What's bad for Intel is bad for the computer industry? Intel may have their fingers in a lot of things, but if Intel (and for that matter MS) disappeared tomorrow, the computer industry would survive. AMD would love that, I'm sure... they would not only be the de facto standard on x86-64, but on x86, in general. And hopefully AMD would hurry up and release a mobile Duron or XP with really low power consumption, enough to be put in a PDA along with plenty of AMD's flash memory too (come on, ya know many of you would love an x86 PDA that you could run windows, freebsd, linux, etc. on with minimal changes)...
that'd be a pointless lawsuit that any right-minded lawyer and judge would laugh off. and if for some reason, that guy's lawyers are so greedy for money, or completely clueless, that they try to make the suit stick, then just get a lawyer that knows how to research computer virii and they can easily prove this is a pointless lawsuit.
I think we also need not forget that the Chinese govt. isn't necessarily gonna say, "Ok, Chinese people here's the reference manual for the Dragon Chip so you can modify our implementation of Linux to your heart's content, or even make your own OS." And if that indeed turns out to be the case, how would their people know if they're being spied on or not?
IBM makes powerpc processors too and there's been news of 64bit PPC's in Apple computers. That's far more likely than x86 chips. Besides, we all know that Apple depends on hardware sales quite a bit, so this kind of rumor is old and pointless.
Since it seems to me that most of the recent Apple stories have been posted on www.macslash.com first, maybe the head honchos at/. should just see about redirecting apple.slashdot.org to www.macslash.com.
Well I know I could never spend a full billion on myself alone, I'd end up giving most of it to my congregation to use on mission works and such, but one of the first things on my list would still be a fully decked out dual 1.25GHz powermac with two 23" apple displays, YUM!:)
I think it has to do with the fact that mass storage devices can't transfer data like CPUs, RAM, and video cards... When we finally get cheap non-volatile memory that can be used in place of conventional hard drives and other drives with moving parts to strictly electronic and magnetic media then you'll probably see more people wanting to buy. Now i'm not saying this is the only factor, far from it. What I am saying is that average Joe Schmoe sees a 500-800MHz computer today and says "Well I can surf the web, watch some DVDs, listen to music..." just as well as on a 2GHz machine. To Joe, he has no concept of computer architecture to know just how much better a 2GHz chip is over a 500MHz one, he just knows they do the job equally well. But eventually you put non-volatile memory in there the size of an HD, that transfers as fast as RAM today (or better), and make an OS take advantage of that and suddenly Joe finds out his machine boots much faster, apps spring up even faster, his movies run even smoother, but at higher resolutions and bit depths than before, any games he plays get several more FPS at those high resolutions, and when his system starts to lag at all, it's because we have holographic monitors or better quality 3D algorithms that were previously unusable in realtime applications.
Now we could argue that that's irrelevant, that MS would just make an OS that made such a system drag:) but again, it's just my $0.02.
I guess I just think of mechanical drives like I do about combustion engines... greedy companies want money so much for their obsolete resources that they're not open to viable alternatives that could be phased in without losing tons of money, and possibly making even more, if implemented properly.
they're trying really hard here! I mean let's give them the benefit of the doubt here. They must have a very good reason for investing [read: wasting] money on anti-piracy devices like this.:) Although I wish if companies were gonna waste so much money on useless things like this, I wish they'd at least send some my way so I can pay my tuition bills without needing a student loan!;)
So basically an immoral company wants to use a program, used mostly for illegal and unethical purposes (stealing music), to distribute its filth. Sadly, I'm not really surprised that such a thing would happen.
Yeah, consumers don't like to be lied to and while Intel's deception that GHz is all that matters and AMD's relative speed naming may turn consumers off... how many of them really *need* the extra speed? Sure I can figure out what to do with 2GHz of speed with xyz IPC (or CPI in my comp. architecture course this past spring) to take the utmost advantage of the speed, but what Joe Schmoe off the streets can do that too?
You've got those that just e-mail and chat online along with listen to CDs or watch DVDs... we're not exactly talking techie types that want bleeding edge stuff.
Now I'm wondering if I should concern myself with getting a hold of a clawhammer or wait until they re-engineer them on a 0.01 micron process:) And since AMD acquired Alchemy Corp. imagine what kind of power you could pack in a PDA... say a really low power duron at 1GHz with some DDR chips (not modules of course) soldered on the PDA's board and maybe a mobile GeForce chipset...
Ah but that's probably 10 years down the road anyways... Sometimes it's painful to know about future technologies, but not be able to get em yet:)
Me thinks someone spent too much on research for this one.
Very much agreed... what a waste of money. But, if they're willing to waste money on that, maybe they'd want to invest say ~$3500 for my last semester of computer engineering courses, so they can "research" how an average EE student performs work. Maybe they'd want to take transportation and commuting costs into account and pay off my car too;)
"The technique may be useful for wiping confidential or sensitive data from a disk."
The whole reason I use CD-Rs over CD-RWs is so that my data can *NOT* be erased... I've backed up family/friends photos, my CD collection, freeware apps, FreeBSD ISOs, etc, etc. on various CD-Rs and now someone has the potential for wiping that out if they ever got a hold of my CD-Rs? Maybe I should start looking around for how to get a hold of a full blown CD making machine, since last time I checked you can erase physical pitts on a CD.
The passage you are thinking of is 2 Peter 3:8. But the thing is the verse says that a day *IS AS* a 1000 years, not a day *IS* a 1000 years. The word "as" is very important here as it denotes simile, rather than a literal "1 day == 1000 years" to God. The Hebrew word used for day in Genesis 1 is "yom" meaning 1 literal 24 hour period of time. And if memory serves the word for day when the Bible talks about Jesus rising after 3 days and such is the Greek equivalent of yom. So to say the 6 days of creation were each 1 billion years would mean that it's taking Jesus 1 billion years to rise from the dead and according to 1 Corinthians 15:12-14 Christianity is a waste of our time and all Christians today are doomed sinners.
As for the how God actually did it, the Bible plainly says that God said "Let there be light." I imagine (correct me if I'm wrong) that you believe that God is omnipotent (all powerful), along with omniscient (all knowing) and omnipresent (He's everywhere). Now if God is all powerful, should we believe He's not capable of speaking light, along with all creation, into existence? Or is it safe for us to say that the Bible doesn't really say?
By the way, slightly off-topic, I find http://bible.gospelcom.net a good site to use when you run into those inevitable "I can't remember the verse offhand" situations that we all run into;)
A couple of my thoughts on your comment, for what it's worth (and honestly, I'm not trying to flame, just trying to offer a Biblical view of your comment):
1 Peter 3:15 tells Christians they need to always be ready to give others an answer for why they believe what they believe. And 2 Timothy 2:15 says to study. So it's not enough to know who created the universe and why. It *IS* important to know how it was created. Why? So that we can try and convert other people to Christianity. And not everyone that you try to convert to Christianity is going to know the Bible or even believe it. In such cases, you have to start at a point *before* showing them what the Bible says, including Christian evidences that help to prove what the Bible says regarding how the universe came into play.
Another thought on the matter is this: is God ever wordy in the Bible? (and if you want to comment on this, please be objective, no smart-alec comments that are aimed to only cause flames). From what I see the Bible is very concise... the account of the creation of the universe is told in one chapter, not to mention, we only have a record of about 3 years of Jesus' life, when he lived about 33 years... things like this. So if God is concise, and only says what He wants us to know, then why do we have the account of creation, if it's a non-issue of how the universe got here?
Those are just my thoughts on this, and again, it's not meant as a flame, merely as a comment of a concerned Christian, who wants others to do the right thing.
You forget, we don't just need more performance, we need smaller memory... If these people could make a type of RAM or non-volatile memory from this stuff then you could store your entire DVD collection, your entire CD collection, 1000's of photos from a 2 or 3Mp digital camera, tons of setup files for commonly used apps you have, etc, etc. all on a postage stamp sized media and still have plenty of room left over. Personally, I've been waiting for something like that for a LONG time. I mean, combine something like that with a PDA, cell phone, and firewire camera all at once, and that'd be quite an interesting device, that would be as small as the Sony Clie's I've seen, but rival the space of my desktop machine with an 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV, possibly with better transfer speeds too!!
Yes, it's a lot of forward thinking and so forth, but I await the day when such things are common place and reasonably priced.
And as for these guys working on this project, more power to them, if they can do it, albeit, I'm not holding my breath for it to happen any time soon.
I have a @mac.com e-mail address that I got with my iBook, so I guess it's time to tell my friends & family I won't be able to use it anymore (Apple's not getting $100 from this college student just for an e-mail account). Sad to see it go, but oh well.
people have played games for millenia and now they want to say that because it's on a screen and digital in nature that somehow changes things... sounds blah to me:)
Mankind is arrogant to assume we can make the earth uninhabitable such that we would be forced to colonize another planet. Yes I'm interjecting some religion here, but the Bible speaks of Judgment Day and men still being on earth, so all this worrying is all for nought.
Sure we can make it difficult on ourselves to where we end up shortening lifespans, end up with more diseases & such, but not to the point of having to totally leave Earth.
... that little green men or some other highly evolved people used the water right? If there were higher forms of life on Mars, don't just show me *supposed* evidence of the water, show me *FOSSILS* and *EXCREMENT* (fossilized or otherwise).
If life did use the water there and now it is gone, then either it's too far under Mars for us to find yet *OR* something used it and *HAD* to have left evidence behind of itself. Otherwise, supposing past life on Mars is just philosophical!
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What's bad for Intel is bad for the computer industry? Intel may have their fingers in a lot of things, but if Intel (and for that matter MS) disappeared tomorrow, the computer industry would survive. AMD would love that, I'm sure... they would not only be the de facto standard on x86-64, but on x86, in general. And hopefully AMD would hurry up and release a mobile Duron or XP with really low power consumption, enough to be put in a PDA along with plenty of AMD's flash memory too (come on, ya know many of you would love an x86 PDA that you could run windows, freebsd, linux, etc. on with minimal changes)...
And of course, Apple would love that too, hehe
that'd be a pointless lawsuit that any right-minded lawyer and judge would laugh off. and if for some reason, that guy's lawyers are so greedy for money, or completely clueless, that they try to make the suit stick, then just get a lawyer that knows how to research computer virii and they can easily prove this is a pointless lawsuit.
I think we also need not forget that the Chinese govt. isn't necessarily gonna say, "Ok, Chinese people here's the reference manual for the Dragon Chip so you can modify our implementation of Linux to your heart's content, or even make your own OS." And if that indeed turns out to be the case, how would their people know if they're being spied on or not?
IBM makes powerpc processors too and there's been news of 64bit PPC's in Apple computers. That's far more likely than x86 chips. Besides, we all know that Apple depends on hardware sales quite a bit, so this kind of rumor is old and pointless.
Since it seems to me that most of the recent Apple stories have been posted on www.macslash.com first, maybe the head honchos at /. should just see about redirecting apple.slashdot.org to www.macslash.com.
Just a thought...
Well I know I could never spend a full billion on myself alone, I'd end up giving most of it to my congregation to use on mission works and such, but one of the first things on my list would still be a fully decked out dual 1.25GHz powermac with two 23" apple displays, YUM! :)
I think it has to do with the fact that mass storage devices can't transfer data like CPUs, RAM, and video cards... When we finally get cheap non-volatile memory that can be used in place of conventional hard drives and other drives with moving parts to strictly electronic and magnetic media then you'll probably see more people wanting to buy. Now i'm not saying this is the only factor, far from it. What I am saying is that average Joe Schmoe sees a 500-800MHz computer today and says "Well I can surf the web, watch some DVDs, listen to music..." just as well as on a 2GHz machine. To Joe, he has no concept of computer architecture to know just how much better a 2GHz chip is over a 500MHz one, he just knows they do the job equally well. But eventually you put non-volatile memory in there the size of an HD, that transfers as fast as RAM today (or better), and make an OS take advantage of that and suddenly Joe finds out his machine boots much faster, apps spring up even faster, his movies run even smoother, but at higher resolutions and bit depths than before, any games he plays get several more FPS at those high resolutions, and when his system starts to lag at all, it's because we have holographic monitors or better quality 3D algorithms that were previously unusable in realtime applications.
Now we could argue that that's irrelevant, that MS would just make an OS that made such a system drag :) but again, it's just my $0.02.
I guess I just think of mechanical drives like I do about combustion engines... greedy companies want money so much for their obsolete resources that they're not open to viable alternatives that could be phased in without losing tons of money, and possibly making even more, if implemented properly.
they're trying really hard here! I mean let's give them the benefit of the doubt here. They must have a very good reason for investing [read: wasting] money on anti-piracy devices like this. :) Although I wish if companies were gonna waste so much money on useless things like this, I wish they'd at least send some my way so I can pay my tuition bills without needing a student loan! ;)
So basically an immoral company wants to use a program, used mostly for illegal and unethical purposes (stealing music), to distribute its filth. Sadly, I'm not really surprised that such a thing would happen.
Yeah, consumers don't like to be lied to and while Intel's deception that GHz is all that matters and AMD's relative speed naming may turn consumers off... how many of them really *need* the extra speed? Sure I can figure out what to do with 2GHz of speed with xyz IPC (or CPI in my comp. architecture course this past spring) to take the utmost advantage of the speed, but what Joe Schmoe off the streets can do that too?
You've got those that just e-mail and chat online along with listen to CDs or watch DVDs... we're not exactly talking techie types that want bleeding edge stuff.
Now I'm wondering if I should concern myself with getting a hold of a clawhammer or wait until they re-engineer them on a 0.01 micron process :) And since AMD acquired Alchemy Corp. imagine what kind of power you could pack in a PDA... say a really low power duron at 1GHz with some DDR chips (not modules of course) soldered on the PDA's board and maybe a mobile GeForce chipset...
Ah but that's probably 10 years down the road anyways... Sometimes it's painful to know about future technologies, but not be able to get em yet :)
a lot of the old atari and original NES games made free to the public by their owners in the form of ROM files.
have ogg hardware... called a laptop :) ... just wish I had more than 10GB total HD space
Very much agreed... what a waste of money. But, if they're willing to waste money on that, maybe they'd want to invest say ~$3500 for my last semester of computer engineering courses, so they can "research" how an average EE student performs work. Maybe they'd want to take transportation and commuting costs into account and pay off my car too ;)
From that site mentioned in the article...
"The technique may be useful for wiping confidential or sensitive data from a disk."
The whole reason I use CD-Rs over CD-RWs is so that my data can *NOT* be erased... I've backed up family/friends photos, my CD collection, freeware apps, FreeBSD ISOs, etc, etc. on various CD-Rs and now someone has the potential for wiping that out if they ever got a hold of my CD-Rs? Maybe I should start looking around for how to get a hold of a full blown CD making machine, since last time I checked you can erase physical pitts on a CD.
The passage you are thinking of is 2 Peter 3:8. But the thing is the verse says that a day *IS AS* a 1000 years, not a day *IS* a 1000 years. The word "as" is very important here as it denotes simile, rather than a literal "1 day == 1000 years" to God. The Hebrew word used for day in Genesis 1 is "yom" meaning 1 literal 24 hour period of time. And if memory serves the word for day when the Bible talks about Jesus rising after 3 days and such is the Greek equivalent of yom. So to say the 6 days of creation were each 1 billion years would mean that it's taking Jesus 1 billion years to rise from the dead and according to 1 Corinthians 15:12-14 Christianity is a waste of our time and all Christians today are doomed sinners.
As for the how God actually did it, the Bible plainly says that God said "Let there be light." I imagine (correct me if I'm wrong) that you believe that God is omnipotent (all powerful), along with omniscient (all knowing) and omnipresent (He's everywhere). Now if God is all powerful, should we believe He's not capable of speaking light, along with all creation, into existence? Or is it safe for us to say that the Bible doesn't really say?
By the way, slightly off-topic, I find http://bible.gospelcom.net a good site to use when you run into those inevitable "I can't remember the verse offhand" situations that we all run into ;)
A couple of my thoughts on your comment, for what it's worth (and honestly, I'm not trying to flame, just trying to offer a Biblical view of your comment):
1 Peter 3:15 tells Christians they need to always be ready to give others an answer for why they believe what they believe. And 2 Timothy 2:15 says to study. So it's not enough to know who created the universe and why. It *IS* important to know how it was created. Why? So that we can try and convert other people to Christianity. And not everyone that you try to convert to Christianity is going to know the Bible or even believe it. In such cases, you have to start at a point *before* showing them what the Bible says, including Christian evidences that help to prove what the Bible says regarding how the universe came into play.
Another thought on the matter is this: is God ever wordy in the Bible? (and if you want to comment on this, please be objective, no smart-alec comments that are aimed to only cause flames). From what I see the Bible is very concise... the account of the creation of the universe is told in one chapter, not to mention, we only have a record of about 3 years of Jesus' life, when he lived about 33 years... things like this. So if God is concise, and only says what He wants us to know, then why do we have the account of creation, if it's a non-issue of how the universe got here?
Those are just my thoughts on this, and again, it's not meant as a flame, merely as a comment of a concerned Christian, who wants others to do the right thing.
not if it was soldered on a PCB in your PDA or what not. And even if it was standalone, there's plenty of places to store it without losing it.
You forget, we don't just need more performance, we need smaller memory... If these people could make a type of RAM or non-volatile memory from this stuff then you could store your entire DVD collection, your entire CD collection, 1000's of photos from a 2 or 3Mp digital camera, tons of setup files for commonly used apps you have, etc, etc. all on a postage stamp sized media and still have plenty of room left over. Personally, I've been waiting for something like that for a LONG time. I mean, combine something like that with a PDA, cell phone, and firewire camera all at once, and that'd be quite an interesting device, that would be as small as the Sony Clie's I've seen, but rival the space of my desktop machine with an 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV, possibly with better transfer speeds too!!
Yes, it's a lot of forward thinking and so forth, but I await the day when such things are common place and reasonably priced.
And as for these guys working on this project, more power to them, if they can do it, albeit, I'm not holding my breath for it to happen any time soon.
I like Star Wars and I know there are tons of people more gung ho about it than me, but *SIX HOURS* of additional footage? YIKES!
I have a @mac.com e-mail address that I got with my iBook, so I guess it's time to tell my friends & family I won't be able to use it anymore (Apple's not getting $100 from this college student just for an e-mail account). Sad to see it go, but oh well.
people have played games for millenia and now they want to say that because it's on a screen and digital in nature that somehow changes things... sounds blah to me :)
Mankind is arrogant to assume we can make the earth uninhabitable such that we would be forced to colonize another planet. Yes I'm interjecting some religion here, but the Bible speaks of Judgment Day and men still being on earth, so all this worrying is all for nought.
Sure we can make it difficult on ourselves to where we end up shortening lifespans, end up with more diseases & such, but not to the point of having to totally leave Earth.
I mean come on, what's next? Bill Gates stubbed his toe? That's not newsworthy.
... that little green men or some other highly evolved people used the water right? If there were higher forms of life on Mars, don't just show me *supposed* evidence of the water, show me *FOSSILS* and *EXCREMENT* (fossilized or otherwise).
If life did use the water there and now it is gone, then either it's too far under Mars for us to find yet *OR* something used it and *HAD* to have left evidence behind of itself. Otherwise, supposing past life on Mars is just philosophical!