The part about the buggy is right - the assessment of the current environment leaves a little to be desired...
Actually, heavy pollution-reduction and replanting efforts have been underway since the mid-70's. You'd be surprised at what has been accomplished over 30 years of consistent effort. Sudbury is naturally rocky as it's on the Cambrian Shield, but it's no longer the black, blasted landscape of the 50's and 60's. The only remaining 'bad' areas are those where active slag-dumping still takes place - everywhere else is very green and wooded, just like it was before humans arrived to mess it all up.
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Actually, if I'm not mistaken, it was the i820 which was the huge fiasco for Intel, not the i810. The i810 was the far preferable way to go relative the the i820 if you had to do a post-BX intel chipset system... at least until the i815E and i815EP came out.
Also the PIV is not a piece of junk, it's just got some pretty impossible expectations to live up to, which Intel is fully aware of. PIV won't live up to its potential (let alone its hype) until software has been optimized for it. It's unfortunately much more susceptible to performance hits due to its significant architecture differences which is why many people think it sucks. Give it the right software to eat and it'll do just fine. Well, apart from the current RAMBUS requirements, anyway...
Apart from that, you're right - AMD has a great chance with this chipset to really charge hard at Intel and lay the boots to them. It's always been the spotty chipset (mostly a legacy non-issue these days) which has held back broader adoption of AMD systems, after all, so having a feature-rich product from a big-name vendor may be a huge breakthrough in capturing the consumer's attention.
Help me out here... in english-speaking areas we use Mb, MB, Gb... etc for megabit, megabyte, gigabyte. In french areas you use Mo, Go... etc. What does the 'o' stand for? Unfortunately when I took french immersion technology wasn't top of the list of things to be taught.
Thanks - seeing Mo/Go really bugs me everytime I see it until I realize it's from another language.
I can't see how immediately the majority of people will jump directly to the most paranoid inferences anyone could draw from the capabilities of such a product.
I mean obviously whatever evil corporation you work for may choose to abuse this type of product as another way to spy on employees, but be realistic - for the most part companies don't care what you do as long as you're productive and don't cause problems. Sure certain environments are very high on increasing productivity, to the point where washroom breaks are timed, etc, but most places are not like this.
In a less orwellian workplace, these types of products can be excellent tools to facilitate the search for knowledge. Would you know who to call in your company to get some obscure piece of info about how a particular system works? Would your co-workers? Probably not - that's why this type of global content indexing and affinity-mapping can be a great asset. I may not know who to call about the way an ACF2 subsystem on mainframe X is used by web application Y, but I can do a quick search and have someone recommended. I would kill for that capability in my job today - as an enterprise architect we need to know who the movers and shakers are in the company and keep a handle on ongoing projects, and unfortunately 80% or more of them never go in front of any sort of review board, so searching out the stealth projects is a big problem.
As a result, we've investigated a few products in this space - for those who are interested, a couple of other examples are:
Round up all those SUV-driving, cellphone-talking teenage girls, and launch them instead. Then simply monitor for attempted calls for help as they struggle to breathe... until one of them gets smart and finds Arnold's alien atmosphere device, anyway... naaah, it'll never happen.
So by extension, is Carnivore allowed to copy and archive all of my email in case at some point in time the FBI gets a court order allowing them ro read it?
I mean, I'm canadian on @Home and my email passes through primarily american co-located servers, so I'm sure my privacy will be respected to the utmost by the american investigators, right?
I don't claim to know the rationale behind this, but Coke is different in the U.S. than it is in Canada, and presumably is different around the world.
Living in Canada my whole life, I've learned that Coke tastes a certain way, which is very distinct from Pepsi. When I travel to the states however, the Coke is sweeter, less tart, and slightly less carbonated... in effect, much more similar to Pepsi in flavor. Since I can't stand the nearly-flat syruppy crap that is Pepsi, I'm not a big fan of this change.
The solution? I look for Jolt whenever I'm on the road - it seems to be consistent everywhere.
I've heard of click-wrap licensing... would the most logical name for this be blink-wrap licensing?
Or... park-your-ass-wrap licensing (i.e. get up and leave if you don't like it)...
Ah yes, the tried-and-true "don't make it easy - then nobody will do things the true artiste way that I do, and everything go to crap" argument.
For anyone who hasn't been paying attention, it's not making things easier for the average person which has made the internet turn to crap... it's letting the average person use the internet at all. Once you give someone a voice, you have to accept that you may occasionally get to listen to whatever crap or drivel they choose to spew out, with or without difference clouds plastered all over it.
Anyone who runs a website and tracks statistics will tell you that yes, there are in fact luddites out there still running ancient (and I mean truly ancient) browsers out there... (never mind the insanity of calling anyone using the internet a luddite, but the term fits)
We still get a significant number of people visiting our banking site with - and I kid you not - early beta versions of Netscape 1.0... never mind the rubes still using the ancient IE built into Windows NT4.
Now, of course this is a very small fraction of users, but it probably doesn't take much potential exposure to open a crack where a legal argument can worm into.
If a quantum computer can solve problems without being turned on, what's next... a quantum SUPERcomputer that solves problems without even existing? Get me one of those!
That's his whole point... read a little more closely. The fact that Redhad makes very little money through direct sales OR support is what makes the business model wierd.
The legality of ripping CDs is not at all at question. Fair use says once I've paid once, I can't be made to pay again to make use of my music wherever I choose. Note that I never said anything about trading itself being legal - obviously there are questions there. Getting mp3 copies of music I already own the rights to however is obviously entirely legal, regardless of the source. Read a little more closely next time, pal.
Define "legal music swapping". If I own a CD and want an MP3 copy of the song at work, in the car, etc, then the RIAA and all the labels can go to hell if they think they have any right to stop me from getting it.
Sorry, but not being an american, I don't get your 100Mhz reference... is that your national emergency broadcast system frequency, or some military frequency or something? Any explanation is appreciated!
Damned straight, I would!
It's the thick-headed "follow the herd" mentality among record companies that has us swimming in a septic sea of Backstreet Boys clones and Britney Spears wanna-be groups, which themselves were clones of some earlier saccharine swill.
Screw what the RIAA think we want, I'd force them to put out different music and let me buy what I decide to - not what small number of groups they've pre-selected for me based upon the buying habits of 14 year-old girls.
Hey, if you ever hear of such a spammer-elimination group forming up, let me know!
I'll work cheap, and I'll have the kind of job efficiency you can only get from someone who truly, fully, absolutely loves their job. I'll even work overtime free! The only caveat: I need to choose my own methods. No mamby-pamby death by lethal injection here - claw hammer to the forehead sounds about right.
Now there's a career I can truly aspire to excel in!:)
*sniff*
That's the most beautiful post I've read all day. I think I love you!
I would pay good money to watch a spammer have this done to him. I'm serious here - anyone want some money find a spammer and give me a call!
>Just because you hate spammers doesn't mean that
>they deserve to lose thier freedom. It is the
>same argument that just because you hate blacks,
>homosexuals, jews or whatever...
Wrong. Waaaaay wrong. Hating someone because of who they are or their skin color or what they believe is indefensible. Hating someone because of the things they do however is not. Spam is evil and cannot be defended. So are those who make a living from it.
I can't see how this is a good thing for corporations which typically would have many many numbers, across the various geographical areas in which they do business. But for home users?
There might be something there... think of how many phone numbers you have stored in your head for friends and family... or even the local video rental place. It's POSSIBLE that there may be some benefit to having numeric addressing for those types of addressing interactions - it's certainly easier for me to remember the phone number for a family member than some convoluted URL string.
Then again, the fact that I keep all my important URLs bookmarked means I barely remember how to get to slashdot manually anymore, let alone some second-cousin's "mexico trip photos" web page.
Bzzzt. Try again - it's not that it needs its data to come in at a steady rate, but rather that it needs to have data in its buffer whenever it wants to write out a block. Whether or not ATAPI occasionally would drop below this 18X (2770Kb/s) threshold is irrelevant - that's what the burner's buffer is for. Most of the time the system could maintain far higher transfer rates than 18X, keeping the buffer nice & full for those few times when transfer rates dip below the threshold. This is why burners with bigger buffers are more reliable burners - they take hard drive data transfer rate fluctuation out of the equation in all but extreme cases.
It's quite possible that I've misunderstood Auerbach's discussion (It's monday morning, after all), but I believe his point about content replication was attempting to draw an analogy as to why a single DNS root was not necessarily the only way to go. He was attempting to show that similar to how content replication can work, the DNS system could well have multiple separately-administered roots, in theory individually responsible for their own sets of gTLDs, and that usage of these gTLDs would be completely discretionary at the ISP level.
Ughh... sorry for the run-on sentence, but can't edit much without coffee.
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The part about the buggy is right - the assessment of the current environment leaves a little to be desired...
Actually, heavy pollution-reduction and replanting efforts have been underway since the mid-70's. You'd be surprised at what has been accomplished over 30 years of consistent effort. Sudbury is naturally rocky as it's on the Cambrian Shield, but it's no longer the black, blasted landscape of the 50's and 60's. The only remaining 'bad' areas are those where active slag-dumping still takes place - everywhere else is very green and wooded, just like it was before humans arrived to mess it all up.
Actually, if I'm not mistaken, it was the i820 which was the huge fiasco for Intel, not the i810. The i810 was the far preferable way to go relative the the i820 if you had to do a post-BX intel chipset system... at least until the i815E and i815EP came out.
Also the PIV is not a piece of junk, it's just got some pretty impossible expectations to live up to, which Intel is fully aware of. PIV won't live up to its potential (let alone its hype) until software has been optimized for it. It's unfortunately much more susceptible to performance hits due to its significant architecture differences which is why many people think it sucks. Give it the right software to eat and it'll do just fine. Well, apart from the current RAMBUS requirements, anyway...
Apart from that, you're right - AMD has a great chance with this chipset to really charge hard at Intel and lay the boots to them. It's always been the spotty chipset (mostly a legacy non-issue these days) which has held back broader adoption of AMD systems, after all, so having a feature-rich product from a big-name vendor may be a huge breakthrough in capturing the consumer's attention.
Aaahh... so simple it has to be true. Many thanks!
Help me out here... in english-speaking areas we use Mb, MB, Gb... etc for megabit, megabyte, gigabyte. In french areas you use Mo, Go... etc. What does the 'o' stand for? Unfortunately when I took french immersion technology wasn't top of the list of things to be taught. Thanks - seeing Mo/Go really bugs me everytime I see it until I realize it's from another language.
I can't see how immediately the majority of people will jump directly to the most paranoid inferences anyone could draw from the capabilities of such a product.
I mean obviously whatever evil corporation you work for may choose to abuse this type of product as another way to spy on employees, but be realistic - for the most part companies don't care what you do as long as you're productive and don't cause problems. Sure certain environments are very high on increasing productivity, to the point where washroom breaks are timed, etc, but most places are not like this.
In a less orwellian workplace, these types of products can be excellent tools to facilitate the search for knowledge. Would you know who to call in your company to get some obscure piece of info about how a particular system works? Would your co-workers? Probably not - that's why this type of global content indexing and affinity-mapping can be a great asset. I may not know who to call about the way an ACF2 subsystem on mainframe X is used by web application Y, but I can do a quick search and have someone recommended. I would kill for that capability in my job today - as an enterprise architect we need to know who the movers and shakers are in the company and keep a handle on ongoing projects, and unfortunately 80% or more of them never go in front of any sort of review board, so searching out the stealth projects is a big problem.
As a result, we've investigated a few products in this space - for those who are interested, a couple of other examples are:
Verity K2 Enterprise
and
Lotus Discovery Server
I've got a better idea:
Round up all those SUV-driving, cellphone-talking teenage girls, and launch them instead. Then simply monitor for attempted calls for help as they struggle to breathe... until one of them gets smart and finds Arnold's alien atmosphere device, anyway... naaah, it'll never happen.
So by extension, is Carnivore allowed to copy and archive all of my email in case at some point in time the FBI gets a court order allowing them ro read it?
I mean, I'm canadian on @Home and my email passes through primarily american co-located servers, so I'm sure my privacy will be respected to the utmost by the american investigators, right?
I don't claim to know the rationale behind this, but Coke is different in the U.S. than it is in Canada, and presumably is different around the world.
Living in Canada my whole life, I've learned that Coke tastes a certain way, which is very distinct from Pepsi. When I travel to the states however, the Coke is sweeter, less tart, and slightly less carbonated... in effect, much more similar to Pepsi in flavor. Since I can't stand the nearly-flat syruppy crap that is Pepsi, I'm not a big fan of this change.
The solution? I look for Jolt whenever I'm on the road - it seems to be consistent everywhere.
I've heard of click-wrap licensing... would the most logical name for this be blink-wrap licensing? Or... park-your-ass-wrap licensing (i.e. get up and leave if you don't like it)...
Ah yes, the tried-and-true "don't make it easy - then nobody will do things the true artiste way that I do, and everything go to crap" argument. For anyone who hasn't been paying attention, it's not making things easier for the average person which has made the internet turn to crap... it's letting the average person use the internet at all. Once you give someone a voice, you have to accept that you may occasionally get to listen to whatever crap or drivel they choose to spew out, with or without difference clouds plastered all over it.
Anyone who runs a website and tracks statistics will tell you that yes, there are in fact luddites out there still running ancient (and I mean truly ancient) browsers out there... (never mind the insanity of calling anyone using the internet a luddite, but the term fits)
We still get a significant number of people visiting our banking site with - and I kid you not - early beta versions of Netscape 1.0... never mind the rubes still using the ancient IE built into Windows NT4.
Now, of course this is a very small fraction of users, but it probably doesn't take much potential exposure to open a crack where a legal argument can worm into.
If a quantum computer can solve problems without being turned on, what's next... a quantum SUPERcomputer that solves problems without even existing? Get me one of those!
That's his whole point... read a little more closely. The fact that Redhad makes very little money through direct sales OR support is what makes the business model wierd.
The legality of ripping CDs is not at all at question. Fair use says once I've paid once, I can't be made to pay again to make use of my music wherever I choose. Note that I never said anything about trading itself being legal - obviously there are questions there. Getting mp3 copies of music I already own the rights to however is obviously entirely legal, regardless of the source. Read a little more closely next time, pal.
I agree... our bandwidth is definitely too straight. A good sharp bend to the left is what's required, don't you think?
Define "legal music swapping". If I own a CD and want an MP3 copy of the song at work, in the car, etc, then the RIAA and all the labels can go to hell if they think they have any right to stop me from getting it.
Sorry, but not being an american, I don't get your 100Mhz reference... is that your national emergency broadcast system frequency, or some military frequency or something? Any explanation is appreciated!
Damned straight, I would! It's the thick-headed "follow the herd" mentality among record companies that has us swimming in a septic sea of Backstreet Boys clones and Britney Spears wanna-be groups, which themselves were clones of some earlier saccharine swill. Screw what the RIAA think we want, I'd force them to put out different music and let me buy what I decide to - not what small number of groups they've pre-selected for me based upon the buying habits of 14 year-old girls.
Hey, if you ever hear of such a spammer-elimination group forming up, let me know! I'll work cheap, and I'll have the kind of job efficiency you can only get from someone who truly, fully, absolutely loves their job. I'll even work overtime free! The only caveat: I need to choose my own methods. No mamby-pamby death by lethal injection here - claw hammer to the forehead sounds about right. Now there's a career I can truly aspire to excel in! :)
*sniff* That's the most beautiful post I've read all day. I think I love you! I would pay good money to watch a spammer have this done to him. I'm serious here - anyone want some money find a spammer and give me a call!
>Just because you hate spammers doesn't mean that >they deserve to lose thier freedom. It is the >same argument that just because you hate blacks, >homosexuals, jews or whatever... Wrong. Waaaaay wrong. Hating someone because of who they are or their skin color or what they believe is indefensible. Hating someone because of the things they do however is not. Spam is evil and cannot be defended. So are those who make a living from it.
I can't see how this is a good thing for corporations which typically would have many many numbers, across the various geographical areas in which they do business. But for home users?
There might be something there... think of how many phone numbers you have stored in your head for friends and family... or even the local video rental place. It's POSSIBLE that there may be some benefit to having numeric addressing for those types of addressing interactions - it's certainly easier for me to remember the phone number for a family member than some convoluted URL string.
Then again, the fact that I keep all my important URLs bookmarked means I barely remember how to get to slashdot manually anymore, let alone some second-cousin's "mexico trip photos" web page.
Bzzzt. Try again - it's not that it needs its data to come in at a steady rate, but rather that it needs to have data in its buffer whenever it wants to write out a block. Whether or not ATAPI occasionally would drop below this 18X (2770Kb/s) threshold is irrelevant - that's what the burner's buffer is for. Most of the time the system could maintain far higher transfer rates than 18X, keeping the buffer nice & full for those few times when transfer rates dip below the threshold. This is why burners with bigger buffers are more reliable burners - they take hard drive data transfer rate fluctuation out of the equation in all but extreme cases.
That makes for what, a 2.9% increase? Sounds more like a cost of living adjustment to account for inflation to me than an actual budget increase.
It's quite possible that I've misunderstood Auerbach's discussion (It's monday morning, after all), but I believe his point about content replication was attempting to draw an analogy as to why a single DNS root was not necessarily the only way to go. He was attempting to show that similar to how content replication can work, the DNS system could well have multiple separately-administered roots, in theory individually responsible for their own sets of gTLDs, and that usage of these gTLDs would be completely discretionary at the ISP level. Ughh... sorry for the run-on sentence, but can't edit much without coffee.