So I get to pay extra per month for them to compress webpage text on their end.
So yay, the text part of a webpage comes a little faster. So that 10k or so of HTML is 5x faster.
Those images, MP3s, streaming video, and all that are all already compressed (normally lossy at that)... I doubt they're gonna do much with that. And why on earth do you want something more than dialup if you're not using high-bandwidth applications?
What's sad is that people will actually pay extra for this.
Good idea. Perhaps there's prior art, but I don't think the patent itself is an issue (or at least there are much worse patents in the world to gripe over).
As for overclocking, the diagram just shows a signal going out that latches when the chip is overclocked. What a processor DOES with it is an entirely other story. A cool extension would be a pin to a motherboard, and allowing the BIOS to actually give a big "HEY, I'M OVERCLOCKED" message on startup. Those who get reseller-overclocked chips (and it happens!) know they've been shafted. Those who are overclockers know they're cool (well... quite hot actually... nevermind).
At least I'd HOPE they'd put some way around it for those truly interested in overclocking.
We're not even talking large amounts of money. But even if we were, it's not something that should be done!
Microsoft shouldn't be the only option, but it should be at least one of them. For all their corporate shenanigans, they do have several products that are both well-used in the field, and some products that are *gasp* BETTER than the competition.
In some places, non-Microsoft products may be better - sell that on a case-by-case basis. Or better yet, offer both. My school has Windows 2000 desktops and Sun workstations side-by-side, and there's nothing wrong with that.
I am currently sitting at my desk at Sun Microsystems Labs in Mountain View California. I'm a University of Waterloo Computer Engineering Undergraduate student.
The intern positions are tough to get at these companies, but there is certainly no lack of them! And they are certainly paid. I for one am paid obscenely well for my time here in California.
In this area in general, all the big researchg outfits have large intern programs: - Sun (both the labs and general) - HP - IBM - PARC (former Xerox lab) - Microsoft Research
The smaller companies each will hire smaller numbers of interns... maybe only one or two each, but I find most companies that have hired interns and done well by it (and most do) believe strongly in it and will be happy to look at your resume.
Make sure, beyond anything, to get your resume into the stacks of these companies. Many of them will only bring interns in during the summer with the university students on co-op, so it helps to know when to get the resume in.
I agree. This still leaves plenty of holes open for DMCA abuse, for example, against researchers who examine a copyright protection system.
It'd be good for consumers in that you wouldn't be locked into a particular platform (eg. Linux eBook reader, Linux DVD player software, etc), however, you could still silence someone from publishing a report on how weak the security method is, because you can offer a junky client for each environment to silence any possible "I was just trying to make a Linux DVD player" defence.
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The book database looks like it's pretty heavily geek-weighted right now. Not saying they aren't some of the best titles, but the top fives seem all to be your standard geek picks for books snd suthors.
Most mail servers will only forward mail from users of their own domain. If the mailserver is sending spam for one of their legitimate users, I feel no pity for them if their server slows down.
If they forward mail from anyone who sends them mail, then they are an open relay, and again, they deserve what they get for leaving an open relay up.
DMCA, baby! If a modchip can be used to circumvent copyright protections (and it can), then it's a circumvention device and therefore illegal in the States. Same as DeCSS and all that.
It didn't help that he was being quite blatant as to his perceived purpose of the modchips; hint: it wasn't to boot Linux.
Because it's an Intel platform, with a sweet set of graphics hardware, sold at a loss. This equals cheap computer hardware, as long as you can get it to do what you want.
You can only run software signed by Microsoft unless you do hardware modifications (of dubious legality in the United States and other countries, and requiring significant effort). Many people would like to run applications on the X-Box beyond what Microsft has already signed. Hence Linux. Of course, once the X-Box boots to the signed linux kernel, that kernel can do anything it wants, including Linux games, or even web serving/clustering/blah blah blah.
"If one route goes away, the router will simply pick the next best path."
That's the point! The article says that according to mathematical theory, this approach is not ideal.
Basically, by sending some packets along alternate routes that are actually slower, while that individual packet may arrive later, statistically the packets will arrive faster.
Yeah that's right. Pick on the ones who can fight back. Take on the industry that has taken every opponent, even the government, and lived to tell about it.
Hehe. I can imagine the executives meeting. "What do you guys control?" "I control cell phones." "I am the master of cable." "I am the undisputed champion of the US Internet backbone." "So... what do you control for world domination?" "Ummm.... CD music. Not anything good though, just the really commercialized stuff." *crowd contains guffaws and laughter starts leaking out*
Packet collisions occur at the physical layer, TCP-like anything is irrelevant. Consider it like collisions in ethernet, except that since wireless networks are a less predictable medium, it's more likely to happen when you get base stations scattered in wierd ways. That and that there are hundreds of broadcasts a second just to keep time in sync.
802.11 latencies are slim compared to a cablemodem latency, and the traffic generated would be small enough for it to not matter much anyways. Especially if you are the only device in range.
Heh. They are doing the right things. Just for the wrong reasons.
Downloading your soul and silently uploading DRM upgrades in its place takes a lot of bandwidth. And a lot of this remote 0wning^H^H^H^H^H^Hassistance stuff in the OS could be considered servers, which many broadband providers ban. It'd suck to have your plans for world domination delayed for five years because the users' 56k modems don't pull it fast enough.
Sorry mods, the guy is RIGHT! Star Control 2 ports are FAR more important than Gnome 2.0. Star Control was changing lives before Gnome had even been heard of. This is the news of the century!
Linux the platform. Linux the project. Linux the tshirt. Linux the lunch box. Linux the flame-thrower (the kids love that one). And of course, Linux the doll.
Rather surprized that Soma's complaining about being on equal footing with radio. Wasn't the whole basis of complaint about this thing that webcasters were being forced to pay MORE than radio transmissions?
While it is sad that they can't afford it, why do they deserve better rates than a traditional radio station?
... was a Gone Jackals CD. Why? I couldn't find it online. Not on Napster, not on IRC, not on the web. Anywhere. Only place I could get it was some obscure online CD store. So I did.
What use is cheap music downloads if it's just the latest crap out of boy-band-du-jour? You can download that from anywhere free. Sell the bands that weren't quite as heavily advertised. Bandwidth is (well, marginally these days) cheaper for bands who won't sell high volume of CDs.
The 'move' that Neo did was was THE SIGNATURE MOVE OF BRUCE LEE! Come on, while Keanu did kick some AI butt in that movie, credit must be given where credit is due.
The only question now being who would win in a fight? Neo? Bruce Lee? Or Yoda?
Neo can bend reality, Yoda's got the force, and Bruce Lee just takes the hits and keeps coming.
I know lots of Counterstrike players who are constantly banned from servers for winning too much: unless the other players are at the same level, they assume the better players must be cheating.
(of course, this never happens to me; nobody could cheat and still suck so badly)
Perhaps a ranking system. Players of approximately equal skill are pooled together by the server automatically after a certain minimum number of games. Cheaters can then play to their heart's content, but will end up with other cheaters and those who are so good that they can take on cheaters and still live.
I think this is a great idea! It may even promote computer games to those who wouldn't normally be interested, and promote social interaction. The fact that you CAN play games like Mechwarrior 4 is a blessing in itself, and a completely foreign concept to the joke known as British Columbia high schools (unless you were in a very wealthy area!)
While FPS is the preferred network game style of choice, it may be unpopular with parents (who like to blame their child's violence on someone other than themselves), so I would avoid them.
I think Mechwarrior 4 is a great choice, but as a Precentor in the Mech Lord League, I'm probably biased in that regard. MW4 is a good mix of 'shooter' with strategy, with a small tad of design too. Civilization 3 is amazingly addictive, but I have no idea how it plays multiplayer.
Alpha Centauri maybe? It's not the NEWEST of games, but that doesn't preclude quality. Actually, one of the Star Control clones (may I suggest Timewarp?) would be really good, since matches can be fought in minutes, and is both addictive and extremely enjoyable to play multiplayer.
I just bought one of these puppies last week. I'm chomping at the bit for it to arrive now:)
Been completely mobile for years (no desktop), and the only thing I ever really had complaints about were the video cards. I won't be worrying about that anymore, evidently:)
Our professor would always (almost compulsively) draw a picture of a brain, and a picture of a box.
The box was your state machine, and the brain was the operator/programmer/user whatever looking at some aspect of it.
The whole concept of programming languages was explained using a sequence of grunts and sidetracks, and lots of pictures of the brain and the box with different relevant sizes:)
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So I get to pay extra per month for them to compress webpage text on their end.
So yay, the text part of a webpage comes a little faster. So that 10k or so of HTML is 5x faster.
Those images, MP3s, streaming video, and all that are all already compressed (normally lossy at that)... I doubt they're gonna do much with that. And why on earth do you want something more than dialup if you're not using high-bandwidth applications?
What's sad is that people will actually pay extra for this.
Good idea. Perhaps there's prior art, but I don't think the patent itself is an issue (or at least there are much worse patents in the world to gripe over).
As for overclocking, the diagram just shows a signal going out that latches when the chip is overclocked. What a processor DOES with it is an entirely other story. A cool extension would be a pin to a motherboard, and allowing the BIOS to actually give a big "HEY, I'M OVERCLOCKED" message on startup. Those who get reseller-overclocked chips (and it happens!) know they've been shafted. Those who are overclockers know they're cool (well... quite hot actually... nevermind).
At least I'd HOPE they'd put some way around it for those truly interested in overclocking.
Well Unreal Tournament 2003 plays better out-of-the-box on my Linux install than my Windows install.
That was with the default X that came with my Linux distribution (Slackware) and drivers directly from NVidia's website.
If you can play UT2003, I think the hardware support is there.
We're not even talking large amounts of money. But even if we were, it's not something that should be done!
Microsoft shouldn't be the only option, but it should be at least one of them. For all their corporate shenanigans, they do have several products that are both well-used in the field, and some products that are *gasp* BETTER than the competition.
In some places, non-Microsoft products may be better - sell that on a case-by-case basis. Or better yet, offer both. My school has Windows 2000 desktops and Sun workstations side-by-side, and there's nothing wrong with that.
I am currently sitting at my desk at Sun Microsystems Labs in Mountain View California. I'm a University of Waterloo Computer Engineering Undergraduate student.
The intern positions are tough to get at these companies, but there is certainly no lack of them! And they are certainly paid. I for one am paid obscenely well for my time here in California.
In this area in general, all the big researchg outfits have large intern programs:
- Sun (both the labs and general)
- HP
- IBM
- PARC (former Xerox lab)
- Microsoft Research
The smaller companies each will hire smaller numbers of interns... maybe only one or two each, but I find most companies that have hired interns and done well by it (and most do) believe strongly in it and will be happy to look at your resume.
Make sure, beyond anything, to get your resume into the stacks of these companies. Many of them will only bring interns in during the summer with the university students on co-op, so it helps to know when to get the resume in.
I agree. This still leaves plenty of holes open for DMCA abuse, for example, against researchers who examine a copyright protection system.
It'd be good for consumers in that you wouldn't be locked into a particular platform (eg. Linux eBook reader, Linux DVD player software, etc), however, you could still silence someone from publishing a report on how weak the security method is, because you can offer a junky client for each environment to silence any possible "I was just trying to make a Linux DVD player" defence.
The book database looks like it's pretty heavily geek-weighted right now. Not saying they aren't some of the best titles, but the top fives seem all to be your standard geek picks for books snd suthors.
Most mail servers will only forward mail from users of their own domain. If the mailserver is sending spam for one of their legitimate users, I feel no pity for them if their server slows down.
If they forward mail from anyone who sends them mail, then they are an open relay, and again, they deserve what they get for leaving an open relay up.
DMCA, baby!
If a modchip can be used to circumvent copyright protections (and it can), then it's a circumvention device and therefore illegal in the States. Same as DeCSS and all that.
It didn't help that he was being quite blatant as to his perceived purpose of the modchips; hint: it wasn't to boot Linux.
From a linked Yahoo article: "Essentially, the majority of the FCC opposed the deregulation plan set forth by agency chairman Michael Powell."
Excuse my ignorance (I'm Canadian), but if the majority of the FCC is opposing it, how did the plan get decided upon?
Because it's an Intel platform, with a sweet set of graphics hardware, sold at a loss. This equals cheap computer hardware, as long as you can get it to do what you want.
You can only run software signed by Microsoft unless you do hardware modifications (of dubious legality in the United States and other countries, and requiring significant effort). Many people would like to run applications on the X-Box beyond what Microsft has already signed. Hence Linux. Of course, once the X-Box boots to the signed linux kernel, that kernel can do anything it wants, including Linux games, or even web serving/clustering/blah blah blah.
"If one route goes away, the router will simply
pick the next best path."
That's the point! The article says that according to mathematical theory, this approach is not ideal.
Basically, by sending some packets along alternate routes that are actually slower, while that individual packet may arrive later, statistically the packets will arrive faster.
Yeah that's right. Pick on the ones who can fight back. Take on the industry that has taken every opponent, even the government, and lived to tell about it.
Hehe. I can imagine the executives meeting.
"What do you guys control?"
"I control cell phones."
"I am the master of cable."
"I am the undisputed champion of the US Internet backbone."
"So... what do you control for world domination?"
"Ummm.... CD music. Not anything good though, just the really commercialized stuff."
*crowd contains guffaws and laughter starts leaking out*
Some of the humor might be lost though: all of Spaceball 1 would fit on the screen!
And come on, giant bugs diving at me at Imax size can't be beat.
Packet collisions occur at the physical layer, TCP-like anything is irrelevant. Consider it like collisions in ethernet, except that since wireless networks are a less predictable medium, it's more likely to happen when you get base stations scattered in wierd ways.
That and that there are hundreds of broadcasts a second just to keep time in sync.
802.11 latencies are slim compared to a cablemodem latency, and the traffic generated would be small enough for it to not matter much anyways. Especially if you are the only device in range.
Heh.
They are doing the right things. Just for the wrong reasons.
Downloading your soul and silently uploading DRM upgrades in its place takes a lot of bandwidth. And a lot of this remote 0wning^H^H^H^H^H^Hassistance stuff in the OS could be considered servers, which many broadband providers ban. It'd suck to have your plans for world domination delayed for five years because the users' 56k modems don't pull it fast enough.
Sorry mods, the guy is RIGHT!
Star Control 2 ports are FAR more important than Gnome 2.0. Star Control was changing lives before Gnome had even been heard of. This is the news of the century!
Linux the platform.
Linux the project.
Linux the tshirt.
Linux the lunch box.
Linux the flame-thrower (the kids love that one).
And of course, Linux the doll.
Rather surprized that Soma's complaining about being on equal footing with radio. Wasn't the whole basis of complaint about this thing that webcasters were being forced to pay MORE than radio transmissions?
While it is sad that they can't afford it, why do they deserve better rates than a traditional radio station?
... was a Gone Jackals CD.
Why?
I couldn't find it online. Not on Napster, not on IRC, not on the web. Anywhere. Only place I could get it was some obscure online CD store. So I did.
What use is cheap music downloads if it's just the latest crap out of boy-band-du-jour? You can download that from anywhere free. Sell the bands that weren't quite as heavily advertised. Bandwidth is (well, marginally these days) cheaper for bands who won't sell high volume of CDs.
The 'move' that Neo did was was THE SIGNATURE MOVE OF BRUCE LEE!
Come on, while Keanu did kick some AI butt in that movie, credit must be given where credit is due.
The only question now being who would win in a fight? Neo? Bruce Lee? Or Yoda?
Neo can bend reality, Yoda's got the force, and Bruce Lee just takes the hits and keeps coming.
I know lots of Counterstrike players who are constantly banned from servers for winning too much: unless the other players are at the same level, they assume the better players must be cheating.
(of course, this never happens to me; nobody could cheat and still suck so badly)
Perhaps a ranking system. Players of approximately equal skill are pooled together by the server automatically after a certain minimum number of games. Cheaters can then play to their heart's content, but will end up with other cheaters and those who are so good that they can take on cheaters and still live.
While FPS is the preferred network game style of choice, it may be unpopular with parents (who like to blame their child's violence on someone other than themselves), so I would avoid them. I think Mechwarrior 4 is a great choice, but as a Precentor in the Mech Lord League, I'm probably biased in that regard. MW4 is a good mix of 'shooter' with strategy, with a small tad of design too. Civilization 3 is amazingly addictive, but I have no idea how it plays multiplayer.
Alpha Centauri maybe? It's not the NEWEST of games, but that doesn't preclude quality. Actually, one of the Star Control clones (may I suggest Timewarp?) would be really good, since matches can be fought in minutes, and is both addictive and extremely enjoyable to play multiplayer.
I just bought one of these puppies last week. I'm chomping at the bit for it to arrive now :)
:)
Been completely mobile for years (no desktop), and the only thing I ever really had complaints about were the video cards. I won't be worrying about that anymore, evidently
Our professor would always (almost compulsively) draw a picture of a brain, and a picture of a box.
:)
The box was your state machine, and the brain was the operator/programmer/user whatever looking at some aspect of it.
The whole concept of programming languages was explained using a sequence of grunts and sidetracks, and lots of pictures of the brain and the box with different relevant sizes