High-performance, low-power StrongARM processors provide ideal solutions for portable communications and consumer electronics devices. The processors, which were jointly developed by ARM® and Digital Equipment Corporation, are now available from Intel.
Since the linked website ate my webbrowser (when I saw 8 java apps start at once I knew I was in trouble), I didn't get to read the review.
The one fact that I was looking for was what processor it used.
Thank you.:)
And to answer your question Intel started making ARMs when they couldn't make a low power embedable CPU on their own and bought them out.
Does anyone know how the GBA runs old GB(C) carts. I guess the StrongARM is fast enough to emulatate an 8MHz Z80. I don't think the ARM is binary compatible with the Z80.
A launch pad will have to be constructed. Why not do it somewhere else? I bet there are quite a few coastal South American countries that would like a few bucks to locate the launch facilities there.
I mean if you are going to space, why not take a nice cruise first.
I see the US space program starting to loose out on highly profitible ventures if they don't losen up a little bit. If you take a billionare up on every time you can basicly make the flight for free.
I bed to differ on this one. I use Mozilla 0.9 (even with its graphic corruption) almost exclusively. It is more stable than Netscape 4.77 on my machine.
Except that even the cable companies would love to deliver all pay-per-view content.
I see TV going this way in the years to come.
I don't know how I feel about it (maybe I can Ask Slashdot how I feel). There are not too many shows that I really try to catch (Stargate SG-1 and Futurama), but I like to have the TV on in the background.
"A little paranoid", reminds me of something my dad would say about his brother who worked in the U.S. military.
He would say, "all of us are a little paranoid, when you get on an air plane you think it might blow up. But your uncle is really paranoid. When he gets on an air plane he knows it is going to blow up."
This uncle was also the first person to ever tell mention anything like ECHELON to me. It was over 15 years ago too. He said that US had the ability to monitor all phone calls. But there would be no way for them to store everything. So, there were trigger words that would cause the rest of your conversation to be recorded. I was only a kid at the time, so I figured my dad was right, and he was just a lot paranoid.
But it was funny, recommended placing key words together every time you talk on the phone to over load the system.
In your memory, uncle:
Are you going to bring the party supplies, we need balloons to blow up, the White House apples for bobbing, and dispossible plates.
I recall an older Slashdot article that mentioned that Transmeta was working on adding AMD's 64-bit instructions to their code morphing, and that they'd be helping AMD test software, as AMD's processor simulator was very slow.
Is TiVo looking to get bought out by Microsoft? I mean, isn't that how MS has always delt with companies that could possibly have patent on something they wanted to "invent"?
I just read the patent that was linked to as recording one program while watching another. It doesn't seem to be that. It more seems to be for watching the program you are recording.
I think everyone knows that is already done. But the patent describes a little farther that the input is converted into MPEG format (could I patent the same technology using AVIs, or QT?) and that the MPEG is then decoded and sent to the output.
This way various effected can be applied to the video stream in real time. Such as pausing live television.
/. forgot to mention that the paper is in PDF or PostScript.
I don't understand, they always seem to mention that fact and the fact that the NY Times is a free registration.:P
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Heh, I linked to a 9.6 sec. rotary earlier.
I'm quite sure a turbo charged, nitrous RX-7 could be pushed down the track in 8 seconds, but it wouldn't be very streetable.
The little snippet I found and linked to mentions that the car can be driven quite calmly. I've seen this same car mentioned another time. Then they were saying that the car was driven to its NHRA licensing trials. They just pulled the slicks out of the hatch swapped the tires around and made the run. Swapped the tires back and drove home. (At least I'm pretty sure it was this same car.)
Oh well, I like my convertible top too much. Don't race convertibles, you'll just get beaten by a coupe with the same mods. But at least I look good doing it.
A better example would be a car that actually runs the 1/4 mile in about the same time (9.62 sec.).
How about this RX-7. It only has 645 HP. It shows what is comes down to is HP to weight ratio. A motor cycle is going to weigh a lot less than any car. And thus require less HP to have the same ET.
Anyway, at over 100 MPH I just feel a lot safer enclosed. So, I'll just stick with the extra weight surrounding me.
Whoops, I should read closer and get rid of this damned headache.
4th paragraph:
In both cases, the patent office found "prior art" -- evidence that others had the idea first. In the case of the "one-click" concept, the prior art consisted of an earlier Japanese patent application and a 1996 book, "User Interface Design," by Alan Cooper.
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Of course if I were to read through the story I would expect to see a pronounciation. But being that Java isn't that much interest to me.
So as a casual observer I'd have no clue how to pronounce it. Unless they lable everything, "Jxta -- pronounced JUX-tah, as in 'juxtapose'".
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At leaset I could attempt to pronounce Jini, even if I wasn't sure if it was jin-ee, or jean-ee (those are American English vowel sounds).
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From ARM's website:
High-performance, low-power StrongARM processors provide ideal solutions for portable communications and consumer electronics devices. The processors, which were jointly developed by ARM® and Digital Equipment Corporation, are now available from Intel.
So, perhaps you were correct the first time.
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Since the linked website ate my webbrowser (when I saw 8 java apps start at once I knew I was in trouble), I didn't get to read the review.
:)
The one fact that I was looking for was what processor it used.
Thank you.
And to answer your question Intel started making ARMs when they couldn't make a low power embedable CPU on their own and bought them out.
Does anyone know how the GBA runs old GB(C) carts. I guess the StrongARM is fast enough to emulatate an 8MHz Z80. I don't think the ARM is binary compatible with the Z80.
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Like I was saying in another post...
Just buy up some coastal land in South America. Fix everything up all nice. Then offer as part of the space launch an ocean cruise.
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So why launch out of the US?
A launch pad will have to be constructed. Why not do it somewhere else? I bet there are quite a few coastal South American countries that would like a few bucks to locate the launch facilities there.
I mean if you are going to space, why not take a nice cruise first.
I see the US space program starting to loose out on highly profitible ventures if they don't losen up a little bit. If you take a billionare up on every time you can basicly make the flight for free.
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I bed to differ on this one. I use Mozilla 0.9 (even with its graphic corruption) almost exclusively. It is more stable than Netscape 4.77 on my machine.
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Except that even the cable companies would love to deliver all pay-per-view content.
I see TV going this way in the years to come.
I don't know how I feel about it (maybe I can Ask Slashdot how I feel). There are not too many shows that I really try to catch (Stargate SG-1 and Futurama), but I like to have the TV on in the background.
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In the first 8 posts there were 2 sigs references to Fight Club.
I'm impressed.
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And Spam, isn't close enough to Uck, that you'd still eat it? :P
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Gel wrist pads? You know you are not supposed to rest your wrists on anything as you type?
Read what JWZ has to say.
Og, I'm turning into a fan boy. Oh well, postmodern.
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"A little paranoid", reminds me of something my dad would say about his brother who worked in the U.S. military.
He would say, "all of us are a little paranoid, when you get on an air plane you think it might blow up. But your uncle is really paranoid. When he gets on an air plane he knows it is going to blow up."
This uncle was also the first person to ever tell mention anything like ECHELON to me. It was over 15 years ago too. He said that US had the ability to monitor all phone calls. But there would be no way for them to store everything. So, there were trigger words that would cause the rest of your conversation to be recorded. I was only a kid at the time, so I figured my dad was right, and he was just a lot paranoid.
But it was funny, recommended placing key words together every time you talk on the phone to over load the system.
In your memory, uncle:
Are you going to bring the party supplies, we need balloons to blow up, the White House apples for bobbing, and dispossible plates.
--
I recall an older Slashdot article that mentioned that Transmeta was working on adding AMD's 64-bit instructions to their code morphing, and that they'd be helping AMD test software, as AMD's processor simulator was very slow.
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I can see the argument for restricting use of code to free OSes. But that is not in the spirit of Free (as in speach not beer) Software.
I think that restricting use of software would only bring us down to the level of the code horders.
Join us now and free the software.
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Is TiVo looking to get bought out by Microsoft? I mean, isn't that how MS has always delt with companies that could possibly have patent on something they wanted to "invent"?
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I just read the patent that was linked to as recording one program while watching another. It doesn't seem to be that. It more seems to be for watching the program you are recording.
I think everyone knows that is already done. But the patent describes a little farther that the input is converted into MPEG format (could I patent the same technology using AVIs, or QT?) and that the MPEG is then decoded and sent to the output.
This way various effected can be applied to the video stream in real time. Such as pausing live television.
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/. forgot to mention that the paper is in PDF or PostScript.
:P
I don't understand, they always seem to mention that fact and the fact that the NY Times is a free registration.
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Heh, I linked to a 9.6 sec. rotary earlier.
I'm quite sure a turbo charged, nitrous RX-7 could be pushed down the track in 8 seconds, but it wouldn't be very streetable.
The little snippet I found and linked to mentions that the car can be driven quite calmly. I've seen this same car mentioned another time. Then they were saying that the car was driven to its NHRA licensing trials. They just pulled the slicks out of the hatch swapped the tires around and made the run. Swapped the tires back and drove home. (At least I'm pretty sure it was this same car.)
Oh well, I like my convertible top too much. Don't race convertibles, you'll just get beaten by a coupe with the same mods. But at least I look good doing it.
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Not to mention "stump pulling torque" is low-end torque. I don't imagine this bike builds up it's 425 ft/lbs until the upper RPM range.
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Bah, Viper. Big heavy beast of a car.
A better example would be a car that actually runs the 1/4 mile in about the same time (9.62 sec.).
How about this RX-7. It only has 645 HP. It shows what is comes down to is HP to weight ratio. A motor cycle is going to weigh a lot less than any car. And thus require less HP to have the same ET.
Anyway, at over 100 MPH I just feel a lot safer enclosed. So, I'll just stick with the extra weight surrounding me.
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Remove the bottem name on the list, and add mine to the top...
I'll show them:
Neon Spiral Injector
Neon Spiral Injector
Neon Spiral Injector
Neon Spiral Injector
Now I'll make karma 5 times faster.
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Considering the book was published in the US, I'd say that it should have some baring.
Maybe I should go get a copy and see what it says.
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Whoops, I should read closer and get rid of this damned headache.
4th paragraph:
In both cases, the patent office found "prior art" -- evidence that others had the idea first. In the case of the "one-click" concept, the prior art consisted of an earlier Japanese patent application and a 1996 book, "User Interface Design," by Alan Cooper.
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I'm glad they rejected the patent. But on prior art? Can they share with us the exact art which they are saying came before?
I would have rather just seen, "too obvious, go away."
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The right hand picture in the "T." image is obviously a "/.".
Taco, what have you been up to?
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