The companies being sued aren't exactly small time players. Sony, Fujitu, Matsushita, Toshiba, and NEC are all HUGE companies. They all happen to be based in Japan. They all happen to make their own silicon to some extent, all of them design, I don't know about fabbing.
I dunno. A new place just opened up locally that has $1 / 5 day rentals on catalog titles. I figure that will keep me busy for a good while.
Granted, my town, nor the ones around it, have yet to be infested by Blockbuster.
A theater & screening room, I'd have to wonder what would happen if the MPAA gets wind of that. They aren't so easy to deal with that a small shop can get permission to make money selling seats for movies on such a small scale.
The ISS is a lot more support-heavy because of the environment. The people making Soyuz capsules, the Russian's lifters, maintaining the US shuttle fleet make up a pretty large number.
Ham radio itself is, IMO, just the tip of the iceberg. Anything widely rolled outthat leaks radiation outside of its allotted bandwidth will interfere with more than just Ham.
Also, Ham is something the last line of defense in being able to communicate. IIRC, individuals can communicate for several hours on battery. One can forget cellular, land line, broadband power if a major disaster to strike. IIRC,even two-way radios can be problematic.
I'd think a technical solution would be better. I don't know the details of the business or the upstream hardware. Lawyers cost a lot of money, but it is possible that sending a lawyer after five users in a thousand is cheaper than replacing or upgrading to do ISP-side caps.
I really don't understand what the problem is, and I don't think cost is a problem to make backward compatibility.
Microsoft can port the APIs to the new chips.
Microsoft can emulate x86 with a PPC through Connectix's VirtualPC technology. I'd think a G5 should be able to emulate a 733 PIII well enough, particularly if the use of API code clears a lot of CPU headroom to cover the non-API code.
What graphics chip shouldn't matter either as that detail should have been covered by APIs.
If they don't care to do it, that's fine, but I think they can probably do it without sacrificing any functionality.
Add about 13% more on the cache for the fact that most modern CPUs have ECC there. Intel had ECC on the cache there since late PII / early PIII. I know Athlon 64 has it but I don't know about Athlon.
At this point there's enough Opteron stuff out there that Intel can't avoid implementing an architecture compatible with amd64
Huh? Last I saw any numbers (a week ago?) there were about ten thousand Opteron systems sold last year, with about five thousand Itanium systems, when compared to a market of millions of PCs.
That alone isn't really enough to scare anyone, although it is mostly the same core logic as A64 so anything made for Opteron may trickle into software for the cheap desktop version of the chip.
A lot of sets still accept and only display 480p directly witout scaling. I think most CRT HDTVs multiscan 480p and 1080i. Some plasmas are simply EDTV: 480i.
For scaling, unless the set has a Faroudja FLI2300 chip, a newer Radeon will likely be at least as good.
Few TVs have acceptable deinterlacing, but on video based material it is better than even WinDVD. Granted, most software DVD players suck - they are "bob" or "weave". but when patched into software like dScaler and ffdshow, they are better than most deinterlacing chips, and sometimes meet Faroudja's DCDi.
I have a Holo3DGraph PCI card and the quality from even analog sources output to an older LCD projector looks phenominal, in part because the projector has a poorer scaler than the HTPC does.
Then I realized that I already had all of that stuff and it all worked perfectly.
And if you didn't already have all that stuff?
Or if you wanted to tidy up your A/V rack? I count maybe six individual boxes that could be integrated into one box.
For one thing, it ignores deinterlacing needed for HDTV. The minimum cost for a good standalone deinterlacer is about $900, a standalone deinterlacer + scaler: $2500. With a non-Booktree based TV card ($50) into an existing machine and running dScaler, you get most of that quality and a scaler.
I think that MS can do backward compatibility. Heck, they own Connectix and their Virtual PC software and technology!
What that hopefully means is that a G5 equivalent should be able to emulate a 733MHz PIII. There is probably no need for an x86 chip there.
The graphics API could be ported to the newer chip, as long as MS didn't allow games to go "to the metal" of the graphics chip.
Most flash drive chips emulate an ATA drive anyway, so no change there, other than maybe less total capacity.
The only thing that might be missing is the will to do it. Some people say a lot of the PS2's sales in the first few months were bouyed by being able to retain backward compatibility.
The thing is, I think you are right. Even if it looks or sounds like bigotry, the people that choose not to learn English hurt themselves by not giving themselves a voice which business and government understands.
I'm not trying to justify how business handles it, but for example, hiring spainish-only speakers also means hiring translators, and it also means communication barriers in spite of the translation, so the workers can only be asked to do basic, minimally skilled labor, meaning being stuck at the bottom end of the scale.
I'm really not buying it as an idea. For one, the ATX could have been morphed into an improved ATX form factor.
Heck, my Compaq workstation IS ATX (actually extended ATX due to mainboard size), but it also has three generalized cooling areas, the card cage (PCI 33/32, PCI 64/66 and AGP), CPU, memory and chipset duct and the drive area, each of these zones have their own appropriate cooling method. The thing has built-in cooling for 15k RPM drives - they are positioned cross-ways in front of the 12cm intake fan on the power supply. Since there is no output fan, the PS fan noise is nicely diffused too.
I thought it was really slick when I looked over the maintainance guides, so I ended up picking one up second hand.
Granted, it's no PowerMac G5 but I actually use more than three PCI cards, and have six drives in my machine, so that case isn't so useful to me.
I've heard about the copying, although only of the pre-386 PCs, the 386 was supposedly somehow too difficult to copy.
Somehow, [i]some[/i] chips or information had to cross the iron curtain in order for the to make those clones. So, no, the east didn't need wholesale product transfers.
You mean it wasn't a *.swf? Once I saw the Firebird adblock tab at the top, I just downloaded the PDFs. The PDFs are fine, all directly machine generated rather than passed through a scanner, etc.
I think the news part is the Cameron commisioned designs, based on the 1997 mission references and the inspirations of the recent landers that the director got from them.
I do think that companies should be held accountable to who the sell to, particularly if they know what it will be used for.
Granted, the company doesn't always know how the user will use it, and can't control that, but if they know what will happen then the ethical thing would be to refuse services. It is really too bad that companies are more worried about the next quarter than how their actions will go into history books.
Would any software or network company think that history would treat them well if they sold software and equipment that was used to round up and massacre dissidents? Heck, many US companies dealt with Germany and in my opinion, openly abetted in human rights abuses, although I will grant, none of those companies caught sufficient hell for what they did, but now is a time to start.
Why would it be so wrong to scale that down to lesser crimes against humanity?
Much like Slashdot and many other forums and groups, public and private, I think the higher-ups in these corporations suffer intellectual inbreeding, cluelessness and arrogance.
Very few people in the world can walk in the shoes of other people and don't stop to think that other people's decisions may not be their own because they surround themselves with people most like themselves.
These people don't understand the factors in why people chose things, etc. For all I know, maybe these people really do live in areas that have $8 rentals or only buy DVDs from mall stores that only charge SRP, etc.
It doesn't help that there are rampant suspicions that the Ivy league entrances and diplomas are possibly bought rather than earned, so being from Harvard or Yale doesn't mean what it used to (or has at least gotten worse), so the executives making these decisions may not be as sharp stuff as other people might think they are.
The fact that through executive firings, some have a tendency to surround themselves with yes-men and women that waste time justifying their bosses' decisions rather than those that apply critical reasoning to fix them.
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The companies being sued aren't exactly small time players. Sony, Fujitu, Matsushita, Toshiba, and NEC are all HUGE companies. They all happen to be based in Japan. They all happen to make their own silicon to some extent, all of them design, I don't know about fabbing.
I dunno. A new place just opened up locally that has $1 / 5 day rentals on catalog titles. I figure that will keep me busy for a good while.
Granted, my town, nor the ones around it, have yet to be infested by Blockbuster.
A theater & screening room, I'd have to wonder what would happen if the MPAA gets wind of that. They aren't so easy to deal with that a small shop can get permission to make money selling seats for movies on such a small scale.
The ISS is a lot more support-heavy because of the environment. The people making Soyuz capsules, the Russian's lifters, maintaining the US shuttle fleet make up a pretty large number.
So true!
Excuse me, I'm off to a rave!
A quote from the article:
"It's something that cannot be detected by existing reliability tests."
You try to expect the unexpected, but I guess some slip by.
The article doesn't explain enough for me to form an opinion.
Interference to ham radio weighs very low.
Ham radio itself is, IMO, just the tip of the iceberg. Anything widely rolled outthat leaks radiation outside of its allotted bandwidth will interfere with more than just Ham.
Also, Ham is something the last line of defense in being able to communicate. IIRC, individuals can communicate for several hours on battery. One can forget cellular, land line, broadband power if a major disaster to strike. IIRC,even two-way radios can be problematic.
I'd think a technical solution would be better. I don't know the details of the business or the upstream hardware. Lawyers cost a lot of money, but it is possible that sending a lawyer after five users in a thousand is cheaper than replacing or upgrading to do ISP-side caps.
I really don't understand what the problem is, and I don't think cost is a problem to make backward compatibility.
Microsoft can port the APIs to the new chips.
Microsoft can emulate x86 with a PPC through Connectix's VirtualPC technology. I'd think a G5 should be able to emulate a 733 PIII well enough, particularly if the use of API code clears a lot of CPU headroom to cover the non-API code.
What graphics chip shouldn't matter either as that detail should have been covered by APIs.
If they don't care to do it, that's fine, but I think they can probably do it without sacrificing any functionality.
Add about 13% more on the cache for the fact that most modern CPUs have ECC there. Intel had ECC on the cache there since late PII / early PIII. I know Athlon 64 has it but I don't know about Athlon.
At this point there's enough Opteron stuff out there that Intel can't avoid implementing an architecture compatible with amd64
Huh? Last I saw any numbers (a week ago?) there were about ten thousand Opteron systems sold last year, with about five thousand Itanium systems, when compared to a market of millions of PCs.
That alone isn't really enough to scare anyone, although it is mostly the same core logic as A64 so anything made for Opteron may trickle into software for the cheap desktop version of the chip.
A lot of sets still accept and only display 480p directly witout scaling. I think most CRT HDTVs multiscan 480p and 1080i. Some plasmas are simply EDTV: 480i.
For scaling, unless the set has a Faroudja FLI2300 chip, a newer Radeon will likely be at least as good.
Few TVs have acceptable deinterlacing, but on video based material it is better than even WinDVD. Granted, most software DVD players suck - they are "bob" or "weave". but when patched into software like dScaler and ffdshow, they are better than most deinterlacing chips, and sometimes meet Faroudja's DCDi.
I have a Holo3DGraph PCI card and the quality from even analog sources output to an older LCD projector looks phenominal, in part because the projector has a poorer scaler than the HTPC does.
Then I realized that I already had all of that stuff and it all worked perfectly.
And if you didn't already have all that stuff?
Or if you wanted to tidy up your A/V rack? I count maybe six individual boxes that could be integrated into one box.
For one thing, it ignores deinterlacing needed for HDTV. The minimum cost for a good standalone deinterlacer is about $900, a standalone deinterlacer + scaler: $2500. With a non-Booktree based TV card ($50) into an existing machine and running dScaler, you get most of that quality and a scaler.
I think that MS can do backward compatibility. Heck, they own Connectix and their Virtual PC software and technology!
What that hopefully means is that a G5 equivalent should be able to emulate a 733MHz PIII. There is probably no need for an x86 chip there.
The graphics API could be ported to the newer chip, as long as MS didn't allow games to go "to the metal" of the graphics chip.
Most flash drive chips emulate an ATA drive anyway, so no change there, other than maybe less total capacity.
The only thing that might be missing is the will to do it. Some people say a lot of the PS2's sales in the first few months were bouyed by being able to retain backward compatibility.
IIRC, the break-in was 2002. Iraq conflict was 2003. Punishment finally handed down in 2004.
The thing is, I think you are right. Even if it looks or sounds like bigotry, the people that choose not to learn English hurt themselves by not giving themselves a voice which business and government understands.
I'm not trying to justify how business handles it, but for example, hiring spainish-only speakers also means hiring translators, and it also means communication barriers in spite of the translation, so the workers can only be asked to do basic, minimally skilled labor, meaning being stuck at the bottom end of the scale.
I'm really not buying it as an idea. For one, the ATX could have been morphed into an improved ATX form factor.
Heck, my Compaq workstation IS ATX (actually extended ATX due to mainboard size), but it also has three generalized cooling areas, the card cage (PCI 33/32, PCI 64/66 and AGP), CPU, memory and chipset duct and the drive area, each of these zones have their own appropriate cooling method. The thing has built-in cooling for 15k RPM drives - they are positioned cross-ways in front of the 12cm intake fan on the power supply. Since there is no output fan, the PS fan noise is nicely diffused too.
I thought it was really slick when I looked over the maintainance guides, so I ended up picking one up second hand.
Granted, it's no PowerMac G5 but I actually use more than three PCI cards, and have six drives in my machine, so that case isn't so useful to me.
He's definitely not impartial, he's a pretty hard core Reaganite.
I would seriously question the credibility of people that claim to be impartial.
France was supplying weapons to Iraq as well, and they had many other vested interests too.
I really don't believe that France was against the war on ideological grounds any more than the US was for it on ideology.
I've heard about the copying, although only of the pre-386 PCs, the 386 was supposedly somehow too difficult to copy.
Somehow, [i]some[/i] chips or information had to cross the iron curtain in order for the to make those clones. So, no, the east didn't need wholesale product transfers.
You mean it wasn't a *.swf? Once I saw the Firebird adblock tab at the top, I just downloaded the PDFs. The PDFs are fine, all directly machine generated rather than passed through a scanner, etc.
I think the news part is the Cameron commisioned designs, based on the 1997 mission references and the inspirations of the recent landers that the director got from them.
I do think that companies should be held accountable to who the sell to, particularly if they know what it will be used for.
Granted, the company doesn't always know how the user will use it, and can't control that, but if they know what will happen then the ethical thing would be to refuse services. It is really too bad that companies are more worried about the next quarter than how their actions will go into history books.
Would any software or network company think that history would treat them well if they sold software and equipment that was used to round up and massacre dissidents? Heck, many US companies dealt with Germany and in my opinion, openly abetted in human rights abuses, although I will grant, none of those companies caught sufficient hell for what they did, but now is a time to start.
Why would it be so wrong to scale that down to lesser crimes against humanity?
I've had calc textbooks where I bought a book a semester early but kept, that was made useless because the problem sets were changed or rearranged.
The "old catalog" movies in my town have rented for $1 to $1.75. New releases are $3. We don't have Blockbuster here.
Netflix does seem pretty interesting but I haven't bitten their offers yet.
or at least that is what I call it.
Much like Slashdot and many other forums and groups, public and private, I think the higher-ups in these corporations suffer intellectual inbreeding, cluelessness and arrogance.
Very few people in the world can walk in the shoes of other people and don't stop to think that other people's decisions may not be their own because they surround themselves with people most like themselves.
These people don't understand the factors in why people chose things, etc. For all I know, maybe these people really do live in areas that have $8 rentals or only buy DVDs from mall stores that only charge SRP, etc.
It doesn't help that there are rampant suspicions that the Ivy league entrances and diplomas are possibly bought rather than earned, so being from Harvard or Yale doesn't mean what it used to (or has at least gotten worse), so the executives making these decisions may not be as sharp stuff as other people might think they are.
The fact that through executive firings, some have a tendency to surround themselves with yes-men and women that waste time justifying their bosses' decisions rather than those that apply critical reasoning to fix them.