True or not, RAMBUS managed to get busted. Think of it this way... the speed limit on most US freeways is 55 or 65 mph. Most people get off scot free. The most flagrant violators tend to get caught more often. The average speeder occasionally gets caught (depending on the time of the month due to "non-existent" quotas) and/or how much the local police need the cash.
RAMBUS got caught with its hands in the cookie jar. Is RAMBUS the average "Joe" company bends the rules just like everybody else, or the FLAGRANT bully in desparate need of a smack down... you decide.
We do a ton of embedded PPC stuff where I work (and we have an board design that is totally in house). We are using IBM.
Why PPC? Power consumption.
Why IBM? Power consumption.
Whats missing is support from IBMs notoriously slow microelectrionics division. While the uP division is churning out PPC every 6 months, it takes the uE division another year to come up with a PLB/PCI bridge to support it.
You do realize that IBMs LATEST and GREATEST CPC710 (which is only sampling) doesn't support IBM's latest SHIPPING uC.
This would be true except for the fact that it is wrong. Nice troll though.
B.G. and company were convinced both TCP/IP AND the Internet were just toys of academics and poor college students.
Want proof?
Do you even KNOW what Bill's original concept for MSN was? Hint: it had NOTHING to do with ISPs, PPP, TCP/IP or anything else. It was an AOL/Compuserve clone and nothing more.
Do you even KNOW how long 3rd party vendors were selling TCP/IP stacks (a.k.a. Winsock) for DOS/Windows before MS ported BSD sockets and included it into Win95?
Next time, before opening your pie hole, check your facts.
Scenario 3: You see several rioters looting the store. One of them reaches into the cash register and photocopies a $20 bill, hands you the copy, and returns the $20 dollar bill into the cash register.
The only difference between Scenario 2 and 3 is the author of Scenario 2 needs a clue.
It's clear to me that the USA as a free country is collapsing. The twin pressures of a non-productive population viting themselves more and more "bread and circuses" out of the pockets of the workers, and corporations extering pressure on those same politicos (who humor them so as to FUND these "bread and circuses" re-election schemes) is causing us to lose our freedom.
Sad but true... it is pretty much agreed upon that this slow slide is an inevitable characteristic of every government. Our founding fathers only attemped to make one that would suffer it as slowly as possible, but I doubt any one of them thought it would last forever.
Like most things that deteriorate gradually, however, very few REALLY fight it since it spans generations. Why fight for something that will only become bad a few generations later? Screw our great great great grandkids... besides things aren't so bad right now right? RIGHT?
I'm sure in a few hundred years a new, bloody revolution will be fought, this time over intellectual freedoms, when the new peasants realize that their fiefdoms run by the corporations are undeniably corrupt. For now, we can close our eyes to the truth, for don't we have Coca-Cola, MTV, Nikes, Britteny Spears, Microsoft Products, and great movies like "Titanic"? Truly marvelous products that are the result of a wonderful free market, no?
Ya what a WASTE of time to fly real fast! Its a shame we throw away money on stuff like that! I mean, who wants to go gallavanting around really fast! And in the AIR too! WHAT MADNESS! If God intended us to fly he'd have given us wings! If God intended us to go faster than 20mph he'd have given us turboprop thighs!
I, for one am OFFENDED that we are wasting money on fruitless projects like flying fast. It would be better spend on expanding the west wing of my 8 bendroom mansion, or paying some immigrant to scrape barnacles off my yacht.
.net is just an attempt at Microsoft to prove that they DIDN'T completely miss the boat when they first came up with MSN and dismissed the Internet (and TCP/IP) as a "toy for students and academics".
2 years later they managed to (poorly) integrate BSD's stack into windows (remember how long you were forced to use 3rd party IP stacks simply because MS was to dumb to read RFCs?). By now, however, they have weasled their way into the standards bodies that MADE the Internet what it is today. They have learned from their mistakes, and are ready to do MSN the "right way" - the "Microsoft way" and damn anybody else who wants anything to actually interoperate.
I am absolutely positive the Nvidia drivers do NOT work on my SMP system. I have tried every option under the sun. Neither the stock nv drivers or the nvidia devel drivers work properly.
I am also absoultely postive that I can't physically build PPC binaries, since, hey, guess what? No source code.
That is all fine and good, but my fucking NVidia card doesn't work for X in either PPC or x86. Why? Becase the drivers are ASS and nobody can get in there to fix them. Now that NVidia is the only 3d card manufacturer in town, they managed to hoodwink PHBs into lucrative OEM deals and lock ins.. all of which conveniently disregard the fact that NVidia's 2d performance 1) sucks and 2) is unstable in just about ANY system, even ones that are supported.
NVidia can blow me, and as soon as somebody else topples their 3d card monopoly, I will never buy their cards ever again.
The desktop stuff is meaningless. Half of the desktop problems ARE NOT solved by adding junk to the kernel.
Fix the I/O and network problems first; DON'T listen to the clueless masses who just want a win2k (read: porn browser/game platform) replacement.
The networking stuff IN PARTICULAR is a huge problem. We are writing some serious high bandwidth drivers and they are CREAMING the hell out of the Linux kernel because there is only one single backlog queue, and we need to be able to service possibly hundreds of devices. A SINGLE misbehaving network device can bring down the whole network stack currently, and YOU are worried about your stupid desktop apps?
Have you guys ever stopped to consider that the vast majority of the gains we've made in the computer industry has been the result of two things:
1. Running in the red and living on capital until we either drive the competition under or our investors come to collect.
2. A process model of development (hardware AND software) that rewards flying-by-the-seat-of-our-pants and brute-force solutions instead of a careful engineering methodology.
100% correct!
Except its not just the computer industry.. almost every aspect of technology that was built by our economic model follows the same trend. Nasty, expensive, un-maintainable kluges ALWAYS win over the technically sweet solution, usually for one (or several) of the following reasons:
1) time to market
2) short term cost vs long term advantages
3) standards wars
4) intellectual property
5) a gullible public
6) perenially ignorant lawmakers (who are by definition always behind the technological curve)
What if they have a one-click patent! Or patented all the laws of physics, and demand 10 billion stellar credits as a licensing fee, or we forfiet our planet to make way for their interstellar bypass?
THEY'RE more like the independant contractors that were working on the (incomplete) Death Star when those pesky rebels blew the fucker up.. hell, they KNEW they were working for the Evil Empire (tm), and thus knew that they in for. You can't do that kind of work without building up some serious negative karma, man.
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True or not, RAMBUS managed to get busted. Think of it this way... the speed limit on most US freeways is 55 or 65 mph. Most people get off scot free. The most flagrant violators tend to get caught more often. The average speeder occasionally gets caught (depending on the time of the month due to "non-existent" quotas) and/or how much the local police need the cash.
RAMBUS got caught with its hands in the cookie jar. Is RAMBUS the average "Joe" company bends the rules just like everybody else, or the FLAGRANT bully in desparate need of a smack down... you decide.
We do a ton of embedded PPC stuff where I work (and we have an board design that is totally in house). We are using IBM.
Why PPC? Power consumption.
Why IBM? Power consumption.
Whats missing is support from IBMs notoriously slow microelectrionics division. While the uP division is churning out PPC every 6 months, it takes the uE division another year to come up with a PLB/PCI bridge to support it.
You do realize that IBMs LATEST and GREATEST CPC710 (which is only sampling) doesn't support IBM's latest SHIPPING uC.
This would be true except for the fact that it is wrong. Nice troll though.
B.G. and company were convinced both TCP/IP AND the Internet were just toys of academics and poor college students.
Want proof?
Do you even KNOW what Bill's original concept for MSN was? Hint: it had NOTHING to do with ISPs, PPP, TCP/IP or anything else. It was an AOL/Compuserve clone and nothing more.
Do you even KNOW how long 3rd party vendors were selling TCP/IP stacks (a.k.a. Winsock) for DOS/Windows before MS ported BSD sockets and included it into Win95?
Next time, before opening your pie hole, check your facts.
"Stealing".
You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Have you even been READING the semantic discussion RIGHT above your post?
Scenario 3: You see several rioters looting the store. One of them reaches into the cash register and photocopies a $20 bill, hands you the copy, and returns the $20 dollar bill into the cash register.
The only difference between Scenario 2 and 3 is the author of Scenario 2 needs a clue.
Before opening your pie hole, read the RFCs. Only broken routers who DO NOT OBEY the RFCs fail to pass ECN.
300 years, huh? Crap! I may actually live to see 2076..
It's clear to me that the USA as a free country is collapsing. The twin pressures of a non-productive population viting themselves more and more "bread and circuses" out of the pockets of the workers, and corporations extering pressure on those same politicos (who humor them so as to FUND these "bread and circuses" re-election schemes) is causing us to lose our freedom.
Sad but true... it is pretty much agreed upon that this slow slide is an inevitable characteristic of every government. Our founding fathers only attemped to make one that would suffer it as slowly as possible, but I doubt any one of them thought it would last forever.
Like most things that deteriorate gradually, however, very few REALLY fight it since it spans generations. Why fight for something that will only become bad a few generations later? Screw our great great great grandkids... besides things aren't so bad right now right? RIGHT?
I'm sure in a few hundred years a new, bloody revolution will be fought, this time over intellectual freedoms, when the new peasants realize that their fiefdoms run by the corporations are undeniably corrupt. For now, we can close our eyes to the truth, for don't we have Coca-Cola, MTV, Nikes, Britteny Spears, Microsoft Products, and great movies like "Titanic"? Truly marvelous products that are the result of a wonderful free market, no?
NIT PICK alert!
I think it was "Cherry 2000"
;)
I like your list except for Sphere.
And while you are including B-Movies.. add Nemisis!
Sorry I'm a sucker for Pyun.
We rarely apply patches here because
a) NT has a history of breaking under large SP's
b) we have to REBOOT everytime there is a patch.
There is a HUGE difference between being "unhappy" about something and sending a cease and desist letter.
You may as well send your bus driver a cease and desist note ever time he demands exact change.
Ya what a WASTE of time to fly real fast! Its a shame we throw away money on stuff like that! I mean, who wants to go gallavanting around really fast! And in the AIR too! WHAT MADNESS! If God intended us to fly he'd have given us wings! If God intended us to go faster than 20mph he'd have given us turboprop thighs!
I, for one am OFFENDED that we are wasting money on fruitless projects like flying fast. It would be better spend on expanding the west wing of my 8 bendroom mansion, or paying some immigrant to scrape barnacles off my yacht.
.net is just an attempt at Microsoft to prove that they DIDN'T completely miss the boat when they first came up with MSN and dismissed the Internet (and TCP/IP) as a "toy for students and academics".
2 years later they managed to (poorly) integrate BSD's stack into windows (remember how long you were forced to use 3rd party IP stacks simply because MS was to dumb to read RFCs?). By now, however, they have weasled their way into the standards bodies that MADE the Internet what it is today. They have learned from their mistakes, and are ready to do MSN the "right way" - the "Microsoft way" and damn anybody else who wants anything to actually interoperate.
http://www.wgz.org/chromatic/nvidia/analysis.html
I am absolutely positive the Nvidia drivers do NOT work on my SMP system. I have tried every option under the sun. Neither the stock nv drivers or the nvidia devel drivers work properly.
I am also absoultely postive that I can't physically build PPC binaries, since, hey, guess what? No source code.
Again, I reiterate: NVidia, blow me.
I should clarify... I don't have the source. Care to send me a tarball, or a precompiled version for ppc?
Did that. They don't work. I played with them for 2 months. I have a dual processor Celeron 500 with a BX chipset and NOTHING works.
And they don't work under PPC. I've tried. Send me a version compiled for the PPC and I'll try it.
That is all fine and good, but my fucking NVidia card doesn't work for X in either PPC or x86. Why? Becase the drivers are ASS and nobody can get in there to fix them. Now that NVidia is the only 3d card manufacturer in town, they managed to hoodwink PHBs into lucrative OEM deals and lock ins.. all of which conveniently disregard the fact that NVidia's 2d performance 1) sucks and 2) is unstable in just about ANY system, even ones that are supported.
NVidia can blow me, and as soon as somebody else topples their 3d card monopoly, I will never buy their cards ever again.
They don't really care what you do with their code, AS LONG AS you don't resell it AND prevent others from distributing it for less (e.g. nothing).
How hard is this concept to comprehend?
That doesn't work, but streambox VCR 1.0 beta 3 (if you can find it) can save it fine.
I would post the (50+M) asf on my website but I can't handle being slashdotted.
If you have a decent mirror, respond here.
The desktop stuff is meaningless. Half of the desktop problems ARE NOT solved by adding junk to the kernel.
Fix the I/O and network problems first; DON'T listen to the clueless masses who just want a win2k (read: porn browser/game platform) replacement.
The networking stuff IN PARTICULAR is a huge problem. We are writing some serious high bandwidth drivers and they are CREAMING the hell out of the Linux kernel because there is only one single backlog queue, and we need to be able to service possibly hundreds of devices. A SINGLE misbehaving network device can bring down the whole network stack currently, and YOU are worried about your stupid desktop apps?
Spare me.
Have you guys ever stopped to consider that the vast majority of the gains we've made in the computer industry has been the result of two things:
1. Running in the red and living on capital until we either drive the competition under or our investors come to collect.
2. A process model of development (hardware AND software) that rewards flying-by-the-seat-of-our-pants and brute-force solutions instead of a careful engineering methodology.
100% correct!
Except its not just the computer industry.. almost every aspect of technology that was built by our economic model follows the same trend. Nasty, expensive, un-maintainable kluges ALWAYS win over the technically sweet solution, usually for one (or several) of the following reasons:
1) time to market
2) short term cost vs long term advantages
3) standards wars
4) intellectual property
5) a gullible public
6) perenially ignorant lawmakers (who are by definition always behind the technological curve)
What if they have a one-click patent! Or patented all the laws of physics, and demand 10 billion stellar credits as a licensing fee, or we forfiet our planet to make way for their interstellar bypass?
No, no, no, no.
THEY'RE more like the independant contractors that were working on the (incomplete) Death Star when those pesky rebels blew the fucker up.. hell, they KNEW they were working for the Evil Empire (tm), and thus knew that they in for. You can't do that kind of work without building up some serious negative karma, man.
What about 4. put aim.exe in freenet, and have build in a freenet client along with its identifier?