No, the article says that the CPU ID is generated *by* the codemorphing software. IMO that means it's a software construct (which could potentially be removed, changed, faked, etc) but it's still there. I'm not sure why they say that CPUID gives a serial number, but that the "true" Athlon-compatible CPUID instruction does not do this. Does an x86 processor have two different instructions for getting the CPU ID?
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Except that pnambic translated "durchaus ordentlich" with "impressive", which is wrong. "pretty good" or "decent" are much better translations.
Too bad this short review didn't include anything about battery life. The claims Transmeta makes are somewhat ridiculous in this regard, sometimes claiming double the battery life even though the processor accounts only for around 20 percent of power usage in a modern notebook.
That's a dumb comment, not an insightful one. If "Joe Public" buys his DVDs at the same store he bought the player, then chances are damn good that both the player and the DVDs are going to have the same region code. "Joe Public" will never know why people are making such a fuss about this.
6-12 months is enough to teach somebody who already has a decent background the skills needed for the job. Unfortunately the US educational system does not provide adequate background, hence the need for a redesign of this system. US highschools don't teach their students enough, and universities and colleges then have to adapt to that. This needs to change.
Remuneration never even came up (the job-ads did not mention salary either). If smart Americans had applied but demanded more pay, I'm sure they would have been hired. Unfortunately no Americans ever applied that fit the bill.
Yes, Mr. Coward, that was indeed what I meant. How very thoughtful of you to point out this minor mistake of mine. Let me return the favor and point out yours: it's "don't", and not "dont", it's "until" and not "untill", and if "period" is a sentence by itself, it's supposed to be capitalized, i.e. "Period.".
Karma whore...
It is pretty obvious that you have not worked alongside H1-B workers, nor have you informed yourself of what it means to work on an H1-B visa. The company does not "own" the H1-B worker. You can switch jobs if you want, you just have to find a new H1-B sponsor.
"These guys come over here and it's guaranteed" because BEFORE they come over their employer has to prove to the INS that the worker is trained and brings skills that could not be provided by an American worker. When I got my H1-B visa my employer sent me ALL of the paperwork that was sent back and forth between them and the INS. It was a pile of documents about 3 inches thick, accumulated over a period of months. Now that I'm in the US and sat in on a bunch of interviews, I can see why my employer would go through all the trouble of getting employees from outside the US. NONE of the US applicants had the skills needed. The European ones did.
These jobs might be given to American workers if those American workers had the skills required. They don't. We interviewed a whole bunch of them. What looks like "excellent C++ skills" on the resume, turns out to be "took a class in it once" in practice. At least the European workers have the decency to not waste a company's time with artificially inflated resumes.
Moderators, please give this boy a lollypop for his efforts, then moderate him to (Score: -10, doesn't know what he's talking about).
I am an H1-B worker, know a bunch of others, and we all get paid a good wage, a decent share of stock options, and don't work more than 50 hours a week.
A steady stream of resumes is a waste of time. At work I've had to sit in on a number of interviews. Most of the people that we interviewed were totally clueless. The only two smart people (which we ended up hiring) where a German and a Frenchman.
Again the moderators are clueless. Score 4... sheesh!
"Fixing the schools" will provide relief in a decade or two, not this year or next year, which is when these visas are going to be issued.
Hate to tell you this buddy, but being the dropped-out-of-highschool, pick-up driving hick that you are, you're not getting that high-paying IT job even if all of the H1-B immigrants were sent back today.
Contrary to popular redneck belief, knowing how to spell "AOL" is not enough to work in Silicon Valley.
"good roads"?? You call those pothole-ridden stretches of bumpy concrete "good roads"? You really should visit Europe some day. Try the "autoroute du soleil" in France for example. Now THAT'S a good road.
How did you deduce that from a posting that did not even contain the word "drug"? Are you suffering from an overactive imagination or something?
All I'm saying is that just because something is not going to go away, that does not mean that we should not try to stop or contain it. If you think it does, then you must also believe that ALL laws should be abolished, since there is always somebody who will break that law, therefore the law is "pointless".
I would say this was a good idea to consider with regard to drug and gun laws as well as some intellectual
property situations
So basically you just want to abolish the laws that are inconvenient to you. You want to fire guns, use drugs and copy other people's software and music from the net, so let's get rid of all the regulations that stand in your way.
There doesn't need to be a better argument.
And you're actually serious about that? "because you can" is now a valid reason to do something and not place any restrictions on it?
I find the reasoning that some people have adopted lately in order to justify their behaviour simply amazing...
Let's make that the last three sentences, to get a little context:
"The whole argument is irrelevant anyways. This is not going to stop. Not even for you clif."
So basically you're saying that it's OK because everybody's doing it and they're not going to stop doing it. Great argument. Let's get rid of all laws then. They're obviously not stopping crime, so why even bother? That would really solve a lot of problems: no more jails needed, no more police needed. Think of all the money that could be saved! (in fact, you could give some of that money to former criminals, so they don't have to go out and rob people). Plus with murder being legalized, we could get rid of the evil capitalist GPL-opponents once and for all.
I sincerely hope that you have a better argument for Gnutella and Napster than "it's not going to stop". But you probably don't.
Your post deserves to be moderated up for a variety of reasons. That is probably not going to happen though, because most slashdotters don't like what you're saying. Sad really...
The person who posted that is likely a foreigner who is not actually protected by the first amendment, but would like to pretent s/he is to get all the Americas outraged again. The isonews.com domain is registered in the US, but that doesn't mean that all of its staff are US citizens.
Yeah, but if Microsoft had posted an article explaining their security holes or in the same tone ("Yes it's stupid, but I wrote this
code 3 years ago and had no clue", "it was never a problem!") then slashdotters worldwide would have been all over this complaining about the utter inability of Microsoft to do anything right, and bragging about how much better open source software is.
And now slashdot gets hacked (come on guys, "pete" for password?) and all I see are a lame story and comments downplaying the whole thing.
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No, the article says that the CPU ID is generated *by* the codemorphing software. IMO that means it's a software construct (which could potentially be removed, changed, faked, etc) but it's still there. I'm not sure why they say that CPUID gives a serial number, but that the "true" Athlon-compatible CPUID instruction does not do this. Does an x86 processor have two different instructions for getting the CPU ID?
Too bad this short review didn't include anything about battery life. The claims Transmeta makes are somewhat ridiculous in this regard, sometimes claiming double the battery life even though the processor accounts only for around 20 percent of power usage in a modern notebook.
That's a dumb comment, not an insightful one. If "Joe Public" buys his DVDs at the same store he bought the player, then chances are damn good that both the player and the DVDs are going to have the same region code. "Joe Public" will never know why people are making such a fuss about this.
6-12 months is enough to teach somebody who already has a decent background the skills needed for the job. Unfortunately the US educational system does not provide adequate background, hence the need for a redesign of this system. US highschools don't teach their students enough, and universities and colleges then have to adapt to that. This needs to change.
Remuneration never even came up (the job-ads did not mention salary either). If smart Americans had applied but demanded more pay, I'm sure they would have been hired. Unfortunately no Americans ever applied that fit the bill.
Yes, Mr. Coward, that was indeed what I meant. How very thoughtful of you to point out this minor mistake of mine. Let me return the favor and point out yours: it's "don't", and not "dont", it's "until" and not "untill", and if "period" is a sentence by itself, it's supposed to be capitalized, i.e. "Period.".
You must really hate your ancestors then...
Karma whore...
It is pretty obvious that you have not worked alongside H1-B workers, nor have you informed yourself of what it means to work on an H1-B visa. The company does not "own" the H1-B worker. You can switch jobs if you want, you just have to find a new H1-B sponsor.
"These guys come over here and it's guaranteed" because BEFORE they come over their employer has to prove to the INS that the worker is trained and brings skills that could not be provided by an American worker. When I got my H1-B visa my employer sent me ALL of the paperwork that was sent back and forth between them and the INS. It was a pile of documents about 3 inches thick, accumulated over a period of months. Now that I'm in the US and sat in on a bunch of interviews, I can see why my employer would go through all the trouble of getting employees from outside the US. NONE of the US applicants had the skills needed. The European ones did.
These jobs might be given to American workers if those American workers had the skills required. They don't. We interviewed a whole bunch of them. What looks like "excellent C++ skills" on the resume, turns out to be "took a class in it once" in practice. At least the European workers have the decency to not waste a company's time with artificially inflated resumes.
Moderators, please give this boy a lollypop for his efforts, then moderate him to (Score: -10, doesn't know what he's talking about).
I am an H1-B worker, know a bunch of others, and we all get paid a good wage, a decent share of stock options, and don't work more than 50 hours a week.
A steady stream of resumes is a waste of time. At work I've had to sit in on a number of interviews. Most of the people that we interviewed were totally clueless. The only two smart people (which we ended up hiring) where a German and a Frenchman.
Again the moderators are clueless. Score 4... sheesh!
"Fixing the schools" will provide relief in a decade or two, not this year or next year, which is when these visas are going to be issued.
Yet you manage to make two mistakes in that single sentence...
Naah, I vote we find out where all the kkk and aryan nation members' ancestors came from, then send 'm back there...
Contrary to popular redneck belief, knowing how to spell "AOL" is not enough to work in Silicon Valley.
"good roads"?? You call those pothole-ridden stretches of bumpy concrete "good roads"? You really should visit Europe some day. Try the "autoroute du soleil" in France for example. Now THAT'S a good road.
How did you deduce that from a posting that did not even contain the word "drug"? Are you suffering from an overactive imagination or something?
All I'm saying is that just because something is not going to go away, that does not mean that we should not try to stop or contain it. If you think it does, then you must also believe that ALL laws should be abolished, since there is always somebody who will break that law, therefore the law is "pointless".
So basically you just want to abolish the laws that are inconvenient to you. You want to fire guns, use drugs and copy other people's software and music from the net, so let's get rid of all the regulations that stand in your way.
There doesn't need to be a better argument.
And you're actually serious about that? "because you can" is now a valid reason to do something and not place any restrictions on it?
I find the reasoning that some people have adopted lately in order to justify their behaviour simply amazing...
"The whole argument is irrelevant anyways. This is not going to stop. Not even for you clif."
So basically you're saying that it's OK because everybody's doing it and they're not going to stop doing it. Great argument. Let's get rid of all laws then. They're obviously not stopping crime, so why even bother? That would really solve a lot of problems: no more jails needed, no more police needed. Think of all the money that could be saved! (in fact, you could give some of that money to former criminals, so they don't have to go out and rob people). Plus with murder being legalized, we could get rid of the evil capitalist GPL-opponents once and for all.
I sincerely hope that you have a better argument for Gnutella and Napster than "it's not going to stop". But you probably don't.
The person who moderated that drivel up should be dragged into the street and shot...
Your post deserves to be moderated up for a variety of reasons. That is probably not going to happen though, because most slashdotters don't like what you're saying. Sad really...
The person who posted that is likely a foreigner who is not actually protected by the first amendment, but would like to pretent s/he is to get all the Americas outraged again. The isonews.com domain is registered in the US, but that doesn't mean that all of its staff are US citizens.
Yeah, but if Microsoft had posted an article explaining their security holes or in the same tone ("Yes it's stupid, but I wrote this code 3 years ago and had no clue", "it was never a problem!") then slashdotters worldwide would have been all over this complaining about the utter inability of Microsoft to do anything right, and bragging about how much better open source software is.
And now slashdot gets hacked (come on guys, "pete" for password?) and all I see are a lame story and comments downplaying the whole thing.
As soon as this guy mentioned "temporal density", it became painfully obvious that he's been watching Star Trek too much.