No problem. New chip generations have happened before, and this time there is a genuine improvement. The original P4 Willamette was much worse. Dell will be happy to have something that looks good compared to those dual core AMDs. Where marketing is concerned, I have the impression that Intel has already silently abandoned the marketing about higher clock speeds. Because it is obvious by now that it is bogus.
The laws intent was to help rural people, as in farmers. However as with a horrid system of taxes that the US suffers from a loophole was found. The law did not originally specify what "types" of vehicles qualified for the discount. It merely stated over 6,000 pounds. This normally would have been the domain of vehicles used mostly on farms and some small businesses.
And thank you incompetent politicians who failed to write "trucks and agricultural machinery" into the law. That some people will use any tax loopholes they can has been known for decades, it should not come as a surprise anymore.
Now, what to do about it? In the current system, the obvious step would be to elect better politicians in the hope of eventuaaly getting better laws. Of course, this requires smarter voters in the first place, but it would be the civilized and legal way. If you like lynch mobs, you could also go after the people who exploit the loopholes. But that would be a real messy way, with a good chance of total anarchy breaking out.
Well designed expansion packs are OK, and if they reduce the pre-existing parts of the game to a sort of mid-level area, I can live with that. As opposed to destroying things that already work fine, which SOE seems to do these days in SWG.
Or we could figuratively be on the 'beads' end in some initial contact scenario. Are you thinking of the "cheap glass jewelry for expensive furs" scenario that reportedly happened with the american natives? I'm not worried about it.
Because even if that happens, it would be about information. And information would not be lost on our end if we send a copy. The whining of certain "intellectual property" organizations in similar situations nonwithstanding.
From the article: It reflects the currently fashionable idea that confiscatory government policy must be used to even the score (whatever that means), thrusting highly demanded, privately risked IP out of the hands of legitimate property owners and into the hands of other, favored actors to further "develop" it. That statement is quite misleading. The Massachussets controversy she is obviously referring to has nothing to do with taking IP (here: file formats) away from the owner. It is about preferring such formats that are willingly shared by the owner, because they offer better avalability in the long run. A subtle but important difference.
Then do at least semi-accurate discovery
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The problem with some companies is that they will not even make a cursory attempt at discovery before commiting to a deadline. I'm currently observing this on my own job...
...is gradual expansion that does not break the existing parts of the game. Examples: -a new continent has been discovered -new items have been invented -a new threat appears
And that goes for ALL MMORPGs, not just SWG. Of course, SOE seems to go against this principle with extraordinary energy;-)
AMD is getting close to starting its second manufacturing plant in Dresden, Germany. When that plant starts putting out processors, AMD will have a lot more processors that need to be sold. At that point, they might be willing to compete with Intel's discounts for Dell and other large vendors. If I am guessing right here, now would be the time for Dell to start thinking about details like the mainboards to be used.
Two points: 1) They have obviously miscalculated with Itanium. While the architecture performs good according to reviews, it is not as superior as it should be to match its price. On top of that, the missing x86 compatibility was probably a bigger obstacle than Intel expected. 2) In the x86 arena, Intel went for a marketing-driven architecture (P4/Xeon, "GHz sells"). This worked for a while, but eventually AMD overtook them with a more innovative design. Remember, it was AMD that went for 64bit/multicore first in the x86 world. Intel probably could have had a decent x64, multi-core product before AMD, if they had started work on it early. But they went down another path, and when it became obvious that AMD's decisions made more sense, Intel were caught with their pants down.
It seems that they are doing exactly that, in the hope of getting business from PC makers who want to cheat their customers. I wonder how long they will get away with this. In most western countries, I think they could be indicted for some form of "aiding and abetting" of criminal activities.
Then maybe they should remove the book entirely
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At this point, Amazon has three options: 1) Do nothing and get sued. 2) Remove the offending comments and get a reputation for censorship. 3) Remove the book entirely from the Amazon website and don't sell it anymore. I guess 3) would be the least painful version, and it would also show Thompson that he cannot do business with Amazon AND tell them how to run their website. Good riddance.
Currently, we have the occasional lawsuit campaign against filesharers, undertaken by game publishers who want to protect their revenue. But if certain types of games can't be sold in Germany anyway, there is no reason for publishers to waste any ressources on prosecution. Which means the police will be on their own in going after pirated versions of DOOM IV or such;-)
Good point, especially considering the "long term prospects". It seems pretty obvious that going into technology is not the best career move moneywise, when compared to lawyers and brokers. Let alone the tendency to outsource development to India. As a result, expect only those with a genuine love for technology to bother anymore. Those with more varied interests and skills will do something different.
So for some reason, they convert AC line voltage to DC, then back to AC, then back to DC again in the power supplies? That makes no sense. Transformers go from one AC voltage to another (2k to 120). What's the DC step in the middle for?
I guess you mean the usual server setup with an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) between AC line voltage and server. With a standard computer that runs off AC line voltage, it looks like this: -The UPS uses internal batteries => DC. To charge them, the UPS needs to convert AC line voltage to DC. First conversion. -In case the AC line voltage fails, the UPS needs to draw energy from the batteries and convert it to AC. Second conversion. AFAIK it is not uncommon to use the first two conversions even during normal operation. -The power supply in the computer converts AC to DC for the internal components of the computer. Third conversion. -For some but not all internal components, there is a fourth conversion on the mainboard. A good example is 12VDC => 1.6VDC for the CPU.
Now all of these conversions are lossy, so you might want to get rid of some. A possible setup (TFA is light on details) would be 1) AC line voltage is converted to an intermediate DC voltage, maybe 12V. You could 2) The 12V go directly to the computer, with one more DC => DC conversion for the chips (I don't think many components in a modern PC run directly off 12V). 2b) You could connect a battery in parallel as UPS. While the AC line voltage=>12V conversion is up, it will charge the battery. When the AC line voltage fails, the computer can draw DC from the battery (for a while).
The above setup has obviously a lot less conversions and will be more efficient. So it is quite attractive for a datacenter with lots of servers. Of course you need different computer hardware.
Makes me wonder if the insurance company had a right to demand the replaced parts. A court might accept the repair bill from Dell as sufficient proof for the damage and make them pay up. Of course, this is no excuse for the broken promise by the Dell service.
Making the DVDs unreadable on a new system could be interpreted as "malicious injury of property". So unless Sony tells buyers of the PS3 upfront about the system (which might be bad for marketing), IMHO (IANAL) affected customers could sue with good chances of success. The whole scheme looks like they want to shoot themselves in the other knee now, after the recent rootkit affair.
2. Be aware that discussions about the downsides of isSLUM can be hazardous to your health. Try a simple argument with a muslim person on a non serious topic - then say "ALLAH IS A CUNT" and watch your learned friend hit the roof and pull out a knife from the teatowel on his head. Duck and cover. Try the same with a christian conservative, only replace "ALLAH IS A CUNT" by "JESUS IS A CUNT". Watch him go for the shotgun. Duck and cover;-)
That is correct if you just think of splitting the existing system. But if the rest of the world goes to IPv6 and maps the old, US controlled internet to a niche of the new system, it could work. Like www.google.com => www.google.com.old with.old being the container for all adresses in US controlled namespace. Likewise, the old IPv4 addresses would fit into a small part of the new IPv6 addresses. Of course, that would be a massive effort, but I see no reason why it should be impossible.
Interesting. I've read the E8500 product description, and as I understand it, the two FSBs will remove the bottleneck when accessing the L3 Cache. But what about the actual interface to the memory modules? I think the Opteron is still superior in that regard.
For a single CPU, the quad piped 200Mhz FSB does fine. It can fully utilize two channels of DDR 400 RAM, which is the standard on the better desktop mainboards. A single AMD CPU does not better. Things are different with multiprocessor setups: Here each Opteron has its own memory interface, while the Xeons have to share one FSB. As a result, the total Opteron memory bandwith is proportional to the number of sockets. Total Xeon bandwith does not grow with more sockets. This does show up heavily in reviews of 2-processor machines, expect it to be worse in 4- and 8-way-systems.
Looks more like a fuckup by careless management to me. Because the price in lost reputation will outweigh any benefits from reduced copying. I'd bet they simply did not understand the implications of their "copy protection". Or maybe they knew and did not expect it to make much waves.
But I don't think Sony management wanted the kind of publicity they have now.
Some lawyers seem to think so. On Mark Russinovich's Blog, at least one guy claimed to be a lawyer and he asked California residents who were affected to contact him about a lawsuit.
Add enough lag to make a small dejitter delay(smoothing the inter-arrival time of voice packets) unpractical, and the FPS crowd will feel the problems too. That makes two user groups who think your service is shitty. The price in terms of reputation might become too high to make this a good idea.
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No problem.
New chip generations have happened before, and this time there is a genuine improvement. The original P4 Willamette was much worse.
Dell will be happy to have something that looks good compared to those dual core AMDs.
Where marketing is concerned, I have the impression that Intel has already silently abandoned the marketing about higher clock speeds. Because it is obvious by now that it is bogus.
The laws intent was to help rural people, as in farmers. However as with a horrid system of taxes that the US suffers from a loophole was found. The law did not originally specify what "types" of vehicles qualified for the discount. It merely stated over 6,000 pounds. This normally would have been the domain of vehicles used mostly on farms and some small businesses.
And thank you incompetent politicians who failed to write "trucks and agricultural machinery" into the law. That some people will use any tax loopholes they can has been known for decades, it should not come as a surprise anymore.
Now, what to do about it?
In the current system, the obvious step would be to elect better politicians in the hope of eventuaaly getting better laws. Of course, this requires smarter voters in the first place, but it would be the civilized and legal way.
If you like lynch mobs, you could also go after the people who exploit the loopholes. But that would be a real messy way, with a good chance of total anarchy breaking out.
...a decent slashdotting of phone and fax might suffice to force a little reorganization of his business (read new phone and fax numbers).
Well designed expansion packs are OK, and if they reduce the pre-existing parts of the game to a sort of mid-level area, I can live with that.
As opposed to destroying things that already work fine, which SOE seems to do these days in SWG.
Or we could figuratively be on the 'beads' end in some initial contact scenario.
Are you thinking of the "cheap glass jewelry for expensive furs" scenario that reportedly happened with the american natives? I'm not worried about it.
Because even if that happens, it would be about information. And information would not be lost on our end if we send a copy. The whining of certain "intellectual property" organizations in similar situations nonwithstanding.
From the article:
It reflects the currently fashionable idea that confiscatory government policy must be used to even the score (whatever that means), thrusting highly demanded, privately risked IP out of the hands of legitimate property owners and into the hands of other, favored actors to further "develop" it.
That statement is quite misleading. The Massachussets controversy she is obviously referring to has nothing to do with taking IP (here: file formats) away from the owner. It is about preferring such formats that are willingly shared by the owner, because they offer better avalability in the long run. A subtle but important difference.
The problem with some companies is that they will not even make a cursory attempt at discovery before commiting to a deadline. I'm currently observing this on my own job...
...is gradual expansion that does not break the existing parts of the game.
;-)
Examples:
-a new continent has been discovered
-new items have been invented
-a new threat appears
And that goes for ALL MMORPGs, not just SWG. Of course, SOE seems to go against this principle with extraordinary energy
AMD is getting close to starting its second manufacturing plant in Dresden, Germany. When that plant starts putting out processors, AMD will have a lot more processors that need to be sold.
At that point, they might be willing to compete with Intel's discounts for Dell and other large vendors. If I am guessing right here, now would be the time for Dell to start thinking about details like the mainboards to be used.
Two points:
1) They have obviously miscalculated with Itanium. While the architecture performs good according to reviews, it is not as superior as it should be to match its price. On top of that, the missing x86 compatibility was probably a bigger obstacle than Intel expected.
2) In the x86 arena, Intel went for a marketing-driven architecture (P4/Xeon, "GHz sells"). This worked for a while, but eventually AMD overtook them with a more innovative design. Remember, it was AMD that went for 64bit/multicore first in the x86 world.
Intel probably could have had a decent x64, multi-core product before AMD, if they had started work on it early. But they went down another path, and when it became obvious that AMD's decisions made more sense, Intel were caught with their pants down.
It seems that they are doing exactly that, in the hope of getting business from PC makers who want to cheat their customers.
I wonder how long they will get away with this. In most western countries, I think they could be indicted for some form of "aiding and abetting" of criminal activities.
At this point, Amazon has three options:
1) Do nothing and get sued.
2) Remove the offending comments and get a reputation for censorship.
3) Remove the book entirely from the Amazon website and don't sell it anymore.
I guess 3) would be the least painful version, and it would also show Thompson that he cannot do business with Amazon AND tell them how to run their website. Good riddance.
Currently, we have the occasional lawsuit campaign against filesharers, undertaken by game publishers who want to protect their revenue. ;-)
But if certain types of games can't be sold in Germany anyway, there is no reason for publishers to waste any ressources on prosecution. Which means the police will be on their own in going after pirated versions of DOOM IV or such
Good point, especially considering the "long term prospects". It seems pretty obvious that going into technology is not the best career move moneywise, when compared to lawyers and brokers. Let alone the tendency to outsource development to India.
As a result, expect only those with a genuine love for technology to bother anymore. Those with more varied interests and skills will do something different.
So for some reason, they convert AC line voltage to DC, then back to AC, then back to DC again in the power supplies? That makes no sense. Transformers go from one AC voltage to another (2k to 120). What's the DC step in the middle for?
I guess you mean the usual server setup with an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) between AC line voltage and server. With a standard computer that runs off AC line voltage, it looks like this:
-The UPS uses internal batteries => DC. To charge them, the UPS needs to convert AC line voltage to DC. First conversion.
-In case the AC line voltage fails, the UPS needs to draw energy from the batteries and convert it to AC. Second conversion. AFAIK it is not uncommon to use the first two conversions even during normal operation.
-The power supply in the computer converts AC to DC for the internal components of the computer. Third conversion.
-For some but not all internal components, there is a fourth conversion on the mainboard. A good example is 12VDC => 1.6VDC for the CPU.
Now all of these conversions are lossy, so you might want to get rid of some. A possible setup (TFA is light on details) would be
1) AC line voltage is converted to an intermediate DC voltage, maybe 12V. You could
2) The 12V go directly to the computer, with one more DC => DC conversion for the chips (I don't think many components in a modern PC run directly off 12V).
2b) You could connect a battery in parallel as UPS. While the AC line voltage=>12V conversion is up, it will charge the battery. When the AC line voltage fails, the computer can draw DC from the battery (for a while).
The above setup has obviously a lot less conversions and will be more efficient. So it is quite attractive for a datacenter with lots of servers. Of course you need different computer hardware.
Makes me wonder if the insurance company had a right to demand the replaced parts. A court might accept the repair bill from Dell as sufficient proof for the damage and make them pay up.
Of course, this is no excuse for the broken promise by the Dell service.
A blog entry that has the news1 1/calif_ny_lawsui.html
a ily/graphics/ca_complaint_110805.pdf
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/
and a link to the court paper
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technology/d
Making the DVDs unreadable on a new system could be interpreted as "malicious injury of property". So unless Sony tells buyers of the PS3 upfront about the system (which might be bad for marketing), IMHO (IANAL) affected customers could sue with good chances of success.
The whole scheme looks like they want to shoot themselves in the other knee now, after the recent rootkit affair.
2. Be aware that discussions about the downsides of isSLUM can be hazardous to your health. Try a simple argument with a muslim person on a non serious topic - then say "ALLAH IS A CUNT" and watch your learned friend hit the roof and pull out a knife from the teatowel on his head. Duck and cover. ;-)
Try the same with a christian conservative, only replace "ALLAH IS A CUNT" by "JESUS IS A CUNT". Watch him go for the shotgun. Duck and cover
That is correct if you just think of splitting the existing system. But if the rest of the world goes to IPv6 and maps the old, US controlled internet to a niche of the new system, it could work. .old being the container for all adresses in US controlled namespace. Likewise, the old IPv4 addresses would fit into a small part of the new IPv6 addresses.
Like www.google.com => www.google.com.old
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Of course, that would be a massive effort, but I see no reason why it should be impossible.
Interesting. I've read the E8500 product description, and as I understand it, the two FSBs will remove the bottleneck when accessing the L3 Cache. But what about the actual interface to the memory modules?
I think the Opteron is still superior in that regard.
For a single CPU, the quad piped 200Mhz FSB does fine. It can fully utilize two channels of DDR 400 RAM, which is the standard on the better desktop mainboards. A single AMD CPU does not better.
Things are different with multiprocessor setups:
Here each Opteron has its own memory interface, while the Xeons have to share one FSB. As a result, the total Opteron memory bandwith is proportional to the number of sockets. Total Xeon bandwith does not grow with more sockets.
This does show up heavily in reviews of 2-processor machines, expect it to be worse in 4- and 8-way-systems.
Looks more like a fuckup by careless management to me. Because the price in lost reputation will outweigh any benefits from reduced copying.
I'd bet they simply did not understand the implications of their "copy protection".
Or maybe they knew and did not expect it to make much waves.
But I don't think Sony management wanted the kind of publicity they have now.
Some lawyers seem to think so.
On Mark Russinovich's Blog, at least one guy claimed to be a lawyer and he asked California residents who were affected to contact him about a lawsuit.
Add enough lag to make a small dejitter delay(smoothing the inter-arrival time of voice packets) unpractical, and the FPS crowd will feel the problems too. That makes two user groups who think your service is shitty.
The price in terms of reputation might become too high to make this a good idea.