The federal government clearly can't give all of its support to Caltech and MIT. But I lean toward making the best even better.
We don't want to build the infrastructure necessary to give away $100 million in $20,000 grants. We would be much more likely to look at the needs of an entire school, rather than trying to do individual projects.
Why not?? We're not the Borg, alot of progress comes from individuals and small groups pursuing their own ideas. We already have foundations giving large money to a few schools.. why not one that's willing to give small funding to a large number of projects?
I think it would be cool to give $5,000-20,000 grants to masters and doctorate students to finish their research, and make something useful out of it. If other people find it useful, then a company can buy it and market it. With $100 mil to give away, they can certainly afford the infrastructure.
Hmm.. I seem to remember this topic being discussed before (hasn't everything?) but I can't seem to find it..
Yes, very funny! Both parts are named exactly the same: "i860". Mebbe Intel is trying to suppress their graphics decelerator by reusing the number..
To answer your question, the two parts are unrelated. The old i860 is a graphics processor, while the new one is a support "chipset" for the Foster. There may very well be a graphics i860 inside the chipset i860, but they're otherwise completely different.
Well then, break into his account, and change the password to something secure! When he gets back, he'll go straight to you for the correct password, and you can assure him that at least his account was safe.
Their web site is playing hide'n'seek, so could someone summarize the patent situation with this technology?
I'm curious, 'cuz I have a "Saturn-5" electronic toy sitting behind me which has a motorized plastic ring with 10 red LED's around it, which flicker as the ring spins. By playing with the timing parameters (2 knobs) I can make various spherical patterns appear. Is this in violation?
What if I replaced the ring with a circuit board with ~200 LEDs on it (I think Radio Shack has all three colors now)? Although communicating with 200 spinning LEDs would be a challenge in itself.. maybe a spinning mirror would be better.. How much of this is already patented?
For the few of you that will read this.. Windows 2000 only takes about 1/2 a CD, while SUSE Linux is up to 7 CDs, not including source code. Once again, we turn to Linux to make up where Microsoft falls short..
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I think it would be cool to give $5,000-20,000 grants to masters and doctorate students to finish their research, and make something useful out of it. If other people find it useful, then a company can buy it and market it. With $100 mil to give away, they can certainly afford the infrastructure.
Hmm .. I seem to remember this topic being discussed before (hasn't everything?) but I can't seem to find it..
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To answer your question, the two parts are unrelated. The old i860 is a graphics processor, while the new one is a support "chipset" for the Foster. There may very well be a graphics i860 inside the chipset i860, but they're otherwise completely different.
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I'm curious, 'cuz I have a "Saturn-5" electronic toy sitting behind me which has a motorized plastic ring with 10 red LED's around it, which flicker as the ring spins. By playing with the timing parameters (2 knobs) I can make various spherical patterns appear. Is this in violation?
What if I replaced the ring with a circuit board with ~200 LEDs on it (I think Radio Shack has all three colors now)? Although communicating with 200 spinning LEDs would be a challenge in itself .. maybe a spinning mirror would be better .. How much of this is already patented?
Oh, well, back to work..
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