Do you understand corporate accounting? You can't "just throw it away" because it becomes inventory. If you throw it away, you have to take an inventory write-down.
It doesn't matter that extra efficiency was what contributed to more inventory. Nor the fixed cost of manufacturing. It's purely an accounting problem that arises from the engineering and manufacturing group doing a better than expected job.
Perverse, I know. But look at what Atari had to do back in the day (write-down inventory and then PAY for it to be burried in the desert).
"Actually, it makes senses - if you make too many chips that you don't sale, you increase costs, without the increases in revenue."
No, it's not that they're making too many. It's that the number of good pieces of silicon per wafer is higher than expected.
Why does this affect financials? It's because you account for unsold inventory on your financial statements.
Why not produce less? Because you spend years on R&D and then months setting up production, and it's like turning a super-tanker around -- once you give the word, it takes quite a while for the machine (pun intended) to stop.
As for throwing chips away -- you'd have to take an inventory write-off. You can't just pretend you never made them.
While Jordan still works at Apple AFAIK, my understanding is that OSX has branched significantly from FreeBSD now. So it's definitely not much of a drop-in replacement.
That said, no reason why stuff can get selectively ported...there are definitely some things in this release that I could see being nice for the Mac:
"Phillidelphia City has been served a class action lawsuit by parents of the recent spurt of two-headed babies being born in the city. Scientists believe all the genetic anomolies are the result of the city's huge Wifi network and the microwave radiation it emits".;-)
Which is why the budget will only be $250,000 to $5,000,000. Which is peanuts for movies today, as we all know. Heck, craft services on some movies cost more than $250k;-)
On a pure polygon basis, that's ~50% of a PS/2 in your pocket or about ~25% of an Xbox in pure polygon performance.
Naturally, these are meaningless numbers...but if does give you a hint (especially given the pixel real estate being small) that the PSP will have proper, immersive 3D gaming capability...which I guess has been shown to good effect with the GT4 demo.
Assuming that you're happy with USB1.1 and below, one approach is to use a low-cost FPGA (Altera Cyclones are great for this, and a suitable one is $20).
Zip over to opencores.org, grab the USB 1.x MAC and PHY as a starting point....and you can start to build your own hardware USB sniffer.
The beauty of this approach is that you can do *proper* sniffing type activities such as microsecond time stamping of samples, which gets (*ahem*) tricky doing things in the software domain under Linux or Windows.
If you just want to see a vague picture of the wire, you can stick to operating system level sniffing as others have pointed out.
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I believe it's actually how many engines you run. You'd normally run up to one engine per CPU.
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Playing devils advocate...
5Gbytes is perfect for prototype work...if you read the Sybase promo page, you'll see that's what they're really offering -- a few prototype database.
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Do you understand corporate accounting? You can't "just throw it away" because it becomes inventory. If you throw it away, you have to take an inventory write-down.
It doesn't matter that extra efficiency was what contributed to more inventory. Nor the fixed cost of manufacturing. It's purely an accounting problem that arises from the engineering and manufacturing group doing a better than expected job.
Perverse, I know. But look at what Atari had to do back in the day (write-down inventory and then PAY for it to be burried in the desert).
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You're looking to genloc stuff, not editing!!
;-)
An old Video Toaster from eBay
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"Actually, it makes senses - if you make too many chips that you don't sale, you increase costs, without the increases in revenue."
No, it's not that they're making too many. It's that the number of good pieces of silicon per wafer is higher than expected.
Why does this affect financials? It's because you account for unsold inventory on your financial statements.
Why not produce less? Because you spend years on R&D and then months setting up production, and it's like turning a super-tanker around -- once you give the word, it takes quite a while for the machine (pun intended) to stop.
As for throwing chips away -- you'd have to take an inventory write-off. You can't just pretend you never made them.
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Good question.
While Jordan still works at Apple AFAIK, my understanding is that OSX has branched significantly from FreeBSD now. So it's definitely not much of a drop-in replacement.
That said, no reason why stuff can get selectively ported...there are definitely some things in this release that I could see being nice for the Mac:
- Arbitary interface naming
- Better VLANs
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When even my laptop has 1Gbit networking built-in, I'm not sure how you can say "faster than 100Mbit exists, but it sure isn't common".
And Mpps is a standard notation for packet forwarding....FYI.
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Apparently he's still alive and well, and eating a Big Mac.
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Coz I'm losing my hair at a rapid rate of knots!
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This is a joke, right?
I thought "brotherly love" was when your big bro' came into your bedroom at night armed with a family-sized tub of Crisco!
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I'm actually lexdysic, you insensitive clod!
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"Phillidelphia City has been served a class action lawsuit by parents of the recent spurt of two-headed babies being born in the city. Scientists believe all the genetic anomolies are the result of the city's huge Wifi network and the microwave radiation it emits". ;-)
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Even Apple make one....boot all the G5s off it...GigE makes that easier.
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Simple, elegant, no cost involved! :-)
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"...HUGE monetary risk"
;-)
Which is why the budget will only be $250,000 to $5,000,000. Which is peanuts for movies today, as we all know. Heck, craft services on some movies cost more than $250k
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Many businesses do this all the time....they either use a number that doesn't accept inbound calls, or deliberately use a number that doesn't exist.
Is it illegal? Very doubtful as CLID is a 'convenience service' and not a regulated or tariffed service of any sort.
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Imagine the physics old robot voice could do with one of these puppies?!
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I guess you've been asleep while Apple have been DOMINATING the personal audio market?!
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On a pure polygon basis, that's ~50% of a PS/2 in your pocket or about ~25% of an Xbox in pure polygon performance.
Naturally, these are meaningless numbers...but if does give you a hint (especially given the pixel real estate being small) that the PSP will have proper, immersive 3D gaming capability...which I guess has been shown to good effect with the GT4 demo.
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....I put my telescope between two moons, the girlfriend got pregnant!
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iMode is prevalent in Japan, not GSM. FYI.
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AFAIK, they don't let you sniff the wire.
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Assuming that you're happy with USB1.1 and below, one approach is to use a low-cost FPGA (Altera Cyclones are great for this, and a suitable one is $20).
Zip over to opencores.org, grab the USB 1.x MAC and PHY as a starting point....and you can start to build your own hardware USB sniffer.
The beauty of this approach is that you can do *proper* sniffing type activities such as microsecond time stamping of samples, which gets (*ahem*) tricky doing things in the software domain under Linux or Windows.
If you just want to see a vague picture of the wire, you can stick to operating system level sniffing as others have pointed out.
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