Just look at how well CableCard has done. Cable industry has shown that if an entrenched oligopoly wants to kill open devices all it has to do is drag it's feet and make it as difficult as possible for consumers.
There's no way this will encourage investment in open devices by anyone hobbyists.
That'll happen when groups of workers in outsourcing countries realize they can make more money by starting their own companies with the knowledge that US companies have given them.
I made no statement as to whether or not this 1,000 year peak of sunspots explains climate change. I merely pointed out that your original big bold point was disingenous: Sunspot activity correlates to higher solar output, as the wikipedia article you linked to states. I'll leave it to you if you want to make a different statement supporting your position, your first one is wrong.
And if you read your own link, you'd also see:
"Since sunspots are dark it might be expected that more sunspots lead to less solar radiation. However, the surrounding areas are brighter and the overall effect is that more sunspots means a brighter sun. The variation is very small (of the order of 0.1%)."
Nobody forces Amazon to stock his book. They should just take it off the virtual shelves and be done with it.
Don't sue the messanger when the messanger doesn't have to carry your message.
As someone who's studied architecture at the graduate level at one of the best schools in the nation, as well as done performance research @ IBM I can tell you that everything written there bumbles over so many issues it makes me want to scream (and I'm not THAT knowlegable relative to the people I worked under, the reasons things are done the way they are is not as trivial as "bigger! faster!" the way a lot of these articles at ars and anand portray them.
There's entire papers written about things they gloss over every other sentence. Architecture is a very subtle craft.
According to an FBI affidavit filed in the case, Jeansonne was undone when cyber sleuths at Microsoft's MSN unit searched e-mail logs and found that the "Timmy" account had previously sent beta versions of the malware to Jeansonne's MSN TV account.
Heh, the script kiddies need to learn not to incriminate themselves in public places.
Apparently they pulled this rather common scam of offering him a rediculously low amount ($10) for the domain. Then when the target flips out and says it's worth at least $xxx, they sue their asses for trying to profit off of a domain name.
It's transparent to that. All this has to do with is if you want to use a service of a server (sending mail). This strategy doesn't have to be global, you could tack it onto any authentication protocol and it would only be the senders job to get the required software. However the reciever authenticates is the buisiness of the server they recieve from.
We studied this in a computer security course I took. This technique has been proposed to TCP establishment as well. It involves the server calculating a hash of a particular nonce (random value). The server then provides the hash and a certain number of bits of the nonce. It becomes the clients job to complete the nonce such that the value hashes out correctly. The server can vary the number of bits it provides to vary the difficulty of the puzzle...
As the children enter the school, they approach a kiosk where a reader activates the chip's signal and displays their photograph. The students touch their picture, and the time of their entry into the building is recorded in a database. A school staffer oversees the check-in process.
So I guess this strategy depends on the attentiveness of the staffer...
Version 2010 will include face recognition I'm sure...
data in, data out is precisely what will kill this chip. What this thing needs to work in giant parallelism is a whole bunch of stuff (like arrays, matrix, etc...) that can be broken down "blocked" such that the amortized run time spends far more time in the 128k than in the whole dataset. Also, these things don't run at full speed unless it's chewing on something 4k in size for a pretty long time relative to the 128k time, so it's pretty tight for anything besides specifically engineered algorithms. This is what their front page says, and chips like this arn't that revolutionary, although neat. Quoting those numbers in the context of PC applications (a PC centric website) is rather deceptive.
The thing is specified to the layout level based on their pictures, so that's pretty much enough to verify that it'll work in silicon. Computer CAD tools extract how the circuit work based on the masks, and use tools like spice that can model these things to rediculous accuracy (24th or so order effects).
Unless this thing is working on highly specialized data sets, it doesn't matter how much data the core can mow through if it can't get the data fast enough. Why do you think AMD and Intel are so obsessed with their memory interfaces? There's little difference between the Athlon and the Athlon 64 besides large data width and fancy memory / SMP interfaces.
Would be more appropriate to chalk this one up as IBM beating Intel, since neither Dell or Apple are very resposible for developing the technology in the products they sell.
"At this time, the Target Request site only works with Internet Explorer (IE). It was developed and tested with IE 6 / Windows 98 SE and IE 5.2.3 / Mac OS X (10.2.6). It is impractical for us to make it work with every browser on every platform, due to the incompatibility of various browsers."
Sorry, I just don't see how terrorists would be motivated to try to cause blackouts.
Sure, they cause inconvenience and economic losses: but these are people who want to mess with our heads. The lights go out, people walk home, a little miffed, life goes on. A major building blows up and people are quite a bit more afraid of the world.
They managed to get the grid up mostly over the weekend. I'd say for something as complex as the power grid over 5 states that's pretty damn good. It'd cost billions upon billions to retrofit our power grid to something modern using some accelerated schedule, and I don't see how you expect our president to be jumping to spend any more money just because we had a so far isolated incident.
There's already plans in place to upgrade our systems over time, you can easily read about them in these articles. Bush may be a bad president but I don't see how any president should be so swaded policy wise by every incident that happens to a very large and complex country.
Oh and also, I'm pretty sure Microsoft didn't give 2 shits about ushering in a new and innovative games with Windows 95 & DirectX. They saw all these gaming companies creating their own protected mode enviroments & gaming APIs in DOS, some even marketing the good ones so everyone doesn't have to reinvent the wheel. They saw this as someone else offering their own platform, something they need to dominate under fear of being not as important in the future. (Technical Evangelism anyone?)
They have that now, marketed, sold, exclusive, proprietary. It's amazing they still care about it at all now.
Ok, so THG gets through this week enfuriating
the enthusiast community. Posting infomercials labeled as articles, then throws the community this pat yourselves on the back editorial on Open Source? Anyone else find the timing a little suspicious?
Either way they're still benchmarking Apple hardware to be released in September versus Intel hardware that was available months ago. A quick look at Tejas and Athlon 64 specs will prove that both Intel and AMD have some whoopass coming down the line in Q4. At least this means Apple will be competitive still when the storm hits... but I don't think this hardware is revolutionary when compared to it's future peers.
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s/"anyone hobbyists"/"anyone except hobbyists"
Just look at how well CableCard has done. Cable industry has shown that if an entrenched oligopoly wants to kill open devices all it has to do is drag it's feet and make it as difficult as possible for consumers. There's no way this will encourage investment in open devices by anyone hobbyists.
Wasn't this the stated goal of the new format? Developers didn't want to spend a month or more every year putting everything on hold to try to win E3.
That'll happen when groups of workers in outsourcing countries realize they can make more money by starting their own companies with the knowledge that US companies have given them.
I made no statement as to whether or not this 1,000 year peak of sunspots explains climate change. I merely pointed out that your original big bold point was disingenous: Sunspot activity correlates to higher solar output, as the wikipedia article you linked to states. I'll leave it to you if you want to make a different statement supporting your position, your first one is wrong.
And if you read your own link, you'd also see: "Since sunspots are dark it might be expected that more sunspots lead to less solar radiation. However, the surrounding areas are brighter and the overall effect is that more sunspots means a brighter sun. The variation is very small (of the order of 0.1%)."
Nobody forces Amazon to stock his book. They should just take it off the virtual shelves and be done with it. Don't sue the messanger when the messanger doesn't have to carry your message.
As someone who's studied architecture at the graduate level at one of the best schools in the nation, as well as done performance research @ IBM I can tell you that everything written there bumbles over so many issues it makes me want to scream (and I'm not THAT knowlegable relative to the people I worked under, the reasons things are done the way they are is not as trivial as "bigger! faster!" the way a lot of these articles at ars and anand portray them. There's entire papers written about things they gloss over every other sentence. Architecture is a very subtle craft.
That, or: 1. Some really ugly guys like Macs. 2. Some really ugly guys like using Photoshop on their Macs.
Sounds like this guy has too many new expensive gadgets that he should send to someone who appreciates it more.
Heh, the script kiddies need to learn not to incriminate themselves in public places.
Apparently they pulled this rather common scam of offering him a rediculously low amount ($10) for the domain. Then when the target flips out and says it's worth at least $xxx, they sue their asses for trying to profit off of a domain name.
It's transparent to that. All this has to do with is if you want to use a service of a server (sending mail). This strategy doesn't have to be global, you could tack it onto any authentication protocol and it would only be the senders job to get the required software. However the reciever authenticates is the buisiness of the server they recieve from.
We studied this in a computer security course I took. This technique has been proposed to TCP establishment as well. It involves the server calculating a hash of a particular nonce (random value). The server then provides the hash and a certain number of bits of the nonce. It becomes the clients job to complete the nonce such that the value hashes out correctly. The server can vary the number of bits it provides to vary the difficulty of the puzzle...
As the children enter the school, they approach a kiosk where a reader activates the chip's signal and displays their photograph. The students touch their picture, and the time of their entry into the building is recorded in a database. A school staffer oversees the check-in process.
So I guess this strategy depends on the attentiveness of the staffer...
Version 2010 will include face recognition I'm sure...
data in, data out is precisely what will kill this chip. What this thing needs to work in giant parallelism is a whole bunch of stuff (like arrays, matrix, etc...) that can be broken down "blocked" such that the amortized run time spends far more time in the 128k than in the whole dataset. Also, these things don't run at full speed unless it's chewing on something 4k in size for a pretty long time relative to the 128k time, so it's pretty tight for anything besides specifically engineered algorithms. This is what their front page says, and chips like this arn't that revolutionary, although neat. Quoting those numbers in the context of PC applications (a PC centric website) is rather deceptive.
The thing is specified to the layout level based on their pictures, so that's pretty much enough to verify that it'll work in silicon. Computer CAD tools extract how the circuit work based on the masks, and use tools like spice that can model these things to rediculous accuracy (24th or so order effects).
... best case, and 128 K of cache.
Unless this thing is working on highly specialized data sets, it doesn't matter how much data the core can mow through if it can't get the data fast enough. Why do you think AMD and Intel are so obsessed with their memory interfaces? There's little difference between the Athlon and the Athlon 64 besides large data width and fancy memory / SMP interfaces.
Would be more appropriate to chalk this one up as IBM beating Intel, since neither Dell or Apple are very resposible for developing the technology in the products they sell.
"At this time, the Target Request site only works with Internet Explorer (IE). It was developed and tested with IE 6 / Windows 98 SE and IE 5.2.3 / Mac OS X (10.2.6). It is impractical for us to make it work with every browser on every platform, due to the incompatibility of various browsers."
- Burn them!
Sorry, I just don't see how terrorists would be motivated to try to cause blackouts.
Sure, they cause inconvenience and economic losses: but these are people who want to mess with our heads. The lights go out, people walk home, a little miffed, life goes on. A major building blows up and people are quite a bit more afraid of the world.
They managed to get the grid up mostly over the weekend. I'd say for something as complex as the power grid over 5 states that's pretty damn good. It'd cost billions upon billions to retrofit our power grid to something modern using some accelerated schedule, and I don't see how you expect our president to be jumping to spend any more money just because we had a so far isolated incident.
There's already plans in place to upgrade our systems over time, you can easily read about them in these articles. Bush may be a bad president but I don't see how any president should be so swaded policy wise by every incident that happens to a very large and complex country.
Version 2.0 could have a connecting wire so that a chain of cameras could be activated in order at a particular rate?
System Verilog
Pretty much a HDL of the future that's still being developed, has all the best features and none of the bloat of VHDL and some other HDL languagues.
Oh and also, I'm pretty sure Microsoft didn't give 2 shits about ushering in a new and innovative games with Windows 95 & DirectX. They saw all these gaming companies creating their own protected mode enviroments & gaming APIs in DOS, some even marketing the good ones so everyone doesn't have to reinvent the wheel. They saw this as someone else offering their own platform, something they need to dominate under fear of being not as important in the future. (Technical Evangelism anyone?)
They have that now, marketed, sold, exclusive, proprietary. It's amazing they still care about it at all now.
Ok, so THG gets through this week enfuriating the enthusiast community. Posting infomercials labeled as articles, then throws the community this pat yourselves on the back editorial on Open Source? Anyone else find the timing a little suspicious?
Either way they're still benchmarking Apple hardware to be released in September versus Intel hardware that was available months ago. A quick look at Tejas and Athlon 64 specs will prove that both Intel and AMD have some whoopass coming down the line in Q4. At least this means Apple will be competitive still when the storm hits... but I don't think this hardware is revolutionary when compared to it's future peers.