This remark is disengenous, as it implies somehow there is some "usually" to the government having implanted people before. "Implanting" is very invasive, forcible implanting would feel to many people like rape, and the very subject invokes a deep visceral negative reaction that, IMO, not only would lead to strong political counter reaction, but possibly VIOLENCE.
Google is your friend. "interconnect fabric". 42,900 hits. And so forth. The term fabric refers to the infrastructural technologies that "weave" components together into a system. Used loosely, it might refer to hypertransport, SBUS, craylink, infiniband, fiber channel, and so forth.
You'll be pleased to know that there are folks at Sun, currently, who feel the same. I've been shown internal documents on their next-generation AMD releases. It's looking promising for them. It would appear that Sun's future is likely to be a mix of Niagara and x86 solutions.
A quad-proc dual-core opteron still isn't there yet in being able to match a fully loaded E25K for chewing on a big database....don't think the SPARC architecture is up for matching the latest from Intel, AMD, or IBM.
You almost seem to be contradicting yourself. Except... I know what you mean. What Sun should be doing is putting it's enterprise class systems (read: to include mainboard fabric design) experience to work at making Opteron solutions. With Sun's memory fabric experience and so forth, Opteron could really fly.
Is there really that much of a difference between using an Intel chip and an AMD chip?
Yes. However, it has more to do with the integrated IO fabric (hypertransport) than it does with the aspects of the chip that you consider traditional duties of a chip. The AMD solution is highly differentiated from Intel in this way, although the impact to single-CPU system purchasers is minimal. AMD becomes truly distinct as a platform solution at CPU counts > 2. In this market, Intel really is being hurt by AMD right now.
This poster has a point. The easements are easily worth... oh, I would guess 100.. times as much as the cables actually laid. Those easements aren't privately owned, generally. There was a certain telecoms company founded in the 90's on this principle, rather brilliantly. The VC bought a railroad, of all things. Why? Because of the easements. Easy way to lay down your own national network between most major point A's and B's that people cared about...
In fact, if they asked others to refer to them as "doctor", they would be looked upon as pretentious snobs.
If they asked others to refer to them as "doctor," they'd be pretentious and narcissistic snobs. Sometime a while back, I had someone ask me to refer to him as doctor. I asked him why he wasn't referring to me as "mister"? Respect is reciprocal, was the point of the day.
Just imagine how cheap Coca-Cola would be if they patented the formula in 1920.
There is nothing, and always has been nothing, preventing you from making an exact flavor replacement of Coca-Cola. The only thing that is protected is the name. Obviously, when Coke first came about, we didn't have the modern chemical analysis tools of today. But still. We now do have those tools, the formula is generally known, no big deal. Has nothing to do with anything, really. Coke has always been about branding, really.
And don't talk about Constitution, since not only does that only apply to the laws made by the federal government,...
While you are of course correct on your comments regarding sovereignty, you are not correct in your assertion that the Constitution only applies to the federal government.
"...a computer supported system that can make possible a commercial relationship through the use of electronic streams which format is accorded upon directly between the involved parts or by any other means, like an ISO standard, served by a remote computer supported system in control of the vendor... take that"
That having been said, it may not be a total FUD scenario.
Actually, it is. The moment they so much as specify what their dispute might be, the open source community will just change immediately and code around the patents. The poster who compared the threats to the threat of use of atomic weapons is correct. Threatening has more value than suing, because the moment they sue, the open source community is so rapid in its ability to adapt, it will simply say "thank you for the heads up," and code a different solution.
You were expecting something monumental, like singlehandedly taking on the IPv4 standard and getting early adoption for something like v6 with IPSEC included?
Not to mention the fact that they are the only form of bio media storage that's prone to occasionally putting peanut butter sandwiches in your non bio mechanical storage device readers.
When a labor shortage arises in the market for high-tech labor, such politicians attempt to damage the correcting force of the shortage by injecting H-1B workers into the market.
You have that exactly backwards! The correcting force is the world market responding. The synthetic limitation on workers is the political meddling. It might be political meddling you happen to like, but facts are facts. The interferer in market forces are the restrictions against foreign workers entering this country not "injecting H-1B workers into the market." (sic!)
Very well. Then homebuyers are subsidized, and renters are not. In fact, every tax incentive, of any kind, in this country is a subsidy. I'm fine with this definition, in so far as we agree on terms. All of these tax deductions are subsidies. Really, they should all be done away with.
Well, if you were the one who created the concept of seatbelts in the first place, and the car maufacturer came along and just installed their own and shut you out, then you'd certainly think it was unfair.
This just goes to show... many uses of the word "unfair" are really not so much as about describing inappropriate inequity between parties, but rather simply a word used to describe a situation not to one's liking. To wit: who cares who created the concept? Concept's aren't owned things, time to get over it and move along.
For server solutions like these, typically the power supply is REDUNDANT. I.e., it's two of 'em, with a failover capability. This is very common, particularly in rackmounts.
Oh fuck me - the next step is a VM rootkit that flashes the bios to keep a VM rootkit.
Flashes your bios, writes your boot blocks, patches your microcode, wash, rinse, repeat, all that's left to do is nuke it from orbit, as the other guy said....
This isn't a brand new processor, it's a future processor that they hope to have out in 6 months.
Indeed. This is a new situation for Intel. What they have done is given out copies of early silicon to reviewers, to publish reviews of a product that they don't plan to have out of their fabs at any significant production level for quite some time. Quite embarrassing that Intel has been reduced to this, really. We're getting reviews of a product that no comsumer can buy, and won't be buyable for quite some time.
Nonetheless, I'm happy to see them moving forward with decent x86 plans. The additional issue width, the microop bundling, the power enhancements-- all neato. Now they just need to address their goddamn bus topology.
I've never worked anywhere where IT policies like "no unauthorized software" were actually enforced.
Certain DOD settings. In these settings, violate the policy, and there is some chance that not only will you be fired, but that you will never again work in a setting requiring a clearance... EVER.
I suppose I should have quoted the section of the prior post I was responding to. The prior poster wanted to assert that intellectual property was the heart of the future, when, in fact, real estate is and always will be the fundament of wealth. Particularly in Tapei, I'm sure you will agree.
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Yes, they usually do.
This remark is disengenous, as it implies somehow there is some "usually" to the government having implanted people before. "Implanting" is very invasive, forcible implanting would feel to many people like rape, and the very subject invokes a deep visceral negative reaction that, IMO, not only would lead to strong political counter reaction, but possibly VIOLENCE.
C//
Google is your friend. "interconnect fabric". 42,900 hits. And so forth. The term fabric refers to the infrastructural technologies that "weave" components together into a system. Used loosely, it might refer to hypertransport, SBUS, craylink, infiniband, fiber channel, and so forth.
C//
You'll be pleased to know that there are folks at Sun, currently, who feel the same. I've been shown internal documents on their next-generation AMD releases. It's looking promising for them. It would appear that Sun's future is likely to be a mix of Niagara and x86 solutions.
C//
A quad-proc dual-core opteron still isn't there yet in being able to match a fully loaded E25K for chewing on a big database....don't think the SPARC architecture is up for matching the latest from Intel, AMD, or IBM.
You almost seem to be contradicting yourself. Except... I know what you mean. What Sun should be doing is putting it's enterprise class systems (read: to include mainboard fabric design) experience to work at making Opteron solutions. With Sun's memory fabric experience and so forth, Opteron could really fly.
C//
Is there really that much of a difference between using an Intel chip and an AMD chip?
Yes. However, it has more to do with the integrated IO fabric (hypertransport) than it does with the aspects of the chip that you consider traditional duties of a chip. The AMD solution is highly differentiated from Intel in this way, although the impact to single-CPU system purchasers is minimal. AMD becomes truly distinct as a platform solution at CPU counts > 2. In this market, Intel really is being hurt by AMD right now.
C//
This poster has a point. The easements are easily worth... oh, I would guess 100.. times as much as the cables actually laid. Those easements aren't privately owned, generally. There was a certain telecoms company founded in the 90's on this principle, rather brilliantly. The VC bought a railroad, of all things. Why? Because of the easements. Easy way to lay down your own national network between most major point A's and B's that people cared about...
C//
In fact, if they asked others to refer to them as "doctor", they would be looked upon as pretentious snobs.
If they asked others to refer to them as "doctor," they'd be pretentious and narcissistic snobs. Sometime a while back, I had someone ask me to refer to him as doctor. I asked him why he wasn't referring to me as "mister"? Respect is reciprocal, was the point of the day.
C//
Just imagine how cheap Coca-Cola would be if they patented the formula in 1920.
There is nothing, and always has been nothing, preventing you from making an exact flavor replacement of Coca-Cola. The only thing that is protected is the name.
Obviously, when Coke first came about, we didn't have the modern chemical analysis tools of today. But still. We now do have those tools, the formula is generally known, no big deal. Has nothing to do with anything, really. Coke has always been about branding, really.
C//
And don't talk about Constitution, since not only does that only apply to the laws made by the federal government,...
While you are of course correct on your comments regarding sovereignty, you are not correct in your assertion that the Constitution only applies to the federal government.
C//
"...a computer supported system that can make possible a commercial relationship through the use of electronic streams which format is accorded upon directly between the involved parts or by any other means, like an ISO standard, served by a remote computer supported system in control of the vendor... take that"
From which patent is this a quote?
C//
Only recently have designers failed to find new ways to use more transistors to speed up a core, hence multi core chips.
Um.... hello? You think those extra cores didn't require transistors?
C//
That having been said, it may not be a total FUD scenario.
Actually, it is. The moment they so much as specify what their dispute might be, the open source community will just change immediately and code around the patents. The poster who compared the threats to the threat of use of atomic weapons is correct. Threatening has more value than suing, because the moment they sue, the open source community is so rapid in its ability to adapt, it will simply say "thank you for the heads up," and code a different solution.
C//
You were expecting something monumental, like singlehandedly taking on the IPv4 standard and getting early adoption for something like v6 with IPSEC included?
Har har.
C//
Not to mention the fact that they are the only form of bio media storage that's prone to occasionally putting peanut butter sandwiches in your non bio mechanical storage device readers.
C//
When a labor shortage arises in the market for high-tech labor, such politicians attempt to damage the correcting force of the shortage by injecting H-1B workers into the market.
You have that exactly backwards! The correcting force is the world market responding. The synthetic limitation on workers is the political meddling. It might be political meddling you happen to like, but facts are facts. The interferer in market forces are the restrictions against foreign workers entering this country not "injecting H-1B workers into the market." (sic!)
C//
Very well. Then homebuyers are subsidized, and renters are not. In fact, every tax incentive, of any kind, in this country is a subsidy. I'm fine with this definition, in so far as we agree on terms. All of these tax deductions are subsidies. Really, they should all be done away with.
C//
A twenty percent tax credit is hardly a "subsidy".
C//
Well, if you were the one who created the concept of seatbelts in the first place, and the car maufacturer came along and just installed their own and shut you out, then you'd certainly think it was unfair.
This just goes to show... many uses of the word "unfair" are really not so much as about describing inappropriate inequity between parties, but rather simply a word used to describe a situation not to one's liking. To wit: who cares who created the concept? Concept's aren't owned things, time to get over it and move along.
C//
"Install" is not a noun.
I beg to differ! Consider:
"He Richard Nixon'ed the tapes".
Perfectly legal conversion of a proper noun into a verb. Interesting stuff, eh?
Perhaps you don't know the English language as well as you think you do? I suggest you consider a course in Linguistics...
C//
For server solutions like these, typically the power supply is REDUNDANT. I.e., it's two of 'em, with a failover capability. This is very common, particularly in rackmounts.
C//
Oh fuck me - the next step is a VM rootkit that flashes the bios to keep a VM rootkit.
Flashes your bios, writes your boot blocks, patches your microcode, wash, rinse, repeat, all that's left to do is nuke it from orbit, as the other guy said....
C//
This isn't a brand new processor, it's a future processor that they hope to have out in 6 months.
Indeed. This is a new situation for Intel. What they have done is given out copies of early silicon to reviewers, to publish reviews of a product that they don't plan to have out of their fabs at any significant production level for quite some time. Quite embarrassing that Intel has been reduced to this, really. We're getting reviews of a product that no comsumer can buy, and won't be buyable for quite some time.
Nonetheless, I'm happy to see them moving forward with decent x86 plans. The additional issue width, the microop bundling, the power enhancements-- all neato. Now they just need to address their goddamn bus topology.
C//
I've never worked anywhere where IT policies like "no unauthorized software" were actually enforced.
Certain DOD settings. In these settings, violate the policy, and there is some chance that not only will you be fired, but that you will never again work in a setting requiring a clearance... EVER.
C//
I suppose I should have quoted the section of the prior post I was responding to. The prior poster wanted to assert that intellectual property was the heart of the future, when, in fact, real estate is and always will be the fundament of wealth. Particularly in Tapei, I'm sure you will agree.
C//
No matter how cheap energy and raw material are, the absolute amount of land on planet earth is (relatively( fixed.