It is because the de facto biological environment en utero is different (different hormone levels from mom, different nutritional conditions, etc...no two pregnancies are the same in this regard particularly from different mothers).
I've been wondering when someone would bring this up... certainly until now the effect of the en utero environment has been untestable... but a study such as you suggest on cloned animals could be done now. I rather agree with you that the hormonal levels, diet, etc. will all make a difference during gestation, and thus have an impact through life. The obvious question is how much?
Copy cat was produced from a somatic cell which DID contain mutations
I wonder just how many... they don't check every DNA pair in confirming a clone, just a couple dozen base pairs. A full check would be expensive and time consuming, but for these early clones it's probably worth doing so to see just how much mutation has occurred... and it's probably a start on figuring out what the "junk" DNA is.
No, NOT because of "nurture" being more important (it isn't)
Well, nurture isn't less important either. Certainly not in humans (where separated identical twin studies indicate nurture is more influential than nature outside of diseases). I'm guessing that as you go toward less and less mental complexity you have less of an influence of nurture though.
As anecdotal evidence, we have an older cat that "trills" (yes, she sounds like a tribble) - it's common to her breed. Our nine month old kitten is an entirely different breed (I believe it's half demon) but has picked up the trilling from the older cat. It's not quite the same, but it's close.
This wouldn't solve a thing. In fact, it'd cause huge numbers of problems.
First off, the reason it eats 2 slots is because the 2nd slot is used for the blower. If you invert everything exactly where are you going to vent the blower? There's no standardized hole available for this kind of thing.
Second, it would render it incompatible with most motherboards. You'd hit either an I/O header, the CPU slot, or (most likely) support electronics like capacitors and the like. There is generally not a great deal of space between the AGP slot and anything above it because there are minimal (if any) specs requiring distance. A small number of MBs had problems with high end graphics cards right now because of heat sinks on the back of the cards -- they usually end up hitting caps, which is the last thing you want to do (ever short a cap? Not good)
Because the Supreme Court should not make policy. That is not it's job. It is only there to decide on constitutionality and the occasional Federal vs. State issues (which boil down to constitutionality as well).
Has the SC made policy previously? Yes. And it's generally bad when it happens, and acknowledged as being bad afterwards.
I don't like the decision, but I do agree with the reasoning behind it. It is a Congressional matter. And the precedent for the act is set back to the framing of the Constitution.
I may agree with much of what Breyer wrote, but he was wrong to do it from the bench. The majority opinion slams him on this, repeatedly, and in rather harsh language for the Supreme Court at that. Noting that one of your fellow justices writes based out of policy and not out of precedent or rule of law is harsh. It basically says "You're not being a judge".
What Lessig's blog states is correct in that it's now up to the citizens to get Congress to reform IP law. Which, realistically, is how it should've gone in the first place. It's not going to be an easy fight, but the fights that are worth it rarely are. And things may very well get worse before they get better... but that's how it often goes.
I agree that IP law is deeply broken. I don't agree that this was the right way to fix it.
Actually, I think the original question had it backwards... or at least sideways.
Presumably not every single bit of data needs to go through TCPA and the TPM. Hopefully this data does not incur any performance penalty.
If you need TCPA/TPM capabilities, like highly random numbers, encryption, etc. then it will have less of a performance hit than it would without the TPM hardware. You're essentially adding a coprocessor that's dedicated to encryption. It's up to the program to interface and use it, but doing so could bring about a hefty performance increase as well as a security enhancement (since you can use larger keys without a performance hit).
There probably will be an overall hit in performance, even for data not utilizing TCPA/TPM, but I'd be surprised if it's significant.
. Unlike Fujitsu and IBM, Western Digital do not have the reputation of making unreliable drives.
Says you.
WD had a reliability problem in the early to mid 90s. And until the recent debacle with IBM drives they were widely considered some of the most reliable drives available.
Every manufacturer has had drive lines that sucked, and sucked badly. Most of them handle it poorly. And they all have lines that work flawlessly for most users as well. If you look over the last 20 years the drive that stinks rotates between manufacturers, as does the most reliable drive. The end result? Buy the drive that's priced right, has good performance, and keep backups. Because it's not a question of if it will fail - it's a question of when.
While you're right about sustained transfer rate, would you want to limit your interface to something that has a maximum theoretical transfer rate only a little bit faster than what's currently possible?
Even if you say "fine with me" realize that USB2 doesn't actually get anywhere close to 480 Mbps, but rather closer to 300-360. At that point you are affecting the performance of your drive.
I think the ATA-100/133 SATA-150/300/600 comparisons are equally vapid, but that doesn't mean I want to drop down to ATA-66.
Oh, and while it makes rather minimal difference, cache-to-host transfer speed is performed at the maximum possible transfer rate... it doesn't save you more than a couple milliseconds before the cache is exhausted though.
So that you can do hot plugging. The current MOLEX connector cannot be used for this - first, it requires far too much force to connect or disconnect. Second, there is no guarantee of ground before any other pins connect. Third, there is no standard on where the power connector will be located in the drive bay or with respect to the data connector.
SATA fixes all of this.
Is this just another one of those PITA upgrades?
Frankly, I can't see how anyone would consider anything about SATA a PITA. Smaller, more flexible cable, no jumpers, no master/slave crap, and a standardized power connector. Where's the pain? (Ok, you'll pay maybe $20 more for the drive at first, but that pain will disappear shortly)
You don't need their product, so close the window and say screw it
Great. Can I have my money back now? No? Yeah, I can see where the term "screw" comes in here.
There should never be "consumer rights." I hate that term. YOU are not a consumer, and THEY are not a producer. You are BOTH market exchangers
What an amazingly infantile and naive concept. Yes, I purchase goods and services daily, and I also sell them. But in any given exchange I'm either on the giving or taking side and that's where the Producer/Consumer dichotomy comes in.
You think you're an equal partner to a medium or large company? That's nice. Hope you don't ever get royally screwed by one -- because they have more money, more lawyers, and without consumer protection laws they are considerably more immune to harm than you are.
The fallacy in your perfect marketplace is that it requires perfect communication between all parties and that people get sacrificed in order to provide the data for this impossible communication. I suspect that when it comes time for you or your loved ones to be the sacrificial lambs, you'll wish there were protections against it.
And if the original breaks? Or you want to control 2 garage doors (made by different manufacturers) from one remote?
My old garage door opener was acting irratically, and it wasn't due to low batteries. I bought a new universal remote, coded it, and now I have a 3x the usable range and can control both garage doors if I ever need to.
The remote I had was a replacement remote too. What happened to the original? Hell if I know. I'm the 4th or 5th owner of the house. One of the previous owners could've accidentilly taken it when vacating, run over it, fed it to the dog, or whatever.
Great. So I can hear how crappy mp3's and other compression formats sound through my 5.1 system
Shrug, you can play raw WAVs or FLACs if you want. It's up to you at that point.
If you want SACD or DVD-Audio, you're SOL of course, because the owners of the formats have refused to do any licensing on non-controlled boxes due to copyright concerns.
And most of the people who are trying to build useful HTPCs don't want their entertainment center to look anything like the Enterprise... again, it's the usability issue.
Not saying you should replace your current components either... I have no plans to replace my TiVo or most of my other HT components, but I'm still looking at options and hoping something will come together in the near future. But I doubt it'll be a DIY project if I want a nice interface.
have a 2/3 pulldown DVD player which gives me better quality than any PC ever will
Not likely. The software decoders are just about up to Faroudja in quality, and there are scaler boards available now that actually use the Faroudja DCDi chipset (and at a reasonable price for Faroudja - around $1200).
Unless you have a $30k+ CRT projector and a $30k scaler then the absolute best output you can get is from a PC. You just have to set it up right. It's not the easiest thing in the world to actually use, but that's pretty much what this thread is about.
I have a CD player capable of mp3 playback
Yes, but why playback a single CD when you can playback anything from the entire library? TiVo S2 will be able to do this soon, and network appliances like a TB Audiotron can do it right now.
Oh, and with the right soundcard, it's equal or higher quality to your current pre-amp. Yes, I know how good Denon are. The Midiman cards are excellent as well.
The point is you can replace everything you said, excepting the amp, with a PC. And have better quality output for a lower price. The issue is that the user interface royally sucks and the boxes are less stable than most consumer electronics.
Which is the entire point of the thread. Frankly, I don't expect a do-it-yourself home solution to fix these issues anytime soon. Five years from now someone will ask the same question.
Is Judge Thomas on the board of directors for any major corporation pushing this ruling? Not that I know of. Is he the owner of one of said companies? Nope. No conflict of interest.
Oh? He's being paid for a book deal? And that's conflict of interest? Yeah, so? He's also pays taxes, as do all the other Supreme Court Justices, but that doesn't mean there's a conflict of interest when it comes to ruling on tax law.
Your post is flamebait. The monies to be paid to him would occur regardless of this particular ruling - thus 28 USC 455 b4 does not apply - while there is a financial interest, it is unlikely to be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding.
Unless, of course, you think there's a clause in the contract saying "void if Eldred v. Ashcroft is found in favor of plaintiff". Not paying would be a violation of contract. Against a Supreme Court Justice.
Do I like the ruling? Not particularly. But after reading the briefs (you did read them didn't you? No, I didn't think so), I have to agree with the majority opinion -- this is not a matter of unconstitutionality. It's a matter of policy. And the Supreme Court should not make policy. It's time (past time really) to bitch at Congress.
Yeah... I did equipment automation, so we had to go in the fab every once in awhile... plus the building I worked at was attached to 3 operational fabs, so a bit higher risk than a equip manufacturer's system room (although I know most manu's have a mini clean room for manufacturing, testing, and demo).
I don't recall the diamond sign bit... must've slept through that part:)
And I meant the statement you quoted as a bit more tongue in cheek than it came across.
3 days? That's it? When I worked for TI it was a full week... and you had to retake the course yearly.
You're not kidding about the chemicals though... nobody was allowed to wear contacts in the fabs where I worked because they used a chemical with the tradename Pirhana. It was used beneath the floor in the air cleaners, but if it ever backblasted then it would melt plastic - and thus your contacts to your eyes.
Realistically, fabs are incredibly safe as far as chemicals go. They have to be because of the incredibly nasty shit being used. You're much, much more likely to fall 20' onto concrete through an open floor tile then you are to get exposed to a dangerous chemical.
There is no technical problem, just a logistics one. It's trivial to convert wired to wireless, but not the other way around. It would also add significantly to the cost, when most of these systems are trying to stay low priced.
Personally, if someone came out with a wireless model that would kill it dead for me. I have no wireless in my house, other than cordless phones (and none in the 2.4GHz range), but I do have ethernet jacks all over the place.
According to that the logical processor is actually faster than the physical one! Just think of what you could wind up with if you instantiated a logical CPU on the logical CPU!
processes can start being migrated around to CPU's that do not really exist and appear to have no load, yet the physical CPU may be 100% loaded in reality
The article indicates that they're fixing this in the 2.5 branch. Lots of additional patches to the scheduler to let it comprehend the difference between physical and logical processors and do the Right Thing with them.
Oh, and if you're running a 2 CPU box with only a couple (as in two) large jobs then no, you won't see a performance gain. You already have 1 CPU/process and HT would just be additional overhead.
Well, if your apps aren't multi-threaded then they can't make use of it. If you don't run enough CPU-intensive processes on the box, it won't buy you anything and may actually hurt you.
If you look at the benchmarks not all the numbers are in the positive realm... although if you exclude the sync read/write numbers then it's generally a rather small difference.
Is AMD doing anything similar?
Not to my knowledge. They're betting the farm on Opteron/Athlon64.
What are the benefits of producing this kind of DRM hardware?
That your processor will be picked for use in embedded technology, or that studios, etc. won't whine and cry about your CPU because, in theory, it supports DRM?
In otherwords, have DRM and you can either use it or not. Don't have DRM and there may be an entire field of applications that you cannot sell to.
On the other hand, they could drive millions of people like us running. And guess who buy/advise what kind of hardware to buy?
Running to where? Intel? Nope. AMD? Nope. VIA? Maybe, but I doubt it. Cyrix? Don't make me laugh. Motorola/MIPS/IBM? So utterly different it's an absurd concept, especially on cost.
Once one company agreed to include DRM on chip it became a risky proposition not to include it on your competing chip.
Consider it from the company's point of view - it's just another bulletpoint feature. You don't have to use it, anymore than you need to use MMX, or the FPU, or whatever. But if you don't have that bulletpoint then it can be used against you. Sure, you can argue that it's a good "feature" not to have, but that's not how it'll get marketed and you know it.
Ok, I know the parent post was, at least in part, humorous, but....
I suggest a hi-watt jammer to make the use of them impossible
I suggest you enjoy your time in Federal prison after the FCC comes and gets you.
The knowledge of my whereabouts is copyrighted
No it's not. Nor is it patentable, trademarked, servicemarked, or a trade secret. You may have a right to privacy, but it has nothing to do with IP.
And, besides, you're not the RIAA or MPAA! Only they have the right to hack other people's systems to prevent the transmission of copyrighted works. Duh!
God, I hope they don't put these in tin foil. What will I make my hats out of?
Lead. I suggest smelting it down first to ensure someone didn't put one on it too!
Do you think the little mylar strips in US money are for COUNTERFEIT protection
Do you think they're for TRACKING YOU? haha.
Lord. My brother used to work on the theft prevention systems they use at stores -- you know, the little magnetic strips on clothing and other goods that would set off the alarm if not deactivated first. This is not considerably different from RFID or the mylar strips in bills.
Do you have any idea how easy they are to defeat? Bend the strip and you change its resonant frequency. Put two strips up against one another. Wrap them in tinfoil. Any one of a half dozen other methods.
As usual, they only work against the idiots, which so happens to be 90% of your criminals.
And, of course, your rampant conspiracy theorists who don't actually have any bloody clue how reality works.
Second, what are the chances that I can find one that WOULD fit?
Pretty good. Go take a look at microATX motherboards, which is the form factor you appear to have.
Third, wouldn't the ports also be rearranged a bit?
Which is why the backplates on cases are removable. Even if IBM was stupid and didn't do this, it's amazing what a Dremel can do.
Also, as another poster pointed out, PCI video cards are nice for second displays. Yeah, they make dual-head monitors, but then both displays share the same video card AND are typically not the most high-end chipsets. Also, if I buy a nice high-end card and then decide I'd like a second display, what then?
Read my other posts on this. And you're wrong - the high end chipsets all come with dual (or more) head display capability now. Integrated onto the boards and built into the drivers. Running dual head has never been easier.
If you need more display capability than what a modern card provides, then yeah, you'll need a PCI graphics card. And you're deeply unlikely to be needing high speed graphics on it since you already have 1 or 2 monitors with full 3D, high-speed graphics. If you need more than that then you need a graphics workstation, not a PC.
And with PCI X as yet another poster mentioned, throughput will become high enough
PCI-X is not a viable standard for the desktop. It's intended for servers only. The cost to develop a PCI-X MB or adaptor board is huge. There are some other high-speed buses that are likely to come to the desktop in the next few years, but that's not going to help your situation at all. If a new bus is standardized on and is faster than AGP then graphics card makers will move to it, and quickly. But PCI is not viable for high end graphics cards, period.
Oh, and you can't have more than one AGP slot on a system. It's not allowed by the spec.
Honestly... you can buy a new MB, CPU, and case for the price of a good graphics card nowadays. They won't be stellar performers, but a faster card on that Celeron won't buy you much at all.
The nForce2 MB's are rather expensive... $100-150 w/o integrated video. I never bothered looking for pricing on the IGP chipset since I wouldn't wish it upon anyone I don't actively dislike.
The integrated video sucks... it's GF4 MX quality at best, and in actuality worse - because it has no memory and instead uses AGP transfers from main memory for all memory needs -- not just textures, but rendering buffers as well.
Frankly, the original poster is putting the cart before the horse.. He's much better off buying a new MB and everything that goes with it than trying to buy any video card. Buy some PCI card now and you'll be crippled with a new CPU and modern MB.
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It is because the de facto biological environment en utero is different (different hormone levels from mom, different nutritional conditions, etc...no two pregnancies are the same in this regard particularly from different mothers).
I've been wondering when someone would bring this up... certainly until now the effect of the en utero environment has been untestable... but a study such as you suggest on cloned animals could be done now. I rather agree with you that the hormonal levels, diet, etc. will all make a difference during gestation, and thus have an impact through life. The obvious question is how much?
Copy cat was produced from a somatic cell which DID contain mutations
I wonder just how many... they don't check every DNA pair in confirming a clone, just a couple dozen base pairs. A full check would be expensive and time consuming, but for these early clones it's probably worth doing so to see just how much mutation has occurred... and it's probably a start on figuring out what the "junk" DNA is.
No, NOT because of "nurture" being more important (it isn't)
Well, nurture isn't less important either. Certainly not in humans (where separated identical twin studies indicate nurture is more influential than nature outside of diseases). I'm guessing that as you go toward less and less mental complexity you have less of an influence of nurture though.
As anecdotal evidence, we have an older cat that "trills" (yes, she sounds like a tribble) - it's common to her breed. Our nine month old kitten is an entirely different breed (I believe it's half demon) but has picked up the trilling from the older cat. It's not quite the same, but it's close.
... this story. Freaky thing is, the hard drive wasn't even that old.
This wouldn't solve a thing. In fact, it'd cause huge numbers of problems.
First off, the reason it eats 2 slots is because the 2nd slot is used for the blower. If you invert everything exactly where are you going to vent the blower? There's no standardized hole available for this kind of thing.
Second, it would render it incompatible with most motherboards. You'd hit either an I/O header, the CPU slot, or (most likely) support electronics like capacitors and the like. There is generally not a great deal of space between the AGP slot and anything above it because there are minimal (if any) specs requiring distance. A small number of MBs had problems with high end graphics cards right now because of heat sinks on the back of the cards -- they usually end up hitting caps, which is the last thing you want to do (ever short a cap? Not good)
Because the Supreme Court should not make policy. That is not it's job. It is only there to decide on constitutionality and the occasional Federal vs. State issues (which boil down to constitutionality as well).
Has the SC made policy previously? Yes. And it's generally bad when it happens, and acknowledged as being bad afterwards.
I don't like the decision, but I do agree with the reasoning behind it. It is a Congressional matter. And the precedent for the act is set back to the framing of the Constitution.
I may agree with much of what Breyer wrote, but he was wrong to do it from the bench. The majority opinion slams him on this, repeatedly, and in rather harsh language for the Supreme Court at that. Noting that one of your fellow justices writes based out of policy and not out of precedent or rule of law is harsh. It basically says "You're not being a judge".
What Lessig's blog states is correct in that it's now up to the citizens to get Congress to reform IP law. Which, realistically, is how it should've gone in the first place. It's not going to be an easy fight, but the fights that are worth it rarely are. And things may very well get worse before they get better... but that's how it often goes.
I agree that IP law is deeply broken. I don't agree that this was the right way to fix it.
Actually, I think the original question had it backwards... or at least sideways.
Presumably not every single bit of data needs to go through TCPA and the TPM. Hopefully this data does not incur any performance penalty.
If you need TCPA/TPM capabilities, like highly random numbers, encryption, etc. then it will have less of a performance hit than it would without the TPM hardware. You're essentially adding a coprocessor that's dedicated to encryption. It's up to the program to interface and use it, but doing so could bring about a hefty performance increase as well as a security enhancement (since you can use larger keys without a performance hit).
There probably will be an overall hit in performance, even for data not utilizing TCPA/TPM, but I'd be surprised if it's significant.
. Unlike Fujitsu and IBM, Western Digital do not have the reputation of making unreliable drives.
Says you.
WD had a reliability problem in the early to mid 90s. And until the recent debacle with IBM drives they were widely considered some of the most reliable drives available.
Every manufacturer has had drive lines that sucked, and sucked badly. Most of them handle it poorly. And they all have lines that work flawlessly for most users as well. If you look over the last 20 years the drive that stinks rotates between manufacturers, as does the most reliable drive. The end result? Buy the drive that's priced right, has good performance, and keep backups. Because it's not a question of if it will fail - it's a question of when.
While you're right about sustained transfer rate, would you want to limit your interface to something that has a maximum theoretical transfer rate only a little bit faster than what's currently possible?
Even if you say "fine with me" realize that USB2 doesn't actually get anywhere close to 480 Mbps, but rather closer to 300-360. At that point you are affecting the performance of your drive.
I think the ATA-100/133 SATA-150/300/600 comparisons are equally vapid, but that doesn't mean I want to drop down to ATA-66.
Oh, and while it makes rather minimal difference, cache-to-host transfer speed is performed at the maximum possible transfer rate... it doesn't save you more than a couple milliseconds before the cache is exhausted though.
So that you can do hot plugging. The current MOLEX connector cannot be used for this - first, it requires far too much force to connect or disconnect. Second, there is no guarantee of ground before any other pins connect. Third, there is no standard on where the power connector will be located in the drive bay or with respect to the data connector.
SATA fixes all of this.
Is this just another one of those PITA upgrades?
Frankly, I can't see how anyone would consider anything about SATA a PITA. Smaller, more flexible cable, no jumpers, no master/slave crap, and a standardized power connector. Where's the pain? (Ok, you'll pay maybe $20 more for the drive at first, but that pain will disappear shortly)
You don't need their product, so close the window and say screw it
Great. Can I have my money back now? No? Yeah, I can see where the term "screw" comes in here.
There should never be "consumer rights." I hate that term. YOU are not a consumer, and THEY are not a producer. You are BOTH market exchangers
What an amazingly infantile and naive concept. Yes, I purchase goods and services daily, and I also sell them. But in any given exchange I'm either on the giving or taking side and that's where the Producer/Consumer dichotomy comes in.
You think you're an equal partner to a medium or large company? That's nice. Hope you don't ever get royally screwed by one -- because they have more money, more lawyers, and without consumer protection laws they are considerably more immune to harm than you are.
The fallacy in your perfect marketplace is that it requires perfect communication between all parties and that people get sacrificed in order to provide the data for this impossible communication. I suspect that when it comes time for you or your loved ones to be the sacrificial lambs, you'll wish there were protections against it.
And if the original breaks? Or you want to control 2 garage doors (made by different manufacturers) from one remote?
My old garage door opener was acting irratically, and it wasn't due to low batteries. I bought a new universal remote, coded it, and now I have a 3x the usable range and can control both garage doors if I ever need to.
The remote I had was a replacement remote too. What happened to the original? Hell if I know. I'm the 4th or 5th owner of the house. One of the previous owners could've accidentilly taken it when vacating, run over it, fed it to the dog, or whatever.
And your post got modded up too... how sad.
Great. So I can hear how crappy mp3's and other compression formats sound through my 5.1 system
Shrug, you can play raw WAVs or FLACs if you want. It's up to you at that point.
If you want SACD or DVD-Audio, you're SOL of course, because the owners of the formats have refused to do any licensing on non-controlled boxes due to copyright concerns.
And most of the people who are trying to build useful HTPCs don't want their entertainment center to look anything like the Enterprise... again, it's the usability issue.
Not saying you should replace your current components either... I have no plans to replace my TiVo or most of my other HT components, but I'm still looking at options and hoping something will come together in the near future. But I doubt it'll be a DIY project if I want a nice interface.
have a 2/3 pulldown DVD player which gives me better quality than any PC ever will
Not likely. The software decoders are just about up to Faroudja in quality, and there are scaler boards available now that actually use the Faroudja DCDi chipset (and at a reasonable price for Faroudja - around $1200).
Unless you have a $30k+ CRT projector and a $30k scaler then the absolute best output you can get is from a PC. You just have to set it up right. It's not the easiest thing in the world to actually use, but that's pretty much what this thread is about.
I have a CD player capable of mp3 playback
Yes, but why playback a single CD when you can playback anything from the entire library? TiVo S2 will be able to do this soon, and network appliances like a TB Audiotron can do it right now.
Oh, and with the right soundcard, it's equal or higher quality to your current pre-amp. Yes, I know how good Denon are. The Midiman cards are excellent as well.
The point is you can replace everything you said, excepting the amp, with a PC. And have better quality output for a lower price. The issue is that the user interface royally sucks and the boxes are less stable than most consumer electronics.
Which is the entire point of the thread. Frankly, I don't expect a do-it-yourself home solution to fix these issues anytime soon. Five years from now someone will ask the same question.
What happend to conflict of interest?
When there is some, let us know.
Is Judge Thomas on the board of directors for any major corporation pushing this ruling? Not that I know of. Is he the owner of one of said companies? Nope. No conflict of interest.
Oh? He's being paid for a book deal? And that's conflict of interest? Yeah, so? He's also pays taxes, as do all the other Supreme Court Justices, but that doesn't mean there's a conflict of interest when it comes to ruling on tax law.
Your post is flamebait. The monies to be paid to him would occur regardless of this particular ruling - thus 28 USC 455 b4 does not apply - while there is a financial interest, it is unlikely to be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding.
Unless, of course, you think there's a clause in the contract saying "void if Eldred v. Ashcroft is found in favor of plaintiff". Not paying would be a violation of contract. Against a Supreme Court Justice.
Do I like the ruling? Not particularly. But after reading the briefs (you did read them didn't you? No, I didn't think so), I have to agree with the majority opinion -- this is not a matter of unconstitutionality. It's a matter of policy. And the Supreme Court should not make policy. It's time (past time really) to bitch at Congress.
Yeah... I did equipment automation, so we had to go in the fab every once in awhile... plus the building I worked at was attached to 3 operational fabs, so a bit higher risk than a equip manufacturer's system room (although I know most manu's have a mini clean room for manufacturing, testing, and demo).
:)
I don't recall the diamond sign bit... must've slept through that part
And I meant the statement you quoted as a bit more tongue in cheek than it came across.
we all had to take this 3-day safety course
3 days? That's it? When I worked for TI it was a full week... and you had to retake the course yearly.
You're not kidding about the chemicals though... nobody was allowed to wear contacts in the fabs where I worked because they used a chemical with the tradename Pirhana. It was used beneath the floor in the air cleaners, but if it ever backblasted then it would melt plastic - and thus your contacts to your eyes.
Realistically, fabs are incredibly safe as far as chemicals go. They have to be because of the incredibly nasty shit being used. You're much, much more likely to fall 20' onto concrete through an open floor tile then you are to get exposed to a dangerous chemical.
There is no technical problem, just a logistics one. It's trivial to convert wired to wireless, but not the other way around. It would also add significantly to the cost, when most of these systems are trying to stay low priced.
Personally, if someone came out with a wireless model that would kill it dead for me. I have no wireless in my house, other than cordless phones (and none in the 2.4GHz range), but I do have ethernet jacks all over the place.
As if there wasn't enough already...
processor : 0
bogomips : 3191.60
processor : 1
bogomips : 3198.15
According to that the logical processor is actually faster than the physical one! Just think of what you could wind up with if you instantiated a logical CPU on the logical CPU!
processes can start being migrated around to CPU's that do not really exist and appear to have no load, yet the physical CPU may be 100% loaded in reality
The article indicates that they're fixing this in the 2.5 branch. Lots of additional patches to the scheduler to let it comprehend the difference between physical and logical processors and do the Right Thing with them.
Oh, and if you're running a 2 CPU box with only a couple (as in two) large jobs then no, you won't see a performance gain. You already have 1 CPU/process and HT would just be additional overhead.
What's the downside?
Well, if your apps aren't multi-threaded then they can't make use of it. If you don't run enough CPU-intensive processes on the box, it won't buy you anything and may actually hurt you.
If you look at the benchmarks not all the numbers are in the positive realm... although if you exclude the sync read/write numbers then it's generally a rather small difference.
Is AMD doing anything similar?
Not to my knowledge. They're betting the farm on Opteron/Athlon64.
What are the benefits of producing this kind of DRM hardware?
That your processor will be picked for use in embedded technology, or that studios, etc. won't whine and cry about your CPU because, in theory, it supports DRM?
In otherwords, have DRM and you can either use it or not. Don't have DRM and there may be an entire field of applications that you cannot sell to.
On the other hand, they could drive millions of people like us running. And guess who buy/advise what kind of hardware to buy?
Running to where? Intel? Nope. AMD? Nope. VIA? Maybe, but I doubt it. Cyrix? Don't make me laugh. Motorola/MIPS/IBM? So utterly different it's an absurd concept, especially on cost.
Once one company agreed to include DRM on chip it became a risky proposition not to include it on your competing chip.
Consider it from the company's point of view - it's just another bulletpoint feature. You don't have to use it, anymore than you need to use MMX, or the FPU, or whatever. But if you don't have that bulletpoint then it can be used against you. Sure, you can argue that it's a good "feature" not to have, but that's not how it'll get marketed and you know it.
Ok, I know the parent post was, at least in part, humorous, but....
I suggest a hi-watt jammer to make the use of them impossible
I suggest you enjoy your time in Federal prison after the FCC comes and gets you.
The knowledge of my whereabouts is copyrighted
No it's not. Nor is it patentable, trademarked, servicemarked, or a trade secret. You may have a right to privacy, but it has nothing to do with IP.
And, besides, you're not the RIAA or MPAA! Only they have the right to hack other people's systems to prevent the transmission of copyrighted works. Duh!
God, I hope they don't put these in tin foil. What will I make my hats out of?
Lead. I suggest smelting it down first to ensure someone didn't put one on it too!
Do you think the little mylar strips in US money are for COUNTERFEIT protection
Do you think they're for TRACKING YOU? haha.
Lord. My brother used to work on the theft prevention systems they use at stores -- you know, the little magnetic strips on clothing and other goods that would set off the alarm if not deactivated first. This is not considerably different from RFID or the mylar strips in bills.
Do you have any idea how easy they are to defeat? Bend the strip and you change its resonant frequency. Put two strips up against one another. Wrap them in tinfoil. Any one of a half dozen other methods.
As usual, they only work against the idiots, which so happens to be 90% of your criminals.
And, of course, your rampant conspiracy theorists who don't actually have any bloody clue how reality works.
Nasa could sell the rights to produce it
As a government entity NASA cannot patent anything, so there are no rights to sell.
Second, what are the chances that I can find one that WOULD fit?
Pretty good. Go take a look at microATX motherboards, which is the form factor you appear to have.
Third, wouldn't the ports also be rearranged a bit?
Which is why the backplates on cases are removable. Even if IBM was stupid and didn't do this, it's amazing what a Dremel can do.
Also, as another poster pointed out, PCI video cards are nice for second displays. Yeah, they make dual-head monitors, but then both displays share the same video card AND are typically not the most high-end chipsets. Also, if I buy a nice high-end card and then decide I'd like a second display, what then?
Read my other posts on this. And you're wrong - the high end chipsets all come with dual (or more) head display capability now. Integrated onto the boards and built into the drivers. Running dual head has never been easier.
If you need more display capability than what a modern card provides, then yeah, you'll need a PCI graphics card. And you're deeply unlikely to be needing high speed graphics on it since you already have 1 or 2 monitors with full 3D, high-speed graphics. If you need more than that then you need a graphics workstation, not a PC.
And with PCI X as yet another poster mentioned, throughput will become high enough
PCI-X is not a viable standard for the desktop. It's intended for servers only. The cost to develop a PCI-X MB or adaptor board is huge. There are some other high-speed buses that are likely to come to the desktop in the next few years, but that's not going to help your situation at all. If a new bus is standardized on and is faster than AGP then graphics card makers will move to it, and quickly. But PCI is not viable for high end graphics cards, period.
Oh, and you can't have more than one AGP slot on a system. It's not allowed by the spec.
Honestly... you can buy a new MB, CPU, and case for the price of a good graphics card nowadays. They won't be stellar performers, but a faster card on that Celeron won't buy you much at all.
The nForce2 MB's are rather expensive... $100-150 w/o integrated video. I never bothered looking for pricing on the IGP chipset since I wouldn't wish it upon anyone I don't actively dislike.
The integrated video sucks... it's GF4 MX quality at best, and in actuality worse - because it has no memory and instead uses AGP transfers from main memory for all memory needs -- not just textures, but rendering buffers as well.
Frankly, the original poster is putting the cart before the horse.. He's much better off buying a new MB and everything that goes with it than trying to buy any video card. Buy some PCI card now and you'll be crippled with a new CPU and modern MB.