This is a bit of a shock, really. RDRAM *is* a half decent solution for some high end boxes. That article from the windbags over at Tom's Hardware showed (kinda) sucessfully that there is a great deal of potential in RDRAM. I am an AMD / DDR user, but I have to admit that the P4 with a 133x4 bus is damn nice.
Tell me on thing. The setup Tom tested (P4) - would you consider it to be a server machine, or a workstation machine? The 'line' between what gets to be desktop strength machine, and what gets to be server strength machine is fading away, and to me it looks silly that Tom tests Sandra and office suite on such a monster.
I think he should've tested Oracle (and other 'heavy' stuff) on it, and show us the performance gain then. I don't really think people will be buying such P4 config just to get few hundred frames in Q3...
Isn't this the most powerful weapon we're ever going to see on a battlefield?
If it's used against some poor countries that don't have any AA defence - yes. But this will be useless against anyone who has even the most basic AA systems (not to mention that S-300 can have laser C130 shot down on 150KM range).
How would we be stuffed? Can you find a single appliance in your house that isn't patented? Did that prevent their adoption?
No, but I'm sure we all missed flames related to patening microwave with 'soft touch controls' and microwave with mechanic buttons. We don't work in household appliance business, we probably work in IT/computer business...
Once something is invented it's pretty much always simple ref zippers and velcro...
The problem is that vast amount of stuff IS INVENTED, but people just don't give a flying f*ck (or don't know) about patenting it.
A friend of mine modified (some 15 years ago) bloody pinball machine to 'shake' every time bumper was hit. Does it fit into 'force feedback' patent? If he spent some more time with lawyers (and if he lived in the US) he might have patented it and who knows what kind of 'aparatus' that would be today (interpretation, interpretation).
Similar is the story with 1-click ordering. There were many people who either did it before Amazon or were playing with it, but MANY people (me included) dumped such idea because of a very simple reason - you don't want to store credit card numbers on your server (if you care about security - yours and customer's). It took someone big (Amazon) to do it and ignore security aspects - and they got a patent (at the same time their PR machine managed to convince many people that "it is secure" - bollocks).
How could they hold a patent on thing that has been used for decades in military air simulators, and for at least 15 years in arcade machines?
Additionaly, it was my understanding that X-Box and PS1/2 are using 'vibrating' technology, as opposed to 'force feedback' technology. It would make sense if M$ is sued because of their joysticks, but suing them for 'vibrator'? What's next - sex shops will go out of business because of patent infrigement?
Now she's blaming it all on the managment that kicked her out.
Is she bitter? Or is she correct?
I've been through similar scenario, and I can tell you that I've experienced Deja-Vu after reading her story. I trust what she's saying, for very simply reason - that's how things work w/ VCs.
I've never had less respect for all those "business people", because I've seen numerous times how incompetent they are, and how full of excuses they are. Nothing is their fault, it's always someone else's fault.
Actually, most of the 'pirated' CDs that people buy in Eastern Europe are not "Britney Spears" or "Ricky Martin". Big majority of CDs was split into: 'oldies' (think Peter Gabriel, Police, Sade, FGTH, etc.), jazz (a *lot* of Jazz), classic, and quite a lot of 'ethno based' music (South American being most popular).
I actually couldn't see any Britney Spears CDs when I was back there (EE) few months ago. Very few people there listen to such music.
That makes me wonder even more why the hell is US being so cocky about 'pirated music', when lots of it isn't originally even published by big recording companies...
I've taken a DVD from the drawer. It's "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", 2 DVDs. Original copy, of course.
I am looking at the cover, and I can not see ANY mention of what I am allowed to do with the disc, or what I am not allowed to do with it, except notion that it can not be "reproduced, distributed or exibited".
What the hell are all these people talking about, when they say "you purchase right to view, blah, blah..."!? I don't see ANYWHERE mention of anything even remotely related to that.
btw: "Reproduction" would mean creating identical copy of a disc (medium). Why then decoding DVD content to hard disk is considered as 'reproduction'?:)
My guess is that the most creative software opportunities will remain in the US for some time, and the more routine development efforts will continue to be transfered overseas.
I can't remember that CERN, Nokia, Siemens, Fujitsu and thousands of other companies/universities ever asked US to 'transfer development efforts' to them. You think US is in the center of the Universe, don't you?
Otherwise our standard of living, which is probably the highest in the world, will get lower while the rest of the world's gets higher.
I presume you travel/work experience consists of holidays on some islands, and work in your city, right!? If you think you have the highest standard - you're dreaming. Have a holiday in Singapore or Sweden, for a change...
Sad reality is that many people simply 'ignore' Americans these days, for a very simple reason - they think they know everything about everything, and they think they have right to give 'lesssons' to other people about culture (Britney Spears, yeah), democracy (that's my favourite), communism (although 99% of Americans don't even know/understand concept behind communism), creativity (read European/Asian newspapers, and then judge - don't make judgements purely on reading US newspapers), etc.
Bottom line is - you insult people every day because you don't understand what you're talking about, and yet you think you're "doing them a favour", simply because you read something in the newspaper. Pretty sad...
So without these hardware review sites, how are people supposed to become tech-savy?
Ummm. I dunno ? A 3-year BS and a masters in comp sci did it for me...
Cool - now you're an "academic", you're not tech-savy. You don't learn DDR/RD RAM specs or FSB details in university, do you? Or design details of nVidia's new chips (yes, I happen to be very interested in that one)?
Nope, you don't. Uni just helps you understand the explanations of DDR/RD RAM or FSB specs later, when you find it in magazine or website or somewhere else...
After I've spent few months listening and reviewing (get to http://www.audioreview.com - it is VERY useful), I've decided to get:
Onkyo TX-DS787
- Pioner DV-626 DVD player (zone free, reads *everything*, extremely good picture and sound)
- Mission 703 (front), Mission 701 (surround) and Mission 70c2 (center).
Mission speakers are extremely nice, although you might want to consider getting subwoofer if you have bigger room. Onkyo is outstanding - has THX, DTS and all the bells and whistles you need. I would buy it only for 'All channel stereo' - it is *amazing* (Denon AVR-2801/3801 also have all channel stereo, but Onkyo really sounded better).
Although I was getting this for home theater only, I can tell you that I am very happy with it when it comes to listening audio as well.
For receivers, get: Onkyo or Denon or Yamaha
For speakers, get: Mission 70x/70cx series or JBL N series (don't take N center speaker though - get the S series), or Polk Audio.
For DVD player: take whatever you like. I was choosing between Pioneer and Sony, but Pioneer had better picture (of course, it's my opinion:).
Well, you subscribe them to few thousands of mailing lists (they'll love linux-kernel one), and send them a notification that they can unsubscribe at any time.
Did anybody ever ask the vendor a simple question: WHY?
I mean, did anybody ask guys from IBM (face to face), for example:
Why do you want to implement this?
If so - what happened? What was the answer? I mean, do they start talking about 'copyright protection', 'request from MPAA/RIAA/whoever', or they even mention word 'consumer' somewhere in the sentence?
I found that "PR people" (I'm sure engineers don't give a damn about these things) can spend hours making press releases, but when you ask them direct question face-to-face, they get completely lost (meaning: you can easily see that they're lying, and have no idea what they're talking about). More the question is 'simple', more "I'm lost" faces we get.
How many blacks own football teams? How many blacks own teams in other major sports? How many blacks are there in the upper management of any of the major music production companies?
There will never be. I have to conclude that infection called 'greed' comes mostly from 'white areas'. While white people were trying to conquer and steal, Asians (for example) have been trying to 'clean their souls', 'help their neighbours', etc.
And yes, I'm white. And yes, I live in Asia. Sadly, I've also realized that 'white people' might have the $$$, but Asian people have the 'heart & soul'.
Isn't is amazing that white people in Asia don't get into trouble for their skin color, while Asian people in UK/Europe will easily get some trouble?
In case noone else has been reading the posts on slashdot, the tech industry is rife with racism. Against blacks, asians, and indians just to name a few
You meant 'US/Euro tech industry' maybe? I can assure you that Asian/Indian people don't have any trouble with racism here in Asia.
It uses Kernel 2.2.12 and RH 6.1.
Both are old, and both are known to be buggy.
I don't know many people that are (basically) starting the project and making sure that all they do is 'in sync' with the latest releases of everything. Of course they don't have 2.2.18 patch or whatever - it's not fully finished product yet, so why bother to keep masses (that just love the 'latest versions') happy?
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This is a bit of a shock, really. RDRAM *is* a half decent solution for some high end boxes. That article from the windbags over at Tom's Hardware showed (kinda) sucessfully that there is a great deal of potential in RDRAM. I am an AMD / DDR user, but I have to admit that the P4 with a 133x4 bus is damn nice.
Tell me on thing. The setup Tom tested (P4) - would you consider it to be a server machine, or a workstation machine? The 'line' between what gets to be desktop strength machine, and what gets to be server strength machine is fading away, and to me it looks silly that Tom tests Sandra and office suite on such a monster.
I think he should've tested Oracle (and other 'heavy' stuff) on it, and show us the performance gain then. I don't really think people will be buying such P4 config just to get few hundred frames in Q3...
Isn't this the most powerful weapon we're ever going to see on a battlefield?
If it's used against some poor countries that don't have any AA defence - yes. But this will be useless against anyone who has even the most basic AA systems (not to mention that S-300 can have laser C130 shot down on 150KM range).
This is just another toy...
How would we be stuffed? Can you find a single appliance in your house that isn't patented? Did that prevent their adoption?
No, but I'm sure we all missed flames related to patening microwave with 'soft touch controls' and microwave with mechanic buttons. We don't work in household appliance business, we probably work in IT/computer business...
Force feedback controllers are mechanical devices, and recent creations. They're precisely what the patent system was created to protect.
Right. So if writing on a paper is 'common knowledge', why the hell should someone be able to patent writing on a glass?
Once something is invented it's pretty much always simple ref zippers and velcro...
...
The problem is that vast amount of stuff IS INVENTED, but people just don't give a flying f*ck (or don't know) about patenting it.
A friend of mine modified (some 15 years ago) bloody pinball machine to 'shake' every time bumper was hit. Does it fit into 'force feedback' patent? If he spent some more time with lawyers (and if he lived in the US) he might have patented it and who knows what kind of 'aparatus' that would be today (interpretation, interpretation).
Similar is the story with 1-click ordering. There were many people who either did it before Amazon or were playing with it, but MANY people (me included) dumped such idea because of a very simple reason - you don't want to store credit card numbers on your server (if you care about security - yours and customer's). It took someone big (Amazon) to do it and ignore security aspects - and they got a patent (at the same time their PR machine managed to convince many people that "it is secure" - bollocks).
I call it "brute force"
How could they hold a patent on thing that has been used for decades in military air simulators, and for at least 15 years in arcade machines?
Additionaly, it was my understanding that X-Box and PS1/2 are using 'vibrating' technology, as opposed to 'force feedback' technology. It would make sense if M$ is sued because of their joysticks, but suing them for 'vibrator'? What's next - sex shops will go out of business because of patent infrigement?
She was sacked last October.
Now she's blaming it all on the managment that kicked her out.
Is she bitter? Or is she correct?
I've been through similar scenario, and I can tell you that I've experienced Deja-Vu after reading her story. I trust what she's saying, for very simply reason - that's how things work w/ VCs.
I've never had less respect for all those "business people", because I've seen numerous times how incompetent they are, and how full of excuses they are. Nothing is their fault, it's always someone else's fault.
I'm not too familiar with gnutella, but I for one am not going to run ANY p2p apps as root
You don't need to run Gnutella clients as root. It binds to port 6346, which can be done by any user.
They *listen to pirated Britney Spears albums!*
Actually, most of the 'pirated' CDs that people buy in Eastern Europe are not "Britney Spears" or "Ricky Martin". Big majority of CDs was split into: 'oldies' (think Peter Gabriel, Police, Sade, FGTH, etc.), jazz (a *lot* of Jazz), classic, and quite a lot of 'ethno based' music (South American being most popular).
I actually couldn't see any Britney Spears CDs when I was back there (EE) few months ago. Very few people there listen to such music.
That makes me wonder even more why the hell is US being so cocky about 'pirated music', when lots of it isn't originally even published by big recording companies...
I've taken a DVD from the drawer. It's "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", 2 DVDs. Original copy, of course.
:)
I am looking at the cover, and I can not see ANY mention of what I am allowed to do with the disc, or what I am not allowed to do with it, except notion that it can not be "reproduced, distributed or exibited".
What the hell are all these people talking about, when they say "you purchase right to view, blah, blah..."!? I don't see ANYWHERE mention of anything even remotely related to that.
btw: "Reproduction" would mean creating identical copy of a disc (medium). Why then decoding DVD content to hard disk is considered as 'reproduction'?
My guess is that the most creative software opportunities will remain in the US for some time, and the more routine development efforts will continue to be transfered overseas.
I can't remember that CERN, Nokia, Siemens, Fujitsu and thousands of other companies/universities ever asked US to 'transfer development efforts' to them. You think US is in the center of the Universe, don't you?
Otherwise our standard of living, which is probably the highest in the world, will get lower while the rest of the world's gets higher.
I presume you travel/work experience consists of holidays on some islands, and work in your city, right!? If you think you have the highest standard - you're dreaming. Have a holiday in Singapore or Sweden, for a change...
Sad reality is that many people simply 'ignore' Americans these days, for a very simple reason - they think they know everything about everything, and they think they have right to give 'lesssons' to other people about culture (Britney Spears, yeah), democracy (that's my favourite), communism (although 99% of Americans don't even know/understand concept behind communism), creativity (read European/Asian newspapers, and then judge - don't make judgements purely on reading US newspapers), etc.
Bottom line is - you insult people every day because you don't understand what you're talking about, and yet you think you're "doing them a favour", simply because you read something in the newspaper. Pretty sad...
Amazing how everyone if bleathing, but noone tried to make a connection to Code Red worm...
Yes, port 80 is being blocked just about anywhere - wanna guess why?
So without these hardware review sites, how are people supposed to become tech-savy?
Ummm. I dunno ? A 3-year BS and a masters in comp sci did it for me...
Cool - now you're an "academic", you're not tech-savy. You don't learn DDR/RD RAM specs or FSB details in university, do you? Or design details of nVidia's new chips (yes, I happen to be very interested in that one)?
Nope, you don't. Uni just helps you understand the explanations of DDR/RD RAM or FSB specs later, when you find it in magazine or website or somewhere else...
Now to that same poster both FreeBSD and Linux suck when it comes to security as FreeBSD almost rivaled Microsoft in security advisories last year
Most of the FreeBSD advisories are related to *ports*, while most (all) M$ advisories are related to their *core* products (OS, Office, IE, IIS, etc).
You have more than 11 years, do you? I mean, you understand the difference?
Ha ha! Microsoft's DNS is down! That never ever happens to anyone else. Those big jerks... they must suck because their DNS is down.
Come on guys... has this never happened to us?
Considering amount of $$$ they have in their hands and amount of people that can maintain those server - yes, they suck.
They suck from the moment when they tried to 'guarantee 99.9% uptime' for their shitty server software. Take the calculator, and see how much it is.
There we go - they are experiencing 0.1% now...
(HP-UX and AIX used to guarantee 99.999999% - get the picture)
Would you happen to know why FCC has decided that it is "illegal to offer citizens the capability to record HDTV programs"?
Who *exactly* has the power to break most basic laws/rules of existance and try to enforce rules like this?
After I've spent few months listening and reviewing (get to http://www.audioreview.com - it is VERY useful), I've decided to get:
:).
Onkyo TX-DS787 - Pioner DV-626 DVD player (zone free, reads *everything*, extremely good picture and sound) - Mission 703 (front), Mission 701 (surround) and Mission 70c2 (center).
Mission speakers are extremely nice, although you might want to consider getting subwoofer if you have bigger room. Onkyo is outstanding - has THX, DTS and all the bells and whistles you need. I would buy it only for 'All channel stereo' - it is *amazing* (Denon AVR-2801/3801 also have all channel stereo, but Onkyo really sounded better).
Although I was getting this for home theater only, I can tell you that I am very happy with it when it comes to listening audio as well.
For receivers, get: Onkyo or Denon or Yamaha
For speakers, get: Mission 70x/70cx series or JBL N series (don't take N center speaker though - get the S series), or Polk Audio.
For DVD player: take whatever you like. I was choosing between Pioneer and Sony, but Pioneer had better picture (of course, it's my opinion
I can't wait to catch first 'registration' traffic on the network, and update rules on firewalls.
"What do you mean you only can't reach Whistler registration site, and other sites are fine?"
Damn, can't wait for that...
Well, you subscribe them to few thousands of mailing lists (they'll love linux-kernel one), and send them a notification that they can unsubscribe at any time.
Sounds fair to me...
Did anybody ever ask the vendor a simple question: WHY?
:)
I mean, did anybody ask guys from IBM (face to face), for example:
Why do you want to implement this?
If so - what happened? What was the answer? I mean, do they start talking about 'copyright protection', 'request from MPAA/RIAA/whoever', or they even mention word 'consumer' somewhere in the sentence?
I found that "PR people" (I'm sure engineers don't give a damn about these things) can spend hours making press releases, but when you ask them direct question face-to-face, they get completely lost (meaning: you can easily see that they're lying, and have no idea what they're talking about). More the question is 'simple', more "I'm lost" faces we get.
Any experiences?
How many blacks own football teams? How many blacks own teams in other major sports? How many blacks are there in the upper management of any of the major music production companies?
There will never be. I have to conclude that infection called 'greed' comes mostly from 'white areas'. While white people were trying to conquer and steal, Asians (for example) have been trying to 'clean their souls', 'help their neighbours', etc.
And yes, I'm white. And yes, I live in Asia. Sadly, I've also realized that 'white people' might have the $$$, but Asian people have the 'heart & soul'.
Isn't is amazing that white people in Asia don't get into trouble for their skin color, while Asian people in UK/Europe will easily get some trouble?
Sad...
In case noone else has been reading the posts on slashdot, the tech industry is rife with racism. Against blacks, asians, and indians just to name a few
You meant 'US/Euro tech industry' maybe? I can assure you that Asian/Indian people don't have any trouble with racism here in Asia.
Here they talk about Net and FreeBSD getting code back from Apple.
You must be joking. That is a PRESS RELEASE. One would think that people have learned to differ 'press releases' and 'announcements'...
I'm pretty sure BSD does not.
FreeBSD does
It uses Kernel 2.2.12 and RH 6.1.
Both are old, and both are known to be buggy.
I don't know many people that are (basically) starting the project and making sure that all they do is 'in sync' with the latest releases of everything. Of course they don't have 2.2.18 patch or whatever - it's not fully finished product yet, so why bother to keep masses (that just love the 'latest versions') happy?