There's a thread on Usenet that claims Transmeta's *ORIGINAL* goal was not low power, but the best performance, but when they couldn't attain it, they "fell back" to a low power selling point.
OK, Transmeta have proven that they are pretty damn good at keeping secrets, so I would take the info obtained from that Usenet thread with a decent sized grain of salt (as opposed to most other Usenet "wisdom":). However, they may have been aiming for peak performance, and discovered the low power aspect by accident, then concentrated on that. I don't know, you don't know, and Transmeta aren't about to tell either of us, are they?
*power consumption *is* a factor in desktop/server markets because it affects the cost of equipment needed to power / cool these devices/rooms. Hotter components also burn out faster.
Absolutely. The crusoe makes perfect sense for a low-end to mid-range server-class machine. The very low heat output means that means that the server can be built in a closed case with no fan, thus there is no dust being drawn into the guts of the box. This neatly does away with the requirement to run it in an environment controlled computer room. The low power requirements mean that power supplies for these servers can be a lot smaller than the current crop of standard AC driven ones. It would then be more feasible to include dual hot swappable power supplies in a small form factor. Now rack mount these puppies (they'd only be about 1 rack unit high, after all) and that could open up a whole new world in high-density clustering.
Linus has the ability to selectively choose who and who does not get the ability to use the term "Linux" (TM) in trademarked names of companies, products, titles, etc.
Exactly. Just like the owner of any other trademark. Pick your favourite evil, dude! It's either open slather to abuse, squat over and otherwise sully the good name of Linux, or have Linus say Yea or Nay. Is it just the fact that the lawyers have been involved that concerns you? I believe he's just fighting the battle with appropriate weapons.
Because Free Software/Open Source Software is based on collaboration while contests are based on competition. The two are almost perfect opposites.
In this contest, we will have programmers duplicating their efforts on many projects rather than having many programmers expending their efforts on a few projects. What's more, not necessarily doing it because they are interested in the project, but in some cases, purely for the money. And after all, no-one writes FS/OSS for the money do they?
OK, my post is a little late to generate much discussion, and hardly anyone will actually see it, but I felt I had to get it in before the 19th.
Linus has said that the chip will be "software-powered"
The patents point to object code translation
It will be unconventional
Crusoe is an anagram of source
What does all this mean?
I speculate that Transmeta will release, under the GPL, a translator program that translates [x86/PPC/6800/PA-RISC/SPARC/whaddevah] instructions to native Crusoe instructions. But they will not actually release the specs to the instruction set. This will mean that in order to determine the native Crusoe instruction set, a programmer will need to have "consulted" the GPL'ed program, thus inheriting the GPL for her/his code. Not a problem for GCC, but it may be a problem for proprietary compilers. Proprietary programs will still be able to run on the chip, but not at "native efficiency", only via the translator program. So we now have a chip specifically optimised for Open Source software.
I started out thinking I was joking, but now I'm not so sure. I suspect the GPL would not work exactly as I have described in the above scheme, but maybe a similar licence would. It certainly would be unconventional wouldn't it?
Right. But this isn't ESR acting as a spokesman for the open source community.. this is ESR sending an email.
Ah, very true! But, esr has himself chosen to speak on behalf of the Open Source Software community. And if esr is acting on behalf of the OSS community, should he not be using a different address than the one he uses to espouse his gun views?
I'm sure that, as an accomplished hacker as esr is, he should be able to generate a different set of pseudo-random.sigs for each of two different email accounts. He's a bright and politically savvy enough guy to realise that his firearm views do not necessarily mesh with those of the entire OSS community, and should certainly act accordingly
Eric, you are not doing the OSS community any significant favours by speaking on their behalf, if you continue to publicise unrelated agenda when you do so!
My employer (who is not my isp), had a policy of shutting down all servers that were not required to maintain basic network infrastructure. Just about everything except for our routers, firewall and DNS servers was shut down. Coincidentally, most of our clients seemed to maintain similar policies.
I don't understand it, myself, but maybe it has more to do with preventing lawsuits than preventing technical failures.
You have three candidates, A, B and C: Now if I vote for candidate C, my vote ultimately goes to candidate A or B?
But that's *NOT* who I voted for!
This sounds a bit like the "Two Party Preferential" system we use in Australia. I don't know if that's the system used for US Congressional and Senatorial elections, but it sucks. A candidate can have the most primary votes, and still be beaten on preferences from the candidates who have less primary votes.
My virtual gift to all of you is a lump of coal...
And a box of matches, a coin and a handful of grain... And this little bit of doggerel.
Here's tinder and flint - so you'll not want for light Here's coal for your hearth for warmth in the night Here's grain for your larder and coin for your purse May the things that you want for be not of this earth.
... governments trying to shirk their responsibility on counterfeit. And by that, I mean that if they were really serious about anti-counterfeit measures, they would change their currency to make it harder to be duplicated using *any* method.
Consider Australian "paper" currency, it's actually printed on plastic film, with an embossed transparent window, and the opaque part is printed in both "flat" and raised(intaglio) inks. Try to reproduce one of those with a scanner and a colour printer!
I don't believe anyone was saying it was, but this is not simply about currency counterfeiting, because it does not address the methods used by "professional" counterfeiters (who, it's reasonable to assume do not use a $2000 setup). This is quite obviously more about "The Man" knowing more of what you are doing more of the time.
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Buying milk from a man in New York. He said "Aren't you out of roast pork?" I said "How'd you know I'm empty?" "Because you come from a land of plenty!"
(and he said...) "You come from a land Down Under! Where we can tell by your number, That you're ready to be plundered. You'd better run-- you'd better take cover..."
And comments like 'you can't patent tree sap' are flat out wrong. I'd bet there are HUNDREDS of patents in the PTO files that have to do with tree sap and it's derivatives.
While there may indeed be scads of patents that have something to do with tree sap or various other biological compounds, you cannot patent the natural compound itself. That's kind of the ultimate "prior art" claim. You can, however patent a process to extract or artificially replicate a natural compound.
No-one is seriously advocating connectiong actual toasters to the home network (I hope!) The idea is that network connections will become so ubiquitous that even reasonably simple appliances will eventually be network-enabled.
The ridiculous extreme to this is of course, the humble toaster - a device so incredibly simple that there can be no imaginable benefit to having it networked... but it is anyway.
Blinking! On-off-on-off-on-off-etc-etc-etc. Of course it's biological, so it would probably be more like on-on-on-off-on-off-off-on.
But wait a second! That looks a lot like binary! Let's have a computer in our Christmas tree! And make it run Linux! Now, what can we make it do? (blank stare)
Well it may have been a joke, but I do find that scribbling with the dinky stylus (the one that came with my Palm Pro) quite uncomfortable. I really would like a stylus insert for my Rotring quattro. I know Rotring make a quattro/trio thingy that already has a stylus insert, but I can't find the stylus inserts by themselves.
And yes, I too have found the same thing with my handwriting. But it seems to be almost limited to PostIts, which is a little odd. I think it must have something to do with the fact that you tend to hold the block of notes in one hand and write with the other, just as you do with your Pilot.
And neither do you hear of motorists who are pulled over by police to congratulate them on staying below the speed limit, indicating before changing lanes, stopping at stop signs and having their tail lights intact. Positive reinforcement should be reserved for actions which go above and beyond doing The Right Thing.
Corel fixing their license-violating beta distribution certainly does not go above and beyond doing The Right Thing.
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Sales of Novell's NOS have doubled over the past 12 months.
Both users are very happy.
OK, Transmeta have proven that they are pretty damn good at keeping secrets, so I would take the info obtained from that Usenet thread with a decent sized grain of salt (as opposed to most other Usenet "wisdom"
60M: Mister Mitnick, do you believe that your computer restriction orders will limit your hacking activities?
KM: SKREEEEEEEEAWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
GONNNNNNG GONNNNNG
KSSHHHHHHHHHHH
Absolutely. The crusoe makes perfect sense for a low-end to mid-range server-class machine. The very low heat output means that means that the server can be built in a closed case with no fan, thus there is no dust being drawn into the guts of the box. This neatly does away with the requirement to run it in an environment controlled computer room. The low power requirements mean that power supplies for these servers can be a lot smaller than the current crop of standard AC driven ones. It would then be more feasible to include dual hot swappable power supplies in a small form factor. Now rack mount these puppies (they'd only be about 1 rack unit high, after all) and that could open up a whole new world in high-density clustering.
Exactly. Just like the owner of any other trademark. Pick your favourite evil, dude! It's either open slather to abuse, squat over and otherwise sully the good name of Linux, or have Linus say Yea or Nay. Is it just the fact that the lawyers have been involved that concerns you? I believe he's just fighting the battle with appropriate weapons.
I don't think so.
Because Free Software/Open Source Software is based on collaboration while contests are based on competition. The two are almost perfect opposites.
In this contest, we will have programmers duplicating their efforts on many projects rather than having many programmers expending their efforts on a few projects. What's more, not necessarily doing it because they are interested in the project, but in some cases, purely for the money. And after all, no-one writes FS/OSS for the money do they?
What does all this mean?
I speculate that Transmeta will release, under the GPL, a translator program that translates [x86/PPC/6800/PA-RISC/SPARC/whaddevah] instructions to native Crusoe instructions. But they will not actually release the specs to the instruction set. This will mean that in order to determine the native Crusoe instruction set, a programmer will need to have "consulted" the GPL'ed program, thus inheriting the GPL for her/his code. Not a problem for GCC, but it may be a problem for proprietary compilers. Proprietary programs will still be able to run on the chip, but not at "native efficiency", only via the translator program. So we now have a chip specifically optimised for Open Source software.
I started out thinking I was joking, but now I'm not so sure. I suspect the GPL would not work exactly as I have described in the above scheme, but maybe a similar licence would. It certainly would be unconventional wouldn't it?
Ah, very true! But, esr has himself chosen to speak on behalf of the Open Source Software community. And if esr is acting on behalf of the OSS community, should he not be using a different address than the one he uses to espouse his gun views?
I'm sure that, as an accomplished hacker as esr is, he should be able to generate a different set of pseudo-random
Eric, you are not doing the OSS community any significant favours by speaking on their behalf, if you continue to publicise unrelated agenda when you do so!
My employer (who is not my isp), had a policy of shutting down all servers that were not required to maintain basic network infrastructure. Just about everything except for our routers, firewall and DNS servers was shut down. Coincidentally, most of our clients seemed to maintain similar policies.
I don't understand it, myself, but maybe it has more to do with preventing lawsuits than preventing technical failures.
And the power's still on, my computer stayed up, and the modem stayed online.
(Yes, I have probably had the singularly dullest New Year's Eve 1999 of any living person between 5 and 50 who observes the Christian calendar)
a pin ewe ear to you all!
You're serious, aren't you?
You have three candidates, A, B and C: Now if I vote for candidate C, my vote ultimately goes to candidate A or B?
But that's *NOT* who I voted for!
This sounds a bit like the "Two Party Preferential" system we use in Australia. I don't know if that's the system used for US Congressional and Senatorial elections, but it sucks. A candidate can have the most primary votes, and still be beaten on preferences from the candidates who have less primary votes.
Is done, is bad!
What are you reading this for? The joke's over!
Go 'way!
My virtual gift to all of you is a lump of coal...
And a box of matches, a coin and a handful of grain... And this little bit of doggerel.
Here's tinder and flint - so you'll not want for light
Here's coal for your hearth for warmth in the night
Here's grain for your larder and coin for your purse
May the things that you want for be not of this earth.
... governments trying to shirk their responsibility on counterfeit. And by that, I mean that if they were really serious about anti-counterfeit measures, they would change their currency to make it harder to be duplicated using *any* method.
Consider Australian "paper" currency, it's actually printed on plastic film, with an embossed transparent window, and the opaque part is printed in both "flat" and raised(intaglio) inks. Try to reproduce one of those with a scanner and a colour printer!
I don't believe anyone was saying it was, but this is not simply about currency counterfeiting, because it does not address the methods used by "professional" counterfeiters (who, it's reasonable to assume do not use a $2000 setup). This is quite obviously more about "The Man" knowing more of what you are doing more of the time.
Buying milk from a man in New York.
He said "Aren't you out of roast pork?"
I said "How'd you know I'm empty?"
"Because you come from a land of plenty!"
(and he said...)
"You come from a land Down Under!
Where we can tell by your number,
That you're ready to be plundered.
You'd better run-- you'd better take cover..."
Yes Crusoe is an anagram of source.
But, it could also be that this whiz-bang new microprocessor turns out to be the CURE to all your Operating System woes.
It may be the CORE of some sort of Universal System.
It may even claim to guarantee that U SCORE, but I doubt it.
Or it could be just another RUSE by the COmpany.
While there may indeed be scads of patents that have something to do with tree sap or various other biological compounds, you cannot patent the natural compound itself. That's kind of the ultimate "prior art" claim. You can, however patent a process to extract or artificially replicate a natural compound.
Oh, all right... No, I am not a patent lawyer
No-one is seriously advocating connectiong actual toasters to the home network (I hope!) The idea is that network connections will become so ubiquitous that even reasonably simple appliances will eventually be network-enabled.
The ridiculous extreme to this is of course, the humble toaster - a device so incredibly simple that there can be no imaginable benefit to having it networked... but it is anyway.
Of course Tux is sitting outside the cage labelled Linux which has has the bars bent open.
Oh by the way, have you seen this chicken?
Well it may have been a joke, but I do find that scribbling with the dinky stylus (the one that came with my Palm Pro) quite uncomfortable. I really would like a stylus insert for my Rotring quattro. I know Rotring make a quattro/trio thingy that already has a stylus insert, but I can't find the stylus inserts by themselves.
And yes, I too have found the same thing with my handwriting. But it seems to be almost limited to PostIts, which is a little odd. I think it must have something to do with the fact that you tend to hold the block of notes in one hand and write with the other, just as you do with your Pilot.
And neither do you hear of motorists who are pulled over by police to congratulate them on staying below the speed limit, indicating before changing lanes, stopping at stop signs and having their tail lights intact. Positive reinforcement should be reserved for actions which go above and beyond doing The Right Thing.
Corel fixing their license-violating beta distribution certainly does not go above and beyond doing The Right Thing.
First off, IANAL nor a resident or citizen of the USA.
OK, we know this woman lives in California. Now, for argument's sake let's say that this offshore casino is located in "Fictitia".
Where & when did this "loan" take place, and whose laws should govern the transaction(s)?
Did the loan occur in California, or in Fictitia?
Did the loan occur when she opened her Visa account, or when she opened her gambling account?
Was it even one single loan, or was there one loan for every transaction?
It could have made an interesting test case if they had not settled.
...until the day we see the following on signs (in you-know-where)
"Stark n'est pas parlé ici. Veuillez utiliser Starque à la place!"