I would definitely criticize the recent Canadian and US arrests because they hadn't gotten anywhere. They didn't have the money, materials, knowledge, planning or connection to Al Queda. The "terrorists" in question merely wanted to blow something up, but were clearly in no position to do so, even if they tried their hardest. Jon Stewart mocked one of the guys when he was on video saying training their bodies while pointing to their heads. Their ability to bomb something ran about the level of that of a stuffed toy.
One thing I forgot to mention is the footprint. I was assuming that one tower can serve a five mile radius, granted, that's about 75 square miles but I think this service might be viable if it is sold as home broadband.
There is a point to that, but not as restricting of a problem as you might think.
WiMax is intended to be offered in given spectrum allocations, but the standard. Let's say WiMax can get 20Mbps per TV channel's worth of bandwidth, but I'm just using the ATSC standard, WiMax might allow for more. With the common 50:1 oversell rate for typical broadband service, that provides 1000 households with 1Mbps per TV channel space. Take a tower with six 60 degree sector antennas, and that one channel, for one tower, can serve 6000 households. We shouldn't assume that this will completely replace DSL or cable, if it's competitive, let's say it takes a third of the broadband market, an area with 18,000 households can be served with just one TV channel's worth of spectrum.
These are all assumptions but I think this has a chance to put some pressure on the broadband market, especially for mobile computer users, home users can't just take their notebooks anywhere, but a WiMax notebook user should be able to connect just about anywhere.
The VS2003 toolchain didn't take long to disappear
Heck, their network drivers didn't take long to disappear after they quit selling their networking products. I had lost my CD for their wireless card and it's not available. This is a significant departure in comparison with many major brand hardware makers where drivers are kept up seemingly indefinitely. For example, old modem drivers are still available on US Robotic's site (or whoever bought them up). Drivers for my eight year old Compaq workatations are still available on HP's site. With Microsoft, it only took them two months to pretend their network products never existed.
I'm guessing I should say "so what". I want that machine. I don't really need it, but I want it anyways, if I could afford it I might consider it. Can you say that you wouldn't want such a machine? Even if you didn't need it, can you honestly say you wouldn't wish you could own one? I love workstation machines, they are generally very well built, much better than nearly any consumer machine, with very high quality drivers. Despite my wishes, my dad's is kept on all the time and the only restarts it needs is for updates, otherwise it can stay up indefinitely, and this is with Windows. The computer is used quite a bit, for CAD, office, email, web and some media stuff. The machine itself is a 2x 500MHz Xeon, eight years old now and I'd be happy to use it though I'd have to curtail the media encoding and such.
BTW: XP Home won't take advantage of a quad, it is intended for a single processor module, the second module wouldn't even be made available. XP pro handles two processor modules, each being dual core makes it a quad.
I understand your concerns, but sorry, I don't see "the public" investing a $4.5B network and have a shot at making it effective, not in the US. Maybe the Fed or many of the states might spend $45B combined and still make it a worthless piece of trash. At least with WiMax, there can be competitors using other spectrum.
WiFi is not good for connectivity, it is way too short-range, especially if one county needs 60,000 radios (like in the county Ann Arbor, MI is in) to make such a sufficient mesh to cover all the land area. That doesn't make for a good nationwide network, especially if you multiply that by 3,141 counties.
Maybe WiMax won't really work, but I don't think WiFi is effective either. With WiMax, they can use a good amount of power, combine it with a bunch of sector antennas to divide the user base (like standard cell towers) so fewer towers can handle the same or more users.
Personally, I'm skeptical of the "Open Spectrum" ideology. Maybe if they demonstrate or diagram the physics in actual implementation detail without handwaving arguments, I can consider it.
I don't know what the issue over music phones is, there's plenty of them in the US, and quite a few video phones. They aren't for me though, because I don't care, for a few different reasons, but I won't go out of my way to avoid them.
Usually data center equipment is made more ruggedly to endure faulty power and high heat. I just shake my head at the data centers that operate at 60 to 70 degrees F when that kind of equipment can operate indefinitely at 80F.
I would expect that Apple would retain a Quad, otherwise it would be a regression in their product line.
The current towers are pretty much workstation type systems, which usually means that the Xeon DP should be in some of the successors.
If they go all-Conroe then a quad isn't possible unless they put it off until Kentsfield's release then that means the dual core PPC systems will have gone one year from the previous update, much longer yet for Xserve.
I would expect at least one XServe system to have a Woodcrest. How soon they update it is a different question.
I think Crash Bandicoot counts as one, and I thought it was pretty tough. That and similar games had very crude controls where I didn't have accurate control. Side-stepping takes several tries because it was tough to make a very small step with a quick button press, the analog sticks have a big dead spot and once out of the dead spot, it changes the controlled angle a lot. So all the fiddling and retries just to make one difficult jump is a pain, I gave up.
But really, I'm kind of sensitive to drawbacks of the controllers and poor game control and physics. I mean, I played a racing game where I was driving a Mini Cooper at 45mph around a very broad curve and it was sliding like mad! The real car wouldn't have done that.
Maybe it could work. But maybe not as well. It depends on the the circumstance. I think you may simply be assuming that this hasn't been tried.
There definitely exist people out there that simply can't be talked out of anything or loved out of everything. For example, I can't think of any brutal dictator or authoritarian that has been convinced to step down just because his opponents loved him, though I'm not familiar with the UK/India situation, but even if that was affirmative, one affirmative example doesn't say much.
Furthermore, said elderly neighbor has plenty of options through the local police department in dealing with disturbances and has no right to take things into their own hands.
But you just advocated vigilante actions when it doesn't appear that all legal options have been exhausted. Not only did at least one poster suggest other options through the police, there is the community government as well.
I mean, who really believes that some guy cannot get a cop under 40.
They didn't say that. Someone speculated that the firearms training and use might have damaged their hearing, but usually the training involves hearing protection.
It is weird that they say just about anyone under 40 can hear it.
Frankly, just an analog audio jack would work for me, there are players like that. I don't want to pay a good fraction of the portable device's selling price to make it work with an audio deck's proprietary connector and changer controller. That also means that I'm not tied to any audio device brand on either end of the cable.
I agree. What I see is a lot of computer enthusiasts that really don't understand that there are target markets, and of course, business size. Granted, Dell is probably very strong in the business market but it looks to me that their strong point is the general consumer market, and that Lenovo's strength is the business market. Lenovo is probably targeting a niche market here. The mobile workstation market is very, very small (T60p includes a FireGL graphics chip) and starts at $1900, a win of Lenovo here doesn't mean that there's any pressure on Dell to introduce it as an option for Dell's consumer systems. In other words, don't let this announcement increase excitement of the possibility of Linux as standard or supported on a $600 Dell notebook.
IBM has supported and offered both POWER and x86 servers and workstations for quite a while. New models for the x86 line don't necessarily mean anything bad for POWER.
While the stock market can be a good indicator, stock market performance doesn't always correlate to health of a company. Heck, it is seemingly common, even routine event that if a company gets great earnings, beating their guidance, nudging out competitors and yet falling slightly short of excessively exhuberant Wall Street estimates, the stock goes down. As such, I really don't put much that much confidence in Wall Street.
I didn't realize that AMD hadn't moved to the 65nm process yet. That can be a problem, I thought Intel has been releasing chips based on it for six months now.
For desktop, I don't think looks matter so much. You can just shove it under a desk and not really know what it looks like. As such, I don't think a comparison to autos or clothes makes sense. In some cases, the looks of a desktop might matter in much the same way that looks of a water heater matters, not much, because they don't have to look at it, it only has to keep the water the way they want it.
For notebooks, looks matter more because most people can see it and you can't just hide them in actual use.
A code fork does need someone to develop and maintain it. If the description is right, the people that won't support that development with money or code really can't do jack about it but complain. I think it's funny that people will pay for Oracle software but not for software that uses Oracle.
Red Hat is supposed to offer support for the "Enterprise Edition". One thing that also helps is to have a known quantity where purchased software will work for it and has been heavily tested on it. There is even server and workstation hardware which are tested to work with specific distributions. In part, it is an assurance thing, but also, in part, it is to help reduce the number of surprises and headaches. Even Microsoft's HQL system works pretty well in my experience. I think one major reason that I've never had trouble with my computers, is in part because the hardware and drivers are in the HQL.
First class mail isn't where the money is, especially home delivery.
Huh. I guess unfortunately for the USPS, I send a lot of small items by first class, in a DVD-sized box. I know people whine about the cost of mail whenever prices go up, but frankly, USPS is a bargain. As you say, the cost of getting to the home is a lot. Not only is UPS and FedEx more expensive, you have to pay them a certain fee if you want them to stop every day, whether or not packages change hands on any given day.
The costs are a temporary issue. When DVDs were first released, the players started at $500 and up. Like DVD, the price of the HD players will go down. The price of the HD discs is currently where DVD used to be. I would expect that the cost of the discs would go down too. It took about three years for DVD to be considered mainstream, the same for the costs.
I don't think people will need optimum viewing conditions to see the improvement of HD, because that environment generally doesn't exist. I think HD looks great on a 27" screen, even in non-optimal conditions.
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I would definitely criticize the recent Canadian and US arrests because they hadn't gotten anywhere. They didn't have the money, materials, knowledge, planning or connection to Al Queda. The "terrorists" in question merely wanted to blow something up, but were clearly in no position to do so, even if they tried their hardest. Jon Stewart mocked one of the guys when he was on video saying training their bodies while pointing to their heads. Their ability to bomb something ran about the level of that of a stuffed toy.
The box is on fire! And this might not be just a printing of a fire on a box, but a box that's really burning!
One thing I forgot to mention is the footprint. I was assuming that one tower can serve a five mile radius, granted, that's about 75 square miles but I think this service might be viable if it is sold as home broadband.
There is a point to that, but not as restricting of a problem as you might think.
WiMax is intended to be offered in given spectrum allocations, but the standard. Let's say WiMax can get 20Mbps per TV channel's worth of bandwidth, but I'm just using the ATSC standard, WiMax might allow for more. With the common 50:1 oversell rate for typical broadband service, that provides 1000 households with 1Mbps per TV channel space. Take a tower with six 60 degree sector antennas, and that one channel, for one tower, can serve 6000 households. We shouldn't assume that this will completely replace DSL or cable, if it's competitive, let's say it takes a third of the broadband market, an area with 18,000 households can be served with just one TV channel's worth of spectrum.
These are all assumptions but I think this has a chance to put some pressure on the broadband market, especially for mobile computer users, home users can't just take their notebooks anywhere, but a WiMax notebook user should be able to connect just about anywhere.
The VS2003 toolchain didn't take long to disappear
Heck, their network drivers didn't take long to disappear after they quit selling their networking products. I had lost my CD for their wireless card and it's not available. This is a significant departure in comparison with many major brand hardware makers where drivers are kept up seemingly indefinitely. For example, old modem drivers are still available on US Robotic's site (or whoever bought them up). Drivers for my eight year old Compaq workatations are still available on HP's site. With Microsoft, it only took them two months to pretend their network products never existed.
I'm guessing I should say "so what". I want that machine. I don't really need it, but I want it anyways, if I could afford it I might consider it. Can you say that you wouldn't want such a machine? Even if you didn't need it, can you honestly say you wouldn't wish you could own one? I love workstation machines, they are generally very well built, much better than nearly any consumer machine, with very high quality drivers. Despite my wishes, my dad's is kept on all the time and the only restarts it needs is for updates, otherwise it can stay up indefinitely, and this is with Windows. The computer is used quite a bit, for CAD, office, email, web and some media stuff. The machine itself is a 2x 500MHz Xeon, eight years old now and I'd be happy to use it though I'd have to curtail the media encoding and such.
BTW: XP Home won't take advantage of a quad, it is intended for a single processor module, the second module wouldn't even be made available. XP pro handles two processor modules, each being dual core makes it a quad.
I understand your concerns, but sorry, I don't see "the public" investing a $4.5B network and have a shot at making it effective, not in the US. Maybe the Fed or many of the states might spend $45B combined and still make it a worthless piece of trash. At least with WiMax, there can be competitors using other spectrum.
WiFi is not good for connectivity, it is way too short-range, especially if one county needs 60,000 radios (like in the county Ann Arbor, MI is in) to make such a sufficient mesh to cover all the land area. That doesn't make for a good nationwide network, especially if you multiply that by 3,141 counties.
Maybe WiMax won't really work, but I don't think WiFi is effective either. With WiMax, they can use a good amount of power, combine it with a bunch of sector antennas to divide the user base (like standard cell towers) so fewer towers can handle the same or more users.
Personally, I'm skeptical of the "Open Spectrum" ideology. Maybe if they demonstrate or diagram the physics in actual implementation detail without handwaving arguments, I can consider it.
I don't know what the issue over music phones is, there's plenty of them in the US, and quite a few video phones. They aren't for me though, because I don't care, for a few different reasons, but I won't go out of my way to avoid them.
It looks to me like compromising a box with superuser account. "Linux was hacked. To be fair, the target was running as root".
I agree.
Usually data center equipment is made more ruggedly to endure faulty power and high heat. I just shake my head at the data centers that operate at 60 to 70 degrees F when that kind of equipment can operate indefinitely at 80F.
I would expect that Apple would retain a Quad, otherwise it would be a regression in their product line.
The current towers are pretty much workstation type systems, which usually means that the Xeon DP should be in some of the successors.
If they go all-Conroe then a quad isn't possible unless they put it off until Kentsfield's release then that means the dual core PPC systems will have gone one year from the previous update, much longer yet for Xserve.
I would expect at least one XServe system to have a Woodcrest. How soon they update it is a different question.
I think Crash Bandicoot counts as one, and I thought it was pretty tough. That and similar games had very crude controls where I didn't have accurate control. Side-stepping takes several tries because it was tough to make a very small step with a quick button press, the analog sticks have a big dead spot and once out of the dead spot, it changes the controlled angle a lot. So all the fiddling and retries just to make one difficult jump is a pain, I gave up.
But really, I'm kind of sensitive to drawbacks of the controllers and poor game control and physics. I mean, I played a racing game where I was driving a Mini Cooper at 45mph around a very broad curve and it was sliding like mad! The real car wouldn't have done that.
Maybe it could work. But maybe not as well. It depends on the the circumstance. I think you may simply be assuming that this hasn't been tried.
There definitely exist people out there that simply can't be talked out of anything or loved out of everything. For example, I can't think of any brutal dictator or authoritarian that has been convinced to step down just because his opponents loved him, though I'm not familiar with the UK/India situation, but even if that was affirmative, one affirmative example doesn't say much.
Furthermore, said elderly neighbor has plenty of options through the local police department in dealing with disturbances and has no right to take things into their own hands.
But you just advocated vigilante actions when it doesn't appear that all legal options have been exhausted. Not only did at least one poster suggest other options through the police, there is the community government as well.
I mean, who really believes that some guy cannot get a cop under 40.
They didn't say that. Someone speculated that the firearms training and use might have damaged their hearing, but usually the training involves hearing protection.
It is weird that they say just about anyone under 40 can hear it.
Frankly, just an analog audio jack would work for me, there are players like that. I don't want to pay a good fraction of the portable device's selling price to make it work with an audio deck's proprietary connector and changer controller. That also means that I'm not tied to any audio device brand on either end of the cable.
I agree. What I see is a lot of computer enthusiasts that really don't understand that there are target markets, and of course, business size. Granted, Dell is probably very strong in the business market but it looks to me that their strong point is the general consumer market, and that Lenovo's strength is the business market. Lenovo is probably targeting a niche market here. The mobile workstation market is very, very small (T60p includes a FireGL graphics chip) and starts at $1900, a win of Lenovo here doesn't mean that there's any pressure on Dell to introduce it as an option for Dell's consumer systems. In other words, don't let this announcement increase excitement of the possibility of Linux as standard or supported on a $600 Dell notebook.
In the USA, yeah. elsewhere circumvention for legal use is still legal.
Also excepting of course, Australia and the EU. And whoever else that might implement DMCA-like laws.
IBM has supported and offered both POWER and x86 servers and workstations for quite a while. New models for the x86 line don't necessarily mean anything bad for POWER.
While the stock market can be a good indicator, stock market performance doesn't always correlate to health of a company. Heck, it is seemingly common, even routine event that if a company gets great earnings, beating their guidance, nudging out competitors and yet falling slightly short of excessively exhuberant Wall Street estimates, the stock goes down. As such, I really don't put much that much confidence in Wall Street.
I didn't realize that AMD hadn't moved to the 65nm process yet. That can be a problem, I thought Intel has been releasing chips based on it for six months now.
It depends.
For desktop, I don't think looks matter so much. You can just shove it under a desk and not really know what it looks like. As such, I don't think a comparison to autos or clothes makes sense. In some cases, the looks of a desktop might matter in much the same way that looks of a water heater matters, not much, because they don't have to look at it, it only has to keep the water the way they want it.
For notebooks, looks matter more because most people can see it and you can't just hide them in actual use.
A code fork does need someone to develop and maintain it. If the description is right, the people that won't support that development with money or code really can't do jack about it but complain. I think it's funny that people will pay for Oracle software but not for software that uses Oracle.
Red Hat is supposed to offer support for the "Enterprise Edition". One thing that also helps is to have a known quantity where purchased software will work for it and has been heavily tested on it. There is even server and workstation hardware which are tested to work with specific distributions. In part, it is an assurance thing, but also, in part, it is to help reduce the number of surprises and headaches. Even Microsoft's HQL system works pretty well in my experience. I think one major reason that I've never had trouble with my computers, is in part because the hardware and drivers are in the HQL.
First class mail isn't where the money is, especially home delivery.
Huh. I guess unfortunately for the USPS, I send a lot of small items by first class, in a DVD-sized box. I know people whine about the cost of mail whenever prices go up, but frankly, USPS is a bargain. As you say, the cost of getting to the home is a lot. Not only is UPS and FedEx more expensive, you have to pay them a certain fee if you want them to stop every day, whether or not packages change hands on any given day.
The costs are a temporary issue. When DVDs were first released, the players started at $500 and up. Like DVD, the price of the HD players will go down. The price of the HD discs is currently where DVD used to be. I would expect that the cost of the discs would go down too. It took about three years for DVD to be considered mainstream, the same for the costs.
I don't think people will need optimum viewing conditions to see the improvement of HD, because that environment generally doesn't exist. I think HD looks great on a 27" screen, even in non-optimal conditions.