It's in Intel's best interest to license QPI to nVidia, because it means more sales of Intel CPUs.
Is that really true? How many Intel CPU sales would be lost to AMD if there were no nVidia chipset for them? How many people that bought an nVidia-based board would just buy a board with Intel chips anyway?
I know that the SLI drivers do require nVidia boards, but I seem to hear that the installer or driver gets regularly hacked to remove that silly requirement.
(Without leaking their contents all over the other electronics on the board!)
I call FUD.
I've not really come across electrolytics that have leaked. The only time I've heard of them being a problem was with some cap manufacturer using a stolen but flawed recipe.
My hometown still has a law on the books that cars aren't allowed to scare the horses travelling down Main Street. Anyone want to get up in arms about that one while we're at it?
Does anyone try to enforce that law? My guess is that law is being properly treated as something like a dead-letter law, this 1993 law is not dead-letter. I see quite a big difference there.
Whether space tourists taking snapshots would be considered "remote sensing" does seem to depend on how far a prosecutor, plaintiff are willing to stretch their interpretation and how far a judge would be willing to go along with it.
Another problem is that while US corporations would be prohibited from selling sensitive images, what does that do for foreign entities? That's somewhat like building a brick façade for a bank vault, but the side and rear walls are just ordinary "stick" building and wallboard.
If I turned billionaire before I finished schooling, I don't think I would finish unless I got bored enough to do so. I don't think it's necessary for them to finish either, because they can hire plenty of PhDs with the knowledge that they would have gotten if they finished.
Running a business doesn't require that you know everything needed to run the business, only that you know how to get people with the skills that you need.
The problem is that they did break regulations, and another was that the condition of the original license that they not merge, and only a few years later, they whine about the conditions that they themselves explicitly agreed to abide.
Also XM had more powerful repeaters than allowed, and they were not located where they said they would be when they applied to install them. They also allowed hardware licensees to produce FM transmitters that were a lot more powerful than the license allows. They've also been extremely generous to the CEO and other people with unnecessarily large perks in the time of supposed financial hardship - the hardship being in large people due to the actions of the people getting the perks!
Another is the fact that the new monopoly would make it needlessly hard for competitors to break into sat radio, not only is the infrastructure expensive, they've already demonstrated that they'll do anything to beat the newcomer out by spending ridiculous sums of money and violate their licenses to do so.
This is not a monopoly in the sense that we cannot get similar service from another provider. If you find satellite too expensive, or don't like what they have too offer, then get rid of it and listen to terrestrial radio, or your ipod, mp3 player, etc.
Those are not similar service except that they're all audio. Mp3 players can't tune live anything except through an FM tuner, and terrestrial radio is irritating to use on a trip, when you lose signal every 50-100 miles, you need to hunt around for another tolerable station, not to mention an excess of irritating ads. Maybe a similar service might be radio through cellular network, but that's not near maturity yet, there's no telling if it ever will be.
I think that goes too far. The part that needs to be discouraged are Foxconn motherboards, or any other specific product that tries to sabotage compatibility. Their connectors do seem to be pretty good products. My take is to try to shun the bad products but support the good ones.
Whether or not this trend you state is true, does this the "not able to provide for family" even apply here? I thought "Spam King" had accumulated considerable wealth that wasn't confiscated. People were concerned that he'd already transferred money out of country and was going to jump to some country without an extradition treaty with the US.
Basically, yes. Anybody can post stories to the internet, that doesn't make them true. I know there are plenty of scummy cops out there, a blog about one group of cops making them look scummy might not actually be true.
My position is this: if any of the things that blog chronicles actually happened, I hope that appropriate people get charged and they face the penalties. But if the blog is posting lies or are compromising legitimate investigations, then the blogger needs to face justice as well. But a running blog in itself really doesn't prove anything.
Needing to be 62 C just to stay liquid, Field's metal probably wouldn't work. Maybe Galinstan would work, but the article doesn't discuss cost, maybe it's not so bad.
I think the problem is that you're not imagining or remembering much.
I agree that the mouse isn't going anywhere very quickly, but this sort of example doesn't fly as a reason. I think the main reason that monitors are vertical surfaces is because of the history, CRTs couldn't be put on much of a profile other than vertical just because of their bulk. Flat panel displays are free from this limitation. So really, the input could be on an adjustable slant like an old drafting table. I think 30 degrees from horizontal might be pretty comfortable and ergonomic. I used that kind of drafting table in school, this was just before CAD came in. I recall it being quite comfortable, offering a good arm rest and an expansive working area. I worked on drawings that were about as big as the current 30" monitor. It might even have room for a real keyboard below for heavier typing needs.
I'm saying that my proposed solution will be accepted beyond a niche use, but I think it is a valid solution to your objection.
Other parts of your post have already been picked apart, but what's the failure mode for home LEDs? There are LEDs that can screw into the same type of bulb sockets as the incandescents.
I don't see how truck lights are necessarily damaged as often they would be on cars, as you contend. The lights on a truck are up higher, and in a collision with a typical passenger vehicle, high enough that it would have to be serious. Lighting up faster and being more visible should help reduce the number of accidents and reducing their severity.
The cost of LEDs are going down, and if first party replacements are needlessly expensive vs the cost of the parts, I would expect the aftermarket to come up with cheaper solutions.
MS claims it's fixed, yeah, but bad publicity is still bad publicity.
It's a long shot, but maybe people are finally getting skeptical of whatever the PR people say? When we get so many diversions, half-truths, hedged comments, weasel words if not outright lies out of PR, it's really not worth trying to puzzle through how true a statement is. Exactly how hard did MS PR try to deny there was a problem in the first place?
I realize that Sony's is in the same camp too in terms of PR reliability.
That may be the end result in both cases, but the primary function of Predator is intelligence gathering, and it can lob missiles too.
And let's not kid ourselves. I think it was Norman Shwartzkopf that said the purpose of the military is to break things and kill people. Even if that is breaking things that would be used against others, and killing those that intend to do harm, it is still breaking & killing, and in the process, there is usually some "collateral damage" to those that had nothing to do with the conflict except to be on the receiving end of shrapnel.
Residential internet is shared. With satellite, it's the same transmitter for a lot of people. With cable, your neighborhood is on the same cable. With DSL, you may have a dedicated line to the CO, but you're sharing bandwidth at the link the CO has with the rest of the world. Sharing bandwidth is actually a good compromise as it reduces the cost of making sure they have provisions for bandwidth that most people aren't using anyway.
There's nothing about being "an embedded OS" that should make it any more or less stable.
The thing is that it's doing just one job and anything unrelated to that job can be removed. It really simplifies testing and reduces the number of things that can go wrong.
BTW: I would consider your installation to be an embedded OS.
I agree, they probably assume that it's going to be used in a single drive bus. I think I have IDE to CF adapters that allow the user to set which is master and which is slave. I haven't tried to use a non-CF device with a CF device on the same bus.
I doubt they consider embedded use at all. Digital cameras are probably still the leading use of CF cards by far, but that's being pushed out a bit as no point and shoot seems to use it, and even low end dSLRs are switching over to SD.
You can talk about backups all day long, but you know that when HP pushes out their latest consumer desktop with this drive, a home user is essentially buying a ticking time bomb.
It's the same time bomb regardless of the size of the drive, even if more data is at stake.
I see no problem with a hard drive being a backup for another hard drive. Hard drive failures are rare enough. It's pretty rare that the backup hard drive will fail before its replacement is ready.
Seek time is reduced by a vast amount, but it's not zero, and slower bulk read/write speeds largely negate that advantage.
No moving parts is nice, but that doesn't mean drive failures are eliminated. I've had some fail or cause trouble because of a poor connection, and a couple fail because something on the circuit board died.
So far, the promise of zippy SSD at low power consumption currently means considerable weeding to arrive at something that actually fulfills it. The high speed flash chips cost more money than the low speed ones
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It's in Intel's best interest to license QPI to nVidia, because it means more sales of Intel CPUs.
Is that really true? How many Intel CPU sales would be lost to AMD if there were no nVidia chipset for them? How many people that bought an nVidia-based board would just buy a board with Intel chips anyway?
I know that the SLI drivers do require nVidia boards, but I seem to hear that the installer or driver gets regularly hacked to remove that silly requirement.
I think they don't know. I recall that about three quarters of Americans never get a passport.
It has probably been going on all along, but it looks like the current administration took it to a whole new level.
(Without leaking their contents all over the other electronics on the board!)
I call FUD.
I've not really come across electrolytics that have leaked. The only time I've heard of them being a problem was with some cap manufacturer using a stolen but flawed recipe.
My hometown still has a law on the books that cars aren't allowed to scare the horses travelling down Main Street. Anyone want to get up in arms about that one while we're at it?
Does anyone try to enforce that law? My guess is that law is being properly treated as something like a dead-letter law, this 1993 law is not dead-letter. I see quite a big difference there.
Whether space tourists taking snapshots would be considered "remote sensing" does seem to depend on how far a prosecutor, plaintiff are willing to stretch their interpretation and how far a judge would be willing to go along with it.
Another problem is that while US corporations would be prohibited from selling sensitive images, what does that do for foreign entities? That's somewhat like building a brick façade for a bank vault, but the side and rear walls are just ordinary "stick" building and wallboard.
If I turned billionaire before I finished schooling, I don't think I would finish unless I got bored enough to do so. I don't think it's necessary for them to finish either, because they can hire plenty of PhDs with the knowledge that they would have gotten if they finished.
Running a business doesn't require that you know everything needed to run the business, only that you know how to get people with the skills that you need.
The problem is that they did break regulations, and another was that the condition of the original license that they not merge, and only a few years later, they whine about the conditions that they themselves explicitly agreed to abide.
Also XM had more powerful repeaters than allowed, and they were not located where they said they would be when they applied to install them. They also allowed hardware licensees to produce FM transmitters that were a lot more powerful than the license allows. They've also been extremely generous to the CEO and other people with unnecessarily large perks in the time of supposed financial hardship - the hardship being in large people due to the actions of the people getting the perks!
Another is the fact that the new monopoly would make it needlessly hard for competitors to break into sat radio, not only is the infrastructure expensive, they've already demonstrated that they'll do anything to beat the newcomer out by spending ridiculous sums of money and violate their licenses to do so.
This is not a monopoly in the sense that we cannot get similar service from another provider. If you find satellite too expensive, or don't like what they have too offer, then get rid of it and listen to terrestrial radio, or your ipod, mp3 player, etc.
Those are not similar service except that they're all audio. Mp3 players can't tune live anything except through an FM tuner, and terrestrial radio is irritating to use on a trip, when you lose signal every 50-100 miles, you need to hunt around for another tolerable station, not to mention an excess of irritating ads. Maybe a similar service might be radio through cellular network, but that's not near maturity yet, there's no telling if it ever will be.
I think that goes too far. The part that needs to be discouraged are Foxconn motherboards, or any other specific product that tries to sabotage compatibility. Their connectors do seem to be pretty good products. My take is to try to shun the bad products but support the good ones.
Whether or not this trend you state is true, does this the "not able to provide for family" even apply here? I thought "Spam King" had accumulated considerable wealth that wasn't confiscated. People were concerned that he'd already transferred money out of country and was going to jump to some country without an extradition treaty with the US.
Why should it even go to a court case / hearing at all if CL is supposedly willing to give that information away anyway?
Visual effects operates in many, many layers. Then there's the shots that just don't make it to the released version.
Basically, yes. Anybody can post stories to the internet, that doesn't make them true. I know there are plenty of scummy cops out there, a blog about one group of cops making them look scummy might not actually be true.
My position is this: if any of the things that blog chronicles actually happened, I hope that appropriate people get charged and they face the penalties. But if the blog is posting lies or are compromising legitimate investigations, then the blogger needs to face justice as well. But a running blog in itself really doesn't prove anything.
I don't know the proper procedures and all.
I looked at it, and I don't see anything that is convincing that this is an "outing" or truthful vs. possible libel.
If it's not true, then it's probably libel, then the blogger should be stopped.
Needing to be 62 C just to stay liquid, Field's metal probably wouldn't work. Maybe Galinstan would work, but the article doesn't discuss cost, maybe it's not so bad.
I think the problem is that you're not imagining or remembering much.
I agree that the mouse isn't going anywhere very quickly, but this sort of example doesn't fly as a reason. I think the main reason that monitors are vertical surfaces is because of the history, CRTs couldn't be put on much of a profile other than vertical just because of their bulk. Flat panel displays are free from this limitation. So really, the input could be on an adjustable slant like an old drafting table. I think 30 degrees from horizontal might be pretty comfortable and ergonomic. I used that kind of drafting table in school, this was just before CAD came in. I recall it being quite comfortable, offering a good arm rest and an expansive working area. I worked on drawings that were about as big as the current 30" monitor. It might even have room for a real keyboard below for heavier typing needs.
I'm saying that my proposed solution will be accepted beyond a niche use, but I think it is a valid solution to your objection.
Other parts of your post have already been picked apart, but what's the failure mode for home LEDs? There are LEDs that can screw into the same type of bulb sockets as the incandescents.
I don't see how truck lights are necessarily damaged as often they would be on cars, as you contend. The lights on a truck are up higher, and in a collision with a typical passenger vehicle, high enough that it would have to be serious. Lighting up faster and being more visible should help reduce the number of accidents and reducing their severity.
The cost of LEDs are going down, and if first party replacements are needlessly expensive vs the cost of the parts, I would expect the aftermarket to come up with cheaper solutions.
MS claims it's fixed, yeah, but bad publicity is still bad publicity.
It's a long shot, but maybe people are finally getting skeptical of whatever the PR people say? When we get so many diversions, half-truths, hedged comments, weasel words if not outright lies out of PR, it's really not worth trying to puzzle through how true a statement is. Exactly how hard did MS PR try to deny there was a problem in the first place?
I realize that Sony's is in the same camp too in terms of PR reliability.
I don't think it helps when the people that post try to give the impression that they are speaking for just about everyone else in their group.
The Predator's primary function is to save lives.
That may be the end result in both cases, but the primary function of Predator is intelligence gathering, and it can lob missiles too.
And let's not kid ourselves. I think it was Norman Shwartzkopf that said the purpose of the military is to break things and kill people. Even if that is breaking things that would be used against others, and killing those that intend to do harm, it is still breaking & killing, and in the process, there is usually some "collateral damage" to those that had nothing to do with the conflict except to be on the receiving end of shrapnel.
Residential internet is shared. With satellite, it's the same transmitter for a lot of people. With cable, your neighborhood is on the same cable. With DSL, you may have a dedicated line to the CO, but you're sharing bandwidth at the link the CO has with the rest of the world. Sharing bandwidth is actually a good compromise as it reduces the cost of making sure they have provisions for bandwidth that most people aren't using anyway.
There's nothing about being "an embedded OS" that should make it any more or less stable.
The thing is that it's doing just one job and anything unrelated to that job can be removed. It really simplifies testing and reduces the number of things that can go wrong.
BTW: I would consider your installation to be an embedded OS.
I agree, they probably assume that it's going to be used in a single drive bus. I think I have IDE to CF adapters that allow the user to set which is master and which is slave. I haven't tried to use a non-CF device with a CF device on the same bus.
I doubt they consider embedded use at all. Digital cameras are probably still the leading use of CF cards by far, but that's being pushed out a bit as no point and shoot seems to use it, and even low end dSLRs are switching over to SD.
You can talk about backups all day long, but you know that when HP pushes out their latest consumer desktop with this drive, a home user is essentially buying a ticking time bomb.
It's the same time bomb regardless of the size of the drive, even if more data is at stake.
I see no problem with a hard drive being a backup for another hard drive. Hard drive failures are rare enough. It's pretty rare that the backup hard drive will fail before its replacement is ready.
Seek time is reduced by a vast amount, but it's not zero, and slower bulk read/write speeds largely negate that advantage.
No moving parts is nice, but that doesn't mean drive failures are eliminated. I've had some fail or cause trouble because of a poor connection, and a couple fail because something on the circuit board died.
So far, the promise of zippy SSD at low power consumption currently means considerable weeding to arrive at something that actually fulfills it. The high speed flash chips cost more money than the low speed ones