These are Thin-Client Terminals which probably means that they will have the Linux ICA Client and Linux will only run as in an embedded system. Fixing an X-Server into them is possible I suppose. But my bet is that these will be marketed for Citrix Metaframe or Microsoft's RDP Client for Terminal Server. As is usual, for these things to normally run as an X Server they have to boot a separate OS from a TFTP server.
Wouldn't this processor be great for Overclocking enthusiasts or is there something obvious that would get in the way of this.
If it runs at 48deg C at 700Mhz then can't we boost up the clock speed a little?
May not be much good for mobile computing, where Transmeta seem to be focusing, and the CPUs won't be available to end-users (nor will the equipment), but isn't the potential there?
To be honest I would like to see something run natively on VLIW instructions, surely that would rock!
Exciting, I think they will tentatively be bringing out their product and it seems pretty much in a closed-shop environment. In other words you won't be able to buy Crusoe chips and motherboards. I get the feeling however that this will change, probably more likely when (if) they achieve a good market share.
$ prices seemed pretty good, the the smaller chip to be under $100 and the larger chip to be under $200.
I don't think I've been so excited since I saw the Apple ][ for the first time!!
The Real G2 servers appear to be full to capacity now, so if you're trying to get the webcast on a Linux box I'm afraid you're probably going to be out of luck.
The "Windows Media" still appears to be accepting connection (at least it was when I connected 10 minutes ago).
I'm offended too. After working hard to ensure that my sites are Y2K compliant (prevention is better than cure) I now have to contend with a bunch of short-sighted managers saying that Y2K actually turned out to be a waste of resources.
The fact is that if we hadn't made the changes to our systems and infrastructure we would be in a real pickle now.
I have Windows NT running with Office 2000 at work and for some reason every so often when I go to the Edit menu in Word or Excel the system freezes, I can't CTRL-ALT-DEL, I can't even power the machine off (damn ATX) - the only way I can resolve the problem is to pull the power cable from out the back.
Granted however, I think WinCE is more stable, but that is in it's design.
Yes, quite, I did a little calculation at the time and this was the highest res I could get with the card I had at the time - I didn't even know that Suns (& as you State Macs have this res available too in Mac OS 8.5 & 8.6).
However, users should also note that Video Card memory that you don't use for screen data is now usually used by the low-level acceleration functions of the card, and that if you don't make the memory available to the card then these functions won't be available to it and the card might start to run like a dog for you.
1. Use xf86config 2. Know your monitor specs and specify them correctly when the xf86config program asks
When I say monitor specs I mean - the ranges in khz (horizontal scan rate?) and hz. (vertical refresh rate) xf86config will ask questions like: I have a monitor that can do 1024x768 @ 70Hz, if this is what it can do in Windows then use it.
I think most of the problems experienced by Linux users are probably from trying to get 1152x864 and other Sun (or "non-standard") modes to work on monitors that were not designed for that.
I wrote my own modeline a long time ago to get 1152x864 on my ADI Microscan 4v - but I wouldn't recommend it now, especially as my Microscan now plays up a fair bit.
For me the best way to search the internet is to go to a site dealing with the context of your query and search that site with it's own search engine (which most major sites have).
It would be nice if a generic search engine working in the following way:
1. User searches for say "Cisco VPN Routing" 2. The search engine identifies sites www.cisco.com and other sites which are related to the search query string. 3. Instead of trying to account these sites it calls on the search engine at the site matching the context and queries it instead. 4. Returns the results of the search at cisco.com to the user.
It's kind of like a distributedSearch, where the actual search is done by the holder of the data, all that the search engine actually does is try to find a context for the Search Query and find sites with their own search engines that match that context.
So in answer to your question: My answer is No, the Internet isn't unsearchable, we just haven't implemented a reasonable standard for searching, which can be as important as routing when it comes to a network of the size of the Internet.
You're right: I am trivialising what might be a worthwhile invention, but come on, I'm sure I get one of these "new physical media" stories every day and yet here I am with a little leased line at work and modem access at home - things haven't changed.
As I have noted in other posts the Gigabyte speeds may have to be shared across thousands of users or perhaps even tens of thousands of users, and then you need a higher tier infrastructure to route the information to the network proper.
Because of this, I find the technology a waste of time and unlikely to get implemented. ISPs here in the UK tend to have an aggregate backbone bandwidth of around 15-25Gbps, not much point giving their users terabits to play with is there?
I guess I was trying to be funny, in light of the stupid patents that have been granted lately. No offence to the company involved...
I'm not so sure that the infrastructure is already there. Even if you get 1 terabit on a single segment of wire you then have to share that across all users on a CSMA/CD domain this could be 000s of users. On a CSMA/CD domain you also tend to only get around 30% of the available bandwidth, because of multiple user packet collisions.
You will also have to have effective "routers" and a backbone connection to distribute the data to the network proper.
As I see it there are quite a few changes to infrastructure required. The cable people didn't seem to have much probalem installing cable across the country and it is better suited than using existing old cables that might not be quite up to scratch. I'm sure there will be loads of incompatibilities with certain surge protection devices etc.. etc..
Dallas-based start-up Media Fusion has won a U.S. patent on a process it says can send data, video and voice over electric wires at speeds thousands of times faster than current high-speed Internet access technologies."
In other words it appears Media Fusion has patented an electronic signal on a metalic fibre called a wire. They must be so proud of their Intellectual Property:)
Go to the home page and click on "code" in the left hand column.
Granted - it's an earlier version, but I've seen sites using this code to good effect.
When you actually look at Slashdot you'll find that it is really just a glorified news server and dynamic news groups based on a web interface with a few extra bells on it.
Yes, but the Slashdot code is open source. Although it might lose, get closed down, it's relatively easy for someone to find a server somewhere and crank it up again. If/. was closed source then the suits could confiscated.
An excellent post, shame the moderators have long since given up on this topic.
The posters asking the public to keep an eye out for suspect packages still abound in London. The best place to find them are on Double Decker Buses. I believe the posters are made by London Transport rather than the Metropolitan Police.
you can't convict them for a crime they haven't committed, so they get a warning, slight interrogation "What are you doing here?" etc... and if they have no reason for being in the car lot then they get booted out. Saving ourselves the loss of a car, the loss of insurance (keeping premiums lower), and ensuring that our Prisons are less crowded for real crimes. Convicted thieves cost us money too you know, we're not out to fill up our prisons with wishy-washy convictions.
If you really want to catch the criminal then you will wait until he/she starts to steal the car, then you have video evidence and you can put him/her away, but Crime prevention and deterrant is probably a better strategy.
The article's narrative was written by a journalist and not an expert on the methods of law-enforcement.
I have to say I was a bit annoyed that there was so much narrative and less descriptions about the AI, Neural Network and generally scientific information that you would expect in New Scientist
closed- circuit television (CCTV) will shift from being a mainly passive device for gathering evidence after a crime, to a tool for crime prevention.
I take it then that you want more crimes to happen and you don't want crimes prevented.
The issue is not about privacy, so much as the essential presumption of innocence that underlies our jurisprudence
Being watched does not infringe upon your innocence, otherwise all the women I've noticed walking down the street are as guilty as hell (of what I don't know)
Will there be facial emotion detectors that will sense discontent and alert authorities? It troubles me that so many people are willing to give up their freedom in exchange for the illusion of greater apparent security.
Then I think you should be attacking the authorities who would use the technology in this way and not blame the technology itself... The technology is not the evil.
You people are so camera shy, next time you see a surveillance camera, wave and smile, perhaps you can make friends with the AI.
we are talking about video surveillance here, not thought crimes.
From the UK perspective and London in particular we've been through the threat of terrorist attacks for years, and if anything has actually returned normality back to us it was the ring of steel and the video surveillance that came with it.
Post-IRA : we have found the surveillance useful. Anyone here remember the Pipe-Bomber who set off the bombs in Soho, Brixton and the East End? It was only because we managed to get the picture of the bomber (who left the bomb in a bag in Brixton market) in the National Newspapers that we were able to halt what was an attrocious attack on ethnic minorites.
Obviously I can't speak for other readers in the US, but the impression that I'm geting is that you guys are living in a Police State similar to that of the former Soviet Union - come on... tell me this isn't true? The camera with AI attached to it is an aid to law-enforcement. You can't blame the camera and/or AI for the problems you're having with your law-enforcement.
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Just speculation:
These are Thin-Client Terminals which probably means that they will have the Linux ICA Client and Linux will only run as in an embedded system. Fixing an X-Server into them is possible I suppose. But my bet is that these will be marketed for Citrix Metaframe or Microsoft's RDP Client for Terminal Server. As is usual, for these things to normally run as an X Server they have to boot a separate OS from a TFTP server.
Wouldn't this processor be great for Overclocking enthusiasts or is there something obvious that would get in the way of this.
If it runs at 48deg C at 700Mhz then can't we boost up the clock speed a little?
May not be much good for mobile computing, where Transmeta seem to be focusing, and the CPUs won't be available to end-users (nor will the equipment), but isn't the potential there?
To be honest I would like to see something run natively on VLIW instructions, surely that would rock!
Portable PCs running on Crusoe will be available in the range between $1200-1500 - also seems competitive.
Engineering briefing to follow.
Exciting, I think they will tentatively be bringing out their product and it seems pretty much in a closed-shop environment. In other words you won't be able to buy Crusoe chips and motherboards. I get the feeling however that this will change, probably more likely when (if) they achieve a good market share.
$ prices seemed pretty good, the the smaller chip to be under $100 and the larger chip to be under $200.
I don't think I've been so excited since I saw the Apple ][ for the first time!!
The Real G2 servers appear to be full to capacity now, so if you're trying to get the webcast on a Linux box I'm afraid you're probably going to be out of luck.
The "Windows Media" still appears to be accepting connection (at least it was when I connected 10 minutes ago).
Here's waiting... 13 minutes to go....
Not true... from above they can fire the "bad quality" and hire the "good quality".
I'm offended too. After working hard to ensure that my sites are Y2K compliant (prevention is better than cure) I now have to contend with a bunch of short-sighted managers saying that Y2K actually turned out to be a waste of resources.
The fact is that if we hadn't made the changes to our systems and infrastructure we would be in a real pickle now.
Oh well.... time to try to educate.
It's been up and down all day...
More down than up... of course...
My IE homepage is currently down with ERROR 312.
:)
Perhaps this is a Y2K problem.
Well done Micros~1
I have Windows NT running with Office 2000 at work and for some reason every so often when I go to the Edit menu in Word or Excel the system freezes, I can't CTRL-ALT-DEL, I can't even power the machine off (damn ATX) - the only way I can resolve the problem is to pull the power cable from out the back.
Granted however, I think WinCE is more stable, but that is in it's design.
Just imagine, a series of computers mounted to telephone poles with wireless network cards...
:)
And a nice pick for any passing burglar
It would be way-cool, but then why not use the telephone wires...?
Yes, quite, I did a little calculation at the time and this was the highest res I could get with the card I had at the time - I didn't even know that Suns (& as you State Macs have this res available too in Mac OS 8.5 & 8.6).
However, users should also note that Video Card memory that you don't use for screen data is now usually used by the low-level acceleration functions of the card, and that if you don't make the memory available to the card then these functions won't be available to it and the card might start to run like a dog for you.
1. Use xf86config
2. Know your monitor specs and specify them correctly when the xf86config program asks
When I say monitor specs I mean - the ranges in khz (horizontal scan rate?) and hz. (vertical refresh rate) xf86config will ask questions like: I have a monitor that can do 1024x768 @ 70Hz, if this is what it can do in Windows then use it.
I think most of the problems experienced by Linux users are probably from trying to get 1152x864 and other Sun (or "non-standard") modes to work on monitors that were not designed for that.
I wrote my own modeline a long time ago to get 1152x864 on my ADI Microscan 4v - but I wouldn't recommend it now, especially as my Microscan now plays up a fair bit.
For me the best way to search the internet is to go to a site dealing with the context of your query and search that site with it's own search engine (which most major sites have).
It would be nice if a generic search engine working in the following way:
1. User searches for say "Cisco VPN Routing"
2. The search engine identifies sites www.cisco.com and other sites which are related to the search query string.
3. Instead of trying to account these sites it calls on the search engine at the site matching the context and queries it instead.
4. Returns the results of the search at cisco.com to the user.
It's kind of like a distributedSearch, where the actual search is done by the holder of the data, all that the search engine actually does is try to find a context for the Search Query and find sites with their own search engines that match that context.
So in answer to your question: My answer is No, the Internet isn't unsearchable, we just haven't implemented a reasonable standard for searching, which can be as important as routing when it comes to a network of the size of the Internet.
You're right: I am trivialising what might be a worthwhile invention, but come on, I'm sure I get one of these "new physical media" stories every day and yet here I am with a little leased line at work and modem access at home - things haven't changed.
As I have noted in other posts the Gigabyte speeds may have to be shared across thousands of users or perhaps even tens of thousands of users, and then you need a higher tier infrastructure to route the information to the network proper.
Because of this, I find the technology a waste of time and unlikely to get implemented. ISPs here in the UK tend to have an aggregate backbone bandwidth of around 15-25Gbps, not much point giving their users terabits to play with is there?
I guess I was trying to be funny, in light of the stupid patents that have been granted lately. No offence to the company involved...
he he
I took high-speed Internet access technologies to mean a 9600 baud modem.
Here in the UK also.
I'm not so sure that the infrastructure is already there. Even if you get 1 terabit on a single segment of wire you then have to share that across all users on a CSMA/CD domain this could be 000s of users. On a CSMA/CD domain you also tend to only get around 30% of the available bandwidth, because of multiple user packet collisions.
You will also have to have effective "routers" and a backbone connection to distribute the data to the network proper.
As I see it there are quite a few changes to infrastructure required. The cable people didn't seem to have much probalem installing cable across the country and it is better suited than using existing old cables that might not be quite up to scratch. I'm sure there will be loads of incompatibilities with certain surge protection devices etc.. etc..
Yeah - they probably define high-speed Internet access technologies as a 9600 modem!
Dallas-based start-up Media Fusion has won a U.S. patent on a process it says can send data, video and voice over electric wires at speeds thousands of times faster than current high-speed Internet access technologies."
:)
In other words it appears Media Fusion has patented an electronic signal on a metalic fibre called a wire. They must be so proud of their Intellectual Property
Go to the home page and click on "code" in the left hand column.
Granted - it's an earlier version, but I've seen sites using this code to good effect.
When you actually look at Slashdot you'll find that it is really just a glorified news server and dynamic news groups based on a web interface with a few extra bells on it.
Yes, but the Slashdot code is open source. Although it might lose, get closed down, it's relatively easy for someone to find a server somewhere and crank it up again. If /. was closed source then the suits could confiscated.
An excellent post, shame the moderators have long since given up on this topic.
The posters asking the public to keep an eye out for suspect packages still abound in London. The best place to find them are on Double Decker Buses. I believe the posters are made by London Transport rather than the Metropolitan Police.
you can't convict them for a crime they haven't committed, so they get a warning, slight interrogation "What are you doing here?" etc... and if they have no reason for being in the car lot then they get booted out. Saving ourselves the loss of a car, the loss of insurance (keeping premiums lower), and ensuring that our Prisons are less crowded for real crimes. Convicted thieves cost us money too you know, we're not out to fill up our prisons with wishy-washy convictions.
If you really want to catch the criminal then you will wait until he/she starts to steal the car, then you have video evidence and you can put him/her away, but Crime prevention and deterrant is probably a better strategy.
The article's narrative was written by a journalist and not an expert on the methods of law-enforcement.
I have to say I was a bit annoyed that there was so much narrative and less descriptions about the AI, Neural Network and generally scientific information that you would expect in New Scientist
closed- circuit television (CCTV) will shift from being a mainly passive device for gathering evidence after a crime, to a tool for crime prevention.
I take it then that you want more crimes to happen and you don't want crimes prevented.
The issue is not about privacy, so much as the essential presumption of innocence that underlies our jurisprudence
Being watched does not infringe upon your innocence, otherwise all the women I've noticed walking down the street are as guilty as hell (of what I don't know)
Will there be facial emotion detectors that will sense discontent and alert authorities? It troubles me that so many people are willing to give up their freedom in exchange for the illusion of greater apparent security.
Then I think you should be attacking the authorities who would use the technology in this way and not blame the technology itself... The technology is not the evil.
You people are so camera shy, next time you see a surveillance camera, wave and smile, perhaps you can make friends with the AI.
oh please...
we are talking about video surveillance here, not thought crimes.
From the UK perspective and London in particular we've been through the threat of terrorist attacks for years, and if anything has actually returned normality back to us it was the ring of steel and the video surveillance that came with it.
Post-IRA : we have found the surveillance useful. Anyone here remember the Pipe-Bomber who set off the bombs in Soho, Brixton and the East End? It was only because we managed to get the picture of the bomber (who left the bomb in a bag in Brixton market) in the National Newspapers that we were able to halt what was an attrocious attack on ethnic minorites.
Obviously I can't speak for other readers in the US, but the impression that I'm geting is that you guys are living in a Police State similar to that of the former Soviet Union - come on... tell me this isn't true?
The camera with AI attached to it is an aid to law-enforcement. You can't blame the camera and/or AI for the problems you're having with your law-enforcement.