I don't use Yahoo for the search engine. I do use it for the email (occasionally) the mapping & directions (not perfect but usually provides a workable starting point), yellow pages, the occasional news story linked from a forum thread and other things.
These chips wouldn't go into a computer, there are numerous non-computer devices that could use good, low power speech recognition.
Will a general purpose CPU fit or operate in a phone that can be on for a week? I almost never shut off the phone and it still lasts a week, and I don't want to sacrifice that run time for speech recognition.
Granted, ARM chips are getting more powerful but the power consumption is still a limiting factor for their designs.
Agreed. Secretaries are needed to do paper handling, take calls and filing too. A business that prides itself on professionalism and service would IMO not rely on short cuts like the voice mail maze. So they aren't just a personal refresment gopher. Any business should still need that sort of thing.
So what if dictation is taken away from secretaries, they still need to check the grammar and arrangement as dictation is almost always free-form without the same structure as a good written letter.
I have been teaching it but on its own, it still isn't very good. The problem is that a lot of spam has been throwing in invalid tags into the middle of every word. A spam scanner should make a note of it then remove them before doing a scan. Keyword obfuscation (zero for O, etc) seems to render the scanner somewhat useless too.
A custom filter reading only the subject line seems to be doing OK, far better than the built-in "learning" filter does.
Concerning pop-up blocking, one concerning thing is that Microsoft has documented a way for the server to detect whether a particular pop-up has been blocked. Some more sites might try to restrict content unless you allow pop-ups.
Adblock and Flashblock are nice though. While a lot of features can be put into IE, the problem is the software used to implement it is either more trouble, cost money or bloated, whereas tiny, no-cost extensions for the Mozilla core can do the job better.
but should not product performance be speaking for itself?
It is not necessarily the case. Yes, it seems like the product is pretty good but the days were heavy iron were typically faster than mainstream processors are gone. Instead, heavy iron is even more of a niche, which may be eroded. Sun is kind of working from reputation in order to sell their low end stuff, and their high end would seem the be eroded by the increasing prevalance of x86-64 systems.
Heck, isn't it slower clock-for-clock than the PIII?
The grandparent post mentioned Pentium M, but Pentium III counts as Pentium M is true successor to the P6 (Pentium Pro, II & III) heritage, but with a FSB speed (400MHz vs 133). They have larger caches available as affordable consumer chips, 1MB & 2MB are available in Pentium M when those were available in PII, PIII Xeon, but not cheap.
All iterations of Pentium IV (Willamette, Northwood, Prescott) have a lower IPC than Pentium III.
Not that I think IPC is a useful measure on its own, much like GHz is not a useful figure on its own. I really didn't see that lower IPC was necessarily a negative when the increase GHz more than made up for it, which it did for two or three years, except for a brief period when 1GHz was the latest, it wasn't until Athlon64 did AMD match or beat Intel's performance at the top end. Up until then, AMD's selling point was mostly the more affordabe midrange. Now, AMD has the top end, the midrange and price.
Almost always, competition means lower prices. It does not always mean better products, unless you mean better product for the dollar. If a product were a third less reliable for half the cost, then I suppose that is a win, if you don't consider environmental impact of each respective product.
As for better product, it doesn't always seem to be the case, at least as often. Sometimes there is some corner cutting on the part of all competitors, note the quality or availability of support lines, flimsier material or the missed testing step in a rush to get the product out to beat the next company. Many consumer electronics seem less reliable these days.
I think the "XYZ is dead" proclaimations are getting lamer. It is not you, but gee, nothing really dies until everyone, not just the technical elite quits using it. For example, VHS and floppy are slowly going away but is hardly dead.
Several PDAs have bluetooth built in. Mobile phones seem to be the #1 device with a bluetooth transciever. I've seen printers in stores that have built-in bluetooth capabilities. With a lot of new computers, notibly laptops, a Bluetooth reciever is often a $50 add-on. I've seen bluetooth cellphone headsets, so there is no cord between the phone and the earpiece/mic unit.
I think for syching, portable music won't work well given the 2.1 Mbps limit of the latest version of the standard, you would be better off with USB 2.0 or Firewire. I really don't think any currently available wireless standard (a, b, g, etc.) is acceptable for transferring large amounts of files anyway.
I do have bluetooth, but currently only the reciever for my laptop, a Logitech mouse and a Logitech keyboard. It does what I need, and a standardized module in my laptop + a third party cordless mouse is far better than any cordless mouse with an easy-to-break USB dongle. I could make it easy with a corded mouse but I think that's messy.
Supposedly there is a wireless USB coming out, but it still doesn't exist yet and will take a while to be integrated into computers. There are no real wireless human interface standards other than what is in Bluetooth where you can mix and match receivers of any brand with peripherals of any brand.
I'm not seeing much in the Prescott internal block diagram to sugest that it is VLIW. Are all the micro-ops really attached in parallel?
I'm not sure why the grandparent post said opteron had VLIW, because it should have basically the same micro-op core as the Athlon64.
Besides, AMD technical doc 24112.pdf (Software Optimization Guide for AMD Athlon(TM) 64 and AMD Opteron(TM) Processors) doesn't seem to suggest that it is a full-on VLIW. The macro op might have one load-store with one compute (int or float), but it is still broken down again to single-op micro-ops:
Internal Instruction Formats The AMD64 instruction set is complex; instructions have variable-length encodings and many perform multiple primitive operations. AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron processors do not execute these complex instructions directly, but, instead, decode them internally into simpler fixed-length instructions called macro-ops. Processor schedulers subsequently break down macro-ops into sequences of even simpler instructions called micro-ops, each of which specifies a single primitive operation.
A macro-op is a fixed-length instruction that:
Expresses, at most, one integer or floating-point operation and one load and/or store operation.
Is the primary unit of work managed (that is, dispatched and retired) by the processor.
A micro-op is a fixed-length instruction that:
Expresses one and only one of the primitive operations that the processor can perform (for example, a load).
Is executed by the processor's execution units.
You see, that's not necessarily the markeet Microsoft was going for. They did include a DVD player but that doesn't make them money, streaming media doesn't make them money. If a person buys an XBox, mods it for media and doesn't buy games
The only thing that can let Microsoft make money on XBox is games and peripheral licencing. From that perspective, they have no incentive to make modding easy. If Microsoft hadn't bought so hard into the idea that the base consoles always lose money, it might be different, but then the console wouldn't have been so interesting to mod.
I'm not arguing against users doing mods. While MS might sell more consoles, because of the mods, a lot of those additional consoles sold fall outside their intended market. I think they'd rather sell fewer consoles than make the system hackable.
One thing to consider is that both sides have done this fighting to keep off/put on a third party on the ballot. The Democrats helped Perot get on many ballots to divert votes away from Bush Sr. Now they complain when Republicans try to put Nader on the ballot to help Bush Jr.
I would like to put a huge 2.4Ghz blaster outside your residence so you can not use any of your 2.4Ghz equipment...
Jamming is illegal. In fact, using wireless network equipment at higher than stock power output is also illegal if the maker didn't certify it for the higher output. Running a non-stock antenna is illegal if the maker didn't get it certified with the gain for that type of antenna that you are using.
This is one of the worst problems with the use of an unregulated band
Unlicensed != unregulated. The band IS regulated, it is simply set aside to allow unlicenced use, as in you don't have to go in for certification and testing for the right to operate the equipment.
Uh, both Blu-Ray and HD DVD devices will be backward compatible to original DVD.
They might still need a separate laser, but like the separate laser that was required at one time to read CD-Rs, the difference will likely be unnoticed by the user.
The thing is that a lot of times some things written into lease agreements that are legally unenforcible. hence a clause that says if any portion is unenforcible, it does not invalidate the entire contract. Colleges are exempt from a lot of tenant protection laws though.
I'm not sure if Democrats can be considered corporate-unfriendly. Democrats voted for DMCA, PATRIOT, copyright extentios and other "favorite" bad laws, almost unanimously.
Every poll I've known about showed a strong Democratic support from journalists.
You do have a point, but I think the unwillingness to investigate has been around a loooong time, it mostly seems stronger now because they've been humiliated so long they don't bother trying.
I thought it was funny when a newspaper sued Moore because they say he represented a letter to the editor as a front page headline story, and changed the date of the letter. I wonder what happened to that suit.
I do a search on the article, and it doesn't mention spying, big brother or anything like that. Paranoia, paranoid and such aren't mentioned either. So where do you get this stuff?
So you haven't read the article. Not that I expect slashdotters to do that. Don't dismiss the article because of what articles might have gone before. It is actually a pretty positive article, not that you'd know, because you didn't read it.
The article even has a nice picture of a wok skimmer operating as a parabolic antenna.
That depends. A lot of people seem to have taken to the earbud phones. Depending on the model, even a good share of headphone audiophiles use them. That doesn't mean they are for me though.
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I don't use Yahoo for the search engine. I do use it for the email (occasionally) the mapping & directions (not perfect but usually provides a workable starting point), yellow pages, the occasional news story linked from a forum thread and other things.
Is the announcement trying to be buzzword compliant?
These chips wouldn't go into a computer, there are numerous non-computer devices that could use good, low power speech recognition.
Will a general purpose CPU fit or operate in a phone that can be on for a week? I almost never shut off the phone and it still lasts a week, and I don't want to sacrifice that run time for speech recognition.
Granted, ARM chips are getting more powerful but the power consumption is still a limiting factor for their designs.
Agreed. Secretaries are needed to do paper handling, take calls and filing too. A business that prides itself on professionalism and service would IMO not rely on short cuts like the voice mail maze. So they aren't just a personal refresment gopher. Any business should still need that sort of thing.
So what if dictation is taken away from secretaries, they still need to check the grammar and arrangement as dictation is almost always free-form without the same structure as a good written letter.
I have been teaching it but on its own, it still isn't very good. The problem is that a lot of spam has been throwing in invalid tags into the middle of every word. A spam scanner should make a note of it then remove them before doing a scan. Keyword obfuscation (zero for O, etc) seems to render the scanner somewhat useless too.
A custom filter reading only the subject line seems to be doing OK, far better than the built-in "learning" filter does.
How is IE blocking tabs?
Concerning pop-up blocking, one concerning thing is that Microsoft has documented a way for the server to detect whether a particular pop-up has been blocked. Some more sites might try to restrict content unless you allow pop-ups.
Adblock and Flashblock are nice though. While a lot of features can be put into IE, the problem is the software used to implement it is either more trouble, cost money or bloated, whereas tiny, no-cost extensions for the Mozilla core can do the job better.
but should not product performance be speaking for itself?
It is not necessarily the case. Yes, it seems like the product is pretty good but the days were heavy iron were typically faster than mainstream processors are gone. Instead, heavy iron is even more of a niche, which may be eroded. Sun is kind of working from reputation in order to sell their low end stuff, and their high end would seem the be eroded by the increasing prevalance of x86-64 systems.
Heck, isn't it slower clock-for-clock than the PIII?
The grandparent post mentioned Pentium M, but Pentium III counts as Pentium M is true successor to the P6 (Pentium Pro, II & III) heritage, but with a FSB speed (400MHz vs 133). They have larger caches available as affordable consumer chips, 1MB & 2MB are available in Pentium M when those were available in PII, PIII Xeon, but not cheap.
All iterations of Pentium IV (Willamette, Northwood, Prescott) have a lower IPC than Pentium III.
Not that I think IPC is a useful measure on its own, much like GHz is not a useful figure on its own. I really didn't see that lower IPC was necessarily a negative when the increase GHz more than made up for it, which it did for two or three years, except for a brief period when 1GHz was the latest, it wasn't until Athlon64 did AMD match or beat Intel's performance at the top end. Up until then, AMD's selling point was mostly the more affordabe midrange. Now, AMD has the top end, the midrange and price.
Competition means better products at lower prices
Almost always, competition means lower prices. It does not always mean better products, unless you mean better product for the dollar. If a product were a third less reliable for half the cost, then I suppose that is a win, if you don't consider environmental impact of each respective product.
As for better product, it doesn't always seem to be the case, at least as often. Sometimes there is some corner cutting on the part of all competitors, note the quality or availability of support lines, flimsier material or the missed testing step in a rush to get the product out to beat the next company. Many consumer electronics seem less reliable these days.
Um, no. With the spelling you used, it looks more like the word you use that means to command a dog to attack an intruder.
I think the "XYZ is dead" proclaimations are getting lamer. It is not you, but gee, nothing really dies until everyone, not just the technical elite quits using it. For example, VHS and floppy are slowly going away but is hardly dead.
There appear to be hundreds of Bluetooth products: Bluetooth SIG site product listing
Several PDAs have bluetooth built in. Mobile phones seem to be the #1 device with a bluetooth transciever. I've seen printers in stores that have built-in bluetooth capabilities. With a lot of new computers, notibly laptops, a Bluetooth reciever is often a $50 add-on. I've seen bluetooth cellphone headsets, so there is no cord between the phone and the earpiece/mic unit.
I think for syching, portable music won't work well given the 2.1 Mbps limit of the latest version of the standard, you would be better off with USB 2.0 or Firewire. I really don't think any currently available wireless standard (a, b, g, etc.) is acceptable for transferring large amounts of files anyway.
I do have bluetooth, but currently only the reciever for my laptop, a Logitech mouse and a Logitech keyboard. It does what I need, and a standardized module in my laptop + a third party cordless mouse is far better than any cordless mouse with an easy-to-break USB dongle. I could make it easy with a corded mouse but I think that's messy.
Supposedly there is a wireless USB coming out, but it still doesn't exist yet and will take a while to be integrated into computers. There are no real wireless human interface standards other than what is in Bluetooth where you can mix and match receivers of any brand with peripherals of any brand.
I'm not seeing much in the Prescott internal block diagram to sugest that it is VLIW. Are all the micro-ops really attached in parallel?
I'm not sure why the grandparent post said opteron had VLIW, because it should have basically the same micro-op core as the Athlon64.
Besides, AMD technical doc 24112.pdf (Software Optimization Guide for AMD Athlon(TM) 64 and AMD Opteron(TM) Processors) doesn't seem to suggest that it is a full-on VLIW. The macro op might have one load-store with one compute (int or float), but it is still broken down again to single-op micro-ops:
Internal Instruction Formats
The AMD64 instruction set is complex; instructions have variable-length encodings and many
perform multiple primitive operations. AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron processors do not execute
these complex instructions directly, but, instead, decode them internally into simpler fixed-length
instructions called macro-ops. Processor schedulers subsequently break down macro-ops into
sequences of even simpler instructions called micro-ops, each of which specifies a single primitive operation.
A macro-op is a fixed-length instruction that:
Expresses, at most, one integer or floating-point operation and one load and/or store operation.
Is the primary unit of work managed (that is, dispatched and retired) by the processor.
A micro-op is a fixed-length instruction that:
Expresses one and only one of the primitive operations that the processor can perform (for
example, a load).
Is executed by the processor's execution units.
You see, that's not necessarily the markeet Microsoft was going for. They did include a DVD player but that doesn't make them money, streaming media doesn't make them money. If a person buys an XBox, mods it for media and doesn't buy games
The only thing that can let Microsoft make money on XBox is games and peripheral licencing. From that perspective, they have no incentive to make modding easy. If Microsoft hadn't bought so hard into the idea that the base consoles always lose money, it might be different, but then the console wouldn't have been so interesting to mod.
I'm not arguing against users doing mods. While MS might sell more consoles, because of the mods, a lot of those additional consoles sold fall outside their intended market. I think they'd rather sell fewer consoles than make the system hackable.
Extended. Modified. And we find out that Frodo shoots first!
One thing to consider is that both sides have done this fighting to keep off/put on a third party on the ballot. The Democrats helped Perot get on many ballots to divert votes away from Bush Sr. Now they complain when Republicans try to put Nader on the ballot to help Bush Jr.
In short, this is politics as usual.
Being associated with Atlas doesn't mean that they were described as moons. But I think they do qualify under the scientific definition.
I would like to put a huge 2.4Ghz blaster outside your residence so you can not use any of your 2.4Ghz equipment...
Jamming is illegal. In fact, using wireless network equipment at higher than stock power output is also illegal if the maker didn't certify it for the higher output. Running a non-stock antenna is illegal if the maker didn't get it certified with the gain for that type of antenna that you are using.
This is one of the worst problems with the use of an unregulated band
Unlicensed != unregulated. The band IS regulated, it is simply set aside to allow unlicenced use, as in you don't have to go in for certification and testing for the right to operate the equipment.
Uh, both Blu-Ray and HD DVD devices will be backward compatible to original DVD.
They might still need a separate laser, but like the separate laser that was required at one time to read CD-Rs, the difference will likely be unnoticed by the user.
Uh, yeah, it's not as if you are stating a loophole here. The article linked specifically mentions that 5GHz wireless is allowed.
The thing is that a lot of times some things written into lease agreements that are legally unenforcible. hence a clause that says if any portion is unenforcible, it does not invalidate the entire contract. Colleges are exempt from a lot of tenant protection laws though.
I'm not sure if Democrats can be considered corporate-unfriendly. Democrats voted for DMCA, PATRIOT, copyright extentios and other "favorite" bad laws, almost unanimously.
Every poll I've known about showed a strong Democratic support from journalists.
You do have a point, but I think the unwillingness to investigate has been around a loooong time, it mostly seems stronger now because they've been humiliated so long they don't bother trying.
Right on.
I thought it was funny when a newspaper sued Moore
because they say he represented a letter to the editor as a front page headline story, and changed the date of the letter. I wonder what happened to that suit.
I didn't say it like that. I said that I shouldn't expect slashdotters to read the article. That is not a statement of exclusion.
I do a search on the article, and it doesn't mention spying, big brother or anything like that. Paranoia, paranoid and such aren't mentioned either. So where do you get this stuff?
So you haven't read the article. Not that I expect slashdotters to do that. Don't dismiss the article because of what articles might have gone before. It is actually a pretty positive article, not that you'd know, because you didn't read it.
The article even has a nice picture of a wok skimmer operating as a parabolic antenna.
That depends. A lot of people seem to have taken to the earbud phones. Depending on the model, even a good share of headphone audiophiles use them. That doesn't mean they are for me though.