I really doubt that nuclear would have completely replaced coal, even if it were to continue unabated. There is a new plant under construction now too. I think people would have more confidence in nuclear if the NRC wasn't (then and now) a corrupt or inept gaggle of buffoons.
2GB modules can already be bought for less through NewEgg. The "big" name brands are a little higher than $50 for 2GB notebook memory, but still, the price is pretty low.
It's enough that Vista can't run a lot of programs and devices as it is (I'd think that's enough pressure for devs right there), you want it to run fewer programs and devices by insisting on 64 bit? I think we're maybe couple years away from being able to reasonably justify that for a lot of people.
How many people actually bother with x86 instructions?
I guess techies seem to like to complain about it, but it's generally not really a problem.
ARM has been doing pretty well where extremely low power consumption is neceesary, but that seems to be its only advantage. For getting a lot computation done affordably, it doesn't look like x86 even has any competition anymore. There's stuff like the Cell, it's expensive and where it sounds like it's even worse to program than x86, then there's Niagara, sounds like more of the same, the onus on the programmer to break things into as many threads as possible. The CPUs in the Blue Gene are low performing as well, but try to make up for it in the number of CPUs, still requiring breaking problems down as much as possible. I suppose IBM has the POWER architecture, but it's simply not designed for anything other than mainframes, PowerPC is a significantly cut-down version of that. IBM couldn't make a very efficient PowerPC chip without stripping out a lot of features. Their G5 couldn't convert an int to a float or the reverse, there was no way to move data between the two data types without going to memory, and their XBox 360 chip took a lot of modern features out too.
So really, complaining about x86 doesn't really make sense other than in some abstract sense, because it doesn't look like anything can beat it in its own game, even with backward compatibility taken out of the picture.
If they can find a market for it. Its going to be hard to unseat the arm.
It doesn't have to "unseat" anyone. I think it would be great if it makes enough of a market for itself sufficient to support continued development. It's possible to make a profitable product even if it's not #1 in the market segment.
It looks like it's just another archival format, and not a distribution format. Competing formats for backups isn't a bad thing. Competing formats for video distribution is a different issue.
Helicopters aren't that easy to fly though, They're among the hardest of the small aircraft to control. If you distract the pilot too much, especially at such a low altitude, there's a significantly increased risk of a crash.
That doesn't make that much sense. A problem is that solar and wind installations are generally small, or small for the footprint. The main way solar scales to make a big plant is to take up a big area in the desert. You can get large wind generators, but you need a huge farm of them to produce a gigawatt of power.
Maybe when it makes financial sense to do so? Which could be never or when the information is old enough to be worthless.
The investment it takes to make a competitive manufacturing plant is enormous. Those making that investment (shareholders) want a return on their investment and aren't going to want to give away that work such that competitors can upgrade their plants at half the cost.
The reason why open source works for software is that it costs practically nothing to build and rebuild, and nearly anyone can use it. A large machine that can make rocket parts or ICs is only useful for a limited number of people, and have a high material cost. The machines to make parts to make the machines are expensive too. An IC fab is in the billions of dollars.
I think you're kidding yourself if you don't think the circuit design for the Pentium wasn't valuable. The fab is worthless if you don't have a chip design to fab. I think Intel may have spent a billion on the design of the Pentium.
I think it's most likely this. I see little reason for these people would sacrifice themselves to protect other people from their own actions. This isn't a life-or-death thing, and I just don't see it's worth it for Jim to go to prison or pay damages just so some strangers "John" (#1 through 1 million) can have a copy of a movie that can probably be bought legally on DVD for $5 right now.
If they really were looking out for other people, they shouldn't have been keeping potentially incriminating information in the first place.
But if the company in question knew that they were going to be in deep trouble for something they themselves did, then maybe they thought it's worth the risk.
I think this week's Staples ad shows a WiFi printer or two. I'd experiment to see how fast it is compared to its wired network jack or the USB port. It just doesn't seem like wireless would be a very quick way to print.
It doesn't sound like a feature that I'd want or need, especially since I can just hook it up to my router or any network jack and be a "wireless" printer for my notebook just because it's on a network with an AP.
Safari for Windows had several big security holes exposed the first day, despite being, as their promo site says "Built with security in mind from the ground up". That did not inspire confidence. Quicktime has a few security holes a year that need to be patched, and a couple of those security holes have caused problems with Myspace and Second Life. I recall it took a two or three months for Apple to address the one that bugged MySpace.
I'm not sure how programming in Objective-C is safer than C++, but I don't know the very guts of both to see the difference, just enough to make programs. It doesn't look like Obj-C really slows down the writing of insecure code to me.
Assuming it works, I'd think it would be more of a functional unit within a chip or system that does math for you. Before that, it might even be an add-in device, conventional software gives the device commands and it will return the results when it's done. I'm not sure whether there are consumer uses for the technology. But I think it would probably still be largely controlled with conventional software.
Apple did reduce the fee, their fee is now only part of the total $0.25 per unit royalty.
I've seen the mini firewire port on many notebooks. I think the problem with puting the six pin port in it is that it would allow the device to consume power and that's not necessarily desirable when everything has to be so small and allowing more power to power a high-draw FW device can be a problem.
I think eSATA is the replacement for Firewire in many of its previous niches other than video decks and camcorders. It helps that it really doesn't require a controller chip on both ends of the cable, and it should be exactly as fast as it would be if it were an internal drive. But eSATA is for only one drive per port, port multipliers are still an expensive and rare exception.
Parts of it do bother me. I have to allow the "app" access to my information just to see a video or to look at a picture. They don't explain why they need that access either, you can't say "no access" and still see the video or picture.
Another issue is that the article doesn't mention the amount of power needed to maintain such a speed. Drag in a fluid (like air) goes up polynomially, I think it's related to the fourth power. A seat on the Concorde was priced at $10,000, and that's despite the airliner getting the plane for free, fuel costs are just enormous.
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It's funny you'd pick out just one brand out of half a dozen there.
I'm not sure why Sony would push a slashvertisement for a ten year old projector model.
I really doubt that nuclear would have completely replaced coal, even if it were to continue unabated. There is a new plant under construction now too. I think people would have more confidence in nuclear if the NRC wasn't (then and now) a corrupt or inept gaggle of buffoons.
As it is, even with the bulbs going into landfills, I think it's a net less mercury in the environment because coal plants emit quite a bit of mercury
2GB modules can already be bought for less through NewEgg. The "big" name brands are a little higher than $50 for 2GB notebook memory, but still, the price is pretty low.
4GB RAM isn't such a waste of money anymore, and it's stock anyway. I think 4GB costs less than $100 now, even for notebooks.
It's enough that Vista can't run a lot of programs and devices as it is (I'd think that's enough pressure for devs right there), you want it to run fewer programs and devices by insisting on 64 bit? I think we're maybe couple years away from being able to reasonably justify that for a lot of people.
How many people actually bother with x86 instructions?
I guess techies seem to like to complain about it, but it's generally not really a problem.
ARM has been doing pretty well where extremely low power consumption is neceesary, but that seems to be its only advantage. For getting a lot computation done affordably, it doesn't look like x86 even has any competition anymore. There's stuff like the Cell, it's expensive and where it sounds like it's even worse to program than x86, then there's Niagara, sounds like more of the same, the onus on the programmer to break things into as many threads as possible. The CPUs in the Blue Gene are low performing as well, but try to make up for it in the number of CPUs, still requiring breaking problems down as much as possible. I suppose IBM has the POWER architecture, but it's simply not designed for anything other than mainframes, PowerPC is a significantly cut-down version of that. IBM couldn't make a very efficient PowerPC chip without stripping out a lot of features. Their G5 couldn't convert an int to a float or the reverse, there was no way to move data between the two data types without going to memory, and their XBox 360 chip took a lot of modern features out too.
So really, complaining about x86 doesn't really make sense other than in some abstract sense, because it doesn't look like anything can beat it in its own game, even with backward compatibility taken out of the picture.
Comparing an instruction set with slavery belittles both subjects.
If they can find a market for it. Its going to be hard to unseat the arm.
It doesn't have to "unseat" anyone. I think it would be great if it makes enough of a market for itself sufficient to support continued development. It's possible to make a profitable product even if it's not #1 in the market segment.
I thought AMD had a product like this though.
It looks like it's just another archival format, and not a distribution format. Competing formats for backups isn't a bad thing. Competing formats for video distribution is a different issue.
Helicopters aren't that easy to fly though, They're among the hardest of the small aircraft to control. If you distract the pilot too much, especially at such a low altitude, there's a significantly increased risk of a crash.
That doesn't make that much sense. A problem is that solar and wind installations are generally small, or small for the footprint. The main way solar scales to make a big plant is to take up a big area in the desert. You can get large wind generators, but you need a huge farm of them to produce a gigawatt of power.
Are you saying that the USB printing system is limited to USB 1 speeds only? What about the wired ethernet?
Anyway, at the moment, my USB Printer shows up as having up to 480Mb/sec bandwidth in the USB profile.
Man, when are those stupid Scientists going to come up with a technological substitute for honor?
Hey, it's a hard job. How can they come up with a technological substitute for an idea that might have been completely illusory to begin with?
When will the manufacturing be open source?
Maybe when it makes financial sense to do so? Which could be never or when the information is old enough to be worthless.
The investment it takes to make a competitive manufacturing plant is enormous. Those making that investment (shareholders) want a return on their investment and aren't going to want to give away that work such that competitors can upgrade their plants at half the cost.
The reason why open source works for software is that it costs practically nothing to build and rebuild, and nearly anyone can use it. A large machine that can make rocket parts or ICs is only useful for a limited number of people, and have a high material cost. The machines to make parts to make the machines are expensive too. An IC fab is in the billions of dollars.
I think you're kidding yourself if you don't think the circuit design for the Pentium wasn't valuable. The fab is worthless if you don't have a chip design to fab. I think Intel may have spent a billion on the design of the Pentium.
I think it's most likely this. I see little reason for these people would sacrifice themselves to protect other people from their own actions. This isn't a life-or-death thing, and I just don't see it's worth it for Jim to go to prison or pay damages just so some strangers "John" (#1 through 1 million) can have a copy of a movie that can probably be bought legally on DVD for $5 right now.
If they really were looking out for other people, they shouldn't have been keeping potentially incriminating information in the first place.
But if the company in question knew that they were going to be in deep trouble for something they themselves did, then maybe they thought it's worth the risk.
I think this week's Staples ad shows a WiFi printer or two. I'd experiment to see how fast it is compared to its wired network jack or the USB port. It just doesn't seem like wireless would be a very quick way to print.
It doesn't sound like a feature that I'd want or need, especially since I can just hook it up to my router or any network jack and be a "wireless" printer for my notebook just because it's on a network with an AP.
A glacial lake is not the same as an ocean.
If the vote was today, paper mail would arrive late. Paper mail is a little harder to ignore though.
Safari for Windows had several big security holes exposed the first day, despite being, as their promo site says "Built with security in mind from the ground up". That did not inspire confidence. Quicktime has a few security holes a year that need to be patched, and a couple of those security holes have caused problems with Myspace and Second Life. I recall it took a two or three months for Apple to address the one that bugged MySpace.
I'm not sure how programming in Objective-C is safer than C++, but I don't know the very guts of both to see the difference, just enough to make programs. It doesn't look like Obj-C really slows down the writing of insecure code to me.
Assuming it works, I'd think it would be more of a functional unit within a chip or system that does math for you. Before that, it might even be an add-in device, conventional software gives the device commands and it will return the results when it's done. I'm not sure whether there are consumer uses for the technology. But I think it would probably still be largely controlled with conventional software.
I skimmed the memo, and I didn't see anything where they ask the judge not to read their opponent's request.
Apple did reduce the fee, their fee is now only part of the total $0.25 per unit royalty.
I've seen the mini firewire port on many notebooks. I think the problem with puting the six pin port in it is that it would allow the device to consume power and that's not necessarily desirable when everything has to be so small and allowing more power to power a high-draw FW device can be a problem.
I think eSATA is the replacement for Firewire in many of its previous niches other than video decks and camcorders. It helps that it really doesn't require a controller chip on both ends of the cable, and it should be exactly as fast as it would be if it were an internal drive. But eSATA is for only one drive per port, port multipliers are still an expensive and rare exception.
Parts of it do bother me. I have to allow the "app" access to my information just to see a video or to look at a picture. They don't explain why they need that access either, you can't say "no access" and still see the video or picture.
Another issue is that the article doesn't mention the amount of power needed to maintain such a speed. Drag in a fluid (like air) goes up polynomially, I think it's related to the fourth power. A seat on the Concorde was priced at $10,000, and that's despite the airliner getting the plane for free, fuel costs are just enormous.