more for the legal system as a whole, that allows people with deep pockets to intimidate people who are in the right, according to the constitution.
Mercury is the only elemental metal that is liquid at room temp. There are other liquid metals. Someone in another post mentioned gallium, as being liquid at just about human body temp, which would certainly be maintained within the cooling process of a PC. Additionally there are other elemental metals with low enough melting points that they would be concievable within a tight cooling loop that runs at a higher temp.
The key for using liquid metal in this as I see it, is to move heat away quickly, rather than moving large amounts. As such the metal itself would stay rather hot, and they would take advantage of the conductive properties of it, to get the heat away more rapidly. The loop containing the liquid metal would likely be localized to an area right around the chip you are cooling. No long pump and hose loops like in water cooling. Think of this more like heat pipe technology, but using a fluid to more efficiently move the heat energy.
From my understanding micro-payments are much less than $2.00. As I understand it you would be paying fractions of a cent but more often. Its almost a virtual currency. You'll be trading a few of your micro payments for material. If people can accru payments with material I doubt it will be any real way to acquire income, but rather will total up enough to offset all the mirco payments you're MAKING for other game usage. If not all your micropayments for a month might total up to $4-$5 or some such. They are full well counting on the addictiveness and keeping the price down.
This is all of course based on my previous understanding of micro payments. Its always possible that they have some different definition, it which case this assessment is wrong.
More accurately they have a complex system in place starting at the router level and working down, that evaluates traffic and content.
There was a talk about the Great Firewall at this past summers HOPE conference. I'm not sure how much you can get out of just the audio without the slides, but you can find the talk HERE entitled "How the Great Firewall Works". Its about halfway down the page.
There was a presentation on the Great Firewall at the HOPE conference last summer. I didn't catch all of it, as it was just as I arrived, but as I recall, all the filtering of content goes on at the router and DNS levels. All traffic through the country is filtered, but only some is acted upon. However all content is affected on a performance level.
There are automated processes in place for blocking some content, and there are automated processes that evaluate material once it is accessed in a certain pattern. There is also a manual evaluation in which material is reviewed.
There was also something about logging of IPs and caching, so review can be done later for information that can't be determined up front. All of this combines for a list of IPs, a cache of content, and a number of filtering algorithms that fairly effectively block material. However stuff does get through, but only sparsely. If one IP starts hitting a site over and over, or many people start hitting it, it draws attention.
You can download the talk at this site. Scroll down to the one entitled "How the Great Firewall works"
I think there is little to no interest in this as far as combat aircraft. NASA's main interest is in using scramjets to produce aircraft like vehicles that can "fly" into space affordably. As I understand it aside from their ability to operate at high speeds more efficiently than rockets, they also allow for much higher altitude functionality than a standard jet engine. This would allow a space plane to get high in the atmosphere, then use a small rocket boost to get into orbit.
I believe the idea behind a functional vehicle would be something like a standard jet engine getting a craft up to mach 1 or 2, then a ramjet taking over and getting a craft up to mach 5 or so, and then a scramjet taking a ship up to mach 10-15, at which point a rocket boost pushes it through the last bit of thin atmosphere into orbit. I may be wrong, as my knowledge on this was material read 4-5 years ago, but that seems to be what I remember.
Supposedly a nother great thing about scramjets is their simplicity, very few moving parts, which allows for high reliability. Or as high reliability as can be expected for something working under the strain of Mach 10.
I'm not sure what was contained in various previous offerings, but currently HP has begun offering a home media center running Microsofts offering. It seems to be the DVR + everything but the kitchen sink.
Here is a link to the offering from HP. Seems a little expensive, but I haven't seen one in person to know exactly how powerful it is.
I've talked with friends about building a simple linux system to do all this and interface it with a home LAN, and we all agree that you could do it for a lot less than 2 grand.
Anyone thing the abrubtness has anything to do with EQ2's ship date being Nov 8. WoW's closed beta started 3-4 months ahead of EQ at least, and I think the general assumption at the time among some of the forums I read was the WoW would ship first. Now EQ2 is shipping first and is primed to gab a decent chunk of a market that might not be willing to split its money over two subscription based games.
And its not those pesky automakers you have to worry about, a car sold is a car sold to them, whatever technology they have to put in it. Its the oil companies this guy would really have to watch out for. If he can mature the technology, GM or Ford would likely pay a nice sum for the rights to it, so that they can break into a market that the Japanese companies currently have a lock on. The Prius is in gigantic demand, and I'm sure the American companies wouldn't mind getting a piece of tha action.
One of the good things going for LSB is that HP, and IBM support it. Its in THEIR best interest to have a standards base because it makes their support job easier. While Suse or Redhat might only care about supporting their specific customers, each of them being different makes the support job tougher for major system vendors. My guess is that HP and IBM pressuring the linux companies will make them pretty compliant on the LSB front and force the linux vendors to differentiate on additional features that don't break the LSB.
Isn't LaRouche a Democrat? I heard a number of people stumping for him in Boston the week of the DNC, and I get the impression they were upset he wasn't given a fair shot at the Democratic Primaries.
While reading your post something dawned on me. Your mention of 6 feet under got me thinking of On-Demand (This might just be what comcast calls it). Basically its kind of like Tivo, but provided by the cable company. It lets you pick shows that have been on over the last few weeks and watch them whenever you want. Its been great for watching HBO shows that I can't watch on Sundays.
Could this be the result of some pressure from the cable companies or premium channels. Comcast and others would obviously prefer to be the only ones offering 4 year old episodes of Sopranos instead of letting people just compile them on their tivo. I don't know what the cable companies could possibly be offering, but it seems stupid from Tivo and Replay's perspective to just let the cable providers continue offering a service that isn't as good as what you provide now, but way better than what you're offering to provide in the future. Sounds like a bad idea to me.
Funny you should mention ARM. If memory serves DEC sold off the StrongARM technology to Intel, and Intel is now a major player in the handheld market as a result.
Side note, DEC/Compaq also offloaded most of the Alpha design guys into Intels Itanium development group. Supposedly stuff that was supposed to go into the next gen (EV8) Alpha, will be showing up in Itanium in a year or two.
I think the idea is that this is a migration move. This allows current alpha users more time to migrate off of alpha and to another HP platform, rather than forcing them right now particularly if a third party app isn't avialable yet. HP'd rather have customers on alpha, than not have them at all. They can migrate at their own pace.
Took a quick look over at katie.com and she makes mention of slashdot, and offers much thanks to the support of the community making a difference. Good to see that she holds no hard feelings over the publicity:) Go good guys.
Well from what I understand, it doesn't preclude them existing (we know of rogue rocky objects). The reason they are looking at gas giants, is that the belief is that for a planet like earth to exist, it needs a gas giant to protect it. Life would not be possible on earth if Jupiter and Saturn weren't protecting us by gobbling up large amounts of debris as it flies through our solar system. This is not to say that a rocky planet could not exist on its own, but it would be way more esposed to run ins with commets and other material. Additionally it would likely exist along with large amounts of other debris that didn't settle into large objects. Aside from the planets and the astroid belt, or solar system is fairly empty because of the large objects cleaning it up.
That really doesn't answer the question so much. It does clarify that it runs both memory modes, but what about the actual processing portion of the core. RISC processors (the ones these are supposedly going to cut into) have access to 64 bits for memory, but also have significantly more powerful processing mechanics. As I understand this from the market speak (which is confusing at best, hence the question) this is basically the same exact processing core as the standard x86 with some tweaks to allow it to take the larger memory. How does this effect data types, math operations, instruction size, overall number of instructions, processing logic, etc. Basically how does this impact all the OTHER aspects of a processor besides just the amount of memory it has access to. Higher precision floating point perhaps? stuff like that? I'm sure this is all in the specs, but reading technical documents isn't my idea of a fun time. Thought maybe someone here had internals info and could just post.
Are these actually 64 bit CPUs or are they simply 64 bit memory extentions? Anyone know the internals of EM64T that can elaborate? Register sizes, instruction issues, etc?
I'm curious what the internals comparison is between "extentions" and straight up 64 bit processing.
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HP Releases New iPAQs
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Thats whats great about the iPaq, you don't need to use PPC. Most iPaq owners I know replace PPC with linux as soon as they buy them. handhelds.org tends to be the site of choice for most people I know.
To take that even a step further, there is at least one country in South America that has decided to move to the US dollar as their standard for of currency. Apparently the logic being that the dollar is a stable currency, something that few developing countries have. This provides a foundation upon which goods and services can be based. A person can save money and actually know that it will have meaningful value at some point in the future.
I don't think this is very practical, if only because there are enough gullable people that someone will always be buying. What would be a better approach is to criminalise the use of spam from the sellers standpoint. If your product is sold/advertised, you've committed a crime, even if you haven't sent the spam. I know this misses a huge chunk of the spam users, but it could be used against the drug and penis enlargment companies. Its much easier to go after these companies than the spammers themselves, because in order for them to make money, they need to have SOME means of conducting a transaction.
Even if you want to argue that these are legitimate businesses and its peoples own fault for giving them money, you could say that the companies have committed a crime by using an illegal process for advertising and/or distribution. By going after these companies perhaps you can stop the flow from the other end, nobody to USE spam, as opposed to nobody respond to spam.
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HP's offering them for under $3,300 here. This is their Small/Medium business direct site too. Its very likely that if you dealt with someone directly and purchased an order it would be even less. So while $2000 isn't neccesarily correct, its far closer to the real price than 12k is.
Finanical Services and Telecom are 2 big users of 100% uptime. Those stockmarkets and banks the world over have transactions going on 24/7 literally and downtime can cost millions. Telephones, etc also need to basically just work, all the time. Yes there are outages, but you don't want it to be from your switching or billing systems. To a lesser extent things like credit card companies and online stores. Though online vendors can often deal with 5 9's.
Well in all honesty, its not quite as bad as you make it sound. Yes in all likelyhood he will replace 2 justices. BUT, one will be Rhenquist, who is as conservative as they come. If Bush replaces him with a diehard conservative, it will just be status quo. O'Connor being a moderate conservative is slightly different, but she is still a conservative on most issues. His best bet at getting someone approved will mean someone in a similar mold. Only if one of the liberal members decided to step down would you see a massive swing in policy.
Also one thing people forget to SOME extent, is that history tends to show that supreme court justices, no matter who pics them, generally have done their job as described, and thats to interpret the constitution and laws as set forth by Congress and the President. Things like Free Speech, etc, are fairly clearly laid out in the Bill of Rights, no amount of RIAA politicing will CHANGE the bill of rights. Its just a matter of getting the right cases to the Supreme Court so that they can smack down laws that are in violation of those rights. The reason many things like the DMCA survive is because nobody will challenge them to the degree neccessary to get them to the Supreme Court. This I think speaks more for the legal system as a whole, that allows people with deep pockets to intimidate people who are in the right, according to the constitution.
Well more accuratly Frame dragging was proposed 97 years ago ;) as a part of General Relativity. As opposed to Special Relativity :)
Mercury is the only elemental metal that is liquid at room temp. There are other liquid metals. Someone in another post mentioned gallium, as being liquid at just about human body temp, which would certainly be maintained within the cooling process of a PC. Additionally there are other elemental metals with low enough melting points that they would be concievable within a tight cooling loop that runs at a higher temp.
The key for using liquid metal in this as I see it, is to move heat away quickly, rather than moving large amounts. As such the metal itself would stay rather hot, and they would take advantage of the conductive properties of it, to get the heat away more rapidly. The loop containing the liquid metal would likely be localized to an area right around the chip you are cooling. No long pump and hose loops like in water cooling. Think of this more like heat pipe technology, but using a fluid to more efficiently move the heat energy.
From my understanding micro-payments are much less than $2.00. As I understand it you would be paying fractions of a cent but more often. Its almost a virtual currency. You'll be trading a few of your micro payments for material. If people can accru payments with material I doubt it will be any real way to acquire income, but rather will total up enough to offset all the mirco payments you're MAKING for other game usage. If not all your micropayments for a month might total up to $4-$5 or some such. They are full well counting on the addictiveness and keeping the price down.
This is all of course based on my previous understanding of micro payments. Its always possible that they have some different definition, it which case this assessment is wrong.
There was a talk about the Great Firewall at this past summers HOPE conference. I'm not sure how much you can get out of just the audio without the slides, but you can find the talk HERE entitled "How the Great Firewall Works". Its about halfway down the page.
There are automated processes in place for blocking some content, and there are automated processes that evaluate material once it is accessed in a certain pattern. There is also a manual evaluation in which material is reviewed.
There was also something about logging of IPs and caching, so review can be done later for information that can't be determined up front. All of this combines for a list of IPs, a cache of content, and a number of filtering algorithms that fairly effectively block material. However stuff does get through, but only sparsely. If one IP starts hitting a site over and over, or many people start hitting it, it draws attention.
You can download the talk at this site. Scroll down to the one entitled "How the Great Firewall works"
I think there is little to no interest in this as far as combat aircraft. NASA's main interest is in using scramjets to produce aircraft like vehicles that can "fly" into space affordably. As I understand it aside from their ability to operate at high speeds more efficiently than rockets, they also allow for much higher altitude functionality than a standard jet engine. This would allow a space plane to get high in the atmosphere, then use a small rocket boost to get into orbit.
I believe the idea behind a functional vehicle would be something like a standard jet engine getting a craft up to mach 1 or 2, then a ramjet taking over and getting a craft up to mach 5 or so, and then a scramjet taking a ship up to mach 10-15, at which point a rocket boost pushes it through the last bit of thin atmosphere into orbit. I may be wrong, as my knowledge on this was material read 4-5 years ago, but that seems to be what I remember.
Supposedly a nother great thing about scramjets is their simplicity, very few moving parts, which allows for high reliability. Or as high reliability as can be expected for something working under the strain of Mach 10.
I'm not sure what was contained in various previous offerings, but currently HP has begun offering a home media center running Microsofts offering. It seems to be the DVR + everything but the kitchen sink.
Here is a link to the offering from HP. Seems a little expensive, but I haven't seen one in person to know exactly how powerful it is.
I've talked with friends about building a simple linux system to do all this and interface it with a home LAN, and we all agree that you could do it for a lot less than 2 grand.
Anyone thing the abrubtness has anything to do with EQ2's ship date being Nov 8. WoW's closed beta started 3-4 months ahead of EQ at least, and I think the general assumption at the time among some of the forums I read was the WoW would ship first. Now EQ2 is shipping first and is primed to gab a decent chunk of a market that might not be willing to split its money over two subscription based games.
And its not those pesky automakers you have to worry about, a car sold is a car sold to them, whatever technology they have to put in it. Its the oil companies this guy would really have to watch out for. If he can mature the technology, GM or Ford would likely pay a nice sum for the rights to it, so that they can break into a market that the Japanese companies currently have a lock on. The Prius is in gigantic demand, and I'm sure the American companies wouldn't mind getting a piece of tha action.
One of the good things going for LSB is that HP, and IBM support it. Its in THEIR best interest to have a standards base because it makes their support job easier. While Suse or Redhat might only care about supporting their specific customers, each of them being different makes the support job tougher for major system vendors. My guess is that HP and IBM pressuring the linux companies will make them pretty compliant on the LSB front and force the linux vendors to differentiate on additional features that don't break the LSB.
Isn't LaRouche a Democrat? I heard a number of people stumping for him in Boston the week of the DNC, and I get the impression they were upset he wasn't given a fair shot at the Democratic Primaries.
While reading your post something dawned on me. Your mention of 6 feet under got me thinking of On-Demand (This might just be what comcast calls it). Basically its kind of like Tivo, but provided by the cable company. It lets you pick shows that have been on over the last few weeks and watch them whenever you want. Its been great for watching HBO shows that I can't watch on Sundays.
Could this be the result of some pressure from the cable companies or premium channels. Comcast and others would obviously prefer to be the only ones offering 4 year old episodes of Sopranos instead of letting people just compile them on their tivo. I don't know what the cable companies could possibly be offering, but it seems stupid from Tivo and Replay's perspective to just let the cable providers continue offering a service that isn't as good as what you provide now, but way better than what you're offering to provide in the future. Sounds like a bad idea to me.
Funny you should mention ARM. If memory serves DEC sold off the StrongARM technology to Intel, and Intel is now a major player in the handheld market as a result.
Side note, DEC/Compaq also offloaded most of the Alpha design guys into Intels Itanium development group. Supposedly stuff that was supposed to go into the next gen (EV8) Alpha, will be showing up in Itanium in a year or two.
I think the idea is that this is a migration move. This allows current alpha users more time to migrate off of alpha and to another HP platform, rather than forcing them right now particularly if a third party app isn't avialable yet. HP'd rather have customers on alpha, than not have them at all. They can migrate at their own pace.
For specifics on the internal, external, and who actually created both. The obligatory Wiki link.
Took a quick look over at katie.com and she makes mention of slashdot, and offers much thanks to the support of the community making a difference. Good to see that she holds no hard feelings over the publicity :) Go good guys.
Well from what I understand, it doesn't preclude them existing (we know of rogue rocky objects). The reason they are looking at gas giants, is that the belief is that for a planet like earth to exist, it needs a gas giant to protect it. Life would not be possible on earth if Jupiter and Saturn weren't protecting us by gobbling up large amounts of debris as it flies through our solar system. This is not to say that a rocky planet could not exist on its own, but it would be way more esposed to run ins with commets and other material. Additionally it would likely exist along with large amounts of other debris that didn't settle into large objects. Aside from the planets and the astroid belt, or solar system is fairly empty because of the large objects cleaning it up.
That really doesn't answer the question so much. It does clarify that it runs both memory modes, but what about the actual processing portion of the core. RISC processors (the ones these are supposedly going to cut into) have access to 64 bits for memory, but also have significantly more powerful processing mechanics. As I understand this from the market speak (which is confusing at best, hence the question) this is basically the same exact processing core as the standard x86 with some tweaks to allow it to take the larger memory. How does this effect data types, math operations, instruction size, overall number of instructions, processing logic, etc. Basically how does this impact all the OTHER aspects of a processor besides just the amount of memory it has access to. Higher precision floating point perhaps? stuff like that? I'm sure this is all in the specs, but reading technical documents isn't my idea of a fun time. Thought maybe someone here had internals info and could just post.
Are these actually 64 bit CPUs or are they simply 64 bit memory extentions? Anyone know the internals of EM64T that can elaborate? Register sizes, instruction issues, etc?
I'm curious what the internals comparison is between "extentions" and straight up 64 bit processing.
Thats whats great about the iPaq, you don't need to use PPC. Most iPaq owners I know replace PPC with linux as soon as they buy them. handhelds.org tends to be the site of choice for most people I know.
To take that even a step further, there is at least one country in South America that has decided to move to the US dollar as their standard for of currency. Apparently the logic being that the dollar is a stable currency, something that few developing countries have. This provides a foundation upon which goods and services can be based. A person can save money and actually know that it will have meaningful value at some point in the future.
I don't think this is very practical, if only because there are enough gullable people that someone will always be buying. What would be a better approach is to criminalise the use of spam from the sellers standpoint. If your product is sold/advertised, you've committed a crime, even if you haven't sent the spam. I know this misses a huge chunk of the spam users, but it could be used against the drug and penis enlargment companies. Its much easier to go after these companies than the spammers themselves, because in order for them to make money, they need to have SOME means of conducting a transaction.
Even if you want to argue that these are legitimate businesses and its peoples own fault for giving them money, you could say that the companies have committed a crime by using an illegal process for advertising and/or distribution. By going after these companies perhaps you can stop the flow from the other end, nobody to USE spam, as opposed to nobody respond to spam.