My premise is that while AMD supports the Free BIOS project, they are no better than Intel in that they are also only out to make money. Your original post seemed to suggest that they were supporting freedom and were not supporting TCPA, when that is quite obviously not the case.
It makes sense for AMD to support something like Free BIOS project given that a large number of their users are 'enthusiasts', however don't think that it is for any other reason than financial gain. As soon as it makes business sense, they will stop 'helping' straight away.
It's nothing to do with what I think of it. If someone sets up a website that looks exactly like PayPal, then they are certainly doing something illegal. The website should be shut down as soon as the hosting company is notified and it's contents have been verified by the tech support staff.
The problem with these scams is that the companies hosting them don't give a flying fuck. I've alerted the companies hosting very obvious phishing scams, and it takes longer than 24 hours before they take any action. If one of their clients is hosting a site designed to look like PayPal or whatever, they should shut it off that second. There's no two ways about it.
While you make some very good points there, I'd imagine that the idea of Linux (the most likely OS for the job) running on it would be quite embarrassing for them. I would doubt that it would be doing anything different to normal clustering software too - it would merely be a few changes in the back-end to make it 'appear' as a normal computer to applications.
Not if they're making a loss on it (which I imagine they will be). If the XBox 360 does get used by a few companies as a Linux cluster - which isn't out of the question, then it'll be at MS's expense.
The end result is the same, it's just that the advertisers aren't going to want to pay as much if a significant number of people actually cut the adverts out. Thankfully, they can't tell if you pay attention to it or not.
These organizations are under the control of a conspiracy that cares only about one thing: Reducing and eventually eliminating the rights of all people to information. Their goal is a world where all people are stupid; where only duckspeakers exist; where thoughtcrime is cause for a death penalty.
I would say that is a bit of an 'extreme' view. The RIAA, the MPAA and Microsoft all have one thing in common - their business model is on it's way down the shitter.
In the case of Microsoft, people are eventually going to stop spending several hundred dollars on software just to write a letter.
The reason why they buy laws is merely to keep their business model going - and of course, so that they can carry on making money.
Almost certainly in the case of the RIAA/MPAA, and definitely in the case of Microsoft, piracy really does not give them advantages to their business. Outside of slashdot, people are a lot more lazy and will happily buy something if they can't easily pirate it.
There is a major difference between going for a piss during an advert break, and actively removing every single advert. I assume that's what he was getting at.
Yes, TigerDirect are being absolute dicks about it. Even a complete idiot could tell the difference.
Anyway, use the usual way to deal with people like that. If enough slashdot users don't ever do business with them, then hopefully they'll learn, and maybe it'll set an example.
Yeah, we have something similar in the UK. It's a poster of some guy saying to his friends how much he saved on Office (it 'only' costs around 100 quid).
What really happens in a UK university is that someone with broadband downloads a torrent of it and gives copies to anyone who wants one. No student in their right mind would actually buy it - it's (still) too bloody expensive. I would imagine it's similar in the US.
OK, after Drakonian kindly explained what the problem was, I take that back.
However, given the amount of garbage found on the Internet, and that details in the article were rather limited, it was likely that it could be another hoax. Ironic that an AC is critisizing me for using a handle.
That wasn't the point I was making, but never mind. I'd have thought he might have mentioned warning Intel, because if he didn't it makes him incredibly irresponsible.
Anyway, if you saw the talk, would you mind telling us what the vulnerability is?
Why wasn't Intel notified over the past SEVEN MONTHS ?
That's a good point. I wonder how many HT processors used for servers have been sold in the past seven months. If this isn't a load of shit, he's caused problems for an awful lot of people entirely for his own benefit.
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Doesn't matter if it's watercooled or not. You still have to move the heat elsewhere. You can't just 'get rid of it'.
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All for $300?
Take a look at this (no, I'm not an Apple fanboy):
It costs an arm and a leg, and requires some seriously powerful cooling. Now compare to the XBox 360. How the hell are they going to get that lot into a case that small, and cool it properly?
Apparently, he's also known about it for 6-7 months, which also make it smell of BS. 'Discoveries' worked on in secret for that amount of time almost always turn out to be a load of shit.
If it was implemented in a fair way, TCPA could be a very good thing. Each company could have their own key, and you could simply whitelist which company's software would be allowed to run on your machine - which would severely hamper spyware and viruses.
If, however, someone else decides for you then it would be a very, very bad thing. Fuck that.
1) As you said, it's too slow. CPU cache is incredibly fast (because it doesn't need to be non-volatile).
2) You can only write it once.
3) All flash memory seems to have a limit to the number of writes before it screws up. Given how often the cache gets changed in a CPU, it really wouldn't last long.
A lot have people have claimed (including Linus IIRC) that the NT kernel itself isn't bad at all, and the main problems I have when running Windows are certainly not a problem of the kernel. There's no reason I can think of for replacing it.
Microsoft isn't entirely about control, it's about taking advantage of its monopoly with incompatibility with the competition. Gates likes IE because as long as it has a large marketshare, Microsoft can break compatibility with things it doesn't like, thus eliminating them (see the issues with Java and CSS2).
That argument has cemented Windows into schools in the UK. However it is total bullshit.
The main reasons for this include:
1) All word processors/spreadsheets/whatever have almost exactly the same user interface. Once you know OO.org, it's not exactly rocket science to know how to use MS Office.
2) The version of Windows/MS Office that the school uses will be out of date in around a year or so, and you can bet your ass they won't update for another 5 years. So you'll probably be using something slightly different from what you learnt in school when you get a job.
3) Knowing how to use a computer is NOT about knowing how to use MS products. The main point of computers in schools is to improve typing skills, learning how to lay out a document, spreadsheet formulae, etc. All of which shouldn't be specific to any given piece of software.
I don't think the purpose is so that you can run a Gnome (or whatever) desktop on your PSP. The reason to get Linux working on it is because there is a lot of software which can run on top of Linux.
In the PSP/DS case, this would include emulators, media players, and various other useful things.
Check you aren't running the 'nv' NVidia driver or standard SVGA driver if you have an NVidia card. That will make the graphics 'slow', as you describe. A 533MHz CPU and 256MB of RAM should be more than enough. Services that are just sitting there will 'sleep' if they aren't being used, so they shouldn't have too much effect.
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My premise is that while AMD supports the Free BIOS project, they are no better than Intel in that they are also only out to make money. Your original post seemed to suggest that they were supporting freedom and were not supporting TCPA, when that is quite obviously not the case.
It makes sense for AMD to support something like Free BIOS project given that a large number of their users are 'enthusiasts', however don't think that it is for any other reason than financial gain. As soon as it makes business sense, they will stop 'helping' straight away.
Your rant about freedom is fundamentally flawed considering that like Intel, AMD is also a member of the Trusted Computing Group.
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It's nothing to do with what I think of it. If someone sets up a website that looks exactly like PayPal, then they are certainly doing something illegal. The website should be shut down as soon as the hosting company is notified and it's contents have been verified by the tech support staff.
The problem with these scams is that the companies hosting them don't give a flying fuck. I've alerted the companies hosting very obvious phishing scams, and it takes longer than 24 hours before they take any action. If one of their clients is hosting a site designed to look like PayPal or whatever, they should shut it off that second. There's no two ways about it.
While you make some very good points there, I'd imagine that the idea of Linux (the most likely OS for the job) running on it would be quite embarrassing for them. I would doubt that it would be doing anything different to normal clustering software too - it would merely be a few changes in the back-end to make it 'appear' as a normal computer to applications.
Not if they're making a loss on it (which I imagine they will be). If the XBox 360 does get used by a few companies as a Linux cluster - which isn't out of the question, then it'll be at MS's expense.
And how was the grandparent post 'Offtopic'?
The end result is the same, it's just that the advertisers aren't going to want to pay as much if a significant number of people actually cut the adverts out. Thankfully, they can't tell if you pay attention to it or not.
These organizations are under the control of a conspiracy that cares only about one thing: Reducing and eventually eliminating the rights of all people to information. Their goal is a world where all people are stupid; where only duckspeakers exist; where thoughtcrime is cause for a death penalty.
I would say that is a bit of an 'extreme' view. The RIAA, the MPAA and Microsoft all have one thing in common - their business model is on it's way down the shitter.
In the case of Microsoft, people are eventually going to stop spending several hundred dollars on software just to write a letter.
The reason why they buy laws is merely to keep their business model going - and of course, so that they can carry on making money.
Almost certainly in the case of the RIAA/MPAA, and definitely in the case of Microsoft, piracy really does not give them advantages to their business. Outside of slashdot, people are a lot more lazy and will happily buy something if they can't easily pirate it.
There is a major difference between going for a piss during an advert break, and actively removing every single advert. I assume that's what he was getting at.
Yes, TigerDirect are being absolute dicks about it. Even a complete idiot could tell the difference.
Anyway, use the usual way to deal with people like that. If enough slashdot users don't ever do business with them, then hopefully they'll learn, and maybe it'll set an example.
Yeah, we have something similar in the UK. It's a poster of some guy saying to his friends how much he saved on Office (it 'only' costs around 100 quid).
What really happens in a UK university is that someone with broadband downloads a torrent of it and gives copies to anyone who wants one. No student in their right mind would actually buy it - it's (still) too bloody expensive. I would imagine it's similar in the US.
OK, after Drakonian kindly explained what the problem was, I take that back.
However, given the amount of garbage found on the Internet, and that details in the article were rather limited, it was likely that it could be another hoax. Ironic that an AC is critisizing me for using a handle.
That wasn't the point I was making, but never mind. I'd have thought he might have mentioned warning Intel, because if he didn't it makes him incredibly irresponsible.
Anyway, if you saw the talk, would you mind telling us what the vulnerability is?
Why wasn't Intel notified over the past SEVEN MONTHS ?
That's a good point. I wonder how many HT processors used for servers have been sold in the past seven months. If this isn't a load of shit, he's caused problems for an awful lot of people entirely for his own benefit.
Doesn't matter if it's watercooled or not. You still have to move the heat elsewhere. You can't just 'get rid of it'.
All for $300?
Take a look at this (no, I'm not an Apple fanboy):
http://www.apple.com/powermac/
It costs an arm and a leg, and requires some seriously powerful cooling. Now compare to the XBox 360. How the hell are they going to get that lot into a case that small, and cool it properly?
Apparently, he's also known about it for 6-7 months, which also make it smell of BS. 'Discoveries' worked on in secret for that amount of time almost always turn out to be a load of shit.
However, we will see.
If it was implemented in a fair way, TCPA could be a very good thing. Each company could have their own key, and you could simply whitelist which company's software would be allowed to run on your machine - which would severely hamper spyware and viruses.
If, however, someone else decides for you then it would be a very, very bad thing. Fuck that.
A few problems with it:
1) As you said, it's too slow. CPU cache is incredibly fast (because it doesn't need to be non-volatile).
2) You can only write it once.
3) All flash memory seems to have a limit to the number of writes before it screws up. Given how often the cache gets changed in a CPU, it really wouldn't last long.
That is a really, really good idea. For a very popular project like Firefox, it could actually make it viable for someone to work on it full time.
A lot have people have claimed (including Linus IIRC) that the NT kernel itself isn't bad at all, and the main problems I have when running Windows are certainly not a problem of the kernel. There's no reason I can think of for replacing it.
Microsoft isn't entirely about control, it's about taking advantage of its monopoly with incompatibility with the competition. Gates likes IE because as long as it has a large marketshare, Microsoft can break compatibility with things it doesn't like, thus eliminating them (see the issues with Java and CSS2).
That argument has cemented Windows into schools in the UK. However it is total bullshit.
The main reasons for this include:
1) All word processors/spreadsheets/whatever have almost exactly the same user interface. Once you know OO.org, it's not exactly rocket science to know how to use MS Office.
2) The version of Windows/MS Office that the school uses will be out of date in around a year or so, and you can bet your ass they won't update for another 5 years. So you'll probably be using something slightly different from what you learnt in school when you get a job.
3) Knowing how to use a computer is NOT about knowing how to use MS products. The main point of computers in schools is to improve typing skills, learning how to lay out a document, spreadsheet formulae, etc. All of which shouldn't be specific to any given piece of software.
Yes. It also doesn't say a lot about their confidence in their product.
I don't think the purpose is so that you can run a Gnome (or whatever) desktop on your PSP. The reason to get Linux working on it is because there is a lot of software which can run on top of Linux.
In the PSP/DS case, this would include emulators, media players, and various other useful things.
Check you aren't running the 'nv' NVidia driver or standard SVGA driver if you have an NVidia card. That will make the graphics 'slow', as you describe. A 533MHz CPU and 256MB of RAM should be more than enough. Services that are just sitting there will 'sleep' if they aren't being used, so they shouldn't have too much effect.