Most currently sold chipsets provide a network interface right into the chipset as its own port, bypassing the PCI bus. The same is done with on-board IDE/ATA/SATA controllers, audio, USB, Firewire and such.
Graphics and networking are two very different things. Networking isn't compute intensive, it is I/O intensive. I don't think the Intel hardware network offload is for much more than basic computation.
Besides, GPUs are more powerful than CPUs at the task of rendering polygons.
Very often ASICs are better at a task than general purpose CPUs, just that considerations must be made as to whether the performance gain is worth the cost difference.
Their attitude is that they should approve everything and let things be sorted out in drawn out expensive court battles.
I have seen a quote to that effect. That is really sick. I doubt Congress would step in because most congressmen are or were lawyers. Lawyers like to stay employed like the rest of us, but they also have powerful people in their profession to back that up with IMO unethical considerations.
The USPTO filing looks real. It is pretty lame to try filing it though, using the real MAME team's full name and logo. I wonder if the filer expected to be able to hound the real team and just bankrupt them into going along with it or something. That would be very destructive and selfish too.
If this thing IS real, I hope the MAME team heads to EFF for a proper defense.
The biggest mistake that I saw about it was that RH suddenly threw away a change to build mindshare with their abandonment of a consumer retail package with their name on it. That mindshare needs to be there, IMO, for EL to expand. IMO, that mindshare was a significant factor how RH managed to get into the enterprise in the first place.
I would have called it a profitable marketing method, just get the name out there so people have at least heard of the brand. RH reps said that the retail package was making them a profit, just that they wanted to persue more profit. And throw away a profitable advertising method too, I guess.
I don't know what hardware and OSs support it easily, but I think dial on demand would be the ticket. It doesn't seem to make sense to always tie up a phone line. If you are typing an email, start the connection and it should be up by the time you are done.
I understand ISDN dials and connects very quickly but it costs more than DSL in most places, last I checked, for me, it was $40 for the line and $40 for the internet service. Ouch.
Wouldn't different brand drives also have minor differences in rotational speed? I would think that simple damping between the drives and their mounts would fix that, maybe very thin rubber washers between the drive and mount and between the mount and the screws.
If it is really possible to make crude oil from farm waste, then that is an interesting thing to investigate. I wonder if it is a path not properly investigated for political reasons. It would unfortunately give creationists what they could exploit as possible ammo. They would try to shoot down the claims it took millions of years to make fuels.
Uh, robots are cheaper and can do more in space, go farther and longer. The transit time to Mars is about three months at best, three months with NOTHING to do. I don't buy that humans are cheaper for that. For one, a trip to mars is IMO nearly prohibitive risk. Not only is it a long trip, you don't get the convenience of a re-supply ship like they had with Mir, Freedom or Skylab, nor do you get the emergency getaway capsule. Then there are radiation risks, to go outside the Earth's magnetic field that far and that long hasn't been done, save for a few days at a time during the Apollo program. The South Atlantic anomaly in orbit is a lot, IIRC going farther out is a progressively worse dose. Nuclear rockets are a solution, but politically impossible.
If humans were cheaper, we wouldn't have sent Viking, Pathfinder, Spirit or Opportunity to Mars. Nor the Pioneer or Voyager series probes through the solar system. The reason we send humans is because it is more glamorous. It costs a lot to lift the meatbags, and the cabins to house them, the food, batteries, fuel, and their redundant systems to make sure the meatbags don't die. We are talking thousands to tens of thousands of dollars per pound to lift this stuff into orbit.
The machines don't work right. On one, I found I had to hover the bar code a bit above the glass to make it read. It wouldn't read well if the object was on the glass. I am glad the focus was below the glass. The systems themselves are slow. If something isn't right it would cause delays. If it didn't properly sense an item drop in the bag, it would make you get the manager or something. Even when it did work, I scan an item, and it waits several seconds before presenting the next step. The UI just wasn't responsive in other respects as well.
I had two or threebad experiences with bad Home Depot self-check systems and understaffed standard check-out lanes. I was going to register a complaint with Home Depot manager but I just go to Lowe's now, which thankfully still doesn't have the crap self-checkout systems. The machines are an insult, they seem to be built cheaply so that the chains can justify buying them to avoid hiring a proper number of cashiers.
Why would we have worried? Given Luke's inherited genes, wouldn't we want him to go? I'd think people would ask for Jar Jar to have been in the area though.
I think you could have picked a better example. It seems you have forgotten the scandal surrounding Dan Rather during the 2004 election, which I thought pretty clearly showed his bias. Either that or you are laying on a sarcastic joke and no one got it, which I am leaning toward this.
Yes, it needs to be coupled with another vulnerability. OS X at least requires typing in a password to allow installing a program, at least on administrator accounts. So you can't social engineer it unless the user is really stupid.
No service is enabled by default that I can tell, and I think users must specifically unblock ports for third party server software.
Why is copyright not considered IP? OK, there is a joke about not requiring intellect to make, but it still falls within the IP scope as far as I can tell.
Heck, why is software considered IP and not media? Heck, a broader definition of software includes media even if it is linear and doesn't require a computing device to decode it.
Trademarks are a sub-type of IP, as are patents, copyrights, trade secrets, etc. They each have their uses and abuses.
Take a look at the ultra low volt Dothans. You can get them such that they run low single-digit-watts. The ULV series runs from 800MHz to 1.2 GHZ, I think. This is a PIII-based chip with up to 2MB of on-die cache.
IIRC, automakers tend to use supercomputers to simulate some things. You'd need the data from the automaker for every car involved. Some might be in custom file formats, and not all will be easily convertible into a single common format for a simulator.
Then there's still the issue of knowing exactly where the ice patch is, or where the wet spot is, simulating the tires to the exact wear level. How much sand or salt was on the road, was it even or not?
In the autos, it requires knowing the angle of the steering at all times, brake condition, pedal positions (can be gotten from airbag computers though) and such.
I don't think DVD reading lasers even need to pulse. The optical reciever needs to be able to see pulses based on how the light reflects back, but the laser itself just needs to be on, with a lens properly focused.
I'm not sure what long haul optical systems cost, but fiber optic 1000bFX cards seem to cost at least twice that of the 1000bTX version.
Do you know how many channels are available in the 5.8GHz band? I hope it is more than the three non-overlapping bands in.11b/g. I hear.11a has eight non-overlapping channels, which is an improvement but unfortunately isn't widely used.
It is true that the claimed wireless bitrates never stack against the real bitrates, I think it is a bit much to assume ISPs will ever allow full rate uploads on consumer internet connections.
Also, 70Mbps is probably the total for a single channel. Add multiple channels and several towers and you can probably serve a medium to high density city.
I assume that 70Mbps is per channel. Add several sub channels and a web of towers and it could be substantial. As it is, ATSC allows a 20MBps connection over a single television channel, and it looks like WiMax is looking to make otherwise unused television bands easier to licence.
Also, with internet service, I was told by an ISP guy that oversell ratios are often in the 50:1 ratio and it still nets very acceptable connection rates. You could probably sell 580 6Mbps accounts and still get the advertised speed. Multiply that by the number of channels available and you could serve a pretty substantial customer base.
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Most currently sold chipsets provide a network interface right into the chipset as its own port, bypassing the PCI bus. The same is done with on-board IDE/ATA/SATA controllers, audio, USB, Firewire and such.
Graphics and networking are two very different things. Networking isn't compute intensive, it is I/O intensive. I don't think the Intel hardware network offload is for much more than basic computation.
Besides, GPUs are more powerful than CPUs at the task of rendering polygons.
Very often ASICs are better at a task than general purpose CPUs, just that considerations must be made as to whether the performance gain is worth the cost difference.
Their attitude is that they should approve everything and let things be sorted out in drawn out expensive court battles.
I have seen a quote to that effect. That is really sick. I doubt Congress would step in because most congressmen are or were lawyers. Lawyers like to stay employed like the rest of us, but they also have powerful people in their profession to back that up with IMO unethical considerations.
The USPTO filing looks real. It is pretty lame to try filing it though, using the real MAME team's full name and logo. I wonder if the filer expected to be able to hound the real team and just bankrupt them into going along with it or something. That would be very destructive and selfish too.
If this thing IS real, I hope the MAME team heads to EFF for a proper defense.
The biggest mistake that I saw about it was that RH suddenly threw away a change to build mindshare with their abandonment of a consumer retail package with their name on it. That mindshare needs to be there, IMO, for EL to expand. IMO, that mindshare was a significant factor how RH managed to get into the enterprise in the first place.
I would have called it a profitable marketing method, just get the name out there so people have at least heard of the brand. RH reps said that the retail package was making them a profit, just that they wanted to persue more profit. And throw away a profitable advertising method too, I guess.
I don't know what hardware and OSs support it easily, but I think dial on demand would be the ticket. It doesn't seem to make sense to always tie up a phone line. If you are typing an email, start the connection and it should be up by the time you are done.
I understand ISDN dials and connects very quickly but it costs more than DSL in most places, last I checked, for me, it was $40 for the line and $40 for the internet service. Ouch.
Wouldn't different brand drives also have minor differences in rotational speed? I would think that simple damping between the drives and their mounts would fix that, maybe very thin rubber washers between the drive and mount and between the mount and the screws.
OK, I am lost.
"we wind up spending more gas to harvest than we get from the plants."
Let me put that in perspective, what is that, only get a few quarts of biodiesel per acre of plants? That doesn't seem right. That's pretty absurd.
"For every unit of fossil energy used to produce biodiesel, 3.37 units of biodiesel energy are created."
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That's a little better.
If it is really possible to make crude oil from farm waste, then that is an interesting thing to investigate. I wonder if it is a path not properly investigated for political reasons. It would unfortunately give creationists what they could exploit as possible ammo. They would try to shoot down the claims it took millions of years to make fuels.
Uh, robots are cheaper and can do more in space, go farther and longer. The transit time to Mars is about three months at best, three months with NOTHING to do. I don't buy that humans are cheaper for that. For one, a trip to mars is IMO nearly prohibitive risk. Not only is it a long trip, you don't get the convenience of a re-supply ship like they had with Mir, Freedom or Skylab, nor do you get the emergency getaway capsule. Then there are radiation risks, to go outside the Earth's magnetic field that far and that long hasn't been done, save for a few days at a time during the Apollo program. The South Atlantic anomaly in orbit is a lot, IIRC going farther out is a progressively worse dose. Nuclear rockets are a solution, but politically impossible.
If humans were cheaper, we wouldn't have sent Viking, Pathfinder, Spirit or Opportunity to Mars. Nor the Pioneer or Voyager series probes through the solar system. The reason we send humans is because it is more glamorous. It costs a lot to lift the meatbags, and the cabins to house them, the food, batteries, fuel, and their redundant systems to make sure the meatbags don't die. We are talking thousands to tens of thousands of dollars per pound to lift this stuff into orbit.
The machines don't work right. On one, I found I had to hover the bar code a bit above the glass to make it read. It wouldn't read well if the object was on the glass. I am glad the focus was below the glass. The systems themselves are slow. If something isn't right it would cause delays. If it didn't properly sense an item drop in the bag, it would make you get the manager or something. Even when it did work, I scan an item, and it waits several seconds before presenting the next step. The UI just wasn't responsive in other respects as well.
I had two or threebad experiences with bad Home Depot self-check systems and understaffed standard check-out lanes. I was going to register a complaint with Home Depot manager but I just go to Lowe's now, which thankfully still doesn't have the crap self-checkout systems. The machines are an insult, they seem to be built cheaply so that the chains can justify buying them to avoid hiring a proper number of cashiers.
Why would we have worried? Given Luke's inherited genes, wouldn't we want him to go? I'd think people would ask for Jar Jar to have been in the area though.
You didn't get it. The beacons would not be exploding stars, the beacons would warn ships not to go near an unstable star.
I am sure that is a reference to something, I just don't know or remember what it is.
I think you could have picked a better example. It seems you have forgotten the scandal surrounding Dan Rather during the 2004 election, which I thought pretty clearly showed his bias. Either that or you are laying on a sarcastic joke and no one got it, which I am leaning toward this.
And you'd get something like: "Monkey Brain controls the Cannes Film Festival".
Yes, it needs to be coupled with another vulnerability. OS X at least requires typing in a password to allow installing a program, at least on administrator accounts. So you can't social engineer it unless the user is really stupid.
No service is enabled by default that I can tell, and I think users must specifically unblock ports for third party server software.
Why is copyright not considered IP? OK, there is a joke about not requiring intellect to make, but it still falls within the IP scope as far as I can tell.
Heck, why is software considered IP and not media? Heck, a broader definition of software includes media even if it is linear and doesn't require a computing device to decode it.
Trademarks are a sub-type of IP, as are patents, copyrights, trade secrets, etc. They each have their uses and abuses.
Take a look at the ultra low volt Dothans. You can get them such that they run low single-digit-watts. The ULV series runs from 800MHz to 1.2 GHZ, I think. This is a PIII-based chip with up to 2MB of on-die cache.
CNC machines aren't that hard to come by. I don't think they are that hard to use.
People were making guns, bullets and powder long before modern chemistry and machining techniques, it's not that hard.
IIRC, automakers tend to use supercomputers to simulate some things. You'd need the data from the automaker for every car involved. Some might be in custom file formats, and not all will be easily convertible into a single common format for a simulator.
Then there's still the issue of knowing exactly where the ice patch is, or where the wet spot is, simulating the tires to the exact wear level. How much sand or salt was on the road, was it even or not?
In the autos, it requires knowing the angle of the steering at all times, brake condition, pedal positions (can be gotten from airbag computers though) and such.
I don't think DVD reading lasers even need to pulse. The optical reciever needs to be able to see pulses based on how the light reflects back, but the laser itself just needs to be on, with a lens properly focused.
I'm not sure what long haul optical systems cost, but fiber optic 1000bFX cards seem to cost at least twice that of the 1000bTX version.
Do you know how many channels are available in the 5.8GHz band? I hope it is more than the three non-overlapping bands in .11b/g. I hear .11a has eight non-overlapping channels, which is an improvement but unfortunately isn't widely used.
It is true that the claimed wireless bitrates never stack against the real bitrates, I think it is a bit much to assume ISPs will ever allow full rate uploads on consumer internet connections.
Also, 70Mbps is probably the total for a single channel. Add multiple channels and several towers and you can probably serve a medium to high density city.
I assume that 70Mbps is per channel. Add several sub channels and a web of towers and it could be substantial. As it is, ATSC allows a 20MBps connection over a single television channel, and it looks like WiMax is looking to make otherwise unused television bands easier to licence.
Also, with internet service, I was told by an ISP guy that oversell ratios are often in the 50:1 ratio and it still nets very acceptable connection rates. You could probably sell 580 6Mbps accounts and still get the advertised speed. Multiply that by the number of channels available and you could serve a pretty substantial customer base.
Metropolitan Area Network is a MAN. "M" is a much greater scope then "L". M and L don't seem to fit together as being considered the same network.
"metropolitan area wireless networking" could be wireless metropolitan area network, being WMAN.
I can't think of something off hand to add an "O". Oh well.